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Address of HE President Arafat At The Summit of the Countries of the South and China Held in Havana, Cuba 12-14 April 2000 H. E. President Olesegun Obasango,Chairman of the Group of 77, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria H. E. President Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba H. E. President Tabo Mbeki, Chairman of the Non-Migned Movement President of the Republic of South Africa H. E. Mr. Kofi Anan, Secretary General of the United Nations Your Excellencies the Presidents Participating in the South-South Summit, It is a great honor for me to address this important ...

Motorists sound approval of keeping Elian in U.S. Thursday, May 11, 2000 By Torsten Ove, Post-Gazette Staff Writer One guy who drove by yelled "Get a life!" and another told coordinator Jason Crawford to get a job, but for the most part, Downtown motorists honked their approval yesterday for the 30 people who turned out for a rally to keep Elian Gonzalez in the United States. "I think a lot of people are supportive of us," said Donna Kueny of Frazer, a 42-year-old mother of four who joined the "Americans to Keep Elian Free" protesters in front of the federal ...

Elian And The Cardinal: Fighters For Freedom John LeBoutillier Friday May 5, 2000 It is a sad day for all of us who cherish freedom. We have lost one of our champions — the great John Cardinal O’Connor — and we are struggling to save Elian Gonzalez from a fate almost as bad as death. The mainstream media has made no effort to discover Elian’s own thoughts and reactions to "The Raid." But The Star magazine has interviewed sources in the Immigration and Naturalization Service familiar with the airplane trip from Miami to Andrews Air Force Base. And the magazine ...

NASA Bans Prayer Day NASA may be shooting for the heavens, but they don't want their employees saying "God." NASA recently prohibited an employee from using the center-wide e-mail system to announce the National Day of Prayer and a voluntary prayer and speech meeting, the Pacific Justice Institute reports. The Institute, a California based public interest law group said that the employee made his request to use the e-mail system in a timely manner and that all procedures were followed. Access to this system has been used in the past to announce AIDS Awareness, Asian Pacific Islander Month, various seminars ...

Please Help Save Elian "There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court." This wonderful speech comes from Gregory Peck in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and it applies to the case of Elian Gonzalez. I remain optimistic that Elian can be saved in a court provided he has lawyers willing to fight for him. Let me ...