Cuban rights groups accuse Havana of new crackdown on dissidents
Leaders of Cuba’s two main human rights groups say the government has stepped up arrests beatings and surveillance since September. They allege the regime uses electric shock treatments and psychoactive drugs on forcibly hospitalized political prisoners including Jesus Leyva Guerra and accuse authorities of dismissing protests as madness. The groups forwarded evidence to the U N rights body and to Americas Watch and Amnesty International.
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Vernngeres
Havana
Elizardo Sanchez
Cuban Commission For Human Rights
Sanchez
Bergnes
Fidel Castro
U.N. Human Rights Commission
U.N. Commission
U.N
Cuba
Soviet Union
Americas Watch
Amnesty International
Jesus Leyva Guerra
Human Rights Committee
Santiago de Cuba
Leyva
Ley
Horoscope published in Soviet paper forecasts 1989 openness environment
The first horoscope in a Soviet Communist Party newspaper links Saturn and the Year of the Snake to a hopeful 1989 for glasnost and the environment. Astrologer Eremei Parnov is presented as a credible expert, predicting calm reception of plural ideas and a training ground for open debate.
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Michael Dobbs
Washington Post
OSCOW
Moscow Communist Party
Eremei Parnov
Parnov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Parnev
Saturn
Moskovskaya Pravda
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Dade County Schools Launch Gun Awareness Program
Florida educators approve the nations first comprehensive gun awareness plan after a rise in youth gun deaths. Superintendent James Fleming notes guns are dangerous and a case where an 11 year old brought a gun to school.
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New York Times
Dade County
Florida
Dade County Board of Education
James Fleming
Fleming
Bill Harris
Dade
Robert L. Kalinsky
Douglass
Overtown
Fla
Rich mosaic finds shed light on ancient Paphos port wealth
Archaeologists uncover 100 vividly patterned mosaic floors from Paphos Cyprus a Roman trading hub with possible 100 more awaiting discovery. The House of Dionysus and other mansions reveal naturalistic figures floral borders and three dimensional effects crafted from local tesserae during prosperity in late second to early third centuries.
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Paphos
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Demetrios Michaelides
Lion
Dionysus
Christina Kondoleon
Williams College
Williamstown
Mass
Antioch
Syria
Michaelides
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Cuban Human Rights Committee
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Osh Kosh
Armytrongtl
QWN
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