October 17, 2001
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Violencia provoca 39 muertos
Bogotá (AFP) - Por lo menos
39 p e rso n a s entre civiles y
militares murieron violentamente
en hechos ocurridos en diversos
lugares de Colombia, informaron
las autoridades.
S eg ú n ese re p o rte , una
ofensiva de presuntos grupos
paramilitares de extrema derecha
en el suroeste y el norte del país
dejó entre 27 y 40 muertos.
El primer caso se produjo en
una zona rural de la localidad de
Buga (400 km. al suroeste de
Bogotá, en el departamento de
V alle), donde un escuadrón que
d ijo
p e rte n e c e r
a
las
ultraderechistas Autodefensas
Unidas de Colom bia (AUC)
a se sin ó a en tre 17 y 30
campesinos.
El comandante de las Fuerzas
M ilitares, general Fernando
T a p ia s, d ijo q ue hasta el
momento está confirmada la
m u erte de 17 labriegos, pero
testigos del hecho aseguraron
que las v íctim as son unas
treinta.
Un portavoz de la consejería
de paz de la gobernación del
departamento de Valie -en cuya
jurisdicción está Buga- dijo a la
prensa que se trató de una doble
matanza, en La Habana y Alaska.
dos caseríos contiguos de esa
municipalidad.
Testigos del hecho narraron
a los p e rio d ista s que los
criminales sacaron a un número
indeterminado de campesinos de
sus fincas, mientras que a otros
los bajaron de un autobús que
transitaba por la zona, separando
luego a los hom bres de las
mujeres.
21 m uertos - 2 1 deaths
Belice-B elize
d a ñ o s -dam ages
declarad a zone de d esastre - declared a disaster zone
dirigirse - to go towards
dos caseríos - two country homes
escuadrón - squadron
fenóm eno n a tu ra l - natural phenomena
fincas - farms
h u ra c á n iris - hurricane Iris
la m uerte de 17 labriegos - the death o f 17 peasants
m atanza - slaughter, killing
m enos 39 personas - less than 39 persons
su r de M éxico - south of Mexico
testigos - witnesses
torm enta - turmoil
tre in ta - thirty
vista - sight
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Southern Border Scrutinized for Terrorism
CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay
(AP) - Mobsters, smugglers and
drug traffickers have long oper
ated freely in the alleyways of this
gritty Paraguayan border town,
known as South A m erica's con
traband capital.
But after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, authorities are also scru
tinizing this “Triple Border" re
gion for ties to international ter
rorism, focusing on its sizable
Muslim community.
In the land where Paraguay,
Argentina and Brazil converge,
authorities have erected highway
checkpoints, raided businesses
for alleged extremist ties and made
arrests — angering an Arab com
munity whose traditions flow over
in mosques and bazaars.
A ttention on suspected te r
rorist ties here began even b e
fore last m onth's attacks on the
W orld T rade C enter and the
Pentagon.
In April, the State Department
warned in its annual report on
global terrorism that the Triple
Border"remained a focal point for
Islam ic ex trem ism in L atin
America.“ The report said local
authorities, despite limited re
sources, were seeking to curb
criminal activity of individuals
believed to be connected to Is
lamic terrorist groups.
U.S. and South American law
enforcement authorities have long
warned that this region's porous
borders, its concentration o f
Arab-Muslim immigrants and the
laxity of police and passport con
trols could make this an appealing
harbor for terrorists and their sym
pathizers.
In the weeks following the U.S.
attacks, local authorities arrested
19 Lebanese, Jordanian, and Syr
ian citizens for possessing phony
visas, raising concerns that Is
lamic fundamentalists could be
buying false passports or finding
safe harbor here.
Seven of the men have since
been released, and the others re
main in custody.
Last year, Paraguayan authori
ties arrested a Lebanese business
man suspected of financial ties to
the Iran-backed extremist group
Hezbollah, but he fled the country
before he could be prosecuted. In
November, police in Paraguay ar
rested a Palestinian who allegedly
made bomb threats against the
U.S. and Israeli Embassies « in
Asuncion.
For decades, Ciudad del Este
has been seen by intelligence
agencies as an enclave of lawless
ness.
Founded in 1957, the city at
tracted businessmen from all over
the world— particularly from Asia
and the Middle East — who were
drawn by the chance of engaging
in commerce largely free of gov
ernment oversight.
Over the ensuing decades, an
illicit trade began to flourish in
pirated CDs, guns and stolen cars
as the city’s sidewalks filled up
with makeshift stalls peddling fake
Adidas sweat shirts and Rolex
watches and pirated software.
Many people can be seen trun
dling boxes of contraband un
checked across borders.
Suspicions that some members
of the Arab community here may
have extremist ties first arose in
tiie m id-1990s after the bombings
of the Israeli Embassy and a Jew
ish cultural center in neighboring
Argentina, attacks that claimed
more than 100 lives.
Frank Cilluffo, a terrorism ex
pert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in W ashing
ton, said authorities have been on
the lookout for any money flow
ing from the border area to Islamic
m ilitant groups like H am as,
Hezbollah and the Egyptian Is
lamic Jihad — the latter said to
have links to the al-Qaida network
of Osama bin Laden.
This city o f 250,000 has a dis
tinctly Middle Eastern flavor. Ara
bic speakers fill the city’s two
mosques and alleys of the down
town marketplace.
More than 10,000 foreigners
from Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan
make this region their home.
Hay 14 mil familias damnificadas por huracán en Centroamérica
Guatemala (EFE) - Al menos 21 m uertos y
más de 14.000 familias damnificadas en Belice
y Guatemala ha dejado el huracán Iris a su
paso por Centroamérica. En la vista se ve los
daños dejados por Iris en Placencia, Belice. El
director de la radio Estéreo Amor de Belice,
Marión Dubón, dijo que el primer ministro de
ese país, Said Musa, ha d eclarado zona de
desastre el sur de ese territorio, el más
afectado porel fenóm eno n atu ral.
Iris llegó a las costas sureñas de Belice
la noche del pasado lunes con una categoría
cuatroen la -escala Saffir-Simpson (de cinco
en total), pero tocó tierra y se convirtió en
una to rm e n ta tropical. Luego dejó el
territorio para dirigirse al su r de México.
Overturned
homes
remain from
the effects
o f Hurricane
Iris.
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class of work to be encountered in the project, at least ten (10)
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file with the Engineer and is not over one year old, refilling is not
necessary unless there has been a substantial change in
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The project may be generally described as follows:
Schedule “A” Gravity Lines
10” PVC Gravity Sewerline................................ 2,535 linear feet
8" PVC Gravity Sewerline...................................5,135 linear feet
4" Pressure Main................................................ 1,250 linear feet
6" PVC Service Lines.............................................650 linear feet
4 ” PVC Service Lines......................................... 1,475 linear feet
Miscellaneous appurtenances and restoration work.
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Davis-Bacon prevailing Wage Rate Laws (ORS 279.348 to
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(Proposal) provided by the Engineer, and accompanied by a cer
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