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December 12,2001
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Miracle Theatre Presents a Tex-Mex Holiday Play Group
The Miracle Theatre Group bounds into the Holiday
Season with a hilarious, heartfelt melodrama, written
by Cindy Williams Gutierrez. “El Grincho’s El Dorado
Escapade!” reveals the true spirit of Christmas cheer.
This Tex-Mex holiday hoorah entangles The Good,
The Bad and The Ugly in a small mining town called El
The El Grincho
bandits Paddric
Fitzgerald (from
left), Joe Nowlin
and Raj Patel stir
up trouble during
the holidays in El
Dorado while
townspeople
Shin Ruiz and
Maya Linda
Malan-Gonzalez
look on.
Dorado. The villainous El Grincho and his banditos,
“rap-artist” Homes and “thick-witted” Pancho, are
lured by the scent of gold to the town’s dusty mines.
Meanwhile, buzzing holiday rapture dances through El
Dorado. The glee of young children and window
shoppers echo through the streets, until El Grincho’s
scandalous plan unfolds, and the people of El Dorado
find themselves in a jingled holiday jumble - a festive
flurry of chaos and mystery, greed and innocence!
The play will continue through Dec. 16, Fridays at 8
p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday
matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12. Complimentary
tickets are available for Musical Theatre Company
subscribers. All performances will be held at E Centro
Milagro, 525 SE. Stark. For reservations and informa­
tion, call 503-236-7253.
Filipinas declara tregua navideña
en lucha contra los rebeldes
Manila (Reuters) - La presidenta
de Filipinas, Gloria Macapagal Ar­
royo, declaró el lunes un cese al
fuego navideño en la guerra que
libra el gobierno desde hace 32 años
contra grupos rebeldes comunistas.
La tregua, extensiva hasta el 6 de
en ero , siguió a una oferta del
izquierdista Nuevo Ejército Popular
(N PA ) de suspender las hostilidades
por un mes, desde la media noche
del 15 de diciem bre, si había
reciprocidad de parte de Manila.
“Con ocasión del Día de los
Derechos Humanos, yo declaro un
cese al fuego unilateral, teniendo en
cuenta el del Nuevo Ejército Popu­
lar. a partir de hoy (lunes) hasta el
seis de enero” , dijo Arroyo en un
discurso ante grupos de derechos
humanos.
A m b as
p a rte s
e v ita n
tradicionalmente las operaciones
ofen siv as d urante los d ías de
N av id ad y A ño N u ev o en el
empobrecido y mayormente católico
país asiático.
El NPA es el brazo militar del
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m ayorm ente com unista Frente
Democrático Nacional (NDF), que
lanzó una revuelta para establecer
un estado marxista en Filipinas en
1969. Más de 40.000 personas
murieron en esa rebelión.
La sem ana pasada, Estados
U nidos incluyó al N PA y su
escuadrón arm ado. Brigada Alex
B o n c a y a o , en su “ lis ta de
exclusión terrorista” , otorgando
así
a
la s
a u t o r id a d e s
norteam ericanas el poder de
deportar o negarle visado a sus
miembros.
En una lista anterior W ashing­
ton v in c u ló las g u e r r illa s
m usulm anas del grupo Abu
Sayyaf, que operan en el sur de
Filipinas, con el militante islámico
Osama bin Laden, a quien Estados
Unidos considera como el princi­
pal sospechoso de organizar los
aten tad o s suicidas del 11 de
se p tie m b re
en
te rrito rio
norteamericano.
El Abu Sayyaf tiene hace más de
se is m eses a una p a re ja de
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misioneros estadounidenses como
rehenes en el sur de la isla basilia.
El jefe negociador de paz del
NDF, Luis Jalandoni, anunció la
d ecisió n de sus g u e rrilla s de
d e c la r a r u n a tr e g u a en un
c o m u n ic a d o
d iv u lg a d o el
dom ingo en H olanda, donde los
líderes rebeldes de alto rango
viven ex iliados hace más de 20
años.
El dirigente dijo que su grupo
hizo su o fe rta de tregua sobre
“bases hum anitarias y com o un
acto de buena fe para perm itir (a
a m b o s la d o s ) o b s e r v a r lo s
tradicionales días de fiestas y
d is f r u ta r e l e s p ír itu de la
tem porada n a v id e ñ a y el A ño
Nuevo”.
Jalandoni dijo tam bién que
esperaba que el gesto allane el
cam ino para reanudar el estancado
proceso de paz y poner en libertad
a prisioneros de ambas partes.
F ilip in a s
su sp e n d ió
las
conversaciones a principios de este
año, después que escuadrones de
la muerte comunistas asesinaron a
varios dirigentes políticos del país.
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6 de enero - January 6
autoridades norteamericanas-N o rth American authorities
c a m in o -way, read
el sur de Filipinas - the south of the Philippines
estados unidos - United States
estancado proceso - stagnant process
exiliados-exiles
grupos rebeldes comunistas - Communist rebel groups
guerrillas musulmanas del grupo - Muslim guerrilla group
misioneros estadounidenses - United States missionaries
navideña y el Año Nuevo - Christmas and the New Year
oferta - offer
país asiático - Asian country
principal sospechoso - primary suspect
seis meses — six months
The Portland O bserver’s commitment to cul­
tural diversity includes the encouragement of a
multi-lingual society. Readers can learn Spanish
on this page by reading the words and phrases in
bold print and gaining understanding of its mean­
ing with this companion glossary.
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WASHINGTON <AP> —
Cuba’s condemnation of ter­
rorism after the Sept. 11 attacks
should encourage the United
States to take a fresh look at its
policy toward the island, a
group of Cuba experts.
The 24-person group said in
a statement that the adminis­
tration should consider remov­
ing Cuba from its list of coun­
tries that sponsor terrorist ac­
tivities.
“For the United States to
hold that Cuba is a terrorist
state isolates the United States
more than it does Cuba," said
the Center for International
Policy, a liberal research group.
It noted that America’s closest
allies are in disagreement with
the U.S. position.
Cuba has criticized the U.S.
bom bing cam paign in A f­
ghanistan but the statem ent
said this should not be a bar­
rier to closer relations, point­
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share that view.
Many longtime critics of U.S.
policy signed the statement,
including W ayne Smith, a
former U.S. diplomat who is an
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The statement said that a
dialogue with Cuba on terror­
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Cuba has long-standing and
close relationships with a num­
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East.
“Given the common goal of
eradicating terrorism, there may
be ways in which, through con­
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be directed toward positive
ends," it said.
During talks on m igration
in Havana, Cuba proposed a
te rro ris t in fo rm a tio n e x ­
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