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Cuban President, left, signs a document at a special session to consider amending the Cuban
consitution to make the socialist system “untouchable."
Special Parliament
Session Begins in Cuba
(AP)
Millions o f workers
across this communist island were
given Monday and Tuesday o ff
to watch a televised special pari ia-
m entary session to co n sid er
amending the Cuban constitution
to make the socialist system “un
touchable.”
The communist leadership’s
decision toclose all offices, facto
ries and stores for two full days
during its current cash crunch
underscored the importance it
places on the proposed amend
ment that would make Cuba ’ s eco-
nomic, political and social sys
tems unchangeable.
The constitutional change was
the subject o f a campaign by the
com m unist sy stem ’s national
support groups, which say they
gathered 8.1 million signatures—
more than 99 percent o f the
island’s'legal voters aged 16 and
older.
Opposition leaders say the sig
n a tu re cam p a ig n w as the
government’s response to their
own petition, which collected
more than 11,000 signatures. They
have also questioned whether all
o f those signing the official peti
tion did so o f their own free will.
Known as the Varela Project,
the opposition’s petition seeks a
referendum asking voters if they
favor reforms such as freedom o f
expression, the right to own a
business and an amnesty for po
litical prisoners.
M ost Cubans first heard o f
V arela Project last month in a
sp eech by fo rm er P resident
Jim m y C arter w hen he visited
the island. But the m ajority do
not know w hat it proposes be
cause it has not been published
in the state media.
Organizers o f Varela Project
campaign delivered theirpetitions
to the National Assembly on May
10 and have received no response.
It still remained unclear what im
pact the governm ent’s own con
stitutional amendment would have
on the Varela Project.
Varela Project supports say
that the official campaign to de
clare Cuban socialism “untouch
able” is the governm ent’s re
sponse to their own drive to force
a dem ocratic opening in this
closed society.
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Jerry Croft o f the Salem Hous
ing Authority said undocumented
farmworker families still double
up in private apartm ents and
homes because their illegal status
makes them ineligible for federal
rent subsidies.
I n 2000, about 17 percent o f the
authority’s 3,522 units were occu
pied by families with at least one
undocumented relative. That fig
ure fell to 8 percent in 2001.
Croft theorizes that many un
documented workers live in pri
vate housing, where application
procedures are less strict.
Hainley said the demand con
tinues to be high for that housing,
especially in the Willamette Val
ley, where six o f every 10 Oregon
farmworkers are employed.
Urbanization has been a bless
ing for political organizations,
according to Ramon Ramirez,
p re sid e n t o f the
PCUN
farmworkers’ union.
Ramirez said he’s seen a steady
settling trend during the last de
cade as the union has gathered
support for a collective bargain
ing agreement with Mid-Valley
growers.
“For PCUN it’sbeen really good
because w e’ve been able to edu
cate and politicize farmworkers,”
he said. “We don ’ t have organiza
tional problems that we used to
have.”
The urban shift may also ex
plain recent employment trends
for the H ispanic population,
which makes up a large share o f
the state's 150,000 farm workers.
From 1990 to 1997, seven occu
pations saw Hispanic employment
grow by 100 percent or more, in
cluding construction, service,
sales and machine operation and
assembly.
Agriculture, with 67 percent
growth, was near the bottom o f
the list.
Pain Reliever Popular Among
Hispanic Immigrants Found Harmful
(AP) A pain killer banned in the
United States two decades ago
because o f potentially fatal side
effects is still being sold here,
often to Hispanic immigrants who
are unaware o f the danger, re
searchers said.
Metamizole, or dipyrone, is a
fever and pain rel iever sometimes
called “ Mexican aspirin." It was
removed from the U.S. market in
1979 by the Food and Drug Ad
ministration but is available with-
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out a prescription in Mexico, other
Latin American countries, parts
o f Asia and Africa.
Writing in the June edition o f
thejoum al Pediatrics, University
ofUtah researchers said that Span
ish- or Portuguese-speaking par
ents o f children evaluated in a
University ofU tah clinic last fall
were interviewed, and more than a
third o f those surveyed said they
had used metamizole.
O f those who used it, one-
or
fourth said they had bought it in
the United States, researchers
said.
The drug's most serious side
effect is a reduction in disease-
fighting white blood cells, making
the person susceptible to life-
threatening infections.
The drug has been banned so
long in the United States that many
doctors here haven’t been taught
about it in medical school, she
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in rural farm camps today, but
they sti 11 have a tough row to hoe.
Gaps remain in services pro
vided to many documented farm
workers, while those without pa
pers struggle to find affordable
housing.
But in general, the move to
urban areas means better times
and more opportunities for His
panics, and more are leaving the
fields for work in other areas.
Crowded housing is apparent
near labor-intensive farms.
Statistics show some o f the
state’s highest housing densities
in Marion County.
In Woodburn, 10.7 percent of
all housing units had 1.5 or more
occupants per room. The figure
was 16.1 percent in Gervais, nearly
eight times the state average.
Median rent in all three cities
was lower than the state average.
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