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For The Week Ending Jan. 11, 2002
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMLISTEN to this week's half-hour program of Between The Lines by clicking on one of the links below. MP3 files available until Jan. 16, 2002.
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Dispute Over Jammu, Kashmir at Heart
For the fourth time in 50 years, India and Pakistan are edging closer to war. Tensions rose shortly after a Kashmiri separatist group launched a Dec. 13 suicide attack against India's parliament that killed 14 people. The leaders of both nations traded verbal attacks followed by a dangerous buildup of troops along their shared 2,000 mile-long border. India's leaders charge that Pakistan has failed to rein in terrorist groups which are believed to have been behind the December Parliament attack and an earlier October 1st assault on Indiašs Srinagar legislature.
Both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons, a fact that alarms many observers who note that the two nations have fought three wars since their founding in 1947. The spark that ignited previous conflicts has been the five decade long dispute over the territories of Jammu and Kashmir a mountainous region both nations claim as their own.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jay Truman, founder and director of Downwinders, a research foundation that works to end nuclear weapons testing and reduce the threat of atomic warfare. Truman discusses the danger of war between India and Pakistan and the historical context which has led to the current conflict.
Contact Downwinders Foundation by calling (208) 776-5903 or visit their Web site at www.downwinders.org
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Brings Down Successive Governments in Argentina Mark Weisbrot examines IMF role in current economic collapse Interview by Scott Harris.
As Argentina's economy imploded, riots and protests engulfed the nation's cities including the capital, Buenos Aires. With more than 25 protesters killed and hundreds injured in the unrest, President Fernando De la Rua, along with his economic advisors, resigned shortly after his government declared a state of siege. But with record unemployment, deepening poverty and a shrinking middle class, confidence in any new government will be slow in coming.
News Update: A populist senator became Argentina's fifth president in two weeks Wednesday, pledging to ditch free-market policies that he said had left Argentina ``without a peso.'' The senator is Eduardo Duhalde, a 60-year-old former vice president and two-term governor of the country's richest province, Buenos Aires.
In recent decades, Argentina has suffered through a brutal military dictatorship and a political culture rife with corruption. According to many economists, the South American country was plunged into economic chaos as a direct result of flawed advice from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF had maintained support for Argentina's 1991 policy that pegged the value of their currency, the peso, directly to the U.S. dollar, a policy which in the end made Argentina's exports extremely expensive and its imports very cheap. The country now is burdened by a $155 billion foreign debt. The new Peronist government has continued to limit personal bank withdrawals and announced plans to issue a new currency, the "Argentino."
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who discusses the role of the IMF in Argentina's economic collapse and the global movement that has been campaigning to restructure the powerful financial institution.
Contact the Center for Economic and Policy Research by calling (202) 293-5380 or visit their Web site at www.cepr.org
Drives Local Movement for Reparations Interview by Melinda Tuhus.
Over the past year, the issue of reparations for slavery has resonated in both national and international forums, including the United Nations Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa.
In New Haven, Conn., a local group took up the issue last spring after the city's board of aldermen held a hearing on the reparations issue. The group, the New Haven Reparations Coalition, proposed a strategy to research the subject, but that plan was eclipsed by revelations made by three Yale University graduate students detailing Yale's role in perpetuating slavery and racism. Among the facts that the students uncovered was that of Yale's ten undergraduate residential colleges named for individuals, nine were named after proponents of slavery, including many whose financial contributions to Yale resulted directly from their owning or trading in slaves.'
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with the Rev. Eric Smith, pastor of Community Baptist Church in New Haven and a spokesperson for the Reparations Coalition, about his group's work and what its members are demanding Yale do to make amends for its past treatment of African Americans.
For more information call (203) 562-7060 or visit the group's Web site at www.yaleslavery.org.
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