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For The Week Ending June 14, 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 June 19, 2002.
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India and Pakistan on the Brink of Nuclear Conflict
Nearly a million soldiers from India and Pakistan have massed on the border of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, raising tensions between the two nuclear powers for the second time in six months. The latest incident which sparked new fears of war occurred on May 14, when three Islamic militants infiltrated the Indian-held sector of Kashmir and killed 30 people, many of whom were the wives and children of Indian troops. This clash and a string of attacks, including a December attack on the Indian parliament, have led the nationalist government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to threaten a military response unless Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf halts all cross border terrorist incursions into India.
Alarm at the prospect of nuclear war between these two south Asian rivals has triggered a round of diplomatic activity by the U.S. Britain and Russia in an 11th hour effort to reduce the prospect of a border conflict that could easily spin out of control. U.S. military planners estimate that if India and Pakistan were to engage in nuclear war, 3 million to 12 million people would be killed.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute, who assesses the danger of war between India and Pakistan, the fallout from America's war on terrorism and the negative role U.S. nuclear weapons doctrine plays in influencing how other nuclear powers wield their weapons of mass destruction.
Contact the World Policy Institute by calling (212) 229-5808 or visit their Web site at www.worldpolicy.org
Violence Again Plagues Guatemala Interview by Denise Manzari
In May 2000, charges were filed in two important human rights cases in Guatemala; one regarding the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, and the other concerning massacres under the government of General Romeo Lucas Garcia. Since then, abuses against Guatemalan human rights activists and others either reporting on or involved in anti-impunity initiatives have risen sharply.
Activists have been beaten, received death threats, and some have disappeared. The offices of several organizations have been broken into, with files and computers related to the cases being stolen, altered or destroyed. The Guatemalan authorities have been ineffective in investigating or preventing these abuses.
Barbara Bocek is a U.S. citizen and specialist on Guatemala for Amnesty International. On June 11, 2001, while on a delegation to Guatemala City, Bocek was assaulted and abducted from her hotel room. On March 10, near Forks, Wash., she was thrown on the ground, bound and gagged by two unidentified men, who threatened her in Spanish before leaving her locked in her car. And on May 1, shortly after an op-ed piece she had written appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Bocek received the first in a series of anonymous death threats by phone.
Jennifer Harbury is a U.S. citizen and attorney. She is the widow of the murdered Mayan guerrilla fighter Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, who was captured in 1993 by the Guatemalan military and murdered. Harbury has yet to locate her husband's remains and has filed a civil lawsuit against the CIA. Jennifer Harbury spoke with Between The Lines' Denise Manzari about the recent increase of violence and human rights abuses in Guatemala.
For more information, call the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission at (202) 529-6599 or visit their Web site at www.ghrc-usa.org.
Bush administration pushes for strict work rules without funding childcare or education Interview by Scott Harris
It's been six years since Congress passed controversial welfare reform legislation. In the years after President Clinton signed the bill into law, beltway pundits and politicians have celebrated welfare reform as a major success. But these observers often limit their examination solely to the decrease in numbers of welfare recipients, ignoring the dire conditions of poverty in which many former clients are now forced to live.
As Congress debates reauthorization of welfare reform, the Bush administration succeeded in convincing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to include new strict work rules in a bill passed there on May 16. The legislation requires poor mothers receiving welfare to work 40 hours a week without providing adequate funding for child care -- but does allocate millions of dollars for dubious programs promoting marriage. Under the House bill, time spent by welfare recipients in education or training will not be counted toward the 40-hour requirement.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Terry O'Neill, the National Organization for Women's membership vice president, who discusses the battle over welfare reform which now moves to the U.S. Senate.
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