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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Cuba Caravan Alert
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.005935.6650@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** reg.cuba: 249.0 **/
- ** Topic: CARAVAN ALERT!! **
- ** Written 7:11 am Nov 17, 1992 by sfaria in cdp:reg.cuba **
- CARAVAN ALERT!!
-
- The San Francisco/Bay Area U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment is activating
- its emergency response network because of the latest news that a
- customs official in Laredo, TX, was quoted as saying that the
- caravan would be prevented from carrying embargoed materials into
- Mexico, even if it means arrest.
-
- According to the November 15 edition of the Minneapolis Star-
- Tribune, Audrey Plotkin, district director of U.S. Customs, met
- last week with Laredo plice, Texas Deptartment of Public Safety,
- and U.S. Border Patrol representatives. She says that they don't
- want any problems, they want to "ensure the flow of international
- trade and traffic," but that items included in the U.S. embargo
- against Cuba would be kept from crossing the bridge into Mexico.
- Customs licensing personnel from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets
- Control will reportedly be in Laredo to try to issue export
- licenses to the caravan. "If they don't want to get a license and
- they try and ship the goods, they will be stopped," said Judy
- Turner of the Customs Service in Houston. "If that means we have
- to detain them or arrest them, then that's what we'll do."
-
- Timely response is crucial to the success of the caravan. We are
- calling, writing, and sending mailgrams to the division of the
- Treasury Department that administers the embargo (this has proved
- very effective in the past), demonstrating along with many other
- U.S. cities this Friday, November 20 at 5:00pm, at 425 Market St
- near Embardadero BART, and asking people to activate their own
- phone lists with this informatioin.
-
- Please call the Friendshipment's 24-Hour Hotline, 510-273-9199, to
- find out how you can help get the caravan across the U.S. border
- into Mexico. The hotline is updated several times each day, as the
- situation changes. We'll also continue to post new in reg.cuba,
- pn.announcements, and pn.alerts.
-
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