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Note: I'm sending the newsletter without the first three reports
which were sent to you separately.
aio, Olatz A.

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EUSKAL HERRIA JOURNAL NEWSLETTER 981008


EUSKAL HERRIA JOURNAL (EHJ) IN THE WWW
    http://osis.ucsd.edu/~ehj (updated)
    http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/index.ehj/
    http://www.freespeech.org/ehj   (soon)

Thursday, October 8,  1998

1.  Spain seeks settlement with ETA designed by Anti-terrorism Pact
2.  The Lizarra Declaration gets more support
3.  France backs Spain's demand for permanent ETA truce
4.  News briefs
5.  Announcements

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4.  News Briefs
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Paris Will Sign Language Charter  (October 8, 1998) -- The French government
will sign the European charter on regional and minority languages in early
1999, the office of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said on Wednesday.   In a
statement issued after a report prepared for the prime minister concluded
there is no legal barrier to Paris signing the pact.  Nations in France have
battled Paris over the right to use their national languages or to learn them
in schools.  The latest language report by constitutional expert Guy
Carcassone recommended that France issue a statement at the time it signs the
document clarifying that "the French people are one" and make clear that the
minority "groups" referred to in the charter are merely groups of individuals
rather than distinct legal entities. The charter was agreed in 1992 by the
Council of Europe to encourage member states help ensure minorities can use
their national languages.

Pact On Self-Determination Required (October 8, 1998) -- A member of the
regional Navarrese parliament for Herri Batasuna, Patxi Zabaleta, said on
Wednesday that the consolidation of peace in Euskal Herria requires a
political pact on the issue of the right to self-determination.  About the ETA
truce, Zabaleta said that "there is no reason to think that there dissidents
in ETA.  The offer of an indefinite, unilateral truce without conditions
carries so much risk that it has to be credible.  ETA gives priority to the
political action.  If this agreement was made and implemented, then there is
no reason for not being optimistic."

Polls Say PNV Would Win Regional Elections (October 8, 1998) --  Polls
published in local newspapers on Thursday showed that the conservative Basque
Nationalist Party (PNV) would win the regional elections by getting 22 of the
75 seats of the regional parliament of three of the four Basque provinces in
Spain, followed by Euskal Herritarrok (the coalition of Herri Batasuna) with
13 seats, and Spain's Popular Party (PP) with 11-12 seats.

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5.  Announcements
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First Edition of EHJ Newsletter on Paper -- The fist issue of the EHJ
Newsletter on paper is hot off the press and over 2,000 copies have been
mailed!  The issue contains the text of the Lizarra Declaration, the ETA
communique announcing the ceasefire, the three news reports in the electronic
version, as well as the CPEH chapter activities, upcoming meetings and
speaking tour.  If you'd like  one on paper, just e-mail us your postal
address.

The Democratic Alternative Video On-Line Again -- The ETA video explaining the
pro-peace Democratic Alternative is available at the EHJ mirror site with
Contrast.Org <http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/ehj/html/video.html>  Contrast
had some technical problems and was temporarily off-line.

Basque Manuscripts On-Line -- There are six late sixteenth century manuscripts
in Euskera (found in the Archivo General de Simancas, Spain, within the
section Estado, legajo 181) available at the following URL:
<http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/ms_room/martin_coll/Basque.htm>.  According
to the publisher, they are not dated but may have been written in 1598.

Free Online Course On Satellite Imagery/Human Rights -- We were told that the
American University's School of Communication is offering a free, online,
hands-on course on satellite imagery and human rights, and those interested in
the course should contact <simpson@american.edu> for more information.

New EHJ Mirror Site:   The Free Speech Internet Television organization
(www.freespeech.org) will be hosting a mirror site of the Euskal Herria
Journal (ehj). The ehj web site was "suspended" by the Institute for Global
Communications (IGC) in July 1997.   The new ehj mirror site will be available
soon at the following URL: <http://www.freespeech.org/ehj>

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THE BASQUE CONGRESS FOR PEACE  (CPEH) is a grassroots network working to
change French and Spanish policy in the Basque Country and raise public
awareness in support of self-determination.  We organize events, lobby
governments, and supply speakers and materials. JOIN US!

Basque Congress for Peace, POB 20252 Dag Hammarskjold PC, New York, NY 10017,
cpeh@aol.com

To help people learn about the Basque Country (Euskal Herria in Basque) and
what they can do to support human rights and self-determination, the Basque
Congress for Peace publishes the Euskal Herria Journal (EHJ) in the Internet.

EHJ has documented information with bibliographies, about the culture, history
and politics of the Basque Country. It also has a news section updated weekly,
articles, video and audio archives.

EUSKAL HERRIA JOURNAL
    http://osis.ucsd.edu/~ehj  (updated site)
    http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/index.ehj/
    http://www.freespeech.org/ehj   (available soon)

Note: to be removed from this list, send e-mail to cpeh@aol.com with the word
"remove" followed by your e-mail address in the subject line.
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