CUBANEWS FROM RADIO HAVANA CUBA E-mail: rhc@radiohc.org http://www.radiohc.org The following items are taken from Radio Havana Cuba's news service for Thursday, September 3, 1998. Today's stories: 1.- NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT PREPARES FINAL DOCUMENT AS CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO GEARS UP FOR OFFICIAL VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA 2.- SECOND GROUP OF CUBAN-AMERICAN TERRORISTS ARRANGED IN CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO 3.- CHINESE COMPANIES INTERESTED IN INVESTMENT IN CUBA 4.- HAVANA'S SPANISH BALLET TO PERFORM "CARMEN" 5.- NEW CUBAN LITERARY WORKS SOON TO BE PUBLISHED NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT PREPARES FINAL DOCUMENT AS CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO GEARS UP FOR OFFICIAL VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA Durban, September 3(RHC)-- The 12th Non-Aligned Summit began preparing its final document this evening as Cuban President Fidel Castro gears up for a three-day official visit to South Africa. Some 80 speakers were expected to address the final session this evening in the South African city of Durban. The final document is expected to include the Non-Aligned Movement's call for greater unity within the organization, statements concerning disarmament and the democratization of the United Nations and the movement's position with respect to globalization. Meanwhile, Cuban President Fidel Castro will be received tomorrow by South African President Nelson Mandela in Capetown -- where government headquarters are located -- to initiate the beginning of an official three-day visit to South Africa. The Cuban leader is expected to address the South African Parliament during his visit and will hold meetings with top government officials. President Castro's itinerary also includes a visit to Robben Island, where Mandela spent most of the 27 years spent in apartheid prisons, a visit to Johannesburg and the historic Soweto as well as a visit to Pretoria. On Sunday, the final day of his visit, President Fidel Castro will gather with South African Cuba solidarity activists and with Cuban doctors and other professionals offering their services in South Africa. SECOND GROUP OF CUBAN-AMERICAN TERRORISTS ARRANGED IN CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO San Juan, September 3(RHC)-- In Puerto Rico, a second group of Cuban-Americans has pleaded "not guilty" to charges of conspiracy to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro. Appearing before a federal court in San Juan on Wednesday, Jose Antonio Llama, Jose Rodriguez Sosa and Alfredo Otero were charged with planning to kill the Cuban leader last November during an Iberoamerican Summit on Venezuela's Margarita Island. Jose Llama -- a member of the Executive Committee of the Miami-based, ultra right-wing Cuban-American National Foundation -- is free on 100,000 dollars bond. The other two -- also tied to the right-wing organization -- were freed on bond set at 75,000 dollars each. Last week, four other Cuban-Americans were arraigned in San Juan for their participation in the assassination plot. Angel Manuel Alfonso, Angel Hernandez Rojo, Juan Bautista Marquez and Francisco Secundino Cordova were arrested last October after their vessel was impounded by the U.S. Coast Guard, along with two high-powered rifles. The President of the Cuban-American National Foundation -- Francisco Hernandez -- has not been charged, despite the fact that he owned one of the high-powered, 50-caliber rifles found aboard the vessel. U.S. Coast Guard authorities also found night-vision equipment on the boat, along with two internal fuel tanks to permit navigation in the Caribbean without the need to refuel. In addition, a satellite navigation system known as a Global Positioning Unit was discovered aboard the vessel, set for Margarita Island, where Cuban President Fidel Castro was scheduled to attend the Iberoamerican Summit. CHINESE COMPANIES INTERESTED IN INVESTMENT IN CUBA Havana, September 3(RHC)-- Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Investment has announced that Chinese companies are interested in a number of Cuba's economic sectors. Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Investment and Collaboration Noemi Benitez told reporters in Havana that the most important projects currently being negotiated are the creation of a joint venture rice enterprise, the production of cooking oils and the remodeling of Havana's seaside drive, the Malecon. Benitez, who recently returned from a visit to China, said that Chinese business executives are also interested in cooperating with Cuba in producing color televisions. Chinese sources say the mixed enterprise would make other electrical appliances which could be sold to other countries, especially Latin America. The Cuban deputy minister of Foreign Investment also announced that China and Cuba are negotiating in the area of manufacturing, research and sale of bio-pharmaceuticals as well as the establishment of an agricultural enterprise aimed at increasing corn production. China currently has four commercial missions in Cuba in the country's Free Zones and two economic associations: one operating a Chinese restaurant at the Varadero Beach resort, some 160 kilometers from Havana, and the other making plastic shoes in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. Some 50 Chinese business delegations have visited the island over the past seven months. Cuba maintains economic cooperation relations with 19 Asian nations, among them China, Vietnam, Mongolia, India, Laos, North Korea and Cambodia. HAVANA'S SPANISH BALLET TO PERFORM "CARMEN" Havana, September 3(RHC)-- Since Prosper Merimee wrote "Carmen" in l845, the character has had tremendous influence on the world of art; her tragic story sung, danced and filmed. And on September 19th, 20th and 26th and 27th, Havana's Spanish Ballet brings to the capital's Garcia Lorca stage a new version of the romantic classic of jealousy, passion and death. Soloists and choreographers, Ivan Betancourt and Leyza Mendez, told reporters in the Cuban capital on Wednesday that they are not attempting to present something never before seen, but that logically the work -- which will be danced to Bizet's music -- will bear the special stamp of the Cuban company. The Cuban ballet dancers and choreographers explained that the new Carmen will be performed in two acts. The first will take place inside a tobacco factory and will feature brightly colored costumes and the second act occurs inside and outside a bullring and features the color red. Ivan Betancourt stressed that each of the four ballerinas who will dance Carmen will bring to the role her own individuality. The Spanish dance company is also excited about presenting several new young dancers who will debut in this presentation of Carmen. And those who can't wait until the official opening of the ballet can get an early look at a preview scheduled for Friday, September 11th in the Hotel Inglaterra next door to the Gran Teatro's Garcia Lorca Theater, where the ballet's characters will appear. A photo exhibit featuring performances of many different Carmens, will be mounted in the theater lobby. NEW CUBAN LITERARY WORKS SOON TO BE PUBLISHED Havana, September 3(RHC)-- Some 12 new titles by Cuban writers of different generations and styles will soon be on Cuban newsstands. The works will be published in the upcoming edition of the Editorial Letras Cubanas -- or Cuban Letters Publishing House -- as a salute to the 6th Congress of the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists, UNEAC. The director of the publishing house of Cuba's National Book Institute, Daniel Garcia Santos, told journalists that the publication will reflect to some degree the current state of literary creation in Cuba. Included in the next edition of the literary magazine is a selection from "Vision of America" by Alejandro Canovas, which gathers various chronicles written by Alejo Carpentier, published in the El Nacional newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela and in the Havana magazine Carteles, among others. Also included in the publication will be: "The Sculptures of Rita Longo" by Alejandro G. Alonso, a segment from the novel "Dust and Gold" by Julio Travieso, winner of the l996 Critics Literature Award and "To Read Under a Sycamore, together with interviews with Jose Lezama Lima made by Felix Guerra. The magazine will also contain a selection of poems by poet, Victor Casaus called, "To Love Without Papers" with illustrations by renowned Cuban artist Zaida Del Rio. [c] 1998, Radio Habana Cuba All rights reserved Articles cannot be reproduced, reprinted or published in any system without the consent of RHC. This prohibition includes the distribution of this material via Usenet News, "bulletin board" services, e-mail lists, print media, radio and television. For the complete RADIO HAVANA CUBA NEWSCAST and other features, please write for our daily broadcast schedule. We welcome your comments and suggestions. 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