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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Nov. 23, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Turnabout is fair play

The Star, Johannesburg, South Africa: "International observers should be put in place because the United States must join the established democracies."

The Mail, South Africa: "It is a shameful reflection on our continent that, in the United States' hour of need, we were not there beside our American brothers and sisters to help and advise where we could."

Association of Democratic Nigerians Abroad: "May we suggest that a delegation from the Organization of African Unity be dispatched forthwith to investigate? And as in Africa, where political reform has gone hand in hand with structural adjustment, the OAU can pass on the lessons we have learned under the tutelage of the World Bank and the IMF, beginning with an end to agricultural subsidies, cuts in defense spending and social services, drastic reductions in tariff barriers, and above all, expatriate monitors in the U.S. Treasury."

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Roque Perez: "I believe that those in the United States who have always tried to become judges of elections that take place elsewhere must be receiving a lesson of modesty and humbleness." He added that Cuba would gladly send monitors for a new election if asked.

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