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RUNDOWN FOR LATINO USA #335 FEEDING SEPTEMBER 10, 1999.

SEGMENT #1:  "PUERTO RICAN PRISONERS RELEASED"  (2:22)
Edie Rubinowitz reports on the terms and the criticisms associated 
with President Clinton's clemency offer to Puerto Rican 
Independentista prisoners.

SEGMENT #2:  "PRISONER CLEMENCY ANALYSIS"  (6:01)
Latino USA's Ingrid Lobet reports on the 12 Puerto Rican nationalists 
who accepted clemency and how it will command their futures.

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SEGMENT #3:  "MITCH HUMANITARIAN MILITARY AID"  (3:52)
Latino USA's Maria Martin reports on efforts by the U.S. Reserve and 
National Guard in the ongoing rebuilding of Central America after 
Hurricane Mitch.

SEGMENT #4:  "NED SUBLETTE AND THE 'COWBOY RUMBA'"  (6:28)
Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with country singer Ned 
Sublette about his debut CD entitled "Cowboy Rumba."


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SEGMENT #1
They were in prison for so long, that to many Puerto Ricans, they 
were simply called, the prisoners -los prisioneros.  On August 11th, 
President Bill Clinton offered executive clemency to Puerto Rican 
independentista activists serving sentences in U.S. prisons.  They 
were members of the "Armed Forces for National Liberation" or the 
FALN and  "El Ejercito Popular Boricua" also known as "Los 
Macheteros."  Convicted of "seditious conspiracy," most of the 
prisoners have served 19 years of their original sentences which 
varied from 35 to 105 years.  The clemency offer imposes certain 
restrictions.  Each prisoner must renounce violence and accept 
limitations on who they can associate with and where they can travel 
to.  Although these conditions have been called, by critics of the 
clemency offer, humiliating and unacceptable.  Twelve of the jailed 
Puerto Rican nationalists agreed to accept clemency.  From WBEZ in 
Chicago, Edie Rubinowitz reports.  (2:22)

SEGMENT #2
For the 12 Independentistas, the 16-19 years they've spent in 
federal prisons, far from relatives, was finally enough.  Their parents 
are growing old, and members of the community they went to prison 
fighting for asked them to accept President Clinton's offer of 
conditional clemency.  Latino USA's Ingrid Lobet reports on the 
activists future plans and the debate over their release which has 
been every bit as emotional as the fight over Puerto Rico's status.  
(6:04)

SEGMENT #3
Weather forecasters are predicting a busier than normal hurricane 
season for 1999, but in Central America, they are still dealing with 
the damage done by last yearšs most destructive hurricane Mitch.  
Last spring, thousands of U.S. Reserve and National Guard forces 
were sent to the disaster areas in Central America and the Caribbean 
-- to help in the rebuilding.  This month, they're finally winding up 
their efforts and returning home.  Latino USAšs Maria Martin has this 
report.  (3:52)

SEGMENT #4
Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with country singer Ned 
Sublette about his debut CD entitled "Cowboy Rumba."  ( SELF-
CONTAINED 6:28)


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