for
the independence of Cabinda Province has largely ended

Anguilla
NA

Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua Trades and Labor Union or ATLU [William
ROBINSON]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Hugh MARSHALL]

Argentina
Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA);
Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine
Rural Confederation or CRA (small to medium landowners'
association); Argentine Rural Society (large landowners'
association); business organizations; Central of Argentine Workers
or CTA (a radical union for employed and unemployed workers);
General Confederation of Labor or CGT (Peronist-leaning umbrella
labor organization); Peronist-dominated labor movement; Piquetero
groups (popular protest organizations that can be either pro or
anti-government); Roman Catholic Church; students

Armenia
Yerkrapah Union [Manvel GRIGORIAN]

Aruba
NA

Austria
Austrian Trade Union Federation (nominally independent but
primarily Social Democratic) or OeGB; Federal Economic Chamber;
OeVP-oriented Association of Austrian Industrialists or IV; Roman
Catholic Church, including its chief lay organization, Catholic
Action; three composite leagues of the Austrian People's Party or
OeVP representing business, labor, and farmers and other
non-government organizations in the areas of environment and human
rights

Azerbaijan
Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement; Union of
Pro-Azerbaijani Forces (UPAF); Karabakh Liberation Organization

Bahamas, The
NA

Bahrain
Shi'a activists fomented unrest sporadically in 1994-97 and
have recently engaged in protests and sporadic violence, demanding
more power for the elected Council of Deputies to decrease
unemployment; Sunni Islamist legislators support a greater role for
shari'a in daily life; several small leftist and Islamic
fundamentalist groups are active

Bangladesh
NA

Barbados
Barbados Secondary Teachers' Union or BSTU [Patrick FROST];
Barbados Union of Teachers or BUT [Herbert GITTENS]; Congress of
Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados or CTUSAB, which
includes the BWU, NUPW, BUT, and BSTU [Leroy TROTMAN]; Barbados
Workers Union or BWU [Leroy TROTMAN]; Clement Payne Labor Union
[David COMISSIONG]; National Union of Public Workers [Joseph GODDARD]

Belarus
Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGO