US top arms trader
By Wendy Robertson
The United States remained the biggest arms supplier to the third world in 1992, increasing its share of the market to 56.8% from 48.9% in 1991, according to a US Congressional study.
The study,
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By Jenny Long
The combined effect of the dislocation of Palestinians from their land and competition from Israeli mass production agriculture has all but destroyed the Palestinian farming industry and driven Palestinian male unemployment to
Victorian police face murder charges
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Years of campaigning by the families of two of the 11 men shot by police between 1987 and 1989 have been partially successful. The director of public prosecutions, Bernard
Franco between two stools
Franco: Behind the Myth
SBS Television
Friday, August 6, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. Adelaide)
Reviewed by Richard Ingram
What myth? I'm guessing here, but if you asked people at random on the street, "What do you
Abortion Rights under attack in ACT
By Lara Pullen
CANBERRA — In August 1992, following six months of intense pro-choice agitation, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted to repeal the 1978 act which prohibited abortion in all but limited
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The government of Premier Wayne Goss has provoked an explosion of popular anger over harsh cuts to rail, education and health services, announced over the past couple of weeks.
Rail workers have threatened
Thugs attack friends of Cuba
Right-wing rioters on July 17 attacked members of the US-Cuba Friendshipment as they loaded humanitarian aid destined for Cuba. The attacks occurred during a send-off event in Elizabeth, New Jersey, organised by
Demonstration by Thugs and Terrorists
By Kristian Whittaker
When Cameron Muir, Joe Ferguson and Laurie Agar came together late last year to form a new rock-based punk band, they adopted the name Thugs and Terrorists. The name derives
Government funds moralistic sex booklet
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
HOBART — A sex information booklet entitled "The Things You Do For Love" was launched here on July 16. The 12-page glossy booklet is a joint project of the Pregnancy Support
The Street and other stories
By Gerry Adams
Brandon Books, Co. Kerry. 1992. 159pp.
Reviewed by Sean Healy
Until now, the books of Gerry Adams, the president of the Republican party Sinn Fein, have focused on one aspect or another of
By Anna Drews
PERTH — State government proposals to amalgamate the privately owned St John of God with the publicly owned Bunbury regional hospital have brought to the fore the issue of abortion rights and job losses.
If the plan is
By Norm Dixon
South African police opened fire without warning on African National Congress vice-president Walter Sisulu's motorcade as it travelled from Johannesburg to his Soweto home in the early hours of July 18. An ANC driver was killed
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