Mexican reject Helms bill
The following statement was released by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's governing party, on May 14.
The National Executive Committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party express its
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American values
"We're an organisation that's not on the ropes but on top of mainstream American values." — Tom Washington, president of the US National Rifle Association.
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"Who is B.J. Habibie really, and why is it that the
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: the inside story of the man who made modern China
By Zhisui Li
London: Chatto and Windus, 1994. 682 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Eva Cheng
Official history often only tells half truth and leaves out what the
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The Goss Labor government's move to cut stamp duty on share trading is a blatant handout to big business, at a time when the corporations are making massive profits", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate for
BAe rattled by protest
By Alden Salter
LONDON — More than 100 people demonstrated outside British Aerospace's annual general meeting on May 4 at Mayfair's Marriot Hotel. The protesters charged BAe with aiding and abetting genocide in East
Contrary to earlier reports, detained East Timorese student Filomeno dos Santos did not die as a result of beatings in Becorau prison.
According to investigations by Tapol (British Campaign for Human Rights in Indonesia), Red Cross officials met
By Deepa Fernandes
Policies of child removal that the government used throughout this century to separate Aboriginal families are still happening today, according to the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care(SNAICC).
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Cuba's National Assembly has slated public hearings on the bill sponsored by US Senator Jesse Helms and Dan Burton and aimed at intensifying the blockade against Cuba.
These hearings were scheduled by the foreign relations and legal affairs
Right accuses ALP of sexism
By Alex Bainbridge
On May 13, Newcastle's sitting ALP federal member, Allan Morris, defeated a preselection challenge by Lyn Holmes. Holmes, losing 66 votes to 226, has since accused the ALP of being "sexist".
Sydney Water estimates that it could cost $7 billion to clean up Sydney's waterways, and as part of its corporatisation obligations it must end the dry-weather discharge of effluent to waterways. Friends of the Earth's JOHN DENLAY reports on how a
Peter Montague
Air pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) in cars, trucks, and power plants, is killing roughly 60,000 people in the USA each year, according to researchers at Harvard University's School of
Faulkner refuses to save the Tarkine
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — On May 24, federal environment minister John Faulkner was met by about 20 protesters demanding that he take action to save the Tarkine wilderness.
Faulkner, on his way to
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