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Eritrean referendum on independence
self-determination in a referendum on the future of their war and drought-ravaged country. They will have three ... By Peter Boyle On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed ... state. While acknowledging the terrible social costs of the war of liberation, which spanned three ...
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Bulgarian dissidents again on the outer
106 seats. Now, the political situation is characterised by "the war of the colours", the ... background, but on the other hand we are unhappy about the new government's measures to reinforce and ... already between 15% and 20%. Labour discrimination, against women and minorities and particularly minority ...
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and when the women and men who fought this war — either for Mr Bush's imperial pretensions or Mr ... After the Roman circus When the smoke finally clears from the gangsters war in the Middle East, ... sliding into depression. War has brought a temporary popularity to conservatives and social democrats in ...
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Macedonian republic to make it change its name before being recognised. Where does Scrinis stand on this? 3. ... Williams put the dozers onto the site, on November 12, 1992 to commence what they call a "Fauna and ... zoo site is on the left side, ascending, of the hill between Bullaburra and Wentworth Falls. Summing ...
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Women in Politics conference The Women in Politics conference in Adelaide over the past week has ... been hailed by the establishment press as "the revival of the women's movement". But ... seeing these women sipping champagne in cocktail lounges and talking about the "feminisation" ...
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UN and Cambodia Of all the crimes against humanity committed in the name of the UN (Gulf War ... who unanimously supported the UN's role as if to appease right wing critics. Gareth Evans said on ... continued occupation of East Timor by Indonesia. UN policies on the Khmer Rouge who Prince Sihanouk ...
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On the box
Civil War. Connections (SBS, Friday, July 24) focuses on the major criticisms of the IMF and the World ... On the box By Dave Riley The drought may be over. In a week of transitions, we lost the Doug ... World. Some pretence here. All those women's shows doing the rounds of the capitals now sneak into ...
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the images of violence and degradation which form the basis of pornography (write on, May 15), ... women well over the past 20 years. Incest, domestic violence, differing experiences of sexuality — all ... will drop. The other real problem with censorship is: who decides? For the Fred Niles, women ...
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Chadwick backs down on syllabus
Aboriginal, multicultural, gender and class perspectives. In a letter on behalf of the group, the principal of ... pre-existing values." He said the content of the syllabus reflected "post-war French Marxist ... perspectives of different groups, including Aborigines, women, migrants and various social classes. The course ...
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what slogans we happen to put on a poster. Jenny Baxter and 14 others Sydney South African women In ... first time of many. That was on August 9th, 1956, now celebrated world wide as South Africa Women ... Africa Women's Day on the 9th. Jane Widdess Victoria Park WA Extortion The Oxford English Dictionary ...
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On the campaign trail in El Salvador
bridges. One of the women needed to stop to have a piddle on the side of the road. Then we had to stop at ... war. Women and children took the opportunity of the forced stop to sell us salted loquat fruit, ... ROBYN MARSHALL was one of a party of five Australian women who acted as observers of the ...
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Life on the scrap heap in the Philippines
urban poor families. Women, men and children scavenge the waste from dawn to dusk, collecting cans, ... Agency, is 250 pesos per day. Life is hard in Payatas. Women give birth amidst Manila's refuse, ... scrap. People on the scrap heaps die at about 40 years because of these fumes. Companies require at least ...
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character who retails the best lines and carries the show. Most of these lucky stars are men. For women, the ... someone's wife, someone's girl. From I Love Lucy to The Brady Bunch, women have been stay-at-homes. ... succeed in a working world, but the comedy did not trade on her eccentricities. Enter Murphy Brown. Brown ...
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question "Why?". Can we see parallels closer to home? On the left we don't usually shoot ... the Bible, but some of us insist on increasingly restrictive concepts of "political ... the "radical" left on one end and the right-wing fundamentalists on the other. The more ...
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waging war on the then revolutionary Iran? The Iraqi Ba'athist party government and its leader have ... rest in the car capital Canberra), I would disagree. Life (political and cultural) can go on in ... commit against women. Guilt leads us to fear and hate those more innocent than ourselves. This is why it ...
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women. The lack of any alternative to relying on a "nicer" ALP government left many women ... that spoof on Star Wars "We come in peace, shoot to kill." Denis Doherty Social Justice ... against Gareth Evans' policies at the Park Grand Hotel in Sydney on November 21. Due to taking the ...
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Facts on Broadside
Facts on Broadside I would like to correct some misstatements of fact in the broad-brush ... Broadside, an old article on Jim Percy which appeared under the by-line of a journalist who has not even ... worked on the paper since November last year. Liam would of course not know the reaction of some ...
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ranted on in the best Nazi traditions about their dream: a dictatorship of the familists (sic) with ... always rife while countless women cannot have an abortion, while homosexuals are denied basic liberties, ... dock that was made on December 3, 1918 at the Central Criminal Court in Sydney was a very able ...
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Prisoners of War in Maghaberry denouncing the strip-search assault that took place in the jail on 2nd March ... Russia's birth rate I think David Kault (Write On, GLW 61, July 1) misses the point rather ... medical system, and the impact this is having on ordinary people's lives. What shocks me, David, is ...
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Russia on the road to underdevelopment
and women, cripples and young, legless war veterans seated on little carts and Gypsy mothers with ... had been regularly questioning our Komsomol hosts on our views of Soviet life. Still, it was ... paradise on earth. Perestroika, glasnost and the suppression and collapse of the CPSU lifted the veil on ...