GLW issue 476, published 2002-01-16.

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UNITED STATES: Court decisions set disturbing precedent

BY SARAH STEPHEN A January 7 ruling by 2nd District Utah Judge Michael Allphin allowed the prosecution of a man accused of killing his pregnant ex-wife for the murder of the foetus. Roger MacGuire allegedly shot Susan MacGuire, on January 15, 2001,

Are 'people smugglers' the problem?

BY PAUL BENEDEK They sit just below Osama bin Laden on the "evil" ladder. They are subhuman, and a threat to "our" borders. They are the heinous creatures simply referred to as "people smugglers". With increasing criticism of the federal

NUS and the student left

BY SIMON BUTLER SYDNEY — The 2001 National Union of Students (NUS) conference, held December 9-14, concluded in a frustrating farce. On December 13 the "left"-ALP National Organisation of Labor Students (NOLS) rammed through a motion overturning

Loose cannons

Unlawful combat "They will be treated in the right way, not as prisoners of war, because they are not, but as unlawful combatants." — US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners captured during the US war on
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