GLW issue 673, published 2006-06-28.

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UNITED STATES: Majority want Iraq withdrawal to begin

According to an opinion poll conducted by Hart/McInturff on June 9-12 for the Wall Street Journal and NBC TV News, 52% of US adults think removing Iraq's Saddam Hussein from power was not worth the number of US military casualties and the financial

SRI LANKA: Attacks on Tamils escalate

Chris Slee On June 17, troops from the Sri Lankan navy carried out a massacre of Tamil civilians hiding in a church in the fishing village of Pesalai. According to a report by Krishan Francis in the June 19 Melbourne Age, "Sri Lankan forces,

Three Mile Island: a warning about nuclear power

Greg Adamson The near-meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979 remains a major warning of the danger of nuclear power generation. What makes an industrial accident involving a nuclear power plant so much more dangerous

Billy and the work 'choice' lie

Alice Tinning & David King, Melbourne The Howard government's $55 million "Protected by Law" advertising campaign has been a dismal failure. Some 6 million booklets explaining the virtues of the individual contract have not even seen the light of
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