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Women's rights and overpopulation The third International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), will be held in Cairo in September 94. It has been billed by the Clinton administration and feminist groups as potentially one of the
International Playhouse — The Dog it was that Died — By Tom Stoppard. Rupert Purvis is a British intelligence officer undergoing "a bit of a crisis". Having become a double agent, he has doubled and redoubled the duplicity so often that he has
Twinkletoes Lion Theatre, Adelaide Starring Carol Scarlan Reviewed by Stephen Spence Jennifer Johnstone's Twinkletoes is about "everything and nothing". Carol Scarlan's strong performance of this piece for the Third International
Sisulu Jnr to head SABC South Africa's public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which became notorious for its role as the mouthpiece of apartheid and its rigid political and moral censorship, is to be headed by
By Barry Sheppard CHICAGO — The founding convention of the Committees of Correspondence (CoC) held here over July 23-24, reflected and registered the progress — and lack of it — the organisation has made in the two years since the Berkeley
A glimpse behind the figleaf A good deal of the decisions that most affect our lives are made in secretive and confidential meetings by senior corporate executives — those with the power to invest, speculate, close down factories and
A how-to on saving oiled birds Rescue and Rehabilitation of Oiled Birds A field manual by Erna Walraven Available from Taronga Zoo PO Box 20, Mosman 2088 $30 pus $8 postage Reviewed by John Tognolini How do you pick up a Wandering
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Some 67% of Russians, a recent survey discovered, have no savings. Those who do have money saved up protect it against inflation through a variety of methods. These include depositing it in savings banks or in the
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Briagde: Americans in the Spanish Civil War By Peter N Carroll Stanford University Press 1994, 440 pp., $35.00 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936 with General Franco's
Human nature and society Bad Boy Bubby Directed by Rolf de Heer Screening at Wallis Theatres, Adelaide Reviewed by Anthony Thirlwall Bad Boy Bubby has been in his room for 35 years. He knows only three living things — his mother,

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