The following is the text of a letter from the leader of the East Timorese National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM), Xanana Gusmao, to South African President Nelson Mandela, sent from Cipinang Prison, Jakarta on May 15. The letter, written in
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Disasters like the volcanic eruptions in Rabaul in Papua New Guinea do not happen every week. The spectacle of a mountain billowing gray ash combined with a boiling harbour is a rarity.
When disasters like Rabaul do happen they attract
'Blaming Vietnamese young people'
By Julia Perkins
Vincent Don, a street worker at Cabramatta Community Centre, who was involved in organising the September 17 "peace rally" in Cabramatta and works day to day with young people
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Pope
By Peter Montague
An internal memorandum by an official of the US Environmental Protection Agency has accused EPA of conducting a "fraudulent" criminal investigation of Monsanto, the St Louis chemical corporation.
The 30-page
Open Learning — Journals and Letters of Colonial Women — Voices not often heard in colonial literature were those of women. Most women's writing was in the form of letter or journal, rather than in the public arena. This program considers a
Looking out: Any suggestions?
By Brandon Astor Jones
Some readers may have heard about John Crawford, the top US spokesman for the British luxury car maker Jaguar. Recently, he addressed a group of journalists at an automobile
Indian homeland in Nicaragua threatened
By Darwin Juarez
A 720,000 hectare forest reserve in north-eastern Nicaragua, home to 95% of Central America's Sumu Indians, is under attack by a Canadian mining company, Nicaraguan
Progress report
"Prince Ranariddh claimed the King [Sihanouk] told him that he would only retake political power on three conditions: that there be one party, no media freedom, and no human rights organizations." — Sue Downie in the September
By Afrodity Giannakis
Social Security members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) recently voted on the DSS "in-principle" agency bargaining agreement for 1995. Although the agreement was accepted on a national level, in NSW it
Indigenous festival in Sydney
The second annual Nambundah festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, to be held in Sydney September 26-October 9, aims to present the talent and diversity of indigenous artists to the Aboriginal
The Politics of Belly Dancing: A choreopoem
By Paula Abood
Reviewed by Rosanna Barbero
The Politics of Belly Dancing has concluded at the Performance Space in Sydney, and is now on its way to Wollongong and Canberra. It combats
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