Searching for Bobby Fischer
Paramount Pictures
Starring Ben Kingsley
Dendy Theatre, Sydney
Late October
Reviewed by Frank Noakes
A film woven around the game of chess? Don't be fooled. Film titles and even subject
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Corrective Services imprisoned
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — Employees of the Department of Corrective Services here were imprisoned for an hour by demonstrators barring the entrance to their offices on September 30. The protest,
Spider and Rose,
Written and directed by Bill Bennett
Starring Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell and Max Cullen
Reviewed by Pip Hinman
When Ruth Cracknell was asked to describe Spider and Rose, she said she didn't really know
Ignoring lessons
By Sid Spindler
The Kennett government is ignoring the lessons of overseas countries in building more roads at the expense of public transport.
In Los Angeles, drivers inch along 12-lane expressways.
By Frank Enright
"The Keating government has compromised the delicate peace negotiations between the Bougainville Interim Government [BIG], the Bougainville Revolutionary Army [BRA] and the Papua New Guinea government", according to the
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — Anti-freeway mobilisations here have shaken the state Labor government. In the series of rallies generated from among anti-freeway activists, more than 12,000 people have registered their active opposition to the
By Jennifer Thompson
As Indian authorities struggled with an epidemic of pneumonic plague, prostitutes in New Delhi told a reporter that their business continued even while schools and cinemas were being shut. "We were told once that
On October 6 in New York, Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas met for the first time with representatives of the East Timorese resistance: Jose Ramos Horta of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM), Joao Carrascalao of the Timorese
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Challenging the daily terror of Murdoch headlines, a group of locals have embarked on an ambition media project. They are setting up a community-based paper in direct opposition to the sex, law and order of
Agent Orange
It is past time that the deadly effects of the herbicide Agent Orange, used as a defoliant in the Vietnam War, are officially recognised. The legal decision last week to grant compensation to Australian Vietnam War veterans
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