Freeing of hijacker 'condones terrorism'
HAVANA — Cuba on April 19 warned that the release of Leonel Macias, who murdered a Cuban navy officer and hijacked a vessel to the United States last August, is equivalent to condoning terrorism.
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By John Lindsay-Poland
The US military revealed for the first time on March 9 which US bases in Panama it plans to consider keeping beyond the year 2000, when the Carter-Torrijos Treaties mandate their withdrawal.
In hearings convened by
Sexism in the judiciary
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — Remarks by a federal Industrial Court judge on April 13 that "It is not unknown for a woman to sleep her way to the top", have drawn outrage and criticism from a wide range of women and
This is the text of Cuban President Fidel Castro's speech to the concluding session of the United Nations Summit on Social Development, held in Copenhagen in March. The text is from Granma International.
"Life is built on a dream, and dreams are
By Kevin Sanders
Two unnervingly hawkish Pentagon documents prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and acquired recently by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act, positively seethe with gung ho enthusiasm for a nuclear brawl,
Trading off basic needs
In June 1993 the Keating government reduced a "safety net" wage rise being negotiated with the ACTU by $4 a week. This wage rise had earlier been agreed in Accord Mark 7, before the 1993 election. The pay-off for the
By Robyn Marshall
A wide-ranging patent granted in the US at the end of March to the National Institutes of Health, a major government-funded research body, will cripple the development of life-saving gene therapies.
NIH has given the
By Tom Maguire
LONDON — A sharp polarisation of voters towards the extreme right and left was a key feature of the first round of the French presidential elections, held on April 23.
French presidential elections are held in two rounds if
Principles
"We want to make life as difficult for them as they made life for us ... they used their numbers on the floor to block sensible, rational legislation ... they can count on us using all the forms and procedures and every tactic in the
The things that happen on Yungaburra Road
By Rosanna Barbero
SYDNEY — Death Defying Theatre's Yungaburra Road, written by Noelle Janaczewska, provides an examination and voyage into all forms of violence: individual, community, national
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