By Greg Miller
The tone of the front page article in the Australian of Friday, March 10, was exuberant. It splashed across three-quarters of available space and was supported by colour photos and diagrams. "$4bn pay TV plan world first",
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Higher than Heaven: Japan, war and everything
By Tony Barrell and Rick Tanaka
Private Guy International: 1995. 304 pp., $35
Reviewed by Heidi Pegrem
"This book is called Higher than Heaven because that's where a lot of
By Lisa Macdonald
August 6 marked the 50th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima by the US during World War Two. On August 5 the first round of Hiroshima Day commemoration protests against the French government's recent decision
Nicer
@lctext = "We want to make nice nuclear weapons, more efficient nuclear weapons." — Jean Lichere, director of the French Atomic Energy Commission.
Geography lesson
@lctext = "Where is our test site? In the middle of the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the coal-mining centre of Partizansk in the Maritime District of Russia's Far East, most miners go to work with nothing more than bread and sugar in their lunch boxes. From time to time, miners collapse on
Understanding the unforgivable
Mad Turk
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, August 9-September 2
Previewed by Bronwen Beechey
At 10am on May 9, 1989, a man entered a kindergarten in Hawthorn, a middle-class
Chirac I
@letter = President Jacques Chirac of France said, he will not budge from his decision to resume nuclear testing in Moruroa Atoll. The only other known creature with a reputation to never change its mind and stick to its position
@9point = Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
@9point = The Price of Gold — One million
Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated by the Committees of Correspondence in the United States.
The governor of Pennsylvania [has] signed a death warrant to set the
By Norm Dixon
A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the
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