By Norm Dixon and Tom Jordan The Papua New Guinea government is tightening its military blockade of the besieged island of Bougainville and has mounted further attacks on the civilian population. The latest escalation came to light on April
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By Tracy Sorensen It should not be surprising that a central motif in the television images of the burning of Los Angeles is the car: run down, stopped, its driver hauled out and bashed or even shot, in a furious re-enactment of the original
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — For a brief but dramatic period in mid-April, Russia was without a government. On April 13 first deputy premier Yegor Gaidar and his ministers marched indignantly from the chamber of the Congress of People's
By Rose McCann WOLLONGONG — For the first time in living memory, this year's May Day march was led here by women workers, members of the Federated Clerks Union (FCU). This was in keeping with a long-standing South Coast tradition, which gives
The truly green machine By Alan A. Parker The humble bicycle is the truly green machine that can improve access to railway stations and trunk bus routes and be used instead of a car for most local trips, helping to alleviate growing problems
Brazil proposes forest program RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian government is considering a plan to plant more than 200,000 sq km of forest for environmental reasons. The plan, developed by an international team working with the university of
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — Repeatedly in the past few months, the Russian media have carried reports detailing the sombre news: women in this country are no longer willing to bear children. The reports have noted social causes —
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Following the decision of the Western Australian government to restrict the distribution of People and Picture magazines to outlets registered for the sale of "adult publications", the Victorian government announced
By Ulrike Helwerth "Farewells and Beginnings" is the title of a photographic exhibition currently being held at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Taken between Autumn 1989 and 1990 by the photographer Stefan Moses, the photo-portraits of
Dioxin deadly, research confirms Following a recent push by international industrial lobbies to reduce controls on dioxin, latest research shows it still to be one of the most dangerous chemicals known. A chlorine by-product, dioxin is mainly
Calls for solidarity with Cuba The World Federation of Trade Unions is calling for 1992 to be the Year of Solidarity with Cuba. In a statement, the WFTU says trades unions and other organisations worldwide must do their best to inform people
Australia shirks nuclear insurance issue As the danger of nuclear accidents increase in the wake of the break-up of the former Soviet bloc, unsafe practices in many Third World countries and the ageing of reactors in all nuclear power states,
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