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Thousands of Guatemalan refugees in Mexico are thinking of returning home. MIKE KAY reports from Guatemala. In 1981 the military regime of General Lucas Garcia began what was, even by Guatemalan standards, an incredibly brutal counterinsurgency
'Respectable' Germans encourage racism By Tom Jordan and Sean Malloy Members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) have been accused of assisting racist attacks on immigrants and refugees in Germany by
British-US tensions over Cuba trade ban By Chris Brogan LONDON — The British government is refusing to cooperate with US attempts to tighten the economic embargo against Cuba. Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
In the Mix: The commodification of Malcolm X — In November, Spike Lee's much touted new film on the life of Malcolm X screens in the US. It marks the end point of Malcolm's regeneration in the politics and culture of Black America. Young
Whose civil liberties? US criminal defence lawyer Alan Dershowitz is probably best known to Australians as Claus Von Bulow's lawyer in the biographical film Reversal Of Fortune (1990). Convicted rapist Mike Tyson has now hired Dershowitz to
Investors frightened By Tom Jordan Several Japanese banks and investment houses in Berlin have said they fear attacks against Japanese businessmen and investors, particularly in eastern Germany. Japanese businessmen have been mistaken for
Anger over rape verdict By Adam Hanieh ADELAIDE — On August 24, a court here acquitted a man accused of raping his wife. The judge's remarks to the jury outraged many people. The judge told the jury that it was quite astounding the
Carrying capacity The letters on immigration by Friel, Evans and Kault (GLW #69) only help to discredit the environmental movement. Arguments about "unsustainable Australian population growth", and about a country's "carrying capacity" are
A position paper on Aboriginal deaths in custody was prepared by the National Committee to Defend Black Rights and presented in Geneva in July to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations by Helen Corbett, NCDBR chairperson.
Rainbow Festival in south-west By Michael Arnold PERTH — A Rainbow Festival will be held next month in Cambray, just outside of Nannup 300 km south-west of Perth. Cambray is renowned for its spectacular bushland and natural springs. The

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