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Only hours before the Irish Republican Army announced an "unconditional and open-ended cease-fire" on August 31, to take effect the following day, pro-British loyalist death squads declared that such an initiative would lead

How can workers "cooperate" with an employer whose response to an industrial hazard is "You've got to die sometime"? Over the last two years, workers at the A.E. Staley plant in midwestern Decatur, Illinois, have learned that

MOSCOW — When a country stops renewing its industry and infrastructure, production does not simply wind down in uneventful fashion. Owners and managers who cannot afford to replace worn-out machinery often cannot afford to

The eighth General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed earlier this year, promises to deliver more on free trade than any of its predecessors. Within its 20,000 pages are agreements reducing restrictions on trade in

Timorese guerillas stand firmClaims by the Indonesian military that it is scaling down operations in East Timor and that the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, FALINTIL (Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East

In the August 21 national elections in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), won the ballot with 50% of the vote. The conservative National Action

The August 29 signing of an agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel on education, health, taxation, social welfare and other issues is another step in the peace process. This agreement was preceded

Cease-fire proposed on BougainvilleTalks involving PNG's new prime minister, Julius Chan, and Sam Kauona, leader of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, have strengthened the prospects for peace on Bougainville. Negotiations

[As we go to press, negotiations are continuing in an effort to free three Western hostages being held in Cambodia by the forces of the Khmer Rouge. Despite a peace agreement signed in October 1991, Cambodia remains at war. How this situation came

In the last few days, in relation to the repeated incidents with terrorists, kidnappings of ships with hostages — old people and children among them — heading to Florida, a situation of particular tension between the

JOHANNESBURG — Support for a "social accord" between the government, unions and business has come from intellectual circles close to the South African trade union movement. At the same time, establishment figures have continued

HAVANA — I was (once again) amazed at Amnesty International's naivete reflected in its posting "Human Rights At Risk" regarding recent events in Cuba. One wonders whether the people at Amnesty International who send out