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  • PNG officer confirms Bougainville abuses

    "My eyes turned toward Panguna on the right. I was almost shocked by the size of the crater; it was kilometers wide! Entire villages and gardens, mountains, traditions and memories had been dug out and replaced by an enormous

  • New York buys out of St Patrick's Day

    The four year battle over the St Patrick's Day parade has cost New Yorkers more than a few headaches and traffic tie-ups — now it will also cost them $150,000 in a settlement with the parade's sponsor, the Ancient Order of

  • Attempt on life of Nidia Diaz

    MEXICO CITY — The political violence in El Salvador intensified on February 24 with an attempt on the life of ex-Comandante Nidia Diaz. Diaz is a member of the national leadership of the FMLN (Farabundo

  • Massacre casts doubt over elections in Natal

    A high-spirited group of young South Africans, mostly in their teens, had spent the day campaigning in the southern Natal village of Mahehle. Keen to participate in South Africa's first democratic election, they had put up many ANC

  • Killer company in more trouble

    JOHANNESBURG — Thor Chemicals is again at the centre of a major controversy, this time involving the import into South Africa of toxic wastes. Thor Chemicals is a British-owned company notorious for its callous treatment of black

  • Pioneer AIDS educator dies in Cuba

    Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — One of the pioneers in AIDS education/prevention in Cuba, Raul Llanos Lima, died in Havana on February 20 of cardiac arrest. He was 39 years old. He had tested positive for HIV in 1986 and had lived and worked in Cuba's

  • Yeltsin's environment adviser quits

    MOSCOW — In the final days of 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov resigned as Russian President Boris Yeltsin's personal adviser on environmental matters. "I have resigned of my own will", the famed biologist told the paper

  • Mandela-Buthelezi meeting lifts hopes

    JOHANNESBURG — The terrible prospect of a blood-soaked election campaign in the Natal/KwaZulu region may have receded a little following a meeting in Durban between African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha

  • Pilger: Australia's role in Timor tragedy

    Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has had a major international impact — and has been attacked by the Australian government even before it has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was

  • ANC discusses challenge of women's emancipation

    JOHANNESBURG — Throughout the negotiations process since 1990, the African National Congress has pushed hard for the post-apartheid constitution to proclaim South Africa a non-sexist state. That this was incorporated into the

  • Refugees at risk in Serbian camps

    There is no safe place in Serbia for men refugees refusing to do military service in Bosnia, and perhaps the danger will soon be extended to women. The governments of Serbia and of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia have made an agreement under which the

  • Day of Action for Innu

    Day of Action for Innu March 26 is the second annual International day of Action for the Innu and the Earth. The Innu, aboriginal people who live in a portion of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula known as Nitassinan, have endured low-level