BUDAPEST — With the recent confrontation in Moscow, Russia seems to be entering a new stage. TAMAS KRAUSZ, a leader of the Hungarian Left Alternative and a member of the Institute for Russian Soviet Studies, spoke to Green Left
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PHNOM PENH — After the adoption of a new constitution, the 22,000-strong forces of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) are withdrawing. On September 21, the 120-person Constituent Assembly
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Referendum on voting systemUCKLAND — There are two votes for New Zealanders on November 6, one to elect a government and the other to decide how governments are elected in the future. The choice in the referendum is
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PORT MORESBY — A manoeuvre by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. The move follows growing unrest about Wingti's plans to abolish the nation's provincial government
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Nuclear bid will continue: Bhutto Should Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan People's Party succeed in forming Pakistan's next government once counting from the October 6 general election is completed, Pakistan's program to acquire nuclear weapons
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Opposition to Tongan waste dump There will be a revolt if a plan to store toxic waste from the United State in Tonga goes ahead, a member of parliament, Akilisi Pohiva, said on September 27. Pohiva, who leads the movement against the king's
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MOSCOW — Since tanks of the armed forces finally blew away Russia's parliament on October 4, President Boris Yeltsin has moved swiftly to suspend, disband or intimidate the major potential sources of opposition to his rule.
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In Green Left #117, there was a report of a meeting held in Melbourne around "Genetics and Sexuality". The current controversy centres on an article by Dean H. Hamer and co-workers in the July 16 edition of Science.
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The tradition of science — the science we are used to — looks upon events in terms of constituent parts. We find out about the whole by cutting it up into individual bits and pieces. Each bit has its own intrinsic properties,
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A year ago the British government of John Major announced a massive coal mine closure plan that within months would have closed 30 pits with the loss of 30,000 jobs. The announcement produced an outcry from the broader community which culminated in a
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By Bergen O'Brien and Reihana Mohideen On January 1, 1991, Sue Franknel and Bill Strait (US citizens), Moana Cole from New Zealand and Ciaron O'Reilly from Brisbane — calling themselves "Anzus Ploughshares" — seriously compromised the
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Australia is home to 17 million people and 24 million cattle. On a cowpat ratio, that's one of the highest proportions of cattle to people in the world. In Queensland, beef cattle outnumber humans by more than two to one. In