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By Steven R. Galster The call on Richard Moulton's undercover telephone line was from El Salvador. On the other end was a man known as "Wiseguy", the subject of a federal sting operation that Moulton was conducting from his small sixth-floor
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Remarkable events have unfolded in the Ukraine since early June. A huge wave of strikes has forced President Leonid Kravchuk to endorse the call for a vote on confidence in his rule. The country's parliament has
By Max Lane Among the 5000 delegates gathered in Vienna to discuss human rights are non-government organisations (NGOs) lobbying governments to take more principled and concrete stands on human rights. Already the Asia-Pacific NGOs have had
By Di Quin MELBOURNE — Support for the occupation of Richmond Secondary College is gaining ground despite a state Equal Opportunity Board decision to dismiss a claim made by two male students that the Kennett government's decision to close
Student-army clash YOGYAKARTA — Students on campus of the Sunan Kalijaga State Institute for Islamic Studies demonstrated on June 14 to demand academic freedom, campus autonomy and the withdrawal of a ban on the student newspaper Arena.
By Louise Boivin and Bruce Girard The Chapultepec Accords, signed on January 16, 1992, put an end to 12 years of civil war in El Salvador. Radio Farabundo Martí and Radio Venceremos, the two radio stations of the Farabundo Martí
How does a garden grow? The Garden of Granddaughters Written by Stephen Sewell Directed by George Ogilvie Sydney Theatre Production Wharf Theatre until July 31 Reviewed by Mina O'Shea The Garden of Granddaughters is a play
By Norm Dixon "People were running away from the demonstration before the firing even started, including these people here who were hiding behind a pick-up truck, one a small boy. His head was blown off, that's his brain smeared all over the
By Leigh Dix and Peter Devereux MANAGUA — Ranked among the 25 poorest nations on earth, the small Caribbean country of Haiti elected, in late 1990, a leftist priest as president. Jean Bertrand Aristide received the presidential sash from
By Max Watts and Norm Dixon ABC Television's Foreign Correspondent program on June 12 screened a lengthy report by the ABC's resident Port Moresby correspondent, Sean Dorney, on the situation in the blockaded island of Bougainville. It
A conference for activists By Tom Sylva Young people from around the country will be attending the Resistance conference in Melbourne July 3-5. The chance to discuss problems such as the environment, sexism and racism with international
Union lefts Your editorial on June 2 1993 entirely misses the point when you concentrate on the fact that the NSW trade union right are not serious about moves by the NSW right wing in lodging a claim: for an $8 wage rise. What is more