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Tame view of the SAS

Soldier E SAS: Sniper Fire in Belfast By Shaun Clarke Cox and Wyman 283 pp., $12.95 Reviewed by Catherine Brown The publisher's notes for potential reviewers, with its bland reference to the "secretive and controversial" history of the

North Korean nuclear realities

By John Hallam In writing this article, I have elected to say relatively little about the matters that have received the greatest press attention, namely the threat of war, sanctions, the sanity and personal habits of North Korean leaders and

Student council sacks staff

Student council sacks staff By Alice Barker MELBOURNE — Action taken by the student union executive council at the Victorian University of Technology to force staff redundancies may be a sign of what is in store for student unions under

New light on frame-up of Geronimo Pratt

For 23 years former Black Panther Party leader and Vietnam veteran Geronimo ji Jaga (Pratt) has been locked up for a crime he did not commit. Eleven times he has been denied parole because he refuses to renounce his commitment to black liberation or

The cost of freeways

By Dave Riley BRISBANE — With stronger winter sunshine, warmer temperatures and more "calm" days, Brisbane has a greater smog potential year round than centres such as Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Newcastle. The capacity of the airshed over

Action updates

ADELAIDE — Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) will hold a rally on August 8 at 1pm on the steps of Parliament House at which it will hand over a submission to the state government calling for a reform of SA's marijuana laws. The rally marked the

Thriving on politics at eighty

By Frank Noakes "Sydney's City Court in 1938 was a dreary place through which passed an endless procession of drunks, prostitutes, perverts, drug addicts, petty criminals and car thieves. So what a change, what a dramatic change then, when a

Workers demand accountable, pro-worker government

By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's organised working class expects the new government to be thoroughly accountable to its supporters and will resort to mass action if workers' interests are betrayed. These are some of the findings of

Looking out: Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor "Justice ... is so subtle a thing that to interpret it one has only need of a heart." — Jose Garcia Oliver Back in the 60s, during the struggle for civil rights, I, like many other African-Americans, took to the streets of

Radio highlights

International Playhouse — Fun Balloons — Tom's washing machine needs to be repaired but nobody comes to service it, so he goes to the local showroom to complain. There he meets the manager, his secretary and the area supervisor who give him

South Africa: Pick 'n Pay strike continues

By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG, July 24 — The militant strike by shop workers employed by South Africa's largest supermarket chain, Pick 'n Pay, continues. While there has been a noticeable reduction in the violent attacks by police that marred

Postmodernism and liberal democracies

intro = The Balkanisation of the West By Stjepan G. Mestrovic Routledge Reviewed by Phil Clarke In 1989 US state department academic Francis Fukuyama shot to fame proclaiming "the end of history" in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.