By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Threatening to embarrass President Boris Yeltsin with national protest actions on the eve of his Constitutional Assembly, Russian tertiary students on June 3 forced the government to meet a series of unfulfilled
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By Greg Ogle
Troops firing on unarmed protesters in Australia? Almost unthinkable, but it is a possibility which is clearly planned for in an official (though secret) Australian army document which was leaked recently. The peace movement got
Still going strong
By Bernie Brian
Even though they have been playing together for over 3O years, the five members of the Chieftains obviously still enjoy it. I suppose you could excuse them if, like some successful performers, they
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
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 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
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 Martà and Radio Venceremos, the two radio stations of the Farabundo MartÃ
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 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
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