Zapatista-government meeting imminent
MEXICO CITY — The rebels in Chiapas have announced that negotiations with the government to end the rebellion are imminent. A Zapatista Army communique on February 1 said that the basics have been agreed
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By Pip Hinman
Ever fancied yourself as a barefoot foreign correspondent? Spending nights on trains (to save money) on the way to conferences, meeting dignitaries and famous people and being the first to break the lead story. Apart from the
Postal workers against privatisation
By Jon Land
SYDNEY — Some 1000 Australia Post workers attended a stop-work meeting here called by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) on February 4, to protest against federal government
Greenpeace calls for greening of GATT
THE HAGUE — As representatives from the US and the European Union met here to begin a round table on environment and trade, Greenpeace on January 27 called on delegates to green the Global Agreement on
Jana D.K.
JAKARTA — There have been comments recently on President Soeharto's apparently poor health during public appearances. According to a journalist from the Indonesian Observer, prior to his trip to India in December, Soeharto was
Turkey deports refugees
The Turkish government has been deporting refugees from Iran and Iraq back to those countries in recent weeks, according to the Council of Iranian Refugees and Migrants, in Sydney. In addition, says the council, Iranian
Chamarette slams blockade of medicine to Burma
WA Greens Senator Christabel Chamarette has spoken out against the Thai government's confiscation of medical supplies intended for ethnic minority groups inside Burma. The supplies were a private
@9point ADELAIDE — A public meeting on January 31 organised by Australians for Democracy in South Africa heard African National Congress chief representative Ndumiso Ntshinga explain that support is still vital to the victory of the ANC in the
By Frank Enright
and Max Watts
The Gibraltar-registered grain carrier Gopali, bound for Papua New Guinea with a load of Australian grain, was delayed from sailing from the Grain Handling Terminal in Wollongong on February 1 by trade
By Liam Mitchell
The federal government's promised tax on leaded petrol (super) came into effect on February 1. Launched with a lot of rhetoric about reducing lead levels in the atmosphere, the tax raises the prices of leaded fuel by 2 cents per
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission Inquiry into the death of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock in police custody on November 7 ,resumed for final submissions on February 3.
In his submission counsel for the Yock
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — How was Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin able to force a sharp change of economic strategy on an obviously reluctant President Yeltsin?
The basic explanation is that the strategies of economic
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