By Dan Connell and Angela Matheson JEBEL MUKABER, Occupied West Bank: A convoy of 15 Israeli vehicles recently drove into this small Palestinian village and stopped in front of the newly constructed house of Anwar Kalil. Within minutes, two
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By Sally Low MOSCOW — So she will not lose heart, environmentalist Ann Rubin concentrates on the small and not the large picture in the former USSR. The extent of damage, the breakdown of any recognised central political force, people's daily
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? By Marion Meade London: Minerva. 459 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Phil Shannon Dorothy Parker was the USA's "foremost female wit in the 1920s", writes Marion Meade. Parker certainly excelled at the one-
Rape The justice systems, of late, have been fine tuning their message for the prospective rape victims of the '90s, and women would do well to consider the following. If you are a single woman on a date, do not allow your boyfriend to rape
Anti-bases protest at Toowoomba By Brendan Greenhill BRISBANE — About 40 demonstrators gathered at Borneo Barracks, Cabarlah on New Year's Day as "Toowoomba Mobilisation Opposing Bush". Cabarlah Army base, 19 km outside Toowoomba, is
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In the huge food store at Taganskaya Square, the mood at the bread counter was growing surly. Some 50 people pushed and argued, while the white-coated sales staff gestured helplessly. As usual, there was plenty of
Human rights groups and spokespeople for the East Timorese resistance movement have condemned as a whitewash the Indonesian government-appointed inquiry's preliminary report into the November 12 Dili massacre.
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — Ian Jamieson, former president of the Tasmanian Mining Industry Union Council and current chair of the Rosebery Hospital Action Committee, is to contest the seat of Lyons as an independent in the February 1 state
By Irina Glushchenko and Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — When Boris Yeltsin chose Air Force Colonel Alexander Rutskoi as his running mate in the June 1991 Russian presidential elections, the Afghanistan war hero and former leading figure in Russian
Over the past three years, stratospheric ozone depletion over all areas of the globe except the tropics has accelerated alarmingly. Predictions of increases in the rates of skin cancers and eye cataracts are being lent weight by recent news from Chile, where scientists are linking ozone depletion to reports of blindness in animals and mutations in plants.
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — The Green Independents' lunchtime campaign launch on January 15 filled the 400-seat Hobart Town Hall to capacity, with another 200 people on the steps listening to speeches broadcast by loudspeakers. With the
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