After a phase of fiasco, the Moscow city administration's plan for the privatisation of housing seems to have reached its mature form — rank injustice. Under an earlier plan, abandoned in late November,
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By Steve Painter A year after the Gulf War, the United Nations embargo against Iraq remains in place, with Australian warships helping to enforce it. As a result, most Iraqis have spent the past 12 months living amid a catastrophe even worse
PNG mine closed by land dispute By Alex Bruhl PORT MORESBY — The Mt Kare alluvial gold mine, near Porgera in a remote area of the Papua New Guinea highlands, remains closed after being raided by armed men on January 9. The raid,
By Craig Brittain Magazines don't often get reviewed. This is a shame, because unless you happen to stumble across them, you might never know of their existence — especially left-wing magazines which don't make the newsstands. Dissent was
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
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
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
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-
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.
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