Students rally against voluntary unionism
By Emma Bird
MELBOURNE — Around 1000 students marched through the streets on March 23 in opposition to the Kennett government's proposed voluntary student unionism legislation. The legislation
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SAN SALVADOR — FMLN-Democratic Convergence (CD) presidential candidate Ruben Zamora, achieved a vote of 25.29% in the March 20 elections. With 83.6% of the vote counted, the ruling ARENA's candidate, Calderon Sol, had 49.26%.
By Tom Kelly
One anomaly of the new trade regime is that it appears to allow the sale of contaminated meat in Australia. The March 24 Financial Review reported that meat from 452 quarters of beef which had been rejected for human consumption by
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Following a week of mass protests in South African prisons, the Transitional Executive Council agreed on March 22 that all prisoners will be allowed to vote in this country's first democratic elections.
Germinal
Directed by Claude Berri
Reviewed by Dick Nichols
Nobody except, perhaps, students "doing" French literature reads the novels of 19th century French realist Emile Zola any more, and that's not surprising. It would be difficult to
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The ANC's southern Natal chairperson, Jeff Radebe, flanked by the ANC's candidate for premier of Natal, Jacob Zuma, said here on March 23 that "the time has come for the Transitional Executive Council to take
A meeting of reactionary minds
By Frank Noakes
"Vote against social engineering. Vote for democracy. Vote 1 for Australians Against Further Immigration", the ALP's Graeme Campbell urged electors in the Mackellar and Warringah by-elections.
By Pip Hinman
and Karen Fredericks
Penny Arcade has had her share of romantic traumas, but she has found the antidote. Once, following a particularly nasty break-up with an emotionally crippled boyfriend, she and a 21-year-old gay friend
By Tony Smith
Keating's call — one might almost say "threat" — to business to invest some profits to prevent a wages push is yet another signal that he is bereft of foresight.
Throughout the '80s, Keating's economic "leadership" was of
Youths held in adult jail
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland Aboriginal and Islanders Legal Service vice-president Sam Watson said on March 22 that the service would appeal to the High Court or even the United Nations to "stop children
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Early in March a parliamentary deputy from Orenburg province in the southern Urals contacted Greenpeace Russia with alarming news.
Shunted up a side track just outside the town of Svetly were 16 open-topped
By Peter Montague
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, somewhere between 2 and 4 million US children have sufficient lead in their blood to diminish their IQ, reduce their physical stature, damage their hearing, decrease their
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