Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies By David Cortright and Max Watts Greenwood Press. 1991. 282 pp. $58.50 (hb). Reviewed by Allen Myers This book is the product of decades of research and, more importantly,
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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
Cape Fear Starring Robert de Niro, Jessica Lange Directed by Martin Scorsese Reviewed by Steve Painter Put together a 1950s plot with some modern ultraviolence, and you don't need to know much more about Cape Fear. A number of reviewers have
By Steve Painter Croatians around the world celebrated their country's independence on January 15, the day a range of European and other states recognised the breakaway former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. The European decision
Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — This city's legendary air pollution problem is bad and getting worse. City authorities have responded with an emergency plan to address partially the deteriorating environmental situation in the world's largest
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 Peter Boyle The reports of the prime ministerial task force on "ecologically sustainable development" stack up to more than the height of former prime minister Bob Hawke. But environmental groups are divided on how productive the process is.
Paula Nassif SYDNEY — TAFE teachers in NSW are concerned over threats of disciplinary action for making public comments. Labor Party assistant shadow education minister John Murray noted recently that two Wollongong teachers were reprimanded
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — 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,
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
SYDNEY — A significant victory has been won for workers at a paper factory at Emu Plains in Sydney's industrial west. After 42 weeks on a 24-hour picket line, 33 Vista Paper Products workers learned on December 16 that the Industrial Relations
Back to the dark ages By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — Community opinion has been outraged by the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold a lesser sentence for convicted rapist Heros Hakopian, on the ground that the victim would have
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