By Sean Magill and Maureen Baker
Britain's minister for occupied Ireland, Patrick Mayhew, said last week that there was no question of Sinn Fein, the only Republican party with support throughout Ireland, becoming involved in all-inclusive talks
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Poem: Hercegovina
em = By Andelko Vuletic
Translated by Amila Buturovic
Now,
over this very stone,
where the pollen smells,
where the karst is white and the juniper tree is black
where the wolf howls and the snake rattles and
By Pip Hinman
In fear of the political consequences, federal cabinet has been postponing a decision on whether 76 sensitive areas of old-growth forests will be logged. Cabinet is due to make a decision on March 6.
The timber industry lobby
Choice
"This is a most interesting election from many points of view: the fact we've known about it for so long, the fact that there are no real issues out there ..." â NSW Premier John Fahey on the state elections.
Advice on credit
Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences
By Hilary Rose
Polity, 1994. $39.95
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
Hilary Rose covers a diverse spectrum of issues in Love, Power and Knowledge — feminist theories
At the upcoming UN Environment Program (UNEP) Governing Council in Nairobi in May, it is likely that delegates will vote to start the process to change the current voluntary Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedures for chemicals and pesticides into a
Pen friends wanted
[We have received the following requests from prisoners in the United States seeking pen friends.]
When all attempts fail, empty loneliness demands me to try harder. Attractive, caring, compassionate gentleman, w/m on
Chechen government appeal
The following statement was received by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) General Secretariat on February 27 from the government of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria.
The Government of the
Actively Radical TV — This week's program looks at the controversy surrounding Sydney's third runway. Activists Ian Fraser, Aline Smith and Col Hesse discuss Labor's legacy in inner Sydney. CTS (UHF 31), Friday, March 10, 10.30pm (Repeated
US pesticide study sounds alarm
Washington, D.C. — A study published on February 27 in the American Journal of Public Health, which finds elevated rates of cancer in children exposed to pesticides, raises yet again the serious and overdue need
CFMEU bans demolition
By Chantal Wynter
MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has backed a campaign by Broadmeadows teachers and community leaders to stop the government from bulldozing the caretakers'
By Tom Burghardt
SAN FRANCISCO — Four California women's health centres were attacked in the first half of February. The latest in a series of arson attacks occurred on February 15 when a fire was started at the Planned Parenthood facility in
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