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By Liang Guosheng Amid the rumours of a cover-up of Deng Xiaoping's death, larger foreign investors are becoming increasingly frustrated and concerned by the stop-start nature of the "market reforms" which have become a feature of "market
Green It Up finishes '94 with a bang By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Green It Up, the weekly alternative cultural event held at the Shamrock Hotel here every Thursday night, finished up for 1994 with a huge end-of-year party on December 1. Green
ACT toys with cannabis reform By Rebecca Collerson Reform to drug laws in the ACT, enacted on November 30, which allows legal cannabis consumption for those suffering from certain illnesses, is likely to be reversed following an outcry from
Renewable hero Home Spearhead EMI Music Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes Michael Franti, hip-hop artist formerly from the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, has released Home with his new band Spearhead. Franti, together with vocalist Mary
This is the last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly that will be published in 1994. With this issue, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ completes its fourth year of independent, progressive and professional production. This is a feat that we should all be proud of: those of us who
By Graham Matthews SYDNEY — The University of New South Wales was the setting for the public day of the 32nd annual conference of the Australia New Zealand Solar Energy Society on December 3. The keynote speakers were prominent
Victorian actions against woodchipping By Rachel Evans MELBOURNE — Two actions were held in Victoria on December 9 against renewal of 10 woodchipping licences. One action, at the woodchipping mill in Eden, was organised by the Wilderness
Poem: Pleasures By Walter Jones Visiting the toilet To read. Eating In company. Drinking wine. Good comedy This newspaper and Dialectics. How pleasing it is To change the world. In my need To There is freedom.
Auschwitz Admonishes em= By Denis Kevans ["Auschwitz admonishes" — Pope John Paul II] "Auschwitz admonishes" Pope John Paul says it's so, "Auschwitz admonishes", The Popentate says so. And Maidanek's a caution, I'm sure
ADELAIDE — Both a December 7 rally of more than 100 people opposing the occupation of East Timor by Indonesia, and an East Timor independence dinner of a similar size held on December 3, heard Fatima Gusmao speak about the struggle for justice and
The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987-1993 By James Dunkerley Verso, 1994. $34.95 Reviewed by Neville Spencer In Central America the 1980s were dominated by civil wars, with casualties numbering into
NABIHA MORKUS is a Palestinian member of Women in Black and secretary in Tel Aviv of Democratic Women, which, like Women in Black, includes both Jewish and Arab women. VIVIENNE PORZSOLT interviewed her for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. How did you come to