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Dying nuclear dragon lashes New Zealand

By Maire Leadbeater AUCKLAND — While nuclear power is on the decline worldwide, New Zealand received what might be a last, desperate swipe of the dragon's tail when Prime Minister Jim Bolger's Special Committee on Nuclear Propulsion

Abortion in the US: still under threat

Twenty years ago, on January 22, 1973, supporters of women's reproductive rights in the United States rejoiced at the surprise Supreme Court decision to legalise abortion. Yet abortion in the US today is anything but a guaranteed right. Claudette

Cuba: selecting a candidate

By Santiago Cardosa Arias First it was the rain, torrential and somewhat cold. Then when we sheltered in "old Rafael's" carpenter's shop, with its pleasant, pungent smell of sawdust, plywood, pine and caoba shavings and neighbours' furniture

Haitian refugees still held at US base

Haitian refugees still held at US base Attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City are still concerned about 271 Haitian refugees imprisoned in the US military base at Guantánamo in Cuba. All have credible

The fallacy of symmetry

By Sherna Berger Gluck The outbreak of the intifada on December 9, 1987, made the Palestinian cause a reality that could not be ignored. No longer could a Golda Meir get away with her (in)famous pronouncement that there were no