By Norm Dixon "He might be a son-of-a-bitch, but he's our son-of-a-bitch" — US President Franklin Roosevelt's description of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza also describes the attitude the west has taken towards Indonesia's President
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By Peter Annear MOSCOW — "As economic laws operate, it is very difficult to work out what laws are governing the defence of labour" under the new "democratic" system, says Mikhail Nagaitsev, vice-president of the Moscow Federation of Trade
Censorship of the war in Croatia By Peter Boyle In late November, Tom Solyuk, news director for SBS Radio (2EA and 3EA) prohibited the use by the news bureau of all telephone news reports from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina and news
By Angela Matheson BERLIN — Step off the train at Bahnhof Zoo in downtown Berlin for a taste of the new Germany, where gangs of broad-shouldered youth clad in jack boots, jeans and swastika insignia mill on the platform, picking their victims.
PRAGUE — The Palestinian ambassador to Czechoslovakia, SAMEEH ABDUL FATTAH, spoke to PETER ANNEAR on November 30, the day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. How do you assess the Palestinian position in the current
By Peter Boyle California-based political satirist Dave Lippman is best known as Dr George Shrub, the world's only known singing CIA (Committee to Intervene Anywhere) agent. "The rest", he says, "are secret so that you never know the song you are
By Steve Painter A peace song, "Stop the War in Croatia", hit number 13 on the national record charts in early December and could go higher. Royalties from the recording, by Tomislav Ivcic, are being used to buy medical supplies for casualties
A taste of hyperinflation By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — When the first details of Yeltsin's "profound economic reforms" hit the Russian press toward the end of October, the public reaction was quick and spectacular. Sales of the
Counterproductive violence My activity at the AIDEX protest was rendered inadequate by an ulcer flare up. This was the result of internal conflict. The conflict was caused by a minority of fellow protesters who did not seem to understand that
By Reihana Mohideen According to a December 6 New Zealand National Business Review poll, the alternative parties Alliance led by the NewLabour Party is now ahead of both the old Labour Party and the conservative National Party in the polls. The
A special issue This is the last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ for 1991. We've expanded it by eight pages and included a range of features to provide interesting reading for the holiday period. Our next issue will be the one dated January 20.
Symbolic power By Tracy Sorensen The right to vote, the right to drink in public bars and join certain golf clubs, the right to continue working as an airline steward beyond the age of 20-something: in almost every area of public life, women
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