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Economic package provokes rifts in Hashimoto government
By Peter Symonds, 30 April 1998
Japanese Prime Minister Ryotaro Hashimoto last Friday belatedly announced details of a 16.6 trillion yen ($US120 billion) economic stimulus package.
Economic package provokes rifts in Hashimoto government
By Peter Symonds, 30 April 1998
Japanese Prime Minister Ryotaro Hashimoto last Friday belatedly announced details of a 16.6 trillion yen ($US120 billion) economic stimulus package. The plan was initially foreshadowed in March, under pressure from Washington, European governments and the International Monetary Fund.
UMWA officials named in assault
By Paul Scherrer, 30 April 1998
Charges have been filed against three high-ranking officials of the United Mine Workers of America for their role in an April 1 assault on a group of dissident miners protesting the policies of the UMWA leadership.
A reader requests articles on science and the struggle against mysticism
30 April 1998
Drug reaction epidemic in the US
By Debra Watson, 30 April 1998
An exercise in hypocrisy and political amnesia
By Vann Bill, 29 April 1998
In a display of hypocrisy remarkable even by the standards of imperialist politicians, Clinton spoke of the
Dissension on Cuba
By Bill Vann, 29 April 1998
While Fidel Castro was not invited to the Santiago summit, because Washington vetoed his presence, the issue of Cuba was never far from the agenda.
General Motors British subsidiary sets the treadmill at a higher tempo
By Tony Hyland, 29 April 1998
Autoworkers at Vauxhall, the British subsidiary of General Motors, have accepted by a three-to-one margin a new three-year contract that maintains low pay while demanding higher productivity.
Who is responsible for the genocide in Rwanda?
By Therese LeClerc, 29 April 1998
Those who lost their lives, and the millions more who were forced to flee their homes in the course of the catastrophe, were victims of an ongoing struggle between French and American imperialism, which has produced further human tragedies in Zaire and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and threatens countless others throughout Africa.
Euro to bring far-reaching changes
By Nick Beams, 28 April 1998
The lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, voted overwhelmingly at the weekend to approve the replacement of the deutsche mark by the euro, the currency of 11 European nations that will come into effect January 1 next year.