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Archive: March 1998

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

3 March 1998

• Interview with Kim Dong-won, director of The Six-Day Fight in Myong Dong Cathedral
  "Our situation requires us to make films dealing with social issues"
• Interview with Hubert Sauper, co-director of Kisangani Diary
  "We cannot call ourselves democrats when people are still treated like animals"
• The 48th Berlin International Film Festival
  A number of valuable new works
• As Clinton prepares new pretext for war: Congressmen call for sabotage and assassination
• The Auckland and Brisbane blackouts
  Welcoming the "electricity apocalypse"

4 March 1998

• Growing levels of poverty in Scotland
• Pentagon strategy for nuclear strikes revealed
  Iraq--a testing ground for US militarism
• Rather rehearses his lines
• US militarism and the media
• What social interests are being promoted in the Northern Ireland talks?

5 March 1998

• Ethnic killings escalate in Kosovo

6 March 1998

• Intel report sends stocks plunging around the world
• Right-wing Hindu party leads Indian vote
• Welfare cuts increase hunger and homelessness

7 March 1998

• Decline in US factory jobs
• Live Flesh, directed by Pedro Almodovar, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell
  He is pleased with his work
• A further shift to the right by the German Social Democrats
  SPD chooses Schröder to challenge Kohl in September election

10 March 1998

• Recommended videos
• After the elections
  Political crisis in India intensified
• Storm warnings of a global crisis

11 March 1998

• Kim Dae Jung's inauguration as South Korean president
  From opposition leader to IMF linchpin
• Telling admissions contradict US war propaganda
  Two noteworthy press reports

12 March 1998

• Financial collapse in Asia
  A crisis of global proportions
• Chileans protest as Pinochet becomes "senator for life"
• West Bank erupts after killing of Palestinian workers

13 March 1998

• The Countryside March
  A dangerous development in British politics
• LTTE bomb in Colombo kills 38
  Atrocity in Sri Lanka serves reactionary ends

14 March 1998

• Hunger on the rise in America
• As economies feel impact of Asia crisis
  Job cuts mount around the world
• Britain:
  Libel action victory for Marks & Spencers threatens press freedom
• Strange doings with Air Force One

17 March 1998

• Democrats join attack on Social Security
• Crisis in Kosovo
  How US policy has laid the basis for a wider war in the Balkans
• France
  Regional elections show growing alienation from official parties

18 March 1998

• Behind the Suharto-IMF confrontation
• Benjamin Spock dead at 94
• Test confirms crisis in US education
• US trains Indonesia torturers

19 March 1998

• The Clinton sex scandal
  A crisis of the political system in America
• Unemployment offices privatised in Australia

20 March 1998

• The photographs of Dorothea Lange
  "To make the world a place for creation"
• Contra-cocaine links confirmed
• Unions charge plant served as detention center
  Ford complicit in Argentine repression
• High schools or holding pens? - The attack on education and the threat to democratic rights

21 March 1998

• Japan plunges into recession
• The crisis in Washington: what history tells us
  Part 1: Watergate
• New round of US job cuts
  Boeing slashes another 8,000 jobs
• Further video suggestions from a reader
• Japanese big business most exposed to Indonesian crisis

24 March 1998

• Films on US television this week
• The Apostle
  Robert Duvall's false objectivity
• Tensions mount as Asian fallout spreads
  Tokyo rejects US demands on economy
• On the class nature of the Castro regime
  Two letters on Cuba and a reply

25 March 1998

• British government prepares dismantling of welfare
• China sets austerity plan
• David Walsh looks at the 70th Academy Awards:
  Long live conformism and banality!
• Netscape highlights World Socialist Web Site
• Rival business, political cliques jockey for power in Moscow
  Yeltsin's sacking of cabinet jolts Washington

26 March 1998

• Clinton's tour
  A bid to make Africa profitable for US capital
• Creating Africa's new image
• Thousands of fleeing Indonesian workers detained
• Thailand: a bonanza for international investors

27 March 1998

• An interview with Richard Linklater:
  "You can't hold back the human spirit"
• The Newton Boys:
  A tribute to human resiliency
• Britain
  Damning testimony in government inquiry into BSE crisis
• In response to shooting deaths at Arkansas school
  Government, media suggest prison or death for child offenders
• Legal offensive against Clinton continues
• Human BSE/CJD - Anatomy of a Health Disaster
  New book on BSE widely praised

28 March 1998

• Caterpillar contract ratified
• Clinton "feels the pain" of Africa, and prepares new imperialist crimes
• Doug Varone and certain trends in contemporary modern dance
• Films on US television this week
• New decline in US union membership
• The man and the guinea pigs: a New York City fable
• The Jonesboro murders
  Why?

31 March 1998

• Three executed in Florida, one in Virginia
  A week of state-sanctioned slaughter
• Deflation hits world's second largest economy
  Unemployment at record levels in Japan
• What Wilde has to say to us moderns

8 April 1998

• High schools or holding pens?
  Four readers reply