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Archive: January 1999

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.

31 December 1969

• Fermat's last theorem
  A seventeenth century puzzle solved

5 January 1999

• A reader comments on "The bombing of Iraq: A shameful chapter in American history"
• Banana producers exploit hurricane devastation in Central America
• Communication Workers Union paves the way for deregulation of Britain's postal service
• Sri Lanka
  Heart patients under a heartless capitalism
• Minnesota: massive police action dislodges anti-highway protesters
• On the Thomas Jefferson controversy
• Soviet writer Anatoly Rybakov dies at age 87

6 January 1999

• A reader comments on the state of British television
• Breakthrough in theoretical math
  After 300 years, computers facilitate solution to Kepler Stacking Problem
• Nine civilians killed by Indonesian troops in Aceh
• Tamil socialist barred from visiting Australia
• US blizzard, cold wave hit the poor
• United Nations agencies document mounting world hunger

7 January 1999

• Authorities ignored avalanche warnings
  Government culpability in deaths of nine Quebec Inuit
• Europe and Africa
• WSWS appeal
  Protest Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
• Scottish telecom factory closure leaves workers penniless
• UN inspectors in Iraq helped spy for the CIA

8 January 1999

• A reader comments on films and filmmakers
• Britain's largest chemical company cuts 1,000 jobs
• Senate impeachment trial opens: political coup enters climactic stage
• Sri Lanka: Detention of framed-up plantation workers extended
• The joy of science
  A review of Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins

9 January 1999

• Attorney for Julie Hiatt Steele charges Starr with abuse of prosecutorial power
• Flu outbreak highlights crisis in Britain's health service
• Marty Jonas on Alfred Hitchcock's decline
• Some interesting films on US television, January 9-15
• Starr indicts recalcitrant witness Julie Hiatt Steele
• UNSCOM-CIA revelations show how the American people were lied to about Iraq
• WSWS calls for protests against Australian government's exclusion of Tamil socialist
• What the Pinochet affair shows about Britain
• Workers Struggles: Asia

12 January 1999

• Auto workers occupy Brazilian plant
• A letter from a Massachusetts attorney
  Continue your coverage and protests of the Julie Hiatt Steele indictment
• Engineer in Pakistan writes on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
• Montreal firefighters dispute highlights need for workers to mount political struggle
• A loyal servant of capitalism
  New Zealand Order of Merit for trade union head
• The Americas
• Clinton at the Detroit Economic Club
  The politics of self-delusion
• Week one of the impeachment trial: bipartisan agreement delivers setback to the White House
• What is fueling the Internet stocks' bubble?
• Winter storm exposes social chasm in Detroit
  City services at standstill one week later

13 January 1999

• Australian SEP demands reversal of ban on Tamil socialist
• Betrayed
  I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1998, 323 pp., $26.00
• Britain: Labour's new pension plans will impoverish the elderly
• British prime minister's South Africa visit provokes anger over air strikes against Iraq
  Police fire on protesters
• Concerns over the Thai air crash
• Detroit Medical Center announces job cuts
• Israel prepares for crisis elections
• Salt Lake City bribery scandal: the buying of the Olympic games

14 January 1999

• Asian crisis: ILO report details worsening social conditions
• Europe and Africa
• Chain reaction crisis feared in Latin America
  Financial markets plunge as Brazil devalues currency
• India: Congress party backs BJP "reform" bills
• New reader appreciates World Socialist Web Site
• The Internet companies and the stock market
• Australia:
  Union betrayals cut wages
• WSWS calls for protests against Australian government's exclusion of Tamil socialist

15 January 1999

• Justices hostile to lawyer for 12 year old charged with murder
  Appeals court hearing on Nathaniel Abraham confession
• Despite court ruling of unfair trial, Texas executes Troy Farris
• "Law and order" campaign in Australian state election
  Labor to abolish right to silence before criminal trials
• Labour's Scottish land reforms play to the nationalist gallery
• The Senate impeachment trial: The legal framework of a right-wing witch-hunt
• WSWS readers condemn Australian ban on Tamil socialist

16 January 1999

• Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Australian aid organisation protests government exclusion of Tamil socialist
• Brazil crisis exposes global faultlines
• Chilean government to make presentation to the Pinochet hearing
• The Senate impeachment trial
  Democrats paralyzed as Republicans present their case against Clinton
• Snowfall cripples public services
  Detroit schools close indefinitely
• Fresh fighting in Sierra Leone capital intensifies crisis in West Africa
• A travesty of justice
  Malaysian judge amends charges in Anwar's trial
• Some issues raised by Michael Jordan's retirement
• Letter from a displaced GM worker
  The UAW works for the company, not auto workers
• Faction fight breaks out in Britain's Labour government
  The crisis facing Blair's Third Way
• Why Pinochet must be condemned

19 January 1999

• "The persuasive power of your articles lies in your insistence on upholding the highest journalistic standards"
• Letters from WSWS readers
  "Week one of the impeachment trial"
• SEP Student Club blocked at University of Melbourne
  1990s-style student unionism
• American retailers involved in sweatshop racketeering on US-Pacific territory
• Appreciation for the commentary on Michael Jordan's retirement
• On the eve of the State of the Union address
  Clinton silent on the impeachment conspiracy
• Hunger will increase in 1999, UN warns
• International protests against Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
• New Zealand government boosts security agency powers
• Public inquiry in Britain
  Police officers evade disciplinary charges in racist killing of Stephen Lawrence
• The Americas
• Nine months after toxic waste devastated marshlands in southern Spain
  World scientists meet to discuss Coto de Doñana disaster

20 January 1999

• Classic Cézanne: Art Gallery of NSW, 28 November 1998 to 28 February 1999
  "One must see nature as no-one has seen it before"
• Networks fail to report Republican ties to racist groups
  A curious silence
• A materialist examination of human consciousness
  Nancy Russell reviews Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
• Banana war threatens jobs and heralds wider trade conflicts
• Castroism at forty: the dead-end of petty-bourgeois nationalism
• Pennsylvania mother charged in the fire deaths of her four children
  Housing conditions and welfare reform to blame
• As right wing steps up their defence
  Retreat by prosecution in Pinochet extradition case
• Sri Lankan newspapers report Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
• The new "White Australia" Policy

21 January 1999

• A Civil Action: a compelling tale loses much of its impact
• Australian waterfront workers face further job cuts
• Clinton's State of the Union address: a speech in full denial
• Europe, Africa and the Middle East
• Julie Hiatt Steele to fight Starr's indictment
• The euro's launch heralds major economic and social conflicts
• Crisis in the European Union
  The failed vote of no-confidence in the European Parliament
• The worsening state of working America
• One month after grisly discovery
  UK admits hostages in Chechnya were asked to report sensitive information
• US medical journal editor fired in cave-in to the right
• In fourth day of impeachment trial
  White House Counsel refutes case against Clinton

22 January 1999

• "Out of Sight, Out of Mind?"
  Report on the Criminalization of the homeless in the US
• Ashdown resignation a blow to Blair
• Greek students protest against PASOK government
• IMF "mistakes" part of a long-developed program
• Threatened with government takeover of their union
  Montreal firefighters suspend pressure tactics
• Prosecution argues for international law at Pinochet hearing
• Protests of workers and farmers
  Social tensions rise in China
• Part 2
  The new "White Australia" Policy
  Part 2

23 January 1999

• A horrible state of war
  David Walsh reviews The Thin Red Line
• Asia and Australia
• Australian authorities silent on exclusion of Tamil socialist
• Detroit Medical Center begins layoffs
• Doctor opposes firing of medical journal editor
• East Timor and the politics of oil
• When is a reform not a reform?
  Labour's proposed changes to House of Lords are undemocratic
• New land laws in Vietnam will lead to greater rural poverty
• Romanian miners' protest ends
• Some interesting films on US television, January 23-29
• Storm clouds gather over US economy
• The Senate impeachment trial: White House lawyers expose legal frame-up
• The view from outside the Pinochet hearing

25 January 1999

• The Senate impeachment trial
  Starr intervenes to salvage House Republicans' case against Clinton

26 January 1999

• "The film has no precedents that I know of"
  The Thin Red Line
• $10 billion for "anti-terrorism" plan
  Clinton proposes huge police buildup
• Cutbacks to New Zealand fire services
• Japanese finance minister attacks "Washington consensus"
• MI6 involved in spying against Iraq through UNSCOM
• New York: Nassau County jail guards stomp man to death
• Stars and celebrity
• The Americas
• The Clinton trial
• The new "White Australia" Policy
  Part 3
• US officials admit missiles hit Iraqi residential areas

27 January 1999

• "Made to look silly and laughable"--the PDS in Germany reacts to the erection of a statue of Rosa Luxemburg
• Canadian telecommunications giant to slash jobs and wages
• Cast adrift
  David Walsh reviews A Simple Plan
• Senate impeachment trial: a conspiracy of silence
• Surge of job cuts by US retailers
• US high court upholds death sentence of Canadian on death row in Texas
• Unions protest Australian government ban on Tamil socialist
• What is happening in Yemen?
  Relations with Britain continue to worsen

28 January 1999

• Australian agents spied for US in Iraq
  More revelations about UNSCOM's role
• Conyers defends Democrats' silence on impeachment conspiracy
• Crisis in Kosovo intensifies
• Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Paul Wellstone on "Larry King Live": a revealing exchange
• Pinochet hearing hinges on permissibility of torture
• Striking Australian coal miners sacked
• US Supreme Court overturns sampling in Census

29 January 1999

• A letter on the worldwide plight of heart patients
• Independent Counsel Starr presses attack on witnesses
  Appeals court reinstates tax case against Webster Hubbell
• Australian teacher to challenge frame-up
• Britain: Labour pushes ahead with privatisation of education
• Earthquake tragedy compounds social misery in poverty-stricken Colombia
• Former UN official calls for an end to sanctions on Iraq
  "You now have five or six thousand children dying every month"
• In response to the article: "Intellectual property and computer software"
• Ex-Stalinists in crisis
  Tensions mount in the German PDS
• Weak and weaker
  David Walsh reviews Hilary and Jackie and Gloria

30 January 1999

• Ambon rioting leaves 100 dead in Indonesia
• Asia and Australia
• Australian textile strike enters second month
• A sign of a fragile economic system
  China's first major financial bankruptcy
• Senate approves anti-democratic rules
  Impeachment trial procedure violates due process
• New date to be set for execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Some interesting films on US television, January 30-February 5
• Sydney revelations deepen Olympics corruption scandal
• Why these witnesses?
  The racist and anti-Semitic subtext of the Senate impeachment trial
• US-EU banana dispute intensifies world trade tensions

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