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Archive: February 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

• Julie Hiatt Steele thanks WSWS for opposing frame-up by Kenneth Starr

4 October 1996

• The fate of Soviet genetics

2 February 1999

• A tragic death underscores decline in New Zealand public health care
• Britain: Local councillors investigated for misappropriating anti-poverty funds
• Eight years after capitalist reforms--a social crisis in Russia "without parallel"
• Fatal explosion at Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan
• In frame-up of Julie Hiatt Steele
  Judge issues gag order sought by Starr
• £500 million paid for "vibration white finger"
  Labour's compensation deal for British miners not all that it appears
• Independent counsel threatens to indict Clinton
  Starr sends a message: the political coup will continue
• The Americas
• The Stephen Lawrence case: police credibility slides further into disrepute

3 February 1999

• WSWS interviews barred Tamil socialist
  "My exclusion is a serious attack on the democratic rights of both Sri Lankan and Australian workers"
• Angola prison and The Farm
• Day after explosion at Ford Rouge plant in Michigan
  Auto workers raise concerns that fatal blast was linked to unsafe conditions
• Chileans condemn Thatcher Foundation's defence of Pinochet
• Health hazards in Bangladesh
  15,000 children in Dhaka die every year from pollution
• Indonesia issues an "independence" ultimatum on East Timor
• A highly political decision
  Malaysian judge directs Anwar to answer charges
• Nat Hentoff and the decay of American liberalism
• The American right and Scottish nationalism
• Letters from readers
  The Clinton impeachment and the World Socialist Web Site
• Explosion at the Rouge plant
  United Auto Workers officials cover up for Ford management

4 February 1999

• $110 billion rise in military spending
  Clinton administration budget snubs social needs
• Dire warnings but no agreement at World Economic Forum
• Ford acquires Volvo car operations
  Mergers sweep global auto industry
• Explosion at US auto factory
  Former power plant supervisors suspect gas leak in fatal blast at Ford's Rouge plant
• NATO threatens force in Kosovo
• A caricature of democracy:
  New political laws passed in Indonesia
• Oregon jury rules against anti-abortion web site
  Defendants ordered to pay $107 million in damages
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

5 February 1999

• Richard Phillips interviews water puppet director
  "A unique form of art"
• The Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe of Hanoi
  A glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam
• Britain: new Food Standards Agency no occasion for restored confidence
• Ford resuming production following fatal explosion at Michigan plant
• Australia:
  Harsh new penalties for the young unemployed
• India: Charges of BJP's complicity in murder of Christians rock government
• Thai government survives censure debate
• US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to address right-wing, pro-impeachment organization

6 February 1999

• The UAW and the Rouge explosion
  A pat on the head from the Detroit News
• As Senate trial winds down, efforts intensify to cover up conspiracy against democratic rights
• First execution in the Philippines in 23 years
• London mayor elections
  Labour moves against Ken Livingstone's candidacy
• New York City police execute Guinean immigrant in a hail of bullets
• On mining companies and colonialism
• Gas buildup blamed for deadly explosion at Michigan power plant
  Second Ford Rouge worker dies
• Some interesting films on US television, February 6-12
• Toronto report on homelessness: a sweeping indictment of government cutbacks and social conditions
• United Nations report: US killed 17 Iraqi women and children in January raid
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

9 February 1999

• MPs and academics join condemnation of Tamil socialist's exclusion from Australia
  "This cannot be ignored as a minor incident"
• An exchange on the International Space Station project
• Australian government shuts doors to a disabled child
  Father appeals for support
• As official US unemployment rate remains low
  Further job cuts sweep North American economy
• Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens fingers Clinton aide
• Poverty on the rise in Sri Lanka
• Two-day strike on London Underground
• What was new and unique about Cézanne?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Youth on the go
  Rushmore, a film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Owen Wilson

10 February 1999

• Hunger and homelessness plague US working families
• Menem invites US to "dollarize" Argentina
• Poland: Widespread opposition to health reforms
  Doctors and nurses threaten general strike
• Polish farmers blockade borders
• South Korean workers fight mass job cuts
• Union splits ranks in US television technicians' settlement
• What lies behind the Australian Labor Party's shift on East Timor?
• Wollongong steelworks pumps out dangerous dioxins
  Report confirms Workers Inquiry findings
• An atmosphere of instability and crisis
  World leaders gather at King Hussein's funeral

11 February 1999

• Australian youth suffer dramatic decline in living standards
• FBI helped pursue Pinochet's political opponents in the US
• Federal judge orders American Airlines pilots to end sick-out
• No evidence of chemical weapons at Sudan factory targeted by US
• Sri Lanka: People's Alliance regime used fraud and thuggery to steal election
• The New South Wales Labor government's "drug summit"
• US Circuit Court strikes down suspects' rights
• US Senate debates impeachment behind closed doors
• The Senate impeachment trial
  Why are the Democrats pushing for a censure resolution against Clinton?
• Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East

12 February 1999

• American Airlines pilots continue "sick-out"
• Canadian government report opposes job training for unskilled
• State elections in Hesse
  German political establishment shifts to the right
• Germany: Christian Democrats mount racist campaign
• Indonesia transfers East Timor leader to house arrest
• Performance-related pay worsens inequalities in British education
• Unionists and Tories raise the stakes in British-Irish Agreement

13 February 1999

• America's workplaces--among the deadliest in the industrialized world
• American Airlines seeks contempt of court ruling against pilots
• Britain: Inquiry attacks Blair government over "arms-to-Africa" scandal
• Impeachment trial ends, but the conspiracy continues
• Indian chemical workers appeal for support
• Malaysian judge bars evidence of a political conspiracy in Anwar's trial
• Michigan Ford plant explosion claims third victim
• Behind the Clinton impeachment trial
  Profile of a right-wing conspirator
  The case of Theodore Olson
• Journalist who turned in Clinton aide
  Scoundrel time redux: Christopher Hitchens as a social type
• Some interesting films on US television, February 13-19
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

16 February 1999

• Letter from a GM worker on the Rouge explosion
  "The UAW allows management to play Russian roulette with the lives of workers"
• A rising number of industrial deaths in New Zealand
• Britain and Spain exchange threats over Gibraltar
• Britain: South Wales declares two public health emergencies over meningitis
• Clinton to send Marines to Kosovo
• Death toll mounts in blast at US auto plant
• Judge imposes fines, calls American Airlines pilots extortionists
• Politicians and media defend child boxing tournament in Australia
• Sri Lanka: Tensions over Free Trade Agreement with India
• Letters to the WSWS
  The Clinton impeachment and the attack on democratic rights
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 February 1999

• An exchange on Vietnam's new land laws
• Child and teenage poverty deepens in Australia
• Clinton administration moves to impose punitive tariffs on Japanese, Brazilian steel imports
• International scientists raise concerns over genetically modified food
  British Labour government rushes to defend biotech industry
• John Ehrlichman, key conspirator in the Nixon White House, dead at 73
• More than 300 dead in Indonesian shipping disaster
• New fears of stockmarket slide
• The life and death of King Hussein of Jordan

18 February 1999

• Britain's welfare reform and pensions bill
  Blair government targets unemployed, disabled and lone parents
• Framed Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt wins appeal
• Immigrant killed by New York City police buried in Guinea
• Judge delays imposing heavy fines against American Airlines pilots
• New York transit workers and the impeachment crisis
• The seizure of Abdullah Ocalan: whatever happened to the right of asylum?
• Trial opens in racist dragging death in Jasper, Texas
• Typographers settle with Detroit Newspapers
  Pact will lead to job cuts
• US expands air war against Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

19 February 1999

• 13-year-old child sentenced as an adult in Michigan
• A reader asks the WSWS to comment on the sacking of England football coach Glen Hoddle
• Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
  Book examines persecution of Pennsylvania miners
• Free Internet providers boost UK access
• Indonesian president lashes out at Singapore as 'racist'
• Israeli guards kill three Kurds in Berlin
  International repression follows Ocalan's capture
• Six years after woman's death at hands of deportation squad in London
  Joy Gardner's mother issues writ for compensation
• Kurdish protesters express outrage in Australia
• On the drugs crisis
• Origins of HIV virus identified
  Impact of the pandemic continues to worsen
• The reality behind Canada's "good news" budget

20 February 1999

• Australian communications union faces membership decline
• Hollywood honors Elia Kazan
  Filmmaker and informer
• Freeport obtains Indonesian approval to expand world's largest gold mine
• The explosion at the Ford Rouge plant
  How union-management collaboration has undermined workers' safety in the US auto industry
• Jobs cut, as economic insecurity of US workers rises
• "A politically-biased decision"
  Protests continue against Australian government's decision to bar Tamil socialist
• Some interesting films on US television, February 20-26
• UK Rover plant may still close as BMW tightens its belt
• US policy toward the Kurds--a mass of contradictions
• Unionist domination of Northern Ireland Assembly confirmed
• War resumes between Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
  Global downsizing at Heinz

23 February 1999

• British Home Secretary issues gagging order over Stephen Lawrence inquiry
• An assault on civil liberties
  British Home Secretary proposes preventative detention
• Conflicts in G7 as world economy moves closer to slump
• Hollywood honors Elia Kazan
  Filmmaker and informer
  Part 2 in a series of articles by David Walsh
• Australia:
  Immigrant workers tied up with rope
• Ohio carries out first execution in 36 years
• Death toll rises to six in Michigan power plant disaster
  Two more workers die from Ford Rouge explosion
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 February 1999

• ... and director Abraham Polonsky
• A letter from Brazil, in solidarity with the Chilean people
• In row over genetically modified food
  Blair defends billionaire cabinet member
• Conversations with blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein ...
• Cuts threaten future of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art
• Hollywood honors Elia Kazan
  Filmmaker and informer
  Part 3 in a series of articles by David Walsh
• Explosion near Allentown heard for miles
  Five workers killed in Pennsylvania chemical blast
• Human Rights Watch report on Turkey: a profile of a police state
• India: BJP-led coalition sacks Bihar state government
• Indonesian opposition leader Megawati opposes East Timor independence
• Massacres by landlord militia rock India's second most populous state
• New York: Long record of abuse at Nassau County jail
• The manhunt for Ocalan: How Washington flouts international law and democratic rights
• The police killing of Amadou Diallo
• US economy: How long can 'impossible balancing act' continue?

25 February 1999

• As corruption scandals mount, US trade union leaders meet in Miami Beach
• Britain: Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence provokes right-wing backlash
• Cuts threaten future of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art
• Italian workers protest threats by government
• New York City in the 1990s
  Poverty rate soaring among children
• Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Louis Armstrong and the growth of jazz
  The music of everyday events
  Review of Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen
• The role of the German government in the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Yemen trial condemned as unfair

26 February 1999

• Jeans maker Levi Strauss to cut 5,900 jobs in the US and Canada
• New York transit worker comments on the impeachment crisis
• Biography of John William King highlights brutalization of American society
  Racist killer sentenced to death in Texas murder
• Kosovo peace talks
  The failure of the Rambouillet conference
• The political issues in the fight to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe government abandons the rule of law

27 February 1999

• Britain: Macpherson report fingers witnesses in Stephen Lawrence murder
• Ten thousand march in Berlin
  Funeral procession honours young Kurds slain at Israeli embassy
• Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered
  Review of Pavuru Valalu (Walls Within)
• Mass arrests at Australian mine
  Union rules out national strike
• An example of the sadistic treatment of US prisoners
  Mike Tyson thrown in solitary confinement after being denied psychiatric medication
• Some interesting films on US television, February 27-March 5
• State takeover of Detroit schools imminent
• Right-wing in US mounts new political provocation
  The Wall Street Journal and Juanita Broaddrick
• Human rights report documents massacres by military regime
  US government responsible for genocide and terror in Guatemala
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia