Gains Gains continue to be made against illiteracy and disease. Infant mortality has been cut by a third. The 'autonomy process' has en sured the involvement of Nicaragua's indigenous peoples the country's political life for the very socialist government. More student Israeli state Alternative Information Centre.
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the As the news about the counting of Imelda Marcos' pairs of shoes is still fresh in the 3,060 pairs! - they also learned that tather Rustico Tan was assassinated by government agents. Imelda, as is well known, was piouly devoted to the defence of the Christian values and capitalist 'freedom'. Father Tan was an active member of the National Democratic Frong; he was a guerrilla fighter who joined the maquis to fight gun in hand for the rights of peasants and workers after concluding there was who are NDF guerrilla fighters, some organise in the CNL, Christians for National Liberation, others organise in Volunteers for Popular Led by Coretta King, thousands marched through Forsyth county in protest against the attack by angry white racists on an carlier march for inter-racial brotherhood in Cumming. The Ku Klux Klan were out in strength to shout abuse, wave placards with racist slogans and coneutrale nags, une walle racists allackca lut march. Fourteen were arrested. Forsyth county has a long history of racial hatred against blacks and it is an all-white enclave, no black lives in it and many of its inhabitants have seldom seen a • Several weeks of students demonstrations have shaken Spain. The demonstrations started as protests against austerity, demanding of the government that more money is put into education, increases in the number of grants as well as their size, and reduction of university fees. But very soon they developed into wild-ca demonstrations of anger by students many of whom have no certainty of after-university employment. (Unemployement is 20 per cent at present in Spain.) Secondary students and trade unions joined the demonstrations, which became a focus of active political opposition to the demonstrations have taken place and there have been violent clashes with the police, who have acted with the usual brutal zest to maintain law The zionist state of Israel is stepping up represssion against supporters of Palestinian rights within the country. In a raid on Monday 16 February, the Israeli police confiscated equipment and materials belonging to the The centre produces a publication called News from Within, which reports on the situation confronting the Palestinians, particularly in the post 1967 Alongside confiscating everything to be found in the Alternative Information Centre's ornices, une ponce arrestea tnree people, wno have been imprisoned. Among them were Michel Vaska, a member of the LCR of the state of Israel, an Israeli trotskyist organisation. The others were Rony Hyman and Ghardda Jaber, two independent Israeli socialists. They have not yet been formally charged, although at present organisations ie the PLO, within the post 1967 borders of the state