COSATU November 1985, the union has increased its membership by 100,000. It now organises just over half the country's miners and is particularly strongly based in the gold mining industry. family. This measure is obviously New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas.
Moslem rebels of the southern islands.
horizon.
Brazil This highlights the atrocious balance of payments situation of the country and Interest due every year to foreign Danks austerity economic policies.
After winning the February referendum by a substallal majority, president equmo has retaken the political initiative. First she has bombastically announced that the government will carry out a vast land reform that will include even the sugar cane plantations owned by her designed to try to reduce the growing peasant support for the Secondly, the government has resumed talks with the Moro National Liberation Front, the organisation that leads the armed struggle of the The possibilities of an agreement look slim. A colossal confrontation still looms large on the The Brazilian government has decided to suspend the payment of interest on its $68 billion standing debt owed to foreign banks.
simultaneously underlies the unbearable burden on the economy that servicing the external debt represents for Brazil. However, the decision does not imply that Jose Sarney, Brazil's president, has adopted a policy of breaking with the diabolical debt-spiral that grips his and so many other Latin American countries. Sarney wants Brazil to be allowed to pay only half of the This represents no threat to the international financial system. Moreover, there is already talk in the financial community that such a course is plausible if Brazil is prepared to adopt more