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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.

2 February 1999

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

3 February 1999

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

4 February 1999

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

5 February 1999

• Australia:
  Harsh new penalties for the young unemployed
• Britain: new Food Standards Agency no occasion for restored confidence
• Ford resuming production following fatal explosion at Michigan plant
• 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
• The Thang Long Water Puppet Troupe of Hanoi
  A glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam
• Richard Phillips interviews water puppet director
  "A unique form of art"

6 February 1999

• Gas buildup blamed for deadly explosion at Michigan power plant
  Second Ford Rouge worker dies
• As Senate trial winds down, efforts intensify to cover up conspiracy against democratic rights
• United Nations report: US killed 17 Iraqi women and children in January raid
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
• 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
• First execution in the Philippines in 23 years
• Toronto report on homelessness: a sweeping indictment of government cutbacks and social conditions
• Some interesting films on US television, February 6-12
• The UAW and the Rouge explosion
  A pat on the head from the Detroit News

9 February 1999

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

10 February 1999

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

11 February 1999

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

12 February 1999

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

13 February 1999

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

16 February 1999

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

17 February 1999

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

18 February 1999

• Judge delays imposing heavy fines against American Airlines pilots
• Trial opens in racist dragging death in Jasper, Texas
• US expands air war against Iraq

31 December 1969

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

18 February 1999

• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Immigrant killed by New York City police buried in Guinea
• The seizure of Abdullah Ocalan: whatever happened to the right of asylum?
• Framed Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt wins appeal
• New York transit workers and the impeachment crisis
• Typographers settle with Detroit Newspapers
  Pact will lead to job cuts
• Britain's welfare reform and pensions bill
  Blair government targets unemployed, disabled and lone parents

19 February 1999

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

20 February 1999

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

23 February 1999

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

24 February 1999

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

25 February 1999

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

26 February 1999

• New York transit worker comments on the impeachment crisis
• The political issues in the fight to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
• 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
• Jeans maker Levi Strauss to cut 5,900 jobs in the US and Canada
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe government abandons the rule of law

27 February 1999

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

4 October 1996

• The fate of Soviet genetics