Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eddie Cameron was 23 when he was arrested, charged with burglary and placed in a solitary cell in Geraldton, Western Australia, one night last July. A few hours later he was found dead, hanging by his own bootlaces. But the death of Eddie Cameron, an Aborigine who was a local football hero and the son of a political activist, sparked a riot by 300 of Australia's native sons...
Biles is chief researcher for a royal commission appointed last year to delve into the phenomenon. Last week the commission released an interim report attempting to explain the causes of Aboriginal deaths in custody and offer some prescriptions to prevent them. "Australia must know the truth behind the deaths," said the chairman of the commission, Justice James Muirhead...
...disappeared; the monsoon forests of the Himalayan foothills that are being denuded by villagers in search of firewood, building materials and arable land; New Caledonia, 83% of whose plants occur nowhere else; the eastern slope of the Andes, as well as forests in East Africa, peninsular Malaysia, northeast Australia and along the Atlantic coast of Brazil...
...DARK. A mother's nightmare -- the loss of her baby -- is compounded when she is wrongly convicted of murdering the infant. Meryl Streep is awesomely austere as the second victim in this tough-minded drama, based on a 1980 case in Australia...
DREAMINGS: THE ART OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA, Asia Society, New York City. Exponents of the oldest visual tradition on earth evoke their spirit ancestors in paintings and carvings of striking beauty. Through...