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...remedy the problem, preparing alcohol-management plans, cracking down on liquor suppliers who break the law, and providing social services to help mitigate the damage. But if things in Borroloola are any guide, none of it is working. Despite constant pleas for government assistance from the town's council, health clinic, businesses and residents, the epidemic of binge drinking and violence continues. Nearly every week, some 30 people, most of them Aboriginal, seek treatment at the town's clinic for alcohol-related problems. Violent cases account for almost 9 in 10 after-hours admissions. Most common are injuries caused...
...alcohol with varying success. But few people think that would work in Borroloola. For now, the aim is harm minimization. Since a general community meeting last March, the town has been trying to prepare an alcohol management plan. Money from the N.T. government has yet to reach the local council to pay the consultants needed to draw up a scheme; the demand for such social services in the Territory is so great that Borroloola is just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth Morris, admits that some complaints about...
...International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT), which is made up of ambassadors of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and South Africa, warned last week that making claims before votes were counted "threatened public order". "The media relays and amplifies this phenomenon by bombarding the population with figures that are all over the place," said a CIAT statement...
...cease-fire plan is unlikely to mark a genuine turning point. Indeed, France and the U.S. have long collaborated in their effort to shape a new, post-Syria order in Lebanon in which Hizballah is a non-military bit player, and the text of their proposed Security Council resolution reflects their common concerns. But as long as Hizballah and the Lebanese government continue to reject its terms, the resolution - even if approved - has little chance of ending the fighting...
...Arab governments are mounting a last-ditch attempt to change the text before it is adopted by the Security Council. Although France has indicated sympathy with Arab complaints, they say the deal on offer is as much as Israel and the U.S. will concede...