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...another case of a friendship starting through a random e-mail message, Matthew L. Bruce '96 says he and Catherine, a law student in New Zealand, have gotten to know each other after she e-mailed him because his home page on the World Wide Web had caught her attention...
...four pro-government leaders last year. Saro-Wiwa maintained his innocence to the end; his supporters say he and his co-defendants were framed. After the executions, the U.S. and several other countries withdrew their ambassadors, and the Commonwealth nations of Britain and its former colonies, meeting in New Zealand, suspended Nigeria...
...call rarely heard in African politics," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis. Historically, few African leaders have taken it upon themselves to censure the reprehensible behavior of other heads of state. Mandela, however, has begun to match words with action. On his urging, Nigeria was suspended from a New Zealand Commonwealth meeting where the South African leader made the statement. Tuesday, South Africa's soccer federation barred Nigeria's team from playing in South Africa, and calls are mounting for the African National Congress to seek Nigeria's ouster from the Olympic Games as well as a boycott of Nigeria...
...DISAGREE WITH CHIRAC'S POLICIES IN general and in particular with the carrying out of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Nevertheless, I ask myself why Australia and New Zealand have not said a word about the Chinese nuclear tests that have continued to take place. Why don't they protest against the nuclear power plants still working in the former U.S.S.R.? Have the Australians forgotten that their country sells uranium to France? Chirac's government has decided to conduct the tests because of the French nuclear lobby, which represents companies that give thousands of people their jobs. FABRICE LEVEQUE Fresnoy...
...within is only a few yards wider than the beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried to enter the lagoon...