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Costa Rica to the right last week. After an internal faction fight, the supporters of what is described as the 'moderate' wing in the junta were ousted from power by the most nghi-wing elements. The targets of the shake-up were army officers who tended to support the civilian side in the civilianDON'T go swimming in the Pacific Ocean. This must be a strong recommendation following last week's news that the ese Science and Technology Agency is to dump barrels plan is to solidify the waste in concrete, put it in and then dump these in 18,000 ft of water some miles The United States government has previously carried out ch exercises, despite a government report in 1961 which id that this method of disposal was dangerous and could radioactive leakage. The report cited testing in 1961 by the Los Angeles-based Pneumo-Dynamics Corporation. In bose tests 54 of 150 barrels dropped into the Pacific were THE Dutch Navy has announced that women sailors will be allowed to serve at sea for the first time. In a one-year experiment begining next February, 21 women will join a supply vessal as part of a pledge to give them the same access as THE central American state of Costa Rica is usually cited as ple of how liberal democracy can work in a region for its political stability. So much so that its army shed in 1948 and replaced by an unarmed civil none Costa Rican workers are getting restless. For des the country's main export, bananas, has been ry a strike of 5,000 workers on the plantation of Itinational, United Brand. orkers are demanding a rise of 35 per cent the steep rise in the cost of living in the attempt to break the strike the governmard and one striker was killed. dantations then threaterted to join the goverment to negotiate directly with the ase selllement was agreed but then rery, wtich refused to pay the agreed rise ride by a guarantee not to victimise the since the '30s, the promise of a profits bonanza from what was then lalkcol deposit in the world attracted both overseas and capital, decline in -and is And then thère was the issue of the regimes which were due to be the recipients of the crucial ingredient for nuclear power and bombs.
Deadly Thousands marched in opposition to the mining project. The Australian Labour Party down the mines if it elected. The Australian Coun domestic is a shop steward at leading to a further manufacturing inpolicy unionists from the deadly mineral.
the issues living in must seem abstract.
it would shut Covering were THREE of the people whose lives are featured in 'Dirt Jarmarlu (top left) is one of the traditional landowners mining companies are uprooting. Top right, a miner.
Mistral Fans in Melbourne.
cil of Trade Unions adopted a which prohibits trades serVice the "sign away' mining and from transporting miners, unionists But the project got under- Australia, way. Dirt Cheap brings to life which for much of admirably the Australian working class -thousands of miles from the mining areas -the Aboriginals and their attitude to the land; the meeting where the govern- Given . Dolly life the m (above)
ment minister persuaded the Aboriginal representatives to their rights; the with their racist and chauvinist aluludes, and trades the south of including a militant woman shop steward, the film exposes Australian capitalism at work while in no seen way understating the complexity of the issues involved.
It presents life-styles, as well as arguments.
obscurity much that passes for left-wing 'avant-garde' film-making Britain, Dirt Cheap is a model of what can be achieved by film-makers who are determin ed to make their work access ble to working class people It was premiered in Sydney in July, and is now being widely by Australian unionists and Abo Hopefully The Otha will distribute it in film was i edited
spread through