Category Archives: Foreign Policy

(1980) Amnesty International’s Prisoner of Conscience Week, 12-19 October 1980

25,000 people “disappear” in one country and 15,000 in another; in a third, a trade unionist is detained by police for the 24th time in two years; in a fourth, released prisoners tell of the torture of a 14-month old baby girl held with her mother in a clandestine military camp for the “disappeared.”

(1975) Dr Cairns and Asia

Dr Cairns has been accused of obscurantism because his writings are supposed to be infected with distorting ideological conceptions;1 facts are the Ark of the Covenant, and Cairns evades the empirical evidence likely to contradict his views. It is the purpose of this paper to: