The painful truth: a controversial commission probes an ugly past
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's efforts to offer amnesty for racial crimes committed during apartheid have become controversial in South Africa. Both blacks and whites maintain the commission is biased against them and that applicants for amnesty are lying.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1997
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Change of style
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Japan's Diet elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Ryutaro Hashimoto to the post of prime minister in Jan 1996. Hashimoto replaced Socialist Tomiichi Murayama. Hashimoto is widely admired in Japan for his charismatic style and nationalistic policies.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
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Japan's painful changes
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Japan has been in an economic recession since 1990. Unemployment has risen to 3.4%, or 2.2 million people, hardly any companies have recruited new employees for three years, and in 1994 there were recordbreaking reports of 1,000 bankruptcies.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
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