Algerian strikers stay out

Article Abstract:

Many of Algeria's universities did not reopen in the New Year as support continues for a strike which began at the end of Oct. 1996. The strike, which won the support of 95% of Algeria's universities and higher education institutes, was sparked by teachers, professors and assistants in Oran, Algeria, who stopped their courses in protest at poor working conditions. University teachers are seeking a pay rise, better housing and improved infrastructure, but their major grievance concerns what they regard as the insufficient protection they receive against armed Islamic fundamentalists.

Universities and colleges, Algeria

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US backs apartheid protestors

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The US embassy in Tokyo, Japan, has added the issue of Japanese state universities' dismissal of foreign academics over a certain age to the long list of American complaints against unfair Japanese protectionism. Foreign academics also accuse the Japanese ministry of education of 'academic apartheid' in that roughly half of non-Japanese academics are employed on one-year renewable contracts that exclude them from management decisions. However the British embassy has declined to back the foreign academics' cause, arguing that the issue is purely a contractual matter.

United States, Japan, Japanese foreign relations, United States foreign relations

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Sasakawa slips between the lines

Article Abstract:

Former World War II fascist turned gambling magnate Ryoichi Sasakawa died in Tokyo, Japan, in late July 1995 at age 96. Through his later life, Sasakawa gave much of his wealth away, primarily to higher education institutions around the world. Sasakawa was imprisoned from 1945 to 1948 as a "Class A" war crimes suspect.

Philanthropists, Sasakawa, Ryoichi

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