New Zealand Filmmaker Lee Tamahori directs the…
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New Zealand Filmmaker Lee Tamahori directs the 1994 film “Once Were Were Warriors,” from Alan Duff’s best-selling novel of the same name, a scathing study of the depression, rage and violence that plagues many modern urban Maori families.
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New Zealand Filmmaker Lee Tamahori directs the 1994 film “Once Were Were Warriors,” from Alan Duff’s bestselling novel of the same name, a scathing study of the depression, rage and violence that plagues many modern urban Maori families.
In New Zealand’s, general election, the number of elected members to the House of Representatives increases from 99 to 120 in accordance with the mandated transition of Parliament into a mixed member proportional (MMP) representation system.
The National party’s Jim Bolger retains the premiership and Winston Peter, Maori leader of the New Zealand First party, becomes Deputy Prime Minister.
The two leaders form a coalition between the National and New Zealand First parties.
In the Republic of Palau, numerous beatings and assassinations of anti-nuclear activists have occured in the 15 years snce the 1979 passage of the world’s first anti-nuclear constitution, in which time the US has sponsored ten elections in a so-far unsuccessful attempt to revise the document.
The Pentagon hopes to keep the military base there active for another few decades.
New Zealand Filmmaker Lee Tamahori directs the 1994 film “Once Were Were Warriors,” from Alan Duff’s bestselling novel of the same name, a scathing study of the depression, rage and violence that plagues many modern urban Maori families.
In New Zealand’s general election, the number of elected members to the House of Representatives increases from 99 to 120 in accordance with the mandated transition of Parliament into a mixed member proportional (MMP) representation system.
The National party’s Jim Bolger retains the premiership and Winston Peter, Maori leader of the New Zealand First party, becomes Deputy Prime Minister.
The two leaders form a coalition between the National and New Zealand First parties.
By the end of 1994, the level of ownership of Australasian resources and businesses is well over 90 percent.
New Zealand Filmmaker Lee Tamahori directs the 1994 film “Once Were Were Warriors,” from Alan Duff’s best-selling novel of the same name, a scathing study of the depression, rage and violence that plagues many modern urban Maori families.
By the end of 1994, the level of ownership of Australasian resources and businesses is well over 90 percent.
By early 1994, Burma's estimated 400,000 heroin users have the highest HIV rate of any addict population.
(Source: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade)
In 1993-94, Southeast Asia supplies an estimated 80 percent of the total US market for heroin.
(Source: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade)
In the Republic of Palau, numerous beatings and assassinations of anti-nuclear activists have occured in the 15 years snce the 1979 passage of the world’s first anti-nuclear constitution, in which time the US has sponsored ten elections in a so-far unsuccessful attempt to revise the document.
The Pentagon hopes to keep the military base there active for another few decades.
By the mid-1990s, Tajikistan's civil war has left tens of thousands dead and displaced more than a half million people.
In 1994, the authoritarian Rakhmonov is elected president, and Tajikistan begins a long process of national reconciliation.
The Saudi government deprives the exiled bin Laden of his citizenship on April 9, 1994 and freezes his assets in Saudi Arabia because of his support for Muslim fundamentalist movements. (Some sources say he was caught smuggling weapons into Saudi Arabia from Yemen, but bin Laden is not known to have been in Saudi Arabia since his departure in 1991.)
His family disavows him (although some of his 19 surviving brothers reportedly maintain contact with him). (Source: New York Times 4.10.94)