Distant Voices (86 page)

Woodside-Burmah Company 258

Woodward, Justice A. E.:

Commission 542–3

Woolcott, Richard 251–2, 253, 258, 264–5, 294

Woollacott, Martin 166

World Bank:

Cambodia and 486

loan to China 181

1991 Conference 74, 205, 207–8, 209–12

and East Timor ‘family planning programme' 284–5

loans to Iran before Gulf War 180

and the Philippines 69–70, 203–6

and the undermining of Third World economies 195, 203–4, 208–9, 211, 345

and US bribes of UN members 179, 180, 181

and US manipulation 175, 204

and Vietnam 392

and the Yugoslavian economy 217

World Conference on Human Rights (1993) 294

World Council of Churches: on the plight of the Aborigines 541

World Development Movement 203

World Health Organisation (WHO) 412, 473

World in Action
(Granada TV) 6, 7, 18, 85

World Wars:

First 125

Australian troops and 529, 531

triage
40

Second:

Australia abandoned in 530

Australian/Japanese campaigns 237–8, 243, 244, 283–4, 530

Croatia and 214

50th anniversary of 91

and Japan 140,
see also above

and Leningrad 373, 374

and Yugoslavia 214

see also
Nazi Party

W79 nuclear artillery shells 57

Wyatt, Woodrow 84–5, 86, 87, 355

Yeats, W. B.: ‘The Cat and the Moon' 402

Yeltsin, Boris 13, 113, 115, 195, 197–200, 218

Yemen:

effect of Gulf War on 174

votes against UN Resolution 678 177–8, 181, 182

workers expelled from Saudi Arabia 182, 183

Yeo, Tim 25, 26

Yirrkala people 542

Yorkshire Television 85

Young, Hugo 354

youth unemployment (in Britain) 28–9, 31–2

in pit villages 52–3

youth training schemes 52–3

Yugoslavia 213

in Second World War 214

US economic warfare against 216–17

western policy for division of 213, 214, 215–16

Yun Yat 458

Z Magazine
17

Zaire 36, 113, 425

US bribe for Security Council vote 181–2

Zambia: opposition to US 182

Zapruder, Abraham: film of Kennedy assassination 349

Zenawi, Meles 515, 519

Zimbabwe, US coercion of 182

Zimmerman, William 215

Zionism 339, 510

Zorkin, Valery 199

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