where she found that nursing standards weren’t the best. Later she was running canteens. When Franco finally won his war there was a mass exodus, with 450,000 refugees arriving in France in just one

We’re marginally better off only than Greece. Data from 2012 indicated that one third of families were housed inadequately, living in spaces that were too cold or too small or damp or infested with

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For good measure, it was also under Reagan that the US began supporting Saddam Hussein with military sales and intelligence in his 1980-88 war with Iran. In March 1988, Reagan's final year in office,

high profile) character witnesses only. The SIS’s political and media mouthpieces had trumpeted that New Zealand had caught its own Cold War traitor and, following the prosecution’s humiliating courtroom

more about him and gaining insights into his life and character. In late 2020 I was contacted, out of the blue, by an octogenarian Kiwi expat in Oslo, who had been a good friend of Owen's in Scandinavia

but it is also true that it has no inherent moral character. Yet what is critical to citizens post-disaster, when they are at their most vulnerable, is the importance they attach to fairness – but the

Grant, a good labour historian, does not delve into wider topics. That’s fair enough - his interest here is biographical, and his research into Douglas’ life has been exhaustive. Indeed, some might

Gorgeous venue, full house, interesting characters, high-spirited MC, the film looked good on the screen, gratifying reception, generous koha, lots of DVD sales (with more coming via Internet), choice

Good management reduces ego”, Woolf remarks as he sums up his account of life within the White House. “But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply