ed981001.qxd 04/11/98 21:23 Page 1 (1,1) IssueOut 942 - Weekly with the old,Thursday 1st Octoberin 1998 with the new! Schroeder wins German Election News in Brief After 16 years in power, tional left wing of German poli- euphoria of freedom and democ- Chancellor Helmut Kohl was tics and claim to be the represen- racy has long since been replaced Levis cut jeans elected out of office in Sunday’s tatives of the “new centre”. by the realisation of economic Levis Strauss, the company that invented blue jeans is to close four plants in German Elections. He will be Indeed many find it hard to dis- hardship including mass unem- Europe with the loss of 1,560 jobs. Demand for jeans is falling at 4% a year. replaced as Chancellor by tinguish between several foreign ployment. New Albanian PM Gerhard Schroeder whose Social policies held by Schroeder and 31 year old former student activist Pandeli Majko, of the Socialist Party has Democratic Party won 41% of the those held by Kohl. By contrast, The end of Chancellor Kohl been nominated to take over the much troubled Albanian state following the vote. No one party won enough the Green Party, who in all proba- marks the end of an era. Kohl resignation of Fatos Nano on Monday. seats to form an overall majority bility will share power, is seen as was instrumental in the transition and it is looking increasingly like- quite radical. Their policies period of the late eighties. He Malaysian protests escalate ly that Mr Schroeder will choose include an end to, or at least a brought about unification and Malaysia’s ousted deputy Prime Minister has pleaded innocent to nine to form a coalition government mass scaling down of, nuclear strove towards further European charges of corruption and illegal sex acts and claims to have been severely with the Greens, who received power, something the French integration. Kohl forged close beaten whilst in custody. Amnesty International have called for his release unexpectedly high backing with could never compromise on; the links with both France and and claim that the allegations against him are politically motivated. Mr 6.7 % of the vote. The large reduction of NATO, (contrary to Russia. His departure could be Anwa’s principal accusers have already retracted their confessions. Before swing towards the left in Mr Schroeder’s belief that the first in a line of faces to leave his arrest Mr Anwar was at the head of the volatile campaign for political Germany follows today’s Germany should at last become the political map. With both reform directed at his former boss, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. European trend, set by Blairism militarily involved in Nato peace President Clinton and President Fresh demonstrations are planned calling for both the release of Mr Anwar in Britain and by Lionel Jospin in keeping missions), legalisation of Yeltsin clinging on to power and and the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. France. Many people in cannabis and same sex marriages. President Chirac being increas- Germany have reiterated com- ingly undermined by the left wing Hurricane Georges - the clear up begins ments frequently heard last May The other main winner in the government of Lionel Jospin, the Hurricane Georges has been downgraded to a tropical storm but has already in Britain: “It was time for a election was the ex-communist end of the millennium is set to claimed the lives of up to 400 people across the Caribbean. A state of emer- change.” Party of Democratic Socialism. become a new transition period in gency has been called in many areas as the scale of the damage becomes Mr Schroeder’s Social Democrats The PDS polled a large amount of world politics. apparent and clear up operations get under way. have moved away from the tradi- support in the east, where the Out with the old, in with the new. INCREDIBLE EXCLUSIVE COMPETITION - SILVERSTONE’S 50th Birthday Party - This Weekend Win 2 Weekend Pass tickets to the Silverstone Golden Jubilee Race Meeting incorporating the Autumn Gold Cup. Silverstone’s 50th Birthday Party - Saturday 3rd October - 1800 An evening of Star Cars, Star Guests and spectacles. Be there for race day on the Sunday and watch the GT’s, formula 3, Porsche’s, historic sports cars and TVR Tuscans. Entries must be in by Friday 14.00 either in the BareFacts Box (outside the BF Office) or by email to [email protected] . 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Must the union continue to book at the Union was a considerable rip-off. I “B/C celebrities” at the [considerable] conveyed this to a member of staff on the expense of the membership of this union? I night and the response was that “it was for dread the prospect of future such acts the freshers” . I would argue that it was at booked, facilitated in a company - sorry, “a the expense of the freshers, and the rest of union” - eager to make huge profits. Who us who were naive enough to hope for a rea- next? John Alford (£8), Toya Wilcox (£10), sonable night at the Union on a Saturday. Richard and Judy Sing the Blues (£14) - Ultra Nate’s show “ (blink and you missed although perhaps fifteen minutes would be a it)” was entertaining while it lasted, but blessing! I commend most of the work that approximately fifteen minutes didn’ t justify is undertaken by our entertainments com- the premium placed on ticket prices for the mittee, but to quote another old adage, “ you evening. Most of the audience were per- get what you pay for” On the evidence of plexed when they promptly left the stage, Saturday night we paid for what we didn’ t but no encore followed (presumably that get. I implore the entertainments committee would cost another £6). to, quite literally, sort their acts out. To quote the old adage, “everybody has Yours sincerely their fifteen minutes of fame” but Ultra Tom Merryfield Dear Ed Correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under fact, on the front page? For that was little the impression that Bare Facts is a newspa- more than what this supposed news item Unplugged per. My emphasis here is on the word was, one individual’s view of the success of ‘news’. I wonder then, what the article such a tactic, a hackneyed view at the best “If music be the food of love, play on”, so annual talent contest. (rather strangely) titled ‘Burning the Candle of times, hardly a novel approach or inter- said Shakespeare and who would disagree? at both ends!’ (issue 940) was doing on the esting angle that might have justified it’s Certainly not I, because between you and This Tuesday (Wk5) last years finalists front cover? This story, for those who prominence. If items like this have to be me, there’s nothing I enjoy more than listen- COY return to the Unplugged stage to enter- missed it, concerned the arson attack on the given column inches, surely they should be ing to good music in the company of tain yet again. This privilege is yours for Human pyschopharmacology unit at the on the inside pages, with the other opinions? friends. Who knows, I may even have a just £1. Royal Surrey County Hospital, supposedly What a pity, because the rest of the paper lager or two, just to be sociable like. by Animal Liberation activists. My ques- seems to be shaping up nicely. Surely we Before this at 7pm, prior to the screaming tion is then, are we allowed to deliver our can do better than this? Picture the scene, if you don’t mind, of a hoards arriving to see COY (Tuesday Wk5), subjective opinions, passing them off as Yours, Head Shakingly Tuesday evening each odd week of semester we will be holding our AGM, to which you in the Helyn Rose bar. The dancefloor is are cordially invited. The main purpose of Strangely Shaped Editorial covered with candle lit tables, populated by this meeting is to elect committee members students, their friends and fantasies, eagerly and we want you if you think you’ve got the Freshers week is over and the aftermath is petition, I am awaiting the latest offering from the spunk to help run ‘the best society on cam- clear. As we all count the costs to our wal- forever jealous. UNPLUGGED team. pus’. If you don’t fancy a committee posi- lets, health and reputations it is time to set- By the time you tion, think we may be interested in a band tle into the routine of term time.