Issue 147 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 147 :: Thursday, August 7, 1997


Opinion Sailors must unionize to protect their rights
The Vladivostok News	08/30/97 02:13 PM
"Sailors really should start caring for their own fate," said Pyotr Osichansky, local representative of the International Transport Workers Federation. Dozens of Russian ships are being held in ports all over the world. Crews come home after months or even years of "arrest" in foreign ports, and they bring the remains of colleagues who committed suicide in despair.
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Opinion City's garbage strike ends in trashy politics
The Vladivostok News	08/30/97 02:13 PM
The city can breathe a sigh of relief that the garbage strike is resolved - for now. For five weeks, heaps of trash clogged streets and alleyways. Vladivostok was fouled not only by trash (and by the rats dining on it), but by malodor recalling a barbecue of rancid food as well-meaning citizens got rid of trash by burning it. It is fitting, though, that such an ugly incident in urban life concluded with more of the trashy politics we have come to expect of our civic leaders.
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Opinion Military conversion show is unconvincing
The Vladivostok News	08/30/97 02:12 PM
The recent military conversion exhibition in Vladivostok was surely a sign of change afoot: You can't argue that a nuclear submarine factory proffering sausages isn't trying to change its tune. But it did seem that defense companies aren't ready for a true wave of conversion to break away from dependence on military rubles. And although it's easy to apply the "better late than never" truism, 1997 is a fairly late date for manufacturers only to begin thinking about entering new markets.
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Opinion Solving the "stinking" crisis
by Stan Danysh, University of Alaska Anchorage	08/30/97 02:11 PM
Dump the garbage on city hall steps? Open a fast food outlet for rats? In issue 146, Talk Back was looking for ways to get rid the trash that was piling up around town. But Stan Danysh went beyond mere disposal, to suggest how to keep future garbage pileups from occurring.
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