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Articles in June, 1998 issue of New Internationalist

• Jeans: this month's theme
  by David Ransom
• Pesticide suicide: Radhakrishna Rao records an ironic end to a tragic episode in India
  by Radhakrishna Rao
• Ocean songs
• Sackcloth and elan: Kate Fletcher explains why there's more to hemp than a load of old rope - and no, setting fire to it won't bring a nice surprise
  by Kate Fletcher
• Code breaking: the rag trade doesn't always get away with bad behaviour. Bob Jeffcott and Lynda Yanz report on what trade unions and community groups in Canada are doing …
  by Bob Jeffcott
• Mischief and the Trojan truck: NATO jets may be able to fly low over Innu hunting grounds in northeastern Canada, but they're ill-prepared for limp sedition
  by Kari Reynolds
• Tuya's tale: Louisa Waugh discovers a differnet world at an orphanage in Ulaanbaatar
  by Louisa Waugh
• Post modern pair: what jeans mean is now more important than what they are. McKenzie Wark explains
  by McKenzie Wark
• Crazy for blue: outside the US, the world's largest maker of denim is in India. Drishnamohan S Rao reports on a surprising development of do-it-yourself jean kits
  by Krishnamohan S. Rao
• Hidden agendas
• Poems 1913-1956
• Fired! Trade unions respond
  by Sara Chamberlain
• Guess? what: Guess? Inc in Los Angeles are `trendsetters' in more ways than one. Sarah Cox reports on a trade-union faced by a false label
  by Sarah Cox
• Jeans - the facts: jeans are the Coca Cola of clothing - consumed almost everywhere
• Ratan Gazmere: Howard Davies visits Nepal where he meets an exiled human rights activist from neighbouring Bhutan
  by Howard Davies
• Country profile: St. Vincent & the Grenadines
• Tiger papers: press mauled by soaring newsprint costs
  by Margot Cohen
• Benedita da Silva: an Afro-Brazilian woman's story of politics and love
• Migrants must go: foreign workers are thrown out of Malaysia
  by Anil Netto
• Blue jeans story: or how `waist overalls' for gold diggers, gun slingers and rebels without a cause got smart, clothed the American Dream and conquered the world
• Shooting Indians
• Jeans: the big stitch-up: fooled by false labels, David Ransom sets off in pursuit of the politically correct pair
  by David Ransom
• Life on the line: it makes no difference whether you're in San Antonio, Texas or Tehuacan, Mexico - if you're a migrant and a woman who stitches jeans … you can be sure of a mean deal
  by Miriam Ching Louie
• Dumbala dumba
• Benign urine: industrial cotton is the world's favourite - and most polluting - fabric fibre
  by David Hecht
• Jimi Hendrix ManFriday and salvar kameez: if it's true that you are what you wear then Urvashi Butalia would rather expand into Indian clothes than contract into denim
  by Urvashi Butalia
• Viramma: life of an untouchable