Al-Ahram Weekly On-line   Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
Date: 21 - 27 May, 1998
Issue No.378
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Mourning of a fallen activist Fall of a dictator
Fall of a dictatorThe bubble of the Asian economic miracle has burst; the international "relief" package is extracting a heavy toll; an old and bloody dictatorship cracks at the seams. Faiza Rady observes the countdown

India's obsession, Pakistan's choice
India's ultra-nationalist leaders may have gone berserk. This is no reason for Pakistan to do likewise. Eqbal Ahmad urges reason

The G8 agenda
Safa Haeri reports from Birmingham, England, on the gathering of the world's "power club"

Clinton and Blair Nuts and hard hearts
This year's G8 meeting in Birmingham, England, was not about merging the first world, let alone bridging the gap between first and third worlds, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Sierra Leone secrets
A Queen's Scout, a Scot's Guard or Cook in the dark? Britain's hands were bloodied in Sierra Leone, writes Gamal Nkrumah from London

Behind the Vatican's gates
A bizarre murder-suicide involving two members of the Pope's elite Swiss Guard has dropped the Vatican into a vortex of speculation and conspiracy theories, writes Samia Nkrumah from Rome