Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
24 - 30 September 1998
Issue No.396
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map

Anwar Mahathir shows who's boss
Malaysia's vicious political power struggle spiced with sex scandals takes on a new dimension as the ousted deputy prime minister is arrested. Mohamed Khaled reports
The consuming scandal
The last thing the world economic crisis needs is for America to become even more parochial, writes James Zogby

Cosmetic reforms
for global crisis?

The debt burden and mounting bad loan problems are two sides of the same coin, writes Gamal Nkrumah