Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
22 - 28 October 1998
Issue No.400
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An ethnic-Albanian Kosovar Kosovo's
fragile peace
Fighting re-erupted this week in Serbia's war-torn region of Kosovo, leaving a US-brokered deal with Yugoslav President Milosevic in the balance. Maye Ostowani examines developments 		Italian pot-pourri
Rapidly shifting political alliances within the left itself and between the left and the centre-left, signal political chaos writes Samia Nkrumah from Rome
Russia's 'social time bomb' ticks away
As Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov maps out a plan to rescue the country's embattled economy, Russian workers are calling for President Yeltsin's immediate resignation. Abdel-Malek Khalil reports from Moscow

The violence
of poverty
The deadliest form of violence is impoverishing people, argues Mumia Abu-Jamal

Oil, Oduduwa
and ill omens
Oil politics and the language of historical claim and counter-claim threaten to rip Nigeria apart, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Chileans

Finally, justice
The rule of law has finally caught up with Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet in Britain, writes Mohamed Khaled