5 - 11 November 1998
Issue No.402
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 5 - 11 November 1998 Issue No.402 |
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Our past
is another country From Pearl of Africa to Pandemonium, Uganda at once confronts its past and tries to trace its old promise, writes Gamal Nkrumah |
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The will of the people? How does the Taliban, associated with terrorism and gross human rights violations, explain itself? Amira Howeidy talks to a member of the Supreme Shura of the Taliban |
 Poor to poorer: Russian pensioners brace themselves for a terrible winter --click for a bigger picture-- |
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Aux barricades! French students took to the streets throughout October. Hosni Abdel-Rehim in Paris writes on the demonstrations that have rocked the country |
When impunity is a human right Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is getting away with murder, writes Gavin Bowd |
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Corporate sex The Sex Sector: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia, Lin Lean Lim, ed., Geneva: ILO Press, 1998 Reviewed by Faiza Rady
Acting to save the children
A time for play |