Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
29 Apr. - 5 May 1999
Issue No. 427
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

Trapped on the Titanic?
NATOThe world came to Washington last week to witness the 50th birthday party of NATO. Hoda Tawfik was there

The Kremlin's war of words with NATO
Russia's protest over NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia is all bark and no bite, writes Abdel-Malek Khalil from Moscow

Far from the wilder shores of Marx
As the winds batter the soon-to-be decentralised coast of East Scotland, Gavin Bowd spends an unusual weekend with a former Balkan president

India FOLLOWING inconclusive and bitter in-fighting and bargaining over a potential coalition to replace the right-wing Hindu-nationalist coalition government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which was recently voted out of office, Indian President K R Narayanan finally threw in the towel on Monday and dissolved the lower house of parliament.
Bonnie and Clyde in Karachi
The conviction of Benazir Bhutto and her husband on corruption charges may have pleased Pakistan's present prime minister, but, writes Eqbal Ahmad, Nawaz Sharif may yet end up going the same way as his rival's father

 

 

 
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