Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
1 - 7 July 1999
Issue No. 436
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues
Indian
War of nerves
Indian air strikes sparked international fears of a fully-fledged war between India and Pakistan, writes Gamal Nkrumah 		Making the UN work
Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo: these and other challenges to the system of international legitimacy have revealed the urgent need for change. Tahsin Bashir comments

Getting into the process
When an Arab American was hired by the State Department, all hell broke loose. Tarek Atia tells a tale the US Zionist lobby would rather not hear

Reminiscences of Africa's struggle
A leading proponent of African unity, Nelson Mandela once drew much inspiration from post-revolutionary Egypt. Hoda Abdel-Nasser travelled to Cape Town and spoke to South Africa's former head-of-state
New hand on South Africa's tiller
Nelson Mandela's successor has inherited a country rich in challenges. Gail Gerhart looks at the man who will lead post-apartheid South Africa into the new millennium
 
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