Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
7 - 13 October 1999
Issue No. 450
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Buckets!
Chernobyl was just the start, laments Gamal Nkrumah. Now Tokaimura shows us the way to the future
Copycat strike
The Russian air force, in a desperate bid to outdo NATO's fearsome air strikes in the Balkans, is pounding the breakaway republic of Chechnya, writes Abdel-Malik Khalil from Moscow
A week in the world
Banging the drum
On Saturday, Russian troops entered the independent republic of Chechnya for the first time since the disastrous war of 1994-96. --read on--
Integration blues
The need to "harmonise" trade relations is putting serious strain on one historic Latin American friendship, writes Hisham El-Naggar from Buenos Aires
After totality
Reviving your country's fortunes by blacking out the sun can all too easily backfire, as Gavin Bowd discovered in Bucharest
 
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