Al-Ahram Weekly 11 - 17 November 1999 Issue No. 455
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

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'Multi-polar and many-hued' Al-Ahram's Mahmoud Murad met Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Giang Chuan in Beijing recently, at an international seminar on Egyptian-Chinese relations Chechnya's sad plight Russia's military crackdown on Chechnya has escalated into an international crisis. From Moscow, Abdel-Malek Khalil argues that the campaign has degenerated into genocide Time to heal The Dayton peace accords sought to create a united multi-ethnic state out of the fractured ruins of Bosnia-Herzegovina. But, as Zeina Khodr discovered, true reconciliation remains a distant dream All in good faith? The sins of the Vatican's past have been remitted. Why then do callers always get the wrong message, wonders Gamal Nkrumah Riding for a fall Wall Street resumed its upward surge last week. Sameh Naguib wonders how long the last bull run of the century can last

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A week in the world Mr Softie and the Queen of Oz It wasn't such a bad week to be Bill Gates after all. On Friday, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a strident report in which he found Mi-rosoft (or M$, as it is known to its friends) guilty of a wide range of monopolistic prac-ices, in particular of having exploited its dominant position to drive competitors such as Apple and Netscape to the verge of bankruptcy. ..read on..