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Logic of compromise
A socialist president takes office in Chile, as General Pinochet receives a hero's welcome from the country's military. Sameh Naguib examines the prospects for democracy
System breakdown
Will the quest for stable institutions wipe out all traces of the revolution that gave birth to Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party? asks Hisham El-Naggar
A week in the world
Uncivil engineering
By Peter Snowdon
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Violent street protests erupted in Bangladesh (right) and other parts of South Asia ahead of the visit to the Sub-Continent by United States President Bill Clinton.
Clinton is scheduled to visit India, Pakistan and Bangladesh next week. In India, Harkrishan Singh Surjeet, the secretary general of India's Communist Party warned that the, "first day of Clinton's visit would be observed as a national day of protest against US imperialism."
Clinton reiterated his offer to mediate in the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. India is opposed to third party mediation.
(photo: Reuters)
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Drugs, lies and NATO strikes
NATO insists that no area of Kosovo is off-limits -- except those controlled by rabble rousers and drug-traffickers, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Africa's elusive stability
On the sidelines of the OAU ministerial council, the talk was all of security and economic development. Dina Ezzat eavesdrops in Addis Ababa
'And God created woman'
But globalisation threatens to re-create her according to its own image, writes Faiza Rady
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