The Economist : Jan 1991-December 1994
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ECN 24 DEC 94 / The International Order: Situation, Mission, Execution - The
West has not yet got a foreign policy for the 21st century. It needs one,
rather urgently. There is a soldierly way of explaining what has to be done
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ECN 17 DEC 94 / Sinning in private / Iran's mullahs meet Star TV
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ECN 17 DEC 94 / Chechnya requests independence / The case against Russia's
use of force in Chechnya
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ECN 03 DEC 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 26 NOV 94 / Arafat's gamble: Gaza on the brink of civil war
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ECN 19 NOV 94 / East, West, which is best?: A question mark hangs over
Turkey. Its economy is dodgy, its politics is messy, violence is endemic in
part of the country, and arguments persist about its place in the world. No
wonder some Turks, and westerners, are nervous
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ECN 19 NOV 94 / Splitting / The PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad
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ECN 12 NOV 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 12 NOV 94 / King Saddam / Iraq's economy in pitiful state and getting
worse
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ECN 12 NOV 94 / Where Islam recruits: Neither Egyptians nor Algerians feel
much loyalty to their tired, unrepresentative regimes. Waging war on
Islamists will not change their minds
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ECN 29 OCT 94 / The Albanian connection / Europe's new drug smuggling routes
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ECN 29 OCT 94 / Turning south / New trade and transport routes for Central
Asia
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ECN 22 OCT 94 / Rough trading / Murderous US trading cards
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ECN 22 OCT 94 / Storing up trouble: America's deal with North Korea does the
anti-proliferation cause no good
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ECN 15 OCT 94 / At a stretch / Can the US armed forces still meet their
commitments?
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ECN 08 OCT 94 / Challenge to the House of Saud / Saudi Arabia's Islamic
challenge
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ECN 08 OCT 94 / Spooked / What now for the CIA?
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ECN 01 OCT 94 / Not all is changed / The US-Russia summit
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ECN 01 OCT 94 / Pointing North / The election in Virginia
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ECN 24 SEP 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 24 SEP 94 / Moscow rules / Striking oil in Azerbaijan
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ECN 17 SEP 94 / Rest camp for terrorists / Does Sudan sponsor terrorists?
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ECN 10 SEP 94 / Free for all, but keep your veil on / Iran's free trade
islands
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ECN 03 SEP 94 / Survey of Military Aerospace (8): Home to roost - America
and Europe need each other like never before
By NICHOLAS VALERY
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ECN 03 SEP 94 / Survey of Military Aerospace (6): At each other's throat -
Exporting is becoming ferocious
By NICHOLAS VALERY
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ECN 03 SEP 94 / Books: The Gulf war after the cold war - When United Nations
ceased to be an oxymoron
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ECN 27 AUG 94 / Mettle tested / The Swiss metal bashing industry
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ECN 27 AUG 94 / Al Azhar joins the Vatican: Islam and population /
Forthcoming UN conference under attack
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ECN 27 AUG 94 / Don't count on us, Ayatollah / Iran's army will no longer
quell civil disorder
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ECN 20 AUG 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 20 AUG 94 / Jackal caged: France and terrorists
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ECN 20 AUG 94 / Accuse in haste: Argentina and Iran
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ECN 13 AUG 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 13 AUG 94 / Deja vu / France's Algeria policy
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ECN 13 AUG 94 / Shades of extremism: France is asking its western partners
to adopt an uncompromising stand against Algeria's Islamic militancy. Those
partners are right to demur
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ECN 06 AUG 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 06 AUG 94 / Second thoughts / Israel hesitates on retaliation
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ECN 30 JUL 94 / Psst for plutonium / Russian plutonium turns up in Germany
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ECN 23 JUL 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 23 JUL 94 / Walk in fear / Iran's curious human rights
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ECN 16 JUL 94 / Tied economy, tied president / Iran's misfiring economy
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ECN 16 JUL 94 / Books: 1,001 Arabian nightmares - Islam challenges the
West's hegemony
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ECN 09 JUL 94 / Uncle Kim and Uncle Sam: The stakes are high in the talks
between North Korea and America
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ECN 25 JUN 94 / The unshaveable v the ineffable / George Michael's tragedy
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ECN 25 JUN 94 / Lock them up / An author imprisoned in Iran
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ECN 25 JUN 94 / Explosive circles / Violence and politics in Iran
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ECN 25 JUN 94 / The stateless nation: Denied their own country, harried in
Iraq and Iran, the Kurds should at least have full civil rights in Turkey
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ECN 18 JUN 94 / Survey of Energy (4): Onward and upward - Two billion people
are on the move; the price of oil will follow
By EDWARD CARR
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ECN 18 JUN 94 / Lexington: The ink of human kindness / The power of
political cartoonists is dwindling
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ECN 18 JUN 94 / Kim defiant: Sanctions won't make North Korea's ruler
cuddly. They are still worth imposing
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ECN 11 JUN 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 11 JUN 94 / Scorched earth / Turkey's battered Kurds
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ECN 11 JUN 94 / Ollie's moment: The Virginia Senate race
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ECN 04 JUN 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 04 JUN 94 / UK News in Brief
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ECN 28 MAY 94 / A dangerous game: The vulnerability of South Korea and the
belligerence of Kim Il Sung make it both daunting and essential to expose
and halt North Korea's illicit development of nuclear weapons
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ECN 28 MAY 94 / No way out / Russia's blocked oil pipelines
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ECN 28 MAY 94 / Sixes and sevens / Talk of democracy in Nigeria
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ECN 28 MAY 94 / After the silk came the smack / Drugs in Central Asia
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ECN 28 MAY 94 / Arts: Asian challenge - Cannes film festival
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ECN 21 MAY 94 / Touchy bears / Russians abroad in the former Soviet Union
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ECN 21 MAY 94 / Wheels within wheels / Bosnia's latest impasse
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ECN 14 MAY 94 / Whose Senate? / The balance of American political power
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ECN 07 MAY 94 / The Jordanian Connection / Arms to Iraq via third countries
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ECN 30 APR 94 / UK news in brief
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ECN 23 APR 94 / The Caspian also rises / Inexplicable rise in water level
alarms Russia and Iran
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ECN 23 APR 94 / Hamas and friends / Continuing violence in the Middle East
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ECN 16 APR 94 / America and Asia: Treating with tigers - The North Korean
nuclear crisis shows why America should give priority to good working
relations with East Asian governments, if necessary at the expense of
pursuing short-term trade and human-rights objectives
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ECN 16 APR 94 / Russia's over- friendly squeeze / Moscow displays renewed
interest in Central Asia
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ECN 09 APR 94 / Better than cold: Armenian nuclear power
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ECN 09 APR 94 / Better and worse / Egyptian Government clings to power
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ECN 09 APR 94 / The blessings of religion / Sudanese troops to die for Islam
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ECN 09 APR 94 / In Kim's bazaar / New arms export controls needed
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ECN 09 APR 94 / Arts: Chinese crackers - Hong Kong film festival
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ECN 09 APR 94 / Why Whitewater matters: American democracy is being revealed
at its worst - and best
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ECN 02 APR 94 / Oil rolls over / OPEC quota decision causes price fall
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ECN 02 APR 94 / Not again / Benazir Bhutto facing power struggle in Pakistan
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ECN 26 MAR 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 26 MAR 94 / Controlling a deadly trade / Cocom and after
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ECN 26 MAR 94 / Dents in the armour: Virginia's Senate race
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ECN 26 MAR 94 / One raspberry too many: North Korea's nuclear defiance
deserves a tougher response
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ECN 19 MAR 94 / Step right in: Disney in Virginia
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ECN 19 MAR 94 / Books: The rocky road to Samarkand - Central Asia
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ECN 12 MAR 94 / Splashback / How will Whitewater affect the Clinton agenda
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ECN 26 FEB 94 / Russia reaches out: For the past two years, Russia's foreign
policy has been incoherent, ineffective and vaguely pro-western. It is now
consistent, assertive, and nationalist
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ECN 26 FEB 94 / A tank, a tank, my kingdom for a tank / Why Afghanistan
matters
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ECN 19 FEB 94 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 12 FEB 94 / The convert arms trade: The second-oldest profession - The
covert arms trade may be worth Dollars 2 billion in a lean year, Dollars 10
billion in a fat one. Selling high-calibre weapons to killers with cash is a
nasty business, but it is probably also an unstoppable one
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ECN 12 FEB 94 / Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies: Parliament is
powerless to monitor British arms exports
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ECN 12 FEB 94 / A hero of our time / Russian troops on Turkey's border
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ECN 12 FEB 94 / Daring to say no / Iran's opposition
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ECN 29 JAN 94 / Algeria's vicious circle: Algeria's war between its army and
its Islamic militants is spinning out of control. The regime has tried for a
political way out, but convinced nobody
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ECN 29 JAN 94 / Arts: The distant voices of France / Islamic fanatics
terrorise writers
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ECN 29 JAN 94 / Time to turn back: Algeria's generals must bring the Islamic
movement back into political life or risk a full-scale insurgency
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ECN 22 JAN 94 / Survey of Israel (7): A people that dwells alone - However
western Israelis feel, they made their country in the Middle East
By PETER DAVID
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ECN 22 JAN 94 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 22 JAN 94 / Surprise, surprise / What makes a good special prosecutor?
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ECN 15 JAN 94 / Pressured reform / Arms industry fears Saudi squeeze
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ECN 15 JAN 94 / Lexington: Oliver North and the waters of Lethe / Can
Virginians forget their potential senator's past?
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ECN 15 JAN 94 / Appeasing Iran: It doesn't work
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ECN 08 JAN 94 / Sofa chat / US wooing Syria on wider peace accord
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ECN 08 JAN 94 / The turncoat / A warlord restarts Afghanistan's war
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ECN 25 DEC 93 / Old Men in Power: Grey eminences - Sick and stubborn old
leaders cling to office because they fear retirement and death.
Understandable enough. But why do nations indulge them?
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ECN 25 DEC 93 / The world sends NATO back to the drawing board: When Bill
Clinton steps on to European soil for the first time as president of the
United States early in January, Europe's leaders will face not just an
unfamiliar president, but an uncertain future for NATO and even for the
Atlantic alliance
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ECN 25 DEC 93 / Sport: Where to ski? - Skiers have a choice of more than
3,000 resorts, from the Alps to the Rockies to the pistes of Iran or
Morocco. Which is the best?
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ECN 18 DEC 93 / Trading in hypocrisy: Ministers are already quaking in their
boots at the hostility of the Scott inquiry into arms sales to Iraq. But
there is worse to come
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ECN 18 DEC 93 / It's bad - official / A hint of change in North Korea
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ECN 11 DEC 93 / Lady Know-nothing / Margaret Thatcher testifies on Irangate
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ECN 11 DEC 93 / The bear pauses / Russia's interest in Azerbaijan
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ECN 11 DEC 93 / Sudan: Islamic mediator / Arab and Islamic conference
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ECN 11 DEC 93 / A mayor and his city / Tehran
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ECN 11 DEC 93 / Books: Unproven - Arms to Iraq
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ECN 04 DEC 93 / Sport: Soccer's last frontier - The World Cup gives soccer's
promoters another chance to overcome American resistance to the most popular
sport on earth. Will they blow it again?
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ECN 27 NOV 93 / Gripped by China / China's shifting position in the world
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ECN 20 NOV 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 20 NOV 93 / Germany And Its Interests: Hearing secret harmonies -
History has its lessons but also its limitations. United Germany is a
strong, secure country with less to fear from past demons than from modern
doubletalk
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ECN 13 NOV 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 13 NOV 93 / The world's shame / What to do about refugees
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ECN 13 NOV 93 / Eyeball to eyeball with North Korea: Why its nuclear
cheating cannot be ignored
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ECN 06 NOV 93 / Buyers, please / The Czech republic's arms industry
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ECN 06 NOV 93 / Azeri-wary / Iran's refugee burden
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ECN 30 OCT 93 / Survey of Asia (1): A billion consumers - A quarter-century
of the fastest economic growth in history has brought a breakthrough to
middle-class life within the grasp of much of Asia. The result will shift
enormously the world's economic and financial balance - to everybody's
benefit
By JIM ROHWER
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ECN 23 OCT 93 / Two ways to rev: Czech motorcycles
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ECN 16 OCT 93 / Many unhappy returns / Iran expels Afghans
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ECN 16 OCT 93 / Glasnost in Virginia / The CIA opens shop
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ECN 09 OCT 93 / When the coaxing has to stop: North Korea's continued
nuclear defiance puts the global anti-proliferation effort at risk
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ECN 25 SEP 93 / Unexploded bomb: Who was responsible for misleading
parliament and public? - Arms to Iraq
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ECN 25 SEP 93 / For the oppressed / Iran's wealthy foundations
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ECN 25 SEP 93 / From the oppressed / A tale of Iranian law and disorder
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ECN 18 SEP 93 / Can it really be peace? - Only if those who want it strive
harder than those who don't
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ECN 18 SEP 93 / A shocking speculation about the price of oil: It could
rise, sharply
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ECN 11 SEP 93 / The Future Surveyed: The rationale for a rosy view - What a
global economy will look like
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ECN 11 SEP 93 / The Future Surveyed: Weak states and the West - Warfare has
a future
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ECN 11 SEP 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 11 SEP 93 / Hands across the Himalayas / India and China settle
differences
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ECN 11 SEP 93 / Losing a villain: Without Israel to hate, the Middle East
would be a more rational place, though not necessarily a more stable one
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ECN 28 AUG 93 / The World This Week: Business and Finance
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ECN 28 AUG 93 / Russia's armed forces: The threat that was - Russia's armed
forces are disintegrating. They no longer pose a serious military threat to
the West. How much of one do they pose to Russia itself?
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ECN 28 AUG 93 / Diplomacy is hit by a missile / Relations between China and
America soured by arms sales to Pakistan
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ECN 28 AUG 93 / Still on the prowl / Russia and the former Soviet states
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ECN 21 AUG 93 / Survey of Nigeria (6): The call of Islam - Religious
tolerance is being put to the test
By SOPHIE PEDDER
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ECN 21 AUG 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 07 AUG 93 / The Middle East: Assault course / A respite for Lebanon
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ECN 07 AUG 93 / Nothing to lose but your chador / Women in Iran
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ECN 07 AUG 93 / Jihad / Islamic Sudan
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ECN 07 AUG 93 / The empire strikes back / Russia bombs Afghanistan in
defence of Tajikistan
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ECN 31 JUL 93 / Operation Exodus / Israel's attack on Lebanon
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ECN 31 JUL 93 / Into Asia: Rupert Murdoch is staking his shirt on the
world's greatest, and dodgiest, emerging market
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ECN 24 JUL 93 / Fiery food, fiery tempers: The Transcaucasus - In the
mountains between Russia and Iraq seven wars are going on, almost unnoticed
by the outside world
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ECN 24 JUL 93 / War and peace / A tale of two cities in Afghanistan
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ECN 17 JUL 93 / North Korea: The hermit kingdom strikes back - Secretive
North Korea has taken on the world to protect its nuclear programme, but
will its Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, live to regret it?
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ECN 17 JUL 93 / Fear of god / Muslim troops to Bosnia?
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ECN 03 JUL 93 / America v Islam: The American attack on Baghdad may or may
not deter Iraq. It has certainly angered much Muslim opinion and dismayed
some friendly governments
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ECN 03 JUL 93 / Or Mogadishu? / Virginia's red-hot Senate race
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ECN 03 JUL 93 / Clinton's first strike: And a blow for the credibility of
the United States, but not the United Nations
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ECN 26 JUN 93 / Survey of Italy (3): Vox populi - The people have spoken.
Have the politicians heard?
By JOHN ANDREWS
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ECN 19 JUN 93 / Full circle / Azerbaijan's old guard returns
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ECN 05 JUN 93 / Soldiers in search of a war / Arab veterans of the Afghan
war
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ECN 29 MAY 93 / Unfinished business / Mopping up after wars in the Persian
Gulf
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ECN 29 MAY 93 / Books: Present at the burial - The cold war's end
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ECN 22 MAY 93 / The warning from the Nile: If the Middle East does not move
forward it will collapse
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ECN 15 MAY 93 / Ukraine: You'd be nervous living next to a bear - Newly
independent Ukraine is angering the West by its reluctance to give up
nuclear weapons. Ukrainians feel the West has ignored their security needs.
The western attitude is changing. Will Ukraine's?
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ECN 15 MAY 93 / Inside the trap / Daily life in the Gaza Strip
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ECN 15 MAY 93 / The insurgency that will not stop / Egypt's tottering
pharaoh
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ECN 08 MAY 93 / (CORRECTED) The world this week: Politics and current
affairs
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ECN 08 MAY 93 / Mr Patten's message / America's China policy
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ECN 01 MAY 93 / One too many / Iran in a mess
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ECN 01 MAY 93 / PLA plc / China's entrepreneurial army
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ECN 01 MAY 93 / Books: American fall guy / Misunderstanding Iraq and Iran
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ECN 10 APR 93 / Aliev's domain / Nakhichevan
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ECN 10 APR 93 / Retreating: Armenia and Azerbaijan
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ECN 03 APR 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 03 APR 93 / Unsaddamisation / Sanctions on Iraq
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ECN 03 APR 93 / Old record, scratchy needle / Algeria's fundamentalist mess
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ECN 03 APR 93 / The subtler way / Jordan's fundamentalist sense
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ECN 03 APR 93 / No pushover / North Korea's nuclear standoff
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ECN 27 MAR 93 / Fundamentalism unlimited: Are the world's religious
activists bound by a single thread?
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Minus zero / The mysterious plot to destabilise President
Chiluba in Zambia
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Restarting the engine / US President Clinton and the
Arab-Israeli peace talks
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Safer haven for sisters / Canada to grant refugee status to
oppressed women
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Bombed but unbroken / Mysterious explostions in India
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Lexington: Indiana Jim and the temple of spooks / James
Woolsey's CIA
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ECN 20 MAR 93 / Apocalypse Asia: The danger in letting North Korea tear up,
or rewrite, the rules
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ECN 13 MAR 93 / A Russian view of the world / Bending Russia's foreign
policy
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ECN 13 MAR 93 / A paper peace / War and peace in Afghanistan
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ECN 13 MAR 93 / Off the record / Texas' George Bush library
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ECN 13 MAR 93 / Books: Variegated - Muslims / Islam's silent majority
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ECN 13 MAR 93 / The Islamic threat: Main target - fellow Muslims. Best
answer - democracy
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ECN 27 FEB 93 / Islam returns to politics in Turkey
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ECN 20 FEB 93 / Under Islam's banner / Arab-Israeli peace talks
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ECN 20 FEB 93 / Books: Larceny on a grand scale / The sins of Bank of Credit
and Commerce International
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ECN 20 FEB 93 / Remember Rushdie: All countries that value freedom of
expression should be joining the effort to stop Iran from encouraging murder
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ECN 20 FEB 93 / Asia's Arms Race: Gearing up / A boom in military spending
and the arms trade
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ECN 13 FEB 93 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 13 FEB 93 / Just awful / Georgia's economy
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ECN 13 FEB 93 / Lexington: The flint beneath the suit / US Secretary of
State Warren Christopher
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ECN 06 FEB 93 / Surviving, with difficulty: Iraq's Kurds
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ECN 30 JAN 93 / Great games: Iran and the ex-Soviet Union
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ECN 30 JAN 93 / Into a black hole / Kuwait's disappearing public money
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ECN 30 JAN 93 / Latter-day losers: Utah politics
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ECN 30 JAN 93 / Who will fight for the world?
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ECN 23 JAN 93 / A missile too many? / The anti-Saddam coalition crumbles
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ECN 23 JAN 93 / After Saddam: The West needs a policy for a set of problems,
not just for a tyrant
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ECN 16 JAN 93 / Swords and ploughshares / Good news for Russia's arms makers
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ECN 16 JAN 93 / A short, not very sharp, punch / Iraq slapped, but not
contrite
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ECN 16 JAN 93 / Outsiders all / Japan's foreigners
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ECN 16 JAN 93 / Sweet and sour borsch / Russia's foreign policy and Asia
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ECN 09 JAN 93 / M&M / Similarities between Morocco and Mexico
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ECN 09 JAN 93 / A formidable baton to pass / US foreign policy
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ECN 09 JAN 93 / Books: The pundits weigh in / Political commentators and
newspaper columinsts
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ECN 09 JAN 93 / Pardonable confusion: Criminal prosecutions were never the
right way to deal with the Iran-contra affair
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ECN 26 DEC 92 / The Post-Soviet world: The resumption of history - The
fall-out from the fall of the Soviet Union has already been massive. There
is much more to come
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ECN 26 DEC 92 / The Silk Road catches fire: With the ending of the cold war,
the playground of Kipling's 'Great Game' is no longer out of bounds. But
only true enthusiasts need apply
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ECN 26 DEC 92 / Looking back from 2992: A World History, Chapter 13 - The
disastrous 21st century
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ECN 26 DEC 92 / Apartheid at Heathrow / Travelling in 1993
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ECN 19 DEC 92 / Islam versus Israel: Israel, the Palestine Liberation
Organisation, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have lately found something in common.
They all fear Islamic fundamentalism. Our first report is from Israel
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ECN 19 DEC 92 / When taming is inflaming / Egypt's fundamentalists
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ECN 12 DEC 92 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 12 DEC 92 / The aftermath / Armenia's shattered economy
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ECN 12 DEC 92 / Uncertain victory / Southern Sudan's unholy war
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ECN 12 DEC 92 / Drains, oil and dissidents / Iraq's third river
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ECN 12 DEC 92 / Suburban bliss? / Northern Virginia's noisy Republicans
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ECN 05 DEC 92 / Quota floater / OPEC rides again
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ECN 05 DEC 92 / Comfort blanket for the Gulf / Arms and military backing
sought and gained by oil sheikhdoms
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ECN 28 NOV 92 / Husni takes on Ali / A war of words between Egypt and Iran
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ECN 21 NOV 92 / Bagehot: No whitewash in Whitehall? / Arms for Iraq scandal
won't seriously trouble the government
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ECN 21 NOV 92 / Kurds still alone / Iraq's neighbours block statehood
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ECN 21 NOV 92 / Security lapse / King Hussein's twists and turns
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ECN 21 NOV 92 / Iran, Iraq, irrational: A declension that needs to be broken
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ECN 14 NOV 92 / Almost an oil rush: Azerbaijani oil
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ECN 14 NOV 92 / Scandal hits fan / Britain's arms for Iraq trade
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ECN 14 NOV 92 / New policy, old foes / Arms sales to Iran
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ECN 14 NOV 92 / Gunpowder plot / Treason in Jordan
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ECN 14 NOV 92 / Lies, damned lies: And politicians / US and British
cover-ups of arms sales to Iraq
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ECN 07 NOV 92 / Wolf as shepherd: Turkey and Iraq
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ECN 07 NOV 92 / Tea party / Selling Sri Lankan tea
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ECN 07 NOV 92 / No margin for error / Bill Clinton wins US presidential
election
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ECN 07 NOV 92 / How the race was won / US presidential election
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ECN 31 OCT 92 / Beating retreat? / The malaria U-turn
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ECN 31 OCT 92 / Arts: On offer / Islamic art and Khalili's collection
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ECN 31 OCT 92 / Solving the Kurds: Start by noticing that there is more than
one Kurdish problem, requiring more than one solution
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ECN 24 OCT 92 / Arab-Israeli Peace Talks: Split and suspicious / The
Palestinians divided
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ECN 24 OCT 92 / Desert Stall: Bush or Clinton, America has unfinished
business in the Middle East
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ECN 17 OCT 92 / Kurd v Kurd in Iraq
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ECN 17 OCT 92 / Under the volcano / US Republicans and Iraq
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ECN 10 OCT 92 / Arabia's slow pressure cooker / Kuwait's election
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ECN 10 OCT 92 / Books: Two boastful generals / The Gulf war refaught
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ECN 03 OCT 92 / Flying solo? / The troubled European Fighter Aircraft
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ECN 03 OCT 92 / Arrows in the heart of Iran / Iran's ever-growing population
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ECN 03 OCT 92 / Books: A man for some seasons / Henry Kissinger, statesman
and courtier
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ECN 03 OCT 92 / Perot again: He deserves to be heard for one reason only
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ECN 19 SEP 92 / Body-building Iran / Tehran indulges in some international
muscle-flexing
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ECN 19 SEP 92 / Hospitable to a fault / Iran's Afghan refugees
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ECN 19 SEP 92 / The leading question / Trust, the big issue in the US
presidential campaign
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ECN 12 SEP 92 / The thornbush / Fundamentalists win in Lebanon
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ECN 12 SEP 92 / Fear of beardies / Tunisia's phantom plots
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ECN 05 SEP 92 / Survey of Defence in the 21st Century (3): What it will take
-Seven perfect divisions, and what is required to make them perfect
By BRIAN BEEDHAM
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ECN 05 SEP 92 / Border wars / Kurds in northern Iraq
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ECN 05 SEP 92 / Life in Saddamland / Post-war Iraq
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ECN 05 SEP 92 / Mr Walsh's diversion: America's special prosecutor would be
more effective if he were kept on a shorter leash
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ECN 22 AUG 92 / Patrolling the southern skies / A new Western operation in
Iraq
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ECN 22 AUG 92 / Cover up, quick / The latest crack-down on Iranian women
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ECN 22 AUG 92 / The next battle for Kabul / Afghanistan's new enemy
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ECN 22 AUG 92 / Back to the Gulf / A time for action in Iraq?
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ECN 08 AUG 92 / The push for a southern haven / Dismembering Iraq
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ECN 08 AUG 92 / No peace for the warriors / Afghanistan, still at war
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ECN 01 AUG 92 / Islam and the West: Everything the other is not - Islamic
newspapers would have little to write about if the hated West did not exist.
Our Cairo correspondent explains
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ECN 01 AUG 92 / In trouble: If the republics of ex-Soviet Central Asia are
glass waiting to shatter, the first cracks are appearing in Tajikistan
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ECN 25 JUL 92 / Cyrus ex machina / UN envoy in South Africa
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ECN 18 JUL 92 / North Africa's big stick: Islamic militancy
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ECN 11 JUL 92 / A mullah for all seasons / Iran's President Rafsanjani
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ECN 04 JUL 92 / Russia looks at the world: Westward no? - Boris Yeltsin's
presence in Munich next week for the summit meeting of the Group of Seven
underlines Russia's main foreign-policy goal: to join the West. Is this
really the place in the world that a reborn Russia should seek?
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ECN 27 JUN 92 / Somebody's busting sanctions / What is Jordan exporting to
Iraq?
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ECN 27 JUN 92 / Books: Telling all / The Afghan war
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ECN 27 JUN 92 / Books: Skittering under the dome / America's Congress is
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ECN 20 JUN 92 / Last ones out / German hostages released
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ECN 20 JUN 92 / The game with no rules / The Afghan path ot anarchy
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ECN 20 JUN 92 / Down memory lane / Scandals revisited
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ECN 13 JUN 92 / Caspian cauldron / Azerbaijan elects a president
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ECN 13 JUN 92 / Fire and flood, plans and blood / A week of riots in Mashad,
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ECN 06 JUN 92 / Flames around the mosques / Riots in Iran
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ECN 06 JUN 92 / Books: None the wiser - Spies
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ECN 06 JUN 92 / Enter Perot: He carries two messages - one for those
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ECN 30 MAY 92 / Vendetta, with missiles / A border war in Lebanon
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ECN 30 MAY 92 / Deja vu all over again / Exploring America's cosy pre-Gulf
War relations with Iraq
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ECN 30 MAY 92 / The taxpayer's Wagner / Paying for America's public
television
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ECN 23 MAY 92 / A time of turmoil / Trouble in Azerbaijan
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ECN 23 MAY 92 / Armenia lives / Armenia struggles to get back on its feet
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ECN 16 MAY 92 / Building up Baghdad: Despite economic sanctions, Iraq has
repaired much of the damage inflicted during the Gulf war. A special
correspondent reports from Baghdad
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ECN 16 MAY 92 / Cuba, communism, potatoes
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ECN 16 MAY 92 / Old game, new players / Central Asian Summit
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ECN 16 MAY 92 / Between Marx and Mecca: Central Asia, doomed to instability,
can still take the less bumpy of its two obvious routes from communism
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ECN 09 MAY 92 / Feeling gassy - Electricity generation / The Gas conundrum
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ECN 09 MAY 92 / Independence by stealth: The Kurdish 'safe haven' in
northern Iraq was never meant to be a state. That has not stopped the Kurds
from organising an election
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ECN 02 MAY 92 / Cross-frontier broadcasting: And nation shall speak guff
unto nation - Though the cold war is over, governments are still eagerly
beaming their viewsto the world by radio. But television may be too
expensive for them. Good
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ECN 02 MAY 92 / Come home, almost all is forgiven / Iran's returning exiles
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ECN 25 APR 92 / The craving for kings: All over the world politicians in
tight corners are rediscovering the merits of monarchs
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ECN 25 APR 92 / Pushing south / Government troops advance South in Sudan's
civil war
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ECN 25 APR 92 / Choosing partners / Central Asia looks to Turkey
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ECN 25 APR 92 / Awkward Afghans: Meddlers beware, but outsiders still have a
part to play in Afghan affairs
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ECN 25 APR 92 / New hands on the oil weapon: Forget OPEC. Oil has been taken
over by a new cartel - the United Nations
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ECN 18 APR 92 / Exciting times / The Islamic Comoro Islands
From A Special Correspondent in Comoros
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ECN 18 APR 92 / An evangelist at home / Sudan's fluent Islamist, Hassan
Turabi
From A Special Correspondent in Khartoum
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ECN 18 APR 92 / Iran returns to the world: But it should not be let in
until, for a start, it stops encouraging people to murder Salman Rushdie
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ECN 11 APR 92 / Enemy of my enemy: Iranian opposition
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ECN 11 APR 92 / Get Qaddafi: But only if his guilt is proved in court, and
if punishing him does not bring the Security Council into disrepute
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ECN 04 APR 92 / Melting away / A central-bank gold sale?
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ECN 04 APR 92 / Islam resumes its march: One anti-western ism is growing
stronger - The evolution of Islamic fundamentalism among Arabs
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ECN 04 APR 92 / Game of the name / The Economist rearranges the world map
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ECN 04 APR 92 / The battle for Uzbekistan: The Islamic revival in Central
Asia
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ECN 04 APR 92 / H. Ross Peron / Ross Perot for US President?
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ECN 04 APR 92 / Living with Islam: Frightening, but better than fighting it
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ECN 21 MAR 92 / The epicentre / Earth tremors in and around Turkey
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Nuclear Proliferation: Dimona et al / The Middle East
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Scuds bad, everything else good / Syria, Iran and North
Korea's Scuds
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Nuclear Proliferation: Asia's powerful upstarts
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Nuclear Proliferation: A nice red afterglow - The break-up
of the old Soviet Union, and of its nuclear weapons, brings similar devices
within reach of some scary governments
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Bombs for all?: The dangers of nuclear proliferation, and
how it could be stopped
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ECN 14 MAR 92 / Nagorno-Krash'n'bash: The West may have to step in where the
Commonwealth of Independent States is having to back out
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ECN 07 MAR 92 / Small war, loud bang / War in the ex-Soviet Union
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ECN 07 MAR 92 / Fighting back / Selling arms of the Chinese army
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ECN 29 FEB 92 / Spring thunder / Turkey's fearful kurds
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ECN 29 FEB 92 / Blur of wolves / Smuggling videos into Iran
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ECN 29 FEB 92 / Mosque as carapace / Iran's mission to Central Asia
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ECN 29 FEB 92 / Minefields of peace / Rebuilding Afghanistan
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ECN 22 FEB 92 / Attacked on all sides / The struggling defence industry
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ECN 22 FEB 92 / Divvying up the red menace / Breaking up the Soviet army
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ECN 22 FEB 92 / Cruel world / Ireland, rape and abortion
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ECN 22 FEB 92 / Eye for an eye / Israeli killing of Sheikh Masawi
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ECN 22 FEB 92 / Looking north / Pakistan and central Asia
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ECN 15 FEB 92 / Of war and peace / The ex-Soviet Union summit
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ECN 15 FEB 92 / Fear of fundies / Fear of Islam in Algeria
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ECN 15 FEB 92 / Books: The pride and the fall - Iran
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ECN 15 FEB 92 / Terrible twins: Don't allow frustration over Iraq to
distract attention from Iran
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ECN 08 FEB 92 / Business This Week
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ECN 08 FEB 92 / Mitterrand's final comeback? / French politics
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ECN 01 FEB 92 / Islam's star / Sudan under Islam's threat
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ECN 01 FEB 92 / The defence budget: Nukes out / Radical new defence posture
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ECN 25 JAN 92 / Promise of a Saddam surprise: Thinking of cracking Iraq
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ECN 18 JAN 92 / The killing mountains: Is a new Armenian massacre imminent?
We report on the fears in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Armenian-inhabited
enclave of Azerbaijan
From A Correspondent in Stepanakert
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ECN 18 JAN 92 / The writing on the Great Wall / China's search for friends
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ECN 18 JAN 92 / Algeria retreats: The army cancelled Algeria's election
because it did not like the people who were winning it
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ECN 18 JAN 92 / When nukes spread: More cash and greater vigilance are the
price of a nuclear-safer world
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ECN 11 JAN 92 / Waiting for the other shoe / Nigeria on the brink of Islam
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ECN 11 JAN 92 / Algeria and the bomb / No, really, it's just a nuclear
reactor
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ECN 04 JAN 92 / Algeria votes for Islam: A poor choice, maybe, but it was
democracy all the same
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ECN 21 DEC 91 / Weak at the top / Islam flops
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ECN 21 DEC 91 / Lexington: Oliver Stone and the appetite for conspiracies
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ECN 14 DEC 91 / Survey of Turkey (5): Inshallah - Don't exaggerate the
danger of mullahdom
By BRIAN BEEDHAM
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ECN 14 DEC 91 / Survey of Turkey (4): Life on the South-East Frontier -
Where blood and water don't mix
By BRIAN BEEDHAM
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ECN 14 DEC 91 / Survey of Turkey (1): Star of Islam - Look eastward, Europe,
and see why you need a successsful Turkey
By BRIAN BEEDHAM
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ECN 14 DEC 91 / Cold but free: Kurds in Iraq
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ECN 07 DEC 91 / The pit and the pendulum / Ending the Lebanon hostage horror
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ECN 07 DEC 91 / And now, Ukraine / Independence at last for the Ukraine
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ECN 30 NOV 91 / Britain This Week
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ECN 30 NOV 91 / The man who stayed / Indistructable Saddam Hussein
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ECN 30 NOV 91 / Breaking the chain reaction / Pakistan's nuclear problem
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ECN 30 NOV 91 / India changes its guard / India reacts to a changing world
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ECN 30 NOV 91 / Books: Weaving spiders come not here - Those intriguing
conspiracy theories
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / Pakistan: Has anybody seen our future? - The Islamic
Republic of Pakistan has lost its way. Its instinct is that the cold war's
end leaves it in deadly danger from India. It knows that it must reform its
state-bungled economy. Where is it heading? No one knows
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / A sting in the tail: Hostages in Lebanon
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / Terry and Ollie / The connections between Terry Waite and
Oliver North
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / The road from Moscow / Switching sides in Afghanistan
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / Goodbye to all that?: Fighting terrorism means fighting the
governments that support it
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ECN 23 NOV 91 / Power to the bomb-busters: And be as tough on North Korea as
on Iraq
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ECN 16 NOV 91 / Survey of Asia's Emerging Economies (7): Threats abroad,
opportunities at home - To become rich is to become unafraid
By ANDREW COWLEY
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ECN 16 NOV 91 / Terrible times / Russia's empire in revolt
From Our Moscow Correspondent
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ECN 16 NOV 91 / Iran: Stepping back into the world - Formerly wild Islamic
republic becomes good citizen. Or does it?
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ECN 16 NOV 91 / Spreading the new world order / US Secretary Baker's travels
From Our Asia Correspondent
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ECN 09 NOV 91 / No friend in deed / China waits for Baker
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ECN 09 NOV 91 / Old face, new questions / Cleaning house at the CIA
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ECN 09 NOV 91 / New ways to run the world / Nations begin to co-operate
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ECN 02 NOV 91 / No apples, no nothing / Kurdish troubles in Iraq
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ECN 02 NOV 91 / Books: Middle age and Ollie North / A half-explanation
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ECN 26 OCT 91 / Gun diplomacy / China's way with weapons
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ECN 26 OCT 91 / A land to share / Middle East peace?
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ECN 12 OCT 91 / Books: Bother and dither - Dealing with terrorism
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ECN 12 OCT 91 / In Casey's shadow: Steeped in old-time espionage, Robert
Gates is not the man to lead the CIA into the new age
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / Survey of the Middle East (6): A due sense of modesty - But
walking away is not yet an option
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / Survey of the Middle East (3): The lion of Damascus - No
wonder he's smiling. He's just swallowed Lebanon
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / Survey of the Middle East (2): A new Arab order - Or just
the settling of scores?
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / Survey of the Middle East (1): From war to peace - America's
ascendancy has changed the old pattern in the Middle East. Peter David, our
international editor, argues that the new one has dangers of its own
By PETER DAVID
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / One fewer / The release of British hostage Jack Mann
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ECN 28 SEP 91 / A house divided: The Church of England should split. So
disestablish it
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ECN 21 SEP 91 / The last convoys? / Afghanistan's warriors lose their
sponsor
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ECN 21 SEP 91 / Neither penny nor bun / Chase for North abandoned in
Iran-contra trial
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ECN 21 SEP 91 / Tomorrow's empires / Soviet Union engaged in the last great
decolonisation
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ECN 14 SEP 91 / In business again / Getting rich in Afghanistan
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ECN 14 SEP 91 / Agreeing to disagree / Congressional hertia
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ECN 07 SEP 91 / Business This Week
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ECN 07 SEP 91 / Who guards the Gulf? / Kuwait looks for a defender
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ECN 07 SEP 91 / The case against war: India and Pakistan
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ECN 31 AUG 91 / Survey of Energy and the Environment (8): Power for the poor
-Underpriced electricity is bad for third-world environments
By FRANCES CAIRNCROSS, Our Environment Editor
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ECN 31 AUG 91 / Afghanistan's new Great Game / Najibullah fears the end of
Soviet aid
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ECN 24 AUG 91 / The importance of being Turkey: And the importance of
helping the Turks become true Europeans
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ECN 17 AUG 91 / Wages of defeat / Turkey invades Iraq (at will)
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ECN 17 AUG 91 / Defanging the oil weapon / Why oil is cheap
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ECN 17 AUG 91 / Waiting for the super-swap / I'll give you my hostages if
you give me yours
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ECN 17 AUG 91 / Books: Free at a price - Hostages
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ECN 17 AUG 91 / The hostage trade: Beware of the dangers
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ECN 10 AUG 91 / John McCarthy's homecoming / Hostages in Lebanon
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ECN 03 AUG 91 / The Opening-Up of BCCI: Send for Richard Hannay - Some of it
will prove false, but enough of the BCCI-and-spies story looks true to give
the intelligence agencies some tough questions to answer
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ECN 03 AUG 91 / Curiouser / The pros and cons of spying
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ECN 27 JUL 91 / Business This Week
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ECN 27 JUL 91 / An ox annoyed / Politics in Afghanistan
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ECN 20 JUL 91 / Master of his universe / Saddam Hussein is still the boss
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ECN 20 JUL 91 / Death by a thousand cuts / Innuendo and Robert Gates
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ECN 13 JUL 91 / Oil's new world order: For a quarter of a century
oil-producing countries have fought to keep western companies out. Now they
are wooing them back
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ECN 13 JUL 91 / Unsolved Kurdistan / The fate of the Iraqi Kurds
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ECN 13 JUL 91 / Crab quadrille / Chinese games in US Congress
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ECN 06 JUL 91 / Blown deals, blown minds / Afghanistan's opium crop
From A Correspondent in Helmand
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ECN 06 JUL 91 / Scandal time, again / Washington braces itself for some more
public self-flagellation
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ECN 06 JUL 91 / Wish them luck: The five big arms exporters need to restrain
their trade
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ECN 29 JUN 91 / Try again, say the chieftains / Meeting in Kurdistan ends in
disagreement
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ECN 22 JUN 91 / Supping with the devil / The Kurds who do deals with Iraq
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ECN 22 JUN 91 / Books: The scandal that got away / Re-examining Iran-contra
By ANTHONY KING
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ECN 15 JUN 91 / Neighbours, or home and away: The Haj and the Gulf
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ECN 15 JUN 91 / Off with Saddam's head / Sanctioning the Iraqi President
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ECN 15 JUN 91 / Lexington: Robert Gates and other people's scandals
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ECN 08 JUN 91 / Who helps?: Food emergencies
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ECN 08 JUN 91 / When Johnny goes marching home / The Kurds in Iraq
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ECN 08 JUN 91 / Books: Muddy, jumbled trail - Central America
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ECN 08 JUN 91 / Algeria on hold: Its election is too important to stay
cancelled
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ECN 01 JUN 91 / Business this week
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ECN 01 JUN 91 / Great Satans welcome / Iran's nice new face
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ECN 01 JUN 91 / Books: The birth of Baathism
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ECN 25 MAY 91 / Shooting star / Grumman defends itself
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ECN 25 MAY 91 / European defence: All dressed up, but not ready to go - Even
if Europeans could agree on which institution to rely for their future
defence, would Europe's armies be ready for a fray?
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ECN 25 MAY 91 / People doing better / Measuring human development
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ECN 25 MAY 91 / Iraq: The man they hate to love / The Kurdish deal with
Saddam
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ECN 18 MAY 91 / Waiting for Dohuk / Kurdish refugees who don't go home
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / The way we were / Iranian oil exports
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / The revolution that lost its fizz: Iran
From Our Special Correspondent in Iran
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / A blip on Iran's map / The view from Kahak (or
Neauphle-le-Chateau)
From A Special Correspondent in Neauphle-le-Chateau
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / How to tame the monster / Sanctions against Iraq
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / Situation vacant, discretion needed / CIA head William
Webster retires
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / Arts: A picnic with the ayatollah - New mosque-building in
Iran
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ECN 11 MAY 91 / Disasters galore: More often than not made, or made worse,
by man / Flood and famine
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ECN 04 MAY 91 / Trekking home / The Kurds head for 'safe haven'
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ECN 04 MAY 91 / Ghosts from the past / The 1980 presidential election and
the Iranian hostages issue
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ECN 27 APR 91 / When Saddam smiles, make sure you count his teeth / The
Iraqi leader makes deals
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ECN 27 APR 91 / God helps, so does Iran: Iraq's Shias
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ECN 27 APR 91 / Elderly scraps of paper / The Kurdish deals that failed
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ECN 27 APR 91 / Books: Still in charge - Saddam Hussein
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ECN 27 APR 91 / Books: Arms and the man
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ECN 20 APR 91 / Misery in Iran / The Kurdish issue
From Our Special Correspondent at Shinak Pass
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ECN 20 APR 91 / Cavalry to the rescue / Intervention in the Kurdish issue in
Iraq
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ECN 20 APR 91 / Books: Before the bang
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ECN 13 APR 91 / That slippery slope / The Kurds: Enclave, sanctuary or
state?
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ECN 13 APR 91 / Operation desertion: America and the Kurds
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ECN 13 APR 91 / Lexington: George Mitchell, insider with clout
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ECN 13 APR 91 / Want another war?: If not, accept second-best for the Kurds
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ECN 06 APR 91 / Guess who's still running Iraq / Saddam the survivor
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ECN 06 APR 91 / Non-combatant loser / Jordan's Gulf woes
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ECN 06 APR 91 / One ray of light / Out of Iran: Roger Cooper's freedom
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ECN 30 MAR 91 / The Gulf: The Kurds' bid for freedom
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ECN 30 MAR 91 / The Gulf: Local troubles / Oil pollution in Kuwait
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ECN 30 MAR 91 / Persians bearing gifts: Rafsanjani offers a pragmatic
foreign policy - but so, it was thought, did Saddam Hussein
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ECN 23 MAR 91 / Swords not ploughshares: Third-world arms industries
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ECN 23 MAR 91 / Iran the pious / Tehran gains from Gulf War
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ECN 23 MAR 91 / In the backwash of the Gulf: Some drowning, some swimming:
Iraq at war with itself, Kuwait liberated but seeking liberalisation, Iran
smugly to the side
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ECN 23 MAR 91 / Arms and the poor: A few suggestions for parting the next
tyrant from his would-be arsenal
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ECN 16 MAR 91 / Britain This Week
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ECN 16 MAR 91 / Old enemies come together against the common foe / The fight
against Saddam Hussein
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ECN 16 MAR 91 / Arts: Gone missing / Kuwait's lost treasures
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ECN 16 MAR 91 / Wounded Iraq: The West can help, but only up to a point
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ECN 16 MAR 91 / Friends and enemies / Which Countries to dislike - A guide
to keeping up
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ECN 09 MAR 91 / Roll out the barrel / Oil prices back in the doldrums
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ECN 09 MAR 91 / Crumbling in defeat / Iraq, one state or three?
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ECN 09 MAR 91 / Asking for more / To restore Kuwait or improve it?
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ECN 09 MAR 91 / Books: Putting down the eighties
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / The Gulf War: All according to plan / How the six-week
campaign was fought
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / Caught out in the Gulf / Pakistan's post war troubles
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / Lexington: Thomas Pickering excavates the United Nations
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / What the tanks think / US Post-war policy-making
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / Welcome home / The origin of yellow ribbons
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / Books: Victim bites back - American politics
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ECN 02 MAR 91 / Rival or partner?: The tests for Russia in the post-war
Middle East
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ECN 23 FEB 91 / Our crowd: Corporate governance in Germany
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ECN 23 FEB 91 / His war, his peace / Saddam Hussein rejects another Gulf War
peace offer
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ECN 16 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Waging an invisible war
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ECN 16 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Peace nerves - The Soviet hand
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ECN 16 FEB 91 / Lexington: William Webster in the Oklahoma spotlight /
America's Spymasters
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ECN 16 FEB 91 / Books: A blind eye - Germany and Iraq
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ECN 09 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Could peace break out?
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ECN 09 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: The race to be powerfullest - America's
secretary of state, James Baker, called this week for a Middle East with
fewer weapons. It won't be easy
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ECN 09 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Waiting for Saddam's exit / The Kurds see
their chance in Iraq
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ECN 09 FEB 91 / On their way? / The Gulf War: How it's going
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Before you feed on me, I will feed on you /
Who's winning
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: Bitterness rules / Islam's backlash
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / The Gulf War: A friend in need / Iraqi airforce flees to
Iran
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / General discontent / Pakistan's Gulf War fears
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / Books: Why? - The Gulf war
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ECN 02 FEB 91 / They'll remember their friends / America and the Gulf War
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ECN 26 JAN 91 / The Gulf War: The fragile rules of war
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ECN 26 JAN 91 / The Gulf War: A quarrel in a far-away country, of which Asia
knows nothing - Practically all the governments and most of the people in
Europe and North America back the alliance against Saddam Hussein. At the
least, they understand something big is at stake. It is different in Asia
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ECN 19 JAN 91 / The Gulf war: After the bombing / Baghdad under fire
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ECN 19 JAN 91 / The Gulf war: After the storm - Iraq
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ECN 19 JAN 91 / When the hurly-burly's done / After the Gulf war
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Oil Brief: The stuff of wars - The invasion of Kuwait has
been the first test for the new oil markets that developed in the wake of
the 1978-79 oil shock
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Noddy suits and strippers: All sorts of British businesses
are feeling the effects, helpful and hurtful, of the Gulf drama
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Mon ami / France and the Gulf
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Fairly flammable: Oil and war
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / The lessons from the war with Iran: Iraq's army
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / The armies in contention: An estimate of the strength of the
opposing forces
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Books: Oil equals power
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ECN 12 JAN 91 / Don't save this face / A justifiable war in the Gulf
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ECN 05 JAN 91 / Against Iraq / Syria and Egypt line up against Saddam
