The Economist: January 1995-December 1996
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ECN 96 Dec 21 / Gushers of money, for a lucky few / The oil bonanza (611)
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ECN 96 Dec 21 / Godliness and Greenness: Thou shalt not covet the earth -
Why believers and environmentalists are lining up together / The emerging
alliance between religion and environmentalism (2932)
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ECN 96 Dec 07 / The Economist Review: The new darkness - New Political
Thrillers (1058)
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ECN 96 Nov 23 / Russia eyes the world: Under the guidance of its foreign
minister, Yevgeny Primakov, Russia has been carving out a tougher yet more
pragmatic foreign policy / Russia's wary world-view (1461)
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ECN 96 Nov 23 / Clash of cultures in Bosnia / Foreign rivalry in Bosnia
(393)
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ECN 96 Nov 23 / A foreign policy for America / In America's hands - The
world as viewed from Washington is no longer the simple place it was. To
cope, America's foreign policy needs to be more consistent and more
cooperative (1319)
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ECN 96 Nov 16 / The Economist Review: The big enchiladas - Books In Brief -
How political biography aids political analysis (1016)
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ECN 96 Nov 16 / Lexington: Hello, world / Disruptive foreign policy (1009)
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ECN 96 Nov 09 / Cultural Explanations: The man in the Baghdad cafe - Which
'civilisation' you belong to matters less than you might think (3789)
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ECN 96 Nov 02 / Face Value: Pompe and circumstance - Behind many a French
moderniser lurks an old-fashioned Gallic pragmatist. Philippe Jaffre shows
that this pairing can work (1006)
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ECN 96 Nov 02 / Beware Greeks selling tankers: World trade is growing
quickly and the cartelised shipping industry seems to be loosening up. So
why are Greek ship-owners who have long ruled the most competitive part of
the business so gloomy? (1353)
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ECN 96 Nov 02 / Last throw / Afghanistan's civil war (554)
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ECN 96 Nov 02 / Letter: The Taliban's grip (125)
From SIDDHARTH DEVA
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ECN 96 Oct 19 / Prickly friends: France and the United States (602)
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ECN 96 Oct 19 / War by proxy? / Iraqi Kurds advance and retreat (646)
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ECN 96 Oct 12 / My enemy my friend / The struggle in Afghanistan (484)
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ECN 96 Oct 12 / Putting his foot in it / Turkey's prime minister stumbles
(686)
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ECN 96 Oct 12 / Letter: Backing the Kurds (207)
By TJ RECTENWALD
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ECN 96 Oct 05 / Enter the Taliban: The road to Koranistan - The reasons for
worrying about what has happened in Afghanistan (3013)
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ECN 96 Sep 28 / Who runs your foreign policy? / Turkey's puzzling foreign
policy (548)
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ECN 96 Sep 21 / The flourishing business of slavery (1225)
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ECN 96 Sep 21 / Getting away with it / The Gambia's boss mocks the West
(768)
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ECN 96 Sep 21 / Outlawed / Banning chemical weapons (583)
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ECN 96 Sep 21 / Yet it moves / Armenians prepare to vote (908)
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ECN 96 Sep 14 / Not for all: Test ban / The test-ban treaty (445)
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ECN 96 Sep 14 / Kurds perpetual losers: Kurdish aspirations usually end up
crushed. Could it be different this time? (763)
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ECN 96 Sep 14 / Letter: Talking to Iran (180)
By SEBASTIAN BRETSCHNEIDER
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ECN 96 Sep 14 / Letter: Talking to Iran (190)
By NAJMEDIN MESHKATI
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ECN 96 Sep 14 / Politics This Week (794)
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ECN 96 Sep 07 / Provocation and response / Saddam provokes, Clinton responds
(910)
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ECN 96 Sep 07 / Saddamned / America was right to reply with cruise missiles
to Saddam Hussein's provocation. But this will not answer the bigger
question of how to live with Saddam (1070)
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ECN 96 Aug 31 / Economic Indicators (460)
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ECN 96 Aug 31 / Whose cash is it? / Qatar's ruler and Qatar's wealth (458)
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ECN 96 Aug 24 / Second-Term Clinton?: Modesty ablaze - In a new book this
week, and at the Democratic convention next, Bill Clinton is putting his
grand vision for leading America into the next millennium. Translated into
practical policy, his agenda looks unambitious (2967)
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ECN 96 Aug 24 / Smog City, Iran / Polluted Tehran (528)
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ECN 96 Aug 24 / Letter: Resisting Iran (166)
By HOSSIEN ABEDINI
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ECN 96 Aug 24 / Politics This Week (784)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / Turkey tilts eastward: The Islamist-led government of
Necmettin Erbakan offers no reason for alarm - so far (738)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / India says no / Test ban treaty blocked (576)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / Is Iran the godfather? / Iran versus the United States (930)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / Faces of Islam / How Turkey's Islamists differ (784)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / Scientayatollogy / German tiffs with America (701)
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ECN 96 Aug 17 / Politics This Week (700)
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ECN 96 Aug 10 / Kurdistan? Which one do you mean? / So much for 'Kurdistan'
(908)
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ECN 96 Aug 10 / Total war: Trade / The long arm of America's law (685)
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ECN 96 Aug 10 / Politics This Week (797)
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ECN 96 Aug 03 / Reacting to terrorism: Caution and calculation must be the
watchwords (921)
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ECN 96 Jul 27 / Living with Islam / Islam between violence and politics
(1433)
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ECN 96 Jul 27 / Helmut Kohl's spooky fixer: German foreign policy /
Germany's Middle East gambit (493)
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ECN 96 Jul 27 / Search and destroy: The world must not let up in its efforts
to find weapons of mass destruction, either in Iraq or in North Korea /
Policing Iraq and North Korea (812)
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ECN 96 Jul 27 / Politics This Week (777)
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ECN 96 Jul 20 / The Economist Review: Unpuzzling the Middle East - Even in
secular Middle Eastern nations, there is no politics without Islam - Books
In Brief (995)
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ECN 96 Jul 20 / How to lose friends and annoy people: Bill Clinton's fudge
on Cuban trade will get him nowhere (494)
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ECN 96 Jul 13 / Survey Of Tomorrow's Japan (2): Between the dragon and the
deep blue sea - A swelling China, a hesitant America: how to avoid a lonely
Japan (2363)
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ECN 96 Jul 13 / Germany resolves to pursue its interests / Germany's
shifting foreign policy (1198)
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ECN 96 Jul 06 / The Iranian way with dissidents / Iran and Salman Rushdie
(545)
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ECN 96 Jun 29 / The bombing of Arabia / The bomb in Saudi Arabia (853)
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ECN 96 Jun 29 / Will it last?: Turkey, Israel and the Arabs / Israel and
Turkey get together (778)
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ECN 96 Jun 22 / War cancelled: American trade policy / America's trade peace
(760)
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ECN 96 Jun 15 / Blaming Iran: The Gulf (496)
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ECN 96 Jun 15 / Warner v Warner / Virginia's Senate race (399)
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ECN 96 Jun 15 / Boot-strap job / Recovering Georgians (593)
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ECN 96 Jun 15 / Special Report on Russia (1): Is Russia different? Yes,
Russia is different. No, this does not mean that democracy and free markets
are bound to fail there (2714)
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ECN 96 Jun 15 / Politics This Week (804)
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / Survey of Turkey (7): Trouble with neighbours - It's a rough
part of the world (1206)
By RICHARD DOWDEN
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / Survey of Turkey (6): The war that cannot speak its name -
There is no Kurdish question, say the Turks (2104)
By RICHARD DOWDEN
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / Survey of Turkey (1): The elusive golden apple - Turkey's
west is eagerly reaching out for the glittering prizes of a modern
industrial society, but its eastern part is holding it back, argues Richard
Dowden (1706)
By RICHARD DOWDEN
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / The hole in Central Asia / Afghanistan's elusive unity (608)
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / Biter bitten: The Helms-Burton law (594)
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ECN 96 Jun 08 / Chilled / Unease among the Arabs (620)
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ECN 96 Jun 01 / The Belfast of Asia / Conflict in Pakistan (1148)
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ECN 96 Jun 01 / The Future of NATO: A new kind of alliance? - In Berlin on
June 3rd-4th, NATO foreign ministers will endorse a shake-up of the
alliance's military structure. This is but a prelude to bigger changes /
NATO has lost its enemy and its sense of purpose. It needs to change, above
all by admitting new members (3090)
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ECN 96 Jun 01 / Dodgy regimes, dodgy tactics: The United States' new
sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Libya are dangerous / America's misguided
sanctions (760)
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ECN 96 May 25 / Rigging the market Politics and oil / Iraq, Iran, Libya and
oil (774)
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ECN 96 May 25 / Nothing to do with us, Senor / Argentina's arms-export
affair (369)
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ECN 96 May 25 / Israel's close-run election (917)
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ECN 96 May 25 / Politics This Week (836)
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ECN 96 May 18 / Politics This Week (797)
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ECN 96 May 18 / From major to minor: The world's big oil firms are engaged
in an increasingly desperate scramble for giant, low-cost reserves / The
difficulty of finding oil (1392)
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ECN 96 May 18 / Western bombers for Arab bucks / Abu Dhabi's dollars 6
billion aircraft offer (445)
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ECN 96 May 11 / China plays the Europe card / China's diplomatic strategy
(1015)
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ECN 96 May 11 / Springtime means wartime / Turkey's war against the Kurds
(1119)
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ECN 96 May 11 / Chirac astride the world / France's assertive foreign policy
(1273)
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ECN 96 May 04 / Pipe dreams in Central Asia: Energy - For centuries Russia
and its rivals have vied for influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The
contest is no longer about territory, but about the Caspian's energy
reserves, among the biggest in the world outside OPEC's control (1974)
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ECN 96 May 04 / The mall of dreams / Building the American dream (1165)
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ECN 96 May 04 / Letter: By their fruits (124)
By NADAV ZOHAR
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ECN 96 Apr 27 / Risk and return / Conoco: crazy or canny? (498)
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ECN 96 Apr 20 / The Economist Review: In the frame - Israel (583)
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ECN 96 Apr 20 / Two eyes for an eye: Why has violence flared between Israel
and Lebanon? What does Israel really want? And what are the chances of a
peaceful resolution? These three pages look at the events of the past week,
at their immediate and longer-term backgrounds, and at the near future
(2970)
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ECN 96 Apr 20 / Over the top / Israel has the right to protect it people,
but its actions in Lebanon are ill-judged and disproportionate (928)
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ECN 96 Apr 06 / The general in his not-so-solitude / Nigeria's non-isolation
(833)
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ECN 96 Apr 06 / Bahraini fireworks: The West can best help its friend by
urging it to listen to demands for basic democratic rights (660)
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ECN 96 Apr 06 / Politics This Week (795)
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ECN 96 Mar 30 / The Hizbullah conundrum / Israel and Lebanon (564)
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ECN 96 Mar 30 / Letter: Overcover agents (164)
From THOMAS BLANTON
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ECN 96 Mar 16 / The peacemakers confer / Peacemakers meet in Egypt (896)
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ECN 96 Mar 16 / Handling Iran: The West has to find something more than
lectures but less than economic sanctions (801)
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ECN 96 Mar 09 / Politics This Week (745)
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ECN 96 Mar 09 / Survey of Business in Asia (8): The business of politics -
The one thing that could mess it all up (1377)
By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
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ECN 96 Mar 09 / Voting for nuances / Iran's mullahs and its elections (830)
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ECN 96 Mar 09 / The Visegrad three .. / Slovakia's EU hopes dim .. (729)
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ECN 96 Mar 09 / Motes, beams and drugs: If the United States wants to do
something about drugs, the place to start is at home (667)
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ECN 96 Mar 02 / What is terrorism? The use of terror is more widespread and
effective than is generally recognised (2718)
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ECN 96 Mar 02 / One Man March / Louis Farrakhan's world tour (356)
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ECN 96 Mar 02 / In the mind of the terrorist / The intractable question of
whether, or rather when, democratic governments should talk to terrorists
(1272)
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ECN 96 Feb 24 / Survey of Lebanon (8): Peace at last - Lebanon's future,
like its past, depends on the outside world (981)
By JOHN ANDREWS
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ECN 96 Feb 24 / Survey of Lebanon (3): A war with many losers - Including
Palestine - the war's catalyst, not its cause (1730)
By JOHN ANDREWS
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ECN 96 Feb 24 / Survey of Lebanon (1): Putting back the pieces - To shape
their future, the Lebanese must learn from their mistakes. But even then,
writes John Andrews, their destiny will depend on others (1132)
By JOHN ANDREWS
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ECN 96 Feb 24 / Turbulent waves / Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (652)
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ECN 96 Feb 24 / The devil in the detail / The Scott report's damning details
(1956)
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ECN 96 Feb 17 / Moreover: Leaving home - Artists in voluntary exile (665)
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ECN 96 Feb 17 / The Economist Review: Middle East without prejudice - A
sweeping new history of the Middle East shows the diversity of its past and
smashes many current stereotypes (1077)
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ECN 96 Feb 17 / A time for diplomacy: China and America / Threats to Chinese
trade (498)
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ECN 96 Feb 17 / Today the town hall, tomorrow Turkey? / Turkey's mild
Islamists (649)
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ECN 96 Feb 10 / Choke hold: Chemical weapons offer devastating power to a
technologically astute terrorist. Keeping them out of the wrong hands will
take law, skill - and luck (1406)
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ECN 96 Feb 10 / A steak in the future / The two Colorados (543)
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ECN 96 Feb 10 / Salaam, Welfare: A role for the Islamists in the Turkish
government need not be disastrous (667)
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ECN 96 Feb 03 / Spot the villain / Unrest in Bahrain (443)
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ECN 96 Feb 03 / The bear-tamer's next problem / Coping, or not, with Russia
(1022)
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ECN 96 Jan 27 / Writers' block: Islam and toleration - Under pressure of
religious militancy and official repression, Muslim theology is in many
places growing rigid, rejecting intellectual exploration. Writers find
themselves gagged - and even in danger (1429)
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ECN 96 Jan 20 / Book early to avoid the rush / Iran welcomes you - in its
way (603)
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ECN 96 Jan 13 / Special Report on Economic Freedom (2): Of liberty, and
prosperity - Does economic freedom help a country to grow more quickly? That
it does (or does not) has been easy to assert, but harder to prove. Until
now (2089)
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ECN 96 Jan 13 / Your less flexible friend / Russia's foreign-policy masters
(901)
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ECN 96 Jan 06 / First things first: Iran and Afghanistan / Iran's unwelcome
Afghan refugees (642)
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ECN 96 Jan 06 / Moreover: It's normal to be queer - Across the world a
radical idea about homosexuals is gaining ground: they are, like, say,
left-handers, a very ordinary minority / Straightforward homosexuality
(2910)
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ECN 95 Dec 23 / The World in 1995: Business and Finance (788)
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ECN 95 Dec 09 / No room at Europe's inn: Immigration - All over Western
Europe, governments are becoming less and less hospitable to migrants and
asylum-seekers (898)
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ECN 95 Dec 09 / Second thoughts / Iran's religious fervour cools (689)
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ECN 95 Dec 02 / Gold at the end of the railway: Iran and Central Asia (721)
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ECN 95 Nov 18 / Tremors / Unease in The Gulf (565)
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ECN 95 Nov 18 / Obituary: Jackie Mann - Jack Mann, hostage of the Hizbullah,
fighter pilot and British patriot, died on November 12th, aged 81 (859)
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ECN 95 Nov 18 / Riyadh's bomb: Better security should be one of the
responses to terrorism in Saudi Arabia - but not the only one (690)
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ECN 95 Nov 11 / Tudjman's new model army / Croatia's new army (759)
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ECN 95 Nov 04 / Death in Malta / Palestine's Islamic Jihad (499)
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ECN 95 Nov 04 / Books: Mixed reception - American immigrants (607)
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ECN 95 Oct 28 / Yeltsin's foreign policy surprise: Russia (983)
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ECN 95 Oct 28 / Ah, peace / The siege of Kabul (563)
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ECN 95 Oct 21 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs (743)
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ECN 95 Oct 21 / The North Korean enigma / Who runs North Korea? (1010)
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ECN 95 Oct 21 / Books: With friends like these .. / Salman Rushdie scolded
(374)
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ECN 95 Oct 07 / The Future of Energy: The battle for world power - Coal, gas
and oil will not be the three kings of the energy world for ever. It is no
longer folly to look up to the sun and wind, down into the sea's waves
(3291)
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ECN 95 Oct 07 / Books: Secrecy of state - American diplomacy / James Baker's
selective memory (438)
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ECN 95 Sep 30 / (CORRECTED) Face Value: Going home - Why should a nebulous
emigre empire based around contacts and deals want to turn part of itself
into a conventional Indian conglomerate? (997)
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ECN 95 Sep 23 / Kabul threatened: Afghanistan and Pakistan (564)
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ECN 95 Sep 23 / Of Bosnia and the Middle East (1098)
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ECN 95 Sep 16 / Mr Kim's big picture: Should western car makers be
frightened of Daewoo? (1193)
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ECN 95 Sep 09 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs (744)
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ECN 95 Sep 09 / Just too horrible to resist: Why western oil firms may lose
their shirts in the former Soviet Union; and why they have to keep on
investing there (928)
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ECN 95 Sep 09 / More words than deeds / Women confer in China (743)
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ECN 95 Sep 09 / Thackeray v Rushdie / Freedom of speech in India (459)
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ECN 95 Aug 26 / A wobbly hand of friendship: America and Islam (981)
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ECN 95 Aug 19 / Economic Indicators (424)
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ECN 95 Aug 19 / Different roads to development: Why it's better to be poor
in some countries than in others (1313)
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ECN 95 Aug 12 / Face Value: India's Mittal-stand - How do you transform a
third-world family company into a first-world multinational? (974)
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ECN 95 Aug 05 / Fewer means better / Iran's family planning (547)
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ECN 95 Jul 15 / Hunting witches: America and Asia - Relations with China
sink to a new low (630)
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ECN 95 Jul 08 / On the lion's back: Not only has John Major won his
leadership gamble, he has also converted his most dangerous rival into his
most valuable ally (1190)
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ECN 95 Jul 08 / China's broken promises: The world needs to make it keep
them (952)
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ECN 95 Jul 01 / Time to go home / Afghans leave Iran (860)
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ECN 95 Jul 01 / Thank God it's Friday / Malaysia's Islamic north (636)
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ECN 95 Jul 01 / Arts: On screen it's Iran's shout / Are Iran's films the
world's best? (1092)
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ECN 24 JUN 95 / The Orwellian state of Sudan: Can anything be done to rescue
this unhappy, dangerous country?
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ECN 24 JUN 95 / UK News in Brief
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ECN 24 JUN 95 / Bagehot: Free Willy / Lying to the House
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ECN 24 JUN 95 / Is Japan normal? / The US ponders a trade war
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / The death of the Geneen machine: ITT, revered and reviled as
the epitome of the modern multinational, has decided to break itself up. Is
this the end for all conglomerates?
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / After Iraq, Iran: Michael Heseltine's revelations on
arms-to-Iran threaten to end the political career of Jonathan Aitken, chief
secretary to the Treasury
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / UK News in Brief
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / Bagehot: The spooking of Downing Street / A question of Tory
leadership
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / An unusual Armenian vote-winner / Armenia resumes nuclear
power
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / Battling on / North Korea's new reactors
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ECN 17 JUN 95 / Turkic delights / Turkey's relations with 'Soviet' Central
Asia
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ECN 10 JUN 95 / The World This Week: Business and Finance
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ECN 10 JUN 95 / Survey of Defence Technology (1): The information advantage
-The technologies of warfare are undergoing a revolution. The most
important weapon now is information, argues Oliver Morton
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ECN 10 JUN 95 / Haunted by a man in a wig: The leaked findings of the Scott
inquiry into arms sales to Iraq suggest that they imperil not only the
agriculture minister, but John Major as well
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ECN 10 JUN 95 / Obituary: Alexandre de Marenches - Soldier and spy, head of
the French intelligence service from 1970 to 1981, Count Alexandre de
Marenches died on June 2nd at the age of 73
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ECN 10 JUN 95 / Allies in adversity: Iran and Iraq, facing American and
United Nations sanctions respectively, are patching up their quarrels. No
need to panic?
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ECN 27 MAY 95 / In need of fastening / The Atlantic friendship in danger
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ECN 13 MAY 95 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 13 MAY 95 / Reliability, Moscow-style / The West worries about who is
running
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ECN 13 MAY 95 / Almost in the bag: Nuclear proliferation
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ECN 13 MAY 95 / Japan gives its answer / Tokyo refuses to buckle under US
trade pressure
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ECN 13 MAY 95 / Sun, sea and Sarajevo / America's least-loved destinations
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ECN 06 MAY 95 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 06 MAY 95 / A very crude form of politics: The future shape of the oil
industry is being determined as much by American foreign policy as by free
competition
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ECN 06 MAY 95 / Introducing neo-containment / US foreign policy recycled for
the nineties
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ECN 06 MAY 95 / Allies again? / How does the west deal with Russia?
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ECN 06 MAY 95 / Punishing Iran: Cutting off all trade with Iran may make
America feel better, but may have made it harder to get Iran to behave
better
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ECN 29 APR 95 / Yes or no, Mr Rafsanjani? / Iran and Salman Rushdie
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ECN 22 APR 95 / The World This Week: Politics and Current Affairs
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ECN 22 APR 95 / The bear's jaws / Russians against arms control
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ECN 22 APR 95 / Get them / The peace process in Palestine
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ECN 22 APR 95 / Mushroom clouds and mushroom spawn / Nuclear proliferation
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ECN 15 APR 95 / Only one gun a month / Firearms in Virginia
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ECN 08 APR 95 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 08 APR 95 / Down but not out: Sanctions are devastating Iraq, but they
have not toppled its leader. If that result perplexes the West, in some ways
it suits Iraq's neighbours
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ECN 08 APR 95 / Nag, nag: Russia and the West
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ECN 01 APR 95 / UK News in Brief
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ECN 01 APR 95 / First catch your Uzbek / Illegal Immigration on America's
other border
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ECN 01 APR 95 / Arts: Seditious / Singing for a free iran
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ECN 25 MAR 95 / Sarin savagery / How the poison-gas works
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ECN 25 MAR 95 / Nuclear non-proliferation: Between the bomb and a hard place
-Curbing the nuclear ambitions of Israel, India and Pakistan is proving
hard enough. Rolling them back will be even harder
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ECN 25 MAR 95 / Of pipedreams and hubble-bubbles: Like just about everything
that happens in Azerbaijan, last week's attempted coup had oily
ramifications
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ECN 25 MAR 95 / Bash, then talk? / Turks invade Northern Iraq
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ECN 25 MAR 95 / Gazing backward / Bahraini dissent spreads
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / Survey of China (9): A long, hard road - Some ways China
might go next - if it holds together
By ROBERT COTTRELL
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / The World This Week: Business and Finance
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / Saudi Arabia's Future: The cracks in the kingdom - There are
reasons for alarm about the world's biggest oil producer, which is
economically enfeebled, politically decrepit and beset by Islamic dissent
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / Foreign fields / US foreign policy and Iranian oil
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / What's the difference between Algeria and Turkey? /
Fundamentalism is on the rise in both countries
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / Second time, Yes / The new man at the CIA
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ECN 18 MAR 95 / Living with Islam / Dealing with the negative aspects of
Islamist regimes
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ECN 11 MAR 95 / A bonus for Saddam?: Western oil firms are itching to get
their hands on Iraq's huge reserves - but not at the cost of tumbling oil
prices
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ECN 11 MAR 95 / Fight for the capital / Afghanistan's student militia gains
a slice of Kabul
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ECN 11 MAR 95 / Books: Trained elephants - Watching America's enemies
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ECN 11 MAR 95 / Books: The enemy within Islam - Fanatics threaten the devout
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ECN 04 MAR 95 / The world this week: Politics and current affairs
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ECN 04 MAR 95 / Why Islam is turning violent in Pakistan
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ECN 04 MAR 95 / Books: Power steering - United Nations peacekeeping
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ECN 25 FEB 95 / A convenient marriage / Iran's trade with the West
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ECN 25 FEB 95 / If Islamists rule Algeria / Modern and traditional Islam
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ECN 25 FEB 95 / Revenge of the Pathans / Afghanistan's students on the march
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ECN 25 FEB 95 / Transatlantic tensions: It needs will, not woolliness, to
keep NATO in business
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ECN 18 FEB 95 / Something clunky out east: Skoda, a Czech engineering firm,
is spreading its wings abroad. But questions remain about its ability to
finance its ambitions
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ECN 18 FEB 95 / Common poverty, dependent states / Russia and the Ex-Soviet
Union
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ECN 04 FEB 95 / Puffs of smoke / Religions battle in Iran
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ECN 04 FEB 95 / Abuse of human rights commission / Brutality in India's
Kashmir state
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ECN 21 JAN 95 / Survey of India (4): Go west - India's regional divide will
widen as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
By EMMA DUNCAN, our Asia editor
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ECN 21 JAN 95 / Kobe's insurance aftershock / Paying for Japan's earthquake
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ECN 21 JAN 95 / Lost in the bazaar / Iran's muddled economy
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ECN 14 JAN 95 / Books: A president's secret / Jimmy Carter's poems
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ECN 07 JAN 95 / The Chechen trap / The breakaway state threatens Russian
democracy
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ECN 07 JAN 95 / Pakistan's mighty Khan / Ex-cricket star is new local hero
