Newsweek International back issues from July 2001:
Letters.
Jul 02, 2001 ... Just Say 'No' to Bush's Star Wars Readers responding to our May 28 story on the reaction to President George W. Bush's nuclear missile defense program were unanimous in condemning the policy. Dubbing it "costly," one warned, "it sets the stage for Cold War II." Another attacked ...
Mexico's History Test.
Jul 02, 2001; ... In the early hours of Aug. 11, 1976, Margarita Lopez Portillo was riding through Mexico City when a taxi swerved in front of her car. Four urban guerrillas, three men and a pregnant young woman, jumped out firing submachine guns. Margarita's car slammed into a drugstore; wounded, her ...
Handle This Box of Dynamite Very Carefully.(secret police files, Mexico)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date. The inscription, from a poem by Polish ...
Dancing Into Exile.(Japanese artists, musicians, sports figures)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Ryuichi Sakamoto gazes out the window at the homeland he abandoned more than a decade ago. With his jeans and long hair, he plainly does not belong here, in this staid and proper teahouse on the 41st floor in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. The other male patrons are dressed in impeccable ...
Hip-Hop About Pol Pot.(Prach Ly rap music in Cambodia)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Prach Ly seems an unlikely voice for Cambodia's lost generation. The skinny 22-year-old spends his days hawking karaoke videos to middle- aged Cambodian women out of a closet-size shop on a gritty street in Long Beach, California. He wears low-slung bluejean shorts, sneakers and a backward ...
Battleground Bosporus.(Caspian Pipeline Consortium)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Last week, ecowarriors from a pair of Turkish environmental groups, Greenpeace and One Earth, set out into the choppy waters of the Bosporus, armed with the usual paraphernalia of protest--banners, a megaphone and a jostle of cameramen. Their aim: to highlight the environmental dangers of ...
A Conversation With Putin.(Vladimir Putin, interview)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Vladimir Putin will never call me by my nickname. He'll never invite me over to the Kremlin for sports. Neither will he ever identify a continent as a "nation," misname an allied leader or flub his lines in a Q&A on foreign policy. And he will pass all these tests without cram- coaching ...
Mountain Maoists.(Communist Party revolution, Lung, Nepal)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Deep in Nepal's mountainous countryside, kilometers from the nearest dirt road, locals in the village of Lung are gearing up for the next proletarian revolution. Two weeks ago thousands of locals gathered to hear underground Maoist cadres and guerrillas give old-style communist speeches ...
A Portrait of True Grit.(Park Choong Il)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Park Choong Il is lucky to be alive, but is prepared to die. He keeps a small plastic bag filled with rat poison in his pocket. "I would rather kill myself than be taken back to prison in North Korea," says the 23- year-old former street urchin, who recently escaped from Kim Jong Il's ...
Eat, Drink, and Go Slow.(Europe advocates slow pace of life)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Between red terracotta roofs just outside the northern Italian town of Bra, there rises a church tower with a clock that is a half hour slow. In Bra, that's close enough to be right on time. Though not far from the bustle and industrial stench of Turin, Bra smells of lilacs, and leisure is ...
Techies Turn to Organized Muscle.(Internet cos employees turn to work councils, Germany)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... This time last year, Pixelpark was New Economy to the core. At the high-flying Web-design agency, in a converted east Berlin light-bulb factory, proud staffers called themselves Pixels. They pulled all- nighters alongside CEO Paulus Neef in a happy team effort to get rich quick. The ...
The Old Monster Is Back.(inflation)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Can you even remember inflation? It was a long time ago, but the soaring prices that ravaged U.S. and European pocketbooks through the 1970s and '80s may be back. Prices are moving again. Economic growth is actually slowing, even threatening a recession in America. Yet the consumer index ...
This Is an Appliance?(Sony eVilla)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 02, 2001 ... The Audrey by 3com was discontinued after six months. AOL's Touchpad and the MSN Companion haven't exactly been leaping off store shelves. But Internet appliances--computers with no hard drive that let you browse the Web and read e-mail--live on. Recently Sony started selling the eVilla ...
Computing Your Karma.(virtual tour of Tibet)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... There's a free Tibet, after all--in cyberspace. At tibetgame.com virtual tourists can dance on the rooftop of the world by clicking through 24 interactive panoramas of Tibet. Explore Lhasa, chat with natives and buy cow pies. But keep your illegal Dalai Lama portraits away from undercover ...
A Life at the Louvre.(Pierre Rosenberg)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Jul 02, 2001 ... Pierre Rosenberg began working at the musee du Louvre in 1961, and for the last seven years served as director until his government-imposed retirement in April on the eve of his 65th birthday. During those 40 years, Rosenberg witnessed great changes in everything from why people go to ...
Letter From America.(Las Vegas wedding)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Robert Venturi apotheosized Las Vegas as an icon of American culture. What would the great post-modern architect say of it today? There is the Luxor, with pyramids and a Great Sphinx. Paris, with a half-scale Eiffel Tower. The Venetian, with canals and gondolas. Who says Americans aren't ...
Floating on the Bubble.(TiVo shares high)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 02, 2001; ... The end of the Internet stock bubble would also seem to mean the end of the "story stock"--those shares that trade at lofty prices on the basis of their imagined potential. But there's at least one company that has still managed to retain an enormous gap between the hypothetical future and ...
Perspectives.(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001 ... "There are two tragedies. One is my children and the other is my wife." Russell Yates, a NASA computer engineer whose wife, Andrea, has been charged with drowning their five children, ages 6 months to 7 years, in their Houston, Texas, home "The murderers have walked away to a ...
The Last Word on Flight 990?(EgyptAir Flight 990 crash investigation)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is expected to release its final report on the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 later this year. As currently drafted, the report concludes that control inputs by the plane's reserve copilot, Gamil al-Batouti, probably caused the Boeing 767 ...
The Lion King.(Junichiro Koizumi)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi is making all the right moves. He's soaring in the polls--his latest disapproval rate was only 6 percent. (Take that, Yoshiro Mori, Koizumi's predecessor, disapproved by 66 percent just last year.) More than a million Japanese citizens have ...
Mario Rules.(Mario Monti, European Union's Competition Commissioner)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... Europe's top monopoly cop, (Super) Mario Monti, risks sparking a transatlantic war with his preliminary veto of the merger of General Electric and Honeywell. Most assumed he based the decision on his antimonopolistic inclinations. But American businessmen--and now senior Bushies--believe ...
Reality Bites.(China uses Himalayan valley site for television program)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... On China's version of "Survivor," airing in July, contestants will battle high altitudes and fatigue in Shangri-La. (Yes, the Chinese claim to have found the tiny Himalayan valley near the border of the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan.) If other versions of the show are any guide, the ...
Supreme Leader?(General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... As he heads into his first summit meeting in India, Pakistan's leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, decided he needed a boost. So he cast aside his olive green Army uniform last week and donned a black sherwani, or long coat, appointing himself president. Clearly, he needs all the credibility he ...
Peace and Quiet.(Group of Eight summit, location site in Genoa)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... After violence marred the recent EU meetings, Italian officials worry about hosting next month's G8 summit in Genoa. Its alleylike streets, winding around historic buildings, make the old seaport a perfect place for serious trouble. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has proposed moving the ...
Ironies.(solar eclipse, Africa)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... A little sunlight: When it comes to geopolitics--or tourism--Africa is eclipsed by events almost anywhere else. Curious, then, that many tens ...
Calling Slobo.(Yugoslav officials to send Slobodan Milosevic to trial)(Brief Article)
Jul 02, 2001; ... The Yugoslav government put it plainly last week: Slobodan Milosevic now can be sent to face justice. Slobo and "all of these indicted individuals will go to The Hague," said the deputy prime minister. "There is no doubt about that." But when? Yugoslav officials gave themselves eight days ...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
Jul 09, 2001 ... A photo caption accompanying the story "Botswana's Hope" (SPECIAL REPORT, June 11) incorrectly identified ...
International Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
Jul 09, 2001 ... Sex, Drugs and Euthanasia Our June 4 report on Dutch liberalism inspired numerous readers to share their admiration of those values with us. "What a rare jewel Holland is!" gushed one. Another soberly pointed out that in the Netherlands, "there are fewer drug problems, teenage ...
What the Spy Chief Knows.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Call it poetic justice. Barely four days after he was captured hiding in Venezuela and whisked back to Lima, former Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos found himself in a familiar place: the maximum- security prison that he had personally designed for convicted terrorist leaders. His ...
The Amazing Euroman.(European Union's global presence)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Europe's leaders may not even fully understand what they're doing. The rest of the world hasn't a clue. But in a series of seemingly unrelated decisions, Europe has seized control of much of the global economic agenda. This is certain to trigger a slugfest with the United States and crush ...
Why Are These Two Heads Smiling?(Philippe Camus and Ranier Hertrich, CEOs of EADS)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Jet fighters screech overhead as Ranier Hertrich ponders the strangeness of his situation in a dimly lit room at Le Bourget air show in Paris. He is co-CEO of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the new all-European aerospace conglomerate, which makes him a partner in ...
'We Have to Act'.(interview with billionaire)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Late last month Masayoshi Son, the billionaire CEO of Japan's leading Internet firm, Softbank, announced what might be his boldest venture: founding Yahoo BB, a company whose mission is to provide super-high- speed ADSL Internet connections to millions of Japanese for only about $18 a ...
Recession Rags.
Jul 09, 2001; ... Japanese fashion designer Shinichiro Arakawa is seeing red --literally. His fall collection, revealed at the Paris pret-a-porter shows, is filled with red dresses, jackets and pants. Why is the 34-year-old from Gumma prefecture so attached to the hue? "When colors are filtered through red, ...
A Political Dogfight On the Korean Front.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... South Korea calls it Project FX: a plan to buy 40 next-generation jet fighters to defend the last cold-war front. Boeing is the assumed front runner to get the $4 billion contract, relying on American ties to the Seoul military establishment that go back to the Korean War. But a ...
War Seen Through The Lens of a Soldier.(Review)
Jul 09, 2001; ... When I was growing up, I used to thumb through my mother's photo album of her post-World War II years in occupied Germany, where she worked first as an American Red Cross "girl," then as a journalist for Stars and Stripes' Weekend magazine. I was mesmerized by the black-and-white snapshots ...
The Incredible Vanishing Plastic Eggshell.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... For most people in Hans Rausing's shoes, retirement would be a sweet option. He has a custom-built mansion on a 900-acre estate in tony Sussex in the south of England, complete with grazing deer and boar. He has a second home on the beach in Barbados. And money? Back in the 1940s, the ...
The Profit of Doom.(interview with)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Jul 09, 2001 ... Barely a year ago, Asia-based financial analyst Marc Faber--known as "Dr. Doom"--predicted that the high-tech bubble would burst, eviscerating stock earnings, deflating the Nasdaq and pushing the global economy toward a recession. Vindication, however, is not enough for the 55-year-old ...
Cyberscope.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... DATA PRIVACY Will Europe Get Tough on Internet Rules? If the United States is leading the charge in technology, Europe is on the cutting edge of regulation--especially when it comes to data privacy. Europeans view data privacy as a basic right that, they fear, ...
Perspectives.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001 ... "We sold him for money, and we won't really get very much money for it." Belgrade political scientist Aleksa Djilas, on the transfer of Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague, where he will be tried before the United Nations war-crimes tribunal "I was a soldier, but I know of no enemy ...
Setting Sail Again Soon?(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... The U.S. Federal Reserve took another step to fight off a recession last week, slashing rates by a quarter point. This brings total cuts this year to an astounding 2.75 percent--the steepest in 19 years. Americans were once again relieved that a recession has been staved off. But the ...
The Case of The Kursk.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... In September, Russian naval crews and two Dutch companies will finally lift Russia's ill-fated Kursk submarine from the depths of the Barents Sea. But why have officials decided to leave the nose--which holds all the secrets to the sub's demise-- at the bottom? Moscow's media are buzzing ...
Talking Time's Over.(Abu Sayyaf Group)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Negotiations with the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines have gone on long enough, with little result. Twenty hostages--including three Americans--have been abducted since May 27, though some have been released. Abu Sayyaf even claims to have decapitated one American ...
Meow! Woof! Ahhhhh-Choo!(transgenic pets)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Transgenic pets, based in New York, is trying to create a genetically engineered allergen-free cat to spare pet owners those awful coughs and sneezes. Then how about engineering humans to ease the suffering of our pets, too? They also suffer from allergies, according to Edinburgh ...
Baby Boozers.(Limburg Beer Friends suggests beer for school use)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Belgians love beer. So much that a group called Limburgse Biervrienden, or Limburg Beer Friends, has proposed serving low-alcohol (2.5 percent) suds ... in elementary schools. It's healthier ...
Overexposed?(television coverage of Argentina's president, Fernando de la Rua)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Television often hits politicians where it hurts. And President Fernando de la Rua of Argentina is no exception. Twice a week, a presidential impersonator stars in "Big Brother-in-Law," Argentina's TV spoof of the global reality hit "Big Brother." But now the president's men have devised a ...
Will Kim Win?(Kim Un Yong contends for International Olympic Committee)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... When International Olympic Committee delegates convene in Moscow next week, they face two huge decisions: whether to entrust the 2008 Games to Beijing, and even more critical, who should succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch as the IOC's president. Since the Salt Lake City bribery ...
DINING OUT.(Bluebird Cafe, London, offers dog menu)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... A dog's dinner: Dog owners may want to walk their pup down to the swanky Bluebird Cafe in London this summer. While humans eat top-notch grub, so can their pets--ordering the likes of Pooch's ...
The Prison of the Veil.(Taliban rules over Afghan women)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... She timidly cries out to a passing foreigner on a Kabul street: "Sir, I am not a beggar." Her face is hidden beneath a burqa, the head-to-toe shroud all Afghan women must wear in public. Even an accidental flash of ankle can get them beaten or thrown in jail by the religious police ....
Growing Up In Africa's Cruelest War Zone.(child soldiers of Sierra Leone)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 09, 2001; ... It's terrible to be a child anyplace without adequate food, shelter or access to education. Add war, and society's youngest members face a life of relentless horror and uncertainty. But even war seldom produces the kind of cruelty endured by children in Sierra Leone. Over the past two ...
Punishable By Death.(homosexuality)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... There are few societies around the world where homosexuals are not persecuted in some way. Namibian President Sam Nujoma regularly calls lesbians and gays "unnatural." Slovakian Justice Minister Jan Carnogursky recently said that gays needed "psychiatric help." But such verbal criticism is ...
Heading For An Early Grave.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Jul 09, 2001; ... White males may be king in most places, but not in Russia. In addition to rampant alcoholism, men there face rising AIDS and tuberculosis rates, as well as the stresses of unemployment and the military draft. The average life expectancy for Russian men is now 59.8 years, down from 64 just ...
The Silence of the Damned.(North Korea)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Are you pining for the lost glories of the great information-technology gold rush? Believe it or not, there's a virtually untouched market of 20 million people--hardworking, motivated and desperate for the freedom and mobility exemplified by the wired world. They don't know the meaning of ...
Desecrating The Art Of The Deal.(John Presland of Caribbean Finance Corp.)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... John Presland moved to Havana in 1996 with hopes of bringing high finance to Fidel Castro's island of anticapitalist hostility. The Briton was hired that year to manage the Caribbean Finance Corp. (CFC). The plan was to help bankroll ventures in partnership with the Cuban state, build CFC ...
The Class Barrier.(Myanmar)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... At his house in Rangoon, Tin shows off black-and-white photos of his brothers and sisters in university cap and gown. In a nation where education is revered, Tin is proud of his family, and worried for himself. Since students led an uprising in 1988, Burma's ruling generals have shuttered ...
Skeletons Working In A Closet.(the press in Iran)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Three years ago Iranian President Mohammed Khatami promised press freedom, and dozens of excited publishers rented spacious villas and set up shop in style. The hard-liners who control Iran's courts started closing newspapers within months. But journalists who went to jail as ordinary ...
The Rape of Paradise.(Madagascar)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Legend has it that the king of one of the warring Betsimsaraka clans climbed a mountain peak in what is now southern Madagascar and spoke with the gods, who ordered him to sacrifice a son. The boy's blood flowed, and then came the eternal rains, which fed six rivers, each bearing the son's ...
120,000 People, One Doctor.(Democratic Republic of the Congo)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... It started with a slight swelling in the eye. A doctor gave 3-year-old Juma Hangi some drops, but his condition worsened. The doctor then prescribed an antibiotic, and then another. As Juma's father sank into debt to pay for the drugs, the doctor administered a third antibiotic. It had no ...
The Dark Island.(England)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about England that one of the most significant drawbacks of this otherwise lush and prosperous nation was the "darkness of its sky." As he put it, "Night and day are too nearly of a color." A century later, Britons are now battling an even drearier climate. Don't ...
Prowling Poachers.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Foreign tourists once came to Zimbabwe in droves to see the country's big game, but these days the animals are more apt to wind up as stew. Poachers, using wire taken from electric fences, are snaring thousands of kudus, giraffes, impala, eland and other grazing animals. In the process, ...
Your Money or Your Life.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... It's been two years since men in police uniforms abducted Pedro Gomez in his swank Bogota neighborhood. But the wealthy rancher and businessman is still afraid to venture far from home or let a journalist use his real name. Who can blame him? On a balmy evening in 1999, Gomez was returning ...
Bottom Of The Heap.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... It's not just the poverty that's so appalling in Luanda. Africans have a saying: when a politician takes power, he and his cronies get "to eat"--to enjoy the spoils of office through corruption, perks or patronage. And in a world of haves and have-nots, there may be no greater contrast ...
Money for Nothing.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Think you have it bad? Last year the Belgian state extracted more than 40 percent of the average taxpayer's earnings in taxes and social- security contributions--the highest figure for any country in Europe, according to U.S.-based consultants William M. Mercer. Even the Danes, the ...
No Justice, No Peace.(tax collection)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... You'd think an authoritarian state would have no problem collecting taxes. But for three years the remote Chinese village of Yuntang refused to pay. Fed up with arbitrary taxes and alleging embezzlement by local officials, the 1,400 villagers erected a barrier across the only road. Last ...
Broken by the Iron Fist.(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... Indonesian children sound like kids everywhere when choosing their favorite jobs. Most want to be doctors, according to a recent poll, followed by engineers. It's in their least favorite job--president, a career goal chosen by only 0.4 percent of the young respondents--that Indonesians ...
Pride Of Place.(Balkans)(Brief Article)
Jul 09, 2001; ... In the Balkans, everyone is a minority somewhere or other. Croats are a majority in Croatia, but a large minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a tiny minority in Serbia, where they still live in fear of their lives. Serbs may dominate Serbia, but in Croatia they would have a rough time ...