The Economist (US) back issues from August 1988:
What India's emperor needs. (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
Politics without economics. (in 10 years' time what topics will political left and right disagree on) (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
The bust banks of Texas. (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
A wet way to sell water. (privatization of British water supply) (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
A base suggestion. (see American military bases in the Philippines as benefit for whole region) (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
No Jordan without Palestine. (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
Francophones, devalue. (lower French African franc) (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
Fabulous ESOPs. (employee share ownership plans in Britain) (editorial)
Aug 06, 1988
Time to make the allies pay? (US foreign policy)
Aug 06, 1988
After you. (US-Iranian relations)
Aug 06, 1988
Charges split. (Iran-contra affair)
Aug 06, 1988
I'll unsay it again. (Ed Koch)
Aug 06, 1988
Syringes in the surf. (pollution of New York and New Jersey beaches)
Aug 06, 1988
Learning from mistakes. (Islip, New York and its garbage barge)
Aug 06, 1988
Bad for ducks, good for drugs. (drought)
Aug 06, 1988
Cable's candidate. (cable television program "Tanner '88")
Aug 06, 1988
Too risky a gamble. (casinos in Detroit)
Aug 06, 1988
Has the magic gone for good? (marriage in America)
Aug 06, 1988
Can Singh persuade India that its emperor has no clothes? (Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Rajiv Gandhi)
Aug 06, 1988
Unforgettable, unforgotten. (Japan and China)
Aug 06, 1988
Gift from the drover's dog. (Bill Hayden, Queen's representative in Australia)
Aug 06, 1988
Trouble with flies. (China)
Aug 06, 1988
Not a Kiwi Kinnock. (New Zealand's Roger Douglas; Neil Kinnock)
Aug 06, 1988
Might Thailand cripple Pol Pot?
Aug 06, 1988
Ahoy there. (Vietnamese boat people in Hongkong)
Aug 06, 1988
Don't shoot, they're going. (Afghanistan)
Aug 06, 1988
The lost soldiers. (American missing in action in Indochina)
Aug 06, 1988
A king bows out, maybe. (King Hussein of Jordan, West Bank controversy)
Aug 06, 1988
Anybody for a ceasefire? (Persian Gulf war)
Aug 06, 1988
Oops, it's over. (Persian Gulf war; includes related article on use of chemical weapons in the war)
Aug 06, 1988
It's still a question of timing. (Southern Africa)
Aug 06, 1988
International capital movements. (South America)
Aug 06, 1988
Got any plans? (peace in Central America)
Aug 06, 1988
The battle for Latin America's soul. (religion in Latin America)
Aug 06, 1988
Freeing Russia's farms. (agriculture and perestroika; includes related article on Russian newspapers)
Aug 06, 1988
Middle man. (France's Jean-Pierre Soisson)
Aug 06, 1988
Visa versa. (Eastern Europeans finding it harder to get visas to visit West)
Aug 06, 1988
The Mafia gets lucky. (Italy's top investigator of Mafia crime, Giovanni Falcone, asks for transfer)
Aug 06, 1988
Black comedy. (Swedish politics)
Aug 06, 1988
Born to be equal. ("non-marital" to replace "illegitimate" for children born out of wedlock)
Aug 06, 1988
Lakes deep, mountains high. (European Economic Community farm surpluses)
Aug 06, 1988
Columbus's islands. (A Survey of the Caribbean)
Aug 06, 1988;
A workforce facing middle-aged spread. (Britain, includes related article)
Aug 06, 1988
Going soft. (Irish Republican Army)
Aug 06, 1988
Morrison's dinosaurs. (Britain's nationalized industries)
Aug 06, 1988
Ashdown sets out. (Paddy Ashdown)
Aug 06, 1988
The women win. (women bishops in the Anglican Church)
Aug 06, 1988
Tokyo on the Thames. (Japanese community in Britain)
Aug 06, 1988
Counselling caution. (AIDS testing and insurance)
Aug 06, 1988
A touch of class. (royal warrants held by British shops and companies)
Aug 06, 1988
Australia's new-wave economy.
Aug 06, 1988
Breaking a vicious circuit. (European electronics)
Aug 06, 1988
Monetarism: dead and buried?
Aug 06, 1988
Meet the new arms exporters. (Japan)
Aug 06, 1988
Japan's big hits. (new products)
Aug 06, 1988
Crying for wolf. (United Airlines vs American Airlines)
Aug 06, 1988
Awaiting the receivers. (economics in Latin America)
Aug 06, 1988
Why Japan's stockmarket is cheaper than you think.
Aug 06, 1988
Partners in the sky. (aircraft-leasing partnerships)
Aug 06, 1988
Forming ecu at the Bank of England. (European Currency Unit)
Aug 06, 1988
Any interest from debtors? (Kiichi Miyazawa's plan)
Aug 06, 1988
Greensback debt. (conservation agencies want banks to sell them developing countries' debts)
Aug 06, 1988
A nice little runner. (car finance companies)
Aug 06, 1988
Bridging other Chinese walls. (China's banks lending money to Taiwan)
Aug 06, 1988
Checking out. (First RepublicBank)
Aug 06, 1988