The Economist (US) back issues from December 1989:
Mr Gorbachev, I presume. (Malta Summit) (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
Gandhi rebuked; now reform must emerge from confusion. (Rajiv Gandhi) (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
Send them home; the case for treating the Vietnamese boat people differently from countless others seeking a better life has yet to be made. (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
Flexing the EMS; for the moment, fixity is what Europe needs. (European Monetary System) (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
Whose Israel? The Palestinian uprising has made Israel look less like part of the West. (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
Green electricity; British nuclear power is now burdened with unfair disadvantage. (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
The survivors; a club for leaders who provide the world with continuity, and not-so-light entertainment. (editorial)
Dec 02, 1989
A case for emergency treatment. (the United Nations agencies)
Dec 02, 1989
Harsh reminder from the neighbours. (US-Central American relations)
Dec 02, 1989
Case dismissed. (Iran-contra affair, CIA agent Joseph Fernandez)
Dec 02, 1989
Will the judges let her? (right to die, Nancy Cruzan)
Dec 02, 1989
Worst friend. (pit bull cases)
Dec 02, 1989
Ice overdose. (new drug)
Dec 02, 1989
Better not be ill. (Medicare payment system)
Dec 02, 1989
Big fish in small ponds. (community foundations)
Dec 02, 1989
Please, daddy. (Nintendo video games as Christmas presents)
Dec 02, 1989
Relief by mail. (marketing drug-free urine)
Dec 02, 1989
An Indian rope trick. (India's Congress political party)
Dec 02, 1989
In the name of charity.... (Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong)
Dec 02, 1989
Spectre of the cronies. (Philippines)
Dec 02, 1989
And now, hard times. (Hong Kong)
Dec 02, 1989
Where have all the flowers gone? (shortage of girls in South Korea)
Dec 02, 1989
The house of Takrit. (political power in Iraq)
Dec 02, 1989
The rise of the Iraqi phoenix.
Dec 02, 1989
Unhappy birthday. (Palestinian intifada at two)
Dec 02, 1989
Waiting.... (Lebanon)
Dec 02, 1989
Betting on Blanco. (Uruguay's Blanco political party)
Dec 02, 1989
Hunger as a weapon of war. (Ethiopia)
Dec 02, 1989
Coup de grace. (assassination of Comoro Islands President Ahmed Abdallah)
Dec 02, 1989
How to be Africanest. (South Africa)
Dec 02, 1989
They just had to say boo. (Czechoslovakia)
Dec 02, 1989
The road to Hradcany. (Czechoslovakian citizens' movement)
Dec 02, 1989
The will to one. (the Germanies)
Dec 02, 1989
Germany's terrorist jolt. (murder of Alfred Herrhausen by terrorist bomb)
Dec 02, 1989
Doing it their way. (Soviet Union's Communist Party still in power)
Dec 02, 1989
Oh no you don't. (Hungary's reformers call themselves Socialists)
Dec 02, 1989
The peace wars. (NATO)
Dec 02, 1989
Just ignore her. (European summit, Margaret Thatcher)
Dec 02, 1989
Unequal partners. (European Community and the European Free Trade Association)
Dec 02, 1989
Thinking ahead. (A Survey of Japanese Technology )
Dec 02, 1989;
Hammered, one way or another. (British local government, includes related article)
Dec 02, 1989
Nightmare in the high street. (British retailers)
Dec 02, 1989
Credit-card yarns. (readers' opinions of credit card companies)
Dec 02, 1989
Wheeee. (English pound rates)
Dec 02, 1989
For ever blowing bubbles. (bubbler-barges keeping Thames River clean)
Dec 02, 1989
Looking for Mr. Brunel. (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Dec 02, 1989
On a clear day you can still see General Motors. (includes related article on NUMMI plant) (company profile)
Dec 02, 1989
Poland on probation. (Solidarity government wants to establish a market economy within 2 years)
Dec 02, 1989
Sovietski Fiat. (East European cars)
Dec 02, 1989
Pour me a cup. (Asian cement)
Dec 02, 1989
Holiday dives. (Japanese tourists going on undersea cruises)
Dec 02, 1989
Winged victory. (Nike sports shoes)
Dec 02, 1989
Stomping at the Savoy.
Dec 02, 1989
Damage limitations. (product liability in America)
Dec 02, 1989
Milking the sacred cow. (Europe's farm subsidies)
Dec 02, 1989
Mullah fish. (Iran's caviar trade)
Dec 02, 1989
Glitterati. (gold sales in the USSR)
Dec 02, 1989
Herrhausen's last deal. (Alfred Herrhausen)
Dec 02, 1989
Let combat begin. (acquisition of British insurance companies)
Dec 02, 1989
Yo-yo. (Federal Reserve policy)
Dec 02, 1989
Sweden's stockmarket stunner. (biggest rise in share prices and highest level of individual share ownership)
Dec 02, 1989
Bullion or bust? (gold price up)
Dec 02, 1989
From central casting. (new governor at Bank of Japan)
Dec 02, 1989
Finding its stride. (Compagnie Financiere de Paribas) (company profile)
Dec 02, 1989
Alternatives to animals. (using cells instead of laboratory animals in product research)
Dec 02, 1989