The Economist (US) back issues from May 1996:
Five months to go.(U.S. '96 budget passes, 7 months late; includes other political news on rising oil prices; Whitewater case; missing William Colby; Paraguay; Colombia)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Germany bruised.(federal austerity budget includes other political items on Spain, Scandinavia, Chechnya, and falling European beef sales)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Back to base.(Israel ends Lebanon-Hezbollah bombing with a truce; includes other political items on Israel, South Africa and Liberia)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
India elects.(general election; includes other political items on Pakistan, Tasmania, North Korea and Hong Kong)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Uncommunicative. (World Trade Organization's proposed telecommunications agreement collapses; includes other international business news)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
In the air. (KLM, Northwest Airlines may end their alliance; includes other air transportation industry news)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
In sickness. (Credit Agricole to acquire a majority interest in Banque Indosuez; includes other business news)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Restoring Germany's shine.(welfare and labor reform)(Cover Story)(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Cream: further evidence on incentives and fat cats.(CEO compensation)(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Back to the old Middle East.(Israel pummels southern Lebanon)(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Ban nuclear tests: that is all that should be asked of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Winning America's budget war: the Republicans still have the advantage. They must use it, not lose it.(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Fear of foreigners.(UK further tightens immigration rules)(Editorial)
May 04, 1996
Is the model broken? (Germany's social-market economy)(Cover Story)
May 04, 1996
The mall of dreams.(Silver Spring, Maryland's The American Dream mall)
May 04, 1996
Religion to the rescue? (Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros's position on religious charities' role in housing services)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Too close for comfort: California's prisons. (prison overcrowding)
May 04, 1996
Atlanta's high jump: the Olympics. (1996 summer games host city)
May 04, 1996
The stadium game. (politics, economics of sports facility construction)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Petropolitics. (high rise of petroleum prices in the US has resulted in president Clinton's call for the selling of 12 million barrels of US oil, and the Republicans have asked for the repeal of the 4.3 cent gas tax increase)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
That healing touch. (Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces intention to seek holistic healing at a retreat near Annapolis, MD)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Leadership on the cheap. (US role as chief mediator to the world)(Lexington)(Column)
May 04, 1996
Asia: Chinese grist to the Malthusian mills. (China's inability to grow its own grains)
May 04, 1996
China and Taiwan: Blind corner. (refusal to communicate bodes ill for Asian countries on eve of Hong Kong's return to China in 1997)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Japan: Asahara and O.J. (similarities between Japan's Shoko Asahara murder trial and the O.J. Simpson trial)
May 04, 1996
Australia: Earthy hell. (Australia's worst mass murder case committed by crazed gunman calls into question country's lax gun laws)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
India and Pakistan: going critical. (nuclear weapons production)
May 04, 1996
Things that go bump in the night. (mysterious bombing attacks in both India and Pakistan have caused the countries to place blame on each other while calling into question the real parties responsible)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Pipe dreams in Central Asia: energy.(Caspian Pipeline Consortium)
May 04, 1996
South Africa's race to find a permanent constitution.(one-day strike called to protest drafting of new constitution)
May 04, 1996
Privatisation, who needs it? Zimbabwe.(President Robert Mugabe's government initiates move towards privatisation)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
The general loses: Paraguay.(General Lino Oviedo and civilian president Juan Carlos Wasmosy)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
The fiscal mire: Brazil.(economic program of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso under pressure)
May 04, 1996
The West Bank in microcosm: Palestinians and Israelis.(talks set to start May 5, 1996)
May 04, 1996
The guns stop, not the anger: Lebanon.(Lebanese victims of the April, 1996 Hizbullah-Israeli conflict are buried)
May 04, 1996
Bargains in the Baltic. (Northern Europe's economy)
May 04, 1996
Corridor collywobbles. (the exclave of Kaliningrad, technically part of Russia though separated by a few hundred miles and surrounded by Lithuania and Poland, is creating conflict among the three countries)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Honoured enemy: Estonia. (relations with Russia have worsened as Estonian officials still resent Russia for its 50-year occupation of it and squabble with Russia over minor issues)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
The fictional and the factional: Chechnya. (the Russian Army denies that it had anything to do with the death of Chechen rebel leader Jokar Dudaev though witnesses say he was killed in a Russian rocket attack)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Nothing doing: Europe's jobs. (the European Union's unemployment rate, already 11%, seems likely to rise some more with the news that economic growth is expected to be lower in 1996)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
No revoke without fire. (Britain and the European Union are at odds over the Union's ban of the export of British beef because of fears of mad-cow disease)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Basque uplift: Spain. (People's Party leader Jose Maria Aznar will become Spain's next prime minister thanks to support from various Basque and Catalan parties)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Sofia's choice: Bulgaria. (Bulgaria could be on the verge of economic disaster as the banking system nears collapse, the currency has lost 25% of its value and international debt could force it to default)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Muddling along: Ukraine. (economic development in Ukraine has been slowed by a lack of political will to institute reforms and problems with the International Monetary Fund)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Ruffling France's trufflers. (the French are concerned about the declining supply of truffles especially amid rumors they are now plentiful in China)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Sowing a high-tech crop.
May 04, 1996
No optical illusions.(Integrated Optical Components)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Beef panic: politics. (fringe candidate Sir James Goldsmith, ban on British beef could hurt Conservative Party in UK elections)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Reading the GDP runes.(new rules for calculating UK gross domestic product may still not be accurate)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Testing the limits: road pricing.(experimental road tolls in Great Britain meant to encourage use of public transportation)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Never say die. (local councils vs national parties in UK)(Bagehot)(Column)
May 04, 1996
Single market, single-minded.(impact of the European Single Market)
May 04, 1996
It grows on trees.(Portugese cork industry produces 55% of the world's corks)
May 04, 1996
Boarding for Beijing.(Chinese agencies increase stakes in Swire Pacific's hong kong airlines Cathay Pacific and Dragonair.)
May 04, 1996
Flat as a pancacke: Japanese semiconductors.
May 04, 1996
On hold: trade and telecommunication.(World Trade Organizations deadline on reaching deal to open telephone markets extended to February 1997 when US rejects other countries' offers)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Tubular belles.(vacuum tubes revived for high-end stereo systems)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Pick-up lines: cruising.(cruise ship lines)(Industry Overview)
May 04, 1996
Andersen's androids: Andersen Consulting is a formidable machine. But has its chief engineer left out one vital ingredient? (George Shaheen)(Face Value)(Column)
May 04, 1996
Limbo, seen from hell. (deregulation of the banking industry)
May 04, 1996
Curiouser and curiouser. (banking industry does not want provisions of a recent court ruling that favored it put forth in what it calls poorly written deregulation legislation)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
The cracks show: French banks. (restructuring of banking industry after deregulation is needed, especially to save Credit Foncier de France and in light of the Suez group's sale of controlling stake in Indosuez)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Join the club: Russian debt. (Russia Pres Boris Yeltsin restructures debt with the Paris Club; how such action will benefit Russia)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Warranted: Mexican debt. (Mexican government finances its economic recovery with dollar-denominated bonds that do not have collateral; success of program may cause other countries to follow)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996
Flight in the fog: the rand. (decline in value of South Africa's currency because the country lacks a clear economic policy)(Brief Article)
May 04, 1996