Economist (US), The

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Articles in May, 1988 issue of Economist (US), The

• The British General Election of 1987.
• No taxation without representation. (Asian Development Bank meeting)
• Reuter and Herrhausen in troubled tandem. (Edzard Reuter, Alfred Herrhausen) (includes related article)
• Action rather than words; let deeds speak for themselves. (Special Section: The Philippines Survey)
  by Andrews, John
• Street cries. (political violence in Turkey)
• Smelling a Brazilian rabbit.
• Showdown in Punjab.
• Waking them up. (English lawyers)
• False notes. (forgeries of classical sculpture)
• Not another genetic code....
• A hard sell ahead for America's retail brokers.
• Old folks at home. (retirement homes)
• Division of the spoils. (South Koreans need a better quality of life) (South Korea Survey)
  by Lockwood, Christopher
• Alternatively, in Poland.
• Five-handed poker in the Spratlys.
• All defence is local too. (closing some US military bases)
• If sterling stays parochial. (editorial)
• The little research school that could. (California Institute of Technology)
• Public works, private cash: a few spoil-sport thoughts on infrastructural investment. (Great Britain) (editorial)
• Richard Branson: The Inside Story.
• Doing it by the book. (Bolivia)
• Why half-reformed communism isn't working.
• Doing their own thing. (A Survey of Portugal: Another New World)
  by Stevenson, Merril
• Yes, the timing was curious. (a leak before the election in France)
• Israel: pressing charges. (closing down Palestinian press)
• Doing the splits? (Great Britain's trade union federation)
• Horribly helpless Haiti.
• What Lee said in 1964. (Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew)
• The kindest cut. (wage fixing laws) (editorial)
• A tale in its sting. (the desert scorpion)
• The brokers who cried bear. (bear market )
• Autobiography of Roy Cohn.
• Room service. (outlook for Hongkong's hotels)
• Bigger Biggin. (Biggin Hill Airport used for executive travel)
• Questions of land. (land reform) (Special Section: The Philippines Survey)
  by Andrews, John
• Not much let or hindrance. (IRA operations near German border)
• Suddenly, doubt. (Chile)
• Ethics are infectious. (Congress)
• Gilded youth. (British education) (editorial)
• Remembering Beethoven.
• Lawson's pyrrhic victory. (Nigel Lawson)
• To catch a thief. (employee theft)
• Arthur's seat. (finding a replacement for Lord Cockfield)
• Plures ex uno; President Roh needs opposing. (Roh Tae Woo) (South Korea Survey)
  by Lockwood, Christopher
• Israel braces for Uno who. (Sosuke Uno to visit Israel)
• Feed us. (Vietnam)
• All the candidates' men - and women.
• Chicago: whose kind of town?
• France in step with itself: cohabitation, a divided executive, is dangerous. (editorial)
• The Debt Threat.
• The loan star state. (Texas's bank problem)
• Sticks or carrots. (evaluation of unemployment in Great Britain)
• School time. (A Survey of Portugal: Another New World)
  by Stevenson, Merril
• Danube blues. (Hungary's debt)
• What game is the North playing? (North Korea)
• America at full employment.
• How not to make merger policy. (Great Britain)
• Islands in the red. (cost to France of maintaining the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon south of Newfoundland)
• The big feet that stomp around the Pacific. (French, Russian, Japanese and American presence in the Pacific Rim)
• Cheating is wrong ... isn't it? (insider trading may serve a useful purpose)
• A clash of cultures. (American universities to widen scope of Western Civilization courses to include contributions of minorities)
• Choc-bar nationalism. (Britain's antitrust policy and Rowntree takeover) (editorial)
• A last harrumph. (student's violence for the left in 1968 brought about 20-year swing of voters to the right)
• Computer discs spin off into history. (data-storing microchips)
• Streamlining. (Petroleos de Venezuela)
• The tyranny of money. (Philippine film making)
• Over the brink. (Texas banks)
• Broadening the mind. (Japanese tourism)
• A rocky case. (Geoffrey Howe tries to stop television stations from airing programs on killing of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar)
• Tongue twisters. (Belgian politics)
• All one now. (Zimbabwe)
• Will they beat the clock? (Sri Lanka)
• Four shots, no injuries. (control of drug trafficking from Mexico to the U.S.)
• Pntng by nmbrs. (data compression)
• Worthwhile accountancy initiative.
• Spinning to its grave. (compact discs may render phonograph obsolete)
• Hard pounding. (British pound)
• The logic of Lambsdorff. (Count Otto Lambsdorff may be leader of West Germany's Free Democratic Party)
• The gag around the world's mouth. (freedom of the press)
• On the way out, with luck. (Dow Chemical phasing out chlorofluorocarbons)

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