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Articles in May, 1999 issue of New Internationalist

• Scrap metal jacket: the defeat of the Americans in Vietnam was one of the defining moments in post-colonial history …
  by Michel Chossudovsky
• Picador book of contemporary Chinese fiction
• Kim Soon-duk: Noreen Shanahan hears a Korean story of teenage years of sexual enslavement and abuse - and a life-long struggle to gain … justice
  by Noreen Shanahan
• Take the hit! Banks and governments knew perfectly well what they were doing when they lent money to prop up despotic regimes …
  by Joseph Hanlon
• Break the chains: in the world of international finance, the creditors hold all the cards … there's a need for a Debt Review Body …
  by Ann Pettifor
• Country profile: Algeria
  by Steve Sherman
• Marshalltezuma plan: the gold and silver Europe borrowed from the international Indo-American fund after the Crusades … is long overdue
  by Cuaicaipuro Cuautemoc
• Windhorse
• Daughter of the river: an autobiography
• Debts to history: without borrowing money Northern governments would not have been able to fight wars - let alone win them …
• Profit over people: neoliberalism and global order
• Central station
• If you can walk you can dance
• Open circle. Kevin Locke
• Whispers behind closed doors: corporate links with the UN are kept secret
  by Robert James Parsons
• Looks matter in Iran - Mherdad Jawwdat finds long hair and make-up invite suspicions of homosexuality
• Dictatorship of debt: Third World debt enriches the powerful at the expense of the world's poor majority. David Ransom calls for a new beginning
  by David Ransom
• Debtspeak: an NI pocket guide to the language of loans
• Under the volcano: Hurricane Mitch carved a swathe of destruction across Central America … harder … to endure … than … foreign debt
  by Tim Gaynor
• Double dealing: Third World debt is one big square on the life-and-death board game known as the world economy … the game is fixed
  by Ellen Frank
• Adding-up problem: why the environment suffers from debt
• Two-faced copper: labourers in Zambia and traders on London's Metal Exchange have one thing in common … the international trade in metals …
  by Chris Holt
• Debt - the facts
• Simple life: a cautionary tale
  by George Fisher
• Starting from scratch: an idea first planted in … Hebrew texts has grown into the … campaign … for the cancellation of Third World debt
  by John Mihevc
• Debt - insolvency plagues individuals and nations alike
  by David Ransom
• Sheep for the shaman: few people have heard of Tuva, a small country at the heart of Asia. Still fewer know that Tuvans are shamans …
  by Louisa Waugh
• Landmine ban thwarted: new weapons in an old story of US inaction
• Sexual abuse uncovered - in Sri Lanka
• Scandalous trade: slavery continues in Sudan
• Spirit song. Owiakeyakao