Features

South African government depends on U.S. data processing firms
- by Thomas Conrad

South Africa and France: trade increases despite Socialist Party election promises
- by Meg Bordin

South Africa's De Beers group gains marketing control of Australia's huge new diamond industry
- by Phillip Frazer

Filipino workers strike Nestles: Marcos government backs Nestles
- by Philip Brooks

Global Newswatch

Kaiser employees arrested as spies in Ghana

Greek government to manufacture basic drugs

Zimbabwe government pamphlet attacks Nestle

Lonrho seeks to recover media in Uganda

U.S. "investment climate" measured state by state

Jamaica seeks to sell sugar industry to private enterprise

Tin producers and buyers in international price battle

Holiday Inns move back to Grenada

Wyeth and FDA accused over deficient infant formula

Nestles concedes need to tone down baby food promotion

Reviews

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
- by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Deforestation In the Third World
- ed. by Vinson Sutlive, Nathan Altshuler, and Mario Zamora