World Press Review

     The World Press Review and the IPI Report* complement each other. The former brings us in English significant articles from around the world which throw light on different perspectives of current events--a major WAIS concern. The January 2000 issue opens with "Continental Divide," which features a map showing in green EU Members and in red EU Applicants. Beyond the pale in gray are the countries which do not even have applicant story. The accompanying article, "Limitless Growth?" came from the Berlin weekly Freitag.
     There are two sore thumbs sticking out. The first is Switzerland, plonk in the middle of the EU, which has such a fixation on its historic neutrality that it has been compelled to reach detailed agreements with the EU without joining it.
     A bigger and nastier sore thumb is ex-Yugoslavia plus Albania, which was discussed in the New York meeting of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There was general concern not only about the problem of getting rid of Milosovich but about mafia power in Kosovo and Bosnia as well as Albania. The job of putting Yugoslavia together again in some kind of a Balkan Union will be an urgent and hopefully not hopeless problem.


     * IPI Report editor Stuart Loory tells those interested:
     "If they will write to IPI Report, 132A Neff Annex, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201 we will send them the issue you describe free and enter a one-year subscription at $19.95 for which we will bill them. The order can be placed by e-mail to mary_lou_leclair@jmail.jour.missouri.edu."

Ronald Hilton - 1/24/00