AUDIO LIBRARY

January 31, 2000

Indonesian report on the military's human rights abuses in East Timor
Allan Nairn, journalist for The Nation
Mexican Immigrants supporting their hometowns
WBEZ reporter Edie Rubinowitz discusses how some Mexican Immigrants supporting
Global trade with a conscience

Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi

Obuchi cuts seats from Japanese Parliament
Bob Immerman, senior research associate at Columbia University
The Changing Face of Japanese Nationalism
Worlview's Andrea Wenzel Managing U.S.-Japan Security Policy
Michael Green, Olin senior fellow in Asia Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in DC, Acting Director of the Center for East Asian Studies

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Japan's Minority Groups
Worldview's Andrea Wenzel
Okinawa from Japanese Imperialism to U.S. Occupation
Norma Field, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and author of In the Realm of the Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

Palestinian Proposed Terms for Peace
Rasheid Khalidi, professor of History and Near East Language and Civilization and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago
The On-going Disaster in the Congo
Doug Cassel of Northwestern's Center for International Human Rights
Unusual recommendations for how Japan should adjust to the 21st Century
Worldview's Andrea Wenzel looks at how for some Japanese educators this approach is nothing new
Peace and Autonomy for the Basques in Spain
Eneko Ariz, member of the Permanent Commission of the Association for Peace in the Basque Country

Croatian Flag

Air India hijackers were supported by Pakistan?
Steven Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute
Croatian Presidential Elections
John Lampe, professor of History at the University of Maryland
Thailand and Burmese Rebel Groups
Edith Mirante, author of Burmese Looking Glass : A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution

Government Shake-up in Equador
Adrian Bonilla, deputy director of Latin American Faculties of Social Services-In Quito
Congo and Burundi
Ahmed Sharif, consultant for Eastern and Central Africa for the American Friends Service Committee
Will tiny European cars ever catch up with their bulky counterparts in America?
Radio Netherlands' Steven Beard

Senator Jesse Helms

Senator Jesse Helms speech at the U.N. Security Council
The Trafficking of Women in Europe
Dorian Jones reports
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother
Milos Stehlik

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Religious and Ethnic Violence in Indonesia
Jeffrey Winters, professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University
Chile
Margaret Powers, visiting assistant professor in the Humanities Department at IIT

Russian Duma in session, Moscow, Russia

Russian Parliamentary antics and Chechnya
Steven Solnick, professor of Political Science at Columbia University
Dominican Republic president Balaguer running for 8th term
Robert Pastor, former head of the Carter Center's Latin America and program professor at Emory University
Break Down of the Israel-Syria Peace Talks
Rasheid Khalidi, director of International Studies Program at University of Chicago

The Parliament of World Religions
Wayne Teasdale, member of Board of Trustees for the Parliament of the World's Religions, and author of The Mystic Heart; Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions

Devastation in Africa by the AIDS Epidemic
Community-Based Approaches to Combating AIDS
Beatrice Were, coordinator of the National Community Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda AIDS activist Thomas Derdak and professor of Philosphy at Loyola University and Betsi Pendry, project Manager for Global Alliance for Africa talk about HIV in Africa.

New Security Doctrine in Russia
Steven Swartz, educational outreach coordinator and publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Deadline for Algerian Islamic Militants
William Quandt, professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and author of Between Ballots and Bullets, Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism
Economic and Political Turmoil in Ecuador
Robert Von Der Ohe, Chairman of the Economics and Business Department at Rockford College
Rosetta
Milos Stehlik comments on the challenges this upstart movie poses to society's treatment of the poor.

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Clinton's aid package for Columbia
Robin Kirk of Human Rights Watch

Pinochet and Elian Gonzalez
Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
How Pinochet Being Declared Unfit to Stand Trial Effects Chilean Runoff Elections
Florencia Mallon, professor at the University of Wisconsin
Peruvian Politics and the Catholic Church
Father John Foley, Jesuit priest who lived in Peru for 30 years and is currently at Christo Ray High School in Pilsen

Urgyen Trinley Dorje, 17th Karmapa, Tibetan leader, leaves guesthouse, Dharmsala, India

Tibetan Karmapa Leader Flees to India
Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University.
Freedom of Religion in China
Orville Schell, dean of Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of Virtual Tibet

Politics in Iran
Ahmed Sadri, professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College
Assistance of Women in and after Armed Conflicts
Zainab Salbi, founder and president of Women for Women
Asylum for Roma Families
Sputnik Kilambi, Radio Netherlands

Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims, Toul Sleng, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

North Korea Charges U.S. in Korean War Mass Executions
Bruce Cummings, professor of History at the University of Chicago
21st Anniversary of Fall of the Khmer Rouge
Craig Etcheson, independent genocide researcher
Religious Violence in Indonesia
Jeffrey Winters, professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University
French filmmaker Alain Renais' Same Old Song
Milos Stehlik

Russian Politics
Marshall Goldman, professor at Wellsley College
Violence and Sri Lankan Politics
Arjuna Parakrama, senior fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace, dean of the Faculty of the Arts at the University of Colombo and director of the Center for Policy Alternatives in Colombo

Elian Gonzalez

Elian Gonzalez Returns to Cuba
Wayne Smith, senior fellow at the U.S. Center for International Policy
January - the Month of Africa
Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
Taiwan's Nationalist Party
Dijana Plestina at the College of Wooster Ramon Myers, senior fellow and curator of the East Asian Collection at the Hoover Institution

Host Jerome McDonnells speaks with former World Health Organization representative Edna Adan Ismail

India-Pakistan Relations
Stephen Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute
Somaliland
Edna Adan Ismail, former World Health Organization representative and First Lady of Somaliland

Russia After Boris Yeltsin
Paul Goble, director of Communications at Radio Free Europe
Pushing Back the Curtain Part Six
BBC's Misha Glenny looks at the collapse of communism in Romania