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Presents financial advice for Jeane Kirkpatrick following her decision to leave government service to become a privately-employed person. Suggestion to take the maximum amount of speaking engagements; Strategies to avoid over-exposure; Recommendations to explore a career in the academics; Reference to Henry Kissinger's, former U.S. secretary of state, consulting company, Kissinger Associates, which since 1982 has brought in an estimated $4.5 million a year by advising about 25 unidentified clients on investment and development trends on a worldwide basis.

Focuses on the arguments for cutting federal financial aid to college students in the United States. Assumption that many of the existing aid programs are handouts for the middle-class; Concerns over the proposed mega-cap per student by U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration; Statement that the mega-cap would function as a more or less ironclad barrier between those students who can afford private college tuition and those who can't; View that the strategy of the Reagan budget cutters has been to pretend that need-based aid is some kind of novel extravagance.

Presents information on issues related to abortion. Views of right-to-life activists on abortion; Report that about 1.5 million innocent babies are aborted each year in the U.S.; Note on a woman's freedom of choice and a fetus's life; Opinion that serious attention to factors such as birth control and better sex education cannot make the abortion dilemma disappear; Information on the stand adopted by the U.S. administration, headed by President Ronald Reagan, on issues related to abortion; View that greater federal efforts toward family planning and sex education will give more women the ability to control their reproductive lives before pregnancy.

Presents information on some recent socio-political developments in the U.S. Information on issues related to the five American hostages who are being held by fanatical Shiite Muslims in Lebanon; Report that all the major charities in the U.S.--led by the United Way--have launched a nationwide lobbying campaign against the Treasury Department's proposed tax reform; Note on a Virginia State Supreme Court ruling that a homosexual man must relinquish custody of his ten-year-old daughter, who had lived with him for the past six years.

Discusses the stand of Turkish President Turgut Ozal regarding the Persian Gulf War. Decision to support the allied forces against Iraq; Postwar challenges to come from the heavily Kurdish southeast; Ozal's agreement to talk to Iraqi Kurdish rebels; Ozal's move to open up political space on the domestic Kurdish issue; Ozal's proposal to repeal the parts of the 1983 constitution that outlaw Communist and several other fringe political parties.

Discusses the reopening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt after its reconstruction. Background on the library; Preparations of urban planner Ismail Serageldin for the reconstruction of the library; Details on the design of the reconstructed library; Information on archaeological discoveries in Alexandria between 1994 and 1998.