Selves and Others

Thirty years ago, fearful of India`s newly acquired nuclear weapons, Pakistan set out on its own quest to become a nuclear weapons state. Lacking a strong technological base, it secretly searched the world`s industrialized countries for what was needed. Few could have imagined then that the move from buyer to seller of the world`s deadliest technology would be so swift.

But spectacular revelations beginning late last year by Iran, and later Libya, have forced Pakistan`s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to launch an investigation of Pakistani involvement in secret transfers of vital nuclear weapons information and equipment to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Musharraf has conceded the existence of "an underworld of people" in Pakistan who, out of "personal greed," could have sold nuclear secrets. (...)

Many of Barcelona’s low-income, historic, and immigrant neighborhoods, along with many of its squats and its most important social centers, are being demolished to make room for the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in 2004.