EDITORIAL: No more Bhopal.....LOCAL SPACE: Why my mother died illiterate (Ajaga & Katherine L. Nji)... Movimientos régionales en Bolivia (G. Flores y R. Laserna)... Beyond cultural diversity, women face some problems (ICES)... Bolivie: les radios minières..... NATIONAL SPACE: Democracy, societal transformations in the systems age and advanced economic systems (Robley E. George)... How far are we from socialism? (Piotr Zeydler-Zborowski)..... THIRD WORLD SPACE: Integration of modern and traditional technologies for development (Arnoldo K. Ventura)..... GLOBAL SPACE: The crisis of multilateral aid - some reflections (L. de Silva)...Can the debt (and nuclear) bomb(s) be defused? (A. Gunder Frank)... A worldwide alert and monitoring of hazardous industries..... NEWS FROM THE THIRD SYSTEM: Third World Academy of Sciences ... World Food Assembly: the start of a real process of cooperation for the third system?... Asia: the Law and Society Trust... Argentina: the Club del Hornero seeks interaction... Arabia: Cermae... Canada: le Centre interculturel Monchanin... France: l?Institut Belleville... USA: Trickle Up Program (TUP)..... LETTERS.....FOOTNOTES.....MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION