EDITORIAL: A gleam in the South?..... LOCAL SPACE: Theatre, adult education and development: a workshop at Kumba, Cameroon (Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh)..... ESPACIO REGIONAL: Cambios criticos, sociedad emergence y alternativas populares en America Latina (Luis Lopezllera)..... GLOBAL SPACE: Global shifts and their impacts on national policies (J.Pajestka)... Les ONGs comma cheval de Troie (Dominique Temple)... Towards a people-oriented biotechnology (Chakravarthi Raghavan)..... NEWS FROM THE THIRD SYSTEM: DAWN: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era... Femmes sous lois musulmanes... Human Rights Internet... Ngalu e Kisal Developpement Sahel... India: The Ahmedabad Study Action Group (ASAG)... Belize: Belize Enterprise for Sustained Technology (BEST)... USA: PLENTY... Asia: SAM and APPEN News Feature Service... Pharmaceutical patents: the ARDA statement... From organisation to organism, a Findhorn Conference..... LETTERS..... FOOTNOTES..... MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION