Index Note: page references in boldface refer to volume numbers and major topics Article titles and map titles are in boldface A Abacha, Sani, 314 Abbas, Mahmud, 212, 333 Abboud, Ibrahim, 428 Abdikassim, Salad Hassan, 394 Abdulajanov, Abdumalik, 84 Abdullah II (king of Jordan), 233–234 Abernathy, Ralph, 245 Abiola, Moshood, 314 abortion, 150–151, 366–367 Abubakar, Abdulsalam, 314 Accords on Indigenous Rights and Culture, 374 Acheson, Dean, 382 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) See AIDS crisis Action Directe, 108 Action for Progress, 11 Act of Free Choice, 124 Adamec, Ladislav, 129 Adams, Gerry, 221 Addis Ababa Agreement, 323, 407 Adenauer, Konrad, 144, 145, 161, 165 Afghanistan, xl, xli, 1–3, 11, 12, 37, 71, 72, 73, 76, 99, 101, 102, 126, 128, 222, 235–236, 322, 375, 395, 412, 418, 419, 440, 462, 463, 475 Aflaq, Michel, 47 Africa, xxxvi, xxxviii, xl, xlii, 6–7, 17–18, 138, 140–141, 344, 381, 425–426 African Americans, xxxvii, 66–67, 73, 93–97, 107, 178, 244–245, 278–280, 285–286, 292, 405 African Economic Community, African Independence, M166 African National Congress (ANC), xxxvii, 3–5, 237, 280, 281, 324, 364 African National Youth League, 364 African Union (AU), Afwerki, Isaias, 141 Agartala Conspiracy Case, 359 Ag˘ca, Mehmet Ali, 230 Agenda for Greater Economic Integration, 44 Agnew, Spiro, 153, 316, 317, 318 Agrarian Reform Law, 67 Agrarian Studies Commission, 20 agriculture, xxxi, 182–183, 261 Aguiyi-Ironsi, Johnson, 64 Ahmad, Hussein Ait, Ahmad, Imam, 467 Ahmad, Jalal Al-e, 216 Ahmadinejad, Mahmud, 214 Ahmed, Abdullah Yusuf, 394 Ahmed, Fakhuruddin Ali, 158 Ahmed, Fayez, 462 Aidit, Dipa Nusantara, 206 AIDS crisis, xxxv, xxxvii, 6–7, 99, 143, 164, 336, 361, 422, 425, 460 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 316–317 Air Bridge Denial (ABD), 123 Air Campaign in Kosovo, March 25-June 20, 1999, M192 airline hijackings, 8, 12, 393, 419 Aishwarya, 309 Akayev, Askar, 82, 83 Akihito (emperor of Japan), 7–8 Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act, 16 Alawite dynasty, 293 Alawites, 41, 47 Albania, 49, 50–51, 456, 457 Albany Movement, 96 Albright, Madeleine, 99 Alder v Board of Education of New York, 289 Aldrin, Edwin, 399 Alessandri, Jorge, 10 Algeria, xl, 69, 163, 164, 222, 223, 460 Algerian Revolution, 8–9, 149 Algerian War, 29 Alghamdi, Saeed, 462 Algiers Accord, 198, 216 Algiers Treaty, 218 481