By Andrew Martin and Griff Palmer

Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat. Candy from Denmark that is mislabeled.

At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is not the only country that has problems with its exports.

In fact, federal inspectors have stopped more food shipments from India and Mexico in the last year than they have from China, an analysis of data maintained by the Food and Drug Administration shows.

By J. Ebenezer Daygbor

An international observer from the United Steel Workers of America to the recent Firestone Workers Union elections, Mr. Michael Zielinski, says decision of Firestone Liberia to have denied children of workers basic education and better health care is "devilish and unacceptable".

Johannesburg

By Harold Meyerson

With our nation just having celebrated its birthday, I'd like to make a modest proposal for a project that might occupy us for the next century or so: Taking the regulated, more-social capitalism that created mass prosperity in this nation and Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century and re-creating it on a global scale.