Chancellor Schröder's visits in Russia and Saudi Arabia: How the Federal government's anti-war stance has opened up new markets. And plans by Schröder and Fischer for mobile German armed forces capable of intervening more quickly.

"A New Society"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with Alejandro Toledo, the first Indian to become Peru's head of state, on overcoming the civil war, ways out of the recession and the perverse link between drugs and terrorism.

"After all that has come to light people distrust politicians. Being popular is simple. You only need to promise something to everybody. At times Fujimori enjoyed endorsement rates of 75 percent. He handed out a large quantity of fish. Yet he never taught the people how to fish... This perverse link between terror and drugs exists everywhere. With us here, in Colombia, also in Afghanistan. Terrorism finances itself with it and it is a global phenomenon to which there must be a global answer... My enthusiasm has given rise to high expectations. For in politics, if you want to conduct them properly, nothing is achieved overnight."

"Enough Said"

SPIEGEL interview with Siemens boss Heinrich von Pierer, 62, about what business wants from the politicians.

"The plain truth is that we have high costs and we have a high standard of living that we wish to preserve if possible. And so we need to have an edge - in fact an edge on technology. Only this will ensure our commercial presence in all markets today, one on which our political clout in the world depends. Each member of the government needs to be clear on that... De facto we need a coalition between the great national parties. In our country we have reached a turning point. Everybody needs to take responsibility. Only that course will breed optimism."

"Witnesses of a Revolution"

Banks: International financial groups are girding themselves to take over major German banks. They are looking for recently rationalized, efficient distribution channels.

"Comrade philanderer"

Yugoslavia: The heroic father figure of the once mighty amalgam of many nations was no slouch privately. New documents prove that Marshal Tito was a ladies' man.

"A Leaden Silence"

Russia: Two months before the parliamentary elections the Kremlin is tightening the reins. The media are subject to strict control, opponents of the regime are being chastened and the opposition sees itself being outmanoeuvred.

A law dating from June 2002 regulates what may be written during the election campaign and what may not. This lays down that during the campaign journalists are to report, not to analyze. Media that infringe the new rules twice can be hauled up before the courts. Newspapers are threatened with closure for the duration of the election campaign, broadcasters with the blacking out of the relevant part of their programme.

"The Building Blocks of Thought"

Brain research: German researchers are setting about recording the totality of all proteins active in the human brain. But can this mega-project be accomplished? Suitable brain samples are difficult to secure, the number of brain proteins is gigantic and the interplay between them is of immeasurable complexity. Along with protein researcher Joachim Klose of Berlin, Helmut Meyer is to coordinate recording of brain proteins internationally. The aim is to determine, localize and analyze all the proteins active in the brain - truly a Herculean assignment. To determine a sequence of genetic types was child's play compared to the present task; with genes, it is enough to know the sequence of chemical elements, with proteins by contrast one needs to know into which three-dimensional form they tie themselves. Above all, however, genes remain unchangeable throughout life, whereas proteins come and go.

"Lightning Flashes from the Ground"

Geology: Before the earth shakes, mysterious light phenomena often occur. Will quakes soon be as predictable as the weather? Telltale things happen in the rock in an earthquake zone when it comes under tremendous pressure owing to shifts in continental plates. It may be possible to detect the change in the electrical and magnetic properties of the rock from a great height. In June a private US research satellite named "QuakeSat" was sent into orbit to detect fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field. Next spring it is to be followed by the French satellite "Demeter".

"Mister Mutter"

Music: For all his Hollywood successes, composer André Previn has for a long time now played only second fiddle in the worldwide concert scene - now he has become a star thanks to his fifth wife, Anne-Sophie Mutter.

"I put the words into his mouth"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with Wolf Biermann about his extremely free translation of a long poem by Bob Dylan, his enthusiasm for the American's songs and the chances of a meeting between the two songwriters during Dylan's tour of Germany this week.

"It could not matter less whether or not you understand the language you are translating from. Whether I can translate depends entirely on whether I am capable of writing a poem in my own language... Here's somebody who right at the outset of his career made it clear how the world is, how one should write poetry, how people should look and how people are that I find disgusting... I recall the same attitude in the man that I once was."