EDITORIAL: Risorgimento?..... BUILDING BLOCKS: • Self-reliance in unexpected places (Roy Preiswerk)... • Popular theatre, conscientization and struggle (Ross Kidd)... • Perverse growth and maldevelopment - Lessons from Poland?s collapse (Ignacy Sachs)..... MATÉRIAUX: • L?administration rurale en Afrique peut-elle devenir l?instrument d?un véritable développement? (Jacques Bugnicourt)... • Development options of the Arab oil exporting countries (Ali Attiga)..... MARKINGS : • Human needs and self-reliance are the two pillars of development says the Chamber of Deputies of Italy..... INTERACTIONS: • About understanding - Ideas and observations on cross-cultural communication (Sven Hamrell)... • Mass media et pression idéologique - Le point de vue de Pape Jean-Paul II... • The coffee system - A challenge to Christians (Marcos Arruda)... • Canada: God and Mammon - Churches battle the banks (Antoine Char)... • An innovative service for the popular movements (IBASE)... • United States: Grassroots movement for the ?nuclear freeze? (Cary Sacks)... • The newly industrialized countries: A "sixth pole"? (Pierre Drouin)..... FOOTNOTES / NOTES / NOTAS..... MATERIALS RECEIVED.