1 Alone among learned journals of politics, and long before the media (with the exception of the Financial Times) we paid much attention to these negotiations which at the end reached the headlines because of their ‘cliff‐hanging’ sensationalist appearance. Thus at the end of 1990, after the collapse of the Brussels conference of December of that year we sounded the alarm‐bell of the economic and political consequences of this set‐back. In our Winter issue of 1991 I wrote that the nations of the world ‘… should have finalized the Uruguay Round with a treaty which, for the first time in history would establish the few universal rules of freedom of trade required by interdependence, instead of leaving the negotiations, for the “protection” of their “national interests”, to continue in a veritable Tower of Babel of incoherence’. In our issue of Summer 1991 we published a complete study by (now Sir) Nicholas Bayne on CATT and the Uruguay round negotiation. Later, in the issue of Winter 1992 I wrote, discussing the diversionary style of media (news) that: ‘My order of priority of the current news in November, December 1992 would be Number One GA J 7’ and in the Spring issue in the list of political developments and events of the last three months, priority should be given to Number One GATT.