The International--Part II section of the Proceedings contains the following 20 papers: "An Economic Imperative: Privatization as Reflected in Business Reporting in the Middle East. Egypt as a Case Study" (Leonard Ray Teel, Hussein Amin, Shirley Biagi, and Carolyn Crimmins); "Broadcasting in South Africa: The Politics of Educational Radio" (Paul R. van der Veur); "Why Beijingers Read Newspapers?" (Tao Sun, Xinshu Zhao, and Guoming Yu); "News about Korea and Japan in American Network Television Evening News: A Content Analysis of Coverage in 1996" (Jowon Park); "Political Parties and Changes in Taiwanese Electronic Media in the 1990s" (Wei-Kuo Lin); "State Control on Television News in Post-War Lebanon" (Marwan M. Kraidy); "American News Coverage of International Crisis Negotiations: Elite Sources of Media Framing and Effects on Public Opinion" (Dhavan V. Shah, Kent D. Kedl, and David P. Fan); "Press Finance and Economic Reform in China" (Huailin Chen and Chin-Chuan Lee); "Putting Okinawa on the Agenda: Applying Three Complementary Theories" (Beverly Horvit); "Western Press Coverage of the United Nations Operation in Somalia: A Comparison of Extra- and Intra-media Data Sources" (Anita Fleming-Rife); "Telling the Truth or Framing a Crisis?: Comparative Analysis of the 1994 North Korean Nuclear Threat as Portrayed in Two American and Two South Korean Newspapers" (Young Soo Shim); "Media, Democracy and Human Rights in Argentina" (Dave Park); "Bahamian TV Programming, 1977-1997: A Case Study of Cultural Proximity" (Juliette Storr); "The Price of Ignorance: How Correspondents' Language Skills Limit Their Work in Japan" (Beverly Horvit); "Michael Fay in 'Lash Land': A Case Study of Social Identity Construction in Foreign News Coverage" (Meredith Li-Vollmer); "Pleasure, Imperialism, and Marxist Political Economy: Exploring a Biological Base" (William Thomas Pritchard); "Media, Markets and Messages: Ghana's Radio Forced To Make Choices" (Janice Windborne); "Journalism under Fire: Reporting the El Mozote Massacre" (Kris Kodrich); "Telecommunications Policy Reform and the Legacy of the Indian Post-Colonial State" (Paula Chakravartty); and "Human Rights in China: A Pawn of a Political Agenda? A Content Analysis of 'The New York Times' (1987-1996)" (Xigen Li and Charles St. Cyr). (RS)