Volume 15, Number 3, January 15, 1988
Interviews
Wolfgang Rihm
The standard bearer of the “New Simplicity” school of modern music, and one of the few Western modernists recognized by the Soviet cultural authorities.
Books
How the Universe Works: Two Recent Books
by Carol White
Reviews Chaos—Making a New Science, by James Gleick, and Revolution in Science, by I. Bernard Cohen. The conceptual foundations for the breakthroughs required by science today were supplied by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century—and yet he is slandered as a “mystic” by modern historians of science.
Post-Industrial Age Dashed Blacks’ Hopes
by Mary Lalevée
Looks at Free at Last—What Really Happened When Civil Rights Came to Southern Politics, by Margaret Edds.
Books Received
New KGB History Skirts Lessons of the Trust
by Allen and Rachel Douglas
Review Chekisty: A History of the KGB, by John J. Dziak.
Departments
Report from Rome
by Giorgio Prinzi
Nuclear Engineers Prepare Revolt.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Bush League Pushes Germans East.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Egypt: A Regional Superpower Again.
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
Church Rejects Suicide Pact.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Moscow Escalates Takeover Bid.
Mother Russia
by Luba George
“Memory” of Imperial Past Revived.
Editorial
LaRouche’s Power.
AIDS Update
A Chaste Carnival Planned in Rio
Virginia Doctors Can Report AIDS Carriers
Economics
The Central Bankers Are Now on the Chopping Block
by Christopher White
The Group of Seven’s “coordinated action” was intended to create a “bear trap” for speculators against the dollar. But it will only increase the very instability which the bankers claim they are reducing.
Morgan Bank Hawks ‘Debt Relief’ Swindle to Brazilian Government
by Mark Sonnenblick
The much-touted deal with Mexico will save the country a mere $137 million a year—less than 2% of what it is now paying. Now Morgan Guaranty’s “Rube Goldberg” scheme is being offered to other debtor countries.
Meet John Law: Author of the Mississippi Bubble ‘Recovery’
by Nancy Spannaus
The story of the takeover of the finances of France by a wily Scots speculator in the 18th century. His coup sounds fantastic—until you realize the same thing is going on today!
Currency Rates
President Raúl Alfonsín of Argentina: Going, Going, Gone?
by Robyn Quijano
City of London
by Stephen Lewis
Morgan Move Could Trigger New Crisis.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
New Hope for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Business Briefs
Feature
Glasnost and the Magicians of Venice
by David Goldman
The promotion of what passes for Russian culture in the West—notably in Nancy Reagan’s White House—has been the subject of an intensive effort by Venetian noble families and their collaborators for a long time. This effort, in turn, draws upon a more bizarre and far-reaching project: the synthesis of a Nietzschean ideology to replace Augustinian culture in the West. A “cultural counterintelligence” analysis.
International
The New Yalta and the Holocaust in Afghanistan
by Konstantin George
Euphoria over the prospects of an early Soviet withdrawal is premature; the same thing happened this time last year, though many have forgotten it. And the carnage continues.
Colombian Regime Rolls Over and Plays Dead for Dope Traffickers
by Javier Almario and Valerie Rush
Cocaine king Jorge Luis Ochoa walked out of prison waving a judge’s release order—and the Barco government didn’t lift a finger to stop him.
Terror Wave Engulfs Sri Lanka Accord
by Susan Maitra
U.S.-Israel Ties Undergoing Shift?
by Joseph Brewda
International Intelligence
National
The Coming Peripeteia of George Bush
by Webster G. Tarpley
Big trouble ahead for Bush’s Presidential aspirations, as the bankers conclude he can’t deliver on austerity—or anything else—and the stock market takes another plunge.
Fear of LaRouche Grows among state Democratic Party Officials
by Mel Klenetsky
The wildest imaginable machinations are under way to keep the only candidate with something to say away from the voters.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
FEC Gives Special Handling to Hart — Hart To Open Door for Cuomo?
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Customs Head Wants To Down Drug Planes — Cruel New Twist to Euthanasia Push.
National News
