Volume 15, Number 19, May 6, 1988
Interviews
Felix Moreno
by Javier Almario
The president of the Colombian-Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce discusses what’s wrong economically, as well as morally, with tolerating the drug trade.
Science & Technology
C=256: The Foundations of Scientific Tuning
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Presentation to the April 9, 1988 Schiller Institute conference in Milan on “Music and Classical Esthetics.”
The Violin and Increases in Frequency: Cremona Expert
Prof. Bruno Barosi, of the International Institute of Violinmaking, explains how rising concert pitches may shorten the life of a Stradivarius or other precious early instrument.
Departments
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
Squabbling among Thieves.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Uproar over AIDS Policy.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Brazil Humiliates Itself.
Report from Paris
by Jean Baptiste Blondel
Presidential Vote: Harsh Lessons.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Can Europe Still Be Defended?
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Amnesty Int’l Defends Mobsters.
Editorial
The Demjanjuk Travesty.
Economics
George Bush and the Trade Bill
by Christopher White
The kind of fascist thinking that lies behind the United States’ presumption that it can arbitrarily restructure world trade fits the GOP presidential candidate to a tee—but if the Japanese react as they could, he’ll never be President.
Polish Strike Wave Leading to Crisis Worse than 1981
by Konstantin George
Industrialization: Colombia’s Alternative to the Drug Trade
by Javier Almario
Currency Rates
‘Adjustment with a Human Face’ Shows How Usurers Kill Children
by Mary Lalevée
Bush’s Looting Market Re-Offered to Mexico
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Where’s the Beef?
Business Briefs
Feature
Panama: The Keystone of the Hemisphere
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The even greater geographic and strategic importance, and the wonderful economic future, Panama would have “in the sane world that does not exist.”
The Emergency Measures To Save Panama
A program for Panama’s survival and development—and that of the entire continent.
Trade Unionists Support Panama
by Robyn Quijano
Documentation: Excerpts from the speech of President Manuel Solís Palma, to the 3,000-person international labor conference held in Panama on April 28 and 29.
Strategic Studies
A Preview of the Soviet Plenum: No TV Soap Opera
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Reports on the dramatic policy shifts about to come from the Kremlin, and the underlying process that makes them inevitable, irrespective of which personalities emerge from Gorbachov’s probably quick demise.
International
Inter-Action Council Mobilizes To Save Gorbachov
by Mark Burdman
The Schmidt group’s meeting in Moscow is principally aimed at helping the Kremlin leader to score the foreign policy successes he needs to hold off the domestic wolves.
The Lid Will Soon Come Off in the Succession Fight in the Kremlin
by Konstantin George
Ibero-American Unity Turns Tide on Panama Crisis
Rarely has one seen such a policy reversal as Washington is now exhibiting.
International Intelligence
National
Hadley’s Primary Victory in Pennsylvania Sends a Signal
by Mel Klenetsky
Victories by two LaRouche running-mates in the Pennsylvania congressional primaries are the only the latest evidence that support for presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche continues to grow in the Democratic Party’s base.
Renewed U.S. Gulf Actions Irk Moscow
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Irangate About To Blow Up in Europe?
by Umberto Pascali
FBI’s ‘Buck’ Revell on Hot Seat in Trial
by Herbert Quinde
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Bush Behind Drive To Oust Ed Meese.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
