Volume 16, Number 8, February 17, 1989
Interviews
Mario Sergio Paranhos de Lima Porto
Mr. Paranhos, an engineer, is head of planning for the Brazilian nuclear firm NUCLEN.
Jeffrey Sachs
The Harvard economist who architected Bolivia’s cocaine economy discusses his plans for Venezuela.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
by Lonnie Wolfe
The jailed political leader discusses his and his associates’ frameup by the government, and what it portends for the political future of the country.
Science & Technology
Brazil’s Nuclear Program: ‘Passport for the Future’
Brazilian engineer Mario Sergio Paranhos de Lima Porto discusses his country’s uphill battle for nuclear power, against opposition from the International Monetary Fund and the Greens.
Departments
Mother Russia
by Rachel Douglas
Dostoevsky’s “Devils.”
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
New Initiative for Monetary Reform?
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
“Summer Plan”: Speculation at Noon.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
The U.S. Establishment in a Bind.
Andean Report
by José Carlos Méndez
Pro-Terrorist Mooted for Security Post.
Editorial
Policing the Crisis Won’t Work.
AIDS Update
WHO Won’t Condemn Soviet Test Measures
Urban Decay a Self-Feeding Process
One in 200 N.J. Newborns Carries AIDS
Economics
Grand Larceny Drives Bush’s S&L Scheme
by Christopher White
Against the earnings of the solvent S&Ls, set proposed bond principal charges, increased capital requirements, and the insurance surcharge, and, lo and behold, the solvent thrifts are put out of business.
Will the U.S. Health System Become the New Nazi Model?
by Linda Everett
Currency Rates
Genocide by ‘Ecology’: Senate Panel Holds Love-In for EPA’s Reilly
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
A man who has dedicated his life to depopulating whole continents to make them private game-reserves for Europe’s wealthy aristocracy assumes the Bush Administration’s environment post.
Documentation: Excerpts from the testimony of the National Democratic Policy Committee and 21st Century Science Associates on William Reilly and the EPA, and from testimony on Energy Secretary nominee James Watkins.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Crop Report Shows Looming Famine.
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
S&Ls Shutdown Violates Constitution.
Business Briefs
Feature
Carlos Andrés Pérez Peddles Snake-Oil for Debt Crisis
by Peter Rush
CAP’s inauguration as Venezuelan President marks the beginning of a new effort to prevent Ibero-American nations from combining to confront international usury.
Venezuela To Get the ‘Bolivia Treatment’
by Mark Sonnenblick
Industry crumbled and cocaine boomed, under the programs of the man who’s now Pérez’s economic advisor.
Pérez Puts Self Forward as Spokesman on the Debt
Documentation: International press coverage on the failure of the Baker Plan, and selections from congressional testimony of Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs.
‘Harsh Adjustments’ Needed To Stop Inflation
CAP’s adviser Sachs is ready with the medicine that will kill the patient.
International
New East-West ‘Ecological Fascist’ Order Emerges
by Mark Burdman
The tip-off to the real design is that Gorbachov is being openly heralded as the hero of the New Age Aquarian movement.
Outcry on LaRouche Case Continues Worldwide
Hunger Strike To Free LaRouche Shakes Germany
by John Sigerson
The action by a young man from one of Germany’s leading families has been one of the efforts bringing international publicity to the LaRouche jailing.
India Accelerates Anti-Drug Effort
by Susan Maitra
Bhutto Stands Firm under Soviet Pressure
by Ramtanu Maitra
Pedophiles Arrested in Britain: ‘More Powerful than the Mafia’
by Mark Burdman
Rock Group Pushes Drugs and Gorbachov
by Mark Burdman
British Trilaterals and Luciferians Push for ‘One World Government’
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Bush Budget: A Kinder, Gentler Heinrich Brüning
by Webster G. Tarpley
It is a deadly catalogue of sacrifice and privation, based on false projections of revenues and interest rates.
LaRouche Contests Government Move To Dismiss Boston Case
by Jeffrey Steinberg
If the charges against LaRouche there are heard again, it will be the government that ends up on trial.
Knights of Malta Launch a Crusade in America
by Scott Thompson
‘Wiseguy’ Says He Spied against LaRouche for the CIA and FBI
by Herbert Quinde
Buffalo labor leader Ron Fino is caught between the FBI and the mob, and he’s spilling his guts to the media in a way that could lead to a new trial for LaRouche and associates.
‘The Court Could Have Held a Fair Trial’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. from his jail cell.
Fedex: Mr. Smith Goes Aquarian
by Steven Meyer
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
New DNC Chairman: Establishment All the Way — Texas Hacks Remove LaRouche Democrat — John Warner Faces Electoral Challenge.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Mayors’ Panel Evades Youth Gang Issue.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
