Volume 16, Number 15, April 7, 1989
Interviews
Dr. Nabil Shaath
by Scott Thompson
A member of the Palestine National council and chairman of its Political Committee spoke with EIR’s Scott Thompson and other reporters at an unprecedented meeting of Palestinian and Israeli parliamentarians in New York City.
Gen. Mattityahu Peled
by Scott Thompson
General Peled, retired from the Israel Defense Forces, is now a professor of Arabic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Mordehai Bar-On
by Scott Thompson
A leader of Israel’s Peace Now organization, Mr. Bar-On is a former member of the Knesset.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The political prisoner and former presidential candidate warns that the “secret government” team that convicted him, and the Soviet-run “ecologists,” are part of moves toward dictatorships in the United States in Europe. Also included: comments on the 50th anniversary of Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert, and the campaign to lower the tuning pitch.
AIDS Update
AIDS Victims Urged To Commit Suicide
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Industrialists Demand End to Usury.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
U.S. Threatens To Shut Down Canal.
Andean Report
by Lucía López de Méndez
Peru paralyzed by narco-terrorism.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Sri Lanka Foils Overthrow Plot.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The Greening of U.S.-German Relations.
Editorial
Call Henry Kissinger to Account.
Science & Technology
Inertial Confinement Fusion: The Civilian Applications
by Dr. Eric Storm
Congressional testimony by Dr. Eric Storm. Part II of a series on the exciting promise of fusion power.
TMI 10 Years Later: News Lies Never Stop
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Economics
Debt Fears Drive Oil Supply Threats
by Christopher White
As the IMF Interim Committee meeting convenes in Washington, the real fight is over raw political control: who will be thrown overboard, and who will be doing the throwing overboard.
International Creditors Go for Ibero-America’s Crown Jewels
by Mark Sonnenblick
Privatization Could Kill the American Space Program
by Marsha Freeman
Currency Rates
Worldwatch Propaganda Lies that Mass Starvation Is Inevitable
by Marcia Merry
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
GATT Talks Resume in Geneva.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Wall Street’s New Oil Manipulations.
Business Briefs
Feature
Vatican Takes On American Heresy at Rome Meeting
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi and Susan Welsh
The American bishops have their marching orders: Your job is to lead the faithful out of the morass of American cultural degeneration—not to fall into it.
Cardinal Ratzinger: Bishops vs. Theologians
“It is the hallmark of truth to be worth suffering for. In the deepest sense of the word, the Evangelist must also be a martyr.”
Cardinal O’Connor: The Church in America
“One gets a sense that a kind of moral free enterprise system took over at some point. The ‘moral market’ has been allowed to float.”
Pope John Paul II: Our Criterion Must Be Truth
International
Lebanese Christians Appeal To End Syrian Occupation
The United States, France, and the Vatican have reaffirmed their support for Lebanese sovereignty. But U.S. actions are not forthcoming, while State Department officials cynically affirm that Lebanon is “better off” with Syrian troops there.
Soviet-Iran Terror Pact Casts Its Net
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Defend Iceland from Green Terrorism
by Poul Rasmussen
Greenpeace is lying, again—and the target is NATO’s strategic northern flank.
Uprising in Kosovo Leaves 150 Dead
by Konstantin George
Ogarkov Remains in Strategic Command
by Konstantin George
Gorbachov Elections a Purging Circus
by Konstantin George
Irangate’s Rowland Under Fire in U.K.
by Mark Burdman
Mideast Leaders To Meet with Bush
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Scott Thompson
South Korean Government Faces Yet Another Crisis with Opposition
by Lydia Cherry
Terrorist M-19 Ceded a Piece of Colombia
by Javier Almario
International Intelligence
National
Kissinger Putsch in U.S. Heightens War Danger
by Webster G. Tarpley
Henry Kissinger’s “New Yalta” power-sharing arrangement with Moscow is now accepted as Administration policy.
Defense Secretary Wages War on SDI
by Kathleen Klenetsky
C. Boyden Gray: The Bush Administration’s Hoaxster
by Joseph Brewda
The self-defined guardian of the public virtue is actually one of the top hatchet-men of the Bush administration. More than anyone else, perhaps, he knows where the “bodies” of Irangate are buried.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Central America Deal—What Price?
National News
