Volume 16, Number 30, July 28, 1989
Interviews
Gen. T’eng Chieh
The elder statesman of the Kuomintang party in the Republic of China probes the psychological weaknesses of the Deng Xiaoping clique in Beijing. Part II.
Book Reviews
The Chinese Communists’ ‘Tyrant Worse than Satan’
by Mark Burdman
Roger Faligot and Rémi Kauffer’s book The Chinese Secret Service examines the pervasive role of the late Kang Sheng in shaping the 20th century’s prototypical Orwellian totalitarian state.
Chairman Mao Was a Dirty Old Man
by Webster G. Tarpley
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Return of the China Card’s Pol Pot.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
OAS Rules Out Foreign Interference.
Andean Report
by Liliana Pazos
Chronic Hunger Plagues Peru.
Satanwatch
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Cotton Club Case.
Editorial
Let Us Honor Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.
Science & Technology
Global 2000 Revisited: The Environmentalists’ Errors
by Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser
Meteorologist Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser finds that the underpinnings of the ideology of “man the polluter” contained in the 1980 Global 2000 report to the President just don’t hold up under scientific scrutiny. As his point of reference, he uses the much-touted 1952 “killer smog” in London, England, which in fact didn’t kill anybody.
Economics
Put the ‘Butchers of Beijing’ Out of Business
by Linda de Hoyos
The calls for economic sanctions against the P.R.C. government, issued by escaped leaders of the Chinese movement for democracy, are being picked up around the world.
U.S. Arms Sustain Beijing Regime
by Joseph Brewda
China’s Economic Weakness Strengthens U.S. Hand
by Sheng-yu Huang
World Debt Crisis: Brazil Tries To Break the Siege
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Documentation: Excerpts of Sarney’s letter to French President François Mitterrand; and statements from Brazil’s UN ambassador and from Brazilian nationalist circles.
Currency rates
World Grain Production Can No Longer Feed the Human Race
by Rosa Tennenbaum
A survey by Food for Peace activist Rosa Tennenbaum.
Mine Workers’ Strike Was for Survival
by Stephen Parsons
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Who’s Wrecking the Uranium Industry?
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Behind the Great Soybean Battle.
Business Briefs
Feature
Moscow’s Racist Revival: A Strategy for World Empire
by Luba George
The new “Black Hundreds” of the Pamyat Society and other Russian chauvinist groups are on the march—with backing from the highest echelons of the Communist Party. Occurring amidst a systemic crisis of the Soviet economic and political system, this racist revival heralds a Soviet turn toward foreign aggression and war.
Soviet Press Plays Up Czarist Secret Service
Moscow’s Ugly Future, with or without Gorbachov
International
Is the Soviet Union Headed for a Fascist Crackdown?
by Konstantin George
With nothing to lose, and everything to gain, workers across the Soviet Union are going out on strike. Gorbachov is trying to crisis-manage, but his inevitable failure will be followed by decisive and brutal actions.
Documentation: Former KGB head Viktor Chebrikov lays out what’s in store for rebellious workers and nationalities.
Coup Plot Aims at Argentine President
by Cynthia R. Rush
Mexico’s Security Chief Zorrilla Pérez Ran Protection for Drug Czars
by Héctor Apolinar
How We Can Overthrow the Mainland China Dictatorship
Part 2 of interview of General T’eng Chieh.
Chinese Soldiers Were Sacrificed by Deng
by Sheng-yu Huang
A report by Chinese student Sheng-yu Huang on how Deng Xiaoping carefully orchestrated the Tiananmen Square massacre.
U.S. Troops To Stay in Korea—for Now
by Lydia Cherry
Bush Wants Another Deal with Iran
by Omar Ali al Montasser
International Intelligence
National
Will the United States Be First in Space Again?
by Carol White
The President’s commemorative speech on the anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing was a step in the right direction. But what is needed is a crash program—more precisely, a “crash economic space program.”
LaRouche on U.S. Space Policy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Wartime Space: ‘We Have Yielded Control’
by Gen. John L. Piotrowski, USAF
U.S. Air Force Gen. John L. Piotrowski describes how the Soviet Union could wipe the sky clean of Western satellites in the initial phases of hostilities.
Irangate Scandal Is Far from Over
by Herbert Quinde
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
A Nation of Snitches.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
