Volume 16, Number 48, December 1, 1989
Interviews
Edward Nishnic
by Irene Beaudry
The son-in-law of John Demjanjuk describes the battle for justice in the case of a Soviet target.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Peak of East German Crisis Lies Ahead.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
The Condominium’s Little Errand Boy.
Andean Report
by Luis Ernesto Vásquez
Peru Doesn’t Want To Fight Drugs.
Editorial
Mrs. Thatcher’s “I Love Gorby” Movement.
Science & Technology
Solid-State Fusion: A Great Moment in Science
by Hal Fox
Solid-state fusion—“cold” fusion—is the most important discovery in this century and merits our best thinking, planning, and cooperation. Unfortunately, the idea was promulgated that the Fleischmann-Pons Effect was simple to replicate. Fusion Facts editor Hal Fox explains why such is not the case.
What Fusion Theory Must Explain
by Hal Fox
Hal Fox Biography
Experiments Show Anomalies Occurring
Remarks from the Oct. 18 press conference on the Workshop on Anomalous Effects in Deuterated Materials sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Electric Power Research Institute.
In Memory of Dr. Robert Moon
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Eulogizes a great man whom we shall greatly miss.
Economics
Greenspan Isn’t Preparing for Christmas
by Christopher White
With the new drop in interest rates, Greenspan is edging crabwise toward the full-blown hyperinflationary explosion that jailed economist Lyndon LaRouche warned of in September.
Vatican Conference Gives Hope in Fight against AIDS
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Mexican Government Desperate after Failure of Much-Touted Brady Plan
by Héctor Apolinar
Since September, numerous bankers have rejected Bush’s pleadings, insisting that Brady’s offer to reduce other nations’ foreign debts is like betting at poker with someone else’s hand.
Brazil’s Voters Face Economic Crossroads
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
On Nov. 15, when 82 million Brazilians voted in the first direct Presidential election in 29 years, their republic was exactly 100 years old.
Currency Rates
Washington Cuts Food Bank Donations, as Local Agencies Plead for Relief
by Marcia Merry
HOPE To Subsidize Real Estate Market
by Stephen Parsons
Domestic Credit
by John Hoefle
Wall Street Discovers the “Recession.”
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
“Big Brother” Hawks Zero Growth.
Business Briefs
Feature
Friedrich List and the Program for Europe Today
by Anton Chaitkin
Back on the agenda: the ideas of economist Friedrich List, the leading continental European foe of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, whose notion of national economy was based on the American System, and whose 200th birthday occurs this year.
Friedrich List’s Collaboration with Republican Circles in France
by Laurent Murawiec
Speech to the June 10 conference on Friedrich List sponsored by the Patriots for Germany.
The New Railroad Boom beyond the Elbe
by Rainer Apel
International
Moscow Could Still Decide To Crush the Revolution
by Konstantin George and John Sigerson
Fidel Castro’s military offensives in El Salvador demonstrate that the hardliners may force a drastic shift in Moscow between now and mid-January.
EC Summit Paralyzed by Thatcher, IMF
by Paolo Raimondi
Anyone who has witnessed the collapse of the “free market” economy in the U.S. knows such policies have no place in a serious revival of Europe’s physical economy.
Soviets On Rampage against German Unity
by Mark Burdman and Konstantin George
Castro Unleashes El Salvador War
by Mark Sonnenblick
Chinese Premier Li Peng Completes Image-Building Trip to South Asia
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Russian Chauvinism—The Real Danger of a Fascist Resurgence Today
by Luba George
Ukrainian Nationalists Reject Anti-Semitism
Lockerbie Coverup May Be Cracking
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Car-Bomb in Beirut: Will Lebanon Survive?
Documentation: A letter to the Lebanese throughout the world, by Prime Minister Gen. Michel Aoun.
International Intelligence
National
Bush Defense Cuts Increase War Danger
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The kinds of cuts being demanded will render the U.S. military capable only of “special operations,” such as those envisaged by the infamous Wohlstetter Report of 1988.
The Dwayne Andreas File: How the ADL Works for Moscow
by Scott Thompson
Not only are the Anti-Defamation League’s top funders and controllers not Jewish—they are all set to trade the fate of persecuted Jewish refuseniks for fat profits in Soviet trade.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
