Volume 17, Number 4, January 19, 1990
Interviews
Father Georghe Calciu
A Catholic priest describes his 21 years of imprisonment by the Communist regime in Romania, and denounces the post-Ceausescu regime as a new form of Soviet imperialism.
Book Reviews
New Books on the Scottish Rite: Are You a Man, or a Mason?
by Katherine Kanter
Freemasonry and Its Image of Man. A Philosophical Investigation, by Giuliano Di Bernardo; The Temple and the Lodge, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, and The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland’s Century, 1590-1710, by David Stevenson.
Book Notes
by Katherine Notley
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
General Labor Strike in the East?
Report from Paris
Kampuchea’s “Presentable Barbarians.”
Report from Rome
by Rosanna Impiccini
Did Radicals Take Drug Dollars?
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Will Congress Probe the Invasion?
Dateline Mexico
by Rosa Sánchez de Cota
Children Sing for Freedom.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Liberal Noose Tightens on Collor.
Andean Report
by Peter Rush
IMF Austerity Hits Venezuela.
Editorial
Satan Must Be Defeated.
Economics
Prime Rate Cut Won’t Stop Deflation
by Stephen Parsons
All it might do is postpone the collapse of billions—in financial paper, making it even worse when it does come.
Bush’s ‘Thousand Points of Light’ Snuffed Out as Homelessness Grows
by Marcia Merry
Currency Rates
U.S. Backs Argentine Deflationary Policy
by Peter Rush
The Illinois & Michigan Canal Story
by Anthony K. Wikrent
The lessons of building the canal which created the city of Chicago virtually overnight, can and must be applied to guiding Central Europe’s economy toward a “third way” between communist planning and Thatcherite “free market” insanity.
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Cartelization Jeopardizes Meat Supply.
Domestic Credit
by John Hoefle
Brady Threatens Real Estate Market.
Business Briefs
Feature
War on Drugs by the United States Has Never Begun
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Economist Lyndon LaRouche updates his 1985 strategy for an effective military war against drugs, as opposed to the farce which the Bush Administration has committed itself to.
Legalizers Gloat at Bush Drug Policy
Thornburgh Blocks the War on Drugs
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Bush Installs Partners of Cali Cartel To Rule Panama
Dukakis Team Helped Cover Up for Bush
Panama’s Democratic Drug Pushers
Syrian Drug-Traffic Connection Indicted
by Thierry Lalevée
What Henry Kissinger Doesn’t Want You To Know about Communist China
Bush’s Threats To Blockade Colombia Give Big Boost to Drug Cartels
by José Restrepo
International
Moscow Regroups To Crush Democratic Revolutions
by Konstantin George
As it has already done in Romania, the Soviet leadership plans to install a new brand of racial-chauvinist satraps in Russia, Bulgaria, and the Transcaucasus before the tide of revolt sweeps those regions out of its imperial grasp.
Eyewitness Report: 200,000 in Leipzig: ‘Down with the SED!’
by Volcker Hassmann
The ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ on Panama
by Valerie Rush
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark speaks out.
Ibero-American Nations in Uproar over U.S. Gunboat Diplomacy
by Mark Sonnenblick
Khmer Rouge on Verge of Seizing Western Cambodia
by Uwe Henke v. Parpart
No End to Afghan Genocide in Sight
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Greenpeace and the Satanic Ideology of the ‘New Age’
Part III of a series.
China, in Shift, Rips U.S.-Soviet Alliance
by Mary McCourt Burdman
International Intelligence
National
George Bush Prepares To Terminate NATO
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Breaking yet another campaign promise, the President is abandoning all pretext of defending Europe against Soviet military might, and has declared poor Third World nations as America’s main enemy.
First Arrogance, Then the Fall?
by Herbert Quinde
More than skeletons will come out of the closet if Ronald Reagan is forced to testify in the Iran-Contra trial.
Billington Rebuts Police-State Aims
by Michael Billington
In sentencing the LaRouche fundraiser to 77 years in prison, the prosecution dropped all pretense that they were “fighting crime.”
We Mourn Michael Spannaus
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
New Law Would Help Protect Disabled.
National News
