Volume 17, Number 31, August 3, 1990
Interviews
Mathis Bortner
by Emmanuel Grenier
A leader of the French support movement for Solidarnosc reports on his recent talks with Lech Walesa and other Polish leaders.
Departments
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Business Up in Arms over Bush Plan.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Re-Educating the Russians.
Andean Report
by Andrea Olivieri
Drug Legalizer Named to Cabinet.
Editorial
Who Is To Blame?
Science & Technology
U.S. Electric Reliability Heads for Third World Levels
by Marsha Freeman
Rolling blackouts, rationed electricity use, dimmed streetlights, shortened work hours—these are only some of what’s in store for the post-industrial junk-heap which the United States has become over the last 20 years.
The Blackout that Crippled New York
An assessment of the impact of the 1965 New York City blackout, from a new report by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment titled “Physical Vulnerability of Electric Systems to Natural Disasters and Sabotage.”
Economics
This Time, Statistical Fakery Just Won’t Work
by Christopher White
When even the U.S. Commerce Department’s lies about the GNP start looking bad, you know that the new Great Depression is beginning to hit with hurricane force.
Poland Must Defend Her National Economic Interests
by Emmanuel Grenier
Jeffrey Sachs’s free-market “shock therapy” should be dumped along with communism. Interview with Solidarnosc-Côte d’Azur past president Mathis Bortner.
International Banks Running Credit Blockade against Colombia
by José Restrepo
Currency Rates
Menem Delivers Argentina’s Sovereignty on a Platter
by Cynthia R. Rush
His relationship with the Bush Administration won’t bail him out of problems brought on by his harsh austerity program.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
“Mad Cow” Disease Fuels Meat Phobia.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Russia Wants Western Oil Technology.
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouche’s Freedom Seen in Europe as Key to Future
by Hartmut Cramer
Europeans have no trouble seeing the parallel between the Bush Administration’s treatment of Lyndon LaRouche, and the Nazi regime’s crushing of the German Resistance 46 years ago, especially since LaRouche’s economic policies are wielding ever more influence on the continent.
Sovereign Germany: Core of a New, Just World Economic Order!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Policy statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairman of the Patriots for Germany party who is running to be a member of the first post-war all-German parliament.
Make July 20, 1994 into a European Memorial Day
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Economic Geography of Europe’s ‘Productive Triangle’
Like a great spiral nebula, whose arms reach into Africa, Asia, and the Mideast, the proposed grid of high-speed railways will turn Europe into the world’s most productive economy.
International
Italy To Probe CIA Ties to Palme Murder
by Leonardo Servadio and Mark Burdman
It could lift the cover off Ollie North’s Project Democracy: Italian President Cossiga’s demand for an inquiry into whether U.S. intelligence, via the Propaganda-2 lodge, had a hand in the assassination of Olof Palme.
Documentation: The Cossiga letter; Ex-CIA agents Brenneke and Razin on Italian TV.
Bonn Official Survives Assassination Attempt
Palme Murder Used To Frame LaRouche
by Göran Haglund
ADL Attacks Poland, Catholic Church
by Joseph Brewda
Why Certain British Elites Hate Germany
by Mark Burdman
Anglican Primate Paints God ‘Green’
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Britain Courts the Butchers of Beijing
by Mary McCourt Burdman
ASEAN Hits U.S. Turnabout on Cambodia
by Linda de Hoyos
Two Koreas Move a Step Closer Despite Attempts To Stop Them
by Lydia Cherry
Dope, Inc. Tightens Grip on Pakistan
by Susan Maitra
Anglo-Americans Add Oil to Mideast Fire
by Joseph Brewda
International Intelligence
National
Lt. Col. Oliver North: Patriot or Pusher?
by Carol White and Herbert Quinde
North, one of the dirtiest figures on the U.S. political scene today, is trying to dupe Americans into believing that it can be patriotic to back drug pushers.
Appeals Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Action Was in ‘Bad Faith’
Not LaRouche, but the U.S. government committed fraud against LaRouche’s political supporters.
Jailed Associates of LaRouche Denied Parole
Appeals Court Grants Ascher’s Petition
Nebraska Grand Jury Protects Child Abuse
The Anti-Defamation League and the Dostoevsky Project
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Part III of a series on the ADL and the “New Age.”
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
