Volume 18, Number 9, March 1, 1991
Interviews
Indian Foreign Minister Vidyacharan Shukia
by Hartmut Cramer and Mary McCourt Burdman
North-South wars are a matter of grave concern to Non-Aligned member-nations.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas
by Hartmut Cramer and Mary McCourt Burdman
Non-Aligned idea of a new order is different from Bush’s.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister James Herat
by Hartmut Cramer and Mary McCourt Burdman
The Gulf war is an economic disaster for Non-Aligned nations.
Reviews
H.L. Mencken and the Roots of Bush’s American Fascism
by Charles Hughes
The Diary of H.L. Mencken, edited by Charles A. Fecher.
Rewedding Morality to Modern Society
by Warren J. Hamerman
Moral Philosophy and Social Ethics, by Dario Composta.
Peter Sellers Puts the Soap in Mozart’s Operas
by David Shavin
The Movie ‘Henry V,’ or, Why the British Elites Despise Shakespeare
by Renée Sigerson
The “musical” power of the original drama.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
New Push for Infrastructure Projects.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
Salinas Unleashes “Oil Cholera.”
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Narcos Go for Total Amnesty.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Noriega’s Comeback.
Editorial
War and Peace.
Science & Technology
France’s Nuclear Industry Still World’s Best, Safest
by Emmanuel Grenier
This country, which produces so much electricity from nuclear power that it has enough for export, must resist the temptation to knuckle under to environmentalist demands for the kind of “American”-style regulation that killed the U.S. program.
France Is Number One in Nuclear
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
A tour d’horizon of France’s nuclear history.
Economics
Moscow Readies a Big Shift in Economic Policy
by Christopher White and Carol White
The new prime minister, Valentin Pavlov, rejects Western free market madness, driving the Kissinger types to distraction.
Trud Interviews Pavlov: ‘Let’s Be Realistic’
A preview of the new prime minister’s report on the monetary reform program that will be submitted to the Supreme Soviet.
Peru Cholera Epidemic Threatens Continent
by Valerie Rush
What the bombs are doing to Baghdad, the IMF is doing to Ibero-America.
Move To Deregulate California’s Water
by Pamela Lowry
Only those who can pay will get water.
ConAgra: Free Trade Swindlers
by Suzanne Rose
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Free Trade Pact Faces Farm Opposition.
World Trade
by William Engdahl
Soviets, Germans Sign New Trade Accord.
Business Briefs
International
Bush’s Genocide Will Hand Mideast to Moscow
by Joseph Brewda
The U.S. President’s refusal to negotiate has exposed his aim to destroy Iraq.
Iraq Seeks ‘Honorable and Acceptable Political Solution’ to Mideast War
Excerpts from the Feb. 16 Revolutionary Command Council cease-fire initiative.
Time Not on the Side of Waffling by the Non-Aligned Movement
by Hartmut Cramer and Mary McCourt Burdman
Our correspondents report from Belgrade, with interviews with the foreign ministers of India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.
Somalia: Behind Tribal Conflicts, British Geopolitical Policy
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Tribal rivalry is not killing this country on the Horn of Africa. The Anglo-American colonial policy is.
China Shifts Against Anglo-Americans
by Mary McCourt Burdman
India Tries To Recoup Gulf Policy
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
The Chandra Shekhar government is feeling the heat as a result of its buddying up to “the allies.”
French Debate on War Heats Up with Debray Letter to the Socialists
Those who try to maintain the fiction in France that this is a “U.N. action” are the same ones who, in the 1950s, staunchly maintained that “Algeria is France.”
Venezuelans Oppose Plan To Bust OPEC
by Carlos Méndez
That Henry Kissinger is advising the government has especially rankled citizens.
Can Carlos Menem Last Much Longer?
by Cynthia R. Rush
It’s not just Argentina that is suffering depression.
Special Forces or Engineering Corps: Which Role for Military in Drug War?
by Gretchen Small
More on the book Military and Democracy, to emasculate Ibero- America’s military, and the alternatives provided by the Andean Labor Party and Peru’s Solidarity Movement.
International Intelligence
National
Wilder Commutes Death Sentence of Famous Prisoner
by Nancy Spannaus
The internationally celebrated case of Joseph Giarratano has put the spotlight on the injustice system of Virginia’s Attorney General Mary Sue Terry.
Rohatyn Plots Final Solution for N.Y. City
by H. Graham Lowry
Churches Join Forces To Halt Gulf Slaughter
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The war dominated the deliberations of the World Council of Churches conference in Australia.
‘The Minotaur of War Has Been Loosed’
by Rep. Henry Gonzalez
The Texas Congressman explains to a voter why he is seeking Bush’s impeachment.
Chicago Democrat Asks ‘LaRouche Alert’
by Patricia Salisbury
The Cook County party chairman fears a repeat of 1986, when LaRouche-linked candidates beat the party hacks in the state primary.
FEC Finds ADL, MC Broke Law vs. LaRouche
The FEC released its findings only after a year, and five years after the initial complaint.
Nebraska Plea Bargain Seen as Coverup
by Alan Ogden
Nebraskans are furious that the child sex abuse prostitution ring may escape its day in court.
National News
