Volume 19, Number 33, August 21, 1992
Interviews
Elido Veschi
by Gerardo Terán Canal
The secretary general of the Argentine Personnel Association of the Railroad and Port Directorate analyzes the Menem government’s plan to privatize the country’s state-run railroads.
Edmond-Luc Henry
by Emmanuel Grenier
Mr. Henry is a hemophiliac who was infected by the HIV virus through blood transfusions. He is a plaintiff in a criminal case charging four French officials with allowing blood that was known to be contaminated to be used in transfusions.
Departments
Andean Report
by Andrea Olivieri
Will Peru Revamp Its Economic Policy?
Banking
by John Hoefle
Olympia & York U.S. Holdings Next.
Agriculture
by Don Eret
Feds Okay More Speculation on Food.
China Report
by Michael Billington
Stock Scam Sets Off Riot in Shenzen.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Armed Forces Win Concessions.
Dateline Mexico
by Luis Nava and Carlos Cota Meza
Free Trade Breeds Cholera.
Books Received
Editorial
The Russian Coup One Year Later.
Books
A Personal Account of Japan’s Meiji Restoration
by Carol White
Samurai and Silk, A Japanese and American Heritage, by Haru Matsukata Reischauer.
The British Assess Vietnam
by Linda de Hoyos
Vietnam at the Crossroads, by Michael C. Williams.
The Peace Movement That Slipped Out of Great Britain’s Control
by Denise Henderson
The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America, by Valarie H. Ziegler.
The King Papers: A Mixed Review
by Marianna Wertz
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951.
Furtwängler’s Name Cleared—At Last
by Kathy Wolfe
The Devil’s Music Master: The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler, by Sam H. Shirakawa.
Economics
40 Million Face Starvation if Africa Is Not Helped
Helga Zepp-LaRouche appeals to world governments to reverse the “catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions.”
Documentation: Depopulation stalks Africa.
Somalia Must Be Flooded with Food, To Stop Hecatomb
by Dana S. Scanlon
South Africa’s ANC-Led Strikes: A Dangerous Power Play
by Uwe Friesecke
Central Bank Under Attack in Germany
by Rainer Apel
Yegor Gaidar’s Days May Be Numbered
by Konstantin George
Railroad ‘Reform’ Will Dismember Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
U.S. Airlines Bleeding to Death; British Move in for the Kill
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Currency Rates
U.S. Unemployment Coverup
Business Briefs
Feature
Europe Must Dump the Monster of Maastricht, Now
by Jacques Cheminade
The president of the Schiller Institute in France analyzes the Treaty on European Union, on the eve of a national referendum on whether to support it: “The so-called European ‘experts’ put the future of Europe within the frame of deflation, adjustment, and austerity, as if it were a mandate of God. It is not. It is a mandate of the Anglo-American system.”
International
Russia Shifts Balkan Policy, ‘Great Powers’ Clash Looms
by Konstantin George
Boris Yeltsin’s announcement that Russia will recognize the Republic of Macedonia amounts to a virtual foreign policy coup.
Glasgow Press Conference Exposes Brutality of Serbian Aggression
LaRouche on Bosnia crisis
Trial Shows French Officials Allowed AIDS-Contaminated Blood To Be Used
by Katherine Notley
Lies, Fraud Surround Bush-Rabin Meeting
by Joseph Brewda
Ecological Economics and the Perilous Hoax of Sustainable Development
by Torbjoern Jerlerup
A report from a conference in Stockholm of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
Candidate LaRouche To Address Schiller-ICLC
International Intelligence
National
ADL Unit Gets a Drubbing at Hearing on Demjanjuk Frameup
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The hearing before the Court of Appeals in Cincinnati gave John Demjanjuk, who sits in an Israeli prison awaiting the outcome of an Israeli Supreme Court review of his conviction and death sentence, the first opportunity in 15 years to have his case publicly aired before an apparently unbiased judicial panel.
‘Big Brother’ Makes New Power Grab as Barr Targets State Legislatures
by Leo Scanlon
The Attorney General says the Bush Administration’s problem in fighting crime is that state legislatures are “in the grip of” the defense lawyers. Solution? Scrap the Bill of Rights!
House Committee Calls for Inslaw Prosecutor
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dannemeyer Challenges ‘Ozone Hole’ Hoax
by Marsha Freeman
Farmer Makes Unique Run for Congress
Elephants & Donkeys
by Katherine Notley
Cat Got Bush’s Tongue?
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
