Volume 19, Number 38, September 25, 1992
Interviews
Dr. Janos Goyak
by Ronald Kokinda
Dr. Goyak, a priest and professor of social ethics who works with the Christian Democratic People’s Party of Hungary, discusses the perspectives for economic reform in his former communist country.
Hike Babookhanian
by Marianna Wertz
The editor of the newspaper of the Republican Party of Armenia, Mr. Babookhanian is also vice president of the Union of Constitutional Rights of Armenia and deputy of the Yerevan City Parliament.
Yuri Chernichenko
by Rachel Douglas
The president of the Farmer Party of Russia describes the grain acquisition crisis in Russia this summer as the worst since 1927 and 1928.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Volcker Hassmann
Monetarist Solutions Won’t Work.
Australia Dossier
by Don Veitch
Imperial Myths Collapsing Slowly.
Middle East File
by Joseph Brewda
Iraq Issues Appeal on “No Fly” Zone.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Shining Path Is On the March.
Editorial
Choose the LaRouche Alternative, Now.
National Economy
A Hamiltonian National Banking Plan for East Europe
by William Engdahl
Presents a detailed alternative to the devastating austerity programs of the International Monetary Fund. A speech to the Schiller Institute’s conference in Kiedrich, Germany in May, to an audience which included many representatives from former communist countries of central and eastern Europe.
Reviews
Classical LaserDiscs: Many Advantages, and a Few Caveats
by Kathy Wolfe
“Macbeth,” by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli; “Giovanna d’Arco,” by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Beethoven Lieder, Peter Schreier, tenor, and Norman Shetler, piano; Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, conducted by Kurt Masur.
Economics
Central Bank System Cracks; New Monetary System Urgent
by Christopher White
The British pulled the pound out of Europe’s Exchange Rate Mechanism, in a move that will go down in the history books as that which plunged the world into the Great Depression of the 1990s.
Harvard Intervenes To Aggravate Relations between Russia and Japan
by Kathy Wolfe
Centesimus Annus, a Challenge for East Europe
by Dr. Janos Goyak
A speech by Dr. Janos Goyak to a conference of the Schiller Institute.
Why Should We Pay the Communist Debt?
by Ronald Kokinda
An interview with Dr. Janos Goyak.
Currency Rates
Ethanol Use Debated While Millions Starve
by Suzanne Rose
Ethanol is a fuel made from corn, and is being touted as a way to boost agriculture markets. But it’s a fraud: a waste of energy and money.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Banks Claim Record Earnings.
Business Briefs
Feature
Mercantilism vs. Free Trade: The War for Ibero-America
by Cynthia R. Rush
There is a tradition of “Hamiltonian” economics in Ibero-America which has been viciously suppressed, but which provides the key to getting out of the current economic crisis in the region. A speech by Cynthia Rush to the founding conference of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement in Tlaxcala, Mexico in May.
British Geopolitics in Ibero-America
International
Shining Path Arrest Is a Black Eye for State Dept.
by Valerie Rush
The Peruvian government’s capture of Shining Path terrorist ideologue Abimael Guzmán, along with a dozen of his top henchmen, was the opening shot of an anti-terrorist strategy which could break the back of that organization.
Serbian Regular Forces Move To Crush Bosnia
by Konstantin George
‘Armenia Must Win the War So We Can Develop Our Economy’
by Marianna Wertz
An interview with Hike Babookhanian.
Greece, Turkey Crises May Widen Balkan War
by Konstantin George
Russian Government Broke, Can’t Pay for Winter Bread
by Rachel Douglas
An interview with Yuri Chernichenko.
Bangladeshi Migrants Are Flooding India
by Ramtanu Maitra
Uruguay Resists George Bush’s ‘Democratic New Order’
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Documentation: From an interview with former President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry.
Pentagon, IMF Target Jordan, Other Arab States in Arrest of Shubeilat
by Joseph Brewda
Bush Miscalculates, This Time on China
by Mary McCourt Burdman
British Crisis Has the Monarchy at Bay
by Mary McCourt Burdman
International Intelligence
National
IMF Moves To Seize Control over United States Economy
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board took the highly unusual step—in an election year, at that—of demanding that the U.S. government immediately enact a combination of draconian tax increases and spending cuts. The treatment that has long been meted out to the Third World has now come home to roost.
Remembering Allen Salisbury, a Fighter for Truth
‘New Civil Rights Movement’ Targets the Death Penalty
by Anita Gallagher
LaRouche-Bevel Step Up Independent Bid
by Marla Minnicino
Inslaw Case: House Committee Seeks Special Prosecutor
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Elephants & Donkeys
by Katherine Notley
Churches Not Thrilled with Bush-Clinton Duo.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
