Volume 23, Number 31, August 2, 1996
Interviews
Sara Madueño Paulet
by Katharine Kanter
The president of the Schiller Institute in Peru and a leader of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement was interviewed in Europe about how the war on Shining Path can yet be won.
Departments
Andean Report
by Manuel Hidalgo
The British Rush To Take Over Peru.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Will Germans Ever Land on Mars?
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
New Military Club Head Slams Globalism.
Editorial
The New International Terrorism.
Books
Parents Being Misguided about Attention Deficit Disorder
by Philip Ulanowsky
Teenagers with ADD, A Parents’ Guide, by Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, MS.
Degrading the Issues, Destroying the Mind
by Nancy Spannaus
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, by James Fallows.
A Disservice to American History
by Nancy Spannaus
Trial and Triumph: Presidential Power in the Second Term, by Alfred J. Zacher.
Sir Jimmy’s City of London Magic Tricks
by Laurent Manet
La réponse a la Commission Européenne et aux Libre-Echangistes Premiers Responsables du Chômage, du Déclin de la Nation et de l’Europe, by Jimmy Goldsmith.
Economics
‘Success Story’ of U.S. Jobs Creation Is a Fraud
by Richard Freeman
An April U.S. policy document entitled “Job Creation and Employment Opportunities: The United States Labor Market, 1993-96,” paints a rosy picture of prosperity. But the report is a combination of statistical and methodological incompetence and willful deceit.
Russian Financial System Nears Collapse
by Konstantin George
The IMF is withholding $330 million that Russia was scheduled to receive in July, while outgoing Presidential chief of staff Nikolai Yegorov spills the beans on the imminent blowout of state finances.
Currency Rates
Mexico Conference Maps Out Strategy for Defeating the IMF
by Valerie Rush
Documentation: The speech by PAN gubernatorial candidate Adalberto Rosas López to the Fifth National Forum entitled “Yes, There Is Life after the Death of the International Monetary Fund,” and texts of resolutions and greetings.
Business Briefs
Feature
Our choice: World Reconstruction, or World Dictatorship
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Tells the participants at a Washington, D.C. seminar that either the globalist approach recently ratified by Group of Seven leaders at Lyons, or the kind of strategic alliance among Russia, China, and the United States advanced by Lyndon LaRouche, will prevail. The first path leads to catastrophe, while the second offers a means for economic reconstruction.
International
TWA 800 Crash: An Act of War against the United States?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
If it turns out that the airplane’s explosion was due to a terrorist action, rather than a mechanical failure, this would amount to a first-order strategic threat.
President Clinton Puts U.S.-China Relations Back on the Right Track
by William Jones
The visit of National Security Adviser Anthony Lake to Beijing lays the basis for a new policy of “strategic engagement.”
U.S. Eximbank Should Finance Three Gorges Dam
by Ray Wei
ADL Neo-Cons Peddle War Plan for Mideast
by Dean Andromidas
A document published by the Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, written by a group led by former U.S. Defense Department official Richard Perle, would overturn Israel’s effort to achieve peace with its neighbors.
New ‘Universal Fascist’ Movement Is Formally Launched in Geneva
A report on the first Communitarian Network summit—kooky, but dangerous.
Mongolia: Elections Bring Shock Therapy and Geopolitics
by Mary Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Nazi Gov. Ridge Is At Eye of U.S. Political Storm
by Nancy Spannaus
Pennsylvania is rapidly turning into a central battlefield for the American public this year, including both political parties.
‘Dirty Dick’ Morris Assets Helped Wreck Peres Reelection
by Mark Sonnenblick
The subversive role of U.S. pollster Doug Schoen in engineering the defeat of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, should serve as a warning to President Clinton.
Welfare ‘Reform’ Bill Cracks Whip over Poor
by Suzanne Rose
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
