Volume 19, Number 19, May 8, 1992

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Corrections

 

Our April 17 issue (p. 10) misidentified UNCED. It is the UN Conference for Environment and Development. In our March 27 issue, “The World Needs More People” (p. 21) contained a miscalculation. If the world population were placed in Texas, the amount of land available for every family would be about one-fifth of an acre.

Interviews

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The political prisoner and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination talks to a Brazilian newspaper about the challenge facing that nation.

Departments

Report from Rio

by Silvia Palacios

The Malthusian Face of Eco-92.

Andean Report

by Valerie Rush

Anarchy Looms in Colombia.

Report from Paris

by Emmanuel Grenier

A Painful Experiment with Greens.

Editorial

The Tyranny of the Media.

Reviews

Abu Nidal: Another Look at ‘State-Sponsored Terrorism’

by Dean Andromidas

Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire, by Patrick Seale.

‘New Age’ Kookery Invades the Biology Textbook Market

by Susan Welsh

Biology: Discovering Life, by Joseph S. Levine and Kenneth R. Miller.

Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for Easter

by Kathy Wolfe

Matthäus-Passion by J.S. Bach, BWV 244; Johannes Somary, conductor; compact disc.

Economics

IMF, Eyeing Russian Loot, Boasts of New Imperial Age

by Kathy Wolfe

The entry of the republics of the Community of Independent States into the International Monetary Fund is the last gasp of the Versailles System, as the bankers grasp for one last source of loot to prop up their failing monetary system.

IMF Is Behind the Guadalajara Tragedy

by Hugo López Ochoa

IMF Deal Loots CIS and Baltic States

by Konstantin George

Toward the Rio Summit: South Contests Bretton Woods Institutions

by Lydia Cherry and Ramtanu Maitra

U.S. Mayors Issue List of ‘Ready To Go’ Public Works Jobs

by Anthony K. Wikrent

U.S. Arm-Twists Russia Against Technology Transfer to India

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

Japanese Cold Fusion Scientist Reports Neutrons and 70% Energy Gain

by Laurence Hecht

Looted Colonial Savings & Loan Key to Virginia State Police Corruption

by Anton Chaitkin

Currency Rates

Agriculture

by Sue Atkinson and Suzanne Rose

Farm Credit System Swindles Exposed.

Business Briefs

Feature

What Brazil Must Do To Defend Its Sovereignty

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

In an interview with a Brazilian newspaper, LaRouche discusses his years-long battle against the policies represented by Henry Kissinger. If Brazil is to realize its potential as a great nation, it must develop as a sovereign democratic republic. How is this to be done, under the current conditions of onslaught by the imperial forces of the “new world order”?

International

Germany Enters Worst Crisis in 18 Years

by Nora Hamerman

With the resignation of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who has held that post since 1974, a vacuum has been created in Bonn at a time when decisive executive action is required. The man to watch out for: Count Lambsdorff.

Is the Spirit of Malvinas Reviving in Ibero-America?

by Cynthia R. Rush

Documentation: Carapintadas emerge throughout the continent.

Aristide Demands ‘Contras’ for Haiti

by Carlos Wesley

London Floats Plan for Splitting China

by Mark Burdman

International Intelligence

National

Race Riots Explode, as Bush’s World Falls Apart

The violence that has followed the acquittal of four police officers in Los Angeles, charged with assaulting black motorist Rodney King, is not an isolated incident, and it is not spontaneous, either.

World Press Decries Harris Execution

Corporatist Planners Take Over State Budgets

by H. Graham Lowry

Dope Money Is Buying the U.S. Elections

by John Hoefle

The case of Carl Lindner.

Charge U.S. Defaults on LaRouche Bid for Freedom

by Warren J. Hamerman

The rebuttal to a U.S. government attempt to block the “2255” motion for a new trial.

National News

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