Volume 22, Number 31, August 4, 1995
Departments
Report from Paris
by Christine Bierre
New Relations with Morocco.
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
Samper On the Take.
Editorial
British Fascists Out of the Closet.
Science & Technology
U.S. and Russia Link Manned Space Programs
by Marsha Freeman
The docking of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station marked a milestone in scientific, economic, and diplomatic relations between the two space superpowers.
Economics
Food Cartel Set To Make a Killing off Soaring Prices
by Marcia Merry Baker
Top financial circles, recognizing that the global financial breakup could hit as early as this fall, or next year, are moving, through “smart” investments, to buy up gold and controlling interests in food production, on the estimate that super-profits are coming down the line.
Shock Therapy Takes Its Toll in Ukraine
by Konstantin George
The author, Konstantin George, spent the better part of July in the city of Lviv, with 1 million inhabitants, the main metropolis of western Ukraine.
Currency Rates
Venezuela’s Caldera Rejects Mexico Model
by David Ramonet
Free-Market Reforms Have Turned Poland into a Maquiladora
by Anna Kaczor-Wei
Documentation: “Privatization Threatens Polish Independence”: a speech to the Polish Parliament by Wojciech Blasiak, from the Coalition of the Independent Poland.
Business Briefs
Feature
Georg Cantor’s Contribution to a New Renaissance
by Dino de Paoli
Speech to a conference of the Schiller Institute in Halle, Germany on May 6, 1995, marking the 100th anniversary of discovery of the “paradox of the Absolute” by one of the greatest mathematicians of the past century.
“Die Worte des Glaubens” (“Words of Faith”)
by Friedrich Schiller
Translated by John Sigerson.
No Limits to Growth: Cantor’s Concept of Infinity in Economic Science
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Keynote address to the Halle conference.
Cantor and the Future of the Natural Sciences
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Cantor’s chief contribution to future scientific and technological revolutions is not to be sought mainly in “mathematical structures” but in the improved quality of scientific thinking, which a deep acquaintance with Cantor’s own process of discovery can bring.
International
Under U.S.-French Alliance, NATO Gives UN the Boot
by Edward Spannaus and Mark Burdman
The agreement between Clinton and Chirac has begun to reverse the years of appeasement of Serbian war crimes set into motion under Thatcher and Bush, and actively backed by former French President François Mitterrand.
A ‘Second Chiapas’ Brews in Guerrero
by Carlos Méndez
Germany: Euthanasia Comes One Step Closer
by Jutta Dinkermann
Armenia: A Farce Is Passed Off as Elections
by Haik Babookhanian
By a leader of the Union of Constitutional Rights in Armenia, a member of Yerevan’s City Council, and a newspaper editor.
International Intelligence
National
Battle over Medicare at Center of 1996 Election
by Nancy Spannaus
President Clinton vows an all-out political fight to save the program from the draconian cuts contained in the Republican budget.
Gingrich Touted for Police-State Role
by Scott Thompson
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne’s July 23 column in a London paper spills the beans on how the British oligarchy intends to replace the welfare state.
Waco Hearings Become a Partisan Standoff
by Leo Scanlon
Whitewater Hearings Degrade U.S. Senate
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
