Volume 13, Number 4, January 24, 1986
Interviews
Elisabeth Furtwängler
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
The wife of the late German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler recounts her husband’s battle to uphold the best of German classical culture, the heritage of Beethoven—despite the horrors of the Nazi period and a slander campaign run by the U.S. East Coast music mafia after the war.
Jacob D. Nyaose
by Nicholas F. Benton
The exiled founder of the liberation movement in the Republic of South Africa discusses the prospects for a nonviolent solution to his nation’s crisis.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who Is Really Sinking Pemex?
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Zia Lifts Martial Law in Pakistan.
Report from Paris
by Mark Burdman
Will a New France Emerge?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Politician Gives Moscow a Hard Time.
Editorial
A Simple Little Test.
Economics
U.S. Bankruptcy Sparks the ‘Great Insurance War’
by David Goldman
Russians Tease Bonn with Trade Promises
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
Banking
by Donald Baier
First Fidelity Bank’s Links to Crime.
Labor in Focus
by Marianna Wertz
Gramm-Rudman Will Hit the Dakotas.
Report from Italy
by Renato Tosatto
IMF Demands Cuts in Health Care.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Opening the Age of Electromagnetic Flight
by Marsha Freeman
Reports on the “maglev” trains which will be able to travel from New York to San Francisco in 21 minutes.
The Collapse of U.S. Railroads
German Industry Tests ‘Super-Train’
by William Engdahl
Describes the electromagnetic trains in West Germany which are nearing readiness for commercial use.
Feature
The Israeli Card in Russian Grand Strategy
by Criton Zoakos and Mark Burdman
A powerful faction inside the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence organization, has deployed, in coordination with the Russian KGB, a formidable terror and assassination capability against the United States. Editor-in-chief Criton Zoakos and Mark Burdman analyze the development of this faction and its origins in the Russian port city of Odessa.
Irgun, Mossad, and Global Terrorism
by Paul Goldstein
The historical roots of the Sharon faction in the Mossad.
Qaddafi’s Israeli Connection: A Case Study of ‘The Trust’
by Scott Thompson
When President Reagan called for a boycott against the Libyan economy, did he realize who runs that economy? It certainly is not Qaddafi.
Soviets Move into Gulf, Mediterranean
by Thierry Lalevée
International
State Department Guns for Civil War in Philippines
by Linda de Hoyos
As of the middle of January, the State Department has displayed its full-fledged support for the opposition ticket. If its strategy succeeds, the United States will be forced to withdraw its military bases.
World Cup Soccer Tainted by Mafia, Kissinger, as ’78 Scandal Widens
by Mark Sonnenblick
Did Henry Kissinger buy the 1978 World Soccer Cup for Argentina? A tale of bribes, drugs, and false-bottomed suitcases.
Spain: A Referendum for ‘Decoupling’
by Leonardo Servadio
United Kingdom: Who’s Afraid of Mrs. Thatcher?
by Laurent Murawiec
Qaddafi Devil Cultists Captured as South Americans Begin Crackdown
by Gretchen Small
International Intelligence
National
Weinberger: American System Can Be Exported
by Leo Scanlon
A Pentagon-sponsored conference on Low Intensity Warfare highlighted two distinct trends of thought battling to shape U.S. policy in the area: the traditional American approach versus the Spartan model.
‘From Augustine to Grotius’: Weinberger on the Just War
Speech by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at Fort McNair.
The Constitutional Challenge to the Gramm-Rudman Bill
by Sanford Roberts and John Chambless
The Congress has abdicated its own responsibility to govern and has violated the separation of powers—but the real crime goes deeper than the current critics are willing to recognize.
Gramm, Rudman in Their Former Lives
by Anton Chaitkin
The author of Treason in America traces the historical roots of today’s American budget maniacs.
National News
