Volume 16, Number 37, September 15, 1989
Interviews
Raymond Harbin
by Andrew Rotstein
A forest ecologist and lumber company executive from Union City, Georgia, debunks the Wilderness Society’s campaign to ruin the nation’s forests.
Abdallah Bouhabib
by William Jones
Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States says that the U.S. refusal to back his country against drug-pushing Syrian regime is handing the initiative to the Soviet Union.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Can the Angry Russian Bear Be Tamed?
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
A New Christian Humanism.
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
Will Peru Continue Its War on Drugs?
Editorial
Kissinger and friends must be stopped.
Book Reviews
Christian Books on Rock Won’t Cure the Disease
by Donald Phau
Why Knock Rock? by Dan Peters and Steve Peters and The Devil’s Disciples, The Truth About Rock, by Jeff Godwin.
Numerology Opens No Doors to Great Music
by David Shavin
The Secret Power of Music, by David Tame.
In His Majesty’s Secret Service: Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau et Anna de Noailles: Correspondance 1911-1931 and Journal 1942-1945, by Jean Cocteau.
The ‘Great’ Picasso: Plain Old Satanist
by Nora Hamerman
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.
Ravel Letters Reveal Cultural Debauchery
by Odile Monjon
Maurice Ravel: Lettres, écrits, entretiens, compiled and annotated by Arbie Orenstein.
Economics
Leveraged Blowouts: The New LBOs
by Christopher White
Over $1 trillion worth of indebtedness is tied up in the financing put together especially over the period since 1986, to pay for leveraged buyouts.
Collapsing Food Production Means Half of All Mexicans Are Hungry
by Rubén Cota
A study issued by Mexico’s Planning and Budget Department says 42 million Mexicans cannot meet minimal food requirements, thanks to President Salinas’s destruction of his country on behalf of the IMF.
China’s Foodgrain Production: The Webs of Deception
by Ramtanu Maitra
Beijing’s optimistic harvest figures may be nothing more than a publicity stunt.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Buffalo Instead of People?
International Credit
by William Engdahl
IMF “Structural Adjustment” = Disaster.
Business Briefs
Feature
Voyager Reveals the Mysterious Planet Neptune
by Marsha Freeman
Humanity’s first “grand tour” of the Solar System ended with Voyager 2’s triumphant fly-by of Neptune, a planet whose turbulent weather system seems out of keeping with its vast distance from the Sun. Marsha Freeman describes the remarkable spacecraft and the painstaking scientific work which guided it on its 4.4 billion-mile journey, and reviews some of the mountains of data which it has sent back to us.
‘America’s Destiny To Pioneer in Space’
Magellan is already on its way to Venus, and Galileo is being readied for its flight to Jupiter.
International
An Icy Wind Is Blowing from Moscow to Stockholm
by Göran Haglund
The Soviet Union, through its disinformation chief Boris Pankin, is imperiously demanding that the Swedish government cover up new evidence that it was Gorbachov who ordered the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
LaRouche Comments on Pankin Threat
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Disinformation Hoaxsters Confess
Kremlin Unites To Crush Baltic Hopes
by Konstantin George
Walesa in Bonn: Time Is Short for Poland
by Birgitt Vitt and Gabriele Liebig
America Joins Syria against Lebanon
by Thierry Lalevée
Colombia Moves against Drug Financiers, Narcos Strike Back
by Valerie Rush
Unless there is real international support, Colombia will fall.
Eagleburger Admits U.S. Backs Drug Figures against Panama’s Noriega
by Carlos Wesley
Yang Shangkun Clique on the Move in China
by Linda de Hoyos
International Intelligence
National
Bush’s Drug Plan-a Step toward a Real War?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Mistakes of omission: The Administration should break with two of the world’s biggest drug dealers, Kissinger’s friends Hafez al-Assad and Communist China.
Bankers Back Mafia by Issuing Demands for Drug Legalization
From the right to the left ends of the political spectrum, the rationale is the same—the lie that the war on drugs, which has yet to be fought, “failed.”
LaRouche’s Anti-Drug Plan
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Former Congressman Backs LaRouche Appeal
by Andrew Rotstein
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Quayle Defends Curtailed SDI.
The Bronfmans: In the Service of Moscow’s Interests
by Scott Thompson
In this third installment of a series on the whiskey dynasty, Scott Thompson explores how Edgar Bronfman has exploited Jewish concerns on behalf of Moscow.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
Corrections
In the centerfold strategic map in last week's issue (No. 36), no doubt the geographically astute reader noted that the number 17 for Communist China was misplaced, to point to the eastern U.S.S.R. In the Feature. Table 1 had several errors. A corrected version of the table and the relevant portion of the text, will appear in our next issue. We apologize for any confusion that may have resulted.
