Volume 18, Number 21, May 31, 1991
Interviews
Lennart Skov-Hansen
by Poul Rasmussen
The deputy general of Danchurchaid, the relief organization of the Danish State Church, who recently visited Iraq, says the country has to be put back on its feet economically, or many more will die.
Departments
Books Received
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germans Squeezed by Two Superpowers.
Australia Dossier
by Lydia Cherry
A Glimpse of Australian Powerbrokers.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
The Case of the Negroponte Cable.
Report from Panama
by Carlos Wesley
The Noriega Papers.
Editorial
Is Bush Planning a New War?
Science & Technology
Cold Fusion Generators Possible in Five Years
Physicists Frederick Mayer and John Reitz have a new idea about what makes the controversial “cold fusion” experiments work. Their Boston press conference will no doubt infuriate those who have been determined to label cold fusion a scientific chimera-or a fraud.
Economics
Brazilian Minister: Save Lives before Paying Debt
by Silvia Palacios
Dr. Alceni Guerra blames the International Monetary Fund’s austerity policies for the current health disaster facing the continent.
Group Seeks To Save the Children of Iraq
Documentation: The “Plan of Action” released by the Committee to Save the Children in Iraq at a Bonn press conference.
Sanctions Must Be Lifted To Stop Further Loss of Life in Iraq
by Poul Rasmussen
An interview with Lennart Skov-Hansen.
Currency Rates
When Push Comes to Shove: Is the United Nations Savior or Spoiler When It Comes to Humanitarian Aid for Iraq?
by Eric Hoskins, M.D., Medical Coordinator, Gulf Peace Team.
Clash over Type of Investments in China
by Michael Billington
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
United States Imports Swedish Barley.
Business Briefs
Feature
‘Free Trade’: Worst Threat to U.S.A. since Confederacy
The Confederate States made it illegal to protect domestic industry and to foster national improvements. Today, the North American Free Trade Agreement will wreck what remains of U.S. industry, driving down wages to slave-labor levels, and turning Mexico into one big maquiladora. The conclusions of a survey by EIR’s Economics Staff.
Confederacy Was Based on Free Trade
International
British ‘New World Order’ behind Rajiv Gandhi Slaying
by Linda de Hoyos
The “crime” of the Indian subcontinent, in the Anglo-American oligarchy’s book, is its failure to become depopulated.
‘Assassination of Gandhi Is a Crime against Humanity’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Brazilians Challenge U.S.-Backed Genocide
Danger of War Intensifies through the Balkan Peninsula
by Konstantin George
Not the internal troubles alone, but outside, deliberately evil manipulation could drive Yugoslavia into civil war.
French Military Strategy Returns to Gunboat Diplomacy Aimed at South
by Christine Bierre
Military Crisis Builds in Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
Chinese Unity Debated in Hong Kong
by Webster Tarpley
Reports on a most unusual search for a national dialogue, among people from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and friends of China from abroad.
Sino-Soviet Summit: Troubled Giants Embrace
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Frankfurt Drug Lobby Hollers against ADC
by Volcker Hassmann
International Intelligence
National
House Capitulates to Fast Track, But Fight Expands
by Nancy Primack and Ronald Kokinda
Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is spearheading the resistance to NAFTA by North Americans unwilling to accept the destruction of their jobs, standard of living, and their future.
Queen Elizabeth Visit Celebrates Anglo-American Imperial Alliance
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Documentation: The Queen’s speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
U.S. Markets Being Flooded with Heroin
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nebraska Courts Still Shield Pedophile Ring
by Alan Ogden
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
