Volume 18, Number 48, December 13, 1991

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Books

Mozart Expert Asks Good Questions, Misses Answers

by David Shavin

The Mozart Compendium: A Guide to Mozart’s Life and Music, edited by H.C. Robbins Landon; Mozart and Vienna, by H.C. Robbins Landon; and Mozart and the Masons, by H.C. Robbins Landon.

The ‘Monstrous Hoax’ of Milton Friedman’s Chicago School

by Harley Schlanger

Eagle on the Street, by David A. Vise and Steve Coil.

Departments

Agriculture

by Suzanne Rose

Farmers Oppose Free Trade.

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Cutthroats “Investing” in Germany.

Banking

by John Hoefle

Another $130 Billion for the Banks.

Report from Rio

by Silvia Palacios

Collor Signs with the IMF ... Again.

Dateline Mexico

by Carlos Cota Meza

War Against Mexico’s Army.

Andean Report

by Valerie Rush

Are CAP’s Days Numbered?

Panama Report

by Carlos Wesley

More on Endara’s Drug Ties.

Middle East Report

by Joseph Brewda

Behind the Libya Tale.

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

The Blix Factor.

Editorial

Hostages for Sale.

Economics

Cholera Hits Ibero-America While Governments Fiddle

by Peter Rush

Peru’s President Fujimori cuts back funding for anti-cholera programs, under financial pressure from the International Monetary Fund-just in time for a renewed outbreak of the deadly disease.

U.N. Sees East Bloc in Deep Slump, But Overlooks ‘Triangle’ Solution

by Dean Andromidas

Venezuela’s Pérez, Absentee Leaders Try To Wreck Group of 15 Summit

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

GATT Talks Slouch Toward Conclusion

by Suzanne Rose

N.Y. Budget Crisis Destroying Cuomo

by Stephen Parsons

Camdessus Deflates Argentine ‘Miracle’

by María Pérez Galindo

Peru Must Fight To Resist the IMF’s ‘Savage Capitalism’

by Sen. Carlos Calderón Carvajal

Speech by Sen. Carlos Calderón Carvajal of Peru.

Peru’s Congress in Uproar

Currency Rates

New World ‘Compact’ Aims To Crush Nations

by Geraldo Luis Zaraiva Lino

‘Evidence for Global Warming, Ozone Depletion Is Sparse and Questionable’

by Dr. Dixy Lee Ray

Takes apart the arguments of the radical environmentalists.

Dustbowls, Superbugs: Don’t Blame God

by Brian Lantz

Business Briefs

Feature

Will We Repeat the Blunders that Led to World War I?

by Jacques Cheminade

Jacques Cheminade, chairman of the Schiller Institute in France, documents the drive to war that began with the French capitulation to Great Britain at Fashoda in 1898. The foolish Great Power games of that time, and the vacuum of effective leadership, bear uncanny resemblances to the situation today.

Nehru: The ‘Great War’ Cost Humanity Greatly

by Jawaharlal Nehru

To Understand Bush’s Policy, Look at How Britain Set Up World War I

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A strategic assessment.

International

Ukraine Vote Buries Fiction of ‘Soviet Union’

by Konstantin George

Up to now, western governments have feverishly clung to the illusion that a new Moscow Center, led by Mikhail Gorbachov, could somehow be resurrected. Now, that illusion lies shattered.

Serbian Atrocities Exposed in EC Report

by Umberto Pascali

Berlin Musicians Debate LaRouche Plan To Restore Scientific Tuning

by Liliana Celani

Israel Makes China Connection Official

by Michael Billington and Joseph Brewda

International Intelligence

National

Economic Crisis Throws George Bush into a Panic

by Kathleen Klenetsky

“We’re not going to do anything dumb,” announces the President. Oh, really?

War Crimes Tribunal Prepares To Try U.S.

FBI Files Show U.S. DoJ Protected Top ‘October Surprise’ Conspirators

by Edward Spannaus

LaRouche Movement Must Rebuild U.S. Institutions, for the Benefit of All

by Theo Mitchell

Speech by State Senator Theo Mitchell of South Carolina to the Berlin conference of the Schiller Institute.

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

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