Volume 23, Number 27, June 28, 1996
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Moving into a 21st ‘Maglev’ Century.
Report from New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Why London Likes Comrade Jyoti Basu.
Editorial
The Scandal Is Not Sumitomo Bank.
Economics
The Sumitomo Crisis: More Than Meets the Eye
by William Engdahl
The likelihood is that the “Sumitomo affair” is being used by international banking and financial authorities to cover up a far more devastating, systemic crisis.
Currency Rates
IMF’s Camdessus Peddles the Social Doctrine of Satan in Ibero-America
by Robyn Quijano
The managing director of the Infernal Monetary Fund descended on four countries.
Business Briefs
Feature
Now, Rid NATO of the Entente Cordiale!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A strategic policy paper. “The recent Berlin meeting, on the subject of NATO,” he writes, “demonstrated, that that organization had become an aggressively pathological tumor, now working, corrosively, to undermine, and, perhaps, to destroy the sovereignty of those nations which had been its hosts. In net effect: NATO has ceased to serve any vital strategic interest of the United States, and, its degenerated nature has made it, in fact, an instrument employed by forces working against our vital interests.”
International
Russia in Turmoil after First Round of Elections
The real issue facing Russia, is who will have the courage to reject the International Monetary Fund’s shock therapy program; but neither Boris Yeltsin nor his rivals for the Presidency are addressing the crisis, so far.
Fidel Castro Brokers Colombian President Samper’s Exoneration
by Gretchen Small
And the international media breathe nary a word about the scandal.
Lee Kuan Yew Declares Himself a British Agent
by Michael Billington
Schiller Institute’s ‘Music Manual’ Released in New Italian Edition
by Liliana Celani and Kathy Wolfe
Publication of Canto e diapason continues the international campaign initiated by Lyndon LaRouche, to return to the scientific tuning of C=256, or A=432 Hz.
Kashmir Elections: A Defeat for the British-Backed Secessionists
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Netanyahu Cabinet Spells Disaster for Middle East Peace Process
by Dean Andromidas
As if the return of Ariel Sharon weren’t bad enough, the cabinet is stuffed with free-market fanatics, which dooms any regional peace based on development.
Swedish Monarchy Caught in Bed with Earth First! Eco-Terrorists
by Torbjörn Jerlerup
The Eco-Terrorist Record of Earth First!
A Republican Manifesto
by Wilhelm Moberg
International Intelligence
National
British Wrote the Script for ‘Wifewatergate’
by Edward Spannaus
Just as the British press demanded last winter, First Lady Hillary Clinton is becoming the principal target for attempts to bring down the U.S. President.
Senate Dems, Critical of Greenspan, Spark Debate on Economic Policy
by Carl Osgood
Documentation: From an exchange between Democrats Tom Harkin (Iowa) and Paul Wellstone (Minn.) during the Senate floor debate on June 20.
Atlantic Council Debates Expansion of NATO, as Russians Warn of War Danger
by William Jones
A report on the council’s June 13-14 conference held at the State Department.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
Correction
Correction
Our last issue contained an error in the transcript of the press conference of Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer (p. 43). Referring to government monitoring of Australia’s border entry points to check on people coming from abroad, he said, “I don’t specifically make that comment with respect to LaRouche.”
