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Volume 25, Number 29, July 24, 1998InterviewsFeride Istogu GillesbergMrs. Gillesberg was one of the two delegates representing Kosova at the Seventh Annual OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Session, in Copenhagen. Riak MacharDr. Machar is president of the Coordinating Council of the South of Sudan and vice-president of the Sudan National Congress; he was the leader of the South Sudan Independence Movement, which signed the April 21, 1997 peace agreement with the government of Sudan. Book ReviewsMurder in Northern Ireland: coordinated and controlledThe Committee: Political Assassination in Northern Ireland, by Sean McPhilemy. DepartmentsBankingDeeper into the morass. Report from RioBut, what about Brazil? Report from BonnCarefully orchestrated optimism. Australia DossierNational development runs off the rails. From New DelhiNarco-traffickers target India's neighbors. EditorialToward a revived Non-Aligned Movement. EconomicsIMF's Russia deal is no fix for global bubbleIMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus admitted "the systemic nation of the problem," in taking the extraordinary step of drawing on the General Arrangements to Borrow to prevent a state default. But, the package won't last long. Another candidate for IMF bailout: UkraineFinancial markets: a year of ruinBrows furrowed over financial collapseInternational commentaries on the crisis. Commodity price fall is harbinger of depressionThe IMF's Ibero-American economic `models' bite the dustRadiation risks in the 20th century: reality, illusions, and ethicsA speech that Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski will present at the Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Conference in Warsaw, on Sept. 17-20, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of polonium and radium. Business BriefsFeatureAn `American Century' seen as a modular mathematical orbitBy Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The fourth in a series. Comparing Franklin Roosevelt's concept of an "American Century" world economy, with the disastrous economic policies of the past thirty-odd years, the task at hand is "to show why the economies within one economic `solar system' must necessarily follow qualitatively different trajectories than those of the other, the one leading toward prosperity, the other toward doom." InternationalA no-confidence vote for `Japan, Inc.'The ruling party's unexpected defeat opens up a potentially new political constellation within the Japanese establishment. If it doesn't act to solve the finanical crisis, it, too, will soon be discredited. LaRouche warns JapanGenocide in Kosova goes unchallenged by NATOThe Balkans region is falling under the control of organized criminal gangs, on the Afghanistan model. Rowland linked to accused extortionistA new angle on the Diana case. A critical new lead on Diana's murder?Coup attempt foiled, as Sudan celebrates new ConstitutionWho is getting `aid' in southern Sudan?Famine is stalking southern Sudan, and even the British-back John Garang has agreed to a cease-fire to allow distribution of humanitarian relief. The `apostles of hypocrisy' in ChiapasMexico's President Ernesto Zedillo has made clear that apostate Bishop Samuel Ruiz will not be allowed to mediate the conflict. International IntelligenceNationalLaRouche's role at center of fight over McDade-MurthaCongressman Joe McDade's decision to insert the measure as an amendment to the House Appropriations Committee bill funding the DOJ, took supporters of H.R. 3396 by surprise. Appeals court holds prosecutors to the lawA Federal appeals court ruling that it is illegal for Federal prosecutors to bribe witnesses, has sent shockwaves through the Department of Justice. Will labor go for a New Bretton Woods?Increasing labor ferment is hitting at the worst aspects of the global financial crisis, including outsourcing, privatization, wholesale firings, and cuts in services. But, it must go further. Prosecution refuted in New York `Get LaRouche' caseCongressional CloseupNational News |
