Volume 15, Number 32, August 12, 1988
Interviews
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
by Liliana Celani
The man who initiated the current international controversy over musical tuning, explains why tuning is a question of science, not personal preference.
Gen. Fernando Landazábal
by Nora Hamerman
The former Colombian defense minister warns of the dangers of a “guerrilla coup.”
Books
Poland: The Only Ally To Lose World War II
by David Kilber
Richard Lukas’s Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under the German Occupation, and Poland—1939-1947 by John Coutouvidis and Jaime Reynolds.
Why U.S. Military Intelligence Falters
by Leo Scanlon
Col. Bruce Bidwell’s History of the Military Intelligence Division, Department of the Army General Staff: 1775-1941.
Departments
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Sweden’s Secret Gov’t Under Attack.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Citibank Pushes Dr. Schacht’s Program.
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Peru Hits Terrorism’s Advocates.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Cárdenas Holds the Political Cards.
Editorial
Break Up the Superpower Condominium.
Science & Technology
How U.S. Nuclear Capacity Was Sabotaged
by Marsha Freeman
This second part of a series details the sabotage of nuclear power and the financial attack on utilities, which has placed whole sections of the nation’s electricity grid in jeopardy.
Economics
Soviets Demand the West Surrender ‘Excess Wealth’
by Marcia Merry
A top Soviet official makes no bones about what Moscow wants: imperial tribute, and a solution to the Russian food crisis.
Soviets Ready AIDS Policy Shift
by Luba George
“Don’t you think that the employment of a panic would not be such a bad idea?” asks one Russian writer demanding emergency measures.
Currency Rates
U.S.-Canada Trade Act: The British Are Coming
by Joseph Brewda
India’s Struggling Banking System Controls Credit, Indian-Style
by Ramtanu Maitra
Shock Program Could Finish Off Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
City of London
by Stephen Lewis
Global Interest Rate War Likely.
Agriculture
by Patricia Salisbury
Higher Food Prices on the Way.
Business Briefs
Feature
Revive Verdi’s Tuning To Bring Back Great Music
The Italian Parliament is preparing to debate a bill fixing the correct tuning for musical performance at A=432 Hz. Throughout the world’s press, the controversy is being dubbed the “war of the tuning forks.” Here is the text of the bill.
On Scientific Tuning and the Beauty of Musical Composition
by Liliana Celani
Excerpts from an interview with Lyndon LaRouche in the Italian magazine, Il Machiavellico.
Some of the Signers
Top opera and Lieder singers, orchestra directors, opera chorus masters, and world-renowned singing teachers have endorsed the campaign.
Fight for Classical Tuning Takes World Press by Storm
International
Thatcher Endorses de Gaulle against ‘Europe 1992’
by Mark Burdman
Of the European Commission’s fascist scheme to destroy the sovereign nation-state in Europe, the British prime minister said it’s “quite absurd airy-fairy. I hope it never comes in my lifetime, and I hope, never at all.”
Burma’s Turmoil Has Economic Roots
by Sophie Tanapura
Mussolini Aide: ‘I Follow the Russians’
by Umberto Pascali
The deathbed confessions of Dino Grandi reveal him as an agent of the Anglo-Soviet “Trust.”
Palestinians Face Peril and Opportunity
by Scott Thompson
Colombian Church Denounces ‘Triangle’ of Drugs, Subversion, Injustice
International Intelligence
National
Will Dukakis Get the Eagleton Treatment?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The flap over the candidate’s secret psychiatric records has put his campaign into a nosedive from which it may never recover.
The Project on Military Procurement Targets Pentagon’s ‘Black’ Programs
The handful of self-described “cheap hawks” who man the Project’s offices bear much of the responsibility for the “Pentagate” threat to U.S. national security.
LaRouche To Campaign in Washington State
by Mel Klenetsky
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Reagan Shoots From Hip To Wing Dukakis — LaRouche’s Role in White House Questioned.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
