Volume 16, Number 3, January 13, 1989

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Book Reviews

‘A Question Left Over by History’

by Susan Maitra

A review of Aksaichin and Sino-Indian Conflict by John Lall.

Departments

Books Received

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

The Moscow Faction in the Military.

Andean Report

by Mark Sonnenblick

Peru Drifts Back to the IMF.

Dateline Mexico

by Carlos Cota Meza

Labor Revives Moratorium Cry.

Editorial

What About Human Rights!

AIDS Update

Dornan Offers Bush Advice on AIDS

Economics

Lines Are Drawn on the Debt Crisis

by Christopher White

Hearings of the House Banking Committee revealed the factional warfare within the international financial elite and its managerial flunkies.

Let Us Rebuild Poland!

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Proves that Poland, using “American System” economics, can become an industrial powerhouse, if freed from both IMF and Soviet-style oppression.

The Commerce Chief and the Soviet KGB

by Scott Thompson

What is Mr. Verity discussing with those Soviet intelligence officers?

After 10 Years in the U.S., the Hospice Idea Deserves To Die

by Linda Everett and Nancy Spannaus

Currency Rates

Moscow Mobilizes All Options To Guarantee Food Supplies

by Konstantin George

The Cultural Inferiority behind Russia’s Food Crisis

by William Engdahl

Top Military Brass Runs Russian Food Economy

by Konstantin George

Business Briefs

Feature

‘Greenhouse Effect’ Hoaxsters Seek World Dictatorship

by Carol White and Rogelio A. Maduro

There is no competent basis for asserting that a “greenhouse effect” will endanger the survival of this planet, but there is an environmentalist agreement with the Russians for a New Feudalism to be justified on that basis.

Documentation: Benedick: Ozone Scare Was a Deliberate Hoax! — Lewis: Cut Defense To “Save” the Environment — Shevardnadze: A Global Environmental Strategy — Gorbachov: Toward a New Ecological World Order.

International

Overturning the Middle East Chess Board ... Again

by Jeffrey Steinberg

As predictable as death and taxes, no sooner does the U.S. adopt a sane policy approach to the region than a terrorist crisis causes all hell to break loose.

Soviets Prevent Publication of Speech on Their Beam-Weapon Program

by Dean Andromidas

Lt. Gen. G.C. Berkhof’s address on Moscow’s electromagnetic pulse weapons will not appear in the published proceedings of an Amsterdam East-West disarmament meeting, but you can read about it here.

Washington and Moscow Worry over Nationalist Upsurge in Argentina

by Cynthia R. Rush

Salvadorans Charge Inter-American Dialogue Serves Communist Interests

by Gretchen Small

The JVP: Nazi-Communist Terrorism in Sri Lanka

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

India’s Gandhi Meets with Deng Xiaoping

by Susan Maitra

Prime Minister Bhutto Addresses Pakistan’s Drug-Trafficking Menace

by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra

Thailand Opens the Door to Indochina

by Linda de Hoyos

International Intelligence

National

If LaRouche Goes, Can Bush Administration Survive?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Unless George Bush has a “secret agenda,” which runs counter to every policy-posture seen around the Bush Team so far, this Administration will be short-lived, for reason of the financial crisis, if not related others.

Defense Asks New Trial in Alexandria Case

The hasty and inadequate jury selection process, and inadequacy of evidence presented make a new trial or acquittal mandatory.

DoJ Moves To Protect Iran-Contra Apparat

by Herbert Quinde

The conspiracy charges are dropped, and with it North’s political defense against 12 other felony counts.

Carlucci Okays Base Closure Plan, in Self-Inflicted ‘Pearl Harbor’

by Nicholas F. Benton

Eye on Washington

by Nicholas F. Benton

Chemical Ban Pretext for Global Police State.

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

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