Volume 16, Number 19, May 5, 1989
Interviews
Dr. Martin Fleischmann
by Ralf Schauerhammer
One of its discoverers talks about the “cold” fusion process.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The jailed former Presidential candidate explains, to a correspondent for the Bangkok newsletter Off the Record, why the foreign policy of the Bush Administration is insane.
Dr. Abdallah Bouhabib
by William Jones
Lebanon’s ambassador to the United States discusses the Bush Administration’s policy toward that country—not very favorably.
Book Reviews
Is History a Rat’s Maze or the Embodiment of Universal Progress?
by Ron Fredman
A review of How the Nation Was Won: America’s Untold Story, by H. Graham Lowry, and The First Salute, by Barbara Tuchman.
Departments
Middle East Report
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Losing the “War on Drugs” in Lebanon.
Andean Report
by Peter Rush
Mercantilism Surfaces in Peru.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Stuck Between the Fund and the Strikes.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Washington Courts the Socialists.
Editorial
Three Strikes and You’re Out.
AIDS Update
Ibero-America Faces AIDS Holocaust
by Peter Rush
Soviets Announce New AIDS Measure
Economics
The Smoot-Hawley Revival: Trade War Policy Unleashed
by Christopher White
Argentine Economy Out of Control as Elections Near
by Cynthia R. Rush
Ibero-America Faces AIDS Holocaust
by Peter Rush
IMF Paeans China’s Austerity Plan
by Michael Billington
The Republic of China Must Not Go Down the Tokyo Road
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Currency Rates
Consumers Union Publishes Bad Science on Good Apples
by Dr. Thomas H. Jukes
Dr. Jukes is Professor-in-Residence in Biophysics and Nutritional Sciences at Berkeley.
Yeutter Refuses To Aid Wheat Growers
by Marcia Merry
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Police-State Raids Hit Farm Belt.
Technology
A Chronology of Cold Fusion Results.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Chernobyl Three Years Later.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Scientific Revolution Implied in ‘Cold’ Fusion
by Ralf Schauerhammer
The world scientific community has been in an excited state of an order incomparably higher than any nucleus in the scientists’ experiment-the generation of whole families of new technologies is at issue.
Congress Grapples with Fusion Results
by Marsha Freeman
‘When Benefits Are Great, Experiment’
by Ralf Schauerhammer
An interview with Dr. Martin Fleischmann.
For Zero-Growth Fanatics, Nothing Could Be Worse
International
Bush Administration Set for Showdown with Panama
by Carlos Wesley
A plan modeled on the overthrow of the Philippines’ Marcos, or failing that, military intervention, is now openly discussed in Washington.
Japanese Prime Minister Takeshita Resigns, But Who’s the Victor?
by Linda de Hoyos
Purge of ‘Dead Souls’ Sweeps Soviet Plenum
by Konstantin George
Austria Responds to LaRouche Case
by Lena Mletzko
Both the former prosecutor general and the former justice minister have denounced the trial as outrageous.
Advertisement: 100 Latin American Congressmen Demand Freedom for LaRouche
The Deadly Consequences of West Germany’s ‘Realpolitik’
by Michael Liebig
Bhutto Sends a Warning to Kabul ... and Moscow, and Washington
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Medellín Cocaine Cartel Loses Top Agent in Mexico
Gallardo and the French Connection in Mexico
International Intelligence
National
Defense Budget Heralds Abandonment of U.S. Allies
by Leo F. Scanlon
Eagleburger, Kissinger Promote Russians’ High-Tech Trade Scam
by Scott Thompson
RICO Batters U.S. Rule of Law
by Leo F. Scanlon
How the RICO statutes became the premier tool for restricting political debate—a constitutional police state.
‘Verdi A’ Echoes in New York Music World
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
General Scherer Warns of Soviets.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
