Volume 20, Number 17, April 30, 1993
Departments
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Peru Rebuffs Panama’s Blackmail.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Old Monetarists Are No Lesser Evil.
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
Talk of Legalizing Drugs in Colombia.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Is Brazil on the Yugoslav Path?
Music Views and Reviews
by Kathy Wolfe
June Anderson, Come Home to ‘Bel Canto.’
Editorial
The U.S. Must Go Nuclear.
Science & Technology
Russian Cold Fusion Effort Utilizes Solid Electrolyte
by Carol White
After the success of Fleischmann and Pons, the Russians may have come up with an “encore,” according to the weekly of the Ural Bureau of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
What Are Tungsten Bronzes?
by Mark Wilsey
How ‘Big Science’ Stifles Discovery
by Giuliano Preparata
By particle physicist Dr. Giuliano Preparata.
Economics
Group of Seven Offers Russia Bogus Aid Package
by Marcia Merry
Of the $43 billion promised, most is not actual money, but smoke and mirrors. Every real dollar being offered is tied to more of the same “shock therapy” policies that created the present crisis in the first place.
Russia’s New SDI Offer Heralds Scientific and Strategic Revolution
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Senior Russian Official Confirms SDI Proposal
The LaRouche SDI Economic Policy Versus Phil Gramm’s ‘Brand X’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
From the weekly radio broadcast “EIR Talks with Lyndon LaRouche.”
FOIA Documents Show Farmers and Government Systematically Defrauded
by Brian Lantz
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has known for years that bankers and others have been defrauding farm loan programs but nothing was done to stop it.
Currency Rates
Banking
by John Hoefle
Bailout Money Goes To Maintain Bubble.
Business Briefs
Feature
Energy BTU Tax Will Plunge U.S. into Darkness
by Richard Freeman
The new tax being proposed by President Clinton will tax energy use, starting with 25.70 per 1 million BTUs contained in coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric power. This will cut energy consumption and production, slash jobs in the goods-producing sectors of the economy, and jeopardize what remains of the U.S. productive economy. Yet so far, there is no significant resistance to the plan.
International
UN Paves the Way for Serbian Takeover of Bosnia
by Konstantin George
With the fall of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the Serbs have launched a new offensive to consolidate their gains—while UN commanders drink brandy with the Serbian military chieftains.
Wiesenthal Defends Serbian Crimes
by Mark Burdman
Italy: A Plebiscite against the State
by Leonardo Servadio
New Evidence Shows Inter-American Dialogue Threat to Ibero-America
Ishaq Khan Seizes Control in Pakistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
South Africa at Crossroads between Vision and Pragmatism
by Uwe Friesecke
Will U.S. Occupy Haiti under UN Auspices?
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
Masonic Judge Jails Two To Save Albert Pike Statue
Civil rights activist Rev. James Bevel and historian Anton Chaitkin were jailed on outrageous charges of “statue climbing,” for leading a demonstration at the statue of Freemason and KKK founder Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Two days earlier, the National Conference of Black Mayors passed a resolution calling for the statue to be removed.
The LaRouche Case: New ADL Revelations Added to Freedom Bid
National News
