EIR Volume 21, Number 7, February 11, 1994

Volume 21, Number 7, February 11, 1994

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Interviews

Prince El Hassan bin Talal

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The Jordanian Crown Prince, in this wide-ranging discussion with EIR in Amman, gives his views about economic development and ecumenical dialogue for the Mideast.

Virginia’s new Superintendent of Public Instruction was confirmed on Jan. 20. As superintendent of schools in Henrico County, Dr. Bosher had been the first state school official to speak out against the World Class Education Initiative—Virginia’s version of outcome-based education.

Books

Robert McNamara: A Simple Aristotelian, Underneath

by Daniel Platt

Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara, by Deborah Shapley.

Giving Life a Chance

by Jutta Dinkermann

Wir durften nicht aufgeben! (We Were Not Allowed to Give Up!), by Karl-Eugen Siegel.

Departments

Andean Report

by Gretchen Small

U.S. Demands Guzmán Be Freed.

Report from Rio

by Lorenzo Carrasco

Sovereignty and the Nuclear Issue.

Editorial

Prevent a ‘Final Solution’ in Bosnia.

Economics

Greenspan Raises Legality of Fed as Gonzalez Attacks

by Anthony K. Wikrent

The Fed chairman’s remark that he will take measures to protect the financial derivatives markets, “whether written in law or not,” demonstrate the contempt in which Fed officials hold the U.S. Constitution.

Chernomyrdin Declares Shock Therapy Is Over

by William Engdahl

A report from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Russian Scientists Debate LaRouche’s Economic Policies

by Rachel Douglas

We Can’t Afford Not To Go into Space

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

From an interview with Lyndon LaRouche.

Currency Rates

Fed To Bring China Financial AIDS?

by Kathy Wolfe

China’s Float May Pop the Financial Bubble

by Michael Billington

Economic Reforms Questioned in India

by Ramtanu Maitra

Algerian Chaos Deepens, as IMF Applies Screws

by Christine Bierre and Dean Andromidas

Swine Fever Continues Rampage in Germany

by Rosa Tennenbaum

The U.S. Water Supply System Is Imploding

by Richard Freeman

Agriculture

by Suzanne Rose

The Rise of Corporate Hog Farming.

Business Briefs

Feature

An Emergency Plan for China for the Next 100 Years

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

From a draft program by Jonathan Tennenbaum. The crisis facing China’s economy today is the result of the refusal to carry out the kind of infrastructure-based industrialization which Sun Yat-sen had correctly identified in the 1920s as essential to the long-term survival of the country. With the methodology of the LaRouche-Riemann economic model, we can define the paths China must take to launch itself on a real development path.

International

Peres, Arafat Push Mideast ‘Marshall Plan’ at Davos

by Joseph Brewda

“The most important levers for changing the situation are justice for all and a strong economic platform on which to build the future for our children and our children’s children,” Arafat said, with Peres at this side. Will the international community take up the challenge in time, before the opportunity is lost?