Volume 24, Number 17, April 18, 1997
Interviews
Dr. Steven D. Howe
A researcher at the Los Alamos Lab, Dr. Howe refutes the trendy, but deadly, “Mars Direct” program of Bob Zubrin.
Lady Lynda Chalker
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords discusses her role in keeping the United States on the “special relationship” leash.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick and Allen Douglas
Parliament overturns euthanasia law.
Editorial
A new feudalism, or a new Bretton Woods.
Science & Technology
To Mars with nuclear power, not ‘comic book physics’
In this interview, Dr. Steven Howe of Los Alamos National Laboratory details why the idea that one can have a “cost-effective” Mars mission using chemical rockets is both costly and ineffective. The only solution is to revive the nuclear propulsion systems, such as the NERVA design, which could lift the extra weight needed to shield astronauts from radiation, and get to Mars in one year, as opposed to Bob Zubrin’s silly “Mars Direct” proposal.
Economics
The ‘Baby Boomers’ sink the life-boat
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche responds to a London Sunday Times article which says that America’s “Baby Boomers” will probably set off the biggest financial crash in world history. “For once,” he writes, “the London Times is, at worst, partly right.”
Documentation: Excerpts from “Is the Party Over?” in the Sunday Times of April 6.
U.S. stock market in hyperinstability
by Richard Freeman
Between January 1992 and April Fool’s Day 1997, some 80 million American Baby Boomers poured $802 billion into the market through mutual fund equity funds.
M&As’ success equals economic catastrophe
by Marcia Merry Baker
Business Briefs
Urgent Appeal to President Clinton to Convoke a New Bretton Woods Conference
A selection of the hundreds of signers of this call, launched in February by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Ukrainian member of parliament Natalya Vitrenko.
Feature
Who will act to stop British genocide in Africa?
Over April 4-5, Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave two strategic briefings in New York on the urgency of convening a New Bretton Woods Conference, to rebuild the world economy by constructing the Eurasian Land-Bridge, and on the moral imperative to halt the African holocaust.
New Bretton Woods, Land-Bridge, must replace bankrupt IMF system
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s April 5 address at New York’s Riverside Church.
U.S. must break off support for Museveni
by Godfrey Binaisa
From the speech of former Uganda President Godfrey Binaisa.
Which way for Africa: freedom or slavery?
by Linda de Hoyos
Linda dc Hoyos contrasts Martin Luther King’s morality, based on the principle that all humanity stands equal as created in the image of God, against Ugandan warlord Yoweri Museveni, who is seeking to enslave eastern and central Africa on behalf of his British masters.
International
The nation of France: a ship foundering in high seas
by Christine Bierre
Outside of the associates of Lyndon LaRouche, France’s elites are clinging stubbornly to the very policies that are destroying its economic and social fabric at home, and its influence in affairs overseas.
International intervention, aid program needed to stabilize Albania
by Konstantin George
Great Lakes crisis: a view from Belgium
by Dean Andromidas
This former colonial power in Africa has been left impotent to put forward any independent initiative to stop the genocide in the Great Lakes region of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi.
All Sudanese choose peace, except Garang
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
On April 21, a peace treaty is to be signed between the government and rebel forces. But, you won’t hear about it on CNN.
Cargill, Inc. targets Australian wheat supply
by Robert Barwick and Allen Douglas
On the future of U.S.British relations and the political crisis in Africa
An interview with Lady Lynda Chalker.
Political power play threatens to derail India’s Deve Gowda government
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
International Intelligence
National
Is the Republican Party headed for a crack-up?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The most jacobin among the Conservative Revolutionaries and the Religious Right are out for Newt Gingrich’s head, while “institutional Republicans” continue making alliances with likeminded Democrats.
Wall St. Underground spreads new poison
by Charles Tuttle and Jeffrey Steinberg
A profile of the “investment newsletter” of Nick Guarino, who scribbles his Get Clinton diatribes from somewhere offshore, where he is evading federal authorities.
National News
