Volume 15, Number 17, April 22, 1988
Interviews
Adnan Khashoggi
The Saudi billionaire discusses his efforts on behalf of a Middle East Marshall Plan.
Science & Technology
High-Gain Laser Fusion Targets Demonstrated
by Charles B. Stevens
While technological hurdles must be overcome before the full potentials of laser fusion can be realized, the question is not “whether,” but when.
Greenies Demand U.S. Quit EMP Research
by Warren J. Hamerman
Departments
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
The Promise of Growth Factors.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
IMF Conditionalities Are Back.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Revival of the Social-Democratic Card.
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
The PRI Becomes Bankers’ Prisoner.
Andean Report
by Carlos Méndez
Venezuelan Military Under Attack.
Editorial
Are the Soviets Miscalculating?
AIDS Update
The Promise of Growth Factors
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Proposition 69 To Be Law in California
by Warren J. Hamerman
Protests against Boston Needle Plan
Economics
When LaRouche Speaks, World Markets Listen
by Christopher White
But James Baker and his buddies, who are running financial policy on behalf of George Bush’s election hopes, don’t listen—and that spells near-term catastrophe.
World Food Conference 1988: Burning the House To Roast the Pig
by William Engdahl
Infant Mortality Rate Soars in U.S. under Reagan ‘Recovery’
by Linda Everett
Currency Rates
A Marshall Plan for the Mideast
by Scott Thompson
Citibank Tries To Turn the Clock Back: The Attempt To Repeal Glass-Steagall
by William Engdahl
Parts of Argentina Close to Revolt
by Cynthia R. Rush
The reason is President Alfonsín’s slavish adherence to IMF “adjustment” demands.
Business Briefs
Feature
Schiller Institute Begins Revolution in Musical Tuning!
The institute’s conference in Milan raised the call—and formulated the legislation—to require orchestras to return to the lower C=256 Hz tuning which the great Classical composers intended.
Greetings and Messages from the Entire World of Music
Greetings from Montserrat Caballé, Anneliese Rothenberger, Alfredo Kraus, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Kurt Moll, Placido Domingo, Edda Moser, Elisabeth Furtwängler, and Vice Admiral (ret.) Karl-Adolf Zenker.
Documentation: Text of the petition to lower standard pitch. Signers include Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Carlo Bergonzi.
The Universal Validity of Aesthetic Laws
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
‘Let Us Go Back to the Golden Age of Italian Opera’
by Renata Tebaldi
Piero Cappuccilli: ‘We Must Bring Pitch Back to Normal’
The Challenge To Become Heroes
by Fiorella Operto
International
Voice of Military Sounds in Soviet Succession Fight
by Konstantin George
Behind the duel of personalities that grabs headlines abroad, the institutions of the military, the defense industry, and the Russian Orthodox Church, all of them repositories of Russian nationalism, are asserting themselves in a way not seen in decades.
Yakovlev’s ‘Russophobia’ Attacked by Chauvinists
by Luba George
France: The Troubling Drift in Strategy of Mitterrand and His Socialist Friends
by Jacques Cheminade
A commentary by French political leader Jacques Cheminade, on the eve of the first round of the presidential election.
Terror Wave Profits Soviet Gamemasters
Background to the News: Optina Pustyn Revival Is Return to Roots of Bolshevism
by Allen Douglas and Rachel Douglas
The revival of the 19th century monastic movement’s most prominent center reflects something essential about who the Bolsheviks really were, and are.
International Intelligence
National
Weld-Burns Spy Ring Purged at Justice Dept.
by Joseph Brewda
Both recently ousted Justice Department officials are on the verge of being exposed as key figures in the Soviet-Israeli spy network associated with Jonathan Jay Pollard.
Proposition 69 To Be Law in California
by Warren J. Hamerman
California voters are not likely to fall for 1986’s lies on AIDS in 1988.
Meese Proposal for Supranational Police Force Rebuffed by Colombia
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
A report on the attorney general’s five-day tour of Caribbean and Andean Pact countries.
Panama Crisis: State Department Backing U.S. into New Vietnam
by Gretchen Small
Countdown Begins on INF Ratification
by William Jones
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Shultz Concedes Afghan Partition Potential — Fitzwater Flees Query on Crash.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
