Volume 15, Number 48, December 2, 1988
Interviews
Richard Bonynge
by Kathy Wolfe
The bel canto school and the primacy of the singing voice are discussed by the renowned opera conductor, who recently endorsed the campaign to lower standard pitch to C=256 Hertz, together with his wife, soprano Joan Sutherland.
Science & Technology
What Scientific American Doesn’t Tell You about AIDS
by Garance Upham Phau
Dissects a recent “authoritative” report that obscures the dimensions of the AIDS threat and the need for a crash research program.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Moscow’s Game with the German Jews.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Bankers Give Victory to Communists.
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
U.S. Loan Kills Democracy in Tabasco.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Hit Attempt on Defense Minister.
Editorial
Czar Mikhail Bears the Mark of the Beast.
Music
Experiment Proves Music Sounds Better at Low Tuning
by Hartmut Cramer
Violinist Norbert Brainin conducts an extraordinary experiment, with the assistance of acoustics experts at the International Institute for Violin Construction in Cremona, Italy.
‘All Music Comes from the Human Voice’
by Kathy Wolfe
Interview with Richard Bonynge.
‘Verdi A’ Advances
Economics
Bush under Pressure To Go with Austerity Package
by Kathleen Klenetsky
George Bush is caught between a rock and a hard place, with the economy so close to the brink he must take action quickly—but only a departure from 25 years of “post-industrial” policies will keep him from getting squashed.
Currency Rates
Want To Buy a Used Perestroika?
by Scott Thompson
Gorbachov’s “restructuring” is a replay of Lenin’s plot to get the West to finance his New Economic Policy.
Food Cartels Tighten Control over U.S. Meat Industry
by Robert Baker
A combination of a record drought, high interest rates, and federal anti-parity price policies has set the stage for another, even bigger consolidation phase in the U.S. meat industry.
Europe 1992: No Farmers, No Food
The environmentalists, the food cartels, and the Brussels bureaucrats have declared war on the European farmer. Part 2 of a series.
There Is No Food Surplus
Gold
by William Engdahl
Moscow Dangles “Golden Ruble.”
Business Briefs
Feature
Craxi versus De Mita: Italy Moves toward 1992
by Webster G. Tarpley
In Italy, as elsewhere, one observes a flareup of partisan warfare among political factions, jockeying for position on the immense steamroller of the cartelized “single market” which is scheduled to flatten the nations of Western Europe between now and 1992.
Craxi’s Gambit: ‘Communion and Liberation’ Movement
by Webster G. Tarpley
CL: Pornography, Mao, and Dirty Money
by Webster G. Tarpley
International
Transcaucasus Ethnic Riots Divert Nationalist Protests
by Konstantin George
New protests are guaranteed in the republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, as the biggest national unrest crisis of 1988 inside the Soviet Union escalates by the day.
New Serbian Power Bid Pushes Yugoslavia to the Breaking Point
by Konstantin George
Thatcher Aborts Royal Plot with Kremlin
by Mark Burdman
Cabinet Shake-Up in New Zealand
by Allen Douglas
Russians Plan To Stay in Afghanistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
No Clear-Cut Mandate in Pakistani Elections
by Susan Maitra
Sweden and the ‘Finlandization’ of the Baltic Republics
by Göran Haglund and Ulf Sandmark
The ‘Authoritarian Personality’: An Anti-Western Hoax
by Michael Minnicino
Part III of the exposé of the Frankfurt School.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Blasts ‘Railroad’ in Alexandria trial
by Nancy Spannaus
“Judge Bryan is an efficient administrator, but he’s running the court like a railroad,” said Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., the chief defendant.
This Case Is About Ideas and Their Suppression
Witness Worked with FBI Trying To Entrap LaRouche
Anti-LaRouche Cabal Members Hit the Stand
CSIS Tells Bush: Don’t Deploy SDI!
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Everyone Was Here except Reagan.
National News
