Volume 16, Number 9, February 24, 1989
Interviews
Stuart Root
by Kathy Wolfe
The outgoing director of the U.S. Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation discusses the threat to the banking system.
Book Reviews
When ‘Art’ Rhymes with Okhrana
by Katherine Kanter
Recounts how the Russian bass Chaliapin was used by his controllers to subvert music. Review of Chaliapin by Victor Borovsky.
AIDS Update
New Viruses Resist Antibiotics
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
South Bronx Residents Now ‘High Risk’ Group
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Left-Wing and Right-Wing Neutralists.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Church Rips “New Age” and Carnival.
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
Villanueva and His Terrorist Friends.
Editorial
Read Our Lips George: Kissinger’s Got To Go.
Music
Verdi ‘A’ Resounds in Parma, Political Fight Begins Now
by Leonardo Servadio
Musicians are up in arms at the Italian Senate’s rejection of Verdi’s call for A=432 Hz tuning, in favor of a rotten compromise.
Renata Tebaldi To Run for European Parliament
Giuseppe Verdi: A=432 Only Scientific Tuning
by Marco Fanini
From the letters of the great composer.
When ‘Art’ Rhymes with Okhrana
by Katherine Kanter
Recounts how the Russian bass Chaliapin was used by his controllers to subvert music. Review of Chaliapin by Victor Borovsky.
Economics
The Second-Quarter Crisis Is On Its Way
by Christopher White
Foreign bankers are crying “fraud,” as the Bush budget proposal demands $150 billion in new capital inflows to prop up the U.S. budget.
FSLIC Chief Warns of Run on U.S. Banks
by Kathy Wolfe
Savings: Today’s Economic Rosetta Stone
by Stuart D. Root
Mexican Speculators Go to Jail
by Hugo López Ochoa
Currency Rates
New Zealand Heads from Radical Free Enterprise to Fascism
by Allen Douglas
Under the direction of Deputy Finance Minister Mike Moore, the country is entering “phase two” of its descent toward Mussolini-style corporatist fascism.
Mike Moore: Mussolini without a Uniform
Pakistan in a Straitjacket: Is India Next?
by Ramtanu Maitra
Brazil Rejects Foreign Bid To Grab Amazon
by Luís Barbosa
Commodities
by William Engdahl
Rio Tinto Zinc Grabs Uranium Trade.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
New Viruses Resist Antibiotics.
Business Briefs
Feature
Will Your Child Go Hungry This Year?
by Marcia Merry
World food stocks have sunk below the danger level, and prospects for increasing production are dim under current malthusian policies.
Has the World Weather System Been Destabilized?
by Carol White and Rogelio A. Maduro
The battle of the meteorologists is on.
Poor Weather Continues To Cause Damage in Key World Crop Zones
by Marcia Merry
Set-Aside Is Genocide
by Marcia Merry
A country-by-country rundown of one of the ways food output is being destroyed.
International
Moscow Tries Dual Tactic To Smother Ethnic Crisis
by Konstantin George
It’s a return to the old multi-party front of the immediate post-Yalta period—combined with a neo-Stalinist iron fist.
LaRouche’s Insignificance Is Growing in Venezuela
by Gretchen Small
Through interviews from his prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, Lyndon LaRouche has become a political hot potato in Venezuela.
Documentation: Ads placed by Alejandro Peña of the Venezuelan Labor Party.
Kissinger’s Friends Targeting Bhutto
Scandal in Argentina over Government Ties to Terrorism
by Cynthia R. Rush
Behind the recent terrorist attack at La Tablada, lurks a narco-terrorist apparatus that enjoys the protection of the Alfonsín government.
Documentation: The intelligence report President Alfonsín ignored.
Soviet Religious Plan: Vilnius for Jerusalem
Resounding Defeat for Malaysia Splitters
by Sophie Tanapura
Two weeks ago, EIR warned that Malaysia’s nationhood might be at stake in a Jan. 28 vote. The outcome was encouraging.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Is Innocent, as Captain Dreyfus Was
by Friedrich-August von der Heydte
The Mainz University (West Germany) Professor of Constitutional Law offers an incisive analysis of the parallels between the recent conviction of LaRouche and six associates, and the most clamorous political trial of the last century.
LaRouche Appeal: Does the Bill of Rights Still Survive?
Kissinger Associates, Inc.: Two Birds in the Bush
by Scott Thompson and Joseph Brewda
With Brent Scowcroft running the National Security Council staff, and Lawrence Eagleburger designated for the number-two spot at the State Department, Kissinger’s crowd is back in force.
Bush Team Digs Its Own Grave, Dumps the SDI
by Leo Scanlon
The Administration is vacillating on key policy issues. The worst of it is that the SDI has become a bargaining chip—not in negotiations with the Russians, but in budget battles with the Congress.
Oliver North Goes to Trial, To Get LaRouche treatment?
by Herbert Quinde
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Soviet Economist Begs for Bailout.
National News
Correction
It has just come to our attention that the folios in our Jan. 13, 1989 issue were all erroneously dated Jan. 6, 1989, the date of the previous issue. We regret the inconvenience to readers of this production error.
