Volume 16, Number 25, June 16, 1989
Interviews
Fiorenza Cossotto and Ivo Vinco
by Jeanne Bell
The renowned mezzo-soprano and bass from Italy explain that today’s high tuning not only strains the voice beyond its natural bounds, but ruins great vocal art by altering the register-shifts against the composer’s intention.
Gilda Cruz-Romo
by Jeanne Bell
The Mexican-born Metropolitan Opera soprano says that it is the Classical artists—not conductors and promoters—who should determine what is good for the human voice.
Students in Beijing
Moments before all communication was cut off to Beijing, a group of Chinese students was contacted by phone from Los Angeles, and told the world what really happened in Tiananmen Square.
Book Reviews
A Nationalist’s View of Pakistan’s Security Dilemma
by Susan Maitra
Looks at Pakistan’s Security: The Challenge and the Response.
Contrasting Views of Western Water Works
by Nicholas F. Benton
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure, by Joseph E. Stevens; and Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner.
Departments
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
How Many Children Die from Debt?
Report from Rome
by Galliano Maria Speri
No to the Green Dictatorship!
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
World Bank Demands More Usury.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
What Can Germany Do for the Chinese?
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Valdez
On the Verge of “Argentinization”?
Editorial
AIDS: A Disease Out of Control.
Music
New Fronts Open Up in the ‘War of the Tuning Forks’
The Schiller Institute’s campaign to re-establish the international tuning standard at C=256 Hz has scored a big success with the announcement by Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli that he will sing Rigoletto with the London Philharmonic at the pitch demanded by Giuseppe Verdi.
Verdi, Master of the Voice, Set Pitch To Keep Register, Color
by Jeanne Bell
A conversation with Fiorenza Cossotto and Ivo Vinco.
‘The Human Voice Is an Irreplaceable Instrument’
by Jeanne Bell
An interview with Gilda Cruz-Romo.
Economics
A Comeback for Project Financing
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Some circles in Western Europe are convinced that a “Richter 10” financial crash is in the offing. Political economist Lyndon LaRouche argues that it may just take such a cataclysm to get leading Western circles to drop their failed policies.
Brazil-Like Crisis Seen Ahead for U.S.
by Leo F. Scanlon
A group of U.S. economists adds up the bill for two decades of post-industrial looting of U.S. industry, infrastructure, and workforce.
Oregon Rations Health Care for Uninsured
by Linda Everett
Senate Bill 27 is a model for the nationwide effort to ensnare the elderly and infirm in a social-Darwinist nightmare.
U.S. Commits Wheat to China’s Oppressors
by Marcia Merry
Top Scientists Cool ‘Greenhouse’ Hysteria
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Currency Rates
The Delors Plan, a Supranational Financial Dictatorship for Europe
by Jacques Cheminade
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
The World Beef Herd Is Dwindling.
Banking
by William Engdahl
The Bush-Brady Savings Swindle.
Business Briefs
Feature
China Struggle, a Turning Point for the World
by Linda de Hoyos
Against President George Bush’s fond fantasies, Chinese Premier Deng Xiao-Ping took full credit for the butchery of students and other opponents of the gerontocracy ruling in Beijing. Millions are expected to die in the coming Mao-like effort to exterminate China’s intelligentsia.
How the World Reacted to the Tiananmen Square Bloodbath
‘River of Blood’ Divides LaRouche, Kissinger Policies on China
Interview of Beijing Students: ‘Let the World Know the Truth’
Beijing: Good at War, Bad at Development
Gen. T’eng Chieh, leader of Taiwan’s Kuomintang party and collaborator of the late Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, details the moral collapse of the mainland Communist Party.
International
Post-Khomeini Iran: Radicalism and Civil War
by Thierry Lalevée
The insane scenes around the Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral accurately reflect the current state of mind of Iran’s new leaders.
Kremlin Leaders Face Grave Internal Crisis
by Konstantin George and Luba George
Menem Cabinet Augurs Ill for Argentina
by Peter Rush
Terrorists Escalate, While García Talks
by Liliana Pazos
Peru’s President has degraded himself even further by calling for a “dialogue” with the Shining Path.
OAS Puts Off Panama Meeting To Save U.S. from Embarrassment
by Carlos Wesley
Buendía Case: A Mexican Irangate?
by Isaías Amezcua
International Intelligence
AIDS Update
New York City To Log Names of AIDS Carriers
AIDS Spreads Rapidly Throughout Soviet Union
AIDS: A Disease Out of Control
National
Congressional Bloodletting Serves Wall Street’s Aims
by Nicholas F. Benton
There is a method behind the mad mud-slinging on Capitol Hill: The Eastern elites’ shaping of the environment for eliminating constituency-based government.
China Overshadows Atlantic Council East-West Love Fest
by Kathleen Klenetsky
There was a time-warp atmosphere at the Atlantic Council’s meeting in Washington.
RICO’s Assault on Constituency Groups
by Leo Scanlon
LaRouche Takes Case to Supreme Court
Philadelphia attorney Charles Bowser has filed a petition of habeas corpus with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ascher Freed on Bond, in Blow to ‘Get LaRouche’ Judicial Vendetta
Documentation: Mrs. Ascher’s statement to the court before sentencing, and excerpts from her recent speech, “Virginia has become a fascist state.”
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Chinese Students Take Aim at Kissinger.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
