Volume 16, Number 26, June 23, 1989
Interviews
Grace Bumbry
by Liliana Celani and Hartmut Cramer
The Metropolitan Opera soprano discusses how returning to the lower musical tuning pitch, as demanded by Giuseppe Verdi, will improve not only opera, but will help revive the singing of classical German Lieder.
Strategic Studies
The History of LaRouche’s Comprehensive SDI Policy
by Michael Liebig
Assesses Lyndon LaRouche’s crucial contribution to the Strategic Defense Initiative, beginning with the seminars held under his guidance in 1974.
Departments
Andean Report
by Carlos Méndez
CAP’s Solidarity Appeal Rejected.
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
You Don’t Die of “Advice.”
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germans Don’t Like the Red Flag.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
U.S.-Soviet Condominium Denounced.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
U.S. Puts Out Contract on Noriega.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
Hunger and Disease Stalk the Land.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Sri Lanka Wants Indian Troops Out.
Editorial
Manifesto in Defense of Panama.
Economics
The BIS in Shift: Dollar’s Rally Is Ended
by Christopher White
The central bankers’ central bank has decided to junk its policy of “exchange rate stability.” This could set off a new crash of the financial system.
‘Patriots for Germany’ Conference Honors Economist Friedrich List
Patriots chairman Helga Zepp-LaRouche and others gathered in Cologne to honor the republican economist whom Prince Metternich considered one of the most dangerous men of the American Revolution.
Currency Rates
Plastic Bags and Ecology: The Scientific Facts, and the Politics
by Corrado Perrone
The secretary of Italy’s Plastics and Environment Association rips into this new absurd campaign by the Greenies to get rid of plastic bags.
Support Widens for Mine Workers’ Strike
by Marcia Merry
Banking
by John Hoefle
Thornburgh Wants More Cops.
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
The Drought Is Far from Over.
Business Briefs
Feature
International AIDS Conference V: Last Tango in Montreal?
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Scientists who attended this pornographic extravaganza were so disgusted that many said it was the last they’ll attend.
‘Kiss of Death’ for Official Line
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
A report on the First International Symposium on Oral AIDS, held in Montreal as a counter to the International AIDS conference, presented hard evidence of oral transmission of the HTLV virus.
AIDS: Where Are We Today?
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
A review of where science stands on the nature of the virus, treatment, and testing.
International
Kissinger’s China Card: The Drug Connection
by Scott Thompson
In defending the butcher Deng Xiaoping, Kissinger is also maintaining his masters’ interest in China’s huge opium production industry.
Washington Kowtows to Beijing Tyrants
by Linda de Hoyos
Moscow Prepares the Great Terror as KGB Sparks Uzbekistan Riots
by Konstantin George
Turkey Squeezed by External Crises
by Thierry Lalevée
A ‘New’ Afghanistan Policy, or the Same Old Sauce in a New Bottle?
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
More Fraud Expected in Mexico Elections
by Héctor Apolinar
Argentine Crises Stay, as Alfonsín Bows Out
by Cynthia R. Rush
Colombia: Narco-Terror Gets Away with Murder
by Javier Almario
President Barco is still in a “dialogue” with the killers.
International Intelligence
National
The White House’s ‘Clean Air’ Plan ... Stinks
by Nicholas F. Benton
The plan announced by President Bush is not only based on fallacious assumptions, it will be a death-blow to many vital U.S. industries. Why doesn’t Bush go with nuclear energy?
The Judge Who Inculpated Himself
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Recounts how Judge Albert V. Bryan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia made himself “guilty as sin” in the celebrated frameup trial against the “LaRouche Seven.”
Virginia Democrats Try To Rule Out Politics
Ray Cline Woos the Chinese Students
by Leo Scanlon
The “Project Democracy” crowd is trying to keep the balance-of-power game alive by cutting off the Republic of China’s influence on the Mainland.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Dr. K’s China Policy Blasted in Scandinavia — But for Chatham House, He’s “Absolutely Right”.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Economy Seen as Bush’s Downfall.
Satanwatch
by Robert L. Baker
Parish Shut Down over Witchcraft.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
