Volume 16, Number 33, August 18, 1989
Interviews
John Bruce Medaris
by Marsha Freeman
Interviewed in Huntsville, Alabama, the man who led the U.S. race into space in the late 1950s looks at the problems and prospects current U.S. space efforts.
Jacques Cheminade
by Nora Hamerman
On the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, the leader of France’s European Labor Party relates that era’s best contribution to humanity, its “polytechnique” system of scientific and cultural education, to recent positive events in France.
Gen. T’eng Chieh
The elder statesman of the Kuomintang party in the Republic of China discusses how his country can serve as a catalyst for creating a new international antiCommunist movement. Concluding a five-part series.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
National pact against usury.
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Catholics in the Russian Empire.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Crackdown Feared in East Germany.
Satanwatch
by Carol White
John Markham, Devil’s Advocate.
Editorial
LaRouche Still in Jail.
Science & Technology
Medaris: The Man Who Put America into Space
by Marsha Freeman
Together with Wernher von Braun, U.S. Army General John Bruce Medaris—now Father Medaris—led the effort to build the rockets which were to put the first American satellite into space in 1958, and three years later, the first American into orbit. His 1958 proposal for a 14-year effort to establish a permanent manned outpost on the Moon provided the basis for the Kennedy space program.
Space Programs Must See Fifteen Years Ahead
Interview with Gen. John Bruce Medaris (ret.).
Economics
Now, the Food Crisis LaRouche Predicted
by Christopher White
Countries like Peru and Mexico may not be able to find the food they need—at any price.
After Debt Deal, ‘Common Market’ Hoax To Starve Mexico, Hurt U.S. Too
by Peter Rush
Half the Bush cabinet traipsed to Mexico for a photo-op and the latest “free trade” swindle, designed to sink the U.S. economy to Mexican levels, and Mexico to Iranian levels.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Soybean Futures Prices Tumble.
Energy Insider
by John Hoefle
The Eye of the Hurricane.
Banking
by John Hoefle
The “Bailout” that Wasn’t.
International Credit
by William Engdahl
“That Little-Known BIS.”
Business Briefs
Feature
Science, Morality, and Singing Debated in Venice
by Nora Hamerman
On June 20 the Cini Foundation hosted a seminar on “Giuseppe Verdi and the Scientific Tuning Fork,” focusing on the Schiller Institute’s campaign to return to the natural, lawful tuning of middle C=256 Hz. Participants included performing artists, physicists, musicologists, and cultural figures—all leaders in their respective fields.
Tuning as the Key to Interpretation
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Where Have All the Great Voices Gone?
by Gino Bechi
By Italian baritone Gino Bechi, guest of honor at the seminar.
Music and the Curvature of Space
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Should the ‘A’ Go Lower Still? Father Pellegrino Ernetti
Abbott of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
International
Grain Harvest Emergency Heightens Gorbachov’s Woes
by Konstantin George and Rachel Douglas
The Soviet leadership has called for further emergency measures to deal with drought and overwhelming infrastructure bottlenecks.
Beijing Pivoting toward Moscow
by Linda de Hoyos
To get the sweetheart deals they used to get from the U.S.
Contras Sacrificed in Deal with Soviet
by Carlos Wesley
The Bush Administration is dumping these drug-trafficking mercenaries, or it may decide to redirect them against Panama.
Kissinger Backs the Beijing Dictatorship
The Chinese-language World Journal reports student leader Wu’er Kaixi’s challenge to Dr. K.
New Zealand: New Prime Minister: Worse than the Old
by Allen Douglas
The Leading Role of ‘Free France’ in the World Today
by Nora Hamerman
Interview with Jacques Cheminade.
International Intelligence
National
Is ‘Moderate’ Rafsanjani Blackmailing Bush?
by Nicholas F. Benton
The same practices for which Reagan Administration officials are being prosecuted in the Irangate affair, are now being pursued openly by Reagan’s successor in the White House.
Irangate Heats Up as Two Scandals Merge
by Herbert Quinde
Homosexual powerbroker Craig Spence points the finger at Bush’s man Donald Gregg.
LaRouche Testifies for Defense in New York Trial of Associates
by Warren J. Hamerman
Documentation: Why Henry Kissinger should take the stand.
Defense Contractor Hits Back at Use of Courts To Sabotage Defense
by Leo Scanlon
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Anti-Trust Witchhunt against Doctors.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
