Volume 16, Number 41, October 13, 1989
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
A “Marshall Plan” in Reverse.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Fixing for a Fight with the IMF?
Satanwatch
by Kathleen Klenetsky
AMA Ties Rock to Satanism and Drugs.
Editorial
Overdue: LaRouche’s “Berlin Proposal.”
Science & Technology
Galileo Spacecraft Heads for Jupiter
by Marsha Freeman
On Oct. 12 Galileo will be launched by a Shuttle orbiter, beginning its trip to the Solar System’s largest planet and its complex system of moons. Marsha Freeman discusses what scientists hope to discover once the craft reaches its destination in 1995, when it will become the first man-made spacecraft ever to go into orbit around another planet besides Earth.
Economics
Bundesbank Sends an Interest Rate Message
by Christopher White
No mere “technical adjustment,” the decision to raise the West German prime rate by a full 1% was Europe’s way of questioning the sanity of the present U.S. leadership.
Solidarnosc Warns IMF Austerity Can Cause Civil War in Poland
by Luba George
Poland’s Private Farmers: The Backbone of the Polish Economy
by Rosa Tennenbaum
Currency Rates
One Billion People Sick and Underfed
by Marcia Merry
For Disaster Aid, Don’t Ask FEMA
by Marcia Merry
U.S. Firms Have ‘Third World’ Debt
Banking
by Stephen Parsons
Real Estate Collapse Hits Banks Hard.
Transportation
by William Engdahl
Europe Beefs Up Its Railways.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Yet Another Epidemic?
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
What Ground Water Pollution?
Business Briefs
Feature
Is Today’s Justice Department Unconstitutional?
by Edward Spannaus and Mary Jane Freeman
The great expansion of the Federal government’s police powers is entirely contrary to the intentions of the Founding Fathers. It has opened the gates for political baronies both within and outside the government to use the U.S. Department of Justice apparatus as a means of eliminating political enemies, and has caused more crime than it has stopped. Edward Spannaus and Mary Jane Freeman trace the history of this unnecessary institution.
Budget Cutters of the 1860s Created Justice Department
Justice Is Not Its Aim: RICO Creates a Police State
by Leo F. Scanlon
The framers of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, adopted in 1970, never intended it to be used primarily against racketeers.
International
East Germans Vote with Feet against U.S.-Soviet Deal
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Rainer Apel
Thousands made it out before the expected crackdown came, but there is a growing mood of insurrection among the 17 million who remain sealed up in that great prison camp called East Germany.
Beijing-East Berlin Axis Tightens Grip
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Gorbachov Bans Strikes, Warns that Kremlin Is ‘Losing Control’
by Konstantin George
Colombian Supreme Court Backs Extradition, Despite Mafia Threats
by José Restrepo
Who’s Behind the ‘Cali Cartel’ Ploy?
by José Restrepo
Ernesto Samper Pizano: Front Man for the Colombian Dope Traffickers
Bush Administration Takes Orders on Cambodia from Beijing
by Linda de Hoyos
United Nations Imposes Bloodbath on Southern Africa
by Jeffrey Steinberg
‘Retirees—Freedom for LaRouche’ Slate of 230 on Ballot in Rome
by Thoula Frangos, Claudio Rossi, and Giorgio Prinzi
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Plot Fails against Noriega in Panama
by Carlos Wesley
Bush backed it, Moscow approved of it, but Panamanian Defense Forces chief Gen. Manuel Noriega still managed to foil an Oct. 3 attempt to hand over the country to the drug mafia and the CIA-controlled “opposition.”
Ramsey Clark Argues LaRouche’s Appeal
by Warren J. Hamerman
The former U.S. Attorney General termed LaRouche’s railroad trial “the heart of travesty.”
Protests Continue To Bombard Bush over Attempt on LaRouche’s Life
CIA Director Webster Targets U.S. Allies
by William Webster
LaRouche-Inspired Candidate Movement Determined To Solve Crisis
by Patricia Salisbury
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Terror Hangs over D.C. Drug Trial.
Congressional Closeup
by Donald Baier
National News
