Volume 16, Number 44, November 3, 1989
Book Reviews
Of Pitch and Transposition
by Henry Pleasants
Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future, by Henry Pleasants.
In Defense of Children
by Carol White
On Trial: America’s Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused Children, by Billie Wright Dziech and Judge Charles R. Schudson.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Rubén Cota Meza
World Bank Proposes More Genocide.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
U.S. Tries To Block Aerospace Deal.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Noriega’s Model War on Drugs.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The Iron Fist of Egon Krenz.
Editorial
A Glimmer of Reality.
Music
Clamor Grows for Return to Verdi’s Musical Pitch
by John Sigerson
A concert in Houston, a symposium in New York, and a full-fledged festival in Munich all celebrated the principles of classical beauty which lie at the heart of the campaign for tuning middle C at the natural “scientific pitch,” 256 cycles per second.
Of Pitch and Transposition
by Henry Pleasants
Music historian and critic Henry Pleasants recounts the lengths to which opera singers used to go, in order to protect themselves against the post-1815 frenzy to drive tuning standards into the stratosphere.
Economics
The Fed’s Greenspan Is Fighting the Wrong War
by Stephen Parsons and Anthony K. Wikrent
His voodoo “anti-inflation” measures will only worsen the current collapse of the productive sectors of the economy.
AIDS Apocalypse in Africa: Worse than the Black Death
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
From the Fourth International Conference on AIDS and Related Cancers in Africa, a shocking picture emerges of a death toll higher than that taken by the bubonic plague in 14th-century Europe.
Surgeon General Koop Takes Leave of Office—and His Senses
by Linda Everett
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Don’t Blame the Earthquake.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Soviets’ Deepening Energy Catastrophe.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
U.S-Soviet Joint Fantasy.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Coming Bloodbath in the Soviet Bloc
by Gen. Paul Albert Scherer
Western leaders are utterly blind to the dangerous crisis convulsing the Soviet Union and its satellites, argues West German Soviet affairs specialist Gen. Paul Albert Scherer (ret.). In this transcript of General Scherer’s address to the National Press Club, he predicts that Gorbachov will be gone by next Spring at the latest.
Soviet Workers Defy Strike Ban
by Rachel Douglas
A Dialogue with General Scherer
International
Soviet ‘Mr. Green’ Named New Editor of Pravda
by Mark Burdman
Ivan Frolov, a top member of the malthusian Club of Rome, is central to Gorbachov’s effort to please the Western bankers by adopting their genocidal policies of “global ecological fascism.”
Colombian Liberals Assailed as Pro-Drug
by José Restrepo
Rimini Elites: ‘South Must Serve the North’
by Mark Burdman
Lebanon: National Resistance or Slavery
Will Jiang Zemin’s Purge Backfire?
by Linda de Hoyos
China Threatens, the West Appeases
by Mary McCourt Burdman
‘Brazil Network’: ADL-Soviet Love Nest Gets Exposed
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
A recent barrage of attacks on Lyndon LaRouche in Brazil has exposed a sordid bunch of operatives linked to several of the world’s intelligence services.
The ‘Tiny’ Rowland file
His Lonrho corporation in Africa has left a trail of bribery, theft, corruption, and murder.
International Intelligence
National
Thornburgh Courts the Russian Legal System
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Attorney General is fascinated by the advantages of a totalitarian police state for prosecuting political enemies for “crimes against the environment,” and is bringing Russians to the U.S. to show how it can best be done.
Administration Vows To Save Gorbachov
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Is the Ecological Police Out of Control in the United States?
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Judge Dismisses U.S. Bankruptcy Action against LaRouche Associates
For the first time, a U.S. court has delivered a serious blow to the “Get LaRouche” task force—by upholding the law.
Letter to the President: Bush Must Declassify the LaRouche File!
by Warren J. Hamerman
Pressure Mounts on White House
77 Years in Jail—for Political Organizing
The outrageous sentencing of Michael Billington.
The Tavistockians Today: Who Funds the Mind Benders?
by Steven Meyer and Jeffrey Steinberg
Thirty years of menticide: Part III.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
