Volume 16, Number 49, December 8, 1989
Interviews
Edward Obryk
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The Polish nuclear physicist spoke to 21st Century managing editor Marjorie Hecht on Nov. 29.
Reviews
Velázquez, Hals Bring Great European Art to America
by Nora Hamerman
Reviews the exhibits of two great 17th-century masters, the Dutchman Frans Hals in Washington, D.C., and Spaniard Diego de Silva y Velázquez in New York.
Olivares’s Failure To Restore Spain
by D. Stephen Pepper
Reviews The Count-Duke of Olivares, The Statesman in an Age of Decline, by J.H. Elliott.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Brazil and the “German Question.”
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
Latin American Integration or Death.
Andean Report
by José Restrepo
Drug Kingpins Are Not Untouchable.
Editorial
Where Is Bush’s Morality?
Science & Technology
HPM Weapons: Fantasy, or Frightening Reality?
by Manuel W. Wik
Coordination manager at the Defense Materiel Administration in Stockholm, Sweden, made this concise presentation on high-power microwave (HPM) weapons to the Military Information 89 conference.
Economics
We Were Right; They Were Wrong
by John Hoefle
The pundits suddenly discovered that their silver-lined, 80-month “great recovery” had a cloud in front of it. They should have read EIR.
Anti-Bolshevik Leaders Meet in Germany To Plot Food Strategy
by Michael Stalla
As millions in Eastern Europe celebrate new-found freedoms—and face severe winter—the Schiller Institute convened its Food for Peace conference in Germany to tackle the problem of feeding the world.
Auto Industry Smashed in Head-On Collision with Collapse in Income
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Currency Rates
Domestic Credit
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Production Drop: No “Soft Landing.”
World Trade
by William Engdahl
West German Machine Tools’ Potential
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
The Great GATT Gangup.
Business Briefs
Feature
MHTGR—Nuclear Engine for World Development
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The small, safe, and inexpensive modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor can bring plentiful nuclear energy to every region of the world. The technology is ready to go, and all that is needed now is the political will to put them into place.
Poland Needs the MHTGR
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Interview with Dr. Edward Obryk of the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Krakow, Poland, on the urgent need to convert from dirty coal to clean nuclear power.
‘Support for East European Democracy Act of 1989’
General Atomics vice chairman Linden S. Blue testifies to Congress on Poland’s need for MHTGR technology.
International
Germany Is Poised To Change the Map of Central Europe
by Rainer Apel
Moscow and The Trust Retaliate in Germany
by Gabriele Liebig
The murder of Alfred Herrhausen proves that, as LaRouche warned, terrorism would be the response to the collapse of the Soviet political structure.
Czechs Defy CP Rule, Risk Russian Bayonets
by Konstantin George
Lebanese Nation, Betrayed by U.S., Rises Up in Support of Aoun
by Thierry Lalevée
Lev Zaikov Assuming Powerful Soviet Role
by Argus
State of Siege in El Salvador
by Peter Rush
Communist Hardliners Reject ‘Gorbymania’
by Herbert Quinde
Great Britain’s Elites Prepare New Racist, Hitlerite Order
Documentation: From Peregrine Worsthorne’s editorial in the Nov. 26 Sunday Telegraph.
Fascism as a Victorian Value
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
No Clear Winner in Indian Elections
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Swiss Vote against Abolishing Army
by Laurent Murawiec
The ‘Tiny’ Rowland File
Part IV of an investigative series.
Argentine Government Descends into Crisis
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Intelligence
National
Bush Gives Green Light for Soviet Bloodbath
by William Jones
On the eve of the Malta meeting, William Webster and James Baker made it clear the U.S. government is prepared to tolerate even another Tiananmen.
Analyst Echoes LaRouche Caution about Russia
by William Jones
Fernandez Case Puts Bush ‘Justice’ on the Spot
by Joseph Brewda
A double standard protects intelligence agents and allows the LaRouche frameup.
Al-Kassar, the Lockerbie Coverup, and Puzzling U.S. Policy on Lebanon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Support for the dictator in Damascus, Hafez al-Assad, is the explanation.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Everyone Had Jitters about Malta.
National News
