Volume 17, Number 2, January 5, 1990
Interviews
José Maria Cabrera
The Panamanian Ambassador to the Organization of American States, on the illegitimacy of the Endara puppet regime.
Book Reviews
25 Years Later, the Heritage of Dr. Martin Luther King
by Marianna Wertz
A preview of the newly revised edition of Bridge Across Jordan, by Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson.
Six Months Too Early, 20 Years Too Late
by Nina Ogden
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography, by Ralph Abernathy.
A Tavistockian’s View of Leadership
by Daniel Platt
On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis.
Flawed, But on the Right Track
by Bob Trout
On the Trail of the Assassins, by Jim Garrison.
British Witchcraft in the Age of Thatcher
by Mark Burdman
Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England, by T.M. Luhrmann.
Books Received
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
First Steps toward Economic Recovery.
Report from London
by Dan Atkinson
Three Shocks.
Report from New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Spotlight on Troubled Kashmir.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Terror Resurgence in Southern Cone.
Editorial
Europe’s Triangle of Development.
Science & Technology
NASA Plans To Return to Moon, Manned Colony on Mars
by Marsha Freeman
Details the new technologies we need for a U.S. planetary colonization program.
Economics
The Banking Crisis of 1990 Has Begun
by John Hoefle
Misery will have a lot of company among banks and other financial institutions in 1990, as the “Texas disease” spreads to the Northeast and other parts of the country.
Global Food Shortage Means African Famine
by Marcia Merry
Poland’s Alternative to IMF Shock Medicine
by William Engdahl
France has proposed the creation of a European Development Bank which would not follow the International Monetary Fund’s murderous conditionalities policy.
Currency Rates
Market Chaos Follows Argentine Liberalization
by Cynthia R. Rush
Trouble Ahead for Trucking Industry
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Red China Supplies Most World Heroin
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Yeutter Touts USDA “Accomplishments.”
Business Briefs
Feature
Panama Genocide Begins the End of George Bush
Democratic statesman Lyndon LaRouche points to the accelerating madness in the White House since the Dec. 20 invasion.
Panama Massacre: The Real Story
by Carlos Wesley
Civilian Deaths in Panama Prediscounted
by Leo F. Scanlon
Bush Names Drug Mob Capos To Rule Panama
‘Will Americans Swallow This?’
Statements by Panama’s Minister of Industry and Commerce and Ambassador to the OAS, and by Argentina’s Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldín.
Fact Sheet on U.S. Invasion of Panama
World Press Reports: Bush in Trouble Now
International
Soviet Massacres from the Elbe to the Urals?
by Webster G. Tarpley
The conjuncture of the Romanian-centered Balkan crisis with the Lithuanian-centered Baltic crisis is propelling the Kremlin toward the use of military force in either or both of these theaters.
Phase I of Romanian Revolution Has Ended
by Konstantin George
But the new interim government is run by the same Communist families as before—minus the Ceausescus.
U.S. Warfare in 1989 Targeted Four Strategic Allies in Asia
Japan, Philippines, Turkey, and South Korea were all victimized by the U.S.-Soviet condominium.
Greenpeace: A Critical Look at the Ecological Multinational
Part I of an investigative series.
Beethoven Rules in Berlin
by Hartmut Cramer
Germans open the Brandenburg Gate
International Intelligence
National
Thornburgh Doctrine Makes the U.S. an Outlaw State
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Panama invasion couldn’t have happened without the U.S. Attorney General’s announcement that the FBI could kidnap targeted individuals anywhere in the world, regardless of international law. Now’s the time for Bush to fire him.
Du Pont Heir Puts ‘Get LaRouche’ Mob on Trial
by Frederic Henderson
Lewis du Pont Smith seeks to reverse a judge’s ruling that he is “incompetent” solely because of his political beliefs.
Facts about Bush’s Sellout to China
by Ralph de Toledano
(Guest columnist).
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Thornburgh Stifles Freedom of Press.
National News
