Volume 17, Number 6, February 2, 1990
Science & Technology
Shuttle Crew Brings Science Laboratory Home
by Marsha Freeman
The experimental results expected from the Long Duration Exposure Facility, launched six years ago and now back on Earth, will be invaluable for ascertaining how to maintain a permanent presence in near-Earth space.
Hermann J. Oberth: Father of Space Flight
In memoriam, by John Zavrel.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Brady Plan Corpse Finally Buried.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Citibank Leaves with Empty Hands.
Andean Report
by Jaime Ramírez
Venezuelan Economy: Ruin in One Year.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Despite Promises, Panama Gets No Money.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Reconstruction of a Ruined Country.
Report from Rome
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
A Way Out of the Vietnam Tragedy.
View from London
by Dan Atkinson
Tories Hit by Economic Crisis.
Editorial
One Better than Herbert Hoover.
Economics
Interest Rate Rise Drives U.S. Collapse
by Stephen Parsons
Japan’s virtual boycott of the U.S. bond market is dashing fantasies of a “soft landing” for what remains of the U.S. economy.
U.S. Construction Industry Is Ready for a Blowout
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Urban Farm Boys Push Radical Plans.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Northeastern Banking Collapsing.
International Credit
by William Engdahl
A New Bank for Eastern Europe.
Business Briefs
Feature
Paris-Berlin-Vienna Triangle: Locomotive of the World Economy
Following the guidelines laid out by U.S. Congressional candidate Lyndon LaRouche, an international team sponsored by the Schiller Institute presents major components of a plan to save the world economy by transforming continental Europe’s transportation infrastructure, making that region into the world’s greatest economic power.
International
Azerbaijan War Brings Soviet Leadership Crisis to a Head
by Konstantin George
Whether or not Gorbachov goes, his policies have been junked by the Politburo.
The Weakening of Benazir Bhutto and Its Fallout
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
The Pakistani Prime Minister is being forced to call early elections as the Kashmir crisis flares dangerously between Pakistan and India.
When Russia Held Iranian Azerbaijan
Noriega’s ‘Drugs’ Were Really Tamales
by Carlos Wesley
Documentation: World criticism of invasion of Panama.
The U.S. Invasion of Panama: An Evaluation from the Standpoint of International Law
by Prof. Friedrich August Baron von der Heydte
Colombian Liberals Embrace Drug Mafia
by José Restrepo
Social Democrats, Crazier than Ever, Welcome Chaos in U.S.S.R.
by Scott Thompson
Some Queries for the Soviet Strategists
by Argus
International Intelligence
National
Bush: On the Slippery Slope to Political Doom
by Kathleen Klenetsky
He scraped through his vote in support of the Chinese butchers, but the Furies will make short work of the President as the U.S. economy careens into the depths of depression.
Court Puts LaRouche Democrat on Texas Ballot
by Patricia Salisbury
4th Circuit Upholds Travesty of Justice against LaRouche
President Bush knows LaRouche is innocent.
Gen. Powell Acts Like Idiot to Reservists
by Scott Thompson
Bush’s Rhetoric Thin at Pro-Life March
by Linda Everett
Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ at C=256: More of the Mass than the Opera
by Kathy Wolfe
In honor of political prisoners everywhere, the Lubo Opera and Schiller Institute produced the first modern full performance of an opera at the scientific tuning of the great composers, in New York City.
McMartin Preschool Verdict ‘Not Guilty’
by Carol White
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
West Can’t Stop Gorbachov’s Fall.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones and Leo F. Scanlon
National News
