Volume 17, Number 16, April 13, 1990
Interviews
Mathis Bortner
by Emmanuel Grenier
A leader of the French wing of the Polish Solidarnosc movement, just back from Warsaw, warns that the “shock therapy” adopted by the Polish government will mean that many Poles will die needlessly.
Science & Technology
‘Brilliant Pebbles’ Are Not That Smart
by Charles B. Stevens and Carol White
In an effort to salvage something from the Bush Administration’s dismantling of the Reagan-LaRouche directed-energy weapons Strategic Defense Initiative, some military specialists are clinging to “Brilliant Pebbles” kinetic weapons as a cheap alternative. The problem is, it won’t work and Charles Stevens and Carol White explain precisely why.
Appendix: The Missile Intercept Problem
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Trains Are Gaining Speed, At Last.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Noriega Trial a Political Bombshell.
Dateline Mexico
by Isaías Amezcua
PAN Party Self-Destructs.
Editorial
Invest in America.
Economics
Flood of U.S. Insolvencies Drowns Out G-7 Meeting
by Anthony K. Wikrent
The world financial system is proceeding, as Lyndon LaRouche predicted, from “controlled disintegration” to just plain collapse.
Is U.S. Committing Financial Hara-Kiri?
by William Engdahl
Soviets Deny Plan To Abolish Polish Model
by Mark Burdman
Currency Rates
How the U.S. Lost Its Lead in Steel Production
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Clash Builds between Brazil and Bankers
by Peter Rush
The City of Houston: A Terminal Case of ‘Free Enterprise’
by Carol Hugunin
U.S., Mexico Push for ‘Free-Trade’ Pact
by Peter Rush
Banking
by John Hoefle
Bush’s Thrift Plan Floundering.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
New U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Treaty.
Business Briefs
Feature
Abraham Lincoln’s Enemies Must Still Be Defeated
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The idea that Czar Mikhail Gorbachov in any way resembles the great republican Abraham Lincoln, a line now being pushed by American Gorbymaniacs on the occasion of Lincoln’s birthday, is “obscene beyond belief,” according to U.S. statesman and political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche.
The ‘Gorbachov Is Lincoln’ Fraud
by Mark Burdman
Discoveries and Inventions
by Abraham Lincoln
Full text of Lincoln’s “favorite stump speech” on man’s progressive command over nature.
If the South Had Won the War, We’d All Be Slaves
by Allen Salisbury
Comment by American historian Allen Salisbury.
American Civil War: Republic vs. Empire
by Anton Chaitkin
Author of Treason of America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman.
International
Ukrainians Back Lithuanian Independence, Ready Their Own
by Luba George
They’re calling for an economic federation of all liberated Eastern European and Baltic nations.
Bush Gives Gorby Free Rein in Lithuania
by William Jones
The Volodin Plan To Save Imperial Russia
by Konstantin George
Honecker Out, Zhivkov Out, Ceausescu Out ... Now Thatcher?
by Mark Burdman
The Superpower Drive To Curb the Mideast ‘Missile Race’
Group of Rio Shames Panama’s Endara
by Robyn Quijano
Colombian Government Opens Talks with Drug Traffickers, with U.S. Blessing
by José Restrepo
U.S. Wants Government Coalition in Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
Cambodia: Decision in the Battlefield
by Linda de Hoyos
Soviet Secession Law Right Out of Orwell
East German Security Police Remain Intact
Labour To Hold Line Till Crash in Australia
by John Koehler
International Intelligence
National
The Clean Air Act: On the Road to Perdition
by Carol White
It will throw almost one million out of work, cost billions, and will create more pollution than it purports to stop.
Will the Democrats Lose Their Historic Opportunity?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Bush Attacked for Not Backing Lithuania
OSI Set Precedent for Lithuanian Betrayal
by Joseph Brewda
The Karl Linnas case revisited.
Bankruptcy Brief Rips ‘Get LaRouche’ Plot
ADL and Pamyat Make Strange Bedfellows
by Scott Thompson
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
