Volume 17, Number 18, April 27, 1990
Interviews
Kurt Masur
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
The director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra tells why his city led the revolution in East Germany.
Book Reviews
A Lithuanian Catholic’s Struggle against Inhuman Soviet Oppression
by Cloret Carl
A Radiance in the Gulag, The Catholic Witness of Nijole Sadunaite, translated by Rev. Casimir Pugevicius and Marian Skabeikis.
Music
Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Revolution
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
The city of Leipzig was at the heart of the overthrow of the East German communist dictatorship last year, and Kurt Masur, director of its Gewandhaus Orchestra, is at the heart of Leipzig, once the home of Johann Sebastian Bach. At a press conference held in late December, Masur explained how how this cultured city defeated the Stasi police-state without bloodshed.
‘There Came a Time When I Had No Fear’
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
An interview with Kurt Masur.
Departments
Soviet Economy
by Thierry Lalevée
A Central Asian Common Market?
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Congress Blocks Privatization.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharsin
Fat Larry Eagleburger Gets New Pork Barrel from Taxpayers.
Report from Rome
LaRouche Electoral Slate Formed.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germans Can Support Lithuanians.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Guns and Drugs, But No Butter.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Narco-Terror Versus Development.
Dateline Mexico
by Francisco Roncalli
Kidnaping by the Thornburgh Doctrine.
Editorial
The Spirit of a Free People.
Economics
Market Volatility Marks New Phase of the Collapse
by John Hoefle
Almost $1 trillion in Japanese paper values has been wiped out since the beginning of this year, and the U.S. Treasury bill market is going wild—sure signs that the financial collapse predicted by Lyndon LaRouche is in full swing.
Nuclear Energy Base Crucial to European Industrial Reconstruction
by William Engdahl
‘Stability’ for China Means No Freedom
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Strike Wave Threatens Argentine ‘Stability’
by Cynthia R. Rush
Pakistan’s Neglected Infrastructure, a Barrier to Rapid Development
by Ramtanu Maitra
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Yeutter Moves To Deregulate Milk.
Business Briefs
Feature
Is the British Oligarchy Preparing To Balkanize the U.S.?
by Webster G. Tarpley
The imminent danger of a break-up of Canada into regional entities is only one part of a strategy by the British-led international financial Establishment to realize their two-century-old dream of dismembering the United States. Political analyst Webster Tarpley argues that “national self-determination” can be used as a weapon of subjugation, when it is not coupled with full national sovereignty.
International
Moscow Imposes Blockade To Strangle Free Lithuania
by Konstantin George
The more servile President Bush becomes to the interests of the Russian dictatorship, the more arrogant the Russians become. Who will come to the aid of free Lithuania?
Documentation: From a letter to President Bush from Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis.
War Talk in the Asian Subcontinent
by Susan Maitra
UN Gets LaRouche Rights Case
Part II of a formal petition submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission, seeking UN action against the political and judicial witchhunt against Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement.
Conference in Italy Studies Cults, and ‘Anti-Cult’ Movement
by Claudio Rossi
International Intelligence
National
ADL Caught Trying To Sway Judge in ‘LaRouche’ Case
The Anti-Defamation League, a tool of the Anglo-Soviet opposition to LaRouche, hinted in a letter to Roanoke, Va. judge Clifford Weckstein that a fat promotion was awaiting him if he kept on giving life sentences to political associates of LaRouche.
Spannaus Files Over 500 Delegates in Virginia
She’s the only one running against the man Liz Taylor couldn’t stand.
We Should Base ‘Soviet Policy’ on American Revolution
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Remarks by U.S. Congressional candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
‘No Price Too Great To Stop Global Condominium’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Attorney General Thornburgh’s Immorality Exposed by Drug Scandal
by Steve Komm and Jeffrey Steinberg
Bush’s Green Agenda Is Deep-Rooted
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Russian Fascists Taken Over the Coals in D.C.
by William Jones
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
