Volume 17, Number 22, May 25, 1990

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Interviews

Msgr. Ladas Tulaba

by Maria Cristina Fiocchi

The founder and rector of the Pontifical Lithuanian College in Rome says that contrary to disinformation in the Western news media, the only internal strife in free Lithuania is being caused by Moscow-directed agents provocateurs.

Book Reviews

'Farewell: We Must Be Faithful First to Our Country'

by Katherine Notley

June Four, A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic Uprising, by the photographers and reporters of the Ming Pao News.

A Look Back at Tiananmen Square, and Beyond

by Donald Baier

Beijing Spring, photographs by David and Peter Tumley, text by Melinda Liu.

Books Received

Departments

Dateline Montreal

by Matt Guice

Reichmanns Are in Deep Trouble.

Medicine

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

Better Late than Never.

Report from Rio

by Silvia Palacios

Profile of a Brazilian "New Ager."

Panama Report

by Carlos Wesley

Bush Called To Account for Holocaust.

Editorial

Anti-Semitism Is a Two-Edged Sword.

Economics

Goods Kept Off Market, as Soviets Agonize over Reforms

by Rachel Douglas

In anticipation of price hikes, farmers in Russia's breadbasket are refusing to ship their grain to Moscow, making that city "the epitome of the empty store" and turning the Soviet empire into one huge political tinderbox.

Currency Rates

The Gorbachov Clean Air Act Will Wreck America's Industry

High Technology Can Clean Up the Environment

The Failed Economics of Thatcherism

by William Engdahl

Part I of a post-mortem of the British economy.

An Alternative to Appeasement of China

by Mary McCourt Burdman

Taiwan makes a generous offer to the Communist mainland.

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Gorbachov Wants Minnesota Grain.

Business Briefs

Feature

Pope in Mexico: Eastern European Revolution Is Not Enough

by Peter Rush

Once again, Pope John Paul II has made an indispensable contribution to creating a new just world economic order out of today's shambles of poverty and degradation, by traveling to Mexico to denounce the immoral "free market" policies which have destroyed that country over the past eight years.

Documentation: Excerpts from the Pope's speeches during his Mexico visit.

What Must Be Done: Lyndon LaRouche's Operation Juárez

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The Pope's visit makes LaRouche's 1982 economic reform proposal more urgent than ever. Excerpts of his major points.

International

LaRouche Was Right on Soviet Strategy

Gorbachov's praise of the offensive military policies of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, and his effusive praise of the Red Army, prove that the analysis issued by Lyndon LaRouche beginning in 1983, following Moscow's rejection of the Reagan-LaRouche SDI proposal, has been correct, while all the Western babblers about "peace dividend" are revealed as suicidal fools.

Landsbergis Assails Western 'Pragmatism'

Threats to German Reunification

by Rainer Apel

Communists and Social Democrats are working overtime to wreck what has just been accomplished.

South Korea Is Far from Falling Apart

by Lydia Cherry

Japan's New 'Asia Doctrine' Is Received Warmly During Kaifu Tour

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

Is Colombian Army on López's Trail?

by José Restrepo

Military Institution Gutted in Argentina

by Cynthia R. Rush

Reopen the Bulgarian File

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The 1981 assassination attempt on the Pope had Moscow written all over it. Why was it covered up?

International Intelligence

National

Reality Is Wiping Out Bush's So-Called Popularity

by Andrew Rotstein and Susan Welsh

The Establishment media find Bush's public relations lines about the economy "preposterous," and a new grand jury has been formed to reopen the Iran-Contra case. Where was George?

Anti-Defamation League Is Put On Trial in Roanoke 'LaRouche' Case

by Bruce Director

Du Pont Smith Takes Stand in Rights Case

Elections Confirm Support for LaRouche

by Patricia Salisbury

Primaries in three states show he still has a solid 20-45% of the vote.

Eco-Fascists Want To Turn California Back into a Desert

by Brian Lantz

The Thornburgh Doctrine: The End of International Law

by Prof. Friedrich August Baron von der Heydte

A noted West German expert on civil and international law, delivers a scathing indictment of the Thornburgh Justice Department's effort to trample on the fundamentals of natural law.

Eye on Washington

by Steve Komm and Jeffrey Steinberg

Is Thornburgh On His Way Out?

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

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