EIR Volume 17, Number 28, July 6, 1990

Volume 17, Number 28, July 6, 1990

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Interviews

Hugh Ellsaesser

by Rogelio A. Maduro

A leading atmospheric scientist, formerly of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, exposes the potential cost, in countless lives, of the ban on CFCs.

Robert Alexander

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

A consultant on radiation protection and health effects dispels some of the sacred myths of the anti-nuclear movement.

A leader of the outlawed Ukrainian Uniate (Catholic) Church, in Rome for a meeting with the Pope, says that Gorbachov’s glasnost has allowed them to celebrate mass without fear of arrest, but little more than that.

Father Giovanni Cavalcoli

A Dominican priest and expert on European affairs, looking ahead to the 1991 special Synod, calls for a revival of Classical culture.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Inside the “Productive Triangle.”

Vatican

by Maria Cristina Fiocchi

Europe’s Task: To Keep the Peace.

Dateline Mexico

by Carlos Cota Meza

What Does Negroponte Do?

Panama Report

by Carlos Wesley

U.S. Seeks To Outlaw Security Forces.

Kissinger Watch

by M.T. Upharsin

Dr. K, Bilderbergers Push George’s Tax Hike.

Editorial

Mideast War Alert.

Science & Technology

Debunking Media Myths about the Ozone Layer

by Rogelio A. Maduro

Part II of Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser’s demonstration that from every competent scientific standpoint, the thesis that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere is pure bunk.

Nuclear Radiation: Facts Versus Scare Stories

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

The scaremongers about the dangers of radiation from nuclear plants are simply playing on people’s ignorance of the physical nature of radiation.

Economics

What Ought To Be on the Houston Agenda

by Christopher White

The Group of Seven is having its annual economic summit, and President Bush is bringing with him the disastrous doctrines of free enterprise and radical environmentalism. Meanwhile, Rome burns.

McNamara on Crusade for Genocide in Africa

by Mark Burdman

Asian AIDS Epidemic To Rival Africa

by Mary McCourt Burdman

East Germans Form Association for Independent Agriculture

by Rosa Tennenbaum

Currency Rates

Bush’s Free Trade Pact Means Genocide

by Valerie Rush

No one will gain if all Ibero-America is turned into one huge runaway sweatshop.

Brazil’s President Opts for Chaos

by Peter Rush

Europe’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Bottleneck to Economic Growth

by William Engdahl

The Gutting of America: Investment in Electricity Generation Dries Up

by Anthony K. Wikrent

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

A Farm Bill To Wipe Out Agriculture.

Energy Insider

by Rogelio A. Maduro

The Bush Offshore Drilling Ban.

Business Briefs

Feature

Who Is Responsible for America’s Banking Crisis?

There is no way a bunch of crooks could have caused the collapse of 791 U.S. banks since 1985. It happened because of deliberate decisions made by both Democratic and Republican governments over more than a decade. And every step of the way. EIR and its founder Lyndon LaRouche were issuing warnings that the result would be the crisis we have today. EIR’s Economics Staff reviews the record of who was right, and who was wrong.

LaRouche’s TV Broadcasts

International

Five Non-Russian Republics Declare Their Sovereignty

by Konstantin George

While the Western media tried to keep the spotlight on Gorbachov, the real news was elsewhere in the Soviet Union, where a new form of Russian imperial system is shaping up.