Volume 18, Number 6, February 8, 1991
Interviews
Rifaat el Saeed
by Joseph Brewda
The official spokesman for Egypt’s seven-party parliamentary opposition describes the tragedy for his nation, where so many families have one son fighting in the Army and another working in Baghdad.
Maurice Goutt-Lilv
by Christine Bierre
The editor of Les Nouvelles Baltes says Bush stabbed the Baltics in the back after the Soviet intervention.
Gerald T. Zerkin, Esq.
by Marianna Wertz
The attorney for death row inmate Joe Giarratano tells a shocking story about the barbarous system of justice in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Book Reviews
More about a True Cultural Hero
by Nora Hamerman
Filippo Brunelleschi: The Early Works and the Medieval Tradition, by Heinrich Klotz.
Science & Technology
Winston Bostick, a Man of Great ‘Physical Intuition’
by Charles B. Stevens
Fusion Energy Foundation founding member Winston Bostick died Jan. 19. In his memory, we reprint his March 1977 work on the controlled thermonuclear fusion “pinch effect” principle, from the first issue of the International Journal of Fusion Energy.
The Pinch Effect Revisited
by Winston H. Bostick
Part 1 of Winston Bostick’s groundbreaking work on this aspect of controlled thermonuclear fusion research.
Departments
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Economic Blackmail and the Gulf War.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
What Price War?
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Welcome, Rambos, to Peru’s Jungle.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Bush’s New World Order Under Attack.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Gulf War Is Also a Proxy East-West War.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Mexican March Backs Iraq.
Australia Dossier
by Lydia Cherry
Iraqi Diplomat Expelled in Frameup.
Editorial
The United States Needs More Patriots.
Economics
Washington Uses Gulf War To Wage Trade War
by Marcia Merry
In the Gulf, the Europeans are our “allies,” but when it comes to squeezing out trade concessions, the White House is taking no prisoners.
Schiller Institute Helps Poles Plan To Replace Bielecki
by Frank Hahn
With the right sort of program, this proponent of the Jeffrey Sachs- Leszek Balcerowicz “shock austerity” can be voted out next spring.
Currency Rates
Will Ibero-America’s Economies Survive Bush’s Gulf War?
by Dennis Small
The continent’s big oil exporters need to import food, while the food exporters need oil; yet both buy elsewhere, for political reasons. With the outbreak of war in the Mideast, this foolish strategy is becoming a disaster.
Currency Rates
Banking
by John Hoefle
Will Gramm-Rudman Be Axed?
Business Briefs
Feature
Pot Production Soars as Depression Hits United States
by Marcia Merry, Dennis Small and John Hoefle
EIR has conducted a systematic analysis of U.S. marijuana production, evaluating the statistics compiled both by Federal agencies and by the pro-dope lobby. Our conclusion: The government’s figures are a gross underestimation, as marijuana becomes the top crop in one state after another.
Pop Singers Say, ‘Grow Dope, Not Food’
Where Marijuana Is the Top Cash Crop
Dope Moves In Where Farm Policy Failed
by Marcia Merry
The USDA, the grain cartels, and the Reagan-Bush “recovery” pulled the rug out from under the farmers, and then told them to grow dope to pay their debts.
It’s a Lie that Marijuana Is ‘Safe’
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
U.S. Must Grow Food, Wipe Out Marijuana
International
Muslims Inflamed against Bush’s ‘New World Order’
by Joseph Brewda
Will Iran enter the war on Iraq’s side? LaRouche said Bush could never contain this war, and he’s being proven right,
Iraq Charges U.N. with War Crimes
From Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz’s communiqué to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuéllar.
Bush Blocked Road to Peaceful Solution
by Joseph Brewda
Civil Liberties Are Latest War Casualty
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Britain is rounding up Palestinians; France has banned demonstrations; and the FBI has readied the internment camps.
Violence Continues Against Baltic States, Ordered by Moscow Center
by Konstantin George
Gorbachov Is Lying on Baltic Atrocity
by Christine Bierre
Narcos and IMF Declare Joint War on the Colombian Economy
by José Restrepo
The kidnapped daughter of a former President is murdered: Is this the peace offering of the “Extraditables”?
International Intelligence
National
Can Bush Survive His Persian Gulf War Debacle?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
People are beginning to find out that war is not a video game, and that means the President’s obsession with destroying Iraq will become his own political undoing.
Army Study Warned Against Bush’s Insane Gulf War; Authors Silenced
by Leo Scanlon
An analysis produced by the U.S. Army War College, “Iraqi Power and U.S. Security in the Middle East,” is a virtual point-by-point refutation of the propaganda themes that dragged the nation into war.
Virginia Withheld Evidence That May Prove Joe Giarratano’s Innocence
by Marianna Wertz
ADL Spying Targets Anti-War Movement
by Herbert Quinde
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
