Volume 18, Number 12, March 22, 1991
Interviews
Patriarch Nashrallah Sfeir
by Fiorella Operto
The Patriarch of the Maronite Christian Church in Lebanon discusses the work of the recent Church summit to heal the wounds of war in the region.
Patriarch Raphael Bidawid
by Fiorella Operto
The Patriarch of the Chaldeans in Iraq condemns the moral collapse of the U.S. that led it to butcher hundreds of thousands of Iraqis; the same immorality, he told U.S. Church leaders, was responsible for the jailing of Lyndon LaRouche.
Geries Khoury, Bishop Lufti Laham, Dr. Thiab Ayyoush, and Mousa Darwish
by Umberto Pascali
Christian and Muslim leaders of the Palestinian delegation, who later met with the Pope, are unified in their search for peace.
Reviews
Defending Interpretation (But Not Peter Sellers)
by Michael Minnicino
The PBS broadcast of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte.
Branagh’s ‘Henry V’: A Second Opinion
by Carlos Wesley
Did the film version help the cause of literate language?
Brave Green World: Malthus Refuted
by John Chambless
Sackgasse Ökostatt: Kein Platz für Menschen (The Ecostate Dead-End: No Place for Human Beings), by Ralf Schauerhammer.
Books Received
A Dissident Takes a Harsh Look at China
by Mary McCourt Burdman
A Higher Kind of Loyalty, by Liu Binyan.
Science & Technology
SDI Revisited: Lessons We Must Draw from the Gulf War
by Carol White
Little noticed, in January, President Bush presented a revised SDI that aims to institutionalize high-technology warfare against Third World nations. It’s incompetent defense, and will lead to the kind of rolling war characterized by the 33 years from the Balkan Wars of 1912 through the end of World War II.
Bush’s GPALS Limits More than Defense
An in-depth study, prepared by a research team of 21st Century Science & Technology magazine, shoots down Bush’s Global Protection Against Limited Strikes anti-ballistic missile defense.
Departments
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
India Prepares for Mid-Term Polls.
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Banks Initiate “Informal” Coup.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
U.S. Covers for the Real Traffickers.
Editorial
On the Anniversary of March 23, 1983.
Economics
U.S. Wields GATT Weapon against Its Trade Partners
by William Engdahl
George Bush and James Baker are in lockstep behind Maggie Thatcher’s new attempt to stop “German economic dominance.”
Depression Spreads through the Midwest
by H. Graham Lowry
The governors of Illinois and Iowa are holding the heads of the poor under, in order to keep the banks afloat.
BNL Indictment Part of ‘Tech Apartheid’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Currency Rates
Argentine Economy Wracked by Chaos
by Cynthia R. Rush
The finance minister calls it “stability.”
Banking
by John Hoefle
The S&L Bailout Needs a Bailout.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
USDA Fosters Milk Crisis.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Selling Mexico’s Oil Future.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No “Triangle” Yet, but a New Approach.
Business Briefs
Feature
Vatican Summit Charts Independent Course for Peace
by Umberto Pascali
Documentation: Pope John Paul II’s concluding speech to the summit of Patriarchs and Bishops; and the final communiqué signed by the participants.
Lebanon Not at War, but Also Not at Peace
by Fiorella Operto
Interview with Patriarch of the Maronite Church Nashrallah Sfeir.
U.S. and Europe Used Double Moral Standard Against Iraq
by Fiorella Operto
Interview with Patriarch of the Chaldeans Raphael Bidawid.
The Gulf War and the Christian Arabs
by Dr. Geries S. Khoury
Dr. Khoury is from the Al-Liqa (“Encounter”) Interreligious Center in Jerusalem, a member of the ecumenical Palestinian delegation that met with the Pope.
Message of Pan-Islamic Conference to the Pope
Muslim or Christian, Palestinians Are One
by Umberto Pascali
Interviews with four members of the Palestinian delegation.
The White House’s ‘War for Possession of Souls’
International
Communism’s Demise Sets Off Explosion in Yugoslavia
by Marco Fanini and Konstantin George
After years of IMF-dictated devastation, even Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic has taken a bad beating due to the instability of the economy.
Yeltsin Declares War on Moscow
by Konstantin George
The Russians are taking to the streets against Gorbachov, but unless someone adopts a positive program, a classic Russian tragedy is in the making.
Bush’s Policy: Make Iraq an Auschwitz
by Joseph Brewda
An estimated half-million are dead, and denial of even humanitarian aid is being enforced by the White House.
Israel Is Prepared for New Wars
by Joseph Brewda
Economic Crisis Fed Tories’ Election Loss
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Maggie Thatcher shares something else with Gorbachov: She’s more popular in the U.S. than at home.
International Intelligence
National
Bush Crime Bill: On the Road to Fascism
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Having made Congress an accomplice to his crimes in Iraq, Bush is seeking their assistance to suspend basic civil rights and expand the death penalty at home—once again to distract attention from the economic depression.
The ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ and Bush’s Abyssinian Crusade
by Leo Scanlon
A comparison to Benito Mussolini’s imperial adventures.
LaRouche: EIR Story on de Courcy Is True
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
Corrections
The byline of last week’s Feature on “The gaping hole in the U.S. consumer market basket” should have read “by Chris White, John Hoefle, and Anthony Wikrent.”
