Volume 18, Number 18, May 10, 1991
Book Review
Post-Industrial Buffalo: Who Killed a Great City?
by Denise Ham
City on the Lake, History and the Challenge of Change in Buffalo, New York, by Mark Goldman.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
On the “Fast Track” to Cholera.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Cooperation with Soviet Union Grows.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Prince Charles Boosts Green Agenda.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Misrule of Law.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
In Search of Muslim Votes.
Andean Report
by Andrea Olivieri
Legalized Crime in Colombia.
Editorial
Why the U.S. Cannot Rebuild from Within.
Economics
Privatization: Going Beyond Austerity to Disintegration
by Stephen Parsons
Taxpayers are being buried by new indebtedness, as the free market crowd take their hatchets to the public sector of the economy.
The Reality behind the G-7 Debacle
by Mark Burdman
Slovak Leader Shift Reinforces IMF Foes
by Paolo Raimondi
Can We Hold the Line Against Cholera?
by Pamela Lowry
LaRouche’s Economics Debated in the Dominican Republic
by Cynthia R. Rush
The Foundations of the Japanese ‘Economic Miracle’
by Ramtanu Maitra
Maitra traces the emergence of an effective dirigist policy for enhancing industrial development in Japan—the kind of policy the United States used to have.
Labor-Management Relations Vital to Japan’s Economy
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Food Cartel Boosts Fast Track.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Fascist Reorganization Proceeds.
Business Briefs
Feature
For the Economic Development of Eastern Europe
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
People in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are well aware that the communist system has failed, but they do not know what the alternative to it might be. There are some who think they know what the alternative is, but their cures are even worse than the disease—like the so-called Polish model of Harvard’s Jeffrey Sachs. How economic catastrophe can be avoided.
International
British Monarchy Mobilizes Against the Americas
by Mark Burdman
Queen Elizabeth II will probably not be bringing cocaine in her suitcase when she comes to the United States, but what she and her brood are bringing, is more lethal.
Racist Demographics of Bush’s Genocide
by Joseph Brewda
Bush Vetoes European Defense Union, Promotes ‘New Atlanticism’
by Michael Liebig
Even tentative moves by continental Europeans toward an independent security policy, could get in the way of the Anglo-American colonial wars.
Yugoslavia Extremists in Pre-May 15 Push
by Konstantin George
Youth Group Exposes ‘Get Mahathir’ Gang
by Lydia Cherry
Italy: Ex-Communists, Bankers Sound Alike
by Leonardo Servadio
Persian Gulf War Scandals Highlighted in British Press
by Mark Burdman
The Supermen and the Crocodiles
by Michel Butel
Novelist Michel Butel, one of the few Frenchmen who has spoken out against his government’s involvement in the war against Iraq, contributes a fierce denunciation of Bush’s “new world order.”
International Intelligence
National.
Bush on Education: A Fast Track for Deschooling
by Carol White
While the Washington spin artists talk about the President’s “education agenda,” thousands of teachers are being laid off nationwide, and a California school district closed six weeks early, for lack of funds to operate.
Massachusetts: A Corporatist Nightmare
by H. Graham Lowry
Supreme Court Limits Habeas Corpus Appeals
U.S. Accuses China of ‘Unfair’ Trading
by Michael Billington
A Dirty Little War Is Brewing over Bush’s ‘October Surprise’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
