Volume 18, Number 19, May 17, 1991
Reviews
Do You Believe in British Royal Family Magic?
by Mark Burdman
Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty, by Roland Flamini.
The Classical Pianist as Hero
by Philip Ulanowsky
A videotape: Claudio Arrau Signature Performance Series: Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 (The Emperor), op. 73.
Two Great Men of the German Renaissance
by Nora Hamerman
Nikolaus von Kues 1401-1464: Leben und Werk im Bild, by Helmut Gestrich, and Albrecht Dürer: A Biography, by Jane Campbell Hutchinson.
Free Trade Paved Way for Human Bondage
by Frederic Henderson
The Road to Disunion: Vol. I, Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854, by William W. Freehling.
Strategic Studies
Christians Must Know What Confucius Said
by Michael Billington
Traces the history of a Grand Design that failed: the project for an ecumenical alliance between China and Renaissance Europe, on the basis of shared fundamental, beliefs.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Collor Pays Tribute to Bush.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
NAFTA: Slash Wages To Pay the Debt.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Blueprints, Rather than Blue Helmets.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
More Dope under U.S. Occupation.
Andean Report
by Andrea Olivieri
“Soviet” Emerges in Colombia.
Editorial
The Real Scandal in Washington.
Economics
How, and How Big, the U.S. Lies on Unemployment
by Laurence Hecht
A study conducted by EIR, the only such study we know of, shows that nearly twice as many Americans are jobless as the government claims, and half again as many are working part time or reduced hours because they cannot get full-time work.
‘Informal Economy’ Spreads Cholera
by Ana M. Mendoza-Phau
A report from the Pan-American Health Organization.
FAO: Cut Population To Save Environment
by Marion Schwanenberg Peretti
Currency Rates
Volcker Named New Trilateral Chairman
by Jeffrey Steinberg
How does the infamous Trilateral Commission fit into Bush’s “new world order”? At their recent meeting in Tokyo, they spelled it out.
Kaifu Boosts Tokyo’s Presence in S.E. Asia
by Linda de Hoyos
‘Free Trade’ Wrecked China’s Farm Potential
by Michael Billington
CIA Puts Economic Squeeze on Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
World’s Wheat Regions in Crisis.
Business Briefs
Feature
Tri-National Drive To Stop Bush’s ‘Fast Track’ to Genocide
by Alan Ogden and Dennis Small
A new EIR study has been simultaneously released in English and in Spanish, to fuel the mobilization against the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement.
Poverty and Free Trade in the Rio Grande Valley
by Harley Schlanger
A report from the Texas-Mexico border region.
Why NAFTA Will Destroy the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
International
Truths of New Encyclical Must Be Acted Upon Now
by Nora Hamerman and Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has issued a call for European governments to make the principles set forth in Centesimus Annus into reality, by implementing Lyndon LaRouche’s programs for a new, just world economic order.
‘Greater Serbia’ Gang Pushes Yugoslavia toward Civil War
by Konstantin George
Bangladesh Cyclone Disaster Not ‘Natural’
by Ronald Kokinda
The tragedy was the storm; the catastrophe has been a ten-year triage policy by the international banks.
The Caste Factor in Indian Elections: A Poll Analyst’s Myth
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Is Iran an Emerging Colossus, or the Next Victim in the Gulf?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
One would think that such able tacticians, who have ample experience with the current U.S. government, would play their cards more astutely.
War Crimes Act Is Law in Britain
by Katherine Kanter
In Memoriam: Enrique Low’s War with Drug ‘Slavery’
by José Restrepo
International Intelligence
National
Bush Dynasty Coming to an End
by Kathleen Klenetsky
With Bush’s illness, “a damaging and indelible question mark has been embossed on the exposed flesh of this presidency,” commented Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon H. Lalouche.
Europeans Tour U.S. for LaRouche Triangle
by Patricia Salisbury
Bani-Sadr on Bush’s Role in Hostage Deal
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The newly released U.S. edition of a book by the former President of Iran has a couple of bombshells.
Bankers Pull Plug on New York City
by H. Graham Lowry
Eye on Washington
by Leo Scanlon
Mt. Pleasant Riots Jolt the Capital.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
