Volume 18, Number 29, August 2, 1991
Book Reviews
Renaissance Florence Was a ‘Child-Centered’ Society
by Nora Hamerman
Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410-1536, by Philip Gavitt.
Why the British Hate Iraq So Much
by Mark Burdman
Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein’s Ambition for Iraq, by Simon Henderson.
New Volume Is One of the Best on World War II in the Pacific
by Michael Minnicino
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, by Richard B. Frank.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Collor’s Latest Publicity Stunt.
Andean Report
by Carlos Wesley
Startling Revelations in Venezuela.
Editorial
The Honor of France.
Science & Technology
Scientists Propose Fusion Rockets for Mars Mission
by Charles B. Stevens
More than three years after Lyndon LaRouche insisted that a Mars colonization program would have to use fusion-powered rockets, new research is eyeing the plasma focus.
What Is Plasma?
Technical Appendix
Economics
Banks, Insurance Giants Totter, as Bills Fall Due
by Stephen Parsons
The state of New Jersey’s takeover of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance reveals the utter bankruptcy of yet another sector of the U.S. economy that invested in speculation rather than production.
BCCI Trail Leads to ‘October Surprise’
by Edward Spannaus
Will Europe Help Stabilize Soviet Energy Output?
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
British Monarchy’s Pagan Ecologism Endorsed by Group of Seven
by Mark Burdman
Ecologists Set Pagan Gathering in Brazil
by Mark Burdman
U.S. Water Crisis Provokes New Look at Science of Desalination
by Marcia Merry
Sterilization Tops Bush Third World Agenda
Banking
by John Hoefle
Mergers in the Rue Morgue.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
New Rice Substitute Created.
Business Briefs
Feature
Greater Serbia’s Power Grab Heralds War in Europe
by Konstantin George
Partition of Yugoslavia is now inevitable, and the likelihood is that developments there will spark a broader conflagration.
IMF Wrecked the Yugoslav Economy
by Paolo Raimondi
Larry Eagleburger Primes the Balkan Tinderbox To Explode
by Scott Thompson
The deputy secretary of state is backing the Serbian communists, while his own business ventures link him to a Yugoslav bank convicted in a U.S. court for money laundering. A profile in treason.
Background to the Crisis: The Serbian-Russian Connection
British Promote a Monarchist Revival
by Mark Burdman
International
U.S. Seeks To Redraw Map of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Joseph Brewda
Turkey aspires to become a new Ottoman Empire, the Cyprus crisis could flare up again, and James Baker is plotting to wipe out the Palestinians: the face of George Bush’s new world disorder.
War against Iraq a ‘Disaster,’ Says French Nobel Prize Economist
by Mark Burdman
Maurice Allais and other prominent French figures denounce the policy of Mitterrand and the Anglo-Americans.
Hong Kong To Revert to China, or Is China Reverting to Britain?
by Michael Billington
Algeria after the Islamic Salvation Front
by Jacques Cheminade
Presidents Put On Servile Display at First Ibero-American Summit
by Carlos Cota Meza and Carlos Méndez
An epidemic of cholera, and of self-discrediting behavior.
‘Ibero-American Presidents Guilty of Genocide’
Argentina Threatened with Dismemberment
by Cynthia R. Rush
Terror Haunts Colombia as Gaviria `Dialogues’
by Andrea Olivieri
International Intelligence
National
Senate Bill on AIDS Testing Continues CDC’s Coverup
by H. Graham Lowry
Bowing to public pressures for action, the Senate leadership took a baby step toward making AIDS testing a legal requirement. But only a small number of health-care workers will be tested, and the measure will do virtually nothing to stop AIDS.
Senate Crime Bill Assaults Constitution
by Leo Scanlon
Saving the Children of Iraq from Genocide
by Francis A. Boyle
In a guest commentary, Professor of International Law Francis A. Boyle develops the case for prosecuting Bush Administration officials under the UN Genocide Convention.
`Jewish Democrats’ Plot Party Takeover
U.S. Crisis in Education Is Focus of Debate at Singing Conference
by Kathy Wolfe
A report from the First American Vocal Arts Congress. Can classical music survive in the United States?
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
