Volume 19, Number 11, March 13, 1992
Books
A Florentine Fresco Masterpiece Rejuvenated
by Nora Hamerman
Anatomy of a Restoration: The Brancacci Chapel, by Ken Shulman.
Science & Technology
Truly Ouster Is Latest Blow to Space Program
by Marsha Freeman
The highly respected NASA administrator was sacked just as the space agency begins its annual fight with Congress on the budget for the space program.
Truly Discusses His Years with NASA
From a speech by Admiral Richard Truly to the National Space Club.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Volcker Hassmann
Huge Debt Buildup in Germany.
China Report
by Michael Billington
Mongolia Probes Disappearance of Funds.
Andean Report
by Manuel Hidalgo
“His Majesty” Camdessus Gets His Way.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
New Economic Plan a Fraud.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Mexico’s “Winter Colloquium.”
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Noriega Prosecution Is Lying Again.
Editorial
Unscientific American, Again.
Economics
Governments Fret over Tourism, Not Cholera
by Cynthia R. Rush and Mary Cabanillas
The health ministers who met in Buenos Aires’s luxury Alvear Palace Hotel were most worried that if the cholera epidemic continues, their tourist trade will disappear. Not a soul brought up the fact that IMF austerity is causing the breakdown of water and sanitation infrastructure that leads to cholera.
India: Budget Calls for Structural Reforms
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Currency Rates
California Moves Toward Forced Sterilization
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Cargill, Inc. Reorganizes.
Business Briefs
Feature
To Solve Health Care Crisis, Build Hospitals!
by Linda Everett
American hospitals are being shut down by a gang of self-proclaimed experts in “cost containment.”
The LaRouche Program To Restore Health Care
Candidates Vie for Ways To Cut Health Care
Preventable Diseases Poised for Comeback
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Breakdown of U.S. Health Care Parallels Economic Collapse
by Stephen Parsons
In 1945, America launched a scientific health care program for all. Then came the “post-industrial society,” the whiz kids who lived on usury and wrecked the productive economy. Is it any wonder that health costs soared?
International
Bushmen in ‘Shock’ over Venezuelan Revolt
by Gretchen Small
The Venezuelan revolt and its spread across Ibero-America has shaken the Anglo-American financial system to its roots.
Documentation: From interviews with leaders of the Feb. 4 military insurrection, published in various Venezuelan publications.
U.S. Prepares To Hit Iraq Again
by Joseph Brewda
Pakistan: Is Sharif Government Running Out of Time?
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
CIS Pullout from Nagorno-Karabakh Opens New Phase of Transcaucasus War
by Konstantin George
Baroness Cox Warns of Slaughter in Karabakh
by Mark Burdman
Indonesia Will Not Yield to ‘Anti-Indonesia’ Campaign
by Mary McCourt Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Bush Is Getting Battered, as Other Candidates Founder
by H. Graham Lowry
The most prestigious media organs of the Anglo-American establishment are referring to George Bush as the new “Jimmy Carter.” But none of the other candidates are winning either!
U.S. Government Doublespeaks on Violations of LaRouche’s Human Rights
Judge Denies LaRouche Bail, Government Gets Extra Time
by Warren J. Hamerman
CAN Cult Seeks Bill Against Older People
by Bruce Director
Bush Presides over Anti-Drug Farce
by Valerie Rush
Drug Czar Martinez Comes Under Attack
by Jeffrey Steinberg
War Crimes Tribunal Convicts U.S., Allies for Actions in Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Reports from Ramsey Clark’s international tribunal in New York City.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
