Volume 19, Number 16, April 17, 1992
Correction
Our April 3 issue (p. 13) misspelled the name of the Russian town where a nuclear reactor leaked on March 24. The correct name is Sosnovy Bor.
Interviews
Mathis Bortner
by Katherine Notley
A member of Poland’s Solidarnosc and the leader of Solidarnosc in France’s Côte d’Azur, toured U.S. cities to demand freedom for political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche.
Jonas Birziskis
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
Lithuania’s minister of transportation discusses his government’s plans to upgrade the railway system, as the backbone of the nation’s infrastructure.
Kathleen A. Behan, Esq.
by Anita Gallagher
The attorney for Roger Coleman, who has been sentenced in Virginia to be executed on May 20 for a murder he probably did not commit, reviews the case for his innocence.
Departments
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Another “Democracy” in Decline.
Editorial
A War on You.
Books
British Involvement in JFK Assassination Covered Up
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? by Mark Lane.
The Promise and Tragedy of Spain’s Great Art Museum
by Nora Hamerman
The Prado, by Santiago Alcolea Blanch.
Sovietologist Still In Love with Gorby
by Denise Henderson
What Went Wrong With Perestroika, by Marshall I. Goldman.
Books Received
Economics
Bush’s $24 Billion ‘Aid’ Plan for Russia Is a Fraud
by Kathy Wolfe
The program is really a $24 billion bailout to the International Monetary Fund, aimed to impose further austerity on the suffering people of the former Soviet Union.
Stock Markets Dive
Resistance Builds to IMF Shock Therapy in Russia
by Denise Henderson
Currency Rates
Congress Lacks Courage To Stop NAFTA
by Suzanne Rose
Plan for World Eco-Dictatorship Is Slowed Down, But Not Halted
by Lydia Cherry and David Cherry
The architects of the U.N. Conference on Economic Development (UNCED), scheduled to take place in Brazil in June, are complaining that negotiations with the Third World are breaking down.
Japan Rejects U.S. ‘Anti-Trust’ Outrage
by Kathy Wolfe
Nuclear Program in Japan Under Attack
Colombian Industrial Production To Plummet Under Energy Rationing
by Javier Almario
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Trade War over Japan Beef Imports.
Banking
by John Hoefle
The S&L Bailout Goes Bust.
Business Briefs
Feature
Christian Economics Battles the IMF in East Europe
At a conference in Warsaw, Poland, international opponents of “shock therapy” met to discuss the alternative: Lyndon LaRouche’s “Productive Triangle” program, based on the Christian concept that the purpose of economic policy is to further the creative capacities of the individual, in the image of God.
Polish Leader Says Americans Must Win LaRouche’s Freedom
by Katherine Notley
An interview with Mathis Bortner.
How Communists and IMF Looted Poland
by Katherine Notley
Lithuania Could Still Lead the Way To Free Europe of IMF Usury
by Hartmut Cramer and Ortrun Cramer
A report from Vilnius.
‘Get LaRouche’ Task Force Exposed in Lithuania
by Hartmut Cramer and Ortrun Cramer
Small Lithuania Has Big Plans for Transport Net
by Ortrun Cramer and Hartmut Cramer
An interview with Jonas Birziskis.
International
Peru’s Fujimori Must Break with IMF To Save the Nation
by Cynthia R. Rush
In his “self-coup,” backed by the military in order to combat terrorism, the Peruvian President has shown that he is not playing completely by Washington’s rules.
U.S. Government Policy Is To Bring ‘Shining Path’ To Power in Peru
LaRouche: Don’t Believe Kissinger About Peru
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The ‘Italian Anomaly’ May Not Suit Bush
by Claudio Celani
In Wake of Elections, Germany Heads for a ‘Grand Austerity Coalition’
by Rainer Apel
German Jewish Magazine Hits Demjanjuk Frame-up
by Mark Burdman
Iraq: A Glimpse of a People Under Siege
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
‘We Lack the Medicine and Supplies To Take Care Of Our Population’
by Dr. Shouki Tuma
A statement by Iraq’s deputy health minister.
France’s Mitterrand Is Desperate To Survive
Turkey Threatens To Use Water as Weapon
by Joseph Brewda
Argentine Nationalists Remember Malvinas War, Despite Menem
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Intelligence
National
Ghost of Hjalmar Schacht Stalks Washington, D.C.
by Kathleen Klenetsky
From Warren Rudman of New Hampshire to H. Ross Perot, the cry has gone up: Cut the entitlement programs! But throwing the elderly, the sick, and the poor onto the scrap heap will in fact do nothing to reverse the economic crisis.
State Budget Cuts Hit Poor Hardest
by H. Graham Lowry
Only National Recovery Program Could Win Caterpillar Strike
by Susan Johnson
A Turning Point for Death Penalty in U.S.
by Anita Gallagher
‘An Innocent Man on Death Row’
by Anita Gallagher
An interview with Kathleen A. Behan, Esq.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Clinton to Kill Another Retarded Prisoner.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
