Volume 19, Number 18, May 1, 1992
Corrections
The cover photo of a child chipping at the Berlin Wall in the April 17, 1992 issue (Vol. 19, No. 16) was incorrectly captioned and credited. It was taken by Mark Nafziger in November 1989, shortly after the opening of the Wall.
Interviews
Francis A. Boyle
by Joseph Brewda
An international law expert and adviser to Libya discusses how the CIA set up Libya to take the rap for the Lockerbie bombing.
Reviews
Brookings Leads Push for Oregon Health Plan
by Stephen Parsons
Rationing America’s Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond, edited by Martin A. Strosberg, Joshua M. Wiener, Robert Baker, with I. Alan Fein.
Soviet Space Science Looks at ‘Sister Planet’ Venus
by Carl Osgood
Venus Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics: Research Results from the U.S.S.R., edited by V.L. Batsukov, A.T. Basilevsky, V.P. Volkov, and V.N. Zharkov.
A Moral Chronicle of the Gulf War
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
John Paul II for Peace in the Middle East: War in the Gulf: Gleaning Through the Pages of L’Osservatore Romano, published by the Path to Peace Foundation.
Southeast Asia Drugs, POW Issue Hit Bush
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson.
Gem of an Exhibit in Minneapolis: Rembrandt’s Two Paintings of Lucretia
by Nora Hamerman
Departments
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
Japan Extends a Helping Hand.
China Report
by Michael Billington
China Held Up as Slave Labor Model.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Is Bolivia’s “Democracy” Next?
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
What’s Behind the Cuna Uprising?
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Protesting the “New Order.”
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
The Aztec Plan.
Editorial
IMF demands new Russian empire.
Economics
Behind Alan Greenspan’s Obfuscations on Japan
by Christopher White
It is unusual for the Fed chairman to ascend Capitol Hill to testify on international matters, but the one-time Ayn Rand epigone assured legislators that the effects of Japanese stock market drop Stateside will be limited. (Didn’t inhale...)
Currency Rates
No Health Care in Oregon Rationing Plan
by Linda Everett
The plan promises to provide Oregonians “more access to health care”—until they get sick. Then they can just die.
Real Estate Giant in Technical Default
by John Hoefle
The latest in the Olympia & York debacle.
Domestic Credit
by Stephen Parsons
Commercial Mortgage Debacle Looms.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
USDA Cuts Flour for Schools.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
The United States Must Save Soviet Science
by Marsha Freeman
The world’s largest scientific community, encompassing expertise on the frontiers of physics, mathematics, directed energy technologies, and space exploration is threatened with extinction, which will deal a terrible blow to our own space efforts, in particular, and the advance of scientific knowledge in general.
Feature
The Ibero-American Revolt against the IMF Has Begun
by Dennis Small
A shortened version of the speech given by the Schiller Institute’s coordinator for Ibero-America, Dennis Small, to an April conference in Warsaw, Poland, attended by representatives of 13 nations. When it comes to fighting the International Monetary Fund, the former political prisoner said, Ibero-Americans must think like the freedom fighters of eastern Europe, and eastern Europeans must look to the anti-IMF fight in the Americas.
International
How Long Before Peru’s Fujimori Dumps the IMF?
by Valerie Rush
A break with the IMF is the prerequisite for the kind of success Peru needs in its war on narco-terrorism.
Afghanistan Developments May Be Portents for New Danger
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Afghans can solve their problems, if foreign meddlers with their own entanglements keep out.
Denmark Approaches a Change of Government
by Poul Rasmussen
U.N. Sanctions Libya, Says Might Makes Right
by Joseph Brewda
Vatican Moves To Lift Embargo of Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Important steps are being taken by the Vatican, and by the pope personally, which may herald an international effort against the U.N. sanctions.
Serbia Goes into Breakaway Mode
by Konstantin George
International Intelligence
National
Is the Establishment Pulling the Plug on George Bush?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The elite of elite organizations—the Council on Foreign Relations—has come out with a book indicting George Bush’s “new world order” as a “betrayal.”
LaRouche in ’92 Campaign Sets Third National Television Broadcast
Improve Quality of Schools, Says Candidate
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
‘Get-LaRouche’ Sheriff Raided in FBI Probe
Maybe the worm has turned on Loudoun County’s Sheriff John Isom and his patron Mary Sue Terry.
Clinton Is Jumpy over Mena Scandal
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Italian Masters in New York, Fort Worth
Mantegna Exhibit Opens May 7 in New York; Fra Bartolommeo Exhibit Opens May 9 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Animal Trainer Wins Case vs. Hate Groups
by Kathleen Marquardt
How PETA uses terror to achieve its purported aims, by Kathleen Marquardt of Putting People First.
National News
