EIR Volume 19, Number 40, October 9, 1992

Volume 19, Number 40, October 9, 1992

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Interviews

Sen. Sergio Flamigni

by Umberto Pascali

Senator Flamigni was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1968 to 1987, a leading member of the Parliament’s Anti-Mafia Committee, and of the committees investigating the murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and the P-2 masonic lodge.

Books

Why the JFK Assassination Case Should Be Reopened

by W. Allen Salisbury

Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 2nd edition, by David S. Lifton; and Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, by Jim Marrs.

New Forensic Medical Revelations Prove Kennedy Murder Was Covered Up

by Donald L. MacNay, M.D.

JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, by Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D. with Jens Hansen and J. Gary Shaw.

The Great Woman Who Backed Columbus

by Nora Hamerman

Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen, by Nancy Rubin.

Isabelline Music: A Sample

by Nora Hamerman

“From a Spanish Palace Songbook: Music from the Time of Christopher Columbus,” compact disc featuring Margaret Philpot, Shirley Rumsey, and Christopher Wilson.

Science & Technology

Columbus, Cold Fusion, and the New Age of Discovery

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Five hundred years after Columbus’s discovery, we are still faced with proving that the world is not flat. A speech to the founding conference of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement, in Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

New Potential Emerging from Crisis.

From New Delhi

by Ramtanu Maitra

Floods Hit Pakistan: A Lesson To Learn.

Dateline Mexico

by Hugo López Ochoa

Mexico Upset by U.S. Judicial Fascism.

Andean Report

by Carlos Méndez

Pérez Says, “It’s Me or the Guerrillas.”

Music Views and Reviews

by Kathy Wolfe

EMI’S Mozart Catalogue.

Editorial

The Time Is Now.

Economics

Britain Heads Toward ‘Worst Winter in Living Memory’

by Mark Burdman

As John Major’s government goes down the tubes, the collapse of the British economic and social fabric is forcing a growing minority of British spokesmen to put forward policy recommendations that demonstrate an unusual modicum of sanity.

Currency Rates

U.S. Insurance Reels from Worst Year

by John Hoefle

Medicare Claims Wrongly Denied

by Linda Everett

IMF ‘Reform’ Brings Depression to Cameroon

by Linda de Hoyos

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Menem Throws Elderly on the Scrapheap

by Cynthia R. Rush

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Corn Could Help Beat Famine.

Business Briefs

Feature

How Kissinger Betrayed American POWs in Indochina

by Edward Spannaus

Overwhelming evidence is being presented to the U.S. Senate that Kissinger’s duplicitous conduct resulted in the failure of the United States to obtain the release of as many as 350 servicemen who were missing or captured in Laos.

‘I Prefer They Not Return Prisoners’

Recently declassified government documents show Kissinger’s treacherous role.

International

‘Thirty Years War’ Expands to North Caucasus, Central Asia

by Konstantin George

The postponement of Russian Defense Minister Grachev’s visit to the United States was due to more than a “bad cold”: It is a measure of the gravity of the civil war situations that have developed in Tajikistan and the Caucasus region.