Volume 19, Number 44, November 6, 1992
Interviews
Valeriya Novodvorskaya
The founder of the Democratic Union, the first political party to be formed in the Soviet Union apart from the Communist Party, recounts her battles as a member of the resistance to the former communist regime, and her continued struggle for freedom under the current Russian government.
Departments
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Cuba’s New Terrorist International.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Bankers Promote Collor’s Return.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Illegal Arms Dealers Shoot, Too.
Music Views and Reviews
by Kathy Wolfe
String Works of Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Editorial
An Opening for Justice.
Reviews
How ‘Psychological Testing’ Brainwashes Schoolchildren
by Leo Scanlon
Educating for the New World Order, by Beverly K. Eakman.
‘Roasting’ Henry Kissinger Is Useful But Far from Adequate
by Scott Thompson
Kissinger, A Biography, by Walter Isaacson.
Economics
Federal Regulators Fear a Banking Panic
by John Hoefle
The Federal Reserve is bending over backwards to discredit the conclusions of the widely circulated “Banking on the Brink” study by Roger Vaughan and Edward Hill. But the facts are there. Are we in for a “December Surprise” explosion of bank failures?
Europe Feuds with U.S. over GATT
by Marcia Merry
GM Directors Bigger Idiots than Stempel
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Mass Protests against U.K. Austerity Regime
by Mark Burdman
Currency Rates
World Bank Splits on Indian River Project
by Susan Maitra
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
FDIC Stomps Out Farms.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Case for Maglev: Paying More Is Cheaper
by Christopher White
Washington officials are talking about spending $30 million to “study” options for high-speed rail transportation. But there is already one viable option available for upgrading U.S. surface transportation, the magnetic levitation system. Sure it costs money, but looked at from the standpoint of the real, productive economy, it’s a bargain at the price. Chris White continues EIR’s series of studies of the physical economy.
International
Lithuanian Elections Show Danger of Bowing to IMF
by Konstantin George and Denise Henderson
The crushing defeat of President Landsbergis has strategic implications, the most dangerous of which is the buildup of the imperial faction in Moscow, which will target the Baltics first.
In Russia, the Specter of ‘Cruelest Dictatorship’ Looms
by Rachel Douglas
An interview with Valenya Novodvorskaya.
Central Asian Conflict Gets Bloodier
by Ramtanu Maitra
‘Bush Manual’ Project Opens New Assault on Ibero-American Armies
by Gretchen Small
U.S. Ambassador to the OAS Luigi Einaudi leads a renewed drive against national sovereignty.
Documentation: From Einaudi’s remarks at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and other statements of the anti-military policy.
Jordan Trial Heralds Mideast Policy Shift
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Laith Shubeilat’s courtroom ordeal draws to a close.
Venezuela’s CAP Is Playing for Time, But the Economy Won’t Give It to Him
by Alfonso Rodríguez
Japan Offers Olive Branch to China
by Kathy Wolfe
International Intelligence
National
Post-Election Agenda Sets Up Inter-Generational War
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Concord Coalition, and its two main spokesmen, Paul Tsongas and Sen. Warren Rudman, are promoting the idea that cutting Medicare and Social Security—killing off grandma and grandpa—is necessary, to deal with mounting economic pressures on the younger generations.
LaRouche Broadcast: ‘We Wrestle Against Principalities and Powers’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
In his last national television broadcast of this year’s campaign, independent presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche explains the strategic importance of bringing down the statue of Ku Klux Klan founder Albert Pike in Washington, D.C.
Obituary: Jim Garrison Remembered
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Clinton-Gore Would Be ‘Jimmy Carter II’
by Mark Burdman
That was the message from Washington insiders to Europeans, at a meeting on international relations recently held in Loccum, Germany.
National News
