EIR Volume 20, Number 5, January 29, 1993

Volume 20, Number 5, January 29, 1993

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Interviews

Franck Mességué

This plant specialist and record-breaking diver went on a hunger strike outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, demanding action on the AIDS crisis.

The editor of New Federalist newspaper and a longtime associate of Lyndon LaRouche, Mrs. Spannaus is campaigning for the Democratic nomination of Virginia, against the “Ilse Koch of America,” Attorney General Mary Sue Terry.

Departments

Dateline Mexico

by Carlos Cota Meza

Uncertainty and More Austerity.

Report from Rio

by Silvia Palacios

Hands off Petrobrás!

Andean Report

by Carlos Méndez

Venezuelan Rebels Convicted.

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

The Spies That Come In from the West.

Editorial

What a Way To Remember Dr. King’s Birthday.

Books

Neuhaus: Doing Evil and Calling It Good

by William F. Wertz, Jr.

Doing Well and Doing Good, The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist, by Richard John Neuhaus.

How British Elites Thwarted the German Resistance

by Katherine Kanter

The Unnecessary War, by Patricia Meehan; A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz, by Giles McDonogh.

Thirty Years of Maoist Despotism

by Mary Burdman

The New Emperors, Mao and Deng: A Dual Biography, by Harrison E. Salisbury.

‘Rant Radio’ Promotes the Politics of Rage To Brainwash American Citizens

by Doug Mallouk

The Way Things Ought To Be, by Rush H. Limbaugh III.

Books Received

Economics

‘Derivatives’ Underlie European Currency Crisis

by William Engdahl

At a recent conference in Frankfurt, Germany. EIR obtained information which shows that the growth of highly leveraged financial derivatives is the greatest single danger to global financial stability today. And we’re talking about nearly $1 trillion in trading per day.

Currency Rates

Indian Farmers Protest Cargill’s Designs; Opposition to GATT Emerges

by Siddharth Singh

British Demand Banking Raj in India

by Kathy Wolfe

Miyazawa and ASEAN Discuss ‘Real Economy’

by Lydia Cherry

We Need Systematic Testing for AIDS

An interview with Franck Mességué.

Cold Fusion Work in France Is Intensifying

by Emmanuel Grenier

Business Briefs

Feature

Economic Policy Can Only Be Based on Christian Principles

by Nora Hamerman

A faction in the Catholic Church around Michael Novak and Richard Neuhaus denies that this is possible, and is trying to win the Vatican over to their views. This is the danger to which Lyndon LaRouche referred in a 1988 analysis of the papal encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis.