Volume 20, Number 19, May 14, 1993

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Interviews

Gail Billington

by Marianna Wertz

The wife of U.S. political prisoner Michael Billington recently returned from a tour of India and Thailand, and reports on her success in organizing political leaders there to support freedom for Lyndon LaRouche and his associates.

Lyndon H. LaRouche

Excerpts from his weekly radio interview.

Departments

Report from Rio

by Silvia Palacios

Franco’s New Economic Program.

Editorial

Freedom from Slavery Is a Human Right.

Strategic Studies

Western European Union Ends Silence on Missile Defense

by Dean Andromidas and Michael Liebig

Report from Rome on a symposium of the Western European Union on “Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense for Western Europe.” The fact that such a high-level conference on the subject took place at all is remarkable, but the plans under discussion are totally inadequate.

Economics

Regulating Derivatives Isn’t Such a Good Idea

by Christopher White

The banking regulators are talking about the “risks” associated with derivative financial instruments. What they really want to do is legitimize this insane market, in the name of controlling it. It will only make things worse.

How ‘Shock Therapy’ Has Ruined Russia

by William Engdahl

Banque de France Like Federal Reserve?

by Jacques Cheminade

Mexican Growers Launch Movement for Moratorium on Farm Debt

by Carlos Cota Meza

Currency Rates

Australian Tries To Keep Debate Off Economy

by Don Veitch

U.S. Unemployment Coverup

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

U.S. Mayors Report on Hunger.

Business Briefs

Feature

Norplant: Freedom of Choice or a Plan for Genocide?

by Debra Hanania Freeman

The message implicit in the program to implant welfare recipients and teenage girls with the Norplant contraceptive couldn’t be clearer: Poor women should not have children, African-American women should not have children, but, above all, poor African-American women should never have children.

Norplant: The Medical Facts about a Dangerous Device

by Debra Hanania Freeman

The Population Council: From Eugenics to Norplant

by Linda Everett

Depression Puts Welfare on the Chopping Block

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Jocelyn Elders: Peddling Norplant, Abortion, and Sex Education

by Kathleen Klenetsky

International

Military Action Nears after Serbs Reject ‘Peace’ Plan

by Konstantin George

The United States is going to do something. The question is, is it going to be something effective, or is President Clinton going to back down to the pressures from Britain and France, the new Entente Cordiale?

Bilderberg Society Meets in Secret To Plan Global Agenda

by Scott Thompson

Did British Intelligence Kill Hani?

An EIR investigative team reports on the aftermath of the death of African National Congress leader Chris Hani.

Questions Surround Assassination of Sri Lanka’s President Premadasa

by Ramtanu Maitra

The World Needs an Ecumenical Dialogue Based on Economic Science

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

A speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the international Conference on Religions in Sudan.

Sudan Hosts Major Interfaith Meeting

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

UN ‘Human Rights’ Conference Set To Trample on Sovereignty

NGO ‘Hit List’ Targets Armed Forces

by Andrea Olivieri

Political Persecution of LaRouche Shocks Asians

by Marianna Wertz

An interview with Gail Billington.

International Intelligence

National

Kidnapping ‘Experts’ Bid To Take Over Justice Dept.

by Edward Spannaus

In the aftermath of the Waco tragedy, the brainwashers, kidnappers, and sex perverts from the Cult Awareness Network are putting themselves forward as “experts on cults” who should be allowed to determine policy for the U.S. government.

Will the U.S. Keep Its Nuclear Lead?

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

U.S. Cities Facing Deeper Budget Crises

by H. Graham Lowry

New Evidence of ADL Spying for Israel

by Jeffrey Steinberg

U.S. Must Reverse Anglo-French Geopolitical Insanity in Bosnia

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

From the weekly radio interview “EIR Talks with Lyndon LaRouche.”

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones and Carl Osgood

National News

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