Volume 20, Number 25, June 25, 1993

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Interviews

Lyndon LaRouche

The political prisoner and economist speaks about the unravelling of the Major government in Britain, the explosions in Russia and Ukraine, and the giant miasma of the economic crisis that nobody wants to deal with.

Haik Babookhanian and Hrant Khachatrian

by Rachel Douglas

Two leaders of the Union of Constitutional Rights in Armenia compare the current situation in their country to the wartime siege of Leningrad. Mr. Khachatrian is a member of the national parliament. Mr. Babookhanian is a member of the city council in Yerevan and a newspaper editor.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Germany: Another “Sick Man of Europe”?

Andean Report

by Javier Almario

Whither Colombia’s Oil?

Panama Report

by Carlos Wesley

Journalist Beaten by Officials.

Dateline Mexico

by Hugo López Ochoa

Drug Legalizers Out of the Closet.

Editorial

The Entente Cordiale.

Economics

Global Grain Harvests Drop as Depression Worsens

by Marcia Merry

The latest estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the 1993 harvest project an absolute decline over last year, yet next to nothing is being done about it.

Gonzalez Attacks Derivatives Dealers as ‘Malefactors of Great Wealth’

by Rep. Henry Gonzalez

Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.) speaks before the House of Representatives, and places EIR’s coverage of the derivatives crisis into the Congressional Record.

Currency Rates

China Liquidity Crisis Destroying Peasantry

by Michael Billington

European Farm Union Rips Oilseeds Pact

R&D Deficit Reveals Betrayal of Italy

by Leonardo Servadio

Banking

by John Hoefle

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

Agriculture

by Andy Olson

Weather Crisis in the U.S. Corn Belt.

Business Briefs

Feature

Schiller Institute Puts Forward a Plan for Peace in Europe

by Susan Welsh

The institute’s Bonn conference provided a unique forum for dealing with the crisis most western leaders refuse to face.

International Representatives Debate How To Bring About a Lasting Peace

Serbia Must Be Named as the Aggressor

by Zvonimir Separovic

Speech by the former Foreign Minister of Croatia.

Open Letter from Bosnia: Who Is Responsible for This Tragedy?

by Prof. Lamija Tanovic

The Balkan War Is Not a TV Soap Opera

by Srecko Jurdana

From Hungary: ‘We Old Foxes’ Foresaw the Crisis

by Dr. Tibor Kovats

The Bonn Declaration on a Durable Peace

International

UN Policy Makes Somalia a Hell on Earth

by Joseph Brewda

While the world’s military powers are unwilling to lift a finger to stop Serbian genocide, they are bombing Somalis, and they don’t even know whether they hit the right ones.

If You Came from Another Solar System, Would You Invest in Earth?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Taiwan Legislators Say, ‘Free LaRouche’

Corrupt Cronies of CAP Jailed in Venezuela

by Gretchen Small

Beset by Oil Blackmail, Strikes, Ukraine Risks Loss of Nationhood

by Konstantin George

Armenia Could Be Destroyed, the Same Way that Lebanon Was

by Rachel Douglas

An interview with Haik Babookhanian and Hrant Khachatrian.

Resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh

Israel Woos India with Technology, But Many Suspect Its Motives

by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra

Washington Signals Policy Shift in India

by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra

Chinese Job-Seekers: To Escape or Rebel

by Cho Wen-pin

This Time, British Really Go Ape

by Mark Burdman

British Anticipate John Major’s Demise

by Mark Burdman

International Intelligence

National

LaRouche Puts Clinton’s Failures in World Context

‘LaRouche’ Cases: Companies Ask Return of Stolen Property

The ADL’s 80th Anniversary Conference May Be Its Last

by Scott Thompson

New York’s Leading Classical Station Features Fight for Natural Tuning

by June LeBell

Renowned Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi and others demonstrated the superiority of the natural tuning of C-256 Hz over the arbitrary high modern tunings of A-440 and above, in an interview and master class aired on June 9 over WQXR.

The Randy Weaver Trial: The Wrong Party Is Being Prosecuted

by Patrick Ruckert

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

Correction

In our report on the Schiller Institute’s Bonn conference last week (page 24), we mistakenly reported that Valeri Pavlov of the Russian Supreme Economic Council was a speaker at the conference; also, on page 26, the figures for U.S. financial transfers per day, and for U.S. GNP, should be in trillions, not billions.

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