Volume 21, Number 37, September 16, 1994

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Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Is a New Partition of Europe Ahead?

Editorial

Let’s Not Hail Britannia!

Economics

Mexican Banking System Springs a Leak

by Carlos Cota Meza and Carlos Méndez

The Mexican government’s takeover of Banco Unión-Banca Cremi on charges of fraud presages a banking crisis such as that Venezuela experienced earlier this year.

Showdown Coming on Derivatives as Gonzalez, Fed Square Off

by Anthony K. Wikrent

Camdessus Inspects Peru for the IMF

by Sara Madueño

Is Nuclear Power Dying in India?

by Ramtanu Maitra

China Is Developing a Strategy for a Second ‘Eurasian Land Bridge’

A report on the Conference on International Coordination along the Second Eurasian Land Bridge, held at Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China.

Bering Strait Tunnel and Railway Project Will Boost Pacific Development

by Hal B.H. Cooper, Jr., Ph.D., P.E.

An engineer describes the ambitious plans which have been on the drawing boards for nearly a century, and which now could come to fruition.

Currency Rates

Business Briefs

Feature

Ghost of Martin Heidegger Haunts Cairo Conference

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

The keynote speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the Labor Day conference of the Schiller Institute and International Caucus of Labor Committees. Analyzing the vicious and anti-human philosophy which unites Nazism and post-modernism, she concludes, as “a cultural optimist at heart,” that these ugly mythologies of the twentieth century will not prevail, but instead, the ideas of truth-seeking, of man in the image of God, will create a new Renaissance.

Conor Cruise O’Brien Throws Fit at the Pope

by Mark Burdman

Mainz Bishop Hears a Different Drummer

International

British Sabotage Papal Visit to Sarajevo

by Konstantin George

Pope John Paul II’s scheduled visit to the embattled Bosnian capital had a global strategic significance beyond the Balkans, which British intelligence is determined to prevent.

Bosnia Asks Public To Help against ‘Greater Serbia’

Nigeria Wins the First Round

by Lydia Cherry

Pakistan: Anti-Malthusians Are Bouncing Back

by Saqlain Imam

A report from Lahore by a Pakistani journalist.

Destabilization Threat Still Live in Mexico

by Valerie Rush

International Intelligence

National

LaRouche Presents Plan To Avert New Dark Age

by John Sigerson

Is it possible for a dying civilization, such as our own, to be replaced by a new society, without plunging first into a Dark Age? It has never happened before in history, but that is exactly what we must now bring about, Lyndon LaRouche told a conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and Schiller Institute.

Independent Committee Calls for Exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche

A blue ribbon panel of international legal experts releases its findings, after reviewing the six volumes of evidence of LaRouche’s innocence that no court would even consider.

Confederate Masonic Ties of Judge Sentelle

by Edward Spannaus

North’s Drug-Running Becomes an Issue

by Nancy Spannaus

‘We Are Now Moving Out of the Thatcher-Bush Era,’ says LaRouche

by Edward Spannaus

The ‘Victim Lobby’: Lynch Mobs Take Over America’s Courtroom

by Leo Scanlon

The “bread and circuses” quality of courtrooms today can be traced back to unconstitutional reforms put into place by the Justice Department over decades.

National News

Corrections

A typographical error in the headline of Figure 1 in our Feature last week was misleading. The headline should have read “Total Soviet Long- and Short-Term Foreign Debt Ballooned, 1985-91.”

Erratum

Corrections to figures in our Aug. 26 Feature, “Physical Economy: Comparing Taiwan and the P.R.C.”

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