Volume 22, Number 25, June 16, 1995
Interviews
Francis Boyle
by Katharine Kanter
Professor Boyle teaches public international law at the University of Illinois. He acted as legal advisor to the Bosnian government during the so-called Peace Conference on Former Yugoslavia, held under UN-European Community aegis in Geneva in 1993.
Alhaji Abiola Ogundokun
by Uwe Friesecke
Delegate to the National Constitutional Conference and Yoruba chief from Osun state.
Chief Emea Udu Oji
by Uwe Friesecke
Delegate to the National Constitutional Conference from Abia state.
Science and Technology
MHD Pulsed Power for Geophysical Research
by Marsha Freeman
Russian Academician E.P. Velikhov, speaking at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C. on April 20, made an appeal to scientists to apply what he termed “exotic technologies” developed during the Cold War to solve scientific problems.
Reviews
From Thatcher Ruin to IMF Rule?
by Mark Burdman
The State We’re In, by Will Hutton.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Insurrection Plotted against Zedillo.
Report from Paris
by Christine Bierre and Dana Scanlon
Behold, the “Dirigist Liberal.”
Editorial
The future of NATO.
Economics
Group of Seven Meets as Financial Mudslide Quickens
by Anthony K. Wikrent
On the eve of the Halifax economic summit, it appeared that the champions of usury, speculation, and post-industrial madness have squelched consideration of reality-oriented proposals, such as a tax on currency speculation or a return to fixed exchange rates.
Former Privatization Chief Calls For a New Policy for Russia
by Denise Henderson
Vladimir Polevanov, fired in January as chief of privatization, detailed how the International Monetary Fund has looted Russia.
Currency Rates
Iran-Contra Link to Schneider Real Estate Scandal Emerges
by Dean Andromidas
Some of Germany’s largest commercial banks, like Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, had lost millions on Jürgen Schneider’s real estate bubble.
Brazil’s Radical Economic Reforms Provoke Unrest in the Military
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Controversy Over India’s Dabhol Power Plant Deal Irks Washington
by Ramtanu Maitra
The IMF’s ‘Reforms’ Brought Economic Ruin to Egypt
by Dr. Adel Hussein
The secretary general of the Labour Party of Egypt spoke to the May 17 Schiller Institute Development Conference in Washington.
Business Briefs
Feature
Don’t Let ‘Profit Vultures’ Bring the Economy Down
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
In a recent speech in Washington, reports on a growing concern among a minority of central European elites, “that the majority of the top banking and government elite of the world have lost control already, and that we are indeed facing a genuine breakdown of the system-a breakdown which is completely different than anything which has previously happened in history, different than the 1923 inflation in Germany, different than the Great Depression of the 1930s, and even different than the collapse of the fourteenth century.”
International
In Bosnia, the Time Is for Total War
by Katharine Kanter
All that has happened in early June, is coherent with a U.S. plan leaked to the press under the name “Determined Effort,” or Plan 40 104.
Documentation: A prophetic speech by the late Bosnian Foreign Minister Irfan Ljubijankic.
Hopeful Signs in Mideast Peace Talks, as Germany’s Kohl Pledges Economic Aid
by Adam East and Hussein Al-Nadeem
Who Is Escalating Tension in Kashmir?
by Ramtanu Maitra
British Elites Promote ‘Blair Option’ as Major Decomposes
by Mark Burdman
Ibero-America Targeted for New Terrorist Offensive
by Gretchen Small
Communism was alive at the São Paulo Forum conference in Uruguay.
Peru: NGOs Set Off Renewed Irregular War
by Sara Madueño
Globalists Angling for Colombia ‘Peace’ Talks
by Javier Almario
Nigeria’s Constitutional Conference Ends on Note of National Unity
by Lawrence Freeman
International Intelligence
National
Former Aide to Mark Richard Indicted in Drug Crackdown
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Michael Abbell’s indictment in the U.S. actions against the Cali Cartel could be a step in cleaning out corrupt networks that have sabotaged anti-drug efforts for years.
Republicans Obstruct Clinton Foreign Policy
by William Jones
Supreme Court Rediscovers Constitution, Rejects Term Limits Scheme
by Edward Spannaus
The May 22 ruling highlighted the absurdity of the “liberal-conservative” categories which most commentators use in analyzing the voting blocs on the Supreme Court.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Opinion of the Court of the Supreme Court of the United States in U.S. Term Limits, Inc., et al. v. Thornton et al., as delivered by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.
‘Clear the Shadows over LaRouche’
by Prof. Tullio Grimaldi
A commentary after his recent visit to Washington, by Prof. Tullio Grimaldi, who is vice chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, and is also a judge in the Italian Supreme Court.
National News
