EIR Volume 22, Number 36, September 8, 1995

Volume 22, Number 36, September 8, 1995

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Interviews

Dr. Helmut Böttiger

The director of the Böttiger Verlag publishing company in Germany, tells EIR about his court battle with Greenpeace.

Nedzib Sacirbey

by Umberto Pascali

The ambassador of Bosnia-Hercegovina to the United Nations responds to the NATO air raids against Serb targets in Bosnia.

Alexander Yegorov

by Gabriele Liebig and Michael Vitt

The economist, publicist, and commentator with the Teleradiocompany of Belarus ran, as a candidate for the Parliament of Belarus in the last elections. He is close to the opposition Agrarian Party.

Departments

Report from Rio

by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa

Internal Debt: The Circus Is Afire.

Andean Report

by Luis Vásquez Medina

No Stopping Peru’s Year-End Crisis.

Science and Technology

The DDT Ban: Ecologism as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

Before the use of DDT, in India alone, 2.5 million died of malaria each year. After its introduction, deaths dropped to 1,000. A report on the hoax that banned this life-saver.

What the Scientists Say About DDT

DDT, DDE, and Population Increase

by Thomas H. Jukes, Ph.D.

The latest DDT scare story, that its metabolite, DDE, causes emasculation, is ridiculous and unsubstantiated. Thomas Jukes is a professor of biophysics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

National Economy

Paradoxes of Belarus in the Post-Soviet Era

by Konstantin Cheremnykh

Konstantin Cheremnykh visited Minsk as part of a delegation sponsored by the Schiller Institute and EIR, and found a nation surprisingly resistant to the depredations that the “free market” reforms have brought to other former Soviet republics, and eager for economic relations with Russia. His report explores historical and cultural reasons for the difference.

We Must Turn Around Production Collapse

by Gabriele Liebig and Michael Vitt

An interview with Belorussian economist and political candidate Alexander Yegorov.

Economics

UN Says Food Shortage Caused by ‘Too Many People’

by Marcia Merry Baker

The UN’s draft “Quebec Declaration” on world food security ignores the reality that the big-money cartels are hoarding scarce food stocks.

Currency Rates

Another Rescue Plan Offered for Mexico’s Insolvent Banks

by Carlos Cota Meza

The Debtors Assistance Accord (ADE) announced in late August by the Mexican government, is precisely the opposite of what needs to be done.

Mexican Congress Receives Draft Bill on ‘Life after the Death of the IMF’

by Carlos Wesley

The bill came out of the Second National Forum held in Mexico City on Aug. 18-19, a conference of producers’ organizations and the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement.

‘Report on Manufactures’ Is Published in Brazil

Business Briefs

Feature

Permindex Revisited: British Threaten Clinton and Chirac

by Mark Burdman

Both the U.S. President and his French colleague are getting explicit death threats from “environmentalist” operatives, acting under the command of the World Wide Fund for Nature.