Volume 23, Number 12, March 15, 1996
Interviews
Viktor Yugin
by Gabriele Liebig, Michael Vitt, and Konstantin Cheremnykh
Removed from his post as director of the St. Petersburg TV Company in November 1992—for allowing the broadcast of TV programs disloyal to Boris Yeltsin—Victor Yugin was later vindicated by the courts. Today he heads the press department of St. Petersburg’s City Assembly.
Book Reviews
Who Killed Olof Palme? The Coverup Continues
by Lotta-Stina Thronell
Stories About Palme, by Toma Ahland and Birgitta Zachrisson.
Palme’s Killers Were LaRouche’s Enemies
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Industry Hit with Investment Scandals.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Labor Trounced in National Elections.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Wesley
“Kidnap, Inc.” Expands in Mexico.
Editorial
How To Make Your Child a Dope.
Economics
World Bank Demands Pound of Flesh from Bosnia
by Umberto Pascali
The financial institutions that control the credit faucet are saying: Either you pay back 17% of the debt of former Yugoslavia—the entity that unleashed four years of genocidal aggression against Bosnia—or we are going to block any serious credit for your reconstruction.
Currency Rates
Financial Gurus Promote ‘Virtual Reality’ in Bonn
A report from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s roundtable on “How to Keep International Capital Movements from Interfering with Economic Growth.”
Electricity Dereg: At What Cost?
by Marsha Freeman
Business Briefs
Feature
The LaRouche Record: National Economic Security
by Susan Welsh
Introduction
Had policymakers acted to implement LaRouche’s proposed solutions, we would not now be careening toward a breakdown of the world financial system. Excerpts from some of LaRouche’s most important policy statements, some of them dating back more than 20 years, document the point.
Financial and Monetary Crisis
1. The International Development Bank
2. Volcker’s Measures Will Lead to Disaster
3. Keep the Local Banks Functioning
4. Forecast: Financial Crisis of October 1987
5. Federal Reserve Nationalization Act
6. A Universal Derivatives Tax
7. LaRouche’s “Ninth Economic Forecast”
8. A Typical Collapse Function
The Physical Economy
9. Free Trade vs. the American System
10. New Calculation of Farm Parity Needed
11. Oil Industry Needs a Protective Tariff
12. Hill-Burton Health-Care Standards
13. Beam Weapons Can Stop Nuclear Threat
14. Reopen America’s Steel Plants Now!
15. Campaign 1988: “The Woman on Mars”
16. Food for Peace: An Offer to Moscow
17. Break with IMF Policy toward Russia
Regional Development Initiatives
18. Mideast: Making the Desert Bloom
19. Stop Club of Rome Genocide in Africa
20. Operation Juárez: Reorganize the Debt
21. Develop the Indian, Pacific Oceans’ Basin
22. Unified Approach to Developing Eurasia
International
British Unleash Terror To Sabotage Mideast Peace
by Dean Andromidas
Were the slaughter of 57 Israelis to trigger the desired “profiled reaction” by the Israelis against the Palestinians, the result could be disastrous. Who benefits?
Palestinian Music Project Takes Off
President Clinton Hits Dope, Inc. in Colombia, Decertifies Samper
by Andrea Olivieri
Samper’s Troubles Have Just Begun
by Dennis Small
EIR’s Dennis Small is interviewed by Caracol Radio in Bogotá, Colombia.
Nepal Emerges as a Growing Security Threat in South Asia
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
We Don’t Have a Free Press Today in Russia
by Gabriele Liebig, Michael Vitt, and Konstantin Cheremnykh
Documentation: Excerpts from Viktor Yugin’s new book, A Coup d’État for 16 Francs.
Commemorative Schiller Calendar Released
International Intelligence
National
Voters Respond to LaRouche Presidential Campaign
In Colorado, LaRouche polled over 20% in eight counties, and won a statewide vote of 11.1% in the Democratic primary on March 5, after his second national television broadcast, on the theme of national economic security.
Conservative Revolution Is Placed On Hold
by Carl Osgood
Elephants and Donkeys
by Mel Klenetsky and Kathleen Klenetsky
Dole Wins Big on “Junior Tuesday.”
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
Correction
Correction
In our March 1 issue, the article “IMF Admits That It Is Exacting a ‘Brutal’ Toll from Russia” contained errors in the tables on the collapse of Russian basic industry and agricultural production. We reprint the correct tables here.
