Volume 23, Number 43, October 25, 1996
Interviews
David Schildmeier
by Marianna Wertz
The Director of Public Communications for the Massachusetts Nurses Association talks about the group’s legislative initiatives to reverse the crisis in health care.
Alfredo Allende
by Gerardo Terán Canal
Dr. Allende is a national deputy representing the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a member of the Radical Civic Union party, and the secretary of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
How Fast Will German Labor Learn?
Editorial
Insist on Development!
Economics
Central Bankers Scramble To Stop Financial Blowout
by William Engdahl
The Bank for International Settlements wants new regulations to control “cross-border banking,” while former J.P. Morgan Bank chief economist Rimmer de Vries warns that if another national banking system blows up, like Mexico’s did two years ago, “there will not be any billion-dollar rescue packages. The crisis will simply be allowed to happen.”
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Political Economy
While Monetarism Dies
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Preface to the forthcoming Chinese translation of his economics text, So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics?
Feature
‘Managed Health Care’ Is a Crime Against Humanity
by Marcia Merry Baker
It’s not a question of “abuses” of the system; the whole system is a threat to the public welfare. People are being killed in order to boost the profit margins of the managed health care companies.
‘Managed Care’ Subverts U.S. Health System, 1960s-1990s
A timeline.
Managed Care’s Scorched-Earth Medical and Hospital Policy
by Richard Freeman
Profile of a Public Health Asset-Stripper
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Profile of Columbia/HCA Corp.
The Hill-Burton Act
States Fight Back against Managed Care, Hospital Asset-Stripping
Massachusetts Nurses Are ‘Going Public’ with the Hospital Crisis
by Marianna Wertz
An interview with David Schildmeier.
International
Ibero-American Campaign: Time To Bury the IMF!
by Carlos Wesley and Valerie Rush
A report on the “First Continental Mobilization: There Is Life After the Death of the IMF.” The principal forum was in Mexico City, and other events took place all over South America.
Documentation: From the messages of support sent by Argentina’s Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín, Panama’s Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, and France’s Jacques Cheminade.
Much of the Foreign Debt Is Illegitimate
by Gerardo Terán Canal
An interview with Alfredo Allende.
Pakistani Gen. Beg Adopts LaRouches’ Concept for Euro-Asian Land-Bridge
by Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.)
From a speech delivered in Beijing on “China and the Post Cold War Paradigm in Asia.” General Beg is the former Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army.
Myanmar and the Opium Trade
by Michael Billington and Gail G. Billington
Will Dope, Inc. lose control of the Golden Triangle?
Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands: Nazi Policy Is No Model for the U.S.A.
by Linda Everett
International Intelligence
National
Weld Nailed for Coverup of Bush-Contra Drug Ties
by Anton Chaitkin
Exposed by Sen. John Kerry for his role in blocking an investigation of drug-running by the Contras, Massachusetts Gov. William Weld strikes out against the “conspiracy theories” of Lyndon LaRouche.
Brits Say GOP Will Win the Congress
by Mark Burdman
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Lord William Rees-Mogg, principal operatives in the slander campaign against President Clinton, are putting out the line that the “fix” is in for a Republican victory in the Congressional election.
Maria Elena Milton: ‘It’s Not Negative Campaigning, It’s Telling the Truth!’
by Katherine Notley
“Maria is eating sharks for dinner tonight,” was the comment of one supporter, after her debate with incumbent John Shadegg, the chairman of Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC and a leading light of the Conservative Revolution.
National News
Correction
In EIR of Oct. 11, p. 60, Zupair Mohamed Sailih was misidentified; he is Sudan’s first Vice-President. The Vice-President is traditionally a Christian, and the current Vice-President is George Kangor.
