Volume 24, Number 5, January 24, 1997
Interviews
Bryant L. Welch
A clinical psychologist and attorney in metropolitan Washington, Bryant describes the tragic consequences when HMOs ration treatment for mental patients.
James Mann
The former U.S. congressman visited Sudan last September, and discusses the extraordinary economic and political progress the country has made.
Thomas Jackson
Alabama State Delegate Jackson, part of the Schiller Institute fact-finding delegation to Sudan, was able to go into the remote Nuba Mountains, for a first-hand report on the situation there.
Book Reviews
Nebraska pedophile scandal is reopened, with new revelations
by Allen Douglas
The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska (second edition), by John DeCamp.
Departments
Editorial
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
General Lebed shakes the press.
Economics
Governments scramble, as panic hits Tokyo markets
by William Engdahl
The disaster facing the Japanese banks, when the fiscal year ends on March 31, could be the detonator for a global financial and monetary meltdown.
Resistance grows to managed-care attack on patients, U.S. medical system
by Marcia Merry Baker and Patricia Salisbury
States are acting to stem the tide of injury and death caused by managed care, and some lawmakers are beginning to realize that managed care itself is no good.
Currency Rates
Managed care has devastated the U.S. mental health system
An interview with Bryant L. Welch.
Starving Bulgarians fight for existence
by Konstantin George
What future for space exploration?
by Marsha Freeman
A report on the 43rd annual conference of the American Astronautical Society, entitled “Space Exploration and Development: Beyond the Space Station.”
Business Briefs
Feature
British oligarchy launches new war against Sudan
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
With the Jan. 13 Ethiopian invasion, the British are launching a new phase in their war, just as Khartoum is signing peace agreements with more leaders of Sudan’s rebel movements.
Documentation: The texts of a declaration between Sudan’s government and the southern rebels, called “Political Charter, April 1996,” and the Declaration of Principles for the Resolution of the Nuba Mountains Problem.
Situating Sudan’s future in the development of world history
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Speaking at Friendship Hall in Khartoum on Dec. 22, 1996, Lyndon LaRouche showed how the current global crisis presents mankind with an opportunity for getting rid of oligarchism.
‘Sudan’s progress in recent years has been remarkable’
An interview with former U.S. Rep. James Mann.
Sudanese have the drive to be economically self-sufficient
An interview with Alabama Del. Thomas Jackson.
International
London is destroying the ‘Asian Tigers’
by Kathy Wolfe
South Korea is gripped by a political mass-strike wave echoing the situation inside a growing number of European states, including, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria.
RIP: The myth that RAF terrorists killed banker Alfred Herrhausen
by Rainer Apel
What has always been known, is only now coming to light, perhaps because some in Germany see no way out of the global economic depression than to adopt Herrhausen’s policies, for which he died.
What EIR said about the Herrhausen killing
India, Bangladesh lay basis to integrate East Asia
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
The Indian prime minister was in Bangladesh to lay the foundation for a developmental hub which will encompass Bangladesh, northeast India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
India, Bangladesh sign water-sharing treaty
International Intelligence
National
White House hits Brits in media ‘food chain’ report
by Edward Spannaus
And sent those nabobs nattering.
Documentation: From the White House report on the media.
FDR-PAC holds forum on U.S. Africa policy
Lyndon LaRouche keynoted the Washington forum on “Africa: Looting Ground for Bush, Inc., or Breadbasket for the World?”
Will the Supreme Court ban physician-assisted suicide?
by Nancy Spannaus
Unfortunately, neither Justices nor attorneys raised the issue of whether the court was going to allow the violation of the Nuremberg standard—according to which Nazi doctors were condemned for crimes against humanity—and permit Nazi euthanasia to go ahead under U.S. law.
Soros gang of drug legalizers challenges the White House
by Scott Thompson
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
