Volume 24, Number 37, September 12, 1997
Interviews
Mervyn Dymally
A U.S. Representative from California for 12 years, Mr. Dymally has travelled widely. He is president of Dymally International Group, Inc., a consulting and financial advisory firm, and is a Distinguished Professor at Central State University in Ohio.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Walking straight into the trap.
Australia Dossier
by Michael J. Sharp and Allen Douglas
Transparency Int’l: clear as mud.
Report from New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
Sheikh Mujib assassination revisited.
Editorial
Africa needs a New Bretton Woods.
Economics
Greenspan protects the derivatives bubble
by Richard Freeman
A bitter fight is raging between Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Financial Accounting Standards Board over how to report corporate holdings of highly speculative derivatives instruments. Greenspan doesn’t want it known that the system is bankrupt.
Thailand heads ‘down Mexico way’
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Just as the bailout of Mexico did not work, so the International Monetary Fund’s Aug. 4 “stabilization deal” with Thailand is also a flop.
Currency Rates
France needs the Superphénix
by Emmanuel Grenier
Emmanuel Grenier reports on the political fight raging around the fast breeder reactor program, which the government decided to terminate.
Business Briefs
Feature
The coming Pearl Harbor effect
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The current international system is finished, and a New Bretton Woods Conference is needed, Lyndon LaRouche said at a Labor Day conference. “The problem is, the need for the will, the commitment, the passion, to make the change,” said LaRouche. “And the great challenge before us here in the room today, and many others like us, is to become like a virus, to infect humanity with optimism, and with the means to find the will to bring about the change.”
International
Can the House of Windsor survive Diana’s death?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Princess of Wales was a central figure in a controversy of the utmost strategic importance. As her correspondence with a representative of Lyndon LaRouche shows, there was more to her than met the eye.
Diana: Shame on the daily media
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A statement on release of letters, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Correspondence with Princess Diana
by Scott Thompson
The crash: Unanswered questions abound
by Rüdiger Rumpf and Jeffrey Steinberg
Princess Diana’s war with the Windsors
by Scott Thompson
The accelerating fall of the House of Windsor
by Mark Burdman
Italian national leadership paralyzed by secession threat
by Claudio Celani
Italian media follow EIR in exposing secession plot
A ‘Southern League’ rears its head
Colombia’s former military chief leads in Presidential bid
by Valerie Rush
Narco-President Ernesto Samper Pizano’s decision on July 24 to fire Armed Forces Commander Gen. Harold Bedoya, ironically, freed Bedoya to run for the Presidency.
Asian call for human rights review must lead to New Bretton Woods
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Asian leaders are demanding a new look at the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche: ‘Infect the U.S. population with optimism’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A report on the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute and International Caucus of Labor Committees.
IMF adjustment policies are ‘an absolute, total disaster’
An interview with Mervyn M. Dymally.
Va. gubernatorial race spotlights Bush machine
by Nancy Spannaus
Just as the Commonwealth of Virginia was at the center of the 1994 Senate races, with the contest between Oliver North and Sen. Charles Robb, so the gubernatorial race of 1997 represents a bellwether of the coming era of U.S. politics.
National News
