Volume 24, Number 38, September 19, 1997
Interviews
Robert E. Stevenson
An oceanographer, Dr. Stevenson is a consultant who trains NASA astronauts in oceanography and marine meteorology.
Hugh Ellsaesser
Dr. Ellsaesser is an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
James O’Brien
Dr. O’Brien is the director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS).
Book Reviews
Space pioneer Sergei Korolev, the Soviet Wernher von Braun
by Marsha Freeman
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon, by James Harford.
In Memoriam
God bless you, Mother Teresa
by Nina Ogden
In a memorial to the “Saint of the Gutters,” Nina Ogden recalls Mother Teresa’s words to her: “I want you to make your country the light of justice and peace in the world and chase away the ‘structures of sin.’”
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick and Allen Douglas
New life for infrastructure?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No money, but lots of crazy ideas.
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
Inderfurth makes a cautious beginning ...
Editorial
There’s no “circuit breaker” for a bankrupt financial system.
Economics
European bankers ‘are getting a bit nervous’
by William Engdahl
Many of the bankers attending the Bürgenstock Annual Meeting in Switzerland (Sept. 4-6), a forum for discussion of international derivatives and financial futures, are focussing on “crisis prevention,” because a crash is at hand.
Church leader: U.S. must act to halt North Korean famine
by Syngman Rhee
Jospin’s economic policy: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
by Christine Bierre
Academician presents idea of Eurasian Land-Bridge in Russian industry journal
by Vladimir Myasnikov
An article by Academician Vladimir Myasnikov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Far East Institute, in the Russian-language quarterly Metally Yevrazii.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
The science behind the El Niño hype
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Marjorie Mazel Hecht reports on what is really known, as opposed to what the scare stories would have us believe.
Old hoaxes never die, but just keep killing people
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The ocean is full of nonlinear structures
An interview with Dr. Robert E. Stevenson.
The ocean seen from space
El Niño is really a normal situation
An interview with Dr. Hugh W. Elsaesser.
Nothing to do with global warming
An interview with Dr. James O’Brien.
Congressional hearings: Science, infrastructure are needed for El Niño
by Marsha Freeman
Build infrastructure for El Niño’s ‘century floods’ and droughts
by Marcia Merry Baker
California’s floods: no ‘natural disaster’
by Marcia Merry Baker
Red River Floodway protects Winnipeg
by Marcia Merry Baker
International
Great Britain hit by ‘Pearl Harbor Effect’
by Mark Burdman
A dramatic phase-change has occurred, in the attitude of the usually docile British population toward the Windsors, a process that Lyndon LaRouche has likened to a “Pearl Harbor Effect.”
Diana was groping for the meaning of life
Lyndon LaRouche to teach economic method in Mexico
by Gretchen Small
Documentation: Press coverage of the fight over the Mexican government’s decision to grant Lyndon LaRouche a visa, and a statement by the MSIA, LaRouche’s co-thinkers in Mexico.
Bedoya will resist pressure for pact with Colombia’s narco-terrorists
by Valerie Rush
EIR seminar sets the record straight on Uganda’s Museveni
by Andrew Spannaus
A report on an EIR forum in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 10.
British war against Sudan threatens holocaust in East Africa
by Linda de Hoyos
Albright visits Mideast as economic crisis aids Netanyahu’s bid for war
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
International Intelligence
National
Soros’s fund bankrolled Weld’s 1996 campaign
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Top officials of Soros Fund Management, the New York-based speculative fund of George Soros, poured at least $50,750 into the 1996 U.S. Senate campaign of William Weld. The revelation should end Weld’s career for any public office.
As scandals hit Gore, will Clinton name LaRouche?
by Edward Spannaus
The fundraising scandals have hurt Gore’s Presidential ambitions, but the real target is President Clinton.
LaRouche Democrats score Fowler’s tactics
by Mary Jane Freeman
Former Democratic National Chairman Donald Fowler’s tactics to exclude LaRouche Democrats from the 1996 convention is challenged on constitutional grounds.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
