Volume 25, Number 11, March 13, 1998
Interviews
Al-Sharif Zeinal Abdin Al-Hindi
Al-Sharif Al-Hindi, a former Sudanese opposition leader who had been living in exile, has returned to Khartoum, and has been elected the new vice president of Sudan’s National Congress. He is also the secretary general of the Democratic Unionist Party.
Dr. Riek Machar
Dr. Machar, a former rebel leader from the South of Sudan, explains how he came to join the peace process. He is chairman of the Southern Coordinating Council and vice chairman of the National Congress.
Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin Attabani
Dr. Ghazi is the outgoing secretary general of Sudan’s National Congress.
Mohammad Sa’eed Nua’mani
Mr. Nua’mani, the representative of Iran’s Imam Khamenei in Sudan and East Africa, is the deputy chairman of the Culture and Islamic Relations Organization, which oversees all cultural and Islamic affairs outside Iran.
David Wolf
Dr. Wolf, who recently spent 119 days in space as a member of a Russian Mir space station crew, is a medical doctor, inventor, research scientist, and career astronaut.
Science & Technology
Space research on the medical frontier
by Marsha Freeman
An interview with astronaut Dr. David Wolf. Currently undergoing rehabilitation to recover from the effects of microgravity, Dr. Wolf discusses the breakthroughs in ongoing medical research, and upcoming work on the International Space Station.
Departments
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
Machine-tool industry faces crisis.
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Lights out in Auckland, Brisbane.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The bell tolls for Helmut Kohl.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
London’s MST slanders EIR.
Editorial
Return to the Machine-Tool Principle.
Book Review
The murder of a princess
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Death of a Princess—The Investigation, by Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod.
Economics
Support grows for a New Bretton Woods system
by Marcia Merry Baker
A “trial balloon” was floated by Japanese Deputy Finance Minister Eisuke Sakaibara, and many other people are looking in the same direction.
Mexico must adopt LaRouche call for New Bretton Woods
by José Neme Salum
From an article by José Neme Salum, published in the Mexican daily Excélsior.
‘Asian crisis’ collapses exports, threatens U.S. physical economy
by Richard Freeman
Has Korea learned nothing from the IMF’s destruction of Russia?
by Kathy Wolfe
Oil, trade deficit, and devaluation in Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Business Briefs
Feature
Sudan takes giant step toward democracy, peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Representatives of constituency groups from all over the country gathered for the second session of Sudan’s National Congress, to pose questions to President al-Bashir and to make recommendations relative to the urgent economic, social, and political problems facing the country. An eyewitness report by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach.
Documentation: Excerpts from the National Political Charter.
Sudan prepares its Constitution
Remarks by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi.
Sudan has reached a turning point
An interview with Al-Sharif Zeinal Abdin Al-Hindi.
Why southern leaders want to end the war
An interview with Dr. Riek Machar.
An optimistic look at Sudan’s future
An interview with Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin Attabani.
An Iranian view of Sudan’s achievement
An interview with Mohammad Sa’eed Nua’mani.
International
British threaten to unleash a new Balkan war in Kosova
by Konstantin George
The United States is being hit with another British-directed strategic distraction, designed to forestall a U.S.-led New Bretton Woods Conference.
British ‘mujahideen’ caught in Bosnia
by Umberto Pascali
Britain, Israel push new Mideast showdown
by Joseph Brewda
British-Israeli assassins of Rabin threaten President Clinton
Opposition to Israel’s Netanyahu is growing
by Dean Andromidas
Trevor Rees-Jones speaks out
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The sole survivor of the crash that killed Princess Diana is beginning to recover his memory of what happened on that fateful day.
China, Russia confirm strategic cooperation
by Mary Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Secret operation vs. Clinton is run by Olson-Starr salon
by Edward Spannaus
New intelligence pinpoints the role of Washington lawyer Theodore B. Olson, and some of the very same people who carried out the railroad against Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. in the 1980s.
Who is Theodore Olson?
by Edward Spannaus
Tufts study shows, state welfare reform policies are failing
by Marianna Wertz
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
