Volume 25, Number 15, April 10, 1998

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Interviews

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

From an interview with “EIR Talks.”

Babiker Ali Eltom

Mr. Eltom is the chairman of the state legislative council in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

Peter Wray

Mr. Wray is Communications Director, Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.

Alphonse Gerhardstein

Mr. Gerhardstein is an attorney representing the inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center.

Jonathan Smith

Mr. Smith is Executive Director, Washington, D.C. Prisoners Legal Service Project.

Vermel Whalen

Representative Whalen is a member of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus.

Ron Wieczorek

A LaRouche Democrat and cattle farmer, Mr. Wieczorek is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress.

Dr. William F. Pepper

Dr. Pepper is the attorney for James Earl Ray and author of Orders to Kill: the Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

New horizons for U.S.-German relations.

Editorial

The shift against managed care.

Economics

April global financial shock begins with Japan

by William Engdahl

With the end of the fiscal year in Japan on March 31, and the implementation of the “Big Bang” policy of financial deregulation, the economic situation is becoming increasingly desperate, while the government’s bailout efforts are becoming increasingly foolish.

World press calls for a New Bretton Woods

Save nations, don’t bail out the banks

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

An interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Brazil’s ‘Real Plan’ masks hyperinflation

by Lorenzo Carrasco

The decision by the Brazilian government to inject enormous amounts of liquidity into the economy starting last November is leading to a hyperinflationary explosion.

Bankers whistling past the graveyard

by John Hoefle

Record bank profits can’t hide the fact that the system is hopelessly bankrupt.

How to finance the Eurasian Land-Bridge under conditions of financial crisis  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

A speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

Business Briefs

Feature

New effort launched to end Justice Department tyranny

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Documentation: Testimony submitted by the Schiller Institute to the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, at hearings on the Department of Justice.

When will Congress finally take action?

A timeline of filings and interventions on behalf of Lyndon LaRouche, which have attempted to induce the U.S. Congress to investigate misconduct by the Justice Department.

Bill to curb DOJ abuse introduced in Congress

The Citizens Protection Act of 1998, introduced by Reps. Joe McDade (R-Pa.) and John Murtha (D-Pa.).

Rep. Harold James backs McDade-Murtha bill

A letter from the chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus.

International

Mideast headed toward war, unless Clinton intervenes

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

If there is no resolute intervention in the Middle East in the short term to force Israel to implement the Oslo Accords of 1993, there will be war in the region, probably not later than summer.

Brits send terrorist controller to Mideast

by Joseph Brewda

British Army fuels N. Ireland conflict

by Mary Jane Freeman

Kosova like N. Ireland: Serbs impersonate KLA

by Umberto Pascali

Ukrainians vote against IMF policies

by Konstantin George

In Ukraine’s second parliamentary elections since independence, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, headed by Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, a leading advocate of a New Bretton Woods financial system, entered the parliament.

The Miracle Field in the Land of Fools

by Roman Bessonov

Roman Bessonov writes from St. Petersburg about the campaign to bury skeletons believed (by some) to belong to the last Romanov Tsar, Nicholas II.

Sudan’s uphill battle for peace, democracy

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Pope in Nigeria makes overture to Muslims

International Intelligence

National

British-instigated Jones case thrown out

by Edward Spannaus

With the dismissal of Paula Jones’s lawsuit against President Clinton, the nation, hopefully, has come to the end of a sorry episode of treason and foreign intrigue, which should never have been permitted to go as far as it did.

Starr witness-tampering under investigation

by Edward Spannaus

LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods policy at the center of Washington debate  

by Debra Hanania-Freeman

New evidence explodes the coverup in Martin Luther King assassination case

by Edward Spannaus

Including an interview with Dr. William F. Pepper.

Battle breaks out in Ohio against prison privatization

by Marianna Wertz

Interviews with Peter Wray, Alphonse Gerhardstein, Jonathan Smith, and Vermel Whalen.

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

National News

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