Volume 25, Number 16, April 17, 1998
Departments
Banking
by John Hoefle
Citicorp-Travelers merger is illegal.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A ship pre-programmed to sink.
From New Delhi
by Susan B. Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Time to expand relations with China.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
British intelligence asset on trial.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Wanted for treason: Samuel Ruiz.
Editorial
It’s just the stock market—not reality.
Economics
Calls for New Bretton Woods mount, as crisis worsens
by Marcia Merry Baker and Gail Billington
The debate over what to do with the bankrupt world financial system has reached a new intensity, as Italian Prime Minister Prodi and other world leaders back LaRouche’s call for a New Bretton Woods system. The financial oligarchy, however, is demanding a hyperinflationary bailout.
Australians for LaRouche
Russian spotlight on LaRouche’s policies
by Rachel Douglas
Roosevelt’s appeal to Congress to pass the Bretton Woods agreement
by Richard Freeman
Excerpts from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Message to Congress Urging Adoption of the Bretton Woods Agreements.”
China’s ‘New Deal’ for railroads, energy
Mexico tries to save the banks with a hyperinflationary bailout
by Carlos Cota Meza
Peru’s banking system faces imminent crash
by Manuel Hidalgo
Opposition grows against privatizing Banco de la Nación in Argentina
by Gerardo Terán and Gonzalo Huertas
British interests target the largest bank in the country.
Argentina’s BNA: a symbol of hope
by Cynthia R. Rush
President Carlos Pellegrini (1890-92) founded the Bank of the Argentine Nation to finance internal development and provide cheap credit to productive enterprises.
Business Briefs
Feature
The principles of long-range forecasting
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“To forecast,” writes Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “one must concentrate on both the physical-economic aspect, with its immediate connections to matters of principles of physical science, but also the generationally oriented social-cultural processes. We have a significant, but secondary interest in the relatively more transient opinions as such, but a great deal of interest in what the London Tavistock Institute would prefer to identify as cultural ‘mind-set,’ or ‘cultural paradigm shifts:’ the axiomatic hypotheses which tend to predetermine what opinions will be engendered, by the unfolding of a certain direction in combined, interacting, cultural and physical-economic developments over, usually, the span of a generation or two.”
International
LaRouches mobilize in Italy for a New Bretton Woods
by Liliana Celani
Lyndon and Helga LaRouche addressed a meeting on a New Bretton Woods financial reorganization, held at the Hotel Nazionale in Rome. The briefing was attended by Members of Parliament, economists, journalists, and diplomats. Documentation: Excerpts from Lyndon LaRouche’s speech to the Rome meeting on April 2.
Conspiracy of silence on Diana’s murder
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The shift from a campaign of continuous disinformation, aimed at boosting the official French police claim that the murders of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul were the result of drunk driving by Paul, to a media blackout, was triggered by revelations that threatened to blow apart the entire cover-up effort.
International Intelligence
National
Will the treason faction wreck the Republican Party?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Beyond the prospects of a Republican mid-term loss of the House majority, there are other signs of far-reaching problems in the GOP.
DOJ puts Starr on the spot in payola scandal
by Edward Spannaus
The case of David Hale, the “well-tampered” witness.
Conference takes up threat of biological and chemical warfare
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A window on the debate over how to deal with the threat of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction, from terrorist organizations and/or foreign governments, was opened at a conference in Baltimore.
U.S. biowarfare defense doesn’t measure up
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
A report on the Baltimore conference by Dr. John Grauerholz.
The recommendations of the Defense Science Board
Excerpts from the keynote speech to the conference by Donald Latham, a member of the Defense Science Board.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
