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See p, 59 for the story. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, . Paul Goldstein The Illinois case really goes back to early 1986, when two Economics: Christopher White LaRouche supporters stunned the world by winning the Democratic European Economics: William Engdahl, Laurent Murawiec primaries for top state offices, after running low-budget, grassroots Ibero-America: Robyn QUijano, Dennis Small campaigns against the party regulars. It was at that point that the Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Middle East and Africa: Thierry Lalevee national "Get LaRouche" effort accelerated, as it became clear that Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: growing popular discontent with the failed economic policies of the Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George Special Projects: Mark Burdman Establishment and its actual one-party system, would tum more and United States: Kathleen Klenetsky more voters toward LaRouche and his friends. 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Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ilillContents InteIViews Departments Economics 22 David Leckrone 16 Report from Bonn 4 Anglo-Americans declare The deputy associate director of Replacing the five-year plan policy. war on Europe at Houston sciences for the Space Telescope at summit NASA's Goddard Space Flight 17 Report from Rome Instead of bold initiatives, bullying Center discusses what can and can A bridge from Scylla to Charybdis? from the Bush and Thatcher not be concluded at this point about administrations was at the center of the telescope's malfunctioning. 50 Dateline Mexico the summit, and most of the abuse CIA is training Guatemalan was directed against Europe and 25 Garth Illingworth guerrillas. Japan in order to break resistance to An astronomer at Lick Observatory the "free market" insanity of the bankrupt Anglo-American financial emphasizes that the problem that 51 Panama Report developed with the Space establishment. Fallout from invasion increasing. Telescope is a major setback. Doeumentation: British minister 52 Andean Report rants over Germany. 43 Norbert Brainin The fight to retake Medellin. The former first violinist of the 7 What is the threat of a famed Amadeus Quartet tells how 53 Collor automatically aligns Mideast war to the status of Lyndon LaRouche's scientific world oil supply? outlook further deepened Brainin's with Bush. own understanding of Beethoven's 8 Currency Rates late works. 72 Editorial King Henry V today. 60 Denise Quinn 9 U.S. targets allies with The organizer of the revolt against economic espionage, New Jersey Governor James Science & Technology sabotage Florio's new tax package discusses where the movement will go from 20 The Space Telescope 11 Bush sacrifices timber here. proves its survivability industry to 'Mother Earth' It's still a mystery exactly how the and 'Mother Russia' flaw in the telescope's mirror Physical Economy system could have escaped 12 London treaty calls for SUIVey anyone's notice, but corrective total ban on systems are already being built, and chlorofluorocarbons by 73 Statistical survey of world almost all of its missions will be 2000 population accomplished. Data and maps on growth and shifts 14 CAP seeks to cash in on 22 If our questions were valid, in the world population over the Mideast war threat then pick up and try again past 30 years. The Venezuelan President is Interview with David Leckrone, making his country's oil reserves deputy associate director of into part of a "hemispheric strategic sciences for the Space Telescope at reserve." NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 15 Agriculture "Free trade" is no solution. 25 Telescope's malfunction is a setback to science 18 Business Briefs Interview with Garth D. Illingworth, of the Lick Observatory and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Volume 17 Number 29, July 20, 1990 Feature International National 34 Malthusians reshape S6 Bush hawks 'free trade' NATO for 'out-of-area' swindle to neighbors wars The President's "broad and bold" All the rhetoric at the NATO initiative to form a Latin American summit about "the end of the Cold free trade zone may put some quick War" masks a deadly purpose: cash into U.S. banks, but it will reduction of popUlation in the non­ sink, not buoy up, the hemisphere's white areas of the world. economies-exactly as the Council on Foreign Relations planned it. � Documentation: Reactions to the New York City, 1982: Ariel Sharon, then Israeli de­ 36 Strike wave in Ukraine fense minister, seeks to justify the invasion of Lebanon heralds 'hot summer' for Bush policy in Thero-America. to American Jewish leaders. Now he's part of a ruling Moscow leaders combination in Israel which is programmed to go to war-thanks to U.S. policy. S9 LaRouche catches Ulinois 37 Kremlin growing unhappy prosecutor in extortion plot; NBC News exposed as 26 Israel is preparing for new with India Moscow is sending advanced T-72 accomplice Mideast war tanks to India's enemy Pakistan, as Attorneys for Lyndon LaRouche Unless something changes fast, it is war between them. filefor $30 million in damages inevitable that within months or against some figures in the "Get even weeks, Israel will go to war LaRouche" task force.