Volume 11, Number 32, August 21, 1984
Interviews
Hans Ericson
The former president of the Swedish Transport Workers Union discusses his country’s shift toward Soviet-dominated totalitarianism, but reports, “the opposition to Palme is growing.”
Departments
Andean Report
by Sara Madueño de Vásquez
Peru’s President gets EIR study.
Science & Technology
by Dr. S.B. Idso
CO<sub>2</sub>, greenhouse effect: boon or bane? S.B. Idso, a research physicist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reports bothersome facts which upset conventional wisdom.
Investigative Leads
by Thierry Lalevée
Moscow’s “mullahs” launch terror wave.
Report from Italy
by Sandro Bellati
The Farnesina, Mata Hari, and the KGB.
New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
War declared against Tamils.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Private banking again?
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Israel hostage to extremists?
Editorial
Who will fight for Europe?
Economics
Volcker’s ‘New’ Divide and Conquer Plan for the Debtors
by David Goldman
The Fed chairman is right in thinking the debt crisis can be put off until 1985—provided the debtor-countries accept current levels of looting. After which their economies will give out from exhaustion.
USDA Lies Cover Up for the Grain Companies’ Planned Shortages
by Christopher White
Christopher White compares the Agriculture Department’s wheat harvest claims to what farmers tell EIR is the real harvest—and explains why the department is lying again.
Currency Rates
Will the Genocide Lobby Guarantee Soviet Imperial Rule in the 1980s?
by Mark Burdman
Report from the Second United Nations Conference on Population in Mexico City.
Vienna UNIDO Conference Advises Starvation for the Third World
by Mary Lalevée
Documentation: excerpts from the speech by Dr. Abd-El Rahman Khane, executive director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
“Let Continental be a lesson.”
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
Profit ruse buoys stocks.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Infrastructure: The $8 Trillion Hole No ‘Economist’ Counts
by Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman’s study for EIR’s June Quarterly Economic Report is condensed: One day, if lack of “big government spending” on infrastructure continues, the economy must collapse on its shattered foundations: despite the size of the present infrastructure deficit, however, there is a way to meet the costs in the next 20 years.
The American Highway System: A Case Study in Spending Needs
by Richard Freeman
The Scope of the Infrastructure Deficit: How Much Is Needed Where
by Richard Freeman
International
Soviet Maneuvers in East Europe: an Analysis
by Uwe Parpart
Analysis of Russian behavior and purposes in their escalating military pressure on Europe.
Documentation: Excerpts from analyses by West German military specialists Adalbert Weinstein and Rüdiger Moniac; excerpt from the Soviets’ Kommunist.
Soviets Make Bid for Control of Pacific
by Linda de Hoyos
Analysis of the command shifts and provocations.
New Dossier Reveals Bulgarian-Gnostic Link Behind Abduction in Colombia
by Nora Hamerman
Report on the startling discoveries turned up by the investigation into the “Patty Hearst”-style attempted brainwashing of anti-drug fighter Patricia Paredes de Londoño.
Bulgaria, Gnosticism, and the Drug Mafia
by Rachel Douglas and Carlos Potes
An excerpt from the dossier.
Sweden Urged To Join the Western Alliance
by Konstantin George
International News
National
Kissinger Pushes Russian Scenario at GOP Convention
by Criton Zoakos
Far from the highly predictable and boring event most anticipate, the Republican convention could bring some very dramatic occurrences determining whether the United States will survive as a nation. Editor-in-Chief Criton Zoakos reports.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
An endorsement from the East.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Eagleton replay? — Bottomless pit — Smut queen.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
