Volume 12, Number 12, March 26, 1985
Book Reviews
A Tale of Benedictine Monks, Liturgy, and Ritualistic Murder...
by G. Allen Douglas and Pietro Cicconi
Review of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Space and the Revolution in Materials-Processing.
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory
The “Dual Command Structure.”
Report from Paris
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Voters Confirm Mitterrand’s Unpopularity.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Show of Strength in the Gulf.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Palme’s Brother Sells Soviet Cars.
Investigative Leads
“Rocker” Cycle Gangs and the Drug Traffic.
Inside the Pentagon
by Tecumseh
The ASAT Test Capitulation.
Editorial
March 23—Two Years Later.
Economics
U.S. Production Collapse a National Security Threat
A summary of a study by Contributing Editor Christopher White showing in stark facts and figures how the U.S. economy is careening toward disaster, as its productive potential is being undermined to the point that national security is threatened.
The Plot To Deliver Israel to Dope, Inc.
by Mark Burdman
The State Department, the IMF, and the dope mobsters of the ADL are collaborating.
Magnetic Fusion Program Slashed
by Charles B. Stevens
It’s meant to aid the SDI in the short term, but must undermine it in only the slightly longer run.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Gene Schenk
“Keep the Third World primitive.”
Banking
Citibank Raids into Maryland.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Henry Kissinger and the Calculated Failure of U.S. Policy in Asia
by Uwe Henke v. Parpart
The deterioration on virtually all fronts threatens to compel U.S. strategic withdrawal from the region. In large measure, it is due to the policies of Kissinger’s heirs in the State Department—policies that in several cases, most notably Korea and the Philippines, are running counter to President Reagan’s explicit policy directions.
U.S. ‘Malign Neglect’ of ASEAN Allies Opens the Way for Soviet Domination
by Linda de Hoyos
ANZUS Treaty Wrecked in Bid To Oust United States from Pacific
by David Hammer
State Department Revives Carter’s Policy of Chaos for South Korea
by Linda de Hoyos and David Hammer
International
Gorbachov: Ogarkov’s End-Game To Grab Europe
by Criton Zoakos
Gorbachov, the man of whom Margaret Thatcher said “we can do business together,” is in place at the top of the Kremlin’s imperial bureaucracy. Promptly, the British oligarchy and their Western European blood relatives commenced “doing business together,” to tear Western Europe from its alliance with the United States and re-situate it inside an expanded Russian imperial sphere of influence.
Chernenko’s Successor Augurs No New Era
by Konstantin George
Euroterrorists Ready Attack against Reagan
West German Elections: A Dangerous Advance by Red-Green Allies
by Rainer Apel
Venezuelan Drug King Demands Dictatorship
by Carlos Wesley
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Implications for West European Security
by G.C. Berkhof, Brig.-Gen. RNLA
Lebanon: Syria’s Scheme for an ‘Islamic Republic’
by Thierry Lalevée
International Intelligence
National
Senate Dupes Applaud Drug-Pusher William Weld
by Martha Quinde
Now that everyone, including the President’s Commission on Organized Crime and the U.S. Treasury Department, is pointing the finger at Crédit Suisse as the bank of the world narcotics mafia, why has Congress not caught on?
Judge Rules Against Bank, for LaRouche
by Suzanne Rose
First Fidelity Bank of New Jersey, he said, illegally seized $170,000 in campaign funds on election eve.
The New York Times’ 125-Year Political Vendetta against Mexico
by Anton Chaitkin and Roger Maduro
In the Times’ own words.
National News
