Volume 12, Number 19, May 14, 1985
Interviews
André Dodin
by Mary Lalevée
The general secretary of the Society of Exotic Pathology, and professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discusses Africa’s cholera epidemic.
Aldo Enrique Cadena
The president of Colombia’s national health workers union talks about malaria’s resurgence.
Dr. Peter de Raadt
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Parasitic Disease Program, Trypanosomiasis Unit, describes the epidemic of “sleeping sickness.”
Departments
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Olof Palme and the A-Bomb.
Mother Russia
by Luba George and Carol Green
ROC’s War on the Vatican.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Nazi-Communist Pact in Nuevo León.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
India Looks West for Defensive Arms.
Southeast Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
What’s At Stake for the Non-Aligned?
Editorial
The Bonn Summit Fiasco.
Economics
Two Million Person Rally Rebuts Volcker, IMF
by Salvador Lozano
“No to the IMF: National sovereignty comes first,” was emblazoned on the enormous banners.
The Crisis of World Debt: The West Is Technically Bankrupt
by Kathy Wolfe
From EIR’s forthcoming Quarterly Economic Report.
Currency Rates
Brazil: The IMF’s Negotiating Terms
by Sylvia Palacios
State Department’s Freeze on Food Aid to Sudan Will Kill Millions
by Mary Lalevée
Gold
by Montresor
Swiss Gold Plan Rears Its Head.
Science & Technology
by Charles B. Stevens
New Results in Light Ion Beam Fusion Promise Breakthrough by 1990s.
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Continuing Hoax of ‘Artificial Intelligence’: The Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Looks at the absurdity called “artificial intelligence,” and the pseudo-scientific beliefs among the scientifically-educated personnel who devote their professions to this useless effort.
Investigation
The Shocking Truth about Simon Wiesenthal
by Joseph Brewda
Repeatedly arrested by the Nazis during the war, he always miraculously escaped the death meted out to other Jews. Joe Brewda reports who this celebrated “Nazi-hunter” really was, and is.
International
Bitburg Trip Strengthens Ties Despite Anti-German Uproar
by Vin Berg
The outcome of President Reagan’s current trip to Germany, as of this writing, is a strengthening of German-American relations and of the Western alliance, at least temporarily.
Documentation: Excerpts from a speech by parliamentarian Alois Mertes, and the letter to Reagan from the Reichsbanner organization.
Netherlands: Ask European Space Defense Initiative
by Dean Andromidas
General Berkhof of the Netherlands has detailed the proposal.
Is the State Department in Collusion with the Soviet Union over Greece?
by Phocion
Spain: Storm Clouds Gather over Reagan Visit
by Katherine Kanter
Lebanon: From Saigon to Sidon: the Death of a Nation
by Thierry Lalevée
International Intelligence
National
The SDI’s Foes Gather Momentum in Washington
by Leo Scanlon
What they are doing, and proposing to do, is frequently unconstitutional, and always close to treason.
Can Irrationalism Promote Democracy?
by Nicholas F. Benton
The State Department cult-building games only the Soviets can win: a conference report.
Dope Bankers’ Weld Blasted in Mexico
Excelsior blows the U.S. Attorney’s crime ties.
KGB Moles Target Lyndon LaRouche at Brookings Institute Conference
Who is John Rees really?
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National news
