Volume 12, Number 28, July 19, 1985
Departments
Science & Technology
by Paul Gallagher
Latest SDI Report: The Tests Shultz Wants To Stop at Geneva Talks.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who Organized the Peso Devaluation?
Report from Africa
by Mary Lalevée
IMF Threat to Guinea’s Stability.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Guillaume Spy Scandal Reopened.
Vatican
by Augustinus
Slavorum Apostoli.
Southeast Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
“Proximity Talks” On the Table Again.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Talks Move Indo-Pak Relations Forward.
Editorial
Reagan’s Mandate.
Economics
Recovery Myth Evaporates, as the Dollar Tumbles
by Christopher White
Washington gossip notwithstanding, the world is approaching one of the most cataclysmic financial upheavals of all time, and the United States will be at the epicenter of the storm.
America’s Dying Farm Sector: The Deficit in Agricultural Inputs
by George Elder
Based on EIR’s June 15 Quarterly Economic Report.
Club of Life Deflates Thailand’s ‘Condom King’
by Gail G. Billington
ILO Now a Front for IMF—and Soviets
by Rainer Apel
So how come Lane Kirkland and Irving Brown are so loyal to it?
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
“Let Them Eat Dirt.”
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
The Scientific Method To Open the Age of Reason
by Uwe Henke v. Parpart
On June 15 and 16, at a conference in Reston, Virginia in memory of the German-American space scientist Krafft A. Ehricke, scientists, engineers, military men, and political leaders discussed scientific breakthroughs in the beam defense program and the classical scientific method that led to those breakthroughs.
Investigation
Will the U.S.A. Counter Moscow’s Undeclared War?
On July 8, President Reagan delivered a speech defining terrorism as “acts of war.” Whether the United States will now act in the ruthless fashion appropriate to such a state of war is the greatest source of global maneuvering since the 1945 Yalta agreement.
Documentation: Excerpts of the President’s speech; a grid of terrorist incidents; and the Senate testimony of Jesse Helms.
Sikhs and Shi’ites Map Terror Offensive
by Joseph Brewda
International
Mexico’s PAN Party Crushed at Polls, Prepares Violence
by Timothy Rush
“Shed blood for democracy!” cried PAN speakers, but to them, elections are just a cover for a foreign-directed, fascist insurrection.
Documentation: Excerpts from CSIS and High Frontier violence scenarios; and press accounts of the PAN’s “Plan Madero.”
In Soviet Russia, a Wartime Political Leadership Is Now In the Making
by Konstantin George
Threat to Egypt Is Growing Fast
by Thierry Lalevée
The failure to retaliate against TWA hijackers has left America with near-zero influence in the region, and U.S. allies are the ones to suffer.
International Intelligence
National
State Department Drives for Final Phase of ‘New Yalta’
by Kathleen Klenetsky
A string of State Department victories over U.S. national interests portends early realization of Henry Kissinger’s long desired reduction of U.S. influence to 25% of its post-war extent.
Richard Burt’s Ties to Soviet Espionage: A Background Dossier
by Scott Thompson
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Does a Coy Smile Tell You Anything? — Supreme Court Called On Carpet.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
House passes foreign aid bill.
National News
