Volume 12, Number 30, August 2, 1985
Departments
Report from Africa
by Mary Lalevée
Debt Crisis Dominates OAU Meeting.
Report from Italy
by Umberto Pascali
The Collapse of the Lira.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
TB Begins Predicted Comeback.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
Todor Zhivkov in Athens.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Enter: “Mr. Disengagement.”
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Breakthrough over Punjab.
Report from Paris
by Laurent Rosenfeld
French Socialists’ Lies on SDI.
Editorial
A Report To Shake the World.
Economics
Lira Crisis: Another Turning Point for the Dollar?
by Christopher White
The rebounding of the lira against the dollar may well prove to be the first flexing of the muscles of the arrangement reached between the BIS and Moscow last spring, and a prelude to the deflationary wipeout of over $2 trillion worth of paper assets in the U.S. economy.
Currency Rates
Schiller Institute Faces Off against Castro in Ibero-American Debt Fight
by Cynthia R. Rush
When the Trade Union Commission of the Schiller Institute called for a July 15-17 conference of Ibero-American labor leaders in Mexico City, the friends of the IMF went into high gear to try to sabotage the meeting.
Documentation: The participants, speeches, and resolutions.
Brazil’s President Upsets the Bankers
by Silvia Palacios
Thailand Suspects Hoax in ‘Classic Belt-Tightening’ of IMF-World Bank
by Linda de Hoyos
Shultz in Asia Goes Japan-Bashing
by Susan Maitra
Wheeling-Pitt Failure Poses Security Threat
by Marianna Wertz
The Farm Bill: Chaos, and Sedition
by Marcia Merry
Business Briefs
Feature
The Fraud of Castro’s and Kissinger’s Debt Proposals
by Dennis Small
There are three proposals for handling the debt problem, Kissinger’s, Castro’s, and LaRouche’s, and Ibero-America will choose one of them, this year. The presentation of Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small at the First Continental Conference of the Schiller Institute Labor Commission, on July 16.
Strategic Studies
The Two Qualitative Facets of the Ogarkov War Plan
The Soviet Union is in a full-scale prewar mobilization: An abridged version of the introductory section of EIR’s Special Report, “Global Showdown: The Russian Imperial War Plan for 1988,” released in Washington, D.C. on July 24.
International
Israeli-Soviet Deal Signals ‘Post-American Era’ in Mideast
by Mark Burdman
For all intents and purposes, the strategic disengagement of the United States from the Middle East has been certified by agreements between Jerusalem and Moscow.
Egypt: Mubarak Takes On the Islamic Radicals
State Department Treats Egypt Like Iran
Hammer’s Occidental Teams with Colombia’s Narco-Terrorists
by Valerie Rush
How the FBI Promotes Terrorism: The Sikhs and Frank Camper
by Joseph Brewda
And, how the Soviets succeed in blaming their terrorist deployments on the United States.
Dutch Legislator: Need European SDI
by Dean Andromidas
An address by the Honorable Mr. J.D. Blaauw.
International Intelligence
National
NDPC Nails Congress with Voting Survey
by D. Stephen Pepper
The political action committee has released the first definitive survey of the U.S. Congress on bipartisan issues of the nation’s most basic interest.
Regan Assumes Role of ‘Prime Minister’
by Nicholas F. Benton
Many believe that the White House’s failure to aggressively pursue the President’s key programs—especially the Strategic Defense Initiative—is Don Regan’s work, and that it’s time he were relegated to as much influence as the chief cleaning lady.
Farrakhan Rallies Jackson Machine
And threatens to “chop off the head” of any black leader who opposes his Libyan-backed campaign against America.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Caught in the Act, Holding Hands — A Trilateral Offensive?
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
