Volume 12, Number 43, November 1, 1985
Interviews
Eduardo Rios Molinar
by Carlos Wesley
How did Panama’s new President become convinced to call for a summit of Ibero-American Presidents against the International Monetary Fund? The head of Panama’s construction union, interviewed by our correspondent Carlos Wesley who arrived in Panama on Sept. 16, tells the story.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Between the IMF and Lima.
Report from Bonn
by Hartmut Cramer
Patriots Move into Political Vacuum.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Narco-Terrorists Push Colombian Chaos.
Southeast Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
Soviets Seek Control of Indian Ocean.
United Nations
by McFadden
Good News and Bad News.
Dateline Mexico
by Benjamin Castro
An “Unrealistic” Agrarian Policy.
Editorial
Justice for Indira Gandhi.
Economics
Volcker’s Big Debt Blowout: It’s Only the Beginning
by Marcia Merry
And it is happening exactly as LaRouche and EIR predicted it would.
Secretary Baker Learns the Lesson of The Merchant of Venice
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Currency Rates
What Scientists Really Think about AIDS—and the Media Do Not Report
by Warren J. Hamerman, Ned Rosinsky, M.D., and John Grauerholz, M.D.
More of the truth about the deadly pandemic from EIR’s Biological Holocaust Task Force.
Can AIDS Be Stopped?
by Dr. Myron Essex
Pentagon To Screen 2.5 Million for AIDS
by Warren J. Hamerman
Lords Report British Economy Devastated
by David Goldman
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Cut-Rate Food for Mother Russia.
Labor in Focus
by Marianna Wertz
Wheeling-Pittsburgh: Steel’s Future?
Business Briefs
Feature
Why Debtor Nations Can’t Buy Baker’s Monetary Reform
by Gretchen Small
The plan’s only purpose is to end the revolt of the debtors, not their indebtedness.
Debt and Ibero-America’s Terms of Trade
by David Goldman
An EIR study of how import prices have risen while export prices have collapsed.
Peru: Bretton Woods System Is Bankrupt
Excerpts from Finance Minister Alva Castro’s address at the IMF meeting in Seoul, Korea.
Science & Technology
German Utilities Start Up Advanced Nuclear Reactor
by William Engdahl
This is the first in a two-part series featuring new designs for nuclear power.
HTGR—Second Nuclear Generation
by Marsha Freeman
International
New Yalta Deal: Ready To Sign
by Linda de Hoyos
North Africa: More Chaos Yet To Come
by Thierry Lalevée
Behind the Laxalt Mission to Manila
by Allen Douglas
Documentation: Excerpts from the press campaign against Marcos orchestrated by the “Bankers’ CIA.”
Namibia: A Multi-Racial Experiment Under Attack by Soviet-Run Terrorists
A special profile by a source on the scene.
International Intelligence
National
Why the U.S. Should Abandon the ABM Treaty
by Kathleen Klenetsky
It places no restrictions on the SDI, but why should the country care if it did?
‘Narrow’ ABM Reading Is a Fraud
Documentation: Gerard Smith in 1985, vs. Smith in 1972.
Congressional Candidate Is Illegally Jailed
by Edward Spannaus
William Weld’s Boston proceedings have crossed all legal bounds.
Treason in America: A History of the Bank of Boston
by Anton Chaitkin
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
