Volume 12, Number 49, December 13, 1985
Interviews
Lieutenant-Commander James Simpson
A report on the U.S. war on drugs from a leading official of the U.S. Coast Guard 7th District, Southeast Region, in Miami.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No Recovery, But a New Policy Voice.
Mother Russia
by Katherine Notley
“Third Rome” Sets Plans for New Summit.
New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
India Looks East.
Editorial
Smoking out the Third Rome.
Economics
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: Economics Needs Morality
The full text of the Cardinal’s ground-breaking speech at the Symposium on Church and Economy in Rome.
The Philippines: Marcos Gives Backing to Peru; Declares War against the IMF
In a meeting with Peruvian Gen. (ret.) Edgardo Mercado Jarrín and representatives of the Schiller Institute.
Thailand’s Prospects for Rapid Agro-Industrial Development
Report on EIR’s conference in Bangkok.
Documentation: Speech by Thailand’s former Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Boonchu Rojanastien.
Currency Rates
From Alma Ata to AIDS: The Russians’ WHO Operation To Destroy Africa
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Conference Report—Part 2.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
GATT Entry a Disaster for Mexico.
Domestic Credit
by D. Stephen Pepper
The Troika Takes Command.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Pope’s Synod and the Interpretation of International Law
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Demonstrates the extraordinary significance of the current Synod. The Pope’s actions are not merely internal to the affairs of the Catholic Church. This Synod is a great ecumenical act, the greatest event in human history since the 1439 Council of Florence.
Science & Technology
Laser Optics for the Defense of Europe and Asia
by Robert Gallagher
How can a Tactical Defense Initiative kill short- and medium-range missiles which travel near the surface of the earth, where atmospheric turbulence is the greatest? New developments in laser optics and concepts developed by Leonardo da Vinci provide the key—to the dismay of the established “optics community.”
Leonardo’s Concept of Self-Induced Transparency
International
Betancur Instructs George Shultz on Morality
by Robyn Quijano
The Colombian President’s speech at the meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) echoed the Papal Synod’s discussion of economics and morality, and the intervention of the Vatican into the world economic crisis.
Sweden: Revolt against Palme Intensifies
by Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy
Proclamation of the Citizens’ Group ‘Patriots for Germany’
International Intelligence
Strategic Studies
Germany’s Positive Contribution to World Development
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Part IV of a series.
National
Will Vatican Offensive Stop Czar Donald Regan?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
NSC adviser McFarlane is out, NASA’s Beggs is under fire, and Regan is bringing his cohorts into the Administration. It’s a bad situation, but all is not lost.
The Pollard Spy-Case Coverup: Bigger than the Kim Philby Affair?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A massive coverup has been thrown into place, involving George Shultz, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, and the Israeli cabinet. What do they have to hide?
Who’s Who in the Pollard Case
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
