Volume 13, Number 2, January 10, 1986
Interviews
V. P. Singh
India’s Finance Minister discusses international financial issues.
Vinicio Cerezo
by Dennis Small
The President-elect of Guatemala is critical of the International Monetary Fund, and backs Peru’s solution to the debt crisis.
James Lee Clingan
A Democratic state representative from Indiana’s 42nd District describes his years-long battle with the Eastern Liberal Establishment.
Book Reviews
What are Iran’s Mullahs Really?
by Thierry Lalevée
Reviews Amir Taheri’s The Spirit of Allah.
Departments
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Hussein Goes to Damascus.
Report from Paris
by Yves Messer
High Stakes in the March Elections.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
A Drug-Runner for Chihuahua?
Editorial
For a Tumultuous New Year.
Economics
The World Financial System Reaches a Breaking Point
by David Goldman
The Gramm-Rudman legislation completes the bankruptcy of the United States, which began when President Nixon suspended gold backing for the dollar in 1971.
Peru’s Battle with the IMF Heats Up
by Salvador Lozano
The State Department is worried about Peru’s nationalization of the Belco petroleum company. Economic warfare is expected to escalate.
UNICEF Report Blames the IMF for Death and Misery in Africa
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Optical Computer Technology Can Speed Up the SDI
by Kevin L. Zondervan
Computer specialist Kevin Zondervan reports on the breakthroughs at hand in high-speed processing.
Analog Computers Will Transform Computation
Feature
The End of the Age of Aquarius?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Keynote address to a conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees.
Investigation
Setback for the Trilateral Commission’s 1986 Agenda?
by Mark Burdman
The Madrid meeting of the Commission was postponed, under strange circumstances. This certainly cannot be explained by developments internal to Spain.
The Case of the Duke of Alba
by Mark Burdman
The Trilateral networks in Spain.
Trilateral One-World Conspiracy Exposed
A recent report on the Trilaterals from the French magazine Spectacles du Monde.
International
Terrorist Attacks Launch Sharon’s Election Campaign
by Joseph Brewda
The post-Christmas suicide commando attacks in Rome and Vienna signal the next phase of a Soviet-backed terrorist assault on American allies in the Middle East and the West.
Vatican Under Attack from Russian Church
by Luba George and Mark Burdman
The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate hails Western theologians who are attacking the Pope and the Augustinian doctrine of the Trinity.
Nigeria Follows the Path of Peru
by Mary Lalevée
The Philippines Elections: Marcos Runs against the State Department
by Paul Goldstein
Historic Initiative Taken for South Asian Regional Cooperation
by Susan Maitra
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was formally launched in Bangladesh in December.
International Intelligence
National
The 1988 Presidential Race Will Be Determined This Year
by D. Stephen Pepper
And Lyndon LaRouche’s Presidential campaign is going to move very fast.
The Soviet Record on Treaty Violations
Excerpts from the President’s latest unclassified report on Soviet noncompliance, with some intelligence not previously made public.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
OMB Computer Cuts Back AIDS Fight — State and Local Governments Hit Hard.
National News
