Volume 13, Number 28, July 18, 1986
Interviews
Gen. García Conde Cenal
by Leonardo Servadio
The former Chief of General Staff of the Spanish Air Force says the defense of West Germany is the duty of all European states.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Drug Mafia Descends on Brazil.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Money Laundering for the SPD.
Report from Rome
by Marco Fanini
What Andreotti Has in Mind.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Peru Outdoes U.S. in War on Drugs.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Rajiv Gandhi on the Frontline.
Southeast Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
Phuket Ablaze: Thailand’s Wackersdorf.
Editorial
“Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish.”
Science & Technology
Livermore Laboratory Vindicated on X-Ray Laser
by Carol White
The fraudulent campaign to discredit the laboratory’s extraordinary successes has been annihilated by a new government report.
Weinberger Counters Anti-SDI Lobby
The Secretary of Defense compares President Reagan’s vision of strategic defense to President Kennedy’s dream of the exploration of space.
Book Reviews
D. Stockman and the Triumph of Subterfuge
by Carol White
Review of David Stockman’s The Triumph of Politics: How the Reagan Revolution Failed.
Military Reform: If You Liked McNamara, You’ll Love Gary Hart
by Leo Scanlon
Review of Sen. Gary Hart and William S. Lind’s America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform.
Economics
World Financial Storm Is Now Gathering
by Criton Zoakos
Low interest rates, it is believed by leading New York bankers and by Donald Regan, will enable the debt-strapped U.S. money-center banks to get refinanced, at least for a few months.
Peru’s García Campaigns in Mexico for Ibero-American Integration
Top Bankers Admit: ‘We Are Bankrupt, in Fact and in Policy.’
by William Engdahl
IMF Pushes Indonesian Government toward the Economic Precipice
by Dean Andromidas
South Africa Wields the Debt Weapon
by Roger Moore
Illegal-Drug Use Soars in Argentina, Thanks to IMF Austerity
by Cynthia R. Rush
Currency Rates
International Credit
by David Goldman
Drug Money Leverages Drug Money
Domestic Credit
The Oil Belt Leads the Nation Down.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Funny Money for Farmers.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Return.
Business Briefs
Feature
A Golden Moment To Act against the AIDS Pandemic
by Warren J. Hamerman
A Program To Stop the AIDS Pandemic
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Excerpts from the second in a series of occasional press briefings.
Political War over AIDS Referendum
Conference Report: ‘Experts’ Perpetuate WHO’s Cover-Up of the AIDS Epidemic
by Wolfgang Lillge, M.D.
AIDS in the Tropics: How Does It Spread?
by Dr. Mark Whiteside
Dr. Whiteside is Co-director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Miami, Florida.
International
John Paul II in Colombia: Drugs Worse than Slavery
by Valerie Rush
Chihuahua Elections: Mexico Turns Back a Threat to Sovereignty
by Mark Sonnenblick
U.S.-Japan Alliance Holds Firm in Vote
by Linda de Hoyos
Soviet Anti-SDI Warfare: German High-Tech Specialist Killed by RAF
Lebanon Falling to New Yalta Plan
by Scott Thompson
Silence Covers East Berlin Bloodbath
by Konstantin George
International Intelligence
National
SDI Faces Its Most Dangerous Challenge Yet
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Will President Reagan be convinced that Moscow’s “new” arms-control agreement is worth limiting the anti-missile defense program?
Sodomy Ruling by High Court Poses Threat to Liberal Counterculture
by Edward Spannaus
Documentation: Excerpts from the Supreme Court ruling on the right of states to make sodomy illegal.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Defense Cuts Flaunt Cap’s “Dire Warnings” — New Government AIDS Program a Sham.
National News
