EIR Volume 13, Number 43, October 31, 1986

Volume 13, Number 43, October 31, 1986

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Interviews

Edward E. Kennedy

by Marcia Merry

The former national secretary and legislative director of the National Farmers Union, research director for the United Mine Workers, and probate judge in Maryland, calls federal food control programs unconstitutional and immoral.

Dr. George C. Baldwin

by Charles B. Stevens

The head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory graser program discusses the need for a broad research program.

Jean Rochet

The Director of the Internal French Counter-Espionage Agency Direction de la Sécurité du Territoire (DST) from 1969 through 1972 says “the Soviet Union is the primary instigator of international terror.”

Gen. Chavalit Yodmani

by Pakdee Tanapura and Sophie Tanapura

The secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) of Thailand says narcoterrorism in Thailand is “precisely what we fear the most.”

Commentary

Mariapia Garavaglia

The Italian parliamentarian discusses “An economic policy to defend families.”

Departments

Report from Rome

by Vittorio Bollesin

Twenty AIDS Cases in Nursery Schools.

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

A Small Town in Germany.

Andean Report

by Valerie Rush

A Step Backward in Colombia.

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

Moscow, Not the Church, Runs PAN.

Southeast Asia

by Sophie Tanapura

Gandhi’s Visit to Thailand.

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra

Breaking New Ground.

Editorial

A Turn on the Road to Damascus.

Science & Technology

A Graser Breakthrough at Los Alamos

by Charles B. Stevens

Besides realizing the President’s goal of making nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete,” the gamma-ray laser promises a revolution in science and economy. The second in a series of exclusive reports on SDI technologies.

Economics

Third Quarter GNP Results: More Signs of Depression

by Christopher White

The figures for the economy released by the Commerce Department highlight once again the absurdity of the government’s Gross National Product accounting system.

After the ‘Big Bang’: ‘Off-Balance-Sheet’ Nightmare in London

by David Goldman

Peru Rebuilds Idled Fishing Industry, while Russian Net Catches Argentina

by Mark Sonnenblick

Currency Rates

Ibero-American Summit Maps a Drive for ‘Continental Unity’

by Valerie Rush

British Population Backs AIDS Screening

by Mark Burdman

Energy Insider

by William Engdahl

New Oil Price Collapse Ahead?

Business Briefs

Feature

Conditions in which Moscow Would Accept Reagan’s SDI Offer

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

If Moscow ever decides to accept the President’s repeated offer of cooperation on SDI, the first preparatory step Moscow would make, if they were thinking of negotiating such cooperation with the President, would be to attempt to open a back-channel to Lyndon LaRouche.

Operation Juárez

An Underpopulated and Underemployed Continent

Taking into account unemployment in agriculture and misemployment in unnecessary services, the true level of joblessness in Ibero-America is 35%. The first part of Chapter 4 of the Schiller Institute’s book, Ibero-American Integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000, published in Spanish in September 1986.