Volume 13, Number 50, December 19, 1986
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Brazil “Integrates” Argentina.
Vatican
by Augustinus
Economic Justice Theme of Asia Trip.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
An Adviser Who Came In from the East.
Report from Paris
by Yves Messer
Student Demos Used against Chirac.
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
AIDS Conferences Held in Lima.
Mother Russia
by Luba George
The KGB and the Dzerzhinsky Method.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Will Moscow Really Gain in Irangate?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Mexican “Big MAC” Suggested to Japan.
Editorial
Time To Dump AIFLD.
Science & Technology
Aerospace Production: A Shadow of the 1960s
by Marsha Freeman and Robert Gallagher
Even the aerospace and defense industries have not fared well during the “economic recovery.”
Investigation
Fidel Castro’s Friend Vesco Aids the Contras
by Gretchen Small
The financial empire of one of the Sandinistas’ top financiers and benefactors, narcotics finance king Robert Vesco, sits at the center of Contra operations. Confusing? Not if you understand the workings of Dope, Inc.
AIDS Outbreak in Nicaragua, Contras
Economics
The Economic Agenda for 1988 Surfaces
by David Goldman
Thatcher Leads European Prime Ministers in ‘War on AIDS’
Soviet economy: NEP, Environmentalism, and Military Industry: A Contradiction?
by Luba George
Indo-Soviet Trade: Rubles and Rupees
by Susan Maitra
Currency Rates
Behind the ‘Stagnant Recovery,’ a Deep Economic Recession Threatens
by William Engdahl
A survey of the West German economy.
Shipping: U.S. Lines’ Parent Company Files Ch. 11
Argentine Church Backs Labor’s Demand
by Benjamin Castro
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
“Consensus Forecast” on the Titanic.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Food Disputes in a World of Hunger.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
New Technology for Cancer Detection.
Banking
by David Goldman
The First Cracks in Securitization.
Business Briefs
Feature
Why Did Moscow Assassinate Sweden’s Premier Olof Palme?
Sensational revelations in the European press about Palme’s love affair with Emma Rothschild provide the key to unraveling the mystery. Little wonder, then, that NBC-TV and the U.S. Justice Department have launched a new disinformation attempt, reviving the discredited line of a “LaRouche angle” in the murder. Our Feature presents the findings of a team of researchers in Europe and the United States.
Bizarre Twists in the Palme Investigation
by William Engdahl
The Rothschild Factor and the Role of SIPRI
by Mark Burdman
A Classic Soviet Disinformation Job
A Worldwide Media ‘Big Lie’ Campaign
Police Furious at Holmér’s Cover-Up
Moscow’s Favorite Swedish Bankers
International
Shultz a Disgrace at NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
by Criton Zoakos
The communiqué issued after the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting was contrary to the policy of both the U.S. government and NATO. The allied governments find themselves in the dangerous position of having a foreign ministers’ revolt on their hands.
Documentation: Recent statements by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Bernard Rogers, and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt.
Busting Up Kissinger’s Special U.S.-Israel Relationship
by Paul Goldstein
One of the main targets for cleanup in the Irangate scandal is the National Security Council’s Israel connection.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Scandal Shuttle on the Northern Route — Lonrho, Libya, Dr. K, Rothschild.
International Intelligence
National
‘Irangate’ Sparks Policy Shifts, NSC Clean-Up
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The purging of the Kissinger and Mossad-contaminated elements is only the surface of an expected deeper change, in both the structure and substantive policy orientation of the Reagan Administration.
Chicago: LaRouche Democrat Sets Mayoral Program
Sheila Jones, a leading LaRouche collaborator in the Midwest, has accepted a mandate from the “forgotten majority” to run for Mayor of Chicago in the primary in February 1987.
Economic, Military Crisis Scares Dems
by Leo Scanlon
The Democratic Leadership Council, meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia, grappled with the fact that the country is undergoing one of the greatest economic and military crises in its history. Some of the results are quite surprising.
Documentation: Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.), Speaker of the House, at the DLC meeting.
National News
