Volume 14, Number 2, January 9, 1987
Book Reviews
A Specious Excuse for disarming NATO
by Kathleen Klenetsky
A review of How NATO Weakens the West, by Melvyn Krauss.
Operation Juárez
The Great Infrastructure Projects: Transportation
Resuming our exclusive serialization of the Schiller Institute’s book, Ibero-American Integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000!, this installment takes up building a real continental railway grid.
Science & Technology
Maglev and Fusion Energy for Lunar Development
by Marsha Freeman
What does magnetically levitated train technology have to do with the industrial development of the Moon? A scientific conference in New Jersey presented a most unusual discussion of space development.
Departments
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Confrontation ahead in Colombia.
Mother Russia
by Rachel Douglas
Behind the Release of Sakharov.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Heads To Roll over Libya Arms Deals.
Africa Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Can Qaddafi Win in Chad?
Report from Bangkok
by Sophie Tanapura
Support Grows for Kra Canal.
Editorial
The Year of the Constitution.
Economics
Dr. Gallo Calls for AIDS ‘Manhattan Project’
by Warren J. Hamerman
A leading American AIDS researcher is advocating a Manhattan Project-style crash program to combat AIDS, the policy heretofore campaigned for exclusively, by EIR.
Currency Rates
In ‘War on AIDS,’ U.K. Steps Backward
by Mark Burdman
Shimon Peres’s ‘Marshall Plan’: Economic Basis for Mideast Peace
by Muriel Mirak
Ironically, the best hope for Israel’s development perspective, is the “Irangate” scandal now rocking Washington.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Food Trade Warfare Is Food Reduction.
Business Briefs
Feature
The West Can Stop Russia’s Opium War Now
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Explosive new evidence is coming to light on the Soviet role in the international drug traffic; but the only way to effectively combat this threat, is for the United States to smash the political power of the Western shareholders in the Dope, Inc. condominium.
The ‘Soviet Connection’: Heroin from Afghanistan Reaches the West
Narcotics Mob Gains in Central America
by Gretchen Small
Peru Takes the Lead in the War on Drugs
by Dr. Ricardo F. Martín
Colombia Counters Narco-Blackmail
by Valerie Rush
Bolivia Takes Up the Anti-Drug War
by Valerie Rush
International
Japan Makes Breakthroughs in Defense, Economy, AIDS
by Mary McCourt
The retreat of the United States on the international arena has led Japan to break some taboos of the postwar period, expanding their national defense commitment and extending their influence throughout the Pacific.
Afghan Settlement in the Works?
by Susan Maitra
Russian Party’s Kazakhstan Coup Heralds Imperial Reorganization
by Konstantin George
Guest Commentary: 1914 to 1986: The Road to Terminal Disaster
Observations by a British Watcher on the Threshold.
Witchcraft Cults Promoted in Spain
by Leonardo Servadio
Pope Sets Basque Bishops Straight
Persian Gulf War Expected To Widen
by Thierry Lalevée
International Intelligence
National
Iran Probe Spurs Factional Warfare in Washington
by Paul Goldstein
The political warfare over the Iranian arms deal has become a question of which political groupings—the patriotic forces within the Reagan Administration, or the bankers’ faction—will emerge as the dominant force for the next two years.
Pro-AIDS Lobby Moves To Weaken Child Abuse Laws
by Ira Liebowitz
Hulan Jack, Civil Rights Leader, Dies
by Dennis Speed
He was former Borough President of Manhattan and a co-founder of the National Democratic Policy Committee and Schiller Institute.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
A Coup Threat to the Dominican Republic?
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Mr. Hart Goes to Moscow — Red Carpet Treatment.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
U.S. Kicks Off Trade War against Europe — Oil Producers Send Danger Signals.
National News
