Volume 14, Number 4, January 23, 1987
Interviews
Humberto Volando
The president of the Argentine Agrarian Federation discusses the catastrophe facing Argentine agriculture.
Science & Technology
The European Defense Initiative: A Near Reality?
by Carol White
Presents the proposal for an anti-missile defense of Western Europe developed by Gregory Canavan of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first of two parts.
Departments
Report from Rome
by Marco Fanini
Government mandates AIDS reporting.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The “Chicken Wars” Again?
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
Hanky Panky in the State of Mexico.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
When Will Israel Move on Lebanon?
Report from Bangkok
by Sophie Tanapura
Whose Side Is Colby on?
Editorial
Nunn’s Offer To Surrender.
Operation Juárez
A New Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific
Whether it goes through Panama or Colombia, the new interoceanic canal is vital in the immediate period ahead.
Kra Canal: On Thailand’s Horizon
Economics
Washington’s Trade War Becomes Currency Suicide
by David Goldman
If the U.S. didn’t import one-fifth of its consumption, and didn’t have to borrow $150 billion a year to do so, and to finance the federal deficit, then Washington’s decision to crash the dollar might be excused as mere colossal stupidity.
Reality of AIDS Holocaust in Africa Verified by Many Sources
by Jutta Dinkermann
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Where’s the Beef? It Ain’t There.
Moscow’s Industrial ‘Joint Ventures’ Are a Big Joke
by William Engdahl
Domestic Credit
Pension Guarantor Is Bankrupt.
Banking
by David Goldman
Mortgage Boom Collapses, as Planned.
Business Briefs
Feature
Who Runs the ‘Contra’ Cocaine Connection?
by Gretchen Small
The fall-out from the “narcontra” story has only begun to hit, and unless the United States immediately breaks its links to the Contras, President Reagan may yet pay the price.
Cocaine Mafia Says: ‘I’m a Contra, Too’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Who’s Who in the Contra Cocaine Traffic
Central America’s Israeli Connection
by Joseph Brewda
Dope, Inc.’s Pointman in Honduras: Gen. Alvarez
The NSC’s Panamanian Dope Connections
by Gretchen Small
International
China Changes Leaders, But Not Its Policy
by Linda de Hoyos
The student “democracy” demonstrations in cities across China during the month of December were part of a power struggle within the leadership of the Communist Party.
Colombia Launches Intense Anti-Drug War
by Mark Sonnenblick
Patriots’ Emergence Shocks German Elite
by Susan Welsh
International Intelligence
Strategic Studies
A changed View of U.S. Maritime Strategy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Reports on the most obvious of the errors in U.S. military doctrine, an increasing drift away from even the appearance of classical warplanning.
National
Weinberger Fights against Trilateral Defense Sell-Out
by Webster G. Tarpley
The Trilaterals’ determination to make the next six months the worst disaster in the history of NATO has made Sen. Sam Nunn the most dangerous man in Washington.
Documentation: Testimony by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Zbigniew Brzezinski before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
U.S. Links Pollard to ‘False Flag’ Spying
A U.S. Attorney spells out the Soviets’ Israeli connection.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Renewed Assault against the President’s SDI.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda
National News
