Volume 14, Number 5, January 30, 1987
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Lebanese Hostage Crisis Made in Bonn.
Report From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Beijing Shift on India Relations?
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Budget Cuts Weaken Northern Defense.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
The Corruption of Pemex.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Terrorists Hit Peru’s Industry.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
A Governors’ Revolt.
Editorial
America and Socrates.
Science & Technology
The Push for Early Development of the SDI
by Carol White
The George C. Marshall Institute’s new report documents the feasibility of an early deployment of an ABM shield. Although their approach relies heavily upon kinetic energy weapons rather than lasers—an approach we disagree with—they correctly identify the Soviet threat and assert that we can have a functioning ABM system within seven years, and an initial deployment within five years.
The European Defense Initiative: A Near Reality?
by Carol White
Part II of a proposal for antimissile defense of Western Europe developed by Gregory Canavan of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
SDI Budget Request: Shift from Lasers
by Robert Gallagher
Economics
Donald Regan Topples the U.S. Debt Pyramid
by David Goldman
Trillions of dollars worth of debt are in jeopardy, as the real estate market, the thrift institutions, and major portions of the commercial banking system will come crashing down if there is even a 2% rise in interest rates.
AIDS Spreads Throughout Asia, But Nations Still Hesitate To Act
by Mary McCourt
Currency Rates
Bankers ‘Recolonize’ Ibero-America with New Debt-for-Equity Hustles
by Lorenzo Carrasco and Mark Sonnenblick
Foreign Exchange
When Will the Big Money Exodus Begin?
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Just Who Are They Trying To Kid?
Commodities
Steel Settlement Means Bankruptcy.
Business Briefs
Feature
Reagan ‘Recovery’ Leaves One-Third of a Nation in Poverty
by Carol Cleary
After 18 more months of the “Reagan recovery,” one-third of the nation lives in real poverty. In the United States, in the year 1986, Americans were again lining up at soup kitchens and food pantries as their only alternative to slow starvation.
Operation Juárez
Moving the Water to Where It Is Needed
Although one of Ibero-America’s greatest resources is its water, the problem is that the plentiful water is poorly distributed. The job is to move the water to where it is needed, and that defines the major tasks of water management over the coming 30 years.
International
Is Gulf War Rigged against Saddam Hussein?
by Scott Thompson
Western speculation about whether the Iraqi city of Basra will fall to Iranian troops misses the crucial point: Khomeini’s regime must be destroyed.
History of Germany: Strauss Raises a Double-Edged Theme
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Whenever the discussion of German culture and German history is raised by politicians in Germany today, one must wonder whether these symptoms of Germany consciousness are winds blowing westward or eastward.
Firing of Intellectuals Shows China’s Dilemma
by Linda de Hoyos
New Zealand’s Media Defend Drug Lobby
by Allen Douglas
General Jaruzelski Meets the Pope
by Tadeusz Rejtan
Anthroposophs Push ‘Superior Russian’
by Mark Burdman and Leonardo Servadio
International Intelligence
National
Weinberger Presses SDI To Salvage Administration
by Webster G. Tarpley
Unless there are some radical changes in policy, it will be almost a miracle if we do not find ourselves getting used to saying “President George Bush” a few weeks down the line.
EIR’s Hashemi Case at Center Stage: Carter’s Links to Iran Arms Exposed
by Michele Steinberg
Documentation: EIR’s Law Editor Edward Spannaus fights for release of the Justice Department’s Hashemi files.
Court Orders LaRouche Associates Released from Prison on Bail
Weld Covers Up for Colombian Drug Cartel
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Pat Buchanan’s Desperation Move — Mayors Commiserate in Deep Freeze.
National News
