Volume 14, Number 6, February 6, 1987
Book Reviews
Lincoln’s ‘American System’ Policy Was a Far Cry from Reaganomics
by Nicholas F. Benton
Looks at Gabor S. Boritt’s Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream.
Departments
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Two Murders Covered Up in One Year.
Mother Russia
by Luba George
Next Patriarch a Germany Handler?
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
A Trail of Dirty Cops.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
A Malthusian Offensive.
Report from Rome
by Liliana Celani
Compromise on AIDS Policy.
Report from Bangkok
Growing Strain in Thai-U.S. Relations.
Editorial
Not Too Late for Moral Economics.
Science & Technology
Clean Water Bill on the President’s Desk—Again
A presidential veto ignored the fact that the bill asks for much less than the $90 billion it would take to expand sewage treatment systems to accommodate economic growth. David Cherry reports.
The Importance of a Worst-Case Scenario
From testimony of Dr. Abel Wolman, a pioneer in sanitary engineering and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University.
Operation Juárez
The Next 30 Years of Investment in Energy
More from the Spanish-language book, Ibero-American Integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000.
Economics
Vatican Calls for International Debt Reform
On commission from the Pope, Justitia et Pax has issued a report demanding that no more human lives be sacrificed upon the altar of usury.
Currency Rates
The View from Manila: How the Debt Crisis Was Created
In late 1986, a small pamphlet on the international debt crisis was circulated in the Philippines, entitled: “Third World’s War: The Debt Fall-out,” by economist and business leader Antonio Valdez. We reprint sections here.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
A “Bonus” To Return Land to the Wild.
Russians Seek To Exploit U.S. Trade and Monetary Insanities
by Christopher White
It’s now official: The Russians are proposing an international monetary alternative to the U.S. dollar.
Business Briefs
Feature
How Much Should the Allies Spend on Military R&D?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Discusses physical economy as the basis for an answer—and why no Western government, with the partial exception of Japan, seems to understand.
Document
Secretary Weinberger Takes On the Decouplers
The real issues of SDI, the Western alliance, and the Socratic foundations of Western culture are addressed in some extraordinary speeches by the Pentagon chief.
International
Gorbachov Lays Basis for Sweeping Personnel Shifts
by Konstantin George
In an extraordinary six-hour speech at the Soviet Central Committee Plenum, the general secretary went after “resistance” to his war-economy buildup, and promised further housecleaning of the party and government apparat.
LaRouche Upstages Plenum on Moscow TV
by Luba George
The day of the Central Committee meeting, the lead news was an attack on the U.S. Presidential candidate.
Genscher, Trilateral Commission Are the Winners in German Election
by Rainer Apel
The pro-Moscow wing in each established party has been strengthened, leaving only the Patriots for Germany as a rallying point to save the Western alliance.
Non-Aligned Leaders Launch AFRICA Fund
by Susan Maitra
A summit meeting in New Delhi launched an initiative to save Africa from economic collapse and neo-colonialism—with Peru’s President Alan García playing a guiding role.
The Destruction of Western Culture; The Strange Case of Yuri Lyubimov
by David Goldman
Soviet “dissidents” of the artistic variety are the essence of Soviet policy toward the West.
International Intelligence
National
State of the Union: Don Regan ‘Hooverizes’ Reagan
by Webster G. Tarpley
But the President really has nothing to blame but his own ingrained ideological obsessions.
Failed Contra Policy Comes Under Fire
by Gretchen Small
The ouster of Elliott Abrams is the next essential step.
LaRouche Starts Bid in New Hampshire
by Marla Minnicino
Panic over AIDS Seizes United States
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The “Stop LaRouche” folks of yesterday have finally decided that something had better be done.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Inside the Pentagon
by Tecumseh
Maritime Strategy Not for Decoupling.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda
National News
