Volume 14, Number 9, February 27, 1987
Interviews
Jacques Mauro
The French lawyer and member of the Council of the Paris Bar discusses the human rights case of Lewis du Pont Smith.
Book Reviews
State Dept. Adores Sufi Fundamentalism
by Allen Douglas and Rachel Douglas
Review of Mystics and Commissars: Sufism in the Soviet Union, by Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush.
Departments
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
Ecuador Defaults.
Report from Paris
by Claude Albert
Weekly fined for libeling LaRouche.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
An Unsavory Alliance.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Russian Propaganda Film Postponed.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Mizoram: A New State Is Born.
Editorial
A New Era Has Begun.
Operation Juárez
The Great Projects in Heavy Industry
Continuing EIR’s serialization of Ibero-American integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000!
Science & Technology
Eugen Sänger: Astronautical Pioneer and Trailblazer
by Günter Beyes
Modern designs for reusable space vehicles like the Shuttle are still drawing on the early work of one of Germany’s great space scientists.
Economics
Brazil, Citing the Pope, Drops the Debt Bomb
by Mark Sonnenblick
President Sarney has sent a shock wave through the international banking system, with his announcement that the world’s second-largest debtor country will not pay the debt over the dead bodies of its people.
President Sarney’s Address: ‘Time for a Definitive Solution to the Debt’
EIR Sparks National Debate on AIDS Epidemic in Italy
by Muriel Mirak
Lyndon and Helga LaRouche were featured speakers at a conference of scientists, medical personnel, politicians, and religious leaders in Rome.
Currency Rates
Guinness Affair Terrifies London’s Dirty-Money Men
by Mark Burdman
Mexico: Kissinger, the Loans that Never Came, and the Presidential Succession
by Héctor Apolinar
Rocky’s Banker Friend Kuczynski Faces Fraud Rap
Business Briefs
Feature
The Dark Forces behind Gorbachov’s ‘Glasnost’ Hoax
by Allen Douglas and Rachel Douglas
The “gates of cultural expression” in the Soviet Union have been pried open for a purpose. EIR has undertaken a review of just what sort of culture is being expressed in the Gorbachovs’ U.S.S.R.
Culture Foundation Wars against West
by Rachel Douglas and Luba George
The Racist Culture Gorbachov Is Reviving
International
Gorbachov’s ‘Peace’ Forum: A ‘New Yalta’ Charade
by Konstantin George
Leading Western bankers, industrialists, clergymen, pro-Soviet political figures from Europe and the United States, and assorted riff-raff from Hollywood gathered to hear Gorbachov and the “dissident” Sakharov achieve news heights of hypocrisy.
Strong NPA Shows Scale of Philippines Political, Military Woes
by Linda de Hoyos
Colombia: Medellín Cartel Pals Capture Liberal Party
by Valerie Rush
Lebanon: Israel Backs Iran’s Hezbollahi Terrorists
by Thierry Lalevée
Shamir’s Trip Aims at Damage Control
by Robert Greenberg
Schiller Institute Founded in Norway
International Intelligence
National
‘Project Democracy’: Moscow’s Hook into NSC
by Criton Zoakos
The Tower Commission’s most important discovery during its investigation of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s network, leads to a “parallel foreign policy apparatus” under the influence of the Kremlin.
Project Democracy Targeted LaRouche
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dirty Trick against LaRouche Is Derailed
by Nancy Spannaus
Virginia police agencies swept in and arrested 16 more of his associates—but the state attorney general found she had overplayed her hand.
Disturbing Role of GOP ‘Gaypaytriots’
by Herbert Quinde
Weinberger Is Right on ABM Treaty; But Will He Prevail?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Defense Secretary sent Sam Nunn and friends into an uproar when he said that “very soon,” the Administration would adopt the “legally correct” interpretation of the ABM Treaty.
Year of the Constitution: LaRouche Cases Get ‘Discriminatory, Selective, and Vindictive Prosecution’
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda
National News
