EIR Volume 14, Number 19, May 8, 1987

Volume 14, Number 19, May 8, 1987

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Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

A 20-Year Fight for Development.

Mother Russia

by Luba George

An Empire of “Bantustans.”

Dateline Mexico

by Héctor Apolinar

Dismantling the Ojinaga Connection.

American System

by Anton Chaitkin

The Fundraisers of the Revolution.

Book Reviews

Aristotle versus the Constitution

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Looks at Mortimer Adler’s We Hold These Truths.

Science & Technology

Soviets Launch Crash SDI-Fusion Program?

by Charles B. Stevens and Robert McLaughlin

Review recent developments which indicate possible initiation of a crash magnetic fusion program by the Soviet Union.

Closing of FEF an Attack on Science

by Carol White

Discusses the monstrous violation of elementary rights of free speech and scientific enquiry committed by the government in illegally taking over and shutting down the foundation.

AIDS Alert

AIDS Is Triggering a New TB Epidemic

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

AIDS Holocaust Enveloping Africa

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

U.S.S.R. Launches Mass AIDS Testing

NDPC Tells Congress: We Need War on AIDS

by Warren J. Hamerman

Is the Government About To Act on AIDS?

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Burton: 400,000 Are Already Dying of AIDS

by Ronald Kokinda

Panel Asks AIDS Emergency in California

Economics

Which Way Will Washington Panic?

by David Goldman

The supposed policy-debate over whether to support the dollar by crashing the U.S. economy, or crash the dollar by supporting the U.S. economy, has fallen to pieces.

Bankers Oust Architect of Brazil’s Debt Moratorium; Weaken President

by Mark Sonnenblick

Although Funaro is gone, the President’s political party remains hostile to the policies of the IMF, and therefore, Brazil’s creditors can’t expect a dramatic, quick reversal on debt policy.

Does Helmut Schmidt Really Want To Back Manuel Ulloa?

by Gretchen Small

The Inter-Action Council headed by the former German Chancellor has named Manuel Ulloa head of its international debt commission—but back home in Peru, he faces criminal indictment.

AIDS Is Triggering a New TB Epidemic

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

A computer model shows how the two dreaded killers are interacting.

Medicine

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

AIDS Holocaust Enveloping Africa.

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

U.S. Farms Being “De-Energized.”

Foreign Exchange

by David Goldman

Will Japan Bail Out the Euromarkets?

Feature

Large-Scale Water Projects for a Thirsty World

by Nicholas F. Benton

There is not a famine- or drought-stricken region of the world today where there do not exist blueprints for large-scale water diversion projects that could transform these regions.

A Commentary by the Hon. Sen. Frank E. Moss

International

Chirac-Thatcher Entente Fights the ‘Zero-Option’

by Mark Burdman

The bottom line, Chirac insisted, was that both countries agreed that the “denuclearization” of Europe, particularly the removal of American missiles as part of a proposed U.S.-Soviet deal, is “unacceptable.”

General Rogers: ‘Europe’s Future as a Whole Is At Stake’

British Press Asks: Are Homosexuals a Security Risk?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Yes, they are, but not just because they can be blackmailed.

Impending Financial Crash Sends Moscow into New Period of Autarky

by Konstantin George

All of Gorbachov’s meetings with Western dignitaries have been suddenly cancelled, as Soviet diplomacy turns inward to its East bloc satellites.

Colombia’s ‘Project Democracy’ Mafia Takes It on the Chin

by Valerie Rush

International Intelligence

National

Lawrence Walsh Indicts ‘Project Democracy’

by Webster G. Tarpley

By indicting Carl R. “Spitz” Channell, the independent prosecutor has set into motion a series of legal proceedings that promises to bring down all the trees in the forest of conspiracy against the U.S. Constitution at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal.