EIR Volume 14, Number 26, June 26, 1987

Prospects for an international financial blow-out in the period between now and October have been significantly increased as a result of the political shenanigans around the U.S. budget for fiscal year 1988.

Savings & Loan Crash Becomes Battleground for 1988

by David Goldman

While the Reagan Administration has set off a partisan political battle undermining what chance remains to postpone the crash of the thrift industry, the Justice Department is trying to pin the crash on “organized crime.”

How To Stop the Economic Collapse

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Currency Rates

Will Mexico Shut Down Its Only Nuclear Power Plant?

by Hugo López Ochoa

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Reagan Discovers “Overproduction.”

Business Briefs

Feature

War on AIDS: Too Many Lies and Not Enough Science

by Warren J. Hamerman

The global war on AIDS has to be fought on three fronts at once: public health, public information, and basic scientific research. All three must be coordinated in a Manhattan Project “crash program” with a “blank check” to do whatever is required to defeat the enemy.

Salk Maps Plan for an AIDS Vaccine

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

The developer of the first effective polio vaccine has proposed the first comprehensive strategy to prevent the development of AIDS in already-infected individuals.

John Seale, M.D., on U.S. tour: ‘AIDS Not a Sexually Transmitted Disease’

by John Seale, M.D.

Wave of AIDS Bills Hits U.S. States

by Marla Minnicino

Mass AIDS Tests Proved Feasible by U.S. Military

by Warren J. Hamerman

AIDS Cases, Country by Country

International

Gorbachov Answers Reagan, Shells West German Ship

by Konstantin George

On June 12, the President made a speech in West Berlin asking Soviet party boss Mikhail Gorbachov to tear down the Berlin Wall. Gorbachov replied with guns in the Baltic.

‘Project Democracy’ Justifies New Yalta

General Noriega Defies Philippines Model for Destabilizing Panama

by Peter Rush

The same State Department networks that coordinated every aspect of the destabilization and ouster of Ferdinand Marcos are now in place in Panama, but they’ve acted prematurely: As General Noriega put it, “This is not the Philippines, nor am I Marcos.”

South Korea Nears Moment of Decision

by Linda de Hoyos

Military Modernization for Soviet Armed Forces and Industry

by Rachel Douglas

Moscow Angry at the Pope after Poland

by Luba George

Post-Election Britain: Thatcher’s Two Pressing Challenges

by Mark Burdman

Let’s Bring Back Bournonville!

by Katherine Kanter

Review of “Bournonville style” ballet classes given in the Royal Danish Theatre.

International Intelligence

National

Justice Department Goes ‘Lawless and Out of Control’

by Robert Greenberg

Following the agenda of the Project Democracy apparatus, due process is being bypassed to effect government takeover of the trade unions and the thrift industry, and to abolish the special prosecutor’s office that otherwise might shut down Project Democracy.