EIR Volume 14, Number 34, August 28, 1987

The U.S. banking system lost $10 billion in the second quarter, the dollar suffered its worst one-week fall in 18 months, and the consumer debt bubble has stalled—but the worst lies ahead in the rest estate sector, where American companies have been making all their money.

Soviets Mobilize To Combat AIDS

by Luba George

While Western governments sleep, the Soviet Union has launched a war to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

Currency Rates

Foreign Exchange

by David Goldman

Again: What Will Mr. Baker Do Now?

Banking

Coming Unstuck.

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Top Farm Fag Kicks Bucket.

Business Briefs

Feature

LaRouche Attacks Moscow’s AIDS Disinformation

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A recent article in International Affairs is the latest incident in continuing Soviet circulation of the allegation, that human AIDS was synthesized by U.S. governmental laboratories for the purpose of creating a biological agent of chemical-biological warfare. LaRouche, the world’s leading authority on the economics of epidemiology, replies.

Documentation: Visna-the sheep viral model for AIDS.

AIDS and Africa: Economic Collapse Must Be Reversed

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

International

Old Russian Noble Families Run the Kremlin

by Criton Zoakos

They’re all over the place in key policy positions, the Italian press has documented, and it just goes to show that the purported Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 is the greatest hoax of the 20th century, in which “boyar” nobles overthrew the Romanovs to secure the survival of their Russian empire.

Will Berlin Become Germany’s Capital Again?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Defines those circumstances in which Moscow would peacefully consent to the reunification of Germany, with Berlin as its capital.

Soviets Attempt Response to U.S. Challenge in Gulf

by Jeffrey Steinberg

‘Nuking’ U.S.-Pakistani Relations

by Ramtanu Maitra

Libyan Rout in Chad Sets Back New Yalta

by Thierry Lalevée and Mary Lalevée

Project Democracy’s Roy Godson: New Insights into His Family History

Israel: Sharon at the Center of a Political War

by Robert Greenberg

A New Malvinas Crisis Now Building over Panama

by Gretchen Small

Argentine Church Rips Alfonsín Culture Mafia

by Cynthia R. Rush

International Intelligence

National

AIPAC, the Drug Lobby, and the Ayatollahs in Congress

by Joseph Brewda

Here’s how the American Israel Political Affairs Committee can so effectively deploy Congress against the U.S. Presidency, that vital U.S. national security interests are threatened. Joseph Brewda provides the figures to prove this shocking conclusion.