Volume 14, Number 48, December 4, 1987
Book Reviews
Sympathy for the Devil: The Warburgs and the Ruin of the West
by David Goldman
A review of Jacques Attali’s A Man of Influence: The Extraordinary Career of S.G. Warburg.
Gaggle of OTA ‘Ethicists’ Threatens National Medical Policies
by Linda Everett
Reviews Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly, a report issued by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment.
Science & Technology
The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Economy
by Carol White
Crash development of laser defense weapons and associated directed energy technologies can provide the “science driver” needed by the whole economy.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
New Approaches to the Debt Question.
Report from Rome
by Galliano Maria Speri
Venice Seeks Soviet-Italian Ventures.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Labor’s Ultimatum.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Extradition, a First Step...
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
The Presidential Race.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
The Foreign Ministry Does It Again.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Soviet Premier in Town.
Editorial
Naturally, the Culprits in the Congress Exonerated Themselves.
Economics
Hooverites Tout Boost in GNP Numbers
by Christopher White
Transactions by bookkeepers, in different government departments, help keep the nation “growing” at a pace which will permit the Administration to claim that its projected growth rate for the year as a whole, 3.2%, has been met.
Weimar-Style Hyperinflation Explodes in Republic of Mexico
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Ibero-American Heads of State Meet on Debt, Economic Crisis
by Peter Rush
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
AIDS Update
Nuclear Filter Said To Isolate AIDS Virus
West Germany Shifts Its Policy on AIDS
Feature
The Revolution of Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The deepening international financial collapse should be seen as creating precisely those special circumstances under which the most profound advances in applied military science may be more likely to occur, than at any time during the past 40 years.
Radio Frequency Weapons: A Strategic Phase Change
by Michael Liebig
The Soviets are orienting their strategic planning to weapon systems “based on new physical principles.”
International
Ignore Bush-League Optimism on Summit Deal
There are desperate efforts to “learn to live with” the sell-out of Europe in the outlined armscontrol agreement between Reagan and Gorbachov, but they are all based on suppositions that are factually absurd.
Soviets Publish LaRouche Letter; Different ‘Voices’ in the Kremlin
by Konstantin George
The monthly International Affairs finally decided to publish a letter from last April.
Documentation: The LaRouche Letter to International Affairs and Soviet Comments
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Philippines Explodes: New People’s Army on the Move
The International Support Apparatus for the NPA
International Intelligence
National
Reagan Coalition’s Collapse Is Key To Stopping INF
by Webster G. Tarpley
The fight around the arms-control treaty is demolishing what is left of the President’s “old guard” of political backers. What kind of political combination could now stop ratification of the disastrous treaty in the Senate?
U.S. Press Seeks Hit on Panama’s Leader
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Irangate’s Legal Brain: Fish that Got Away
by Herbert Quinde
Is JDL Tied to Black Market Baby Rings?
by Ira Liebowitz
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
The Contrast between Weinberger and Carlucci.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
