Volume 15, Number 5, January 29, 1988
Interviews
Dr. James L. Matthews
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
The director of the Baylor Research Foundation discusses startling new breakthroughs in the use of SDI lasers to cleanse blood infected with the AIDS virus.
Departments
Strategic Map
The hotspots around the world.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Resistance Grows to INF Sell-Out.
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
Moscow Endorses Peruvian Coup.
Editorial
Can We Build a New Economic Order?
Science & Technology
Starpower: The Quest for Fusion Energy Today
The Office of Technology Assessment has released a review of the prospects for harnessing magnetic fusion energy. Although the OTA is no friend of fusion power, the report is competent, and presents a shocking picture of the collapse of the program, with 50% funding cuts during the seven years of the Reagan administration. Part I of a series.
SDI Lasers Inactivate the AIDS Virus!
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
An interview with Dr. James L. Matthews.
Books
What Scientology Exposé Does Not Presume To Tell
by Mark Burdman
Review of Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, by Russell Miller.
Books Received
Who Protected the Bhagwan? A Question Still Unanswered
by Janine Benton
Review of The Ultimate Game: The Rise and Fall of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, by Kate Strelley with Robert D. San Souci; Bhagwan: the God That Failed, by Hugh Milne; and The Golden Guru: The Strange Journey of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, by James S. Gordon.
How Not To Learn about Soviet Science
by Warren J. Hamerman
Review of Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union, by Loren R. Graham.
AIDS Update
Austerity Is Killing Mexico’s Children
by Carlos Méndez
N.H. Lawmakers Consider Range of Bills
AIDS Computer Model Backs Universal Screening
Medical Society Polls Doctors on AIDS
Los Angeles DA Indicts Anti-AIDS Workers
Economics
The Trade Gap Is Matched by the Truth Gap
by Christopher White
The U.S. Commerce Department’s November trade figures showed a hefty improvement in the trade deficit. Yet Japan’s figures, released a week later, showed the opposite. Amazing!
Austerity Is Killing Mexico’s Children
by Carlos Méndez
Brazil’s Computers and U.S. Protectionism
by Mark Sonnenblick
While the Reagan Administration is bashing Brazil for protecting its own industry, a Brazilian author points out that the United States itself was able to develop its own industries—against imperial British policy—through protection.
Currency Rates
Mobilizing an Economic Recovery under Conditions of Financial Crisis
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An open letter to German industrialists.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Strings Attached to Farm Credit Aid.
Business Briefs
Feature
Long-Term Strategy-a Democratic Alternative
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Replies to the Wohlstetter-Iklé report on strategy for the Western alliance. The cultural factors which differentiate Western civilization from the Muscovite empire factors ignored by the President’s Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy must be brought to bear to win the strategic conflict with our Soviet adversary.
International
Israel Engages in Apocalyptic Politics
by Thierry Lalevée
The disastrous policies of Ariel Sharon and company are threatening to plunge the nation into a religious war from which it would never recover.
Abrams, Castro’s Friends Team Up
by Gretchen Small
Narco-Terrorism Invades Brazil
by Silvia Palacios
Narcos Up the Ante in Colombia, Target Nation’s Political Elites
by Valerie Rush
Moscow-Beijing ‘Regional Matters’ Overshadow Cambodian Peace Talks
by Linda de Hoyos
If it were left to the countries involved, the Cambodia dispute would have been solved a long time ago. But it’s not so simple: Cambodia is the key pawn in the Sino-Soviet imperial game in the Asian theater.
World Council of Churches Under Fire
International Intelligence
National
The United States Shifts toward ‘Fortress America’
by Nicholas F. Benton
The Reagan Administration claims that the Wohlstetter-lklé report’s call for lifting the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Europe is not official policy. Yet senior Administration spokesmen refuse to repudiate the document’s conclusions.
The INF Treaty: For America a Unilateral ‘Double Zero’
by Konstantin George
Even in its own terms of reference, which ignore the most critical features of Soviet strategy, the treaty is fatally flawed.
Forces Gear Up for Senate INF Battle
by William Jones
George Bush Sinks Deeper into Iran-Contra Scandal
by Scott Thompson
The evidence mounts that Bush was well informed of the arms-for-hostages deal, almost from the very beginning. New leaks are hitting the VP like Chinese water torture.
The FBI’s 20-Year Campaign To Silence LaRouche and Associates
From the trial of U.S.A. v. The LaRouche Campaign, et al.: the opening statement of attorney Mayer Morganroth.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Will 25th Amendment Be Invoked This Year? – What About the Present Situation?
National News
