EIR Volume 15, Number 6, February 5, 1988

Volume 15, Number 6, February 5, 1988

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Interviews

Dr. Allen Salzberg

by Kathleen Klenetsky

The director of medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Miles City, Montana, will present his computer study on the AIDS epidemic in the United States to the staff of the President’s Commission on AIDS.

Renata Tebaldi

by Liliana Celani and Giuseppe Matteucci

The renowned operatic soprano discusses the importance of correct tuning for music and the voice.

Science & Technology

Starpower: The Quest for Fusion Energy Today

The Office of Technology Assessment’s “Starpower” detailed the different methods of attaining fusion energy. Part 2 of a series from the OTA’s report.

AIDS Update

New AIDS Study Warns of 25 Million Americans Dead by the Year 2008

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Fiscal Austerity Threatens Health Holocaust in Britain

by Mark Burdman

Virginia Law Would Test at 5 Years Old

AIDS Scare Reported in the Soviet Union

PANIC Indictments Called ‘Red Herring’

Departments

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra

The Economy’s “Demanding Depths.”

Report from Rio

by Lorenzo Carrasco and Silvia Palacios

Brazil’s Export-Led Recession.

Report from Paris

by Yves Messer

Guillaume and His “Marshall Plan.”

Report from Rome

by Leonardo Servadio

Mafia Comeback on Libya-Malta Axis?

Mother Russia

by Luba George

Perestroika and the Muscovite Empire.

Northern Flank

by Göran Haglund

The Soviets Rearm on Norway’s Border.

Dateline Mexico

by Hugo López Ochoa

The Narco-Bolivian Model.

Editorial

The KGB Runs the Justice Department.

Economics

Bush-League Bankers Jeopardize U.S. Sovereignty

by Christopher White

New schemes are afoot to turn the dollar into a piece of toilet paper. None will save the bankrupt monetary system, but the refusal of U.S. financial and political circles to face reality has led to such desperation moves internationally.

New AIDS Study Warns of 25 Million Americans Dead by the Year 2008

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Fiscal Austerity Threatens Health Holocaust in Britain

by Mark Burdman

Currency Rates

Prudential-Bache Report Links Dollar Drop to Defense Cutbacks

by Kathleen Klenetsky

International Credit

by Galliano Maria Speri

The Russians, and De Benedetti’s Blitz.

Business Briefs

Music

Tebaldi: High Tuning Is the Cancer of the Voice

by Liliana Celani and Giuseppe Matteucci

Feature

Colombia Hostage to Drug Mafia ‘Extraditables’

by Robyn Quijano

In kidnaping a Bogota mayoral candidate and killing the Attorney General, the cocaine czars known as the “extraditables” have declared total war on the country.

Barco’s Tolerance of the Narco-Takeover of Colombia

A chronology of the step-by-step capitulation of the State to the drug mob.

The War against Extradition

A 15-Point War-Plan To Stop Drug Traffic

From the March 13, 1985 message by U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche to a Mexico City conference on the illegal drug traffic.

The Narco-Terrorist Alliance

The Politics of Usury: The Banks’ Role in Narco-Terrorism

International

British Blast Shevardnadze’s ‘Bullying, Insolence’ in Bonn

by Mark Burdman

The Soviet foreign minister brazenly stated that France and Britain would “not be allowed” to modernize their nuclear arsenals—and the outraged response is: “We are not colonies yet.” But Mrs. Thatcher does not seem to appreciate that the entire arms control process must be derailed.