Volume 15, Number 8, February 19, 1988
Interviews
Nasrallah Sfeir
The Maronite Patriarch defends Lebanon’s integrity.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Lothar Spaeth’s Moscow Trip.
Report from Rome
by Liliana Celani and Marco Fanini
The Last Days of Giovanni Goria.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Sarney Attacks the Vatican.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Cultural War on the Church.
Editorial
The Need for New Leadership.
Economics
Reagan’s Last Budget Leaked: The Numbers Are Ridiculous
by Christopher White
It’s not clear if it’s the final form the package will take, or just intended to elicit feedback—and it also doesn’t really matter.
Prominent Signers Back ‘Stop Euthanasia’ Call
An “urgent appeal” has been issued by the Club of Life.
Schmidt’s Inter-Action Genocidalists Target Africa, Look to Moscow
by Mark Burdman
Currency Rates
The Guillaume Plan for Promoting Growth in Developing Countries
The text of a French Agriculture Ministry pamphlet on Minister François Guillaume’s proposal for promoting agriculture in the Third World.
Bolivia Swaps Debt for ... Bolivia
by Ricardo Martín
Agriculture
by Marion Peretti
“Set Aside” Fiasco Pushed in Europe.
City of London
by Stephen Lewis
New Threat to Market Stability.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Starpower: The Quest for Fusion Energy Today
How close are we to “breakeven” in this unlimited source of energy? Concluding a three-part series abridged from the Office of Technology Assessment’s recent report.
Investigation
Noriega’s Accusations Reopen Iran-Contragate
by Gretchen Small
Panama’s problems with the Reagan administration began on Dec. 17, 1985, when General Noriega told John Poindexter that U.S. policy in Central America was nuts.
Documentation: Norman Bailey on getting rid of Panama’s army, the army’s official reply, and excerpts of a speech by General Noriega.
José Blandón: Paid To Lie
by Catalina Metzler
A first-hand report on the Senate Foreign Relations’ hearings, featuring Sen. John Kerry’s less-than-credible star witness.
Feature
Creativity and Curriculum in the Emerging Age of Nonlinear Physics
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Elaborates his policy on education, and insists that unless we return to the principles of classical secondary education, the next two generations will lack the ability to cope with the new forms of technological challenges presented during the remainder of this century and the early decades of the next.
International
Will Russia’s Military Solve Her Economic Mess?
by Criton Zoakos
At the helm of a culturally miserable land that could never accumulate anything for investment, the Russian military establishment’s options are constrained by what Western industrial-financial interests are willing to give them.
Lit Gaz Unloads Bile on LaRouche
Western intelligence specialists are carefully studying the latest extraordinary broadside against Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, from the poison pens at Moscow’s Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Soviets Orchestrate Border Conflagration against Thailand
by Linda de Hoyos
‘Wehrkunde’ Meeting Swallows INF Pact, Debates Myriad Ways To Wreck NATO
by George Gregory
A conference report from Munich: The entire debate raged inside the INF Treaty fishbowl, and the lid on the bowl was the so-called Iklé-Wohlstetter report.
International Intelligence
National
Senate Partisan Chaos Stalls INF Ratification
by Webster G. Tarpley
Opposition to the INF and its promise of a decoupled Europe and thus of Soviet world domination still has very little principled character, but the treaty has become a political football, and is taking a beating.
LaRouche to High School Students: Look to the Future, Colonize Space!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
From the Presidential contender’s Feb. 5 address to 500 New Hampshire high school students.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Iowa Reshapes Republican Race — Analysts Agree: Recession in 1988.
Why the Senate Must Reject INF: A German Military Leader’s View
by Brig. Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm Grunewald (ret.)
National News
