Volume 15, Number 11, March 11, 1988
Interviews
Prof. Marek Sliwinski
by Mark Burdman
A University of Geneva political scientist documents the extent of Soviet genocide in Afghanistan.
Book Reviews
Brundtland Commission Proposes Ecologists’ Fascist World Order
by Mark Burdman
Looks at Our Common Future, the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development.
Documentation: The zero growthers form a unified command at a recent convention in Costa Rica.
Fighting Cancer, or Fighting Culture?
by Janet West
Reviews The Dread Disease; Cancer and Modern American Culture by James T. Patterson.
AIDS Update
Steps in the Right Direction
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Britain’s Euthanasia Movement Declares War on Western Culture
by Mark Burdman
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No Jobs in the Post-Industrial Age.
Report from Paris
by Jean Baptiste Blondel
A Blow against Terrorism.
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
Bulgarian Connection Pops Up Again.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Catholics Clash with “Art” Mafia.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
The War on the Oil Pipelines.
Books Received
Editorial
Colonize Space!
Science & Technology
Will the SDI Survive? A Political Question
Alpha: The First Space-Based Defense
by Charles B. Stevens
Continuing technological breakthroughs with multi-element phased array mirrors, phase conjugation firing, and coupling systems, and, techniques for distributed phased array coupling of laser modules promise to provide the means of transforming the firepower of a couple of dozen space-based Alpha laser modules to a level sufficient to destroy thousands of ballistic missiles launched from any geographical location within a few minutes.
Economics
The Leading-Indicator Lies of the U.S. Government
by Christopher White
Guess how the U.S. government made the “revised” leading indicators for December 1987 look better? They added in the amount of credit that was extended to consumers that month!
More Austerity Hits Mexico’s Labor Force
by Peter Rush
Banks Keep Brazil on a Short Leash
by Mark Sonnenblick
‘Roundtable’ Slashes West European Jobs
by William Engdahl
The European Industrialists Roundtable is preparing for 1992’s “Single Europe,” and integration into the Soviet Empire.
Agriculture
by Sue Atkinson
USDA Shuts Down Rural America.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Steps in the Right Direction.
Britain’s Euthanasia Movement Declares War on Western Culture
by Mark Burdman
“The sort of opposition we have to overcome, is from those who insist that human life is sacred,” says a spokesman.
Currency Rates
On Slime Mold, and the ‘One Worlders’
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Business Briefs
Feature
A Strategy of Justice: Reply to the Encyclical
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The response of U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. to the Encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II. This response “is intended to express ecumenical solidarity of the good men and women of the United States with the commitment to promote the true sovereignty of nations and persons, to recognize the inalienable right to economic development as intrinsic to such sovereignties, and to acknowledge the persistence of a great, intolerable wrong intrinsic to the present ordering of relevant features of the affairs among and within nations.” Part 1 of 2.
International
NATO Replaces Firepower with Hollow Words
by Nicholas F. Benton
The NATO heads of government acknowledged the overwhelming conventional superiority of the Warsaw Pact, but the only strategy they came up with to deal with it, is to rely on the good will of the Kremlin.
Shultz Pulls Kremlin into Mideast Deals
by Scott Thompson
Geneva Researcher Documents Soviet Genocide in Afghanistan
by Mark Burdman
Nine percent of the Afghan population has been killed, and of these, about 80% were civilian victims.
East Bloc Nations Near to Explosion
by Konstantin George
Is the Soviet Union ready for self-government?
Gorbachov’s Dilemma in Armenia Violence
by Muriel Mirak
If he makes concessions, it will provoke demands from all minorities. If he doesn’t, then brute military force destroys his image in the West.
What’s Really Going On inside Panama
by Robyn Quijano
‘Vesco International’ Lashes Out at Noriega
Caravan Guard 88: American Troops’ Defense of Europe’s Central Front
by Dean Andromidas
France Vows Military Support for Germany
by Christine Bierre
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Ditches Sanity in Panama Canal Grab
by Gretchen Small
If someone didn’t know Panama had a population of 2 million, and has been one of the friendliest in the world to the United States since its founding, he might think the United States had declared war on its ultimate enemy.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
NATO “Unity” Achieved through Isolation.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Candidates Macho It Out over Panama Policy — LaRouche Challenges Bush to Debate — Al Gore Receives New Republic Endorsement.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
