Volume 15, Number 13, March 25, 1988
Interviews
Dr. Lando Bartoli
A leading Italian engineer and Brunelleschi scholar battles to reverse a 1979 intervention into the famous dome of Florence.
Book Reviews
Gorbachov: The Seventh Tyrant of the Empire
by Michael Ericson
Looks at Bakom Gorbatjovs Kulisser by Jun Lina.
The Establishment’s Romance with Moscow
by Rachel Douglas
Reviews A Question of Trust: The Origins of U.S.-Soviet Diplomatic Relations. The Memoirs of Loy W. Henderson.
Foreign Policy Seen from the Anti-Hill
by Laurent Murawiec
Nicholas Henderson’s Inside the Private Office: Memoirs of the Secretary to British Foreign Ministers is reviewed.
AIDS Update
Admiral Watkins on AIDS Health Care
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
AIDS: Heterosexual Victims On Rise in Brazil
European Community Stops AIDS Tests
Burton Defends Masters and Johnson
by William Jones
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Military Vacillations.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
The Deal over Lebanon.
Andean Report
by Peter Rush
Voters Reject Barco Policies.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Will Panama Be Betrayed?
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
New Initiative in Punjab.
Mother Russia
Pamyat, and the Limits of Perestroika.
Editorial
In the Footsteps of Kissinger.
Science & Technology
Can the Dome of Florence Cathedral Be Saved?
An Italian expert warns of the peril to Brunelleschi’s great engineering feat and masterwork of art, since the staging holes of the cupola were filled with cement.
Economics
A Second Quarter Payments Crisis Coming?
by Christopher White
When a top Swiss banking spokesman says central banks won’t continue to finance U.S. time-buying exercises, he will most likely turn out to be right.
Texas Banks Burst Insurance Safety Net
by Ron Bunnell
On March 17 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation pumped $1 billion into First RepublicBank, the largest bank company in Texas. Without the federal bailout, it would have collapsed.
Currency Rates
Poland’s Economy Set To Explode
by Luba George and Kazimierz Kowalski
Peru’s Alan García Initiates War Economy
by Valerie Rush
Asia: Moscow’s Satellites Face Food Crisis
by Linda de Hoyos
Single Europe Act: 1992: A Blueprint for a Neo-Fascist Europe
by William Engdahl
City of London
by Stephen Lewis
Baker Dollar Policy in Phase Two?
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
U.S. Food Assistance Stocks Depleted.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Admiral Watkins on AIDS Health Care.
Business Briefs
Feature
How Soviet Moles Penetrated the Administration
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Bukharinite communists in the service of the KGB control U.S. counterintelligence policy and evaluations. Condensed from the soon-to-be-released sequel to EIR’s earlier special report, “Moscow’s Secret Weapon: Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Mafia,” March 1, 1986, with an introduction by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Soviet Mole Network Running U.S. Counterintelligence
International
Post-Gorbachov Succession Fight Has Now Begun
by Konstantin George
What is really going on behind the Kremlin walls has been revealed through the recent events in the Soviet Transcaucasus republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Reagan Prepares a Military Intervention against Panama
by Gretchen Small
The lunatic Administration in Washington sent troops to Honduras, but few doubt who their real target is.
A Test Case of Limited Sovereignty
A fact sheet on Panama.
The Would-Be Next President of France Is Not His Own Man
A profile of candidate Raymond Barre, by the European Labor Party of France.
London Court Case Focuses on Irangate’s Gary Howard
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Presidential Election Is Completely Up for Grabs
by Warren J. Hamerman
Counsel Walsh’s Irangate indictments and the rumblings of a potential economic blowout make the vice-president about as unelectable as his official Democratic opponents-and the long-shot campaign of Lyndon LaRouche has recently turned heads.
Supermac and Minibush: ‘The Last Wet Hope of the Establishment’
by Laurent Murawiec
Texas Democrats Slalom to Disaster
by Mel Klenetsky
In a replay of Illinois’s Adlai Stevenson suicide, the Texas Democrats are ripping up the Constitution and the rule-book to keep Party Chairman-Elect LaRouche Democrat Claude Jones out.
Heritage Foundation Pushes ‘Third Rome’
by Allen Douglas
What War on Drugs?—Part I: Washington Targets Nations, Not Mafias
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dems Return to the Smoke-Filled Rooms.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Anti-SDI “Expert” Takes Rare Pounding from Press.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
