EIR Volume 15, Number 16, April 15, 1988

Volume 15, Number 16, April 15, 1988

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Interviews

Juan Rebaza

The president of the Peruvian state fishing company, Pesca-Perú, who has demanded that the government provide a “public report on the scope of the protocol signed with the Soviet Union.”

Science & Technology

Electromagnetic Pulsed Waves Can Kill Locust Swarms

by Warren J. Hamerman

Once locusts swarm, while they can still be attacked by chemicals, bioelectromagnetics is faster, cheaper, and ecologically superior.

Departments

Report from Rio

by Silvia Carrasco

Government Fights AIDS Panic.

Medicine

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

Does HIV Cause AIDS?

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Subversion in the Farmbelt.

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra

Cornering the Terrorists in Punjab.

Andean Report

by Valerie Rush

Military Challenges Barco.

AIDS Update

Brazilian Government Fights AIDS Panic

by Silvia Carrasco

Economics

More Speculative Euphoria Can’t Hide the Reality

by Christopher White

What prompted the early April market upsurge was a mere rumor, to the effect that the finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of Seven industrial nations were about to reaffirm their commitment to international currency stability.

U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade Council: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy

by Scott Thompson

Currency Rates

Soviets To Fish Cheaply in the Waters of Peru

Creating the Infrastructure for a New European Corporatism

Second in a series on the Single Europe Act: 1992 | William Engdahl

Father Jumpero Serra’s Historic Role

by Rev. Noel Francis Moholy

The 18th-century California pioneer foreshadowed the economic development ideals of the recent papal encyclicals, Populorum Progressio and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis.

Father Serra and Populorum Progressio

by Nicholas F. Benton

Asian Tiger Mosquito Threatens U.S. Cities

by Debra Hanania Freeman

Banking

by Harley Schlanger

The Silent Run on Texas Banks.

Business Briefs

Feature

Shultz ‘Peace Packages’ Mean Soviet World Rule

by Webster G. Tarpley

Four months after the infamous Washington summit, as sanctimonious hypocrites like Secretary of State George Shultz bray about peace settlements, the consigning of the Middle East and southwest Asia into the hands of Soviet imperialism is far advanced.

Afghan Partition: Moscow-Teheran Axis Aims To Undermine Turkey

by Konstantin George

Washington, Moscow Play Syrian Card

by Thierry Lalevée

International

Soviet Succession Fight Erupts into the Open

by Konstantin George

With an open attack by the Gorbachov group against an equally open attack from the group around Politburo member Yegor Ligachov, a threshold point has been reached in the Soviet factional wars around the succession to the leadership.

Golden Triangle Dope Flow on the Rise

by Linda de Hoyos

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has underestimated the flow of heroin and other drugs from Southeast Asia, by over 90%.

Shultz’s Panama Plots Are Floundering

by Gretchen Small

Documentation: Manifesto of the Committee of Solidarity and Defense of Panamanian Sovereignty signed by 210 of Brazil’s 559 deputies and senators, and a resolution approved by the Chamber of Deputies in the Argentine Congress.