Volume 15, Number 21, May 20, 1988
Interviews
Alejandro Peña
The secretary general of the Venezuelan Labor Party talks of his party’s struggle for official recognition.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Austerity Policy Kills CDU Votes.
Northern Flank
by Poul Rasmussen
To Be or Not To Be for NATO.
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
An Exposure and a Cover-Up.
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Pope Defends Polish Sovereignty.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
A Win for Jayewardene.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Human Rights and Fighting Drugs.
Editorial
Danger for the SDI.
Economics
More Bank Failures in 1988 than in All of 1987
by Joyce Fredman
Despite FDIC efforts to obfuscate the reality, as many as 220 banks have already failed this year, and more are on the way.
Soviet and IMF Looting Plunges Romania’s Economy into Breakdown
by Luba George
Romania not only exports food to the West at cheap prices while its people starve, but also vital grain transport equipment to the Soviet Union, while its harvest rots for lack of transport.
Argentina Grovels before IMF, But Still Gets No Debt Relief
by Cynthia R. Rush
Currency Rates
The Mexican Economy Goes into Self-Cannibalization
by Carlos Cota Meza
Banking
by Joyce Fredman and John Hoefle
Colorado Industrial Bank Crisis.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Soybean Supply Drops.
Business Briefs
Feature
Immanuel Kant and the ‘New Age’ Kookery
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Granted that today’s lunatic satanist cults were spawned by followers of Aleister Crowley in Britain and the United States, what are the mechanisms which permit an apparently normal and rational person to be taken over by their lurid superstition, like some Hollywood horror film’s victim of the “Body Snatchers”?
Note on So-Called ‘Non-Euclidean’ Geometries
International
Dope, Inc. Declares War on Ibero-American Military
by Gretchen Small
With the release of the Inter-American Dialogue’s 1988 report, the drug legalizers of the Establishment have stepped forward to identify themselves as the command center for the Western side of Moscow’s campaign to discredit, and if necessary, dismantle, the military institutions of Ibero-America.
The Economics of Satanism
PLV Case Endangers Venezuelan Democracy
by Carlos Méndez
Documentation: An interview with Venezuelan Labor Party secretary Alejandro Peña.
Soviets Brawl before June Party Meeting
by Konstantin George
Lonrho’s Tiny Rowland and the Threat to Angola’s Jonas Savimbi
by Mark Burdman
Repackaging the U.S. War on Panama
by Gretchen Small
Malaysia: The Nation-Building Strategy of Dr. Mohammed Mahathir
by Sophie Tanapura
Japan Strengthens Ties to W. Europe
by Mary McCourt Burdman
International Intelligence
National
The White House Astrologers: The Two Key Issues Involved
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The evidence in hand shows that astrologers influenced the White House’s policy-shaping in immensely important national security matters. Democratic candidate LaRouche provides the essential guidelines for understanding the issue of the astrologers’ control over the minds of the President and Nancy Reagan.
Ratification of INF Still Not Certain
by William Jones
LaRouche Democrats Win in Ohio, Indiana
by Marianna Wertz
Commission Pushes Drastic Austerity
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Shaping the Next Presidency.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
West Germany: Iklé policy threatens NATO — East Germany: Create Nuclear Free Zone.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
Trade bill sent to White House for veto — Two parties vie as fierce anti-drug fighters — House approves defense budget of $299.5 billion — Space program imperiled by budget-cutting — Congressional aide in apparent suicide — Abrams attacked on House Floor.
National News
