Volume 15, Number 22, May 27, 1988

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Interviews

Slava Stetsko

by Nicholas F. Benton

The president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations discusses its objectives.

Reviews

A ‘Cosmopolitan’ Recipe for Disaster

by Mark Burdman

Looks at Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance, by David P. Calico.

The FBI’s War on Martin Luther King

by Mary Lalevée

A review of To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr., by Adam Fairclough.

Concerts: Schreier Brings Lieder Literacy to Americans

by Jeanne P. Bell

Review of the East German tenor’s April 23 performance of Franz Schubert’s classic song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

German Churches Fight IMF.

Dateline Mexico

by Carlos Méndez

The Worst Drought in 20 Years.

Andean Report

by Valerie Rush

Colombia: Abrams’s Model Economy.

Middle East Report

by Thierry Lalevée

Sudan: Disintegration of a Country.

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra

Cleaning up the Golden Temple.

Northern Flank

by Poul Rasmussen

Reality Factor was Schiller Institute.

Editorial

Educating Tomorrow’s Astronauts.

Science & Technology

Plasma Focus Can Transform Medical Diagnostics

by Charles B. Stevens

Reports on a fusion device which is ready for near-term applications, although it contravenes all conventional scientific opinion. First of two parts.

Computerized Axial Tomography: The CAT Scanner

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner

Economics

East and West Bankers in Vienna Talk, But Don’t Agree

by William Engdahl and Mark Burdman

Public statements stressed the prospects of a renaissance in East- West financial relations, but the two days of private discussions gave a stark picture of mutual distrust, hesitation, and refusal to agree on vital points.

EIR To Keep Tabs on Bank Failures

Peru: Banks Win in Socialist Power Grab

by Gretchen Small

Oklahoma Resolution on Economy Calls for LaRouche-Style Measures

Czechoslovakia: A Case Study in Looting

by Luba George

M.G. Ranade and the Indian System of Political Economy

by Robert Gallagher

Currency Rates

Banking

by Joyce Fredman

Savings & Loans on the Edge.

Business Briefs

Feature

End the Low-Budget Reagan-Bush Folly on AIDS

by Warren J. Hamerman

As a result of the millions of dollars spent on lies to defeat public health Proposition 64 in California in 1986, many more people have become infected with AIDS. To save more innocent people, the proponents of Proposition 64 have now qualified a nearly identical referendum for this year.

What Is Proposition 69?

Nothing Short of Victory: Strategy for a War on AIDS

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

From an upcoming national television broadcast.

The Hypocrisy of Prop 69’s Opponents

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

International

Yugoslavia Caught between the IMF and Moscow

by Konstantin George

Economic breakdown is exacerbating the centrifugal tendencies that afflict the federation, producing the country’s worst postwar crisis.

John Paul II in Ibero-America: Drug Trafficking Brings Slavery

by Carlos Méndez

Mitterrand’s Choice Could Deal Mortal Blow to de Gaulle’s France

by Jean Baptiste Blondel

Singapore, Malaysia Fight State Department and other Subversives

by Mary McCourt Burdman

Bush and Argentina’s ‘Wizard’ de Hoz

by Cynthia R. Rush

‘Soviet Russia Is Not a Nation, But an Empire of Subjugated Nations’

by Nicholas F. Benton

An interview with captive nations leader Slava Stetsko.

Philippines: Moscow Intrudes into Bases Negotiations

by Linda de Hoyos

International Intelligence

National

INF ‘Biden Condition’ Threatens U.S. Constitution

by Webster G. Tarpley

Ironically, it is opposition to the Biden Amendment among senators otherwise favoring ratification which offers the best chance to delay, and thus to kill, the treasonous INF accord.

Drug Legalizers Move In for the Kill

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Government Goes On Trial in ‘LaRouche’ Cases

The combined legal onslaught of corrupt circles in the U.S. Justice Department against Presidential candidate LaRouche and associates underwent a dramatic transformation in mid-May, as the prosecutors were forced onto the witness stand to answer for misconduct.

A Bad Week for George Bush

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Elephants & Donkeys

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Dukakis and the Sodomites — Dukakis Economics: Tax Consumption — Where Does “The Duke” Really Stand on Drugs?

Eye on Washington

by Nicholas F. Benton

Reagan Confronted by Ghost of Smoot-Hawley — James Baker III Rattled by Charges of Failure.

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

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