Volume 15, Number 23, June 3, 1988
Interviews
Winston Bostick
The physicist at the Stevens Institute of Technology discusses his pioneering work on the plasma focus.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
The Presidential candidate of Mexico’s National Democratic Front describes his policies and his strategy for defeating the ruling party’s candidate.
Books
British and Bolsheviks: The Romance of the Century
by Allen and Rachel Douglas
Delve into the real story behind Kim Philby, in The Secrets of the Service: A story of Soviet Subversion of Western Intelligence, by Anthony Glees.
Germany’s Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement
by William Jones
Reviews Marie Vassiltchikov’s Berlin Diaries 1940-1945.
The Stuff that Rambo’s Made Of
by Edward M. Corpus
Reviews America’s Wars and Military Excursions by Edwin P. Hoyt III.
Departments
Andean Report
by Jaime Ramírez
Venezuela, Debt-Strangled.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Defense Motivation Revived.
Report from Rome
by Rosanna Impiccini
No Mercy Killings!
Editorial
Anti-Nuclear Totalitarianism.
Science & Technology
The Plasma Focus and Building Fusion Reactors
by Charles B. Stevens
In the second of a two-part series featuring the work of Dr. Winston Bostick, Charles B. Stevens examines the application of the plasma focus for fusion reactor materials development.
Near-Term Uses of the Plasma Focus
Interview with Dr. Winston Bostick.
Why Italy Chose C-256 as ‘Scientific Tuning’
Economics
Cracks Appear in the Covenant of Lies
by Christopher White
Federal Land Bank in Mississippi Victim of ‘Creative Accounting’
by Sue Atkinson and Joyce Fredman
This if the first failure of a federal land bank since the system was set up in 1917, and spells a threat to U.S. food security.
Poland Rejects ‘Marshall Plan’; Hungary Gets New Austerity Leaders
by Konstantin George
Gorbachov Economic Aide Tells of Woes
by Luba George
EC and Comecon Sign Accord, But What Now?
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
New Screening Test for Cancer.
Business Briefs
Feature
Suspected Soviet Cell Wrote Reagan’s Long-Term Strategy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dr. Albert Wohlstetter and Dr. Fred Iklé, the two principal authors of the presidential report, Discriminate Deterrence, have been identified by highly reliable U.S. intelligence sources as prime suspects in a Soviet-Israeli “false flag” spy ring.
The Intelligence Search for ‘Mr. X’
It’s not a man, but a whole committee.
The Network Left Behind after the U.S. Arrest of Jonathan Pollard
by Joseph Brewda
Albert Wohlstetter: A Trotskyite Mole
by Scott Thompson
International
New Age Aquarians Plot To Destroy Germany
by Mark Burdman
A week-long conference of New Age satanists in Hanover, sponsored by West Germany’s “conservatives,” signals that, if Germany has historically represented the highest of Western culture, that is now to be destroyed as the country is incorporated into the Soviet empire.
What Americans Should Know about the ‘Anschluss’
by Friedrich Höss, Austrian Ambassador to the United States
Indo-Pakistani Relations at a Crossroad, after Afghan Accord
by Susan Maitra
Singapore Holding State Dept. At Bay
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Will Kampuchea Be Next Afghanistan?
by Linda de Hoyos
Panama ‘Deal’: A Hoax and Plot To Assassinate Noriega
by Robyn Quijano
Mexico Demands a Change in This Year’s Presidential Elections
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Although the general perception is that the ruling PRI party will win the elections, as it has for the past 56 years, the situation has become unpredictable, because the son of the late Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas has massive popular support.
‘For a Government in Mexico Not Subordinate to Foreign Interests’
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Interview Mexican Presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano.
Cherubini Quartet Plays Schubert Cycle
by Hartmut Cramer
International Intelligence
National
INF Passage: ‘I Weep for This Senate’
by Webster Tarpley
Weighs the grim consequences of the passage of the INF treaty, by the U.S. Senate on May 27.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Bush Flails “Liberal Elite.” — Budget Woes Put Squeeze on Dukakis.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Phelan: Will Next Crash Be “Granddaddy”? — Yeutter: Trade Bill Allows “Wiggle Room.”
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
AIDS Update
Spend More on AIDS in Philadelphia
High Incidence Reported in Spain
Gallup Poll Highlights AIDS Threat
