EIR Volume 15, Number 25, June 17, 1988

While Gorbachov is like a traveling salesman, peddling the image of a “new, benevolent Soviet Union,” a Soviet-linked network of gnostic psychologists and peaceniks in the West propounds what they themselves call “psychic disarmament”—of a unilateral sort, by the West only.

Horst-Eberhard Richter: Mother Russia’s Psy-Warrior

by Gabriele Liebig

Looks in depth at All Mighty: A Study of the “God Complex” in Western Man and other works by the top Soviet brainwasher in West Germany.

Documentation: A few incidents at a Montreal conference of the Soviet peace-front, “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.”

Economics

Mitterrand’s Debt Proposal: Symbol or Substance?

by Christopher White

Canceling debts means little when Third World nations aren’t paying and can’t pay them anyway. Meanwhile, all substantive issues of monetary reorganization and Third World development will be tiptoed around when the Group of 7 convenes in Toronto.

Proposition 69 Loss Means Millions Will Die of AIDS

by Warren J. Hamerman

As LaRouche told the press, popular votes by a misinformed electorate do not determine reality; science does.

Documentation: Nation Responds to LaRouche’s Call for Total Victory.

EIR Estimate of Bank Failures Now at 236

Currency Rates

Country Club Savings and Loans Get Biggest Bailout Ever

by Joyce Fredman

City of London

by Stephen Lewis

New Period of Instability?

Business Briefs

Feature

Millennium Heralds New Era in Russian Expansionism

by Luba George and Konstantin George

With the Reagan-Gorbachov summit circus out of the way, an event of real international strategic importance is dominating the Soviet Union during the month of June; the celebration of the “Russian” Millennium, the most important event in decades inside the Russian empire, is heralding Moscow’s design to become the capital of a “Third and Final Roman Empire.”

Reagan’s Horrid Russian ‘Vision’

by Rachel Douglas

The Ukrainian Catholics: ‘Achilles Heel’ of Moscow’s Third Rome

by Oksana Polishchuk

International

Dirty Tricks vs. LaRouche Backfire on Sweden’s Gov’t

by Göran Haglund

The forced resignation of Justice Minister Anna-Greta Leijon to preempt a sure vote of no confidence was but an attempt at damage control of a scandal that threatens to rock the very foundations of Swedish Social Democratic rule.

‘Alternative Defense’: A Case Study in Marshal Akhromeyev’s Maskirovka

The Summit Over, Moscow Drops Façade

by Konstantin George

Neighbors Won’t Do Dirty Work in Panama

by Robyn Quijano

Colombia Faces Power Vacuum as Narco-Terrorist Siege Intensifies

by Valerie Rush

Peru: Inter-Action Council’s Ulloa Hails Soviets

by Carlos Méndez

Schiller Institute Proposes Agenda to Bilderbergers in Austria

by Mark Burdman

Is Islam the Antidote in Bangladesh?

by Ramtanu Maitra

Obituary: Kim Philby and the Inner Workings of the Anglo-Soviet ‘Trust’

by Scott Thompson

International Intelligence

National

CIA Documents Tie Shackley to Libyan Arms Dealer

It looks as if former CIA agent and convicted Libyan arms merchant Edwin Wilson is about to win a retrial in his 1982 convictions for shipping tons of plastique explosives to Muammar Qaddafi; and that news has a number of key Irangate players, especially Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, and Dick Secord, reportedly climbing up the walls.

Documentation: Excerpts from three CIA documents obtained under FOIA.