Volume 15, Number 26, June 24, 1988
Departments
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
The Loan “Mela” Phenomenon.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
A Step Forward for Nationalism.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
“Brazilian Perestroika.”
Andean Report
by Robert Morton
Terrorist Operations Chief Arrested.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Maghreb Unity by 1992, Too?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
It’s Open Season on Helmut Kohl.
Report from Rome
by Claudio Celani
Communists Set Back in Elections.
Editorial
Time To Wake Up!
Science & Technology
The Amazing Story of the Pasteur Movement—I
by Garance Upham Phau
For the associates of Louis Pasteur, building nations and fighting disease were one campaign. Beginning a series on these great cultural optimists.
AIDS Update
Insurance Cartel Holds Secret Meeting on AIDS
WHO Conference Offers ‘Control Strategies’ for Defeat by AIDS
Rio Researchers Study Links to Other Disease
CDC Decries Clamor for AIDS Testing Measures
Economics
U.S. Trade Figures Show a Depression in Progress
by Joyce Fredman
Imports are down, exports are down, investment earnings are down, and debt service is up, all of which describe a contraction to the satisfaction of normal people, if not the people in Washington.
Insurance Cartel Holds Secret Meeting on AIDS
Anything that will “contain costs,” mostly by killing victims, is being pushed forward.
WHO Conference Offers ‘Control Strategies’ for Defeat by AIDS
“We have gone backwards,” as an African epidemiological expert put it.
Trading Companies Are Readying Massive Speculative Food Crisis
by William Engdahl
The world is now poised for the food equivalent of what the Seven Sisters did to oil and oil prices in 1979.
Currency Rates
Bank Failures
Ethics of a ‘Marshall Plan’ To Rescue Africa and Agriculture
by Jacques Cheminade
Adapted from a speech by the Schiller Institute president in France, Jacques Cheminade.
Business Briefs
Feature
Long Hot Summer for Irangate’s ‘Invisible Men’?
Two of the scandal’s figures, Theodore Shackley and “Tiny” Rowland, may soon be forced to shed their cloaks of anonymity.
Theodore Shackley’s ‘Third Option’
Behind Irangate: The Lonrho Connection
John Deuss, Shackley’s Piggybank
International
Soviets Ready ‘Direct Rule’ Solution in Transcaucasus
by Luba George
Both government and party spokesman speak of the situation as “out of control,” while others call the conflict between Armenians and Azeris “our Northern Ireland.”
Genscher Lauds Russia at Potsdam Meeting
by Mark Burdman
Colombian Army Asks War on Narco-Terror
by Valerie Rush
They are demanding the funds and political support to back them up for a change.
Documentation: Excerpts of an interview with Gen. Rafael Peña Ríos (ret.), former commander of the the Colombian Army’s XII Brigade.
Imperial Russian Chauvinism Sweeps Millennium Celebrations
by Luba George
This was no mere “church” festivity, but a momentous joint church-state celebration recreating the full aura of imperial Czarist “glory.”
Documentation: “Beware the Rise of the Third Rome,” warns London’s Sunday Telegraph.
Korean Flashpoint around the Summer Olympics
by Linda de Hoyos
Korea’s Opposition: ‘Made in U.S.A.’
by David Hammer
Reports on Union Theological Seminary and the delicatessen of theologies it uses to create pro-communist radicals.
Mitterrand Myth Starts To Crack
by Laurent Murawiec
International Intelligence
National
Drought Becomes 1988 Election Campaign Issue
by Nicholas F. Benton
Droughts can produce the collapse of agriculture, but in this case, it was the other way around. An unavoidable economic reality has struck in the middle of the Presidential election year.
DoJ ‘Perestroika’ at the Pentagon
by Leo F. Scanlon
The particular targets of the procurement investigation are incidental to its purpose: to carry out further “re-structuring” of the government.
It’s Agreed: Kill Elderly To Cut Costs
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Colorado Governor Lamm outraged the nation in 1984, but now, his call for elderly to “die and got out of the way” has been embraced across the political spectrum.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Jackson, the Spoiler — Dukakis Pledges To End SDI, MX.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Evaluating the Soviet Economic Breakdown.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
