Volume 15, Number 27, July 1, 1988
Interviews
Moshe Amirav
The spokesman for the Israel Council for Peace and Security, created in April, talks to Middle East Insider about the organization’s aims.
Book Reviews
The Blooming of a Delphic Fraud
by Mark Burdman
Reviews The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom.
‘What Is Our Goal in Korea? I Don’t Know’
by Mary McCourt Burdman
A look at The Korean War by Max Hastings.
Books Received
AIDS Update
Should ‘AIDS’ Be Renamed ‘CNSD,’ ‘Central Nervous System Disease’?
AIDS in India: National Debate Provoked on How To Meet the Threat
by Susan Maitra
Alarming Increase in Deaths of Young Women
Eco-Nazis Welcome AIDS To Reduce World Population
by Mark Burdman
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No Relief for Third World Debtors.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Officials Resisting Austerity Purged.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Pro-Drug Cabal in Legalization Drive.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Leadership Vacuum in Colombia.
Editorial
Pray for Rain???
Science & Technology
Defense Science Board Sets Out to ‘ALPS’ the SDI
by Charles B. Stevens
Analyzes the nightmarish implications of the Defense Science Board’s report on the Strategic Defense Initiative—the last act in a monstrous abortion.
Ariane Rocket Moves into Industrial Phase
by Philippe Jamet and Laurent Rosenfeld
Economics
‘Drought of ’88’ Threatens Food, Energy Shortage
by Marcia Merry
Even in Biblical times, it was known that droughts can occur. So why has food production and capacity been deliberately cut, and why have water infrastructure projects been blocked?
Munich Club of Life Conference Mobilizes against Euthanasia
by Nancy Spannaus
A new phase of the battle against the spread of Nazi practices.
Currency Rates
Should ‘AIDS’ Be Renamed ‘CNSD,’ ‘Central Nervous System Disease’?
The Fourth International AIDS conference in Stockholm heard plenty of evidence that the disease is primarily neurological, but the World Health Organization does not seem to be listening.
AIDS in India: National Debate Provoked on How To Meet the Threat
by Susan Maitra
Business Briefs
Feature
FBI Invades Pentagon in Pro-Moscow Coup
by Paul Goldstein
The Pentagon raids fit into a four-phase “cold coup d’état” inside the U.S. government.
How the Assault Was Carried Out
by Leo Scanlon
The Traitors’ Cabal within the Department of Justice
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Precedent: Beggs and General Dynamics
by Marsha Freeman
The Defense Budget: A Study in Decline
by Carol White
Crusaders of the Anti-Defense Lobby
International
Toronto Summit Prescribes Bigger Austerity-Poison Dose
by Nicholas F. Benton
Documentation: the text of the “Annex on Structural Reforms” appended to the final communiqué.
Settlement for Kampuchea? Not Yet
by Linda de Hoyos
New Commander Named for Soviet Transcaucasus
by Konstantin George
EKD Lauds Russian Orthodox Anti-Semites
Israel’s ‘New Voices’ Seek Policy Change
Interview with Moshe Amirav, spokesman for the Israel Council for Peace and Security.
Destabilization of Turkey Barely Averted after Hit Attempt on Premier
Are New ‘Irangate’ Deals in the Works?
by Thierry Lalevée
Japan, West Germany Recognize Panama’s Solís Palma Government
by Robyn Quijano
Mexican Government Tries To Behead Labor Movement on Eve of Elections
by Héctor Apolinar
Mexico’s PAN, Panama’s Crusade Follow KGB Manual from Harvard
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
Eco-Nazis Welcome AIDS To Reduce World Population
by Mark Burdman
Indian Elections Give Congress-I Party a Jolt
by Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
FSLIC Hole Deepens, as Budget Sequestration Looms
by Webster G. Tarpley
Even as James Baker engaged in his latest machinations to keep the economy afloat long enough to make George Bush President, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board was announcing a new all-time record loss of $3.8 billion by the nation’s thrift institutions.
DoJ’s ‘Pentagate’ Is Just Beginning
by Leo Scanlon
Statements by the prosecutors make clear that this is an open-ended attack on the defense community.
Senator Grassley: A Profile in Treason
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Democratic Meetings Provide Clues to Atlanta Convention
by Patricia Salisbury
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Bush, Dukakis Team Up To Wreck War on Drugs.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Japan at Toronto: Patience Running Out.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
