Volume 15, Number 28, July 8, 1988
Interviews
Sen. Vincenzo Carob
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi and Giuseppe Filipponi
The former Italian lawmaker who now heads the state trading company discusses breaking the grip of the grain cartel on southern Italy.
Hon. Costantino Belluscio
The former secretary to Italian President Saragat discusses new evidence on the 1978 murder of Aldo Moro.
Rear Admiral C.A. Hill, Jr.
by Herbert Quinde
The vice president for government affairs of the Association of Naval Aviation discusses Pentagate.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Crisis Builds in Auto Sector.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Back on the Debt Treadmill.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Cárdenas fills the Zócalo.
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Will Terrorist Morote Walk Free?
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Eighth Plan Breakthrough on the Anvil?
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Pope, in Austria, Pleads for Life.
Editorial
A Litmus Test for Fools.
AIDS Update
West German Panel Divided on Disease
Economics
Food Cartel Stages Grand Theft of Scarce U.S. Grain
by Bob Baker and Marcia Merry
An immediate audit of stocks and determination of priorities is a must if the United States is to avoid massive shortages or price hikes.
‘Free Market’ Reforms Made Food Reserves Vanish even before Drought
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
Bank Failures
Freeing the Farmer from the Cartel: A ‘Mattei Solution’ for Southern Italy
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi and Giuseppe Filipponi
Interview with former Italian Sen. Vincenzo Carollo.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
The Pasteurians: Building Nations by Means of Science
by Garance Upham Phau
Part II of a series focuses on the career of Alexandre Yersin, who discovered the bacillus for plague and introduced the rubber tree to Indochina.
Feature
The IMF ‘Opium War’ on Ibero-America: A Decade Later
by Gretchen Small
Over the past ten years, Dope, Inc. has more than doubled its annual take from Ibero-America and now the bankers are pushing their war to a new phase: demanding drug legalization.
The First Opium Wars
The Economics of Drugs: Bonanza for the Banks, Death for a Continent
by Dennis Small and Peter Rush
How Jamaica Became a Ganja Plantation
by Gretchen Small
How Drug Dollars Loot Peru’s Economy
by Gretchen Small
International
Soviet Party Conference Beset by Economic Woes
by Konstantin George
The preoccupation with the bloc-wide crisis was already evident by the second day, as speaker after speaker virtually ignored Mikhail Gorbachov’s opening-remarks proposals.
Learn Humility from History, Malaysian Leader Tells Australians
Dr. Mahathir told some impertinent Australian “human rights” crusaders, “Malaysian laws are harsh. They have to be if we are going to have stability in a country used to British authoritarian rule and consequently unfamiliar with democracy.”
Malaysia: AFL-CIO Dirty Operation Exposed
by Sophie Tanapura
Superpowers Protect the Khmer Rouge
by Linda de Hoyos
Yugoslavia Enters New Stage of Crisis
by Luba George
Pamyat’s ‘Appeal to the Russian People’
by Luba George
Ledeen Again Named in Uproar over Ten-Year-Old Moro Crime in Italy
Documentation: An interview with parliamentarian Costantino Belluscio.
Colombia: Gov’t Capitulates to Terrorist Blackmail
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
DoJ Seizure of Teamsters ‘Smacks of Totalitarianism’
by Webster G. Tarpley and Edward Spannaus
LaRouche Attorneys Seek Total Dismissal of Boston Case
Documentation: Excerpts from a Boston Globe article on the FBI’s “secret files.”
Pentagon Raid Sparks Fear and Anger
by Leo F. Scanlon
President Reagan Sent OMB’s ‘Junkyard Dogs’ After the Pentagon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The anti-defense budget-cutters were unleashed as early as 1981.
‘Military Industrial Complex Should Be Active Politically’
by Herbert Quinde
Interview with Rear Admiral C.A. Hill, Jr., who says that J. Peter Grace wanted the Pentagon budget cut because he “was really reaching into the public sector to grab monies on behalf of the private sector.”
Will Pentagate be the Three Mile Island for Defense?
by Marsha Freeman
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Does Democratic platform mask hidden agenda?
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Two Freedom Fighters Assailed by Media — Savimbi Wins Support of Civil Rights Leaders.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
Corrections
Correction to ‘Stopping the Epidemics: The French Military Legacy,’ June 10, 1988 Issue
