Volume 15, Number 35, September 2, 1988
Interviews
Michel Lecoq
by Garance Upham Phau
The head of PRIFAS, a French organization specialized in fighting locusts, discusses the use of the pesticide dieldrin.
Book Reviews
NATO Is Into Chaos
by Warren J. Hamerman
Reviews Chaos in Biological Systems, by H. Degn et al., eds.
Books Received
AIDS Update
German Physicians Fed Up with ‘Condom Education,’ Seek Public Health Steps
by Jutta Dinkermann
AIDS Victim Awarded Damages for ‘Slander’
Study Admits Twice as Many AIDS Victims
Departments
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
India Reacts to Pakistan Tragedy.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Hostage to Crime and Terrorism.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Abu Nidal’s Cells Tolerated in Sweden.
Andean Report
by Carlos Méndez
No Bailout for Poor Venezuela.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Citibank Saves Its Finance Minister.
Editorial
Congress and the Drug Issue.
Science & Technology
The Truth Comes Out about the X-Ray Laser
by Charles B. Stevens
Reports the declassification breakthrough that allowed Edward Teller to reveal the facts on a defensive superweapon, on which, until now, only EIR has given accurate reports.
Documentation: Teller, EIR record on the x-ray laser.
Economics
Interest Rates and Prices Skyrocket
by Christopher White
The fiscal and financial expectations of the U.S. government have been shattered once again.
Nine Million Tons of Food Exports Needed
by Marcia Merry and Elizabeth Kellogg
EIR’s calculation of the requirement to meet survival grain levels for 66 nations, even before the full effects of drought, floods, and locusts are known.
The Dieldrin Story: How U.S. Environmentalists Ensured the Survival of Locusts in Africa
by J. Gordon Edwards
Entomologist J. Gordon Edwards reports that, at a time of locust plague in Africa, the most effective weapon has been excluded from the fight.
Currency Rates
AIDS: German Physicians Fed Up with ‘Condom Education,’ Seek Public Health Steps
by Jutta Dinkermann
Argentina: Alfonsín Booed over IMF Shock Plan
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Credit
by William Engdahl
That European Central Bank Plan.
Banking
by William Jones
Drought Hits the Farm Banks.
Energy Insider
by Marsha Freeman
Two More Utilities Face Bankruptcy.
Business Briefs
Feature
Matushka Rus and the Fight To Seize the Holy Places
by Muriel Mirak
The Soviet plan is to exalt the Russian Church into the hegemonic force within orthodoxy, and from there to bid for the leadership of Christendom as a whole. Muriel Mirak reports on this thousand-year-old Russian imperial dream, which has taken on new life in recent months under the aegis of the Reagan-Gorbachov summits and “regional peace accords.”
International
Captive Nations Protest against Soviet Oppression
by Luba George
The crisis of national unrest sweeping the Russian empire is rapidly coming to a head, in Poland, the Baltic republics, and the Ukraine.
Polish Crisis: More Unrest To Come
by Konstantin George
Pakistan Tensions Are Muted Following the Death of Zia
by Linda de Hoyos
IRA Sets Off Summer Terror vs. Britain
by Mark Burdman
The attacks on British soldiers are only an element of a continent-wide Soviet-backed wave of irregular warfare.
Kissinger, Abrams Threaten Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
The international banking oligarchy wants to impose its Presidential candidate—at all costs.
Dreams or Reality: Bidding for the Gulf
by Thierry Lalevée
How the Nazis Ruined Musical Tuning
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Goebbels’s Radio Berlin organized the conference which decided to tune the “Concert A” to 440 Hertz.
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Allies ‘Horrified’ at Prospect of Dukakis
by Mark Burdman and Kathleen Klenetsky
But spokesmen for the Soviet Union have made it abundantly clear that the Massachusetts Governor is their choice for President.
Three Suspects Held in Assault on EIR’s Benton
Dukakis Meat-Axes Funds for Mentally Ill
by Kathleen Klenetsky
LaRouche Dem Builds Oklahoma Machine
by Mel Klenetsky
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Vets Jeer Democrats.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Bias Threatens To Undo Media.
National News
