Volume 15, Number 36, September 9, 1988
Interviews
Michael Ericson
by Nora Hamerman
The leader of the European Labor Party in Sweden discusses September elections and the “Swedish model” of dictatorship.
Science & Technology
X-Ray Laser: The Full Documentary Record
by Charles B. Stevens
Part 2 of the report on the revelations contained in recently declassified materials, confirming the importance EIR’s reportage has attached to this technology.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Valdez
PRI, Government Splitting Apart.
Middle East Report
by Selim al Khodr
Drug Routes Being Reorganized.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
A “Partisan” Solution for Colombia?
Editorial
The New Worldwide Debt Crisis.
Economics
World Food Production and Stocks Plunge
by Marcia Merry and Robert Baker
Notwithstanding the Agriculture Department’s wild overestimates, the combination of low harvests in North America, and the decline in the high-productivity farm sector abroad, amount to a catastrophe.
$11 Billion of ‘Monopoly Money’
by Joyce Fredman
Federal regulatory agencies are issuing promissory notes to bail out bankrupt S&Ls, because they are as bankrupt as the S&Ls.
Currency Rates
FDIC Figures Hide Real Bank Failures
by Joyce Fredman and John Hoefle
Prices Explode in Yugoslavia
by Rachel Douglas
Commodities
by William Engdahl
A Threat to Strategic Minerals.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Schools Get “Long Distance” Milk.
Business Briefs
Feature
‘Perestroika’ Rips Ruhr Industrial Zone of Germany
Once a model region for industrial might, technological innovation, and high-quality products, the region is being systematically “restructured” into a crime-ridden “services center,” harbinger of West Germany’s collapse into the status of a Soviet protectorate.
International
Sabotage Not Ruled Out in Ramstein Air Disaster
by Michael Liebig and Jeffrey Steinberg
The calls to end low-flying aerobatics at military air shows certainly activates sabotage as an hypothesis.
What Next for Pakistan?
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
As the Afghan crisis becomes critical, the unsolved murder of a President and fragmented political parties cast uncertain shadows.
Government Ultimatum Ends Polish Strikes
by Konstantin George
Soviets Brag: Moscow is the Third Rome, Seat of World Empire
by Konstantin George and Luba George
The July issue of Novy Mir proves that the Soviet Union is governed by a tripartite regime of the Communist Party, the military, and the Russian Orthodox Church—united under the banner of Russian chauvinist “blood and soil.”
Soviets Promote Pugwash To Further Self-Destruction of the West
by Scott Thompson
A Palestinian State by the New Year?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Soviets Back IRA in War on Britain
by Mark Burdman
IMF ‘Shock’ Plan Set To Rip Up Peru
by Gretchen Small
Panama Warns of U.S. Military Intervention
by Carlos Wesley
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Stiffens Resistance to Russian SDI Blackmail
by Nicholas F. Benton and William Jones
Dukakis’s Secret Government
The real, rotten story behind the Governor’s Massachusetts administration. Part 1 of a series by an EIR Investigative Team.
Iran’s ‘Class of ’79’ Boosts Mike Dukakis
by Scott Thompson
Have U.S. Media Gone ‘Pro-Nuclear’?
by Marsha Freeman
New Iklé-Wohlstetter Reports Urge U.S. Strategic Suicide
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dukakis Held Hostage in Massachusetts.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
James Brady’s Universal Triumph.
National News
