Volume 15, Number 37, September 16, 1988
Interviews
Shmuel Elhanan
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The head of Israel’s Plant Protection and Inspection Department talks about how the locust threat can be handled.
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
The Mexican senator and Cárdenas campaign manager discusses the upsurge of nationalism that U.S. and Mexican rulers are now trying to crush.
General Teng Chieh
by Webster G. Tarpley
The chief adviser to Chiang Kai-shek and senior Taiwan statesmen talks about the threat to his nation from the mainland.
Admiral Daniel Murphy
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Scott Thompson
The former head of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction Service calls for an all-out war on drugs.
AIDS Update
AIDS in Africa: The WHO, World Bank Want ‘Cost-Effective’ Genocide
by Jutta Dinkermann
Inspection of Migrant Labor Camps Cut Back
AIDS Found Rampant among Runaway Teens
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Anti-Usury Law Approved in Brazil.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Settling the Gorkha Issue.
Northern Flank
by Lotta-Stina Thronell
Swedish Elections Unpredictable.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Left-Wing Corporatism on the March.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
The Case of the 25,000 Voting Booths.
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
World Bank Causes “Natural Disasters.”
Editorial
When Hunger Reigns.
Science & Technology
X-Ray Laser: The Full Report of the GAO
by Charles B. Stevens
Part 3 of the report on recently declassified materials that reveal that EIR publicly, and Edward Teller et al. in secret reports, were right about the potential of this anti-missile technology.
The GAO’s Report Vindicates Teller on the X-Ray Laser
The full text.
Call for Investigation: Was There Sabotage at Ramstein?
Economics
Federal Home Loan Bank Board Goes Off the Wall
by Joyce Fredman
Papering over the problems in the savings industry until the November election is a very high-risk business. And it is becoming more expensive every day.
‘Food for Peace’ Comes into Being, Pledges Fight To End World Hunger
by Marcia Merry
Four hundred people met in Chicago on the Labor Day weekend, and formed an international action group that shows every sign of becoming a mass movement.
Peru Plunges into Drug-Dollar ‘Shock’
by Mark Sonnenblick
AIDS in Africa: The WHO, World Bank Want ‘Cost-Effective’ Genocide
by Jutta Dinkermann
The latest report proposes to help finance ministers decide to let people die.
Mexico’s Nationalist Opposition Blasts De La Madrid’s Economic Lies
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
And 137 of them staged a walkout on his State of the Union address.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Is Farm Parity Pricing “Outmoded”?
International Credit
by William Engdahl
Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt.
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouches in Asia: Combat Instability by Development
by Sophie Tanapura and Linda de Hoyos
American political leader Lyndon LaRouche and his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche visited Thailand, Japan, and the Republic of China (Taiwan), and told senior officials and policymakers that the task at hand is to build an alternative international network of patriotic leaders if the dire crises favoring humanity are to be solved.
Documentation: From LaRouche’s speech at a dinner reception in Bangkok.
Across the Formosa Straits, Thirty Years after Quemoy-Matsu
by Webster G. Tarpley
Chiang Kai-shek’s Adviser: A Conversation with General Teng
by Webster G. Tarpley
International
Yugoslav Crisis May Be Heading toward Civil War
by Konstantin George
Economic chaos, ethnic clashes, and a Serbian power play have made the Balkans once again “the powder keg of Europe.”
Unrest in Russian Empire Multiplies: Poland and Armenia
by Konstantin George
Soviet Base in Syria Signals New Offensive in the Mediterranean
by Selim al Khodr
Is Sikh Terror Being Reactivated?
by Joseph Brewda
Wali Khan Is Up to No Good, Again
by Ramtanu Maitra
Another U.K. Defense Scientist Found Dead
by Mark Burdman
Fight To Save Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra Stirs a Deep Response
by Hartmut Cramer
International Intelligence
National
The Defense Crisis: Where Is George Going?
by William Jones
By asking Henry Kissinger to co-chair a “national security task force,” Bush may have told us more than all his speeches put together.
Friends in High Places
Part 2 of a series on the secret government of Michael Dukakis in Massachusetts, by an EIR investigative team.
Irangate Fizzling as Election Issue
by Herbert Quinde
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dukakis Revs Up Dirty Tricks Apparatus.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
U.S. Helping Soviets Cool Out Poland.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
