Volume 15, Number 40, October 7, 1988
Interviews
Manuel Solís Palma
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
The President of Panama discusses the U.S. attack on his country and calls on the world’s nations to uphold the Canal treaties.
Book Reviews
The Uneven Frontier of American science
by Warren J. Hamerman
A look at W. Spindel and R.M. Simons’s Frontiers in the Chemical Sciences, D.E. Koshland, Jr.’s Biotechnology, the Renewable Frontier, and Ruth Kuistad’s AIDS.
Science & Technology
Food Irradiation—a Weapon in the Arsenal Against Hunger
by Dr. Martin A. Welt
“The greatest need for food irradiation technology is in developing nations, where alternative methods of food preservation are either nonexistent or too expensive,” Dr. Martin A. Welt, president of Alpha Omega Technology, Inc., Parsippany, N.J., told the founding conference of “Food for Peace.”
Approaching the Photosynthetic Limits of Crop Productivity
by Frank B. Salisbury, Ph.D.
Plant pathologist and NASA life sciences adviser Frank B. Salisbury’s speech to the “Food for Peace” founding conference.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A Monetarist Hitler-Stalin Pact.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
The Brazilian Titanic.
Report from Paris
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Voters Reject “Politics as Usual.”
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
Drug Mafia Organizes for 1992.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
CAP, Latin America’s Kissinger?
Dateline Mexico
by Rubén Cota Meza
From Peccei to Brundtland.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Demand Death for Drug Traffickers.
Editorial
What Is the Soviet Union?
AIDS Update
AIDS Bill: Congress Refuses To Face Reality
by William Jones
Economics
IMF Conference Sets November Deadline
by Christopher White
After the U.S. election, the plan is to make the International Monetary Fund the administrative center of a reorganized world monetary and credit system, in which national credit and currency are taken out of the hands of individual sovereign nations, and run for them by the IMF bureaucracy.
Currency Rates
Mexico: New IMF Scam Dooms Salinas
by Hugo López Ochoa
Peru Begs from IMF, Is Offered ‘Deals’
by Peter Rush
Soviets Soon To Face Energy Shortages
by Rachel Douglas
Gold
by William Engdahl
All That Glitters.
Agriculture
by Robert L. Baker
Aflatoxins in the Corn Crop.
Business Briefs
Feature
Food Crisis Makes Soviet Leaders More Aggressive
by Konstantin George
More than ever before in the dreadful postwar years, hunger and famine stalk the Soviet empire, and this is shaping the factional brawls in the Kremlin.
Bitter Fruits of the Soviet War Economy
by Konstantin George
Eastern Europe Is Pinched between the Soviets and the IMF
by Konstantin George and Rachel Douglas
The Deadly Milk Chain that Kills Polish Babies
The Crippled Agricultural System of the Soviet Union
by Rachel Douglas
International
London’s Dirtiest Network Out To Destabilize Japan
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Tiny” Rowland’s Lonrho firm is featured prominently in a major effort to destabilize America’s leading Asian ally.
Taiwan’s Version of ‘Green Party’ Seeks Support in Western Europe
Soviets Join U.S. War against Panama
by Gretchen Small
Panama’s Solís Palma Indicts U.S. War Plans before the UN
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
U.S. actions against Panama, he said, are neither pro-democracy nor anti-drug, but “an act of piracy without precedent in world history. ”
The World Must Uphold the Carter-Torrijos Treaties
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
An interview with Panamanian President Manuel Solís Palma.
Israeli Mossad Backs Arab Fundamentalists
by Scott Thompson
Terrorist Guerrillas Lay Siege to Colombia
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
Shevardnadze Offers U.S. More ‘New Yalta’ Plums
by Nicholas F. Benton
The Pro-Moscow Bias of the Dukakis Team
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Some interesting connections to the East might explain why the Democratic candidate is “viscerally anti-military.”
Dismissal of LaRouche Indictments Sought in Court of Appeals
In ordering a retrial, argue LaRouche’s lawyers, the Boston District Court ignored the fact that the delays which gave rise to the juror hardships that led to a mistrial “were due entirely to the prosecutor’s conscious withholding of relevant evidence and information.”
Dukakis Mole in the Attorney General’s Inner Sanctum?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Case of the ADL of B’nai B’rith: Agents of a Foreign Power
by Joseph Brewda
The court documentation.
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Dukakis Student Loan Rip-Off.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Tight Money Fanatics Criticize the Fed.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
