Volume 15, Number 46, November 18, 1988
Book Reviews
In Anthony Blunt, We Trust
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Reviews Mask of Treachery by John Costello.
Deadly Poker, or We Bet Your Life
by Dr. John Grauerholz
Looks at Gus Sermos’s Doctors of Deceit and the AIDS Epidemic: A View From the Inside.
Books Received
The New Soviet Order of Battle
by Anthony K. Wikrent
A review of Alexander Alexiev’s Inside the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.
Departments
Andean Report
by Carlos Méndez
Venezuela Sells Its Oil Future.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
A Social Pact with Usury.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A Word on Kristallnacht Remembrance.
Editorial
Germany under Siege.
Science & Technology
Biotechnology Lab Opens New Doors in Agriculture
by Marsha Freeman
A new laboratory at Disney World’s EPCOT Center will show the public the potential for new technologies in agriculture.
Biotechnology Research Sabotaged for Four Years
Economics
The Central Banks Begin Their Power Push
by Christopher White
The post-election organized run against the dollar has begun, to force the new Administration’s submission to foreign central bank directives—but such pressure games could have unforeseen, catastrophic effects on the entire financial system.
Will Bush Bail Out Mikhail Gorbachov?
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Poland Moves Toward Winter Explosion
by Konstantin George
Currency Rates
The Russians Gaze at Unwilling Asia
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Mexican Oilworkers Back Debt Moratorium
by Marivilia Carrasco and Hugo López
Agriculture
by Robert Baker
USDA: “Let Them Eat Turkey.”
Business Briefs
AIDS Update
Deadly Poker, Or We Bet Your Life
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Australia To Test Everybody for AIDS
NYC Gives Free Needles to Drug Addicts
Feature
The Third Trial of Socrates: U.S.A. vs. Lyndon LaRouche
by Nancy Spannaus
After their Boston effort foundered on a mistrial and an informal jury vote to acquit all defendants, the Justice Department is trying it all over again in Alexandria. Why go to such lengths to destroy statesman LaRouche? Because, to the U.S. political establishment, LaRouche is not just another politician, but the “modern Socrates.”
The ‘Authoritarian Personality’: An Anti-Western Hoax
by Michael Minnicino
The Marxists from the Frankfurt School have devised a powerful weapon for cultural warfare.
International Figures Speak Out against Political Prosecution
The “Declaration of Honor” appearing in major newspapers, and some personal statements.
International
Gorbachov Admits Food Crisis Is Desperate
by Luba George
If the Russians cannot intimidate the rest of the world into providing them with sufficient food on their terms, they could strike out militarily to secure supplies, perhaps even into Western Europe.
New Zealand Moves toward Soviets
by Allen Douglas
Whatever Moscow’s fishing for in the South Pacific, it is not fish.
Israel: Another Fundamentalist State in the Middle East?
by Thierry Lalevée
Runcie Drops His Mask, Claims Nazis Were Christians
Colombian President Barco Surrenders to Narco-Terrorists
by Robyn Quijano
Argentine Presidential Race Begins amid General Disgust with Alfonsín
by Cynthia R. Rush
Seoul’s Northern Policy Rests on U.S.-Korea Alliance
by Linda de Hoyos
Indo-Soviet Relations: Is There a Sea-Change Coming?
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Beauty of Lower Tuning Draws New Endorsements
Syrian Drug Mafia Tried To Buy Lebanon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
International Intelligence
National
Anti-Dukakis Vote Elects George Bush
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dukakis came out of the Democratic convention in late July with a 17-point lead over Bush, but that evaporated when the question of whether Dukakis was mentally capable of holding the highest office in the land broke into the international media.
How Did Dukakis and the Democrats Lose?
by Mel Klenetsky
In the past 50 years, only FDR’s Democrats have actually represented the necessary alliance of minorities, labor, and farmers. Today’s Democrats represent anything but—with the exception of the LaRouche wing, which consolidated its 25-35% support among voters.
Will the United States Still Be Capable of a Strong Defense?
by William Jones
A report on a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
National News
Errata
Due to a confusion in bank names, an article on banks under investigation for drug-money laundering out of the October indictment against Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), in Vol. 15, No. 45, page 67, EIR mistakenly misidentified Florida National Bank of Miami as the bank which handles the finances of the ADL Foundation, and has former Nugen Hand Director Donald Beasely on the board of directors. That bank is City National Bank of Miami. Florida National of Miami, however, has indeed found its records subpoenaed by the U.S. Customs Service, the Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 31, 1988, because two of the top cocaine runners indicted, Roberto Alcairo and Gonzalo Mora, used the bank to launder their money. The BCCI indictment named Alcairo as a major smuggler and money launderer, and describes Mora as heading the Medellín Cartel’s laundering operations in Florida, New York, and California.
