Volume 13, Number 31, August 8, 1986
Interviews
Hanna Siniora
by Muriel Mirak
The editor-in-chief of the Palestinian daily Al Fajr newspaper, sees the recent Peres-Hassan summit as a “breakthrough.”
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
How Not To Form a Common Market.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Labor Slams Federal District Scheme.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
KGB Scandals Probed by ... the KGB.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A Salesman for Kissinger’s New Yalta.
Report from Madrid
by Leonardo Servadio
ETA’s Dirty War.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Tiger-Slaying in Venezuela.
Editorial
The IMF’s Technicians.
Economics
Collapse Verifies EIR’s Warning of 15-25% Decline
by David Goldman
In December 1985, this publication forecast a 15% to 25% rate of decline in U.S. output of physical goods during 1986. This has already come true—and the worst is ahead.
Peru’s Alan García Builds ‘an Economy of National Defense’
by Mark Sonnenblick
Documentation: Excerpts from the interview with President García in the Mexican daily Excelsior.
Evidence Mounts of AIDS Link to Insects
by Warren J. Hamerman
Gorbachov’s Russia To Pay Czarist Debt
by William Engdahl
Corporate Profile: Gianni Agnelli: The Oligarchical Fruit of the Philosophy of Nazi-Communism
by Antonio Gaspari
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Will Drought Assistance Help?
Business Briefs
Feature
The Elections of July 6: Turning Point for Japan
by Linda de Hoyos
It may not be until the 21st century that the world fully comprehends the significance of the landslide victory for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan’s Nakasone: Sengo no Sokessan
by Uwe Henke v. Parpart
The Japanese leader in his own words, and in the eyes of the Eastern Establishment and Moscow.
Japan’s Trade Profile Determined by IMF Austerity, U.S. Collapse
by David Goldman
Japan’s Educational Reform: To Restore the Dignity of Man
by Linda de Hoyos
Science & Technology
Japan’s ‘Nuclear Energy Vision’ in the 21st Century
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Japan’s programmatic commitment to develop the most advanced and efficient energy sources available.
Fusion: ‘If the U.S. Won’t Do It, We Will’
International
Queen Elizabeth Risks All for New Yalta Deal with Moscow
by Criton Zoakos
The magnitude of the risk that the British Royal Family decided to take, when it plunged into an open constitutional confrontation with the Prime Minister over the issue of economic sanctions against South Africa, is not greater than the strategic stakes over which the fight is being waged.
Gorbachov: Russia Is an Asian Power
by Konstantin George
Soviet Chief Purging His Own Appointees
by Rachel Douglas and Konstantin George
‘Marshall Plan’ Must Go Full Speed Ahead
by Muriel Mirak
Peres-Mubarak Talks Are In the Works
by Thierry Lalevée
Colombian Labor Movement Battles AIFLD and the Dope Mafia
by Valerie Rush
The Christians of Lebanon
by George Larin
A guest commentary.
International Intelligence
Document
Weinberger: Athens, Sparta, and Today’s Military Crisis
by Caspar Weinberger
Excerpts from the address of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., on July 29, 1986.
National
Reagan Vows ‘Full Force of Presidency’ To Fight Drugs
by Nicholas F. Benton
White House spokesman Larry Speakes was outspoken in blaming NBC national television, in particular, for “rating the worst” in hysterical misrepresentation of the war on drugs.
Will William Weld Give Immunity to Wanted Terrorist?
by Michele Steinberg
Richard Lugar: Is He a Freemason or Merely a Lunatic?
by Susan Welsh
The Senator has pushed through his committee a package of economic sanctions that would plunge South Africa into race war, and wreck the U.S. economy.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
