Volume 14, Number 31, August 7, 1987
Book Reviews
Burning Issue of Our Time: What’s At Stake in Modern Music?
by David Goldman
Looks at Music, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sourcebook by Joscelyn Godwin.
Science & Technology
The Space Transport Needs for Mars Colonization
by Charles B. Stevens
Reviews the prospects of space transport with a view to achieving a permanent colony on Mars within 40 years. Part of an ongoing series on new methods of space propulsion.
What Is Nuclear Fusion?
Nuclear Reactions for Rockets
Nuclear Energy: Power Blackouts Loom in New England
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Which Government Negotiates?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Caught in the Persian Gulf Trap.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Porfirio Díaz Reincarnated?
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
The Greening of Bolivia.
Editorial
Bush Campaigns against LaRouche.
AIDS Update
World Health Organization Fails To Silence AIDS Debate in Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
‘Guerrilla Clinics’ Springing Up in U.S.
Elderly Shouldered with AIDS Costs
by Ronald Kokinda
Koop: no AIDS tests for pregnant women
Economics
Secretary James Baker: ‘Après moi, le déluge’
by David Goldman
If Louis XV, to whom are attributed the words, “After me, the flood,” had had advisors like Jim Baker, the French Revolution would have occurred a dozen years early.
World Health Organization Fails To Silence AIDS Debate in Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
The WHO’s Australia conference of 27 Asia-Pacific nations was just another attempt to prevent governments from doing anything about AIDS.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
by Joyce Fredman
Taiwan To Buy U.S., Cheap.
West Germany’s Crucial Steel Industry Faces ‘Euthanasia Program’
by Birgit Vitt
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Congress Tries To Rescue FCS.
Overcoming the Reagan ‘Recovery’
by Joyce Fredman
Boosting Food Output from Virginia Can Help Meet World Food Needs.
Business Briefs
Feature
Gorbachov’s ‘Perestroika’ as a Plan for War
by Susan Welsh
As pressures mount for an arms agreement and a summit, the U.S. press is blacking out the obvious fact that the Russian leader’s much-heralded perestroika is nothing but a massive war economy mobilization.
Soviet Economy Restructured for Marshal Ogarkov’s War Build-Up
by Rachel Douglas
International
Candidate LaRouche Visits NATO Ally Turkey
He met with Prime Minister Turgut Özal, among others, and told a press conference that some Americans value the alliance with Turkey.
Peruvian President Alan García Declares War on the Drug Economy
by Sara Madueño
In a July 28 message to the nation, he changed all the rules, nationalizing the banks and imposing strict exchange controls.
Documentation: Excerpts from García’s speech and from a July 31 interview on Mexican TV.
The Catholic Church Warns ‘Total War’ Imminent in Colombia
by Valerie Rush
The bishops are throwing their considerable moral weight behind defending the nation from narcoterrorism’s growing power.
Stakes Go Up in the Panama Crisis
by Carlos Potes
Soviets Unnerved by LaRouche Again
Once again, the Kremlin’s New Times publication devoted six pages to attacking the presidential candidate.
LaRouche and the Paris Trial
by Ralph de Toledano
Copley News Service’s Ralph de Toledano takes a look at the suit.
Rogers on the Zero Option: ‘We Must Reconsider What We’re Doing’
Gen. Bernard Rogers speaks out.
International Intelligence
National
Federal Bankruptcy Haunts Capitol Hill
by David Goldman
If America is governed by law, to look at Congress in the face of the debt ceiling crisis, you would think it was Murphy’s Law.
Inside the ‘Secret Government’: Irangate Mystery Man Roy Godson
by Herbert Quinde
North’s ‘Berlin Wall’ on Mexican Border
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
His testimony outlined a scenario for invasion of Central and South America that would make the Kremlin smile.
What Hitler Could Not Do, New Jersey Did
by Linda Everett
Patients can now be murdered at relatives’ request.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Reagan’s Contradiction on Superconductivity — U.S. Media Loves Gorbachov, “glasnost” — “War on Drugs” Caving In.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda
National News
