Volume 14, Number 45, November 13, 1987
Interviews
William Hazeltine
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
An entomologist and the Manager/Environmentalist of the Butte County Mosquito Abatement District in California, discusses how the virus was detected, the course of the disease, and some of the political problems that constrained the eradication program.
Niel E. Nielson
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
A high-technology entrepreneur discusses commercializing food irradiation for the Pacific Rim nations.
Book Reviews
Terrorism Is Not a Football Game
by Carol White
A review of Patriot Games by Tom Clancy.
Books Received
Science & Technology
Will Food Irradiation’s Benefits Be for Export Only?
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Commercialization of food irradiation has been delayed as a result of the lies of the anti-science lobby.
Commercializing Food Irradiation in the Pacific Rim Nations
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
An interview with Niel E. Nielson.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
“Diplomatic” Debt Negotiating.
Report from Rome
by Liliana Celani
Italy Reacts to the Crash.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Anti-Terrorism Top Priority.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Sweden’s Security Police Under Fire.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
The Cannibal Factor.
Andean Report
by Benjamin Castro
Communists, Mafia, Bankers Converge.
Editorial
Police Shootings and the Soviet Agenda.
AIDS Update
250,000 Argentines May Be AIDS-Infected by 1991
Bishop Condemns ‘Free Condoms’ Plan in Peru
Press Panics over California AIDS Fight
Economics
Bankers Refuse To Defend Dollar—and Save Selves
by Christopher White
Telling Jim Baker to talk the dollar down, the idiots in the financial community are too looney to realize that what they need is someone with the courage to save them from their own stupidity.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Consequences of the Dollar Blowout.
The View from Europe: U.S. Is Not Dealing with the Real Crisis
by William Engdahl
The Battle To Defeat Mosquitoes Carrying Encephalitis Virus
Interview with Dr. William Hazeltine
Brazil Prepares Return to the IMF Regime which Wrecked Its Economy
by Mark Sonnenblick
Gold
by Montresor
Central Bank Intervention Continues.
What Happened to the War on Drugs?
by Ricardo Martín and Carlos Méndez
In a very short space of time, two of the world’s most wanted criminals went from the police pages to the social pages of the international financial “jet set.”
Currency Rates
CIPE: Cult of ‘Free Enterprise’ Meets To Promote Drug Economies
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
‘Development, Not a Right’: Reagan
Business Briefs
Feature
Stalin’s Economic Dogmas Shape Gorbachov Address
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
In the course of a fierce and bloody, months-long fight within the Soviet oligarchy, Moscow has adopted the dogma that the ongoing global financial crash is the herald of a “final breakdown crisis of the capitalist system.”
Documentation: Gorbachov on the financial crash, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and Stalin’s forced collectivization. Quotes from the Nov. 2 speech on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, selected and annotated by Konstantin George.
Gorbachov Calls for World Revolutions
by Luba George
The Soviet leader issues guidelines to leaders of 170 Communist, Socialist, and Green Parties for the period of the “general crisis of capitalism.”
International
Moscow’s Fifth Column Wages War on Germany
by Rainer Apel
On Oct. 31, 1,500 armed rioters went on a rampage in Hamburg, and on Nov. 2, a battle between extremists and police in Frankfurt ended in gunfire killing two police and wounding 10. Moscow isn’t waiting for an INF treaty to make its bid to take over West Germany.
Moscow Targets the Military Sector in Ibero-America for Destruction
by Gretchen Small
The Kremlin says that all nations should cut their defense expenditures, as the solution to the global economic crisis. Except, of course, for themselves—and their client states.
Brazilian Military Resists Overthrow
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Soviet Irregular Warfare Hits Manila
by Linda de Hoyos
The Luchaire Affair: ‘Irangate à la française’
by Laurent Rosenfeld
The Socialists are taking it on the chin for this one.
Mayor Zaragoza Caper at UNESCO Tickles the Soviets ... Pink
by Mark Burdman
Did you believe all the hot air about a Western “victory” in the naming of the new head of UNESCO?
International Intelligence
National
Policy Crisis in Washington Deepens
by Nicholas F. Benton
The policy crisis in Washington is most sharply posed by Caspar Weinberger’s resignation, partly because of his opposition to the mandated cuts in the U.S. defense budget.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Did the Devil Make Him Do It? — Bradley: Candidate of “Inevitable Decline” — Jesse Jackson Fined by the FEC.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Rendering Reagan Speechless.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
