Volume 15, Number 45, November 11, 1988
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Moscow Bets against Kohl.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
IMF Sabotages the Nuclear Program.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Back on the Front-Burner.
Andean Report
by Ricardo Martín
Cocaine Congressman Caught in Peru.
Editorial
Go Nuclear Now.
AIDS Update
German Expert Calls for Mass AIDS Testing
Heterosexual AIDS on the Increase
Deukmejian Endorses Anti-AIDS Prop. 102
Science & Technology
The SDI: Is It Going Anywhere?
by Carol White
Reports on the latest budget-cutting “restructuring” of the Strategic Defense Initiative, emphasizing a system that will be obsolete before it is deployed.
The Probable Design Parameters of the Nuclear-Powered X-Ray Laser
by Charles B. Stevens
Part II of the analysis of recently released letters and reports on this powerful SDI technology.
Strategic Studies
Beijing Regime Faces Breakdown Crisis
by Webster G. Tarpley
Deng’s skillful playing of the summit-hungry Kremlin is all the more remarkable in the light of the salient fact that Deng’s finesse tends to obscure: The Beijing regime is even more desperate, even more crisis-ridden than the Soviet Empire itself.
Documentation: A commentary by Taiwan’s China News.
Economics
Now, the Post-Election Agendas Surface
by Christopher White
The savings league’s proposal for “reregulation” of the entire banking system shows that, at last, someone is beginning to wake up to the approach of the most cataclysmic financial catastrophe in human history, and to recognize that the current financial system is not to be supported, but reorganized.
Food for Peace Activists Hold Conferences around the U.S.A.
by Suzanne Rose
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Feeding 15 Million Hungry Children.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Soviets Face New Oil Crisis.
Business Briefs
Feature
For a Europe of the Free Fatherlands
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Introduction to the new Special Report issued by EIR in Wiesbaden, West Germany, “Europe 1992: Blueprint for Dictatorship.”
The Corporatist Plan for Europe’s Labor Force
Europe 1992: No Farmers, No Food
International
The Israeli Elections: When Will War Break Out?
by Thierry Lalevée
Israel’s descent into the maelstrom of the same fundamentalist irrationalism infecting the Arab world is to be attributed to the vacuum in American foreign policy, and cynical “New Yalta” manipulations of the superpowers.
Will Gorbachov’s ‘National’ Experiment in the Baltic Succeed?
by Luba George
Moscow Moves To Crush Solidarity
by Konstantin George
A probable November strike wave will be met by savage repression, thrusting Poland into a new crisis.
Soviets Rip Up Afghanistan Accord
by Lydia Cherry
The Countdown to Pakistan’s Elections
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Soviets Play Their ‘Green Card’ To Destabilize the West
by Mark Burdman
Thatcher Backs Nuclear Power, Upsets ‘Greens’
European Patriots To Fight ‘1992’ Schemes
Colombia Wins First Round vs. Communists
by Robyn Quijano
Documentation: The letter of resignation of trade union leader Jorge Carrillo.
In Memoriam: Manuel Carulias, Trade Union Leader
International Intelligence
National
Elite Spokesmen Warn against Trusting Soviets
by Nicholas F. Benton
Although to date, concrete policy proposals have been left to Lyndon LaRouche, a spate of warnings by individuals ranging from Henry Kissinger to the West German Defense Minister has echoed LaRouche’s estimate of the Soviet threat.
See-No-Evil Bankers Finally Come under Attack—But Will It Stick?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The ‘Overt Acts’ of Lyndon LaRouche
by Ralph de Toledano
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Will Nuclear Energy Survive in U.S.?
National News
