Volume 12, Number 27, July 9, 1985
Interviews
Paisal Thawachainan
The head of Thailand’s largest labor confederation tells how his country’s economy is being ruined by the World Bank’s “privatization of industry” plan.
Departments
Report from Italy
by Umberto Pascali
The Rotten Deal behind Cossiga.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Writing about Killing the President.
Report from Paris
by Yves Messer
“Make the SDI Irreversible.”
Editorial
Time To Get Back to “Americanism.”
Economics
Kissinger and Castro Face Off against LaRouche
by Robyn Quijano
Kissinger’s June 22 syndicated column, “Building a Bridge of Hope to Our Latin Neighbors,” proposes “the modern philosophical equivalent of the Marshall Plan, a Western Hemisphere Development Program”—but it’s a hoax.
Soviet Bloc Gears Up Nuclear Industry
by Clifford Gaddy and Konstantin George
East Europe Follows Gorbachov’s Orders
by Luba George
U.S. Housing-Stock Collapse Undermines Family Formation
by Sylvia Brewda
Based on the June 1985 EIR Quarterly Economic Report.
Science & Technology
by Charles B. Stevens
A Revolution in the H-Bomb X-Ray Laser.
Currency Rates
Pestilence of Usury
by Valerie Rush
Brazil To Impose “Conditions” on IMF?
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
The Famine Keeps Worsening.
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouche Replies to Doomsday Forecast by Castro
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Part II of LaRouche’s “Open Letter to Fidel Castro,” written on June 12, 1985, addressing the Jesuit-trained Cuban leader’s mistakes of economic analysis, as well as his ulterior motives.
International
TWA Hostage Taking: Part of Soviet War Plan
by Jeffrey Steinberg
While a hostage “exchange” would bring to an end the ordeal of TWA Flight 847, it will likely leave unanswered some of the most pressing questions raised by the terrorist action that began in Athens on June 14.
Terror ‘Experts’ Run Cover for KGB Plans
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Costas Tsimas and the TWA Hijacking
by Phocion
Shi’ite Terrorism: The Bennigsen Factor
Documentation: Never-before published intelligence documents relating to the destruction of U.S. Mideast policy.
Kissinger, de Hoz, and the Real Culprits of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Intelligence
National
Mobilization of Patriots Puts Burt Sellout On Hold
by Mark Burdman
Soviet Spokesman Backed into Corner over TWA Hijacking
by Nicholas F. Benton
Joint Chiefs: Use Military vs. Drugs
by Marilyn Kay
Stop the OSI’s Assault against German-American Scientists!
by Maj.-Gen. (Ret.) J. Bruce Medaris
The Packard Commission: National Labs Sold to Highest Bidder
by Paul Gallagher
FBI Coverup of Iranian Terrorism and Gun-Running Continues
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
