Volume 12, Number 11, March 19, 1985
Interviews
Alejandro Peña
The Venezuelan Labor Party’s Secretary-General discusses his party’s challenge to the drug traffickers.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Space Program Needs New Launch Vehicles.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Mind and Immunity.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
Papandreou, Treholt, and “the Baker”
Report from Bonn
by Michael Mirak-Weissbach
Soviets Mobilize Their Church Networks.
Report from Italy
by Umberto Pascali
“We Don’t Want To End Up with Toys.”
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Narcotráfico, S.A. Points to the PAN.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Palme’s Dirty Iran Connection.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Worse Than a “Cold Shower” for Mubarak.
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
A Test-Case for U.S. Africa Policy.
Editorial
Send an American ambassador to Bonn!
Economics
U.S. Bankruptcy: Volcker’s $5 Trillion Debt Bomb
During the time period in which the much touted U.S. “recovery” was not happening, the United States was sucking the world as a whole into the vortex of a Second Great Depression, and in the process, thanks primarily to Paul Volcker, the United States was bankrupting itself.
Currency Rates
Nuclear-Energy Advocates Intervene in Bangladesh To Spoil Solar-Energy Hoax
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
A report on the International Conference on Physics and Energy for Development at Dhaka University.
Documentation: Statements by President Ershad and Dr. Anwar Hossain.
Foreign Exchange
by Montresor
Volcker Demands End to U.S. Sovereignty.
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
America Is Living Off Dope, Inc.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
The Democrats’ “Show of Concern.”
Business Briefs
Special Report
European Terror and the Worst Intelligence Failure in Decades
by Jeffrey Steinberg
To counteract the terrorist barrage now hitting Western Europe, EIR is issuing a new Special Report, over 100 pages in length, titled “European Terrorism: The Soviets’ Pre-War Deployment”. Here, we offer an abridgment of the report’s Introduction.
International
Marshal Ogarkov Opens His Wartime Headquarters
by Konstantin George
The fact singularly demonstrates that the Soviet Union is on a war footing, and is actively considering the exercise of military options against the United States and its European allies as a response to the SDI.
Behind Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s Whirlwind Tour of the East Bloc
by Rainer Apel
East German: LaRouche Is Forerunner of SDI
Venezuela’s Dope-Running Families Ban EIR’s Narcotráfico, S.A.
Battle report on Ibero-America’s war on drugs.
Cisneros Sends Strange Messenger to EIR
Such nouveau riche often make mistakes.
Federal Republic of Germany: Greens Set for New Wave of Violence
All Roads Lead to Damascus
by Thierry Lalevée
The first in a series on Syria: the evil of terrorism.
France: Fight Surfaces over Beam-Weapon Defense
by Laurent Rosenfeld
International Intelligence
National
Swiss Targeted in War on Drugs; Will IMF Be Next?
by Mark Burdman
The leading Swiss banks over the years have expressed privately and publicly their extreme displeasure at EIR’s spotlighting of their ties to drug trafficking and related “Nazi” and “Communist” forms of international terrorism. Now, the Reagan Administration itself is casting Switzerland in the role of Public Enemy #1 in the war on drugs.
The President’s MX Report: Developments in U.S., Soviet Capabilities
After General Westmoreland’s Trial: the Verdict on Libel Law
by Edward Spannaus
The question remains: Are the news media above the law? — Interview: Attorney Michael F. Dennis on how LaRouche’s trial was different.
Reagan Gives Orders to U.S. Geneva Team
From the White House News Service.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
An “American Gift” to Bettino Craxi — “The Moro treatment” or “the Pazienza treatment”?
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
