Volume 12, Number 21, May 28, 1985
Interviews
General Morales Bermúdez
The former President of Peru.
Aristides Calvani
The leader of Venezuela’s Christian Democratic Party, the COPEI.
Marcelo Velarde Ortiz
Vice-Presidential candidate of the ruling Nationalist Revolutionary Movement in Bolivia.
Alejandro Carrión Pérez
Director of international affairs of the Democratic Left party of Ecuador.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Charles B. Stevens
The “Xraser” Comes to the Laboratory.
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
Operation Juárez Makes Headway.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Return of the White Plague.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
May 1, Dry Run.
Report from Italy
by Liliana Gorini
The Prince of Wales and the Doges.
Vatican
by Augustinus
TFP Condemned by Church in Brazil.
Editorial
Kissinger Baits Trap in Ibero-America.
Economics
Asset Liquidation Wave Fuels Collapse of U.S. Economy
by Christopher White
Tangible assets, including plant and equipment, are being sold off to meet debt-service payments, which could combine with bank failures and the international crisis of debt and the dollar to produce a full-blown economic collapse.
Ibero-American Debt: Communists: ‘IMF Works for Us’
Castro, for example, says he doesn’t have to export revolution anymore.
South Americans Tell KGB Democrats: Democracy Needs Economic Progress
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
34 representatives from 10 South American nations were invited all expenses paid to Washington for a May 7-11 meeting of Charles Manatt’s National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, but they didn’t buy his agenda.
Currency Rates
Blast Furnace Technology: A Case Study
by Robert Gallagher
Shows how economic development is the history of distinct species of action, as LaRouche argues.
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
We Warned of Maryland Crisis.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Food Cartels Get Government Handout.
Business Briefs
Special Report
How U.S.-European Cooperation on the SDI Can Improve
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
His speech, “Prospects for Improvements in U.S.A. Cooperation with Europe on SDI Development,” delivered to the conference of the Schiller Institute in Düsseldorf, West Germany, on May 12.
Investigation
The Anglo-Soviet Plot for the Destruction of India
by Joseph Brewda and Nancy Spannaus
Despite arrests of key participants in the Gandhi assassination by the Indian government, there has been no hiatus in the activity of the network that deployed them.
Documentation: The creation of postwar Sikh terrorism—a timeline; and Jon Speller’s connections.
International
Congress of Vienna, Again, 170 Years after Capodistria
by Criton Zoakos
All ranking foreign ministers from East and West, including Shultz and Gromyko, met for three days and nights to map out the final phase of Henry Kissinger’s “25% solution.”
Economic Depression Decides Ruhr Elections
by Rainer Apel
Soviets Officially Rehabilitate Stalin
by Luba George
Moscow’s May 8-9 celebrations of victory in the last war only made clear their intention to win the next one.
Russia Secures the Future, China the Distant Future
by Konstantin George
The Sino-Soviet rapprochement and the death of Kissinger’s “China Card.”
Venezuela: EIR Seeks To Remove Ban on Anti-Drug Book
International Intelligence
National
Baker-Regan ‘Cold Coup’ Threatens U.S. Defense
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Outright treason by the “palace guard” in league with lawmakers has sent the message to Moscow: The United States lacks the will to survive.
Congress’s Defense Budget Cuts Show Influence of Moscow
by Paul Gallagher
The testimony on the SDI budget delivered by Paul Gallagher, executive director, Fusion Energy Foundation, to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, on May 15, 1985.
Documentation: The budget cuts crippling the SDI.
Qaddafi’s Millions Fund Farrakhan Plot
A terrorism alert.
U.S. Policy Dilemma in North Africa
by Thierry Lalevée
Defense ‘Scandals’: Who Pays the Bill?
by Carol White
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
