Volume 12, Number 24, June 18, 1985
Interviews
Right Reverend Bishop Desmond Tutu
by Mary Lalevée
The Bishop of Johannesburg and Nobel Peace Prize winner discusses the importance of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s proposed “Indira Gandhi Memorial Summit” to reorganize the international credit system.
Departments
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
“Rolling” Bank Crisis: California Next?
Science & Technology
by Charles B. Stevens
Muons Catalyze “Cold” Fusion Reactions.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
USDA Gives Free Food to the Cartels.
Asia Watch
by David Hammer
Soviets Seek Ethnic Card in Pacific.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Toward a Solution for Sri Lanka.
Report from Italy
by Liliana Gorini
Communists Back Bankers’ Dictatorship.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Will Genscher Go, or Kohl?
Editorial
Rajiv Gandhi in the U.S.A.
Economics
Banking on Disaster: $2 Trillion in Bad Debt Paper
by Kathy Wolfe
Of the U.S. banking system’s some $3 trillion in loan assets, at least $2 trillion is bankrupt, and an actual competent accounting audit of, for example, the $120 billion in U.S. bank loans to heavy industry, would find them based on tangible assets so old and decrepit that the loans are worth less than half of their book value.
Is Don Regan the Banker of Choice for Carter-Mondale Democrats?
by Mark Burdman
If investigations are pursued to their plausible conclusion, he could be implicated in some quite nefarious activities.
Krafft Ehricke, Space Pioneer
by Marsha Freeman
The tribute to the great scientist by Fusion magazine.
Abrahamson: SDI Can Help Realize Ehricke’s Projects for Space
Excerpts from the Rome daily Il Tempo’s interview with the SDI chief.
Documentation: The accomplishments of the German rocket scientists.
Argentina’s Nuclear Program Under Fire
by Cynthia R. Rush
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
India’s Challenge To Modernize Agriculture
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Only four decades after the British left the country in devastated condition, India can meet its basic food requirements, but the appalling poverty in which 80% of its population lives attests to the economic challenge the new Gandhi government faces.
Strategic Studies
A Draft of a Proposed Revision of NATO Doctrine
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
According to its own doctrine, the Soviet Union is already in a state of war against the United States of America and its allies. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. proposes corresponding changes in NATO’s doctrine.
International
Papandreou’s Re-Election: The ‘Sarajevo’ of World War III
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Analysis of the series of catastrophic blunders and vacillations by the U.S. government which permitted the Greek general elections of June 2, 1985 to result in Greece effectively moving out of the NATO alliance, and into the Soviet sphere of strategic influence.
Papandreou: Lawless, Tyrant, Traitor
by Phocion
Addresses Greek patriots.
Soviet Military Buildup: Ogarkov Takes Charge of ‘Secret’ Maneuvers
by Konstantin George
Fundamentalists Plot Hot Maghreb Summer
by Thierry Lalevée
Venezuela: President Lusinchi Blasts EIR’s Persecutors
by Gretchen Small
Documentation: Ex-police official defends drug king Lehder.
International Intelligence
National
New Phase of Operation PAN Launched by Kissinger’s CSIS
by Timothy Rush
A report on an extraordinary private conference of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held in Washington, D.C., entitled “The Future of the Mexican Economy and Implications for the United States.”
Documentation: Excerpts from the speeches given.
End OSI Witchhunt Against Scientists
Maj.-Gen. John Bruce Medaris’s letter to President Reagan.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
“Concerned Scientists” Flip Their Lids — Weinberger: Garwin Is Not Well-Informed.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
“His friends call him Kissinger” — “At Least Since the Crusades” — A Cake for Henry.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Kennedy, Heinz Target Jordan — Senate Passes Defense Budget Freeze — Dole Supports Terrorist Syria — Panel of “Experts” To Monitor the SDI — Amendments To Wreck the Program.
National News
