Volume 13, Number 32, August 15, 1986
Interviews
Sir Leslie Smith
by Mark Burdman
The chairman of the British Industry Committee on South Africa talks with EIR about a “Marshall Plan” for that region.
Orlando Obregón Sabrogal
by Javier Almario
The comptroller of the Union of Colombian Workers (UTC) discusses the union’s uproarious recent national plenum.
Departments
Southeast Asia
by Sophie Tanapura
A “Prem V” Government in Thailand.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The New Berlin Crisis.
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
Did Andreotti Control the Assassins?
Editorial
Civil Liberty and the Slavery of Drugs.
Book Reviews
Black Hundreds, Red Hundreds: The True History of Soviet Russia
by Laurent Murawiec
Reviews the French edition of The Russians Have Arrived-Soviet Infiltration of the West, by Kirill Shenkin.
Science & Technology
Medicare: Cost Cutting by Cutting Lives?
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The overburdened state cannot afford to sustain its “useless eaters”—that’s the way Hitler put it, and that’s the thinking of numerous “cost-effective” bureaucrats today.
Investigation
Showdown over AIDS Is Coming in California
by Warren J. Hamerman
The Secretary of State’s challenge to voter-handbook wording on the way AIDS can spread has forced out into the open the documentation that anybody can get it, in any number of ways.
Documentation: The affidavits of Drs. Seale and Whiteside, and former Centers for Disease Control official Gus Sermos.
Court Upholds Censorship in AIDS Voter Education
Economics
The Spectre of August 15, a Decade and a Half Later
by David Goldman
The seed of today’s imminent monetary disaster was planted exactly 15 years ago.
British Push Panic Button over Disease
by Mark Burdman
Currency Rates
A Middle East Development Fund
by Amnon Neubach, Economic adviser to Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
OPEC Surprise Accord Buys Time.
Labor in Focus
by Leif Johnson
The U.S. Steel Lockout.
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
Deficit Forecasts Miss the Mark.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Soviet Grain Deal a “Con” Job.
Business Briefs
Feature
President García of Peru: The Lincoln of the South?
by Mark Sonnenblick
He has applied to Peru the “harmony of interests” conception in which capital, labor, and government collaborate for the advancement of the republic and its citizens—and his enemies are the same as those that Abraham Lincoln faced.
‘A Government that Rules, Directs, and Guides the Nation of Peru’
by President Alan García
García’s July 28, 1986 Independence Day address to the Peruvian Congress, after one year in office.
Republican Leadership in the Americas: Lincoln and García
International
Will the Kremlin Respond to Reagan’s Generous Offer?
by Criton Zoakos
The official Soviet reaction to the President’s letter offering to share and jointly deploy “Star Wars” systems has been highly unusual—one might say that they have been caught off balance.
‘On the Strategic Defense Initiative’
by President Ronald Reagan
An EIR exclusive: the full text of one of President Reagan’s most important speeches, made on Aug. 6, 1986, at the Old Executive Office Building.
State Dept.-Funded AIFLD Caught Sabotaging Reagan’s War on Drugs
by Valerie Rush
Documentation: A document issued by the 30 labor organizations that walked out of the national plenum of the Union of Colombian Workers.
Britain Expects More ‘Palacegate’ Fights
by Mark Burdman
Of Felix Dzerzhinskii, Armand Hammer, and the Red Prince
by Scott Thompson
Part I of a series on Soviet penetration of the British royal household.
The Malaysian Election: A Defeat for Dope Pushers, World Bank
by Mary McCourt
International Intelligence
National
Reagan, on LaRouche Model, Expands War on Drugs
by Nicholas F. Benton
Four months after EIR’s founder set off shock waves by calling NBC reporter Mark Nykanen a drug pusher on national TV, White House press briefings have turned into a heated exchanges between the pro-drug media and Reagan spokesmen, who are now implementing LaRouche’s “shooting war” proposal.
LaRouche’s Opponents Now Facing a Rout
by Vin Berg
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
NBC Hit for Coverup of Anti-Drug Campaign.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
