Volume 13, Number 45, November 14, 1986
Interviews
Dr. John Cox
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The laser physicist discusses the recent breakthroughs in food irradiation.
S.C. Birla
The advocate of the Indian Supreme Court, takes a look at Oct. 6’s great raid on Leesburg, Virginia. First in a series of interviews with prominent figures of the International Commission to Investigate Soviet-Style Human Rights Violations in the United States.
Departments
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
Zaire Follows Peru, Breaks with IMF.
Report from Rome
by Galliano Maria Speri
Fight To Control the “Council of Ten.”
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
The Pot Boils in Pakistan.
Northern Flank
by William Jones
A Classical KGB Disinformation Scheme.
Report from Paris
by Jacques Cheminade
France Must Intervene in America.
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Of Bankers, Debt, and Drugs.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
AIDS Crisis in Brazil.
Editorial
Now, Let’s Talk Economics.
Science & Technology
Food Irradiation Is Finally a Commercial Possibility
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Fish that stays fresh in the refrigerator for two or three weeks, pork that is trichina free, strawberries that don’t go bad, potatoes that don’t sprout, and grains that don’t get mealy—this is the promise of food irradiation that can now be delivered.
Livermore Announces Accelerator Advance
by Robert Gallagher and Charles B. Stevens
Economics
The Reagan Recovery Lies and the Election Disaster
by David Goldman
It is typical of Chief of Staff Don Regan’s mentality that he assumed that cranking the Dow-Jones Industrial Average back up to the 1,900 level would take voters’ minds off their economic misery.
Currency Rates
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Saudi Shakeup Rocks the Oil Markets.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
“Creative Accounting” Won’t Save Farms.
Labor in Focus
by Mel Klenetsky
Trade Deficit Alone Not the Key.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Will Japan-U.S. Accord Survive?
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
A New Virus, a New Disease.
Business Briefs
Operation Juárez
How Many Jobless Are There Really in Ibero- America?
It is no secret that the labor force of Ibero-America is inefficiently employed, but the magnitude of the misemployment and hidden unemployment is generally seriously underestimated.
Feature
California’s Proposition 64 Has Shaken the World
by Warren J. Hamerman
It is destined to go down in history as the most successful “alarm-ringing” public health proposal and “call to arms” yet, and it made “LaRouche” a household name. EIR Biological Holocaust Task Force director Warren Hamerman’s address on AIDS in Bonn on Nov. 9, 1986.
AIDS Debate in Britain: Support Grows in U.K. for Measures Rejected by California Voters
by Mark Burdman
Liberal Press Fears Prop 64’s Impact
Who Ran Opposition to Proposition 64
Endorsements of Proposition 64
Vatican Intervenes into AIDS Debate, Scores ‘Catholic Homosexual’ Lobby
by Kathleen Klenetsky
International
Drug Traffickers Go for a Coup in Mexico
by Mark Sonnenblick and Hugo López Ochoa
The government faction protecting the dope traffic, and the holders of Mexico’s foreign debt, tried a “Halloween Massacre”—but Mexico’s patriots aborted the coup attempt, leaving Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett exposed as a mafia-linked thug.
Documentation: The statement of the Mexican Labor Party on what’s really happening with the drug traffickers.
Soviets Seem To Squabble on SDI
by Konstantin George
AIDS Fear behind Soviet War on Drugs?
by Luba George
Syria, the United States, and France: Whose Game Is It?
by Thierry Lalevée
The ‘Bankers’ CIA’ and the Russian Lobby after the Leesburg Raid
by Criton Zoakos
Second in a series.
War on Narco-Terrorism: President García Calls Citizens To Fight ‘from Heights of Victory’
by Valerie Rush
Spain: Pro-Terrorists Hound Interior Minister
by Katherine Kanter
Easterly Wind Blows over Madrid Media
International Intelligence
National
Don Regan Defeated the Republicans: LaRouche
by Nicholas F. Benton
Despite White House self-delusions, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche remarked in a post-election statement that it was the economic collapse engendered by so-called “Reaganomics” which turned the U.S. Senate around from a 53-47 Republican majority to a 55-45 Democratic majority on Nov. 4.
84-Year-Old Elizabeth Rose Fights for Rights of America’s Elderly
The LaRouche supporter is not about to be made a victim.
Documentation: Her statement to a Rome press conference on Oct. 29.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Philippines: Confessions of the Reagan Administration — Kissinger’s Shadow Cast over White House — Jitters over LaRouche Emergence in 1986.
National News
