Volume 13, Number 48, December 5, 1986
Book Reviews
New CIA History Puts Intelligence Policy under the Microscope
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Reviews John Ranelagh’s The Agency—The Rise and Decline of the CIA From Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Cruzado Plan, Take Two.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Jitters over AWACS.
Northern Flank
by William Jones
Stockholm Police Chief under Fire.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
John Gavin, One of the “Bad Guys”?
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
“Betting on Peru” in the Year 2000.
Editorial
Now, Let’s Get the “Homintern”
Science & Technology
New Computer Study Shows AIDS Could Wipe Out U.S.
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
The first run of a new epidemiological computer model, the first ever designed to study a human slow-acting retrovirus.
U.K., France Seek Joint Action To Stop AIDS
Operation Juárez
Educating the Labor Force of Ibero-America
For Ibero-America as for all modem economies, this task comprises two aspects: the baseline level of literacy and general education of the majority of the work force, and the number and quality of training of scientists, engineers, and technicians.
Economics
Steel Shutdown Reveals 15-25% Industrial Decline
by David Goldman
Amid the press fanfare over LTV’s whopping $2.08 billion loss for the third quarter, the most important point was buried: The company’s sales of steel fell by 24%, despite the continuing strike at USX.
Ivan Boesky and the Mossad Arms Smuggling Connection
by Joseph Brewda and David Goldman
Background: The Insider Trading System and “Dope, Inc.”
Currency Rates
U.S. Policy and the Economic Time-Bomb in Central America
by Gretchen Small
Between 1978 and 1985, fully 13% of the Gross Domestic Product of the Central American nations was looted from the region.
The Facts: What the IMF Robbed
by Dennis Small
Honduras on the Brink of Catastrophe
by Carlos Cota Meza
Poland: Selling the Nation To Pay the Debt
by Tadeusz Rejtan
Part 3 of a series.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Washington’s Crisis and the Dollar.
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
The Threat of 1930s-Style Deflation.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Farm Trade Surplus at 14-Year Low.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Difference between LaRouche’s and Teller’s Role in Creating SDI
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The authorship of the Strategic Defense Initiative is primarily the work of Dr. Edward Teller and Lyndon H. LaRouche. The difference between the narrower scope of Dr. Teller’s contributions, and LaRouche’s own broader considerations, is key to understanding why the Soviets blame the latter most bitterly, rather than Dr. Teller, for this policy.
Dr. Edward Teller: A Brief Biography
International
The Strategic Issues behind ‘Iran-Gate’
by Criton Zoakos
What America’s friends abroad must know about the present crisis in Washington.
Raisa Gorbachova ‘Elected’ to Soviet Culture Fund Presidium
by Luba George
As the de facto leader of the new Fund, she will be directing and shaping the Soviet Union’s cultural transformation.
The Philippines: Whose Victory?
by Linda de Hoyos
The United States has adopted a policy known as “constructive disengagement,” while the communist New People’s Army guerrillas are marching toward power in Manila.
Fired NATO General Warned of Spetsnaz
International Intelligence
National
Reagan, Meese Have Begun the Counter-Watergate
by Criton Zoakos
What shocked the Establishment, was that Meese walked to the podium of the White House conference room, pointed the finger at the core of illicit Israeli intelligence activities in the United States, and destroyed, on the spot, the cause of the Nicaraguan Contras.
Nunn Surfaces as Trilateral’s Hand-Picked Man for President
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Funding Cuts Put the President’s SDI Program in Grave Trouble
by Robert Gallagher and Carol White
Funding for directed-energy weapons under the Strategic Defense Initiative will be 5% lower in this fiscal year than last.
Miami Indictments Hit ‘Medellín Cartel’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
EIR’s Chaitkin Seeks Graham Death Records
by Anton Chaitkin
The latest in an ongoing investigation of the mysterious death of the late husband of the Washington Post owner.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Bankers Admit Crisis, Have No Solutions — Oklahoma, Louisiana Keys to 1988? — T. Boone Pickens: “What? Me Worry?”
National News
