Volume 13, Number 49, December 12, 1986
Interviews
Dr. Mário Barreto Correa Lima
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
The professor of medicine, biological sciences, and health at the University of Rio de Janeiro discusses the AIDS crisis in Brazil, and tells why the citizen’s health, “an invaluable gift which is worth more than ordinary economic goods,” must be the highest objective of the state—over foreign debt payment.
Panic over AIDS Sweeps Ibero-America
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Sabotage of the Chemical Industry?
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Valdez
The Reconquista of Sinaloa.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Mr. Gorbachov Comes to Town.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Will Brazil Join Peru?
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Legalization or Excommunication.
Editorial
Fiscal Policy and the Constitution.
Operation Juárez
How To Save, and How To Invest
Once Ibero-America’s resources for investment are maximized, they must be reinvested in two key areas: the productive apparatus itself, using frontier technology, and infrastructure, including social infrastructure. Part 15 of EIR’s serialization of the book, Ibero-American Integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000.
Science & Technology
Status of the Experimental Free Electron Laser
by Robert Gallagher
Concluding a three-part series, Robert Gallagher reviews the status of the leading experimental programs. Part I appeared in the Oct. 24, 1986 issue and Part II in the Nov. 7, 1986 issue.
Economics
García’s Peru Grows by 22.5% in Manufactures
by Mark Sonnenblick
“Many economists under the influence of ideologies proper to the developed countries or the International Monetary Fund, say that this is dangerous, transitory, etc. But, the truth is that during a year and a half, it has been working,” he says of his policy.
Currency Rates
AFRICA Fund: Building a Solution in Southern Africa
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Perhaps the most substantial outcome of the September Non-Aligned summit.
Panic over AIDS sweeps Ibero-America
Fusion: JET Successes Only the Beginning
by Heinz Horeis
East Bloc Drafted for Soviet SDI Program
by Tadeusz Rejtan
Soviet Economy
by Konstantin George
Supreme Soviet Unveils New NEP.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The “Dollar Bloc” Crumbles.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Texas: Big State, Big Bank Crisis.
Labor in Focus
by Mel Klenetsky
Drug Tests: Labor Responds Foolishly.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
USDA Says Famine’s Good for Exports.
Business Briefs
Feature
Will Justice Dept. Officials Go To Jail in ‘Iran-Gate’?
The Department of Justice bureaucracy has been more deeply involved in covering up for Iranian terrorism in the United States and arms shipments to Khomeini than any other agency in government. EIR has the evidence to prove it.
A Chronology of Events: U.S. Trafficking with Khomeini’s Iran
by Scott Thompson
The Tabatabai Murder: How the Justice Dept. Obstructed Justice
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The ‘Comsymps’ in the Justice Department
EIR’s Record: How We Called the Shots
International
With SALT Ended, NATO Cancels Reykjavik Blunder
by Criton Zoakos
The Kremlin is very, very upset about the latest NATO defense ministers’ meeting.
NATO Deliberates on West German Extended Air Defense Proposal
by George Gregory
New Flank for Peace in Central America
by Gretchen Small
Panama and Guatemala act to revive the Condeca military pact.
Fraga’s Resignation Creates Danger of New Absolutist Regime in Spain
by Leonardo Servadio
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Strange Bedfellows on London Trip — Maxwell, Carter, and the Moonies.
International Intelligence
National
The Case Builds for Don Regan’s Ouster
by Susan Welsh
Lyndon LaRouche’s demand that the former Merrill Lynch head be kicked out of government was aired all over national TV last April. Now, it’s a veritable stampede.
The Great Leesburg Panty Raid Was a Hoax, Say Lawsuits
The Virginia attorney-general had no evidence of any criminal activity to warrant any raid, let alone one that occupied a town for more than 24 hours with 400 heavily armed state police.
Sam Nunn Threatens To Restructure SDI
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
DNC Sets Stage for Nunn Candidacy — Senate Committee To Go After Merrill Lynch?
National News
