Volume 14, Number 32, August 14, 1987
Interviews
Zaki Yavuztürk
The Turkish Defense Minister discusses who gains if Turkey is destabilized.
Safa Giray
Turkey’s Minister of Housing and Construction reports on the country’s development projects and prospects.
Book Reviews
Probe of ‘Son of Sam’ Terror Cult Documents Satanic Underground
by Ira Liebowitz
Looks at The Ultimate Evil, An Investigation of America’s Most Dangerous Satanic Cult by Maury Terry.
AIDS Update
Cover-Up Persists on AIDS Co-Factors
by Warren J. Hamerman
New York ‘Research Study’ in October
AIDS Insurance Costs Seen Soaring
400,000 AIDS Cases in Brazil
AIDS Called ‘Greatest Plague’
Departments
Andean Report
by Jaime Ramírez
Venezuela and the Banks.
Report from Bonn
by Dean Andromidas
Air Show Draws 250-300,000.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Papal “Law” in Brazil.
American System
by Anton Chaitkin
The French Alliance Revived.
Books Received
Editorial
An Executive Order To Replace 12333.
Science & Technology
Advanced Nuclear-Pulsed Propulsion for Space Travel
by Charles B. Stevens
In the second part of Charles B. Stevens’s report, he outlines the history of nuclear-pulsed rocket ship design and the potential for terrestrial technological spin-offs.
Economics
Brazilian Government Faces Opposition to Its IMF Deals
by Mark Sonnenblick
Former Brazilian Finance Minister Dilson Funaro accuses his successor of implementing International Monetary Fund austerity demands, while claiming he has not made any deals with the IMF.
Cover-Up Persists on AIDS Co-Factors
by Warren J. Hamerman
Despite the AIDS holocaust unfolding in Africa, the Reagan Administration continues to maintain its genocidal cover-up.
Philippine Senators Call for Peru Solution on Debt
by Linda de Hoyos
Although Corazon Aquino is unlikely to call for debt repudiation on her own initiative, pressure is building up in the country for a ceiling on foreign debt payments.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The End of the Dollar Bloc.
García Mobilizes Peru as Drug Banks Fight Nationalization
by Valerie Rush
U.S. Economy: Governors Release Reports on the Economy: They Don’t Know What To Do
by Marcia Merry
Re-Run of 1979 ‘Oil Shock’ Ahead?
by William Engdahl
Commodities
by Joyce Fredman
Drama of U.S. Oil Producers.
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouches Express Solidarity with NATO Ally Turkey
by Thierry Lalevée
“The strength of Turkey’s economy, the stability of Turkey’s culture, the influence of Turkish-Islamic culture throughout the entire region as a moderating force are in the interest of the United States to protect,” Lyndon LaRouche told the press, after he and Helga Zepp-LaRouche met with the Prime Minister and Defense Minister, among others.
Will the U.S. State Department Wreck Relations with Turkey?
by Thierry Lalevée
Surveys the history of Turkey’s strategic importance and its foreign relations.
The Kurdish Terrorists: Soviet Irregular Warfare
LaRouche Talks to the Turkish Press
An interview with Milliyet, and a sampling of the press coverage.
‘Surprises’ in Ankara
Interview: Zaki Yavuztürk: Look Who Gains, If Turkey Is Weakened
by Webster G. Tarpley and Thierry Lalevée
Interview: Safa Giray: ‘The Earth Is Always Moving in Turkey’
by Webster G. Tarpley and Thierry Lalevée
International
Stakes Get Higher in U.S. Gulf Deployment
by Jeffrey Steinberg
For the first time since the U.S. Marines were withdrawn in disgrace from Lebanon, American credibility is once again on the rise within leading Arab political ranks.
Panama: Documents Show State Dept. Backs Cocaine Traffickers against Noriega
by Valerie Rush
Proof that the U.S. State Department is working with the so-called Medellín Cartel surfaced in documents seized by Panama’s government, and others released to EIR investigators in the United States.
Sri Lanka and India Avert Regional War
by Linda de Hoyos
Catholic, ‘New Age’ Forces Battle for Control of Italian Government
by Leonardo Servadio
What’s in store for the new premier, Giovanni Goria.
The Meteoric Rise of Gen. V.N. Lobov
by Rachel Douglas
A profile of the First Deputy Chief of Russia’s General Staff.
Mikhail Gorbachov’s Stable of Great Russian Racist Writers
by Luba George
The “village prose school” helps whip up the sort of Nazi-like mystical fanaticism for Mother Russia ideal for a war mobilization.
International Intelligence
National
The September Budget Crisis Is Now Set
by David Goldman
For the third time in less than a month, the national bankruptcy of the United States has been postponed for the moment, by increasing the danger of national bankruptcy in the immediate future.
Will the LaRouche Case Turn into ‘Reagangate’?
Unfortunate remarks by Vice President George Bush could be the trigger that transforms the Reagan Administration’s four-year-long legal harassment against Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche into “Reagangate.”
The ‘Bankruptcy’ Case
Boston Hearings Set on Leesburg Raid
The government’s case against LaRouche and 15 other individuals has begun to dramatically unravel, with disclosures of electronic surveillance and an FBI agent’s lying.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Think Tankers Mouth Soviet Strategic Line.
National News
