Volume 14, Number 39, October 2, 1987
Book Reviews
The Undead of Music
by David Goldman
Reviews Nothing But the Best: The Struggle for Perfection at the Juilliard School, by Judith Kogan.
Science & Technology
The Dawn of Star Power: Laser Fusion in Sight
by Charles B. Stevens
Because of a major breakthrough in harnessing the energy source of the stars by Livermore fusion scientists, prototype laser fusion reactors could be producing electricity at half the present cost of fossil and fission power plants within the next decade.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
“Let There Be Light!”
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
The Right to Self-Defense.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
“The Other Guerrillas” of Brazil.
Books Received
Editorial
Where is Gorbachov?
AIDS Update
Euthanasia Lobby Leader: ‘AIDS Will Help Us, I’m Sure’
AIDS, Euthanasia, and the World Council of Churches
Health Genocidalist: AIDS ‘Like Smoking’
by Nicholas F. Benton
Couples To Be Tested for AIDS in Illinois
Economics
Back on the Gramm-Rudman Carousel?
by Christopher White
The self-imposed gestation period ended as it was supposed to on Sept. 23, with the combined brains of Congress delivering yet another ill-conceived offspring, of only limited life expectancy, for the presidential blessing.
Mexico, from ‘Newly Industrialized’ to the Brink of Economic Depression
by Carlos Cota Meza
While the stock exchange is celebrating its unprecedented gains with champagne, the population—at least in the major trade and production centers of the country-has become painfully aware that it is the national banking system that is being looted to buoy the stock market.
Currency Rates
Ariane Success Puts Europe Back in Space
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Business Briefs
Feature
Euthanasia Returns ... as Economic Policy
by Nancy Spannaus
The acceptance of an immoral economics—in which the government does not provide the conditions for prosperity for all—will lead to the most hideous personal immorality, including mass killings of people considered “useless eaters,” whom the society cannot afford.
Euthanasia Lobby Leader: ‘AIDS Will Help Us, I’m Sure’
A Chronology: Court Decisions Legalize Euthanasia
AIDS, Euthanasia, and the World Council of Churches
Euthanasia on the Dutch Model
by Jutta Dinkerman
On Aug. 31, the Christian-Liberal government of the Netherlands proposed, after a two-year debate, draft legislation on the “euthanasia question,” which would allow doctors to rely simply on “reasons of conscience” in applying euthanasia to patients.
International
The Beginning of the End for the Khomeiniacs?
by Criton Zoakos
Moscow has a big problem in the Gulf, following the successful American attack against the Iranian minelaying ship.
Pope Tells America To ‘Choose Truth’ and Fulfill Its National Mission
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
Documentation: Selections from John Paul II’s speeches during his ten-day tour.
Moscow’s New Times Is Stung by EIR’s Exposé of the Trust
by Rachel Douglas
Thai Security Bares Soviet Spy Network
by Sophie Tanapura
Aquino Rearranges the Deck Chairs
by Linda de Hoyos
Quiet Strides in U.S.-Vietnam Relations
by Linda de Hoyos
The ‘Monstrous’ Drive To Overthrow Panama’s Leadership
by Mario Parnther
LaRouche’s enemies are Panama’s enemies, says Mario Parnther, member of the ruling PRD party, in testimony before hearings of the Commission to investigation Human Rights Violations in the United States.
International Intelligence
National
Khomeiniacs Make Last Stand in United States Senate
by Nicholas F. Benton
It is by no means certain that the Ayatollah Byrd and the other mullahs on Capitol Hill actually have the votes to make their latest version of the War Powers Act stick.
Additional Examination Required in the Confirmation of Robert Bork
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
CIA Figures Were Central to the Conspiracy against LaRouche—Part 2
The concluding part of the court documents that outline LaRouche’s relations with the intelligence community and his role in shaping national policy.
Documentation: LaRouche reveals his CIA, Soviet contacts.
The Dietz Network and Would-Be Assassins
by Ira Liebowitz
Dr. Park Elliott Dietz and the difficulty of containing the threats to public figures.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Health Genocidalist: AIDS “Like Smoking.”
The Assassination of Paula Cooper: Can This Be Law?
by Cesare La Farina
An Italian Supreme Court honorary associate justice speaks out on an Indiana case.
National News
