Volume 15, Number 4, January 22, 1988
Departments
Report from Paris
by Christine Bierre
What Kind of New Monetary System?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The Battle for the Ruhr.
Report from Rome
by Galliano Maria Speri
Eleven Million Poor in Italy.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
The Risk of Militarization.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Premier Ryzhkov Visits Stockholm.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Naxalite Violence Tests Leadership.
Editorial
Berlin: Pawn in a Policy Swindle.
Economics
Brady Report Proposes Hyperinflation Machine
by Christopher White
They’ll do anything to defend the indefensible, including having the Federal Reserve pour in liquidity in the face of any threat to the biggest financial bubble in history.
For the First Time Since the Czars, Russians Test Western Bond Markets
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
Soviet Infant Deaths at Third World Level
by Luba George
Little Progress in Japan-U.S. Summit
by Nicholas F. Benton
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Prospects for Treating AIDS Infection with Radio Waves
by Robert Gallagher and John Grauerholz, M.D.
Summarize a pioneering study recently presented to a conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Book Reviews
Groton-Yale Author Mimics Soviet Attack on U.S.
by Mark Burdman
Reviews Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition by Walter Russell Mead.
Tarnish on George Bush’s Silver Spoon
by Nicholas F. Benton
A review of Looking Forward: An Autobiography by George Bush, with Victor Gold.
AIDS Update
Infant Infections High in New York
‘AIDS Has a Simple Solution; Let People Die’
Feature
Mexico’s Ruin Began with Miguel de la Madrid
by Carlos Cota Meza
Despite all the pious euphemisms to the contrary, De la Madrid’s government reversed the accomplishments of his predecessors and handed Mexico over to the dictates of the International Monetary Fund from the day it took office.
Poverty, Death Are Cost of Mexican ‘Solidarity Pact’ with Wall Street
by Dolia Estévez-Pettingell
The Economic Solidarity Pact: Another Still-Born Program
by Carlos Valdez
Mexican State Heads for Bankruptcy
by Peter Rush
International
Kalmanowich Affair Shows KGB-Israeli Mafia Link
by Thierry Lalevée and Joseph Brewda
Bill Casey would have been proud of him: He made a fortune while doing espionage—and his case only proves yet again that a powerful section of the Israeli establishment is aligned with Moscow.
Colombians See Nation Imperiled, Call for Coup To Fight Drug Mob
by Valerie Rush
So complete is the drug mafia’s takeover of Colombia’s governing institutions, that voices have been raised for a one-year executive dictatorship.
Documentation: Enrique Gómez Hurtado’s letter to President Barco.
Bloodbath Scheme Fizzles in Panama
by Gretchen Small
Local Elections To Expose Fatal Weakness of Aquino’s Government
by Linda de Hoyos
Soviets Launch New Bid To Smash Poland
by Luba George
International Intelligence
National
Mad Strategy Will Cede Europe to Soviet Control
by Nicholas F. Benton
The report by the President’s Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy amounts to a recommendation for “pre-emptive surrender” to the Russians, and it has provoked shock and amazement around the world.
Documentation: Excerpts from the commission report, “Discriminate Deterrence,” and from the remarks of Secretary of the Navy James Webb at the National Press Club Jan. 13.
California Group Wants Lethal Injections for Ill Patients
by Linda Everett
Exactly as under Hitler’s Nazis.
A Big Scandal Hits Michael Dukakis
by Katherine Notley
Bush-League Sleaze: Who’s Who behind the VP’s Candidacy
by Scott Thompson
Gov’t Shifts Strategy in ‘LaRouche’ Trial
State Anti-LaRouche Cases Unraveling?
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Candidate, Candidate, Who’s Got a Candidate? — Getting on the Gore Bandwagon — Bush Downgrades SDI in Talks with Gorbachov.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
“Legal Thinking” Blocks Action vs. Soviet ABM
National News
