Volume 15, Number 30, July 29, 1988
Book Reviews
The Extinction of Charles Darwin
by Warren J. Hamerman
Reviews Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, by Robert L. Carroll, and Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth, by Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz.
Books Received
Departments
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
Coca-Dollars Bring Chaos to Peru.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
The Coming Diplomatic Breakthrough.
Vatican
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
The Lefèbvre Schism.
Editorial
A New Era of Butchery.
Science & Technology
Is the AIDS Disease Really Environment-Based?
by Dr. Mark Whiteside
A doctor of the Miami Institute of Tropical Medicine challenges the policy line of the Centers for Disease Control.
‘Do Not Accept the Policies of the WHO’
by Dr. John Seale
A message to the Bangkok AIDS Conference sent by Dr. John Seale of the Royal College of Physicians, from London, England, July 6.
Laser Beams Hold Promise for Submarine Communication
by Robert Gallagher
AIDS Update
Is the AIDS disease really environment-based?
by Dr. Mark Whiteside
Economics
A Hot August Coming for the Money Markets?
by Christopher White
The experts fear that the weeks ahead may be the most dangerous for the financial system since “Black Monday.”
Floods, Bugs Portend Soviet Food Crisis
by Rachel Douglas
Cartels Plan a New ‘Great Grain Robbery’
by Scott Thompson
Bihar: A Case Study of Economic Policy Challenge in India
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
The state is one of India’s poorest, yet it is blessed with some of the most fertile soil in the world. With proper technological input, it could become an agricultural powerhouse.
Currency Rates
Banking
by William Jones
New Woes for the Beleaguered FSLIC.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Low Prices Dry Up Farming, Too.
Business Briefs
Feature
Establishment Plans for Police-State Rule in 1989
by Nancy Spannaus
Bush and Dukakis are both “zeroes,” but no one should delude himself that their policies are just “more of the same.” The Eastern Establishment controllers of both are preparing a package of austerity measures that will require eliminating the constitutional guarantees upon which this Republic is based.
‘Government by Committee’: Building a Bipartisan Consensus for Fascism
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Drive To Impose Fascist Austerity
by Kathleen Klenetsky
A Foreign Policy of Appeasement
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Bluebloods behind Bush and Dukakis
by Joseph Brewda
International
Mexico’s Cárdenas Claims Presidential Victory
by Hugo López Ochoa
The ruling party stole the elections, but nationalist ferment is growing, under the leadership of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who is mobilizing to impose an anti-IMF policy.
Documentation: The July 16 speech by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.
Armenia Crackdown Belies ‘Glasnost’
by Konstantin George
Captive Nations Rip Reagan ‘Sellout’
by Oksana Polishchuk
Soviet Policy Journal Denounces LaRouche
by Luba George
Italian Parliament Will Debate Bill To Lower Musical Tuning
by Muriel Mirak
Documentation: From an interview with tenor Plácido Domingo.
Vietnam Looks for Maneuvering Room
by Linda de Hoyos
China Moves To Quell Resistance in Tibet
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Colombia: Military Rejects Capitulation to M-19
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
Police-State Tactics Rule Democratic Convention
by Webster G. Tarpley
Reports from Atlanta on the shocking actions that the TV cameras never covered.
LaRouche: Build a Mass Movement
The candidate’s remarks to political activists gathered in Atlanta, on the strategy of mass organizing.
How Operation Defcon Targeted the Pentagon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The McKay Report on Meese: A Travesty
by Joseph Brewda
Alfonse D’Amato: Dope, Inc. Mob behind New York Senator
by Rogelio A. Maduro and Gretchen Small
The amazingly open links of the forces of drug-money laundering, to the senator most determined to oust General Noriega from Panama on alleged “corruption” charges.
LaRouche Lawyers Seek To Bar Retrial
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
“Right to Life” Tackles Euthanasia — Dukakis: Abortion Is a “Public Good.”
National News
