Volume 15, Number 33, August 19, 1988
Departments
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
“Apocalypse” in Sudan?
Dateline Mexico
by Héctor Apolinar
Stock Market Fraud.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No Future for Germany’s Coal Sector?
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Criminals or “Belligerents”?
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Sweden Subverts Its Secret Service.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Portents for the Partyless Poll.
Editorial
The Message from Panama City.
Science & Technology
Razing of Rain Forests Upsets World Climate
The transnational corporations are burning the Amazon rain forest. Results: vast amounts of pollution, dramatic changes in water-vapor levels and temperatures, and drought. Rogelio Maduro reports.
AIDS Update
Official AIDS Cases Rise 8% in a Month
Bavaria Says Kissing May Transmit Disease
Dukakis Might Keep Koop On
Economics
Interest Rate Hikes Bring Instabilities Forward
by Christopher White
The Fed’s action proves that it is not internal credit market stability and not George Bush’s Presidential ambitions that come first, but the demands of foreign creditors.
Drought Bill Won’t Save the Food Supply
by Robert Baker and Marcia Merry
All of Ibero-America’s Debt Agreements Suddenly Turn Sour
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Food Crisis Was Top Priority at Moscow Central Committee Plenum
by Luba George
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
USDA Downplays Drought Damage.
Business Briefs
Feature
‘I Never Claimed Dukakis Had Been Cured’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Dukakis has demonstrated that he suffers the types of grave personality flaws which would lead to outbreaks of depressive withdrawal under stress, reports Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. A correlated issue is the pattern of vindictive savagery by Dukakis’s circles against political foes. In fact, he represents Mussolini-style fascist ideology.
Deathbed Confessions of a ‘Trust’ Agent
Is Dukakis the New Senator Eagleton?
The text of the National Democratic Policy Committee leaflet that created the furor at the Democratic Convention.
Documentation: The Facts of the Case by Kathleen Klenetsky
Stelian: The Governor’s Chappaquiddick?
An Uproar in the World’s Press
Laurie Cabot: The Dukakis Court Witch
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Political Moves To Put NDPC Out of Business
International
‘New Yalta’ Plot for Unholy War over Jerusalem Exposed
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Secret three-way negotiations between Washington, Moscow, and Israel to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital have been exposed by an Italian Catholic newspaper.
Documentation: The Helms amendment on Jerusalem.
Government of Panama Hosts Ibero-American Unity Talks
by Silvia Palacios and Robyn Quijano
As General Noriega told the conference in Panama City, never have so few people made the forces of imperialism so mad.
Documentation: “This dream of integration”: the text of Panamanian President Solís Palma’s speech to the meeting.
Ligachov Disputes Gorbachov’s Reforms
by Rachel Douglas
Belgium Kowtows to ‘Europe ’92’ Schemes
by Mark Burdman
Shultz Scheme a Dud in Central America
by Gretchen Small
Afghan Deal Is Destabilizing the Entire Subcontinent
by Linda de Hoyos
Mexico Approaches Constitutional Crisis
by Hugo López Ochoa
International Intelligence
National
‘Peace’ Deals Shaped To Lock U.S. into Pro-Soviet Posture
by Nicholas F. Benton
“Peace is breaking out all over,” the TV commentators say. But the regional accords are designed to force the U.S. into a fundamental shift in military strategic posture, which the Trust expects the next President to implement. And that shift hands the world to Moscow.
‘Burden-Sharing’ Means U.S. Deserting Europe
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Trade Bill Opens Up Ally-Bashing Furor
by William Jones
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Washington Post Uses EIR’s Material.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Medical Flap Costs Dukakis 10 Points.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
