Volume 12, Number 13, April 2, 1985
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Michael Weissbach
The Worst Choice for U.S. Ambassador.
Report from Paris
by Jacques Cheminade
Toward a Swiss “Recentering.”
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
Africa Could Reclaim the Desert.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Battering Ram against Danish Farming.
Vatican
by Augustinus
Dope and Anthropology Are Scored.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who Wants the Casinos?
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
The New Plot of the “Cocaine Colonels.”
Inside the Pentagon
by Tecumseh
ISC—Moonies in the Military.
Editorial
Did FBI Get U.S. Drug Agent Killed?
Economics
Volcker’s Treason Behind ’30s-Style Ohio Bank Run
by Christopher White
Now, as the illusions of a growing “U.S. economic recovery” are discredited by the newly erupted crises of the dollar, some are whispering nervously, “Do you suppose that LaRouche has been right all along?”
Crops Threatened by Irrigation Cutoff
by Nicholas F. Benton
Mexico: Labor Leader Calls For Freedom from the IMF, as Bankers Demand Equity
by Carlos Cota
Indian Space Effort Poised for Takeoff
by Ramanu Maitra
On the government’s determination to develop a complete national space program by the 1990s.
Currency Rates
The ‘Recovery’: Is the German Industrial Worker a Dying Species?
by Rainer Apel
Yes, and what’s left of German industry is dangerously dependent on contracts from the East.
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
Chapter 11 for the United States?
International Credit
by Cassandra
It’s Official: U.S. a Debtor Nation.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Laser Technologies and the Next Industrial Revolution
by Carol White
Two years ago, an EIR study predicted that a massive influx of productivity into the economy would follow from crash implementation of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Now, a new EIR study examines the actual impact of laser and related breakthroughs on the economy, and the potential which these give for an industrial takeoff—provided the vicious policies of Paul Volcker now suppressing industrial growth are reversed.
Medical and Chemical Technology Spinoffs of Directed-Energy Research
by Wolfgang Lillge, M.D. and John Grauerholz, M.D.
International
U.S. Cold Shoulder to President Mubarak Threatens Soviet Victory in Mideast
State Department bungling has been read in London, Moscow, Damascus, and Libya as a green-light for the Egyptian leader’s overthrow, and an early Soviet-directed Qaddafi takeover of Chad, Sudan, and Egypt.
Documentation: President Mubarak’s diplomatic offensive, and Soviet press denunciations.
A Proposed Strategic Operation against the Western Hemisphere’s Drug-Traffic
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s general staff order for a real war on drugs, delivered before a Mexico City EIR seminar March 13.
Documentation: Mexican press coverage.
Sir Geoffrey Howe Leads British Charge against U.S. Strategic Defense Effort
by Laurent Murawiec
‘Final Solution’ for Turks in Bulgaria Signals Redrawing of the Balkan Map
by Konstantin George
International Intelligence
National
British Invade Washington Again To Torpedo the SDI
by Warren J. Hamerman
The President’s “victory” on the MX missile grabbed headlines, but it was worse than Pyrrhic.
Myth of the Economic ‘Recovery’ Hides Threat to U.S. National Security
by Leo Scanlon
A report on a March 18 seminar on Capitol Hill co-sponsored by EIR and the Fusion Energy Foundation.
Washington’s ‘Helpful Advice’ to Alfonsín
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
