Volume 14, Number 37, September 18, 1987
Interviews
Franklin Chang Díaz
by Marsha Freeman
The first Hispanic-American astronaut talks to EIR’s Marsha Freeman about man’s role in space.
Feature
Nonlinear Radiation: The True Total War
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
During the span of the coming four to five years, almost certainly, a technological revolution in warfare will have completed its first phase. It will be more awesome than that which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945. The full electromagnetic spectrum, from less than 10 Hertz into the gamma-ray region, will emerge as the arsenal which dominates the arenas of strategic and tactical conflict.
Seminar in Munich Looks at Radio-Frequency Weapons
by George Gregory
AIDS Update
Los Alamos Reports Mutation of AIDS Virus
For an Apollo-Style Crash Research Effort, and Public Health Measures
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
AIDS Hearings: Crisis Management Won’t Work
Departments
Report from Rio
by Andrea Olivieri
Brazil Forced To Back Down.
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
Toward an African Debt Club?
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
The Green Menace.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Why Was Honecker Sent to Bonn?
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Valdez
At the Crossroads.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
A “Shining Path” for Colombia?
Editorial
When the Japanese go marching out.
Science & Technology
Toward a ‘Space Agency’ for All of Latin America
by Marsha Freeman
Space Shuttle Astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz describes his research in fusion propulsion, and his proposal for a Latin American space agency.
Brazil’s Ambitious Program Points Toward Continent-Wide Space Agency
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Economics
Texas Bank Failure Shows Cracks in the System
by Christopher White
The collapse of Houston’s largest bank doesn’t reflect simply “oil patch” problems, but is more likely a prelude to a broader crash.
IMF Gets the ‘No’ Vote in Election Defeat for Argentina’s Alfonsín
by Cynthia R. Rush
There are few international bankers who are not sweating profusely as they examine the results.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Europe Prepares for Dollar Crash.
City of London
by Stephen Lewis
Why the Central Bankers Are Worried.
Brazil Achieves Uranium Enrichment and Closes Nuclear Fuel Cycle
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
It took eight years of intense work to realize the dreams of former President Getulio Vargas.
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
How Far Will Interest Rates Rise?
Labor in Focus
by Joyce Fredman
Auto Industry Run Over by “Recovery.”
Business Briefs
Books
The U.S. Constitution: Two Hundred Years Later
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Our federal Constitution of 1787 has endured the tests of time, as no other in the history of mankind has been able to meet that test,” writes Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., in a Bicentennial tribute. “This year, we celebrate the anniversary of this Constitution with the publication of a major work currently in progress at the printer, historian Graham Lowry’s How the Nation Was Won.”
A Little Bicentennial Detective Story
by Anton Chaitkin
Looks into a new angle on Shays’ Rebellion, the uprising that convinced many American leaders that a permanent national government was needed.
The American Debt Crisis: Need It Destroy Us?
by David Goldman
Reviews The National Debt by Lawrence Malkin and Beyond Our Means by Alfred L. Malabre, Jr.
Books in Brief
Mars 1999 by Brian O’Leary, and Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins.
Books Received
International
Washington Slides Toward Pact with Moscow
by Konstantin George
The Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) accord would terminate the U.S. nuclear presence in Western Europe, and thus leave the continent prey to Soviet intimidation and blackmail—and glasnost is a key part of the process.
Arrest of Italian Arms Smugglers Rocks West Europe’s ‘Irangate’ Apparatus
by Umberto Pascali
“It’s as if Rockefeller had been arrested,” said one observer.
Real Issues Avoided in Danish Elections
by Poul Rasmussen
Chad Strikes Blow against Qaddafi
by Mary Lalevée
Pakistan: State Dept. Feeds Anti-American Wave
by Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
International Panel Blasts Persecution of LaRouche
by Nicholas F. Benton
“No truthful man or woman who has received this testimony could help but be struck by the power and influence of LaRouche and his movement.... We have also received an enormous amount of evidence, alarming in its implications, of the violation of fundamental constitutional rights of LaRouche and those associated with him and his presidential campaign.”
Pope John Paul II Celebrates Bicentennial of U.S. Constitution
The speech the Pontiff delivered on Sept. 10 in Miami, Florida, at a meeting with President Reagan.
Blind Terror Threat to Public Figures
by Ira Liebowitz
For an Apollo-Style Crash Research Effort, and Public Health Measures
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
The testimony of Dr. John Grauerholz before the President’s commission on AIDS Sept. 9.
AIDS Hearings: Crisis Management Won’t Work
Elephants & Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Jackson and the Democrats’ Dilemma — Trump Card—But Whose Is It? — Pat Robertson on the Skids.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Washington Columnist Upbraids Press Corps.
National News
