Volume 15, Number 34, August 26, 1988
Interviews
Prof. Dr. Hans-Philipp Pöhn
by Gabriele Liebig and Jutta Dinkermann
The former infectious diseases chief for the West German Office of Health discusses the likelihood of an early change in AIDS policy.
Departments
Report from Africa
by Thierry Lalevée
The “Continent of the 21st Century.”
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Mass Flight from Perestroika.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
India’s Eighth Five Year Plan.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
President Presses Ahead on Austerity.
Andean Report
by Mark Sonnenblick
Ecuador Disrupts Ibero-American Unity.
Editorial
The World Food Crisis.
Book Reviews
Conservatism Revisited: Not Much To Offer Today
by William Jones
Right from the Beginning, by Patrick Buchanan.
The Philosophical Roots of Liberalism
by Peter M. Schuller
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
No Way To Win the Peace
by Mary McCourt Burdman
Troubled Days of Peace: Mountbatten and South East Asia Command 1945-46, by Peter Dennis.
Sophistry on Behalf of Moscow’s Troops
by Daniel Platt
Revolutionaries and Functionaries: The Dual Face of Terrorism, by Richard Falk.
The Human Mind Is Not a Computer
by Warren J. Hamerman
From Message to Mind: Directions in Neurobiology, ed. by S.S. Easter et al., and Neuroelectric Systems, by Sid Deutsch and Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakov.
One of the Greatest Choreographers
by Katherine Kanter
Knud Arne Juergensen’s The Bournonville Ballets, a Photographic Record 1844-1933.
Books Received
Economics
USDA Crop Projections: Anatomy of a Big Lie
by Marcia Merry
Even the UN bureaucracy is predicting massive shortages, while the Department of Agriculture says not to worry.
IMF Forces Fall in Brazilian Population
Brazil’s expected population reduced by 20 million—an IMF “achievement”.
Currency Rates
Ukraine: Water Shortages Compound Food Crisis
by Irene Beaudry
International Credit
by William Engdahl
Are We Repeating October 1987?
Agriculture
by Robert Baker
Another Handout to the Grain Cartel.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
The Case of the Missing Molecule
by Dr. John Grauerholz
Report on Dr. Jacques Benveniste and colleagues’ astounding experimental results, and the witchhunt against Benveniste.
An Extraordinary Discovery That Should Revolutionize Biology
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Feature
Ibero-Americans Map War-Plan against Drugs, IMF
by Robyn Quijano
A report on the Panama meeting to plan a “Second Amphictyonic Congress,” and build a movement to bring about an Ibero-American heads of state summit in 1992, to unify the continent and end austerity economics.
Declaration of Panama
The full text of the final communiqué.
Policies for an Integrated Continent
Reports from the task forces on Economic Sovereignty, Integration, and Foreign Debt; Security, Defense, and the Armed Forces; Integration of the Labor Movement; the Fight Against the Drug Trade; and Science and Technology.
Argentine Presidential Hopeful Salutes Meeting
A message from Carlos Saúl Menem.
International
Zia Assassination: A Soviet Act of War
by Linda de Hoyos
Carried out with the evident acquiescence of the “New Yalta” crowd in the United States.
Philippines: The Shattering of the Myth of the ‘Independent’ New People’s Army
An investigative report, exclusive to EIR.
Assad Weighs Options for Syria’s Crisis
by Selim al Khodr
Spain: González Creeps Toward ‘Dialogue’ as Terrorists Escalate Attacks
by Katherine Kanter
Bills Seek To Grab Panama Canal for U.S.
by Gretchen Small
Documentation: General Noriega’s speech on Resistance Day—the day he didn’t step down.
International Intelligence
National
The Battle for the Presidency Is On
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Vice President Bush’s convention speech has been touted as the test of his fitness to lead, but in truth, a series of actions by him and the President prior to the convention set the direction for the remainder of Campaign ’88.
EIR’s Benton Assaulted in New Orleans
The Washington newsman was the victim of what police believe was an attack by professionals—only a week after he provoked the President’s “invalid” Dukakis quip.
Judge Whitewashes U.S. Misconduct in the Boston LaRouche Trial
Documentation: From Judge Robert Keeton’s Memorandum and Order.
NDPC Seeks To Quash Writ of Execution
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
