EIR Volume 13, Number 20, May 16, 1986

The Tokyo Economic Declaration adopted by the world’s leaders is an agreement to mutually enforce the very policies that have driven the Western economies to the brink of ruin.

Text of the Tokyo Economic Declaration

A Japanese View: Cooperating To Avert Disaster

Excerpts from a speech delivered by Himshi Uchida, head of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry, on March 13, in Tokyo.

New Disease Epidemics in Brazil Show Water and Sanitation Collapse

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

Israel: Dirty Banker Recanati Gets Unusual Message

by Mark Burdman

Peres: ‘Economic Progress Is the Key’

Agriculture: Swiss Cartel Poisons U.S. Dairy Cows

by Marcia Merry

Foreign Exchange

by David Goldman

Dollar Slide Continues after Summit.

Labor in Focus

by Marianna Wertz

P-9 strike: Labor’s Nightmare.

Science & Technology

The Soviet Disaster: Accident—or War Push?

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

Western Safety Standards Make Nuclear the Safest Energy Around

by Jon Gilbertson

Chernobyl: An Archaic Reactor Design

Interviews with: Joseph M. Hendrie, former chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Sue Gagner, Public-affairs officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Paul North, Manager of Nuclear Reactor Research and Technology for EG&G Idaho at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; Walter Loewenstein, deputy director of the nuclear power division, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, Calif.; Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University (chaired Nuclear Regulatory Commission-sponsored study group of the American Physical Society on “Radiological Consequences of Severe Nuclear Accidents”); and Petr Beckmann, professor of electrical engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Interviews

Departments

Economics

Science & Technology

International

Feature

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