Volume 13, Number 38, September 26, 1986
Interviews
Rafink Skaf
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The senior officer at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization discusses why he doesn’t want spraying to kill locusts in Africa.
Departments
Andean Report
by Jaime Ramírez
Foreign Investment, or Narco-Dollars?
Strategic Map
Soviet irregular warfare, its staging grounds, and its finances.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Nuclear Power: The Challenge Grows.
Report from Paris
Fight for Cattenom Wins German Allies.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Shultz Tries To Recuperate Alliance.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who Stands behind Bartlett?
Editorial
“Frighteningly Sane.”
Economics
The U.S. Goes to War ... against Its Own Allies
by Christopher White
Volcker and friends are trying to save America’s bankrupt banks.
U.S., UN Watch as Locusts Sweep Africa
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Four U.S.-financed DC-7 planes equipped for spraying have sat idle for a week in Senegal, because the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, with the backing of the U.S. State Department, has blocked their use elsewhere.
Europe Nervous over Wall Street Crash
by William Engdahl
Biological Holocaust: Coverup of AIDS, Other Epidemics: Ibero-America near African Conditions
by Jorge Bazúa and Valerie Rush
Strategic Minerals: Pivot for the Economic Reconstruction of Bolivia
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
Banking Trouble and the Dollar.
Domestic Credit
by David Goldman
Real Estate: A 25% Crash or Worse.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
There Goes Your Milk.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology,
The Most Complex Mission America Has Conducted
In a Sept. 5 SDI experiment, a Delta rocket-launch orbited two vehicles to test a new sensing and tracking capability—and even the project managers were astounded at their success. A partial transcript of Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson’s press conference report.
What Future for the U.S. Space Program?
by Marsha Freeman
Reports on the clash of views at the Eascon conference, sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Fusion Reactor Technology for the 21st Century
by Dr. V.K. Rohatgi
Part II of Dr. V.K. Rohatgi’s review of scientific progress toward the limitless energy source of the future.
Operation Juárez
Continental Integration: The Peronist Experiment
The concluding part of Chapter 1, “History of the Battle for Integration,” in EIR’s serialization of the book, Ibero-American Integration: 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000.
Feature
Who Is Really behind the Mideast Terror Campaign
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dramatic recent U.S. advances in the Strategic Defense Initiative mean that for the Soviet Union, victory through low-intensity warfare has taken on a greater relative weight in war planning. The result: an unprecedented war of terror across every major theater of operations.
Moscow’s Direction of Islamic Terror
by Joseph Brewda
The intelligence that the U.S. State Department has systematically blocked out: the role of the Syrian Popular Party (PPS) and other Soviet-aligned groupings.
Switzerland: Sanctuary for the World’s Terrorists
by Thierry Lalevée
The Planning of Islamic Terrorism
The shuttle diplomacy—from Moscow to Damascus to Tripoli to Beirut to Zurich—which led up to the current terrorist outbreak.
International
France Leads the War on Soviet-Controlled Terrorism
by Thierry Lalevée
The Chirac government has responded to the current unprecedented explosion of terrorism, by initiating emergency measures appropriate to wartime.
Documentation: From statements by Premier Chirac and other past and present government officials.
Moscow Formally Ranks LaRouche and Friends as ‘Extremely Dangerous’
The Sept. 15 issue of the Moscow weekly New Times carries a five-page libelous attack against EIR’s founding editor and his associates—and what is made perfectly clear is that the Kremlin wants him dead.
Who Is Ernst Henry
New Yalta Energy Policy: The ‘Energy Conservation Future’ of Germany’s Social Democrats
by Rainer Apel
‘Theology of Liberation’: Reviving the Gnostic Cults
by Leonardo Servadio
A conference report from Madrid by Leonardo Servadio.
International Intelligence
National
The Looming Prospect of U.S. Economic Emergency
by Nicholas F. Benton
NBC ‘Jail LaRouche’ Plot Is Derailed
NBC’s plan to set him up for assassination was thwarted on Sept. 17, as friends and supporters posted a $256,451 appeal bond with a Federal court.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Weinberger, Reagan Oppose “Posse Comitatus” Repeal — Meese “in Full Accord” with French Anti-Terror.
Congressional Closeup
by Kathleen Klenetsky
National News
