Volume 15, Number 20, May 13, 1988
Interviews
Alice K. Harding
The astrophysicist and pulsar theorist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland discusses Supernova 1987A.
AIDS Update
More Children Dying of AIDS
by Mary Lalevée
Bill on AIDS Passed by Senate
by William Jones
WHO Scored on AIDS Policy in Africa
Army Data Show Teen Spread of AIDS
Departments
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
More Children Dying of AIDS.
Report from Rome
by Rosanna Impiccini
Drug Consumption Is Up.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A “Regional Crisis Spot” Called Europe.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Peruvian Terrorism ... from Within.
Editorial
Gorbachov’s East Bloc Crisis.
Science & Technology
Scientists Search for Supernova’s Pulsar
by David Cherry
The neutrino burst from Supernova 1987A marked the formation of a neutron star within it. But is it a pulsar? David Cherry reports on this extreme condition of matter.
SN1987A: Eventually a Small Crab Nebula
Interview with Alice K. Harding, astrophysicist and pulsar theorist.
Economics
The State and Local Revenue Collapse Shock
by Christopher White
As LaRouche had predicted, this overlooked effect of the Black Monday market meltdown is now coming to the fore.
East Bloc Collapse: Soviets Face ‘Scissors Crisis’
by Scott Thompson
The collapse of Eastern European economies that the Soviets have heretofore been successful in looting, is combined with a 1920s-style decline in hard currency earnings from raw materials sales.
In Move Against Cartel, Brazilian Military Backs Mining Nationalization
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Brazilian patriots have struck the biggest blow for sovereignty against the international usurers, since the debt moratorium was defeated.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
The Global Water Crisis Can Be Easily Solved
by Nicholas F. Benton
Insufficient supply and management of fresh water resources threaten billions of human lives with terrible immediacy. But the water projects that could transform the situation, from North America to Africa, have been identified and designed.
What Should Be Done about India’s Stagnant Economy
by Ramtanu Maitra
Over the last year the Indian economy has remained “on hold,” handicapped by a severe drought in 1987 that ravaged an already stagnant agricultural sector. But rather than the drought temporarily halting the economy’s growth, it has exposed the glaring deficiencies of India’s physical economy. Those deficiencies center on lack of infrastructure. A case study.
Water Key to War or Peace in Mideast
by Scott Thompson
Egypt may face the choice of shutting down hydroelectric generation at the Aswan Dam or cutting off water to farming.
International
1988 Polish Crisis: Worse than 1980-81
by Konstantin George
Even as President Reagan praised Gorbachov’s human rights record, the Soviets ordered bloody repression of strikers in Poland.
Gorbachov Launches Millennium by Embracing Cult of ‘Third Rome’
by Luba George and Konstantin George
French Elections Wake Up Europe
by Muriel Mirak
Italian Red Death Threat Linked to U.S. Mob Channels
Panama: Labor Support Breaks U.S. Stranglehold
by Robyn Quijano
Documentation: Final and General Resolution of the labor organizations — General Noriega’s remarks to the closing session of the International Trade Union Solidarity Congress.
After the Afghan Accord, Another ‘Lebanon’ in Pakistan?
by Ramtanu Maitra
State Department-Moscow Deals Will Bring Genocide to Horn of Africa
by Mark Burdman
Iran, Saudi Arabia on Collision Course
by Thierry Lalevée
Paul Sweezy Joins the Trilateral Commission
Kim Philby: The Spy Saga Rolls On
by Allen Douglas
International Intelligence
National
President Reagan Drifts toward the Falls
by Webster G. Tarpley
With little time remaining before Reagan’s scheduled May 25 departure for his Moscow summit, the issue of whether the President may be non compos mentis according to the provisions of the XXV Amendment is again on the front burner.
LaRouche Scores a Victory in Mistrial in Boston
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The headlines told it all, including, “LaRouche Jury Would Have Voted Acquittal.”
LaRouche Outlines Plans to D.C. Press
by Nicholas F. Benton
‘Soviet Military Power 1988’: Frank Carlucci’s Little Fraud
by Leo F. Scanlon
A review of the Pentagon document, in which the word spetsnaz never even occurs.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dukakis and the “Massachusetts Miracle.”
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Inter-American Group Plugs Drug Legalization.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
