Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 14, Number 1, January 2, 1987 10 Three�judge panel hears challenges to 7 Judges strike down the "automatic cuts" 2 London Stock Exchange blackballs Mer­ Gramm:Rudman budget-cutting amend-· provision of Gramm-Rudman. rill Lynch for "disreputable practices." ment. 10 IMF cuts Peru off from any further . 17 OPEC oil ministers meet on oil price 21 Saudi Arabia launches oil price war . lending from international money markets. collapse, as oil falls below $lO/barrel. against Britain. 27 Swedish stock market collapses by 5%, 21 Federal Reserve vice-chairman Preston 24 Argentine labor federation holds gener­ second-largest drop in its history. Martin resigns. al strike against IMF. 28 Brazil announces first wage-price con­ 21 House Armed Services Committee 29 LaRouche issues call for an oil import trols since 1964 coup. votes,to reduce military pensions by 17%. tax to protect American. producers. 28 Brazilian President Jose Sarney unveils 24-30 Peru completes largest drug bust in his "Cruzado Plan." history. 28 Rise in U.S. unemployment in Febru­ ary was the largest since May 1980. 14 France's I ,200-megawatt Superphenix breeder reactor goes on line. 23 Reports from Voyager indicate that Ur­ anus has a magnetic field. 28 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing the crew. 1986: a tumultu9us year Soviet International Affairs journal com­ 7 Philippines national elections; opposi­ 1 Moscow's Georgii Arbatov proclaims plains of worsening relations between tion to President Marcos cries "fraud." that Palme was murdered by "reaction." U.S.S.R. and Sweden. 11 During a European tour of Argentine Disinformation campaign launched to pin 7 Reagan announces economic sanctions trade union leader Alberto Campos, leaders the assassination on LaRouche. against Qaddafi. of Italy's largest martiime union join the 2 West German Christian Democrats lose 20 Swedish Navy Commander Hans von Schiller Institute Trade Union Commis­ majority in Schleswig-Holstein elections. Hofsten warns of possible Soviet surprise sion. 6 New Soviet Central Coinmittee elected, strike against Sweden. 12 Five Iranian activists occupy the Peru­ heavily weighted toward the military. 22 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres ' vian embassy in Copenhagen, to show 12 Spanish voters pass referendum in fa­ announces his "Marshall Plan" for Mideast "solidarity" with Shining Path terrorists. vor of NATO membership. development, in a speech in London. 18 German Green party parliamentarian 13 Victor Gunnarsson arrested as suspect 24 U.S. begins naval maneuvers off Lib­ Otto Schily launches investigation of in Palme hit. International media campaign yan coast. Chancellor Kohl for perjury. tries to link him to LaRouche. 27 Prince Charles's former valet admitted 21 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger writes letter 14-16 Peru's President Garcia in Argen­ to hospital for AIDS. to world's bishops denouncing the rise of tina. 31 South African President Botha an­ satanism. 14"17 Libya's Qaddafi hosts conference., of nounces sweeping reforms in apartheid 25 Soviet Communist Party's 27th Con­ 700 terrorists. system. gress begins. 16 Gaullist RPR party sweeps French . 28 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is elections. assassinated. 19 Victor Gunnarsson released for lack of evidence against him. 20 Jacques Chirac named French premier. 29' Italian court acquits three Bulgarians and three Turks in 1981 attempt to assassi­ nate the Pope. 1 White House says it will extend compli­ 4 President delivers State of the Union ad­ 12 Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) begins ance with unratified SALT II Treaty indefi-. dress, emphasizing the economic "recov­ hearings on Mexican "corruption." nitely. ery." 12 Drive launched in California for Propo­ 14 U.S. Attorneyin Boston William Weld 24 Supreme Court refuses to block extra­ sition 64 referendum to stop AIDS. issues memo inviting DOJ, FBI, and other dition to Israel of John Demjanjuk, accused 18 LaRouche Democrats Janice Hart and officials from around the country to meet­ of being a Nazi war criminal. Milrk Fairchild win Illinois primary for_ ing to gather evidence against LaRouche, secretary of state and It. governor. citing inadequacy of Boston grand jury in­ 27 Trilateral Commission Executive Di­ vestigation. rector Paul Revay predicts: "Within one 29 LaRouche delivers State of the Union month, you won't hear much about La­ speech in Washington, D.C., highlighting }\ouche any more. Illinois was just a slip­ danger of economic blowout in 1986. up by a local machine." © 1987 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. U.S. multifamily housing starts drop Japan announces it is world's largest credi­ House action to impose an oil import tax. 21.9%. tor nation. ·20 Israeli Supreme Court Justice Moshe Argentina announces that it has begun im­ U.S. gives WHO $2 million to combat Bejski issues report damning heads of ma­ porting meat, on first anniversary of Presi­ AIDS. jor Israeli banks for undermining the econ­ dent Alfonsln's Austral Plan. USDA reveals that 115 of all fannland that omy with corrupt banking practices. 1 United Steel�orkers Of America charges changed hands was due to foreclosure. 22 President Reagan refuses to back oil that U.S. steel productiori is insufficient for 19 U.S. Budget Office warns that 350,000 impOrt tariff, in meeting with governors security emergency. \ troops could be lost through Gramm-Rud-. and state representatives from oil-prod!lc­ 13 U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Volck­ man. ing states. er demands emergency powers to.arrange 24 Britain gets $14.3 million in SDI con­ 23 U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments for banks to take over failing institutions tracts. on constitutIonality of Gramm-Rudffian. across state lines. 18 �xplosion of Titan 34D rocket creates 3 Delta rocket explodes on launch, fourth 7 Paris conference of the Fusion Energy . heavy launch emergency. launch failure in a row. Foundation on "The Importance of the 20 SDI experiment using new guidance 23 President's Natiopal Commission on Method of Louis Pasteur for Conquering technology destroys target at 12,000 feet: Space issues its report, "Pioneering the AIDS and other Pandemics. " Space Frontier," which calls for colonizing 9 Rogers Commission report hits NASA Mars by the year 2015. cost-cutting, amorfg reasons for the Chal­ lenger disaster. 19 NASA cancels Centaur rocket pro- 2 Terrorists bomb TWA jet, killing four. 1 Founding conference of United Workers 6 Warsaw Pact summit. Union of South Africa, launched by M.G. 6 Swedish warships open fire on foreign 5 France expels two Libyan diplomats. 5 Bombing of the "La Belle" discotheque Buthelezi in opposition to African National submarine. in West Berlin. Congress. 7 Anti-nuclear riots at Brokdorf facility in 6 EIR Paris offices bombed by Action Di­ 1 Thai Parliament dissolved. West Germany. rect spinoff "Black War." 2 Norwegian Conservative Prime Minister 14 Panamanian 'government stops ship Pia 10 West Germany expels. two Libyan dip- Willoch resigns; Labor Party's Gro Vesta with East German arms aboard, be� lomats. Brundtland to form new 'government. lieved headed for Peruvian terrorists. 12·17· Swedish Prime Minister Carlsson 4-6 Tokyo summit of top Western indus­ 15 Elections in Lower Saxony, West Ger­ visits Moscow, which demands that Swe­ trial nations and Japan; backs IMF surveil­ many. den purge pro-Western influences. lance of national economies; pledges coop- 15 Demonstration against French nuclear . 14 U.S. bombing raid against Libya. eration against terrorism. plant in Cattenom. 17 Emergency meeting of European for - ' 12 Patriots for Germany emerges as new 18 Peru's President Garda puts down eign ministers to discuss Libya bombing. political party, files 100 candidates in Shining Path prison uprising. 22 OAS holds 'anti-drug meeting in Brazil Lower Saxony elections. 20 Attempted assassination of Peru's Gar­ in memory of slain Colombian justice min­ 18·19 Riots at Wack�rsdorf site of nuclear da. ister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. processing facility in Bavaria, West Ger­ 21 Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses 22·23 Fusion Energy Foundation-Schiller many. Schiller Institute conference in Mainz­ Institute conference in Tokyo: "The Stra­ 21 Pro-NATO government sweeps Dutch Hechtheim, West Germany: "How Soviet tegic Defense Initiative: Its Strategic, Eco­ elections. Low Intensity Warfare Targets the West." nomic, and Scientific Dimensions." 25 Colombian presidential elections: Vir­ 25 NATO Secretary General Lord Car­ 23 South African President Botha abol­ gilio Barco wins by wide margin. rington calls latest Soviet arms offers "en­ ishes "'pass laws." 30 Punjab police evict Khalistani separa­ couraging. " 26 Chernobyl nuclear accident in tists from Golden Temple in Amritsar. U.S.S.R. 9 LaRouche press conference at Washing­ Forty-six senators demand that SDI spend­ 4 Jo,nathan Pollard admits espionage for ton, D.C. National Press Club, highlights ing be cut by nearly $2 billion. Israel in U.S. court. charge of White House Chief of Staff I)on 5 NBC-TV interviews terrorist fugitive 9 Supreme Court strikes down protection ' Regan's involvement in Merrill Lynch's Abu Abbas, refuses to say where he is. for handicapped newborns, drug-money la ndering. 17 Teamsters' President Jackie Presser in­ 13·15 Mark Fairchild, Democrati� nomi­ 30 Second English edition of Dope, Inc.,' dicted. nee for lieutenant governor in Illinois, is Boston Bankers and Soviet Commissars, 22 Supporters of CaliforniaProposition 64 denied entry to the party's convention. published by The New Benjamin Franklin file690, 000, signatures to put referendum 25 Proposition 64 certified for California House. on the ballot. ballot. 27 Reagan announces U.S. will no longer 30 Supreme Court upholds anti-sodomy comply unilaterally with SALT, details So­ laws. viet treaty violations. Largest-ever U.S. corporate bankruptcy Pot confiscated in Oklahoma reported to Locust infestation reaches disastrous pro­ (LTV).