THE U.S. MUST HAVE ACOLONY ON MARS BY THE YEAR- 2027! [ The U.S. economy desperately needs rapid technological transformations, above the levels of existing, "off-the-shelf" technologies. This Mars project is the best weapon we have at hand, for unleashing the kind of science-driver impulse to our economy, so . urgently needed as an integral part of an effective recovery program. �TIlli How to reverse the economic policy blunders that led to 'Ir�ngate' CONTENTS QUARTERLY • An international financial blow-out: ECONOMIC the real story behind 'Irangate' • The technology-driver of the new economic upsurge: the forty- year Mars-colonization project I REPORT • The explosive impact of AIDS on the world economy EIR Quarterly Economic�Report Make check or money order payable to: First S I ,000. annual subscnption Executive Intelligence Review 5250 single issue. PO Box 17390 Quarter Washington, OL 2004 J -0390 1987 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche. Jr. Editor-in-chief: Criton Zoakos Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: Vin Berg and Susan Welsh From the Editor Contributing Editors: Uwe Parpart-Henke. Nancy Spannaus. Webster Tarpley. Christopher White. Warren Hamerman. William Wertz. Gerald Rose. Mel Klenetsky. Antony Papert. Allen Salisbury Science and Technology: Carol White Special Services: Richard Freeman Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Circulation Manager: Joseph Jennings O n Sept. 25 and 26, the Commission to Investigate Human Rights INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Violations in the United States will hold its first international confer­ Africa: Douglas DeGroot. Mary Lalevee ence, entitled, "The Third Trial of Socrates-The Trial of Lyndon Agriculture: Marcia Merry Asia: Linda de Hoyos LaRouche," in Paris, France. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg. In Paris, the center of the international conspiracy to win Amer­ Paul Goldstein Economics: David Goldman ican independence, while founding father Benjamin Franklin was European Economics: William Engdahl. ambassador there 200years ago, there will be presented the evidence Laurent Murawiec Europe: Vivian Freyre Zoakos gathered in recent days in the U.S. capital, on the case that represents lbero-America' Robyn QUIjano Dennis Small the greatest test for the survival of the United States: the case of the Law. Edward Spannaus Medicine: John Grauerholz. M.D. political persecution of Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon Middle East: Thierry Lalevee LaRouche and his associates. Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas. Konstantin George In the words of Don Victor Girauta, chairman of the Fact-Finding Special Projects: Mark Burdman Committee of the Commission to Investigate Human Rights Viola­ United States: Kathleen Klenetsky tions, the Washington hearings took place "at an historic point in INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee and Sophie Tanapura world history." He said, "Because of the truly apocalyptic nature of Bogota: Javier Almario the crisis facing humanity, decisions taken today will affect the lives Bonn: George Gregory. Rainer Apel Chicago: Paul Greenberg of every person on earth over the foreseeable decades to come." 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Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. (202) 785-1347 • TIillConteDts • Interviews Departments Economics 18 Franklin Chang Diaz 6 Report from Rio 4 Texas bank failure shows The first Hispanic-American Brazil forced to back down. cracks in the system astronaut talks to EIR's Marsha The collapse of Houston's largest Freeman about man's role in 11 Africa Report bank doesn't reflect simply "oil space. Toward an African debt club? patch" problems, but is more likely a prelude to a broader crash. 50 Report from Rome 7 IMF gets the 'no' vote in The Green menace. Feature election defeat for 51 Report from Bonn Argentina's Alfonsin 26 Nonlinear radiation: the There are few international Why was Honecker sent to Bonn? true total war bankers who are not sweating During the span of the coming profusely as they examine the 54 Dateline Mexico four to five years, almost results. certainly, a technological At the crossroads. revolution in warfare will have 8 Currency Rates completed its first phase. It will be 55 Andean Report more awesome than that which A 'Shining Path' for Colombia? 9 Foreign Exchange exploded over Hiroshima and Europe prepares for dollar crash. Nagasaki back in 1945. The full 72 Editorial electromagnetic spectrum, from When the Japanese go marching less than 10 Hertz into the garnma­ 10 City of London out. ray region, will emerge as the Why the central bankers are arsenal which dominates the arenas worried. of strategic and tactical conflict. By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. 12 Brazil achieves uranium Science Technology & enrichment and closes 30 Seminar in Munich looks nuclear fuel cycle 18 Toward a 'space agency' at radio-frequency It took eight years of intense work for all of Latin America weapons to realize the dreams of former Space Shuttle Astronaut Franklin President Getulio Vargas. Chang Diaz describes his research in fusion propulsion, and his 14 Domestic Credit AIDS Update proposal for a Latin American space agency. How far will interest rates rise? 16 Los Alamos reports 15 Labor in Focus mutation of virus 24 Brazil's ambitious program points toward Auto industry run over by "Recovery. " 65 For an Apollo-style crash continent-wide space agency research effort, and public 16 Business Briefs health measures 67 AIDS hearings: Crisis management won't work Volume 14 Number 37, September 18, 1987 Books International National 44 Washington slides toward S8 International panel blasts pact with Moscow persecution of LaRouche The Intermediate Nuclear Force "No truthful man or woman who (INF) accord would terminate the has received this testimony could U.S. nuclear presence in Western help but be struck by the power Europe, and thus leave the and influence of LaRouche and his continent prey to Soviet movement. ... We have also intimidation and blackmail-and received an enormous amount of Starue of the first President under Constitution. George glasnost is a key part of the evidence, alarming in its Washington, by Hoodon, in the State Capital in Rich­ process. implications, of the violation of mond, Virginia, along with his present-day successor. fundamental constitutional rights 46 Arrest of Italian arms of LaRouche and those associated 34 The U.S. Constitution: two smugglers rocks West with him and his presidential hundred years later Europe's 'Irangate' campaign ... ." "Our federal Constitution of 1787 apparatus 62 Pope John Paul II has endured the tests of time, as "It's as if Rockefeller had been celebrates bicentennial of no other in the history of mankind arrested," said one observer. has been able to meet that test," U.S. Constitution writes Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., 48 Real issues avoided in The speech the Pontiff delivered in a Bicentennial tribute. "This Danish elections on Sept. IO in Miami, Florida, at year, we celebrate the anniversary a meeting with President Reagan. of this Constitution with the S2 Chad strikes blow against publication of a major work 64 Blind terror threat to Qaddafi currently in progress at the printer, public figures historian Graham Lowry's How the Nation Was Won." S3 Pakistan: State Dept. feeds 6S For an Apollo-style crash anti-American wave research effort, and public 37 A little Bicentennial health measures detective story S6 International Intelligence The testimony of Dr.