Volume 7, Number 27, July 15, 1980
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Sadat the cultist.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Clements’ border bash.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Synfuels, reserves, and Bradley.
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
The stench of stupidity.
Economics
Business Briefs
Nuclear Fusion Power: Ready for a Take-Off
by Richard Freeman and Charles B. Stevens
A special DOE committee closely studied the matter, declared fusion power feasible by the end of the century, and recommended at least doubling the budget for research and development. Realizing that goal would not only mean abundant energy; it would transform the industrial economy.
The DES Hoax
by Susan Cohen
What cattlemen know and consumers ought to learn
Savings Banks Fight Back
by Leif Johnson
Foreign Exchange
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Europe brings down interest rates.
Trade Review
Special Report
Chinese-Model Genocide: How It’s Happening in Iran
by Robert Dreyfuss
The Club of Rome and the Aspen Institute seek to eliminate one billion persons in the Third World, and can’t succeed without reorganizing societies along feudal Chinese lines, a process tested in Cambodia. So, they produced the “Iranian revolution”–now jeopardizing the country’s physical survival.
Iran’s Slow Economic Death
by Judith Wyer
The Shutdown of Iran’s Oil Fields
What Khomeini Has Destroyed
How the Club of Rome Planned Iran’s Devastation
by Mark Burdman
Aspen’s ‘New Set of Values’ for Iran
Carter’s Envoy Backs Bani-Sadr
International
International Intelligence
Schmidt in Moscow: A Shift in World Leadership
by Susan Welsh
Last week at the Venice summit talks, France’s Giscard and West Germany’s Schmidt took the policy reins of the Atlantic Alliance away from the unstable Carter administration. This week in Moscow, Schmidt put together a war-avoidance package with Leonid Brezhnev in the spirit of Charles de Gaulle’s “grand design.”
France: New Bomb, Same Doctrine
by Susan Welsh
Including excerpts from Giscard d’Estaing’s press conference.
Soviets Deal with Europe ... and Call Carter a Liar
by Rachel Douglas
Carter Heats the ‘Hot Spots’
by Daniel Sneider and Mark Burdman
Focus: Southeast Asia and the Israel-Syria front.
National
National News
Will Jimmy Carter Destroy the Democratic Party?
by L. Wolfe
Jimmy Carter’s renomination holds an unprecedented electoral disaster in store for the Democrats, and more and more of them, from delegates to senators, are falling away from the President’s campaign. Carter-Mondale “plumbers” are fanning out around the country-to make sure Carter triumphs at the convention, and to take over state party machines.
Documentation: Interviews and comments from Congressional sources, Democratic party officials, and the Carter plumbers themselves.
The Regional Picture: Carter’s Prospects Not Very Bright
by Kathy Burdman
White House Strategy: Carter’s Plumbers Hit the ‘Key States’
State Chairmen: Protests Against Carter’s DNC
The Rules Fight: The Truth About Delegates’ Options
In Congress: A revolt Against the President
