Volume 7, Number 29, July 29, 1980
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
On the trail of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Reagan’s Mexico connection.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
A modest proposal.
Campaign Column
by Kathleen Murphy
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
The Trilateral difference.
Economics
Business Briefs
Inspecting the IMF’s New ‘Human Face’
by Alice Roth
There’s a lot of talk about “easing conditionalities,” emphasizing the “supply side” of member nations’ economies, and generally making the IMF support economic growth. EIR’s Alice Roth checked into it: There will be no real change.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Mrs. Thatcher’s depression.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Dresdner’s role in the shakeout.
Domestic Credit
by Lydia Schulman
Carter’s budget albatross.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Farm meet resolves for open convention.
World Trade
by Richard Freeman
The French record of export success.
Trade Review
Banking
by Leif Johnson
America: hot-money zone?
Science and Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Energy-dense processing.
Special Report
U.S. Reindustrialization: The High-Technology Debate
How to salvage U.S. industrial and military capabilities has rightly become the number-one topic of debate among American policymaking circles. Our high technology giants are not geared toward industrial applications for new potential markets.
Documentation: the technology bills now before Congress, a review of the programs offered by Business Week and Scientific American, and excerpts from the Buchsbaum Report on fusion energy.
Industrial Policy Comes to the U.S. Congress
Institutional Studies: Taking a Stab at Economic Development
by Vin Berg
Energy Policy: Buchsbaum Report Mandates Fusion Energy Commitment
The LaRouche-Riemann Model: A Litmus Test for Industrial Productivity
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
American Rearmament Potential: Why a ‘Quick Fix’ Won’t Work
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s analysis of the GOP “in-width” program.
International
International Intelligence
LaRouche on Peking’s Kissinger Card
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Jimmy Carter’s tête-a-tête with Hua in Tokyo this past week led many policymakers to wonder just who’s being used for what. ‘Dark horse’ Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche blasts the new “SEATO alliance” with China as its leader instead of its target.
India Draws the Line on China
by Paul Zykofsky
A first-hand report from New Delhi.
Franco-German Entente: Dealing from Strength
by Dana Sloan
Giscard’s visit to Bonn has consolidated Franco-German military, foreign-policy, and scientific cooperation.
A diary of the state visit
How de Gaulle Built the Foundation
by Garance Phau
Impressions of London
by Laurent Murawiec
Laurent Murawiec visited policymakers there in June.
Brazil: No Letup in Insurgency
“Red Bishops” are exploiting the Papal visit.
National
National News
Power Brokers Issue Kennedy Minority Report
by Konstantin George
The Kennedy campaign has reversed itself and issued a comprehensive challenge to the new convention rules Carter pushed through to ensure his nomination. It appears the boys in the back room want to keep their options open.
Documentation: The Carter rules, the Kennedy rules, and the Kennedy “confrontation” press release
The GOP Platform: Praise for Peking, Threats to Europe
by L. Wolfe
A ‘gang of four’ of policy advisors got control of the platform committee. Reagan supporters should look very carefully and soberly at the results. Included: excerpts from the foreign policy plank.
