Volume 8, Number 18, May 5, 1981
Departments
Art Investor
by Dr. D. Stephen Pepper
How an auction works.
From New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
Thatcher gets the deep freeze.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who’s pushing genocide in Mexico?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
The mad scramble in Iran.
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Reactivation of the BLA.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
The economics of nuclear and coal.
Economics
NICs and the Shape of Things To Come
by David Goldman
David Goldman on the Guido Carli proposal for the “Newly Industrialized Countries.”
Congress Scurries Behind Stockman Budget Plans
by Barbara Dreyfuss
No major budget bill has yet contested the cuts that will sabotage U.S. productivity.
Time Runs Out for a Challenge to Eurodollar Takeover of the U.S.
by Kathy Burdman
Banking scenarios become reality, reports Kathy Burdman.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
BIS joins Wharton on crisis debate.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Commerce announces GNP miracle.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Why the Treasury threw a tantrum.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
Will the Shuttle Relaunch America?
by Marsha Freeman
NASA Creates New Economic Leaps
by Dr. John Schoonover
The technological payoff.
U.S. strategy: Unprepared for the New Era of Beam Weaponry
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
Mutually Assured Deterrence is outdated-so is the current U.S. military debate.
Soviet Space Plans Reach for the Stars
by Marsha Freeman
Allies Protest the NASA Cutbacks
by Dana Sloan
Documentation: An exclusive interview with French scientific research official Pierre Aigrain.
International
Yamani Offers Price Drop and Middle East Stability
by Robert Dreyfuss
The full scope of the Saudi oil minister’s April initiatives.
Will Haig Succeed in Splitting Lebanon?
by Judith Wyer
Moves and countermoves around the partition conspiracy.
Unholy Alliance with the KGB’s Arabs
by Mark Burdman
Israel’s Begin makes preelection use of Lebanon.
Emergency U.S. Policy Toward the Endangered Nation of Lebanon
by Lyndon H. LaRouche
A statement by EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., on behalf of the National Democratic Policy Committee.
Behind the Terror Outbreak
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Brandt Faction Mounts Offensive Against West German Government
by Susan Welsh
A three-part report by Susan Welsh.
FDP’s Baum Wrecks Counterintelligence
Schmidt Fights Back As National Leader
International Intelligence
National
The Conrail Sale and the New Robber Barons
by Leif Johnson
Leif Johnson analyzes the way Conrail’s competitors have restored the old “trust” system, draining capital from rail users and trying to pick up Conrail lines again, now that the taxpayer has poured vast revenue into them.
Global 2000 Author Gerald Barney Praises Fidel Castro and Mexico’s CP
by Lonnie Wolfe
An interview with a key proselytizer for mass extermination.
Justice Department Outsmarts Itself
by Richard Magraw
Richard Magraw’s firsthand report from the New Jersey trial of three Teamster leaders. The case turned against the federal witnesses.
National News
