Volume 8, Number 30, August 4, 1981
Departments
Interview
by Stanley Ezrol
Norman Ture muses about an industrial recovery under Reagan.
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
New lobbying push for MHD program.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Sir Harold Beeley’s U.S. tour.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Tension at U.S.-Mexico business meeting.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
A not-so-strange dispute.
Economics
Group of Seven Hands Over Policy to the Central Banks
by David Goldman
At Ottawa, Western governments abandoned their economic sovereignty to the BIS, IMF, and OECD, who are as incompetent in the event of crisis as they are malevolent.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Tracking the money supply.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Central banks send out alarm signals.
Gold
by Montresor
Those who know, accumulate.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
U.S Soviet farm trade at standstill.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
U.S. Defense Policy: Back to Schlesinger’s Aura of Power
by Criton Zoakos
The Weinberger “secret guidance” amounts to the old doctrines of limited nuclear war-plus a growing tendency toward first-strike bluff, writes Criton Zoakos.
Documentation: What the U.S.S.R.’s Military Leaders Are Saying About War and Warfare
by Rachel Douglas
Free Naval Policy from Geopolitics
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Sea power illustrates the principles of logistics, personnel, and strategic preparedness elaborated almost 200 years ago and scrapped by the U.S. in the McNamara era.
Has the Pentagon Been Brainwashed?
by Lonnie Wolfe
How the “Delphic” technique has been used to convince the Joint Chiefs and NSC that the U.S.S.R. will confine itself to playing games.
International
Who Lost at the Summit: Schmidt ... and Reagan
by Vivian Zoakos
Will Washington Finally Halt Israel’s War Rampage in Lebanon?
by Nancy Coker
New Arab Moves Toward Moscow
by Judith Wyer
Propelled by Washington.
Documentation: Two Jordanian statements.
López Portillo Charges International Conspiracy Against Mexican Peso
by Dennis Small
Documentation: The accusations, and the New York financial press.
How Currency Warfare Worked in 1976
Two Case Studies in Press ‘Terrorism’
The Scenario for a New ‘Cristero Revolt’
A second flank.
Documentation: Statements by the Wall Street Journal and Father Theodore Hesburgh’s aide.
The Italian P-2 Socialists Launch a Counteroffensive Against the Judiciary
by Umberto Pascali
Mitterrand Clinches National Socialism
by Dana Sloan
DOS Backs Peking’s Cambodia Plan
by Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
The Trilateral Commission’s Rapid End to Democracy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Demystifying exactly what kind of “one world” the Trilaterals believe in, and how they intend to achieve it.
Leftists Try Coup in California Party
by Warren Hamerman
Would-be “Robespierre” Democrats and Warren Hamerman’s commentary on their political vulnerabilities.
Winpisinger on the Jacobin Gameplan
The machinists’ union chief, a social-democratic spokesman, discusses mass insurgency, defense cuts, and avoidance of the Volcker issue.
Growth Plan Could Revive a Crucial Industrial Belt
by Laurence Hecht
The Pittsburgh-Cleveland waterway project and its implications for transport and heavy industry.
National News
