Volume 9, Number 2, January 12, 1982

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Departments

Science & Technology

by Robert Zubrin

NASA vs. Stockman: The XV-15 Potential.

Interview

by Sophie Tanapura

Jean-Claude Martini, a leading Paris gold trader.

Energy Insider

by William Engdahl

A plan to dismantle energy.

Interview

by Cecelia Soto de Estévez

Akbar Ehemad, former chief of Iran’s nuclear power program.

Middle East Report

by Robert Dreyfuss

Menachem Begin’s calculations.

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

An end-of-the-year economic package.

Eye on Washington

by Stanley Ezrol

Economics

Four Steps To Get Out of the New Depression

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Paul Volcker Unveils His Warfare Agenda for 1982

by Richard Freeman

Mitterrand’s Economic Policies: Galloping Toward a Disaster

by Laurent Murawiec

Currency Rates

Foreign Exchange

by David Goldman

Rollercoaster for the dollar.

Banking

by Kathy Burdman

Paul Volcker to the rescue.

World Trade

by Mark Sonnenblick

Business Briefs

Special Report

Systems Analysis Is White-Collar Genocide

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Part Three of LaRouche’s dissection of econometric fraud turns to the geometric and philosophical principles underlying an economic approach that corresponds to the scientific laws of the universe. Future EIR contributions on this subject will include Economics Editor David Goldman’s history of “statistical” economics from William Petty to the Wharton School.

International

Economic Dangers Worst, Schmidt Warns Reagan

by Nora Hamerman and Graham Lowry

An analysis of the U.S.-West German summit in Washington, the extraordinary press climate surrounding it, and the potential Reagan Administration shifts in the aftermath.

Documentation: Excerpts from U.S. press commentary, from a Schmidt interview, and from the official communiqué.

Italy: Drug Overlords Tied to the Dozier case?

by Nora Hamerman

The Mafia, Red Brigades, and NATO angles.

Third World: The Fight for Nuclear Technology Imports

by Timothy Rush

A report on an international conference in Mexico.

ETA: A Case Study in the Jesuit Control of Terrorism

by Richard Schulman

Part One of an historical exposé.

International Intelligence

National

Why Genocide Is Now Respectable in the U.S.

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Selections from LaRouche’s Dec. 31 speech to a conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees.

AAAS Meeting Backs Global 2000 Premises

by Paul Gallagher

The American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, D.C.

Abscam: Pratt Decision Aimed To Throw Senate Vote

by Mary Jane Freeman

Last month’s federal court ruling against Sen. Harrison Williams’s due-process motions in the Abscam case.

Sheridan’s Operations Against Teamsters

by Richard McGraw

The third and final part of EIR’s dossier.

Princeton and the Chris Schmid Case

by Sanford Roberts

Former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, in a Supreme Court case which has drawn wide attention, argues that Princeton University has unlimited rights to hire terrorist supporters and exclude their critics, like the ICLC’s Schmid.

The Dartmouth Case

National News

Civilian Laser Fusion Slated for Scrap Heap

by Dr. Steven Bardwell

Fiscal austerity threatens an essential program.

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