Volume 9, Number 26, July 6, 1982

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Departments

Interview

by Laurent Murawiec

Economist Robert Triffin.

Interview

by George Gregory

H. A. Sieman, manager of the West German Federal Association of Exporters.

Inside Canada

by Pierre Beaudry

A breakaway ally scenario.

Energy Insider

by William Engdahl

Pentagon pushes new oil fraud.

Interview

by Valerie Rush

Maximiliano Londoño, Secretary-General of the Andean Labor Party.

Investigative Leads

by Umberto Pascali

Did central banks silence P-2’s Calvi?

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

Will the PRI listen to labor?

Middle East Report

by Robert Dreyfuss

The “mosaic” of Father Riquet.

Economics

Volcker On the Way Out: But What Will Replace Him?

by David Goldman

The official “policy review” process may not produce much, but the Fed Chairman already has his letter of resignation ready. The question is whether the White House will veer toward monetarism or toward productively directed credit expansion.

The Humpty Dumpty Commercial Market

by Leif Johnson

Further evidence that the New York City office leasing boom is coming to an ugly halt.

Paul Volcker’s Shutdown of the American Steel Sector

by Richard Freeman

Richard Freeman documents the overall capacity shutdown, the specific victims, and the policy of running existing plant and equipment into the ground.

Currency Rates

Agriculture

by Cynthia Parsons

FmHA dried up the dairy industry.

Trade Review

by Mark Sonnenblick

Business Briefs

Special Report

How Helmut Schmidt Could Stay in Power

by Michael Liebig

The Anatomy of a Conspiracy

by Lonnie Wolfe

Who’s Out To Stab Schmidt in the Back, and What They Say

Ready To Enforce Brüning Austerity

by Susan Welsh

The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union.

‘Swing party’ Paves the Way for Fascists

by Susan Welsh

The Free Democratic Party.

The Traitors Within Schmidt’s Party

by Renée Sigerson

Willy Brandt’s leftists.

The New ‘Blood and Soil’ Stormtroopers

by Renée Sigerson

The Green Party.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche on What Will Happen if Helmut Schmidt Falls

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

International

A New Terrorist Wave Organized To Explode

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Kissinger’s Power Play After Mideast Fiasco

by Nancy Coker

Israel’s Potential for Anti-Sharon Backlash

by Mark Burdman

European Jews Are Torn By Lebanon War

by Thierry Lalevée

Which Policies for Post-War Argentina?

by Mark Sonnenblick

The question addressed now by every political faction: whether London will use the debt lever against Buenos Aires, or vice versa.

Why Count Rumyantsev Is Turning Over in His Grave

by Rachel Douglas

Marxist formulas have obscured for the Soviets what the Monroe Doctrine is, and the relations between its originator, John Quincy Adams, and the Russian nation-builders.

International Intelligence

National

What Harriman Has in Store for Democrats

by Barbara Dreyfuss and Kathleen Klenetsky

The policy resolutions for the Philadelphia midterm party convention contain every anti-growth, anti-minority, corporatist scheme imaginable, thanks to Averell (and Pamela) Harriman.

Hinckley Decision Is License for Assassins

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The trial that refused to address the would-be assassin’s “Manchurian Candidate” background was rigged on both sides by the psychiatric network responsible for creating programmed killers in the first place.

Congressional Closeup

by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda

National News

A Gathering of the Depopulation Lobby

by Andrew Rotstein

The participants at the International Urban Symposium provide some insight as to why U.S. cities have shrunk and collapsed.

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