Volume 9, Number 33, August 31, 1982
Interviews
Shigeo Nagano, President of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
by Peter Ennis
He insists that Japan must seek peace and growth for the LDCs.
Hilarión Cardozo, Venezuelan Ambassador to the OAS
by Dennis Small
Cardozo calls for emergency action to reach Ibero-American unity around a program of debt reorganization and economic development.
Mordechai Virshubsky, an Israeli Knesset member
by Mark Burdman
A review of Defense Minister Arid Sharon’s disastrous policy record and a call for the Prime Minister to oust him.
Departments
China Watch
by Gregory F. Buhyoff
Washington bows lower.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
“What’s bad for them is good for us.”
Middle East Report
by Judith Wyer
Calm before the storm.
Editorial
Dr. K., France, and anti-Semitic terror.
Economics
The Mexico Debt Crisis and the International Monetary Fund
by David Goldman
Currency Rates
Japanese Analyst at Daiwa Calls for an LDC Debt Moratorium
by Laurent Murawiec
The debt cannot be paid. Instead of feckless rollovers, on loans with outrageous interest rates, credits should help create North- South economic growth, writes Tadashi Nakamae, chief of Daiwa Securities’ European branch. An EIR exclusive.
Britain’s Economic Warfare Experts Aim To Cut the U.S. Off from Mideast Oil
by Judith Wyer
The West German Showdown Over AEG: Bankruptcy versus Nationalization
by Renée Sigerson
Behind the Crisis in Canadian Banking
by Richard Freeman
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
What drop in interest rates?
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Colombian scandal unfolds.
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Organic farming: a pile of manure.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Japan’s Dilemma: Can the U.S. Strategic Decline Be Reversed?
by Peter Ennis
An introduction to Peter Ennis’s two articles and to our interview with senior Japanese business leader Shigeo Nogano.
How Tokyo Is Evaluating Its Relationship With Washington
by Peter Ennis
Watching the conflagration across the Pacific.
The Ruling Party Factions Line Up For an Autumn Political Crisis
by Peter Ennis
A battle over “administrative reform.” i.e., fiscal cutbacks, is one aspect of the division within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party between development partisans and Japan’s Club of Rome sympathizers.
International
Kissinger-Run Coup Threat Against Mexican Republic
by Robyn Quijano and Timothy Rush
The domestic IMF partisans are at the front end of the open threat to the institutions of the presidency and labor.
Venezuela Pushes for New Continental Order
by Gretchen Small
This article follows EIR’s interview with OAS Ambassador Hilarión Cardozo.
A Breathing Spell for Colombian Politics
by Cynthia Rush
A Dialogue on Future Israeli Policy: LaRouche, Begin, and Prof. Adelson
by Criton Zoakos
Documentation: An interview with Mordechai Virshubsky, a parliamentarian from the Shinui Party, and excerpts from Prof. Howard Adelson’s attack on LaRouche and former Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur in the Aug. 13 Jerusalem Post.
Who is Pehr Gyllenhammar, and What Are the Aspen-Skandia Networks?
by William Engdahl
The “Nordic” friends of Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, and Lord Carrington.
An Anti-Narcotics Effort Spoils the Rolling Stones’ European Party
by Muriel Mirak
International Intelligence
National
President Reagan Is Being Lied To
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s commentary on the horrifying Hooverization of the White House, which can only be explained by evil counsel there.
Kissinger and Shultz Exploit Ronald Reagan’s Delusions
by Lonnie Wolfe
The new Secretary of State, who in August publicly announced his alliance with the man Reagan campaigned against, is a large part of the problem.
General Graham’s High Frontier Proposal Could Advance U.S. Military Strategy
by Charles B. Stevens
High Frontier: A New National Strategy by Gen. Daniel Graham. The pros and cons of his approach to antiballistic-missile defense.
Labor in Focus
by Lonnie Wolfe
Irving Brown moves upstairs.
Eye on Washington
by Freyda Greenberg
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
