Volume 10, Number 19, May 17, 1983
Interviews
Dato Azman Hashim
The head of the Arab-Malaysia Development Bank, the largest merchant bank in Malaysia.
Shigeaki Ueki
by Josefina Menéndez
The chief of Petrobrás, Brazil’s state oil company.
Raúl Alfonsín
by Dennis Small
Presidential candidate of Argentina’s Radical Civic Union.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Laser communication at the speed of light.
Investigative Leads
by Joëlle Leconte
The Longo Mai commune: control point for Swiss terrorist operations?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Zafarancho in the Zócalo.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
“Mussolini for Parliament.”
Economics
Directed-Energy Technology Unique Path to U.S. Recovery
by Christina Nelson Huth
An outline of the LaRouche-Riemann econometric model’s projections of the economic requirements and benefits of a full beam-weaponry defense program. Laser technology applied to metalworking on a mass scale means a new industrial revolution.
United States and Europe Intensify Trade War over Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Washington seems to be using subsidies against certain targets, rather than on behalf of constituents.
Currency Rates
Malaysia Survey: Leadership Draws on Japan Model for Nation’s Economic Development
by Paul Zykofsky
Part I of a survey resulting from New Delhi bureau chief Paul Zykofsky’s recent visit. Part II will describe Malaysia’s all-out war on the drug traffic.
Documentation: An overview of how the country’s economy has grown, and statements from Prime Minister Matathir Mohamad on economic questions.
Domestic Credit
by Leif Johnson
Consumer-sector steel orders plunge.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Common Market Spearheaded by Brazil and Mexico
by Mark Sonnenblick and Josefina Menéndez
Our Mexican correspondent on the scene and our Brazil specialist evaluate the decisions made at the Cancún summit.
Documentation: Excerpts from the final declaration, from statements by the two presidents, and from statements by Brazilian industrial spokesmen, as well as a Peruvian call for continental unity.
The Prospects for a Latin American Common Market
by Mark Sonnenblick and Peter Rush
What a comprehensive, official arrangement might involve.
Argentine Opposition Plans an Anti-IMF Government
by Dennis Small
An invaluable profile of the current political scene.
International
Who Wants a New Missile Crisis To Explode Now
by Susan Welsh and Herbert Quinde
EIR’s warnings of Anglo-Soviet collusion have been confirmed.
Documentation: Interviews and excerpts from editorial statements by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Lord Peter Carrington, former Foreign Secretary.
Submarine Warfare in Scandinavia Accelerates Missile Crisis Threat
by Michele Steinberg
Documentation: Excerpts from last month’s report by the Swedish Commission on Submarine Defense.
Italian Civil War Slated To Launch Destabilization of Europe
by Vivian Zoakos
International Intelligence
National
Washington Power Struggle over Strategic Response
by Criton Zoakos
Editor-in-Chief Criton Zoakos concludes that the Kissinger Republicans and Harriman Democrats have miscalculated the benefits they will derive from supporting Yuri Andropov’s tactics.
‘Shame, Shame, Shame on Those Bishops’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. takes the U.S. Catholic Church’s “peace movement” leanings as the point of departure for a strategic analysis.
Documentation: Caspar W. Weinberger’s reminder to the Church that the principle of upholding life requires effective strategic defense.
Dr. Teller Tells Senate About Beam Weapons
Democratic Senator Endorses ABM Plan
The High Frontier ABM Defense Would Not Get Off the Ground
by Robert Gallagher
A military and technological assessment of what has been termed the “soup-can” approach.
National News
