Volume 11, Number 26, July 3, 1984
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Labor movement under attack.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Israel’s long month of crisis.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The beginning of the end of Genscher.
Report from Paris
by Joëlle Leconte
POE returns show vast potential.
Report from Italy
by Umberto Pascali
The PCI is the major party.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Is Helmut Schmidt setting up a Kissinger fan club? — Further proposals for decoupling.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Reagan in Disneyland — Palace Guard tells Reagan: downplay SDI — Democratic Platform: Moscow’s delight.
Editorial
The shame of the U.S. Congress.
Economics
BIS Orders Retrenchment of U.S. Financial Power
by David Goldman and Laurent Murawiec
The powerful Swiss-based “central bank of central banks” has told the Americans to take the losses on their Ibero-American loans or expect no more Eurodollar funding. The U.S. giants are thus caught between the devil and the debtors’ cartel, with nothing certain but the next round of bank runs.
Documentation: An interview with a source in the Reagan Administration.
Citibank Changes Mean Cartelization of the U.S. Banking System
by Kathy Burdman
Sri Lanka Faces Economic Holocaust
by Susan Maitra
The country demonstrates the grave danger of accepting incompetent IMF formulas, writes Susan Maitra from New Delhi.
Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict: A Legacy of British Rule
Currency Rates
Comecon: New Phase of Imperial Looting
by Edith Vitali
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Africa starves, Russia stockpiles.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The dollar’s last rally?
Business Briefs
Special Report
Why U.S. Interest Lies with the Debtors’ Cartel
by Gretchen Small
They aren’t officially calling it a debtors’ cartel, but the Ibero-American nations established a “continent-wide mechanism” for consultation and coordination, and plan to meet regularly. Javier Almario and Carlos Mendez report from Cartagena.
Betancur: ‘World Now Looks to Us’
The Communiqué: Cartagena Statement of Consensus
Documentation: Interviews with the Foreign Ministers of Colombia, Ecuador, and others.
Colombian Labor: ‘We Pay or Eat’
Will the Bankers’ Strategy To Isolate Argentina Backfire?
by Susan Welsh
Lyndon LaRouche on the Current Importance of the Monroe Doctrine
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
International
Kissinger ‘Decoupling’ Gains in European Elections
by Rainer Apel and Nora Hamerman
The parties that gained most in the major nations were the KGB-penetrated West German Greens, the racist French National Front, the British Labour Party, and the Italian Communist Party—for the most part, anti-American, pro-Moscow forces.
France: The Left’s Surprising Vote Losses
by Claude Albert
Claude Albert in Paris analyzes the phenomenal rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front.
The Dutch Defense Policy: Much Ado About Nukes
Special to Executive Intelligence Review from Holland.
Will Iran’s Mullahs Survive the Summer?
by Thierry Lalevée
Picking Up the Pieces in India’s Punjab
by Susan Maitra
Knocking out the terrorist-secessionist forces in the Golden Temple is only the first step in bringing reason back to this vital state.
Mexico’s Corruption Industry Is Twenty Years behind the U.S.A.’s
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. puts the scandal-mongering of Jack Anderson against the Mexican government in its proper perspective.
International Intelligence
National
Kissinger’s Friends Wreak Havoc in Washington
by Nancy Spannaus
The man Moscow likes most was not personally active in Washington, but U.S. Senators who work with Kissinger and the KGB almost succeeded in gutting the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and passing a proposal to massively cut U.S. troops in Europe.
KGB’s Futurists Meet To Take U.S. Back to the Dark Age
by Mark Burdman
EIR’s eyewitness account of the Washington conference of the World Future Society June 10-14.
Documentation: Excerpts from the speeches by Dennis Forrester, Barbara Waterlow, and Gerald Mische, and profiles of “KGB witch” Carol Rosin and the World Federalists.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
