Volume 5, Number 32, August 22, 1978

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This Week

Fusion and the Dollar

by David Goldman

Will Carter take Europe’s advice to solve the currency crisis? – Fusion and the Dollar: The View from Europe.

U.S. Breakthrough in Fusion Energy Announced

White House Unprepared for Camp David Showdown

by Robert Dreyfuss

A Move To End British-Israeli Terrorism

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The European Grand Designers go against their biggest obstacle.

Energy

Fusion’s Spectacular Promise

1. Coming Breakthroughs in Fusion – 2. World Reaction to the “Earth-Shattering News” – 3. Soviet and Japanese Joint Research Offers – 4. How Schlesinger Is Trying To Sabotage Fusion – 5. A Shift on the Fission Front — Just What Is Fusion? — The Science of The Breakthrough — Congress: “This Committee Expects the Department of Energy To Reap the Fruits.”

International

Japan Wins with Its ‘China Card’

The just-signed treaty opens way for Japan’s development policy – The Text of the China-Japan Treaty – Japanese Official: Press Distorted Soviet Reaction — Press Coverage of the Treaty – Brzezinski Plays “Balkan Card.”

Economics

Who Wants To Collapse the U.S. Dollar?

Miller Once Again Opts To Hike Interest Rates

by Richard Freeman

The Fed Chairman’s aim is a deflationary recession in the U.S. – The Press Campaign of Disinformation on the Dollar.

International Finance: EMS Negotiations at a Crossroad

by Susan Johnson

British efforts aim at creating antidollar “parallel currency” – Matthöfer: Miscasting EMS as a “European Bloc” – IMF Spokesmen: “The Devil Is In the Detail” – Think Tanker: Brits Steering EMF from Within.

U.S. Report

Probe Michigan Third Party Primary To Secure Free Elections in 1980

by Felice Gelman

United Autoworkers union complicity in Aug. 8 vote fraud is indicated – How Michigan Ran the 1976 Third Party Primary – Judge Feikens on Michigan Third Party Primary Law – How the Fraud Machine Operated in 1976.

Administration Aimless On Exports

by Maureen Manning

Special Report

World Leaders Mourn Pope Paul VI

More than a man of peace, one of the world’s humanist elite.

Securing a Neoplatonic Papacy

by Vivian Zoakos

The Scientific Ecumenicism of Paul VI: A Dialogue Between Catholicism and Islam

Economic Survey

Britain’s Aerospace Gambit

by Richard Welsh

Playing the U.S. off against Europe to control both.

The New Generation of Jets

Counterintelligence

Terrorist ‘Antiterrorist Forces’? - Security Investigators Implicated in Plans for U.S. Terror

by Stuart Pettingell

John Grant: “Transnational Terrorism”

Third World

Camp David Preparations Underway: Will Carter Toughen Up?

by Mark Burdman

Views of the Summit from Around the World

Israeli Terror Aimed at Saudis, Arabs, and Israelis

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