Volume 6, Number 10, March 13, 1979
This Week
Administration Goes for Confrontation over Mideast
by Mark Burdman
Carter Trip Seeks Axis vs U.S.S.R.
B.R.D. Parliament Debates NATO
France, B.R.D. on Terror Alert
LaRouche Speaks to Mexican Press
International
Giscard, López Summit
by Tim Rush
The EMS Turns to the Developing Sector.
The Model for North-South Deals
by Dolia Pettingell
Mexico’s Oil: Who Will Get It?
For Business, Carter’s Mexico Trip Netted Zero
by Alicia Fernandez
Milestones of EMS North-South Diplomacy
De Gaulle in Mexico: French Policy, Then As Now
The Documents of the Summit
Addresses by Giscard and Portillo and the text of the final communiqué.
Economics
EMS Pushes IMF Aside
by Susan Johnson
Coup de main against London’s austerity economics.
Questions and IMF Answers
U.S.: No Tokyo Dollar Credit
by Richard Katz
Trade blackmail aimed against development loans.
Credit Markets: Money Supply Measurement Skewed, So Is the Banks’ Arbitrage Policy
by Richard Freeman
Banking: Open Tension Between British Takeover Strategists and U.S. Authorities
by Kathy Burdman
Commodities: ‘Wartime’ Price Boom Loses Steam for Now
by Renée Sigerson
Foreign Exchange: Britain Takes Last Market Shot at EMS
by Kathy Burdman
Keeping Tabs on the Economist: French Nuclear Program Dead?
Gold: Market Shakeout Foreshadows Stabilization of the EMS
by Alice Shepard
Corporate Strategy: Japanese Communications Industry Maps Response to U.S. Market Demands
by Leif Johnson
Britain: Back to the Coal Age? North Sea Oil Hopes Fade
by Marla Minnicino
Administration Plans No Legislative Easing for East-West Trade
by Felice Gelman
World Trade Review
Gold and Dollar Price Charts
Energy
Schlesinger Gains IEA Energy Cut, Tells U.S. Oilmen To Slow Output
by William Engdahl
What Is the IEA?
U.S. Report
What’s Happening In Congress
New feature keeps you up-to-date on capitol hill activity. This Week: GATT, Stevenson’s trade proposals, the Energy Department budget, and criminal code reform.
House Panel Suppresses Mitchell Fraud Evidence
Labor Periscope
A long and unnecessary battle for United Steelworkers’ certification as the bargaining unit in Newport News, Virginia – LaRouche Rep Addresses IBT Illinois Local.
Asia
China’s Economy: More Signs of Trouble
by Daniel Sneider
The War in Indochina: Withdrawal or Blitzkrieg?
by Peter Rush
Soviet Sector
Brezhnev Hits China War Threat
by Rachel Berthoff
Offers west cooperation, pact against nuclear first strike.
Brezhnev: ‘The Task Is To Prevent War’
Plus statements by Kosygin and Italian Communist Party leader Berlinguer.
Soviet Perspective on Energy Development
Africa
IMF Policy in Africa
by Douglas DeGroot
Regional and tribal wars help the fund impose austerity; leading British spokesmen detail prospects for Africa.
What IMF Policies Do to African Development
by Peter Buck
