Volume 6, Number 23, June 12, 1979
This Week
Parson Malthus Goes to Tokyo
by Nora Hamerman
The Week in Brief
Economics
End to Dollar Reflow Means Interest Rates Have Not Peaked
by Lydia Schulman
OPEC-Third World Split Touted in UNCTAD’s Wake
by Susan Cohen
Trade: Comecon Takes Major Initiatives
by Richard Schulman
International Credit: Behind the Eurocontrol Push: Who Will Get the ‘Big Potato’?
by Susan Johnson
EMS Currency Realignment: France Bolstered or Grid Dismantled
Gold Conforms to Dresdner’s Prediction
by Alice Roth
Coal Policy Furor Starts Resource Policy Debate
by Renée Sigerson
Agriculture: National Grain Board Bill Presses Cartel Plan
by Susan Cohen
Banking: Albany Fight Continues on HongShang Takeover
by Kathy Burdman
Britain: A Gloomy Assessment
by Marla Minnicino
International
Europe Attacks the Oil Speculators
by Garance Phau
Tells Carter: the choice is energy development or war.
Kennedy, Schlesinger Push Speculative Subsidies
What the Europeans Are Saying
Speculation Must Be Fought–François-Poncet
Schlesinger: ‘A Neo-Malthusian Model’
Cost of Speculation: Don’t Be Fooled by Forecasters
Oil Hoax: How It Could Get Worse
Oil Hoax—The Consequences Could Be Economic Collapse – An Israeli-Backed Coup in Iran? – Peregrine Worsthorne on Gunboat Diplomacy in the Middle East.
Special Report
Britain Turns Fascist
by Marla Minnicino
New Tory government has plans to gut British industry.
Britain under Thatcher
by Christopher R. White
Latin America
Carter in Covert Support for Somoza
by Gretchen Small
U.S. gunboat diplomacy toward Nicaragua backs IMF policy in Central America – U.S. Military Involvement in Nicaragua Detailed – Carter Administration Denies U.S. Role – The Central American Defense Council.
The Power Behind Anastasio Somoza
by Mary Goldstein
Europe
Fraud Mars the Italian Elections
by Vivian Zoakos
European Labor Party demands results be overturned, warns of chaos.
The PSI-Italy’s Party of Terrorism
by Mary Sonnenblick
Der Spiegel’s Boomerang
Days before European Parliament election, B.R.D. weekly reacts to ELP campaign.
Der Spiegel Has Lost Its Nerve
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Middle East
Will Turkey Get the ‘Iran treatment’?
by Nancy Parsons
NATO, IMF already mounting a ‘dump Ecevit’ drive – Turkey Nixes U-2 Spy Replay.
Soviets Issue $4 Billion in Development Aid to Turkey
Ecevit: ‘Foreign Influence’ Behind Terror
U.S. Report
The Unraveling of Jimmy Carter
by Konstantin George
Cartergate threatens to split Democratic Party, GOP, opens way for LaRouche.
Frank Church: the Product of ‘Outsiders’
by Barbara Dreyfuss
Senator Church a Security Risk?
CFR’s Ullman, Gwin Hold Forth on Project 1980
Columns
Labor Periscope: LaRouche Candidacy Spurs Debate in Labor
by L. Wolfe and M. Moriarty
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss
Liberals Call for Energy Purchasing Agency – Congress in Wonderland – International Trade Legislation Proliferates – Monetary Control Bill Back On Line – Will the Breeder Make It Through Congress? – Public Financing Bill Defeated in Committee.
The American System: Abraham Lincoln: ‘Labor Is Prior to Capital’
Facts Behind Terrorism: FALN Jailbreak a Warning
by Jeffrey Steinberg
World Trade Review
