Volume 6, Number 34, August 28, 1979
This Week
Murder, Inc. Targets LaRouche
by Nora Hamerman
The Week in Brief
Economics
Wheat Exports–A Set-Up in Duluth
by Steve Parsons
World Trade: Hodges Junior: No Better Than Senior?
by Richard Schulman
IMF Loosens Up ... a Little
by Susan Johnson
IMF Policy Fuels Speculation in U.S.
by Richard Freeman
‘Off Budget’ Borrowing Fannie Mae’s Delight
Midwest Rails: The Local Bailout Gambit
by Charles Leone
Commodities: Lomé II: Inconclusive Results
by Susan Cohen
Britain: Tory Chancellor Sees Bankruptcy as Good Business
by Marla Minnicino
U.S. Report
Presidency 1980: This Week: Wall Street’s John Connally
by Konstantin George
What’s Behind Rita Hauser
Energy
Behind the Heating Oil Swindle
by William Engdahl
Kennedy’s ‘Morgenthau Plan’ for the Northeast United States.
The Encono Bill: A $1.5 Billion Boondoggle
New York Plan Junks Nuclear To Burn Garbage – Roger Starr’s 1977 Interview on “Planned Shrinkage.”
Europe
EIR Sponsors Conference on Friedrich List
by Gunter Beyes
Concludes List’s political economic method key to Third World development.
Press
Chicago’s Gangs: Who Benefits?
Part 3 of reporter Roy Harvey’s award-winning series.
Labor
AFL-CIO Votes Depression Program
by L. Wolfe
A look at how the labor federation’s policies are made.
Latin America
Nicaragua’s Revolution
by Gretchen Small
After a month in power, government announces reconstruction program.
London Wants a Showdown
Will U.S. Force Nicaragua To Radicalize?
‘All Must Send Aid’–Fidel Castro
A ‘High Command’ for Latin Energy
by Tim Rush
Who’s Who on the “Committee of 15” – Committee and Workshop Programs.
Economic Survey
Poland: Industrial Development or IMF Conditionalities?
by Luba George
Behind Poland’s ‘Bukharinites’
Middle East
Iran Slides Toward Civil War
by Judith Wyer
Georgetown Professor Backs Khomeini’s Pol Pot Economic Plan
The Pahlavi Dynasty Joins Dope, Inc.
Soviet Press Issues First Attack on Khomeini
Columns
Labor Periscope: UAW, NCLC Settle Lawsuits
Energy Extra: Japan Bungles Mexico Oil Bid
by Kevin Coogan and Tim Rush
Facts Behind Terrorism: U.S. Environmentalists Linked to Italy’s Red Brigades
by Ian Levit and Mark Sonnenblick
World Trade Review
