Volume 7, Number 12, March 25, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
InSight
by Nora Hamerman
Mr. Miller’s confession.
Dateline Mexico
More oil, no GATT, fewer candidates.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
The Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Terrorists target 1980 campaign.
Economics
Carter Sacrifices Economy in War on Europe
by David Goldman
There is one obvious feature of the new Carter-Volcker package of high interest rates and credit restrictions: They will drive the U.S. economy toward levels of inflation not seen since 1920s Germany. Only slightly less obvious, the new measures are principally intended as the centerpiece of U.S. and British economic warfare against the European Monetary System nations.
What Volcker’s Measures Will Do to Lending
by Lydia Schulman
The Victims: Who Is Going Under in Carter’s Sacrifice?
by Richard Freeman
Jimmy Carter’s Economy Enters ‘Weimar Hyperinflation’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Contributing Editor Lyndon LaRouche examines the devastating consequences of Carter policy.
Laffer Economics: Why Ronald Reagan’s Gold Plan Is All Wrong
by David Goldman
Gold
by Alice Roth
A good time to buy.
International Credit
by Peter Rush
Europe cornering petrofunds.
Agriculture
by Susan Cohen
The Fed threat to the farmer.
Foreign Exchange
Trade Review
Business Briefs
Special Report
A Euro-Arab Pact: Britain Out of Line
by Vin Berg
After his breakthrough tour of the Middle East, where he won Arab petrodollars by promising to use them as an instrument of Third World development, French President Giscard held his third summit this year with West Germany’s Schmidt. The British began to shriek in fear. A “reverse Waterloo” is coming.
London’s Press Decries the Franco-German Alliance
European-Arab Diplomacy
A grid of diplomatic activity between continental Europe and the Arab world since the beginning of this year.
France’s Calvet: ‘Maximum for Mexico’s Industrialization’
Exclusive interview of Jacques Calvet Olmers, President of Banque National de Paris.
What is the Franco-German European Monetary System?
by Alice Roth and Donald Baier
The U.S. View: Defending International Monetary Fund Policies – The British View: Out on a Limb as Faction Fight Erupts.
The Historical Issues Behind the Current World Crisis
by Criton Zoakos
When the continental powers capitulated last December and and agreed to station U.S. missiles on European soil, Zbigniew Brzezinski hailed it as the biggest development since the 1648 “Treaty of Westphalia.” Just so, reports Contributing Editor Criton Zoakos; the issue is that of the nation-state vs. “One World’s” efforts to resurrect a variety of Hapsburg Empire.
International
Strauss in Washington: Carter Plots To Topple Schmidt
West German Chancellor Schmidt enjoys popularity ranging above 55 percent; his chief rival, Bavarian Franz Josef Strauss, little more than 25 percent of those who will vote in the October election. But when Strauss visited New York and Washington last week for the highest-level series of secret meetings enjoyed by any foreign dignitary in memory, presidential candidate LaRouche uncovered a plan to bring the Bavarian to power, by means other than a democratic vote. An EIR exclusive.
The ‘Great Green Hope’ of Franz Josef Strauss
by Rainier Apel
Middle East: French Diplomacy’s Attack on Camp David
by Nancy Coker
Latin America: Colombian Dope Pushers Drive Toward Legalization
by Cynthia Rush
Dateline Mexico
by Josephina Menendez
More Oil, No GATT, Fewer Candidates.
International Intelligence
National
Campaign 1980: Who’s Jumped on Reagan’s Bandwagon?
by Kathleen Murphy
Until the Illinois primary, the Trilateral Commission/Council on Foreign Relations crowd were, pulling out every card they had in an effort to “stop Reagan.” But now, because the former California governor’s victories have all but sewn up the nomination, the boys at CFR have jumped on board. The question is, if Reagan becomes a vehicle for the same old CFR policies in “conservative” garb, will his present mass constituency still want to put him in the White House?
Reagan Advisor: ‘We’ll make those Cubans break with the Soviet Union’
Andrus Manufactures ‘Corruption’ Scandal To Halt U.S. Oil Leasing
by William Engdahl
An unpublicized Interior Department action is designed to reduce U.S. energy supplies.
National News
