Volume 7, Number 13, April 1, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
InSight
by Nora Hamerman
Dictatorship: how close?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The President in Monterrey.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
The House votes against production.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Economics
America’s Big Banks Look into the Abyss
by Richard Freeman
Sixty-five bank chiefs in conference with Paul Volcker agreed to cut their lending to a third of what it has been after Jimmy Carter’s credit restraint announcements on March 14. The outcome of the bankers’ collaboration in the new measures is likely to be their own collapse.
International Credit: European Monetary Fund Back on the Agenda
by David Goldman
Although French president Giscard is still playing his cards close to the vest, the European Monetary Fund is so close to becoming reality that even the British press is reporting some of the facts.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Is Nelson Bunker Hunt a sucker?
Foreign Exchange
by Richard Katz
The credit crunch and the dollar.
World Trade
by Richard Schulman
A growing politicization.
Trade Review
Agricultural Survey: The Farmers and Their Bankers: Who Will Go Under First?
by Susan Cohen
Business Briefs
Special Report
U.S. Ruling Circles Are in Deep Trouble
by Criton Zoakos
Events have convinced the American elite that their “controlled disintegration” policies for the West could cause their own destruction. They’re right, reports Contributing Editor Criton Zoakos. But can they do anything about it?
‘We’re No. 2’: The Strategists React to the Soviet Advance
Interviews on the meaning of Soviet E-beam development.
‘Does Brzezinski Not Know?’
The Policymakers Denounce Their Own Policies
George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, and the New York Times.
Why America’s Elite Is Failing Desperately
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche elaborates the scientific conception of human development that the ruling “families” have never been able to comprehend.
International
Mexico’s Startling Economic Decisions
by Tim Rush
Mexico’s president emerged from a bitter cabinet fight to announce that his nation would significantly increase oil production, and would not subscribe to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT). These decisions, and a new approach to agriculture, were taken with Mexico’s industrial development in mind.
Documentation: — Lopez’s policy statement — Oil chief Diaz’s status report — Washington’s reaction.
Terrorism Targets the Americas
by Cynthia Rush
The assassination of a bishop and a priest in Central America could unleash something long-planned at the Council on Foreign Relations: Waves of terrorism and “Iran-style” mob violence engulfing Latin America and spreading north into the United States.
Colombian Military Frees M-19 Controllers
by Valerie Rush
The ‘Foreigners’ Organize the ‘Peasant Uprisings’
‘All the Terrorists Were Trained by the Jesuits’
An interview with Malachi Martin.
International Intelligence
National
Exclusive: McCormack Talks on Fusion Power
by Kathy Stevens
Representative Mike McCormack of Washington, sponsor of legislation for an “Apollo-style” crash program to develop fusion energy told EIR Energy Editor Marsha Freeman why America must have fusion, and what we stand to lose if America doesn’t develop it.
National News
