Volume 7, Number 17, May 6, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
Editorial
By the laser’s red glare.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
What did Brandt tell Castañeda?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Carter’s deal with the Brotherhood.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
A new gasoline technology.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Economics
The IMF Meets To Plan the Dollar’s Demise
by Richard Freeman
The funny-money boys at the IMF have yet another scheme to push through their Substitution Account and Special Drawing Rights. As in every other effort to win their way, it involves the Iran crisis.
Domestic Credit
by Lydia Schulman
A few concessions.
Gold
by Alice Roth
The iron law of money?
World Trade
by Richard Schulman
The Jesuits’ export drive.
Foreign Exchange
Trade Review
Science & Technology
Coal conversion: A disaster.
Business Briefs
Special Report
LaRouche-Riemann Model Forecast: Can the U.S. Economy Survive the Depression?
by David Goldman
David Rockefeller recently said: “There is no possibility of recovery without a real recession.” The LaRouche Riemann econometric model has now proven the opposite: There is no possibility of an indigenous U.S. economic recovery if present recessionary policies continue for even six more months. A thorough report, by Dr. Uwe Parpart, Dr. Steven Bardwell, David Goldman, and Leif Johnson.
The 1980 Recession: Not Like Any Other
by Leif Johnson
Economics: The Thermohydrodynamic View
by Dr. Steven Bardwell and Dr. Uwe Parpart
International
Countdown For War on the European Battlefield
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
The indications are growing fearfully that Europe is sliding into capitulation to the Anglo-American war faction around the “Iran crisis,” created to force just such a backdown in all policy-areas. At stake is the Franco-German alliance, the European Monetary System, and, for that matter, human civilization itself.
Documentation: Chancellor Schmidt’s remarks, and commentaries from the Kremlin, Paris Match, the Times of London, the Guardian, and the Economist.
West Germany
by Susan Welsh
The Schmidt government–walking on a tightrope.
France: Giscard Faces Blackmail and Domestic Pressures
by Garance Phau
Britain: The World’s Worst Economists: Can They Dictate to Europe?
by Susan Johnson
Italy: A Terrorist Government Attacks the Communists
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
Japan: Lobbyists for Carter in Luxembourg
by Richard Katz
International Intelligence
National
The 1981 Defense Budget: A Buildup or a Bluff?
by Konstantin George and Susan Welsh
The DoD’s FY 1981 “arms buildup” spending embodies a defense program that will actually decrease U.S. capability to fight general war, but increase the likelihood of general war.
What the New Spending Is For
Why has Benjamin Civiletti Been Releasing the Terrorists?
by Robert Greenberg
So-called Puerto Rican nationalists, so-called black nationalists, and lots of just plain gunmen and bomb-throwers are back on America’s streets thanks to the “personal intervention” of the Attorney General.
National News
