Volume 7, Number 21, June 3, 1980
Departments
From the Editor
by Robyn Quijano
Editorial
What cracked the alliance?
Military Strategy
by Susan Welsh
Reagan’s advisors sold Nixon the All-Volunteer Force.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Khomeini’s kooks and U.S. spooks.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
A new environmentalist cult.
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Reagan loses without Democratic cross-over — LaRouche requalifies for matching funds — What the press said.
InSight
by Nora Hamerman
American System living standards.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Red Brigades threaten Giscard.
Economics
‘Industrial Restructuring’ Comes Out of The Closet
by Lydia Schulman
The Federal Reserve, “futurology” think-tanks and many others are suddenly crying out on the need for a U.S. “industrial policy.” At best, they intend incompetent “quick fixes” for troubled defense concerns, but more generally, to “streamline” both industries and urban centers into small-scale models of their former capacities.
A Brandt Commission Plot: Lehman’s Peter Peterson: ‘Take the World to the Brink’
Report on an exclusive EIR interview with a leading Brandt Commission member.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Europe puts a floor under the price.
Foreign Exchange
World Trade
by Richard Schulman
Carter’s impact in just six months.
Trade Review
Corporate Strategy
by Leif Johnson
International Harvester’s saboteur.
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
MHD improves fossil fuel efficiency.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Abscam/Brilab Attacks Progress and U.S. Labor
by Scott Thompson
Few stopped to ponder who was being hit and why, when the Department of Justice’s entrapment operations, Abscam and Brilab among others, first became public. It’s an operation to destroy those labor and industry combinations that have been the backbone of American industrial strength and republican institutions.
How Abscam and Brilab ‘Sting’
The Roots of Abscam/Brilab
Who is Benjamin Civiletti?
International
Giscard Out To Stop ‘Otherwise Inevitable’ War
by Rachel Douglas
The French President, without informing the United States, suddenly went to Warsaw to meet with Mr. Brezhnev. French press say he listened to Edmund Muskie talk in Austria, and immediately made the decision that war was “otherwise inevitable.”
Muskie’s First Official Provocation
No Hope for Africa in Club of Rome ‘Trialogue’
by Mary Brannan
López Portillo’s Meeting With Giscard
by Tim Rush
The Mexican and French Presidents discussed Mexico’s need for nuclear technology, and France’s effort to prevent nuclear war.
Documentation: The joint communiqué, the speeches, and an interview with Mexico’s no. 2 industrial official.
López Portillo Takes a Pro-Nuclear Stand
by Dolia Pettingell
U.S. Policy on Cuba Leads to War
by Gretchen Small
Is the End Near for the Khomeini Regime?
by Robert Dreyfuss
Is the End for Bani-Sadr Near?
by Nancy Coker
Iran Embraces Afghan Rebels
by Judith Wyer
Japanese Security, Korea and One Richard Sneider
by Daniel Sneider
Japan’s Faction Fight: the Key to Asia’s Future
by Richard Katz
International Intelligence
National
Will dictatorship Follow a 1980 Election Deadlock?
by Kathleen Murphy
The mouthpieces of the backroom boys at the Council on Foreign Relations have been “predicting” a constitutional crisis, one resulting from a presidential election thrown into the House of Representatives. Just to be sure, they’re running John Anderson.
FEMA Is Running the Miami Riots
by Paul Goldstein
The game is “planned shrinkage” of America’s urban centers.
The Independent Oilmen–Endangered Species?
by William Engdahl
Who Is ‘Big Oil’?
National News
