Volume 7, Number 25, July 1, 1980
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The U.S. behind the drought?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Is Ayatollah Khomeini a British agent?
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
‘Reindustrialization’: the bottom line.
Economics
The United States Tries To Prepare for War
by Richard Freeman
The NATO planners responsible for America’s Malthusian economic decline now want to divert what industry is left toward military production. The way they want to do it will terminally weaken U.S. industry-and undermine an arms buildup.
Washington’s Figures Recalculated: The Real Unemployment Rate
by Lydia Schulman
When the Carter Administration said 7 percent it was 12 percent, and by another measure, much higher.
Domestic Credit
by Lydia Schulman
Carter’s tax-cut balloon.
Foreign Exchange
Gold
by Alice Roth
France links bullion and petrodollars.
Trade Review
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
The American System for exports.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Aztec Fundamentalism: Mexico’s Jesuit Ayatollahs
by Dennis Small
With its strong, nation-building tradition and republican elite, Mexico might seem impervious to the destabilization that is now being thrown against it by the same forces that toppled Iran’s Shah. But Mexico’s leading republicans have one vulnerability-and not long to overcome it.
How the Destabilization Is Supposed To Work
by Criton Zoakos
The Jesuit News Media
The Current Role of the Jesuits in Mexico
by Cynthia Rush
“Possible Revolution in 1983” Says Reagan Advisor – Primary Target: The Oil Region.
A Petition To Expel Jesuits
Aspen Institute ‘Reviews’ the Policies of Mexico
by Tim Rush
The Achilles Heel of the Mexican Republic
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A strategic background study.
Who Is Soustelle?
Who Was Rivera?
by Diego Rivera
From My Life, My Art.
International
The Venice Summit Splits over Camp David
by Robert Dreyfuss
The Middle East peace initiative long promised by the Europeans emerged from the EEC summit meeting badly watered down. At least one Arab government is saying “the London-Washington axis triumphed.” Documentation: Statements of reaction from Jordan, Syria, Egypt, the PLO, and El Fatah.
What Carter Will Find in Venice
by Dana Sloan
The Battle for OPEC Funds
by Judith Wyer
China Drives South
by Peter Ennis
India, Afghanistan, and Cambodia face new slaughters promoted by Peking, with U.S. arms.
International Intelligence
National
Carter’s Renomination: The Gathering Storm
by Barbara Dreyfuss
The policymaking elite that runs Jimmy Carter is seeking a foreign policy crisis that would cause the American people to accept, even demand, a war economy. Meanwhile, the White House is trying to strongarm every national convention delegate it can find.
Carter Official Admits Theft of 10,000 Votes
by Kathy Burdman
Plus the text of his admissions.
John Anderson: Aquarian Candidate
by Kathleen Murphy
General Jones OK’d, But Not Mr. Carter
by Konstantin George
National News
