Volume 7, Number 28, July 22, 1980
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
The Israeli connection.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Communists back church power play.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Campaign 1980
Energy Insider
Editorial
Economics
Business Briefs
World Ownership Changes Hands
by David Goldman
OPEC leaders have decided to invest in Europe’s industrial productivity through direct equity holdings, instead of rolling over Western debt. This looks like “reindustrialization” on a grand scale.
Citibank’s Strategy Impasse
by Leif Johnson
Foreign Exchange
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
BP moves into minerals marketing.
Gold
by Alice Roth
A Soviet-South African deal?
Domestic Credit
by Lydia Schulman
Volcker lifts credit controls.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Fact and fancy in Reagan’s script.
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Fusion torch can create resources.
R&D Overhaul
by Mary Gilbertson
An eyewitness report from the AAAS meeting.
‘Technology Versus Jobs’ Is a Swindler’s Hoax
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Contributing editor Lyndon H. LaRouche analysis how history, and rational economics, show that innovation expands the employment base, while stagnation kills it.
Special Report
Mont Pelerin’s Hatchetman: Milton Friedman
by David Goldman
Friedman’s price and money supply theory have little to do with the slash-and-burn policies he recommends is the Hapsburg old boys’ network of former Nazis who promoted him, and who now may have to give the Nobel prizewinner a pink slip.
Friedman’s Nazi Economics: Turning Inflation Inward
Setting up Nixon for August 1971 — The Case of Chile — The Case of Israel.
International
International Intelligence
Giscard in Bonn Foresees ‘European Renaissance’
by Susan Welsh
Alongside an unprecedented emphasis on joint Franco-German military resources, the French President’s summit meeting with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt outlined the political and economic superpower potential of Europe.
Documentation: Excerpts from Giscard’s Frankfurter Rundschau interview and Schmidt’s Le Figaro interview, and Schmidt’s toast to Brezhnev.
China’s Dilemma in East Asia
by Daniel Sneider
As seen by Peking, Washington, Moscow, and Hanoi.
Church Radicals Organize ‘Chicano Violence’
by Tim Rush
Hispanic-American insurgencies, created from scratch by the Society of Jesus, are slated to destabilize both Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
Tightening Up on Immigration
Civiletti Proposes Work Cards – New York Times Backs I.D. System.
Liberation Theologists Prime Terrorism
by Carlos de Hoyos
Test-Tube Radicals in the Land of Aztlan
by Dolia Pettingell
National
The Nation’s Most Candid Planner of Genocide.
National News
Will Carter Start a July Missile Crisis?
by Warren Hamerman
Warren Hamerman explores the possible twists and consequences of the Council on Foreign Relations strategy for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
The Democratic Fix: Carter’s Gangsters Make the Rules
by Vin Berg
Democratic convention delegates will be turned into punchcards or punching bags-if the Rules Committee’s decisions stand.
