Volume 7, Number 32, August 19, 1980
Departments
From New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
Chinese offers fall on deaf ears.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The Chicontepec story.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Khomeini exports reign of terror.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
“Gasohol is dangerous folly.”
Facts Behind Terror
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Violence planned for convention.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
The cleanup is on.
Economics
Business Briefs
U.S. ‘Food Weapon’ Spreads African Starvation
by Alice Roth
The State Department is manipulating food relief in the drought-stricken northeast. The drought didn’t hit once prosperous Zaire, but U.S. backing for IMF policies did.
Transportation: Trucking Dereg Crashes Ahead
by Richard Freeman
On top of Volcker’s crunch against consumer durables transport, the ICC is hastening labor strife and decapitalization.
How U.S. Synfuels Got Off the Ground
Currency Prices
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Consumption cuts throttle recovery.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The hype goes sour.
Banking
by Leif Johnson
Draining funds from housing.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
What kind of emergency reserve?
Gold
by Alice Roth
Reagan’s remonetization policy.
Trade Review
Special Report
Global Industrialization by the Year 2000: Europe’s Foreign Policy Alternative
by Vivian Zoakos
The goals of Western Europe, led by France and Germany, and what they are up against.
A Paradigm: France and Iraq
by Judith Wyer
Nuclear power supplied with French assistance will start a “Fertile Crescent” boom for the Arab world.
Europe and the Middle East
by Robert Dreyfuss
Challenging Camp David, France and West Germany seek a real settlement as they stabilize Lebanon and aid anti-Khomeini forces.
Europe and OPEC Petrodollars
by David Goldman
Europe, Latin America, Asia ...
by Garance Phau
... and the Soviets
by Susan Welsh
International
International Intelligence
Carter’s Libyan Friends Escalate Terror Wave
by Nora Hamerman
The Bologna massacre marks a new stage for “right” and “left” terrorists, both trained, we document, by Qaddafi.
Peking and Bangkok Obstruct Regional Settlement
by Daniel Sneider
Part II: The Mexican Challenge: Managing the Boom: Mexican Agriculture: Only American Methods Will Work
by Cecelia Soto-Estévez, Patricio Estévez, Calvin Larson, and Elsa Ennis
Part II of our series, ‘The Mexican Challenge: Managing the Boom,’ is a survey by the Mexican Association for Fusion Energy and the Fusion Energy Foundation – An Ambitious New Program: How peasants can become a superproductive minority feeding the nation – Controversy over the SAM: An evaluation of the present government agrarian plan.
New National Hydraulic Plan 1980-2020
Aquarians meet
by Mark Burdman
First-hand report on the Toronto World Futures conference – Maurice Strong’s “Basic Truths” – Hazel Henderson Declares Holy War.
National
National News
Open Convention: The Fixers’ Dilemma
by Konstantin George
Closed, open but controlled, or wide open? The factors weighed by Democratic decision-makers, and the possible consequences.
LaRouche’s Democratic Strategy To Beat Reagan
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Excerpts from one of this month’s nationwide television addresses by the presidential contender who over the past year created “the LaRouche wing of the party.”
