Volume 7, Number 34, September 2, 1980
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Straws in the wind for 1982.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Mossad faction plans Iranian pogrom.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Tarheels take on Bob Bergland.
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
Incompetence and miscalculation.
Economics
Business Briefs
Planning for the End of OPEC
by David Goldman
Bankers and think tanks are projecting 1985 oil supplies on the basis of a “catastrophe” in Saudi Arabia.
Corporate Sector Liquidity Squeeze
by Richard Freeman
This year’s profit collapse runs head-on into borrowing problems for cash-strapped business.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
DM revaluation rumors premature.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
World Bank presses “delinkage.”
Gold
by Alice Roth
The Laffer plan.
Trade Review
Dryland Farm Plan Threatens Western States
by Susan B. Cohen
Opponents of water development in the region are using the drought as a springboard for ending “expensive” irrigation.
Special Report
The U.S. Recession: Why the EIR Model Beat Wall Street’s 1980 Predictions
by David Goldman
A blow-by-blow comparison of our LaRouche-Riemann forecasts with those of our competitors, and the divergent reasoning behind them.
Book Review: The Wrong Way To Achieve High Capital Formation
A review of recent studies advocating a cut on household incomes to boost productivity.
Austerity Leads to ‘Double-Dip’ 1981 Collapse
If current plans proceed, reduced U.S. living standards will boost the economy’s overall profit, briefly. Then the decline sharply resumes.
International
International Intelligence
The Policy Choices That Confront the Kremlin
by Criton Zoakos
Criton Zoakos introduces a special feature on Soviet military, economic, and foreign policy deliberations.
Détente Under Soviet Debate
by Rachel Douglas
The pressures on Moscow’s leadership to reverse gears.
Party Spokesmen Defend Brezhnev
by Rachel Douglas
An extensive overview of the foreign-policy battle.
Soviet Economic Revolution?
by Clifford Gaddy
Genuinely scientific planning is proposed for the first time.
Soviet Doctrine Is ‘Total War’
by Susan Welsh
U.S.S.R. military planners firmly oppose limited nuclear confrontation strategies.
Documentation: excerpts from statements by leading Soviet military officials.
Washington, IMF Legitimize Bolivia’s Drug Economy
by Cynthia Rush
Cocaine Routes for the Western Hemisphere
Destroying Britain’s Workforce
by Susan Welsh
The ‘Bonkers’ Sir Keith Joseph
National
National News
China Poses a Test for Reagan’s Asia Posture
by Peter Ennis
George Bush was imperiously dictated to during his Peking visit. Will the GOP, and the U.S. as a whole, accept China’s flaunting of the “America card”?
Terrorist Threat over New York: The Background Elements
A dossier assembled by the editors of EIR’s special Investigative Leads counterterrorist newsletter. The Iranian student demonstrators, Yippies and Jewish Defense Leaguers surrounding the Democratic convention were ready for assassination attempts if Democratic contender Lyndon LaRouche had been nominated on the convention floor; this report maps their controllers and the controllers’ motivations.
