Volume 7, Number 36, September 16, 1980
Departments
Guest Column: A Nation That’s Clamoring for Development
by Steven Bardwell
Fusion Energy Foundation director Steven Bardwell’s impressions of Mexico.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
“Baucus Caucus” in gear.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Making the Gulf secure.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
States’ rights and the Aspen strategy.
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Editorial
Verdict and prospects for the EMS.
Economics
Business Briefs
Autumn Crisis in the Euromarkets?
by David Goldman
U.S. officials have tried to head off an international liquidity crisis, but the dangers increase.
The IMF Admits Strength of EMS
by Renée Sigerson
A new International Monetary Fund report finally acknowledges the European Monetary System.
International Credit
by Laurent Murawiec
Recycling panics policymakers.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Europeans issue storm warnings.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
FEMA tutors the managers.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Farmers to educate candidates.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Special Report
The Billygate Networks: Oil, Drugs, Terror
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
Billy Carter’s deployment in Libya was an aspect of the Camp David agreements, with Egypt promised leverage over Libya and Libya’s Israeli controllers seeking blackmail powers against the White House.
The Charter Network: From BP to Schlesinger
by Scott Thompson
Vesco’s Network: Offshore and On
The Occidental Network: Armand Hammer’s Friends
by Richard Freeman
Including the story of how Hammer got his entrée into the Soviet Union.
The Libya-Papa Network: Socialists and Right-Wing Terrorists
by Mary H. Carey
International
International Intelligence
East-West Links Rebound After Polish Crisis
by Rachel Douglas
The U.S.S.R. has evidently written off détente with the U.S., but looks to Western Europe to help stabilize East bloc flashpoints.
Freedom House and the East Bloc
International Unions Fund the Dissidents
by L. Wolfe
Poland: a Trotskyite Insurrection?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s historical overview of the insurgent capability.
Cardinal Wyszynski Calls For Work and Order
The Blueprint For Dismembering India: Roots of the Northeast Crisis
A contribution from New Wave.
India Battles Religious Fundamentalism
by Paul Zykofsky
From our New Delhi correspondent.
Mrs. Gandhi Comments on the August Riots
National
National News
Congress Challenges Carter War Doctrine
by Barbara Dreyfuss
The China card, the Indian Ocean and Iranian invasion deployments, and the PD 59 doctrine that could turn them into nuclear showdown triggers have awakened some concern in the House.
Documentation: Statements from and interviews with Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committee congressmen, with an excerpt from specialist Banning Garrett’s testimony on the origins of U.S.-China policy.
Democratic Policy Committee Formed
by Anita Gallagher
Programmatic guidance and intelligence inputs for reconstituting the party are under way.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
