Volume 7, Number 38, September 30, 1980
Departments
Editorial
The dope in the White House.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The PCM, Brzezinski and Pol Pot.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Sawhill and synfuels.
Economics
International Monetary Fund Under Attack
by Alice Roth
Much talk and proposals for changing the IMF find the French, in particular, seeking to transform the agency’s character.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Euro-Arab deals mooted.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Runaway growth of the money supply.
Banking
by Leif Johnson
The “Transcendent Financial Reform.”
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Fed Economist Fakes Data
by Kathy Burdman
Feldstein’s social security study turns out to have been a hoax.
Can West Germany Weather the Oil Shock?
by Alice Roth
Alice Roth analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of West Germany in the wake of Europe’s recession.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Oil Shut-Off Phase II: London Targets Saudi Arabia
by Robert Dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss and his staff examine the scenarios and objectives behind the British oligarchy’s determination to crush the OPEC oil-producing giant—the key to flow of oil supplies to Europe.
‘Resource Warfare’ and ‘Recolonization’
by Mark Burdman
Including an interview with Robert Tucker, and the Jerusalem Post on “invading the oilfields.”
Saudi-Iran Feud Deadlocks OPEC
Britain’s Agents in Saudi Arabia
The British Factor Inside OPEC
by Judith Wyer
The World Impact of the Petrodollars
by Renée Sigerson
International
Western Europe Charts Military Independence
by Susan Welsh
European efforts to preserve world peace now include talk of an independent “European Defense Union” free of Anglo-American domination. Current NATO maneuvers, in which the Carter Administration seeks to practice “limited nuclear war,” have brought things to a head.
Energy: Nuclear Focus in Munich
by Dana Sloan
A report on the World Energy Conference.
Interview: Iran’s Aryana Seeks Exile Unity
by Robert Dreyfuss
EIR talked with the former commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces in London.
Is Pakistan’s Zia On the Way Out?
by Daniel Sneider
Daniel Sneider asks whether the beleaguered military dictator has any future from the standpoint of strategic considerations in London, Washington and Peking. Included: an interview with Pakistani exile leader Ghulam Mustapha Khar.
International Intelligence
National
Why John Anderson Is the Perfect Trilateral Candidate
by Kathleen Murphy
He’s totally a media creation, with no constituency to alienate, so he can push hard for a new “Dark Age” of scarcity, and serve as a battering ram against the Constitution and the republican form of American democracy.
The Rising Chorus vs. the Constitution
No Progress and No Christianity
by Margaret Bardwell
A profile of Rep. John Anderson.
Anderson’s Controllers: Elites and Aspen Liberals
‘Allocating Burdens, Orchestrating Sacrifices, Eliminating Constituencies’
A look at the Anderson program on government, energy, and foreign policy.
Abscam’s Purge of U.S. Leadership
by Vin Berg
National News
