Volume 7, Number 46, November 25, 1980
Departments
Editorial
A new set of choices.
Book Review
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
Steven Bardwell, plasma physics director of the Fusion Energy Foundation, on Jeremy Rifkin’s Entropy: A New World View.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Time running out for Assad.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The Wharton model: consumer fraud.
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Hare Krishna: a synthetic cult.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Politics versus reality.
Economics
Will Reagan Dump Volcker ... or Get Thatcherized?
by David Goldman
The Friedman partisans in the Reagan camp want the Fed to contract credit before January.
Special Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Expanding credit through a new Federal Reserve. A special banking report on draft legislation.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1981.
France Can Cure Inflation
by Laurent Murawiec
Faster depreciation for industry and curbs on real-estate speculation are proposed in our economic survey.
India Seeks Assistance for Large-Scale Industrial Projects
by Paul Zykofsky
A report from New Delhi on current negotiations.
Currency Rates
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
European Currency Unit moves ahead.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Power Struggle in China: The Myth of ‘The New Stability’
by Daniel Sneider
An introduction.
China’s New Leadership
Their biographies.
Chronology: The Return of the Chou-Deng Group
A chronology, from 1976 to 1980.
The Leader Reassessed
Party Factions: The CCP: A Façade of Discipline
Army Factions: The PLA: A Restive Element
The Trial Defendants
Security Apparatus: Discredited and Dysfunctional
International
Who’s Doing What to Whom in Poland
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s analysis of the London-Moscow gambits and the traps ahead.
Will Reagan Support an Alternative to Camp David?
by Robert Dreyfuss
The interim U.S. debate and Europe’s proposals.
France, Tunisia Launch Development Initiative
by Dana Sloan
The ‘trialogue’ comes off the drawing board.
Documentation: The communiqué identifying investment areas.
‘Shock Therapy’ for Brazil?
by Mark Sonnenblick
Chase Manhattan has delivered its instructions.
Documentation: Comments by Willard Butcher and David Rockefeller.
International Intelligence
National
Reagan’s Cabinet Choices: They’re Up For Grabs
by Kathleen Murphy
The pledge not to restore Nixon-Ford personnel wholesale is being taken seriously.
Moderates Look to Leadership Posts
by L. Wolfe
The Democratic Party fight.
GOP Chairmen To Reverse Track
by Barbara Dreyfuss
The Senate committee prospects.
National News
