Volume 7, Number 47, December 2, 1980
Departments
Editorial
NASA and national security.
Science & Technology
by Vin Berg
Voyager mission to Saturn transforms Newtonian physics.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
How much longer for Begin?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Behind the Díaz Serrano-Bush link.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Upsurge planned against Reagan.
Economics
A Revolution By Fiat: The Fed’s IBF Decision
by David Goldman
The implications of bringing the Eurodollar markets back home.
Philadelphia Conference Finds Little Support For IMF Plan
by Renée Sigerson
The international G-30 gathering heard a sound commentary from Dresdner Bank.
Finland: An Industrial Nation On the Move
by John Hardwick
Telling contrasts with neighboring Sweden in a report from the editor of Energi och Utveckling.
Currency Rates
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
The Proxmire-Reuss years are over.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Under the credit knife.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Collateralized loans part of system.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
The U.S. Policy Fight and the Careers Reagan Can End
by Konstantin George
Volcker’s Interest-Rate War To Set the International Stage?
by David Goldman
The Rush To Provoke a Showdown between Reagan and Europe
by Vivian Zoakos
A Challenge to the President: Friedmanism or Economic Growth?
by Kathy Burdman
Opposition to Volcker
What Friedman Did to Nixon
The Monetarists on Reagan’s Team
The GOP’s Supply-Side Economists: Their Strengths and Weaknesses
by Richard Freeman
Appointments and a New Kind of Structure
by Kathleen Murphy
Reagan’s 1976-80 Fight Against Kissinger
by Robert Zubrin
A Dossier on Henry Kissinger and His Protégé Alexander Haig
by Ira Liebowitz
International
German Industry Demands Action from Schmidt
by Susan Welsh
Business, labor, and regional politicians want nuclear power and economic growth.
Finance Minister Matthöfer Defends IMF Conditionalities
Strange Diplomacy in Iran
by Robert Dreyfuss
Kissinger’s Paris session with the Ayatollah Beheshti.
Le Monde Diplomatique on the Muslim Brotherhood
Yugolavia’s Nuclear Plans Brought to a Halt
by Luba George
They detract from tourism, says the IMF.
Marijuana Revenues Finance Jamaica’s Debt
by Mark Sonnenblick
The new Prime Minister has already legalized the funding flow.
International Intelligence
National
The Labor Policy Behind the Synfuel Program
by Lonnie Wolfe
How Davis-Bacon wage provisions are being undercut.
Documentation: The legislative provisions.
Tip O’Neill Out To Sabotage the New National Mandate
by Barbara Dreyfuss
The Speaker of the House refuses to give the GOP, and Democratic moderates, their due.
Documentation: An interview with Texas Democrat Bill Archer.
Democrats Demand New Party Leadership
by Kathleen Murphy
National Committee chairman John White is on the way out.
GOP Gains Leverage in State Reapportionment
by Leif Johnson
This translates into more Congressional clout.
Narcotics Policy: Will Reagan Start a War on Drugs?
by Nora Hamerman
A specialist examines the President-elect’s record.
Nuclear Research: Fusion Power To Propel Space Travel
by Dr. Friedwardt Winterberg
Nuclear fusion-powered craft will reach much further, much faster, explains a pioneer researcher in the field, Dr. Friedwardt Winterberg.
National News
