Volume 7, Number 48, December 10, 1980
Departments
Science & Technology
by Vin Berg
Biochemistry key to agriculture’s future.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Behind the Faisal assassination.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Price freeze ends cabinet fight.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Assessing our nuclear future.
Economics
Currency Bloc Proposal: Britain’s Monetary Trap
by David Goldman
West Germany appears to be going along with Ted Heath’s plans for the European Monetary System.
Senator Garn: Congress Must Regain Control
The incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee discusses banking deregulation in an exclusive interview.
Indexation of U.S. Credit?
by Richard Freeman
The trend goes far beyond money market certificates.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Foreign Exchange
by Renée Sigerson
Dollar in the barrel.
Business Briefs
Special Report
LaRouche-Riemann Model Projects Destruction of U.S. Living Standards
by David Goldman
The implications of the latest EIR computer-based econometric results.
The Model’s Projections
Thirty-six graphs showing the aggregate economy and the major industrial sectors.
Why Auto’s Cash Flow Has Moved into the Red
by Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman examines the effects on the American Big Three of government-mandated safety and environmental requirements, which drained capital from modernization.
The Competition Issue
The problem for U.S. auto wasn’t a slow response to the small-car market.
International
Schmidt Punts on Global Economic Leadership Goals
by Susan Welsh
The news behind the West German Chancellor’s latest official address.
Documentation: Excerpts from the speech and from an opposition document proposing an environmentalist alliance with Schmidt’s coalition partner.
Moscow Nods to Polish Dissidents
by Rachel Douglas
The Solidarity group’s friends in the Kremlin.
Turn in Japan-Soviet Relations
by Richard Katz
Military and economic policy toward the U.S.S.R. will be conditioned by the Reagan Administration.
The New Initiative Under Way To ‘Iranize’ the Mexican Nation
by Timothy Rush
As Mexico prospers, the opponents of industrialization escalate.
Growing Labor Unrest
Ultraconservatives are supporting leftists.
‘Indigenist’ Demands
The glorification of savagery – The Past and Future of Aztec Primitivism.
Lid Pops Off Mexico’s Mont Pelerin Society
by Timothy Rush
A response to EIR.
International Intelligence
National
Behind the ‘Hong Kong’ Urban Policy Proposals
by L. Wolfe
The Heritage Foundation is setting up the President-elect through a barrage of “free zone” recipes that originated with the Fabians.
Conservatives Build for Leadership Role in the House
An interview with Charles Stenholm of Texas, a leading House Democrat.
Opposition Mounts to Federal Reserve Credit Crunch
by Graham Lowry
With notable action by the New Jersey state legislature.
Soviet ‘Moles’ Target New Administration Through Heritage Foundation Conduits
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
National News
