Volume 8, Number 3, January 20, 1981
Departments
Editorial
A foreign-policy breakthrough?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Who runs the police?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
López Portillo’s India trip.
Energy Insider
Natural gas and price decontrol.
Economics
Can Reagan Avoid a Depression?
by David Goldman
Documentation: Excerpts from the Senate Banking Committee hearings where senators challenged Paul Volcker, and selections from Treasury Secretary-designate Regan’s remarks.
Jack Kemp Proposes Summit between Reagan and EMS Founders
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Lenders batten down the hatches.
Gold
by David Goldman
Irregular Soviet operations.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
If Chrysler goes.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
U.S. League shows some fight.
The Plot Against U.S. Housing
by Richard Freeman
Documentation: An interview with Illinois Cement Masons President Ron Thelin.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
Italy’s Future: Socialist Coup or Gaullist Republic
by Muriel Mirak
Documentation: a profile of the would-be Mussolini, Socialist Bettino Craxi.
Italian Terrorism: A Political Weapon
by Muriel Mirak
The ‘Heavy Lira’ Proposal Dominates Economic Debate
by Nora Hamerman
Rumors and denials of a currency reform.
The Postwar Struggle for a ‘Heavy Lira’ Reconstruction Plan
by Marco Fanini
Why Italy’s Central Bankers Oppose the ‘Heavy Lira’
Interview with EIR’s Paolo Raimondi.
International
Good News from Reagan-López Portillo Talks
by Dennis Small
Documentation: Excerpts from the communiqué and the Foreign Ministry’s account of the meeting.
Mexico’s Shopping List for U.S. Exports
The manufactures they want, and the U.S.jobs that would result.
The Partido Laboral Mexicano versus Jorge Castañeda
by Timothy Rush
Pressure is mounting on the “disheveled” minister.
Documentation: Sour Grapes in the U.S. Press
International Intelligence
National
The ‘Agenda for the 80s’: A Deindustrialization Scheme
by Lonnie Wolfe
A Carter commission is trying to rig a debate to corner the Reagan administration into giving up on American-style urban growth.
Documentation: Recommendations by the commission and the London Economist.
Haig and Kissinger Act Out London’s NATO Scenario
by Kathleen Murphy
The most disturbing side of U.S. foreign policy prospects.
Heritage Foundation and Friends
by Scott Thompson and Lonnie Wolfe
Explaining the paradox of this “new right” outfit’s collaboration with social democrats and Soviet intelligence agents.
John Block Looks to a Growth Policy for U.S. Agriculture
by Graham Lowry
The new farm secretary started with a blast against the Federal Reserve’s credit crunch.
National News
