Volume 8, Number 5, February 3, 1981
Departments
Editorial
A post-Malthusian era.
Science & Technology
by Vin Berg
Physics conference throws light on the U.S.-Soviet laser fusion debate.
Africa Report
by Douglas DeGroot
A new spirit in the White House.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Further shakeups in Turkey.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
A President à la italiana?
Energy Insider
Uranium production threatened.
Economics
Will Reagan ‘Reawaken This Industrial Giant’?
by David Goldman
A quote from the inaugural address–a continued battle for control of policy.
Cutting Through the Tax Debate
by Kathy Burdman
Cuts are urgently needed, but only in the right places.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Reserves are fleeing the system.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The crisis that didn’t happen.
Corporate Strategy
by Leif Johnson
Utilities face debt pileup.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Carter’s last word: shrinkage.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
America Needs High-Technology Breakthroughs
by David Goldman
A LaRouche-Riemann econometric model study on the U.S. economy from 1963 to 1981. David Goldman reviews the results, focusing on the productivity question.
Documentation: The aggregate economy and nine industrial sectors, in graphic form.
International
The Post-Khomeini Future for Iran and the Gulf
by Robert Dreyfuss
Why the Carter deal won’t shore up the ayatollahs, and how the Iranian opposition and some Saudi leaders are preparing a “zone of stability.”
Documentation: Statements from General Oveissi’s ARA publication and the Trilateral Commission’s Arrigo Levi.
Soviet Shift on Middle East Creates Possibilities for Reagan
by Rachel Douglas
With U.S.S.R. commentaries.
Openings for Talks Follow Pressure on Zia
by Daniel Sneider
The Afghan question.
‘Social Convulsions’ for Europe?
by Susan Welsh
The Socialist International and its collaborators plan ahead.
Faction Fight Spurs Deng’s Threat To End ‘Normalization’ of U.S. Ties
by Richard Katz
The China card’s in trouble.
Documentation: Comments from Georgetown’s Ray Cline and a Soviet specialist.
International Intelligence
National
Abscam On Trial as NBC Prepares a ‘Reagangate’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Justice Department figures now protest Civiletti-FBI methods in Abscam-Brilab. Nevertheless, NBC’s controllers are cooking up new phony scandals against the White House itself.
‘Old Boys’ Run FBI-Justice Witchhunts
by Scott Thompson
A profile of Walter Sheridan, Kennedy’s point man against the labor secretary-designate.
Challenge Mounts to Entrapment Tactics
by Barbara Boyd and Richard Magraw
Based on on-the-scene reporting from the Brooklyn hearings that exposed Abscam.
Why Reagan Must Purge the FBI
by Lyndon H. LaRouche
Jimmy Carter’s Hostage Deal: An Unconstitutional Assault
by Judith Wyer
The Question of National Sovereignty
by Nancy Spannaus
Including the question of Ramsey Clark.
Agenda for ‘Guild Socialism’
by Laurence Hecht
The National Urban Policy Roundtable conference.
National News
