Volume 8, Number 10, March 10, 1981
Departments
Editorial
What’s wrong in Washington?
Report from New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
Student demos shake Pakistani regime.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Arab left challenges Brezhnev.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Some warning shots of terror.
Eye on Washington
by Richard Cohen
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Hopeful change on oil leasing.
Economics
The Eclipse of the U.S. ‘Sunrise’ Industries
by Leif Johnson
Not only can’t electronics replace heavy industry-in the present economic contraction, it has nothing to hook up to.
A Replay of 1980?
by Richard Freeman
On top of a profit wipeout, U.S. goods-producers may lose their consumer-based short-term credit source.
The Federal Reserve Is Not a Fourth Branch of Government
by Edward Spannaus
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
“Volcker is the uncertainty factor.”
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Fact and fiction about the budget.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
The free market trap.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Buying out Argentina cheap.
World Trade
by David Ramonet
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
S&Ls put the gloves back on.
A Postindustrial Detroit
by Stephen Parsons
Part Two of EIR’s urban series.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy
by Lonnie Wolfe and Lydia Schulman
The State Department is promoting destabilizations for the explicit purpose of killing off masses of people.
Documentation: Comments by Thomas Ferguson of the DOS Office of Population Affairs; excerpts from the National Security Council analysis and Global 2000 report outlining the policy; and an interview with William Paddock, a specialist in population reduction.
International
Brezhnev Scores Radicals, Offers U.S. Leverage
by Rachel Douglas
Rachel Douglas’s report on the opening of the 26th Party Congress in the U.S.S.R.
Jean François-Poncet Urges U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting
A report on his press conference in Washington.
Europe: Volcker Is a Threat to Security
by Susan Welsh
At the Wehrkunde conference, West German and U.S. spokesmen said military defense is impossible if industry is undercut.
The German Marshall Fund: Reviving the Morgenthau Plan
by Susan Welsh
The originators, funding, and goals of an important institution.
International Intelligence
National
Haig, Media Launch Salvador Operation
by Kathleen Murphy and Gretchen Small
Documentation: The arms runners and guerrilla controllers the State Department left out of its White Book on El Salvador.
‘Scribescam’ Scandal Explodes
by Scott Thompson
The hard evidence that Thomas Puccio and other Justice Department operatives conspired with the press to set up the Abscam-Brilab victims.
Documentation: Who’s who in Scribescam.
Senator Hatch Talks About Brilab Approach
by Barbara Dreyfuss
Part Two of EIR’s interview with the chairman of the Senate Labor Committee.
Rep. Mottl on the Anti-Volcker Fight
by Anita Gallagher
An interview with the Ohio Democrat on what Congress is and isn’t doing about the Federal Reserve.
National News
