Volume 8, Number 15, April 14, 1981
Departments
Science & Technology
by Dr. John Schoonover
Scientific research: budget cuts pull the plug on national labs.
Book Review
by David Goldman
The Pope, His Banker, and Venice, by Felix Gilbert.
Guest Commentary
by Don Meike
Predator control for U.S. ranchers: a history of government sabotage.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Britain stirs unrest on Saudi border.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Time to clean out Alan Riding.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
World oil: two alternatives.
Economics
A Gameplan for the Interest-Rate Summit
by David Goldman
The Treasury and other strategists intend to bog down U.S. allies’ demands to dump the Volcker policy.
Documentation: Interviews with the Federal Reserve’s Henry Wallich and the NSC’s Henry Nau.
Currency Rates
A Deeper Credit Crunch Proposed
by Richard Freeman
How Pension Funds Lost $100 Billion
by Leif Johnson
Leif Johnson compared the returns on their investment with average portfolios. The managers of the 1970-79 loss are “postindustrialists.”
Ford Foundation Moves into ‘Postindustrials’
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Power play around Poland’s debt.
Gold
by Montresor
Oppenheimer dealing with the Russians?
Art Investor
by Dr. D. Stephen Pepper
Time, place, and prices.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Profile of a Conspiracy
by Criton Zoakos
A hideous branching point for the “chaos and confusion” scenario against the White House.
Unanswered Questions about the Attempt To Assassinate the President
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Based on the “Manchurian Candidate” capability behind the so-called lone assassin.
The Five Levels of Investigation
EIR’s Investigative Leads’ March 31 memorandum on directions of inquiry.
The Permindex Connection
by Linda de Hoyos
A synopsis of the activities and personnel of the international operation that targeted de Gaulle and Kennedy.
International
Who Will Gain the Upper Hand in Poland?
by Rachel Douglas
The splits within the party, within Solidarity, and among the foreign nations concerned,
LaRouche Specifies Recommendations on U.S.-Mexico Economic Policy
A report on EIR’s Washington conference.
Documentation: Excerpts from UPI’s press coverage and from EIR Latin America Editor Dennis Small’s policy statement on Central America.
Bhutto Family Targeted by Britain’s Libyan-KGB agents
by Daniel Sneider
Asia Editor Daniel Sneider reveals privileged information about the real purpose of last month’s Pakistani hijacking.
Shimon Peres Makes Overture to the Arabs
by Mark Burdman
An initiative blacked out of the Western press; Mark Burdman analyzes its prospects.
Documentation: Peres’s statement.
International Intelligence
National
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the Soviets, and Global 2000
by Lonnie Wolfe
A Soviet faction, says Global 2000 sponsor Taylor, has made a deal to let the underdeveloped sector die.
Documentation: An interview with Taylor, and extracts from his Population Crisis Committee paper.
Response to Haig’s Move for Control
by Freyda Greenberg
International and domestic comments on the famous March 31 TV assertion by the secretary of state.
Arms for Peking Pressed by CFR
by Richard Katz
A first-hand report on an Arden House conference.
Two Approaches to the Law-Enforcement Crisis
by Mary Jane Freeman
Presenting proposals by Supreme Court Chief Justice Burger and EIR founder LaRouche.
National News
