Volume 8, Number 16, April 21, 1981
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Another brawl in the economic cabinet.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Strategic debate surfaces in Israel.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Canada: new oil giant?
Economics
Treasury Spokesman Out-Feds the Fed
by David Goldman
Confirmation that the Friedman versus supply-side debate was phony.
Documentation: Beryl Sprinkel in House testimony.
OMB Wrecks the Housing Dream
by Richard Freeman
The current state of mortgages and homebuilding, and how Stockman wants to finish them off.
Why the Fight over the Trident Missile?
by Leif Johnson
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
S&Ls don’t stand a chance with MMFs.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Boxing Haig in on the embargo.
Currency Rates
India’s New Five-Year Plan: Pursuit of Industrial Growth
by Paul Zykofsky
India’s Future Borrowing Plans
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Solution to the Polish Crisis
by David Goldman
Brezhnev Heads for Western Europe
by Rachel Douglas
Documentation: A grid of recent diplomacy.
The Future of Poland’s Debt: Productivity or Default?
by Renée Sigerson
How the debt crunch occurred, and the way to end it.
Interest Rates and National Security
by David Goldman
France, Germany Set Arab Loan
by Renée Sigerson
The significance of the new bond issue.
Bonn and Paris Put Britain on the Ropes
by Vivian Zoakos
International
Secretary of State Haig’s Fiasco in the Middle East
by Nancy Coker
Lebanon: The Plan To Force a New Partition
by Judith Wyer
Japan Under Rearmament Pressure
by Richard Katz
Alongside further fanning of the China Card.
Coup Attempt Had Regional Target
by Ramtanu Maitra
A report on Thailand.
Mexican ‘Greenies’ Surface in a Drive Against Nuclear Energy
by Elsa Ennis and Timothy Rush
Documentation: How the new environmentalist movement there was created.
Monetarism Pulverizes Colombia
by Carlos Cota Meza and Valerie Rush
A report from Bogotá.
International Intelligence
National
Haig’s Future on the Line, Foreign Policy in Flux
by Kathleen Murphy
The view from Washington, and from U.S. allies. The Reagan team’s “don’t rock the boat” attitude may be short-lived.
‘Manchurian Candidate’ Pattern Behind Assassination Potential
by Scott Thompson
An update on the trail of would-be past-and future-“kook” assassins.
Stockman’s Link to Global 2000
by Lonnie Wolfe
His involvement in congressional population reduction activity, and his current AID budget proposal.
Documentation: Testimony by AID’s acting director.
Trilateralists Stage Defense of Volcker’s Credit Policy
by Scott Thompson
The commissioners are not all-knowing or all-powerful, notes our first-hand report of their March meeting in Washington, but they’re stubborn.
National News
