Volume 8, Number 21, May 26, 1981
Departments
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
U.S. views conflict at AIF fusion conference.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
A defeat for Saudi Arabia.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Díaz Serrano gets the kiss of death.
Labor In Focus
by Laurence Sherman
In defense of Davis-Bacon. A new column by Detroit correspondent Laurence Sherman.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
A major setback in France.
Eye on Washington
by Stanley Ezrol
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Facts Behind Terror
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Mitterrand and terrorism.
Economics
The EMS and the Ottawa Summit Are Under the Gun
by Kathy Burdman
As the European Monetary System becomes unable to stabilize and direct credit, the “controlled disintegration” advocates plan a right-left clash at the June summit.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Dollar collapse is crisis endpoint.
Gold
by Montresor
For a lucky few, a buying opportunity.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
“Pathetic Earthlings, who will save you?”
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Stockman’s threat to Social Security.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Interest rates strangle livestock.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Billions in Trade On Agenda at the U.S.-Mexico Summit?
by Dennis Small
Texas Governor Proposes Oil-for-Technology Deal
Mexico’s Superports: A Strategy of City-Building for Five Million People
by Timothy Rush
The Shopping List for Mexico’s Development
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
Documentation: Nine charts and graphs.
Alexander Haig Attempts To Sabotage the Reagan-López Portillo Summit Meeting
by Elsa Ennis and Timothy Rush
A Scenario from the London Economist
International
The Damage Mitterrand’s Victory Can Now Inflict
by Christopher White
‘Disaster Has Struck: Therefore Rebuild’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A May 11 statement by EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
How Jacques Chirac Threw France’s Vote
by Dana Sloan
The second-round voting patterns.
The History of a British Agent
by Garance Upham Phau
Mitterrand’s career as an instigator of Third World bloodbaths.
Can Schmidt Survive Without Giscard?
by Susan Welsh
Social Democrats Export ‘Antiwar’ Push to the U.S.
by Luba George
Part II of Luba George’s dossier. Case study: E. P. Thompson.
Royal Peers Oversee Peace Agitation
State Department Pours Oil on the Fire in Central America
by Gretchen Small
Deng Xiaoping’s New Balancing Act
by Richard Katz
International Intelligence
National
The Political Shape of the Budget Maneuvers
by Richard Cohen
Leadership Needed To Save Breeder, NASA
by Marsha Freeman
Suzuki’s U.S. Visit Involved More Than Armaments Talks
by Richard Katz
The China Card outlook was also pursued.
Attacks on IBT Pave Way for Reagangate
by Richard Magraw
An update on the “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” effort to pit the Administration against Teamster Interim President Roy Williams.
National News
