Volume 8, Number 23, June 9, 1981
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Anglo-American split over oil prices?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Master plan for destabilization.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
For the birds
Economics
World Trade in the 1980s: The Emergence of Blocs?
by David Goldman
A review of the transformed trade picture over the late 1970s period.
A Private-Sector Brandt Policy
by Renée Sigerson
U.S. commercial bankers are enthused about “cherry-picking” investments in the Third World, something very different from an overall technology transfer.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
The fight over money supply.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Judge decides for DES.
Gold
by Montresor
Central banks against the nation-states.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Mexican Spokesmen Battle Volckerism
by Elsa Ennis
Trade-union, farm, and business leaders call for industrialization, not high rates.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Global 2000 Debate Out in the Open
by Vin Berg
The Basic Scientific Fallacies of the Global 2000 Reports
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
Documentation: Excerpts from the Global 2000 Report.
Stating the Premises: Willful Depopulation or Investment for Economic Growth?
Opening statements by Nicholas Yost and Uwe Parpart at the Washington debate.
How Less-Developed Countries Are To Be Brainwashed
by Joseph LeGrande
Where the State Department Gets Its Policy Levers for Pushing Global 2000
Spokesmen for Mass Murder
by Susan Welsh
Alexander King, Aurelio Peccei, and German Free Democrats.
International
Schmidt Boosted At Home by the Reagan Summit
by Susan Welsh
The Fall of Italy’s Government Exposes Kissinger Links
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Loggia Propaganda Due networks include some key Haig-Kissinger friends, casting additional light on what’s wrong with NATO.
Roberto Calvi and the Inter-Alpha Group
The New Appointees in the French Cabinet: A Transition Team for the Club of Rome
by Dana Sloan
Conservative ‘Unity’ Helps Mitterrand
Who’s in Charge of Lebanon Policy?
by Nancy Coker
Some positive signs that President Reagan is supervising the dangers there.
Figuereido in Bonn: Uncertainties Persist
by Mark Sonnenblick
International Intelligence
National
The President and the Interest-Rate Battle
by Richard Cohen
Will the White House seize the openings against Volcker made by the House Majority Leader, or get trapped in deeper and deeper budget cuts?
Operation Prime Cut Targets Paul Volcker
by Anita Gallagher
An interview with Walter Kelly, Jr., cochairman of Chrysler-Plymouth Auto Dealers Council of the United States.
Administration To Lose Its Labor Allies Through IBT Purge?
by Scott Thompson
A witch-hunt against labor won’t save the White House from “corruption” scandals; it will, however, sever Reagan from an indispensable constituency, writes Scott Thompson.
National News
