Volume 8, Number 26, June 30, 1981
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Will Israel choose a fascist?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Confrontation with the multis.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
That Alaska gas pipeline.
Economics
The BIS Performs a Sudden About-Face
by David Goldman
Some implications of the verdict that high interest rates after all threaten to force a depression.
Documentation: An interview with Robert Hormats, who is preparing the U.S. side of the Ottawa summit for the State Department.
A New Gold Exchange Standard or a British-Style Remonetization?
by Kathy Burdman
A new Presidential commission is to make proposals this fall.
The Fifth Column Hit Social Security
by Leif Johnson
Trade
by Renée Sigerson
Trade war threatens to muddy summit.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
IBFs are coming!
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
CFTC investigates cattle case
Mexico’s Inflation Problem
by David Goldman
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
Can Poland Yet Be Saved?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Subtitled “A New Polish National Manifesto,” this is Lyndon LaRouche’s commentary on the obstacles over the centuries to full Polish sovereignty, and the economic challenge of building a modern state. Part I: The Ever-Vanishing Polish Nation. Part II: Poland: The “Sancho Panza” of Europe.
Documentation: Poland’s current agricultural backwardness, and a profile of the dissident DiP movement.
A History of ‘Experience and the Future’
Poland’s Economy: The Agriculture Trap
International
Haig Pulls ‘China Card’ Policy Coup ... for Now
by Richard Katz
He may have neutralized America’s anti-China allies in Asia in more ways than one, strengthening Deng but weakening Reagan.
Will Menachem Begin’s ‘Big Lies’ About Iraq Backfire Against Him?
by Nancy Coker
Why Iraq Was Not Building a Bomb
by Dr. John Schoonover
Behind Israel’s Bomb: Dr. Yuval Neeman
by Mark Burdman
A ‘mad genius’ with some down-to-earth-not to say underground-connections.
Iran’s New Configuration
by Thierry LeMarc
Thierry LeMarc on how the Islamic fundamentalists are working with the communist Tudeh Party, and the dangers ahead.
Haig, Kissinger Named in Italian Coup Conspiracy
by Christopher White
It’s all over Italy. As we went to press, the State Department made vociferous denials at its latest briefing.
Monetarist Policies Are Undercutting the Strength of Europe’s NATO Partners
by Michael Liebig
An overview by Michael Liebig.
Chancellor Schmidt: ‘Economics Is the Key’
Thatcher Dismantles U.K.’s Capabilities
by Susan Welsh
Will Mitterand Keep the Force de Frappe?
International Intelligence
National
The Trilateral Package for the White House
by Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen reports from Washington on the President’s interrelated missteps regarding foreign and domestic policy.
‘Only the Reagan Administration Can Stop World War III’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Excerpts from EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s June 10 speech in Washington. Institutions, he said, must be taken away from the control of enemies of the republic.
A Summer Offensive Against Paul Volcker
by Anita Gallagher
Democratic senators are part of the effort; will there be a bandwagon effect?
National News
