Volume 8, Number 34, September 1, 1981
Departments
Science & Technology
by Carol Cleary
Collusion with fruit flies: a chronology.
Book Review
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan B. Cohen
The old Colonial Office mentality: Small is Possible by George McRobie.
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory and Rainer Apel
Labor takes on the Bundesbank.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Iranian exiles miss the boat.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The pressure is turned upon Hank.
Interview
by Stanley Ezrol
Alan Hill, the Reagan Administration’s chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality.
Energy Insider
The Reagan nuclear energy mandate.
Economics
IMF Depopulation Plan Moves into the Open
by Kathy Burdman
The Fund now considers population reduction measures a frank “conditionality” for its loans.
Documentation: Interviews with an Aspen Institute spokesman and a Treasury liaison with the IMF, and excerpts from the World Bank’s 1981 report.
Currency Rates
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
A glance at the budget.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Why is the Fed supporting the French franc?
Gold
by Montresor
Will Reagan jump for a gold standard?
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
The Fed’s great crash of ’81.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Schmidt Rejects a Brüning Policy
by David Goldman
In the West’s self-interest, the Chancellor opposes the Volcker policy of credit contraction and budget slashes, and Weinberger’s tactical nuclear warfare delusions.
Documentation: Statements by State Secretary Manfred Lahnstein and the Social Democratic Party in Hesse, and commentary from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Handelsblatt.
Hjalmar Schacht and Brüning Paved the Way for Adolf Hitler’s Takeover of Germany
by Laurent Murawiec
How London, after Versailles, engineered the Great Depression and prepared the political scene for Nazism.
International
Maneuvers To Trigger Shooting Wars?
by Nancy Spannaus
Current U.S. Military Policy Lunacy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
‘Free Enterprise’ Doesn’t Work: The Chilean Model
by Mark Sonnenblick
How Much Private Investment Has Been Flowing into Seaga’s Jamaica?
by Carlos Wesley
The ‘Strategic Consensus’ Attempt
by Judith Wyer
A report on NATO’s Mideast policy.
Pakistan To Retake Bangladesh?
by Ramtanu Maitra and Paul Zykofsky
Craxi Builds Up His ‘New Duce’ Image
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Turbay Caves In to Haig’s Game Plans
by Valerie Rush and Dennis Small
François Mitterrand: An Agent of the House of Orléans
by Laurent Murawiec
The monarchists turn out to be far more important than is usually acknowledged.
International Intelligence
National
A Volcker-Controlled President and a Secret Memorandum
by Richard Cohen
The “FDR euphoria” in the White House is dangerous when applied to diametrically wrong economic policies.
Reagan’s Mexican Immigration Plan Runs into Political Difficulties
by Timothy Rush
Urban Riots Planned over Immigration
by Dolia Estevez Pettingell
The networks ready to move in Mexico and among Chicanos.
Liberals Escalate Regional Water Issue: Are America’s Wells Really Running Dry?
by Sylvia Barkley
There is no need to choose between water for the East and water for the agricultural belts.
Ogallala Aquifer: A Case Study
Documentation: A draft water development bill prepared by the National Democratic Policy Committee.
Benchmark Fight over New York Mayoralty
by Vin Berg
Challenge to Koch: Klenetsky’s Program
by Vin Berg
National News
