Volume 8, Number 37, September 22, 1981
Departments
Interview
by Josefina Menéndez
Carlos Amtmann Obregón, president of the National Association of Importers and Exporters of the Mexican Republic, president of the Mexican Business Council on Foreign Affairs, and director of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
Report from Paris
by Katherine Kanter and Sophie Tanapura
Statecraft and growth.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Sadat cleans up his opposition.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Mexico’s real corruption story.
Book Review
by Dr. Steven Bardwell
The absurdities of neo-Malthusianism: The Ultimate Resource, by Julian Simon.
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Copscam blueprint.
Economics
Who Will Determine Reagan’s Phase Two?
by Kathy Burdman
Amidst Wall Street’s assault on the Administration, and congressional protests against the Fed, credit controls are being mooted.
Documentation: Interviews with the Federal Reserve and James O’Leary of U.S. Trust.
Why Schmidt Rejects U.S. Economic Policy
Excerpts from the West German chancellor’s recent interview with the Rhein-Neckar Zeitung.
Lehman Brothers Sets Fiscal Pace
by Laurent Murawiec
Wall Street had the budget deficit panic preplanned as of June; it’s part of a population shrinkage program.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The D-mark rebounds.
Gold
by Montresor
The families speak from Siena.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Reality pushes aside ideology.
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Williams Case and the Constitution
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Counterintelligence Editor Jeffrey Steinberg outlines the scandal-Abscam Judge George Pratt withheld from the jury and defense attorney evidence exonerating the New Jersey senator, and the Senate Ethics Committee counsel colluded with the Justice Department’s prosecutors.
The FBI Documents Exculpate Williams
by Mary Jane Freeman
Excerpts from the three suppressed reports, with commentary.
The Frameup of Harrison Williams
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. challenges the Senate Ethics Committee members who countenanced a perversion of justice that could undo them as well as the Constitution.
Jack Anderson Blasts Ethics Committee
International
López Portillo Rejects Hong Kong Economics
by Timothy Rush
The Presidential State of the Union message reaffirmed Mexico’s determination to safeguard its industrialization program.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Informe address, an an interview with U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Raymond Waldmann.
The ‘Vietnamization’ of Central America Is About To Erupt
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Israel’s New Axis
by Nancy Coker
The results of Begin’s intrigues with Haig.
Reagan Follows Carter in Support for the Fundamentalist Mullahs
by Robert Dreyfuss
Current Options for Iran’s Exile Groups
by Thierry Lalevée
Documentation: Excerpts from an Iran Press Service interview with Admiral Kamal Habibollahi.
China’s New ‘Special Economic Zones’: Colonial Enclaves for Hot Money and Drugs
by Gregory F. Buhyoff
Meant to built up Deng’s geopolitics, not industry.
International Intelligence
National
The Revolt Against Volcker: Will Congress Talk, or Act?
by Richard Cohen
Constituency pressure against the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate policy was unprecedented during the congressional recess, as bipartisan statements on Capitol Hill now reflect. The House and Senate may balk at Stockman’s new budget-cut demands as well; but a real recovery program is needed.
Weinberger Embraces Global 2000 Doctrine
by Lonnie Wolfe
The DOD’s current policy of Rapid Deployment Force or surrogate action in the Third World, rather than strategic sufficiency, reflects the prescriptions of Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
Documentation: Three statements by Taylor, and excerpts from an article in the official Military Review.
Why the CIA Has Not Made a Comeback
by Paul Goldstein
The first in a series on how U.S. intelligence capabilities continue to be sabotaged under the Reagan Administration.
National News
