Volume 8, Number 43, November 3, 1981
Departments
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Not exactly fraternal.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The new PRI shuffle.
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory and Rainer Apel
Bonn renews nuclear growth.
Report from Paris
by Katherine Kanter and Sophie Tanapura
Security for whom?
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Eye on Washington
by Stanley Ezrol
Economics
Is the Nobel Prize a Threat to U.S. Security?
by David Goldman
The method legitimated by the economics award is sabotaging national defense.
Yale’s Little Cabal of Systems-Analysis Frauds
by Richard Freeman
Nobel laureates, “left” and “right,” are exposed by Richard Freeman.
Import Shifts Point Oil Weapon at the Economies of Western Europe and Japan
by Judith Wyer
Currency Rates
Brazilian Survival Tactic in Volcker’s World Economy: A Draining Export Drive
by Mark Sonnenblick
Opposing Views on a Policy of Sacrifice
Dangerous Trends in the LDCs’ Trade
by Peter Rush
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Red alert.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Double-digit rates for the decade?
Business Briefs
Special Report
Reagan’s Nuclear Policy: Can the U.S. Make It Work?
by Vin Berg
The Administration is moving to provide regulatory sanity for construction and exports. Will there be credit for sales abroad? Will the next step, fusion power—deemed eminently feasible last month by Lawrence Livermore’s inertial confinement specialists—receive support?
America’s Foremost Regulatory Blocks
DOE Plans Pro-Nuclear Educational Campaign
How Volcker and the Investment Banks Have Strangled Nuclear Power Financing
by Lydia Schulman
The most dramatic case of the Federal Reserve’s wreckage of capital intensive industry overall.
International
Mexico, Japan Fight for Nation-Building at Cancún
by Peter Ennis
Part I of our exclusive report from the summit.
Documentation: Statements by José López Portillo, Ganesh Shukla of India’s New Wave, and EIR’s Peter Ennis.
Japan Goes Political: The New Financial and Technological Offensive Takes Shape
by Richard Katz
Part II of a series.
How President Reagan Is Being Played by London
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Papandreou Is a Second Mitterrand
by Nancy Coker
A case study in Britain’s methods.
International Intelligence
National
Who’s Setting the Next Booby-Traps?
by Richard Cohen
Tighter collaboration between Manatt Democrats and the Socialist International.
Haig To Write Own Global 2000 Draft
by Lonnie Wolfe
The plans EIR revealed this spring have taken official interagency form: a “patriotic” version of mass depopulation policy.
Strategists Say the U.S. System Is Dead
by Ronald Kokinda
A report on the Democratic National Strategy Council meeting which was dominated by the Club of Rome.
Two Battles for U.S. Water Development
by Nicholas F. Benton
The Clayton plan launched in Texas and the North American Water and Power Alliance, promoted by the National Democratic Policy Committee.
Documentation: A summary of the region-by-region benefits of NAWAPA.
National News
