Volume 9, Number 7, February 23, 1982
Departments
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Nuclear activists and the NRC.
Interview
by Daniel Sneider
Masaki Nakajima, Chairman of the Mitsubishi Research Institute, and author of the draft proposal for a Global Industrial Fund.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
The “business” side.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Probe International and the Hank scandal.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
A warning to subscribers.
Economics
Gold Emerges As a Strategic Issue
by Montresor
By means of “swaps,” the U.S.S.R. is selling without driving down the price, and Europe is expanding its gold reserves.
1983 Budget: Double Blow Against the U.S. Economy
by Richard Freeman
The budget deficit is pushed up by Volcker’s high rates; the budget cuts would slash essential infrastructure.
Currency Rates
Sterling National’s Unsavory History
by Leif Johnson
Even before its association with Michele Sindona.
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Congress spotlights farm crisis.
Debasement Index
A new service.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Computerized Economics as an Instrument of Brainwashing
by David Goldman
The second and final part of Economics Editor David Goldman’s account of how the Strategic Bombing Survey-RAND Corporation crew used electronic gimmickry to force-feed zero-growth economics.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Japan’s $500 Billion Plan for Reversing World Depression
by Daniel Sneider
The proposal to regenerate the advanced sector by developing the Third World.
The Text of Nakajima’s Plan for Global Economic Recovery
The Global Infrastructure Fund: Evaluating Methods and Projects
by Ramtanu Maitra
The fundamental question of energy development and specific feasibility questions.
The Financial and Political Feasibility of the GIF Approach to Investment
by Richard Katz
International
Exchange Controls: The New Debate in Mexico
by Timothy Rush
The President has attacked capital-flight promotors as traitors. The leading newspaper chain comments that only those with ill-gotten funds have the liquidity for substantial currency transfer.
Italians Pursue Upper Levels of Terrorism
by Nora Hamerman
Six new leads on the financiers and deployers of the Red Brigades, in dossier form.
The Muslim Brotherhood Threatens To Assassinate President Mubarak
by Nancy Coker
Sources in the Israeli intelligence circuit which promotes Islamic fundamentalism say Egypt’s new leader will be eliminated by April.
International Intelligence
National
Kissinger Faction Pushes ‘Guns-Not-Butter’ Policy
by Graham Lowry
A 1983-87 commitment to a gimcrack conventional buildup and/or “Space Wars” Wunderwaffen would entail draining the civilian economy and estranging the United States from its allies.
The Actual Stakes in Central America
by Dennis Small and Gretchen Small
The buildup toward U.S. military involvement there is part of the “guns-not-butter” preparation.
Volcker Rides Herd over the Congress
by Susan Kokinda
Apart from the revival of Senator Melcher’s resolution to bring down rates, no action against the Fed is in the works.
The Weinberg Death Could Boomerang Where Abscam Stands
by Anita Gallagher
Anglican Elite Runs the B’nai B’rith ADL
by Joseph Brewda
Founded by a lawyer for the Moore interests, the Anti-Defamation League is still largely funded and controlled by the patricians.
National News
