Volume 9, Number 17, May 4, 1982
Departments
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Another WPPSS plant bites the dust?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
The partition of Jordan.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
A parliamentary system?
Eye on Washington
by Stanley Ezrol
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
Will the U.S. remain powerless?
Economics
Swiss Cashing In as Financial Fears Mount
by David Goldman
Economics Editor David Goldman reports from West Germany.
Currency Rates
Oil-Price Drop and Capital Outflows Threaten the Venezuelan Economy
by Dennis Small
A survey based on Latin America Editor Dennis Small’s recent trip to Caracas.
Venezuelan Economist Calls for Exchange Controls
A Program To Launch Industrial Recovery
In Venezuela.
NATO Control over East-West trade?
by Richard Freeman
A plan from Chase Manhattan and Pentagon policy planner Fred Iklé.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Central banks’ “hit list” expands.
Gold
by Montresor
A Swiss dictatorship?
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Can America Revive Its Military Tradition?
by Criton Zoakos
Will NATO Fight Population Wars?
by Lonnie Wolfe
Documentation: Excerpts from the spring Foreign Affairs proposal on “no first use” of nuclear arms; interviews with Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Carroll Wilson, and others; “Who’s Who” in the ESECS group and the Atlantic Council; Excerpts from the Atlantic Council policy paper The Credibility of the NATO Deterrent.
Haig Backs London’s NATO Reorganization
by Lonnie Wolfe
LaRouche Outlines Counterplan for NATO Restructuring
International
The Strategic Stakes in the Malvinas Question
by Robyn Quijano
The Oil Weapon in the Gulf War
by Judith Wyer
Saudi Arabia can finance Iraq’s war effort further but cannot withstand a military attack on the oilfields.
Economic Nationalism Challenges U.S. Investment Policy in the Pacific Basin
by Ramtanu Maitra
Malaysia and Indonesia want industrial inputs, not resource grabs.
Olof Palme and the Malmö International
by William Engdahl
International Intelligence
National
The Clue to the Deeper Meaning of the Monroe Doctrine
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The East Side Conservative Club: A Threat to National Security?
by Scott Thompson and Charles Tate
Tom Bolan, Roy Cohn, William Buckley, Maxwell Rabb, et al. not only have unsavory business habits and links to the drug lobby, but also intersect the Propaganda-2 conspiracy.
A Change for the Worse in Party Rules
by Freyda Greenberg
The Democratic National Committee first established “fruitcake pluralism;” the next stage: control of the Presidential nominating process by the Committee and anti-constituency officials.
National News
