Volume 9, Number 30, August 10, 1982
Departments
Investigative Leads
by Herb Strong (Herbert Quinde)
Qaddafi and neo-Nazis spur terror outbreak
Middle East Report
by Mark Burdman
Dr. Strangelove in Israel’s cabinet.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The ABCs of destabilization.
Interviews
Spanish Defense Minister Alberto Oliart
On the NATO command there and NATO “out-of-area deployments.”
Spanish Interior Minister Juan José Rosón
Spain is not unaffected by the drug plague. Minister Rosón calls it a conspiracy.
Eugenio Marín, head of the Spanish Employers’ Association
The need for an even more aggressive nuclear program, and the fallacies of Malthusianism.
Antonio Garrigues Walker, Spanish Trilateral Commissioner
Contending that the concept of national sovereignty is outmoded.
Economics
Britain Declares World Banking in Default
by Kathy Burdman
The New York Federal Reserve confirms the City of London’s policy of “controlled disintegration.”
Big Five Banks Near the Edge of the Cliff
by Richard Freeman
Canada’s bloated financial institutions sit on top of the fastest-shrinking economy in the West.
Currency Rates
Helmut Schmidt on the Depression Danger
Excerpts from his July 22 speech in San Francisco.
LaRouche-Riemann Model Projects Colombia’s Growth
Case Study: Colombia: Capital Investment and Education Essential to Economic Development
by Dr. Uwe Parpart
The Model Results for Colombia
by Peter Rush
The World’s Largest Coal Mine
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Colombian scandal greets new President.
‘There Will, Too, Be a U.S. Recovery!’
by Euphemius G. Quackenbush
A rejoinder to EIR.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Spain: Resurgent Nation or Next Socialist Victim?
by Katherine Kanter and Vivian Zoakos
An overview of Spain’s political constellations, and its international importance as a counterforce to those who want to make southern Europe part of a “Third World” subjected to enforced backwardness and fragmentation.
Documentation: Interviews with Spain’s Defense Minister, Interior Minister, national employers’ association chief, and Trilateral Commission representative.
How Spain Can Reach Recovery and Growth
by Richard Schulman
A programmatic outline for the tenth most industrialized nation in the world.
International
The Man Behind the Middle East Carnage
by Criton Zoakos
Editor-in-Chief Criton Zoakos on the Lebanon conjuncture and the phenomenon of Kissinger redux.
Henry Kissinger, Italy’s Socialists, and the Assassination of Aldo Moro
by Nora Hamerman and Fiorella Operto
Part II of our first-hand coverage of the trial of the Red Brigades murderers of the Christian Democratic leader.
Mexico’s Insurgent PAN Is a Creation of the Inquisition Networks in Central Europe
by Timothy Rush
Its leaders are overtly pro-Nazi.
Guatemala: The Controllers of Ayatollah Ríos Montt
by Gretchen Small
Including Gen. Vernon Walters and the sponsors of the Rev. Jim Jones.
The Frankfurt Mafia
by Volcker Hassmann
Part I of an exposé that travels from Swiss banks to the Lanksy mob in Florida back to West Germans like Walter Hesselbach, who has done so much to undermine the political parties there.
International Intelligence
National
The Sonnenfeldt Ploy and the November Coup Plan
by Richard Cohen
The policy content of the Kissinger faction’s plan to take over the White House altogether after an electoral debacle for the GOP is: restoring the China Card, imposing economic corporatism, and accelerating the downfall of Helmut Schmidt Chancellor.
The Promise of U.S. X-Ray Laser Defense
by Charles B. Stevens and Steven Bardwell
If the American public were properly informed, they would support this genuinely “cost-effective” antiballisic missile technology. Energy densities are the key to its superiority.
Indira Gandhi in Washington, D.C.: A New Opening
by Paul Zykofsky
New Delhi Bureau Chief Paul Zykofsky reports from the nation’s capital on the Tarapur agreement and the spirit of the Prime Minister’s meeting with President Reagan.
Congressional Closeup
by Susan Kokinda and Ronald Kokinda
National News
Editorial
Keep Henry Kissinger out of Israel.
