Volume 9, Number 37, September 27, 1982
Interviews
Dr. H. K. Jam, Director, Indian Agricultural Research Institute
by Susan Brady
Why the Punjab’s agriculture took off, and how the rest of the country could accomplish the same rapid output growth.
Edwin Kintner, former Director of the DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy
by Paul Gallagher
No theoretical or engineering obstacles stand in the way of nuclear fusion energy development.
Stephen O. Dean, President, Nuclear Fusion Power Associates
by Steven Bardwell
Where fusion research stands internationally.
Departments
China Watch
by Gregory F. Buhyoff
Deng’s Pyrrhic victory.
Report on Africa
by Douglas DeGroot and Mary Brannan
The Fez summit and the Horn.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
PAN runs into trouble in Sonora.
Editorial
In their own name.
Economics
Deranged Central Bankers Attempt Lending Clamps
by Laurent Murawiec
The bottom line of chatter about “debt rescheduling” and “debt restructuring” is the IMF plan to cut off new net credit.
Will Colombia’s Private Banks Get the Mexico Treatment?
by Valerie Rush
Documentation: The text of proposals for a dirigist credit system and an all-out industrialization commitment.
Mexico Maintains a War Footing on Debt
by Cynthia Rush
While other Ibero-American nations wage internal battles over the question.
Closing the Mexican Flight-Capital Spigot
by Renée Sigerson
A Two-Pronged U.S. Attack Against Brazil
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Japan Debates Its Response to the Ibero-American Debt Crisis
by Richard Katz
Hoaxter Makes Good as CEA Chairman
by David Goldman
The lowdown on Martin Feldstein.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Fusion Power Is Now In Sight for the 1990s
by Paul Gallagher and Steven Bardwell
Documentation: “Achieving Fusion Is a Problem of Politics, Not Technology”: An interview with Edwin Kintner — Polarized Fuel: The Research Discovery That Could Move Up Fusion’s Timetable, Excerpted from the groundbreaking September 1982 issue of Fusion magazine — “Nuclear Fusion Is Ready for the Engineering Stage Now”: An interview with Stephen O. Dean.
Will Japan and Europe Outstrip the United States’ Fusion Effort?
by Marsha Freeman
International
Austerity Policy: The Crux of the West German Crisis
by Rainer Apel
The end of the Schmidt coalition pre-empted the national importance of the Hesse elections. A late Weimar-style budget-slashing government is about to come in.
Israelis Extend the Occupation of Lebanon: Analysis of a Murder
by Thierry Lalevée
Politics inside Israel: Begin Plays to Mob While the Labourites Remain Divided
by Mark Burdman
The Political Legacy of Nahum Goldmann
Excerpts from a Der Spiegel interview just before the death of the great Jewish leader.
‘Old’ and ‘New’ Mafia: France under Siege
by Garance Upham Phau
‘The British Control Sicilian Organized Crime’
Red and Black Terror Threatening Poland
by Irene Beaudry
Not only are there parallels with Italy: the same networks are demonstrably involved.
International Intelligence
National
An Avalanche for LaRouche Seen Building
The significance of the results in Baltimore and the 6th Congressional District in Minnesota farm country, where National Democratic Policy Committee-backed candidates were running on Sept. 14.
Incumbents Fail To Challenge Volcker
by Graham Lowry
Both the Republican and Democratic congressional leaderships are making no pretenses of doing anything about high interest rates at this point.
Democrats Split at the Texas Convention
by Laurence Hecht
The LaRouche faction at the September state party conference raised a ruckus over policy questions.
Moynihan Affirms His Racialist Allegiance
by Mary McCourt
Upholding the record of Averell Harriman and the views of Arthur “blacks are inferior” Jensen.
The Roots of the Cinema Conspiracy
by Michael Minnicino
Part I of a six-part series on the brainwashing goals and capabilities of motion pictures. Pass it along to anyone who thinks films are harmless entertainment. The essence of brainwashing is the complicity of the victim.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
