Volume 9, Number 46, November 30, 1982
Interviews
Dr. Ghulam Hussein
by Mary Lalevée
The Secretary-General of the outlawed Pakistan People’s Party describes how the Zia regime is destroying the nation.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Church at a crossroads.
Editorial
What is the New York Times?
Economics
U.S. Bond Markets: Weak Link for World Financial System?
by David Goldman
The IMF Accords Add Up To a Shell Game
by Timothy Rush
The letter of intent Mexico signed with the Fund is extremely vague. The banks are asking the IMF to crack down; the IMF is asking the banks to go ahead and lend.
How the World Bank Is Recolonizing Africa
by Douglas DeGroot
The World Bank drive to make the continent nothing but a raw-materials exporter is contrasted in this survey with the effort headed by EIR founder Lyndon LaRouche to bring high-technology industrialization there.
Documentation: Excerpts from the World Bank’s Berg Report and from LaRouche’s book, The Economics of Nation-Building: Critical Comments Appended to the Lagos Plan of Action. Case studies provided of Zaire, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia.
Currency Rates
Gold
by Montresor
Estimating world gold stores.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Beam weapons: The Science To Prevent Thermonuclear War
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
How Anti-Missile Systems Can Be a ‘Science Driver’ for U.S. Economy
by Marsha Freeman
Four Types of Directed-Energy Weapons
by Mary McCourt
Dr. Edward Teller Tells Press: ‘Science Can End the Age of Thermonuclear Terror’
U.S.S.R. Advances on Beam-Weapons Work
by Steven Bardwell
Draft Legislation for a U.S. Beam Program
LaRouche Open Letter Poses Policy Choice
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
International
The Soviets’ 36-Year Nyet to Technology-Control Pacts
by Criton Zoakos
Editor-in-Chief Criton Zoakos explains why those who think Andropov will embrace the kind of arms control that would stunt the U.S.S.R.’s advanced defense programs have some surprises coming.
Leonid Brezhnev: A Soviet Nation-Builder
by Rachel Douglas
Reviewing his commitments to industry and a rational version of détente.
The Kissinger Scandal the American Press Refuses To Cover
by Vivian
Freyre Zoakos
Excerpts from Italian reportage on the testimony by Corrado Guerzoni, close associate of the assassinated Aldo Moro.
France: Will War on Terrorism Tilt Political Balance?
by Dana Sloan
New York Times at the Center of Effort To Wreck Israeli Institutions
by Mark Burdman
Exclusive exposé of the intent and instigators of the articles on Labour Party collusion with the Reagan Administration.
A Political Standoff at the OAS Meeting
by Gretchen Small
Thanks in part to George Shultz.
After Elections, Brazil’s Fight over IMF Begins
by Mark Sonnenblick
International Intelligence
National
Federal ‘Gridlock’ Intended as Pretext To Scrap Constitution
by Susan Kokinda
How the budget fight relates to the Lloyd Cutler group’s effort to introduce a parliamentary system that would blunt constituency resistance against all-out austerity policies.
The World Wildlife Fund: A Conspiracy To Lock Away the Resources of the World
by Lonnie Wolfe
This organization, which is building up its influence in the United States, originates with the oligarchs’ commitment to making the globe a game preserve" and looting ground, free of too many plebeians.
Documentation: The U.S. board members of the Fund.
National News
