Volume 9, Number 49, December 21, 1982
Interviews
Begum Nusrat Bhutto
by Daniel Sneider and Mary Lalevée
The leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, finally permitted by the dictatorship to receive medical treatment in West Germany, exposes Zia ul-Haq’s complicity in the 1980 attack on the U.S. Embassy, and his current toleration of armed fundamentalist conspirators.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Labor at a watershed.
Middle East Report
by Judith Wyer
A new “Haddadland” in Lebanon?
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
We were right.
Economics
Has the Group of Five Given the Dollar a Death Sentence?
by David Goldman
Beyond the shadow-boxing which has failed to produce a Group of 10 bailout for Third World creditors is the potential dollar collapse that would blow the whole game sky-high.
Turning Point in De-Industrialization: The West German Steel Shutdown
by George Gregory
George Gregory reports that the pace of contraction outdistances even the “planned shrinkage” blueprints of the European Community’s Count Davignon.
India and Bangladesh Finally Reach Accord Promoting Economic Development
by Paul Zykofsky
Expanding water supplies is an important feature.
How Benjamin Franklin Organized American Industrial Growth
by Donald Phau
The first part of a study of the period when the proper role of government in nation-building was understood.
Corporate Strategy
by Peter Rush
Hong Kong real estate over the edge.
Currency Rates
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Italy Busts East-West Command Center for Guns, Drugs, and Terror
by Jeffrey Steinberg
From Azerbaijan Region to New York: How the Mideast Drug Crop Is Moved
by Marilyn James
Documentation: A map of the routes.
The Illicit Global Weapons Traffic Has a Turkey-Bulgaria Axis Point
by Nancy Coker
Italy’s Magistracy Begins To Unmask the International ‘Magician’ Conspiracy
by Vivian Zoakos
International
South Americans to Reagan: ‘Development, or Debt Bomb’
by Gretchen Small
What really occurred on the President’s trip to Brazil, Colombia, and Central America.
Documentation: Excerpts from speeches by Mr. Reagan, President Figueiredo, and President Betancur.
Ibero-Americans Launch Mass Strikes Against the International Monetary Fund
by Cynthia Rush
Labor actions in Argentina, Colombia, and elsewhere.
Bhutto Supporters ‘Flog’ Zia in U.S.
by Susan Brady
The dictator ran into unexpected trouble.
Europe-Wide Drive for Nuclear Energy
by William Engdahl
A report on the founding conference of the Committee for Nuclear Energy in Strasbourg.
Anti-Science Faction Rears Head in Moscow
by Rachel Douglas
Displayed by Literaturnaya Gazeta.
U.S. Consul in Mexico Linked to Deployment of Would-Be Assassins
by Hector Apolinar
And to promotion of the neo-fascist PAN party.
International Intelligence
National
Beam-weapon Initiative Is Changing U.S. Politics
by Susan Kokinda
While “nuclear freeze” advocates flounder, a new mass movement for high-technology defense and economic recovery has started to emerge.
Lane Kirkland, DOS Try To Sabotage LaRouche
by Lonnie Wolfe
The EIR founder, who proposed the creation of that mass movement, is the target of special operations by the “State Department Socialists” and their AFL-CIO extensions.
The New York Times Is Not Really a Newspaper
by Richard Freeman
Part II of Richard Freeman’s exposé further anatomizes the Ochs and Sulzberger families.
The Case Against D.A. Robert Morgenthau
Excerpts from affidavits documenting the Manhattan prosecutor’s effort, in collusion with the New York Timesd, to run a political witch-hunt.
The Chicago Tunnel and Reservoir Project: Infrastructure To Restore City’s Greatness
by John H. Brown, Jr.
National News
