Volume 9, Number 50, December 28, 1982
Interview
Leonaldo Montiel Ortega
by Dennis Small
The Director of Technical Economic Studies of the Universidad de Santa Maria of Caracas, who advises the Venezuelan Federation of Labor, on the aftermath of the Malvinas war and the need for Ibero-America to seek collective economic policies.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
How long will Reyes Heroles last?
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
A sense of urgency.
Economics
Brazilian Debt Crisis Rattles Credit Markets
by Timothy Rush and Dennis Small
This month two near-bankruptcies of Brazil nearly started a chain reaction. Brazil has now signed an accord with the International Monetary Fund—which will solve nothing.
Mexico’s Economic ‘Balancing Act’
by Elsa Ennis
Currency Rates
German Industry Looks To Makework Plans as Export Markets Collapse
by George Gregory
Last week, George Gregory reported on the Federal Republic’s disastrous steel policies; this is the rest of the picture.
Swedish Business Embraces Olof Palme’s Schachtian policy for Trade and Labor
by Leif Johnson
Discussions with policymakers in Stockholm and Göteborg.
Price-Support Deal a First Step in the Total Deregulation of U.S. Dairy Output
by Cynthia Parsons
How Benjamin Franklin Organized American Industrial Growth
by Donald Phau
The second and final installment of Donald Phau’s article.
Armand Hammer’s East-West Coal Flurry
by Renée Sigerson
Corporate Strategy
by Renée Sigerson
The dirty takeover of Texas GRE.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Beam-Weapon Program: Boost to Productivity
by Steven Bardwell
Presaging “The Plasma Age.”
A ‘Great Enterprise’ in NASA’s Tradition
by Marsha Freeman
New technologies within immediate reach.
Artificial Heart Shows Breakthrough Potential
A case study.
How Beam Weapons Would Spur Recovery
by Sylvia Brewda
LaRouche-Riemann econometric projections.
Documentation: Sixteen computer graphics.
International
The Peace Movement, the KGB, and the Anglo-Italian Axis
by Umberto Pascali and Bonnie Mesaros
British pundits often claim the U.S.S.R. runs the disarmament movement. What they don’t say is that the animal in question is an East bloc faction deeply intertwined with British-supervised international terrorism. Here we present new material on “the Bulgarian connection.”
Deng Xiaoping Reaches an Unstable Truce with the Army-Industry Faction
by Richard Katz
Involving partial efforts to rebuild heavy-industrial sectors.
Indonesia Emerges from the Shadows: A First-Hand Report
by Daniel Sneider
Profile of a nation with great political and economic potential.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Scientific Genius Is Rescued from Windsor Castle
by Nora Hamerman
A conference in Milan this month challenged the British Royal Family’s control over da Vinci archives, and drew a ferocious attack from Italy’s Socialist Party.
International Intelligence
National
Manhattan’s D.A. Morgenthau Covered Up the Drug and Terror Ties of American Bank & Trust
by David Goldman and Kathy Burdman
Names, dates, places, and cui bono questions on a far bigger affair than the Banco Ambrosiano scandal which it intersects. This is the same Robert Morgenthau who is attempting an inquisition against LaRouche and his associates.
Post-Kennedy Fight in the Democratic Party
by Richard Cohen
Who’s backing whom: John Glenn, Walter Mondale, and EIR founder LaRouche take the lead as probable contenders for the Presidential nomination.
‘Hot spots’ Multiply on Zia’s American Tour
by Susan Brady
In San Francisco, official participation in welcoming festivities for the Pakistani dictator was curtailed. In Quebec, the opposition to Zia got more drastic results.
National News
