Volume 10, Number 2, January 18, 1983
Interviews
Friedrich von Hayek
by Laurent Murawiec
The Fabian monetarist of the Mont Pelerin Society calls for an economic crash and a return of the world to the days of the Roman Empire.
Jorge Carrillo
President of the Union of Colombian Workers for Bogotá and Cundinamarca (Utraboc) and Vice-President of Colombia’s national UTC labor federation, with chief responsibility for labor-government negotiations in his nation. Carrillo proposes a program which would make Colombia an industrial power by the turn of the century.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory and Rainer Apel
The shadow of the March elections.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Bhutto treatment for López Portillo?
From New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
Countdown for the Non-Aligned.
Editorial
Mankind’s punctum saliens
Economics
Morgan Breaks the Rules of the Game: Will the Game Break Morgan?
by David Goldman
Behind the drive to have a controlled financial panic now is the desire to stampede Congress into bailing out the International Monetary Fund. But it might just backfire.
Documentation: An interview with Morgan Guaranty’s chief economist, Rimmer De Vries; and excerpts from Time and other media panic-mongering.
How Morgan Rigged Brazil’s Debt Crisis
by Mark Sonnenblick
What Brazil Demands of Its International Creditors
Mexico under the IMF: Case-Study in Forced Deindustrialization
by Timothy Rush
British Solution to the Debt Crisis: A Grab for Raw Materials
by Judith Wyer
The Raw-Materials Grab and Population Wars
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Block’s Pig in a Poke.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
A Reply to Soviet Critics: Why a Beam-Weapons ‘Arms Race’ Is Necessary
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche elaborates on proposals respectively advanced by himself and Dr. Edward Teller. He demonstrates that most objections to this “technology race” by Moscow result from Russia’s playing very dangerous, “clever” geopolitical games.
The World’s Press on Beam Weapons
News media, from the United States to Europe to Soviet Russia, have reacted sharply to the circulation of the beam-weapons development proposal. Excerpts from the leading editorials and news reports to date.
International
Now or Never, Says Harriman, on Arms Deal with Andropov
by Rachel Douglas
The Eastern Establishment “patricians” are worried that the Soviet consensus arrangement by which Moscow is supporting the “nuclear freeze” movement in the West won’t last for very long.
U.S. Christian Fundamentalists’ Front for Begin on the West Bank
by Nancy Coker
A real-estate swindle involving Arab lands finds “Moral Majority” types collaborating closely with Henry Kissinger, British intelligence, and extreme-right fanatics in Israel.
Is Freemasonry a Homosexual Cult?
by Leonardo Servadio
Yes, it is, with roots buried deep in ancient castration rites.
International Intelligence
National
BIS Tries ‘Panic’ Blackmail To Force Bail-Out of IMF
by Graham Lowry
The international bankers’ agents on Capitol Hill are already hard at work trying to ensure that Congress and the Administration fall for the latest financial swindle concocted in Basel, Switzerland
Princeton Fusion Device To Achieve Energy Breakeven
by Charles B. Stevens
The TFTR tokamak at the New Jersey campus is about to record another, major historic breakthrough.
LaRouche Tells ICLC Conference: Beam-Weapons Policy Is the Key
by Mary McCourt
A summary of the Democratic figure’s historic keynote address to the cadre organization he founded in 1969.
A ‘Conspiracy’ Book by the Conspirators
by Carol White
Carol White picks apart the late Carroll Quigley’s The Anglo-American Establishment, written years ago, but only just published.
National News
