Volume 10, Number 4, February 1, 1983
Interviews
Jan Kubit
This Polish energy ministry official discusses nuclear power.
Dr. Bazyli Samojlik
An economic adviser to the Polish Prime Minister.
Departments
Report from New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
India’s electricity bind.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
From Puerto Vallarta to Chile.
Editorial
The Gaullist “bicycle.”
Economics
The Bailout That Would Bankrupt the United States
by Laurent Murawiec
The fondi think they can stage a financial collapse, bankrupt the U.S. Treasury, and come out on top.
Currency Rates
The Effort To Merchandise a ‘New Bretton Woods’ System
by Kathy Burdman
What Congress is being told to induce it to go along with this scenario.
U.S. Debt Bomb Is About To Explode
by Richard Freeman
The public and private debt now totals some $5 trillion, EIR estimates.
The Solution to the Social Security Mess
by Leif Johnson
Sound industry and demographic growth.
U.S. Farmers’ Debt: How Will It Be Paid?
by Cynthia Parsons
No “bailouts” envisaged here.
Gold
by Montresor
Edmond Safra’s secret pessimism.
A Topological Shock-Wave Model of the Generation of Elementary Particles
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
The sequel to our December 1982 articles on economic shock waves.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Poland’s Hope for the Future Lies in Global Debt Fight
by Clifford Gaddy
Documentation: A discussion of the debt question in the Polish weekly Polityka.
Heritage of Tadeusz Kosciuszko: A Basis for Polish-American Ties
by Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy
Since the time of the Revolutionary War and the Cincinnatus Society, Polish nation-builders have allied with American System proponents.
Black-Market Mafia Undercuts Economy
by Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy
The Anti-Malthusian Current in Poland
by Kerstin Tegin-Gaddy
Based on the Roman Catholic tradition and the experience of Nazi occupation.
International
Non-Aligned: ‘Development Now, Debt Payment Later’
by Robyn Quijano
The January ministerial meeting in Nicaragua which began preparing for the March summit omitted the usual plea to boost IMF liquidity and instead blasted the “irrationality” of the financial system.
Documentation: Excerpts from the final communiqué, press commentary on the Ditchley Group of bankers, and excerpts from a discussion between EIR founder LaRouche and Ibero-American journalists.
Andropov Plays a Middle East Card in Bid To Secure Arms Control
by Judith Wyer
Mitterrand Disrupts Moscow’s Mideast Game
by Mark Burdman
Soviets and Social Democrats Out To Neutralize Germany—and Reagan
by Konstantin George
Morgenthau Plan Returns to West Germany, Vaunted by Left and Right ‘Green Fascists’
by Rainer Apel and Mary McCourt
Italy’s Fanfani Fails To Complete His Task
by Umberto Pascali
Nakasone and Reagan Meet in Washington To Talk Baseball Bats and Battleships
by Richard Katz
International Intelligence
National
Beam-Weapons Sabotage: Heritage Boosts Andropov
by Donald Baier
The foundation’s “conventional” defense strategy, and the “leaks” about offensive beam-weapons development, add up to a national-security danger.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Heritage strategy document, from an article by the new ACDA director, Kenneth Adelman, from Aviation Week, and from the Livermore, California newspaper, Valley Times.
Teller Will Soon Crack Beam-Weapons Secrecy
by Paul Gallagher
The physicist says he has been given an opportunity to explain why the U.S. should develop these antiballistic-missile capabilities.
Farmers on ‘Paritycades’ Told that Fight for Higher Prices Isn’t Enough
by Alan Ogden
The National Democratic Policy Committee is finding a response among farmers who want to reverse political as well as financial bankruptcy nationwide.
National News
