Volume 10, Number 13, April 5, 1983
Interviews
Carlo De Benedetti
by David Goldman and Bonnie Mesaros
The managing director of Olivetti is asked what sort of deal he made with Italy’s Communist Party.
Luis Valencia Rodríguez
by Carlos Cota Meza
The Foreign Minister of Ecuador discusses his President’s proposal for a debtors’ negotiating alliance.
Carlos Alzamora
The Permanent Secretary of the Latin American Economic System (SELA in Spanish) voices his objections to IMF policies.
Ghazali Shafie
by Peter Ennis and Paul Zykofsky
The Foreign Minister of Malaysia talks about ASEAN, Indochina, and Peking.
Nguyen Co Thach
by Peter Ennis and Paul Zykofsky
The Foreign Minister of Vietnam explains his country’s stand on the Kampuchea issue and his view of the Non-Aligned conference.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The new U.S. economic diplomacy.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Countdown for the Maghreb.
Editorial
The rebirth of technological optimism.
Economics
The Debt Crisis Spreads to Western Europe
by David Goldman
Currency upheavals are only one symptom.
The Options for France: Third World Alliance or an IMF Receivership
by Laurent Murawiec
The OECD as a whole will be affected by the choice.
Japan To Propose Global ‘Great Plans’?
by Daniel Sneider
The “Global Infrastructure Plan” of the Mitsubishi Research Institute’s Masaki Nakajima may be presented at the May economic summit in Williamsburg.
Housing, Auto, Consumer Sales: Statistics Reveal No U.S. Recovery
by Leif Johnson
And the producer-goods sectors continue their downward slide.
Currency Rates
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Interest rates: up, up and away.
Business Briefs
Special Report
West Germany’s Green Party: Brownshirts Seated in Parliament
by Mark Burdman and Paolo Vitali
How the Nazi International and the depopulation strategists created the Green “ecologists.”
The Nazi Roots of the Green Party
by Rainer Apel
“Osmosis” between left and right, around zero-growth.
The Greens’ Program: Back to the Stone Age
by Charlotte Vollrads
The ‘Ecologist’ Outlook in Adolf Hitler’s Words
by Susan Welsh
Henning Eichberg: ‘I Am a Universal Fascist’
by Herbert Quinde
Case study of a Green coordinator.
Violence and Support for Terror: The Record
International
Ibero-America Left with No Choice but Debt Bomb
by Robyn Quijano
If coups and economic devastation are to be averted. Ecuador has found the courage to propose a unified strategy by the continent’s debtors to restore stability and launch development.
The Mexico-IMF Deal: A Damage Report
by Elsa Ennis
Agriculture and public health are beginning to be jeopardized.
Colombia Receives a Visit from the IMF
by Valerie Rush
The “Mexico treatment,” a devaluation scare, and capital outflow, pave the way.
International Intelligence
National
‘Mutually Assured Survival’ Becomes National Strategy
by Graham Lowry
An evaluation of President Reagan’s historic March 23 announcement that antiballistic-missile defense will replace MAD.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Presidential address, and from EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s statement in praise of the policy.
Military and Economic Breakthroughs: What Beam Weaponry Will Accomplish
by Steven Bardwell
A brief summary adapted from a comprehensive technical EIR Special Report by plasma physicist Steven Bardwell.
The Reagangate Plot: Are the Dominos Set To Fall?
by Scott Thompson
High-technology advocate Thomas Reed is not the only victim selected by the Justice Department-centered hit team.
How Ruckelshaus Plans To Undercut U.S. Industrial Corporations
by Lonnie Wolfe
Documentation: Ruckelshaus Ban on DDT: The Giant Toll (exceprts from Dr. J. Gordon Edwards’ speech to the Club of Life conference in Los Angeles, Feb. 18).
Part II: The Anatomy of a Corporate Murder
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Judicial robbery against Shearn Moody, Jr. and his insurance empire.
National News
