Volume 10, Number 15, April 19, 1983
Interviews
Samak Sundaravej
by Pakdee Tanapura
The head of Thailand’s Citizens Party talks about domestic politics, and ridicules ecologists.
Demetrio Vergara Stanziola
by Carlos Wesley
The author of a technologically unique plan for a second Panama Canal at sea level explains the proposal.
Fernando Manfredo
by Carlos Wesley
The deputy canal commissioner discusses labor questions and canal capacity.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The San José Accord flap.
Middle East Report
by Nancy Coker
A question of time.
Editorial
Productivity and national security.
Economics
Debate over Debt Strategy Breaks Out in the G-77
by Peter Ennis and Dennis Small
Documentation: The text of the call for a unified debtors’ strategy by the secretary-general of the Latin American Economic System (SELA), Carlos Alzamora.
Ibero-America Receives Threats From Creditors
by Cynthia Rush
But Mexico is offering support for Ecuador’s “debtors’ cartel” initiative.
Why Cheaper Oil Cannot Buy a U.S. Economic Recovery
by David Goldman
The LaRouche-Riemann econometric model’s findings.
PIK Program: A Hoax for Farmers, and a Threat to U.S. Food Supplies
by Cynthia Parsons
The “Payment in Kind” budget-cutting maneuver will evidently rob the consumer without paying the producer.
Currency Rates
International Credit
by Kathy Burdman
BIS plots next phase of creditors’ cartel.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
What makes interest rates go up?
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Genoud Networks and the Plan To Set the Mideast on Fire
by Scott Thompson
An overview of the Nazi International, coordinated by Switzerland’s François Genoud, and a report on the latest effort to deploy the International’s Khomeini-style networks throughout the Middle East.
François Genoud, Terrorist Controller
by Paul Goldstein
In counterintelligence format, a dossier on the shadowy protégé of the Swiss banks, the Schlumberger interests, and the Allen Dulles networks in Anglo-American circles.
International
Tailspin in Western Europe over U.S. Defense Policy
by Criton Zoakos
“We need to preserve nuclear blackmail!” cries the Royal Institute of International Affairs — Soviet press rallies the party for laser technology — The Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta has published a map of economic applications of the U.S.S.R.’s beam-weapons program.
Soviets Move To Unlock Technology Bottlenecks
by Rachel Douglas
The Real Threat in Central America: Kirkpatrick, Sharon, & Company
by Gretchen Small
Colombia’s Betancur on Emergency Mission
In Defense of Nigeria
by Allen Salisbury
EIR board member Allen Salisbury challenges the international media.
African Officials Blast Club of Rome, IMF
Thailand: The Choices as Elections Approach
by Pakdee Tanapura and Sophie Tanapura
The Kampuchea Issue: A ‘Patient Stance’
by Paul Zykofsky
Our correspondents report from Bangkok on the present government’s foreign policy, and the political alignments domestically.
The World Needs a New Sea-Level Panama Canal
by Carlos Wesley
International Intelligence
National
Bipartisan Government in 1985, Pledges LaRouche
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The EIR founder identifies the Reagan nuclear defense strategy as an irreversible turning point for national morality and scientific capability, and reviews the possibilities of his presidential candidacy from that point of view.
Harriman Democrats Are Recycling the Andropov Line Against Beam Weaponry
by Graham Lowry
Their plans to turn both the United States and the Soviet Union into “post-industrial” swamps are in utter jeopardy.
SPIS: Offshore Banks Aid Drugs and Crime
by Renée Sigerson
The Senate subcommittee report on dirty-money laundering calls a spade a spade.
How the FBI Was Set Up As a National Gestapo
by Marilyn James
Part I of a new series describes the Bureau of Investigation’s unconstitutional sweeps in the name of law enforcement before and during World War I.
National News
