Volume 10, Number 24, June 21, 1983
Interviews
Gerd Niemeyer
A board member of the Club of Life in West Germany describes his Third World economic development proposals, based on years of experience in northeast Brazil.
José Barrioneuvo
by Anno Hellenbroich, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, and Katherine Kanter
Spain’s Interior Minister discusses the threat that terrorism poses to the nation’s security and democratic institutions
Joaquín Ledesma
by Anno Hellenbroich, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, and Katherine Kanter
The Spanish Justice Minister asserts that current legislation is sufficient to combat terrorism.
Departments
Africa Report
by Douglas DeGroot
The global stakes in southern Africa.
Report from New Delhi
by Paul Zykofsky
Congress Party’s electoral gain.
China Watch
by Gregory F. Buhyoff
A shift in US. policy.
Report from Paris
by Sophie Tanapura
France under the Andropov gun.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Part II: Genscher, Reagan’s adversary.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
There ain’t no Commies in Russia.
Economics
Debt Issue Erupts at UNCTAD Meeting
by Hartmut Cramer and Edith Vitali
During the first week of the Belgrade conference, India’s Prime Minister, along with the Presidents of Egypt and Colombia, and the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, posed specific directions for reversing the destruction of the world economy.
Documentation: Excerpts from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s speech in Belgrade.
Rising U.S. Interest Rates Belie the Economic Recovery Myth
by Richard Freeman
Japan’s JAPIC Public Works Programs Build Infrastructure for Future Growth
by Daniel Sneider
The steel and construction industries’ Japan Project-Industry Council cooperates with the government to plan and build longterm projects.
‘Into the Financial Maelstrom’
by Stanley Ezrol
A report on David Rockefeller’s Council of the Americas Conference.
Currency Rates
The World War II Manhattan Project: Precedent for Beam-Weapons Development
by Richard Freeman
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Farm policy and the debt crisis.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Who Will Pay For the June Debt Crisis?
by David Goldman
The Ibero-Americans’ commitment to their national interests, and the refusal of the Swiss to cooperate in papering over the debt, have incapacitated the IMF and the creditor banks.
Ibero-America: Storm Center for the IMF’s Supporters as Brazil Eludes Their Control
by Susan Johnson
Documentation: Excerpts from the “Quito Document” written for Ecuadoran President Osvaldo Hurtado.
Swiss Bankers Prepare To Corner the U.S. and Britain in the Second Round
by George Gregory
U.S. Administration Begins To Look at New Options for Meeting Debt Crisis
by David Goldman
International
Swiss Nazis Behind the Mutiny in the PLO
by Mark Burdman
An urgent case study in the emerging collaboration between Swiss strategists and what they perceive as the strongest world power, Moscow.
Who Wants To Make Carli Premier of Italy?
by Umberto Pascali
The Jesuit ‘New Reformation’ Conspiracy Is Targeting Reagan and the Pope
by Luba George
The recent conference of schismatics in Tübingen, West Germany cited Central America and Chicago as bases for undermining the Catholic Church and the stability of the Reagan Administration.
Terrorism and Drugs Pose the Greatest Threat to Spain’s National Security
by Mary Goldstein
The second part of a series resulting from EIR’s activities this April.
The PAN Party Is the State’s Department’s Best Asset for Promoting Separatism in Mexico
by Timothy Rush
Part I of an exposé already shaping Mexican politics.
International Intelligence
National
Why Yuri Andropov Is Laughing These Days
by Richard Cohen
A “bipartisan compromise” is under way to undercut the President’s military policy.
George Shultz’s 1984 Campaign Plan for Pushing Reagan into the ‘Back Channel’
by Richard Cohen
Part II of a background briefing on the effort to put Reagan into a Kissingerian policy mode.
State Department Attempts Sabotage of Administration Entente with Japan
by Richard Katz
Will the House Mount Opposition to the IMF?
by Ronald Kokinda
After the “fifth column” in the Senate opposition to the quota increase did its work, the House may cave in, too.
AFL-CIO Program: Barely Disguised Corporatism
by Carol White
Kissinger Watch
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Dr. K. on the brink.
National News
