Volume 10, Number 25, June 28, 1983
Interviews
Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro
by Edith Vitali and Hartmut Cramer
The Foreign Minister of Brazil.
José Augusto Bermeo
The Minister of Industry, Trade, and Integration of Ecuador.
Dr. Rodrigo Lioreda Caicedo
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia.
Moustapha El Saeed
The Minister for Economy and Foreign Trade of Egypt.
Gen. Emilio Conde Ceñel
Chief of Staff of the Air Force of Spain.
Felix Alonso
Spanish naval shipbuilder.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Part III: Genscher, Reagan’s adversary.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Miami financial scandal hits Colombia.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
The ghost of 1968.
Kissinger Watch
by Mark Burdman
Will the real Henry please stand up?
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
Batyushka combats the heretics.
Economics
The Debt Crisis and the Swiss Calculations
by David Goldman
The British authorities and the U.S. private banks are beginning to mistrust the gnomes of Basel, without having prepared their own response to the new emergency.
Currency Rates
The Summer Agenda for ‘Operation Juárez’
by Gretchen Small
Brazil’s political leaders openly rebuff the IMF. Concrete points of continental unity are being worked out in the capitals of Ibero-America.
Momentum Toward Debt Cartel at UNCTAD
Poland Proposes Debt Freeze, New Credits
by Rachel Douglas
And Romania supports this direction.
‘Should Not the Third World Act On Its Own?’
Excerpts from a lecture by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at the UNCTAD VI conference in Belgrade June 8.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
The shrinking OPEC surplus.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Paying Peter to pay Paul.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Why Menexenus Spells Trouble for Andropov
by Criton Zoakos
The solution to longstanding questions about a little-known dialogue of Plato’s involves Alexander the Great’s victories for Western civilization against Oriental despotism and the overconfident oligarchs who thought their control of the population’s minds was invulnerable.
International
The ‘1938 Churchill Switch’ in Great Britain’s Strategy
by Mark Burdman
Certain policy makers there have begun to rethink the notion that the U.S.S.R. is a pliable instrument for their own plans, as they had to reject the Cliveden Set’s support for the Nazis.
The New Byzantium for the Middle East: Key to Intrigues over Lebanon
by Allen Douglas
A handful of Greek Orthodox families oversee political arrangements and contraband traffic in the region.
The Mitteleuropa Delusion that Is Sweeping West Germany
by Rainer Apel
The 19th-century ideologues who launched the banner of the “Third Reich” before Hitler have their heirs in West Germany, especially the Lutheran Church.
Spanish Defense Debate Focuses on Technology
by Mary Goldstein
How Mexico Is Being Subverted by the Implantation of Religious Cults
by Elsa Ennis
Sendero Luminoso, Drugs, and the Jesuits
by Gretchen Small
A report on Peru.
The Sudan Is Made a Focal Point for Superpower Showdown
by Mary Lalevée
International Intelligence
National
Euthanasia Policy Poses Clear and Present Danger
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The U.S. medical professional has been drawn away from a vocation as scientific healers, toward a notion of “care” for incurables which is rapidly and publicly exceeding the Nazis’ secret euthanasia efforts.
Father Paris Prescribes for ‘Useless Eaters’
Father John Paris, a Jesuit “medical ethicist”, advocates death by starvation for the sick.
History of the ‘Budget Process’
by Susan Kokinda
Part II of Susan Kokinda’s account of the “systems analysis” takeover of Congressional deliberations.
National News
