Volume 10, Number 43, November 8, 1983
Interviews
Jamil Haddad
The prefect of one of the world’s largest cities expresses his suspicions about the origins of much of the municipal debt, and stresses that tangible benefits were not received from it. He calls for a debtors’ cartel among Ibero-American nations to freeze repayments and obtain real investment funds to create the economic growth that will enable obligations to be met.
Piers Wooley
by Mark Burdman
The London defense economist and specialist in international relations contends that economic bugaboos must be scrapped if the alliance is to regain strength at a time of danger, a danger which, he adds, necessitates the beam-weapons development proposed by President Reagan on March 23. Mr. Wooley also advocates the kind of international debt reorganization that would promote growth.
Departments
Editorial
Schmidt, McNamara, and the hot autumn.
Economics
Brazil Wage Agreement Resolves Nothing
by Mark Sonnenblick
Virtually the entire nation still opposes the IMF, and the new refinancing package, if it comes through, can’t stem the domestic crisis.
Airline Deregulation Endgame: The Destruction of Labor
by Leif Johnson
Every detail of EIR’s September 1981 forecast of the results of deregulation has been borne out.
Trucking Collapse Proves Fed Is Lying
by Lonnie Wolfe
During Paul Volcker’s “recovery,” shipments have continued to drop.
Currency Rates
The U.S. Infrastructure Deficit: Requirements Reach $3.5 Trillion
by Richard Freeman
That includes $100 billion a year for one decade for plant and equipment modernization.
The Ruckelshaus Ban on EDB Will Sabotage Agriculture
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht and Lonnie Wolfe
The ban is scientifically baseless.
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Pressure mounts on the CAP.
Gold
by Montresor
Was gold dealer Saxon murdered?
The Economists
by David Goldman
Stroking the “Invisible Hand.”
Business Briefs
Special Report
Moscow Plays Its Muslim Card in the Middle East
by Allen and Rachel Douglas
The Soviets’ British and Nazi Assets
by Allen Douglas
The U.S.S.R. and Islam
by Allen and Rachel Douglas
The Soviet Union’s Muslim hierarchy; Aliyev and the “Peoples of the East;” Soviet orientology and ethnography.
Iran: Moscow Puts Its Capabilities to Use
by Judith Wyer
International
Britain and the U.S.: Another Suez showdown?
by Christopher White
Those who wonder how the KGB could take over a Caribbean island basically controlled by the British will find some answers here.
European Military Spokesmen Declare the Need for Beam Weaponry
by George Gregory
A report on EIR’s Oct. 5 military strategy conference in Bonn.
Argentina on the Eve of Elections: Can It Become an Economic Superpower?
by Cynthia Rush
Egypt’s Role in Developing Africa: An Eyewitness Report from Cairo
by Thierry Lalevée
Cairo’s present outlook toward the West, the U.S.S.R. and the rest of the developing sector.
Report from New Delhi
by Linda de Hoyos
The Baluchistan gambit.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Behind the abortion battle.
International Intelligence
National
Washington: Is Somebody Starting To Wake Up?
by Richard Cohen
Some background on the Reagan Administration’s decision to act decisively outside Kissingerian channels.
Rallies Build Support for ABM defense
by Mary McCourt
Eye on Democrats
by Anita Gallagher
Where are the black, labor, and Hispanic constituencies?
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
Science Supplement
Beam Weapons Are Feasible: The Great Cyclotron Controversy
by Robert Gallagher
Physicists like Hans Bethe, who claim beam weapons development is impossible, proved their incompetence in the past by asserting there were absolute limits to the operation of Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron. Bethe’s insistence on limiting his methods to using algebra, and refusing to accept Lawrence’s geometric methods, was the basis of his errors on both issues.
