Volume 11, Number 2, January 17, 1984
Interviews
Cot. Marc Geneste
The “father of the French neutron bomb” discusses Europe’s vulnerability and the fallacies of MAD.
Rev. Lester Mondale
The brother of the Presidential candidate prefers surrender to nuclear war-fighting, he says.
Departments
Report from New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
The Arkhipov visit.
Africa Report
by Douglas DeGroot
Another superpower confrontation site?
Andes Report
by Valerie Rush
Colombian drug banker toppled.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
“Plan Bravo” and the press.
Editorial
The battle for Germany.
Economics
Sabotage Drive Against U.S. Defense Effort
by Richard Freeman
The forced resignation of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer is part of a bigger picture.
Grace Commission Demands Deadly Cuts
by Leif Johnson
Not only personnel but entire weapons systems would be affected.
Are Soviets Building War Stockpiles from U.S. Grain Purchases?
by Marcia Merry
CIA denials are not convincing.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
The axe hits farmers.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
The Wallich Plan for the Fourth World.
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Dirty money moves onshore.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
An all-out deutschemark collapse?
Business Briefs
Special Report
Should the U.S. Have a War Plan for 1984?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The peacetime tasks of a general staff, the current Soviet drive to face down a “flat-footed” United States, and the dangerous state of the West’s “post-industrial” economies, are examined.
The European Security Study: A Military Blueprint for Carrington’s Decoupled Europe
by Lonnie Wolfe
McGeorge Bundy and some of the other strategists who put NATO into a condition of “assured vulnerability” are now pressing a fundamentally flawed “conventional buildup” formula for Europe.
International
Moscow Enters 1984 on War Footing
by Rachel Douglas
A report on the year-end meetings which displayed the marshals in charge and their mobilization plans.
Ambassador Arthur Burns Is Out To Decouple West Germany from NATO
by Kathy Burdman
Documentation: An interview with a Burns collaborator at the American Enterprise Institute.
Partition of Lebanon Rapidly Becoming a Fact
by Judith Wyer
Sweden: Blackout Shows Threat to National Security
by Clifford Gaddy
The nationwide power failure in Sweden and the discovery of a sabotage team in Norway.
Genoud, the KGB, and the Comeback of Carlos
by Thierry Lalevée
Der Spiegel Prepares a Slander Attack on Moscow’s Number-One Enemy
by Michael Weissbach
Murder Attempt Against LaRouche Friend in Mexico
by Timothy Rush
London: Beam-Weapons Debate Breaks into the Press
India Breaks New Ground in Nuclear Power Program
by Susan Maitra
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche: ‘In the Footsteps of Benjamin Franklin’
by Mary McCourt
At the year-end conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees, the EIR founder presented the history of that philosophical association.
Mondale and Harriman Use Soviet Line Against Reagan’s Military Policy
by Kathleen Klenetsky
A review of attacks on the President’s commitments in Lebanon and the ABM beam-weapons policy, and an exposé of Jesse Jackson’s role as a Mondale asset.
‘The Overriding Problem Is the Threat Posed at this Moment by the U.S.S.R.’
Part II of our transcript of the proceedings of the Dec. 1 American Legion meeting on beam weaponry at the National Press Club, featuring Dr. Lowell Wood of Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Gen. (ret.) Volney Warner, and EIR’s European director Michael Liebig. Part I appeared in the Dec. 20, 1983 issue of EIR.
National News
