Volume 11, Number 7, February 21, 1984

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Departments

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

Glass houses.

Report from Bonn

by George Gregory and Rainer Apel

The next round.

Report from Paris

by Katherine Kanter and Joëlle Leconte

Mitterrand calls for space-based defense.

Report from Italy

by Leonardo Servadio

Bettino Craxi drops Atlanticist mask.

Inside Canada

by Pierre Beaudry

Traitors in Ottawa.

Attic Chronicle

by Phocion

Who is the Greek Prime Minister?

Editorial

For Lebanon, blame Kissinger.

Economics

Has the Plug Been Pulled on the U.S.?

by David Goldman

Paul Volcker is no longer prepared to finance the phony uptick.

Reagan Slashes ABM Budget To Appease the Congress

by Robert Gallagher

President Reagan, by slashing the defense budget, makes it a target for the press. The dangerous concessions under way.

Currency Rates

Bankers Worrying About Venezuela

by Mark Sonnenblick

Food Irradiation: A Technology Ripe for a Production Boom

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

U.S. authorities are finally expected to approve it.

Domestic Credit

by Richard Freeman

The truth about the deficit.

The Track Record of EIR’s Alert Service

by David Goldman

Business Briefs

Special Report

Why Reagan’s ‘Demand-Pull’ Recovery Is Failing

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

When the productive sector as a whole has shrunk, “consumer-led” prosperity is impossible.

How America’s Metal-Working Sector Is Being Destroyed

by Leif Johnson

A national security emergency.

Documentation: Interviews with industrial spokesmen.

International

Tip O’Neill Aids and Abets Moscow in Lebanon

by Criton Zoakos

‘The British Seek Revenge for Suez’: London’s New Moves Against the U.S.

by Mark Burdman

Small Steps Taken on Kampuchea Issue

by Linda de Hoyos

KGB Exposé Foils Appeasers in Norway

by Clifford Gaddy

Kissinger Strategy Gains Ground in Central America

by Donald Baier and Mary McCourt

State Department Driving Egypt and Israel into Soviet Orbit?

by Muriel Mirak

Reagan Dumps the China Card

by Richard Cohen

International Intelligence

National

Lebanon Crisis: Next Round for the Kissinger Commission?

by Richard Cohen

‘Time for Sharon To Retire from Politics’

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Mutiny Breaks Out in the Democratic Party

by Warren J. Hamerman

California is at the center of the fight.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: When Kennedy Blinked

by Carol White

How the President was induced to withdraw U.S. missiles from Europe.

Kissinger Watch

by M.T. Upharson

Kissinger sells ‘Dope for debt’ to Ibero-America.

Eye on Democrats

by Donald Baier

Manatt a no-show at California Democratic shambles.

Congressional Closeup

by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda

National News

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