Volume 11, Number 8, February 28, 1984
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
U.S. launches trade war.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Mafia attacks Colombia’s Betancur.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
The kind of death Papandreou fears.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The odd decouplers.
Report from Paris
by Mary Lalevée
Behind the French-Soviet rapprochement.
Editorial
Chernenko.
Economics
Volcker’s Biggest Fraud: The New Debt Gambit
by Vin Berg
The “blocked accounts” system of accepting debt payment in local currencies goes into effect.
What are the Risks of an Oil Crisis?
by Laurent Murawiec
Political as well as economic implications.
IMF Spokesman Discusses the Death Count
by Stanley Ezrol
At a recent conference in Washington, Cuba’s collaboration with the Fund also emerged.
In France, ‘Red Billionaires’ Broker the Deals with Moscow
by Laurent Murawiec
Part II of Laurent Murawiec’s series on East-West trade mafias.
Currency Rates
How the Food Irradiation Breakthrough Was Achieved
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
And what it will accomplish when the Food and Drug Administration okays it for the United States.
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
Empty silos.
Gold
by David Goldman
Statistics and pessimism.
Foreign Exchange
by Renée Sigerson
Tracking the dollar’s decline.
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Club of Rome Attempt To Take Over the Vatican
by Augustinus
Pope John Paul is being forced to back off from the spirit of his encyclical Laborem Exercens, his cultural optimism and commitment to technological progress. The Roman Curia is pushing him instead toward a mysticism-based alliance with the “peace movement” and the Eastern Church.
The Structure of the Roman Curia
The Latest Evil Deeds of the Jesuits
International
Dominoes Are Toppled in the Middle East
by Muriel Mirak and Mark Burdman
The repercussions of the U.S. pullout from Lebanon reach to the Gulf, to Egypt, and to Western Europe.
Egypt’s Mubarak Tries To Reverse Disaster
by Linda de Hoyos
Behind the Sharon Coup Threat in Israel
by Mark Burdman
Why France’s Defense Cannot Be ‘Decoupled’ from the Western Alliance
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Specific proposals for a crash military-security program, issued by Jacques Cheminade.
The Kissinger China Card Worked to Moscow’s Advantage
by Richard Cohen
Part III of “The New Era in U.S.-China Relations.”
International Intelligence
National
Turning the White House Over to Henry Kissinger
by Graham Lowry
The “pragmatist” front men for Dr. K. will lose Reagan the election, and may lose the nation its survival.
Confusion among the European-American Elites
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
LaRouche writes that the Establishment fears changing its policy outlook, and facing the growth of LaRouche’s own influence, more than it fears a defeat of the West.
NBC Faces a $60 Million Libel Suit by The LaRouche Campaign
And LaRouche has challenged NBC chief Thornton Bradshaw to debate.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Candidate Jesse Jackson: Jonestown revisited.
National News
