Volume 11, Number 14, April 10, 1984
Departments
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
A disastrous U.S. export policy.
Foreign Exchange
by Kathy Burdman
Decoupling Europe from the dollar.
Middle East Report
by Judith Wyer
Moscow tightens its grip on Syria.
New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Zia reshuffles the deck.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
Condemned to slow death?
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Victimized by Dr. K.’s decoupling game.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
PAN takes up the Moscow line.
Book Review
by Kathleen Klenetsky
A Different Kind of Presidency, by Theodore C. Sorensen.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Is killing America’s elderly one of Hart’s ‘new ideas’?
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Will Henry decide to sue Lyndon LaRouche?
Editorial
The spring 1984 crisis is here.
Economics
The U.S. Banking System After Argentina
by David Goldman
America, not just the Ibero-Americans, is setting itself up for a “debt-for-equity” grab on the part of the European family fortunes and their banks.
Debtor’s Cartel Formed ... To Bail Out Banks
by Valerie Rush
A preliminary report on the March 30 deal whereby its fellow debtors help Argentina “bridge” its interest payments.
Documentation: Interview with an Administration official close to Paul Volcker.
Mexico’s President Launches His Tour
by Robyn Quijano
Of the continent’s other major debtor nations.
Brazil: ‘No Hope for Us, the Way We Are Going’
Speaking in the United States, Brazilian Vice-President Aureliano Chaves tells the press that the current IMF “restructuring” programs are compounding the country’s problems.
Thai Banks Approve Kra Canal Project
by Gail G. Kay and Sophie Tanapura
At a seminar in Bangkok co-sponsored by EIR, a green-light financial analysis was presented.
U.S. Stance Toward the Third World: Hostage to the Genocide Lobby
Congressional testimony by economist Jacqueline R. Kasun.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Soviet Economy: Everything Goes for War Build-Up
by Criton Zoakos and Laurent Murawiec
How the West Helped Build the Soviet War Machine
by Criton Zoakos and Laurent Murawiec
Looting the East European Colonies for the Russian Imperial War Effort
by Konstantin George
Military Scales Down Nuclear Program
by Clifford Gaddy
International
The Russian Junta Slams Dr. K.’s Back Channel
by Criton Zoakos
‘We Need a Good, Expensive Arms Race’
by Laurent Rosenfeld
A report on the EIR-sponsored March 23-24 conference on strategic energy-beam defense in Paris.
Documentation: On March 26, Jacques Chirac, the leader of the Gaullist RPR party, calls for a European beam-weapons policy.
Khomeini Legalizes Inhuman Butchery
by Judith Wyer
Islamic Terrorists Threaten the West
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Egypt: An Urgent Test Case for America’s Policy Toward Africa
by Thierry Lalevée
International Intelligence
National
Weinberger Clears the Deck for Beam Weapons
by Robert Gallagher
The appointment of a strong chief for the new Strategic Defense Initiative program, following the Scowcroft recommendation for “extreme caution.”
Why LaRouche Democrats Are Winning at the Polls
by Warren J. Hamerman
Their fight against Kissinger’s return to the White House, and their platform for an American renaissance, produced primary election victories in three states this March.
Henry A. Kissinger: Soviet Agent of Influence
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The transcript of EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s historic March 26 national television broadcast.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
