Volume 11, Number 41, October 23, 1984
Departments
Report from Paris
by Yves Messer
Becoming a Post-Industrial Hell.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
SPD Talks Like Radio Moscow.
Vatican
by Augustinus
Is the Ostpolitik on the Outs?
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Monterrey Group Changing Hands.
Inside Canada
by Pierre Beaudry
The Evil Spirit of Lord Russell.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
The Palme Biography’s Missing Chapter.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Moscow’s Sword-and-Fire Policy.
Editorial
Lebanon: The Next Islamic Republic?
Economics
Reagan Administration Sets IMF Plan for America
by David Goldman
Under the deal cut with the IMF and European central bankers last month, Treasury Secretary Regan will propose to Congress Dec. 1 the biggest peacetime tax increases in American history.
‘New’ World Bank Plan for Africa: Part of Mondale’s Starvation Plan
by Christopher White
Nigeria Opposes the IMF’s Austerity
by Mary Lalevée
Presidential Candidate Larouche Replies to the IMF’s de Larosière
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Currency Rates
Flight Capital: How To Do It ... How To Stop It
A specialist explains the tricks of the trade, and Economics Editor David Goldman recommends countermeasures.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
The Health Threat to U.S. Livestock.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Aging Research: Extending Human Life.
Business Briefs
Special Report
How Volcker Added $200 Billion to the Ibero-American Debt
by Peter Rush
The Volcker measures, beginning in 1979, pyramided South American nations’ indebtedness through high interest rates, deteriorating terms of trade, and organized flight-capital operations This ground-breaking study by Peter Rush, drawn from a more complete profile of the debt in EIR’s multi-client Ibero-American Debt Watch service, proves that the pestilence of international usury, not debtor mismanagement, is responsible for the world financial crisis.
International
Weinberger Refutes Kissinger at NATO Ministers’ Meeting
by Umberto Pascali
He restated U.S. determination to defend Europe, and otherwise focused discussion on the Administration’s beam-weapon defense program.
Documentation: “The Scrapheap of Revenge,” an editorial published in the Times of London.
TFP Cult and the Gnostic Church Caught in a Plot to Murder the Pope
by Valerie Rush
EIR exposé material is informing both Ibero-American press coverage and the action of security agencies.
Documentation:: The Terrorists and Murderers of TFP — The Gnostic Church: A Satanic Mission.
Schiller Institute Mobilizes Against the Rise of a New Fascism in Germany
by Rainer Apel
The new think tank for the Western alliance is preparing a “Day of Reckoning” with the Red-Green alliance.
Egypt Tells Reagan To Dump Kissinger
by Thierry Lalevée
Vietnam Seeks To Alleviate Its Economic and Diplomatic Isolation
by Susan Maitra
Reporting from New Delhi on Le Duan’s state visit.
International Intelligence
National
Is Henry Kissinger Winning the Presidential Elections?
by Warren J. Hamerman
A member of the National Democratic Policy Committee looks at what is really revealed by the President’s poor debate performance.
Congress Slashes the Beam-Defense Budget
by Susan Kokinda
LaRouche’s $150 Million Libel Suit Against NBC Will Now Go to Trial
by Edward Spannaus
The Anti-Defamation League, too, will be put on jury trial by the end of the month for conspiring to slander the Independent Democratic candidate.
The Cato Institute: A Washington Think Tank of Dope and ‘Decoupling’
by Mark Burdman
The real face of the “libertarians.”
Cutbacks in Fusion Energy Program
by Vin Berg
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
“Distracted, Agitated, Destabilized” — Kiss Ass. of Death.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Henry Kissinger’s “Bipartisanship” — Bipartisanship vs. Beam Weapons
National News
