Volume 11, Number 49, December 18, 1984
Interviews
Abdul Hamid Bakoush
by Thierry Lalevée
The former Libyan Prime Minister whom Colonel Qaddafi mistakenly thought he had assassinated last month calls upon the West to finally do something to save the Third World from such tyrants.
Qaddafi: ‘We Could Kidnap Italians’
Departments
New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Rajiv Gandhi Takes Party Command.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
The Dread of San Stefano.
Report from Paris
by Philip Golub
The Jimmy Carter of France.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Fracturing Inside the PAN.
Andean Report
by Liliana Pazos
Industrial Development Plans in Peru.
Editorial
Radio Moscow “Imitates” NBC-TV.
Economics
The Federal Budget and the ‘Sacred Cow’ of Debt Service
by Criton Zoakos
President Reagan Is Being Sold a Plan To Wreck American Agriculture
by Lawrence Freeman
Volcker and the Banks Ready Federal Debt Crisis To Force Budget Cuts
by Richard Freeman
The Investment Bankers behind Kissinger Associates, Inc.
by Christopher White
Olivetti’s Man To Bankrupt Italy
by Liliana Gorini-Celani
Profile of Bruno Visentini.
Currency Rates
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
A “Lenders’ Strike”?
International Credit
by Kathy Burdman
Pushing Argentina to the Wall.
Business Briefs
Special Report
U.S. Central America Policy: Bring Back the Monroe Doctrine!
by Susan Welsh
The Schiller institute is calling for a revival of the Monroe Doctrine to deal with the Central America crisis—but not in the way that advocates of a U.S. military intervention would expect.
El Salvador’s War of Extermination
by Rutilio Remas Ayala
The IMF Threatens Honduran Democracy
by Ondina Sierra de Hodges
U.S. Must End Support for the Fascist PAN
by Angel Mario Vázquez Jiménez
What Argentina’s Nationalists Want
by Brig. Gen. (ret.) José M. Insúa.
U.S. Must Back the Contadora Program
by Pedro Rubio
Resolutions Passed by the Schiller Conference
Other Speeches and Greetings to the Schiller Institute Conference
International
Soviets Move To Implement the ‘Ogarkov Doctrine’
Plans for a preemptive nuclear strike against the West are being fine-tuned at the highest levels of the Soviet command.
Moscow Builds Up Its Strategic Forces
by Rachel Douglas
Prospects for Mideast Peace Depend on the Outcome of Weinberger’s Visit
by Thierry Lalevée
Ibero-American Leaders Ask Reagan To Support Contadora Peace Initiative
by Valerie Rush
Soviet Sub Palme Tries To Torpedo U.S. Beam-Weapon Defense Program
by Mark Burdman
Reports on the Swedish Prime Minister’s trip to the United States.
Documentation: Palme’s speech before the Foreign Policy Association in New York on the “alarming” arms race in space.
Mitterrand Joins Soviet Offensive To Destroy France and the Western Alliance
by Jacques Cheminade
An analysis by the chairman of the European Labor Party in France.
International Intelligence
National
Counterattack Launched against Beam-Defense Foes
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Administration officials are beginning to take on McGeorge Bundy and the congressional budget-cutters out to destroy the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Demand the Immediate Dismissal of Secretary of State George Shultz
by Warren J. Hamerman
A Bill of Particulars drawn up by the chairman of the National Democratic Policy Committee.
Medical Nazis Howl Over Artificial Heart
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Defense Secretary Weinberger Vows: We Will Have No More Vietnam Wars!
From the defense secretary’s speech to the National Press Club.
Why NATO Needs Beam Defense
Excerpts from SDI Director Abrahamson’s interview to the German newspaper Die Welt.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Guess Who Didn’t Come to Dinner?
National News
