Volume 12, Number 4, January 29, 1985
Book Reviews
Margaret Mead Wasn’t Your Grandma
by Carol White
Reviews two biographies of the late hoaxster and promoter of hedonism.
Departments
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
AIDS Research Advances Biology.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Koivisto’s Diplomacy: Made in Russia.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Recoupling Via Space.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Japan Inc. Comes to Town.
Report from Italy
by Liliana Gorini
Bettino Craxi’s Gloomy “Recovery.”
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Mexico Faces 1985 Food Crisis.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Betancur Extradites the Dope Pushers.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Europe Set as New Battlefield.
Editorial
Economic Summit Is Urgent!
Economics
IMF Meeting Plans To Loot Western Economies
by Kathy Wolfe and David Goldman
The IMF’s Group of Five was only concerned with continuing to use a massively overvalued dollar to loot the world to the benefit of the financial oligarchies.
U.S. Farmers Demand Emergency Action
by Marcia Merry
The bankruptcy crisis is spurring farmers to political action, some of it effective, some of it not.
Soviet Union in Covert Drive To Import Western Military Technology
by David Goldman
Currency Rates
Lasers Could Revolutionize the Technology of Uranium Enrichment
by Laurent Rosenfeld
Panama Labor Puts IMF on the Line
by Carlos Wesley
Carlos Wesley reports on the conference of the National Council of Organized Workers.
Anglo-Soviet Plan Drives Down Oil Price
by David Goldman
Gold
by Montresor
Gold Goes to Tokyo.
Banking
by Kathy Wolfe
Paving the Way to “Fortress America.”
Business Briefs
Special Report
Gandhi’s Mandate To Bring India into the 21st Century
by Susan Maitra
In the few months since the brutal assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Indian population has tossed aside the traditional divisions of caste, section, religious, or other communal interest to rally behind the new Prime Minister.
Clean Sweep for the Congress Party Upsets Schemes of the Destabilizers
Rajiv Gandhi Shakes Up Ministries To Form New Streamlined Government
Documentation: Rajiv Gandhi’s Program for India.
International
Moscow Shows Disquiet after the Geneva Talks
by Konstantin George
The Kremlin is clearly furious that intimidation tactics have failed to force President Reagan to give away the Strategic Defense Initiative—but is also uncertain of what to do next.
Documentation: Gromyko’s statements during an unusual appearance on Soviet television.
Will the Kremlin Move on Poland?
by Rachel Douglas
The Vatican: ‘Space Shield’ Can Promote World Peace
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
The Vatican is cautiously endorsing anti-missile defense, and boldly endorsing Third World development.
European Terror Wave Hits U.S. Targets
by Mary Goldstein
U.S.-Iraq Agreement Boosts Peace Effort
by Thierry Lalevée
It’s an Egyptian conspiracy.
The Crimes of Anthropology: Jacques Soustelle’s ‘Americanists’
by Claude Albert
Separatism, terrorism, enforced backwardness—the legacy of the recently named French Academy “Immortal.”
Who Is Jacques Soustelle?
Kanak Terror: Field Ethnology At Work
International Intelligence
National
10,000 March in D.C. for Defense, Food for Africa
by Nora Hamerman
Either the Reagan Administration will embrace the demands of the new civil-rights movement—or see the Strategic Defense Initiative undermined by economic catastrophe and racial confrontation.
Gen. Danny Graham Caught Lying Again
by Paul Gallagher
And once again, it is a mighty service to the Soviet Union.
Rethinking the Moral Foundation of the American Constitution
by Andrew J. Rubencamp-Delaney
A guest essay.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharson
Dirty Doings in Asia — On to India.
National News
