Volume 7, Number 3, January 22, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
Editorial Comment
by Nora Hamerman
The Facts Behind Terrorism: A Kick-Off for Civil Disorders
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A Greensboro demonstration “against racism” has been arranged. Probable violence is designed to push the “civil rights movement” toward terrorism....
Economics
Carter’s Sanctions: Who Really Gets Hurt?
by Richard Freeman
After pursuing a foreign policy that most European governments quietly thought lunatic, Jimmy Carter Administration has announced a domestic embargo on grain and technology traded to the U.S.S.R. For Europe, it would be economic suicide; for the U.S.A. itself, the cost will be in the billions. It appears that only the Soviet Union won’t really be hurt.
The Embargo’s Effects
A price-tag of $15 billion.
‘This Will Dog Farmers for Years’
Exclusive interview with an American farm leader.
Carter Sends Gold Flying
by Alice Roth
Foreign Exchange: Military Crisis Suspends Dollar Dumping
by Richard Katz
Domestic Credit: War Economy Without Industry?
by Lydia Schulman
Trade Review
Business Briefs
Special Report
Will Europe Stop the Drive Toward War?
by Criton Zoakos
The Carter Administration bluff that failed, sending the Soviet Union into a “war-winning” posture, has placed the two superpowers on a confrontation course. Peace hopes have come to rest on those European powers who now evidence an independence of policy that, played through, could save the world.
The EEC Meets: The Allies Spurn Carter’s Policy
by Susan Welsh
France
“In This Affair, What Must Count Are National Interests...” – “Two Ways of Handling a Crisis.”
West Germany
“Political Actions Should Be Fought With Political Weapons” – “We Look to Improved Trade with the Soviet Union.”
Italy: A Pro-Carter Government May Not Last Long
by Vivian Freyre Zoakos
Japan: Ohira, Politely, Turns Down Carter’s Request
by Richard Katz
The U.S.S.R.: Washington’s ‘Outbursts’ Scorned by Soviets’ Brezhnev
by Rachel Douglas
The Brezhnev interview with Pravda and a Red Army commentary.
International
How Long Can Pakistan’s General Zia Last?
by Daniel Sneider
For General Ziaul Haq, military dictator of Pakistan, the events in Afghanistan are the occasion to launch a round of extortion of the Carter administration for military and economic aid. But apart from the Soviets at his doorstep, something else is at stake-more profound from Zia’s standpoint—the very survival of his regime. In a country that has overthrown two previous military regimes, Zia’s is the shakiest in a long line.
Carter Policy Turns Iran Over to the Soviet Union
by Judith Wyer
Iran, under the Shah, once represented a powerful proxy for U.S. interests. It is EIR’s evaluation that Iran will become a proxy and client-state of the Soviet Union in a matter of weeks.
The Projected Folly of U.S. Deployments in the Indian Ocean
by Uwe Parpart
The ‘Iranization’ of the Mexican Republic
by Dolia E. Pettingell
U.S.-Mexican relations are at an all-time low point, and “scenarios”
are now floating for a destabilization of the López Portillo government, and even U.S. military occupation.
International Intelligence
National
Will Iowa’s ‘Uncommitted’ Defeat Carter Again?
by Konstantin George
The Iowa Democratic caucus vote between Carter and Kennedy, appears very likely to vote down both, and send the majority of the state’s delegates to the national convention “uncommitted.”
A Secret Meeting Plots the ‘Carter Doctrine’
by Barbara Dreyfuss
The best and the brightest all got together over breakfast at the White House to chart a U.S. response to the Soviet action in Afghanistan. What they proposed–as a “Carter Doctrine”–would be laughable, were it not certain to provoke the U.S.S.R.
The Bones in Bush’s Closet
by George Canning
A secret society–Yale’s blueblood “Skull and Bones” cult–controls the personal destiny of a GOP presidential candidate.
‘Darling of the British Commonwealth’
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
National News
