Volume 8, Number 46, December 1, 1981
Departments
Interview
by Ortrun and Hartmut Cramer
Kurt Schrade, chairman of the factory council at Estel-Hoesch’s Dortmund steel plant.
Africa Report
by Douglas DeGroot
Sudan, the IMF, and the Iceberg Prince.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
How bad is the Pemex cash problem?
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Obstacles to Reagan’s nuclear strategy.
Economics
The Implications of a U.S. Business Collapse
by David Goldman
The Bank for International Settlements’ expectation of a 1930s-level depression is materializing.
Documentation: Interviews with Jamie Galbraith of the Joint Economic Committee and with a spokesman for the IMF’s North American Division.
Mexico’s Alfa Bailout
by Timothy Rush
How the Monterrey giant was undercut by Paul Volcker and its local enemies, and how exchange controls would help.
Documentation: Statements by Alfa’s management and by the Mexican Labor Party.
Currency Rates
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Sovereign lending on the way out?
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Savings and lemmings.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
London Puts EIR at Center of Mideast Strategic Storm
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Russian Orthodoxy and the Soviet KGB
by Robert Dreyfuss
The gamemasters on a higher level than the secret services.
The New Scientist on EIR and LaRouche
The Oct. 22 article in the London-based journal.
Who controls the New Scientist?
by Vin Berg and Sylvia Barkley
A profile of Mr. Sardar
What IFIAS Networks Say About the EIR
Interviews with four relevant individuals.
LaRouche Warns of KGB Penetration by Way of the United Brands Orbit
International
The Fahd Plan and Its International Opponents
by Nancy Coker
The danger of a “preemptive strike” by Begin’s Israel.
The Global 2000 Attack on Colombia
by Cynthia Rush
How the Colombian Population Was Cut
by Cynthia Rush
Documentation: Statements by economist Silvacolmenares, former President Lleras Camargo, and former Finance Minister Botero Montoya.
Dope, Inc. Destroyed the Cotton Industry
by Carlos Cota Meza and Valerie Rush
Another dimension of Colombian history.
Behind the Assassination Attempt on Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Chairman of the European Labor Party and wife of EIR’s founder.
International Intelligence
National
Kissinger and Fisher Out To Steal the White House
by Richard Cohen
Mounting a replay of the summer 1980 demands.
Sen. Williams Seeks Fair Trial in Senate
by Anita Gallagher
An attempt to reverse the Ethics Committee’s irresponsibility.
Abscam Prosecutor Puccio Should Be Investigated for Corruption and Misconduct
A National Democratic Policy Committee dossier documenting Puccio’s pre-Abscam deployments for the Justice Department, and itemizing his improper actions against Williams and others during Abscam.
National News
