Volume 9, Number 16, April 27, 1982
Departments
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Congress debates wrong issue.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Bankers threaten nuclear program.
Editorial
The conventional war push.
Economics
Leading LDC Borrowers Now Face Credit Squeeze
by Kathy Burdman
The Bank for International Settlements is clamping down on loans to Brazil and Mexico, as well as Argentina.
Currency Rates
Hoesch: ‘Japan Is Our Model’
by Hartmut Cramer
A report from the Ruhr on the steel giant’s modernization plans.
Belgian Bankers and EC Chiefs Expect Privatization of World Lending Flows
by Laurent Murawiec
European Economics Editor Laurent Murawiec’s dispatch on his discussions in Brussels.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
Japan cuts foreign investment.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
Rites of passage for S&Ls.
Agriculture
by Susan Brady
Building India’s dairy industry.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Volcker’s Demographics: Why America Is Dying
by Richard Freeman
Paul Volcker’s War Against American Family Formation
How U.S. Living Standards Were Cut By 18 Percent
Can the U.S. Support the Next Generation?
The Case of the Black American Worker
The Historical Lessons of America’s Economic and Population Expansion
International
Britain’s ‘NATO Pullout’ Bluff Could Be Called
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An open letter from EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. to President Reagan.
Latin America Reacts to Malvinas Crisis
by Cynthia Rush
The British government has moved to prevent invocation of the Monroe Doctrine or Rio Treaty.
The Financial Warfare Against Argentina
by Kathy Burdman
Its loans as well as its exports are being cut off. Default is unlikely, however.
The Mideast Stakes in the War Between Iran and Iraq
by Robert Dreyfuss
And the truth about the military situation.
Ariel Sharon’s Dangerous Game
by Nancy Coker
The factional situation in Israel.
The Fraud of Trudeau’s Constitution
by Christopher White
Far from ending Canada’s colonial status, it violates basic rights further.
International Intelligence
National
Tories Gain the Upper Hand in Washington
by Graham Lowry
Haig’s ostensible mediating activities between London and Buenos Aires are exposed as rankly pro-British. The congressional and intelligence-agency advocates of a Monroe Doctrine approach are on the defensive.
A U.S. Nuclear Merchant Marine?
by Robert Zubrin
The Carter administration rejected this genuinely cost-effective possibility, while the Soviet Union steamed ahead. Robert Zubrin describes past efforts, the economic advantages, and the legislative requirements.
Drug Mafia Moves on Houston Police
by Harley Schlanger
Crippling law-enforcement there, as Mayor Whitmire seems to be doing, will open the city as a Southwestern Hong Kong.
New Assassination Danger to Reagan
by Jeffrey Steinberg
And other world leaders.
National News
