Volume 10, Number 27, July 19, 1983

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Interview

Charles Higham

by David Goldman

Author of Trading with the Enemy, an exposé of the history of the Bank for International Settlements.

Departments

Book Review

by Carol White

Trading with the Enemy, by Charles Higham.

Italy’s War on Crime

by Marco Fanini

Was Calvi killed by the Swiss masonry?

Congressional Closeup

by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda

Editorial

The Court and Alexander Hamilton.

Economics

Ibero-America Moves Toward Debtors’ Cartel

by Robyn Quijano

Documentation: Three statements issued at the late June Conference on Latin American Political Thought in Caracas.

Mexico: Import Slashes Fail To Restore National Solvency

The IMF, the Bank for International Settlements, and the July 15 Conspiracy

by David Goldman

The Swiss banks may go for broke.

Brazil’s ‘Consensus’ Likely To Surprise the Creditor Banks

by Mark Sonnenblick

Currency Rates

Recovery: Then What Is a Depression?

by David Goldman

The U.S. economy.

Agriculture

by Cynthia Parsons

Drying up the dairy industry.

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

The Díaz Senano affair.

Business Briefs

Special Report

Laser Technologies: Industrial Path to the Beam-Weapons Era

by Paul Gallagher

Transforming Energy for Industrial Use: Laser Revolution in U.S. Productivity

by Marsha Freeman

X-ray Lasers Could Mean Deployable ABM Systems Within Three Years

by Steven Bardwell

Potential Breakthrough in Nuclear-Powered Lasers Brings Space-Based Systems Closer

by Jon Gilbertson

Free Electron Lasers: Scientific Challenge for Military and Civilian Development

by Charles B. Stevens

Mastering EMP for Offense and Defense

by Charles B. Stevens

International

Kissinger’s Time Bomb in the Middle East

by Mark Burdman and Nancy Coker

Shultz visits the region.

Will the West Halt Qaddafi’s Drive To Destroy the Mideast and Africa?

by Thierry Lalevée

Why Muammar Qaddafi Must Be Stopped: A Fact Sheet

Commissioned by EIR founder Lyndon H. LaRouche.

Shultz in Asia: Pledging Security, But Boosting the IMF

by Susan Maitra

NATO’s Fifth Column Targets Beam Weapons

by Herbert Quinde

An eyewitness account of the recent North Atlantic Assembly conference in Cophenhagen.

Italian Elections: Disaster for Christian Democrats, Trouble for PSI, Gain for POE

by Paolo Raimondi

World Council of Churches Meeting: Instrument of Eastern Rites’ Control

by Karen Steinherz

The Eastern Orthodoxy’s cultists created the WCC, and are on the verge of total manipulation of the Protestant segments of the organization at the July-August conference in Vancouver.

International Intelligence

National

LaRouche Intervenes in Washington Policy Crisis

by Warren Hamerman

Defining the strategic imperatives for the United States, and the degree to which the Soviet KGB has blocked them through its assets in the capital.

LaRouche: ‘Yuri Andropov Must Negotiate Seriously’

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Averell Harriman and the Postwar Effort To Undercut U.S. Defense

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Part II of Kathleen Klenetsky’s profile: The man who set up the “back channels” to Moscow moved in after FDR’s death to strip U.S. military power and subvert the American Century.

Harriman’s Circle: Racists, Perverts, KGB Agents

National News

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