Volume 11, Number 6, February 14, 1984

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Departments

Book Review

by Carol White

Soviet Military Strategy in Europe, by Joseph D. Douglass

Dateline Mexico

by Josefina Menéndez

Crackdown in San Luis.

Report from Paris

by Joëlle Leconte

The old carrot and stick.

Middle East Report

by Allen Douglas and David Wolinsky

Holy warriors of Temple Mount.

Editorial

Dump Unesco, for the right reason.

Economics

What’s Ahead for the U.S. Dollar?

by David Goldman

High interest rates no longer guarantee its strength. Some bankers, like Walter Wriston, seem to want to force a crisis and a bailout.

The Federal Energy Budget Proposal: Crash Program for Environmentalism

by Marsha Freeman

Is Reagan’s nuclear power commitment a casualty of the election year?

Currency Rates

Electronics Design Breakthrough Promises To Reduce R&D Time for New Weapons Systems

by William Engdahl

East-West Trade Mafias Behind Moscow’s Economic Warfare Capability

by Laurent Murawiec

The first in a series describing the men and institutions who serve as “door-openers” to the Comecon.

Business Briefs

Special Report

Anti-Semitism On the Rise Again in Russia

by Mark Burdman

Mark Burdman documents how the old Dostoevsky fascist tradition and the hatred of industrial, urban progress which generated the pogroms is surfacing again at the behest of the “Holy Mother Russia” ideologues now in control of the Soviet Union.

International

Mondale Campaign Plays with a KGB Colonel

by Criton Zoakos

Kissinger Commission Report: Drugs and Mass Depopulation

by Gretchen Small

PAN’s Friends Respond to LaRouche Charges

by Timothy Rush

Moscow’s Strategy for Control of Iran

by Mary Lalevée

Part I: A New Era in Sino-American Relations

by Richard Cohen

How the Deng-Carter version of “the China Card” has been transformed.

International Intelligence

National

Kissinger’s Drive Against Caspar Weinberger

by Criton Zoakos

Even the most dedicated “Kissinger-haters” don’t realize the stakes in his latest power grab.

Establishment in Uproar over LaRouche

by Nancy Spannaus

The aftermath of the EIR founder’s Jan. 21 national TV broadcast.

Fight Escalates in Washington over the Beam-Weapons Program

by Lonnie Wolfe

The President is still trying to have his program without telling anyone about it.

The Need To Build Advanced ABM Defenses

Eye on Democrats

by Molly Kronberg

Depression in the ranks over Mondale’s gains.

Kissinger Watch

by M.T. Upharson

Has Henry finally overreached himself?

Congressional Closeup

by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda

National News

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