Volume 4, Number 1, January 4, 1977
International Report
Carter’s Campaign for Showdown with Soviets
Hawks Issue ‘Grim’ Estimate of Soviet Power
War Policy That Leads to Permanent Destruction of U.S. Would Force Soviets To Back Down, CPD’er Says – Wolfe: Educate Public for War – Cline Spells Out Assassination Plots Against Third World Leaders.
Soviets Caution Against ‘American Global Strategy’
NATO, Brazil Participate in Caribbean Maneuvers
World Press on the Issue of War
London Times Questions Times’s Motives – London Times Scoffs at Carter’s Summitry Attempt – Venezuela’s El Nacional: Jimmy Carter: Portrait of a Robot.
AID Population Control Legislation Set for Congress
An Interview with James Scheuer
Scheuer’s Call for Genocide
A Page from Scheuer’s Appointment Book
National Report
Who’s Who in the Carter Cabinet
European Press Reaction to Carter Cabinet
‘Legal’ Drug Pusher Rumored for Top Post
Economics
Collapse of Third World Debt Threatens Banks in Early 1977
Remarks on Illusions Concerning T-Ruble Convertibility
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Foreign Exchange: U.S. Dollar Hits 18-Month Low, New Monetary System on Horizon
GDR: Western Capitalist Nations Have Interest in New Economic Order
Italy Stocks Shows Expectations of Arabs
Trade Deficit Belies ‘Pause for Recovery’
General Accounting Office Report Sets Stage for Bank Agency Reorganization
Steel Decline Continues
Anatomy of the General Electric-Utah International Merger
Energy
OPEC ‘Strongmen’ Make Headway in Break with Rockefeller’s Oil Multinationals
CAP To Venezuela Congress: OPEC Linked to Third World Fight for New World Economic Order – Outgoing Secretary General of OPEC Affirms Unity of Cartel – Yamani Hits Profiteering – Saudi-Iranian Relations Are Not Strained – Arab Oil Producers Should Beware of Nicholas Sarkis.
Sabotage of European Fusion Program Backfires
London Times: “Unlimited Power Without Danger” – Europe’s Press Defends JET.
Sabotage of Northeast Energy Supply Uncovered
Kennedy Aides on Energy Saving – “The Majors Make It Work for Them” – O’Neill Aide: New England Fish for Midwest – Oil Spills “Don’t Make Any Sense” – Boston Investor: Boston Superport Is Dead – Uncertainty About New England Oil Supplies – Massachusetts Commerce Department: Cutting Energy Supply Is Suicidal – Incompetence of Coast Guard Responsible for Argo Spill.
Military Strategy
Harold Brown: Portrait of a Utopian Technocrat
United Nations
Move To Halt Renewal of NSIPS UN Credentials
Europe
Callaghan Takes Political Control After IMF Loan Negotiations
Britain Takes Italian Lead in Comecon-Arab Trade – British Trade Deals, November-December.
Italy, Britain Force Bonn To Soften Line on New World Economic Order
West Germans Tense over U.S. Pressure on NATO – West German Trade Unions Mobilize Behind Nuclear Energy.
Giscard Acts for Energy Austerity
Gaullists Under Pressure – French Oil Agreements.
Italians Prepared To Accept Transfer Ruble Proposal
Moves for Euro East-West Bank – Italian Steel Production Slated for Expansions – Italian Deals, December 22-30.
Middle East
Carter’s Mideast Policy: All-Out Push for War
Rabin’s Dissolution of Israeli Government: Opens Way for New, Pro-Peace Regime
Egypt Seeks Investments for Development, Bucking IMF
Africa
South Africa Pleased with Carter Policy on Investment, Apartheid
Fear Expansion of Rhodesian War in South Africa – Mauritius Government Hit with Unexpected Electoral Defeats – UNITA, Angolan Countergang, Is Kicked Out of Zambia – Press Primes Djibouti as Carter’s First African Test.
Asia
Fukuda Sets Up Austerity Government in Japan
China To Purge Maoist Faction, Begin Reindustrialization
“On the Ten Major Relationships” – Speech by Comrade Hua Kuo-Feng – Speech by Comrade Yung-Kuei.
Gandhi Weakened by Party Factional Feuding
Latin America
Linowitz Report on Latin America: Blueprint for Confrontation
Cuban Press Maintains Hardline on Carter – ‘Carefully Fabricated Product of Trilateral Commission’
Panama Government Abruptly Shifts To Endorse Carter
Carter Advisors Launch Campaign To End Mexico’s Population Growth
Mexico Needs Schacht.
Peru NSIPS Correspondent Vasquez Released
