Volume 6, Number 50, December 25, 1979
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Comment: A Sobering Year’s End
by Nora Hamerman
Trade Review
Economics
After Caracas: The Demise of OPEC?
by Judith Wyer
Saudi Arabia failed to force a common oil price at the OPEC meeting in Caracas last week, and the 19-year-old oil cartel may be on the verge of breaking up. This has happened according to a design, drawn up in New York and London, and the immediate big losers will be the European and Japanese economies.
International Credit: The IMF Takes Command
by Peter Rush
Gold: The New Bi-Metalism
by Alice Roth
Foreign Exchange: For the EMS, Small Breathing Room
by Richard Katz
Brandt Commission Turns the World Upside Down
by Stephen Parsons
An advisory panel to the World Bank headed by a former West German chancellor proposes that oil and other commodities be stockpiled, competing currency blocs index their contracts to commodity prices, and that the world be taken over by a "World Development Agency."
Kissinger’s IRB Is Back
by Alice Roth
Sir George Bolton’s World ‘Overview’ – How the Scheme Emerged.
Business Briefs
Special Report
France’s Bid For World Leadership
by Christopher White
In a time of crisis, when the very existence of sovereign nation states is under attack, the nation of France stands out for having a government–under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing–whose positive approach to issues of governance, war and peace, and a new order of economic development, flow from a single "grand design" conception.
Energy Policy: The ‘Grand Design’ for Nuclear Power
by Dana Sloan
East-West Relations: Cooperation with the Soviets for World Peace
Economic Policy: Giscard’s Fight for a New Monetary System
by David Goldman
$100 Billion for Progress
North-South Relations: The ‘Trialogue’ Approach to Third World Development
by Mark Burdman
Asian Policy: Advancing an Alternative to the ‘China Card’
by Peter Ennis
Inside France: The ‘Left’ and the ‘Right’ Against the President
by Garance Phau
International
The U.S. Backers of the Muslim Brotherhood Killers
by Nancy Coker
With the full knowledge of the State Department Iran’s Muslim Brotherhood has sent up to 300 trained terrorist killers into the United States on forged passports. And the U.S. government states that it will leave the matter to "local authorities."
Idaho’s Hansen demands Iran probe
Government Refuses To Act on Threat from Terrorists
Carter’s New Military Alliance in Southeast Asia
by Dean Andromidas
It sounds like 1960, but it is happening today. U.S. military advisors are flooding into Thailand, refitting old B-52 bomber bases and generally preparing to support Chinese designs against Soviet allied Vietnam.
Ohira plays the ‘China Card’
by Richard Katz
Japan Goes Anti-Soviet?
International Intelligence
National
Arms Buildup and Euromissiles: The Quest for ‘Limited War’
by Konstantin George
There’s a close link between the speech on defense spending given by Carter in Washington, Britain’s Thatcher blustering against the Soviet Union in New York, and the vote by the Brussels NATO meeting to place tactical nuclear warheads on European soil.
Why the CFR Wants SALT II
Can a Peace Treaty Mean War?
Thatcher Calls the Tune ... and Carter Dances
Why Does Kennedy Parrot Moscow’s Line on Iran?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Sen. Ted Kennedy has said the same things about the "Iranian revolution" that certain quarters in the Kremlin are saying. Nevertheless, Kennedy is not an agent controlled by Moscow, reports Contributing Editor Lyndon LaRouche; the similarity, however, does reveal certain intelligence connections of overwhelming strategic importance.
Pravda: Extradite the Shah
Campaign 1980
by Kathleen Murphy
Haig on the March – Connally Wild Card – Candidates Court Gays.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
National News
