Volume 8, Number 35, September 8, 1981
Departments
Art Investor
by Dr. D. Stephen Pepper
A resourceful museum exhibit.
Interview
by Criton Zoakos
Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Report from Italy
by Leonardo Servadio and Umberto Pascali
Alexander Haig and the new Mussolini.
Report from Paris
by Katherine Kanter and Sophie Tanapura
Mitterrand and Article 16.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Mexico and the U.S. strategic reserve.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
No Amman is an island.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Natural gas: the Gordian Knot.
Economics
Who Prearranged the U.S. Budget-Deficit Blowout?
by Kathy Burdman and David Goldman
We predicted it; other insiders knew about it; the IMF is using it to obtain further austerity. The Fed’s secret “bank credit targe” which deprives industry of funds, may turn into overt loan rationing.
Documentation: Interviews with officials at the IMF, Federal Reserve, and National Security Council.
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
The Treasury’s debt bubble.
Banking
by Kathy Burdman
A fast road to credit controls?
Gold
by Montresor
More noise about a gold standard.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Commonwealth: Queen Elizabeth’s Malthusian Redcoats
by Renée Sigerson
In preparations for the October Cancún Summit, the British have exposed the chief vehicle through which the Crown shapes American foreign policy: the Commonwealth of Nations, latter-day form of the old colonial Empire.
The Method by Which Britain Generates Its Agents of Influence: Brandt’s Commission
After Lord Keynes set up the IMF, and the notions of “basic needs” and “Western technological imperialism” were developed to swerve the Third World from industrialization, the Club of Rome and Brandt Commission have run interference for depopulation policies through special Commonwealth think tanks.
International
Helmut Schmidt Defends German Sovereignty
by Vivian Zoakos
His actual comments on the neutron bomb, and his current economic initiatives.
Moscow Signals a New Diplomatic Mode
by Rachel Douglas
Behind the OPEC Impasse
by Judith Wyer
Venezuela joins the price hawks.
Tokyo and Washington Undergo a Widening Split over Policy Questions
by Richard Katz
Documentation: Interviews with Henry Kissinger from the Japanese press.
ASEAN Appalled at Reagan’s China Card
by Ramtanu Maitra
U.S. Arms Threaten Balance Between India and Pakistan
by Daniel Sneider
Documentation: An EIR interview with Undersecretary of State James Buckley.
Mitterrand: From Vichy to Socialism
by Laurent Murawiec
By European Economics Editor Laurent Murawiec: Part II in the series on Europe’s monarchists.
International Intelligence
National
Pentagon Presses for ‘Emergency Board’
The scope of the proposal and the justifications aired sub rosa.
DOD’s Gameplan for Limited Nuclear War
by Lonnie Wolfe
An analysis of the McNamara-Schlesinger doctrines dominating the Pentagon.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Aviation Week summary of the Weinberger “secret guidance.”
Defense Capacity and ‘Buildup’ Plans
by Richard Freeman
How and why the Defense Secretary expects to take added military output from consumer-geared civilian production.
The Moles in the U.S. Defense Apparatus
by Kathy Burdman
Memorable information about Fred Iklé, David Blond, and others: the Swiss connection.
How Banker Charles Manatt Profits from Volcker’s High Interest Rates
by Warren Hamerman
The San Paolo scandal.
National News
