Volume 8, Number 36, September 15, 1981
Departments
Art Investor
by Dr. D. Stephen Pepper
Tradition and the 20th century.
Science & Technology
by Dr. John Schoonover
Saturn findings are vindicating Kepler.
Interview
by Daniel Sneider
L.K. Jha, former Indian ambassador to the United States and Brandt Commission member, on the Brandt Commission, India, and prospects for North-South talks.
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory and Rainer Apel
Schmidt’s strategy against tension.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Unity of the left.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
A bogus option for Iran.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
The Western coal pipeline battle.
Book Review
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The “Secret” of the Hydrogen Bomb: The Physical Principles of Thermonuclear Explosive Devices by Dr. Friedwardt Winterberg.
Editorial
Economics
A Hard Landing onto a Gold Monetary Base?
by Laurent Murawiec
The “old boys” coaching Reagan are juggling deflationary gold remonetization options.
Deregulation Schedules U.S. Airline Service for a Return to the 1930s
by Leif Johnson
On the plans for further service cuts, fare hikes, market-share changes, and an end to mass air travel.
Three Major Carriers: Who Really Runs Them
An Experiment in Labor Recycling: The Gameplan for Airline Employees
Currency Rates
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Is a budget deficit inflationary?
Gold
by Montresor
Can a computer forecast the price?
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
The fraud of “sustainable agriculture.”
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
Volcker’s Clamp on the Economy: Past and Future Results
by David Goldman
It’s impossible to say when the Federal Reserve’s necrophiliac credit policies and the deterioration of the industrial base will converge in all-out crisis. This overview explains how EIR’s LaRouche-Riemann econometricians successfully anticipated trends in 1981, and identifies the future branching points.
The Aggregate U.S. Economy and the Dangerous ‘Growth’/‘Decline’ Split
Economics Editor David Goldman reviews 12 graphs selected from the latest LaRouche-Riemann study, examining overall industry and specific sectors.
International
Kissingerian ‘Strategy of Tension’ Moves to the Brink
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Reagan Administration is following Fritz Kraemer’s counsel to abandon the quest for strategic adequacy and provoke “localized” wars.
Targets: Schmidt, Reagan, Mexico—and Italy
by Michele Steinberg
The new round of terrorism is designed to help undo key governments.
Haig Sets Out To Make ‘Many Vietnams’ in Central America
by Timothy Rush and Dennis Small
The gradual buildup to a multiplication of civil wars.
Ramsey Clark Runs Amok over El Salvador
What Is Washington’s Policy toward Cuba?
by Cynthia Rush
One of the least “localized” flashpoints for confrontation.
From EIR’s Briefing on Central America
An excerpt from Latin America Editor Dennis Small’s highly publicized statements in Mexico City.
Will Ronald Reagan Anoint Craxi?
by Umberto Pascali
The State Department knows about the new confirmation of Craxi’s drug/terror links.
International Intelligence
National
Executive-Branch Insanity on the Budget and Defense
by Graham Lowry
Confident or crestfallen, the President has not extricated himself from the Volcker maze in which all choices lead to austerity and military vulnerability.
The Lineup in the House and Senate
by Susan Kokinda
Will Congress have the courage and the intellectual resources to launch adequate policy proposals?
Clamor Against Paul Volcker
As a sampling of the pressure on congressmen when they visited their districts, we print extracts from testimony at a Maryland hearing on the Federal Reserve’s credit cutoffs to producers and consumers.
NDPC Democrats Begin To Disinfect California From Brown and Hayden
by William F. Wertz
An interview with the National Democratic Policy Committee’s West Coast coordinator, William Wertz, now California’s most prominent opponent of the fruit-fly patron and the well-subsidized radical.
National News
