Volume 10, Number 5, February 8, 1983
Interviews
Göran Ohlin
by Laurent Murawiec
Secretary of the Brandt Commission
Peter Scott
by Laurent Murawiec
Vice-President, World Wildlife Fund.
Charles de Haes
by Laurent Murawiec
Director-General, World Wildlife Fund.
Mike Cockerell
by Laurent Murawiec
Conservation for Development Center.
Eleonora Masini
by Laurent Murawiec
Founder of the Club of Rome’s Forum Humanum.
Antonio Blanca
France’s Special Ambassador to Latin America.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
Space Shuttle finds a new Yukon in Mexico.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Reyes Heroles challenges Interior.
Editorial
A way out of the Pershing bind.
Economics
World Oil Prices and the Spring Collapse
by David Goldman
Twenty dollars or less per barrel would not be a boon to the consumer nations: the price-bashing is part of the deflationary prelude to a crisis intended to force the United States to accept IMF dominion over the economies of the West.
Currency Rates
Chile’s Economic Disaster Sets the Record Straight on Friedmanism
by Mark Sonnenblick
The current wave of bankruptcies, how the policies of the Chicago Boys brought them about.
The Present and Future Reliability of the LaRouche-Riemann Model’s U.S. Forecasts
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Issued quarterly, those forecasts have proven the world’s most accurate. The initiator of the econometric model explains here its next stage of development, the difference between forecasting and predicting, and the ways policymakers can use the model.
Documentation: A table comparing EIR’s LaRouche-Riemann forecasts with those of competitors and with the actual industrial output results.
Trade Review
by Mark Sonnenblick
Business Briefs
Special Report
The Non-Aligned’s Choice: Debtors’ Cartel or IMF Dictatorship
by Daniel Sneider
A ‘New Bretton Woods’ Is Not in the Interests of the Non-Aligned
by Renée Sigerson
Countdown to the Non-Aligned Summit: Colombia’s President Betancur Under Attack
by Valerie Rush
Along with President Sites Zuazo of Bolivia.
Smear Campaign Aimed at India’s Indira Gandhi
by Susan Brady
African Destabilization Focused Against Nigeria
by Douglas DeGroot
The Origins of the Non-Aligned movement in the American Independence Tradition
by Daniel Sneider
A history of the early years, when Cold War and tack of aid and credit made political independence insufficient for national growth.
International
German Social Democrats Merge with the Greens
by Rainer Apel
As the March 6 elections approach, the Social Democratic Party has locked itself into a program outdistancing the Green Party’s in de-industrialization, and pushing for the most dangerous kind of “arms control.”
Documentation: A summary of the program and an excerpt from French President Mitterrand’s Jan. 12 warning to the Bundestag.
Spain, France Reach Out to Third World
by Robyn Quijano
The Anglo-American press has ignored their remarkable new overtures toward a partnership with Ibero-America for industrial development.
Washington’s Arab Allies Start To Play Soviet Card
by Judith Wyer
Documentation: Excerpts from the semi-official Saudi Arabian newspaper Ukaz.
Japanese Leaders, Asian Governments Blast Nakasone Military Strategy
by Richard Katz
If he manages to stay in power, domestic pressure is likely to prevent the Prime Minister from carrying out the expanded regional role he promised Washington.
What Henry Kissinger Fears in Bolivia
by Christian Curtis
International Intelligence
National
The Shultz Faction and the Perilous State of the Union
by Nora Hamerman
What’s behind Mr. Reagan’s Jan. 26 enunciation of approval for “post-industrialism” and IMF ascendancy.
Dr. Edward Teller Explains the Need for Antiballistic-Missile Defense
Excerpts from his speech on Jan. 18.
How the Liberal New York Times Promoted ‘Nordic Supremacy’
by Robert Zubrin
Part III of our exposé of the Times.
LaRouche Hat Not Yet in the Ring
The EIR founder and former Democratic Presidential candidate is quoted as announcing that he will concentrate at this time of crisis on bipartisan economic policy initiatives, rather than a Presidential bid. Otherwise, he says, there may not be any 1984 elections.
National News
