Volume 10, Number 20, May 24, 1983
Interview
Datuk Musa Hitam
The Malaysian deputy prime minister emphasizes the fight against drug trafficking, launched when he took control of the Home Ministry in 1981, as essential for the nation’s security.
Departments
Science & Technology
by Delia Arajo de Lozano
Lasers will optimize control of chemical processes in industry.
Report from Paris
by Sophie Tanapura
May ’68 or February ’34?
Italy’s War on Crime
by Marco Fanini
Terrorism’s new “social relevance.”
Middle East Report
by Mary Lalevée
Iranian “arc of crisis” again.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Who runs the PAN Party?
Report from Bonn
by George Gregory and Rainer Apel
The Hitler diary hoax.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
Editorial
The causes of history.
Economics
New Debt Crisis Prompts Push for Restructuring
by C.L. Magister
Brazil is simply not paying. Both the proponents of an expanded IMF, and the advocates of a debtors cartel, have intensified their activity.
Documentation: Excerpts from French President François Mitterrand’s ambiguous May 9 speech calling for a new international monetary structure.
Brazil, World’s Biggest Debtor, Is Not Paying
Japan Policy Outlook: ‘No Real Recovery Without Development’
by Richard Katz
Completing his tour just before the Williamsburg economic summit, Nakasone asserts that the North can only achieve peace and prosperity if it brings stabilization and industrialization to the South.
W.A. Wallis: State’s Spokesman at the Williamsburg Summit
by Richard Cohen
A profile of George Shultz’s teacher and collaborator.
Max Karl: Cashing In on U.S. Banking Deregulation
by Renée Sigerson
Currency Rates
Malaysia Cracks Down on the Drug Traffickers
by Paul Zykofsky
Inside Canada
by Pierre Beaudry
Sharing the poverty.
Agriculture
by Cynthia Parsons
OMB versus market orders.
Business Briefs
Special Report
How Not To Solve the Debt Crisis
by Kathy Burdman
The British, Dutch, and Italian originators of the “global Big MAC” program, and its actual content.
Documentation: Statements by four advocates of a world central banking apparatus.
Global Central Bank Is Unconstitutional
Felix Rohatyn Is Selling Snake Oil
The author of the Big MAC plan that has destroyed New York City as an industrial center, wants to do the same thing for the rest of the world.
Big MAC Plans on the Left and the Right
Latin American Debt: Kissinger and Shultz Created the Crisis
by Christian Curtis
Their policies, not over investment by the nations of Latin America, are the source of the unpayable debt.
International
The Middle East after Shultz’s Shuttle Hoax
by Nora Hamerman
The Secretary’s negotiations have left Israel with a go-ahead to keep its troops in Lebanon, and bequeathed to the Middle East an imminent Syria-Israeli war.
‘Reagan Should Halt Aid to Israel Unless Israel Leaves Lebanon’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Algeria Promotes Cooperation for Security in the Maghreb
by Thierry Lalevée
Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are seeking common solutions to economic and political crisis.
Networks and Ideology of the Sufi Cult Spread Throughout the Mediterranean Region
by Thierry Lalevée
A belief structure derived from bastardizing Islam is being used to create religious wars in the nations of the western Mediterranean.
The Integrist Movement for a New Dark Age
Political Underworld at Work: KGB in France
by Laurent Murawiec
The aim of the KGB networks was political intelligence.
International Intelligence
National
The Scowcroft Target Is Beam-Weapons Policy
by Graham Lowry
Behind the scandal of the MX Commission chief’s open rejection of the President’s anti-missile defense effort is a faction fight that will determine the defense budget and much more.
What’s Wrong With the MX Commission?
by Lonnie
Wolfe
Its “hardened silo” and “Midgetman” recommendations are decoded in terms of the effort to retain the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine.
Henry Kissinger Committed Treason in the SALT I Negotiations
by Robert Gallagher
How, and why, the Soviets were given certain military advantages: the classic case study in “arms control.”
Labor in Focus
by Stanley Ezrol
The IUD and “post-industrial” industry.
National News
