Volume 11, Number 4, January 31, 1984
Interviews
Italian labor leader Walter Galbusera
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Under current strategic conditions, he argues, European reliance on the U.S.S.R. for energy supplies is unwise. The confederal secretary of the UIL also discusses the need for military preponderance of the defense.
Oved Ben-Ami
The former mayor of the Israeli city of Netanya relates his experiences as a city-builder.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menéndez
Narcodollars on the border.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Betancur faces down coup threat.
Africa Report
by Douglas DeGroot
Qaddafi backers target Northern Africa.
Editorial
Outlaw institutions.
Economics
End of Recovery Myth Threatens U.S. Position
by David Goldman
The latest stage of the effort to torpedo the dollar and the Western Alliance.
Currency Rates
Diplomats See Chance for Thais’ Kra Canal
by Stephanie Pauls
At a New York City conference sponsored by EIR on Jan. 16.
The Soviet Merchant Fleet: Weapon of Economic and Military Warfare
by Renée Sigerson
While U.S. shipping has been destroyed, this U.S.S.R. capability has vastly expanded.
Farm Bureau Adopts State Department Line: Slash Farms To Fit Low Demand
by Marcia Merry
A report on the organization’s Jan. 8-12 national convention in Orlando, Florida.
Gold
by Montresor
The Soviet connection revisited.
Foreign Exchange
by David Goldman
The dollar turnaround: how soon?
Business Briefs
Special Report
Will the U.S. Let Israel Survive?
by Muriel Mirak
U.S. policy toward Israel must change immediately, or Israel’s economy will be destroyed.
Israel’s Experiment: Greening the Desert
by Paolo Raimondi
The Israeli tradition of technological and scientific development must be defended against IMF conditionalities.
U.S. Policy Toward Israel: A Much-Needed Shift in Emphasis
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche proposes a policy based on the “community of principle” uniting sovereign national republics, rather than defining Israel as a mere proxy.
An Adequate Defense Strategy for Israel
by Meir Pa’il
Meir Pa’il proposes a demilitarized West Bank and Gaza strip under Arab control, and a solution to the Palestinian problem based on natural rights.
International
Kissinger Stages a New Confrontation with Europe
by George Gregory and Lonnie Wolfe
At the gathering sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Brussels on Jan. 12-14.
Documentation: Excerpts from Kissinger’s speech there, and from Council on Foreign Relations’ planners’ comments on their new study of U.S European relations.
Lebanon Partition Danger Mounts
by Thierry Lalevée
Moscow Keeps Up Pressure on Japan
by Linda de Hoyos
Libya Attacks LaRouche over Defense Policy
by Mary McCourt
Documentation: The text of the official Libyan press agency’s Jan. 9 attack on the EIR founder.
The Case of Karl Prinz: Terrorist Clearing House in Bonn’s U.S. Embassy
A dossier on an operative from Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s West German foreign ministry, and his associates.
Mexico’s PAN Party Prepares Insurgency
by Hector Apolinar
W.R. Grace Sabotaging Peru’s Industry: The Effort To Reconquer Paramonga
by Luis Vásquez
The terrorist Sendero Luminoso has threatened the new mayor of the city, which Grace wants to take over once more.
International Intelligence
National
President Reagan Leaves the Trap Door Open
by Richard Cohen
The effort to secure a defense buildup and an adequate beam-weapons program without telling the supposedly freeze-minded electorate about it.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Jan. 16 article in Aviation Week on the Soviets’ potential ABM “breakout,” and an interview with an adviser to arms-controller Averell Harriman.
LaRouche Makes Emergency Address to the Nation
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The text, provided to EIR, of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s benchmark Jan. 21 statement on national CBS-TV.
Mondale’s ‘Secular Humanist’ Links
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Carter Vice-President’s preceptors at The Humanist magazine and elsewhere favor forcible reduction of minority populations at home and of the ranks of the elderly, among other things.
Ownby Assassination Proves Terror Threat
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Eye on Democrats
by Anita Gallagher
The Democratic Dartmouth debate.
National News
