Volume 11, Number 40, October 16, 1984
Departments
Report from Italy
by Paolo Serri
Potential Historic Blow to the Mafia.
Attic Chronicle
by Phocion
Papandreou and the Soviet Navy.
Africa Report
by Mary Lalevée
The Disastrous Chad Withdrawal.
Northern Flank
by Aurora Borealis
Invasion Corridor Opened in Sweden.
Report from Paris
by Yves Messer
On the Eve of Chaos.
Editorial
Is There a Cure for AID?
Economics
Soviets Make Power Play in the World Gold Markets
by David Goldman
All indications are that the reorganization of one of the five London gold pool banks, under the direction of the Bank of England, reflects a fundamental strengthening of the Soviets’ hand in world gold markets. Economics Editor David Goldman reports.
Egypt Gets the ‘Philippines Treatment’: IMF Economic Pressures and Riots
by Thierry Lalevée
Currency Rates
Argentina Bites the IMF Bullet
by Mark Sonnenblick
Farm Insect Plague: Who’s To Blame?
by Marcia Merry
New Economic Model a Deliberate Fraud
by Carol White
Examines a new energy/productivity model which carefully omits criteria which can distinguish productive labor from overhead, and those sectors in which investments in technology are critical.
Banking
First Chicago Next To Go? | Kathy Burdman
Gold
by Montresor
The oligarchy goes west.
Foreign Exchange
by Fiorella Operto
What Kind of “Heavy Lira”?
Domestic Credit
by Richard Freeman
Down on Your Knees.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Schiller—the Poet of Freedom for the Defense of the West
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The keynote presentation of Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the Second International Conference of the Schiller Institute in Wiesbaden, West Germany on Sept. 22. “Not only are borders being redrawn, but entire empires are supposed to be newly divided” in the weeks ahead, she warns. “We could lose the entirety of human civilization because of the illusions of those involved.” Hence, we turn to Schiller, whose “life and work, his plays, poems, historical and philosophical writings, are a fiery appeal for human freedom, a heroic attack on every form of tyranny which degrades citizens to mere subjects.”
International
Socialists Deploy for Moscow in Europe and Ibero-America
by Nancy Spannaus
The objective? Create the new set of crises for Reagan that will guarantee a U.S. troop pullout from Western Europe, and hand it over to the Soviet Union.
Green Party Gains Threaten Kohl Regime
by Michael Weissbach
Soviets Set Up New Plasma Physics Center
by Clifford Gaddy
Military Facilities Sabotaged in Germany
Moscow Closes In on Zia’s Pakistan
by Linda de Hoyos
Ben Bella’s Latest Terrorist Operations
by Thierry Lalevée
Gavin and the U.S. State Department Mobilize the PAN Against Mexico
by Hector Apolinar
The Ambassador continues to run point for a policy which aids no one but the Soviet Union’s assets there.
Venezuela Is Hit by the Drug War
by Gretchen Small
Make Israel a Bridge, Not a Barrier
A speech by Meir Pa’il, former Israeli soldier and parliamentary deputy, to the Schiller Institute.
International Intelligence
National
Socialists, Kissinger Cronies Plotted Donovan Indictment
by Stanley Ezrol
Timed to occur just weeks before the U.S. Presidential election, the indictment is just the beginning of a campaign to paralyze the Reagan Administration with scandals.
Documentation: “The left must ally with the FBI against Reagan,” says Dan Moldea of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Weinberger Defends Beam Weapon Program
In a speech before a Kansas State University audience on Sept. 27.
Soviet Embassy Is Caught Dictating Marching Orders to U.S. News Media
by Mark Burdman
The Kremlin, NBC-TV, and other U.S. news-media professionals have struck a deal to “change the perceptions of the American population about the Soviet Union.”
Documentation: Who is Mrs. Menninger?
Why New York’s Mario Cuomo Wants To Separate Morality from Politics
by Nancy Spannaus
It has to do with euthanasia, infanticide, and legalized murder under the name of “bioethics” and “concern for the dying.”
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The Mondale War on U.S. Intelligence — The Case of David Aaron — Doing the KGB’s Dirty Work.
Congressional Closeup
by Ronald Kokinda and Susan Kokinda
National News
