Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 12, Number 16, April 23, 1985
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M.D. nounce the release in April of the first 1985EIR Quarterly Middle East: ThierryLalevee Economic Science and Technology: Marsha Freeman Report. This report was prepared under the personal 'supervision of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., the designer of the LaRouche-Riemann Rachel Douglas computerized econometric United States: Kathleen Klenetsky model which accurately forecast what would happen to the U. S. economy in every quarter since INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: the end of Bangkok: Pakdee and Sophie Tanapura 1979, when Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker announced Bogota: Javier Almario . his exorbitant interest rate policy. Bonn: George Gregory. Rainer Apel In Caracas: Carlos Mendez that same period, every other governmental or private eco Chicago: Paul Greenberg nomic model was proven dead wrong in its projections of the Copenhagen: Leni Thomsen economy. Houston: HarleySchlanger Lima: Sara Madueno Since mid-1983, we have been emphasizing that the official Los Angeles: Theodore Andromidas statistics produced under Paul Volcker's dictatorship over U .S. eco Mexico City: Josefina Menendez Milan: Marco Fanini nomic policy have been fraudulently concocted to prove the exist Monterrey: M. Luisa de Castro ence of a recovery that never happened. Early this year, LaRouche New Delhi: Susan Maitra ordered a doubling of EIR' s economic research staff to assemble an Paris: Katherine Kanter Rome: Leonardo Servadio. Stefania Sacchi accurate data-base of worldwide production figures. This staff has Stockholm: Clifford Gaddy been burning the midnight oil over the past six weeks to assemble United Nations: Douglas DeGroot the only accurate picture of the real economy now available. Reflec Washington. D.C.: Susan Kokinda. Stanley Ezrol tions of these studies have been appearing in EIR, including the lead Wiesbaden: Philip Golub. 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Reagonomics? 50 Nazis discovered in the .12 Venezuelans pressed to Green Party yield equity Documentation: George Shultz on . 51 'A' deadly threat to the debt"fot-equity. republic' 13 Currency Rates 52 The formation of Moscow's 'Green column 14 Experts discuss high against the West technology, infrastructure, Asian trade links 57 Libya's Qaddafi backs the A New Delhi conference report. Greens 16 Labor Monetarists spur poverty in Germany. Departments 18 Transportation 17 Middle East Report Visentini bankrupting aerospace? Israel's economic suicide. 19 Banking 11 Report from Africa The new Third World debtors: Disease stalks the continent. you! 64 Editorial 20 Science and Technology The IMF's biological holocaust. Technology to win the war on drugs: Is there the political will to use it? 22 Business Briefs Volume 12 Number 16 April 23, 1985 I Special Report International National 32 Gorbachov kindly otTers to 58 Bipartisan trade-war drive freeze Soviet superiority is national economic suicide 34 Will the Sudanese The "free traders" are demanding 'domino' fall due to U.S. "retaliatory measures" against support for the IMF? Japan-and only Moscow benefits. 36 Soviet plan hurt U.S. 60 Inside the Pentagon intelligence capability in Shultz's "speculative hope." the Middle East 61 Kissinger Watch NSIPSILco Scanlon 38 Central America: Reagan Asset stripper, equity grabber, Colombian President Betancur <at the podium) and finally seeks Contadora's U.S. PresidentReagan announce their joint war on the thief. drugmafia. at a pressconference in Washington, D.C. cooperation to end strife on April4. 62 National News 39 Facts Behind Terrorism: 14 Joint war on drugs rounds Genscher seen again up 'citizens above covering for Qaddafi suspicion' Correction: The Northern Flank column in our April 2 issue Robyn Quijano reports on the new 41 Southeast Asia reported that Denmark's Prince alliance between the United States Soviets • guarantor of peace'? Henrik "recently published an and lbero-America to round up the article in the World Wildlife Fund financiers of the dope trade. 42 Mother Russia newsletter suggesting that ROC-military "Jubilee" readied. Denmark return to the 1880 26 Presidents pledge close population level of 2 million." coUaboration 43 Vatican Although Prince Henrik is the The Joint Statement of the Pope lauds "lordship over nature." head of the Danish branch of the Reagan-Betancur summit and World Wildlife Fund, whose statements by the two Presidents. 45 Bonn newsletter carried such an article, he is not known to be the author Tripping over the SDI. 28 Arrest of Caro Quintero of the article. points to the heart of drug 46 International Intelligence running in Ibero-America 29 A chronology of the War on Drugs 31 Meese: Cooperation is the top priority TIillEconomics The wrecking of the u.s. industrial workforce by KathyWolfe President Ronald Reagan late last month, prompted by his passing that of theUnited States, which had fallen from 34% criminal economic advisers Donald Regan and Fed chainnan in 1950 to 30% by 1972. Paul Volcker, told the press that the "economic recovery is We are not just talking about historical trends. The U.S. creating hundreds of thousands of jobs a month," which industrial