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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 20, Number 29, July 30, 1993 env.ironmentalis � - .. .- - -- Why U.N. plans for 1IVorid government must be stopped with authoritative case read the plan of studies of Iraq, Cambodia, • the one-worlders EI Salvador, Somalia, and in their own words the former Yugoslavia , $250 " Make checks payable to: EIR News Service, Inc. p,o, Box 17390 Washington, D,C, 20041-0390 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Susan Welsh Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda From the Editor Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Edward ' Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Webster Tarpley, ot long ago, the front pages of the major U.S. newspapers were Carol White, Christopher White N Science and Technology: Carol White filledwith multicolumn stories about new studies of the alleged threat Special Services: Richard Freeman of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables. Credulous mothers Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman were encouraged to spend the extra time and expense to travel to Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol the nearest kooky organic food market in order to allay the remote INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: potential of long-term neurological damage to children which these Agriculture: Marcia Merry pesticides might cause. This and related hoaxes are debunked in this Asia: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, week's Science Technology section. Paul Goldstein & Economics: Christopher White Meanwhile, the allies of the same "environmentalist" quacks European Economics: William Engdahl who spread such scare stories through the media, are conspiring Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus openly to inflict truly dangerous toxins upon the. nation's children Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. and youth. I refer to the drug legalization lobby, which Lyndon Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George LaRouche's allies set back at the end of the 1970s, but which today Special Projects: Mark Burdman presumes to be on the verge of victory, thanks, abQve all, to the huge United States: Kathleen Klenetsky "free-market" financial interests which made sure that the war on INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura drugs trumpeted under Reagan-Bush was never really fought. The Bogota: Jose Restrepo details are in the Feature. : Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen If you want to measure how seriously the drug-environmentalist Houston: Harley Schlanger counterculture has contaminated the U.S. national consciousness, Lima: Sara Madueiio Melbourne: Don Veitch just ask yourself how many citizens, or even policymakers, are Mexico City: Hugo Lopez Ochoa aware of the real problems confronting the world. The most serious Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra strategic threat centers around Russia and the former Soviet Union, Paris: Christine Bierre as we report in the lead International articles, while our Economics Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson lead shows the treacherous role of the U.S. Federal Reserve in in­ Washington, D.C.: William Jones creasing that danger. Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund The articles on Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, and Sudan constitute a EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) powerful exposure and refutation of the pretensions of the United except for the second week of July, and the last week of December by EIR News Service Inc., 333'1, Nations' "new world order." Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 544-70/0. For subscriptions: (703) 777- In Investigation, we initiate the serialized translation of the key 9451. document affecting current history in South America: "The Truth European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, about Carlos Andres Perez," Venezuela's former President and the D-6200 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, D-6200 Wiesbaden-Nordenstadt, Federal Republic of Germany favorite continental puppet of the same international banking clique. Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig The best hope for the Americas lies in the complete political destruc­ In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen 0E, Tel. 35-43 60 40 tion of CAP, and this pamphlet-recently reprinted in the 90,000- In Mexico: EIR, Francisco Draz Covarrubias 54 A-3 circulation Venezuelan daily Diario de aracas-is intended to Colonia San Rafael, Mexico DF. Tel: 705-1295. C Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, advance that process. Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1993 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$IO Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ITillContents Interviews Science & Technology Economics 49 Dr. Ali Elhag Mohamed 14 Environmentalists gear up 4 Corrupt Fed runs economic Sudan's minister of economic anti-pesticide hoax warfare to prop up banks planning and investment, Dr. Ali The most stringent state surveys E. Gerald Corrigan, the president of Elhag led the Sudanese government show pesticide residues far below the Federal Reserve Bank of New delegation at the peace talks with EPA standards, which themselves York, has resigned from that post SPLA rebels in Abuja, Nigeria. are set far above the hazardous and 'will join the board of the newly level. Why the scare then? Dr. created Russian American 66 Lewis du Pont Smith Thomas H. Jukes reports. Enterprise Fund-a vehicle for A Du Pont heir and an associate of lootj.ng the Russian economy. Just Lyndon LaRouche, Smith has been 16 U.S. health risk testing is what you'd expect from the cronies touring Europe and the United 'worthless' of George Soros. States to dramatize the book Prof. Aaron Wildavsky exposes the Travesty, which tells the story of fraud behind "health risk 6 SOlOS out to devalue mark, the Anti-Defamation League and assessment," at a Washington, attack U.S. Cult Awareness Network's aborted D.C. conference on the theme plot to kidnap him and his wife. He "Hazardous to Your Health: 7 Behind China's economic gave this interview to the Swedish Toxics, Torts, and Environmental chaos lies boundless anti-drug magazine Stoppa Bureaucracy. " Knarket. corruption 9 Currency Rates Departments Book Reviews 12 Business Briefs 10 Report from Bonn 63 Witnesses for the German fertilizers for African prosecution farmers . Cover, EIRNSI Inside the Cult, by Marc Breault Photocredits: Laurence Hecht. Pages 23, 24, 25 , and Martin King; and See No Evil: 11 Andean Report 56, 66, EIRNS/StuarfLewis. Page Blind Devotion and Bloodshed in Colombia oil find sparks policy 28 left to right: Javier Almario, El David Koresh' s Holy War, by Tim brawl. Espectador, Carlos de Hoyos. Page Madigan. 35 *RNS/Guggenbuehl Archive. 51 Report from Rio NGOs assault Brazil on Investigation environment. 54 The truth about Carlos 72 Editorial Andres Perez Your children are being abused. Part 1 of a series on the recently suspended President of Venezuela, the Anglo-Americans' favorite puppet in lbero-America, who is now facing criminal charges for corruption. From a pamphlet circulated by the Venezuelan Labor Party and the lbero-American Solidarity Movement. Volume20. Number29. July30. 1993 Feature International National 32 Russian nuclear missiles 60 Declare national can still destroy the world emergency ito recover from Lyndon LaRouche commented on flood recent developments in Russia, Restoring the vast area devastated "We are now at the beginning of by floods will require declaring and what could become World War III. acting on a nationwide economic unless we come to our senses." emergency. AS of now, the U.S. economy simply does not have the 34 The Russo-Tajik output potential to produce the Drug consumption paraphernalia is flaunted at a New agreement and its political physical goods needed to rebuild York City "head shop" in 1980, the year when the and improve the water resources drug legalization lobby was being pummeled at the effects on Central Asia polls by the National Anti-Drug Coalition and its al­ By guest commentator M. Babur. system of the country . lies. Today, the drug lobby thinks it has a better chance. 38 Iraq three years after the 62 LaRouche appeal: Fourth war: genocide in a test tube Circuit kills oral argument 20 Drug legalization: It must be stopped, again 41 Italy challenges 'new world 65 Did ADL t�y to impede San From London to Washington to Francisco probe? Bolivia, the drug legalizers, disorder' in Somalia representedby the Inter-American 66 'Dare to be as courageous Dialogue, the Drug Policy 42 All Italy knows who the Foundation, and a network of enemy is as Sweden's King Gustavus private organizations affiliated with III' the United Nations, are on a drive Somalia: a bad end for the An interview with Lewis du Pont 44 to legalize the drugs that destroy the U.S. empire Smith. minds of children and the sovereignty of nations. 68 Congressional Closeup 45 Washington's handprints found in Pakistan crisis 22 United States: Drug decrim 70 National News management is coming through the back door 47 Corrupt French elites launch new McCarthyite 26 Ibero-America: Drug inquisition legalization back on the agenda 49 One doesn't need the IMF or World Bank to survive 26 EIR warned of drug An interview with Dr. Ali Elhag legalization push in 1991 Mohamed. 29 Bush's phony war on drugs 52 International Intelligence paved the way TIillEconomics CorruptFed nms economic warfare to prop up q I anks I by John Hoefleand Scott Thompson E. Gerald Corrigan, the long-time president of the Federal sian minerals and other commodities, and are dumping them Reserve Bank of New York, has resigned from that post and on western markets-in the c,se of Europe, at about 50% of will join the board of the newly created Russian American the price of comparable European products.
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