Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 19, Number 18, May 1, 1992
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Th{� I�()w(:�r ()f ReclSOf1.· r • l()·. '-.... (8)8) . <Ill dlHoiliogrdp! ,\' l>\' LYI H 1011 I L 1�(11 {( H I{ 'I It'. J r. WHY TIle British Establishment Fears Lyndon LaRouche Books authored by Lyndon LaRouche and associates In Defense of Common The Power of Reason: 1988, So, You Wish to Learn All Sense, by Lyndon H. an autobiography by Lyndon About Economics? by Lyn LaRouche, Jr., Schiller Insti H. LaRouche Jr., Executive In don H. LaRouche, Jr., New tute, 1989, 110 pages, $5. Or telligence Review, 1987, 331 Benjamin Franklin House, der number SIB 89-001. pages, $10. Order number EIB 1984, $9.95. Order number 87-001. BFB 84-003. How the Nation Was Won, Derivative Assassination, America's Untold Story Who Killed Indira Gandhi? 1630-1754, by H. Graham by the editors of Executive In Lowry, Executive Intelligence telligence Review, New Benja Review, 1988, 497 pages. Or min Franklin House, 1985, der number EIB 88-001. 266 pages, $4.95. Order num ber BFB 85-007. "We Americans, in our majority, are now caught asleep, unprepared for the ter rible crisis now assaulting the very existence of our nation. ... To where do we turn, on very short notice, for a different political perspective, a differenct phi losophyof policy-shaping? All we Americans have immediately at hand is the sleeping nationalist heritage embedded in our bones over more than twenty generations-the heritage of the eighteenth-century, worldwide American Revo lution, and of the proximate predecessor, the Golden Renaissance .... I am the voice of the Golden Renaissance, in my role as a defender of our American Revolution.It is time for all true patriots to awaken and to join me." -LynDon H. LaRouche, Jr., " from ''The Great Crisis of 1989-1992, The LaRouche Congressional Campaign Platform." Make check or money order payable to: Ben Franklin Booksellers and Music Shop, 107 South King Street, Leesburg, Virginia 22075. Tel. (703) n7-3661. Mastercard and Visa accepted. (Shipping and handling: $1.75 for one book, plus $.75 for each additional book by U.S. Mail; UPS, $3 for one book, $1 for each additional book.) Virginia residents add 4.5% sales tax. Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Susan Welsh From the Editor Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Allen Salisbury, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, powerful alternative program to the George Bush "new world Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White order"A is condensed in this issue. Science and Technology: Carol White In the Science & Technology report our analysts confront one of Special Services: Richard Freeman the biggest strategic issues of the day: the future of that capability Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman which used to be known as "Soviet" science. The Feature outlines Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol the reasons why Europe's newly freed countries, once part of the INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Soviet Union or the Soviet bloc, and Ibero-America's revolutionary Agriculture: Marcia Merry Asia: Linda de Hoyos ones must unite to defend their people from a common enemy, the Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, International Monetary Fund. Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White To put the issue of Soviet science into perspective, we are going European Economics: William Engdahl to press a few days after the cult ritual of mud worship known as Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Earth Day. Let us never forget that Mother Earth is, left to her own Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George devices, not God, but mankind's greatest enemy. The "natural" Special Projects: Mark Burdman disasters of floods, earthquakes, and killer epidemics have carried United States: Kathleen Klenetsky off far more human beings, and destroyed more civilizations than INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura any wars. Our tool to tum this cruel mother into a benign one is a Bogota: Jose Restrepo concerted effort to master and apply science. And, the first criterion Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen for thinking scientifically is to take responsibility for every single Houston: Harley Schlanger man, woman, and child on the planet-moved by the kind of univer Lima: Sara Madueiio Mexico City: Hugo L6pez Ochoa sal love which Christianity named agape. Milan: Leonardo Servadio That leads to the exclusive coverage of the situations in what has New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre been called the "Islamic arc of crisis" in the International report. In Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Iraq, Pope John Paul II's plea for an end to the embargo represents Stockholm: Michael Ericson Washington, D.C.: William Jones the best hope yet for reversing the genocide there. In Afghanistan, Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund our New Delhi correspondents write, the grave risks can be fore stalled by national forces if the U.S. and others will just "butt out." EIR (ISSN 0886-<)947) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week of July, and the last week of In Libya, we present the evidence that the same Anglo-American December by EIR News Service Inc., 3331/2 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC alliance that has bombed and shredded the Iraqi economy, is prepar 20003. (202) 544-7010. European Hetulquarters: Executive Intelligence Review ing to grossly violate international law to justify a new genocidal Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, Dotzheimerstrasse 166, D-6200 Wiesbaden, Federal escapade in northern Africa. 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Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. present in this issue. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$10 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. • TIillContents Interviews Departments Economics, 43 Francis A. Boyle 11 From New Delhi 4 Behind Alan Greenspan's An international law expert and Japan extends a helping hand. obfuscations on Japan adviser to Libya discusses how the It is unusual for the Fed chairman to CIA set up Libya to take the rap for 51 China Report ascellld Capitol Hill to testify on the Lockerbie bombing . China held up as slave labor model . international matters , but the one time Ayn Rand epigone assured 52 Andean Report legislators that the effects of Is Bolivia's "democracy" next? Japanese stock market drop Reviews State;side will be limited. (Didn't 7 Brookings leads push for 53 Panama Report inh� ...) Oregon health plan What's behind the Cuna uprising? Rationing America's Medical Care: 6 Currency Rates The Oregon Plan and Beyond, 54 Report fr om Rio edited by Martin A. Strosberg, Protesting the "new order. " 6 No health care in Oregon Joshua M. Wiener, Robert Baker, rationing plan with I. Alan Fein. 55 Dateline Mexico The plan promises to provide Oregonians "more access to health The Aztec Plan. 22 Soviet space science looks care"-until they get sick. Then they can just die. at 'sister planet' Venus 72 Editorial Venus Geology, Geochemistry, and IMF demands new Russian empire . Geophysics: Research Resultsfrom 8 Real estate giant in the U.S.S.R., edited by V.L. Photo credits: Cover: USDA. Page technical default Batsukov, A.T. Basilevsky, V.P. 15, Marsha Freeman. Page 19, The latest in the Olympia & York Volkov, and V.N. Zharkov. Stuart K. Lewis. Page 20, Stuart K. debacle. Lewis. Page 23 , ©University of 47 A moral chronicle of the Arizona Press . Page 49 , Apostolic 9 Domestic Credit Gulf war Nunciature to the United States. Commercial mortage debacle John Pauillfor Peace in the Page 66, National Gallery of Art, looms. Middle East: War in the Gulf: The Andrew Mellon Collection, Gleaning through the Pages of Washington; page 67, The 10 Agriculture 'L'Osservatore Romano,' published Minneapolis Institute of Arts , The USDt\ cuts flourfor schools. by the Path to Peace Foundation. William Hood Dunwoody Fund; Alte Pinakotek, Munich. 12 Business Briefs 63 Southeast Asia drugs, POW issue hit Bush Correction: Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the The cover photo of a United States Betrayed Its Own child chipping at the Berlin Wall in POWs in Vietnam, by Monika the April 17, 1992 issue (Vol. 19, Jensen-Stevenson and William No . 16) was incorrectly captioned Stevenson. and credited. It was taken by Mark Nafziger in November 1989, shortly after theopening of the 65 Gem of an exhibit in Wall. Minneapolis: Rembrandt's two paintings of Lucretia • Vo lume 19. Number 18. May 1. 1992 Science & Technology International National 36 How long before Peru's 58 Is the Establishment Fujimori dumps the IMF? pulling the plug on George A break with the IMF is the Bush? prerequisite for the kind of success The elite of elite organizations-the Peru needs in its war on narco Council on Foreign Relations-has terrorism.