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72 Friedrich Nietzsche's evil 18 LaRouche tells why 4 Honecker's debt legacy set legacy falsified Moscow declared him a to blow up German Forgotten Fatherland: The Search 'casus belli' econpmy fo r Elisabeth Nietzsche, by Ben The real history of the Strategic By asauming the illegitimate debt of Macintyre. Defense Initiative, told by the man the former communist regime, who made it happen: Lyndon H. Bonn has created the seeds of a 75 Deep secrets behind LaRouche,Jr. crisis that could bring down all the Lonrho boss Rowland politiqal institutions of the Federal Tiny Rowland: The Ugly Face of 21 The LaRouche movement's Republic. Neocolonialism in Africa, by an mobilization for the SDI EIR Investigative Team. 7 E. German housing firms 22 Russian officials: We need; a debt moratorium couldn't keep up with SDI 8 EIR shapes probe of Italy Photo and map credits: Cover, 24 Soviets demanded privatization pages 35, 54,United Nations/A. LaRouche's jailing, Hollmann. Pages 11,20,30,31, 8 Italian weekly: Financial 32,42, 78, EIRNS/S tuart K. wrecking chance to avoid lobb es jailed LaRouche Lewis. Page 19,EIRNS/Philip world war � Ulanowsky. Page 25,U.N. Photo. Page 26,EIRNS/Michelle 9 Currency Rates Rasmussen. Page 29,United Departments Nations Photo 182513 by A. 10 LaRouche 'Productive Morvan. Page 33,EIR NS. Page 36, 14 Australia Dossier Triangle' plan is United NationslTass. Pages 34-35, Keating reelected to finishoff expounded by Moscow EIRNS/Lynne Speed. Page 39, economy. scholar EIRNS/Guggenbuehl Archive. Prof. Taras Muranivsky writes to Page 40,EIRNS/Chris Lewis. Page 69 Andean Report the FrankfurterAllgemeine 43, Public Affairs Council, A narco-democratic "peace"? Zeitultg, and Lyndon LaRouche Lithuanian American Community com�ents in a radio interview. Inc. Pages 45,59,EIRNS/John Sigerson. 88 Editorial On the tenth anniversary of 12 V.N; talks of 'recovery' in President Reagan's announcement grain output, but admits of SDI. Africa's dire food needs

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48 Russian shift in policy 76 VIPs press Clinton, threatens neighbors Congress for LaRouche's President Yeltsin's assumption of freedom emergency powers is an act of The delegation to Washington two desperation,and is being national congressmen from condemned from all sides. Ukraine,former Colombian Labor Minister Jorge Carrillo,and historic 51 On the subject of policy leaders of the U.S. civil rights governing the projected movement. A refugee from Bosnia in Split, Croatia, holds up a Clinton-Yeltsin summitry newspaper with the headline which reads, ''Through Terror to Great Serbia." After 24 months of fruitless By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. 78 When wiD the Pike statue negotiations, the time has come to act-and if neces­ 'come on down'? sary, the United States must do it alone. 53 Bosnian professor charges: Vance-Owen accepted the 79 CAN implicated in Waco 28 Give Clinton the backbone Radovan Karadzic plan bloodbath to stop Serbia now An exclusive report by Houston General Paul Albert Scherer (ret.), 56 Is India losing its grip on bureau chief Harley Schlanger. the former director of We;>t Kashmir? Germany's military intelligence 81 Fauci warns AIDS-TB link service,is one of the world's is one to dread leading expertson the former 58 The tragedy of Tajikistan Soviet Union and eastern Europe. In this briefing to the Schiller 61 New Afghan accord may 82 An eyewitness observer Institute in Virginia,he lays out widen Central Asia war speaks out on the du Pont how close we are today to world case war,and what we must do to stop 63 'Mediators' in Korea are it. cause for worry 84 Congressional Closeup

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Honecker's debt legacyset to blow e�onomy up German !

by William Engdahl

I A hidden debt bomb inherited from a dead communist regime Berlin Wall. Already in MarcJt 1990, the Bonn government is about to explode over Germany. was close to agreeing on a parity of 1 ostmark (the East For the past half-year, huge amounts of political energy German currency) to 1 deutschemark (the West Germany have been expended in the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, currency), after the proposed monetary union the coming to securing a broad all-party and state austerity deal, called a JUly. On Feb. 6, Karl-Otto Poehl, the president of the Solidarity Pact. The mystery in this hubbub is that the pact, Bundesbank, West Germany's central bank, was in East Ber­ which has just been signed, is slated to takeeffect only in 1995, lin meeting the president of the East German Staatsbank after national elections in 1994. Why the unusual delay? and the East German econoqlics minister to discuss terms The argument that it would depress a weak German econ­ of monetary union. The sa",e day, in the same city, and omy to impose new tax burdens now, is political subterfuge. reportedly without prior warning to Poehl, Chancellor Kohl The new austerity package takes effect in 1995 because that made a surprise public announFement that Bonn was offering is the year when the debt bomb of the old East German full economic and political Imion to East Germany-not economy, the "hereditary burden" as it is called, must, by merely a step to currency convertibility. law, come into the daylight, and the German government­ Perhaps under pressures of large street demonstrations in i.e., the taxpayers-must begin servicing this debt. Leipzig, Dresden, and other cities of East Germany, perhaps Much is bizarre about this so-called debt which German alarmed by the growing stream of East Germans moving citizens must begin to repay in January 1995. First, no one west, the Bonn government reacted politically, without con­ has revealed precisely how large the debt from the old East sulting its colleagues in the Bubdesbank. This, in the crucible German collective farms, state corporations, and other enti­ of a unique historic moment, is understandable. What is ties of the communist regime actually is. If Finance Minister not understandable, are the terms on which Bonn agreed to Theodore Waigel knows, the ruling coalition presided by incorporate the entire monetaryand economic system of East Chancellor Helmut Kohl refuses to reveal it. Opposition So­ Germany-debts and all-that July. cial Democratic Party (SPD) members have chosen to accede A situation has been set up by the Kohl coalition, with to the Solidarity Pact without uttering a dissenting word about the tacit acquiescence of the SPD opposition, which, if not the legitimacy of the old East German debts. corrected now, threatens to bring down not merely the pres­ Best estimates from sources in the thrift institutions put ent German government, but, Italian-style, all the political the total debt at 400-600 billion deutschemarks ($250-375 institutions of the postwar Federal Republic. The issue of the billion). Of this sum, the German taxpayer, starting in 1995, East German "hereditary debt" is programmed to become the must pay annual debt service of an estimated DM 40 billion, dominating issue of European financial politics at least for perhaps even DM 60 billion if the DM 600 billion figure is the rest of this decade. accurate. For what? There are as yet many unanswered questions surrounding the dramatic events leading to the July 1, 1990 Monetary The strange dealings in July 1990 Economic and Social Union Treaty. Was the chancellor It is important to recall the fast pace of events during the blackmailed by Soviet party boss Gorbachov and the Stasi dramatic weeks after the November 1989 opening of the (the dreaded East German secret police) with the threat of

4 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 • losing the historic chance to reunite Germany, were he not total not DM 250 billion, but closer to DM 450 billion. This to agree to their draconian financialterms? Was the attempted is the albatross which threatens to sink the fiscal integrity and assassination of the government's top negotiator in the Union solvency of the Federal Republic. talks, Wolfgang Schaueble, meant to deliver Bonn a mes­ In the final terms agreed betwe¢n Bonn and East Berlin sage? Was the chancellor euphorically over-confident of the for the July 1990 union, Bonn assu�d the book debts of East power of the mighty West German economy to solve all German industry and agriculture at a parity of 2 ostmarks = 1 problems, once pressures of national elections were past in deutschemark . Private household savings, after much politi­ December 1990? cal agitation, were finally acceptep by Bonn at 1: 1. The According to informed accounts in Bonn, the elite of private savings sums involved are not burdensome. The 2: 1 the old regime in East Berlin, already by the mid- 1980s or conversion, however, is. : thereabouts, realized that it was a matter of months before The problem lies with the old industry debt owed by the the Warsaw Pact and their regime would crumble. Much like state-controlled factories and collective farms to the Staats­ the Nazi elite after the defeat at Stalingrad, these Stasi and bank in East Berlin. By assuming a 2: 1 ratio of valuation, SED (the Socialist Unity Party or communist party) circles the Federal Republic assumed responsibility on July 1, 1990 began quietly preparing for the good life after communism. for some DM 130 billion of "old debts." But, as the Treuhand Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, a major-general in the was the umbrella set up some weeks before unification by Stasi, was responsible for all "hard currency" affairs of the the still-communist Modrow government of East Germany, Erich Honecker regime from his commissariat in the Foreign to control all state-owned industry and agro-enterprises, this Trade Ministry . SED party boss Honecker, Stasi chief Mar­ DM 130 billion was then legally assumed by the Treuhand. kus Wolf, Schalck, and the other communist bigwigs began an elaborate process of looting the East German economy in Cancerous growth of the debt the several years before the Berlin Wall cracked open in In a little-noted last act of the communist People's Cham­ late 1989. Secret bank havens were set up in Switzerland, ber in East Berlin, a law was passed which allowed East Gibraltar, Luxembourg, and elsewhere by Schalck and the German banking institutions (in reality the Staatsbank and Stasi-SED elite. Schalck alone had a network of 148 firms subsidiaries) the option of charging "western" market interest worldwide. A Jan. 30, 1990 report in the daily BUd Zeitung rates, rather than the typical extremely low 0.5% rate charged revealed that the SED was secretly selling its gold reserves by East Germany to its own state-owned farm cooperatives to get hard currency in value of DM 2.1 billion. and collective farms for their "debts." Hours before the July 1, 1990 monetary union took effect, interest rates on the The 'hereditary debts' "debts" of state firms in the East Germany increased by 8 to What Honecker and his accomplices left behind in East 20 fold! Germany was a rotted infrastructure, outmoded industry, At the same time, the relative: burden to the old East polluted streams, broken machinery-and one of the most German collectivized farms of their East German "debt" car­ precious reserves of skilled labor in the world today. Plus the ryover, besides bearing as much as a 20-fold higher interest "hereditary burden." What constitutes this huge new debt burden, was now payable in West German currency at a burden? ratio of 2: 1, while the structure of .BastGerman industry and We are not disputing the legitimacy of the DM 30 billion agriculture depended on export to the ruble-zoneeconomies in foreign debt of the East German government. This was, of the Warsaw Pact region, which had no hard currency for the most part, contracted to western banks and should be reserves with which to pay. Exports from the vertically inte­ paid. We ignore here approximately DM 10 billion in costs grated agricultural collectives, the, Kombinate, during the agreed to cover East German obligations after July 1, 1990 course of 1990, collapsed almost totally as a consequence. denominated in transfer rubles, though much could be said But not the debt on the books of the East German farm about it. We also do not take up the issue of the approximately combines, which, after July 1, 1990 were now a part of the DM 90 billion in debts for so-called settlement compensa­ Treuhandanstalt-itself placed under the German Finance tions for the currency conversion. Ministry of Theo Waigel. This debt began to grow cancerous­ Rather we focus on what the Bonn Finance Ministry as ly, hidden from public view. of October 1992 calculated to be around DM 250 billion in On what basis were the "debts"

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 5 West German economic productivity would have suggested versed. An Anglophile HambUirg banker's daughter with de­ a ratio closer to 13:1-in any case, not 2: 1. Were a more cades-long intimate ties to leading circles of City of London realistic ratio for debt of firms used, the total state-controlled and Wall Street finance,Bi rgit Breuel, was named to the most factory debts at union would have been on the order ofDM 20 demanding and difficultjo b in: the entire German economy. billion, rather than DM 130 billion-though even this would Breuel proceeded to reverse the firmly established policy be bogus, as we shall see. almost from her first day. Treuhand, according to numerous One case to illustrate: An agriculture collective in former first-hand accounts of businessmen who have dealt with it, East Germany had 150 members, and, prior to unification, operates under the worst Anglo-Saxon "free market" ideolo­ had annual sales of about 15 million ostmarks, as well as a gy. The investment bank of her family, Schroeder, Munch­ so-called state debt obligation on which they paid an average meyer, Hengst, now owned by Lloyd's Bank (of London), of 1 % annually, or a yearly debt cost of 28,000 ostmarks, or was even hired as one adviser lin the Treuhand privatization some 0.2% of total sales. After unification, now with 30% under Breuel. fewer people, and an annual sales of DM 5 million, the col­ Beginning in the summer of 1991, with Breuel at the lective must pay annual interest costs of 10%, or helm, American and British management consultants were DM 140,000! brought in to advise Treuhanlll, company by company, on If west German modem industry and agribusiness firms privatization. According to a study by the Dusseldorf Insti­ were forced to operate under such financial pressures as were tute for Economics of the DGB, the German trade union imposed on the east German firms under the conditions after confederation, made public in: October 1992, the Treuhand July 1, 1990, it can safely be said that no concern would has deliberately hidden this policy shift by accounting tricks. survive. That is precisely what has happened to east German Money, not preservation of valuable industry groups, rules industry and agribusinesses since July 1990. Real unemploy­ Treuhand under Breuel. ment levels, among those wanting to work full time across In their official report for 1991, under the heading, "Out­ the five new states of the east, today exceed 40%. Most lays for Modernization, Privatization, and Shutdowns," state-controlled factories have been "privatized" in a manner Treuhand claims an impressive expenditure of DM 77.5 bil­ which has amounted to a deindustrialization of eastern lion. But according to the DGB examination of the fineprint, Germany. Treuhand only spent DM 5 bitlion for what rigorously must But Honecker's stand-in Comrade Modrow and friends be called "modernization" or . rebuilding of the productive succeeded in pressing Bonn for 2: 1. With a stroke of the pen plant equipment and management structure of former East on July 1, 1990, Bonn took over the Treuhand, and with it a German firms! The remainder mostly was spent to keep com­ combined old debt of farm collectives and state-controlled panies operating with the same decrepit equipment, losing factories valued at DM 130 billion, and for the most part now billions of deutschemarks mOlllthly, while Berlin refused to payable at westerninterest rates of some 9-10% annually. But pay out a pfennig for new investment in those firms. As a how do we arrive at a figure of DM 450 billion in 1995 for result, the total Treuhand debt isballooning month by month. the combined debts, including interest, of the Treuhand? This is believed to be the real basis of the estimated growth from an original DM 130 billion in Treuhand "debt" in July Reorganization of the Treuhand 1990 to an estimated DM 450 billion by 1995. Helmut Kohl's choice as first Treuhand chief, Carsten The Treuhanddoes not list "modernization,"except in com­ Detlev Rohwedder, was a manager with deep experience in bination, "Modernization andLoss Settlements," or "Loans for transforming the steel industry at Hoesch, as well as years in Investments and for Loss Settlements." Through such tricks, Bonn under former Economics Minister Karl Schiller and Breuel's Treuhand is apparently fulfilling the policy of others . Shortly before his assassination in April 1991, Rohwedder's Treuhand, but in realitybuilding the biggest fiscal Rohwedder had realized that the policy of Treuhand had to crisis in modem German history, set to erupt in public in 1995. change. He met with Kohl shortly before the German elec­ No one knows, outside perhapsIan inner circle of people advis­ tions in 1990 and Kohl agreed to a policy of "modernization ing Breuel, how much this Treuhand debt is mushrooming, rather than privatization," as priority for Treuhand. This because of the false policy since April 1991. meant that Treuhand would serve as ultimate guardian over­ seeing investment into east German industry, its effective The phony debt reorganization, but above all, its modernization, even were But the most absurd of all in this tale of folly and fraud, this to mean that many east German companies must remain is the fact that the entire debt is illegitimate. state-owned for ten or even more years before they were How can a state which, under the East German system ready for the pressures of western markets. Under owned all means of producti

6 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 East German system, state-owned manufacturing company no legal form of debt. It was "debt" of the people-to com­ "debts" were carried as loans on the balance sheet of the munist Honecker. state-owned Deutsche Kreditbank, which in tum was wholly Since July 1990, however, the Federal Republic of Ger­ owned by the East Berlin Staatsbank. After July 1, 1990, many has implicitly recognized this fictionas legitimate and Treuhandanstalt in Berlin became the legal successor to the given the "full faith and credit" of Germany as guarantee for Staatsbank. its repayment. This error, while understandable under the There was no credit system in the communist regime. extraordinary political pressures of )989-90, will bring Ger­ Rather, the bookkeeping entries termed "debts" were a politi­ many and its entire economy to ruin as sure as night follows cal planning and control mechanism of a communist state day, if it is not judiciously correctedt-whetherby determina­ over state-owned industry . Because the SED Central Com­ tion of the proper legal courts as to the juridical legality of mittee arbitrarily determined the prices the farm collectives the inherited debts, particularly that of Treuhand. could ask, firmswere deliberately loaded down with "debts" Solutions are certainly possible if the problem is squarely from the Credit Bank, the difference between artificallylow faced. Replacement of the present debt entry in the books of state prices for products and state plan demands for company creditor banks with new state bonds, call them, say, "recon­ "tax" revenue to the state. As the Warsaw Pact economies struction bonds," in some agreed ratio, but earmarked for fell deeper into economic chaos in the late 1980s, these fictive direct investment in east German states for infrastructure accounting devices termed company "debts" mounted rapid­ rebuilding and industry reinvestment, would tum every bil­ ly. But they were not "credit" in the West German legal sense lion deutschemarks now being lost in a bottomless barrel of loans to buy real equipment or improve facilities. There of debt payment and unemployment costs, into a genuine was virtually no net new investment as we today know. Nor "easterneconomic miracle." To regain the trustof the disillu­ were they credits in the sense that the "loans" were drawn sioned citizens of the east, a trulyimpartial Germannational from national savings. They were merely arbitrary sums used commission, named by all parliamentary parties, must con­ to cover the collapse of the central planning process, or to duct a full audit of the Treuhand under Birgit Breuel's tenure allocate resources inside the planned economy. There existed as well.

be paid back in installments by the eastern municipalities through, among other measures, the sale of at least 15% E. German housing firms of their property (land, buildings, etc.) to private owners need a debt moratorium starting in 1995. The municipal housing agencies will have to invest in the restoration of an estimated 2.3 million apartments, The much-propagandized "Bonn Solidarity Pact" is however, which, as an average ratio of DM 60,000 is worthless, as it leaves the old debt untouched. The swindle needed per apartment according to �onn governmentcal­ behind the German government's alleged success story of culations, will require a total of DM 138 billion over the having found "a sound way of keeping financial flows next ten years. Hence, the easternhou sing sector will not under control" is most obvious in the case of the heavily be in a much-improved position to pay the old debt which indebted east German housing sector. it cannot pay now, in 1995 either. The eastern municipalities are expected to shoulder Rostock, the easternGerman port which was targeted an old debt ratio of DM 150 per each square meter of for neo-Nazi riots a few months ago, announced in Febru­ inhabitable space-which means that the total old debt of ary that it could not pay its 6,100employees their monthly DM 36 billion (in late 1990) is not reduced much, as this wages, due to a budget shortfall of DM 78 million. Only square meter trick adds up to a sum of DM 31 billion. a special mobilization of funds allowed the city to scrape The accumulated interest on the old debt, another DM 18 together enough money to cover February and March ex­ billion by the end of 1993, remains unchanged as well. penses. The officialjo bless rate in Rostock is 11.8%, but The only "concession" of the government now is to the real figure is more like 25-30%. Due to tax breaks grant a two-year grace period to the east German munici­ granted to new businesses under the federal "Upswing palities, and to pay their due interests during this period. East" program, there is no relief in sight for municipal They are obliged to begin paying their share from July revenues. The debt-burdened mUQicipalities in the five 1995 on, however. eastern stateshave no options except to raise parking fees The slightly reduced principal of DM 31 billion is or to drastically cut the city payrollj as in Rostock, where meanwhile "parked" in the special government fund of 1,700 employees will be laid off, but even that measure "debt inherited" (from former East Germany), but it is to won't close the budget gap.-Rainer Apel

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 7 aboard the British Royal Yac�t Britannia between British financiers and Italian public oipcials, to discuss how to pri­ vatize Italian public industry.p arlato met Treasury Under­ EIR shapes probe of secretary Mario Draghi, who qad participated in that meet­ ing, after which he raised a s�cond inquiry. He said that, Italyprivatization "basing myself on the interprelation of that unique meeting given by the EIR andL' Italia, "�e was asking the government by Claudio Celani to "ask opportune, immediate ,I and exhaustive explanations from the ambassador of the United Kingdom." The thrust of Craxi' s move and Parlato's inquiry have EIR's special dossier, "The Anglo-American Strategy Be­ been echoed in the national pre�s, resulting in the crediting of hind Italian Privatizations," is forcing the Italian government EIR and Lyndon LaRouche for!the expose.Se nior economic to clarify whether some of its ministers have cut a deal with columnist Giano Accame, writjing in the Catholic weekly II foreign interests which want to take over valuable sectors Sabato, after identifying EIR a�d LaRouche as the sourceof of Italian public industry at wholesale prices. One cabinet Parlato's inquiries, said that J..aRouche's supporters "de­ member especially, Budget Minister Beniamino Andreatta, scribe him as a victim of the �merican system of power, may be forced to resign, and the government itself may be against which he stubbornly �ghts, but his misadventures forced to face a confidencevote on industrial policy. strengthen his victimization.Y ft, this time the rumors from EIR's dossier, released in Italy on Jan. 14, published in Wiesbaden were right.. . .W qo now talks about conspirac­ part in EIR (Feb. 12, pp. 11-12), and prominently covered ies, maybe uses big words.B 1\1t that procedure was all but by the national weekly L'ltalia in its Feb.3 issue, provoked elegant.. .. Do you handle lili:e that, out of the offices, the little reaction until March 2, when former Socialist Party state businesses? Beside being! a bit 'exotic,' was it not too Secretary General Bettino Craxi , who is defending himself confidential an atmosphere? D�aghi, feeling uncomfortable, froma political plot steered by the circles exposed in EIR's left. Those who stayed were :much less serious and now dossier, delivered it to the press and to members of Parlia­ should respond about it: privatitle to denationalize?" ment.The day after, Deputy Antonio Parlato raised a parlia­ The Rome financial daily! II Globo-12 Ore published mentary inquiry, quoting from EIR's dossier as published in front-page articles for two days in a row reporting on EIR's L'ltalia. Parlato asked the government to clarify whether it dossier.One of them was entitled "Wall Street and the City was true that on June 2, 1992, a secretive meeting took place Push Bossi to Sink Italy." "NorthernLeague ," it wrote quot-

of an economics subordinated I to the laws of ethics and the higher interests of nations. i Italianweekly: Financial "Taking advantage of a minprtax evasion (a pecuniary lobbies jailed LaRouche distraction), the U.S. authori1!ies sentenced him to the maximum penalty ....For t"o [sic] years he has been in prison, treated like a commop criminal. The March 31 issue of the weekly L'I talia carries a major "Lyndon H.LaRouche ..I. allegedly committed the article about Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., entitled, "And 'grave error' of pointing out, to �mericans and non-Ameri­ the Dissident Ended Up in the American Gulag." Written cans, the necessity and importance of a 'national' road to by Marco Torre, the lead two-page story in the magazine's economic development, countetposed to the 'multination­ Internationalsection reads in part: "In Italy the reorganiza­ ai' route to development pursu� by the mightiest financial tion of the debt will never occur because it is a colony of and banking lobbies which, �ouche says, have looted, the International Monetary Fund.Its political and finan­ sacked, and impoverished natiRed Brigades. of the Federal Reserve (the U.S.central bank), currently The author of this detailed denunciation is not a conspiracy the property of a dozen private banks (Citibank, Chase theorist or an internationalspy , but Lyndon H.LaRouc he, Manhattan Bank) who sit dow at a table and decide the "� a 70 year old, a refinedand appreciated scholar, proponent economy of the country.. . . !

8 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 ing EIR, "is the ideal instrument to implement the Anglo­ American objectives. Here is why the Northern League is Currency Rates supported by the City of London and Wall Street-controlled media (Economist, Financial Times, and New York Times) . Connections have been discovered, according to the report, The dollar in deutschemarks between some foundations owned by certain Italian industrial New York late afternoonfixIng groups and such centers, through Lazard [Freres). 1.70 "Bossi would be moving exactly toward the destruction of the national state, a very clear target for his international '- �- .. 1.60 .-. � sponsors. Mafia witness Leonardo Messina would know the """"I-"

CIA project, coherent with the Northern League project, I.SO to 'divide Italy,' and has spoken about it in front of the parliament's anti-mafiacommission ." 1.40 After reporting on the strategy to devalue the lira and buy up Italian industries cheap, the daily wrote: ''The Amato gov­ 1.30 ernment could still save the ship by reintroducing exchange 1120 1Il7 213 1Il0 2/17 _ 2Il4 313 3110 controls, freezing a part of the public debt (sparing the small The dollar in yen savers), and launching an aggressive investment policy." New York late afternoonfixing

AgnelU group getting hit 140 But maybe the most important, politically and in terms of readership, is a prominent article run in the Milan daily 130 Corriere della Sera on March 10, in which economic editor L-.- Danilo Taino reports EIR's analysis of the international at­ 120 '-L..... tack against the lira and integrates this with the "conspiracy - 110 theories" of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and former French Premier Raymond Barre . Corriere della Sera is not 100 only the most influential Italian daily, but it is owned by the 1120 1Il7 213 lII0 2117 313 3/10 Agnelli family, whose power in Italian politics has historical­ ly been unchallenged except only by the Catholic Church. The British pound in dollars Observers see in this a reaction to the fact that the "anti­ New York late afternoonfixing corruption" investigation, which a group of Milanese judges are leading on a national scale, has hit the Agnelli group, with 1.70 the arrest of Fiat financial manager Paolo Mattioli. Maybe 1.60 Agnelli, like Craxi, has understood that the "anti-corruption" investigation is promoted by the same international forces 1.50 -.. that areleading the economic assault against Italy. � - '- - While we are writing, Parlato is raising a third parliamen­ 1.40 � '""""""'" tary inquiry, which more deputies from different parties are expected to join. Thanks to information provided by EIR, the 1.30 new question raises the name of Andreatta, a radical free­ 1Il0 lIl7 213 1Il0 2.17 2Il4 313 3/1o marketeer who was on the queen's ship on June 2 and who I The dollar in Swiss francs ! today, together with Treasury Minister Barucci, is pushing New York late afternoonfixing for "shock therapy" in the privatization issue.

Andreatta is opposed by Industry Minister Giuseppe Gu­ 1.60 arino, author of an industrial policy plan where, instead of I.SO selling state companies piecemeal to foreign interests, they - '- - � -- would be first integrated into a modernizationplan, and then V gradually sold to Italian purchasers. Guarino insists that the 1.40 � :I "traumatic social effects" (i.e., unemployment) of industrial l 1.30 I modernization have to be avoided. Guarino's supporters, who have the majority in Parliament, want to force a vote on 1.l0 !, this policy, and eventually bring down the Amato govern­ l/lO 1127 213 lIlO 2h7 313 3/10 ment over the economic issue.

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 9 LaRouche'Productive Triangle'plan is expoundedby Moscow sch9lar

Lyndon LaRouche's proposal fo r a Paris-Berlin-Vienna LaRouche: There are two thiqgs required. Professor Mura­ "Productive Triangle" was the subject of a letter to the editor nivsky does not mention one of�hem, although he is aware of printed by the leading German dailyFrankfurter Allgemeine it, as I know personally-I know him indirectly, personally. Zeitung on March 16. The author of the letter, Prof. Taras First of all, on the economiq side. The greatest concentra­ Muranivsky, is rector of the Ukrainian Universityin Moscow tion of infrastructureand of pro4luctivepotential, labor force, and is the scientific editor of the Russian edition of education, everything else; the greatest center of power on LaRouche's textbook So, You Wish to LearnAll About Eco­ this planet, is not Japan, it is npt the United States, but it is nomics? Professor Muranivsky linked the current crisis of this so-called Triangle area. west European steel industries to the dumping policies of This is the result of an histot1icalprocess which dates back east European steel producers, which is being carried out to the Emperor Charlemagne, who set into motion, with a under pressure from theInternational MonetaryFund. number of plans, canal-building and road-building and other In the fo llowing excerptfrom his weekly radio interview policies, which, as a heritage, lhave shaped the progressive of March 16, "EIR Talks With Lyndon LaRouche," development of European civil�zation up to the point before LaRouche took up this issue further. He was interviewed by there was any civilization in Nqrth America. Melvin Klenetsky. So we have about a thousaqd years or more, of accumu­ lated development of land, of canal systems, river systems, LaRouche: Poland has collapsed to a worse condition than road systems, locations of citie�, all this sort of thing, which it ever suffered under communism after the first reorganiza­ is concentrated largely in a triapgular area, or you might say tion of Poland under communism. The former Soviet econo­ a spherical triangle, which includes Paris as a comer, Vienna my is in the worst condition it has been in since the war­ as a comer, and Berlin as a coqter. total collapse. For example, there is a letter in the German There are about 110 million people living in this area, as press by Professor Muranivsky from a leading university compared with 130-odd millio, people living in Japan in an in Moscow, who details some of this, and points out my area of comparable size. This area has much greater produc­ alternative to this mess, which I had proposed as early as tive power, than does Japan as Ii whole. 1988-89, and he shows the collapse of the Russian economy If we want to get new tec�nologies developed cheaply and the effects of this upon the westernEuropean economy, for distribution, that is, spreaeJing them around the world, as a result of failing to carry out the kind of proposal which this is the area in which to inve$t, where all the conditions of I presented back in 1989 in particular, the so-called Triangle infrastructure, of skilled labor, iand cheap cost of transporta­ proposal. That was in the Franlifurter Allgemeine Zeitung, tion-all these sorts of thing8-t-prevail. Therefore, we can the leading financial marketpress of Germany, of March 16. produce this at the greatest economic advantage there. If we They have simply wrecked the economies, and it is the connect this part of the world �ough rail line systems, high­ wrecking of the economy of Russia, as well as eastern Eu­ speed rails, magnetic levitatioq, 300-mile-an-hour rails, that rope, which has driven the Russians to the point that Yeltsin sort of thing, to places like St.; Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, has to change horses and go over to the hardline side, as a and so forth, and on the way tq Vladivostok and into China, price for not being lynched. . . . we integrate Eurasia for what most people would consider an absolutely miraculous rate of growth and productivity per EIR: Today we are looking at a 2,000% rate of inflation in capita and per square kilomter. : the Soviet Union, a 50% collapse in production, a 33% col­ This is what Professor Mutanivsky is talking about. As lapse in agriculture. What are your policies, which Professor he also knows, to do this, w� must eliminate the kind of Muranivsky is talking about, which would reverse this total intrinsically inflationary financ�alsystem which we associate disaster? today with a Federal Reserve $ystem operating in a deregu-

10 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 lated so-called free-market system. State governments must organize the credit at low-interest rates and give the credit (as primary credit) selectively in those areas which will cause the fostering of these kinds of development. In that case, we can have a recovery immediately; if we do not take exactly those measures, we will have a worsening, spiralling depression, which will continue beyond the end of this century. Professor Muranivsky also points out, in his letter (and he demonstrates with facts in terms of prices of iron and steel), that if the Russian collapse continues, this collapse will drag the entire world down deeper into a worldwide depression; and he is absolutely correct.

Documentation

Professor Muranivsky's letter to the editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was published on March 16 under the headline "Steel Crisis and International MonetaryFund" :

The problems of coal and steel production and sales in such industrial regions as the Ruhr can be shown to depend directly on decisions made in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Professor Taras Muranivsky:He LaRouche's proposal "to and other eastern European countries. Whereas in Germany the IMF conditionalities approach, which represents the attempt one ton of coal costs about DM 250 to produce, in Poland it to loot and destroy eastern Europe an the former Soviet Union, costs DM 80. The same goes for steel; in Germany it costs as a component of the strategic efforts to build a new world order. " DM 650 and in easternEurope DM 65. The reason why the prices are so low is very simple. It is well known that most . , eastern European countries have implemented so-called nar on this theme, held on Feb. 27- 8 of this year. shock therapy, which the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) The ideas and conceptions of Ithe American economic forced on them. Although this medicine, which kills the scientist and politician Lyndon LaRouche provided the foun­ patient, has led to drastic reductions in industrial production, dations for the elaboration and pradtical proposals regarding easternEuropean countries are exporting, at dumping prices, this theme. At the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990, goods which they actually would need for their own con­ LaRouche and his friends from thb Schiller Institute circu­ sumption. But the IMF conditions have ruined our currencies lated a proposal which was called tlie"Prod uctive Triangle." to such an extent, that only in order to acquire hard currency, It contains the idea of using the historically definedconcen­ coal, steel and other goods are dumped on the West, without tration of productive capacities in the geographical triangle the employees ever getting anything out of it. The hard cur­ Paris-Berlin-Vienna as the motor fo[ce for new technologies, rency earned thereby is then transferred to the IMF as debt linking up this area with the rest 0 Eurasia and other parts repayment. of the world. With the help of so-called galactic spiral arms, But it is also known that this immoral and discriminatory that is, logistical corridors, other �arts of Eurasia would be policy strikes back like a boomerang against the states that linked to this technological-economic locomotive, in order follow it. In my view, and that of my German friends, Germa­ to build up satellite centers of devJlopment along the route, ny has serious interest in supporting easternEuropean coun­ which would be determined, to a lar�e extent, by the develop­ tries and will distance itself from discriminatory treatment. ment of improved rail systems, especially high speed and Despite the variety of problems, all European countries will magnetic levitation systems. have to seek common decisions. One ofthe most constructive I prefer this way of economic development to the IMF means for the solution to the European and world economic conditionalities approach, which represents the attempt to problems of today has been elaborated by the Schiller Insti­ loot and destroy easternEurope andI the former Soviet Union, tute (Wiesbaden, Dusseldorf) . I myself took part, together as a component of the strategic efforts to build a new world with colleagues of mine from Russia and Ukraine, in a semi- order.

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 11 U. N. talks of 'recovery' in grain output, but adInitsMr ica's dire food needs by Jutta Dinkermann

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization large numbers of refugees, displaced and drought-affected (FAO), based in Rome, has the staff and means to send people, and demobilized soldiers. A crucial factor in the monitoring teams to critical crop areas, such as in Africa, to coming months will be the development of the 1992-93 report on harvest prospects, soil moisture, livestock condi­ coarse grains crop in southernAfr ica; prospects are unfavor­ tions, and to provide a picture of both emergency needs and able in Angola, Lesotho, and Mozambique, and shortage of long-term projects and requirements to further agriculture seeds has reduced planted area i!n several countries. output and food supplies. Each month the FAO publishes Aggregate cereal production in 1992, for the 26 African "Food Outlook: Global Information and Early Warning Sys­ countries that are in their 1992-93 marketing year, is esti­ tem on Food and Agriculture." mated at 37.4 million tons, some 12% lower than in 1991. This is theoretically how the FAO should work, but the The food aid requirement for these countries in 1992-93, reality is quite different. The February issue of "Food Out­ estimated at 5.2 million tons, is substantially higher than in look" is typical. It praises what it calls a "recovery" in global 1991-92, mainly reflecting the sharp increase in the needs of cereal output: "The world cereal supply/demand outlook for the drought-affected countries in southern Africa. Food aid 1992/93 has improved further. . . ." It states that there will pledges for 1992-93 cover some 80% of the estimated re­ likely be a replenishment of global cereal stocks, "above quirements, but less than half of the pledges have actually the range considered by FAO as the minimum necessary to been delivered. There is an urgent need for donors to expedite safeguard world food security." Yet a feature titled "Food shipments, particularly to Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Situation in Africa" paints a detailed picture of the precarious and Somalia. state of agriculture across the entire continent, and food inse­ Initial indications of the needs of the 20 countries, which curityon the scale of genocide. The facts are especially dra­ have just entered their 1993 mariketingyear, are that food aid matic, because 1992 was the year of the "drought of the requirements, while remaining high, will fall from the 1992 century" in southern Africa. levels, mainly on account of increased cereal production in What does the FAO report say about food aid? Their Ethiopia and Eritrea. statistical table notes, without accompanying comment, that food aid in cereals is likely to drop this year down to 12.8 Eastern Africa million tons worldwide, down from 13.5 million tons last In Somalia, some 1 million people remain at risk of year, and in the mid- 1980s. This tonnage is inclusive of starvation. Security conditions, remain precarious in many cereals aid to Africa, and also for Bosnia and all other points locations, several of which can so far only be supplied of need. through airlifts. As a result of the collapse of the agricultural We here summarize, region by region, the update on the infrastructure and a livestock-P'!lpulation sharply reduced by agriculture and food situation in Africa, to make the point, drought and war, only a slow :recovery of the agricultural from the U.N.'s own figures, that a world mobilization is sector can be expected. required for emergency food assistance, and also for infra­ In Ethiopia, food assistance will be required by some 1.1 structure development-water, power, transport, and public million returnees from settlement areas and persons displaced health measures. by ethnic conflict, and a total of 840,000 demobilized soldiers and their dependents. A further 2.4 million persons are esti­ A few good harvests don't make a recovery mated to have been affected by crop and livestock losses. According to the FAO, in recent months there have been In Eritrea, the much imprOlVedsecurity condition is ex­ promising developments in a number of countries of sub­ pected to lead to an increase in the numbers of returnees Saharan Africa. These include above-average to record har­ requiring assistance in 1993 to a total of 200,000 persons. vests in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, and most of the Sahelian Despite the good rainy season, I livestock numbers will take countries. But yet, sub-Saharan Africa will require extensive at least another year to recover. ; emergency assistance throughout 1993 to cover the needs of In Sudan, an estimated 2.78 million displaced and

12 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 drought-affected people will require 324,000 tons of food Despite good rains, cereal production is expected to be below assistance in 1993. Some 1.7 million displaced persons re­ the 1991-92 level. quire an estimated 184,000 tons of food. About 14,000 tons Growing conditions in South Africa have been generally of food are needed for 395,000 displaced people in vulnera­ satisfactory following ample rains in the main maize areasin ble groups, mostly children under five. An estimated 1.08 November and early December, but recent dry conditions million persons living in food deficit areas will require have seriously affected crops in several areas, and a below­ 126,000 tons of food assistance. average harvest is now in prospect. : In Kenya, widespread malnutrition is reported and live­ stock losses have been severe. An estimated 1.7 drought­ Sahelian countries affected people will be reliant on relief assistance at least Following generally good harve�ts, the food supply situa­ until the next main harvest in August 1993, and there are tion in most of the Sahelian countries is expected to remain some 400,000 refugees in the country . satisfactory in the 1992-93 marketing year, except in north­ In Tanzania, acute local food shortages persist, notably west parts of the Sahel. In Mauritania, following successive in the drought-affected central and lake areas . Relief opera­ poor harvests, the situation will be tight for drought-affected tions are targeting some 600,000 persons, but effortsto trans­ populations. Tuareg refugees in the eastern region are putting port grain from surplus areas continue to be hampered by pressure on the available supplies� In the cities, the food financial constraints . supply situation is better, followin$ substantial commercial In Uganda, drought affected 1992 crops in Masaka, cereal imports in 1992, but the recent devaluation of the Mpigi, and Rakai district, while a combination of drought national currency resulted in price increasesof food items and and civil disturbances led to food problems in Saroti. will severely affect the poorest segments of the population. In Rwanda, some 350,000displaced persons will contin­ In northernSenegal, thesituation is also difficult,fo llowing ue to require food assistance well into 1993. another poor harvest and the transfer of cereals from surplus areas in the southare required. InCape Verde, a below-average Southern Africa harvest is anticipated, but the countrY has already planned sub­ The food supply situation across much of southern Africa stantial commercial imports of food fu 1993. has improved somewhat, following substantial commercial and food aid imports. West Africa The signing of the Mozambique peace treaty has allowed Following unfavorable growing conditions, below-aver­ relief assistance to be delivered to areas which, until recently, age harvests have been gathered in several countries along have been inaccessible to agencies. Emergency food aid the Gulf of Guinea. As a result, aggregate cereal production needs for 1992-93 have been increased by large numbers of is likely to decline and import req,irements, mostly wheat returnees and demobilized soldiers and their dependents. A and rice, will increase. catastrophe has been temporarily averted in Malawi, but In Ivory Coast, an exceptionally long dry spellbetween food stocks are at critically low levels. Livestock and crop mid-June and early September seridusly affected staple food losses from the 1991-92 drought have necessitated large­ crops. scale emergency programs in all the countries of the sub­ In Nigeria, most areas had poor rains and the production region. However, in Angola, the recent renewal of hostilities of cereals in 1992 is estimated at 3% less than last yearand has hampered relief distribution efforts to drought-affected below average. rural populations in the south and has led to acute shortages. In Liberia, the harvesting of the paddy crop has been Although land preparation and planting of the 1992-93 hampered by heavy fighting. Foll

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 13 AustraliaDo ssier by Don Ve itch

Keating reelected to finish offeconomy important alternative candidate in the The good news is that opposition candidate Dr. John Hewson race, won Slightly less than 4% in an eight-way race for the federal House was destroyed; but Labor's Paul Keating is no better. of RepreseJlltatives. The fact that the opposition coali­ tion shoulq have walked away with this electiOn, but did not, is having T he March 13 federal election in social contract device known as "the heavy fallout, and the coalition is ex­ Australia was a surprise victory for the Accord." Throughout the 1980s, real pected to fracture. National Party Australian Labor Party governmentof wages fell significantly. Members df Parliament immediately Paul Keating. Despite the fact that Massive tax scams also were al­ began attacking the Liberal-domi­ nearly every major newspaper in the lowed while Keating was Treasurer. nated economic policy line, as did two country urged its readers to vote During the election, the Australian prominent Liberal Party backbench­ against him, the man whose freetrade Federal Police Association claimed ers, Ken Aldred and Steele Hall. Al­ and deregulation policies have created that $13 billion was lost to revenue dred and ltIall have fought a battle the worst economic conditions since each year by organized crime and tax within the ,Liberal Party against the the depression of the 1930s managed cheats. The Australian Federal Police worst excesses of Hewson's free trade not only to win, but to extend Labor's claimed that police had been prevent­ insanity for some time. majority in the 147-seat House of ed from investigating tax scams by se­ Former Australian Prime Minister Representatives from 9 to at least 15 nior politicians. This in itself could Malcom Ftaser (Liberal Party) also (the vote count is continuing). have been used as an issue by the Lib­ joined the fray , insisting that the Lib­ The only difference between erals to attack Labor (and Keating's) erals must break the economic ratio­ Keating and former International record, but it was ignored. nalists' str$glehold on policy. Monetary Fund (IMP) economist Dr. Keating will now promote himself The otherhalf of the federal oppo­ John Hewson, the leader of the federal as the defender against the radical sition, the rural-based National Party, opposition Liberal-National Party co­ right wing of the Liberal Party, but did better than the Liberals in races alition, is that Hewson's "alternative this is black humor, considering Keat­ where they ran their own candidates. program" would have brought the ing's track record in the 1980s. Two National Party members, Bob economy careening downward even The fact that Australia's voters Katter in �ennedy and Ray Braith­ faster. It is generally agreed that the largely did little better than to choose waite in D�wson, who had both cam­ election was won because of fear of the "lesser of two evils" was attacked paigned against the cut in tariffs to the this alternative, which included plans by the relatively new party, the Citi­ sugar indu�try, and free market poli­ to introduce a 15% goods and services zen's Electoral Councils. Maurice cies in general, were returned with a tax (GST) , radically deregulate Hetherington, CEC candidate for the substantially higher vote. This is a sig­ wages, and privatize large chunks of federal seat of HinkIer (Queensland), nal to the National Party to return to health, welfare, and education. told the press that he was "appalled protecting lthe interests of farmers. Keating will likely continue to with the level of political intelligence The success of the National Party in serve the interests of the banking sec­ of the electorate ," and that Australians Queensland, picking up a possible tor and tax evaders. Throughout the were going to continue to suffer great­ four seats, is contrasted with the dis­ 1980s, the Liberals promised radical ly as a result of this mentality. The mal failure pf the Liberal Party section deregulation of banks and "market so­ election, Hetherington insisted, "was advocating ,market remedies. lutions" for exchange dealings, but it a referendum on the IMF's goods and The in

14 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 Agriculture by Sue Atkinson and Suzanne Rose

Iowa confab pushes contract farming tain technology, through contracting,

Senator Dole, the Farm Bureau, and the H experts" argue fo r which would be un affordable and un­ available to th�m otherwise. replacing fa mily fa rms with H industrial" fa rming . Wayne Sy�er of Farmland Indus­ tries (which contracts with farmers to produce hogs) said that contracting was the best way to help livestock pro­ On March 1 and 2, influentials in ricultuml economist D. Gale Johnson. ducers get the financingnecessary for agricultural policy gathered in Des Farm organization representatives introducing new technologies. Moines, Iowa for the stated purpose also participated in the proceedings, A recent lIeport from the Iowa of discussing the industrialization of which were slanted to promote the Business Council touts contmcting as agriculture. Sponsored by the Nation­ idea that contract farming is a growing the only way to expand livestock pro­ al Forum for Agriculture, the confer­ and irreversible trend. According to duction in the sitatebecause new tech­ ence, called "The Challenge of Indus­ the Des Moines Register, "They said nologies will npt be available to pro­ trialization," focused on promoting farm organizations, cooperatives, and ducers otherwi$e. The report says that contract farming-a fancy name for federal programs will have to adjust to most of the mpney available for re­ neo-serfdom. contract agriculture or findthemselves search and devl!lopment of new tech­ Under this system, the farmer irrelevant in a food system that is nologies will be through companies agrees to provide the monopoly pro­ tightly linked from the farm to super­ offering the contracts. cessing company with a specified vol­ market." The sales pitch stresses regional ume of livestock, under terms usually All kinds of bogus arguments competition. Supposedly, in order for involving such things as contracting for were advanced to rationalize how Iowa to remain number one in the pro­ a certain feed mix. The farmer has no farmers should acquiesce to the trend. duction of pork and regain its number­ control over price or other conditions. Neil Hamilton, head of the Drake Uni­ one position in beef production, new Already, over 90% of U. S. poul­ versity Agricultural Law Center and technologies are essential to compete try is raised by a combination of con­ president of the American Agricultur­ against the hulge livestock confine­ tract farming and vertical integration. al Law Association, argued that farm ment units in southern states. What Four large companies (Tyson, Con­ organizations should evolve into labor is not mentioned is who is financing Agra, Goldkist, and Perdue) control unions, which would work to make these ventures. over half of all poultry production. sure farmers received the best deal In fact, the systematic failure to Hundreds of thousands of family possible on their contracts. enforce antitrust laws has led to four poultry farms have been lost. The According to Hamilton, as con­ companies (IBP, ConAGra, Cargill, push is on to take over all beef and tracting grows and farmers become and Tyson) accounting for close to pork output by the same process. If more like wage-earning workers,they half of all U.S. poultry, beef, and pork this succeeds, the contracting monop­ will face issues similar to their urban production as of 1990. Other entities olies will decide how much and at counterparts. Instead of farmers being are also involved in large-scale con­ what price their slaves will produce, concerned with proper management finementoperations, such as National and who will eat meat and who will practices which would be focused on Farms, Farmland Industries, and not. producing food for a hungry world, Murphy Farms. Some influential leaders in agri­ he said they would then worry about On the financial side, the giant culture spoke at the Des Moines working conditions, the fairness of the Holland-based Rabobank counts as its event, including American Farm Bu­ contracts, and access to information customers: Farmland Industries, Car­ reau Fedemtion President Dean to be certain they are getting a square gill, Continental Grain, IBP, ADM, Kleckner, European Community ag­ deal . seven of the largest feedlots in the ricultural counselor K.F. Mortensen, It was also argued that farm coop­ country, Tyson Foods, other poultry Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Cooper eratives, which were formed to help farms, NationajI Farms, and Murphy Evans (the formeragriculture adviser farmers band together to negotiate Farms (in the P9rk industry), regional to President Bush), Lynn Horak from lower rail rates and lower prices for grocerychains, l and countryelevators . Norwest Bank, James Kirk from fuel and other supplies, are projected Rabobank is also a lender to entities Omaha Farm Credit Bank, and ag- to become vehicles to help farmers ob- supplying crediit to farm borrowers.

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 15 BusinessBrief s

I Health formation Office,also told the seminar on habits for tile spread of cholera. " He said that "The Current National and International Eco­ an investment of $20 billion could provide the 'Mad cow' disease nomic Situation" that very soon"the epochin country with efficient sanitation infrastruc­ haunts Great Britain which the Fund is considered as Satan and the ture,but "thatmoney doesn't exist. " He added officials of the institution as his bailiffs will that "the [cholera] epidemic is a strong denun­ beovercome ." Why? Because Camdessus has ciation of the authorities' historic ommission Fear of humanscatching "madcow" disease is given orders that national governments must at all levels, in terms of implementing basic growing in Britain following the death froma take responsibilityfor the failureor success of health progtams. Is there a solution? Yes. Is it brain disorder of a dairy farmer whose herd their economic policies"and not simply blame expensive?:Yes." Chabo noted that the $100 was infected with the animalvirus, Reuters re­ the international organizations," which only million spel1t on building a road which links portedon March 13. "recommends" or "persuades" on policies, southern Riowith the island on which the inter­ Scientists writing in the British medical Brauning whined. national airport islocated,couldhavebeenbet­ journal the Lancet said that the case was the ter spenton �mprovingRi o's health infrastruc­ firstfa tality involving directoccupational con­ ture . "It's just a question of political will," he tact with mad cow disease. His death "raised said. the possibilityof a causal link," they said. Brazil Many British healthauthorities arestrong­ ly recommending that the policy of "benign Health conditions neglect," advocated by Prince Philip, which Asia has beentaken towardthe AIDS virus,not be rival last century repeatedin this instance. Taiwan, India business "In all of Brazil,we have the epidemiological profile of the last century," Roberto Chabo, leade� to expand trade Brazil's Public Vigilance Secretary,told 0 Finance Globo on March 8 in discussing the alarming Business l«*lersfrom Taiwanand India meet­ spread ofcholera in the country,and particu­ ing ataconfprence inTaipei,Taiwan on March IMF tries to shed larlyin the state of Rio de Janeiro. Chabo em­ 9, expressed interest in expanding trade,in­ phasized that the country's precarious health vestments and technical cooperationbetween 'satanic' image infrastructurewill cause the disease to become their two n,tions, UPI reported. The confer­ endemic. In poor areas of Rio state, such as ence was th¢ firstof its kind since India severed Complaining that "manipulations of informa­ Baixada Flurninense and Sao Gon�alo, only diplomatic relationswith Taiwan's Nationalist tion" have "satanized" the InternationalMone­ 30% of the population has access to health in­ government in 1949. tary Fund as responsible for failed economic frastructure. In metropolitanRio, 40% of the Some 60business leaders,members of the policies,Miguel Bonangelino,adviser to IMF population (4 million people) has no potable Chinese National Association ofIndustry and Managing Director Michel Camdessus,an­ water. India-Taiwan Economic Cooperation Com­ nounced on March II at an internationalsemi­ In April 1991, the Health Ministry allo­ mittee,explained current trade policies and nar in Cartagena,Colombia that the IMP has cated400milliQn cruzeiros for theanti-cholera discussed "laysof boostingbilateral commer­ decided to launch a public relationscampaign campaign, but those funds only began to be cial ties. 'There's not much two-way com­ to clean up its "black image," which on several released sometime in 1992. During the eight merce at present," said Yang Shih-chien,Tai­ occasions "has endangered the success of re­ months he occupied the post, the ministry's wan's vice economics minister, during an form policies." formersuperintendentofcollectivehealth ,Lu­ address to the group, "but if we cooperate in As an example of this satanization, Bo­ ciano Toledo,was not able to spend 1 ¢ of the areas like �hnology and investment, it will nangelino told of how,when he had visited anti-cholera budget,apparently because it was increase vetyquickly. Bogota during Belisario Betancur's adminis­ invested in financial markets. This prevented "Indiaij;very strongin high-tech fieldslike tration,the walls of the city werepainted with the creation of a strategic reserve of equip­ aerospace,petrochemicals, and defense," he the slogan,"Long Live the Christ Child; Down ment,medicine, and chlorine pills available added,"ancjl we are very competitive in basic with the IMP," El NuevoSiglo reported. for municipalities. commoditiesand construction material." The actual slogans painted on the wall Today,Toledo, a professor at the National R.P. G�nka,leader of theIndian delega­ read:"The IMFStabbed the Christ Child: An­ Endemic Center,wams that "cholera is not a tion,said e¢onomic reformsrecently adopted dean LaborParty ." The Andean LaborParty passing thing. It won't go away with the March by New Delhioffer improvedopportunities for is part of the internationalpolitical movement rains." He calculates that 400,000 residentsof Taiwanese investors. Plans to set up an Indian associatedwith U. S. statesman and economist Rio could be infected, 10,000 seriously,and tourismoffice in Taipei in April will simplify Lyndon LaRouche. 100could die. visa procedkes for Taiwanese,he added. Roberto Brauning,head of the IMF's In- Chabo said that "we can't blame people's Taiwan' sdesirefor investment guarantees

16 Economics EIR March 26, 1993 • POLiSIl unemployed in Slupsk in nOrthe 0land are on a hunger strike to p est the dramatic loss of from India and plans to establish a tradeoffice cally and legally justified." 1. jobs in the r gion. The protest started There aresome 3,700cases ofTB in New in Bombay were also discussed at the confer­ about a month ago with the occupa­ York, and at least one-third areresistant to at ence. Two-way trade between India and Tai­ tion of the State Council, when pro­ least one drug, an alarming situation in a city wan totaled $392 million in 1992, according testors were1removed by police. to officialstatistic s. crowded withhomeless people. Some 79% of , the TB patients aredrug abusers, and 52% are • SWITZERLAND'S voters on homeless. Last year, because many of these March 7 rejected a proposal by an patients do not willingly continue their course Disease animal righlls group that would have of treatmentuntil they areno longer infectious , banned all medical experiments on 50 patients weredetained at New York public Unknown germ causing animals, Reuters reported. The pro­ hospitals until they were consideredno longer posal was rejected by some 72%. cholera-like epidemic infectious. The revived laws mean that pa­ tients could be detained for over a year until • THE AGE OF SUPERSONIC they are cured. An unknown germ is causing a cholera-like astronomy as launched on March 9 epidemic in Bangladesh. Doctors have been when an� S -71 Blackbird reconnai­ unable to identify the germ which has caused sance airc lifted offfrom Edwards 3,000 deaths in March in Bangladesh, due to Agriculture Air Force Base inCalifornia equipped diarrhoeal infection. with an ultra-violet camera to study "An unknown germas deadly as cholera is Farmers in Spain starsand co�ts, Reuters reported. At causing the epidemic, but this is certainly not 85,000fe et, near theupper limits of the cholera," said Mohammad Abdus Salam, demand debt cancellation Earth's atrndsphere, the mission gave chief physician at Dhaka's InternationalCen­ scientists a view of space denied to ter for DiarrhoealDisease and Research. "We Tens of thousands of Spanish farmers called ground-based astronomers. aretrying to findout what the new germis and for debt cancellation and a new agricultural why it is so deadly." creditpolicy, including a significantlowering • THE SWEDISH government The phenomenon of new killer diseases is of the banking sector's interest rates, in a na­ has announ�ed plans to spend $1.3 further evidence of the veracity of the 1975 tional protest rally in Madrid on March5. The billion a yeljr over the next 10 years report commissioned by Lyndon LaRouche EuropeanCommission agricultural policy, the to develop !transport infrastructure, which predicted epidemics of new, unknown Maastricht Treatyfor Europeanunion, and the but it intend� to pay the full debt ser­ diseases because of the collapse in levels of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade vice for oldi debt, which implies an­ ' physical output of the world economy, caused (GAIT) also came under harsh attacks. nual expen s 10 times as high. The in large partby the austerity "conditionalities" The rally, described as the biggest in severe ecot mic crisis has already policy of international financial institutions Spain's history of farmers' protests, had been led to threa . by Prime Minister Carl such as the International Monetary Fund. built by a mobilization over the previous two Bildt to call early elections. weeks, featuring tractorcadesfrom all parts of i the country coming into the capital. • FINLArtID is being forced into Medicine Measured against the background of the virtual banP"uptcy by the foreign mostly unprogrammatic and radicalized pro­ debt, Taunq Matomeaki, the presi­ New York revives tests of farmers in other European states, the dent of the F\.nnishIndustrialist Asso­ demands of Spain's farmers are much more ciation, saidlin Helsinki on March 10. quarantine for TB politicallyand economically precise, in terms Foreign de� has reached 46% of the of getting at the rootof the collapse of agricul­ nation's gro�s domestic product, and New York City has revived its 19th-century tural production. a credit cut(>ff for Finland is immi­ quarantine laws for tuberculosis patients, fol­ In Germany, meanwhile, leaders of the nent, he w�ed. lowing similar moves in Boston and Denver, young farmers associationsin Bavaria and Ba­ becauseof the spreadof drug-resistant strains den-Wfuttembergcalled in early March for a • THE FQREIGN DEBT of east­ ofTB, especiallyamong the homeless popula­ boycott of U.S. feed grains, in retaliation ern Europe �d Russia increased by tion, the London Guardianreported on March against American trade sanctions and the "in­ 43% in onlYlthree years, a new report 11. justice of the GAIT agreements." The initia­ of the Vie based AustrianInstitute The decision is the resultof an emergency tive criticized the European Commission in for Econo:f c Research has revealed. meeting on public health last yearby the feder­ Brusselsfor its willingness to give concessions The net fore· debt which was at $120 al Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, on European exports into the states, but not billion at tI1e end of 1989, reached Georgia, which declared that detention and touch U.S. exportsof feed grains to the Euro­ $172 billion � the endof 1992. mandatory treatrnent,at least forTB , are "ethi- pean Community. i

EIR March 26, 1993 Economics 17 • �TIillStrategic Studies

LaRouche tells why Moscow declared him a 'casus belli'

The fo llowing is an edited transcript of a presentation by Minister Olof Palme. That w.s part of the process. One Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. , delivered by audiotape to a pri­ would go back also in this proc�ss, properly, to the springof vate seminar in Wiesbaden, Germany on Feb. 24, 1993 . 1983, and various events and �evelopments that occurred over the period between the spr/-ng of 1983 and 1986. There The subject is the reflections of my personal role, and the is a patternof Soviet collaboration with the Democratic Party bearing of the circumstances and causes of my imprisonment, and others at the highest level iinside the United States, as upon the current strategic situation among the superpowers well as other countries, all to tlhe purpose of, first, forcing and other states. the Reagan administration to distance itself from me, and The key to the present situation in Moscow and the strate­ then, demanding my imprisominent as a condition of good gic situation generally is bound up intimately with the cir­ summit relations with the Gorb,chov faction in 1986. cumstances under which the u.s. government adopted a The history behind that is as follows. commitment to my imprisonment, at the urging of the Soviet government of Gorbachov in 1986. Let me just state the LaRouche's back-channel discussions facts, because it's at least necessary that you have these facts A member of the Soviet i�elligence services stationed clearly, and thus we can then situate, in respect to those facts, then at the United Nations, in the fall of 1981, approached a the relevant point which I have to make today. representative of the Executive Intelligence Review at the If one goes back to an array of the Moscow press, which United Nations premises, and made a series of questions and was circulated widely, including internationally,between the suggestions which was clearly . signal of a desireto obtain, months of July and October 1986, one will come across a through us, a new back chan�el to the recently installed collection of prominent articles clamoring for my incarcera­ Reagan administration. I was in Europe at the time, and I tion by the Reagan-Bush administration. If one looks at the caused a report to be written, at my instruction, under my sum total of these articles, one finds that they demand my cover, including the facts of the encounter, to relevant circles incarceration, or a visible commitment to my incarceration, within the U.S. government. by the U.S. government, as a condition of good relations for In December 1981, the U.�. government responded to such events as the October summit between Gorbachov and this, asking me to open the back channel, or to seek to open Reagan. And it is notable that the 400-man-plus raid on the this new back channel to Moscow, for strategic and related Leesburg headquarters of several organizations associated questions. I said I would do so, conditionally. The condition with me, and the intent by some participating in that raid to included the proposal that I present what later became known kill me during Oct. 6-7, was a manifest demonstration, a as the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was my work, and self-commitment by the U. S. government, to my impending present that as an option under ¢onsideration by the Reagan imprisonment. administration, though not yeti adopted, and explore Mos­ This was not the beginning of the process. The commit­ cow's willingness to consider my proposal, if Mr. Reagan ment obviously goes back even earlier in 1986. were to offer it. That resulted in a discussion, chiefly with a The Warsaw Pact intelligence services were involved, Soviet official at the Soviet embassy in Washington, [Yev­ in complicity with the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and geni] Shershnev, between Febl1jlary 1982 and March 1983. others. There's a fellow called Iona Andronov who has some­ The discussion was amplifiedby a number of public doc­ thing to say about this, in connection with trying to implicate uments which were circulated by me personally, and by my me in the authorship of the assassination of Sweden's Prime associates, and also was emphasized during mid-February

18 Strategic Studies EIR March 26, 1993 A rally of the National Democratic Policy Committee in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, /983 . The NDPC, representing the LaRouche wing of the Democratic Party, collected 5 0, 000 signatures of people favoring LaRouche's beam-weapon defense program, and presented them to the White House.

1992 at a two-day conference in Washington, D. C. , at which tions, had ultimately led, inevitably, to the Mutually Assured representati ves of the relevant U . S. and non-U. S. agencies, Destruction doctrine of McNamara, Kissinger, et al. (the governments, and other agencies, were present. About 400 Pugwash doctrine), and also led, by the middle of the 1970s, people were present during the conference's two days, in into a phase in which the combination of Soviet submarine which I outlined some of the considerations involved in my launch off the U. S. coast and the electromagnetic pulse ef­ proposal for what became known as the Strategic Defense fects of detonation of such warheads, and similar conditions Initiative. of land-based and other basing id the Soviet Union, had brought us into the vicinity of a firs�-strike threat. Momentum toward a first-strike policy I added the observation that so-balled kinetic energy sys­ I indicated throughout this period that it was obvious, tems, of the type of high-speed rockets, which were the to all parties who were clear-headed, that the increase of option obvious to most nations at fhe end of the 1950s and precision, combined with forward-basing, of strategic nucle­ early 1960s, were not really a solution to ballistic-missile ar weapons, land-based and submarine-based, had created a defense. A significant ration of attacking missiles would not situation in which the head of government of either super­ be eliminated by such a strategic defense, in addition to the power, on seeing a flight of missiles aimed at his own coun­ fact that the high-speed rocket would cost more to develop try's territory, had implicitly about two minutes in which to and deploy than the attacking missile. Therefore, from an push the button or not. This was a highly dangerous situation economic logistical standpoint, the idea of using a so-called which was leading the world toward a first-strike policy, kinetic energy system as an antiballistic defense of strategic whether everybody liked the idea or implications of a first significance, is obviously an absurdity. strike or not. However, buried within the protocols of the 1972 Anti­ My argument was that this condition had been created by ballistic-Missile Treaty, was the prbvision for "new physical the Pugwash negotiations and the acceptance of the Pugwash principles," as was developed in a Soviet document from negotiations by governments, beginning certainly no later earlier in the 1960s on the question 6f other means of strategic I than 1958, with the Quebec Pugwash Conference of that defense, which were then classified as "new physical princi- year. The idea of prohibiting effective ballistic-missile de­ pies." I proposed, from my know leage, that the new physical fense, or restricting it greatly to below truly strategic implica- principles were feasible: that with a crash program we could EIR March 26, 1993 I Strategic Studies 19 and the Bohemian, the Czechoslovak economy. These econ­ omies were coming to the limit f exhaustion, and the Soviet economy itself was coming to he limit of exhaustion, be­ cause of errors in policy or implementation of policy, particu- I larJy within the economic domajn. It was my estimate by 1982, that there were about five years or so--essentially the half-life of one average capital investment cycle-before a brehkdown would occur in the ability of the economies of eastern Europe and therefore also of the Soviet economy, to conti ue to function at what were the current apparent rates of protluction, and that this would lead to some kind of historical c nsequences if this were not remedied. Therefore, I pointed out that the use of ballistic­ missile defense, based on new p ysical principles, should be seen not only as a way of getting out of the first-strike risk, which was growing rapidly witH the new offensive weapons deployment, but that we should �se these principles, through the machine tool sector, to gene�ate the obvious technologi­ cal revolution in the civilian ec nomies, not only of the two superpowers, but of other natio�� around the world-to gen­ erate, in short, a global econ01ic boom based on increases of productivity accomplished through increases in invest­ ment in technology.

Moscow replies: 'Nyet!' Lyndon LaRouche addresses a conference on ballistic missile The response was made to me from Moscow, via Shersh­ defense in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 1983. During that nev in Washington, in Februa 1983. First, the feasibility month, Moscow shut down the back-channel discussions on SDI d of strategic ballistic-missile de nse based on new physical cooperation . f� principles was accepted. Second, the economic effect of new physical principles on the civiliani economies was accepted. begin to deploy such ballistic-missile defense systems, and Third, the proposed policy, if eJunciated by Reagan, would thus avoid, from the military domain, the military danger of be rejected, because the western nations, under conditions a firststrike lock-in. of a crash program using such ·echnologies, would rapidly I should note that a document from East Germany, dating outpace the Soviet Union and it� allies. It was further added to 1989, indicated that Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov's plans that the top levels of the Demobratic Party had assured the were generally in the qualified first-strike posture area into Soviet government that my Pro sals to this effect would be as late as 1989, as at least an active training and development prevented from coming off theJpI desk , or even reaching the option. desk, of President Ronald Reagan, and therefore the Soviet I proposed, therefore, that both superpowers had to ac­ governmenthad nothing to wo� about in this connection. cept the idea of a crash program for the development of Not long thereafter, a number of gentlemen met to pre­ effective strategic missile defense based on new physical pare a section of a speech for �esident Reagan, consistent principles, principally, as an agreed option to replace the exactly with what I had present¥ to the Soviet government, Mutually Assured Destruction patternof treaties. through representative Shershnev and others, and that was presented on March 23, 1983, As the concl uding portion of The impending economic breakdown crisis Reagan's televised address to th� United States. What I proposed further, which is the most significant, This produced, naturally, th I relevant shock effects, first was that the world economy was collapsing. The U . S. econo­ in Moscow, because Moscow believed that the Democratic my was collapsing as well as the British, and dragging down Party leadership had successful!y prevented this from oc­ their European partners . The Soviet economy was collaps­ curring, and yet it had occuded, which indicated that I ing, especially since the onset of the 1970s, when certain seemed to have much more influence and much more power changes in the East bloc and so forth were occurring. The than Moscow had thought earlie . This was seen as a threat to Soviet economy as a whole had a dependence upon the east­ the entire strategic plan of Andropov and of Nikolai Ogarkov. ern European economies, especially in terms of the military Mr. Shershnev broke off the disfussions in early April, stat­ and high-tech, upon the weakened East German economy ing that he had been ordered to do so at the highest level.

20 Strategic Studies EIR March 26, 1993 Rising chorus of Soviet attacks the period July through October of '1986. Promptly thereafter, there began to come attacks, first The implication here is, from the response both from implicitly and then by name, from Fyodor Burlatsky through Andropov and Gorbachov--esPcrcially Gorbachov-and Literaturnaya Gazeta . We are also aware of attacks of the from circles in the United States, �at I was an individual, same nature, very strong, very violent, very typically Soviet, agreed leader or primus inter pare� of a movement, who, as coming from many channels in many parts of the world. a personality, had been designated; as a probable casus belli By no later than May 1983, the Andropov regime had or potential casus belli in the relations between the two super­ taken a very strongly adversarial position against me, to the powers. And that had been empllasized in 1986: that my point that in the fall of 1983 I was designated personally, by elimination as a personality was n�essary for good thermo­ name, by Mr. Burlatsky, as a potential casus belli in relations nuclear relations between the twO! superpowers, or at least between the two superpowers. Then, of course, fo llowing the heads of the two superpowers� tes. that, a demand directed specificallyto the Reagan administra­ This buildup included some other things of interest and tion, publicly, that the Reagan administration demonstrative­ relevance here. First of all, as lonai Andronov could qualify, ly distance itself from me, as well as breaking off relations the Anti-Defamation League was an asset of the Soviet intel­ with me, for the sake of good relations between the two ligence servicesin operations against me (in a sense, a mutual superpowers. There was a certain quietness in these matters asset-I guess they were assets of each other), including, during the period of General Secretary Chernenko,but short- visibly, in the case of the attacks on me orchestrated by 1y after Gorbachov's installation, the matter heated up, to the Warsaw Pact intelligence services in connection with the point we saw in February-March 1986, and then with the allegations about the assassination of Olof Palme. press eclat against me in the referenced set of articles over But going back to the spring :of 1983, Mr. Burlatsky

Reagan administration turnedto LaRoucheto explore this proposal with the Soviets-LaR01l1che' s political move­ ment, together with the Fusion Energy Foundation, was The LaRouche movement's conducting an international campaign for "a higher peace movement," based not on chatter �out "freezingnuclear mobilizationfo r the SOl weapons," but on scientificbreakthr oughs to rendernucle­ ar attack obsolete. In the coursej of that mobilization, The LaRouche movement's mobilization for an antiballis­ LaRouche attacked the political and financial circles of tic-missile defense policy, based on new physical princi­ Averell Harriman (including the family interests of ples, had been under way for six years before President George Bush), who were dominating negotiations with Reagan made his historic announcement of the Strategic the Soviets. Harriman's faction, wamed LaRouche, want­ Defense Initiative (Sm) in 1983. In mid- 1977, the move­ ed to retool NATO for "populatiQn wars" against Third ment published the pamphlet "Sputnik of the '70s," the World countries, and wanted agreelments with the Soviets first mass-circulation document in the United States call­ to allow the NATO countries to tum their might against ing for crash programs to develop energy-beam anti-mis­ the South. sile defenses. Broad circles of officers in the militaries of Europe Nearly two years before President Reagan's offer of and Japan learned of the prospects and technologies of the sm, Lyndon LaRouche had given a full report of the what was to become the SDI from LaRouche's representa­ new strategic doctrine he was formulating to the National tives, both before Reagan announced the policy, and for Democratic Policy Committee, the political action com­ some time afterward. The Fusion E;lergyFoundation pub­ mittee of the LaRouche wing of the Democratic Party . lished detailed white papers in .982 on "How Beam The NDPC published it in June 1981 as a pamphlet entitled Weapons Work" and "Beam Weappnsand Economic Re­ "A Democratic U. S. Defense Policy." "The development covery: The Economic Impact of Pirected Energy Beam of the arms of defense," and "relativistic beam weapons" Weapons." This forecast of the "economic spinoffs" of an (e.g., lasers, energy and particle beams) were the key sm crash program was essential �o LaRouche's efforts section headings of LaRouche's new doctrine. Eighteen on behalf of the United States to QOnvince the Soviets to months before that, LaRouche had discussed the subject accept the SDI, and to retool the wrecked economies of with fellow candidate Ronald Reagan at a New Hampshire the Soviet Union and the East bloc. As the accompanying presidential primary debate. articles document, this offer was refused by the Andropov Throughout 1981 and 1982-the period in which the grouping in Moscow.-Paul Gallagher

EIR March 26, 1993 Strategic Studies 21 Also featured at the PrincetQn conference was the re­ lease, after a decade of being classified "top secret," of Russian officials: We American intelligence agencies 1 August 1982 report on couldn't keep up withSDI "Soviet Capabilities for Strategi� Nuclear Conflict, 1982- 1992. " This assessment, used b)'lPresident Reagan in pre­ paring his SOl announcement, 'documents the fact that On Feb. 26, as the tenth anniversary approached of Presi­ Soviet military training exercises and buildup were shift­ dent Ronald Reagan's announcement of the Strategic De­ ing toward a nuclear first-strike capability, as the "warn­ fense Initiati ve on March, 23, 1983, officialsof the former ing times" got shorter and shorter for one superpower to Soviet Union came to a Princeton, New Jersey conference fire back after nuclear bombarcdment, especially in the and admitted that the Soviet Union's attempt to match European military theater. the SOl was the primary cause of collapse of the Soviet The study, however, never mentioned the possibility Union. of a new American strategic def¢nse doctrine, which was Former Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh to be announced by Reagan only months later. Indeed, told the gathering: "We were told, even before SOl, the the SOl did not originate with �he Pentagon. As late as U.S. had suddenly changed course and begun an enor­ one week before President Reagan's televised bombshell, mous buildup. SOl made us realize we were in a very representatives of Lyndon LaRouche met at the Pentagon dangerous spot." with 10 officers of the Air Forct and Defense Advanced According to the Washington Post of Feb. 27, "The Research Projects Agency, and were told point blank that officials said Gorbachov was convinced any attempt to no such new strategy was being contemplated. Former match Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, launched in Secretary of State George Shultz, speaking at the Princet­ 1983 to build a space-based defense against missiles, on conference, said the Joint: Chiefs of Staff "were would do irreparable harm to the Soviet economy." floored" by the President's speech on March 23, 1983.

himself sent a KGB delegation, partly dressed in Russian secret program for the SOl's de�elopment and progress, and Orthodox attire, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to the Universi­ that I was the evil genius behind this. To judge from the ty of Minnesota campus there, and to the Hubert Humphrey Soviet press accounts, they refused to believe any disclaimers Institute. They were hosted by [Donald] Fraser, then the from the U.S. State Departmentl and others to the effect that mayor of Minneapolis and the key machine man on locale I was not on the inside, somehow, of the U.S. intelligence for presidential candidate Walter Mondale. Walter Mondale or military or whatever circles. did not visibly participate in the floor session there, but was That is the sum and the substance of the matter. That is on the premises, and later adopted what Burlatsky et al. how I came to jail. There were many other factors involved, proposed as the form of rejection of my proposals to the many other issues, but they all cohere with this one, and this Reagan administration as reflected by the Reagan speech of was the reason why I went to prison. March 23, 1983. This became, then, the official policy of Certain things ought to be learned about the present cir­ the leadership of the Democratic Party,through Charles Ma­ cumstances from this particular �it of history. First of all, we natt, the chairman of the Democratic Party, in August 1983. are dealing with a situation wh4re, according to the Soviet Through the "Bush-league" part of the Republican Party press and others, my imprisonm¢nt represented a situation in and the Democratic Party, the issue of the SOl was kept out which one person, as the representative of a movement, but of the 1984 primary and general election campaigns, except one person otherwise, had become virtually classified as a for my televised and other addresses as a candidate during potential casus belli in the relationship between two thermo­ that period, until the second so-called debate between Reagan nuclear superpowers. That in itself says something about the and Mondale in 1984. And after that, generally, after 1984, nature of the history of the 1980s, and also history today. though Reagan remained committed to some version or ap­ This tells us, implicitly, that we!must search for an explana­ proximation of the SOl, the creature was essentially dead as tion and a complete re-thinking lof recent politics, of recent an active option thereafter, even though some development relations among states, to reflect this fact. was going on. In what kind of a universe could this occur? What is the But the Soviet government, which had already been as­ nature of the universe? What is so significantin my personal sured by the Democrats and others that there was no chance functioning as the primus inter pares of a small movement, of my proposal being adopted by the Reagan administration that could give me such global importance as this? What was in the first place, was convinced that there was a large-scale really going on, globally, behind the scenes (or should I say,

22 Strategic Studies EIR March 26, 1993 underneath the events on the surface) to cause this kind of This is not simply past history; this is the key to under­ phenomenon to present itself? standing present developments . Had the Soviet government, in 1983, after Mr. Reagan's announcement, accepted discus­ A second chance for war-avoidance sion on the basis of the speech-not necessarily accepted the In the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990, there proposal raw , but accepted discussion on the basis of the was an action initiated by me and my friends, especially in speech-this would have changed. profoundly and radically, Europe, to launch a proposed response to the collapse of Mr. the internal politics of the United $tates, would have assured Churchill's Iron Curtain, a response which we called the that the kind of axiomatic thinking:which I represented would "Productive Triangle." The idea was to use the historically have become prominent in shapiTlg the policy of the United determined concentration of productive power in the Paris­ States, and we would have a worlfjfree of the specific kinds Vienna-Berlin spherical triangle area as the generator of new of disaster which are seeing today. technologies to be linked to other parts of Eurasia and other If, also, the Triangle program had been accepted in 1990, parts of the globe, by means of the development of what instead of this insane, lunatic attack on Iraq , which was they call "galactic spiral arms ," logistical arms , which would diversionary in the short term, then the Anglo-Americans integrate other parts of Eurasia with this "generator," this would not have launched the Serbs in this Balkan war aimed economic-technological locomotive , to develop satellitt?cen­ against Germany and aimed to de�troy Eurasia geopolitical­ ters of development in other places along routes which would ly-in which you get all the local fools involved in "taking be defined, to a very large degree, by new developments in sides" in a Balkan war, destroyiQg Eurasia, while the "rim improved rail, especially toward high-speed rail and magnet­ powers," as they call themselves, laugh their rear-ends off at ic levitation rail. the spectacle of everyone from Mdscow to Paris making fools This was a continuation, of course, of the same thinking of themselves. This would not have occurred. which had underlain the specific features which I had suc­ Only if we focus on the mistakes of the past which have cessfully induced the President of the United States to adopt, created the present, will we remove the continuing causes of as in his television address of March 23, 1983, in connection the disasters which pile up upon u� now. with the SDI proposal. This was also a continuation of a This disaster, of course, goes back many years, to many policy which I had presented and highlighted in an address things. It can be traced back to tbe period immediately fol­ given in Berlin on Oct. 12, 1988 (Columbus Day, in point lowing the Civil War in the Unite"- States, at a point at which of fact) , indicating the early collapse of eastern Europe and Russia and the United States wert allies, or at least the Lin­ the crisis in the Soviet Union based on economic issues, the coln administration and those fortes in Russia around Alex­ reunification of Germany, the emergence of Berlin as the ander II were allies. Trace the h.story of the two countries future capital again of unifiedGerma ny, and the crucial role and their relations from that timeito the present, to see how of the economic development of Poland in determining the the two world wars developed out of a geopolitical thrustby course of history in eastern Europe and in the economy of the advocates of a geopolitical rim policy, as it later came to the Soviet Union over that period. be called; how the worst horrors of war in Eurasia of this We see that all that, has been the history of the period. century were unleashed as a result of geopolitics; how the Instead of economic development, instead of the triangle present concerns resulted in the desire to set up a new world approach, we have had the Jeffrey Sachs/InternationalMone­ order under Anglo-American freemasonic domination; how tary Fund conditionalities approach, the attempt to loot and this is itself a reflection of geopolitics and is the potential destroy eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in a cause for any war or similar horror which might beset this strategic move to set up a "new world order." This is bringing planet in the years immediately �head, perhaps before the us into the greatest calamity of this planet in all known histo­ end of the century . ry , unless we reverse it. It is also relevant to consider the introduction of the Georg Lukacs-influencedpoli cies, their applications from 1963 on, The key to developments today as a "cultural paradigm shift," of!a "New Age shift" which It is my view, that despite a certain concern on my part has led into much of this horror we face today. about putting myself personally forward in this way, that In that context, perhaps the most crucial thing that has history in a sense has put me forward in this way, and it is occurred in the deliberations anell decisions of the various necessary to deal with the matters we are considering, about governments, is the matters in which I was involved from the future of the nations and the future of strategic develop­ 1982, and continue to be implicitly involved up to the pres­ ments on this planet, from this highly personalized stand­ ent. If that is clearly seen, then the discussion on the table of point. Because when we exclude these factors , we have mis­ policy-shaping means something. If those considerations, represented the reality, and therefore, any proposal or the list that I have just given, are brushed to one side, then analysis we make fails to comprehend the reality with which we can expect nothing from goverhments but folly, and noth­ we're presently dealing. ing for nations but ruin.

EIR March 26, 1993 Strategic Studies 23 The Real Storyof the SDI

Soviets demandedLaRouc he'sja iling, wrecking chance to avoid worldwar by Paul Gallagher

Thefo llowing chronology shows how the Soviets demanded, back-channel meetings take pljace in the Soviet embassy in and the United States agreed to the imprisonment of Lyndon Washington. LaRouche as the author of the Strategic Defense Initiative. October-November 1982. Henry Kissinger and others in his circle, on the President' s Foreign Intelligence Advisory August 1979. Lyndon LaRouche and representatives en­ Board (PFIAB), send letters find memos to FBI Director gage in first discl:1ssions with Ronald Reagan campaign per­ William Webster asking for investigation and prosecution of sonnel concerning "relativistic beam weapons" systems of LaRouche. The PFIAB and other intelligence agencies adopt antiballistic-missile defense, which LaRouche had advanced a secret intelligence assessm�nt (declassified in February politically since 1976-77. 1993) which acknowledges S�viet buildup of nuclear war January-February 1981. LaRouche and his representa­ capabilities, but does not acknowledge any possibility that tives discuss the policy to end the doctrine of Mutually As­ the United States might abandqn the MAD doctrine. sured Destruction (MAD) with "new scientific principles," Dec. 22, 1982. EIR publisqes LaRouche's "Reply to So­ in Reagan transition period meetings with Energy Secretary viet Critics," a detailed warning to the Soviet leadership Donald Hodel, Interior Secretary James Watt, Science Ad­ not to reject the new doctrine and not to refuse cooperative viser Dr. George Keyworth, and State Department official development of new energy an41 particle beam militarytech­ Richard Morris. Later that year Lyndon and Helga Zepp­ nologies. LaRouche meet with CIA Deputy Director Robert Inman. Jan. 1, 1983. Following m�nths of LaRouche back-chan­ April 1981. Soviet representatives at the U.N. approach nel meetings with the Soviet designate and U.S. officials, representatives of LaRouche several times, seeking discus­ LaRouche tells a national poli*al conference in New York sion of his assessment of the incoming Reagan administra­ City, that the Reagan adminis1:l'$on must scrap MAD doctrine tion, and on strategic questions. "within 90 days" or the world is on a course toward war. Fall 1981. LaRouche and representatives regularly meet January-February 1983. �aRouche meets with Europe­ with U . S. intelligence representatives to discuss LaRouche's an military officials and scien(ists about "relativistic beam "beam weapons" military strategy and fiveother policy areas, weapons" and possible new U.S . military doctrine. according to later court testimony by one of those officials. February 1983. Shershnevdetails to LaRouche the Sovi­ December 1981. The Reagan administration through in­ et objection to his doctrine: It would work, but would be to telligence agencies, requests that LaRouche attempt "back­ the advantage of the West's superior scientific-productivity channel" discussions with Soviet representatives, about the capabilities; therefore, the Soviets would reject such a new science/military strategy policy represented by LaRouche, doctrine by Reagan. and how the Soviets would react if this policy were adopted. February 1983. LaRouchfl,ju st returned from Europe, February 1982. Public EIR conference on anti-missile shuttles between U. S. officialsland Soviet representative in defense policy is attended by 300in Washington, D.C., in­ intensive phase of back-channfll negotiations. He warns the cluding Soviet and East bloc representatives; LaRouche gives Soviets that a military buildup will destroy their economy keynote on "relativistic beam weapons." and break up their empire with;n five years (i.e., by 1988), February 1982. In private meetings around this public unless they accept the new "science driver" represented by conference, LaRouche opens the desired back-channel dis­ relativistic beam technologies. I cussions through Soviet Washington embassy official Yev­ February 1983. Soviet rep¢sentative tells LaRouche the geny Shershnev. The subject: possible adoption by Reagan Soviet leadership has been aS$ured and is confident, that administration of LaRouche's proposed new "beam weap­ the Democratic Party leadershiR and co-thinking "moderate" ons" military doctrine. Over the ensuing months, continuing Republican forces will block any intention by Reagan, to

24 Strategic Studies ElK March 26, 1993 adopt a new military doctrine abandoning MAD and devel­ oping beam-weapons defenses. March 1983. LaRouche scientific representative Uwe Parpart meets with National Security Council scientists and consultants on possible Reagan announcement of new mili­ tary doctrine. March 16, 1983. LaRouche representatives meet with representatives of Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; they are told the Pentagon is unaware of any prospect of a new strategic policy. March 23 , 1983. Ronald Reagan concludes a nationally televised address on the Soviet military buildup, by announc­ O ing the new doctrine known as the Strategic Defense Initia- tive. The form of anti-missile defense doctrine Reagan an­ nounces is uniquely that of LaRouche, calling for fundamentally new beam technologies rather than the old interceptor missiles. He offers to share these technologies with the Soviets, in a cooperative effort to end MAD and make the new defensive technologies available to all coun­ tries: distinctly LaRouche's policy of anti-missile defense. Yuri Andropov's Soviet leadership is shocked and attributes vastly greater influence to LaRouche; the American Joint Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachov Chiefs of Staffare "floored" (according to public admission /986. Gorbachov demanded s imprisonment as a condition of good superpower rPlr.mnJ• .' at the Reykjavik summit 10 years later by former Secretary of State George Shultz). . with President Ronald Reagan. April 8, 1983. LaRouche keynotes a Fusion Energy Foundation conference in Washington, D.C. on the Strategic Defense Initiative, attended by 800repre sentatives of admin­ Fyodor Burlatsky, a confidant future President Mikhail istration, Congress, business, and the diplomatic communi­ Gorbachov. ty, including 16 East bloc representatives. Representatives Aug. 10, 1983. Burlatsky, in . from the Soviet embassy and press attend, but then stage a Gazeta. attacks the SDI, and by LaRouche, as a walkout. (Soviet representatives in Japan repeat this tactic in casus belli: "In other words, space weapons are provocative April 1986, at a Fusion Energy Foundation conference in weapons; they are, absolutely, a cJsus belli for nuclear war." Tokyo to stimulate U.S.-Japan cooperation on the SDI.) August 1983. Democratic Party National Chairman April 1983. Soviet designate Shershnev informs Charles Manatt publicly declares war on Reagan's SDI poli­ LaRouche that he has been ordered from the highest level to cy, and says "all" Democratic Ctndidates for President in terminate the discussions with him. Shershnev had reacted 1984 will totally oppose SDI, despite its broad popular to the Reagan announcement by seeking to have senior Soviet support. KGB "America expert" Georgi Arbatov meet with September 1983. LaRouche announces his candidacy LaRouche; this was rejected and Shershnev was ordered back for the Democratic nomination fo President, to back the SDI to Russia. and rally Democratic voter support for it. I April 1983. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, in an inter­ Oct. 26, 1983. Burlatsky, in IWeraturnaya Gazeta. reit- view with Der Spiegel magazine, rej ects Reagan's offer and erates his casus belli statement on the SDI and attacks "the instead suggests that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. agree to divide American LaRouche" in this conrlection. the world into spheres of influence, and that each allow the Nov. 14, 1983. Soviet goverbment newspaper Izvestia other free rein with the countries in its sphere . attacks LaRouche for his speeches in Europe, "by which May 24-28, 1983. A high-powered KGB delegation of Ronald Reagan is trying to tie Europe tightly to his criminal 25, including some Russian Orthodox Church prelates since doctrine. " acknowledged to be KGB agents, comes to Minneapolis, March 1984. NBC's prime-time half-hour program Minnesota to hold a "peace conference" with leading Demo­ "First Camera" attacks "the LaR4uche factor in the Reagan cratic associates of Walter Mondale. The purpose of this administration." Later the New Republic magazine repeats "U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Exchange Conference" is to de­ the same attack in a cover story . clare war on the SDI. Soviet delegation is sponsored by March 8, 1984. DemocratieI Party Chairman Manatt Georgi Arbatov, head of the U.S.A. and Canada Institute of holds a Chicago press conferende to demand that Reagan the U.S.S.R., and is headed by KGB publisher andjoumalist immediately break all adminis�ration contact with La-

EIR March 26, 1993 Strategic Studies 25 Soviet press spokesman Aleksandr Bovin (right, with EIR in hand) at the Reykjaviksummit, October 1986. Bovin calls EIR "a dirty, dirty magazine." On the left is EIR correspondent Poul Rasmussen .

Rouche or his associates. July 1985. EIR publishes Showdown, a Special March 12, 1984. Izvestia demands that Reagan break all Reporton the Soviet military b ildup, by which Moscow is administration contact with LaRouche, which Izvestia calls trying to defeat the SOl policy. llaRouche' s 1983 warningto "a scandal" which "the White House does not even try to the Soviet leadership is repeated in much greater detail: East deny." Implies that this is the condition for Soviet leadership bloc economies will break dow�l under this military buildup talks with the Reagan administration. by 1988, unless the Soviets accept the new scientific and April 2, 1984. Soviet Communist Party newspaper Prav­ technological "driver" offered by development of SDI da attacks a Paris meeting of LaRouche associates on the against MAD. SOl, as "a colloquium of murderers." February 1986. The Depa ment of Justice launches a April 1984. The author of one of the printed Soviet at­ new campaign to suppress LaRouche's movement, holding tacks on LaRouche (in Literaturnaya Gazeta) meets with a nationwide meeting of law enf0rcement officials in Boston LaRouche representatives in Paris, demanding to know to solicit prosecutions. Circulation of anti-LaRouche slan­ whether LaRouche intends to continue his presidential cam­ ders becomes a "Project Democ acy" policy of elements of paign after the Democratic primaries, and what LaRouche's the U. S. governmentand private intelligence networks under chances in the election are . Executive Order 12333. September 1984. LaRouche, in a national TV broadcast, March 1986. After a relativrI interlude during the "care­ denounces Walter Mondale as "an agent of KGB influence" taker" regime of Soviet figuregead Konstantin Chernenko for his campaign against the SDl. has ended, and Gorbachov has taken over, attacks resume on October 1984. The Department of Justice begins its first LaRouche. The KGB conducts an international"dirty trick," attempt to prosecute LaRouche and his associates, just before attempting to blame LaRouche f9r the Feb. 28, 1986 assassi­ the presidential election. nation of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The campaign November 1984. Mondale is overwhelmingly defeated features two Soviet TV broadca�ts in 1986, and an interna­ by Reagan. tional KGB disinformation cam aign about LaRouche and

26 Strategic Studies EIR March 26, 1993 the murder of Palme, as is later admitted in a 1992 book by spokesman Aleksandr Bovin call$ EIR "a dirty, dirty mag- two former top East German communist intelligence offi­ azine. " cials. The U.S. Department of Justice, the Anti-Defamation Oct. 7, 1986. While 1 ,000 j

EIR March 26, 1993 Strategic Studies 27 ITillFeature

Give Clinton the backbone to ; stop Serbia now

by Gen. Paul AlbertScherer (ret. )

General Scherer is one of the world's leading experts ,on the fo rmer Soviet Union. He was, during the 1970s, the director of the Militiirische Abschirmsdienst (MAD), the military intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. During several visits to the Un ited States since the fa ll of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he fo recast accurately the fa ll of Gorbachov and the probability that war would erupt among the nations dfthe fo rmer Soviet Union. In a recent visit to Washington as a guest of the Schiller Institute, he gave a press conference at the National Press Club on March 9, fo cusing on the need to stop the war in the Balkans (see last week's EIR). He also discussed the explosive situation in Russia, warningthat President Boris Yeltsin will soon be out of power. On March 10, General Scherer addressed the Schiller Institute in Leesburg, Virginia. The body of his remarks, which we print here, has been translatedfrom the German by EIR; his responses during the question-and-answer period are takenfrom the simultaneous translation by his interpfleter, Webster Tarpley.

The real reason why I have come back to the United States after one year, is because I believe we are entering an extremely dangerous course of development. You will recall that the last time we were here togetherwas in April of last year. In the meantime, the situation has developed along extraordinarily disquieting lines. Allow me firstto brieflydescribe the Russian situation, and then the Ukraini­ an, and then we will go into the Balkans. Among Russians generally, in the underground, in the middle class, and reaching into the government itself, extremely bitter disappointment has been spreading about the United States-a disappointment engendered by the Middle East war in Iraq, and by the very one-sided, unpleasant forms which President Bush had worked out. But you must know the following: The Russians, of course, with their general staff, fully recognized, first of all, that the French would only have been able to

28 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali walking with Egyptian battalion commander Huessein Ali Abdel­ Razek (left) and Egyptian soldiers in Sarajevo on Dec. 31, J 992 . Boutros-Ghali's proposal to deploy ground troops is "unthinkable. We simply cannot allow people to make a new Vietnam." deploy at most one division into Iraq-and half of those were ber, the conspiracy and failed in August 1991. The from the Foreign Legion. The Russians were aware that the nomenklatura was driven md�en!rdILlfl(1.and they were simply British could have deployed no more than two divisions. And denied their various privileges. now, coming out of the Russians knew that what was presented on television by these conditions-and thanks to weaknesses of the West, CNN and so forth, was a lie. and the deliberate soft spots of British, the French, and From this vantage-point, they were fully informed about of the Americans-things have such that for the the capabilities of westerncivil ization. They had recognized past 24 months, filledas they been with negotiations- clearly, that in no case would the Germans be willing to [Cyrus] Vance, [Lord David] , and earlier, [Lord Peter] deploy their own forces, even though they had 12 divisions Carrington-and with warm for the Serbs, we have at their disposal. I.e., the Russians, as the successors to the still not been brought a single �tpnl f.... n.lI'"·tl Soviets, felt themselves vindicated, because their policy of calling for disarmament as part of their psychological warfare War against western civilization against the Germans, had been completely successful. If, in the wake of this, there w�re an immediate softening Strategic and global political judgment in the East went of the conditions being demanded by the Serbs, then good in the direction of concluding that the West had in fact as­ things would indeed begin to ha�pen in the world. But the sumed the attitude of a paper tiger. And thus, only one month exact opposite is the case. It mustbe clearly stated that from j later [after the Gulf war] , on April 4, 1991, there came the the strategic standpoint, this is no civil war, this is an aggres­ [Russian] permission and support for the Serbian forces, to sive war; and it is being waged aghinst the values of western destabilize Europe in order for the Balkan war to begin, and civilization, whose validity peo Ie are allegedly so con­ to establish a Greater Serbia. vinced of. This timing was a signal to the western intelligence ser­ These past 24 months have hown that among circles vices, that the Russians knew exactly what they were doing. in Central Asia, in Great Russia in Ukraine, tremendous The West had precise knowledge that Marshal [Dmitri] Ya­ disappointment has set in over the weakness of westerncivili- zov had been in Belgrade four times, bringing with him the zation. relevant already-drawn-up plans showing how the wedges That means that you people HereI , who constantly think were to be driven [through Croatia] , how the cities were to and operate from a political standboint, and who attempt to be encircled, and how supply lines were to be maintained. bring the American population intb a direction such that they During this transitional period, we had, as we all remem- do some serious thinking-you .hust understand that from

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 29 U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance is shown with Sen. Carl Levin testifyingon U.N. peacekeeping effo rts at the U.S. Senate in June 1992 . The negotiations of the past 24 months have been "fi lled with warm embracesfor the Serbs" and not brought us a single stepfo rward. my experience as a Gennan, as a European, and as an Atlan­ have begun to break up, we expect an invasion and re- ticist, we have reached the point where it is no longer pennis­ occupation of the Baltic states. sible to .merely conduct negotiations; we must now put an Western civilization, around the Atlantic as a immediate end [to the war] . kind of internal sea, cannot peFit the right of peoples to I have also emphasized that if I came here, I would, no self-determination to be undercnined in any further way. matter what happened, demand action to immediately seek Therefore they must demonstrate, in the Balkans, that this a halt to the fighting in the Balkans. And for this reason, I simply will not be tolerated in thb Baltics. They must demon­

first flew to meet Lyndon LaRouche, and I held two days of strate in the Balkans, that there I s not going to be a war with discussions with him. I didn't need to convince him at all, the Russians in Ukraine. since our views completely coincided. You have to proceed from the following inside back­ We have to start from the following premises. The west­ ground infonnation: The Yeltsin crew has reached the end of ern world has shown that it was of a good will to maintain their rope . There no longer exi I t the ties between the mass peace. Under unfavorable conditions, it conducted negotia­ of the Russian people and the seJts of the various autonomous l tions, and on 14 separate occasions saw the negotiated cease­ republics with their different la guages, such that the latter fire conditions violated. The leading power of NATO, the can continue to go along with the governmentun der Yeltsin' s United States, went through new elections, and regardless group. I of the outcome, the fonner Soviet (now Russian) side has You have to consciously grasp what it means for fonner perceived the signs of weakness, and can now say: "Tomor­ Soviet officersand soldiers, or fJr party functionaries: Before row , if we wanted to, we could resolve the situation in the this, they were the second worldF, 0wer-they were in Berlin, Balkans to our liking." they were on the shores of the Elbe; they were a great nation. But now they are nothing, absolutely nothing! For them, Russian forces poised against Balties taken as a whole, the key question is, first, that of sheer Another reason why I came , is because I just recently survival. They are living unddr conditions which we can received inside intelligence infonnationthat in the meantime describe as follows: First, it takes 460 rubles to equal one a Russian "special forces" division has taken up a position in U.S. dollar. Second, out of th many thousands of tons of the area lying between St. Petersburg and Narva. This means gold fonnerly in their reserves, k mere 210 tons remain. The that in the springtime, that is, as soon as the frost and snow diamond and the fur export indhstries, which used to bring

30 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 in so much hard currency, don't bring in anything anymore. They have no capital left, despite the fact that they are the biggest single oil producer in the world. Two weeks ago, they were forced to tum off the oil and natural gas to the Ukrainians in an attempt to collect an outstanding debt of 165 billion rubles; but they haven't collected it so far. Try to imagine yourselves inside the hearts and minds of Russians who are, for example, officers in the Black Sea fleet. They were forced to take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine, even though they remain Russians. Imagine your­ selves inside the mind of Russians who know that it was Peter the Great who liberated the Crimean coast from the Ottomans, but that now the Black Sea is no longer Russian. Imagine yourselves in the minds of people among whom 70% are living below their poverty line. It should be obvious to you, that they basically no longer have any connection to their own elites, to their government, to their parliamentari­ ans-alI of that has been cut off. I do not believe they will go so far as to follow the communists; but the Great Russian. nationalists, i.e., those who would resurrect the empire under Russian conditions, these they will follow.

A completely new situation Tying this into the situation in the Balkans and the experiences there, this means that if tomorrow, or in a month, or perhaps in two months, the question of power is posed, namely, when entirely new forces push them­ selves to the fore, as in a revolution, and a change of power occurs-a junta-replacing the Yeltsin group, what do you have? It is certain that under those circumstances Russian President Boris Yeltsin. "The there would exist an inclination in the Great Russian the end of their rope . .. mentality to resume a position of opposition to the West. That is new. That means that it would be impossible to maintain the illusion, widely shared in the West, that the his apparat, was to find new of approaching the West. Cold War has somehow ended; and with that, we would It was during this time, in Febru 1982, significantly befo re be running into a completely new situation. Brezhnev's death, that the negotiations commenced Let me now also show you the strategic conceptual back­ between the Americans and the in the Soviet Em- ground. Let's briefly think back to the years 1981-82. In bassy in Washington. And the conceptual leader of the U.S. December 1979, the Soviets began their invasion of Afghani­ side in these secret negotiations was Lyndon LaRouche. stan. They had produced approximately 10,000 SS-20 mis­ By August, however, the dethiled! plans that had been siles-a tremendous success for them. Perhaps you have discussed were a dead duck. What had happened? seen one of these huge SS-20 machines on exhibit at the The Politburo had made the extremely brutal decision, Smithsonian Museum [of Science and Technology in Wash­ that if we seek out cooperation with our major adversary in ington, D.C.]. And from this, I can only say that these two this bipolar world, namely, with the Americans, if we seek conditions, when viewed in the correct light, forced the inner this, and then have to answer for tlhs before our own people, circle of the Politburo leadership to say, "If things don't go then we will lose our enemy imrge. And so, during that right on the Afghanistan question, and since we are basically autumn of 1982, Brezhnev was oecoming ever more seri­ not capable of arming ourselves any more than we are at ously ill, and it was recognized that his conception was going present, we therefore need to have a new strategic concep­ to die along with him. Marshal Ustinov insisted that the tion; otherwise, we will not make it." troops be withdrawn from Afghani! stan. And in this regard there were considerable conflicts aJnongthe differentfac tions I LaRouche led negotiations within the Politburo. The boss of the KGB at that time [Yuri Brezhnev was still alive at this time; he only died in Andropov], who succeeded Brez nev after his death, in ef­ November 1982. And what Brezhnev was trying to do, with fect was able to push through his recommendation to adopt

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 31 Soviet offi cers on a visit to Washington in 1988. For fo rmer Soviet offi cers and soldiers, the question now is sheer survival. a new strategic conception. third demand in this new conclmt was the abandonment of In the spring of 1983, Andropov personally made the any classical idea of con warfare, simply because unprecedented gesture of giving a signal to the entire world, this was too expensive . in the form of an off-the-cuff interview to the German news The result of all the many throughout the weekly Der Sp iegel. In it, he insisted that he could only apparatus, among scientists in the general staff, and cooperate with the United States under the precondition that among the relevant functionaries was: "We are going to initi­ the world be divided, meaning, in tum, that the Soviet zone ate a psychological war of appeJring to make a great change, be recognized. And it was at that precise moment, in March, from armament to PSYChOlogiC�1 warfare and disarmament; that Reagan made his own corresponding announcement [of and we will announce our alleged intention to renounce all the Strategic Defense Initiative]. Without mentioning of our weapons by the year 2000." LaRouche, he said we intend to do this and this, and ifneed You know just as well as I �o, that the practical imple­ be we will do it alone. mentation of this policy led to "qorby's magic" and to "Gorb­ This is the departure point for making it comprehensible y-mania"-and with success' 1art of the western elite was to you, that a new strategic conception had been born. The completely blinded. For examplp, the German Social Demo­ [Soviet] top leaders had recognized, "We don't have any crats raised the demand that Germany should proceed to capital, we no longer have the wherewithal to keep up with disarm even before the Soviets did, as a reward for this the West; and so therefore we must tum ourselves entirely wonderful Soviet aChievement. But up to this very day, out around." of 30,000 [Soviet] nuclear weapj ons, only 1,500have been disarmed each year. And only under the conditions laid forth The new Soviet gameplan in the INF [Intermediate N ucl�ar Forces] treaty, namely, The recommendations went in the direction, and were in [western] renunciation of the most modem weapons in fact carried out, first of all, of remaining below the nuclear NATO's arsenal, were the RussiansI prepared to get rid of threshold; second, of renouncing proxy warfare, because their SS-20s. This means that, ddspite their unfavorable over­ they could no longer finance it in the long term. However, all situation, they have been abl to obtain a long, drawn-out this renunciation was only to be a temporary one; after they victory over the West, stretchin over a period of fiveyears . had been relieved of some of their immediate burdens, and The significant part of the old nomenklatura was not had healed somewhat financially, they would once again get satisfied with this result, because easternGermany had been involved in carrying out the idea of world revolution. The handed over to NATO. For thJm, Gorbachov was Traitor

32 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 Number One. And now, they are on the way to saying that Dole (R-Kan.)]-yes, he has to read this !-and beyond this, Yeltsin is Traitor Number Two. You will recall that he an­ the well-known billionaire from [Ross Perot] . Yes! If nounced plans to flyto Japan. The agenda had already been he wants to be the opposition, he better oppose Clinton's agreed upon: He wanted to renounce all claim to the Kurile weakness! Islands. But he was prevented from doing so; he was unable I, as a private individual, only want to help. It is not just . to do it. The result: Rich, prosperous Japan does not spend a out of vanity. I have been doing for 40 years, and have single ruble or a single dollar for the [former] Soviets, which personal access to the relevant . and so, should I means that this internal political development in Russia is simply just sit by and watch, whi over here, inexperienced now preventing any economic modernizationof Siberia. incompetents, lacking any adeq background informa- At the same time, the developments in the Balkans oc­ tion, and failed politicians go out wreck our world? No, curred as I already described, along with a complete destabili­ that I will not do. zation of the westernwor ld. For, this Balkan war has been a I assume you have read that November I was at the proxy war, at a short range and on a short fuse, coming during fronts in former Yugoslavia. I was able to gather fresh, the weakest period right afterthe Gulf war. first-hand impressions, since I not want to talk about things which I only knew about the television and from Conflictswill result from weakness newspapers. And I have taken with me impressions of so, if I now summarize the description of the situation utmost horror. You must never that 2.5 million people and these estimates which I have now given you, I arrive at the following picture: In the entire world outside the sphere of our own European-American civilization, with its Judeo­ Christian cultural background, people see quite clearly that the West no longer has any morality; the West's talk about "value systems" is not defended in reality. The attempt to worship the Golden Calf and nothing else is leading the Is­ lamic fundamentalists to say, in effect, "These devils must be wiped out once and for all." That means that during this spring, during this year, we will have conflicts which will be the direct result of this weakness. We are on the threshold of an internal shift of power [in Moscow], which cannot fail to be accompanied by a correspondingly hostile attitude toward the West. The illusions of a long period of peace, the illusions of no more nuclear war, the illusions of a pleasantly disposed East which will come over to our ways, all these illusions have now blown up in our faces. And there is absolutely no time leftto do anything about it. The leading western power, in its above-described state of weakness, must either announce its surrender, or else it must fight. There are no intermediate solutions, no alterna­ tives, if you want to prevent the so-called causal chains, i.e., the strategic operations which necessarily follow. Only an overt, demonstrative proof that we in the West are prepared to fight on behalf of our morality, for the right of small countries to self-determination--only that is acceptable, and only that can engender certainfe elings of caution on the other side, so that they do not move back into the Baltics. I assume that I do not need to gofurther into the demands which I have developed and presented in writing. [See EIR , March 19, pp. 44-45.] But let me say the following by way of a brief summary. What is important, is that we have written letters, under my signature, addressed directly to President The statue of Peter the Great in St. Ptftersburg. "Imagine Clinton, to Vice President Gore, and to a whole series of yourselves in the minds of Russians weo know that it was Peter the other important people such as the secretary of defense [Les Great who liberated the Crimean coa t from the Ottomans, but Aspin], this strange leader of the opposition [Sen. Robert that now the Black Sea is no longer R ssian."

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 33 The battered front of the hospital of the fa mous spa in Up ik, where patients were the firstto be shot by the Serbians. III the doorway, left , is Rev. James Bevel, the well-known U.S. civil rights leader who traveled with the Schiller Institute to the war zone.

(Right) Shattered fa cade of a church in Pakrac, Croatia. Note that the Serbians deliberately shot bullet holes through the eyes of the Archangels. Higher up, not seen in this photo, the fa ces of the three persons of the Holy Trinity were similarly defaced.

Displaced persons infront of their destroyed houses in Upik, West Slavonia (Croatia), in a United

34 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 A roadside .shrine in Croatia in territory w�ich the Serbians occupied. Wanton defruction of religious sites like this Ont;. together with the leveling of houses (in the backgrou',J). was carried out after these areas had already been taken militarily-forpurposes of sheer terror. This and most other photos on this page were taken by a Schiller Institute delegation which visited Croatia in arly 1993 .

A destroyed bridge at Osijek. a Croatian city near the border which put up a 10hg and heroic resistance to Serbian aggression. and is now under U.N. "peacekeeping rule."

(Below) A United Nations tank near Lipik in Croatia sits at the boundary of a U.N. -patrolled zone. yet rapes and other by Serbian Chetniks these zones.

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 35 jevo] and shooting right down in o there . So if tomorrow you deploy aircraft, you can put a stop to this immediately. This means that the entire c� II structure [of the Serbian Army] can be broken with a sin le decisive blow; and I am �. firmly convinced, from my owt personal experience, that . I after three weeks, thiS war would be over. Of course, the war could be ended; but what would not be ended with that, would be , fi1ft,l the blood vendetta on all sides; second, the hatred inside everyone's heads; and third, the temptation which each ethnib group would feel to cross the borders again and grab the 9ther guy by the throat. The bestiality, the Stone Age mentality which has now spread throughout the Balkans, can onl be broken if, first, national J1 borders of the three states as df Dec . 16, 1991 are fully accepted by all; this must be enfi reed. Proceeding from this , all of �he ethnic components, not just the Serbs, must be forced t recognize the right to self­ determination of all minorities; everyone moves back into their own houses. And anybody ho is not willing to accept I that minimum elementary prec?ndition of humanity must emigrate , and indeed must be fo rced to do so; there is no other way. I How can we put these conditions into effect? The next I demand is completely essential: If we don't intend to deploy westernground troops-and the must not be deployed, they couldn't handle it-we must see to it that the Croatians, the Bosnians, the Slovenians, if they want it, along with the Leonid Brezhnev. "It was in February 1982 , significantly before other affected areas belonging ithin the framework of the

Brezhnev's death, that the secret negotiations commenced between recognized states, are allowed 0 arm themselves. Lift the the Americans and Russians in the Soviet Embassy in Washington . arms embargo ! The conceptual leader of the U.S. side was Lyndon LaRouche." From this vantage-point, I believe that with these few points-there are a number of dther demands which I also there have already become refugees . Some 20,OOO-plus raised, but they are less import I nt. The important thing is women have been raped; about 300,000 people are dead, and that you have a basic knowledge of how-as I believe, at the entire country has been wrecked for the next 20 years . any rate-we are going to get out of this filthy mess. I saw the houses. I'll give you an example which won't compromise me: I was in Lipik-this is the name for the so­ Let Balkan states join NA�O I called Lipizaner horses; they had shot up every single stall, My proposals actually go ev n further: Should the argu- and 600 horses had been shot dead. The first people to be ment be raised against so-called fut-of-area operations, then shot were those in the spa houses and the hospitals. Without the three states should be brought into NA TO , and that's that. I any exaggeration, everysingle house-because the residents Yes , it would not work any other way. That's your only were to be driven out forever-every house had been shot possibility to get around that obj �ction. with artillery . And that is why I decided to put forward these But now comes the biggest difficulty: The Russians will demands: not wish to play along with all t is. They have a seat on the [U.N.] Security Council, and they have the right and claim An action plan for the Balkans to enjoy all the powers of the fdrmer Soviet Union. A new First, I cannot countenance the idea that [U.N. Secretary American President, if he wants 0 stop this circus sometime I General Boutros] Boutros-Ghali proposes, where ground this spring, will be forced to tell the Russians, "Either you I troops are to be deployed there; that is unthinkable. We sim­ cooperate, or we'll do it alone." J.e., he will get into a situa- ply cannot allow people to make a new Vietnam. tion similar to that of President N.ennedy, when Khrushchov What I presented at my press conference in the form of shipped his nuclear missiles to Fuba; only now, Serbia is an executive summary: First, we want to establish our air much closer to Russia than Cuba was. This means that the superiority, both from an operations and a strategic stand­ new President, and westerncivil i�ation as a whole, is playing point. The tanks are sitting up on the hilltops [above Sara- a game which could end in our oJvn destruction; that is clear.

36 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 I know that you were opposed to the war against Iraq . I can well understand that; but now we have a completely new l situation. We have a strategic emergency situation, with our l UmdsBergis sees Russian backs up against the wall. Mode pacifism right now only guarantees catastrophe . on designs Lithuania That means we must now proyide those people who want to lead today and tomorrow, with a corset to keep them '" VytautasLandsbergis , fonner President and now head standing up s'traight. You know t�at earlier, at the beginning I,)t of the parliamentary opposition in Lithuania warned of the 20th century, women still had these whalebone corsets . against Russian imperial designs in an open letter to We have to put the Clinton adn\inistration into something Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the Balt,i c news like that . �; agency Baltfax reported on March, 3. Days later, G�n . But all joking aside, this is aI damned horrible, bloody Paul Albert Scherer (ret. ), fonner head of Gennany's situation. And I want to ask quit� bluntly: Are the Balkans I@ military intelligence and counterintelligence, indepen­ part of Europe? Is Europe part 01 your own civilization, or dently warned in a press conference at the National not? " Press Club in Washington D.C. that "a Russian 'spe­ This is the life-or-death question. There's no more skirt­ cial fotces' division has taken up a position in the area ing around it. There can no longer be any cowardice; 24 lying between St. Petersburg, and Narva. This means months of cowardice was enough! Or do you think that there that in the springtime, that is, as soon as the frost is any way the Vance-Owen program is going to get the w"ana sno w have begun to break up, we must expect an Serbians to see reason? I don't. invasion and re-occupation of the Baltic states ." I Inhis letter, headlined"On Russia's Bid to Become Blindness must not have the last word International Policeman," Landsbergis referred to And to that extent, the question of life or death is being Yeltsin's suggestion that Russia be granted a U.N. posed for the first time. For 40 years, we have been living

mandateto "secure peace and stability in the fonner peacefully under the atomic um?rella; today that has to be Soviet Union," as revealing Russia's design to inter­ said. Two superpowers have mutually balanced each other fere with its neighbors' affairs. "Mr. Landsbergis also out: One set off into space, theh the other one got to the I expressedconcern over the unstable political situation Moon; then one power waged proxy wars , and the other one in Russia and the imperial tenor of Yeltsin's oppo­ had to intervene against that. And then came the great illusion �ents ," added Baltfax. that now we have peace, that nowi we have quiet, and that Landsbergis emphasized that Lithuania, which 6- the Russians have stopped ma�ng any trouble. And as I mi lly won recognition of its independence from Russia have just shown, these illusions Have vanished, they've been in 1991 , has "never been and we will never become a burned off. All that remains is bi�ter disillusionment. Blind­

crs [Community of fndependent States] country, " and ness must not continue to have the last word. ' critic ized Yeltsin's bent to control "near foreign I hope that in this short prese�tation, I have conveyed the states ." Landsbergis said that "near foreign states" was essential things on how I see the situation at the moment, with­ , not a "geographicaltenn ," but a "political tenn ." out making it look pretty, and wi�out over-dramatizing it. For over a half-centurythe Baltic nations of Lithua­ nia, Latvia, and Estonia were illegally annexed to the Soviet Union under the secret clauses of the 1939 Hit­ :+ ler-Stalin Pact. Questions and AnstersI

Q: The ,,,I I;me you were here you pUI greal emphas;s 0" But if it does not do that, then the entire world will be assured China, but you did not mention it tonight. How do you see that the West is but a paper tiger. Nobody will be able to talk China as part of this strategic eq�a) tiOn? about morality anymore. Scherer: I would firstof all ho� that you would understand Now for you here as a group, as a movement, from my that it was really for time reason that I did not go into this. point of view, and I also discussed this with Lyndon First of all , China, with l. 3 1billion people, is in an ex­ LaRouche, what is necessary is to go out to the public and traordinarily difficultdomestic �litical situation. One of the helpforce this governmentto take this path , i.e., to be coura­ things that is perfectly plausiblel, is that by about 1994-95, geous! There is no other way. I can discuss it with you Siberia will separate itself from Russia, and the Chinese may afterwards. You can propose things to me, and I will defi­ find some kind of a common grdund with that, and may try nitely accept them, if they are better than my own. to undertake these investments l into Siberia instead of the

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 37 Chinese silkworm missiles on parade. "The Chinese have mightily developed their arms export industries, in particular have been sending all kinds of militaryequipment to Syria and Iran."

Japanese. the Siberian leaders . In wf·�tf·rnI Siberia there is big industry But it is also possible that things will look very differently which is practically only . And if the Chinese make in China, because there is this very real possibility of an that kind of a deal with Siberia, Chinese path to superpow- interior or internal revolution in China. According to my er status would be 10-20 years . I have always thought information, there are over 100 million unemployed in China, that by about the year 2020 the nese would have a world- and there is a tremendous division and tension between North wide superpower role . But it come much quicker. and South . The Beijing elite is not able to stay together, so there is Q: Who is trying to convince United States not to take a big divergence. I am not able to judge this myself, but this action to stop the Balkan war why? information comes from Taiwan. But what you do see , is Scherer: The British, and the also. that the Chinese have mightily developed their arms export Look at this big anti-German position-anti-Teutonic, I industries, and in particular have been sending all kinds of you might say, not really anti-German . It is an attempt to l military equipment to Syria and Iran . They are negotiating take these old, obviously very asty, historical experiences with the Russians to buy the most modem military aircraft, and to radically upvalue them. T is is what the Serbian propa­ and they would like to buy battleships and submarines. The ganda works with . Chinese are capable of making tanks and munitions for them­ Look at what the British have to look at: that the Germans selves. firstof all, apart from everythine:! else, have much more capi­ So you have two scenarios. First, is that China could fall tal . Right now in Europe , the �mber of people who speak apart and divide , up until about 1997, before Hong Kong and . German is much greater than the umber of people who speak Macao and so forth are given back. English or French. If you want to deal with the Russians, Another scenario is that the Chinese make an approach to then the linguafranca is German.

38 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 You have to figure that the Gennan-speaking population the Gennans cannot speak Gennan-all the old Yalta men­ is above 130 million, and that is very disturbing for some tality. countries who said first of all, "We have the universal lan­ It is a kind of poison in pe pIe's heads which hasn't guage," or "We have the highest culture, and everybody else been removed. Remember what E"nstein said: "It is easier to is in the shit." smash an atom than to get rid of an old prejudice." That is The Serbians and the Russians, ofcour se, wish to exploit true. this extremely short-sighted, narrow-minded interpretation of history. If you look at [Radovan] Karadzic's speeches, Q: Could you say something about what the thinking is in- you will see that he talks all the time about how Gennany is side the Gennan government? winning the Second World War after the fact, that they are Scherer: The first thing you haveI to say about Gennany, is riling up the Russians, and that the Serbs are the main leader­ that it is in political chaos. It is t�e slide, firstof all, into an ship against that. Many people accept this. Karadzic is, of economic depression of a certain find. I have said oftenhow course, a trained psychiatrist. He knows what he is talking much money Gennanyhas put out for east Gennany. For the about. He got bis training here in the United States; Milosevic fonner G.D.R., the Bonn govern�enthas spent about $400 also. billion so far. And now it is abou� $160 billion a year for the The fronts are hardening also in a psychological sense, fonner G.D.R. alone. So you can See what socialism actually and the big issue is who will have the say in Europe for the wrecked. period ahead. Gennanpo litics is basically f.utt. What does this mean? You know that it is not allowed in NATO to speak Ger­ Remember that there is, acco ding to the Gennan consti­ man. You can't! At the United Nations, it is not an official tution, the upper house, the Bundesrat, composed of the language. The Japanese cannot speak Japanese at the U.N., representatives of the federal statds. The SPD [Social Demo-

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A town along the Trans-Siberian railroad. Because of Russian internal politics, Yeltsin could not obtain modernize Siberia . But China would be highly motivated to make a deal with Siberia.

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 39 President Franr;ois Mitterrand of France and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany. What ifarmed hostilities begin in eastern Europe in 1993? This means that the common societyof western civilization cannot defe nd itself.

cratic Party] has a majority of these civil states, and a policy third of the population which is sharply opposed to that of the Bonn government. decline. This postwar For the past one and a half years it has been impossible , is a kind of fairweather to change thelaw governing thegran ting of political asylum. into a big crisis. There are plenty of people who come from India, from the IlUIILQLlIU',1 and criminality that are Near East, who are not politically persecuted, and what they you have mafiosi from get is a pension of about 3,000 deutschemarks per month. , who have taken up The simple workers say , "We can't do this. We can only do Europe . Remember it for people who are actually politically persecuted. Other­ anizatiolll$ are primarily based on the wise, they should leave again ." The FDP [Free Democratic governments of these are Party] and the SPD will not let this law be changed, and that ueme'.Cflltic , they have been cut costs the German state about DM 100 billion per year. In the course of the "2 plus 4" talks [on the reunification the Germany of the of Germany] , it was especially the British who demanded .....U� '''''Ul� know this very well; they that the German Bundeswehr be reduced from 500,000 men still have about 180 ,000 troops in Germany. The Russian under arms, to currently 370,000. That meant, for example, commitment, or their pledge, was obtained, of course, that on Oct. 1, 1992, one-third of all combat units of the by money, is that they would all by Aug. I, 1994. Army, Navy, and Air Force were dissolved; they ceased to Let us look at the scenario, tomorrow, maybe in the exist. That is, of course, under conditions where Germany course of summer 1993, armed were to begin in could be called upon to do something tomorrow . eastern Europe . What happens? The resentment is so tremendous among the soldiers , It means that this common of western civilization citizens, taxpayers , and politicians, that people do not really cannot defend itself. If you are a ialist, you have to grab want to give the politicians any status or recognize them in yourself by the head and say, , are they doing this?" It any way . People are just fed up with politics, fed up with is populism; the politicians listen what the people say, and politicians. The estimate is that, in the coming nationwide then they say , "Yes, you are ri , and that is what we are

40 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 going to do." Remember that over 40% of the German intel­ of crisis. lectuals are extreme leftists. We have a very nasty mediocra­ If that can be attained by 1 97, it may be that western cy and tele-cracy, meaning that television determines our civilization can survive. But an wrong answer to this chal­ political life with these leftist-not even centrist-but leftist lenge in the Balkans and so fort in 1993, will be paid for in tendencies. We are all very concerned about what is going blood at a later point in this crisi . to happen in the period ahead. Let us look at Europe for a minute. Q: In case we succeed in recrui ing the Clinton administra­ First, Italy is in the process of dissolution. There is an tion and the United States deci s to go ahead and do what intention on the part of the political elite which is still there , to you're suggesting, you said tha in three weeks, the Balkan partition Italy into three states. The North , with its developed war would be over. What kind reaction would you expect industry, is no longer willing to subsidize central and south­ from the British and the French. ern Italy, so they want to get out. Suppose you have three Scherer: I would assume that t American political appara­ Italian states. tus must simply coerce, force, t e western European NATO Second, Belgium is also splitting up. The Flemish, who partners to do all this. You have 1enty of arguments in hand. speak Dutch, no longer wish to remain together with the You have, after all, tried for 24 onths to negotiate with the French-speaking Walloons. best knowledge, the best inte ions, and in the best con­ The British are getting rid of their monarchy, in my view , science; what more can they ask Clinton has to show a hard in the period ahead. I would almost bet that this will be the last line; he must lead! queen of England. At the same time, they have the biggest The training in the Bundesw hr [GermanArmy] for lead­ unemployment and the worst economic situation of any Euro­ ership, is that to lead is to set priorities. That is the most pean country. important thing. If I have no a ility to set priorities, then I In France, elections will be held next month, and the cannot make decisions, and I m unsuited to be a leader. entire Mitterrand apparatus will completely fall on its face, Things are really thatsimple. B t it is a hard school. it will be finished, although [President Fran<;ois] Mitterrand will remain because of the Constitution. Q: Besides the British and th French, one of the biggest In Sweden , the entire banking system has been bankrupt constraints on Clinton right no appears to be the U.S. mili­ since spring of last year. The entire social order has to be tary , which, some people say , s almost in a state of revolt shifted around. This social system, this socialism that they against Clinton and is putting u enormous resistance to any have, is completely impossible to finance. idea of intervention. Have you ijeen able to have any discus­ The Poles have been able to develop their own domestic sions with military people here? hyperinflation, with the help of the American economist Jef­ Scherer: No , not yet. I have al$o heard this on the side from frey Sachs, and they are also in big trouble. Polish Prime people in the intelligence agencies .... I would say that Minister Hanna Suchocka has been talking about the danger these problems make the whole process more difficult­ that Poland will be overwhelmed by about 35 million refu ­ much more. But we have to have a change in society. I would gees crossing their eastern border. say that, provided that the entite ground war be ruled out, This means that western civilization is tremendously the military people would be Willing to wage the air war. I threatened by collapse. Up until now, North America was really believe that. And from that point of view, I would relatively untouched by terrorism. But that is changing now, say that the military is actually more reasonable than the because this whole strategic idea has been kept at least on the politicians, without trying to pr�tect them too much. Not all back burner by the nomenklatura, and that is now going to military people, but many. ! make a comeback. The Russians of today, just like the old I can't really completely remove the kind of concern that Soviets, did not necessarily invent the railroad, but they like you bring up. I understand thatlyou have to estimate this as to jump on trains that are leaving the station. quite important, because it reaDy is a big problem. But we This means that if Islamic fundamentalism persists in have to cut through this. You; have to get this American identifying the West as this tremendous devil, then the Rus­ population to the point where they can somehow see over the sians will support that under the table and finance it. This edge of their plate. means that we are facing extremely difficult times, and we must hang on. Q: My sense is that the Worl4 Trade Center bombing has My estimate would be as follows. We may indeed have everything to do with trying to prevent the Clinton adminis­ the worst period of the crisis during 1993 . We will have the tration from involving itself in! the Balkans. LaRouche has sequelae of that in 1994-95 . By 1996, things will begin to said that he suspects· that there !is an involvement of certain quiet down, but in an atmosphere of complete destruction, circles in this country of an int�lligence nature who seek to primarily in eastern Europe and Russia; and by 1997, we send that message to Clinton; $1d this suggests that there is may begin to see the beginnings of an exit out of this valley a perception among those people who are trying to protect

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 41 I know that the LaRouche movement and the Schiller Institute are represented in Moscow and in Kiev also. Russian professors, military people fro I the East, have also visited me in my home, these are people with whom you are in touch. Certainly, the organization is strongly represented in Zagreb, in the women's moverJent in that area. There is also a strong presence in the forme� G.D.R. You have become much stronger there in the last year; similarly in Poland . Then you have Brazil and Peru . I see that many more leg I people in the world have spoken out for LaRouche, imp rtant people, not just legal, but also politicians and militar leaders. That simply means that you have gained in effecti eness and that is a very sig­ nificant step forward . Of course, I am perfectly conscious, that if you have had your leader�hip stuck in jail, then that is a tremendous disadvantage. I also tremendously admireI what LaRouche has been able to do fr om jail. I read the 90mmentaries that LaRouche dictates, where he speaks out �nd where he intervenes; his mental-intellectual capacity fdr leadership is completely iliere . I would sum up, as a milit�ryI man and also. somebody who has intelligence experience, that my overall impression of your movement, is much mo�e positive now than it was a year ago .. ..

Q: I understand that Britain ha troops in the Balkans. Why haven't they moved in to stop t�is aggression? Former Soviet Defense Minister and putschist Marshal Dmitri Scherer: These are the United Nations Protective Forces Yazov: "/ am not guilty. the others are." l (Unprofor) . These people are ve y, very lightly armed. They have essentially sidearms and a little bit more . They ride Serbia, that there is a potential in the Clinton administration around in white-painted armored vehicles. They really do not to do the right thing. My sense is that that kind of terror is do anything; but the presence ofthese people is a tremendous 1 run by the friends of the Serbian leadership. disadvantage, for the following reasons. I Scherer: Yes, of course. It is the attempt to create fear on They have always supported the Serbs. What these Un- the part of the supporters of a policy which has to change. profor people do, the British onfs in particular, which I saw and everybody knows that the current policy has to change. with my own eyes when I was there , was that at about 4 I p.m., as soon as twilight began, hese Unprofor people would Q: Have you noticed, so far, in Washington, a change from take their mobile posts, these pe sonnel carriers that they ride the views that people had on Europe and on Lyndon around in, and go and procure rations and food, and deliver I LaRouche? it to the Serbs, to the Chetniks. he way that it works, is that Scherer: No . I haven't been able to observe any changes the Chetniks man these encirclement positions, these rings. like that; but what I believe, especially based on my The Croatians and the Bosnian are besieged inside the cir­ discussions in Europe, is that the Clinton administration c1es. The logistics, the food deli I eries for these Serbian Chet­ would react to LaRouche in a more positive way and niks, are very, very difficult, And the U.N. forces, for "hu­ not have this same poisonous attitude that the Bush manitarian reasons," so that th�se poor guys do not get too administration had .... hungry , deliver the food to the Serbian Chetniks. Those are I will continue to try to stress the importance of what the facts . LaRouche set into motion with these secret discussions with So there is absolutely no potential that the Unprofor the Soviets back in 1981-82. I will do that in Europe . troops would have any part in a sbrious ground war. I person­ As I said beforehand, I am, of course, independent, I am ally, during my visit, saw hundreds of women and children not a member here . I would say, that in the last year, your who simply wanted to go back td their homes, but the homes I organization as a whole has shown a significantly positive were on the other side of the demarcation lines that were development. . manned by the Unprofor troops,!so the Unprofor troops said,

42 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 "You can't go home ." They do not let them through these lines. So what they do is to support the Serbian "ethnic cleans­ ing" by forcing the non-Serbs out, or by helping to keep them out. That is how they help the Serbs. It is clear that no western ground troops will do anything there . What you have to do , is to deliver arms to the Cro­ atians, Bosnians, etc., and let them do what they have to do themsel ves .

Q: How do you understand Clinton's airdrops and deli veries to Bosnia? Scherer: The so-called air deliveries of food I would see as a measure that might ensure that a U.S. airplane would get shot down, and then the U.S. would finally fight ! Seriously, it is like Pearl Harbor ! The Japanese came there and said, "We are going to shoot up all of your battleships," and then the United States was forced to do something. The actual delivery capability from airplanes at that altitude is about zero . When you had the Berlin Airlift, you had these so-called ,,''4 raisin bombers [C-54s-the German population called them "raisin bombers" because they dropped raisins and other foodstuffsin stead of bombs], which could land, and that was much better.

Q: From the Soviet military point of view, why would they move into the Baltic countries now? What would be · the internal consequences? Scherer: They want to do it now, because what they see is Soviet tanks crush Lithuanian civilians in the Vilnius massacre of the greatest weakness on the part of the West. You know , January 1991 . The Baltic states are again in the sights af Great Russian chauvinists. for example, that in the transition from Bush to Clinton, 6,000 officials have been fired from the Executive depart­ ments; 3,000 have been brought back in, but they have no idea of what they are doing. There is complete unclarity or through the Skagerra [the bod of water between Norway and complete disunity among the western states about what and Denmark which leads into the North Sea] , but there, they should be done, so the Russians see all that. can come out. The Russians are therefore compelled to try Why do they want to go back into the Baltic in this big to catch the mouse and bite the mouse to death. This is a way? If you look at Latvia and Estoniapart icularly, you have horrible fate . I a total of about 20,000 retired Russian generals, admirals, Of course, the intellectuals in Latvia and Estonia know and colonels living there . They occupy the suburban villas that anybody who goes high profile today and hangs out of where the Baltic people used to live . And they have a nice the window will be sent to SibeJia tomorrow . You have to living standard there . listen very carefully to what the l Ukrainians, the Poles, the They have one fieldarmy command in that area, and you Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians say , because you have have the high command of the entire Baltic Fleet, which is a to know that these people have � kind of feeling or a sixth Red Banner Fleet. You have three fleet bases there , with sense for what is coming down the track toward them. This guided missile cruisers , fleet submarines, and attack subma­ is bad , very bad. rines. Remember that Peter the Great conquered this area, the Q: There are two sides to the eco omic problem. The Soviet. so-called Courland and the Baltic area, in the wars against economy is collapsing. Do the Rlussians have the capability Charles XII of Sweden. The nationalist Russians simply do to launch this war? Second, the edIonom ies in easternEurope , not accept the fact that after 1918 these three countries be­ particularly Poland, which had I n industrial base, are col­ came independent. Those are the only ice-free ports that the lapsing. We have Lithuania now roting back in a communist Russians have. They cannot get out through the Dardanelles government. Has it ruined these economies so badly that,

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 43 were the Russians to launch a war, would they have no capac­ That is why Yeltsin had to travcH to India. The big issue ity to reactagainst that which they revolted against in 1989? was that the Indian government had big debts left over from Scherer: First, your second question. All of these people in previous arms deliveries, and the Russians wanted to sell easternEurope are terrifiedby what is coming in the Baltic­ them new weapons. The task for Yelltsin was to go there , and the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungarians, and the Romanians come back and say to the military , !"Look what I have done as a people. All of these places are hurrying to put in their for you." application for NATO, European Community, the Confer­ In sum, the economic situation :does not allow the Rus­ ence on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), any sians to demand the conditions of 4 great power or to wage organization they can get into, out of pure fear. They have a war. But if you have this kind of a military junta, they would much finer sense of their own endangerment than other peo­ be able to largely ignore the supply situation for most of the ple might have. population. So you have to expect pretty strong pressure The question is, actually: Can the Russians force the from Moscow, in regard to the condiltionsthat NATO is about United States and the West, using threats, to accept the exis­ to set up. tence of a Greater Serbia? Everything has two sides in thiS area. The processes are Then we come to the economic question. The Russians extremely differentiated. It would bt silly to try to get around cannot wage a war, but they can make tremendous threats, that. But to get any more detailed t1l1an this, would probably and they have up to now been the world champions of strate­ overtax us all, because we do not have the preconditions and gic deception. Therefore, it certainly cannot be excluded, we do not even know enough in detail, because this state is that one day they would start with some very bloodcurdling still relatively impermeable in its oWn way. threats . There is a question of whether it was a good idea to give If you look at it scientifically, in the sense of economics, them so much money. It would have!been better to give some if a true war were to begin tomorrow, then the logistics and management training and some equipment. But not money. supply capability of the Russians, especially as regards food, I cannot quite free myself from the lidea that they have used would be about zero. They need to import 40 million tons of part of that money to reorganize the,r military production. grain, either as food or as fodder for the animals. And you can cut that off very easily. Q: How do you see the old KGB intelligence apparatus? Of course I am not referring to a nuclear war. If it really How does it function, what are its c�pabilities now? heads to a nuclear war, then everybody's dead, including the Scherer: That is the devil personified, the devil incarnate. mice. The birds are dead, everybody is dead. It is too bad for Nothing has changed. Only namesihave changed. Some of all of us. the top figures have been exchanged; underneath, the apparat The Russians today are not capable of forcing through is doing what it wants. Espionage, ih the sense of findingout conditions at the same level of what the Soviets would have everything about the western world, is continuing. Terror­ been able to do . They have had six and a half years of Gorba­ ism, agitation, cells-it is all still tbere. chov's rule, from 1985 through 1991. What this has meant, They have also taken all their .archives and everything is that the economic substance of the Soviet Union and Russia that was not going to be opeoed up tiasbeen destroyed. What has simply been chewed up tremendously. What is left, is a happened was that the archives of t�e old G.D.R. were taken residue, a relatively decent standard for the military-industri­ out by the Russians in these hugct transport trucks. They al complex. Therefore, there is a tremendous thrust at any photocopied what they thought was important, and destroyed price to maintain a very high level of military exports, be­ the rest of it. cause the engineers in the military-industrial complex do not I would say that this modem "Russian state" has not made want to give up their privileges, because the nation depends any changes for the better in the area of intelligence agencies on them. and espionage. The tendency is quite the contrary; it is to The economic situation in Russia has to be seen in a stay underground and wait, with the idea that the period differentiated way. The Russians cannot provide themselves ahead would bring better conditions for them. with food for any long period. Their transportation capabili­ In reality, it does appear that tithe is working in favor of ties are relatively quite bad. In terms of distribution in the the old communist nomenklatura. It does not look so good. past winter, they have had another relative collapse. The military-industrial complex, as far as tank production, sub­ Q: How does Gorbachov fit into the plans of the geopoliti­ marine production, airplane production, is still in relatively cians? I think he is coming to Virginia in April. good shape, but they do lack spare parts . This entire military­ Scherer: On the domestic front, Gorbachov is completely industrial complex, which is spread out for strategic reasons discredited. He is the traitor and the state prosecutors are over the entire country, is somewhat damaged and is certainly considering whether they shouldn't indict him after all; seven in danger, because the conditions for further export may not of the 1991 putschists have all been liberated, freed. One of be fulfilled. them, Marshal Yazov, has just granted a television interview

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which he chose to conduct from his bathtub. He showed his world and bought up various pub!" hairy chest and said, "I am not guilty, but the others are !" ed States. They have a kind of visit That is the reality. If Gorbachov is supposed to give lecture , then the lecture In the international dimension, you still have the impres­ is organized by Bertelsmann, and pay the honorarium sion that Gorbachov is highly regarded , at least to some to Gorbachov . He does have ability to influence the degree, by the cultural conservatives or the orthodox conser­ western world, there is no doubt about that. As Einstein vatives here in the West. You have this Bertelsmann Publish­ reminded us, it is more difficult free people from their ing Co., which is the biggest publishing company in the prejudices; in that sense, Gorbac is dangerous.

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 45 He can always say, "What do you want from me? I really wanted this, but could not force it through." So he is in an advantageous position in the West. But I would see Gorbachov's star as a single one. Gorba­ World press covers chov personally thinks that he could replace Yeltsin. He has said that. He offers himself, he says, "Look, this other guy Scherer's warning is incompetent, I will come back." So there is a public contro­ versy, which has a certain effect, between the two. They One week before the Congress of People's Deputies took away Gorbachov's big car, his armored limousine, and stripped Russian President !Boris Yeltsin of many powers, forced him to take this old, small, rusty car, a Volga. Gorba­ Gen. Paul Albert Scherer :(ret.), one of the founders of chov is in a very bad mood because he does not have his big West Germany's postwar army and former head of its car anymore. Yeltsin also reduced Gorbachov's pension by military intelligence service (the MilitiirischeAbschirms­ about 40%. Gorbachov has this foundation or institute, and dienst, or MAD), warned at the National Press Club in Yeltsin forced them to leave the palatial quarters of the former Washington, D.C. on Marth 9 that "Yeltsin is finished." Central Committee and to go into some old tumbledown Scherer's forecast was the subject of featured coverage in shanty. There are two telephones and very primitive condi­ several papers around the world. tions otherwise. In a front-page article entitled "German Spy Chief: Yeltsin Set to Fall," the March 10 Washington Times Q: Can you describe the role and strength of the pan-Slav described Scherer's forecast as follows: and Russian Orthodox Church factions? "Boris Yeltsin's days as Russian President are num­ Scherer: Pan-Slavism is actually an experience of the nine­ bered and an army takeover is a distinct possibility, the teenth century. That was its big moment. It was this southern former head of German military intelligence has warned Russian expansionism. The idea was that the Serbians would the Clinton administration. be an auxiliary against the Ottoman Empire . It was basically "Gen. Paul A. Scherer, one of the founders of West something that started in the mid- 1850s after the Crimean Germany's postwar army , ! said yesterday his assessment War. Pan-Slavism became the expansionist ideology of a is based on the reports pf several western European certain tendency in the Russian upper classes. . . . You have intelligence agencies with which he has maintained one thrust of pan-Slavism in the southern expansion of the contact. ... empire, but then there is also a second line which goes in the "He said he submitted his findings to Clinton aides, direction of Germany. The Communist International (Com­ members of theU.S. intelligence community and congres­ intern) leadership, afterthe civil war in Russia in 1921-22, sional leaders . ...In Washington, General Scherer ... Comrade Radek leading the way, played this kind of pan­ became a sought after personality after predicting the fall Slavic card in Germany. of Soviet PresidentMikhail Gorbachov, whom he described There was also a pan-Slavic element in the fact that as an 'administrator of barlkruptcy,' the disintegration of [Georgi] Dmitrov from Bulgaria was called in to become the head of the Communist International. After 1929, the idea was that this southern expansionism ought to be downplayed in favor of the defense of the existing Soviet bastion. After Union, meant that you had to !play down pan-Slavism. After the Second World War, pan-Slavism was calmed down a lot, 1989, you have 25 million RUssianson the way from Tajiki­ because it was not needed. Now, in the most recent history, stan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the Trans­ there it is again. caucasus, all leaving the other non-Russian republics. They It started with a smaller group, but it has gotten bigger are all refugees. And so MOSICOW center could not propose and bigger, with some of the people who think about being old pan-Slavism as some kind!of ideology. Great Russians and nationalists. You have to add, though, But from my point of view, the concept of pan-Slavism that in the universities, there is no pan-Slavic idea. means nothing today. The Russians do not say that the Serbs The main expression of pan-Slavism as it exists today, is are pan-Slavs; they simply say these are Slavs like us. They the support of Serbia by the Russians. The weakness of this say that the Serbs have the right to have a big empire. whole pan-Slavic thing, is that the "pan" does not pan out. I want to stress that the concept of pan-Slavism is just not The Russians are blocked, because first of all the Poles are current, it is a red herring. the absolute enemies of all this. The Southern Slavs developed in such a diverse and di­ Q: What is your estimate of the potential for Schiller Insti­ vided way, that you cannot get them all in pan-Slavism. You tute collaboration in Russia? can only get the Serbs; and the necessity of taking care of Scherer: I would say that th¢ potential is there, not only in nationalist impulses of the 98 peoples of the former Soviet Russia, but also especially in Ukraine. Let us look at the

46 Feature EIR March 26, 1993 the Soviet Union and the explosion in Yugoslavia." Coverage in Germany The Washington Times quoted General Scherer saying On March 13, the Hambur�r Abendblatt covered that Russian military leaders are increasingly embittered, Scherer under the title "Coup Very Likely," apparently while "reforms are being defeated by the inability of re­ based on reports of his Washington press conference from formers to reform ." "Russia must explode," the general the Springer Auslandsdienst news agency. It reported that stressed. General Scherer had been meeting in Washington with General Scherer said that the failure of western powers advisers to President Bill Clinton and CIA experts, telling to halt the carnage in former Yugoslavia might embolden them that a military coup in Russia was "a very probable Russian generals, who firstgave the green light for build­ possibility. " ing Greater Serbia. "The next crisis area" will be the Baltic "Scherer, who takes credit for having predicted the states. Scherer asked: "If the West cannot cope in the collapse of Gorbachov, the collapse of the former Balkans, what can it do in the Baltics?" Already , Scherer U.S.S.R. and the war in Yugoslavia ...[sai d:] 'Yeltsin said, a "Russian attack division" of special forces has been is a man of good will and apparently pro-West, but we deployed near Latvia and Estonia. must start from the assumption that he is finished. ' "In the opinion of the former MAD chief, many Rus­ Coverage in Britain sian generals see the failure of the West in Yugoslavia as On March 14, the London Sunday Telegraph covered an invitation for their own provocations. . .. Scherer Scherer's assessment in an item by Ambrose Evans­ called the Baltics and the Ukraine 'the next crisis Pritchard entitled "Blind Loyalty to Boris Puts Clinton's regions.' " The paper also quoted Scherer saying that Future on the Line." The article began: there is "a progressive paralysis of Russian military pow­ "The mood at the White House has gone from calm, er," and that this situation could "force the Russian mili­ to worried, to apocalyptic in short order. First the CIA tary into action earlier than anyone would expect." unsettled the Clinton administration with a string of warn­ What all this coverage avoided, however, was that ings about the creeping coup by nationalists in Russia; throughout his tour, General Scherer stressed the crucial then the Pentagon's own intelligence branch, the DIA, role of jailed statesman Lyndon ,H. LaRouche, Jr. The lobbed its bombshell into the Oval Office, predicting that papers culled all references to LaRouche's role as the Y eltsin' s days in power were fast coming to an end. leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative adopt­ "As if that were not enough, the former chief of Ger­ ed by President Ronald Reagan, ,as well as LaRouche's man military intelligence, General Paul Scherer, passed "Productive Triangle" proposal fm massive infrastructure through Washington declaring that Boris Yeltsin was investment, centered in the area raris-Berlin-Vienna. In 'finished,' and that 'Russia must explode.' He told White his talks, Scherer referred to thislProgram as a means of House aides that a division of Russian elite forces had avoiding the global chaos that he otherwise forecast. been deployed near the borders of Estonia and Latvia." -ScottThom pson

strategic potentials. In the current borders of Russia, you That is the tendency. The Rus�ian individually is, firstof have 145 million Russians, and 25 million Russians are left all, quite musical. He has a tremendous alcohol problem, outside, among the other peoples. Ukraine has 53 million however. Very bad. That is the JIlational disease. The Rus­ inhabitants, but of these 10 million are Russians. Kazakhstan sians, of course, have this tremen�ous need to "make up for" has approximately 20 million inhabitants, but 12 million Rus­ the whole historical experience tqat the West actually could sians. I won't go through all of the smaller republics. What have offeredthem . There was no Reformation, no Counter­ I want to just focus on, is the relative population strength of Reformation, no Romantic movement, etc. So their interest Russia and Ukraine. in the West is relatively big. Use that, and then you are on These Russian and Ukrainian populations, in particu­ the right road. lar-if it comes to a question of appreciating a need for I would say that the greatest · potential anywhere in the a Renaissance, of the need of reconceptualizing traditional world for the LaRouche organiz"'tion would be in Ukraine. values-they are actually much closer to that than western But you have to move fast, because in the meantime there Europe. Imagine thousands of people coming together to are 200 sects that are at work. Why? Seventy-three years of hear a poem being read. That you will not findanywhere in atheist and anti-religious propag�da have simply left behind the western world; but in Russia you will find it; and in a kind of vacuum, and the people want to believe. A large Ukraine. People are concerned with living politics. They are part is willing to become supersti�ous. It is a promising kind people who love poetry .. of terrain to cultivate.

EIR March 26, 1993 Feature 47 �TIillInternational

Russian shift in policy threatens neighbors

by Konstantin George

In an angry speech delivered March 20 in Moscow, Russian Valery Zorkin, the head of the court, accused Yeltsin on President Boris Yeltsin declared "a decree of special rule" to March 20 of "attempting a coup," but then expressed hope be in effect until a popular referendum on new elections is that a "compromise" could be reached. held on April 25. Yeltsin reserved to himself the right to The most important figures inRussia have lined up unani­ override any decrees of the Supreme Soviet, and said that he mously to condemn Yeltsin's move. Vice President Alek­ has ordered Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to work sandr Rutskoy, who enjoys the ISUpport of the military, went out a "list of economic priorities." But while the short-term on Russian TV, along with Zotkin and Russian Chief State situation in Russia is in flux, the move is an act of desperation Prosecutor Valentin Sepankov � late on March 20 to declare in which Yeltsin will either be forced to become a figurehead Yeltsin's actions "unconstitutidnal." Yuri Skokov, secretary for a change in Russian policy already being implemented, of the all-powerful Russian Security Council, accused Yelt­ or face removal from office. sin of going over his head in n(J)t consulting with him on his What is certain is that cabinet changes reflecting the in­ TV address. "It could only worsen the political atmosphere fluence of the Civic Union, the lobby for the military-indus­ in the country," he said. trial complex, are imminent. On March 20, Yeltsin himself Yeltsin does not have the support of the Army and securi­ announced that "several" cabinet ministers had been re­ ty forces, as indicated by statements of key cabinet ministers moved, although no names were given. In an attempt to curry at a March 21 press briefing. The briefingwas held to demon­ support from the Civic Union, Yeltsin outlined what he called strate that the government"sup ports" the Yeltsin declaration, eight important points, including measures to stabilize the but Defense Minister Pavel Gn¢hev declared that the "Army ruble, take control of the Central Bank, and introduce private will abide by the Constitution.l" Grachev observed that the ownership of land, and also including cheap state credits for Army is still under control, ''but the situation is hour by small and medium-sized enterprises and a state program to hour more and more tense, above all in the units based in construct housing and transportation to combat unem­ Moscow." Grachev said he didn't want to "dramatize the ployment. situation," but developments could "end in bloodshed." He On March 23, the Russian Constitutional Court voted 6- concluded by urging the parliament: "The Army appeals to 3 with 4 abstentions that Yeltsin' s TV address was a violation you deputies of the people. We need a compromise. The of the constitutional principle of the separation of powers entire people is waiting for that I'm sure you'll find a means between the executive and legislative branches of govern­ to settle the crisis." ment. However, the court declared that the address did not Security Minister Barannikov and Interior Minister Yerin provide the basis for proceeding with the impeachment of also declared their support, not for the President, but for the Yeltsin. Indicative of the temporizing ofthe court as a whole, Constitution.

48 International EIR March 26, 1993 A strong government ies, which are threatening a "Balkaniscenario," where Russia Should Yeltsin refuse to back down, preparations are could be "forced" to send "peacek�ping forces." This was under way for an emergency session of the Congress of Peo­ no National Front extremist speakillg. This was the Russian ple's Deputies, to vote for removing him from power. Meet­ foreign minister threatening a Russi� military re-occupation ing in an emergency session on March 21, the Supreme Sovi­ of two Baltic states. et condemned Yeltsin's emergency measures in an The Russian posture toward Up-aine has also become overwhelming vote put forward by parliament head Ruslan more threatening, though, in this case, military moves can Khasbulatov. When the Congress convenes, it will do so on probably be ruled out for the near f,ture . A senior unnamed the basis of Article 121 of the present Constitution, which Ukrainian Foreign Ministry official :wasquoted in the March states that a President is automatically barred from the right 17 London Financial Times: "Ru�ia's attitude toward its to continue in office if he dissolves any "legally elected con­ neighbors can now be compared to Oermany's in 1939. This stitutional organs." is a crucial moment when the W tlst must realize that the Yeltsin's declaration followed the conclusion, on March consequences of a policy of appeasement are as dangerous 13, of a four-day session of the Congress of People's Depu­ as they were in 1939." The papercited western diplomats ties which administered Yeltsin a stinging defeat. Yeltsin reporting that they have been told by Russians "not to bother described that meeting as a "dress rehearsal for the reestab­ building large embassies in Kiev, because within 18 months, lishment of the communist nomenklatura." He accused par­ this will be downgraded to consular sections." During a Feb­ liamentary Speaker Khasbulatov as "calling for renewal of ruary visit to Warsaw, Yeltsin adviser Sergei Stankevich the Cold War," and said that this would mean an arms race warned Poland to scale down its growing political and mili­ and confrontation with the rest of the world. "Russia cannot tary ties with Ukraine. Ukraineand Belarus are in the Russian stand another October Revolution," he continued, referring sphere of influence, he told his hosts. These statements are to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. "That will be a not empty alarms. jump into the abyss." But the inherent weakness of Yeltsin was, ironically, A 'new centrist government' even clear from the contents of his declaration. He did not While Yeltsin is losing power, t;he outcome will not be a establish presidential rule nor any state of emergency. Had triumph of the Congress. All signs indicate that the Russian he had the support of the Armed Forces, he would certainly political crisis will be resolved thropgh a strongpresidential have done so. Instead, the "special administration" form system, where the President would sign decrees dictated by leaves the road open for a strong post-Yeltsin government, the leading figuresof the Russian Security Council, the locus acting as the front for the Russian Security Council and its of real power. The key figures whcp would actually rule in­ institutional components-the military , military-industrial clude Security Council Secretary Ypri Skokov, who embod­ complex, the industry lobby, and the security services. ies the military-industrial complex; the military leadership; Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoy, [Whoenjoys the complete Georgia, Daltics, Ukraine in the cross hairs support of the military and Civic Union; Arkady Volsky, Immediately following the last session of the Congress leader of the Civic Union, and Valery Zorkin, president of of People's Deputies, Russia began sustained air attacks on the Russian Constitutional Court. the city of Sukhumi, the capital of the Georgian region of Parallel to a strong presidency u�der its aegis, the Russian Abkhazia, on the night of March 14-15, with many civilians Security Council is also pressing for a so-called new centrist killed. These attacks, timed with attacks by Russian-backed government, which would reflect the interests of the Civic Abkhazian separatists on Georgian positions outside Suk­ Union industry lobby and the mil.ary-industrial complex. humi, have brought Russia and Georgia to the brink of war. In This has become the clarion call Qf the Russian elite. The response, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze declared call by Constitutional Court Presidept Zorkin for a "salvation that a de facto state of war exists between Georgia and Russia, government of the center," issued �n March 13 as the Con­ and that Georgia may have to declare a "general mobili­ gress was closing, sets the stage fpr the incoming regime. zation." Zorkin repeated the call on March .15 at the National Press Russia also militarily threatened the Baltic states of Esto­ Club in Washington, D.C., where �e called for a "new gov­ nia and Latvia. In a speech on March 16 to the Baltic Council ernment based on a centrist orien�tion" in Russia, existing in Helsinki, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev side by side with a "strong presi�ncy" as in "the French warnedof the "danger of Yugoslav conditions" in the Baltic, model." Zorkin' s visit to the United States itself is striking. and attacked the "appearance of aggressive nationalism and He was clearly dispatched as an uI¥>fficial Security Council chauvinism" in Estonia and Latvia. Kozyrev demanded that emissary to brief Washington on Russian developments, and U.N. special emissaries be sent to these two states to investi­ his agenda included a meeting wlth President Clinton on gate "human rights violations" against the Russian minorit- March 16. His reference to the "Fremch model" also preceded

EIR March 26, 1993 International 49 by 24 hours the arrival of French President Fran�ois Mitter­ ment must have the last word. Tille decisions of the last Con­ rand in Moscow. gress have deeply strengthened their [the government's] im­ The entire political spectrum in Moscow is echoing Zor­ portance as the highest organ of the economy. " kin's call for a "new government based on a centrist orienta­ The indications that the Rus�ian elite had reached a con­ tion," or admitting that such a government is coming. On sensus for a "strong presidency" �d a "strong government," March 15, figuresranging from Congress head Khasbulatov with or without Yeltsin, as the! only alternative to an im­ to National Front leader Dukin endorsed the idea of a new pending chaos without end, werelevident before the Congress centrist government. Tellingin this regard was the admission session began. This was clear on! March 7 when a letter from on the same day by former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the Aleksander Solzhenitsyn to Russian ambassador to Washing­ shock therapy maniac, that a "centrist political government" ton Vladimir Lukin was read on �ussian TV by Yuri Karya­ is "likely to emerge." Dukin told EIR two days before the kin, a member of the consultative Russian Presidential Coun­ Russian Security Council meeting that "plans for a centrist cil. "I agree completely" with Solzhenitsyn's demands, he government"are in the works. The Khasbulatov statement of told viewers. He urged them to "IIisten to the voice of the man March 15 tells volumes: "Now it is necessary to concentrate whose contemporaries we are p�ud to be." solely on the economic reforms. In this question, the govern- The Solzhenitsyn letter pro�ides a unique window into the thinking of the Russian elite (�ee box). Notably, Solzhen­ itsyn denounced any return to c�mmunism as leading to the death of Russia, and equally denbunced the idea of restoring the U.S.S.R., whose only resultl would be "a bloody war in a dozen republics." He conclud�d with a call for "the only Solzhenitsyn warns that real formation which offers us apy hope . . . a union of the Russia is up fo r grabs states of Belarus, Russia, and Klizakhstan."

Social explosion brewing i Aleksander Solzhenitsyn warnedin a March 7 letter to An early resolution of the R4ssian political power strug­ Russian ambassador in Washington Vladimir Lukin gle will be forced by the acceletating economic devolution that a strong government was necessaryto defend Rus­ which has brought the country td the brink of a social explo­ sia. Excerptsfollow. sion. For most of the populatioh, the last "reserves" from savings have vanished after the r�cord hyperinflationrates of The Russian Federation . . . cannot exist without a 126% for January and 129% for february. The March rate is strong presidential power, a power which is at least as even higher. For the firsttime , � hyperinflation, as opposed strong as that in the United States .. ..What is at issue to "only" heavy inflation, has aff�cted basic foods, the prices is not just President Yeltsin or the current composition for which have increased 74% n Moscow in the first two of the Supreme Soviet; at issue is a long-term policy, months of 1993. The great maj rity of people are now not an agreement which prevents Russia from tottering "merely" living in poverty, but tt. low the minimum for exis­ from every gust of wind. . . . The alternative which tence, which now stands officiall� at 6,000rubles per month. will be adopted now . . . will decide the future of the (As recently as last autumn, 6p:x> rubles per month was country, probably for one century ahead, when the considered a "very good wage"; now it is bare minimum.) present politicians will long be dead, but the burden of As a result of this non-lindar economic crisis, "labor a wrong decision will be still tied around Russia's neck. peace" under Yeltsin is now ov ' . The early March warning . . . When people have been thrown into the abyss, is strikes by the coal miners of Kuzet. ass in Siberia, and Vorkuta it really the time for garbled referendum questionnaires in the Russian far north, were but the harbingers of things to on clauses of the Constitution . . . to organize elections come. New miners strikes couldl erupt at any time. The next into a Constituent Assembly, or have meetings, month strike wave will be far broader. tens of thousands of mostly after month, working out an 'ideal' constitution? Dur­ women textile workers from Itanovo, north of Moscow, ing the whole of 1917, ideal electoral laws had been plan a march on Moscow in midtMarch to protest before the elaborated, and finished just in time for the October Russian White House the closur, of 40 textile plants and the coup .. ..Hasty politicians, who wage furious battles imminent closure of another 46, OllOWing the breakdown of in the stratosphere . . . in the meantime the pillage cotton imports from Uzbekistanr, In the Russian Pacific port has assumed a massive, unprecedented scale, Russia's of Vladivostok and its environs� a quasi-general strike, in­ riches are sold out for a song, the country in chaos is volving dock, shipyard, and u�ban transport workers and irreversibly up for grabs. foresters, is set for sometime inlMarch to protest plant clo- sures. I

50 International EIR March 26, 1993 On thesub ject of policy governingthe projected Clinton-Ye ltsin suminitry by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A memorandum dictated on March 23, 1993, from Roches­ European economies, monetary .and economic policies ter, Minnesota, where Mr. LaRouche is held as a political which must be judged in terms of tqeir effect to be clinically prisoner at the Federal Medical Facility. insane-economic and related policies which have brought on this crisis in Russia, this potel)tial strategic crisis, this This is former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche potential seed of a future general wjU". speaking on the twenty-third of March, on the tenth anniver­ I believe that SecretaryChristopher 's statement captures sary of President Reagan's public televised announcement of some aspects of this, and helps by making the situation the Strategic Defense Initiative. known to a broader circle-sounds the alarm, I think, is the I reference the current crisis in Russia and other states appropriate term. in the context of the scheduled meeting between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President William Clinton. Attack on Central Europe's southern Bank In addition, rather than use the potentials of Central Eu­ The worst crisis facing the world rope-partiCUlarly the French-German axis of economic co­ First of all, the thing that must be generally recognized, operation-as a springboard for solying the problems of reor­ as I am happy to note that Secretary of State Warren Christo­ ganization of the economic potenti;al of eastern Europe and t pher has underscored, publicly at least, is that he current the former Soviet Union, under : the leadership of Mrs. crisis in Russia, is, by its rather immediate near-term to Thatcher's government, forces thrQughout Europe and else­ medium-term implications, the worst crisis facing the world where, attacked unifiedGermany a� a potential FourthReich, in general and the United States-United States foreign poli­ as the major geopolitical danger to t;heinterests of the Anglo­ cy in particular; and secondly, that no mere bandaids within Americans, and sought to lure Gor�achov, the partnerof the the present policy structures of the United States or Interna­ Anglo-Americans, into collaboratipn with the launching of tional Monetary Fund can possibly succeed in ameliorating, British and American assets among the Serbs of Milosevic let alone contributing to solving, the crisis in Russia. in Serbia and in other parts of fopner Yugoslavia, into a The root of the problem is the absolute disastrous, cata­ murderous onslaught upon the memberpopulations of former strophic failure of the Bush and Thatcher administrations in Yugoslavia. Britain and the United States to respond intelligently to the This attack by the Serbian forces under Milosevic of the opportunity for building long-term peace represented by the southern flank of Central Europe �recludes any intelligent, collapse of what Mr. Winston Churchill once called the Iron effective assistance to Russia, as l

EIR March 26, 1993 International 51 the inevitable doom of any regime in Russia which is seen as ment; and on that basis, the current external debt of Russia I too friendly to the Anglo-American chief perpetators of these can be reorganized in a Hami�tonian fashion. economic policies by Russians, but it must be faced that the Secondly, we must recognize that the world is in fact in present international monetary structure is doomed in any the throes of a depression dow dominated by the largest, case; and to sacrifice the prospects of peace with Russia, to most cancerously expanding !financial bubble in all history . sacrificepeaceful stability in Russia, for the sake of this IMF­ This bubble must be brought under control, and the source dominated structure, is pure insanity . of this disease, the present I F and related radical moneta­ . * The essence of the problem at the moment is character­ nst proposals, such as those associated with former Prime ized by the worst bubble in all history , a bubble dominated Minister Margaret Thatcher Lof Britain, must be extirpated by the explosion of trillions of dollars, tens of trillions, scores from the policies of western nations and the world institu­ of trillions of dollars, of accumulation of trade in so-called tions, as an abomination, wh?sel horror and implications are derivatives. now understood as one of the greatest errors of the 20th If this is tolerated, and if the present forms of deregulation century . and free trade upon which this bubble is based continue to We must return to the kindsI of axioms of policymaking be tolerated, then the entire world will collapse into the worst in these matters , which existJd prior to the 1970s launching depression in modem history , since at least the fourteenth of this bubble of deregulatiod , deindustrialization, and radi- century in Central Europe . cal free trade . Those are the primary issI ues which must be put on the The issues on the table at the summit table at any meeting betweeh President Boris Yeltsin and Therefore , we must be prepared to sacrifice immediately President Clinton if real prokress is to be made. the entire structure of these present IMF-dominated relation­ ships. Respecting Russia, what is needed is not simply eco­ nomic aid. I First, we must remove the threat from the southern flank of Central Europe, in order to make Europe once again the potential springboard for material aid to the process of recon­ Clinton co""'�'"""'ents on struction of Eastern European states and the former Soviet Union. SDI as optio Secondly, respecting Russia: The debt of Russia must not simply be reorganized, but reorganized in a manner anal­ On March 23, in bis first press conference since his ogous to the way in which U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexan­ inauguration, President inton was asked about his der Hamilton , under our President George Washington, reor­ priority for tbe Strategic fenseInitiative. ganized the debt of the United States during the period 1789 Question: "Mr. Presid nt, given the fac t th at both through 1794 . the START I and the STA T II treaties are hostage tQ The debt must be restructured to be used as the basis for the political outcome in oscow and given also the issuance of credit throughout the former Soviet Union for the potential fo r con flict, arm conflict, between Russia rapid reconstruction of the agriculture, industry , and infra­ and Ukraine, are you pr ared to draft con tingency structure of Russia and adjoining/cooperating states . Only in plans, at least, that would itherrestore funding or add that way can this cancer be tamed and the pyramided debt fu nding to the Strategic fe nse Initiative, if not the turned into an instrument of fostering stability and general space-basedpart , at least t e ground-basedele J;llent, as economic recovery. a hedge against the worst ssible outcome?" In addition to solving this problem in Yugoslavia, the Answer by President linton: "Well, we'reno t in United States must be prepared to sacrifice its own commit­ a position to makea judg ent about the worstpos sible ment to so-called radical free trade, to radical deregulation, outcome now. I mean , ke p in mind-and let me say to de-industrialization at home, in order to put on the table, I've talked to President vcbuk twice about the with the Russians and others , the proposal as follows. Ukraine's position on S RT I, and I'm very COD­ First of all, we must accept the principle of sovereign cernedabout the veryissu s you raised . But let me say ' nation-states as the basis in national political economy for that even as we speak, I' not ready to say tbat there' s internal development of states and for economic cooperation a strong likelibood that i e can't proceed with both among sovereign states. The idea of denationalization of the START I and START II d that we can't re solve the world, is a piece of unworkable lunacy which can only lead conflicts between Russia .d Ukraine . If that becomes to the worst result. We must restore the principle of sovereign apparent that we can't, tn n we will obviously assess nation-states with sovereign national political economies. our position and allof our ptions." That is the basis for all workable monetary-economic agree-

52 International EIR Marcb 26, 1993 Bosnian Professor Charges:

Vance-Owen accepted the RadovanKarad zic plan

Editor's note: We received the fo llowing report and com­ Having in mind the perception$ of "the West," possible mentary byfaxfrom Mr. M. Borogovac, Ph.D. in mathemati­ answers are the following: cal sciences, professor of mathematics at the University of 1. The crisis in ex-Yugoslavia �s perceived primarily as Tuzla, Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on March 16. The a Serbo-Croatian problem, and as isuch can only be solved editors believe that the actions of Bosnian leaders lzetbego­ by satisfying Serbia and Croatia, an act that calls for the vic and Siladjzic, which are judged harshly in this piece, sacrificeof Bosnia in order to satis(ythem both. must also be seen in the light of the tremendous pressures 2. Accepting Bosnian statehood became dangerous, put upon them recently bythe fo rces of the New World Order. since it reintroduced traditional Eur9pean divisions; a conflict We are nonetheless pleased fo r the opportunity to publish of Central Europe and its peripheral parts could reverse the this view of the United Nations' perfidy toward one of its own process of integration that was starting to happen in Europe. member nations, fr om a Bosnian patriot. 3. The sacrifice of Bosnia has ¢ertain advantages: It is a We reprint Dr. Borogovac's text in fu ll, only slightly handshake of Europe with a traditional Serbian friend-the edited to standardize spellings and English usages which Russian empire. At the moment, Russia is "balancing" be­ might otherwise be unclear. tween "Europeanization" and a re;turn to "traditionalism." In this moment, a satanic sacrifice; ceremony of delivering Since the firstmissions to the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovi­ slaughtered Bosnian children anp their land to Russia, na, diplomats Piniero and Cutiliero, followed by FranC10is doesn't seem to be "much of a loss." Mitterrand and John Major, with the most recent inclusion 4. Having in mind the insufficient knowledge of the of the Vance-Owen team, "the West" has offered Bosnia meaning and the importance of �atehood in the "Islamic "charity" in exchange for merciless theft of its statehood, world," its reactions cannot be so �'harmful." The approval territory, and pride of the Bosnian people toward their home­ of the Orthodox Christian world is much more important land in Europe. anyway. In the present phase of the war against the Republic of 5. In the meantime, in the ex,U.S.S.R. and in Russia, Bosnia-Hercegovina (R.B.H., further on in the text, or short­ Muslims have gotten a clear message and a very bloody ened: Bosnia), an anti-Bosnian lobby came to the conclusion lesson: that their aspirations towar� independence and state­ that thetime has come to take the masks off,complete ly, and hood are hopeless . The moral ofl the story is: "When the go openly toward their goal. recognized Bosnians, with one thousand years of statehood, The smiling faces of Boutros-Ghali, D. Owen, and C. did not make it, you are not going to make it either, so do Vance show that the final success of a large international not even try !" political and military effort is clearly visible. For the first 6. The present policy of "the West" in Bosnia obviously time in the history of the United Nations, one historical , shows that Serbs, everywhere on the territories of ex-Yugo­ internationallyrecognized country is to be broken into pieces slavia, must be "pacified" by the qtethodof satisfying their (parts?) that have none of these qualities: aspirations (and war gains, essent�ally) in such a way as to 1. historical raison d' etre; make them stop the destabilizing a�tivity in the Balkans. 2. territorial integrity and continuity (see the Vance­ 7. The gains of Serbia and Croatia in Bosnia can be Owen map); useful for solving Serbo-Croatian q:lationsin the Republic of 3. historical and legal rights toward their own individual Croatia, where Croatians, accordiqg to the Vance plan, have statehood(s). to accept a loss of sovereignty on parts of the territory of the Therefore, several questions could be posed: Republic of Croatia foran unspecified amount of time. First question: Why did the above-mentioned gentlemen Second question: What is the tlthicaland moral platform busy themselves with the task of destruction of the continuity on which the cruelty toward Bos,ians, especially Bosnian of the statehood and constitution of the 177th member of the Muslims, is based? , U . N.: the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina? As the apocalypse of Bosnians1is irrational, the explana-

EIR March 26, 1993 International 53 Karadzic, Serbian leader and a certified war criminal, and HDZ leader Mate Boban, a traitor and a backstabber. In addition to the fact tha� agreeing to these demands means the end of the statehood bf the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina. the Vance-OweJ plan has the following direct consequences for the state and the people of Bosnia: I. All the previously vot�d conventions are annulled. That means, also, that all the obligations of the international community toward the count� and the people who are the victims, cease to exist (U.N. Resolution 752). In exchange for the obligations of the U.N ., stemming from international laws, in regard to the constitu ion and the statehood of the recognized country , the Repub ic of Bosnia-Hercegovina is offered "guarantees" toward the protection of certain rights. Of course, that is far below th� level of sovereignty of any independent country. 2. An additional absurdityI, All the guarantees that are offered , are related to the realiz�tion of the Vance-Owen plan itself. In the first tented camp in Europe since World War II. Bosnian For example, the use of U. . military force is not intend­ refugees are received at a sports center in Rijeka. Croatia in 1992 . ed to defend Bosnians from the aggression or for peace­ making, but rather for the "i I plementation of the Vance­ tion of the behavior of "the West" is impossible without a Owen plan." transfer to a religious realm. The "missionary" approach to By paraphrasing itself, t e plan "foresees and guar­ Bosnia, exemplified by the combination of "charity" and antees": cruelty, is the perfect name for the attitude of "the West." It • That the residents of R.B.H. are going to live in a shows the strength of the old stereotypes and emotions in group of provinces that are goi I g to consist of three national moments of crisis. It shows that the "new world order" is an areas. illusion. • On the level of the province, everything shall function The truth is that "the West" did not permit the helpless as a state, as a national state, ivith the "guarantees" for the hostages even the elementary right to a self-defense from the protection of the "minorities." Evil , whose firstname is Hate and whose last name is Death . • Legislative, judicial and executive powers of the gov­ ernmentof the Republic of Bos�ia-Hercegovina do not exist The goals of the Vance-Owen on the level of the republic. That goes for the Army as well. I policies and their methods • The Army of Bosnia, betpre the finaldemil itarization, After a year of incredible massacres committed against is only legal in the Bosnian-Muslim provinces, and as such, the Bosnian-Muslim civilians, the policy of "the West" is it is being treated the same as thb HVO (Croatian HDZ units) sublimated in a document known as the "Vance-Owen plan." and Serbian Chetniks (terrorist ohorts of war criminals). I This plan is being touted, in the western media, and in high • Any possibility of investigating war crimes in "Serbian diplomacy, as "the only possible road to peace and ending territories" is definitelycompro6ised and made improbable. of bloodshed." • Trials of war criminals �equire the consensus of the Diplomacy and the loyal citizens of Bosnia are asked, in perpetrators of those crimes (S�rbian terrorists) themselves. this (a priori) labeled, exclusivist document, neither more Legally untenable position. A �"ck farce. nor less than to accept: • In all areas not covered by the Vance-Owen plan, a I. Cessation of the continuity of the statehood of the consensus with war criminals is demanded . . . same as the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. (The Vance-Owen plan above. abolishes the legal constitution of the country and annuls • Pressing for this plan sh0wsI plainly how cheap is the the judicial, legislative, and executive fo undations of the life of Bosnian men, women, arid children on the internation.J governmentof the I 77th member of the U.N. No mention of al market. This plan starts the most complex, but also, the obligations toward reestablishment of those foundations is most illegal, procedure againstI one recognized state, and even made.) against, at least, one large port'on of its people: 2. Actually, cessation of the continuity of the statehood Destruction of the soverei nty, constitution, statehood, is formulated in such a way as to eliminate the hope of rees­ and territorial integrityof a recognized country, in exchange tablishing it ever again, since the Vance-Owen plan calls for for the status of a protectorate, las an in-between stage, prior an agreement of such gravediggers of Bosnia as Radovan to the finaldissolution .

54 International EIR March 26, 1993 Vance-Owen are right in their claims that their plan civic, democratic entity in the entire country. Both other brings peace, but only under the condition that the above­ concepts, Serbian, and to a certain, extent, Croatian, are ex­ mentioned premises are accepted. Then the peace shall be clusivist, chauvinist. Serb national chauvinists exclude ev­ closer when the Bosnian Muslims, dispersed along the rivers erybody, Croatians exclude the Serbs, while only the Bosni­ and roads of Bosnia-Hercegovina, give up their rights to live an Muslims insist on including both :loyal Croatians and Serbs by the rivers Orina, Neretva, Sava, Una .... Also, they in all Bosnian institutions. must give up their use of highways between major cities. The Those and similar activities, on the "lighter side," with Bosnians will have the Montenegran border by Trnovo, the many other "darker sides, " make the Vance-Owen team part­ Croatian border nearby Sarajevo, and the Serbian border ners in Serbian crimes against the innocent civilian popula­ inside Sarajevo, the "ex-capital of Bosnia-Hercegovina." tion, and other crimes against humanity. According to the Vance-Owen plan, Bosnian patriots "Negotiations of the three warring parties are the only have to accept the fact that they have reached the end of their alternative to the war." This statement was used to remove history, after one thousand years. If Bosnian patriots do not the legal case of the aggression against Bosnia from the super­ accept the Vance-Owen plan, the U.N., once again, guaran­ vision of the Security Council of the U.N., to the "out-of­ tees that Bosnians are going to get massacred totally, since bounds-out-of-Iegal-sphere" negotiations. In doing so, the the plan "guarantees" that "one of the three sides" is prevent­ Vance-Owen team discarded the international legal system ed from receiving weapons and ammunition to defend itself and enabled themselves to change the definitions of the vic­ (a 12-month-Iong, ongoing U.N. "sea-air-Iand" blockade of tim and the aggressor. The trial, i.e., the legal procedure in the Army of Bosnia-Hercegovina: the arms embargo). the Security Council of the U.N., was replaced with the "negotiations," a dubious category, that proved to be fatal for How the anti-Bosnian lobby destroyed Bosnia the victim of the aggression. In this context, an international The Vance-Owen team clearly stated their terms to the court for the crimes against humanity should consider the Bosnian leaders: "Either accept the plan, or bear the guilt for role and the participation ofC. Vance and O. Owen, as well the continuation of war!" At the same time, the Vance-Owen as Boutros-Ghali, in the war against one member of the U . N . team is misleading "the world public" that the same condition and the open abuse of the Charter of the U.N . is put to the Serbians. The Vance-Owen plan is different from the Serbian plan Responsibility of diplomacy only in the "dynamics" of the planned disappearance of the and the President of Bosnia-Hercegovina Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and its Bosnian Muslim In the diplomatic activity of the leaders of the Republic population (Croatian also, later on, when they are done with of Bosnia-Hercegovina, there are many important moments Bosnian Muslims); it supports , stimulates, and provides a that have been, if not the causes, then certainly contributing "legal cover" for the Serbian aggression. It also covers for factors in the tragedy of Bosnia-Hercegovina. If we accept the causes and consequences of the aggression. the legal codex that "ignorance or lack of information are not In order to make those strategies "invisible," Vance­ to be cited as an excuse should they become a cause for Owen have constantly repeated "small lies" in order to damage . . ." then the major objedtions to the diplomacy of achieve "great effects." For example: Bosnia could be: "In Bosnia-Hercegovina there are no 'citizens,' there are 1. Agreeing to negotiations without the clear identifica­ only Serbs, Croats, and Muslims." That is when the U.N. tion of the partners in those talks. did not need the terms "citizens" and "civilians." However, (Even before being classifiedas a war criminal, Radovan when the aggression was "explained," they used the term Karadzic, a Serbian terrorist leader, could not have been a "civil war," not "the Serbian aggression." Such a manipula­ partner in negotiations anywhere else but in the Parliament, tion of facts and semantics is actually de jure a complete especially not after some important{actors in the internation­ amnesty for Serbian crimes against civilians, since civil wars al community in some way recognized the war against Bosnia are not necessarily subject to sanctions according to the appli­ as a war of Yugoslavia against Bosnia and not as a civil war cable international laws, but rather an internal business of in the country itself. The right to talk to the President of the each country. Such an attitude actually means that nobody is Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina could have been granted safe in the entire world, since any one ethnic/national group only to Slobodan Milosevic and Dobric Cosic-Presidents in any one country can decide to slaughter any other ethnic/ of Serbia and the new Yugoslavia-as the chiefs of the ag­ national group in the same country and call it a civil war and gressor countries. That privilege should not have been grant­ thus suspend international law and legal defense mecha­ ed to the "leader of the Bosnian Serbs," Radovan Karadzic nisms. Another example: and his gang.) "The Bosnian Army is a 'Muslim army ,' the government 2. Agreeing to negotiations with"to be announced" type is 'Muslim,' President Mr. Alija Izetbegovic is a 'Muslim of topics and schedules. President' ...et c., etc." Those are outright lies, since only (The last time that Bosnia had' an undefeatable political theBosnian governmentrepre sents the secular, multi-ethnic, position, before the Geneva talks, the terrible errorwas made

EIR March 26, 1993 International 55 to allow the negotiations to be held with war criminals, and also under a completely changed position of negotiating on the basis of "ethnic divisions" and abandoning the already established position of the "civic state" principle.) 3. Agreeing to an inferior position in negotiation. Before going out to negotiate, Bosnian diplomacy could have made a number of completely legitimate requests and could have gained a number of "life-saving" little advan­ Is India los tages, that would provide for stronger negotiating positions ing its in diplomacy and on the battlefield. The informational, traf­ fic, and political deblockade of Sarajevo, governmentof Bos­ grip on Kas�mir? nia, and Tuzla airport could have been preconditions for the by Ramtanu Maitra negotiations. Subservience did not help at all. After all, the delegation of Bosnia, during the negotia­ tions, went further and further away from the mandate re­ As the winter snow melts and JIIlakes accessible the rugged ceived from the "Expanded Presidency" in the capital, Sara­ terrainof Kashmir, the Indian Armyis facing a new wave of jevo, and thus committed an unauthorized acceptance of the well-trained and well-armed inttudersfrom the Pakistanside "basic principles" and later of "the military agreement," also. of the border. On the ground in the Kashmir Valley, it is Therefore: evident that India's 38-month effortto eradicate violence and The delegation of Bosnia committed the "sellout" of the militancy has failed, and it is tQ be seen whether the Indian continuity of the statehood and the constitution of the Repub­ Army, battling an elusive army backed by the locals, can lic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. In return,they received "guaran­ contain the situation through the coming summer. tees" of the human rights and religious rights that are usually Such a question is no longer rhetorical, as is evident included in the higher categories (statehood and constitution) from the growing urgency expressed by New Delhi. Newly which they have lost and/or abandoned. appointed Minister of State for Home Affairs Rajesh Pilot, The delegation of Bosnia (President Mr. Alija Izetbego­ who is in charge of internal sec4rity, has made a quick foray vic and Foreign Minister Mr. Haris Silajdzic as well as other to Kashmir and is now busy pushing for a political solution. members) traded away the principle of the sovereignty of The 33-month tenure of the JaJ\llmu and Kashmir governor Bosnia and the principle of the firmness ofthe borders, for and former chief of Indian intelligence, Girish ChandraSaxe­ the humiliating protectorate over Bosnia, which is the only na, has been abruptly ended. �n. Krishna Rao (ret.), who method for a "legal" destruction of the sovereignty of a mem­ had already had a short stint as Igovernorin 1989 before the ber of the United Nations. valley erupted with violence a� militancy, has been asked Having done that, the delegation of Bosnia has caused a to take over. Such old hands as: the former chief minister of severe loss of morale in the Bosnian population, with a total Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Faroqq Abdullah, and the scion of collapse in certain areas. Army commanders, very discour­ the Kashmir royal house, Dr. Karan Singh, have already aged by such treason, were also criticized for "politicking," indicated that Delhi should hold talks with both Pakistan and meaning that the delegation does not care for the opinion of the Kashmiri militants of all hue!Sto resolve the problem. Dr. the Army of Bosnia-Hercegovina, which fights valiantly for Abdullah, in fact, has gone fUirther, to indicate that India I the freedom of the entire country and not the slavery and should discuss the autonomy of Ithe Kashmir Valley with the slaughter that the Vance-Owen plan basically imposes. Fur­ militants and define the autono�y quantitatively so that the ther more, the "negotiating skills" of Mr. Alija Izetbegovic "boys" do not feel that they have not gained anything. have given a morale boost for a renewed Serbian offensive in easternBosnia , stemming from the Serbian (correct) per­ Threat of war ception that the Vance-Owen plan gives them a total carte The increasing evidence tha� Pakistan is directly involved blanche to kill, even 12 months after the commencement of through its military intelligence I wing, Inter-Services Intelli­ the slaughter of the innocent Bosnian civilians. gence (lSI), in training and arIlling Kashmiri militants, in­ Finally, nobody has the right to negotiate, let alone ac­ cluding the jihad-seeking Afgh� mujahideen and even, re­ cept, the destruction of the continuity of the statehood and portedly, Sudanese fundameqtalists, as documented by the constitution of Bosnia, especially not the leaders who India, has endangered peace in tjhesubcontinent . In thecom­ were swornto defend those sacred principles. ing summer, if the Indian Army fails to prevent a reported How will "the West" solve the Bosnian-Muslim refugee 4,000 trained guerrillas from erltering the valley and loses a problem? It accepts the refugees. The exit from Sarajevo is number of personnel in the process, a war-like situation is cynically granted "to the signers·of the Vance-Owen docu­ bound to emerge. Moreover, Illdian intelligence is alluding ments." to an lSI hand in the recent bombings that rocked Bombay's

56 International EIR March 26, 1993 commercial brain center. If this were to be established, the States fears that isolating Pakistan would only propel Islam­ possibility of a war between India and Pakistan cannot be abad to pass on nuclear weapons technology to hostile na­ ruled out. tions. India and Pakistan have already fought three futile wars over Kashmir, and came close again in 1991, when a timely The 'human rights' chorus intervention by the Bush administration defused the crisis. In addition, "human rights vidlations" in Kashmir are In Washington, a number of individuals belonging to the becoming an issue in the West. New Delhi is well aware that Clinton administration and outside of it, have expressed the it cannot exert more pressure in K�shmir. It is no surprise fear that India and Pakistan will engage in an all-out nuclear that those in Britain and the Unit�d States who had been exchange over the Kashmir dispute. Newly selected CIA lamenting India's deliberate attemp!;to suppress the "aspira­ chief James Woolsey, testifying before the Senate Govern­ tions of the Kashmiri people," are npw tuned in to the human mental Affairs Committee on nuclear proliferation on Feb. rights chorus. It is the same in Pakistan. Those who had been 24, talked about the possibility of a nuclear exchange. Al­ vocal about India's deliberate attempt to "weaken Islam" though the CIA chief s warning is slanted with the Clinton have also started to sing the human rights tune. administration's expressed goal of getting both India and It is also evident that Britain would like to see an indepen­ Pakistan to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), dent . Kashmir. This has become pPrticularly important for there is no question that Washington is conscious of the the British in the light of the growing economic strength of possibility of a war breaking out over the Kashmir issue. both India and China and the emetgence of at least a half­ dozen nations (former Soviet republics) in Central Asia. Brit­ Weakening of the Indian position ain, and its promoters in the United States, had long been The latest uprising in the valley, which began in the early cultivating the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, the 1990s, has a lot to do with the retreat of the erstwhile Soviet main proponent of an independent IKashmir, and have even Army fromAfghanistan in 1988 and Pakistan's efforts to arm provided succor to the pro-Pakist!i$imilitant group, Kizbul and trainthe Kashmiri militants. However, Kashmir has been Mujahideen. With the backing of Pakistan, Britain, and some a troubled spot for the last four decades and more. The Kash­ in the United States, the militant Imovement has garnered miris, unlike the Sikhs in Punjab, have little loyalty toward furtherstrength . either India or Pakistan. This sense of independence was allowed to be bred not only by outside forces in Britain or Split four ways elsewhere, but even within India itself. The softening of the Indian pQsition-if one considers Jammu and Kashmir's firstchief minister, Sheikh Abdul­ that Dr. Abdullah is speaking on behalf of the new set of lah, who was also prime minister when Kashmir was a princi­ policymakers-raises a question a$ to what kind of solution pality, had openly talked of a "Switzerland-type independent can be worked out which will bring peace, satisfying the Kashmir" and yet has wielded power for almost three de­ Kashmiris, Pakistanis, and the Indians. Kashmir is now split cades. Close to the Nehru-Gandhi family and having four ways. Almost two-thirds of �ashmir belongs to India. achieved both profit and power through Nehru's generous Within the Indian part of Kashmir j there exist three distinct support; Sheikh Abdullah, whose son Dr. Farooq Abdullah parts. One is the valley, where the militancy is at its peak is a much weaker man, had all along worked, with the help and which is inhabited mostly by the Muslims. The other two of New Delhi, toward carving out an independent Kashmir. partsare Jammu, a Hindu majorityiarea, and Ladakh, with a The Kashmir situation is different from Punjab in every large Buddhist community borderilg China. possible way. Except for a brief period following the Indian The Pakistan-occupied part ofl Kashmir has itself been Army's incursion into the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Tem­ split into three parts. A small portion has been given to China, ple of Amritsar, in 1984, the Sikh militants in Punjab never the northern part has been assimilated within Pakistan as a had the support of the Sikh population in general. In Punjab, northern territory (although a PaI¢istani court recently an­ even when the Indian Army was killing many, the Sikh popu­ nounced that such annexation was illegal), and the rest is lation never turnedon the Army itself. However, in Kashmir, Azad Kashmir. the only difference between an ordinary Kashmiri and a mili­ Since the demand for autonomy exists only in the valley, tant Kashmiri is the way they are armed: Both hate India with it is expected that India will not even discuss Jammu and a passion and consider the Army as a tyrant. Ladakh. On the other hand, an autonomous Kashmir Valley It is also widely acknowledged that Pakistan, having lost must also contain that part of the valley which is now partof its easternwing and militarily kowtowed to the Indian Army Azad Kashmir. Also to becons idertd is the level of autonomy in 1971, will not give up this opportunity to "teach India to be given to the valley. Both India and Pakistan must make a lesson." India's efforts to pressure Washington to label sure that this autonomous state doe$ not become the dreamed­ Pakistan a terroriststate will not succeed, because Pakistan for Switzerland of Sheikh Abdull�, where foreign powers has developed its nuclear weapons programs and the United will vie for control over a highly stinsitive region.

EIR March 26, 1993 International 57 Thetragedy of Tajikistan The death toll and the number rlifugees is already near 1 million, and peace nowhere near at hand. By M. Babur.

"M. Babur" is the pen-namefo r one of Russia' s most eminent Kashmir, occupied by Pakistaq, only by a narrow Wakhan orientalists, who has had over five decades experience in strip. I Central Asian affairs, including having been an adviser to The Turkestan Autonomous Republic, incorporated in numerous governments in Moscow in the past. EIR's own the Russian Federation, was se� up in Central Asia after the evaluation of the events in Tajikistan, which differs in many 1917 October Revolution. In 1924-29, after the Bukhara respects from his, will be published in fu ture issues. His Khanate was eliminated, administrative national reforms essay was dated Feb. 20. Subheads are EIR' s. were launched in Central Asia: Fiirst, the U zbek and Turkmen Union Republics and later the Kazakh, Tajik, and Kirghiz None of the conflicts which have flared up on the outskirts Union Republics were set up tqere instead of the Turkestan of the former Soviet empire can compare in their scale and Autonomous Republic and the �ukhara Khanate. For some brutality with the Tajik tragedy. The conflict, which has been time (1925-29), Tajikistan was If.Il autonomous region ofUz­ raging for three years, has finallyentered the stage of a full­ bekistan, with Leninabad (now Khodzhent) as its capital, scale civil war, that has claimed the lives of 100,000 and and in 1929, Tajikistan was prcpclaimed a Union Republic, turnedanother 800,000into refugees, of which 100,000have with Dushanbe as the capital. i crossed the Amudar'ya [Oxus] River border and become However, the Samarkand and Bukhara regions, with their hostages of another civil war waged in Afghanistan, particu­ indigenous Tajik population of �OO,OOO, and their more ad­ larly in its northernprovinces bordering on Tajikistan. These, vanced economy, were still in4!orporated into Uzbekistan. incidentally, are also populated by Tajiks. By comparison, In 1989, Tajikistan's governm�nt once again made a futile in the Patriotic War of 1941-45, Tajik casualties were 60,000 attempt to prevail on the Soviet governmentfor those regions people. to be "restored" to Tajikistan. Tajiks belong to one of the most ancient ethnic groups in Central Asia. They are descendants of the inhabitants of the Projects postponed ancient countries of Bactria and Sogdiana, who, 2,500 years At present, Tajikistan has aJ1iarea of 143,000square kilo­ ago, professed Zoroastrianism. In the 8th century, they were meters with a population of 5 �illion, including 2.3 million conquered by the Arabs, and converted to Islam. Later, they Tajiks. The Mountainous BadalqhshanAutonomous Region, became extremely devout Muslim Sunnites. They formed a with an area of 60,000 square k.lometers, which proclaimed small oasis of Persian language and culture amidst Turkic itself as the Pamir Badakhshan iRepublic in 1991, is part of peoples and tribes. In the 15th century, Tajiks were incorpo­ Tajikistan. Mountainous ranges. rich in mineral deposits and rated into Tamburlane's Turkestan Empire, and in later ep­ potential hydro-energy resourcqs, account for 93% of Taji­ ochs, what is now Tajikistan was divided between the Bukh­ kistan's territory. ara and Kokand Khanates, with their ruling Uzbek elites. In After the collapse of the SQviet Union, Tajikistan, like the late 1860s, afterthe conquest by Russia of Central Asia, the other Soviet republics, proc�med its sovereignty. Tajiks were partly incorporated into the Turkestan Territory, Its natural resources and advantageous geo-strategic p0- ruled by Russian governor-generals, with some portion of sition in close proximity to Chi�a, India, Pakistan, and Af­ the Tajik population remaining in the Bukhara Khanate; the ghanistan have naturally evok�d great interest both from latter became a protectorate of the Russian Empire. westernbusinessm en and those ip neighboring countries. For The borders between the Bukhara Khanate and the Turk­ instance, Pakistan offered to invpst $500 million to complete estan Territory (in the Pamirs), on the one hand, and Afghani­ the construction of Central Asia' � biggest Rogun hydropower stan, on the other, were demarcated on the basis of the Brit­ station on the Vakhsh River; �akistan is also a partner in ish-Russian agreements of 1872, 1873, and 1895. the laying of the Karakoroum railway which will run from Tajikistan's southeasternmost part is separated from Azad Tajikistan to China, Pakistan, �d on to the Indian Ocean.

58 International EIR March 26, 1993 Iran, for its part, also made important proposals for oil deliveries, humanitarian aid, and investments for the manu­ Taj ikistan facturing industry. Iran is making use of its ethno-cultural contacts with Tajikistan, and under its influence the Tajik Supreme Soviet decided to switch to the Iranian version of the Arabic alphabet. The Teheran authorities also manifest great interest in the Tajik uranium concentration plant, the only one in Central Asia. In the past few years, U.S. compa­ nies also began to show interest in Tajikistan, which has one of the world's largest silver deposits and considerable potential reserves of oil and gas. Exploitation has already started in the most accessible gas fields. However, with the Tajik conflict assuming the scale of civil war, all those plans and projects had to be postponed.

Tajik national democrats In February 1990, Tajik national democrats made their appearance on the republic's political scene. Young people resolutely opposed the regime of Kakhor Makhkamov, then first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. In autumn 1991, political passions ran also proved futile. In October 1992, Kendjayev's units, high in the republic, with residents of its very backward which had received not only submltchineguns , but also gun regions (the Pamirs, Garm,and Karategin) manifesting hec­ mounts and tanks from the Uzbek command in Termez, tic activity: For many decades their population had been launched an attack on Dushanbe. , oppressed by the republican ruling elite, who came from It was impossible in this situatiQn to hold a session of the Leninabad, with its relative material welfare. The struggle Tajik Supreme Soviet in besieged Qushanbe. All attempts at for power was started by the leaders of the Garm-Pamir clans mediation by the leaders of other I Central Asian republics under the banner of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, proved fruitless. against those of the Leninabad-Dushanbe clans united in a i Popular Front, who ruled the roosts in the republic. Almost A long criminal record i at the same time, the Islamic Revival Party was formed which In November 1992, at the hei�ht of the civil war, with leaned for support largely on the peasants of the Kurgan­ casualties running toward 60,000,

EIR March 26, 1993 International 59 fighters' units, which started making wide use of guerrilla years more than 3,000 fighter'S have been trained in those and subversion tactics, by attacking small units of the govern­ camps; later they are sent back to Tajikistan in small groups. ment forces and making raids on the capital's suburbs. Those camps and the neighboring areas are under the It was only late in December 1992, that the government tight control of Amirlatif, one of Hekmatyar's most ruthless forces of Tajikistan and the Popular Front units managed to field commanders. After the Islamist fighters were driven recapture Kofirnikhon by employing armored vehicles and from Kofirnikhon, they entrenched themselves, as we said heavy artillery. The Islamist fighters' units had to retreat above, in the Ramit Gorge, 80 kilometers from Dushanbe. further eastward, where they took up fortified positions in The gorge has three lines of delfenses; the mountainous road the spurs of the Pamirs-in the Ramit Gorge (for more details leading to it is blocked by snipers. The locality is mined and see below)-and to Tajikistan's southernareas in the Khatlon almost impassable for armored �ehicles. Over 1 ,000Islamist border region, formed as a result of the merger of the Kurgan­ fighters are entrenchedin the Ramit Gorge. All of them have Tyube and Kulyab regions. been trained in the Afghan camps, and they are assisted by In order to buttress the positions ofthe Popular Front and about 200 Afghan mujaheddin hand-picked by Hekmatyar. of Rakhmonov, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan and This personnel is constantly replaced, and arms and ammuni­ the chairman of the Tajik Supreme Soviet signed a treaty tion are supplied to them not only from Garm and other of friendship and cooperation in Tashkent in January 1993. neighboring areas , but also directly from Amirlatif by heli­ Meanwhile, refugees continue to fleeTa jikistan, tens of thou­ copter. sands of skilled Russian professionals among them. A new offensive I Afghan fighting affects Tajikistan Trustworthy information supplied by the Tajik Ministry The civil war, raging with new force in Afghanistan, of Defense indicates that, on Hekmatyar's orders, the Islam­ has a highly negative effect on attempts to reach a peaceful ists are planning to launch a laI'ge-scale operation, "Retribu­ settlement in Tajikistan. In his struggle against President tion," immediately after Ramadan, i.e., March 21-23, with Rabbani of Afghanistan, Gulbeddin Hekmatyar, head of the the aim of taking the area of Dushanbe in a pincers move­ Islamic Party of Afghanistan, not only launches attacks on ment. In the east, from the Ramit Gorge, and in the south, Kabul, destroying entire blocks of housing there by long­ from the Khatlon region, to provoke more bloodshed in the range artillery fire, but also openly interferes in Tajikistan's civil war. Intervention from theisouthernbank of the Pyandzh affairs by giving all-round assistance to Islamist units in the River is not to be excluded. Pamirs and in the republic's border regions. In preparing this operation, Hekmatyar and his allies By seeking to extend the scale of civil war in Tajikistan hope to distract the attention of the Central Asian republics' and prevent normalization of the situation in the republic, leaders, primarily that of UzbeKistan, from the internalsitua­ Hekmatyar hopes to deepen dissension not only in Tajikistan, tion in Afghanistan, where a big offensive on Kabul is being but also in the northernprovinces of Afghanistan, with 6 mil­ prepared. The objective is to depose President Rabbani's lion Tajiks among the inhabitants. Hekmatyar, the fanatical transitional government, which has already established con­ leader of the Pushtun fundamentalists, fears the establishment tacts with Uzbekistan's leaders�ip. of a united Tajik state on both banks of the Amudar'ya, the Such is the inter-connection between the civil war in more so since for the first timein Afghanistan's history, Tajiks Afghanistan and Tajikistan, on the one hand, and the general are at the helm in Kabul, for acting President Rabbani and politico-strategic situation in Central Asia and the Middle influential Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massud are also East, on the other. Tajiks. Moreover, by supporting Islamists in the Pamirs, Hek­ Civil war has caused colossal damage to the people of matyar hopes to preserve and extend in every way unhindered Tajikistan. All kishlaks (villages), i.e., over 120,000houses , drug trafficfrom the Pamirs and the Khatlon region to Afghan­ have been either burned down or destroyed in the former istan and thence to the West. Narcotics arehis chief currency, Kurgan-Tyube region, and in a part of the Kulyab (now for Tajik Islamists receive endless supplies of arms from Af­ Khatlon) region. Over 80% of the industrial enterprises ghani fundamentalist leaders in exchange for narcotics. (100% in the south) have been destroyed in Tajikistan. As a According to documents seized by the Tajik command, result of the autumn 1992 military operations, only 100,000 secret contacts between the Tajik Islamists and Hekmatyar tons of cotton, i.e., slightly over 14% of the total cotton were established back in 1988. Not only arms and propaganda harvest, were processed. The republic is in dire need of mate­ material for the jihad, but also experienced instructors for rial assistance, food, and medic�ne. Otherwise, its population training Tajik "brothers" in modernwarfare methods, subver­ will be threatened by famine, 'epidemics of infectious dis­ sion, etc., were sent from Afghanistan to Tajikistan. Special eases, and still greater social upheavals. camps for training extremist Islamist fighters, recruited from The republic's new leader, the Supreme Soviet Chairman among Tajik emigres and refugees, have been set up in the Emomali Rakhmonov (it was decided not to elect a President, Tabor and Konduz provinces of Afghanistan. In the past few in order to forestall a new round of clan infightingover pow-

60 International EIR March 26, 1993 er) and Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullodjanov, are firmly determined to carry out socio-economic reforms. They are adopting political measures, and at the same time consolidat­ ing central power, setting up a regular army and putting an end to the civil war. They are also taking vigorous steps to rehabilitate the national economy. At the meetings of the New Mghanaccord may leaders of the Community of Independent States, held in Tashkent and Minsk in January 1993, the Russian Federation widen CentralAsia war and the Central Asian republics pledged all-round support to by DeanAndromidas them. Large supplies of food products, building materials, and consumer goods are being sent to Tajikistan. Aftersome vacillation, a decision was also made to prolong the tempo­ Afghani mujahideen guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rary stay in Tajikistan of the 201st motorized rifle division has been named prime minister of a new Afghan government of the Russian Army, which has done much to curb the in an agreement brokered by Paki&tan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, development of the civil war in Tajikistan. and the United States. Since the overthrow of the Soviet­ However, the situation in the Pamirs and, especially, on backed governmentlast year, Hekmatyar, bankrolled by both the Tajik-Afghan border in the Pyandzh area, is still very the CIA and Saudi Arabia, has cOQducted a bloody conflict tense. Although the authorities in Dushanbe have been in­ against the governmentof PresideQt Burhanuddin Rabbani, formed about the preparations for Operation Retribution, and that has left Kabul in a shambles and thousands of civilian all necessary steps are being taken not only to localize but casualties. also to deal an excruciating blow at the Islamist fighters' Observers fear that the newa�eement could throw the units, in the spring of 1993, Tajikistan remains one of the current Central Asian arc of crisis into new convulsions, most dangerous points of instability and Islamic fundamen­ especially when seen in the context ofregional developments talist activity-an arc of sorts, stretching from the Adriatic in the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, through Iraq, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Pamirs, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and especiallyTa jiki­ and the Hindu Kush to the Himalayas. stan, which is currently in a civil war. The fact that the populations of these countries are all ethnically represented in neighboring Afghanistan has served to interconnect Af­ ghanistan, and potentially the MiCildle East and the Indian TAPES FROM subcontinent, with developments if).these countries. According to various reports, fIekmatyar's well-armed and well-financed forces have been training and otherwise PRISON abetting insurgents inside the former Soviet republic of Taji­ 1991 Statements kistan, as part of a strategy to set Tajiks against Tajiks and by Lyndon LaRouche thereby weaken the relative influence, within Afghanistan, Two hours of audio statements of ethnic Tajiks. Both Afghan Defense Minister Shah Ahmed Massoud and President Rabbani, Hekmatyar's leading oppo­ Recorded fromfederal prison in Rochester, Minnesota nents, are ethnic Tajiks, while Helqnatyarhimself is a Push­ • "How Peace Could Have Been Obtained in the tun, the ethnic group that has tra41itionally dominated Af­ Middle East" ghanistan. • "The DissociatedGeorge Bush" For its part, Moscow is prepartjd to react to this by step­ • "North American Free Trade Agreement" ping up its brutal intervention within Tajikistan on behalfof

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EIR March 26, 1993 International 61 sources, Saudi Arabia and the United States, the principal peacekeeping forces to Afghanistan to preserve peace there. financial backers of the Hekmatyar factions, pressured the He was also confident that other Islamic countries would Rabbani government to bring Hekmatyar into the govern­ contribute peacekeeping forces." Meanwhile, IRNA said ment. These same sources further report that the United that Rafsanjani "voiced satisfaction" during talks with all States refused to deal with the Rabbani government unless three leaders about the accord. t they "broadened" it to include Hekmatyar. In addition, in a period of a month before the signing of the deal, two gover­ Cauldron of war nors of Afghan provinces, believed to oppose Hekmatyar, Nevertheless, the danger isiposed by Hekmatyar and the were assassinated. potential of using his new position to further destabilize the In Islamabad, after six days of negotiations (or rather region. This can be seen in thetambiguous role he played in armtwisting), an agreement was reached whereby Hekmat­ opposing the Rabbani government over the last 11 months. yar would become prime minister and Rabbani would remain Awash with millions of dollars !from Saudi Arabia, the CIA, as President for another 18 months. Nonetheless, it is feared and the drug trade, he has been acquiring heavy weapons, that the agreement might have a very short lifespan and lead such as multiple rocket launchers which he has used to pound to an early collapse and renewal of the fratricidal fighting. away at Kabul over the past months. He has also factionalized Hekmatyar's arch-rival, Defense Minister Ahmed Shah the government coalition by forming a secret alliance with Massoud, at a press conference in Kabul on March 10, also Dostum and spliting away the 'Shiite party, Hizb-i-Wahdat said he accepted the peace agreement, but did not hesitate to Islami, to the consternationof tran, the principal sponsor of warn that if Hekmatyar attempted to remove him from the the latter. defense ministry, he would be forced to take a section of the Since last summer, Hekmajtyar is also reported to have army with him, according to Indian press reports. begun supporting Islamicist fighters in neighboring Tajiki­ Because Massoud is an ethnic Tajik, he has also ex­ stan, with the intent of expancting the conflict into Central pressed considerable concernwith the growing involvement Asia, particularly Tajikistan, !Uzbekistan, and Iran. Ac­ of Russian troops in the civil war in Tajikistan. cording to one report, several hundred men have been trained by Hekmatyar in camps near the northern Afghani town of Uzbeki militia leader omitted Imam Sahib. These operations are conducted by his local Omitted from the accord has been Gen. Rashid Dostum, commanders who have been �ntering Tajikistan to recruit leader ofthe well-armed Uzbeki militia. However, the agree­ fighters, bring them to Imam Sahib for training, and then ment has been tentatively endorsed by General Momin, com­ send them back with shipmentsiof weapons. mander of the former communist militia forces in Kabul who Mujahideen sources confinlned that if Hekmatyar is al­ is allied with Dostum. It was Dostum and his much-feared lowed to consolidate his positidn, he would move to expand militia that actually kept the Soviet -backed N aj ibullah regime Afghanistan's involvement in !Tajikistan and other Central in power once Russian troops withdrew, and it was his joining Asian nations. Such an engagement would be in the service forces with Massoud which led to its collapse. But Dostum of outside powers and not in t� interests of Afghanistan or continues to be as mercenary as he was when he was support­ the Tajiks fighting a Russian-sponsored regime. "You have ing the Russians, and he has withdrawn to his native Uzbeki to understand, Hekmatyar ha� worked for everyone, first region in the northeastern part of the country. He enjoys Iran, then Saudi Arabia, and P istan. He has received mil- tk. good contacts with the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, lions," one source noted. which could also serve to draw Afghanistan into the unstable The fact is that Hekmatyar has received the lion's share affairs of that country. He has forged independent links with of the over $500 million channeled to the mujahideen during Turkey to which he made an unofficial visit only a few the struggle against the Soviet RJed Army. Nonetheless, these months ago. sources report that during that struggle, Hekmatyar avoided After the accord was signed in Pakistan, Rabbani and fighting the Red Army and spemt most of his efforts fighting Hekmatyar proceeded to Saudi Arabia and Iran. In Mecca on his factional enemies among the other mujahideen groups. March 12, both Pakistan's prime minister and Saudi King "We have copies of directives to his commanders telling Fahd signed as guarantors the peace accord, at the request of them to report to the Russians the locations of other groups President Rabbani, according to wire reports. Rabbani fur­ as a way of eliminating his enetpies." ther reported that "King Fahd told us Saudi Arabia plans to Born in a Pushtun enclave �n the northern Tajik region, rebuild Afghanistan which was destroyed by the war." Hekmatyar started his political qareer by joining the Commu­ In Teheran, Rabbani and Hekmatyar held talks with Irani­ nist Party as an engineering sludent at Kabul University. an President Rafsanjani. The Iranian news agency IRNA Upon joining the Islamicist mOvement, he began building quoted Rafsanjani as urging Islamic countries to join Iran up his own faction. This rathelr enigmatic background has in sending peacekeeping forces to monitor the cease-fire in reinforced fears concerning where his real loyalties might Kabul. "Mr. Rafsanjani said Iran was ready to send lie.

62 International EIR March 26, 1993 been rejected by the last South Korean administration; Noh Tae Woo insisted that the interests e�pressed by the big play­ ers were not necessarily those of the�Koreans. New South Korean President Kim Young Sam-a former dissident with close ties to the U.S. elite-has announced that he will focus, in his dealing w th North Korea, on the 'Mediators' in Korea i' country's human rights violations. According to So�th Ko�e� For ig� inister Han Jung­ are cause for worry f � . soo, the key players 10 medlatmg the cnSlS are Chma and the United States. "China has said they are putting a lot of effort by Lydia Cherry into the matter," Han Sung-joo told a seminar in Seoul March 17. The Chinese said "they have a lot of influenceover North If there is anything more worrisome than the current sabre­ Korea, but it is really the United Statesand South Korea who rattling of the isolated, heavily armed North Korean regime hold the key," he said. "China believes the United States with seemingly little to lose, it is the fact that the mediators should try to hold talks with the North, which would help the in the "North Korean crisis" are the powers bringing the situation. " world close to World War III. Since the North took the pro­ It seems clear that, if left to their own devices, the nations vocative action the first week in March of pulling out of of East Asia could reach an arrangeplent with North Korea, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Britain's Daily a country in economic difficulty. In early 1991, for example, Telegraph has called for bombing North Korean missile sites; the North Koreans sought exchange� with some of the more South Korea has "taken the North's nuclear problem to a prosperous and politically neutral �ountries, for economic higher international level"-the U.N. Security Council; and deals, technological cooperation, aI¥ifood aid. North Korea representatives from Russia, the United States, Britain, and widened its diplomacy from histori

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Ve nezuela's Perez under firefr am all sides, as goverrnnent hangs by threada by Val erie Rush

It was bad enough that Venezuela's corrupt President, Carlos extraordinary meeting by the Inter-American Dialogue, Andres Perez, got booed and jeered by congressmen when which indeed had proposed thd formation of such a multilat­ he attempted to deliver his last state of the nation address eral military force, but which " was never approved nor en­ on March 11, or that his limousine was stoned by angry dorsed by the Venezuelan gov�rnment." demonstrators . Worse still was the fact that the Supreme General Visconti answere4t by pointing to CAP's long Court that same week declared unconstitutional the summary history of publicly promoting ptecisely such a "limited sover­ trials and convictions of some 200 military and civilian rebels eignty" doctrine. He further vtamed that the country could who had attempted to overthrow Perez last Nov. 27. And not hope to root out the deep-s�ated corruptionamong Vene­ worst by far, for Perez, was the decision by Venezuelan zuela's political elites by wai�ng until December to dump Attorney General Ramon Escovar Salom to call on the Su­ CAP at the polls. i preme Court to investigate Perez for embezzlement and mis­ While the Venezuelan natton thus debates the issue of use of public funds. Carlos Andres Perez's treasoq, the reality of the economic While Perez (known to his countrymen as CAP) was collapse his policies have brought about is making itself felt. squirming on the hot seat, the nation was again being rocked That most sensitive ofbaromeths, the Caracas stock market, by rumors of an imminent military coup. Reports have ranged has gone into free fall along Iwith a new surge of capital from rumored uprisings at military bases to the resignation flight. And thanks to CAP' s �erciless enforcement of the of the defense minister and CAP's flight from Venezuela. International Monetary Fund's "economic adjustment re­ Things have gotten so far out of hand that Defense Minister forms," Venezuela's newly impoverished majority is staging Gen. Ivan Dario Jimenez was recently forced to acknowledge protest demonstrations and stt!ikes across the country. The the unprecedented levels of instability, and to admit, "We head ofthe Venezuelan Worke� Confederation CesarOlarte, cannot guarantee anything." is threatening a general strike Ito demand a minimum wage hike and a freeze on the price!of food staples, now soaring Polarization and discontent beyond the reach of the averag� Venezuelan. In particular, the country is sharply polarized around the charges by Nov. 27 coup leader Gen. Francisco Visconti Venezuela's 'Watergate� (currently in exile in Peru) that CAP's governmenthas vio­ The CAP governmentis uQiversally acknowledged to be lated Venezuelan sovereignty by embracing Washington's on its last legs. Even the Wa�hington Times of March 21 demands to reform the charter ofthe Organization of Ameri­ could not resist commenting that "Mr. Perez, who sounds can States (OAS). That "reform," insisted Visconti in an increasingly like Richard NixQn in the finaldays of the Wa­ open letter to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Gen. Fernando tergate scandal, told the nation on television last week that Ochoa Antich, would legitimize U.S. intervention into the he has done 'nothing, but absolutely nothing, illegal or countries of the southern hemisphere by converting the pre­ immoral.' "In that same spee

64 International EIR March 26, 1993 lombia to extradite two fugitive military rebels who were that the country could explode in violence long before the arrested in that country while seeking political asylum from December elections roll around. Indeed, if the Venezuelan CAP's persecution. The two Venezuelan officershad partici­ people have their way, Perez won't make it through April. pated in the Nov. 27, 1992 coup attempt against CAP, and their arrestby Colombian authorities triggered such outrage Embezzlement charges among Colombians and Venezuelans alike that the Colombi­ The most immediate challenge stems from the March 12 an governmentof President Cesar Gaviria was forced to re­ announcement by Venezuela's independent AttorneyGener­ lease them to Ecuador, where they are now under government al Ramon Escovar Salom that he has formally charged Presi­ protection. dent Perez with embezzlement and misuse of public funds. Then there was the report that Carlos Andres Perez was With a 73-page document detailing! the charges against the complicit in the 1976 assassination offormer Chilean Foreign President, Escovar has petitioned the Supreme Court to rule Minister Orlando Letelier. The details surfaced during the on whether there is sufficient merit in the evidence to order Santiago trial of former Chilean intelligence chief Gen. Man­ CAP's presidential immunity lifted, preparatory to both civil uel Contreras, when Venezuelan attorney and defense wit­ and criminal trial proceedings again!>thim. In the event that ness Pio Gonzalez confirmedContreras 's claims that the au­ such a ruling is made in Escovar's favor, Perez will be forced thors of the assassination were CIA-linked agents of the by law to abandon office. DISIP, Venezuela's political police. CAP was President of The embezzlement charges s�m from Perez's first Venezuela in 1976 and surroundedhimself -then as now­ months in office in 1989, when he rtWOrtedly conspired with with a personal phalanx of DISIP agents, many of whom his former interior minister, Alejandro Izaguirre, and former were Cuban exiles who had undergone anti-Castro terrorist presidential secretary Reinaldo Figljleredo Planchart, to di­ training with the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency. vert some 250 million bolivars from an Interior Ministry According to Gonzalez, who was the lawyer for two such secret fund, converting them into $17 million on the last day Cuban exile terrorists involved in the 1976 bombing of a of a preferential currency conversion plan, and then con­ Cuban passenger plane, "Carlos Andres Perez has always verting them back into bolivars. The conspirators reportedly been the U.S. State Department's spearhead in Latin made at least $20 million in profit.CAP insists that the money America. The Letelier case and the Cuban airplane disaster was used for legitimate defense anq security purposes, and cannot be seen as isolated incidents. They form part of a was only "mistakenly" wired to the fficeof the presidency. constant, systematic trajectory of Mr. Perez in favor of State There is currently much speculation over whether the Departmentinter ests. " Supreme Court-largely made up; of CAP appointees­ would ever rule in favor of the Presi�nt' s prosecution. How­ When and how? ever, it is widely acknowledged that �my dismissal or coverup The only questions still to be answered concerningCA P's of the charges could be the immediate trigger for a new coup unceremonious departure, are when and how will he go? If attempt. CAP's efforts to pressure; the Supreme Court by left up to the power elites in Washington, D.C. -who appear demanding that it issue an immediate ruling on Escovar's to be the Venezuelan President's last bulwark of defense­ petition have thus farproven unsucc!!ssful. Perez will be replaced through carefully orchestrated presi­ dential elections next December, and will hopefully go quiet­ Kissinger to the rescue? ly off into retirement with Miss Matos and with the millions Even as Venezuela is in the thrqes of economic, social, he stole from the Venezuelan people. The newly adopted and political crises, the internationaljfinancial elite which has "favorite sons" of the U.S. State Department, Venezuela's sustained CAP in power past Judgl11-ent Day refuses to give Causa R party, are doing their best to persuade Venezuela's up. On March 17, a delegation of �nternational advisers to furious citizenry to accept that option, to "put their faith in CAP arrived in Caracas, headed by formerU.S. Secretary of the ballot box" and, presumably, in Causa R's presidential State Henry Kissinger, and includitIg Mitsubishi President candidate. Shinroku Morohashi, former American Express executive But the electorate is well aware that Venezuela's notori­ James Robinson, and Italian clothie� Luciano Benetton. Un­ ously corruptpolitical elite has a stranglehold on the institu­ daunted by polls showing that their man in Caracas has a tions of power, to the point that what passes for "Venezuelan single-digit popularity rating, the gr�up discussed with Perez democracy" in Washingtonian rhetoric is better known how to make Venezuela "more compe. titive" for the shrinking among Venezuelans as the cogollo, or political mafia. pie of foreign investment. At the same time, the recent example of Brazilian Presi­ Perez assured the gathering of pnancial superstars that dent Fernando Collor's impeachment for corruption is still the Venezuelan economy was "mating progress." Perhaps fresh in the minds of all Ibero-Americans. Thus, the demands what he had in mind was the billiqns of drug dollars that, for Perez's immediate resignation are now coming from according to both U. S. and U.N. narcotics investigators, are spokesmen across the political spectrum, as the fear grows legally laundered through Venezuela each year.

EIR March 26, 1993 International 65 Behind SouthAmerican arrn �d forces' wage crisis: the demilitarization plot

by Gretchen Small

Outrage within the military at the poverty-level wages on Menem announced that no wage increase will be allowed in which most Ibero-American military officers and troops are the military until government revenuesimpro ve. forced to survive has reached the level of a national crisis in both Brazil and Argentina, where the military commands Supranational missions only? have informed their governments that if pay raises are not From the minute he was hamed, Camilion made clear granted immediately, military discipline may collapse. What that he views the military economic crisis as a means to force most military officers have failed to understand, however, is through the restructuring of the Argentine military into a how the military wage and budget crises are being deliber­ mere appendage of supranati

66 International EIR March 26, 1993 nando Henrique Cardoso, and Inter-American Development McNamara specified that such cuts would aid the process of Bank chief Enrique Iglesias. replacingnational military institutionsiby United Nations supra­ From the outset, the Dialogue proposed that the Organi­ national forces in most areas of the world. In the emerging new zation of American States should be given oversight over world order, collective security mechanisms will make national national military activities. They escalated their anti-military institutions obsolete, he stated. campaign in 1986, setting up a special task force to propose That policy has been adopted vtholesale. The report in institutional mechanisms to reshape civil-military relations the IMF publicationIMF Survey on Dec . 14, 1992 on a forum in the hemisphere. (This was the same year in which the sponsored by the IMF in November in Washington, D.C., Dialogue proposed that the nations of the Americas legalize revealed how systematically these blmking officialshave set drugs, because, it warned, if prosecuted seriously, a war on out to impose "military reform." drugs could threaten the flow of drug monies used to pay Pierre Landell-Mills, a senior policy adviser at the World foreign debts.) Bank, bragged to the forum that th� World Bank has pres­ The Dialogue's 1988 report, A Time/or Choices, report­ sured at least 20 countries to reduetween different types ofexpenditur es, where it that morale remained high in the armed forces, but that the can be argued that "military expe41ditures were crowding population did not share its view that the national military out essential social spending." The political costs of explicit was an enemy. "Public attitudes toward the military are not conditionality by the World Bank �n national security can uniformly unfavorable and the armed forces themselves are also be avoided if bilateral lenders �d "donor consultative generally proud of their accomplishments," the report com­ groups" do the job of witholding aj.d from "heavy military plained. Choices argued that the time had therefore come to spenders," since if bilateral aid is �ut off, "these countries review, and change, both the "mission of the armed forces would no longer be able to draft a \1iable financing plan and and the scope of its mandate," and "the level of resources would in tum be ineligible for structlp'alad justment lending." that should be allocated to the military. " Another speaker, Nicole Ball of the Overseas Develop­ Cutting the resources of the military increasingly became ment Council, called upon the IMf', the World Bank, and the focus of the Dialogue's work, as a means to collapse other internationalfinancial institutiPns to "assume an activ­ morale and "curtail the influence of the armed forces" south ist stance" vis-a-vis military reforql. They must "establish of the Rio Grande. The Dialogue's 1993 report, Convergence common security-related criteria" f�r granting aid, and then and Community,demanded that "internationalfinancial insti­ use the "many, subtle and varied" �echanisms available to tutions-the World Bank, IMF and Inter7American Develop­ them to yield the desired ends, sht1 said. "Policy dialogue, ment Bank-should monitor military spending and propose financial and technical support, re�ards for good behavior, that armed forces' budgets be subjected to the same cost­ efforts to set expenditure and performance targets in non­ cutting measures as those of civilian agencies." It proposed military areas (which can imply re4uctions in military aid), that, as well, a "permanent forum of civilian defense minis­ and encouraging countries to make the military sector subject ters , armed service commanders and key members of legisla­ to the same standards of accountabiljityand transparency that tures" be given a mandate to "take a fresh look at their armed apply to civilian sectors," are mecpanisms which she sug­ forces-their mission, size, weapons, and cost. " gested could buttress explicit condi�onality . It was left to Russell Kincaid, 4ief of the IMF's Special The IMF enters the battle Facilities and Issues Division, to m�e explicit the strategic It was Camili6n's fellow Dialogue member Robert McNa­ objective underlying the drive to *duce military expendi­ mara who first outlined at a public forum how the IMF could tures. Echoing the central thesisl of McNamara's 1991 take the lead in forcing through demilitarization under the new speech, Kincaid argued that the obj4ctive to be sought is that world order. In a speech to the annual meeting of the World "collective security . . . replaces � reliance on individual Bank in April 1991, McNamara demanded that international security arrangements." He raised, jbut left unanswered, the financial institutions make aid programs conditional on drastic central question raised by this new �angement: "Who will cuts in the military budgets of prospective recipient nations. play global policeman?"

EIR March 26, 1993 International 67 Forces, and that it is incumbent on the commander in chief, namely Franco, to "strengthen and protect them so that they are able to fulfilltheir constitut�onal mission." Members of the Military Club are requesting that their president, Gen. Nilton Cerquclra (ret.), be granted special Brazil military defies powers enabling him to work through the cabinet's military ministers and with President Fr�co to put forward "concrete Anglo-Americanpolic y measures which protect the nation, the Armed Forces, and its members from the nefariou$ effects of a criminal policy . . . which is incompatible with its honor and dignity. " by Cynthia Rush No to 'technological apattheid' Leaders of Brazil's Armed Forces have given President Ita­ One of the issues that militaty leaders find mostoff ensive mar Franco 30 days to respond to their demands regarding is the Anglo-American policy of denying Brazil and its the status and future of the military. During the first halfof Armed Forces the right to obtairi and develop advanced tech­ March, military leaders held high-profile meetings, as well nology and scientificknow-how . as personal discussions with Franco, to address Anglo-Amer­ Brigadier Hugo Piva, the ¢tired Air Force officer who ican plans to dismantle the institution of the Armed Forces. was demonized by Anglo-American media during the 1991 The presidents of the Army, Navy, and Air Force clubs, Persian Gulf war because of hi$ technical assistance to Iraq, representing retired officers, presented Franco with a docu­ discussed this issue in an interview published recently in ment outlining their grievances and describing the serious Veja magazine. Several of Brazil's important technological state of unrest existing inside the institution in a private meet­ projects, such as the Satellite Launcher Vehicle (VLS), have ing on March 8. failed, he explained, because past governments succumbed A volatile March 10 Extraordinary Assembly ofthe Mili­ to "internationalpressures" andlset the country back 20 years. tary Club held two days later in Rio de Janeiro warned the "We had a First World team, b\IIt today we arebehind ," Piva President that if he fails to act decisively, "We cannot predict said, adding that former Presidtnt Fernando Collor de Mello the irritating effect on troop morale. " The March 15 Tribuna committed "the irreparable crime" of doing away with re­ da imprensa underscored that the Armed Forces' leadership search and development. "Thi$ can be reversed, but it will now feels respect for the President, but if the climate of take . . . at least 20 years of hatd work." disrespect for the military is allowed to continue, this positive Responding to Anglo-AIIlIerican diatribes against the attitude toward Franco could change. spread of "weapons of mass d�struction," Piva emphasized Brazil's military officers and rank and file are enraged at that a national armaments industry is essential. "We need an the plans, coming primarily out of Washington, to redefine armaments industry because itl is a state-of-the-art industry their role in line with the needs of the Anglo-American new which drives others. Brazil today exports manufactured world order. The document handed Franco by retired officers goods as a result of the technology which the arms industry states that "confirmation of our lack of preparedness in the brought to the country." face of the attitudes of the world's powers with their 'new The Extraordinary Assembly document makes the same world order,' causes us to conclude that sovereignty, territo­ point, stating that "foreign pre�ures intended to prevent sci­ rial integrity, and national unity may be seriously entific-technologicaldevelopment in the area of military ma­ threatened. " terials, cannot be ignored." The purpose of such pressures, The mood of the military was evident at the assembly, it explains, is to reduce the military to a drug-fightingforce where 1,000 angry officers gathered in what one observer "under a supranational command, and [to] prevent it from described as "like a 1968 student meeting." The final docu­ attaining a level of efficiencycC!mpatible with Brazil's strate­ ment produced by that meeting sharply attacked plans to gic status." In statements repotted in the March 15 Tribuna "modify the traditional constitutional mission of the Armed da imprensa. General Cerqueira warned the United States Forces, eliminating the participation of same in internalsecu­ that Brazil's military leaders "shall never accept" the role of rity . . . and reducing the Armed Forces' operational capabil­ an anti-drug police force to whieh the Anglo-Americans want ' ity" on a variety of pretexts. to relegate them. The document also addressed the fact that the defense As a further warning to the Washington establishment, budget has been cut significantly, lowering wages to the point Piva emphasized in his Veja in�rview that "it's idiocy to say that many are forced to seek second jobs to support their that the Armed Forces aren't necessary ....Never in the families, making equipment maintenance and training of the history of humanity has a nation been built without an armed troops impossible, and creating a dangerous demoralization forces. Either it has its own ami.edfor ces, or it will find itself in the ranks. It notes that Brazilians are proud of their Armed taking orders fromits neighborrs."

68 International EIR March 26, 1993 AndeanReport by Val erie Rush

A narco-democratic 'peace'? government to facilitate continued New peace mediation offe rs are designed to sabotage trafficking operations. Following those fiascos, Gaviria made the deci­ Colombia's military offensive against the narco-terrorists. sion, under intense pressure from the military, to retake the path of repres­ sion of these criminal forces. That this strategy has begun to pay CorruPt elements within the Catho­ Colombian Bishops Conference, off, with the capt\lreof many top crim­ lic Church have joined forces with Co­ Archbishop Pedro Rubiano, endorsed inals in both camps, is triggering anxi­ lombia's narco-terrorists in pushing a Castrill6n's offer as "a pastoral ser­ ety attacks among promoters of the U.N.-styled "negotiated peace" vice." An emboldened Castrill6n now "EI Salvador model" both inside and which would not only reward their claims to have Vatican backing for his outside of Colombia, who are count­ strategy of blackmailing the nation mediation efforts. ing on negotiateid deals such as the through mass terror, but would hand At the same time, the "formerly" ones Bishop Castrill6n and the M-19 the narco-terrorists a substantial quota narco-terrorist M-19, now a legalized are promoting, to undermine the na­ of political power as well. political party , has offered to mediate tional sovereignty and armed forces of The "narco-bishop" of Bucara­ peace negotiations with a 700-man Ibero-America's republics. manga, Dario Castrill6n, who earned guerrilla force known as Socialist It comes as no surprise, therefore, a dirty name for himself in 1984 when Renovation, a faction of the Cuban­ that one such defender ofthe Salvado­ he publicly confirmed that he was on linked ELN which financesits kidnap­ ran "peace" model, Colombian De­ the payroll of the Medellin Cartel's pings, assassinations, and dynamite fense Minister Rafael Pardo Rueda, Carlos Lehder, has announced that he attacks on the country's energy, com­ told the daily El Espectador of March plans to answer a personal appeal munications, and transportation infra­ 14 that he has no interest in defeating from fugitive cartel chieftain Pablo structure with money from the drug subversion, but merely in convincing Escobar by attempting to "mediate" trade. the narco-terrori$ts to negotiate. Par­ the drug trafficker's negotiated sur­ Although President Cesar Gaviria do Rueda, ColQl11bia's first civilian render. Castrill6n revealed that has insisted, at least in public, that a defense minister; who previously held among the demands Escobar is issuing total cease-fire and abandonment of the post of "peace adviser" to the pres­ as conditions for his surrenderare that all "criminal activity" would be the idency, declared: "It's not a question he be given his own kitchen, a person­ condition for such negotiations, he of annihilating subversion, but of al telephone line, and private quarters has nonetheless embraced the M-19's weakening their criminal apparatus to within the Itaguijail, where more than offer. the point that they are obliged to opt a score of his collaborators and body­ M-19 chieftain Antonio Navarro for the peaceful path the government guards are already detained. Wolf, like his Communist Party coun­ has offered." Pal'dohas given the ter­ It was the Gaviria government's terpart Manuel Cepeda, has issued a rorists a generous 18 months to see the shameless acceptance of similar con­ formal petition to the United Nations light. ditions one year ago which led to Es­ to appoint a mediator to facilitate an EI This "peaceful path," as defined cobar's short stay in a lUXUry "prison" Salvador-style "peace pact" between by the new national Constitution of his own construction, from which Colombia's government anda variety which was fashioned in 1991 under he carried out his daily business of of rampaging terrorist forces, includ­ the tutelage of the M-19's Navarro drug trafficking and assassinations ing the ELN. Wolf and Pablo Escobar's front-men and was served hand and foot by his Last year's efforts by the Gaviria in the Congress, would permitColom­ "imprisoned" associates and hand­ government to negotiate separate bia's narco-terroriststo put down their picked prison guards alike. peaces with Escobar's cocaine cartel weapons in excllange for a full gov­ Far from denouncing Bishop Cas­ and with the narco-terrorist guerrilla ernment amnesty and government fi­ trill6n's "offer of service" to Escobar forces proved disastrous, when the nancing. Most ' importantly, they as a conscious effort to obstruct Co­ guerrillas escalated their terrorist tac­ would get gUaIlinteed seats in the lombian justice by trapping the gov­ tics as a bargaining chip in the negotia­ House and Senate, and on municipal ernmentinto another treasonous plea­ tions, and when Escobar used his councils without the necessityof going bargain arrangement, the head of the plea-bargained arrangement with the through elections!

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German and Soviet planning for a military struction o� the armed forces in order to con­ Japanese LDP chief offensive against We st Germany was so de­ summate ils assault on power." The report ' jailed as scandal grows tailed and advanced that the communists had added that,only the Salvadoran government already made street signs for westerncities , has the right "to compare and judge the ac­ Japanese prosecutors said on March 6 that printed cash for their occupation govern­ tions of the armed forces." they had jailed the 78-year-old political ment and built equipment to run eastern Flankep at his press conference by the powerbroker Shin Kanemaru and his secre­ trains on western tracks, according to docu­ entire miUtary high command in full uni­ tary Masahisa Haibara on tax evasion ments found by the German military." form , he slngled out the U.S. role: "No one charges, Kyodo news agency reports . Ka­ Vice Admiral Ulrich Weisser, chief of is unawar

70 International EIR March 26, 1993 • THE SHINING PATH guerril­ las of Peru held Indians and children as slaves, according to UPI March 15. More tha · 120 Indians, including 75 children, scapedfrom a camp in exposes the "deficiencies" of the treaty in of massacre.. ..I did not smell the odor of t the Amazon gion run by Shining respectto the Japanese intentions: "Equally, death." Path , where they had been held it has failed to prevent the amassing of a Mayor Hadzic, in a statement early in against their jwill for five months, large stockpileof weapons-grade plutonium March, said sarcastically that Morillon forced to rec4ive indoctrination and by Japan." didn't "smell" certain things because he "ar­ guerrilla trainl.ng. rived too late," after the town had fallen "into the hands of the Serbs." Also, Hadzic • UZBEKISTAN'S President Is­ affirmed, Morillon did nothing to evacuate Bavaria seeks arrest of lam Karimov tcalled for creation of a 1,500 wounded, and "helped the aggres­ "new Warsaw Pact," in an interview Serbian war criminals sors ," by intervening only after the Serbs with the French daily Le Montie on had scored a victory against the Bosnians. March 8. "I would like Russia," he Gebhard Gluck, the minister of labor of the The London Sunday Times on March 7 said, "to be the guarantor of security German state of Bavaria, announced on quoted various U.N. High Commission for in Central Asia. . . . The interests of March 9 that he is seeking criminal indict­ Refugees workers on how the general's Russia necessarily coincide with ments against three Serbian citizens be­ antics had "delayed plans" for relief efforts those of the cquntries of Central Asia, lieved to have committed war crimes, Zej l­ into eastern Bosnia. and, above alJ, with those of Uzbek­ ko Raznjatovic, Voj slav Seselj , and Drago Morillon gained international notoriety istan." Prcac . This is the first time that a European for his role in allowing the Serbian assassi­ government official has taken such action nation of Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister • KHMER OUGE gunmen mas­ under the domestic criminal code. Hakija Thrajlic on Jan. 8, while Thrajlic was � sacred at least 34 ethnic Vietnamese According to Gluck, "It could take years travelling in a convoy under U.N. pro­ civilians on March 11, including 8 before the International Court, as Foreign tection. Minister Kinkel proposed, ever takes up the children and j4 women. Vietnam is­ matter, whereas, our criminal code takes sued a statement that "if resolute are precisely this eventuality into account, un­ measures not taken to stop the der the heading 'Mass Murder.' It is also killings, the� will be a threat of a clear, that this paragraph makes it possible Panama's Endara bans resumption Qf mass massacres in to prosecute for crimes committed in foreign Cambodia with unpredictable conse- countries." movie on U. S. invasion quences." , Gluck believes that the Bavarian High TURKISH Court has the authority to hear such cases, The U.S.-installed Panamanian government • officialstold their Eu­ and that the accused could be arrested the of President Guillermo "Honeybun" Endara ropean countctrparts, at a conference moment they touched German soil. Gluck has banned a motion picture documentary in Britain J!eCently, that NATO believesthat all the nations which signed the about the December 1989 U.S. invasion of should interv�ne in the crisis in for­ Genocide Convention of 1948 are beholden his country, which installed him in power. mer Soviet dentral Asia, according to act in the same way, and he has asked the The film,"Panama Invaded," has been nom­ to IPS news Iservice. Emre Gunen­ to German foreign minister to put those nations inated for an Oscar award . Endara banned soy, adviser Turkish Prime Minis­ on notice . it on the grounds that it "denigrates the im­ ter Suleiman I!>emirel, said, "Thereis age" of his puppet government. a need to deter civil and ethnic strife . In yet another example of "democracy" · ..In Turkey we think that NATO, at work, the Panamanian Supreme Court has with its reco� of credibility and lo­ Bosnian mayor denounces brought criminal charges against columnist gistics, is the most credible organiza­ Luis De Janon and several other reporters tion for such a task." France's General Morillon and editors , as well as the publishers of the i opposition daily LaEstrella, for "conspiring • SERBIA1!ldictator Slobodan Mi­ The mayor of the eastern Bosnian town of against national security," becauseDe Janon losevic telephpned Greek Prime Min­ Thzla, Saad Hadzic , declared Gen. Philippe published a bit of sleaze regarding Chief ister Konstantin Mitsotakis last year Morillon, the French commander of the Justice Carlos Lucas LOpez Tej ada. It seems to discuss a plan for the two "Ortho­ United Nations troops in Bosnia, "persona that the judge was a former partner of Gil­ dox Christirut" nations to divide up non grata on all the territory of Bosnia-Her­ berto Rodriguez Orejuela and Jorge Luis the Republiq of Macedonia, ac­ cegovina," because of his "inexact and cyni­ Ochoa, kingpins of Colombia's Cali and cording to th� London Sunday Tele­ cal affirmations" respecting the massacres Medellin cocaine cartels, respectively. graph of Marph 7. Mitsotakis appar­ in eastern Bosnia. Morillon, on visiting the EIR 's intelligence resourceswere drawn ently did not ,commit himself to the I refugee-filledand Serbian-besieged town of upon in the making of the documentary and plan. Konjevic Polje, said that there is "no trace for several of De Janon's columns.

ElK March 26, 1993 International 71 �ITillBooks

Friedrich Nietzsche's evil legacy falsified

by Mark Burdman

The "real Friedrich Nietzs¢he," according to Macintyre, may have been violent and aruel in his writings at some Forgotten Fatherland: The Searchfor points, but was actually an inspirational writer. Immediately Elisabeth Nietzsche in his introduction, Macintyre waxes eloquent in this vein, by Ben MaCintyre in Madison A venue-type lin�o: "Our own world is more Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1992 anomic even than his was, our need for Nietzschean individu­ 256 pages, hardbound, $22 ality still more pressing. It is as easy to disagree with Nietz­ sche as it is hard to dislike hilm, in spite or because of his cussedness. He is feisty and irhtating and fiercelychalleng­ ing, permanently either movi�g the goal posts or trying to Were London Times columnist Ben Macintyre to have re­ brain you with them. Some of �is thoughts are mistaken, but stricted himself to a travelogue-adventure, describing his at­ he has views on everything; 1:\11 are worth hearing, none is tempts to visit the "Nueva Germania" colony in Paraguay boring and some are surely rigHt." Evidently identifying him­ established in the last century by Elisabeth Foerster-Nietz­ self as a "Nietzschean individualist," Macintyre then de­ sche and her husband Bernhard Foerster, Forgotten Father­ scribes carrying Nietzsche's �ooks in his backpack during land might have been enjoyable. Macintyre can be a talented his exploratory voyage to Para�uay. writer, who sometimes exhibits a sense of irony and capacity All ofthis effulgencefor Nietzsche is ideological garbage for using metaphor effectively. of a dangerous sort. Macintyre constructs his case by combin­ However, Macintyre has chosen to use the occasion of ing undeniable facts with the kinds of fraud that one would his expose of his evil villain Elisabeth Nietzsche to engage in associate with a poseur whos¢ historical and philosophical an obsessive defense of her brother, the philosopher Friedrich competence is near-zero. The book could be summarily dis­ Nietzsche, who is the victim/hero of his story. By doing this, missed, did it not correspond to a trend of popularizing and, Macintyre has engaged in a fraud every bit as noxious and where necessary , rehabilitating Nietzsche, to make him a damaging as the one that he accuses sister Elisabeth of having kind of guru for the 1990s, and were it not for the fact that committed vis-a-vis her brother. the book is being cited favorably, including in Israel, to In sum, Macintyre's point is that Elisabeth, in her obses­ rehabilitate the "anti-Nazi" Friedrich Nietzsche who can be sion for self-aggrandizement and in pursuit of political-ideo­ liked by Jews (or at least those of a certain existentialist I logical aims, massively distorted Friedrich's ideas, both dur­ political persuasion). ing his 1890s incapacitation due to insanity (caused, so most This is all the more probl�matic, since 1994 will be the reliable accounts go, by his having contracted syphilis), and 150th anniversary year of his ;birth. The March 16 issue of in the 35 years following his death in 1900. It was Elisabeth, SiiddeutscheZeitung reports tbat a marble bust of Nietzsche Macintyre contends, who, with singleminded determination, is being erected in Weimar, tie city where he died, as part created a mythology of her brother as a passionate anti-Sem­ of a post-Communist rehabilitation of him, after years when ite and German nationalist, and thereby enabled him to be the Communists maintained a taboo on Nietzsche because of coopted by the Nazis as a hero of the German Vol k. the Nazis' worship of him. A; major symposium is planned

72 Books EIR March 26, 1993 for the city, on the theme, "Jewish Nietzscheanism since Christianity, as Macintyre frequently and openly acknowl­ 1988," according to the daily. edges Nietzsche did? Even if one were to concede (which it is not our intent to do here) Macintyre's point that Nietzsche Nietzsche and the Jews abhorred racially motivated attacks on Jews, Nietzsche's Sometimes, Macintyre's attempts to defend "poor bitter philosophical dislike ofMosaic Judaism and Christian­ Friedrich" against the evil Foersters are hilarious, a kind of ity, fully acknowledged by Macintyre, places Nietzsche pre­ comic relief that only a certain type of ideologically motivat­ cisely on the same plane as Hitler and his circle. Competent ed British writer can provide. What is one to make of this researchers have documented that , Hitler's main animus comment? Friedrich Nietzsche "believed Foerster's vegetari­ against Judaism, even more virulenNhan his hate-filled bio­ anism would make him gloomy and depressed, in contrast to logical-racial obsessions about Jews, came from his hatred the British taste for roast beef which had made them such of the entire Judeo-Christian philos

EIR March 26, 1993 Books 73 Here, Macintyre has simply concocted an historical fabri­ That point allows us to summarize the case: It was Nietz- I cation. In her well-documented book, Eugenics, Human Ge­ sche himself who was the evil. That is not of simply academic netics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its significance today. Several lof the main trends of Gnostic Sources and Its Critics in Britain, Pauline Mazumdar shows thinking today, whether it tie "deconstruction ism" and the that Zarathustra was published in English already in 1896, New Age "political correct�bss" that it has spawned in the long before World War I (see EIR , Dec. II, 1992, p. 52). United States, or the recent resurgence of the late Ayn Rand's This is not a minor point: Mazumdar's contention is that "objectivism," owe a great d al to Friedrich Nietzsche. �I Nietzsche was an inspiration behind the creation, in Britain, Elisabeth Nietzsche may have been as evilly motivated as of the Eugenics Society, and of the racialist, social Darwinist Macintyre depicts her, and uhdoubtedlY expedited Friedrich eugenics movement more generally, around the beginning of Nietzsche's idolization by th Nazis, but if that were all there the 20th century. According to Mazumdar, Nietzsche was was, the latter would have ceased to be a problem when the I already influencing British eugenicists by the 1890s and early Nazis were smashed in World War II. If the only problem 1900s. This was long before the nefarious Elisabeth could were her distortions of N ietz che in order to make him a hero possibly have influenced the Britons. To accept Mazumdar's of the Nazis, then why is �ietzsche today, 50 years after account is to accept the correct view that Nietzsche himself, the Nazis, a hero among ev ry proto-fascist, existentialist, with or without nefarious sister, was a profound influence on nihilist movement around? movements like eugenics. Cogent observers, alarm d by the predominant cultural That point is amply reinforced by Oxford professor John trends of a 20th century tha has seen two world wars and Carey's fascinating 1992 book, The Intellectuals and the horrible episodes of inhuman ·ty, have dubbed this "the centu­ Masses, which documents that Nietzsche was a prime influ­ ry of Nietzsche. " That point is well taken. One of this review­ ence among those British tum-of-the-century literati such as er's colleagues expressed t�e same idea from a different D.H. Lawrence, who openly espoused policies of extermina­ standpoint, in response to a\ report on Macintyre's thesis: tion and enslavement of the masses of human beings. Carey, "There's an easy way to how bad Nietzsche himself whose book is soon to be reviewed in EIR , correctly cites was, with or without his I s distortions. Just read him." Nietzsche as a key intellectual forebear of today's "decon­ And the London Times' Ben Macintyre is very much structionist" movement on college campuses. part of the problem, rather part of the solution.

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74 Books EIR March 26, 1993 .- � .•"" -�. ,f; ' ... .}. " TINYRO WtAND Deep secrets behind Lonrho boss Rowland by Nancy Spannaus

Tiny Rowland: The Ugly Face of Neocolonialism in Mrica by an EIR Investigative Team Executive Intelligence Review, Washington, D.C., 1993 165 pages, paperbound, $10

Since he took the helm of a sleepy little mining company in then-Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1961 and turned it into one of the world's premier multinationals, Lonrho, Roland W. "Tiny" Rowland has not only dominated the continent of Africa, but has spread his tentacles into India, Germany, ized the career of Rowland. Mexico, easternEurope , Russia, Japan, and beyond. "More importantly, this book is history of the tragedy An aura of mystery has always surrounded Rowland. of modem Africa. As documented, tpe post- 1960 decoloni­ What accounts for his meteoric rise? What gives him the zation announced by British Prime M�nister Harold Macmil­ power to dictate to governments? For whom does he work, lan in his famous 'Winds of Change' speech in Cape Town really? that year was always intended, by po erful forces in Britain, The product of a years-long investigation by a special to ultimately result in a recoloniza ion. The architects of EIR team on several continents, this book utilizes never­ this new colonialism sponsored the meteoric rise of Tiny before-published documentary evidence and interviews with Row land and Lonrho." those who have known Rowland intimately for decades, to What is particularly striking about Rowland from this I answer those questions. Stunning new light is cast on many book, is his sponsorship by top British circles connected hidden aspects of Row land's career, including: to the Royal Family. The followin individuals all helped • Rowland's pro-Nazi fanaticism, which led to his in­ Rowland get out of many a tight spot, Angus Ogilvy, Harley ternmentduring W orla War II as a danger to Britain; Drayton, Sir Joseph Ball, and Dun9an Sandys, the former • His participation in one ofthe most secret British intel­ Secretary of State for the Colonies. �he authors point to this ligence operations of the 20th century, the wartime "Double­ connection as being something be�ond financial involve­ Cross Committee," beginning a long affiliation between ment, however; rather, they view tile alliance of Rowland Rowland and Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI-6; with these royal retainers as reftectin� a policy commitment • His early sponsorship by legendary City of London of the Crown. magnate Harley Drayton, whose 117 Old Broad St. Group Also of particular interest to blackI Africans will be the managed the private fortune of the Queen; chronology of the duplicitous role plkyed by these so-called • His backing of all sides in the last decades' civil wars British liberals in fomenting civil wa in the African nations, in Africa; from Angola to Namibia to Zimbab,;,e. The authors warn of • His pivotal role in the Iran-Contra guns-for-drugs similar games set up to be played in the much larger and more affair. volatile South Africa, where British jcolonialists will keep a Said an EIR spokesman, "Africa is dying, and there is no tight hold on the raw materials wealth of the country, while 1 hope for the continent until the death-grip on its people by encouraging fratricidal warfare Wit ' the population. such pillars of the modem slave trade as the International While one could ask for a little more emphasis on the Monetary Fund and Tiny Rowland's Lonrho is broken. Until actual physical power which the Ro� and group holds today, now, journalists have been terrified to tell the story of the the book as a whole serves its tunction-to unmask this cheating, lying, stealing and worse, which have character- private financier as a tool of British ilnperial policy.

EIR March 26, 1993 Books 75 �TIillNational

VIPs press Clinton, Cbngress for LaRouche's freedom

A high-level international delegation composed of a former on, publisher and editor of the fJirminghamWorld. The dele­ cabinet official from Colombia, two congressmen from gation spentthe week of March 15-19 in Washington, meet­ Ukraine, and distinguished political and civil rights leaders ing with numerous U.S. cong�ssmen, senators, and officials from the United States, held a press conference on March 17 of the Clinton administration, 11<>inform them of the shocking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to express facts of the LaRouche case, a$ well as to urge them to take concern over the ongoing human rights violations against action to obtain LaRouche's �dom u.s. economist and political prisoner Lyndon H. LaRouche, LaRouche is currentlysenting the fifthyear of a IS-year and to demand his freedom. prison sentence at the Federal Medical Facility in Rochester, Their presence in the U.S. capital takes the worldwide Minnesota. Two of his associates, Rochelle Ascher and Mi­ fightfor LaRouche's freedomto a new height, in timing with chael Billington, are serving bllfbaric sentences on political­ the first and most fluidphase of the new Clinton administra­ ly-motivated charges in the state of Virginia, and several tion. The foreign lawmakers in particular embodied the rap­ others are appealing their co�ictions and face lengthy jail idly growing movement which an Italian weekly recently terms. Billington, convicted Qf "securities fraud" in one of named "the LaRouche party," which cuts across all the usual the most bizarrely cruel trialS even in Virginia history, is divisions in the ideological spectrum. Thousands of promi­ serving a 77-year sentence in a maximum security prison nent politicians, intellectuals, scientists, clergy, and others with murderers and other hard�ned criminals. signed an appeal to President Clinton to liberate LaRouche, At the Washington press c�nference, former Colombian which appeared in the New York Times on Jan. 27, 1993. Labor Minister Carrillo explained that he had spent over 34 At the press conference, Ukrainian parliamentarian Pavlo years of his life working to defend the rights of the workers Movchan summed up his purpose in making the unusual of his nation, including "respeCtfor life, education, and de­ intervention: "The reason we leftparliament [in Ukraine] to velopment." Through his contact with Lyndon LaRouche be here, is because the world will be destroyed if the present and his study of LaRouche's Writings, Carrillo reported, he policies are continued. With the direction things are now realized that the LaRouche economic policy incorporated going in, we could be heading for a third, and perhaps final, that commitment. "LaRouche has been jailed in the U.S. world war. Lyndon LaRouche has indicated how we can because he has defended tho!le ideas," said Carrillo, who change directions, and there are many people who would served in the cabinet of President Belisario Betancur in 1985- push LaRouche's ideas." 86. Joining Congressman Movchan were fellow Ukrainian Ukrainian parliamentarian Vladimir Shovkoshitny noted parliamentarian Vladimir Shovkoshitny, and the former la­ that LaRouche had been slandered in the Soviet press-in bor minister of Colombia Jorge Carrillo, who are in the Unit­ Pravda, Izvestia, and Literatlirnaya Gazeta, being called a ed States at the invitation of a group of American political fascist by those communist pUblications. Then suddenly he and civil rights leaders, which include former congressman was arrested and sent to jail. �'Here it was clear, there was James L. Mann (D-S.C.); the noted civil rights activists Rev. something worth investiga�ing," Shovkoshitny said. James Bevel and Amelia Boynton Robinson; and Joseph Dix- Through his investigation of the LaRouche political case, he

76 National EIR March 26, 1993 became interested in LaRouche's ideas. "I'll do everything Queen-but we don't yet know who Clinton is. We ask in parliament to make LaRouche's ideas popular among my Clinton, "Who are you?" We will know what kind of man he colleagues," he said. "I will organize a lobby for LaRouche." is by what he does. That will tell us wbo he is. If he does not Congressman Shovkoshitny concluded: "We should set up stand for the American System, we will know whom he many committees to save LaRouche around the world. In serves. that way, he will gain his freedom." Bevel pledged to wake the American people to under­ International civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Rob­ stand that LaRouche is in jail because he refused to give up inson laid out the need for perseverance to free LaRouche. the American System, "because he knows you cannot build "Earlier, rulers would cali on wise men in order to help them an economy on free trade." He continued, "Nothing will stop rule the country correctly," she said. "Now, it's different, the American people" in their fight to establish justice by and the rulers put their wise men into prison. This must freeing LaRouche. change if the world is to be saved." Other civil rights leaders who addressed the rally were Rev. Wade Watts of Oklahoma, and Rev. Richard Boone of Candlelight vigil at the White House Montgomery, Alabama. Watts reminded the participants that After the internationalVIP delegation held numerous pri­ although the corrupt forces that imprisoned LaRouche are vate meetings with Washington policymakers, more than 750 doing everything they can to destroy bim, LaRouche's spirit people of all walks oflife, from the United States and abroad, cannot be broken. Boone said he had come from Alabama held a vigil in front of the White House gate on the evening "with my banjo on my knee," to play . "song of freedom" to of March 20, to demand that President Clinton give a signal Clinton, asking him to stop the war in the Balkans, say "no" that he seriously means to bring about change, by freeing to free trade, say "yes" to the American System, and to free LaRouche. The demonstration coincided with the twice­ LaRouche. Boone led the crowd in songs and chants, both yearly conference of the Schiller Institute, held March 20-22 boisterous and solemn, in the spirit of the civil rights in the D.C. area; it was attended by delegates from Europe, movement. Africa, Asia, Canada, and Thero-America, as well as from all over the United States. From other continents Signs reading "Restore Justice, Free LaRouche" were Several foreign speakers linked their own national fights carried by young and old, as the demonstrators marched, to LaRouche's cause. The first was Alexandro Peiia, leader three abreast, in a circle on both sides of the block in front of the LaRouche movement in VenezUela, has played a key of the White House. Demonstrators brought with them thou­ role in the opposition to President Carlos Andres Perez, the sands of petitions to the President, demanding LaRouche's unpopular dictator of Venezuela. "We say to Clinton: This freedom. By pre-arrangement, the presentation of petitions injustice cannot go on any longer,"; said Peiia. "We will to Clinton will take place at a later date . To open the rally, mobilize Ibero-American-style to win LaRouche's free­ Debra Freeman of the Schiller Institute read the text of the dom." In Ibero-America, the drug lords are falling; we don't international Parliamentarians' Letter to Clinton. want this President to fall, but we want the prison walls to fall down and LaRouche to go free, the said. Where does Clinton stand? Siah Nyanseor, a Liberian who : resides in the United Amelia Boynton Robinson, heroine of the 1965 Selma States, chairman of the African Anti�Malthusian League of March, a watershed in the voting rights struggle, was the first the Schiller Institute, gave greetings from his "brothers and of several speakers from the civil rights movement led by sisters on the African continent." He: said that since joining the late Dr. Martin Luther King. She challenged Clinton to up with the Schiller Institute, he hJld learned economics release LaRouche, who had been imprisoned by Bush, asking and how to right the wrongs done to his continent by the why LaRouche should now remain a political prisoner, since oligarchy. Craig Isherwood of Melbioume spoke for thou­ Bush is now out of office. sands of Australians who are now aware of the fight to win The Rev. James Bevel took the microphone, demanding LaRouche's freedom. "We in Australia have sought to get to know whether PresidentClinton was a servant of the Amer­ LaRouche out," he said. "President Clinton, don't underesti­ ican people or an agent of the British crown. Bevel, formerly mate the strength of what we can dq down in Australia." a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, was the vice The rally was also addressed by Judge William Goodloe presidential running mate of Lyndon LaRouche during the of Seattle, Washington, and by OrtruQ Cramer of the Schiller 1992 election campaign. He told the crowd that although the Institute in Germany, who brough� greetings from Mrs. recent blizzard had passed, "a spiritual blizzard has begun. Helga Zepp-LaRouche. The rally ended with the singing of We here are completing the business of the American Revo­ "We Shall Overcome," followed by a five-minute silent lution." LaRouche, he said, like Paul Revere, has been riding prayer, as the candles held high by th� demonstrators illumi­ forth for 20 years telling the American people that the British nated the street in front of the Whitq House, from one end are coming. We know who Bush was-a subject of the to the other.

EIR March 26, 1993 National 77 Protesters arrested Meanwhile, U.S. Di Judge Royce Lamberth set the trial date for Reverend Chaitkin, who were arrest­ ed by the National Park Police anti-terrorist squad Whenwill the Pike (!) at a peaceful protest on the pretext that they were illegally speaking from a step leading up to the pedes- statue 'come on down'? tal of the KKK monument. rh''lrt1,"�lt''rof Nonviolent Direct A trial date of April 19 has been set for two men who are leading Action for Dr. Martin King's Southern Christian a national campaign to remove from Washington, D.C. 's Judi­ Leadership Conference. He 'sed the famous 1963 Bir- ciary Square , the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, a mingham children's march, overcame segregationist founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Rev. James L. Bevel and police tactics during a crisis the civil rights movement. In historian Anton Chaitkin face possible six-month prison terms 1992, Bevel ran for vice nrA'�lt1pnt of the United States on on charges of "statue-climbing." But with even such organs of a ticket with presidential and political prisoner the liberal establishment as the Washington Post now denounc­ Lyndon LaRouche. ing Pike, it is an open question whether the statue will be Chaitkin, a long-time ��,�� �v. demolished before their trial even starts . an investigative journalist, Washington Post Style Section writer Michael Farquhar White Supremacist m()ve:ml;,m on March 14 attacked the statue honoring the Masonic leader affiliated with U.S. and B as an "embarrassment" which should "come on down." Pike, Political demonstrations "HHV"'" he wrote , is "a bigot with genocidal inclinations." began in September 1992. the city councils of New The Post article escalates an already wild political contro­ Orleans, Louisiana; New York; Birgmingham and versy, with ominous implications for the Anglo-American Tuskeegee, Alabama; Texas; and Newark , New Jer­ power structure . sey passed resolutions for the removal of the statue. Farquhar reported that associates of Lyndon LaRouche had first "picketed the site and demanded [the statue's] de­ struction." "This infuriated us," Farquhar reported, "certain as we were that Albert Pike must be another hapless historical figure condemned in the sanctimonious glare of political cor­ rectness." After all , Farquhar said, "Pike's staunch compan­ ions, the Scottish Rite Freemasons, still hold him a hero, cheerfully distributing his biography to visitors at their tem­ ple on 16th Street. It was the Freemasons who persuaded Congress in 1898 that Pike was something of an American deity , and succeeded in obtaining federal approval for their memorial." But Farquhar pressed his research beyond what he called the "sanitized biographies" by the Scottish Rite Masons. He reported that Pike was grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas, and noted Pike's 1868 call for the "secret associa­ tion" of whites to stop blacks from voting, and the terrorist poem attributed to Pike which "extols the exploits of the hooded Knights [he] helped found." Farquhar also reported on Pike's incitment of attacks against immigrants and Cath­ olics. The article declared that Pike, a Confederate general whose troops "went wild, committing atrocities against Union soldiers ...came to be a pariah to both the North and the South ." The Confederates considered Pike "either insane or untrue to the South ," and the federal government indicted him for treason. Farquhar has received angry telephone calls from "white LaRouche-Bevel organizers every Friday at the statue of power" advocates since his article appeared. The KKK con­ KKKfounder Albert Pike in VYl,'."",·" I'll.'" D.C., demanding that it siders the Pike statue to be its national monument. be removed. How much longer it take?

78 National EIR March 26, 1993 Eleven days before the Post article, the Washington televi­ sion affiliate of NBC reported that the Pike statue may be "the next to go" among controversial racist symbols. The implicated evening newscast said flatly that "Pike was the founder of CAN the Klan." in Wa co bloodbath Masons counterattack, defend KKK by Harley Schlanger The politically powerful Scottish Rite Freemasons have moved to defend the statue, which they erected in 1901. As EIR reported in the March 5 issue, C. Fred Kleinknecht, Investigators have confirmed that the, Cult Awareness Net­ the current Sovereign Grand Commander for the Southern work (CAN) and allied associations in Australia were respon­ Jursidiction, sent to the world's top Caucasian Masonic lead­ sible for setting up the bloody shootout last month in Waco, ers a Feb. 1 memorandum defending the Ku Klux Klan and Texas which resulted in the deaths of (ourfederal agents and attacking the anti-Pike campaign "directed by Lyndon at least four members of the Branch; Davidian sect whose LaRouche." The Rite has traditionally exercised great power compound was raided. among judges, legislators, intelligence and police officials, The abortive raid was conducted byagents of the Bureau and the news media. of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BA TF), who were acting The 17-page Kleinknecht memorandum came to light on the basis of intelligence provided by so-called cult experts, following a dramatic Feb. 15th session of the Des Moines, who had "deprogrammed" former members of the sect. Iowa, City Council, where an anti-Pike resolution was con­ These "experts" had convinced BATFofficialsthat members sidered. It was later disclosed that Des Moines city officials of the Branch Davidian sect were preparing to follow their had blindly followed the lead of the Scottish Rite memoran­ leader, David Koresh, in some violeqt action, either a mass dum in rejecting the resolution. suicide, an attack on the citizens of Waco, or the assassina­ The Kleinknecht memorandum asserts that the KKK was tion of a political figure. created after the Civil War "to deter" the "assault, rape, Intending to preempt such an event, BA TF agents went to destruction of property , and thievery against the populace," the compound on Feb. 28, to execute a sealed warrant, which crimes which the Scottish Rite attributes to freed slaves and alleged violations of federal weapons l�s. To deliver the war­ U.S. lawmen rather than to the KKK. Kleinknecht admits rant, BATF sent more than 100 armed officers, backed up that "violence broke out in some of the subordinate bodies by three helicopters, to launch an all-out assault on the sect's of the Klan," but claims that the peaceful KKK leadership compound. The deaths occurredduring !a 45-minute gun battle, "imposed many restrictions on the Klan's operations." from which BATF agents wereforced 1P retreat. The memorandum contends that there is no "legitimate proof' of Pike's criminal KKK role, but then quotes from Post-raid coverup the Klan's own histories which document Pike's KKK career Though a BATF spokesman initiaI1y blamed the failure of in depth. Kleinknecht says they show that, at least, Pike the action on being "outgunned," the evidence being compiled asked the Southernpeople to stay peaceful. shows that it was inaccurate information, provided by CAN and its affiliates,that caused the bloodie;st inday BATF history. Park Service keeps study secret BATFofficials insist thatthe raid wpuld have been success­ Stung by growing protests against a statue they spend fulhad the element ofsurprise been maintained. They arefoc us­ taxpayers' money to maintain, the U.S. National Park Ser­ ing efforts on discovering the source qfa leak, someone who vice on Oct. 5, 1992 secretly commissioned an internalstudy tipped off Koresh thata BATF raiding ,party was coming, as a of Albert Pike. The rangers' report one month later verified scapegoat for the disaster. This explapation has come under frommost its historical sources that Pike was indeed a KKK attack from both anti-terrorist ex� and law enforcement leader. Only the Scottish Rite's spokesman said otherwise. officials. Col. Charlie Beckwith, the fpunder of the U.S. Ar­ But the Park Service, whose D. C. regional historian Gary my's Delta Force commando unit, bl�ed poorintelligence for Scott is a Masonic follower of Pike and Kleinknecht, did not the raid, which he described as "ludip'ous" and "an embar- disclose this study. The anti-terrorist Special Weapons and rassment." Tactics Team was deployed to counter the statue rallies, and Former McLennan County (WaavDistrict Attorney Vic the arrest of Reverend Bevel and Chaitkin was effected on Feazell, who studied sect members when he unsuccessfully Nov. 13. Preparing their legal defense, the defendants dis­ prosecuted them in 1988, characterizqd the raid as "a vulgar covered and retrieved the Park Service documents under the display of power." In contrast to the �nt bloody fiasco, Kor­ Freedom of Information Act. Several Park Service officials esh (then named Vernon Howell) and(six others turned them­ have been subpoenaed to appear as witnesses in the forthcom­ selves in, at the sheriffs request, in 1988. "We �ted them ing trial . like human beings, rather ' than stOQl1.-trooping the place,"

EIR March 26, 1993 National 79 Feazell told reporters. deprograrnmers . . . to kidnap their relatives and brainwash Feazell reiterated what Beckwith and others have alleged, them ...." that it was faulty intelligence which caused the disaster. The Branch Davidians, he said, are "protective of what's theirs. The Australian connedtion They're protectiveof their land. They view their land as Mus­ The most bizarre input to BA TF planners came from lims do Mecca and Jews view Jerusalem ....If they'd [the Australia, from Geoff Hoss�ck, a private investigator hired BATF] called and talked to them, the Davidians would've given by former Branch Davidian members. Hossack travelled to them what they wanted." the United States three times!to "build his case." After meet­ But the BATF had no intention ofcalling first, based on the ing with representatives of variouslaw enforcement agencies apocalyptic view of the sect provided to them by operatives of in Texas, who were not convinced by his report, he turned CAN and its affiliate in Australia. to the U.S. consulate in Melbourne. There were at least three reports that shaped the BATF Consulate representative Sandra Stevens filed a report intervention. One came in the form of anonymous letters sent with the State Department afterreceiving a letter from Hos­ to local, state, and federal officials from "former members" in sack which warned that "Hdwell was heading in one of the Michigan. They chargedKoresh with "child abuse and neglect, following directions: a final�onestown massacre; an armed tax evasion, slavery,and reports of possiblemass destruction." confrontation with authorities; or some bizarre behavior, It is a general practice of CANto produce thiskind of report such as an attempted assassination of a public figure." This on groups they target. CAN operatives producechilling reports, report was passed on to BA 11F agents. allegedly from former members, to justify actions against the The report had a significinteffect on BATF officials, as group (and the high prices they themselves charge to do the Hossack's formulationsbec ajrne their official line on Koresh kidnapping and brainwashing). after the tragedy in Waco. [n justifying the tactics of the "The deprogramming process," says Dr. Isaac Brooks, di­ raid, BATF spokesman Jact Killorin said that the agency rectorof the Deprogramming Survivors Network, in a March concluded that "Koresh wO\lld either launch an attack on 8 release from the Friends of Freedom, "is nothing more than Waco residents or instigate a mass suicide." Another official, old-fashioned brainwashing used on prisoners of war. They speaking off the record, said the timing of the raid "was a [CAN operatives] kidnap the victim or deceive them into going [coin] flip over whether th� would attack the citizens of with them, then hold them against their will in total isolation, Waco or do a Jonestown." while they bombard the victim for hours or even days on end In interviews with Australian press, Hossack went further with hate literature, video tapes, and propaganda against the with his scare stories. He saidlthere was a "veryreal probabili­ group they had joined." ty" that a child would be sacrillicedat the compound, "possibly An FBImemo of Feb. 23, which was obtained by the Dallas on Yom Kippur, the Jewish d1y of Atonement." He told Chan­ MorningNews, referredto the Michigan letters, adding that"to nel 10 in Melbourne that polte should dig up the grounds of date, no information has been developed to verify the allega­ the compound to discover a '. secret cemetery" there. tions." It is unlikely that HossacJfs chargeswere given credibili­ A second CAN input into BATF was more direct. Rick ty because they were believ.ble, but due to his association Ross, who is described by CAN's leaders as one of their best with CAN networks in Aust$lia. Investigators have learned deprogrammers, served as a consultant to BATF in planning that Hossack does jobs for the Arnold Bloch, Leibler law the Waco action, according to press reports. Ross had "depro­ firm, whose partner is Mark Leibler of the infamous Leibler grammed" one formermember, andhad beenhired to do anoth­ family. He and his brother Ilsi, who is co-chairman (with er. As is the case with many of the sleazy characters who work Edgar Bronfman) of the WorldJewish Congress, have long­ with CAN (such as Galen Kelly, now under house detention as standing ties with both the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) and a "repeat offender" following his latest indictment for kidnap­ the U.S. Anti-Defamation League (ADL). A recent EIR se­ ping), Ross has a criminal record, convicted on a felony count ries on the Leiblers (Feb. 5,! 12, and 26) documented their in a 1975 robbery. role as part of Dope, Inc. In spite of the bad advice Ross providedto BATF , and his CAN works closely withithe ADL, which has run a pro­ criminal past (he is wanted in Washington state on a kidnapping tection racket for U.S. organized crime since its founding. charge), he has been featured by the media, including network lsi Leibler has been spreading the same slanders against U. S. news programs and CBS's "48 Hours." Ross, Kelly, former political prisoner Lyndon �aRouche in Australia as have CAN chairman Priscilla Coates, and others have been presented CAN and the ADL in the Unhed States. as "cult experts." This has not only given them a chance to Any competent inquiry i�to the disastrousevents of Feb. cover their tracks for their role in the Waco planning (Ross has 28 must begin with a full in�stigation into the role of CAN been somewhat critical of the raid in comments to the press); and its affiliates, and steps �ust be taken to prevent these according to Dr. Brooks, they "stirup paranoia, fearand public­ networks from shaping and idirecting the investigations of ity in efforts to get relatives to pay thousands of dollars to law enforcement agencies in the future.

80 National EIR March 26, 1993 low. As more inner-city minority men are infected, women's choice of partners becomes an AIDS pool. Fauci observed Fauci warns that it could well be the case that AIDS in the United States AIDS-TB will end up being relegated to inner city ghettos. Therefore, link is one to dread it may come to pass that some will s�y, let them die out, a danger which economist Lyndon LaRouche warned against some years ago. by Joyce Fredman As if to underline Fauci's fears, the March 7 New York Times quoted Dr. Don Des larlais, a drUg abuse specialist and On March 6, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci was the honored speaker AIDS researcher at Beth Israel hospital in New York, saying and guest at the American Chemical Society's Science Re­ that the approach must be to focus on 4:ertain neighborhoods. porters' Workshop Keynote Dinner. His talk was entitled larlais is an advocateof providingclean needles for users, more "AIDS: Considerations for the 1990s." Although informa­ drug-treatmentprogram s, and explicit S4x education adapted to tive, not much of the talk was very surprising. the language and mores of the neighb<)rhood, who has come In 1980, Fauci was appointed chief of the Laboratory of under fire fromparents and medical coqtmgues alike.

Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Fauci estimated that there are 13 I million HIV-infected Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In 1984, he added the post of and 600,000 AIDS cases worldwide. The World Health Or­ director of NIAID. He also serves as associate director of the ganization projections for the year 2� are about 50 million. National Institutes of Health for research on AIDS and as But, he noted, the epidemic is raging ,in Asia. In a northern director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research. At 52, he is province in Thailand, for example, 10% of the men inducted the youngest person to serve in that position. He is known as into the army test positive. As high aSjthese figures are , Dr. the "AIDS czar." Michael Haseltine, chief of the Divisipn of Human Retrovi­ As a clinical researcher, his specialty is the pathogenesis rology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institu� and professor at the and treatment of immune-mediated diseases. He has done Department of Pathology at Harvard �edical School, is even pioneer work in the fieldof immunoregulation and is recog­ more pessimistic. He says that it is re4sonable to expect 100 nized internationally for delineating the mechanisms by million infected by the year 2000, an� in Thailand he cites which immuno-suppressive agents modulate the human im­ infection rates of 20% in some provin¢es. mune response. He is now doing work in developing strate­ Fauci discussed the four drugs no", used to treat patients: gies to combat AIDS, and has been instrumental in elucidat­ AZT, ddl, ddC, and interferon-alpha. He noted that if a ing the nature of the virus itself. person is sick, such treatment extends life 12-18 months, and Fauci began his talk by discussing federal allocations for if one is in a disease-free state, it doubles that period of time. AIDS research. In 1982, when work was begun on AIDS, Clearly this is not anywhere near wh�t we want to achieve. the budget was $3 million. In 1993, it is $1.072 billion. As He discussed the importance of targetdd drug therapy, devel­ large an increase as that may appear, the allocations have hit oping a peptide to go inside the HIV enzyme, where it can a plateau and are not nearly enough to address the magnitude do the most damage. , of the problem. He stressed that the epidemiology and history Fauci stressed that tuberculosis, w�ich can be gotten from of HI V infection is probably the most complex we have seen. simply a cough, is the casual contact difease we should dread. It is not the most devastating (compared to the fluepidemic He noted that one-third of the world's: population is infected of 1918 or tuberculosis or measles), but the most complex as with TB . Therefore, if you have an AIDS epidemic, and this a phenomenon, shown by the lO-year period of incubation overlays with TB, as it surely will, then an epidemic will before any manifestation of the disease. ensue that could wipe out substantial .umbers of people. He emphasized that for the Third World, AIDS is already a 'Education' impact not in evidence socio-economic disaster. , He noted that while the rate of infection of young "gay" Despite the range of Fauci's pre,entation, most of his men had gone down to 1 % in the late 1980s, but it was now up audience only asked questions ab04t educational efforts, to3-4% . Quite a significant jump, given all the education. He fundraisers, and how sensitive resemthers are to the homo­ explained that he was not a behavioral scientist; however, it sexual lobby's needs. This author askrdwhether he thought seemed to him that education was not exactly doing the trick. that adequate measures were being taken against TB. He He quickly added that all the educating the "gay" groups are replied that Health and Human Se�ices Secretary Donna doing is a fine thing, it just didn't seem to have much of an Shalala has promised to make TB an� AIDS priorities. But impact on the statistics, particularly among young people. Shalala's office, in a phone intervier, put the priority on Fauci predictedthat if this increase continued, particular­ "women's health issues." A year ago, fauci said that authori­ ly in the inner-city areas, more and more women would be ties were too slow in getting on the tntck' of AIDS. Will the infected, and then children. The progression is easy to fol- tragedy be repeated with TB?

EIR March 26, 1993 National 81 An eyewitnessob server speaks out on thedu Pont case by MaxLewis

This article was written pseudonymously by an eyewitness It was during this author'S flight training in 1974 that an "outside" observer to the events described. The discussion instructor cautioned, "Nevedand at Summit unless you've in the piece, while not in keeping with the usual analysis got a damn good reason!" The a�monition seemed illogical presented by the EIR editorial board, is nonetheless extreme­ in light of the fact that larger fields in Dover and Georgetown ly valuable to provide another viewpoint on the Lewis du Pont were openly available for stUdents who wished to practice Smith kidnap case described in our recent book, Travesty: a their approach and landing skills. The ex-military flight in­ True Crime Story. structor never offered an explanation, but older veteran pilots would occasionally explain tliat Summit was "serious people Most Americans would probably not be surprised to learn . . . serious government." that there exists a cozy relationship between the nation's In March of 1980, a tragic and mysterious event occurred first family of chemistry and the official kitchenof political which would add to Summit' $ legacy of intrigue. alchemy, but recent events would seem to indicate that this relationship may be more akin to incest between Siamese The mysterious 'copter crash twins than flirtationsamong firstcou sins. A small helicopter, the vety one which appeared on news­ The recent trial of four men charged with conspiracy to papers around the world the I previous March as it hovered kidnap du Pont heir Lewis du Pont Smith, featured over 60 above the cooling tower of tlhe crippled Three Mile Island hours of FBI recorded phone conversations and government nuclear reactor, crashed into! the Chesapeake Bay near the wiretaps of the alleged plotters. During one of those conver­ fishing village of Rock Hall, Maryland. sations, the intended victim's brother, Stockton Newbold In the hours, days, and 'weeks following the crash, a Smith, is referred to by one of the co-conspirators as being storm of curious and contradlictory events unfolded which "CIA." (According to one source, Stockton barely escaped remain unexplained to this date. The craft, which was owned indictment by the Feds for his role in the conspiracy to kidnap by the Department of Energy and packed with radiological Lewis du Pont Smith. A former Navy F- 14 fighter pilot, monitoring gear, was reportedly en route from its base at Stockton is rumored to be a member of the Office of Naval Andrews Airforce Base to Summit Airport, to "pick up a Intelligence, which would place him in the same dirty intelli­ part." gence community networks which ran the treasonous Iran­ A small armada of planes literally scrambled out of Sum­ , Contra Affair.) mit in search of the downed . copter only moments afterits reported crash. What followed was nearly three weeks of Intrigue at Summit Airport confusion as various local groups were enlisted to search for These revelations would seem to confirm more than a the downed chopper. All the while, a shadowy presence decade of intrigue surrounding a small airfield in northern observed from a distance. Delaware known as Summit Airport, known corporately as As one researcher told me, "It was like they really didn't Summit Aviation. In March of 1992, Stockton Smith was want us to findthe darnthing ;" named CEO of Atlantic Aviation. According to personal The litany of misinformation, confusion, and intrigue biographical information supplied to the Wilmington News surrounding this event is farl too lengthy to explain in this Journal, Smith had served a number of years as a "director" paper, but three vital occurrences must be revealed. of Summit Aviation. The alleged flightpath oflthe doomed helicopter was not Summit Airport is a single paved runway and several an appropriate course from Andrews to Summit, but rather hangars nestled among the cornfieldsof New Castle County toward a large isthmus known as Pioneer Point. The secluded on the southernbanks of the C&D Canal. Despite its similari­ 1 , l00-acre farm at the tip of this landmass was the property ty to other small airfieldson the Delmarva Peninsula, it pos­ of the Soviet Union and was ..sed as a summer retreat (play­ sessed an ominous reputation as early as 1974. ground) for diplomats fromWashington and New York.

82 National EIR March 26, 1993 A high-ranking local official who was involved in the The link between Stockton Smith, Summit, and the CIA search efforts confirmedthat the "parts run" story was indeed brings new insight into the effortslaun dhed in 1983 to declare a fabrication, but he always stopped short of saying exactly Lewis du Pont Smith incompetent. what mission led to the crash which killed the pilot and co­ LaRouche and his supporters have long been vocal critics pilot of the Hughes 500 aircraft. of the Bush-Kissinger genocide and d�pe operations in Cen­ The most telling incident surrounding the crash occurred tral America. The so-called Contra freedom fighters were in the summer of 1986, when a young waterman, crabbing central to the operations of the Dope, Ipc. cartel whose laun­ just off the shores of Rock Hall, apparently pulled up the dered blood money funded Ronald Re�an' s bogus economic barnacle-encrusted tail finof the wreck. recovery. i Acting on a tip, this author arrived at the location in Lewis Smith's family moved to have him declared in­ advance of three men who showed up in an inter-agency competent afterhe used partof his perSonal fortuneto reprint motorpool pickup truck. While the senior member of the and distribute the landmark expose bo{>k, Dope, Inc. trio journeyed out into the bay with the young waterman, I The situation must have present4d a genuinely mind­ remained on shore with the two other men. numbing dichotomy for the dirty-trick think tanks in Lang­ The pair was dressed in crisp white shirts, blue jeans, and ley. Here is one member of the illustri/ous du Pont hierarchy military boots. Each wore mirror-lens sunglasses and blue overseeing armament shipments for dllie North's dope run­ baseball caps. The caps were blue with gold lettering and an ners-while his own brother, in assoc�ation with LaRouche, insignia. The insignia was clearly the logo of the CIA, and was doing his best to expose those iefforts. Lewis Smith the three-line text read, "Admit nothing, confirm less, lie was apparently unaware until recently that his own brother, like hell." through his directorship at Summit, was indeed a pawn of I approached the duo and asked if they were employees the CIA. of the Department of Energy. They quickly asked who I was and what I was doing. I informed them that I was a reporter Enter the Anti-Defamation L�ague and was simply following the story. The palace guards of the Dope, .nc. cartel (a.k.a. the After a long pause, one replied very flatly, "No." I then Anti-Defamation League of B'nai. Writh [ADL] and the asked, referring to the tall blond man who had ventured out Thornburgh Justice Department, as 'fell as the ADLJdope­ in the boat to the apparent crash site, "Does your boss work linked Canadian organized-crime Brqnfman family of Sea­ for the Energy Department?" This time, the answer was very gram's fame, which had taken over 25� ofDu Pont), moved quick: "He's not our boss; we work for Perdux Corporation." swiftly following the 1984 election to discredit and jail They then turned away, indicating there would be no more LaRouche and many of his associate�. The du Pont Smith answers to my questions. family was apparently ordered to deallwith the "Lewis prob­ When the tall blond man returned to the dock, I ap­ lem" and likewise moved rapidly tol have Lewis declared proached and asked him if he thought the wreckage was from incompetent in the Republican kang4roo courts of Chester the lost DOE 'copter, to which he replied, "Yes." He then County, Pennsylvania. i loaded the tailfin into the rear of the pickup and quietly stated In the fall of 1992, the FBI uncoi.rered a plot involving to his companions, "Let's get this over to the lab and see Edgar Newbold Smith, father of Lewi$ and Stockton, to have what Sunshine has to say." Lewis kidnapped and "deprogramme(I" by ADL henchman Galen Kelly, a high priest of the pedophile-riddled Cult The du Pont angle Awareness Network. While numerous questions remain unanswered, the inci­ During the trial of Newbold SmitIi, Kelly, and two other dent indicated some possible connection between the DOE, cohorts, the jury heard numerous s�retly recorded phone the CIA, and the Du Pont-controlled operation at Summit. calls and conversations where the means, methods and mo­ The Du Pont Company enjoyed a very profitablerelationship tives were openly discussed. Despi$ irrefutable evidence at this time with the DOE. Du Pont held the lucrative manage­ that the quartet was clearly engaged iQ a conspiracy, the jury ment contract to the DOE's Savannah River Nuclear Plant in was corralled into a not-guilty verdict. The acquittal was Georgia, where bomb-grade plutonium was refined. brought about when the judge, in a precedent-setting inter­ A clearly more direct link between Du Pont and the CIA pretation of conspiracy, instructedth �jurors that all the plot­ was detailed in a 1984 Washington Post article which stated: ters had to agree on each detail of , the plan in order for "According to congressional sources, Summit is known conspiracy to exist. to do contract work for the CIA and has had former CIA Edgar Newbold Smith walked qut of a courtroom in personnel on its payroll. The company was linked through northern Virginia amidst a small artIlada of the same ADL ownership records to a Cessna 404 airplane-flown by a soldiers who'd railroaded LaRouche. I Newbold Smith was a Contra pilot-that crashed during a bombing run in Managua free man, having just cashed in thel marker he so clearly on Sept. 8 last year. " earnedeight years prior.

ElK March 26, 1993 National 83 Congressional Closeup by William Jones

House votes to maintain creased by $124 billion, while taxes lion of the total spending still in the HIV immigration ban would be increased by a net $295 bil­ package or offsetit by reducing spend­ The House voted 356-58 on March 11 lion. Spending in other areas would be ing in:other areas. to support a Republican-sponsored cut by $332 billion. Sen. Phil Gramm amendment to maintain an immigra­ (R-Tex.) gloated that "we are wit­ tion ban on persons who are infected nessing the unraveling of the Clinton with the HIV virus. The Senate had tax package tonight. " enate confirmsReno as voted to maintain the ban in a similarly Many Democrats, distressed by attorneyS general nominee overwhelming 76-23 vote. Both votes the deep cuts in spending in the com­ The S�nate approved on March 12 in came on legislation authorizing $6.6 mittee plan, are demanding that the a 98-� vote President Clinton's third billion for the National Institutes of White House and the House Demo­ nomiQee for attorney general, Janet Health (NIH). cratic leadership back a $16.2 billion Reno. The Senate Judiciary Commit­ The House action instructs its rep­ short-term stimulus package as the i tee h approved the nomination the resentatives to accept the Senate price for their support. Members of day fore . amendment in the House-Senate con­ the Congressional Black Caucus R� no said that one of her firsttasks ference on NIH funding. The Senate warned that they would not vote for would be to rule on the future of FBI amendment, sponsored by Don Nick­ the budget package unless they re­ Direc�or William Sessions. The fate les (R-Okla.), prohibits persons in­ ceive assurances that the stimulus will of Sessions, who had come under fire fected with the human immunodefi­ be adopted intact. The caucus also from lReno's predecessor, Bush-ap­ ciency syndrome frombeing admitted plans to offer an alternative budget pointde William Barr, will be deter­ as permanent immigrants. People who resolution that would cut more deeply mined by the President. Clinton has test positive for the HIV virus, which into defense spending. said, however, that the matter of the causes acquired immune deficiency Many representatives from farm FBI c ief would be reviewed by his syndrome, could enter the country for states expressed dissatisfaction with h new llttorney general. Sessions has up to 30 days to receive medical care, the package. Sen. Max Baucus (D­ five y,ears left to serve in a 1O-year attend conferences, conduct business, Mont.), usually a strong proponent of term �s FBI director. visit family, or vacation. "deficit reduction," warned that the Reno's confirmation was marred Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), who budget plan "would cripple the econo­ by rumors, apparently circulated by sponsored the House motion, com­ my of the American West." Natiomal Rifle Association lobbyist mented, "We have never before per­ The additional cuts were defended David! Gibbons, that she had once mitted immigration of those who were on the basis of the need to keep the been arrested for drunk driving but infected in the middle of an epidemic. budget beneath the spending caps im­ had rdceived lenient treatment by lo­ We should not start now." posed by the 1990 budget agreement cal pOlice. The rumors proved to be between President Bush and the Con­ unfounded and the NRA was forced gress. The Senate resolution would to apologize to Senate Judiciary Com­ achieve the $62 billion in additional mittee Chairman Joseph Biden (D­ cuts by raising an additional $22 bil­ Del.) ,and the lobbyist forced to re­ ommittee okays Clinton lion in tax revenue and reducing or C sign. eno has been state attorney in budget, but fightlooms postponing spending of $4 1 billion. � Dade County, Florida for the past 15 The Senate Budget Committee voted The House version eliminates the $62 years .• She was the last Clinton cabinet out President Clinton's economic billion through increased discretion­ memberto be confirmed. package on March 11 after the Demo­ ary and mandatory spending, and , cratic majority cut a further $96 bil­ avoids any new taxes.

lion over and above what Clinton had The "austerity Democrats," not I wanted. The resolution was adopted satisfied with that which they helped on a 12-9 committee vote along strict craft, turned around and threatened a N AlFTA could be party lines. fight when the measure comes to the seriously in peril The resolution still calls for large floor. Rep. Charles Stenholm (D­ The North American Free Trade tax increases and a token "stimulus" Tex.), a leader of the "austerity Agreement (NAFTA) could be in seri­ for the five-year plan, although this Dems," is drafting an amendment that ous trbuble in both houses of Con­ could be whittled down even further. would force Congress and the admin­ gress. iThis was the message delivered "Investment" spending would be in- istration either to shelve about $10 bil- to Trade Representative Mickey Kan-

84 National EIR March 26, 1993 tor, who testified before the House presidential commlSSlon headed by onzalez w�ts War Ways and Means Committee on former Rep. James Courter (R-N.J.), PowersG invoked in Somalia March 11. which will determine the finalplan . It "It's a treaty that's in trouble," will then be presented to the House, House Banking Chairman Henry B. said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), the Senate, and the President, who Gonzalez (D-Tex�) called on Presi­ who has been critical of the treaty. must either accept or reject the plan in dent Clinton to invoke the War Pow­ Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.) indi­ toto. ers Act or to pull U.S. troops out of cated that it was a real question Aspin admits that the reductions Somalia. "whether or not we will have the abili­ will depend on developments in Rus­ The Wars Power Act is a post­ ty to pass NAFfA at any time in the sia. Interviewed on the NBC News Vietnam War measuredesigned to en­ future unless there is a greater grass­ program "Meet the Press" on March sure congressional approval before roots interest. " 14, Aspin said that there was "no U.S. troops are sent into hostilities. It House Majority Leader Richard question" that the cuts would be elimi­ was enacted in 1973 after Presidents Gephardt (D-Mo.), feeling the heat nated or slowed if there was a political Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon de­ from his labor constituents, said that shiftin Russia. ployed American troops without ex­ he supports Mexico's efforts to im­ plicit congressional approval or an of­ prove work-place and environmental ficialdeclaration of war. Section 3 of conditions, but that he would insist on the resolution orders the President "in strong supplemental agreements with every possible iQstance" to consult Mexico. "I will not support NAFfA Congress before sending armed forces on a leap of faith," he said. "into hostilities : or into situations Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), where imminent involvement in hos­ chairman of the Senate Finance Sub­ Resolution seeks German tilities is clearly indicated by the cir­ committee on Trade and one of the role in peacekeeping cumstances." The President is re­ early supporters of the treaty, doubted A Senate resolution introduced on quired to notify Congess in writing whether "anyone yet knows where the March 10 by Sen. William Cohen (R­ within 48 hours df deploying troops. votes are" in the Senate. President Me.) calls for the "full and active par­ Troops can then remain deployed for Clinton has indicated that he will not ticipation" by Germany in internation­ 60 days, after which time Congress send the treaty to Congress until he al peacekeeping operations. The reso­ must reauthorize the deployment. has worked out additional agreements lution is meant to second U.N. President Bush notified Congress which address the objections of the Secretary General Boutros Boutros­ before the Somalia action, and the labor unions and the environmentalist Ghali, who has called for the "full par­ Senate passed a joint resolution au­ groups. ticipation" of Germany "in peace­ thorizing it last December. Gonzalez keeping, peacemaking, and peace-en­ argues that the 6O-day. period ended forcing measures." Feb. 8. Germany is barredby its constitu­ Other legislators object because tion fromparticipating in military op­ Somalia has not been defined as a Aspin calls for erations outside its borders. Bonn has "hostile" situatiop.. Rep. Vic Fazio major base cuts introduced a constitutional amend­ (D-Calif.) has colllected signatures on Defense Secretary Les Aspin pre­ ment which would require simple ma­ a letter to Foreign Affairs Committee sented his plan for base closings on jority approval by the Bundestag Chairman LeeHamilton (D-I nd.), ap­ March 12, which would eliminate 31 (parliament) to participate in pealing to him to support the action bases and significantly reduce 134 "peacekeeping" and "peacemaking" in order to "reverse the erosion" of more. Among the installations elimi­ activities, and two-thirds approval by congressional war powers. nated in the proposal are Homestead the Bundestag in order to participate In 1990, Democratic House mem­ Air Force Base in Florida, the Long in collective self-defense outside bers filed a lawsuit seeking to force Beach Naval Shipyard, and McGuire NATO. President Bush tb withhold military Air Force Base in New Jersey. The Cohen emphasized that "Germany action against Irag in the Persian Gulf closings would eliminate 24,000mili­ is being encouraged to participate in war. Although a judge declined to tary and 57,000civilian jobs. the fullspectrum of internationalmili­ stop deployment,: Bush decided to se­ The proposal will now be pre­ tary operations, from blue-helmet cure Hill approval,which he got on a sented to an eight-member bipartisan missions to future Desert Storms." narrow vote.

EIR March 26, 1993 National 85 NationalNews

borrowing very short money at 3% and put­ The Post also names "the BCCI case, ting it in long-term bonds at 6.5%. lithat one ofthe largest bank scandals in American were to be done in any magnitude, it would history, [which] has been the subject of Byron White to retire bean unsound practice, and we would crack many ruJjnors"; and "Banca Nazionale del down on it. And we'll be looking for that. Lavoro ....Why was the [Atlanta] bank from Supreme Court But at the moment, that's just a speculation manager prosecuted for defrauding the par­ Associate Justice Byron White announced and assertion by some people. We do not ent company when the CIA had reported on March 19 that he will retire from the have any evidence that that's the case, nor that he �as acting with the full knowledge Supreme Court at the end of the current is there any evidence whatsoever that the of the lta1ian bankers? ...Were therepeo­ term. He said he was making his announce­ risk-based capital rules have, in fact, led ple in th� Justice Department who know­ ment early so that the President would have banks to hold bonds rather than loans." ingly imI1eded the investigation? ..." plenty of time to fill the position before the The most prominent thornin the Federal The fourth case is "the matter of FBI new term starts next October. White, 75, Reserve's side on this issue has been Lyn­ Director William Sessions .. ..Has he been appointed by President John F. Kennedy in don LaRouche, who has repeatedly charged made a apegoat because of his vigorous 1962, is the only Democratic appointee still during his weekly "EIR Talks with Lyndon pursuit 0 ' the BNL matter, his leadership in sitting on the Supreme Court. LaRouche" radio interviews, that the Feder­ forwardi g equal employment opportunity In recent years, his most importantcon­ al Reserve has been creating money to lend in the bureauI , and his general refusal toplay tribution has been in his well-reasoned and to commercial banks at 3%, which they use ball polit(cally in some instances in the de­ consistent opposition to the elaboration of to buy U.S. government debt at 8%. partment?" new constitutional "rights" such as to abor­ LaRouche maintains that this practice by the tion, homosexuality, or the right to die. unconstitutionally chartered Fed is the pri­ White has generally supported civil rights mary cause for the budget deficit, and that and voting rights laws, but has opposed af­ the Federal Reserve should be nationalized ! firmative action. under the Treasury as specified in the Con­ Terry again defends White has supported the death penalty, stitution. Such a move would allow the gov­ although opposing Chief Justice William ernment to establish an appropriate credit convi�ting the innocent policy-rather than debt policy-for pro­ Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Colman J\!IcCarthy's column in the March 16 ductive national investment. Scalia on some of their more barbaric rul­ Washingtpn Post reveals yet another case ings. Recently, in the Herrera case, White where former Virginia Attorney General concurred with Rehnquist, but wrote a sepa­ Mary SU Terry fought to defend the convic­ rate opinion saying that if a defendant made tion and ncarceration of an innocent man. a persuasive showing of "actual innocence," � Terry left erpostlast month to runfor gover­ execution would be unconstitutional. White Post suggests areas of nor of Virginia, boasting at her campaign an­ wrote the dissent in the 1973 Roe v. Wade investigation for Reno nouncem�nt of her "get LaRouche" prosecu­ decision, charging that the majority ruling tions which have meted out sentencing was "an exercise of raw judicial power" "Four Cases for Janet Reno" was the head­ ranging from 10 to 77 years for political which valued "the convenience, whim, or line of an editorial in the March 14 Washing­ "crimes." caprice" of the pregnant woman more than ton Post. which outlined four areas for in­ In 1986, Walter Snyder, 19, who is the life or potential life of the fetus . White vestigation for incoming Attorney General black, was convicted of raping and sod­ Bow­ wrote the majority opinion in the 1986 Janet Reno: omizing a white woman who lived across v. ers Hardwick case, holding that thereis no "The Inslaw matter is the oldest of these. the street. Snyder was arrestedafter the rape constitutional right to homosexual sodomy. After years of litigation and appeal, prom­ victim id�ntified him after seeing him wash­ In this ruling, White affirmed that there is a ises of cooperation and instances of stone­ ing his cat on their street. The jury rejected connection between morality and law, and walling, a cloud remains over the [Depart­ his testimony that he was home asleep at that morality is an adequate basis for law. ment of Justice] handling of a computer the time df the crime. The prosecution was software contract worth millions of dollars. allowed t41 introduce a chemical analysis of . . .' Did present or former Justice Depart­ the semen which showed the rapist to be a ment officials or their friends market the "type A" $ecretor. Snyder was a "type A," software fortheir own personal gain? ..." along witI,J.30% of the male population. White House denies The Inslaw firm was bankrupted by the Jus­ McCarthyreported that Walter Snyder's tice Department, which, in essence, stole parents wrote hundreds of letters to gover­ LaRouche Fed charges the software provided by Inslaw. In the nors, contressmen, and other U.S. influen­ During a March 10 White House back­ intervening years, the packages have turned tials, to do avail . They finally read about ground briefing on the Clinton proposal to up in the law enforcement computers of for­ DNA testlng and obtained a court order to ease restrictions on banks, a "senior admin­ eign countries. One journalist whose inves­ have the $:men tested; the results excluded istration official" stated: "There is no credi­ tigations included the Inslaw case was found Synder. the FBI has reported that of the ble evidence that, in fact, banks have been dead. 5,000 ca$Cs it received for DNA analysis

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• TWELVE LAROUCHE associ­ ates joined mem1>ersof the Standing in the last five years, more than 35% have and Mrs. Henry Kissinger and nostrils, I Rock Sioux Reservationin North Da­ excluded a primary rape suspect. Terry de­ feel compelled at this time to tell you about kota in a protest Qn March 15, against fe nded Snyder's conviction, for which he the Nov. 13, 1992, issue of the Brazilian the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the spent six years in prison. newspaper Jornal {do] Brazil. The front plan to build a Swiss/South African­ Alexandria Commonwealth Attorney page features two large color photographs controlled gambling casino on the John Kloch has now petitioned Gov. Doug of Mr. Henry Kissinger ...aggr essively Reservation. R�ly organizers said Wilder to grant clemency to Snyder, admit­ picking his nose at a trade conference in Rio that this was thel first time that non­ ting in his petition, "Another individual is de Janeiro. I am not making this up. The Indians had come to the Reservation responsiblefor the crime." Because of Vir­ firstphoto shows Mr. Kissinger sitting with to demonstrate with local people. ginia's vicious 21-day-after-sentencing lim­ his translation earphones on and a little it on the introduction of new evidence, this American flag in front of him. He has that • JULIA CmLD, who just turned appeal for "clemency" may well be the only faraway look that guys get when engaged in 80, has embarked on a campaign to procedure that can be used to get an innocent nasal maneuvers; his whole consciousness educate elementary schoolchildren man out of prison in Virginia. appears to be centered in his left pinkie, about good eating habits and teach which is wedged deep into his left nostril. children that "qtkeout food is un­ In the second photo, he has the same look on healthy, expen ive, and uncivi­ his face, only now he is holding something � lized," accordini to USA Today . between his thumb and forefinger, and his Wilder refused to stay mouth is open, and ...YUCK . • DAVID DUKE held a rally in "The caption under the pictures makes electric chair murder front of a New prleans statue com­ no mention of this. It merely states that Mr. Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said memorating the " White League" up­ Kissinger is in town for the conference. . . ." 24. March 15 that he would not grant clemency rising on Feb., The "White to Syvasky Poyner, the named plaintiff in a League" in 1874 tried to overthrow federal class action suit to have electrocu­ the state's Rec�nstruction govern­ tion declared unconstitutional as "cruel and ment, and the statue, listing the mem­ unusual punishment." Poyner's case was bers who died in the insurrection, was fe atured on EIR on Feb. 26. Du Pont heir speaks re-erectedunder protest from the city Wilder claimed that Poyner raised "eso­ on 'Travesty' book government �ause of a federal teric arguments" about the method of execu­ court order. tion, and said that if he believed electrocu­ Speaking at the West Chester, Pennsylvania courthouse, Lewis du Pont Smith, Andrea • A BOSNI� PRESS tion were cruel or unusual punishment, "I representa­ would not have gone along" with earlier ex­ Diano Smith, and Bruce M. Director re­ tive to the forei,n press, Sven Rus­ Travesty-A True Crime ecutions. leased the book tempasic, addre�sed a Seattle meet­ Story to the Philadelphia area on March 18. Poyner was executed on March 18 when ing of the Schiller Institute on March EIR , the U.S. Supreme Court refused, in a 7-2 The book, published by details the lat­ 13, and thanked Ithe Schiller Institute EIR vote, to stay his execution pending a deci­ . est outrages of the government/private "Get and for be�g the only institu­ sion to consider, for the first time since its LaRouche" task force in its operationto kid­ tions in the U .St upholding the mo­ 1890 introduction to the U . S. , whether elec­ nap and deprogram Du Pont heir Lewis rality of the nation. trocution was "cruel and unusual punish­ Smith and his wife. Most of the book is taken • ROSS PERQT ment. " The court, however, did not rule on from transcripts of consensually taped con­ is spendingmon­ the request to have the class action suit on versations of the "Kidnappers, Inc." gang, ey like water, with national one-mi­ electrocution heard. who freely, and frequently obscenely, boast nute television �pots advertising his Poyner apologized for his crimes and of their efforts to destroy LaRouche, his as­ membership drive for "United We asked forgiveness in a final statement. sociates, and his entire political movement. Stand, AmericaJ" In the spots, Perot Speaking for the first time to reporters congratulates himself for putting the since the end the "Kidnappers, Inc." trial, deficitin the mi�le of the campaign. Smith said that the conspirators should have been convicted but that the actions of the • NEW JERSEy Assemblywom­ Henry Kissinger takes judge led to their unjust acquittal. He con­ an Marion Crecco completed a five­ cluded that he believes that the circulation of year campaign tQ have the legislature one on the nose Travesty will lead to the freeing of pass a bill mandatingthat sexual absti­ Dave Barry's regular column in the Wash­ LaRouche. Andrea Diano Smith said that for nence be taught as "the only com­ ington Post Magazine for March 14, apro­ the last seven years she and her husband have pletely reliable means" of preventing pos the inclusion of Mrs. Henry Kissinger been living in a police state, harassed, fol­ sexually transnpitted diseases and on the "International Best Dressed List," lowed, and targeted for kidnapping, simply AIDS. Crecco e"pects to pass the bill related the following anecdote: because they decided to support Lyndon and overridea veto by Gov. JirnFlorio. "Speaking of the newspaper industry LaRouche.

EIR March 26, 1993 National 87 Editorial

On the tenth anniversary of President Reagan's announcement ofSDI

This is former presidential candidate Lyndon channel negotiations and discussions with the So­ LaRouche speaking. viet government. As one of the key figures among the few who Bush and Thatcher will go down as the greatest know the true story behind President Reagan's political failures of the late twentieth century be­ Strategic Defense Initiative, it is my pleasure and cause of their bungling of this opportunity with duty to remind people on this tenth anniversary of their fads of radical monetarism, radical free trade , President Reagan's televised announcement, that with their shock therapy proposals, and with their that announcement was one of the most important collaboration with the GOrbachov regime to un­ events of the past fifty years . leash the British-U.S. assets-or shall we say the It was an announcement which changed the Kissinger Associates assets-around Slobodan course of history, an announcement which led, Milosevic in attacks on the southern flank of the inevitably, as some of us saw back then , to either very Central Europe on which easternEurope and new cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union depended for the media­ Moscow along the lines President Reagan pro­ tion of serious, effective economic cooperation. posed, or else the collapse of the Soviet empire for We must take note of that unpleasant fact on economic reasons within about five years . this anniversary date , this tenth anniversary of This was a decision by the President to adopt President Reagan's brave and important an­ this policy and to promulgate it, made against the nouncement of the SDI" because once again the strongest opposition from within leading circles time has come for similar bold initiatives. within the United States and even within his own This time the ball is in the lap of President administration-even within his own White Clinton; and one can hope that the President will House organization. It was a decision of courage listen to the advice of someof those who supported which changed the course of history for the better, President Reagan in the making of the SDI an­ which obviated the risk of thermonuclear war for nouncement, that a simi�ar brilliant, imaginative that period. initiative will come from President Clinton even Unfortunately, following the President's de­ over the objections of sorhe of his closest advisers parture from office, his successor, George Bush, and supporters . together with Margaret Thatcher, bungled the We must change the satuation as we attempted greatest opportunity for peace in history, by failing to change the situation with the SDI; and if Presi­ to realize the importance of carrying out the princi­ dent Clinton can follow and succeed President ples of economic-development cooperation em­ Reagan in that respect, he will have in history a bedded in the original Strategic Defense Initiative successful presidency. proposal as I outlined these terms in pre- 1983 back -Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr ., March 23, 1993

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