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23 Mohamed Osman Omar 48 Boris Yeltsin's team shows 4 U.S. bank 'reform' is as The ambassador of Somalia to India signs of panic bad :as 1982 deregulation worked as a journalist following Viktor Kuzin reports from Moscow The Senate Banking Committee's independence in 1960, then a on the deepening crisis , as the packlj.ge of "new" legislation diplomat in London, Beijing, people of Russia become actuaJly originated with George Teheran, Dar-es-Salaam, increasingly aware that they have Bush�s Task Force on Regulation of Khartoum, and Belgrade . He has been deceived by the Yeltsin crew. Finaricial Services. also served as chief of protocol in Somalia's Foreign Ministry. 50 A colonial system takes 6 Beijing attempts to regain hold control of its looted, 38 Marina Salamon The epilogue to the second edition inflated economy The director of Italy's Replay, one of The Great Criminal Revolution, of the companies of the Benetton a book by Russian filmmaker 8 Currency Rates group, Salamon is also the Stanislav Govorukhin. Govorukhin spokesman for the Club of analyzes the political landscape , 9 Greenpeace founders: 'We Entrepreneurs , an association of including the new State Duma. "It created a monster' New Age businessmen. She traces is a diverse body ," he writes. "It is her family roots back to one of the split into two camps . Like all Doges of Venice . Russia, it was divided by blood." 10 Iran is caught in an economic straitjacket 39 Aldo Mariconda The former Northern League Departments 11 Freech fishing crisis sparks candidate for mayor of Venice , social unrest Mariconda is the nephew of Bruno 12 Dateline Mexico Visentini , the "grand old man" of Soros is bankrupting Mexico. 13 Agriculture the bankers' Italian Republican No friend of the farmer or the Party . He worked for the Olivetti 43 Andean Report hungry. Corp. for ten years . Abstainers win Colombian election. 14 Bus'ness Briefs Report from Rio Photo and graphic credits: Cover, 44 Combat Camera photo by Ph I Perfidious Albion adores Brazil . Oriez. Page 17, EIRNS/John Sigerson. Page 20, 63, EIRNSI 45 Report from Bonn Stuart Lewis. page 33, EIRNSI Voters reject ecology agenda. Philip Ulanowsky . Page 59, EIRNS/Jim Duree . Page 65, 72 Editorial EIRNS/Diane Sare. Six million new jobs . •
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30 Lines being drawn between 56 Voters give LaRouche ADL racialism and major gains in Illinois Judaism primary' At a conference in Berlin on the Voters did a:"credible job" in Nazi Holocaust, Anti-Defamation resisting a frenziedand well League operative Leonard financedbarrage of slanders in the Dinnerstein threw a rug-chewing state. racist fit, as other participants looked on in amazement. The times 58 LaRouche Democrats in A soldier from the Botswani Defense Force partici are changing. California quash effort to pates in a raid on the Bakara Arms Market in Mogadis hu. Somalia. hide truth about ADL 32 Israel bans Kach Party as When the Ahti-Defamation League 16 Can the collapse of Africa terrorist sought to censor the political be reversed? statements ofthree candidates for public office in the state's official African leaders are going to have to 34 South Africa faces bloody voter pamplet, the candidates went break with the rules of post times ahead to court . In victory over the independence power politics, if a ADL's "new McCarthyism," the their nations are going to stand any 36 Federation, or a new judge upheld their suit. chance of surviving. Yugoslavia?
60 Drive to q,nseat President 19 Development and freedom 37 Anti-Catholic oligarchy traced to ondon-based are the same reinforced after the iL Hollinger:group A dialogue between Africans and elections in Italy Lyndon LaRouche. Documentation: Interviews with 62 Behind c intongate: Marina Salamon and Aldo l 21 Ambassador documents the Mariconda. Hollinger Corp. and the anatomy of political failure British Empire in Somalia 40 Half-truths on Moro Who's who in the British-American A review of The Road to Zero. kidnap on German TV "neo-conserirative" apparatus. Somalia's Self-Destruction, by Memphisi City Council puts Mohamed Osman Omar. 42 Pakistan's efforts to beat 64 up on India fail a spotlig�t on Pike statue, 23 'Other newly independent FreemasQns, and the KKK countries should learn from 46 International Intelligence Although th� city council reached a Somalia's mistakes' tie vote on a:resolution calling for An interview with Mohamed removal of the Albert Pike statue Osman Omar. from Washington's Judiciary Square, the �xplosive testimony 26 Zaire: the hoax of presented cQuld end up bringing the statue down anyway . independence A historical overview by 68 Congressional Closeup Cameroonian journalistEyong Echaw Lawrence. 70 National News �TIillEconoIDics
u.s. i� as asbank 'reform' bad 1982 deregu1�tioni by Richard Freeman
AU. S. Senate Banking Committee staffer reported on March Some "mickeys" will be fooled by antics in the Senate 11 that the Senate Banking Committee and its chairman, Sen. Banking Committee, respectipg particularpieces of legisla Don Riegle (D-Mich.), will advance three interconnected tion. But those who are knowledgeable will recognize in the pieces of banking reform legislation as the top priority this current "reforms" a long-standing City of London war plan session. to create a globalized bankinglsystem, dominated by a hand The legislative package will have the most far-reaching ful of mega-banks. That war �ates back at least as far as the and destructive consequences since the Depository Institu 1875-79 Specie Resumption Act and the 1913 creation of the tions Act of 1982 deregulated the American banking system. Federal Reserve Board. That latter act, which was sponsored by Jake Gam, Fernand St Germain, and George Bush, turned the decades of the Mega-banks and trade war 1980s and 1990s over to unbridled speculation. through junk Highlights of the current pieces of legislation are: bonds, leveraged buyouts, and real estate deals, destroying • The Interstate Banking and Branching Act of 1994. the physical economy and living standards. The McFadden Act was pass d in 1927. Many states, espe The three pieces of legislation, which are sold under cially in agricultural and in ustrial areas, were fearful of the rubric of "streamlining" the banking system, are: the "monopoly banks," and beca� se of this enacted strict limits Interstate Banking and Branching Act of 1993-94, the Fair which prohibited banks from jany one state to branch into a Trade in Financial Services Act of 1993-94, and the Bank neighboring state. The curren. legislation shreds the McFad Regulatory Reform Act of 1993-94. den Act, and opens the way tei> interstate banking. Although Though Senator Riegle is a Democrat, the proposed this has already been going oP for a few years, the bill will banking "reforms" originate with Wall Street and the City of accelerate the pace. ! London, and in particular, with George Bush. It was Bush Under this bill, a state is �sumed to be in favor of inter who, as vice president in 1982, headed a task force on finan state banking, and the only w�y it can get out of the arrange cial reform which drew up most of the current proposals. ment is if the state legislature; votes not to be in the system. When Bush served as President from 1989-93 , he had Trea The bill states that a bank holding company "may not by sury Secretary Nicholas Brady head a commission on "Mod acquisition gain control over 25% of a state's insured deposits ernizing the Financial System," which brought the original (without a waiver) or 10% ofthe nation's insured deposits Bush task force proposals up to date. Those proposals are (without a waiver)." That m¢ans, under the bin, that four the heart of the Riegle Senate banking refo rm package. banks could own 100% of the !t,anking system of a state, and Senator Riegle is also putting forward two important 10 banks could own 100% of the Americanbanking system. measures: the first, a tacit agreement to allow banks to sell Under the bill, the United S�ates will be dominated by a insurance; the second, an idea to allow commercial banks to handful of banks, similar to tJIe British banking system. In count their huge Treasury bill holdings as part of bank capital. 1984, the United States had 14,946 banks; in 1993, it had If passed, this plan would totally gut bank capital standards. only 11,08 1, a loss of 26% in �ess than a decade.
4 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 • The March 11 Wall Street Journal reported that the top would reduce the Fed's role in regulation, and make it harder pling of the McFadden Act is likely, and "many small and for the Fed to exert "hands-on" co,trol of banking policy. medium-sized banks probably will be swallowed up." Gold This is widely interpreted to mean that it would reduce the man Sachs partner Christopher Flowers gloated, "A lot of Fed's ability to carry out behind-the-scenes bank bailouts. A clients on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line examining bank regulatory source told E1R th�t though there is some are their new opportunities." real friction, Greenspan's statemen* are largely atmospher • The Fair Trade in Financial Services Act of 1994. This ics, and part of bargaining to get the Fed the best deal under
act, according to a summary of the bill provided by the Senate the plan. I Banking Committee, "is designed to give U.S. trade negotia In March 1 testimony to the Sen.te Banking Committee, tors new leverage to open foreign financial markets." The Secretary Bentsen gave the game away. He stated that the bill is an extension of the secret financial accords surrounding Fed's share of regulation will dou�le under the new plan. the North American Free Trade Agreement, which E1R ex Bensten explained that the bill will: allow the Fed to be the posed in our Oct. 8, 1993 issue. Trade Representative Mick lead co-regulator of 10 of the largest 20 national banks, of ey Kantor, a key player in NAFTA,had a role in drafting the the Fed's choosing, provided their assets do not exceed 25% currentbill . If a country refuses to open its market to Ameri of the nation's banking assets. Currently, the Fed has primary can "financial products," then reprisals of varying intensity regulatory authority only over state-chartered banks that are can be applied. American "financial products" include deriv members of the Federal Reserve System. These banks have atives, junk bonds, and other speculative investments. The only 15% of the nation's banking aSf;ets. The Fed does regu bill might better be called the Financial Trade War Act. late bank holding companies, but it is the Officeof Comptrol The January tour by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, ler of the Currency that has primary responsibility for regulat a prime sponsor and drafterof the bill, shows that it is part ing the banks that are part of the bank holding companies. and parcel of the International Monetary Fund's destructive For example, in the case of Citicorp, the parent of Citibank, thrustto globalize world markets, especially using the dollar. the regulates Citibank, including its credit card divi acc Bentsen travelled to Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and sion. That accounts for 90% of Citicorp' s assets. Effectively, other Asian nations, attempting to get each country to open the Fed regulates what is left over. up financial markets to speculative U.S. financial services During the 1991-93 CitibanklCiticorp bailout, the Fed and dollarization. had free rein to bail out the bank!>. An anonymous OCC source confirmed that the OCC had primary responsibility More power to the Fed for monitoring Citibank's books, "�d did not object to, and • The Bank Regulatory Reform Act of 1993-94. This would not block or prevent anythillg the Fed was doing." will create a single regulatory authority, called the Federal This source stated, "No regulator wants to see a bank go Banking Commission. The FBC will assume the regulatory under." When it was pointed out that the Fed leaned on the and examination responsibilities now spread over four feder Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) to buy al agencies: the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) $943 million in Citibank mortgage paper, on a non-recourse and the Office ofThrift Supervision (OTS), both of which. basis, when no one else would touc:h the paper, this source are housed in the Treasury, and which together have primary said, "No one would object to the fed leaning on agencies, responsibility for supervising banks and thrifts, with 62% of if it is done quietly. " The source sai4 that the new FBC would the nation's banking assets; the Federal Deposit Insurance act according to the exact same p�inciples as the ace. In Corp. (FDIC), which has primary responsibility for supervis fact, the Fed will have one of the fiv¢seats on the FBC board. ing banks with 23% of the nation's banking assets; and the On March 1, Secretary Bentsen stated that by allowing Federal Reserve Board, which has primary responsibility for the Fed to regulate some other banks as well, under the new the remaining 15% of the nation's banking assets. plan the Fed would regulate banks With 30% of the nation's Many money-center banks have championed the call for banking assets, which "would double the amount under [the bank regulatory reform, complaining that they being Fed's] supervision." are over-regulated. But many small banks, associated with the The first enunciation of this bank regulatory reform came Independent Bankers Association of America, have de from the Bush task force study of 1984, "Report of the Task nounced the new proposal. They are terrifiedthat the newly Forceon Regulation of Financial Services." It was repeatedand proposed FBC will diminish their influence with regulators expanded on in the Brady task forceI report, "Modernizing the and lead to their being swallowed up. Financial System: Recommendationsifor Safer, MoreCompeti The regulatory bill, unlike the other bank reform bills, tive Banks," issued in 1991. The c�nt Riegle/Bentsen pro has seemed to generate disagreement. In a commentary in posal, with a few modifications, conies fromth is. the Dec. 15, 1993 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Fed In reality, the danger posed by �e package of bank reform Chairman Alan Greenspan complained that the current regu bills is not to the Federal Reserve or Wall Street, but to the latory reform plan, which is also sponsored by Bentsen, American people.
EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 5 Beijing attempts to regain cdntrol of its looted, inflated economy I by Mary Burdman
The annual two-week session of the Chinese National Peo agriculture and the armed f
6 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 consumers. " be supported should be selected on t)te basis of overall nation Two days later, in his "Government Work Report," Li al interest," the China Daily report¢d. Peng called for controlled economic growth. Li said that a 9% growth rate-down from the official 13%-plus of recent Growing unrest I years-"will ensure the sound development of China's econ There is very good reason for the tensions in Beijing. In omy," the official China Daily reported on March 11. At the 1989, popular unrest was far more widespread in China than 9% rate, "the government expectedto strengthen its econom has occurred in Russia, for example. Unrest is spreading ic control and curb inflation." again, spurred by one positive refcbrm of the Deng era: the Li said that agricultural production, especially of grain fact that the population is now far more mobile than before. and cotton, must be strengthened, and he called on local and A report in the March 15 International Herald Tribune said national authorities to "create a favorable business environ that worker militancy is spreadiing across China, and ment for large- and medium-sized state enterprises." Starting Beijing's fear of unrest led to the pUblic crackdown on dissi this year, state enterprises will be exempt from payment of dents before the visit ofU . S. Secretaryof State WarrenChris energy and transportation development funds-Le., taxes topher. Beijing openly defied allllJ.S. demands on human and special funds will be allocated for the reorganization of rights, despite the threatened loss of Most Favored Nation bankrupt enterprises, the China Daily reported. trading status, because the potential for internal upheaval is Repeating warnings made often over the past few years, far greater than any economic effects of possible loss of U. S. Li said that "some conditions for the current economic export markets. growth tending to become tense. Bottleneck restrictions The official All-China Federation of Trade are Unions has and inflationarypressures have increased. Reform also needs reported that there were 15,000 strikes, protests, petitions, a more relaxed environment. " Li Peng also imposed a halt to and acts of sabotage by Chinese workers in 1993. Lee Chuk approvals of new "development zones." "The central govern yan, himself an official of the Hongkong Confederation of ment does not intend to issue too much currency and credit Trade Unions, told the International Herald Tribune that this year," he announced. Priority will be given to projects "independent labor unions far more dangerous than calls are already under construction in transport, telecommunications, for democracy" in China. "WorkerS' problems and rights are energy, raw materials, and water management. "Projects to something deeply rooted in daily life. In 1994, the Chinese
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EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 7 are more worried about labor unrest than anything else." A Hongkong analyst said that "at first, we did not understand why China would deliberately provoke the United States. It CurrencyRates appears now that horizontal linkages between labor activists around the country are what Beijing is really worried about." The dollar in deutschemarks The extent of the concern was shown by Vice Premier New York late afternoonftxinll Zou Jiahua's call on March lO for a nationwide campaign to protect workers because of the "horrific"increase in industri 1.80 al accidents last year. On a national teleconference on indus - - trial safety, Zou said that, in an "unprecedented" toll in lives 1.70 r-"'-. and damage, more than 60,000 people had died in "thousands of incidents" in China between January and October, the 1.60
China Daily reported. The rise in deaths was particularly I marked in foreign-funded firms and collectively run mines, 1.50 he said. Zou called for new laws on industrial safety, and 1.40 punishment for firms which endanger workers. He said that , 3/2 1/26 1f16 2Il3 16 safety inspections should be carried out regularly, and should 31 target "accident black spots" such as foreign-funded or town The dollar in yen New York late afternoonftxinll ship enterprises. Zou also said that the press will highlight major accidents which claim many lives or cause severe damage. 140 Dissidents speaking out 11]0 China's very small but courageous dissident movement ina is speaking out in a manner not seen since the national demon
strations and protests in spring 1989. Repeated detentions '110 -- ,- and harassment in the last weeks have driven Wei Jingshen ... ! the leader of the Democracy Wall movement crushed by 100 Deng Xiaoping before Deng launched his "reforms" in 1126 1f16 2Il3 312 3116 1978-Tiananmen Square leaders Wang Dan and Zhai Wei The British pound in dollars min, and others from Beijing; yet despite this, several groups New York late afternoonftxinll have presented petitions to the National People's Congress. Their demands include not only free speech, but also the 1.70 protection of the rights of China's working population, both in the countryside and in industry. 1.60 On March lO, seven leading scientists and intellectuals, 1.50 ..... I led by Academy of Sciences historian Xu Liangying, who is - one ofthe translators of Albert Einstein's works into Chinese, """- submitted to President Jiang Zemin a petition stating: "We 1.40 appeal to the authorities to bravely end our country's history 1.30 of punishing people for their ideology, speech, and writing, 3/2 1f16 2Il3 and to release all those imprisoned because of their ideology 3/16 and speech. We think that only afterhuman rights are respect The dollar in Swiss fran¢s New York late afternoon ed and all kinds of rights that a citizen should have are se 8xIng cured, will society have true stability." At the same time, a new Association for Protection of Labor Rights, with 120 1.60 signatories nationwide, applied to the Civil Affairs Ministry to set up a nongovernmentalgroup to protect workers, includ 1.50 -- - '-....- ing giving them the right to strike. """'- - 1.40 '" Other indications of a gathering of forces against Deng Xiaoping include a report in the South China Morning Post 1.30 of Hongkong that the "leftist" wing of the Chinese CP is preparing to expose Deng Xiaoping's direct responsibility 1.l0 ! 3/2 for the Tiananmen massacre. 1f16 2Il3 3116
8 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 in a mood of extremism and intolerance. As a clear signal of this new agenda, in 1990, Greenpeace called for a 'grassroots revolution against pragmatism and compromise. ' "The fall of the Berlin Wall conltributedto this lefttum ," Greenpeace founders: Moore continued. "Suddenly the international peace move ment had a lot less to do. Pro-communist groups in the West were discredited. Many of their members moved into the 'We created a monster' environmental movement." Moore wrote that "as an environmentalist in the political by Rogelio A. Maduro center, I now findmyself branded a traitor and a sellout. My name apears in Greenpeace's 'Guide to Anti-Environmental Greenpeace, the media's darling environmental organiza Organizations.' Even fellow Greenpeace founder, Bob Hunt tion, is not faring too well these days. In the past six months, er, refers to me as the 'eco-Judas.' Yes, I am trying to help several founders and former leaders of the group have de the forest industry clean up its act so we might be proud of it nounced the extremism and the "anti-human" attitudes of its again. Why shouldn't I make a contribution to environmental present leadership. reform in the industry my grandfather and father have worked On Nov. 14, 1993, Denmark's TV-2 aired a documentary in for more than 90 years?" called "The Rainbow Man," a damning expose ofGreenpeac The problem, according to Moore, is that "the new vari e's financialmisconduct and connections to internationalter ant of the environmental movement is so extreme that many rorism. The documentary was co-produced by international people, including myself, believe its agenda is a greater ly renowned Icelandic filmmaker Magnus Gudmundsson, threat to the global environment than mainstream society. " who had previously made two film documentaries showing the unsavory money-making activities of Greenpeace. "The An assault on science and reason Rainbow Man" opened with an interview with Brian Met Some of the features of "eco-extremism" named by calfe, founder of Greenpeace and its leader during the first Moore include: decade of the organization's existence. (For more informa • It is anti-human. The human species is characterized tion on this film, see EIR , Jan. 21, 1994, "Greenpeace Ac by Greenpeace and other ecological extremists as a "cancer" cused of Bribery, Terrorism"). on the face of the Earth. The extremists propagate the belief Metcalfe said, "When I think back over the years of the that all human activity is negative, whereas the rest of nature Greenpeace story, how it developed from the way we started is good. This results in alienation from nature and subverts it and the way it is today, I often see myself as a kind of Dr. the most important lesson of ecology: that we are all part of Frankenstein, who created a monster that now has a life of nature and interdependent with it. its own." • It is anti-technology and anti-science. Eco-extremists dream of returningto some kind of technologically primitive Extremism and intolerance society. Horse-logging is the only kind of forestry that these Not long after that documentary aired, Patrick Moore, people can fully support. They see all large machines as another co-founder of Greenpeace, penned a commentary in inherently destructive. the Feb. 2 Vancouver Sun. He attacked the "anti-human" and • It is anti-democratic. This is perhaps the most danger "anti-civilization" bent which the organization has acquired. ous aspect of radical environmentillism, in Moore's view. "More than 20 years ago," he wrote, "I was one of a dozen The very foundation of our society, liberal representative or so activists who founded Greenpeace in the basement of democracy, is rejected as being too !'human-centered." In the the United Church at 49th and Oak in Vancouver. The Viet name of "speaking for the trees and other species," we are nam War was raging, and nuclear holocaust seemed closer faced with a movement that would usher in an era of eco every day. We linked peace, ecology, and a talent for media fascism. The "planetary police" woUld"answer to no one but communications, and went on to build the world's largest Mother Earthherself. " environmental activist organization. By 1986, Greenpeace • It is basically anti-civilization. Eco-extremism rejects was established in 26 countries and had an income of more virtually everything about modem !society. We are told that than $100 million per year. " nothing short of returningto primitive tribal society can save After 15 years of leading Greenpeace, Moore decided the Earth from ecological collapse.! No more cities, no more to retire, believing that the environmental movement had airplanes, no more polyester suits. lfhis is a naive vision of a achieved power, and that it was time to collaborate with return to the Garden of Eden. governments and industry to solve the world's problems. Moore calls for "all environmtlntalists to resist the path Unfortunately, he said, "in the name of 'deep ecology' [some of ever increasing extremism" and to "reject the anti-human, environmentalists] took a sharp turnto the ultra-left, ushering anarchistic approach."
EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 9 are involved in trading with Iran. Iran's main problem, however, has been the continuing drop in the price of crude oil, wb.ichhas created very unstable and shaky conditions for the Iranian economy. Iran has been trying hard to get the OPEC c�untries to agree on a fixed, Iran is caught in an lower-than-usual quota in order to boost the price of oil. Iran has even tried to "normalize" relations with Saudi Arabia, the economic straitjacket other major oil-producing countiryin the region. But effortsto persuade the Saudis to lower t�eir production level have so far proven futile. by Adam East Iran has failed to make any dent in lessening its depen dence on oil revenues, which a�count for 85% of its foreign On Feb. 11, Iranians celebrated the 15th anniversary of the exchange. It is estimated that every $1 fall in the international Islamic revolution. Tens of thousands of Teheranis chanted price of oil results in a loss of $1 billion in Iran's annual the usual slogans, "Death to America, Death to Israel." But revenues. In 1993, Iran saw its tevenue from oil exports drop in recent years, the slogans sound more hollow and the people to $1 1.5 billion from the previous annual average of $17 seem less enthusiastic. The clergy-led revolution brought billion due to the drastic declin¢ in oil prices. with it the promise of justice and equality to the masses-its main base of support. But after 15 years, the standard of Government apes the Il\fF living of the average Irani citizen has declined by 50% com There is mounting criticism ofthe government's econom pared to the days of the Shah. ic policy among some of the rQling mullahs and the general The minimum wage in Iran is less than one-third that population. The government's iausterity measures are being which people need to live, a fact recently disclosed by the compared to those which the lnternational Monetary Fund country's labor minister, Hossein Kamali. Inflation is run forces on its victims. Privatizadon and reduction of subsidies ning at about 30%. Since the unificationof the three different are giving way to unprecedente� levels of anger and dissatis exchange rates in March of last year, which resulted in the faction among the population. !Many basic necessities have devaluation of the currency, the Iranian rial has gone from either vanished or can be found only at prices which are about 70 to the dollar to over 1,700to the dollar-a staggering fall 30% inflated. Those who are Ion fixed incomes and those of over 2,000%. below the poverty line are being hit especially hard. Ali The Islamic Republic's attempt to introduce slave labor Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the speaker ofthe Iranian Majlis (parlia in its "free trade zones" has not produced desirable results, ment), recently admitted that tbe legislature wanted to post either. The government is going all-out to sweeten the pot pone the start of the second fivetyearplan for a year "because for foreign investors. Earlier, investors could only own a one cannot study a plan in crisi$." maximum of 49% of the shares in a business or commercial The Teheran-based Keyhan:lnternational. in an editorial activity. But now, "all hurdles are clear," as a senior adviser late last year, made no bones about the alarming state of the to President Hashemi Rafsanjani put it. He announced that country's economic woes. It said that the situation will get foreign investors can now own 100% of their economic con worse, not better. "Galloping, inflation, open mismanage cerns. The Islamic Republic is also allowing foreign banks ment of the economic sector, .ndifference toward the com to operate in the free trade zones without "any restrictions." mon strata who are the main supporters of President Rafsan Iran's foreign debt, which up until 1988 stood at almost jani, [and] decline in the international price of oil will all get zero, because Ayatollah Khomeini had no desire to be indebt together to make life intolerable and miserable for this nation ed to "unbelievers," is now pushing the $30 billion mark. of over 60 million people." In a veiled reference to the way Payment arrearages on external debt are about $10 billion. things were during the last years of the Shah, it added, "Of Iran's biggest trade partners (Germany and Japan), who are course the affluent and the infllJential need not worry about now reportedly working on rescheduling Iran's short-term [Finance Minister] Adeli' s decisions. The value oftheir prop debt, are under continuing U.S. pressure to reduce trade in erties, movable and immovabl¢, is appreciating in a manner order to "isolate" Iran. Germany, especially, which has been unprecedented in recent memoty." frequently put in the spotlight, in January issued a mild warn It also questioned the regime's constant rhetoric about ing to Teheran to improve its record on "human rights." Bonn justice and equality. The entif4.� concept of social justice in took this action, of course, solely to please Uncle Sam. But Iran was never considered an easy venture, the editorial said. while the United States is discouraging others from trading "Off and on, our political leaders do express their 'wish' to with Iran, the United States itself is doing the opposite. Over work selflesslyfor that cause. But it seems that justice is last the past three years, the total volume of American trade with in the queue." If current trends /lfeany indication, it warned, Iran has seen a considerable rise, and more U.S. companies "the tum for social justice may!never come."
10 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 $5 ,170 for diesel fuel, $1,700 for po� taxes, living expenses for 15 days at sea, ice, oil, and use dfthe equipment (levied by the boat owner)-the rest is di\lided by the number of sailors, say, 10. That's $5 17 per s$ilor. Take out about a third for social security withholdings, that leaves for $258- French fishingcr isis 344 for two weeks' work at 17 hours a day-hardly a living wage in an advanced-sector country where living costs rival those of the United States. Even then, a small fish catchor a sparks socialunre st drop in the quoted price can diminish or wipe out this pay ment. Moreover, social assessments,are based on lump-sum by Katherine Notley . wages divided into fivecategories.
This article was adapted from a report in the French weekly The free-trade poison Nouvelle Solidarite by Marc lolivald. One problem the French fishermen face is cutthroat com petition among countries, which is the result of globalization The French fishingindustry , which employs 120,000 people, of the market, for instance, under GAIT. The submission of is on the verge of total collapse, and the crisis has turned into poor countries to InternationalMonetary Fund shock therapy one more flashpointof social explosion. forces them to slash social costs and increase exports in order During a Feb. 5-6 visit to the city of Rennes in Brittany, to service the debt. Korea has a fleet whose seamen are France's prime Atlantic fishing province, Prime Minister prisoners working off their sentences. In order to meet their Edouard Balladur was confronted by the sight of fishermen quota, they have to operate completely illegally inside Guy protesting foreign dumping being driven back by tear-gas in ana's territorial waters. Unless France works to break up the the public square where he was speaking. The Feb. 10 issue insane GAIT "free trade" framework and impose a rational of the weekly L' Evenement du leudi lampooned Balladur's organization of world markets and fishcatches that assures a efforts at appeasing the fishermen, whose livelihoods he had fair price, its fishingindustry will soon die. destroyed by opening the door to free trade under the General Secondly, the industry inside France suffers from local Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): One cartoon "free trade" chaos, and begs for re-r�gulation. Every elected showed "Captain Balladur" piloting his ship out of the storm official in Brittany wants his port to pave its own little dock and declaring, "The worst is behind us," as the stem fillsup side auction, with the result that the wholesale purchasers are with water. A second shows him pouring water into a half atomized. Hence, when a fisherman makes a large catch, he full fishbowl whose only inhabitant is a fish skeleton. cannot sell it, because the dockside wholesaler is unable to Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1, 1994, the sale price of sole buy it all. Every increase in the catch brings a drop in the dropped by 27%; whiting dropped by 31%. In a protein price, with the fish being undersold; and this happens not starved world, one-third of France's catch is unsold and must only to that fisherman and his crew, but also to everyone else be destroyed or ground into fish meal. Forty percent of the who brings the same species into port. The wholesalers, who fleet is in debt. Recently the government announced $5 1 "comer" the fishermen, are "cornered" in tum by the national million in subsidies, of which half are credits. It is also distributors. Whereas the distributor, can choose his supplier moving to reduce 50% of the social security withholdings from any country in Europe, the wholesaler, with no financial and to unblock $29 million for troubled enterprises. None of resources, is stuck in his home port .• these steps gets at the root of the disease, the British-style Finally, the "auction," the metMd of selling to the high "free trade" embraced alike by President Fran�ois Mitter est bidder, doesn't allow the price tq be set in advance-but rand's socialist regime and its "conservative" rivals, now that's the iron law of the system of medium- and large-scale sharing power since Balladur became premier. distribution, which accounts for 50% of consumption and Since 1983, there have been eight plans to "save" the 60% of the wholesalers' sales. Reducing the number of auc industry, for a total of $5.8 billion. Yet, as the president of tions and putting them on a rational footing would let the the Marseilles fishing commission said, "We don't want fisherman with a large catch look for a purchaser who is not hand-outs. Compensatory payments like those to the farmers systematically "breaking" his prices; are the beginning of the end." And, complain the fishermen, '�There aren't any more The 120,OOO-person fishing sector comprises captains fish." True: The seas are becoming depleted from overexploi and sailors, seamen and wholesalers, owner-operator fish tation. That is one reason the fleetis. too large and so deeply ermen and industrial fishing, each with a different social in debt. Yet if the free-trade straitjacJ<.etwere thrown off, the regime. The 23,000 seamen are generally paid on the basis solution even to this problem is at! hand: France is in the of splitting the proceeds of the sale. For example: the catch vanguard of fish-breeding technologies, which is so vital to brings $13,800 at auction. But, once deductions are made- restocking the oceans and genetically improving species.
EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 11 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Cota Meza
Soros is bankrupting Mexico that a huge qevaluation would require The derivatives market that lured Mexico's top companies is some $10 billion to fleethe country.) ja lling, and taking the economy along with it. These phenomena still have no ex planation: significant falls in the stock exchange in a practically stagnant market, and, banks that report "short Mexico's speculative financial nancial authorities had registered an falls" in an ocean of dollars. What is sector and stock exchange have been inflow of nearly $2 billion in stock going on? I suffering instability for a month now. market investments alone. Described As far as the banks are concerned, Officially, it is said that the situation is as an "excess of liquidity" in dollars, they ptobably facing financial are temporary and that the "mini-cracks" this enabled the Mexican government warfare from the foreign institutions are due to the U.S. Federal Reserve's to manipulate its bond interest rates that will presumably be setting up announcement of a hike in U.S. inter downward. shop in Mex,icoshort ly. est rates. This supposes that a portion Due to Mexico's "worst political On Feb. 21, the brokerage house of the investments in Mexico are re crisis ever," interest rates reached a Goldman Sachs issued a report forits turning to the United States, where historic low of 8.81% for 28 days. clients on sqven Mexican banks. Ac they will obtain similar or higher "The recovery is starting to be felt," cording to press reports, "at least sev yields. Other analysts are trying to pronounced Finance Minister Pedro en institutiqns used legal technical findinternal explanations: conjunctur Aspe. He and the bankers announced maneuvers tp hide the amount of their al instability due to the election pro a restructuring of overdue agricultural lost loans" ahd this mechanism has al cess, the events in Chiapas, etc. and manufacturing loans. Single-digit ready been ctbtected by foreign institu However, the chronology of the interest rates "will begin to take ef tions, the report states. Goldman Mexican speculative debacle reveals fect" at commercial bank windows, Sachs explains to its clients that "the other elements that need to be taken insisted President Carlos Salinas de Mexican banks which . . . operated into account. The speculative instabil Gortari . But the party lasted just two inefficiently will sink, given that ities did not begin on Jan. 1, the day weeks. By March 9, the 28-day inter Mexican banking is still underdevel of the "uprising" in Chiapas by the est rates had already risen to 9.30%, oped." The banks named are Banco Zapatista National Liberation Army, and 91-day interest rates to 9.71 %. Mexicano, $erfin, Mercantil-Probur but on Feb. 14, when George Soros's Six-month rates broke the single-digit sa, Bancres�r, Banco Union, and two Quantum Fund, the world's largest barrier, reaching 11.02%, and one smaller ones. However, also reporting speculator in financial derivatives, year rates 10.99%. "shortfalls" �re the two largest, Bana lost $600 million betting on a devalua There is also capital flight. Since mex and Babcomer. tion of the yen against the dollar. Be Feb. 24, the Mexican stock exchange In the shifting sands of the stock cause of the trade conflictbetween the has suffered five consecutive de exchange, what has these companies two countries, the yen revalued in clines, losing all the gains accumu paralyzed ate George Soros and his stead. lated in January. Some analysts ob Quantum Fund. Almost nobody Then came Feb. 21, when Federal serve that this is occurring in an knows it, but for some time the 15 Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan environment of very reduced buying principal cQrnpanies that control the announced an interest rate hike. This and selling of stocks. Mexican stock market have been mak produced a generalized fall on the in At the same time, a large number ing investments in financial deriva ternational bond markets, which had of banks suddenly reported a liquidity tives on thl! international markets, already been hit by the losses of Quan crisis and began to make unusual pur with the res\lltthat they too are being tum Fund and by the rumor that either chases of dollars, the currency that be affectedby t�e fall on the international Goldman Sachs, or one of its main gan the process of revaluation with re bond market. Some of these compa clients, had gone bankrupt on the spect to the peso, although still within nies have already been publicly French markets. the "limit" of daily devaluations es named: Alfa, Apasco, Cemex, Cifra, Contrary to what some are saying, tablished by the government.(In a sin Comerci(banco), Desc, Femsa, foreign capital in Mexico was not gle day, the peso was devalued by Grupo Carso y Telmex, Gigante, G frightened by the Chiapas affair. In figuresequivalent to the accumulated Video, ICA, Liverpool, Tolmex, fact, by the end of February, the fi- slide of all of January. Estimates are Vitro, and Banacci.
12 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 Agriculture by Marcia Meny
No friend of the farmer or the hungry and other high-tech inputs, plenty of The Hudson Institute says we can produce more fo od, but it is food will be proPuced for future bil lions of people. Believe that, and backing cartel demands fo r free trade . we'll shovel you some more. The confererlce keynote, "Ameri can Agriculture as a Growth Opportu nity," by former Vice President Dan T here is a contrived debate being world resource limits for agriculture Quayle, called fnee trade the friend of staged, aimed at public opinion and have been so exceeded, that govern the U.S. farmer. conducted through the media, on Cap ments should be required to eliminate So much for the propaganda. itol Hill, and through pseudo-scien their "unsupportable" people. What about the reality? tificjo urnals, that poses the question: What is the alternative? "Billions The world loss of farmers, drop in Can the world's population feed more people can easily be fed ," says output, decline in infrastructure (e.g., itself? the Hudson Institute, the loyal opposi lack of repairs and expansion of the The real food crisis that we face is tion to Worldwatch, Brown, et al. But upper Mississippi levees and river im that the world economic depression is a look at a recent Hudson Institute provements), and increase in starva destroying essential infrastructure and conference shows what a sham their tion and malnutrition all show con ruining family farmers , to the point pro-population, pro-technology posi cretely the disasterof free trade. Yet, that agricultural output potential is be tion is. the speakers at the conference-Paul ing destroyed globally, placing the Called "The Greatest Opportunity Faeth, economist from the World Re world on the path to famine. What is in Farming History," the conference sources Institute; Dean Kleckner, required is an emergency mobilization was held in Indianapolis, Indiana, the head of the American Farm Bureau; to reverse destruction of the physical headquarters of the Hudson Institute and many former USDA officials economy and produce more food at since it moved from New York, where all made special pleas for the food car increasing rates of yield. it was founded in 1961 by Herman tel's right to o�rate outside national Instead, there are political and fi Kahn, known as "mega-death" Kahn controls. nancial interests backing cynical, in for his advocacy of the usefulness of The biotechnology propaganda is competent position-taking on the so nuclear war. The official host groups an even more transparent hoax. The called food issue, while they move were the Competitiveness Center and technology itself, for genetic inter privately to maintain policies of food the Center for Global Food Issues of vention in plant and animal life, is and population control. the Hudson Institute. beneficial . However, what the Hud The contrived arguments are that The financial sponsors of the con son Institute crowd is backing are 1) population should be cut because ference included food cartel compa sweeping patent ;rights and exclusive the natural resource base and technol nies now dominating food processing "intellectual prOperty" rights, to be ogy limits for the earth's "carrying ca and trade and, since at least the late enforced under the GATT Uruguay pacity" for humans has been reached; 1970s, the policies of the U.S. De Round, to control innovations in food and, its pseUdo-opposite, that 2) won partment of Agriculture: Cargill, Inc., and fiberfrom seed to table. ders expected from agricultural bio ConAgra, Sunkist, AGP Cooperative, For example, the cartel company technology will be the basis for bil Inc., Countrymark Cooperative, Inc., W.R. Grace, in October 1992, re lions more people, as long as free DowElanco, Miles Laboratories, and ceived patent rights to all genetically trade and "comparative advantage" others. engineered cottop, of any type, by any prevail globally. The theme of the conference was means, produce� in the United States We refuted the first argument in that free trade must be expanded (be until the year 2008. Grace is thus enti the last issue of EIR (March 18), in a yond even the North American Free tled to a royalty Ion any plant or seed review of a recently released book, Trade Agreement and the General of genetically eQgineered cotton, the State o/ the World 1994, by the most Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or fourth highest �alue U.S. crop, no publicized advocate of this viewpoint, GATT), which, it was argued, will matter how the gFnetic matter was in Lester Brown, founder and director of allow international "competition" in troduced or b� whom. Similarly, the Washington, D.C.-based World farming, through which, from inter Monsanto has a sweeping patent for watch Institute. Brown claims that ventions of selected biotechnological engineered whe�t.
EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 13 BusinessBrief s
Croatia firmto figure outhow to keep the new airport the last yearSof relative stagnation than it had terminal open if the carrier declares bankrupt during the pteceding decades. " Economy must be revived, cy. Meanwhile, the USAir labor coalition, This is worrisome, Fitoussi said, because businessmen warn whose members have already accepted large it means that certain economic agents are no cuts in pay, layoffs , and "improvements in longer interested in pursuing a generalized productivity" over the past two years , met in growth of the economy. "If the revenues of a Croatian business leaders wamed in a meeting Washington on March 15 to try to counter the fraction of the population can grow through with Prime Minister Nikica Valentic in Zagreb airline. redistributiol1 of a fixed volume of wealth, on March 9 that steps must be taken to revive A British Air cash infusionof$386 million rather than throughthe growth ofthat volume, the economy. "We can't stand it any more !" last year gave it 24% of US Air stock and effec the society becomes less of solidarity, i they said. tive, if not actual, controlof the company. But and a comm(lnfront in favor of growth disap They claim that the stabilization of the British Air is refusingto put in any moremon pears.. .. Croatian dinar is not enough for the economy ey, while USAir announced a $200 million "Each cquntry then triesto comer a more to recover. Most business losses come from loss in firstquarter 1994, caused primarily by important part of the market. What is lost by dealings with foreign countries because the di matching cutthroat fare cuts by Continental one is gainecil by the other. In the same vein, nar is overvalued. To be successful,they said, Airlines. each actor tries to increase its control overthe the value of one Germanmark must beat least Phil Valenti and Lewis du Pont Smith, as national revdnue." 4,000dinars , and not the current 3,600. Some sociates of Lyndon LaRouche, have pointed even suggested 5,000 dinars to one mark to out in a White Paper on Minnesota Attorney cope with inflation and to stimulate pro General Hubert "Skip" Humphrey, that Frank duction. Lorenzo ofConti,nental Airlines is a cat's-paw DeveloP114ent Croatian economists accused the govern of Carl Pohlad of the ADL's "Minnesota Ma ! ment of creating an artificial shortage in the fia," which in tum is a controlled asset of the Fund supposedly set up supply of dinars,which affected its value. One British establishment. In other words, the Brit consequence is that it is impossibleto see clear ish are runningboth ends of the asset -stripping to aid iIlUrastructure ly how big the Croatian monetary reservesare . squeeze. Another problem is the spreading black market Former World Bank and International Mone which is tolerated by the financialpolice. This tary Fundexckutive and formerPakistan Prime is leading to the Croatian economy becoming a Minister M*n Qureshi announced on March speculative economy. In 1993, real production Finance 7 the establishment ofthe firstlarge-scaleinter in Croatia was falling by 5.9% in relation to national invtstrnent fund which will exclu 1992, but by December 1993, it fell by 11.9% Expensive money is not sively target! infrastructure projects in China in that month alone. and other developing countries, Agence Prime Minister Valentic said that the our culture, says prof. France Presse reported. "greatest light of hope for the Croatian econo The AlQ Asian InfrastructureFund, origi my is coming from intemational monetary in Since St. Thomas Aquinas, expensivemoney nally promo1!Cd and invested by the insurance stitutions . " does not fitwith our culture, Jean Paul Fitous conglomerate American International Group si, a professor at the Political Science Institute (AIG) , is to Ilrovideequity financing for major of Paris and director of the French Foreign Chinese infr�structurepro jects in the transpor Trade Bureau, stated in the French economic tation, telec�mmunications, and energy sec Labor weekly L' Expansion in early March. "Mass tors. "We have also been specifically asked unemployment is the worst imbalance of a de to consider the expressway that links Beijing Brits push USAir mocracy in times of peace," he said, and one with the capilal of Hebeiprovince, Shijiazhu of the major causes of unemployment is high ang, and four or fivepower pro jects," Qureshi to confront unions interestrat es. "High interestrates mean, on the said. Railway links and pilot projects aimedat one side, that the revenues of financial capital opening up 14 Economics EIR March 25, 1994 Brildly BACTElUAL infections are in • creasingly difficult to fight, ac cording to Professor Bitter-Suer mann of the University Clinic in Germany. Antibiotics have been re Pentagon covert operations director Gen. by Solidamosc in protest, which may have re lied upon while other control mea Richard Stilwell, George Bush, and Bush's percussions upon the policy andcomposition sures such as vaccinations or isola former aide Donald Gregg. of the government, should the OPZZ, the for tion have been neglected, and some mer communist labor federation which has so diseases have developed agents that far been loyal to the government, join the are resistant to more than one antibi protest. otic in 60% of cases. The 'A merican System' On March 8, workers in 70 ironand steel plants were on warning strikes on the second THE EUROPEAN Commission day of action by the 2 million-memberSolidar • Revive List, says former will allow 26,000 tons of chlorofluo nosc movement. Workers in the energy, state rocarbons to be imported,Liberation governor of Fed bank railways, coal and coppermin es, and telecom reported March 9. The EC decided in munications sectors are expected to join the 1992 to stop production of CFCs by nationwide protest. William M. Burke, a retired vice president of the end of 1994. The imports will "This is like a snowball-every day, a bit the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, come from India, China, Russia, or more, until the budget is withdrawn and called for a revival of the "American System" countries which, under the Montreal changed," Marian Krzaklewski, chainnan of economic policies ofFriedrich List, in a col Protocol, have the right to produce Solidarnosc, declared in Warsaw. The labor umn in the Feb. 28 San Francisco Chronicle. CFCs until 2006. List's writings are again gaining currency action is aimed at convincing President Lech Walesa that he should veto the austerity budget amongeven some American policymakers, he RABOBANK, a Dutch bank and force a review of it. • said. known in the United States for specu "Writing in The National System of Politi lating on farm loans, is planning to cal Economy, published in 1841," Burke become one of the leading agribusi wrote, List "arguedthat policymakers can as Economic Policy ness banks in Australia in the next sure national greatness only by supporting three years. their industrieswith a system of tariffs , subsid Lemelson calls for ies, and other protectionist policies. List ar COLOMBIA signed an invest • gued thatprotectionism was especiallyneces invention and innovation ment agreement with Britain, in sary for countries trying to reach economic which it will guarantee British invest maturity, particularly if they wanted to catch Jerome Lemelson called for a national eco ors treatmentequal with its own na up with other countries that had reachedmatu nomic program which emphasizes "invention, tionals, no exchange controls, inter rity at an earlier time. In any event, List and innovation, and creativity ," in an ad in the Feb. national jurisdiction over disputes, his theories were involved in all three of the 9 Washington Post. and other benefits. great economic success stories of the past cen Lemelson attacked the so-called post-in tury-America, Germany, and Japan." dustrial society. "We forgot that the service 'THE BANK OF ENGLAND • Burke claimed that some ofPresidentClin sector alone cannot sustain ahealthyeconomy. and City of London are the ones pre ton's policies show influencesofListian ideas, Real wealth comes fromputting ideas into pro venting any action against deriva and citedJohn Kenneth Galbraith,who he says duction," he wrote. "Services alone cannot tives," a German financial source favors a revivalof List' s protectionistpolicies . support us, and neither can the raw mllterials told EIR on March 9. "The only area "All of this suggests that we will hear much and finishedgoods that made the United States left where Ilritain is a global player more aboutFriedrich List in futureyears ," he the world's richest nation. In a high-tech envi in the aftermath of 12 years of wrote. ronment, the most powerful competitive ad Thatcherism and deindustrialization, vantage is a work force that invents and inno is in global 6nance. So long as Lon vates. The critical resource is brain power." don refuses toac t, controls elsewhere Lemelson works with the Massachusetts are utterly impotent," he said. Poland Institute of Technology and Hampshire Col lege. His project has reintroduced the World ROBER REICH, the U.S. sec • T Strikes greet IMF War II concept of the E-Awards for excel retary of labor, attacked "some cen lence, which were designed to stimulate pro tral bankers and finance ministers" austerity budget ductivity in support of the war. It is projected for believing that their policies sim that E-teams will be created at all schools ply amounted to "the freedom to fire The Polish Sejm (parliament) approved a new amongst the 4.5 million college students in the workers," according to the March 11 budget on March4 which was arranged with United States, thus sustaining "scoresof 21st International Herald Tribune. That the InternationalMonetary Fund, which poses Century Silicon Valleys," through Hamp would not result in better living stan strict limits on state subsidies to state-sector shire's National Collegiate Inventors Al dards, Reich said. industries. A strike wave has been organized liance. EIR March 25, 1994 Economics 15 ITmFeature Canthe colla I pse of Mrica be reversed? by Linda de Hoyos From Algiers to Capetown, fromMonrovia to Mog�dishu, the continent of Africa is being wracked with crises which are determining in the short term not only whether millions of people will live or die, but wh�ther entire nations will slide into a nearly irretrievable economic and social dev01ution, a devolution the rest of the world would be foolhardy to believe it can esc.pe if current policies are not reversed. I African leaders are not unaware of the problem. iThe problem lies primarily in three factors: first, extreme and unrelenting econoniic stress imposedon the Afri can nations from colonial powers that created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and handed Africa over tq their malevolent dictatorship; second, the social and political disintegration of nati 16 Feature EIR March 25, 1994 Destabilization in Africa, 1994 ', presented in the westemrnedia. Zero is far worse: the obliter As EIR has documented (see J a . I, 1993, "1990s De ation of infrastructure and the rending apart of all social cade: Breaking Point for the IMF or or Africa?"), Somalia's fabric, as if a country's physical and social structure had demise was the end-result of a proc ss imposed by western been smashed to pieces. As Dr. Osman says of Mogadishu, powers to remove Somalian Preside t Siad Barre(wh o in fits "Today if we want to have a conference there, we don't have and starts had resisted the IMF's estruction of economic chairs and tables, let alone microphones." sovereignty), with the full knowled e that there was no na- EIR March 1994 25, Feature 17 tional institution to take his place. Once Barre was removed, domestic inflation and collapse of industry. the western powers then pulled up stakes, leaving Somalia to According to a 1993 study �repared by the National Re its own collapse. Aid came only in the form of U.N. and U.S. search Council of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, "Demo troops, making of Somalia a precedent for the abrogation of graphic Effects of Economic Reversals in Sub-Saharan Afri territorial sovereignty as well. ca," studies of pre-industrial economies showed that a "10% Somalia is not the only country where the infrastructural increase in grain prices leads to a decrease of approximately underpinning to the population's existence has been devastat 1 % in fertility and marriage and to a 1 % increase in mortali ed. Already, energy consumption levels in many African ty." In the 1974 famine in Bangladesh, the study notes, "mor countries are only 1 % oflevels in the industrialized countries, tality kept close pace with the mcrease in the price of rice" so the term "zero" is not an exaggeration. Uganda was the that had precipitated the famine! first to go, with the coming to power of Idi Amin. Amin's In Africa today, the Research Council concluded, mortal ouster of the Asian community brought the economy to its ity is definitely affected by economic reversals.....:..contrary to knees; his brutality and the ensuing civil and regional wars many of the figures published by the United Nations. In during and afterhis regime destroyed what was considered Ghana, for instance, touted by the IMF as its showpiece, the jewel of the British Empire in Africa. "declines in the terms of trade andin the world price of cocoa, Today, large areas of Angola, Mozambique, Zaire, Libe both of which were severe in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ria, Burundi, Rwanda, and southern Sudan have become are associated with increases in child mortality." In Africa, completely dysfunctional. Other countries, such as Nigeria as a whole, "the pattern is for :child mortality to be above and South Africa, are at the brink, if leaders do not take trend in a year in which Gross Domestic Product per capita measures to brake the economic slide. Major dislocation now falls, to be below trend in the following year, and be higher , to threatens the francophone countries-Senegal, Mali, Burki again in the year aftertha t." na Faso, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, AIDS has emerged as anot�er major factor in bringing Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Benin, and down life expectancies. In additionto rising infant mortality, Ivory Coast-in the wake of the 50% devaluation imposed a study on HIV infection by the U . S. Bureau of Census shows on the African franc in January. that "as a result of AIDS, substantial increases in mortality Most African countries are already operating at such slen rates occurin the adult ages, w�ere relatively few deaths are der margins of stability, that it does not take much to push typically expected. The cumulative effect this increased Of the country over the edge toward war. In Congo, for example, mortality is substantial." Life e�pectancies in many African civil war broke out in January, between the regime of the countries are only 50 years or 'below. The 1993' Bureau of President elected last year in Project Democracy-forced elec Census study, "An Epidemiol6gical Review of HIVIA IDS tions, and his opponents. The split is along tribal lines. The in Sub-Saharan Africa," estimates that the effect of this '''net Jan. 27 New York Times quoted a Congolese economist as AIDS epidemic is to reduce urbanlif e expectancy at birth by saying: "Democratic elections were the worst thing that 'ever 17 years, or approximately 1 year decrease life expectancy in happened in this country. It 's unleashed a Pandora's box of for percentage-point' increase in HIV prevalence levels each to heal." With the in the population." , "" tribal hatreds that may take generations , " nation's capital a battlefield, President Yhombi-Opango de , In short; under the current eConomicdeclirie :':""which de- clared that relief would come soon when the IMF approves clirie urileashed the AIDS' epidemic to begiri �ith-African "his new belt-tightening program," according to Reuters. countries are heading back toward the extrerne physical depletion that marked: colohial period. Simultaneously , the Mortality rates on the rise the hopelessness and'despemition spawned economic by', such The approach to zero in the early 1990s is the result of stress fostersthe reducing of populations' identities sense of the reversal in the decade of the 1980s of any gains the to the most localist iribal'leveiS and towaid'Vi'olence in the African countries had made since independence. Despite 'the defense of that identity.' " " International Monetary Fund-World Bank pOst-colonial is clearly rio f!ope ofbraking this downward spiral , There framework, infant mortality statistics-one important ba unless nie stranglehold the MF and' "free trade" on the of [ rometer of the physical state of a population-register a world economy is broken. That is a chailbige 'nbt only for steady decline through the 1960s and 1970s. DireCt rule by African leaders, but patriots evl!rywhere. Eveii'so, the threat the colonial powers had pushed infant mortality rates so high posed Africa's eXi'stencetoday requtreS that Africa's to very that average life expectancies in 'many countries were no elltes take a hard ' lool(at realities of �colonial "inde the p6st higher than 29 years, in late The process of eco 'and breakwith the rtIlesof powliropoliticsin Afri the 1950$. penderice" nomic collapse in Africa began with the oil hoax crisis the ca. coritinentwide' dialogue must begih 'a�fine political of A ttl mid- 1970s and the ' plunge of the terms' trade : and ecbnomic sohitiort-s Alfrica's'people'so desperately 6f for' m'Ost 18 Feature , ;'. 25, 1994 EIR MArCh Now, why do these people wis to destroy the military? Dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche Because the military in the presen crisis, has functioned as a patriotic force of resistance agai st the total destruction of those nations . I have been watching coups in Nigeria which are like a fast-spinning revolving door for great number of years. Why suddenly does a new military regime come in to attack Development and the IMF? The same phenomenon. igeria is the most popu lous of the sub-Saharan countries; not the largest, Sudan is freedom are the same the largest, but Nigeria is the mostipoPUIOUS. It is the Brazil of black Africa. If it does not resi t, all black Africa is de At a conference of the Schiller Institute and the International stroyed. It is resisting. Why? Beca :se they are decent people Caucus of Labor Committees on Feb. 1994, Lyndon on a certain level. They are fighti�g against a force that is 20, LaRoucheresponded to questions fromAfr ican participants trying to obliterate their nation. MQre power to them! on the prospects fo r their nations. They are not hopeless. There ate no really hopeless peo pie. Wherever a human being is , mere is the spark of imago (leader from Cameroon): I have two questions: Which Dei; and wherever that spark existS , we must find a way to Q in your opinion should come first, economic development or address it. Because that's the only force we've got, the force political freedom? Two , I'm acquainted with some of the of ideas connected with the fact that every human being is programs that you have designed for Africa. If your econom potentially in the image of God; and you must touch that. ic policies for Africa cannot be known because of the exis Without that, you won't succeed. . tence of authoritarian regimes that refuse to allow freedom Now let's look at this situation in another way. There of thought and,expression, such as the freedom of the press, are two questions. Freedom and economic development,are how can Africa under the present circumstances build consti interdependent; they are the same Jhing. What is. ec<;>nOlJ)ic tutional, democratic, and economically viable republics? development? Is it "having" something? Economic deyelop' LaRouche: ,First of all, the situation is not hopeless in terms ment is utilizing the principle of the .human mind . . The only of authoritarian, regimes. Take the case of the govtfrnment power that humanityhas, lies within that which makes man come into conflict with the individually in the image of the Creator, the power c;rt:ati�e of Nigeria, which has recently of InternationalMolletary Fund in,particular. Let me compare reason. The only thing.that differentiates man from an,animal this with the case of Central and South America, which we is reason, the power to make scien�ific and artistic discovel' know very well as well. ies, to develop man's behavior th(o�gh these concep�iOl)s, Today as, you know, the U. S. government,,o r a ,foo.tion these discoveries .. The only power .aIld the greatest power. in of it associated ,with Luigi Einaudi (a long -term consultant to the ,temporal universe is the poweJ,' of ideas. NQt form�las, the State Departrpent)is backing! through the �nter�,Ar.nerj.can not recipes, not. force, ,but , .ideas. , ti.s the oo.ly re.�SQn � tb� ion, terrorism throughout . Central l;\nd r.ace has survived what it ha� survived .. Dialogue organizat human South America:. Sendero Luminoso, [Shining the The power of econor,:lYlies entirely in idea,s,. in scientific :Th� ,PatbJ, terrorists of-Rem" !U'e backed ,by the. lnternational ,and related discoveries which give man.increased power qver Monc;tary Fund h Security affiliates, and Int�� nature. There is no possibility. of d�y�lopmlYnt .\\,'ithou� the (IMF).:� e CouI].cil the American pialogue. They are backed also by sectiqJlS,of� freedom to generate, to transmit, to assimilate, and to prac U.S. Stat� De�r.nent. It 's a.fact! One, of the reas,?,�� tl:\ey tice better ideas. You can't hav� f�dOJn in.,a z�grp�th , give for ba�ki�g t�m, as they do in Chi�pas provinc�; whi(;h society.. You have only d,ictatorship� the suppre�jon ofi,deas . is an extemal:-ipternal operatic:m. aimed at destroY�Jlg M.exi Whydidn't the ijoIsheyik .syste� work? B,ecauseit di���t co-ithas nothing to do with Indians;:that's afraud-:-:-:-is.� have. a market,? .Utat's, afairy taleLWe:ve got a market sys of all oft�e, . countries of Cen1F� and tem, :aDd the. whole :thing cQlla �i �. 9,byipusly, hi f destroy the, J;I)ilit� is, p p th� �o South Am�r'ia:, : Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, CoI�ia.. a mat:l, Peru, Boliviaf,Cqile. , : ,.,. ! marke� .in 'there, 'anli.l opk what · haJll?��C;:�; it.is wo� � : �i .man Why d they sh to destroy 9lilitary? ,� roo :ver. got a cold,11I�4•. � y �ve .llQt the � You've, :yoll,c.an'i�r; tb�'� , � acur,e; Once rid of Juan P,�r9n .and his friend ,. . ..' : . I, ' ".. :: ".: .. " •.•• ,./ .,:i�· tqey> g9,t, in ,the . . 1950s, effec�yt(Jy overthrowingtlie governrp.ent.:,of::l'Y� faillll'e, of R,ussian sy*m. �s, c�Ue� he peat by The $e. J gentina, weremilitarY. t;egime s wbicb, geI1�ral� probleIIJ.. at.least f\:om the Ner�re t.ve �tu.di�!i wbat�J9ained aU fo� I;I;I.any ly were will�ll&.; the point ,.of" b�ollets" to 'eJ:l.forc" the on , the RlJllsian .q��ion� yp couldn.'t.ge� f! 10t.Rf ,�l years q t}le �don andJ�j'e)\! banks .. 1;h�:Il1ili: Rl,lssian population acc�pt teclJn�lo.gical requirement�/o(,tpe ,York ,W PfO��sS IA�!4#t tary was e�e�i�l\Y ,�e ,debt collt:9t�w for the New .)'�* :�d m�ny }>{U1s,j)� the worl�, people; dl,Pn',t;aq;e�( ,t I?�hnoI9g¥;al London banks . .J.; , ""., : , progres:s.; .they want �o go bac� t(} tfte ,qlp ,w.ays.,Th!;i� d901t EIR M�� ,�5 , J;994 ernment , that of Mrs. BandarJaike, promptly. It overthrew the [Indian] government of M�s . Gandhi a little later, with help from Moscow. It overthre� the [Pakistani] government of Mr. Bhutto. It not only put �. Bhutto in prison, but killed him, because he offended the� by supporting that policy. It overthrew the governmentof P ru , the Velasco government, using Kissinger agents in the Peruvian government. The same process has happdned in Africa: Every govern ment that got on to this has bee crushed. It has been crushed I by African forces which have been hired and which accepted the pay to overthrow a government that moved in the national interest. One of the governments thatI is now resisting is the gov ernment of Sudan, and the goJernment of Sudan is marked for extinction by the Church of f:ngland, which is leading the pack in the determination to un eash genocide in Sudan, and LaRouche answering questions at the Washington conference. has so far been unable to secur , even with the help of forces Feb. 19. in Egypt, the people who are capable yet of overthrowing the governmentof Sudan. want to be pushed. You see, it's the great genius of western We have to understand thatI there is an inner problem in civilization that we did solve that problem. That's the gift of Africa, because they are not wrll-educated; because people Christian civilization: the ability to organize technological who are educated and have p01er have a tendency to behave progress. Until we discovered it, no other civilization, no like yuppies, to live at the expense of people less fortunate other part of the planet, was able to do that in the entire than they are , rather than uplifting them; who would rather be accepted in London and no be executed the way it hap history of mankind . That's our gift; it belongs to all humani I ty . Deliver the gift. pened in Congo, when it was Belgian Congo, in the time of Development and freedom are the same thing, because [Patrice] Lumumba. They wo ld rather live in safety and they both involve the freedom of ideas for change. Not liber have a nest·egg in a London orlSwiss bank, and be tolerated tarianism; not the right to change your sex ten times a day , by the metropolitan countries. They are not going to fight for but the right to use your mind, to assimilate , develop, and their people. And if the peoplej themselves are illiterate and apply different choices of idea to improve human practice, don't know, how are they going to fight? morally and physically. That is what economic development In South America ana else'lhere, in the United States, in is,. which requires infrastructure . You 'are not going to devel the British Isles and on .the c tinent of Europe, in Russia 'op a desert by sitting there and having ideas; you must have and in eastern Europe', and ii China, and elsewhere soon water. Therefore you must use reason to get yourself water. tomorrow, around this world p ople are faced with the reality , ou require power,; you must have power. You must have that what has happened cannot ontinue. And they are look ,,¥ sanitation , you must have all these other things. So you apply ing, and will be looking for id as. There ,are" people I know the power of reason with ideas to give your country devel throughout black Afrioa who are very well aware of what we opment. are doing and who would- re spond, who have.tIiied to respond in {be past, but. they are terrifi�d . My being, in prison didn't , Q: How do we ' get ,this message through to the ,people in give them. any courage, either" Because they sa.id: "Look at . Africa when there is no freedom of thought and expression? that fellow-he's the only felL w in the l:J.nited:States who is , How do we do it? for this" ' and they stuck him in prison. H t1� s' finished. There ouche: , LaR I'm telling you, I�ye been through this. The first is no,one to tum to," they said. . '" . , time we. got into 'Africa significantly was, with -a dear friend free. I may be dead tOForro� , 'but fm· free today. , rm . . of uurs , the late Honorable Fred Wills, who was- the foreign ,We know how to wm, and we shall Will . But'we do not have . minister of,Guyana. WeJought a war together. It was t0geth- the:almighty. power to. decree hen victorYtwili occur. We 'er With our friends from Peru. and other countries, which led must -do what we should d0' .to Dring about,viotory, and have . ,into the August' 1976 C<�lombo,l Sri Lanka conference of the . confidence that the -oPPOl:tunitX will be pFesented to us. We Non-AI igned Illations. Th:eproposal which we had designed, -wiU haMe the opportunity.;: let u� be prepare.d;;let- us be persis (for -which we. had' .fought· ov�r' the :pre ; :20 . ,Feature EtR c� Mar<:h 25 , 1994 AInbassador documents the anatomy of political failure in Somalia A book review by Susan Maitra see through his youthful eyes the transfer of power from the British Military Administration, which had seized this part of the Somalia territories from Italy in World War II, back to Italy, which had been designated by the United Nations to The Road to Zero, Somalia's Self "prepare the territory for independence within ten years." Destruction by Mohamed Osman Omar We appreciate the cruel arbitrariness of this exercise-the Haan Associates, London, 1992 fourth time in living memory that Somalia's ownership was 213 pages being changed-in the personal dismay of the young Mo hamed Osman, and his apprehension over the loss of his English teacher and his English education, an apprehension This slim volume is must reading for anyone concernedwith fired by his father's stories of the brutality of the ruleby the the fate not just of the battered and bloody nation of Somalia, Italian Fascists prior to 1941. or the strategic Hom of Africa, but of the whole of Africa "Now that Mrs. Geeran and what she represented had and the world. As Dr. Oboth Okumu, Ugandan High Com gone, and the English language was buried, we began learn missioner to India, wrote about the book: "If only the word ing everything over again, in Italian," writes Osman Omar. Somalia was taken away . . . the contents could be true of "All office correspondencewas now to be in Italian. And we many African nations today. The work should encourage all were in a hurry, because in ten years time we had to be able those who read it to contribute to the political histories of to run our country. " their countries." Osman Omar has succeeded in showing us The book then gives a retrospective account of the often from the inside the step-by-step process of Somalia's descent incomprehensible maneuvering among the world powers of fromthe optimistic expectations 'of independence on July 1, the day, and between them and nascent political group the 1960-0vershadowed as they already were, however, by the ings in Somalia itself over U.N. Resolution 289, which deter tortured legacy of competing colonial rulers-to the fratri mined Somalia's fate , includingi the country's continued cide into which the country plunged with the overthrow of fragmentation. This subject runs as a powerful undercurrent Siad Barre on.Jan. 27, 1991. through the rest of the book, and could well be a book or Osman Omar's direct and unassuming style in these·"per several books in its own right-a case study in the geopoliti sonal reminiscences" is a refreshing departure from the typi cal gamesmanship that has wreaked havoc with the nation cal insider accounts of historic events. There is no doubt building effortin Asia and Africa in particular. that throughouHhe period, as one ofthe relative handful of The problem is engraved in theiflagof independent Soma educated and qualified Somalis, he had an excellent vantage lia and embedded in the Constitution. The flag is a white star point on developments. Born in in Mogadishu, he be on sky-blue background: The fivepoints of the star 1937 represent gan work as a civil servant at the Post Office and then trans the fiveSomali territories, namely former Italian Somaliland, ferred to the -Constituent Assembly during the preparations British Somaliland (Somali Republic), the French Somali for independence. Following independence in 1960, he Coast (now Dj ibouti), the Northerh Frontier District (NFD), worked first'as .a journalistand as a diplomat in London , and the Ogaden, the last two contrpUed Kenya Ethio then by and Beijing, Teheran, Dar-es-Salaam, Khartoum, and Belgrade, pia. On July 1, 1960, only the first two were "freed" and the last two·as- ambassador. In between, he served a total of united, but the goal of uniting aU the Somali territories was six years as of protocol in'the' Foreign Ministry. He is enshrined in Article 6 of the Constiution. Unlike in the.many chief and· tiaa seven children .. speaks six languages , cases where colonial rulersenjoyed di verse. ethnic and cultur married : He: including Arabic , Italian, and Chinese. al groupings with which to play their game divide Mandarin of and rule, Presently'Somalia's ambassadol'to tndia, Mohamed,Os the Somali territories are uniquelythomogeneous ,ethnically, man Omar beg his story in Mogadishu. in 1950, we culturally, linguistically, and religJiously. ills when EIR March;25 /1994 Feature 21 Yet, years before Somalia's independence, and just after rashid Ali Shermarke rejected a westerno ffer of $ 10 million a losing fight against the other major powers for uniting the in heavily conditioned military aid in preference for a Soviet territories under the Bevin Plan, Britain, between 1948 and aid package reportedly three times bigger. The tilt had no 1955 , had handed over the Ogaden, Haud, and the Reserved impact on domestic affairs, where corruption, nepotism, and Area to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. The emperor and tribalism continued to prosper, and also proved no solution his patrons evidently believed that all of the Somali territories to Somalia's strategic dilemma. Ties with Great Britain were belonged to him, and the "Lion of Judah" began military harass severed and then repaired, but by the end of the decade of ment of the young republic soon after independence. Then, in independence the goal of reuniting the territories was further 1963 , Britain gave the NFD to Somalia's other neighbor, away than ever. The population was desperate for any change Kenya, in a high-handed move that betrayed its own referendum that offered the hope of improving conditions. findings concerning the NFD population's wishes, and set Kenya and Somalia at loggerheads. In 1967 , in a similar opera Barre's 'bloodless revolution' tion, France tightened its grip over Dj ibouti . Enter Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre , leader of "the bloodless revolution" of Oct. 21, 1969, who promised to Extreme backwardness restore justice and equality before the law, the right to work, This situation would present a formidable challenge to fair distribution of the nation's income, eradication of hun the most experienced national leadership of an otherwise ger, disease, and ignorance, and elimination of the system strong and vigorous nation. But at the time of independence, of tribalism. Barre 's more than two-decades-Iong rule took Somalia was a portrait in dependence and backwardness. In Somalia into the Soviet orbit and straight out again, as geopo 1957 , after seven years of Italian-directed preparation for litical maneuvering erupted anew in the Hom of Africa, and independence, Somalia had only two men under training in finallybrought the nation to its knees. Osman Omar provides the diplomatic field. Just 160 students were enrolled in the windows onto both the international intrigue and the internal Higher Institute of Law and Economics, the only institution workings ofthe Barre dispensation, from the author's succes of higher education in the Somali Territory , and some 37 sive diplomatic posts as well as his tenure as chief of protocol Somalis were pursuing university studies in Italy. It was in Mogadishu. In particular, the ups and downs of Somalia's expected that in 1960 a mere 27 Somalis would receive uni liaison with the former Soviet Union are interesting. versity degrees in Italy. The author's dispassionate treatment of Barre bringsin to Moreover, the whole business of the nation was being focus the general's accomplishments during the first ten conducted through the medium of foreign languages-Italian years , including taking the difficultdec ision to give the So in the south and English in the north-with English required mali language a script, and the vigor of the young regime's to conduct foreign relations. Lack of educated and skilled commitment to the nation's welfare and its participation in personnel made the country dependent on foreign expertise African and world affairs. Similarly, the last ten years of even for the daily running of the administration . And, since Barre 's slide into despotism and paranoia comes across stark throughout the colonial period no effort had been made to ly, and . we are made to ponder the truism that "power cor improve or build up the country's infrastructure and econom rupts" anew , and consider where the mistakes were made ic production, dependence on foreign assistance in that and why. sphere too was virtually total. After ten years of Italian tute Somalia is among the ten least developed nations on this lage, there was still no potable water in Mogadishu: Drinking planet . The country's plight was virtually unknown in the water was brought to most households in used petrol canisters West ,until .the BBe and CNN brought live coverage of the on the backs of donkeys, Mohamed Osman tells us. Illitera 22 Feature EIR :: MIlr-ch 25, 1994 Interview: Mohamed Osman Omar 'Othernew ly independent countries should learn frolIl SOlIlalia's mistakes' His ExcellencyMr. Osman Omar, the ambassador of Soma 60 or 70 people died while sailing to Yemen. So the civil war lia to India, was interviewed by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu caused a nightmare for the nation, and the intervention has Maitra on Jan. in New Delhi. The review of his book, helped; The multinational forces have really helped at least 27 which is discussed in the interview, appears on page those innocent people who were not involved in the power 21 . struggle. EIR: Your book tells the story of independent Somalia, its As far as the U.S. withdrawal is concerned, this is a first 30 years-from the heady optimism of independence in decision being made by the U.S. government. But I think 1960, to the civil war of 1991, to the present. What is the that they will remain with the U.N. forces, as part of the current situation on the ground? Is there any prospect for multinational forces, not as a seplU'ateU.S. contingent. Late peace? ly, the U.N. has been organizing liimited forces to help work Osman: Today we enter the third year without stability. We on humanitarian projects, and this is important. Our country pray that there will be peace. The prospect is always there. is devastated by civil war and famine, and therefore external The hope never dies. We have seen big problems, difficult assistance is a necessity if the suffering of the people is to be ies, and the country has suffered, the people have suffered. alleviated. And the perspective is that, we say, we believe that every bad thing is followed by good things. So we don't give up. EIR: Will they be able to have any influence on a political When we see bad we say, "Thank God," then we pray for solution, or are the U.N. forces primarily laying the ground good things. I only pray that those who are involved in mak for the people to begin talking? i ing peace will come to the conclusion that the time has come Osman: In any country today you can have differences when the country must be given a chance to get back on its among yourselves. You can have: differences in the family. feet again. Then, if the family members start quarrelling or fighting, neighbors will help mediate. That's why Ethiopia, Kenya, EIR: The United States is leaving soon; the U.N. force is and Uganda are all now trying to help us to solve our differ staying. Has thefore ign intervention helped? ences. It's necessary to have regionalorganiza tions, interna Osman: Yes. I say yes because the civil war was also cou tional organizations, the U.N., the OAU [Organization of pled with So the country had two disasters together, African Unity]' the Arab League, the Islamic Conference; drought. and many people have died. We have seen people dying you need them. Even if they only help us with logistics, it's from bullet wounds, for lack of food; we have seen houses, important. It may sound impossible, but today if we want to properties, schools, hospitals, offices destroyed. Definitely, have a conference in Mogadishu� we don't have chairs or the intervention ,has helped to ease that suffering. The food tables, let alone microphones. The only decent conference has come. The civil war, the random shelling of heavy guns hall, in the People's Assembly (Golaha Ummada), has been has stopped. The peoplehave started talking to each other. I stripped of all facilities. No on¢ gave a thought that the have seen personally in the streets of Mogadishu, patrolled country would need it tomorrow .. by U.N. forces, the people come to the market place; they To make it work, you have �o try to make use of the have started things in the streets, although busi assistance given by others, and it depends on you you selling big how ness is still· missing becausemilli ons are outside the country . make use of it. The international organizations can help us, They have nm'iI:way from the country because of the fear of organize a forum for us, or an indi'{idualcountry can organize death. SomaU� have suffered a lot. Somalis have taken to the or give us a forum. That is necessary. Otherwise , if we trust sea, to the You may have·heardthe news that hundreds ourselves and we can sit together and talk without outside roads. died in the Ocean, just offthe shore of Kenya . . help, it's much better. 1�1l1 Then, EIR Matoii'·25, 1994 'Feature 23 EIR: Somalia is the tenth poorest nation in the world. What make a change. F.W. de Klerk �as made a change. He is a in your view are the priorities for a national reconstruction very courageous person. He h*s changed the situation in program? South Africa. He knew that hi� decision was suicidal, but Osman: The priority is stability. Peace. If we have stability chose to go down in history as t� man who ended the centu and peace then the rest comes. ries-old white supremacy. Now� if you are saying that you We are among the 10 least developed countries. Maybe are not going to be racist, then you should say the country is we are today number one, or below that, because some time for all Africans, for blacks and Whites, for whoever lives in ago we were "least developed," an LDC; but today, I think, that place. The blacks have the majority, but they are divided. if there are LLDCs, then we go down below that because we There is a group of white extrefl1.ists, and there is a group of have destroyed the little we had. We have to firstreesta blish whites who would like to see ch�nge. I wish that all of them stability, and then with the help of others we can raise our would come together and who�ver has the political power own heads again from the ground-start producing food, to win the votes, to win in thi� democratic election that's developing fisheries, raising livestock, which is our main forthcoming-because not only in South Africa, in all Afri lifeline. Due to the civil war, we have today nearly a million ca, in my country, a genuine defTIocratic political process is children who need to be rehabilitated. Then, God willing, essential if everyone is to surviv� and have a chance. we will arise again as a nation. Once Siad Barre 's dictatorsh\ip was defeated I hoped that We are told that we are a rich country. Some sections of the groups would say, "Okay, wlthave defeated dictatorship. the world press were commenting that we have petrol . We Here is, now, the key for the nat�on. You, the people, decide are happy with it. But as long as we cannot bring peace, what to do with it." They did inot say that; instead, they stability, and faith in our nation, then we will be not only started fighting each other for pqwer, until the seat of power below the 10 but will be nothing. That's why I called my itself had been destroyed. The� behaved like the cowboys book The Road to Zero. When I say the road to zero , it means we saw in the films, who when they found a gold mine began that in the last 30 years , all our actions were just going killing each other for its possess�on until all perished. to zero. You know , we never raised our heads. We had Somalia became virtually s�nonymous with disaster. In corruption, problems, nepotism, dictatorship, then all these Afghanistan, they used to say, "We don't want to be like the things happened, and today we are where we are-zero . Tell Somalis." But when those wh� were fighting against the me if there is in any part of the world, any country which has [communist] regime of Moham�ed Najihullah won the war, no President, or government, or ministries, schools, hospi they started fightingeach other. �omali groups were fighting tals. It doesn't exist! Literally, we are zero because we don't against Siad Barre, then they wo� the war; now they fightfor have anyt hing. We are rich with two things: talks without power against each other. They 1k>ught a war which everyone useful results and guns. So when they ask me , "What do you lost. They reduced the country Ito rubble and brought only represent?" I say I represent the Somali nation. I always pray misery to the people. They sai4 they were fighting against that the Somali nation exists, and I work for the nation. I try bad government, but we now r�alize that bad government, to play my part to keep the flag flying. as we say, is better than no gove�ment. At least you have an image as a nation. Look at Et�iopia, our neighbors. They EIR: As a diplomat you had experience in wider African were fighting the same type Of regime. Before they took issues, beyond Somalia, and you refer to this occasionally in power, they said , "We should n9t be like the Somalis. " They the book. What is your view of the situation in South Africa were very careful not to dismember the countrylike we did. now? In Liberia, the same thing is happening. They fought against Osman: The whole of independent Africa since 1960 has the regime; they fight each otheIjnow . been supporting the people of South Africa. We spent mil Are there not enough exam�les that we can learn from? lions of hours in talks. Each African country has given some If somebody thinks he is the maj • tha.t the day.will come that the black majority will succeed. If you have political wisdom, pi>litical courag�, you are not . We always said that this country has to have a democracy , a afraid . democ.ratic solution for their problem . That mean,s we blacks . ; , , also should not be racists like. the whites. I hope that our EIR: If you have some plan forlthe country. s<,>meprogram , the last years will n,otbe in vain. some vision- : " . �ffort. s.qf �O . W!;l.bave seen the release of Nelson,Mandela, Tbere is ,no OsmAJ,n:. You have to have visibn. If you ali oing to be a I . i, "g in Africa or in the world that WilS not calling for that, leader, you must have visi()n fo� your peop'l ., ur country. ¢ountry �, .¥� One has,to think of the nation, i�s econom,i9 ,social prog .and,we susc.e�dtld! The go,vernmen�of South Africa realized f,lp,d the trend s, that they had no choice but to release him and to ressiJ.hope, I sincerely pray , ttlat the lead�¥�9f the various EIR ,.·tWtrch 25, 1994 .•:. ;. �1 ;', groups in South Africa will place the national interest before would distribute it to the people through good services such their own. What I see is people walking around with firearms, as schools, hospitals, infrastructure, housing. swords, and other dangerous items; it is really frightening. It Why did the Shah of Iran have :to fall? Because 35 million seems that for us Africans, life has no meaning. Look at at that time, now maybe 60 milliort-I don't know how many Somalia, Liberia, Angola. In Mogadishu we say, "Every thousands were living on the streets. He could have built a thing became expensive except the life of the person." Prices house for each family. He could have given them 35 million are high, but not the price of a life, because one can shoot apartments. They would have kissed his feet. He could give. anyone. No one asks why. We should understand that power He didn't. The same thing is happening to these leaders. But, is a poison. It kills you. It is a suicide when you are getting it of course, for their wrongdoings they blame others. by force, because there will be some who will not let you live A more important thing is that they feel like the country with it in peace. is their property . It is not. The country is the propertyof the nation; the government is the property of all. EIR: I want to ask you about some other situations in Africa. It is a sad story. We have people who, once they come to Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt come to mind. It seems to me power, stick to it. They don't understand that the longer one that there is a very palpable economic crisis that's underneath sticks to power, the more he becomes addicted and in the end the political problems. he is destroyed by that power. Osman: Yes. In Africa, anywhere, the basic thing is econo my . If a man has bread he will not come to bother you. If a EIR: But isn't it true that even the few of those who had a man has schooling, the child goes to school. If men have vision were put against the wall, and a lot of resistance came jobs, your governmentcan live forever, provided you follow from the West? What I have in mind is Kwame Nkrumah, a democratic process. Economy is the basis either for peace for example . or for crisis. I call the countries you have mentioned some of Osman: Yes, it is true. It was the game played by the former the richest countries in Africa. Algeria, Nigeria-they have colonial powers. They did not want Africa to develop. They petrol , they have gas, they have everything that their country want to keep Africa that way so that they can keep control. needs, including well-educated people. Egypt is the center All our things depend on the fonner colonial powers-all of education for most of the Arab world; it has a good indus telephone communications, all telexes, all our banking goes trial base; the people are hard-working. So why is there a through [London, Paris, New York] . We have developed a crisis now? kind of complex. We love their civilization and not our own; Generally, we blame others, such as the International if we do not speak English or Italian or French, we are Monetary Fund, the World Bank, capitalists, and so forth , nothing. for whatever bad thing we do. We blame them, but we never People like K warne Nkrumah were put against the wall blame ourselves. Why do countries such as Nigeria and Alge and sometimes even eliminated by the enemies of Africa. ria, with all the wealth they have, have to go anywhere to get But the worst thing is that the enemies' plan is executed by loans or to beg from others? Why don't they organize their the local people. East and West used local puppets to topple economic program according to what they have? As the pric the man they disliked. es of their products are not stable, they have to be very Three years ago in New York I met a friend of a newly careful. Take Zambia. It used to export copper. During the independent country, and I told I!tim: "Be careful and learn past years, whenever they had a problem with former Rhode from the mistakes we have made !" He said, "How?" I said, sia, now Zimbabwe, the international capital used to punish "When we started we only tried to stick to power and make it by bringing the price of copper down in the world market. money. Then we could not leave tlitepower . Startto be honest If you take money from the world organizations, you with your people and do not let power carry you away. If have to pay. You know the trap . We know countries which there is a vote and you lose, stay� at home. At least you can cannot eve� 'pay the interest, let alone the capital. Then you go to your farm or do your own business peacefully. But if are forever"in their hands. They tell you what to do. They you are a dictator, you may enjoy a few years, but sooner or even guide 'your policy . You may say, "What about Soma later you'll be forced out of power, and in some cases forced lia?" Somalia needs to take their help. But those nations to leave the country. You'll run �way, you'll abandon your which have enough money, such as Algeria, Nigeria, should country, you'll abandon your people." not take loans. They must spend only according to what they Look at Siad Barre . He is now somewhere in Niger. Ifhe have. Ba,('martagement and corruption must be eliminated would have given the people a kind of democracy, he could because these are like a cancer in any sytem. These countries have stayed among us. [Ethiopiap President] Mengistu, the have petrof, ltid the people have to queue for petrol! The same thing. [Zaire President Sde] Mobutu is in the way. l crisis has 'cQin� because of mismanagement; it's as simple as See, every one of them. It's unf EIR Mate1\'25, 1994 Feature 25 - Zaire: the hoax of independence I Eyong-EchawLawr ence analyzes the historical legacy that has lliftZaire, with its abundant resources, one qfthe poorest countries in the world. Since 1990, when the usefulness to the West of Zairean while the pauperization of the �aireans has rendered the potentate President Mobuto Sese Seko had plummeted with country virtually ungovernable. To forestall handing over the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West has carried out a policy government to opposition forces, Mobutu has been playing to pull the plug on Zaire, a nation of 39 million people in one political party against another:(there are 300parti es), one central Africa. Disturbances in the country in 1991-92 tribe against another (there are 254 ethnic groups speaking prompted most of the Europeans and other westerners to 400 dialects), one region again�t' another, and one prime flee the country. Since the western mining companies have minister against the other. systematically refused to train Zaireans to run the mines and In March, the National Assembly, a grouping under Mo associated infrastructure, the withdrawal of Europeans has butu's control that was forced to *rge with the High Council brought about the complete collapse of the country. of the Republic that emerged from the opposition-supported Because Mobutu has refused to accede to Project Democ National Conference, will appo�nt a new prime minister racy demands for a conversion to pluralist democracy, the charged with overseeing the traQsition to democratic rule. United States, France, and Belgium have cut off most aid to Mobutu's strongest opponent if Etienne Tshisekedi wa Zaire, despite the enormous poverty of its population. In Mulumba, who has held various pprtfolios in Mobutu' cabi s January 1993, the World Bank ceased all operations in the nets . It would appear that he has tpe broadest supportamong country, cutting the pipeline of cash for the nationalized the Zairean people. He controls tIpe capital city of Kinshasa, Gecamines company operating in Katanga province, the having virtually chased Mobutu his home town Gbadoli tk> heart of Zaire's vast copper resources. Zaire's export earn te-another sign of the increa�ing fragmentation of the ings from copper and cobalt fe ll by nearly 75% in 1993, Zairean state. as Gecamines shut down operations. "Without Gecamines, they're back in the Stone Age," commented a Belgian busi Congo: private royal prop�rty nessman. In 1855, when Belgium was Nst 28 yearsoldas a nation, Bringing Zaire to its knees is but the latest episode in the young King Leopold was already obsessed \yith an un that began with King quenchable imperialist urge. Afri a was till a, terr incogni the systematic looting of the country � s � Leopold of Belgium's pronouncement that the Congo was ta, with the Royal Society of Britain financing �xploratory his private property . Zaire is by all rights one of the richest expeditions between 1857 andJ 8�5. King Leopqld convened about 60% of the world's reserves of an International Geographic Conference in Laeken, nations in Africa: It has 1876 in cobalt, along with vast reserves of copper, cadmium, gold, to which the most reputed explore�s were invit�:;On Oct. 30, iver, tin, germanium, zinc, iron, manganese, uranium, and 1879, Leopold entered into an agreement with I!.JJ. American si ' radium. Instead, as the boxed figures show, it is one of the journalist and explorer, Henry Morton SuffliFY� who was Thjs is not simply because of a "corrupt govern later to become notorious among ;the Congolese fQr his trig poo�t. ,ment," as western media assert, but is due to a corruption ger-happy attitude to shooting down like ga�e, "natives" h MY ,e pforced py t �post-colonial system that was imposed from who crossed his path. '" ' ',;�, ,j<.":: ... s�d.e . ,2;aire today is a case study of the hoax of indepen- The invaders, used the same m�thod of cO(Jftictmediation � : ,' " • , • ' i! .1 � ... ' dence. " ," , and protection that the ynited Nations and" , r, western · · ' �� , ��seph;D\!sir Mobutu came to power in Zaire in Novem powers are using today ; �gain$t Africa" J:llther A. : ., � : A(� 1965 ary coup, which wa� greeted with relief Roeykens wrote in White f,qpe ,o Leopold e Coloni ber in a milit by r. , (l,ffitjr, s :W���c:rp, ;!1�t�pn� .that had seen their multinational" lnterest zation .oJ Congo , �ep�()l c ntrived ,t he com .the d � q;PIb�«} followed the accession ofCongo mallders his stations us� the ind� 0 \�hiefs to �tene�by t4e chaos tl).at of. ,tq, 9� �m Yfr Leopoldville to independence in June 1960. In the last 29 choose them as arbiters in their ¢onflicts with other tribes, years, Mobutu has accrued a fortune estimated at $10 billion, and to place themselves under the protection of the African· '. � : "f f,; : r� ';' � ,:�: rbu;! 26 Feature EIR March 25, 1994 • Association to defend them against attacks from other tribes. In exchange, they had to cede part oftheir territory to Leopold FIGURE 1 directly. Taking advantage of the rivalry among Britain, France, Zaire: approaching zero Total population million and Portugal in Africa, Leopold II imposed himself as an (1990) 38.6 Life expectancy years arbiter and made his association the guarantor of free naviga 53.0 Infant mortality (per live births) tion in the Congo basin. The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 1 ,000 96 Population with access to safe water among the powers thus created an Independent State of Con 34% Population with access to sanitation go which was King Leopold II's personal property . As 14% Children reported dying before age ih Zairean historian Elikia Mbokolo wrote, "The juridical mon 5 1991 21 1 ,000 Under-five mortality rate (per live births) strosity which made a European king the owner of a'huge 1,000 1 30 Maternity mortalityrate (per piece of African territory on which he had never set foot, 1 ,000) 70 Population per doctor gave Leopold the leeway to build a veritable system of slav 13,540 HIV infection in low-risk urban population ery based on expropriation and generalized violence." This 5% Percentage of urban population odious system was later to be denounced by Leopold's own 40% Food import dependency ratio subjects. 37% Per capita energy consumption (kg of oil equivalent) kg' One of the most dedicated crusaders against the inhuman 71 College graduates as of college-age population treatment dealt the "natives" was Daniel Van Groenweghe, % 0.2% Total debt as of GNP who in his work Du Sang sur les Lianes (Blood on Lianes), % 141% Debt service ratio quoted the district head of the Equator region as saying, "For 15.4% me as well as for all other people, Central Africa was just a • For comparison, U.S. per capita energy consumption (kg of oil equivalent) is ' land of terror. My mind had been made up to accept the 7,822 kg . words of our ancestor that his African education started in Sources: UNDP and U.S. Bureau of the Census the sound of gunfire as well as the burning of villages 'to bring the villages to reason.' In a nutshell, it was a life of force, with all its excesses." ain, the Belgian parliament took over the running of Congo Leopold's tyranny over Congo was unmatched anywhere as a full-fledged colony. But the excesses of the Leopold in Africa for its brutality. A letter written by Leopold II to all administration were only to intensify. The Belgian colonial his agents in Congo on June 16, 1897 , and quoted by Hubert administrators pushed their brutality to such extremes that Galle and Yannis Thanassekos in Congo-From Discovery they publicly flogged the corpseS of people who had not yet to Independence, says, "I am aware that in barbarous coun paid all their taxes when they died. tries, there is need for a strong authority to oblige the indige The scars of racial discrimination that the Belgians im nous to adopt the manners of civilized society which they posed during the colonial period have remained indelible. In have not been so far used to." most of the principal cities, the living quarters of Europeans Consequently, villagers who did not extract enough rub and Congolese are strictly separated. The European quartets ber had their arms amputated. The most recalcitrant villages are referred to as the "Ville," and the shanty towns are for were burnedto the ground. The agents of Leopold's adminis the Congolese who returnto their:"Soweto" from their menial tration receivedhuge bonuses for their extortions. The Afri jobs in the "Ville." I ' can-American George Washington, who came to the Congo I in search ofliisroots in 1890, published a horrifying report on Pseudo-independence the "policy Of amputated arms." British missionaries reported In 1955, Professor Van Bilsen proposed the gradual cases of natives recruited from British colonies and taken to emancipation of Congo with the ifinal objective of a creating work as slaves' Leopold's Congo. Daniel Van Groenweghe federation with Belgium in 30 years. But by the next in year, also quote� secretary genenil of the Congo writing to there was a blossoming of ethnic1andculturally based the associ Leopold' II: "Ithink your Majesty should not be reticent ations, which served as the basis! for the political awakenmg in takirig d�cisions which are unavoidable. The system of of Congo. Among these was the l<\ssociation of the Bakongo hostage-taking is considered as an odious practice by those (Abako) , created in t950 by JO$eph Kasavubu; the Afritan who do The villagers themselves now accept the Conscience of Joseph Ileo and IJoseph Albert not'thHlk. 'Malula; tfte fact that "i;Sq;pl'lllpunishment ' is necessary to make debtors National Congolese Movement of Patrice Lumumba; the Pari. pay prom, l : Women are the most frequent victims. They ty of African Solidarityof Antoine Gizenga; and the National � �t " are incaid!tA't'e tl', until such a tiIpethat their families or villag Katangan Congress Moise Tsbotnbe. i of es are abli't8fumish the required quantity of rubber." In 1960, BelgiUm. organized Round Table discussions in In 19cfe,°Briderpressure from the United States and 'Brit- Brussels, to determine Congo's political futiire.,Odririgthese ' I ;;(1 d�' . . ' . ' /. " I :._' ;" i , . � ./·i� "!el ;l, ' EIR March 25, 1994 "Feature ,: "'2)7' talks, it was agreed in principle that all economic assets In the same period, the CIA, t-vhich was deeply involved which belonged to the Belgian Congo should simply be trans in Congo, discovered Mobutu, cOmmanderof the Army. The ferred to the independent state of Congo. But Congo was United States used its influence to get money from the U.N. curiously asked to pay all the debts incurred by the Belgian for Mobutu to pay his troops an� the mercenaries recruited state for projects in Congo-including a huge debt of $5 for him. They also ensured that Mobutu's superior, General billion to be paid to the World Bank. However, out of $120 Lundula, suspected of being loy�l to Lumumba, was barred million borrowed from the U. S. governmentfor road infra from returningto the capital at th4:!critical moment. structure in Congo, $80 million had already been spent with Not until the end of 1962 did U.N. troops, still in Congo, out any construction work having begun. intervene to shut down the Katangan secessionist operation, Between May 11-25, 1960, elections were held in Con in a deal which made the Belgiar1 favorite Tshombe himself go. The results showed a convincing win for Patrice Lumum prime minister of the reunifiedC 28 Feature EIR 1994 Ma�JL25, I rearrangement, as the money gained from the nationalized not enough to buy food for a full week. mineral exports continued to flow out of the country, This extreme poverty has fed a tremendous rise in teenage either in the form of debt service or organized capital prostitution. Girls age 16-20, whQ have been virtually aban flight. doned by their parents who cannot afford to feed their fami lies, have taken to soliciting foreign visitors in front of the Economic dependence main hotels in the capital, especially Europeans who pay in Zaire is a glaring example of the western multinational hard currency. , companies' application of the politics of "bribe-block Profits fromthe exploitation of Zaire s copper are repatri break." This has permitted them to penetrate the state appara ated by multinational companies kmd the share of the state tus, to secure cheap minerals and other resource concessions, is used to import raw materials �nd intermediary products fraudulent contracts and commissions, over-generous fiscal necessary for running the outwardLoriented factories. All the incentives, soft tax laws and easy profit repatriation, ultra mineral wealth of Zaire is shared between the western share cheap labor, and other material advantages. In return, the holders of the multis and the political elite who gravitated Zairean elite has taken advantage to secure political office around Mobutu. Zaire is the only country in the region whose and prerequisites such as lucrative jobs, foreign bank ac currency has been devalued 12 times since independence in counts, shareholdings, and executive positions in the subsidi 1960. Yet, today the inflation rate is almost 4,000%, while aries of the multis operating there. the annual per capita income has flillen to less than $100. On average, western multinationals in Zaire pay their Nevertheless, some people in Zaire live in magnificent Zairean workers only 20% of what they pay workers in their wealth. For instance, my host there, publisher of a weekly parent companies and only 36% of the hourly rate of their newspaper, had a fleet of eight cars and was renting offices subsidiaries in other countries. Most skilled jobs are held by at the Continental Hotel in Kins�asa, where a room costs foreigners, and there is absolutely no technology transfer to $200 a night. the Zairean work force. In September 1991, riots broke �ut in Zaire, which included More than 80% of the export earnings of the Zairean looting and ransacking of commercial and industrial sites. economy come from the mining industry. Of this amount, Thousands of jobs were lost, as investors startedpulling out of 90% is used to pay for manufactured products destined for the country. French troops were brought in from theirbases in the cities. Plantation agriculture, which has been encouraged Chad, Gabon, and the Central Afrkan Republic to restore or by the westernmultinational s, expropriates most of the arable der. Zairean soldiers, who had not l:1een paid for months, looted land for export crops. Thus in Zaire there is a scarcity of land and set fire to the headquarters of the People's Revolutionary for planting of food. This has aggravated rural unemploy Movement, Mobutu's ruling party. 'The United States, France, ment and encouraged the exodus from the countryside to and Belgium suspendedeconomic aid. The· InternationalMone the cities. Despite its total lack of industrialization, Zaire's Fund (known as the Instant Mi$ery Fund in tary Zaire)declared population is only 60% in the countryside. Already, the city that Zaire could no longer borrow funds because of its arrears, of Kinshasa, with 6 million people, receives thousands more and the WorldBank followed suit. ; each day who are trying to escape the poverty and misery of Mobutu has consistently tried tp teleguide and manipulate the rural areas. the democratization process that reluctantly announced in he Furthermore, with a 37% dependency on food imports, April 1991. Since then, he has s\\1itched prime ministers six Zaire spends $200 million a year for the purchase of food, times. His special Presidential Squla , dominated Ngbandi d by which could easily be produced the country. Zaire's beef tribesmen, has been fortified equipped with ultra-modem in and comes from the Republic of South Africa, and its rice from weaporis, to terrorize the oppositipn. More than 400 people China, Pakistan, and Vietnam. disappeared in Zaire last year in! politically related abduc- The degradation of production in Zaire has also caused tions. f massive Between 1969 and 1990 there was an in After a National Forum held Ulst year and presided over infi'ation. crease in the price of all products from 100 to 2,507 zaires, by a Catholic prelate; A:rchbishopMusen go, it was WIdely an increase the price of food from 100 to 3,053 zaires. A rumored that the of Mobutu1s reign come; in end had but he worker in factory had to work for 100 days in 1990 to buy bounced back, destabilizing the t ibany fragmflflted opposi-' a � a loincloth'(itnportedfrom Holland), whereas he had to work tion. Mobutu has predi:eted apo alypse fOl " is: � Zaire iLhe for only in 1960 to buy the same item. 1990 , a overthrown, threatening that' three days In wh¢rt he leaves, the country worker had-topiltin 10 days to earnenough to buy a kilogram will disintegrate into warfare amtmg't he that tribal , nations ' of fish, he had to work only 2 days in 1960 to buy were brought together colon alism. is: Unless whereas . �ndeF � The�th the same kilegtain. In 1980, alaoorer had to furnishI 8 Zmrean and other Afncan leade� are able'kl' dlsman�fe days' ·the ' labor to earlr\!hdlighto buy a bag-ofmanioc 0[50 kg instead · system of'Post�coloriialidependen4e:and e)lploitati()n?M()�u'" '. J ; J J J J, of 3 days in 1960. In most Zairean families, the revenue is tu could be proved right. j . J ."\' .. ,; C) EIR 1994 MarefiC:!5 , �TIillInternational Lines being drawnbetw een ADLrac ialism andJuda ism by Our Special Correspondent The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in the United States as the profession of "Holocaust studies." States will undoubtedly soon be feeling the negative rever At the March 14 working group, there were approximately berations of the wild behavior of ADL operative Leonard 25-30 individuals in attendance, including figures of some Dinnerstein at a conference on the Nazi Holocaust which took prominence from Israel and the United States, and researchers place in Berlin over March 13-17. Dinnerstein' s explosion in from a number of countries including Poland, Nigeria,and, a fit of rage, and disruption of a meeting of individuals in of course, Germany. Dinnerstein was eagerly purveying the volved in studying the Holocaust and its causes and effects, thesis of his paper on the theme "Anti-Semitism among Afri will likely produce an internationalbacklash against the ADL can-Americans," which repeats the ADL's familiarrefrain thugs among Jewish and Israeli groups, Christian religious that anti-Semitism is rampant among African-Americans, but organizations, and others. adds Dinnerstein's own special i$ane spin, that it was Chris Dinnerstein 's fitthrew a rare spotlight on the U . S. patrons tianity that led African-Americans to despise and denounce of the terrorists behind the Hebron massacre, at the same Jews. Dinnerstein had earlier m�de a similar diatribe, at a time as two American-sponsored Jewish Nazi organizations Nov. 3-4, 1991 ADL-sponsored conference on "Worldwide were being "spit out" and banned by the Israeli government Anti-Semitism," held in Montreal, where he proclaimed, on the very day that the Berlin conference opened (see story "Educated blacks arethe worst anti-Semitic groupin the U.S., p. 32). and blacks overall have been the most anti-Semitic group Dinnerstein, who came to Berlin from his teaching job since slavery. " He also attacked s1l1chAfrican-American lead at the University of Arizona in Tucson, was co-directing a ers as BookerT. Washington, RallJh Bunche, andW.E.B. Du working group of specialists on the Nazi Holocaust on the Bois as anti-Semitic (see EIR, N6v. 29, 1991, "ADL Pushes morning of March 14, on the second day of a conference Race War, Targets Nationalism"�. entitled "Remembering for the Future II," held at Humboldt Declaring himself in Berlin i to be the world's leading University in (formerly communist east) Berlin. The confer expert on "African-American anti-Semitism," he boasted ence was co-sponsored by a number of American, British, that his paper would constitute the 11th chapter of a book Israeli, and German institutions, including the ADL on the entitled Antisemitism in America� which will be released by American side. German sponsors included several leading Oxford University Press in the Uhited States in April. academies and regional church associations of the Protestant Dinnerstein was then challeri.ged by a number of atten (Lutheran, or Evangelical) Church of Germany, as well as dees, who drew attention to the rampant fallacies composi of some nationally prominent foundations and institutions. The tion, fraudulent misrepresentations, and distortionsin his so officialconference sponsor was former German Foreign Min called thesis. At the point that Dinnerstein's Ciaim to be the ister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. The vast majority of non-Ger world's leading expert on "African-Amerlcan'lmti-Semit mans among the several hundred who attended one or more ism" was challenged, and one sp¢aker identifieda prominent of the plenary events, were American academics and others African-American academic · as ' Dinnerstein "s' ">peer," the who are involved in what has come to be known in the United ADL thug went wild. To the astonishment of the room, all in 30 International EIR 25, 1994 March he suddenly stood up, shoved his desk forward , slammed his fist on the table top, and announced that he was taking over the meeting from his fe llow co-director! This caused an up roar, with several attendees demanding that he stop his abu sive behavior or leave the room, at which point he angrily gathered his documents and stormed out. An American Jewish journalist then revealed, for the benefitof those non-Americans in the room , that Dinnerstein was a senior figure in the apparatus of the ADL (he was not identified as such in the conference documents). The journalist described the ADL as "a group that attempts to operate under the cloak of respectability, but which is notori Leonard ous for its spying on black and other organizations in the Dinnerstein United States and for other underhanded activities." What accuses African had just happened, he stressed, was typical of the behavior Americans of being of the ADL. A prominent African-American in attendance anti-Semitic. and says it was nodded in agreement, thanking the speaker for his inter Christianity that vention . made them so. Word about Dinnerstein's scandalous behavior quickly spread throughout the conference, all the more so as the ADL was listed in conference documents as one of the official Oxford event, as publicized in British press accounts at the patrons of the event. One of the conference's main organiz time, participants stridently insisted that the roots of anti ers, who had been briefed on Dinnerstein's behavior, told an Semitism and the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews should be inquiring journalist defensively that "the ADL only came in found, pure and simple, in Christianity. at the last minute, I can assure you, their role in this confer In Berlin, Maxwell's French-born widow Elisabeth was ence is marginal." still a prominent presence, and some speakers tried to pro mote the "Christianity is to blame" p opaganda, but this time The specter of Baruch Goldstein " such propaganda largely fell flat. Dinner"ltein's Baruch Goldstein-modeled behavjor was, in a sense, a metaphor for the dilemma and tensions of the. 'World Judaism should expel such people' Berlin event- as a whole. Unlike the first "Remembedng for The tone for the event was se� by the keynote of Dr. the Future'Leyent, held in 1988 at England's Oxford l,Jniyer-. Eran,kJin Littell .. Littell was forme[j y a top U.S. officer in sity, the Rerljn conference was overshadowed by tne Eeb,. 25 the PO&t -World War II occupation of Germany, who was massacre of Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Hebron and influential .in .reconstructing the po twar German Protestant the ensuing outlawing by the Israeli government oHh� Kach Chur�h. He h�s the highest connections in the German politi and Kahane.Ghai ("Kahane Lives ") organizatiQns"i More .than cal cla§§ J He is �Iso one of. the cre tors of the profession of one speaken in Berlin drew attention to the ominous Tl&fallels "Holocaust studies" in the United States, directing the work , between.th� -;(l0tions of the Nazis and the Hebton,�lfll\ght�r, . . of.the,l?hiladeJphia ,CeQte� on the Hblocaust, Genocide, and Hence! what is weakening 'is' the. ability of vll!'ious ADL ijumaq R,i.ght&. , . "" , . type orgaruzations to cynically\ · exploit the reality, ,of tbe J'. J Wttell b�gan by praising certain prominent Germans who Nazi Holocaust for purposes', of fundraising, Ib)ae;l�mailing h�d re�iste9 Nazism in the 1930s. Then, proclaiming that the Germany; lander and defamation, of political r9PPQn�nts , Nq?li:s·,�\1emsejyys had" .first, and f 9remost, been a terrorist psycho-culturah manipulation' P£ .the Americ�n, PQPl;Ilatiqn v orgll\lization , \;le jJlsistt;d thatothe m 'n threat facing the world and so Ofl. �nwhile, the· ADL" as: ex5!mplified �nl)ta:.; «€lm�s �J;qmten:Q �¥f��e tqday ri&m and terrorist-related phenomena. ble Dinnerst�in' , .is hyper-nerv"us ;thflt its role iIA1P. FO!�ting; cPJTIpl�ine<;l that .t.he J.1ec l.:l.� essary ijght against such threats the Kachrhane savages will -I>OQn coroe· to lighti �he} isJ?!1ing dilute<;l , and . e;n ,&abotag , by a perverse fixation I EIR Ma'I:£l.ntZ5, 1994 I,ntern.ational 31 illegitimate act by a legitimate government," he said. He attributed this to "poor leadership, defective intelligence, and confusion. " Littell's critique sounded all the more convincing, as he Israel bans Kach himself is now working at Baylor University in Waco. To those aware of the role of the ADL and such of its allies as the Cult Awareness Network in cooking up the "defective Partyas te rtst intelligence," Littell's words take on an added meaning. rrp by Adam East and Dean Andromidas He next read out an impassioned letter from an Israeli colleague who was supposed to have come to Berlin, but decided not to because, "since the massacre in Hebron, The Israeli cabinet, in a unanimous decision on March 13, my heart is broken," he wrote, expressing astonishment and announced the banning of the Nach Party and the Kahane dismay that "a person claiming to be a religious Jew killed Chai (Kahane Lives) organizatibns. The ban came in re 50 Muslims on Ramadan, killing them in the holy place sponse to the Feb. 25 Hebron massacre, in which over 50 where Abraham lived." The letter drew the irony that such Palestinians praying in a mosque associated with the Tomb of an action was a "terrible result of the Holocaust," and insisted Abraham were gunned down by $aruch Goldstein, a leading that "world Judaism should expel such people from Juda member of the Kach organizatioj:l. The move is an opening ism," and that they must be expelled from Israel as well. step by the Israeli governmenta �ainst an operation initiated Warning that if extremist groups, Jewish and Arab, were by Anglo-American circles committed to derailing the peace not stopped, "there will be terrible bloodshed worse than process and throwing Israel and the region into chaos. anything that has happened before," he made a desperate EIR has documented (see EfR, March 11) how these appeal to those attending the conference in Berlin. "Please organizations were created, de*loyed, and systematically help us!" he wrote. protected since 1963 when their �under, the late Rabbi Meir Littell insisted that religion today must act to bring about Kahane, began working as an i�formant for the FBI. The a "disciplined standard of ethics and morals," to strengthen patrons include the Anti-Defama�ion League of B 'nai B'rith, the kind of "civil discourse" based on the notion of "govern and are connected with the British networks in the United ment of the people, by the people, and for the people." What States known as the "neo-conservatives." had to be reinforced was the concept of "love, what the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzh8k: Rabin, on the eve of his Christians call agape," as well as the notion known in Ger trip to the United States for talks with President Bill Clinton, man as Menschlichkeit, or humanity. denounced the two Kahane groups as "terrorist organiza This message was not exactly what some of the more tions" which, he said, are "justl like the Palestinian terror hysterical attendees in Berlin wanted to hear, and murmur groups." Israeli Attorney Geneiral Michael Ben-Yair de ings of dismay could be heard in such quarters. scribed the two groups as bein� on a par with the Islamic Littell was followed by Genscher, who gave a pro fo rma Hamas movement. speech about the growing dangers of nationalism and ethnic Rabin, who led the cabinet's action, told reporters that conflicts in Europe. Then came the tum of Israeli Consul "we must condemn them and spit them out." On Feb. 28, General Mordechai Levy. Here, too, there was an interesting while addressing the Knesset (parliament), Rabin, in at effect. While insisting that there was no connection between tacking the actions of Goldstein and his followers at Hebron, the Nazi Holocaust and what had happened in Hebron, Levy made an unprecedented attack on the American networks took pains to announced that, on that very day, the Israeli behind the Hebron massacre. (Ooldstein, a Brooklyn trans government had outlawed Kach and defined its members as plant, was a Jewish Defense League/Kach leader from the terrorists. This announcement drew an enthusiastic round of settlement of Kiryat Arba in the In the next days, plenary speakers continued to draw the You are a foreign implant . . ;I an errant weed. Sensible parallels between the Kach fanatics and the Nazis, even in Judaism spits you out." speeches that might otherwise have had profoundly irrational elements. The oft-repeated reminders of the "Jewish Nazis" What the ban does' short-circuited the usual discussions on "German collective The ban by the Israeli attoraey generaPs: office was in guilt," "the unique German crimes of this century," and so response to a government reque$t to "examine and propose on. It was in such an environment, where reality intruded into possible ways of declaringthe Kathand Kahane:Chaiorgani deliberations that in the past were most often characterized zations to be illegal." Accordirtgtoan official;statement, the hysteria, mudslinging, and mindless emotionalism, that attorneygeneral "was convinced'� that these constitute by goups ADL thug Leonard Dinnerstein could not keep himself from "a gtoup of individuals woo' in their activities.employ vio cracking up. lence, and are liable to cause 4eaih or'injury� oowho threaten 32 International EIR 25, 1994 Marth The late Meir Kahane at a demonstration in New York in 1982 . Speaking of Kahane's 1sraeli terroristfr iends, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, "We must condemn them and spit them out. such violent acts" and therefore constitute a "terrorist organi cording to Israeli governmentsource s, such an approach has zation." Under the Prevention of Terrorism Law of 1948, been made. "those who are members of a terrorist organization, who In a separate resolution, the Israeli government an perform functions in it, or who verbally, actually, or finan nounced that it "reaffirms its commitment to promote maxi cially support these organizations are guilty of an offense mum security" for the Jewish and Arab populations in the whose punishment is imprisonment or the imposition of a Occupied Territories, and promised to "act with full authority fine. The state is authorized to confiscate the property of the to prevent a recurrence of any acts of murder." At the same organization, and the police inspector general is authorized time, the Israeli Army changed w�at had been a standing to order the closure of any place which is used by a terrorist order prohibiting Israeli soldiers from firing on Jewish organization or by its members." The judgment is not nar settlers in the Occupied Territories, even if the settlers were rowly confined to these organizations, but applies to "any engaged in indiscriminate firing onPalesti .nians. Now, Israeli organization carrying out the goals of those organizations," soldiers can fire on settlers. and "the establishment of a theocracy in the Biblical Land of Within Israel, the governmenth I s closed and seal�d the Israel and the violent expUlsion of Arabs from that land will offices of both organizations, made several arrests, issued also be considered a terror organization." warrants for others who have gone underground, and has The ban: took effect immediate;y in Israel, and in the disarmed others. It has also arrested )RabbiMoshe Levinger, Occupied Tcmitories once the Israeli Army commanders is a founder of the Hebron settlement,l although not an official sued the orders. The law provides for jail sentenct;!sof up to member of either organization. Le�inger was indicted on a 20 years for members and/or financial fines for individuals relatively. minor charge and was released on bail, but the and other organizations that support tOem. 'Y move is seen as a warning to other �xtremist organizatiQns. Thus, the.judgment gh-:es tb.e government aijtnority to Several years ago, Levinger was cohvicted for the killing of take action against the so-called rnoderates in the bro�d.er a Pale�t.inian. opposition w)m how solidarity, w�thjthese movemeqts·. IMore j • i�' I I • J importantly' :the.outlawing of these groups enables the Is�aeli Kahane groups piye government-to a[1JJroach U. S. alJthQr�ties to take l�gal acliQn . In a statement, the J\.ac� PaIfy xpressed its "disgust at against the;!lle�WOJks in the United States whicp ba��A)een the f�scjst decision of th(j.gO}ernm�nt,:; calling it "a wn:en: extending m�'Sive financial \lJ1.d. Jjpgistical suPP9.rt. Ac- der to PLO demands. " Michael Guzofsky, leader pf th� U l�"J EIR Mar�S , 1994 Intern�tiol1jl" 33 branch of Kahane Chai, called the ban "an obscene, anti democratic, anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist witchhunt." After the bloodletting at Hebron , Guzofsky had warmly praised Goldstein, whom he called "a good Jew, a healthy Jew who understood that the Arabs of Israel want to destroy the state of Israel and drive the Jews into the sea." In Tel Aviv, 30,000 right-wing demonstrators clashed SouthAfr ic faces with police at a rally denouncing the government on March 15. Such developments underline fear of broader radicaliza bloody timeckI ahead tion of the settlers movement, whose leaders are threatening I the governmentwith the specter of a civil war in the territories $ by David Hammer and the launching of an armed opposition movement modeled on France's extremist Secret Army Organization. The Anglo American-backed OAS attempted to assassinate and over The events of March 12-15 in th black homeland of Bophu throw the governmentof Charles de Gaulle during the Algeri thatswana are a harbinger of ings to come in the "new, an war for independence. democratic South Africa." Th government of President Hebrew University professor Aviezer Ravitsky, an ex Lucas Mangope had decided n t to participate in the April pert on these organizations, expressed fear in recent inter 27 national election, deeming i "illegitimate." The African views that the Gush Emunim will become even more radical National Congress threatened gope that unless he decid ized. Gush Emunim, which interfaces with Kach, is much ed to participate, he would be 0 erthrown. In a joint deploy larger and one of the principal organizations in the settlers ment by the ANC and the So th African government, in movement. Its supporters number in the tens of thousands which dozens were killed, he w s overthrown. ' and are represented in the Knesset through the National Reli Periodically throughout the egotiations on a new consti gious Party. tution, which took place during !1992-93 at the World Trade Playing into right-wing Jewish provocations, the militant Center in Kempton Park, the Aftlcan National Congress had , Islamic Hamas movement issued a warning to the 13,000 threatened to "send in the tanks 1 to Bophuthatswana as soon settlers in the West Bank settlement of Ariel and four other as they had the power. On Dec. d, the ANC becarneco-rulers settlements in the West Bank and Gaza to move out or face of the country through the Trartsitional Executive Council. attacks in revenge for the Hebron massacre. After various meetings and n�gotiations with Mangope, ANC head Nelson Mandela dec�ared on March 8, "It seems Saving the Gaza-Jericho accord I'm talking to a stone. I think we've given him enough time . Israeli supporters of the peace process underscore the . . . If he continues to be arrogatit, we will have to take action need for the government to act quickly if the peace process against him, it's a matter of time." is'to be saved. One Israeli professor involved with the peace process pointed out that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat needs Mangope forced out 12, all the support he can get, and that implementation of the The "action" began Thursda� afternoon, March after Gaza-Jericho accord should be accelerated as quickly as pos an "all-clear" signal delivered b� South African Foreign Min sible. Another Israeli from a joint Israeli/Palestinian political ister Pik Botha, who announced on radio that Pretoria"would research institute said, "On the ground the situation is very not rescue [Mangope] again," but would intervene only if tense. 'TheOccupied Territories have been beefed up so much South African lives were threatened. Civil setvants began that it looks like one huge military camp." He added that demonstrating with a series oft impossible demands, such 50% everyone is expecting acts of retribution by both Jews and as imm�diate salary increases M and, fuff:payment of Piit�stinians : He pointed out that a 24�hour curfew is still in pensions before April 27, while Students frdm the University took effect'in' Hebron and the territories still remain closed, bar of Bophuthatswana to the Streets. It wa�-generally ac rihg -PaleStinians from their jobs in Israel. While this source knowledged, particularly in � South Af��l1Il_electronic , 1:leHeVed �n: the settlements should be dismantled, he pointed media, that the ANC had' brcliestrated �� 'e\l�nts. Wide our neces'sity to immediately dismantle the Kach strong spread ·rioting soon broke out; !led, accor��r1�j!C!.' some ac curlew is hdld irOlebtoh, an obvious ftashpOiilt once' the C�Ul1ts; by cadre of the ANC, ,'S [armed wirig,� �onto we ii'fi&d. 'I'" , Stzwe -, - ' I n, '- (MK) . , '" A1'th6tigh,'-Rabin ' continues to act cautiously on the settie , Ainidst chaos and ' �lle- " ctefettions of patf df his police iirtilit�,'thIs 'source' reportedthat public opinion would support force imd army, Mangope 'fl�d tfie capital the,ai��� 'of March He t1i:iJtiNertim'eiit'if acted if forcefully: pointed outthat over 12. Th.t! Sdllth African ioverrimbnt sent in t'he'Sdoth African otle!irfird'ik'ilie �ettlers wouldlle�ve'the territorie'S offered 'Force to "reS't&�;Joidtt." Despi�eriMitRgope's an -, : �. ,'if. Defense the compensation for their investments. , riouhceitien:t on e\-erting'bfMarch 13 ith�rRglhad agreed to the elections, the South African government appointed a such compromises, as per British policy, a la Bosnia, to caretaker, Tj aart van der Walt, to replace him. "The interim provoke civil war. government was established," noted Reuters on March 14, And it was Slovo who was the acknowledged mastermind "at the insistence ofNelson Mandela's African National Con of the entire years-long negotiations process, including the gress." drafting of the new constitution. As Slovo crowed in his report to the SACP Central Committee, as reported in the Free and fair elections? SACP journal The African Communist (No. 136, Fourth Bophuthatswana was overthrown to help force the Free Quarter 1993), "The negotiated package that was finally dom Alliance, of which it is a member along with the Inkatha signed on the night of Nov. 17-18 at Kempton Park is a Freedom Party, KwaZulu homeland, and the Afrikaner famous victory. . . . It represents . . . the culmination of Volksfront, to participate in the election, so that the most decades of struggle." likely outcome of the election-an ANC government-could Slovo stressed that the key to this victory was the com be stamped "free and fair." But until the very last minute to plete "bilateralism" of the ANC and National Party negotia register for the elections, a date which has been repeatedly tors, which enabled them to "completely demoralize" all pushed back, Alliance members had refused to do so. opposition. The Alliance's reasons for nonparticipation were that 1) That the elections will not be free and fair was acknowl the ANC and the National Party government had entirely edged even by a spokesman for the ,Project Democracy appa dominated the negotiations process on a new constitution ratus, known as the "secret, par�llel government," in the under which the country will be ruled after the election, United States. Patricia Kiefer of the National Democratic ignoring anyone else's proposals, specifically for a federal Institute told the Washington Post already last November, "I system; and 2) the ANC, the probable new government, is don't think by any standard it is going to be free and fair dominated by the South African Communist Party (SACP), there's too much intimidation and violence already in the and the SACP and ANC have a very bloody track record of political culture." South Africa's current President, F. W. suppressing dissent, including within their own membership. De Klerk, cannot even campaign freely-his security forces Unless they were given a significant degree of autonomy, recently had to use tear gas and rubber bullets to stop an both in financial and in police and military functions, rea assault on him by ANC supporters during a campaign appear soned Alliance members, they would be sooner or later ance. Meanwhile, whole areas of �he country are off limits slaughtered. Three hundred and fifty of the IFP's leadership to one or another party at the risk of their lives. Ballots for have been assassinated in the last few years . the April 27 voting are being printed by a British company The SACP domination of the ANC is hardly a secret. The which reportedly has ties to the ANC, according to several ANC's election slate reflects this fact, as even the South sources in South Africa. Africa correspondent ofthe pro-ANC London Times recently noted: Troubles just beginning "Argument is currently raging about how many commu Though they have ostensibly won their liberation strug nists there are in the top 50 places on the ANC election list. gle, the SACP and ANC's troublt!ls are just beginning. The Some analysts say it is as high as 27, but nobody doubts that African National Congress has promised to build 1 million the Communist Party , as the most cohesive and disciplined new homes, provide water, sewage, electrification, and group within the ANC leadership, will continue to act as the health services for all South Afriqans, provide ten years of main initiator of African National Congress policy. free education, and otherthin gs. I� order to meet the tremen "Voting for the ANC list also means supporting some dous expectations aroused by thes9 promises, South Africa's notably illiberal spirits, including Umkhonto officers ac physical economy would have to grow dramatically. cused of atrocities against their own men in the Angolan However, the initial moves the African National Con camps, [andl:radicals who openly call for other partiesto be gress has made on the economic front-negotiating an$800 prevented fro� c in the townships." million loan with the genocidal ! �mpaigning Intt!lrnationalMonetary Fund , pledging to shut down the country's only nuclear reactor, Longsta;ll4��g:British-Soviet assets and. to drastically cut back basic SiCientific research-augur A hard cqrx of SACP leaders llfound Joe Slovo, for de disaster. Under conditions of Inte�ational Monetary Fund cades the SA¢i>:,!)general secretary and now a seij�or�N C ensured economic collapse, dissent will grow rapidly. Bar official, have been longstanding joint assets ofBrit�Sh intelli ring the sort of large-scale infrastrueture and industrialization gence and ¥pSr;;qw. And whereas swne leading AN� nlem program funded by a Hamiltonian national bank of the sort bers, incl�<;\m� �Qmewho were SA<;::P members as wrll, had proposed by Lyndon LaRouche, tbe new South Africa faces recently of(r!i�,W>concede a gr�,�t 9�al of autonqmy to Zulu one of only two possible scenariQs: either a brutal, police and Afrik �iprity regionsin 9rder to avert ..Hkeli; st�te cr.ackdowno n the growing di sent, or a rapidly escalat ��n��jll , the � hood of a �1!?R9rrcivil war, Slo,vo:�:faction r.epea.t�d.lr ni�ed ing civil war. , EIR 1994 Ma.r��12;;, International 35 Serbian-occupied territories. Nlitically, the two sides would agree to a federal solution, ba$ed on national unity, while guaranteeing regional administrative autonomy. What the Federation, or a international community, incIiuding the United Nations, should do, is support this proce$s with a clearly stated recog new Yugoslavia? nition and support for Croatia'S and Bosnia-Hercegovina's territorial integrity and the liftirlgof the military and general by Paolo Raimondi embargo against Bosnia and Croatia. Bosnian Serb leader Radov$l Karadzic is toying verbally with taking part in this federation. But meanwhile, the,Great On March 31, the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping (Unpro er Serbians are escalating their! attacks everywhere in north for) forces deployed in the Serbian-occupied regions of Croa and central Bosnia, in Bihac, �aglaj , Tuzla, and Ussora. tia (East Slavonia, Krajina, and Dalmatia) expires again. The Even afterthe U.S. downed four Serbian military jets, Karad next step will reveal whether western pressures for a new zic is testing the will of the We�t by defying the no-fly zone Balkan confederation are genuinely motivated, or are just a and using his air force. Any talk! of letting the aggressorsjoin revived version of Yugoslavia in a context of a "little Yalta" the federation negotiations would discredit the entireprocess with Russia. At the end of September 1993, when the U npro and expose it as a plan to create;a new Yugoslavia. It is clear for mandate expired, the U.N. refused to change its role of that the Serbian popUlation must be involved in the peace tolerating the Serbian occupation, and ignored completely process and have a place in the future Bosnia. But it is just the Croatians' concerns. as morally and politically imp�ssible to invite the criminal Either the United Nations will change its mandate and de leadership to the negotiating ta�le, as it would have been in cide to deploy the Unprofor troops at the historic borders be 1944 to invite Hitler to sit dow. with the League of Nations tween Croatia and Serbia before the Serbian aggression, or it to discuss a confederation withl Poland and Czechoslovakia will maintain the status quo of tolerating, i.e., protecting, the as a "peaceful solution." To pr�tend to discuss any arrange Serbian occupation. Deployed at the border, the Unprofor ments in Bosnia with Milosevicland Karadzic is a covertway troops would finally fulfill their original mandate: to create to propose reviving Yugoslavia!under the dominant military the preconditions for restoring the occupied area to Croatian aggressive influence of the Greater Serbians, giving them jurisdiction and returning refugees to their homes. They could politically what they were not able to achieve militarilywith also preventSerbian military infiltrationand transportweap of three years of slaughter. ons and heavy artillery, used to consolidate the occupation and I to launch attacks against Croatianpositio ns. If this shift is not Confederation talk is premature made, all the ongoing negotiations will become irrelevant. The question of the confe41eration, as discussed these days between Croatia and the $osnian federation in forma Hitler at the negotiating table? tion, �ay sound good and ma� reflect good will by some Let us take a sober look at the present federation-confed people, but it leaps over a neqessary process and concrete eration talks between Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. A military and political steps whi�h must happen first. Croatia political and military agreement between the so-called Bosni and the Bosnia-Hercegovina F�deration, without Karadzic, an Muslims and the so-called Bosnian Croats is long overdue. should form a political and military alliance to reconstitute The internationally recognized independent and ' sovereign the full territorial integrity ofbdth states, as independent and nation of Bosnia-Hercegovina in spring 1992 was militarily sovereign republics. They shOUld work together to rebuild attacked by the Greater Serbian communist Chetniks of Milo their economies and establish I peace in the entire region. sevic and Karadzic, and was victimized in a brutal Nazi Before any treaty of confederation is signed, the respective communist manner. Then it was Lord David Owen's parti Croatian and Bosnian people, iwho have to accept such an tion plan, combined with effective British intelligence psy important change in their cons*itutions, must be consulted. chological warfare , which ignited a conflict between those Any mention of Milosevic' s Serbia in such a context not Bosnians of Hercegovina whom the chauvinist Mate Boban only offends reason and the memories of;the. hundreds of induced to split away and join Croatia, and the other Bosnians thousands of dead and suffering people, buOt betrays the in the territoriesnot occupiedby the Serbs(Muslims in major British-sponsored plan to reviv� Yugoslavia; , '. Lyndon LaRouche und¢rlined in inter ity) who' tttsisted 0n their national integrity. As his' March 6 �lobodna Dalmacjia, To get 6ut of this British trap, these two' parties should view with the Croatian daily to stop has and set ,up an the war in the Balkans as 'well !is other regional 'wars in the agree to a cease-fire (which been done) effective military alliance (whidh is in the works) with the making; one has to identify an� eradicate.the;causes of this intent of hnmediately relievirig;the 'long'victimized, neglect aggression, the masters:of;bothlMilosevic.aRd ·36 " International EIR :, March 25, 1994 Anti-Catholic oligarchy reinforced after the elections in Italy by Claudio Celani When this article reaches the EIR subscriber, it will be a few they do it, is by controlling the ideplogy, which is based on days before the Italian general elections on March 27. We variations of a basic theme, called, "free market economy." cannot predict who will win the elections, but we can already Both Salamon and Mariconda, wh<)ran against each other in announce who will lose: the Christian Democratic Party recent local elections in Venice, favor a deregulated econo (DC), which has ruled the country since 1946, first alone my, outside the control of state institutions. They agree that and then with anti-communist coalition partners. The DC, national institutions must be dissolved into a supranational, renamed the Italian Popular Party (PPI), is credited with "globalist" utopia. To carry out tl).eir project, they need to percentages ranging from 3 to 10% nationally.' In the worst demolish the power of national in�titutions and of political case, it could even fail to reach the threshold (4%) necessary forces representing national interests: hence the idea of to make it into the national Parliament. Main contenders for "launching" the League phenom�non, a localist political the victory are the "progressive" bloc centered around the movement, based on ethnic ideology, which collected protest former Communist Party (PDS) and the "moderate" bloc led votes in northern Italy thanks to It populist tax-revolt pro by media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, which includes also gram. The League ideology was tlaunched in conferences "former" neo-fascist MSI (renamed into National Alliance) sponsored in Venice during the 1970s, and the first League and "former" separatist NorthernLeague . organization was founded in the V �neto region. Chairman of In both cases, the influence of the Catholic Church in the NorthernLeague (the umbrella prganization of all League Italian politics will be dramatically reduced, even if parts of formations) is Franco Rocchetta, title founder of the Venetian the old DC joined the "moderate" bloc, and despite the fact League (Umberto Bossi being the �harismatic leader). that the MSI will collect a thick slice of Catholic votes. One has to read Salamon's and Mariconda's interviews Although this is the result of the unprecedented economic bearing in mind that they are the "visible" aspect of the crisis and of theausterity policies of the recent governments, financial oligarchy, and that their apparent disagreements the change in Italy's political landscape is also a product may be real as long as they reflect alternative choices to of foreign manipulation. Leading the assault is a Venice implement the same auterity policy. Mariconda admits that centered oligarchical group, which is represented by the pow the Venetian oligarchy hrr8a "homogeneous" philosophy and erful Assicurazioni Generali internationalreinsurance cartel, that their disagreements are "tactical." The strategic aim is EIR allied to the City of London. In a recent article, we the destruction of the republican Constitution, which will be identifiedrepre sentatives of this group, such as Olivetti man implemented by introducing fOIlIls of so-called federalism, ager CarloDe Benedetti, owner (together with the Caracciolo i.e., decentralization of decisions ip matters of tax and invest- family) of the largest Italian daily La Repubblica and the ment policies. I largest weekly, L' Espresso. Other members of the group are While Mariconda's assignme�t has been to "moderate" former finance minister Bruno Visentini, also a Venetian, the League's often wild image, �arina Salamon's assign and Luciano Benetton, who has recently pmmoted an organi ment is to make sure that the "left," the PDS, abandons old zation calledi'.'Club of Entrepreneurs" in order to push for a "statist" policies, i.e., protection pf the internal market,an d victory of the, "progressive" bloc .. This week, we run two opposition to large-scale privatizftions, and layoffs . Wben exclusive interviewswith representatives of the Mari we asked group: her a key question, whfit her group .intends to do na Salamon", '.'spokeswoman" of Benetton's club, and Aldo against financial speculation, Salamon rejected any · action Mariconda;.a.nephew of Bruno Visentini. by insisting that all major indu�rial companies . today .. are As the ,reader will see, the Venetian oligarchy is well involved in "derivative operatioIl¥" " That is, of course, qot placed botbi.illl!. the "left" and. in the "right" factions ofthe true; however, it is true that the iBenetton and the Olivetti political spectrum, i.e., they control both sides .. The way group are heavily involved in ctIerivatives. Salamon also EIR 1994 Manfbl 25, International 37 avoided answering a question on George Soros: Not acciden houses, in order not to lose tlleir oligarchical privileges. tally, Soros' s main Italian partner is Isidoro Albertini, Italy's When the Venetian Republic fell at the end of the 18th centu number one stockbroker and intimate friend of Carlo De ry they took refuge in Istria, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea Benedetti. near Capri, and they came back to Italy when the Republic As we are writing this, a Northern League delegation is was proclaimed after World War II. Today Marina is in in London, invited by Schroeders bank for a "road show" the municipal administration, led by philosopher Massimo before City bankers . They are undergoing testing to see how Cacciari, which she defines as �'beautiful and harmonious," good their program will be for internationalspecul ators. Last and which has just gotten ove� the shoals of a referendum week, the City hosted Achille Occhetto, PDS secretary gen which threatened to split the city three ways. Marina's father eral , while another PDS leader, Giorgio Napolitano, was is the manager of Doxa, Italy's main opinion poll outfit. meeting with George Soros in New York. The next invited The Club of Entrepreneurs has lined up with the left, and guest of the City is Silvio Berlusconi. After Berlusconi, a Marina, reached on her cellular phone at Rome's Fiumicino delegation of the PPI is expected. airport, explains why, in an interview granted to Claudio Making fun of such a procession, journalist Filippo Cec Celani on Feb. 8. carelli wrote in the daily La Stampa: "For sure, the tour abroad ofItalian politicians, at important moments, confirms EIR: How can it be that busint:\ssmen are lining up with the with old and not really very noble traditions. Nevertheless, left? the geographical change of destination is symptomatically Salamon: For two basic reasois: Because we need an aus newsworthy. For years, according to seemingly immutable terity policy which takes peoplf s needs and solidarity into schemes, the Italian premier 'had' to make a pilgrimage to account, insofar as we say no to the pure free market; second the White House, while the DC secretary general 'had' to ly, because [Northern League chief Umberto] Bossi and the be received at the Vatican. In a totally mirror fashion, and new right do not represent the market. therefore with the same ritual character, the PCI [Italian Communist Party] secretary general 'had' to go to the Krem- EIR: Strange that the left could give more assurances to the lin, to the CPSU secretary general. ...London was evident- market than the right. ly cut out of this historical triangle ....In these political Salamon: No, because in Italy �he market has to be created. trips [England] is the nation of surviving Friedmanite purism We have had a protected marke� up to now, and Berlusconi, ...di spensing super-free-market notes and visas." who represents the right, has many anti-market forcesbehind Italian political leaders are propitiating the game-masters him, such as the PSI [Italian Socialist Party] and the other of internationaldestabilization . They are blind to the fact that governingpart ies. their power is based on a collapsing paper castle, and that Italy's lack of an independent role in the Mediterranean and EIR: And on privatization�? I in the Balkans will contribute to the British geopolitical Salamon: The left offers all th� guarantees. schemes which are leading to a replay of World War I. EIR: Even selling the state hol�ings to George Soros? Salamon: We have to distingui,h between whlltis not strate gic, like snack bars, which sho�ld be sold of course without any constraints to foreign capiUfI, even if that means facing Interview: Marina Salamon consequences in terms of imm�diate job loss (which later would be reabsorbed), and bet een strategic proQ�ctive in 'T . Marina Salamon runs Replay, one of the companies of the dustries like the Nuovo Pignope with high �dded value, Benetton group, which has a large market in Germany as where we need guarantees that �e plants should �taY in Italy. well as Italy , and is the spokesman for the Club of Entrepre neurs, an association of New Age businessmen. Among the EIR: How do you see the prOfess of global.iation of the club's members are famous names like Luciano Benetton, financialmarkets and, world ecol1omicintegrat)olJ including ' , Paolo Marzotto, Franco De Benedetti (whose brother Carlo the moving of production from *,orth to Soutl;l1:j , " did not join because he has legal problems), A verna(bitters ), Salamon: I see it as inevitable.. iWe have to thf� in terms of Lino Romano (the head of the Neapolitan businessmen), and manufactures like textil s ic will entirel moved out � � wh � i.� Claudio Buzziol (co-owner of Replay with Salamon). Marina of Italy, and to keep inSide Ital)' the places, of prQd,uction of to a very old Venetian o�igarchi ideas. Salamon told us she belongs " : ,," ', � cal family, which had a Doge, Salamon di Centranigo, back . " ,, '�" I ".�;!,:!�n �f ' in 1052, and is not related to the American Salomon family EIR: '.wba� do we do with tpe upemployed? ,., ,i ; Salamon:, '.' " ' ... . . : I ,)Iitl Id:, ; of financiers. The Venetian Salamons never moved out of the;! , We need t? tak:t:;a,D! intelligen�';H�'t'Jp?k at the island city, nor have they int�rmarried with other Eur?pean social shock absorbers. , Ac;ivfetent enviroJ1.1R�t1fP, policy is 38 International EIR . M!.,25, 1994 required: The environment, together with tourism, is a sector ally with media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, perhaps pushed which offers enormous possibilities for absorbing the labor by certain forces which some NorthernLeaguers see as domi force. nated behind the scenes by Socialist Party leader and long time former premier, Bettino Craxi. EIR: Some economists, such as Romano Prodi, suggest that Disappointed by Bossi, Mariconda stands in,'the wings. we should respond to the "American challenge" of the He says the League should "shed its protest image," a retool NAFfA treaty by enacting a similar free trade agreement ing which would not require a change in leadership, but could between eastern and western Europe . What do you think? be carried out by a "staff which would flank Bossi." Salamon: I think it is idiotic to close the European markets, Having asserted that the League has gone down the wrong and we need a greater integration of them. For example, track, Mariconda launched into a paean for Achille Occhetto, EFfA, which includes the Scandinavian countries and Swit the head of the renamed Communist Party or Democratic zerland, ought to be immediately integrated into the Europe Left Party (PDS). "I must say on the other hand that the an Union. program presented by Occhetto is a shift. It is a truly liberal program, which gives flexibility to labor, which allows us to EIR: One criticized effect of the liberalization of the finan get past the excessive union ties. In effect, the recovery can cial markets is the excessive development of so-called deriva only come from the left." As for Left Refoundation, the tives. What can be done to regulate them? Some people splitoff ofhard line communists from the PDS, "they are from propose taxing them. • Jurassic Park.' They want to save jobs with the property tax. Salamon: I am against any provision taken by individual But it looks as though, fortunately, Occhetto seems to have nations. Today the use of these tools is part of corporate given up on that." (Only days after we talked, however, practice, hence the problem has to be taken on globally, at Mariconda's Uncle Bruno relaunched the property tax.) the international level. I asked Mariconda if there is no difference of opinion inside the De Benedetti-Visentini-Benetton group, which my interlocutor at firstref used to call "Venetian" ("De Benedetti is not from Venice") but then accepted the label in the cultural sense. "Well, yes, we are a quite homogeneous group, within Interview: AIdo Mariconda which there are tactical differences. We are forces which cut across the lines. For the moment I am a spectator. What Aldo Mariconda, the former Northern League candidate for is happening in Italy is not pretty , this McCarthyism, this mayor of Venice, is the nephew of Bruno Visentini, the Manicheanism. " "grand old man" of the bankers' Italian Republican Party , Doesn't it bother you to have George Soros, who recently who recently lined up with the "progressive" cartel for the lined up with the "progressives," as a fellow traveler? Mari upcoming national elections in Italy. Like Uncle Bruno, conda asked to have the name repeated twice and then said, Mariconda comes out of the Olivetti Corp., for which he "I am worried that the left is trying to get control over the worked abroad for ten years. We asked Mariconda how it mass media." occurs that he is on the "right" of the political spectrum I asked his opinion of the "progressive" Venetian city whereas his uncle is on the "left." "But in reality I have a lot government headed by his ex-rival Massimo Cacciari. more affinities with him than with the present politics of "It's not working badly. There are problems in the func the League," he responded in his singsong Venetian accent, tioning of the municipal machine, because 4,800 employ telling us that he has been a member of the Republican Party ees are too many. We need to rationalize." And what (PRI) since 1992, and that he ran on the Northern League does he think of Cacciari's spokesman, Marina Salamon, slate "with the hope of causing the movement to grow in the who also speaks for the Club of Entrepreneurs? "I know direction of the lay-liberal alternative we were all hoping for. her. We had an unhappy encounter on TV. She is very I am afraid this is not going to succeed." aggressive, but then we cleared things up and she apolo Maricondtiis especially rankled that the League missed gized. I think she is all right after all." the chance offered by the Agnelli Foundation, which in mid What does he think of the proposal made by one member December organized a convention on federalism, "a theme of the Cacciari administration to reintroduce the infamous which has always been dear to the PRJ; I recall [the late PRI old Venetian system of "secret accusations" to catch Venice's leader] Ugo 1!-a Malfa's battle to abolish the prefectures," tax evaders? Mariconda prefers severe controls. He cited the referring to the local authorities answerable to the central model of Chioggia, a nearby city where the municipality Italian government. The Agnelli Foundation proposal was for got the Tax Police to authorize them to check low-income dividing Italy into 12 regions in a confederacy, but Northern housing and see who is living there illegally, usually because League head tJ1'iiberto Bossi snubbed the meeting. A's is\v�tl they are no longer needy and don't qualify for the subsidized known, the teague was at that time reaching its decision to quarters they continue to inhabit. EIR Mafdd� , 1994 International 39 based parties around a policy to protect national sovereignty and independence. This implie4 the involvement of Italy's second-largest electoral force, ttte Italian Communist Party (PCI) of Enrico Berlinguer, whq was leading the party out of Moscow's sphere of influence. the plan was a continuation Half-truths on Moro of the policy for national indepe1l1denceof Enrico Mattei, the head of the Italian state oil firm f;NI who was killed in 1962 kidnap on German1V because he had challenged the irlterests of the Anglo-Ameri can oil companies, the infamolJs "Seven Sisters," and the by Paolo Raimondi post-War World II Yalta divisio� of the world. Moro's plan was strongly supported by the Vatican. Pope Paul VI's 1967 encyclical Pop�lorum Progressio had laid On Feb. 19, German television viewers watching a program the basis for overcoming the division of the world into two on the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Christian blocs and for the development tIlfthe Third World. Moro's Democratic party chairman Aldo Moro must have been policy cohered with Gen. Charles de Gaulle's vision of an stunned to hear that the statesman might have been eliminated alliance of sovereign European jstates "from the Atlantic to by a "conspiracy," ranging from Henry Kissinger to "paral the Urals." I lel" networks of the secret services. Everybody seeing this Thus, the realization of MQro's national unity govern program on the Hesse 3 channel must have asked: If this is ment would have shaken the grip of the Yalta agreement, and true for the Moro case, might it also be valid for prominent may have anticipated the 1989 i fall of the Iron Curtain by German assassination victims Hanns-Martin Schleyer and a decade, in the context of a r�newed policy of economic Alfred Herrhausen? development and cooperation in Europe and with the devel The program, which was produced by a Westdeutsche oping sector. Rundfunk team and aired by the WDR network on Nov. 28, Kissinger, the Anglo-American establishment, and their 1993, opened by reportingthat Kissinger had made repeated Moscow counterparts hysteric�ly opposed this possibility. threats against Moro and his policy. Moro' s widow, Eleon Former British Prime Minister �argaret Thatcher boasted in ora, testifying in court in 1983, reported the fears that her her memoirs that she had done ¢verything possible with her husband had confidedto her afterhis meeting in Washington friends in the West and East biefore 1989 to maintain the with Secretary of State Kissinger. Kissinger told Moro, who Iron Curtain and the cynical cattving up of the world which was then Italian foreign minister: "Sir, it is better that you Churchill and Stalin had carried!out with the compliance of cease carrying out your political plan to involve all the the deathly ill Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 at Yalta. One result political forces of your country in a direct collaboration. of this British policy is the ong,ing war in the Balkans and Either you stop it, or you are going to pay dearly. It is up to the destabilization of Europe. �issinger confessed his sup you." port for this British policy in a $peech he delivered on May Moro was so shocked by this exchange that he felt sick 10, 1982 at Chatham House, theiheadquartersof Royal Insti and, uncharacteristically, he reported the incident to his wife tute for InternationalAffai rs. i and told his personal secretary that he was considering leav This is why Morohad to be stPpped atall costs. On March ing politics for a few years. In September 1974, a week 16, 1978, shortly before 9 a.m. in Via Fani in Rome, a team before Moro's visit to the United States, Kissinger advised of assassins from the Red Brigades attacked the two cars President Gerald Ford to admit that the United States had which Moro and his five body�uards were riding in, and intervened in Chile over 1970-73 to overthow Salvador carried out an incredibly sophisticated terrorist attack. The Allende. "We have done what the United States does to five policemen were killed immediately, while Mora, mirac defend its interest abroad," Kissinger said. In his memoirs, ulously unwounded, was whisIqed away. Moro was on his Kissinger did not hide his dislike for Moro and his policy of way to the Chamber of Deput�s, where a new Andreotti national unity. He caustically wrote in his book The White government, which had emerge� from a programmaticagree House Years. that "the powerful Moro was preparing in his ment between the Christian . Qemocracy (Moro' and An indirect, almost imperceptible ' manner the . fundamental dreotti's party) and the ItalianClommunists , ,the.leading op changes that were to bring the Communist Party close to the position party, was to be voted Ion that morning. It was the seats of power while the Christian Democrats were seeking moment for which he had worked for many years. to pull its revolutionary sting;" Moro. was held for 55 day�in a "peoplerqmson" and interrogatedtill his murderon Mjiy 9. Symb()lioally, his body Moro's national unity plan was leftin a car in Via Caetani i$ downtown Rople, between Aldo Moro's "national unity" policy envisaged the cre the headquartersof the tworpart�s. With Moro died his "na- ation of a government in Italy which involved all the mass- tional 'unity" policy. l ' .� 'J:j 40 International EIR Nllirrih: 25, 1994 Lapses ... useful to secure Moro's freedom. Unfortunately, the WDR filmdoes not follow up on the A second "Parallel Committee" was created in the Interi international networks behind the terrorist operation, though or Ministry to "advise" the psychol<>gically confused Fran it does identify some important elements. First, the attack cesco Cossiga, then minister of inteirior and later President was carried out with military precision, as in the cases of of Italy. A key adviser was Steve Pieczenik, an undersecre industrialist Schleyer in 1975 and Deutsche Bank head Herr tary in the U,S, State Department, head of its anti-terrorism hausen in 1989-which could not have been performed by office, and a close friend and assopiate of Kissinger. His the pumped-up sociology students who formed the Red Bri main advice was that in that moment of destabilization one gades cadres. If these students and civilians were involved, should demonstrate that "nobody is indispensable to the life they received professional training of a level that can only be of the state," This line was echoed by the Washington Post provided by some military or secret service. The training of in a March 17, 1978 editorial calling for "a very different the Red Brigades has never been clarified. style of government"to emerge from the crisis in Italy. Second, all the various investigations and trials of the Moro assassination have revealed a staggering mountain of . . . and false leads evidence and circumstances which indicates that there was The WDR program also implied!that Pope Paul VI may no intention to track down the terrorists and free Moro. A have abandoned Moro to his death. Quite apart from the close few examples: The photos taken by a local resident a few friendship between the two, this is not only proven false by minutes after the attack vanished (it is said that they may any careful examination of events, bllltthe innuendo suggests have revealed the presence of key eyewitnesses who could a possible masonic contamination qf the reportage, with a have put the investigation immediately on the right track); clear intent to sling mud at the Cathplic Church. The WDR the terrorist safehouse on Via Gradoli in Rome, where the film's fixationon implicating only t1)e Italian secret services "head" of the Red Brigades lived, was known, but the lead in the sabotage and coverup is also misleading, because it was never pursued; the Red Brigades' printing press used to leaves out the "international conspijracy" aspect that is the produce all the communiques during Moro ' s imprisonment motor of the terrorist operation. was previously owned and operated by the secret service Italian journalist and secret seI"'1ice confidant Pecorelli, (special "Rus" units) of the Defense Ministry. The Gladio who knew too much and was later;killed, put it this way: networks-the special units of the "Stay Behind" plan in "Yalta decided the operation of Via Fani." WDR should case of military attack, invasion from the Warsaw Pact, or know better, especially given the r�cent revelations of the takeover by the communist parties, which came to light in links between the Red Army Factiop-Germany's counter the late 1980s-were under the Rus. There are indications part, and also coworkers, of the Red $rigades-and the Stasi, that Gladio-linked individuals may have played a negative the dreaded secret servicesof comm",nistEast Germany. role during the Moro kidnapping. WDR alleged thatthe current scapdals which are destroy Immediately after .the kidnapping, a "Technical-Opera ing the Italian Christian Democraqy are the result of the tional Committee" was created to coordinate the investiga role the party played during the Mpro kidnapping. On the tion. The members of this committee were: Adm. Giovanni contrary , it is well documented that months before Moro was Torrisi, chief of staff of defense; Gen. Giuseppe Santovito, seized, the U:S. State Department hlldbegun to circulate the head of military intelligence (SISMI); Gen. Giulio Grassini, lie that Moro, under the code name iof "Antelope Cobbler," head of civilian intelligence (SISDE); and Generals Raffaele had received a $1 million bribe fr�m Lockheed to sell 18 Giudice and Honato Lo Prete , who were in command of the Hercules airplanes to Italy. Afterthe State Department's dirty tax police (Guardia di Finanza). Later, in 1981, all of these role. was exposed, the· Italian Con�titutional Court cleared persons were discovered to be members of the secret Propag Morofrom any wrongdoing in the Lpckheed affair. anda-2 freeoiasonic lodge of the Scottish Rite, directed by Thirteen days later, the Red Brigades kidnapped him. If Grand Master Licio Gelli. The P-2, which was involved in the operationhad fully succeeded.th�n, Italy's entire postwar vast corruption operations, carneunder the Grand Lodge of political leadership would have bee�' wiped out in 1978, not London, i.e." the English royal house, and was connected 15 years later. with Kissinger;Alexander Haig, and sections of the Penta While the existence of corruptiqn in the Italian political gon and U.S. intelligence community, in what was ,labeled system is indisputable, one should! not be too naive in ac as the U.S. �tsecret government" during the Iran-Contra cepting all . the political reasoning ,nd maneuvering which scandal. ,: 11," have liquidated in less than two )iears the entire political This is tb,e:Yalta faction which opposed Moro, who.Was leadership that emerged from Wor!diWar II. Like the assassi 2 fraudulently labeled the "Italian Allende." Gelli and his P- nation of President John F. Kenned)1in the United States, the were operating,itlong the lines of his 1975 "Plan for· Demo� Moro killing leaves questions �st posed persistently ' ' ' th� be , .> way to cratic Rebirth. aimed at some kind of c;oup against Moro' s alLthe the highestlevels "a�ve suspicion," in order project. It is not surprising that the committee did 'nothing for a nation to regain its national sotereignty. EIR MarobJil6; 1994 International 41 camps along the line of control aimed at the Indian part of Kashmir, and has also been aqcused of widespread human rights violations inside Pakistan by the self-appointed guard ians of human rights, would bring such a resolution to the Pakistan's efforts to U.N. in Geneva unless the United States was behind it. But soon enough, it became clear th.t Washington was distancing beat up on India fail itself from the resolution in aisneaky way by planning to abstain from voting. This tacti¢ of Washington pleased nei by Susan Maitra ther the Indians, who demanded that the United States must oppose a resolution on human tights violations pushed by a. nation which sponsors internadonal terrorism, nor the Paki The last-minute withdrawal of the four-point resolution, ac stanis, who found out that Washington not only left them in cusing India of human rights violations in Jammu and Kash the lurch but was quietly telling: other nations to abstain from mir, introduced on Feb. 25 before the United Nations Com voting, too. mission on Human Rights (UNCHR), on March 9, after Secondly, Pakistan went toithe UNCHR with much fan deferring the voting process for three hours, is widely consid fare just after holding a round of talks at the foreign secretary ered a slap in the face for the Bhutto government in Is level to resolve various bilatera1 issues, including the dispute lamabad. concerning Kashmir. Althougll that round of talks in early The resolution, which Pakistan had introduced, con January did not break any ice, .t was assumed that the talks tained, among other charges, its demand that a U.N. mission would be resumed and that there was a mutual understanding be sent to Kashmir to make a fieldevaluation of the situation that bilateral talks is the only: way to resolve the various there. As it became evident to Pakistan that the resolution disputes. The subsequent antics by Prime Minister Bhutto had few takers, Islamabad diluted the resolution by eliminat and her government officials made it evident that the shots ing its demand for the U.N. mission. But the Indian diplomat were being called from outside ,I and that she was going along ic offensive, a cool response from the Organization of Islamic for her own survival. Conference (OIC), an American whisper campaign to other Indian position hardens nations to abstain from voting, and active efforts by China i and Iran to quash the resolution were too much for Islamabad As a response to the Pakisutni-tabledresolution , the Rao to buck. Giving up the resolution minutes before it was sched governmentof India hardened itjspos ition and passed a unani uled to be presented for a vote, Pakistani Foreign Minister mous resolution in the Indian Parliament which categorically Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali told newsmen that with the advice said that Kashmir is an integral rpart of India. The tone of the of Pakistan's best friends, China and Iran, in mind, Islam resolution and the manner in which it was passed clearlytold abad had agreed to withdraw the resolution and give India Pakistan that the time to talk �as over. At the highest level "another chance" to improve its human rights record in in Pakistan, one senior correspondent from Karachi noted Kashmir. recently, the Indian parliamen�ary resolution had conveyed A day later, however, Pakistan changed its tune. Citing the message: prepare for a wa�. Even if thads'true, neither a British Broadcasting Corp. report, Foreign Minister Sardar Pakistan nor India gave any signal to that effeCt and instead u Assef Ahmed claimed that India had indeed agreed to allow plunged into high-pitch lobbyirig. an OIC team to go to Kashmir on a fact-findingmissio n as a In this milieu, two things w9rked for India. :fIirst, a meet condition, and on this basis the resolution had been with ing between the foreign ministj!rs of India. lrilo, .and China set drawn. Indian Foreign Secretary K. Srinivasan denied that in Teheran in early March the stage for·a fuH�court press any such deal had been agreed to and called the assertion a on Pakistan. This became all ljoo obvious,�n'Geneva when lie. Subsequently, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto the Iranian delegation had' practically givervuo;ultimatum to has threatened to bring up the Kashmir issue before the U.N. the Pakistanisby asking Islama�ad to withdtaW'the resolution Security Council in retaliation for the reneging on the alleged ddace its defeat on the ffuot. �hina had alread)'conveyed deal by the government of Indian Prime Minister Narasimha to Pakistan that Beij ing 'c<:msid!ered such a te�l\ition at the Rao. lJNCHR, to browbeat .llhother6ation for h� nc ri hts viola � l � tions, wholly unacce ta�le. lt is ob iou� f¥t both China as � l � ; , The U.S. role and Iran feared that il s�xr���rresolutlO ll.9oy14)e brought Empty rhetoric and swallowing of hurt pride aside., the . agains,t them, and th�t ;W!l�mgton migbh�tt;'U1�route in intensity of lobbying and posturing that followed the affair due time;,Pakistan also s�w t1$t the votel> ��r�: sjmply not has itself no doubt worsened bilateral relations between the there, and that all the majofcnations were. !:it�Jlgainst it or two countries. Firstly, it was incomprehensible to anyone had walked away witb·theiladder after pladiog;mlilmabad on why Pakistan, which is widely knownto be running terrorist the roof�top. __ ._.__ . i,_.. __ .. . I 25, 1994 42 International EIR . Maich AndeanReport by Javier Almario Abstainers win Colombian election quired for a sena�orial seat. Less than of the electorate turned out to choose a new This decline �n the fortunes of the 30% Liberal Party chieftains can be attrib Congress and a Liberal Partypresidential candidate . uted to a ban that was placed on con gressional "slush funds," which cut deeply into the vote-buying appara tus. A clear case of this can be seen in Only 5.4 million Colombians, out the Colombian presidency. the recent jailing of Senate candidate of a total electorate of 17.5 million, The vote for the M- 19 following Rafael Forero Fetecua, a partner of went to the polls on March 13 to its "legalization" can now be under drug trafficker :Gilberto Rodriguez choose 102 senators, 163 congres stood as little more than a "reward" Orejuela in the Workers Bank, during sional representatives, and the ruling for its having laid down its weapons. the 1980s. He built up his electoral Liberal Party's official candidate for The population has had four years to machine by selljing cheap or giving President. Low voter turnout, the watch the M-19 enjoy the privileges away land for hpusing construction, worst in the history of Colombian de of ministerial, congressional, and bu even though the1 land was frequently mocracy, throws into question the le reaucratic posts within the govern located in unautihorized construction gitimacy of the entire Colombian po ment, and they have proven as corrupt zones. I litical elite, and demonstrates the and do-nothing as the traditional polit One week qefore the March 13 serious apathy of the population to ical parties. elections, Forero's home was raided ward institutions which they feel no The Colombian Communist Par by police, and Ilj box was discovered longer function. ty, with the full backing of the narco containing the �gistration cards for The lowest turnout was among terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces some 2,500 voters. Apparently, Fore younger adults who have been educat of Colombia which forced peasants at ro had been holqing onto the cards in ed under criteria of the new world or gunpoint to vote for the Communists order to guarantee that the votes he der, according to which a defense of in areas under their sway, barely elect had bought would be cast for him. In national sovereignty, love of one's ed a single senator. the election, Forero came in 5,000 country and of God, is old hat. They These losses came despite the fact votes short of a $enatorial seat, there have also been corrupted by New Age that in 1991 the M -19 and the Commu by losing his iqtmunity from prose- educational practices which teach that nists managed to alter the national cution. I personal and immediate gratification constitution, changing the procedure The issue of the slush funds is is what counts, and that what cannot for electing senators from statewide symptomatic of fhe population's gen be touched, smelled, or tasted doesn't to nationwide representation. In this eral loss of confldence in ruling insti exist, and therefore is of no impor way, it was hoped that the legalized tutions. Corrupt1on is rampant. tance. guerrilla groups and other minority But in the thidst of this general The M-19 Democratic Alliance, parties could add their scattered votes skepticism, a ci!vil-military coalition the group of narco-terrorists notorious from all over the country into suffi of movements h�s emerged-without for the 1985 Justice Palace massacre cient numbers to capture senate seats. money, without an electoral ma but who were legalized as the result of At the same time, the traditional chine-to offer an alternative. The al a "peace" agreement, has now practi political machines of the Liberal and liance includes : the Ibero-American cally disappeared from the political Conservative parties, historically Solidarity Movtment, the National scene. M- 19 won 17 delegates to based on the buying and selling of fa Participation Mqvement, and the Alli The the natioo constituent assembly in vors, are the dumps. For example, ance of Nation Reserves. The alli aJ. in ajl 1990 with 20% of the vote, and cap Liberal Sen. Alberto Santofimio Bot ance won a deputy's seat with 10,000 tured nine Senate seats in the 1991 ero·-whose movement used to in votes, and won 4,200 votes for its sen elections. This time, the M -19 did not clude the late drug traffickerPablo Es atorial slate, 20� of the minimum re win a single Senate seat, and barely cobar Gaviria-had managed after 20 quired for a seQator's seat. The alli held ontO' a mere two representatives years to buy up votes in the ance's program �s defense of national 200,000 to the Charnber of Deputies, despite department of Tolima. And yet, on sovereignty and jofthenational armed backing the Social Democratic March Santofimio garnered only forces, and usei of the country's oil from· 13, InternatiOlial" the United Nations, and 25,000 .votes, the bare minimum re- wealth to industrialize Colombia. EIR March 1994 International 43 2-5, Reportfr om Rio by Silvia Palacios Perfidious Albion adores Brazil Douglas Hurd will be visiting Brazil Initiatives designed to restore Great Britain's old dominance of in April, and has already hinted that the Southern Cone are under way. he may announce the restoration of long-term credit operations with Bra zil. Those credit lines were suspended back in 1983, at the outbreak of the debt crisis, when the British were more than a little displeased by Bra zil's lukewarm support for Argentina Britain has launched an ambitious deal with the International Monetary during the Malvinas War. Now it has diplomatic offensive to return Brazil Fund (IMF). been announced that Britain's minis again to its sphere of influence within Portillo headed a high-level delega ters of trade and agriculture will be the SouthernCone , in hopes of recov tion whose members, which included following Hurd to Brazil in the com ering the privileged position it main batik representatives from Baring, ing months. tained throughout the last century in Kleinwort Benson, Rothschild, and The British star in the geopolitical the La Plata region. From time to Schroeders, and business representa game toward the Southern Cone is, time, the "tripod," made up of the tives from British Gas, Northwest Wa however, Margaret Thatcher. She will monarchy, the old banking houses, ter, and others, were all ready to invest arrive in Brazil on April 16 for a and British Masonry, attempts to live in Brazil's privatization program . conference sponsored by the Banca out its fantasies about the old days, There was no need for any secret Garantia. In an interview with Veja when England, especially through the meetings aboard the royal yacht Bri magazine, Thatcher attempted to de Rothschild banking house, dominated tannia, as occurred when the British fend her neo-conservative revolution, Brazil's economy and politics. were pressuring for the privatization without being able to cite a single con Perhaps this time Perfidious Albi and dismantling (i.e., looting) of the crete instance to back up her claims on willtry to derive some benefitfrom Italian state, to transmit the message of a British "economic recovery ." In its ongoing dispute with the Clinton that the British want to get their hands response to one question on the rise in administration, which has turned out on Brazil's vital telecommunications British unemployment, Thatcher to be not quite the puppet the "tripod" sector. Yet, the possibility of priva could only lash out at her neighbors: had imagined; the British offensive tizing that sector still triggers furious "Look at France, which has a higher precedes'the trip that U.S. Vice Presi debate inside Brazil's Congress. index than ours, or Germany, where dent Al Gore will shortly be making In late March, London will be the unemployment grew despite the uni to Argentina 'and Brazil. Until now, site of a seminar by the president of the fication with East Germany." neither Gore nor the British have been Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento She also insultingly reasserted able to offet their would-be ally any Economico e Social (BNDES), the British claims on the Malvinas, and thing mofe than the same tired prec entity in charge of Brazil's privatiza warned: "If someone starts to say that script ions for more free trade. tion program, which may also be at every island at a certain distance from In 'fitstweek of March , British tended Finance Minister Cardoso. their shore belongs to them, be sure the by Tteasury Secretary Michael Portillo Ever since the rule of former President we will have many wars." arrived l'11 'Braiil in adulation of FernandoCol lor de Mello, the British These aggressive British initia and, BrazilFoteign Ministry have been ecstatic over their possible tives have not fallen on deaf ears in Itamarcity(the whi'ch'seryes as a repbsitoryof British involvement in Brazil's privatization Brazil. Apart from Itamaraty, the tradifion inside , the government),'de drive, and have sponsored a number British also have the support of Fi clared, '''BritZIl 'be a' major player of seminars and business trips, the last nance Minister Cardoso. In fact, when wi'l iri the \vbrld'Of the futUre; and whoev headed by Prince Charles himself. he visited England last year in his ca er as We' do, 'But now , British offers are more pacity as foreign minister, Cardoso believi:!!r" in free trade; cannot': ' a ' power Brazil." daring'. O'n March 11, the chief of staff made clear in several meetings with ignt)re 'like PdriilIo� lsb'ba� the economic pro ofthe British Air Force, Sir Michael British authorities that he wanted to gram' FinallCe Fernando Graydon, arrived in Brazil to offer reestablish the special relationship til" 'Mihister H�Hriicttiee\irdosri�' arid 'celebrated the joint ventures with the ' Brazilian that had existed between the two possibility of a 10rig�awaited-BTatilian weapon's iMtIstry . Foreign ' Minister countries in the 19th century . EIR March 25, 1994 Reportfr om Bonn by Rainer Apel Voters reject ecology agenda high-technology jrreas, and essentials Closer contacts between Germany's two big parties may op en in foreign and defense policies. Gerhard Schroder is one of those the door to a "Grand Coalition" government. SPD pragmatists. He has been the most prominent Social Democrat to question the p�' s rejection of nucle ar technology, andto propose amodi fication of the SrD's n clear power u T he results of the March 13 elec ionists) were suddenly called off in the policy to create hcertain conditions" tions for state parliament in Lower firsttwo weeks of March, in a surpris for the constructi n of one new power 9 Saxony, the first of 19 campaigns in ing "spirit of agreement" between the plant by the turn9f i th s century. this super-election year, have a signal two opposite sides of those wage ne Issuing permits,for one single new character for the political scene on a gotiations. power plant, time when 20 new at, � national level: the momentum toward Since the labor unions are mostly ones are n� before the is decade a "Grand Coalition" between Chris SPD-linked, their agreement to an out, is not what orie call a funda t would tian Democrats (CDU) and Social early settling of the wage conflict mental change of views; even this but Democrats (SPD), the two biggest means that the SPD was part of that was too much fot; the S�D leadership, ' parties, after the national elections on understanding. And since the entre the SchrOder initiative was voted and Oct. 16. preneurs' associations and good part down the of 1993. For the CDU, a in fall This prospect may not seem plau also of the state and the public admin on the otherhand� SchrOder'smove was sible, given that the CDU lost of istration are under the firm control of a clear signal thatjon of 5.6% certain aspects the voter strength it had four years ago the CDU, i,t means that there was also industrial and tecqoology policy, he of in Lower Saxony, and that the SPD a CDU side to the rapid agreement. feredhimself as a e with lpartn r for talks of incumbent Gov. Gerhard SchrOder Another unusual phenomenon the Christian Democrats. .' suffered no losses at all. But the elec was in the Lower Saxony state elec Schroder's pefeated opponent tion victory of SchrOder's SPD in tions: A considerable part of the CDU on �e ot r belongs to a W.ulff� hf hand. Lower Saxony nevertheless helped membership and constituency showed new "young g�n at on" ()fCDU poli � i the CDU-notin that state, but rather a preference toward the SPD's top , ticianS whO in the ideology i�ersed on a national level. How so? candidate, SchrOder, OVer their own of enviro menta1ism. radical � Germ�y now has more than 4 top candidate, Christian Wulff. S�hroder's �e.ction ,victory has million officiallyreported jobless (the Stranger still, the national CDU lead now strengthene� his position inside actual figure is over 7 million without ership in Bonn never made any really the and h ,provided the CDU SPD, � regular employment), and at least an serious effort to stop this erosion With an o. tion '�grand consensus" of P . fq r other new jobless are expect support for Wulff. This lack of nation talles , t e EIR M�Aj�, 1994 I�a,tiOO,at . 45 InternationalIntelligence Soviet Union, I would advise the Kazakhs BKA director Hans-Ludwig Zachert, they Slovakia 's premier to be more tolerant toward their ethnic mi said, has been picked as a "scapegoat" for loses confidence vote norities." The Kazakh government has also the failures of a security policy that the poli been criticized by Andranik Migranian, a ticians have not yet been able or willing to member of Russian President Boris Yelt define. Slovakian Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar sin's Presidential Council . who had recently Bonn's conflict with the BKA will add lost a no-confidence vote in the parliament written an article demanding a "Monroe to the sentiments that building against on March II, with a margin of 2 votes over are Doctrine sphere of influence" for Russia in the German government and the political the required absolute majority of 76 votes. the areas of the former Soviet Union. establishment in general , among the police, There were 2 votes against the motion, and The daily Le Monde warned that the which has repeatedly charged policymakers 70 abstentions. This means that should all Russian majority living in the re source-rich on the federal and state levels with incompe efforts to form a new governmentwithin the north of the country, where strategic mis tence and readiness to look for scapegoats mandatory transition period of 30 days fail, siles and the Baikonur Cosmodrome are lo rather than for efficientand meaningful leg Slovakia will face another election this cated, could decide to proclaim themselves islation against crime and terrorism. spring. independent and linked to Russia. Le Monde The deepening economic disaster, indi noted that "the specter of a division of the cated by an officialjobless rate of close to country , which Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had 15%, is at the center of this power struggle, raised in his 1991 book as a means of 'reor Israeli professor: Jews with neither the governmentnor the opposi ganizing Russia' in new frontiers , should tion offering any solutions. aren't immune to Nazism continue to haunt the country , despite the The last early election brought a big in contrary assurances given by Boris crease of votes for the post -communist party It is perfectly justifiedto call the Kach move Yeltsin." of Meciar, turning that party into the biggest ment fanatics "Jewish Nazis," said Hebrew The daily Liberation cited a western de single group in the parliament. The opposi University professor Ze'ev Sternhell, Isra fe nse attache in the capital city Alma Ata. tion, usually split but united in the recent el's leading expert on the origins of fascism, that the most likely scenario now is that Ka no-confidence vote for the first time, can't in an interview with the French daily Libera zakhstan would split up. with Russia acting be sure of defeating Meciar in early elec tion published on March 9. as "policeman," and with Kazakhstan there tions: Seven out of the 85 members of the Liberation asked: "You speak of 'Jew by re-entering the Russian sphere of in opposition bloc didn't vote against Meciar. ish Nazis' in regard to the Kach movement fluence. of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, to which Dr. Baruch Goldstein belonged. Isn't there an Russian-Kazakh crisis inherent contradiction in this terminology?" Bonn dow�grades Sternhell responded: "Not at all. There takes ominous new turn is no gene which immunizes Jews against anti-crime bureau various forms of racism, of xenophobia, of Since the March 7 parliamentary elections in the cult of violence, and it is that which we Kazakhstan, French newspapers have been The German government has announced a find in 'kahaneism,' an exacerbated nation warning of a split-up of the country , with a "reform" of the Federal Anti-Crime Bureau alist fanaticism that is combined-and this Russian ethnic-separatist movement taking (BKA) that will certainly be to the liking of was not the case with the Nazis-with a off in the north of the country . organized crime and terrorists. Minister of religious fanaticism. Kahaneism seeks to The Russian authorities, with support the Interior Manfred Kanther decided early purify Israeli society from all foreign ele from the Conference on Security and Coop in March that the status of the BKA director ments, not only by expelling all Arabs from eration in Europe (CSCE) observers who would be downgraded and that the agency's the land of Israel, but also by preventing watched the elections, are charging elector directorate be replaced by a "collegial body" mixed marriages. We find, in this, the es al irregularities, saying that the Kazakh gov that would be "less hierarchical" and "more sential elements of Na�SJli•. If there was a ernment's aim was to ensure that the ethnic in tune with the federalist structure of the kahaneist majority in thl; �f!esset, the laws Kazakhs would receive a greater percentage Federal Republic." This measure goes along which it would promulgltte 'would not be of seats than merited by their percentage in with budget-cutting attitudes that are sold different from those of Nuremberg." under the slogan of "long-overdue stream Sympathies for killer Baruch the popUlation, relative to the ethnic Rus Hmort sians . The head of a Russian Duma "observ lining of the bureau ." Goldstein, according 'ta Sternhell, come ers' mission" for the elections, Konstantin The government's plans have met strong mostly ' come from religit5us circles-the Zamulin, said, "In my capacity as represen resistance among the anti-crime authorities. rabbis 'of the yeshivas,atitt vlirious religious tative of the former tutelary power of the BKA officials delivered a note of protest. parties. This is "a world in which fundamen- if f; ' : ! • 46 International EIR March 25, 1994 Brildly THE RUSSIANS arrested an • alleged spy for Oermany' s foreign in telligence service, the BND, ac cording to Itar-Tass news agency on March 10. No details were made pub talist nationalism mixes with religious fa rangement. David Spedding, the new chief lic by the Russian counterintelligence naticism, the worst cocktail that one could of MI -6 (foreign intelligence), will travel to service, except that the person is a imagine. The only advantage: It is relatively Buenos Aires shortly for a three-day visit. Russian citizen. German Chancellor limited in Israeli society. The highest esti Spedding was stationed in Santiago, Chile Helmut Kohl's spokesman refused to mate would be not more than 12% of the in the early 1970s. comment in a Bonn press conference. population. On the other hand, the milieu Anzoreggui told the daily Clarin that he that look on [Goldstein] with a certain be was "astounded" by the knowledge which FRANCE and Israel have signed nevolence is much larger." This current of the heads of MI-5 and MI-6 had about Ar • their firstmilitarY cooperation agree "active and passive sympathizers" could gentina's anti-subversive war of the 1970s. ment since the 1967 Arab-Israeli reach 25%, which "is sufficientto become a It was as if, he said, "the mind of a military war. The agreement deals with mili political factor. " officerhad merged with that of a guerrilla." technological research and de Stemhell charged that most of the dan Other matters discussed during the Lon tary velopment. gerous operatives come from Brooklyn, don meetings included nuclear nonprolifer New York. In the United States, they can't ation and Argentina's scenarios for potential CHILE'S outgoingPresident Pa take up a gun and wear a uniform, and act regional conflict. Anzoreggui said he refer • tricio Aylwin on March 11 released out ideas of racial purity against blacks and enced Argentina's excellent relations with three leftist terrorists who were jailed Puerto Ricans. So, they come to Israel to act Chile, making no mention of several points for an assassill!ltion attempt against out these emotions against the Arabs. of conflictwith that country in which British former Presideqr Gen. Augusto Pino involvement is also a factor. chet in 1986. T�e three were immedi ately given asyJ;umby Belgium. Ayl Rao fo resees end of OA S wants to form win's successot, Eduardo Frey, was Sino-Indian conflict swornin as Pre�ident on the same day a hemispheric army and promised to continue Aylwin's Indian Prime Minister Narasimha Rao said policies. He is �xpectedto attempt to Military experts,diploma ts, and defense au put the Armed forces, which are run on March 9 that India and China are likely thorities of the Americas were scheduled to by Pinochet, on a tighter leash. to achieve a breakthrough soon in ending eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between meet at an Organization of American States forum in Argentina March 15-18 to discuss ALEKSAl'!DR RUTSKOY will the two armies on the border. • Speaking to both houses of parliament military means to back up such integration run (or Presidc:rt of Russia, he told measures as the North American Free Trade the March 6 of Lon on Sino-Indian relations, Rao said that ac Sufulay Express tion is being initiated to implement the Agreement, said Argentina's ambassador to don. Rutskoy ;was jailed by Boris agreement on maintaining peace and tran the OAS Heman Patino. Yeltsin in October 1993, during Yelt According to the Caracas daily El Globo sin's assault the parliament; he quillity on the Line of Actual Control signed op last year during his visit to China. of March 6, the forum was to elaborate pro w� released ill February under an "We want to remove eyeball-to-eyeball posals for the OAS General Assembly that l/fI1IIesty declrurd by the new Duma. will meet in June in Belen, Brazil, for the , ':J'he. state continues to disintegrate," confrontation in a ,very short time. We will eventual creation of a supranational QAS Rutskoy said, ¥ldingthat he was op- be ableto makea breakthrough ," he t{lld the Lok Sabha, the lower house, according to military intervention force. . posedto "shoc� therapy ." the Chinese newSIligency Xinhua. Such a force, a long-standing proje<:tof f the Anglo-American oligarchy and its KING of Jordan WaS .• HU$�EIN stooges such as Venezuela's Carlos Andres . Sa\ldi King Fahd during },,;, .8nLlbbed by Perez and Argentina's Carlos Ment:m, until . a this month. U.S. au- . Look out Argentina, visit o Mecct now had prevented from coming into. J been th,ori.�ies had reportedly promised the here comeJ,t#e MI -6! being largely because of qpposition from' J�an.ian king Jthat they would inter- . for meeting, wit . : ;·:nu'.""; ; ., 1:"_1': 1 I Mexico. However, as a result of the ipsur� ce!lj::llis- Qn be�l.f a h The head of the 1M�4ne StateInteHigence rection in Chiapas, Mexico has 1l0'1Y ab his,Slludi but this ?lppar an c,oun�rpart, Service Anzoreggui. :JlM; doned its absolute commitment to non-inter 4w!1Ot , \lcce�d. Relat�ons 00- (SIDE).� �go -�ntly s vention. Luis Donald c;::ol sio. . the .the, two . countries" always agreed to hav� �JiiM�q,intelligence set;Yjcell . o � .tM'tleP train Argentill EIR March 25, 1994 International 47 �TIillInvestigation Boris Yeltsin's team shows signs of panic by Viktor Kuzin The political faction of Russian President Boris Yeltsin is in unconstitutionally abolished, brought no political consolida a deepening crisis. Yeltsin showed frazzled nerves during tion of society around democratic refonns. In fact, as the fonner U.S. President Richard Nixon's mid-March visit to elections to the State Duma and the referendum on the Consti Moscow , when Nixon met leaders of the opposition to Yelt tution showed in December, the prestige of democratic val sin, including Aleksandr Rutskoy. Rutskoy was vice presi ues has plunged. dent of the Russian Federation until he resisted Y eltsin 's Now not only the West, but also the people of Russia are abolition of the Constitution and Parliament last Sept. 21; beginning to realize that they have been deceived by the arrested on Oct. 4, Rutskoy was only just released from Yeltsin team, and that with the elimination of the Congress of prison under an amnesty on Feb. 26. Upon hearing of Nixon's People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet-the institutions planned schedule, Yeltsin cancelled his own meetings with Yeltsin maintained were the main obstacles on the road to Nixon and stripped him of Russian government-provided refonn-the situation in the country has not only failed to transportation and security; the security-stripping decision improve, it has not even stabilized and is continuing to deteri was then reversed. orate . Nixon's approach was encouraging, because only regular The government has virtually no control over economic contacts with representatives of thewhole political spectrum processes in the country. Minister of Labor Gennadi Melik in Russia can show western politicians what is' happening yan has reported that protests ' are coming in from many re there . By the end ' of his visi�, Nixon had conferred with gions, from whole branches of industry, and from numerous five likely candidates for Yeltsin's jo�Rutskoy, Vladimir enterprises, demanding payment of back wages and threaten A Zhirinovksy, Grigbri Yavlinsky; and Sergei Shakhray, who ing decisive reprisals if this demand is not met. new feature head other factions in the, new farliament, and Communist of these recent protests is that they have been endorsed not leader Gennadi Zyuganoy:':"'-butnot with Yeltsin or members only by trade union leaders and work collectives, but also by of his governmen�. YeltSin;s 'starr,' meanwhile, announced fact()ry. directors. 14 '" ;.' on March that ih.e President would be absent from Moscow for vacation and medical tre�trrientfor stretches of time dur The end of the voucher ing the next six weeks. " While visiting the city of Kaluga early hi March, Chair Ever broader layC'ts of s(,cjetyare realizing that' Yelt sin' s man of the State Property Committee AnAtoli Chubais an "October Revolution" of 199'3'diifn6thing at all to solve the nounced that as of July. I, privatization v rs will cease ' �hC'he cirCle to problems Yeltsin and hiS iotter Wanted it solve . The to 'be valid. (A voucher'was issued to eatil ;citizen of the October bloodshed, wheh Ariny troops kept YeItsin in power Russian Federation in late' 1992, which erltiiled him to buy by shelling the 'parli'ament (S�pteme" Soviet) which he had sharesof stock in newly' privatized finns:) Ftom that day on, . ;' r .-, 48 Investig�tion EIR ..Match 25, 1994 enterprises will be privatized for money, through the sale of form policy. On several points their responses went well over these companies on the market. Until now, citizens had not the 50% mm:k. rushed to use their vouchers (by exchanging them for shares of stock in privatized companies or selling them), calculating Leaving a sinking ship that the very low price of a voucher (10,000 rubles) would Yeltsin is in a panic. He and his cronies are afraid of have to rise. It did rise almost threefold during the past year, being swept aside by a powerful social explosion and being and was at approximately 23,000 on the eve of Chubais's held responsible for what they have done. announcement; but this was still very low, considering the The more prescient members of Yeltsin 's group are trying real purchasing power of this sum, which is just half the to distance themselves from him. These include former Dep monthly subsistence minimum for one person (40,800 ru uty Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and former Finance Minis bles) at the present time. ter Boris Fyodorov. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov came The voucher, mind you, is the document that was flat out and told an audience of Afgantsy (Afghanistan war supposed to embody the citizen's right to a share of state veterans) that he "never was a democrat." property as it was privatized. In other words, Anatoli It was fear of having to take responsibility for the mass Chubais let it be known that the voucher would not be murders done on his orders in October, that prompted Yeltsin honored as an obligation of the state to the citizen, to accept the State Duma's amnesty of those arrestedon Oct. meaning that the majority of citizens will be left with 4 and thereafter for resisting his s;oup d'etat. The quid pro neither money nor property. On the other hand, after July quo was that there will be no parliamentary investigation of 1, all these enterprises will be for sale, cheap , to the those events. holders of speculative capital (commercial banks, the Yeltsin also proposed that all parties sign an agreement mafia, bureaucrats who have gotten rich on bribes, etc.). on civic peace and accord; he wants to draw them all into one "There has been a total criminalization of the economy," vicious circle with himself. But this is a trap, since it is said Prof. Yakov Gilinsky of the Petersburg Institute of Soci not any party or parties that make people oppose Yeltsin's ology (Russian Academy of Sciences) at a conference on regime , but rather the unbearable conditions of life. Parties "The Black Market as a Political System," held at the Russian that sign such a document will be compelled to support Yelt State University for the Humanities. The conference con sin's punitive actions against the people or risk being accused cluded that "in most countries, organized crime runs only the as opponents of civic peace. How absurd ! '. criminal sources of income: drug traffic, gambling, weapons Yeltsin's immediate entourage is now compris<,!dof pro sales. In Russia it runs the entire economy. " nounced careerists, cynical people with no principles. Prose Yeltsin has not succeeded in dumping the blame for this cutor General Aleksei Kazannik had somethingto say about on the Supreme Soviet, which he disbanded, since everyone them in a re.cent interview with Moskovskiye Noyosti. Talk knows that the Supreme Soviet harshly criticized Yeltsin's ing about the President's national security aide Yuri Baturin, policies for robbing the population and encouraging orga presidential aides Georgi Sa�arov and Ale,k�ei Iiyushenko, nized crime, including in the highest echelons of power. the chief of the President's security .service �!ek,sandr Kor Consequently Yeltsin and his closest supporters bear the re zhakov, and Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin, he : ' sponsibility. said: "If I had such advisers, and if they even once g�ve me A recent poll surveyed how residents of Moscow think advice like the advice these people �ive, ld t li thein: I ��ni � their lives have changed since 1991: 'God be with you-and the door is ,?yert here., don't ,need . 1 . u ' 82% think that "people have become meaner" advisers like this.' " 54%-"there are fewer opportunities to live properly" These advisers had in effect urged l(a?:annik to ignore the 54%-"we have taken even further leave of our senses" law on amnesty, Jo violate the Constituiion-;anq, thi!! �iq)e o ; b 53%-"vouchers will be used by the minority to rob the it's not tbe Constituti, . ," .n . slandered', ; as.'f "r\'ed-br1 'l ,o ' wn'" <,, and' a' ol- majority" ished, but Yeltsin's own new Constjtutlqn. �a�al1nik re- 45%-"it is in the West's interest to weaken us" signed, rather. than follow th,eir adY.i R to, iol te l'\w : .. � v a itp� 25%-"the West has an interest in helping us" Tllis all si'eak,s eloquently to the i�t. � e u �ti n , (}O W: q� 9 � 9 29%-"Russia should try to restore the [Soviet] Union" is not the Constit, ution, but tbe essepti, 7%-"there is more hope for things to get bettel:, after Yeltsin, 's:' p'eop' . le. Jt is not.' to , be exclU.,. ' ded ' that..: tb.ere;.. (.. is an ' I . !'. ,; i , , . . I J � ;, �. I \ 1 j • the Dec. 12 elections" intense fight going on for influence 9v:�ry, �lt �iPo� ,�TP?!}g 44%-"there is less hope for things to get better, after various, groupings within �ppfl.r t �)f�ic was his � u,s" , pn�/)' � the Dec. 12 elections and the ch;;mgesin the government." using Kazanllil} agai t e . ns �G .pth,t;.r� i, ," ;', j" " :'1 '_'J " '" This survey of 2,000 citizens of Moscow, the city where On� thing.' is certajn, �nd is ., ).y'' el\s�q .h�s .:}1;1.a �,if¥ �t( - '. • >'that; . that,I , , . ,I, ,� \ . '" Yeltsin has always had his greatest support, clearly sbows ed no i�t ention d parting f'o�. po�i � \ )�y..e", $?ugh qf � h�:�, c, � people's negative reaction to the results of his so-calle.d 're- ,he h�� puqIicly a"01ittec;l.. ! hat tbex �PiDAt�qfr'iy�IW��J9t Jle EIR March 1994 .25, interests of Russia or the majority of its citizens. The ruinous impact of these policies on the nation and the people provokes a self-defense reaction in the form of growing popularity for patriotic leaders, which Yeltsin has noticed. He is trying to adopt and exploit their slogans. For eign Minister Andrei Kozyrev has done this. Even that ideo A system logue of corruption, "shock therapy," and "globalism," for colonial mer Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov, has lately come out as by an opponent of all these things. This is the latest ploy of a Stanislav Govorukhin certain segment of the pro-Yeltsin "democrats." They are waiting in the shadows, feigning criticism of the regime, The author is a prominent RU$ianfilmmaker, known fo r his making themselves out to be friends of the people, so that documentaries on the impoverishment of Russia under the Communist regime in the and now under Boris Yeltsin. tomorrow, at the next elections (less than two years away) 1980$ they might come to power disguised as oppositionists and in His latestfilm is The Great Criminal Revolution, under which reality continue the line of the InternationalMonetary Fund title he also published a bookl(Andreyevsky Flag, 1993}. lt in Russia. deals with the looting of RusSi-a' s economy during the past two years, the rapid rise of � new criminal class, and the The menace of collapse violent destruction of the RU$sian Parliament by Yeltsin's The complete collapse of Russia as a nation, however, fo rces. Having completed Tile Great Criminal Revolution may breed a fascist dictatorship sooner than that, since people just after the Oct. 4 burning oJthe Parliament but before the Dec. elections (when Yeltsin was stunned high who experience nothing but hatred and despair, history 12, 1993 by shows us, will succqmb to that. There are indications of votes fo r Vladimir Zhirinovskf s Liberal Democratic Party, the preconditions for establishing a fascist dictatorship, both the communists, and indepe,jdent opposition figures), the from the President's camp and in the extreme opposition. author wrote the present arti�e in Februaryas an epilogue Both are exhibiting a growing tendency to criminal thinking fo r the second edition andfo r foreign-languageeditions. On Dec. Mr. Govorukhin was rlected to the Duma, the lower and behavior, and a potential to move in the direction of the 12, armed seizure of power. house of Russia's new Parliar!fent, on the Democratic Party Thus Gen.-Col. Vladislav Achalov, recently freed from of Russia slate. We are printing this chapter of The Great Lefortovo Prison in the amnesty, spoke openly about the Criminal Revolution as a gutst commentary, with the au option of seizing power by force. "Today we have a situa thor's kind permission. It is sAightly abridged and subheads tion," he said, "where [presidential guard chief] Korzhakov, have been added. Rachel Dbuglas translated it from the [Defense Minister] Grachov, and [InternalAffairs Minister] Russian. Yerin might remove Yeltsin from power" (Moskovskiye No vosti, March 6- 13). Former Prosecutor General Kazannik, Thank God, I was wrong. T}1e new Parliament is not two meanwhile, told the Spanish paper El Pais that Yeltsin's thirds made up of the henchJlDen of organized crime. The close associates "might ignore the law, issue illegal decrees, party whose base is the new class of "men of property" lost adopt blatantly criminal decisions, and impose them on Yelt at the polls. Despite having all the money, all the mass media, sin (Sovetskaya Rossiya, March 15). It is noteworthy that all the power in their hands, they lost big! here we had approximately the same evaluation publishedon They were all set to win; My evaluation was not off the bOci>k I the pages of newspapers representing quite opposed political mark. But as I've said, my was writtenbefore Oct. 4. orientations. made my evaluation without 1aking into acCountthe events Aleksandr Barkashov is leader of Russian National Uni of that day. ty , 'whOse swastika-clad cadre acted as provocateurs during Oct. 4, the Parliamentin flames. . . . Thatupset all calcu the September-October crushing of parliament. Sovetskaya lations. It was a boon for som¢ and for others·amisfortune. Rossiya 5 be of March reported his remarks after his release A month before the elec�ns, the result :could fore from jail in amnesty: "The fighters have become tougher. seen. People who toured the! country and met 'with voters There is an influxof new people into our organization. A lot could see it. They saw how ,the population bad changed, of young people. Workers from a lot of the Moscow factories consolidated in its united loathing for the t1'1.I:itderers. But the sympathize with our views, and we're setting up our first murderers themselves did not see it. They understood their RNU factory cells ....We have comrades in aIms among country and their people not tat all. Two ' weeks before the the ex-generals, too." Barkashov is not putting it on this time. elections, their SOCiologists Jere still pubU!lhfug prognoses Even a casual observer can see steady growth of interest in that in Moscow [the pro-Yelts$!sla te] Russia'sChoice would Mukh6si'8nsk 50%. the publications and activity of his and other such organiza- get37% , in St. Perersbl.iJ'g'38%, in over ' , tions in -Moscow. A laVishtelevi sion show', Iireal Political'Bam was organized 50 25, Investigation EIR ,;'March 1994 contrary, blood demands revenge. , The blood has estranged people. iBefore even greeting a person these days, everybody look� twice: What kind of person is this? From which camp? takes And they call that averting civil war? hold The State Duma Russia has had a new Parliament for two months now. In the eyes of the world she is a democr*ic country once again. The Deputies of the Federation 1C0uncil [upper house] in the Kremlin for the night of Dec. 12. Champagne goblets and the State Duma [lower house] I)ave yet to set eyes on in hand, they were gazing at the big board where the figures each other. There is no place in Mos40w for them to meet in recording their victory would appear. joint session. How can that be? It has peen quite a while since The first election returns, from the Far East and Siberia, the district, municipal, provincial, an central committees of sent them into a state of shock. Television captured the mo the Communist Party existed, or th central committee of ment very well-their frightened, confused eyes fixedon the the Communist Youth League, or he Soviet government electronic board. One ideologue, drunk as a skunk (he had ministries, but bureaucrats are sitti g in all those offices. started to celebrate too early !), staggered onto the stage and, What is the cost of that to the taxpay rs? clutching at a microphone so as not to fall, cried to the entire The bombed-out Parliament bui ding was repaired and country, "Russia. how stupid can you get?!" given to the government. It was han .ed over to the govern Aha, you say Russia has gotten stupid, not you-the one ment just as soon as the President's tourage got a whiff of who gave the order to your cannons, "Fire!"? For it was you what was in the wind: The new Par iament might not be a and other "artists" like you, who gave the order: "Fire on the compliant pocket parliament as anti ipated. So the govern Parliament!", You're the ones who called for the President to ment is there now. No, they are not haunted by ghosts of the take decistve actions against the Parliament. You advised dead. They are materialists. i him: "Hit your . ideological opponents about the ears with The State Duma has been housed iin the Mayoralty build candelabrar' At;the very moment when the t�s and APCs ing. This a building that has not beeljlrepaired for 20 years. were rolling to their combat positions, one well-known writ Not even all the windows were replaced after the fire. I er, foaming at the mouth, shouted on television, "Crush the went into one room to photograph lit for the record. The reptiles!" RadioRussia broadcast at a shriek, "Riff-raff, rab temperature was 18°F below zero. It 'Vasn' t warm by Celsius, ble, murderer&. ,wild mongrels ..."-meaning those who either.' The staff works with their fpr coats on. There are were being killed like cattle at the slaughter, at Ostapkino commercial firmson every floor of tqe building, which have and in the White House [Parliament building]. One lady no intention of freeing up those officers. a rea}.gem, in a widely circulated newspaper: Well,:the President did what h� had to. The cobbler uttered "They [the defen4el:�of Parliament] are gqilty ,of forcing, us to kill should stick to his last. He showed the Duma its place. So them." Ther.ej' s,Sa� in a skirt for you ! that the people would that he oesn 't give a whit for kI)()W � No, RWi��,has not become'stupid; she is just coming tQ the Duma an� no parliament is going tpdecree what he should after a bad dream. People had ,barely unstuck tI:leir,eY6!ids 40. sliaking, {)ff the trance" when, the shouting began: Duma has no facilities, no qudget, no fleet of cars, and were 'l'be "Everybody;t9��� elections I"� for? Why such hurry? not eveJ;l :a room with a telepho�e where a Member of "What a tiny Let us at leaS!i.� the ConstitutiQ�!'; ,"No! To ilie-electioIls, Parliament might work. The mass media, meanwhile, are on the double!" And so in haste, they voiced their pr6fer�ce fanniqg,real hysteria �bout the Ol,ltr.ous privileges of the for the one \V.AA,s¢emedto of the' aut�opi.ies, Depulies. 1;l).eirinsanely salarie$, their five aides (while be,� antipod,e l}igh the one who ,PT9m�sedto restorejustie,ethe, very ne�t day, ,to in fact. ,nobody Qas a single aide), thejr apartments (not a punish the .. (�d the hungry., ami cure the sicJ.<.·. \Vell, sillgl:e newcomer has gotte,n one), personal vehicle each g.QjJ� � it will be all QlQre difficult person to,�c�ive.,the one I).as" '. " The methods qisctediting the Parliament � fpr tl1a.t f()f people a se't9P�(\�w.e, when.it �qnw&,apparentthath e arethe saQle incredibly,primitive q>ut effective!) ones that Mla,s 0«\ unable to do� �t)hat, did.qonl'l,;of.jt" iUld bad nQ 4Irsil:e to w�re. ul>�d.llefore. the is �e same-to provoke ill J apd purpose do it. ,,··, ,1:11 '{Y , ." , , , .: L ,: ". will among the population �d push \it to its logical conclu Russia bJJ§Wt.gecome stupi5h j::ried olol� sion;. Ile� a Parli!lJIlentfor?" J s� p� i�.I?ilin. :�Wbat;dqe.s Russia She is one wound.i An4Jhq i wound wi1L�t� c , kf) ta. ,llsj(ti)e t ElK Mar�M'5, Inv�tigation W94 5.1 than ever. The investigation b the prosecutor's officecannot answer a single one of the mainI questions tormenting the population of Russia: What wJs the political underpinningof those events? What was the scale of the tragedy? How did the country react to the even ? Was there any discernible role of the West and western Jecret services (a far from idle question)? What was the rol� of the paramilitary units of organized crime? And so on, and so forth.. ..Bi g questions and little questions, but there �re no answers to any of them. Nor will there be, now. The would-be investigatory com mission had to be sacrificedto btain amnesty for the political 1 prisoners. Fear of an investigation of the causes and circum stances of the October events made even some of the Presi dent's partisans vote for the arhnesty. Now that the amnesty law ras gone into effect, the mass propaganda has raised a ruckius: "They set free the guilty I parties in the October traged ! Now there will be civil war again .. .." The guilty parties in the slaughter were not in jail. The guilty parties won in October J and victors are generally not jailed. As for the Anpilovites [supportersI of communist Viktor Anpilov's "Working Mosco " group] , they of course are Stan isla v Govorukhin: "This new regime is becoming amazingly , back on the streets and are once again working for the Presi like the old, It may be recalled that Beria, the bloody butcher of 1 the Soviet people, also began with an amnestyof criminals," dent by tamishing those in 0 position to him. Looking at these people who want to go back to the communist past, sane citizens will tum away, rossing themselves: "To heck it were to maintain (so far it has cost nothing), the price with those guys! We're better pff with Gaidar and Yeltsin." will sti ll not be too great, because a Parliament is the only It was the President who submitted the law on amnesty guarantor of democraoy in our country, a stone in the road, a to the Duma. It was meant to 6e the firstlaw the State Duma rock, Blow it up, open cannonfire against it , ..and the road would adopt. The President' � draft affected only criminal to a one-man dictatorship, to an authoritarian regime, to a [not political] convicts. I ' shameful colonial future will be wide open. This new regime is becoming amazingly like the old. It may be recalled thal Beria, th� bloody butcher of the Soviet The amnesty decision people, also began with an al1lnesty of criminals. . It is difficultto characterize this State Duma with certain The new Russian regime is continuing to bolster itself, l ly. lt' is a diverse body. It is' split into 'two camps. Like all seeking (and finding!) suppo exclusively in'i the criminal Russia, it was divided by b100d. layers of the population. Or among those who are rapidly It is difficult to adopt any serious decision; since one becoming criminalized. As.ili the old days, 'criminals are a side or the other will always find enough votes to bloak it. 'sodal element in close kinshi� with the regi'me. There was Essentially everything then depends/on ZhirinovskY 'and his not a word about dissidents o� political enemies in the presi faction. The side that faction joins-in a debate wiH prevail. dential draft of the :Iaw o'n mnesty . There was not even . Zhirinovsky is the master of the Dunia. He has; proved it mention of the accused in the tUgust 1991 .coiip, whose two more'than once already. Say·the question" of a commi-ssion to :year-trial' has become a comic spectacle. ' " , .. , , , investigate the October- events is under discussion. Russia's .·Naturally the Russian Parliament immediately proposed Choice, naturally, opposes' the ' inV:estigati'ofl ·Qf the causes 'to 'amend the Pr�s dent'S draft with th additi6n of a point on � . l � , . and circumstances' 'of' the" trageay.' Their:pbsit'i'on , is I quite amnesty for politIcal pnsone s. Pass\Ohs ' fHl�d. The Presl understandable. 'But Zhitin'oVS'ky?" He �eoured ,the votes of denf S' partisans could n0t dream of Khasbulat6v: and Rutskoy [deposed ' Vice· President] 'RutskoY�s. -suppbit'ers" ' promisirig Ctvhoevidentally have al0t on them) going free. The majority I • to' get to-the bottom of the matter 'and' answer all- questions (223 vbtes) needed to pass the law with - '{his amendment .for the 'people ...: ' But, his faction -sabotaged' -the first ,two would never have been secur�d, if somebddy:hadn 't gotten . -attempts. Olily on'the'thlrd try, ' after 'long' thstussions' in'the the- 'idea of sacrificing' -the torbmission';' Yl0tl' pass the law, ' olfOV'feh [2.hirinovsky was and 'we will stop the'parliame tary investigal'ionof the Octo corridors to persuade Vladimir'V J; er' forced onto ,'tlie' floor> Yet> it' is mo[(!' irtlportant ber events. Thus we offer-yo peace and accord , let's work , the, matt I ; '52 ·--lrivesti'gation EIR. dMarch 25, 1994 together and pass laws that can alleviate the people's suf His position is the following: Do not hinder this regime fering." from proceeding on its chosen courSe, because the regime is I repeat: It was fear ofthe investigation and what it might mediocre and its course is a road to T4in. The sooner it reaches reveal that made even some of the President's supporters vote the edge of the abyss and plunges in, the better, and the for the amnesty. Zhirinovsky's faction also voted for it and sooner the people will reach up to me, pleading, "Pull us out worked for it. But no more actively, and of course no more of here !" effectively, than other factions and independent deputies. Thus Zhirinovsky's position is, (he worse the better. The When the prisoners were released from Lefortovo, Vladi Bolsheviks took that line in 1917. Aindthey came to power. mir Volfovich rushed to be the first one there, to collect his I haven't even mentioned the fact that it is immoral to dividends. "See, I promised to free them, and I did it." help prolong the people's suffering. Moral considerations do To a certain extent he is right. If the Liberal Democrats not enter into it. on orders from the boss had voted "against" or even just Zhirinovsky's calculations are wrong. The regime he so abstained, the law on amnesty would not have passed. despises is a Bolshevik regime, and it cannot be tricked. As And thus we have the Master of the Duma. You won't for Zyuganov' s party, they themsel"fesacknowledge that the get anywhere without Zhirinovsky. teachings of those gentlemen, Marx and Lenin, are not deci sive for them. That party Should ave been renamed the Zhirinovsky's scheme Social Justice Party. The real BoIs viks stayed [with Yelt Vladimir Volfovich is not a simple person. When I meet sin] in the Kremlin. One hundred pe£ ent Bolsheviks, Lenin with voters, I am constantly asked: What do you have to say ists. But they are even more frightl:ming, because they are about Zhirinovsky? werewolves! Their morals, or rath their lack of morals (on What can you say about him? Especially in two or three Oct. 4 they violated the fundamen 1 moral laws on which phrases. To define means to delimit. But Vladimir Volfovich human society is based), and their ethods are purely Bol is boundless...,-from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian. shevik. "Let 90% of the Russian iliople perish, if just 10% Judging by his words, he would seem to be an ardent foe live to the happy future (capitalist now, rather than commu of the authorities. nist)." There's a Leninist thought f�r you. What necrophil Judging by his deeds, he's the President's man. iacs! What do they care for the suffering of the people, as Judge for yourself. He did not protest [Yeltsin's] Decree long as they have their lofty goal: "We will build capitalism of Sept. 21. He did not condemn the October slaughter. in a single five-year plan!" He accepted the new Constitution. (Without him and his Zhirinovsky's hopes that power will fall into his hands of supporters, would they have forced through a Constitution its own accord are absolutely unfounded. The regime needs that nobodyhad read, but which gave the President of Russia him now, for the sake of maintaining "the threat of Zhirinov more powers than Czar Nicholas II had?) He freed Yeltsin sky," but later on ....On the eve I of elections, he will be from the threat of a new presidential election this year. (You banned as unneeded, having done pis job. But most likely will recall tbat this question wa!\ under discussion, and the there won't even be elections. We bow how that is done. President hims�lf had set the presidential election for June When it is announced in, say, late 1�95 that there will be no 12, 1994; who dares bring this up again now? "Are you out elections, nobody will dare say a iWord. By that time the of your mind?" people will demand, "Do you want Zhiri regime will be as· strong as the BolSheviks were in the early novsky?") '. 1930s, on the eve of the repressionsf For the Presidentand his party Zhirinovsky is l\ panacea, How is it spending its energy, �is regime? Only to con the salvation.from all their troubles I They say so practically solidate its power . Ithas subjugated jthe judiciary, disregards in so many ·wor:ds; "Sure we're bad; we're so-and-so's . , .. the Parliament, is creating mobile military units directly un But if not us , .then Zhirinovsky!" And people believe them. der the President, and is disbanding iInreliableagenc ies. . . . They are really·scared . On Dec.21 ofl ast year, the Ministry of Security was The politicians from Russia's Choice should be carrying disbanded. Not because .it harboretJ "heirs of the NKVD." Zhirinovsky. .on-:their shoulders, so much has he ..done for No, the heirs of the NKVD are alive and well elsewhere. them! But y,ou see, they're squeamish so they welct>me him They have gone offto guard the new businessmen. Thus the on the sly. �blnd him, don't you see , are the rabble. ' KGB has ,purgeditself during these �ears. And whe�" w,()uld they be .now, if that rabble had not ..That agency · has undergone Sjtrange metamorphoses. �w voted up the Constitution? They would have ha� to live How mucb grief it inflicted on th� people! But the years according tQ :the::old one. Does· that mean punishing those passed and suddenly it emerged th� the KGB was the least who tramp�dlit;under their feet? corrupt of-all the armed-ministries. � the year I spent making Criminal Revolution, Yes, ZhiriB0vsky is a complex person. But not sO:com The Gre.at. I ij.ad a lot of contact with out . plex that it'cs Wi\�ible to figure him And whel)you ,do staffers from · this agenc)i, both witb young ones and some figure him turnsout he isn�t so.complex aneF ;Ul. .' . ol I fQund people .who w�re hOflestand dedicated outdf der people. EIR :; Marc;h'!25 , t994 Investigation 53 to their country . The reforms have succeeded. The country is working in That is why it was disbanded. The October events showed a colonial system. We have rejected culture, science, and that the security men would not act against the people and high technology in favor strictly of raw materials extraction. carry out criminal orders. (I have already mentioned that the We have no reliable defense. l1he only people who live well Alpha and Vympel units of the KGB conducted themselves in this country are those who sttal or those who have gone to honorably during the storming of the White House.) work for foreigners (the exceptjon proves the rule). An inso That was reason enough to do away with those units. lent class of comprador bourgepisie has sprung up, well de Furthermore, the Ministry of Security was dissolved at fended by its own combat units. the very point that it began to tackle the gravest form of Of course there will still !j,e some popular unrest. But have no doubt, that will be put down swiftly. That part of the intelligentsia that has not prostituted itself, but is truly the conscienCieof the nation, better get For the President and his party had ready for repressions. Zhirinovsky is a panacea, the That is how democracy in Russia. died during its difficult salvationjro m all their troubles. They birth. say so practically in so many words, A letter from Kolyma "Sure we're bad, we're so-and-so 's. My son sent me a letter. Frqrn Kolyma[locationof prison camps in the Stalin period-e�l.]. My wife .artd I joke that . . . But ifnot us, then Zhirinovsky I" "Seryozhka has gone on a scouting mission. We'll moving The politiciansjro m Russia's Choice be there pretty soon." should be carryingZhir inovsky OTt. 1 wanted to offer the rea4er a few excerpts from this their shoulders, much has he done missive, but then thought .again and decided to give the so I jo rtheml letter in full, "Dear Papa! i ''I'v� been' in Kolyma month. I don't·know when for � I'll get out of here. The villag� pf Yagodnoye, where am, 1 crime; · the one most damaging to the country-economic. is to�ally frozen .. The. sewage fiystem is al� Jrozen, so the .crime. village has .a most' unpleas;mtl appearance renting a .. l-am cot to the left of stove tJIle �wo�room .Khrushchov-era the in c('19ilial futore? apartment of mech ni fro� the local, .ore-.J;e,6ning plant. A a a c Politicians-who are basing their calculations oQ the expec-' The mechanic lives 011 the rig�t .. Today they bro�ght water tation of a speedy· catastropheare .verywro ng. There will not and w.e. were able to get a b*ket each.·.So ,there is some :be a cat�strophe an ca,taclysms are forecast, · : chance of a light bath and laundry . dream d no, .. , . !iom� . SometiQles 1 said that at' the end of'the toad we traversing about soup, but less· less often ;' : . Who are 1,Pt, and .. . " . 'there is an abyss?· I said it, for one.--in the .first part of this "Hereis \1ow we sleep:,We putbrick� arolmdUte stove and the blind led by the blind, we are heading straight at, nigi:tt: we lay the . bricks op..tqp our blan)(ets. bricks ;book. "Like of The the edge of the abyss." 1 wrote four months ago. The; hold·the, heat a. long time. Outsi4e it is �J()w zero : for that 54°C . then. eyes .have been o��ep to . . . '.' AlmQst:all �he·chiJdren ha.,.e been ,world has changed since My ev�uate4to.the main ;many things. Both I' 'and my vision ' of the world have, land .. D.up.ng,the first day.s,of,t�e freeze" befq�� .more stoves happens. Tolstoy said that li man must change '!V�r� ,set up, a' lot 4ied�mostls 'changed. ThiS- of. ��ple. -Ql!1 people and :his convictions and strive. for something better. cQildr�n--:i,n tbe sad tradition qf our Ti�.e:ofT�<:>'l,I,bles. , , 1 doubt that my 'convictions have changed for the better, <,."O�pl)my prospect.ors w�nc:ler arouQf:L lWlyma like ;but 1 woulQ.not say same.thing now; ;, gp(),Sts , A,n�w seasp� st EI� J �� 25, 1994 "They fed us plenty on the flight. They said it was chick "Wages in Kolyma are compara�le with Moscow, only en. I got a wing of this indeterminate bird, which had evident the prices are 2 or 3 times higher. There's also talk in the ly died some time before I was born . Icalculated the cost of air about termination of the alread� paltry tax credits and the meal and was amazed: 672 rubles, while the ticket cost coefficientsfor living in the North. nat's quite correct, since 352,000. Russia really does have two eternalwo es: fools and the Americans don't care about our �x breaks. the roads. That includes the air routes .. .. "Nobody can leave for the mainlapd. A three-room apart "The airplane was more or less like a flyingsupermark et. ment in Magadan costs an average Of 10 million rubles. In The stewardess went up and down the aisle with a cart with Moscow, you won't buy even a room for that. No new hous the frequency of a trolley that's running on time. It was ing is being built. One-third of Kolyrbais housed in barracks loaded with everything you could imagine, from pomade to from those immemorial times. And t�ose are gradually sink Chinese-made Parisian toiletries .. .. ing into the earth, following afterthe jpeople who built them. "But back to Yagodnoye, since that's where I am. "People are dispirited. Nobody btlieves in anything. Not "The local inhabitants are not being paid either (their last in the government, not in the State Quma. Especially not in salary was in October). People settle accounts as follows: the latter. Zhirinovsky enjoys relati* trust. Only here did I Goods are issued against future wages through government come to understand the phenomeno� of his popularity-his agency channels, the population carries them to the store, schizophrenic optimism embodies �e hope that dies last. where they Ilfe then sold at an even lower price for cash. There is nothing else to hope for. "This would all be funny , if it weren't so sad. It reminds "Father, we rarely write to other. Each of us is me of something: the war maybe, or the blockade, or Kolyma swamped with work. I mainly written to you as an when the camps were here .. .. official. And now? Something, at You, your party, and "We came to Kolyma with a concrete assignment from part of the Duma try to help and the people, try to our office--:..:..to mine a gold deposit. Well, there is gold in explain to the government that the gold-mining indus Kolyma. Lots gold. Silver and tungsten, too. Every meter try becomes unprofitable, and the mining gold can of of Kolyma land is a huge deposit of ores, especially precious barely survive, there is nowhere go. And Zhirinovsky metals ....But it turns out that mining gold is the least certainly will not do anything for region, using the well- profitable enterprise today. I repeat: gold! The maximum known old methods. profitability, given huge investment, is 10 to 15%. But that's in theory, without taking into account the headlong inflation and the government's lagging to months behind in settlIng 3 4 with the gold�iDining companies, which reduces the profit virtuallyto zeto/ThenMagadan strimgles you with a 32% tax on profits; violation of alllilws of the Russian Federation, in according to whiCha producing enterprise is not supposed to be taxed on its' profits for the first two years. "But the Americans feel absolutely free 'unfettered and here. English 'lias become it familiar sound to people" S ears in Kolyma; ·wtiHe : the ' directorate of SeverovostokZoloto [Northeast 06Ia], and rilore resembles an office the more of state of AlliskS: That's lawful . The Americans have a'green light in Kolyma:. ltussian entrepreneurs can buy licenses to exploit de�its a maxinium content of of gold With 3 grams per cubic uniCof gold, while the Americans get licenses fdr deposits witH aVProximately 75 grams· per cubic unit. The excuse for t it takes enonnons hard.. currency invest � this �istha . ' ments to develOp'gold deposits. "But :nb't the real point: It'S. are tempOrary thar� that we people in ou�OWii<:ountry, whil� tbey are here goOd. . . fot "They built a church here . Seventh Day Adventist. It's quite large. ·my< 6pened a free stdmatoldgy offtce! ;at the church for pebpfe1who attend regularIy'. 'Pine fellows, ' ' thoSe Americans. ,/,�.:,c{ ':-1 .: ' ,"" , . '(. �" •.. "Where rtiieJAmerlcans buitd'a chi:tfch; the 'locat:ptiptrla� tion begins td�Jie;but gradually; bu nvith their tetth'in gOOd shape. ,:"'.'.: '" . EIR March 1215 , f994 Investigation 55 �ITillNatio nal Voters give LaRouchema jor gains in illinois primaryI by John Sigerson In a hotly contested Democratic Party primary in Illinois on Sheila Jones, who ran the LaRouche's flagship campaign March 15, candidates belonging to the LaRouche wing of the for governor, received 2% of tlhe vote, with approximately party polled a solid 11- 16% in statewide races, 19% in one 22,000 votes. The current State �ontroller Dawn Clark Netsh of the congressional races, and percentages ranging from 2- won the primary and will go on ito challenge Jim Edgar in the 47% for Democratic Central Committee. They made these November elections. I gains despite frenzied barrage of slanders coined by the same Anthony Harper and forme� Cook County Commissioner political circles who are being directed from Great Britain to Rosemarie Love both came in With 13% of the vote for lieu topple President Clinton. As Lyndon LaRouche commented tenant governorand comptroll�r respectively. Mark Bender in an interview, the election results show that "the voters did won 11% for comptroller, and :rom Beaudette 16% for state a credible job, even with the relatively modest vote they case treasurer. for my friends. The voters are really coming to their senses, In congressional races, 1iaRouche Democrat George I think. So that's good for the United States." Laurence won 19% in the 13th The results of the Democratic Party primary in the state presidential bid, was, as he admitted later; on the verge of included the following highlights: accepting the two LaRouche associates OR bis slate, when 56 National EIR March 25, 1994 Sen. Paul Simon intervened and caused Stevenson to drop the LaRouche style ... a lot of LaRouche's conclusions out of the Democratic campaign. would hardly have disturbed him. I� that sense," the article This time around, the state's Democratic Party sponsored concluded with some insight, "this Jl>rimary pits the Demo two tours of the state featuring National Democratic Party crats of the 1990s against their own ancestry. And maybe head David Wilhelm, and spent more than $lOO,OOO-of that's the best reason the party could give to vote against the which $30,000 allegedly came from national party coffers 'LaRouchies.' " in order to "educate" voters on how to distinguish the "real" Such serious consideration has even split the family of Democrats from the LaRouche "extremists." the above-mentioned mad dog Mil«: Royko. On Election Although their campaign obviously had some effect, Day, his son Robert Royko issued the following statement: much of their propaganda must have sounded downright "Afterre-studying a column wri�en by my father, Mike strange to thinking voters. For example, the March 14 Chica Royko, ...in which my father called for 'retaliation vio go Tribune editorialized as follows under the title "Beware lence' against Lyndon LaRouche, Sh�ila Jones, and her cam the Ides of LaRouche": "Do you believe the NEA [National paign workers for an alleged threat, J decided to take a look Education Association] is perpetrating a 'Satanic attack' on at the LaRouche people. the nation's children? Do you think free trade is a form of "For starters, picking on people who have so much inter psychosis that is looting the world economy? Do you think est in getting drugs offthe streets: It doesn't take a genius to the ADL [Anti-Defamation League ofB 'nai B 'rith] is the real figure out that the only way to get cocaine truly out of our power behind the KKK [Ku Klux Klan]? Should Congress streets is to start at Capitol Hill and work your way down. resolve the government debt by declaring a moratorium on "I believe their book, Dope, (nc. will maybe give its repayment?" the paper asked, as if no one in their right America a more truthful overall pictQre of why there is such mind would believe those things. a horrendous program in the United States. There is a doubt Another example of the anti-LaRouche wing's suidical about the fact that the governmentha$ been involved in drugs myopia was a press conference held on March 13 held by being imported into this country in one form or another. state party chairman Gary LaPaille, who reportedly told the "I can understand why the LaRquche people have been audience that "If you believe in colonizing Mars, vote for the attacked so much, when I think about �heir campaigns against LaRouche candidates. " drug money-laundering enterprises iI).the banking communi Meanwhile, syndicated columnist Mike Royko penned ties .... an outright violent threat against LaRouche associates in the "The LaRouche people are being .ttacked both by the me Chicago Tribune: "If your daughter brings one home, un dia and the pUblic. I think that before people cruelly attack the leash the dog. Or hit him with a chair and fling him down LaRouche organization, they should: study up on the facts." the front steps." Royko said that in response to "personal threats," "I promised them that I have many large mean The fightfor Classical cultur� friends. . . . So Lyndon, Sheila, and the rest of you nasties One aspect of the campaign whiich even crept into the I still have the same big, mean friends. You don't really want media coverage, was the insistenc�specially by Sheila to go through life limping, do you?" Jones-that there can be no fundamental change in the United States without a returnto Classical cUlture, and a firm rejec Many are wising up tion of the values of the drug-rock counterculture. One radio But even the media could not suppress the fact that many show featured Mrs. Jones playing Classical work on the � voters were-perhaps for the firsttime-taking a close look piano, before she came to the micropllone to be interviewed. at what the LaRouche candidates were actually proposing In Chicago, Mrs. Jones was ins�rumental in organizing to solve the economic collapse which is so evident in this ghetto children and youth into a performance of Through the midwesternstate . The weekly Chicago Reader, for example, Years, a play by long-time civil rights fighter Amelia Boyn noted that the LaRouche Democrats make "a lot of genuinely ton Robinson. This was followed up on March 20 with a serious proposals," such as the program for taxing specula festive concert sponsored by the Scl1illerInstitute , of which tion and rewarding productive activity, as well as abolishing Jones is a member, as a tribute to the great American soprano the Federal Reserve Bank. LaRouche's educational propos Marian Anderson. The program featured mezzosoprano als, meanwhile, could have been "taken straight from the Joyce Carter, the great Metropolitan Opera baritone Robert Great Books program." Indeed, "sizeable chunks of the McFerrin, and Dr. Raymond Jackson, director of the music LaRouche program sound almost mainstream. Mayor Rich department at Howard University, �nd included selections ard J. Daley, afterall , was a cultural conservative who op from Classical opera, German Lieder, Classical piano pieces, posed the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment] , gay rights, and and Negro spirituals sung "the way! they should be sung." changes in the schools, as well as a great builder who pushed In her introductory remarks, she sajd, "We of the Schiller big projects and public works and the employment that would Institute have a dream that the children whom we now fear result. While he probably wouldn't have felt at home with in the streets of America will be taughtto sing." ElK March 25, 1994 National 57 LaRouche Democrats in California quash effort to hide truth about ADL candidates associated withDemocratic presidential can Three Bialkin, to organized crime, land the connection between didate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. defeated legal efforts to pre organized-crime figures such las Moe Dalitz and others to vent them fromreferring to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) the ADL. The papers also included documents showing the of B 'nai B'rith as "racist" and "organized crime-connected." A ADL's long history of spying, infiltration, and attacks on Californiajudge rej ected an attempt by the Californiasecretary civil rights organizations, andi its covert support for the Ku of state to delete the statements from the state's official voter Klux Klan. The candidates also submitted affidavits from pamphlet. The judge's decision is a victory over political cor civil rights leaders Rev. James Bevel and Charles Greene, rectness and the ADL's "new McCarthyism." and Arab-American activist Youseff Haddad, characterizing The three Democratic primary candidates-Ted An ADL programs as racist. dromidas for U.S. Senate, Mark Calney for governor, and The candidates further argUed that their statements were Dave Kilber for State Superintendent of Public Instruction constitutionally protected free speech, and could not be cen had each submitted lOO-word position statements for the sored by the state government. state's voter pamphlet. In their statements, the candidates Under California state law, Miller could have had the asserted that their opposition to the ADL and Michael Milken statements excised from thebaillot pamphlet if he could show is part of their qualificationsto hold public office. by clear and convincing evidtnce that they were false and Acting Secretary of State Tony Miller immediately filed misleading. But on March 11,l Judge Roger K. Warren ruled a petition in California Superior Court seeking to have the that the statements referring to the ADL and the World of references to the ADL and Milken deleted from thepamphlet Difference program as racist Were opinion and not subject to because they were "false" and "misleading." Miller's attor censorship. Turning to the references to the ADL as "orga ney, Oliver Cox, later admitted that Miller had taken the nized crime-connected," Wrutren stated that he had pages action in consultation with the ADL. and pages produced by the cl$didates that tended to show a Miller objected to Andromidas' s statement attacking the connection between the ADL *nd organized crime; yet all he opponents of two AIDS initiatives, Propositions 64 and 69, had to balance against that was an unsubstantiated assertion which sought to include HIV infection on the standard list of by the associate national directlorof the ADL. Warrenadded, communicable diseases. Andromidas said, "If the Holly "The court is not suggesting ' in any way that the ADL is wood set and the organized crime-connected Anti-Defama 'connected with organized criline'; that is not the issue before tion League had not spent millions in a campaign of slander the court. The issue is whetherlthere is 'clear and convincing' and vilification to defeat it, millions of people who died evidence that the statement is " false' or 'misleading.' I have would be alive today. " Miller also objected to Calney' s state 500 pages" on one side, and "one sentence" on the other. ment that, "as an historian, I have documented the racist "I'd have to ignore all the evidence," to rule for petitioner, roots of Hollywood's movie industry, including the role of Judge Warren concluded. organized crime and the Anti-Defamation League." Further On leaving the courthouse, Andromidas said, ''This is more, Miller objected to Kilber's statement: "We must termi not just a victory for us, it is a1victory for justice." nate all OBE [outcome-based education]-style programs in cluding LEARN, the ADL's racist World of Difference, and Michael Milken-connected DARE programs." Documentation The only evidence Miller submitted in support of his con tention that the statements were "false" and "misleading," were Affidavit submitted by Rev. James Bevel to Judge Roger K. self-serving declarations from ADL officials claiming without Warren: evidence that the ADL was not racist or involved in organized crime. Miller also submitted an affidavit from a DARE official 1. I have been a leader in the movement for civil rights claiming Milken had no official connection to DARE. and equal justice for all men iand women for more than 30 The three candidates, on the other hand, submitted over years. In the early 1960s I wasmember of the Student Non 2,000 pages of legal briefs and documentation to the court, Violent Steering Committee responsible for the Mississippi backing up their statements. Included in those papers were project of the Student Non-Viblent Coordinating Committee documents showing the connection between ADL officials, (SNCq. I was also the coordinator of direct action for the including Edgar Bronfman, Theodore Silbert, and Kenneth Southern Christian Leadership; Conference (SCLC) under the 58 National EIR March 25, 1994 The three California Democratic candidates �ho defeated effo rts to hide the ugly truth about the Anti-Defa mation League from prospective toters. Left to right: Dave Kilber, candidate fo r State Superintendent filf Public Instruction; Ted Andromidas, candidate fo r U.S. Senate; Mark Calney, bandidatefor governor. I leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King. While working in close search and writing of the book. associationwith Dr. King, I initiated the Children's Marches in 5. As the result of that investigation it became clear to me Birmingham, Alabama and the 1963 March on Washington. that the ADL was closely linked to several of the people who Subsequently I led the campaigns to outlaw racial discrimina had been named in Dope, Inc. For example, Edgar Bronfman, tion in voting, housing, and all areas of life .. .. the chairman of the board of Seagrams, was a national commis 3. I am familiar with the Anti-Defamation League's sioner of the ADL and a leading fundraiser for the group. Max "World of Difference" program . The "World of Difference" Fisher was a major financial backer of .AJDL. focuses attention on the racial differences between people. 6. Our continuing research into the ADL also revealed a 4. Any program which focuses attention on the racial number of significant links to well-known figures in orga differences between people like the ADL's "World of Differ nized crime. For example, Kenneth Bialkin, who served dur ence" program , is inherently racist. ing the 1980s as the National Chaim\an of the ADL, was involved with fugitive financier and accused narcotics traf Excerpts from affi davit submitted by Jeffrey Steinberg, EIR ficker Robert Vesco. In 1980, a federal judge ordered Bial Counterintelligence Editor: kin's law firm, Willkie Farr and Gallagher, to pay millions of dollars to investors in a mutual fund who had been robbed 3. In 1978, I directed a year-long research project on the by Vesco. A federal jury ruled that Bialkin and his firm had origins of the international narcotics trade . The effort led to been wittingly involved with Vesco in the theft of hundreds the December 1978 publication of a book-length study titled of millions of dollars from Investors Overseas Service, Fund Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the United of Funds, and other related mutual funds .. ..Robert Vesco . States. . . . used the pilfered fu nds to set up marijuana- and cocaine 4. Prior to the release of Dope, Inc. in December 1978, trafficking routes between Colombia and the United States New Solidarity newspaper and EIR magazine published a via the Bahamas and other Caribbean I nations ....Se veral number of articles based on the research into the illicit narcot years ago, Vesco was indicted by a federal grand jury in ics trade. As soon as these articles began to appear in print, I Florida for his role in the Medellin Cartel. Vesco is presently became aware of the fact that the Anti-Defamation League a fugitive, widely believed to be livin in Cuba .... (ADL) of B 'nai B'rith began circulating literature accusing 9. In 1978, I received information from a journalistic Mr. Lyndon LaRouche and other contributing editors of EIR source that James Rosenberg was a Jj>aid employee of the of being "anti-Semitic." In order to determine why the ADL ADL, reporting to Irwin Suall, director of the Fact Finding was circulating what I considered to be scurrilous allegations, Department. Using pseudonyms "James Anderson" and I directed several EIR staff researchers to obtain ADL litera "James Mitchell," Rosenberg was a member of a variety of ture and conduct a background investigation on the organiza neo-Nazi and KKK organizations, fu�ctioning as an agent tion and some of its leading figures. That investigation has provocateur and informant for the AbL. On at least two been an ongoing feature of ElR 's counterintelligence re occasions that I am aware of, Rosenberg was interviewed on search and publishing since 1978. In January 1993, EIR pub television documentaries about racisrrl in America. In both lished a book titled The Ugly Truth About the ADL which interviews, he delivered racist diatribes and failed to disclose summarized the 15 years of research. I supervised the re- his identity as ADL employee James Rosenberg .... EIR March 25 , 1994 National 59 Drive to unseat President tr ed to London-basedHollin ger g oup by Edward Spannaus The officeof the presidency of the United States is currently needed was "less shock and m therapy." The IMFlWorld being subjected to a campaign of destabilization directed Bank and other institutions sw I ng into action in an effortto from London by the friends of Henry Kissinger and Margaret prevent any U.S. policy shift; n official argued to EIR IMF Thatcher. This is the incontrovertible conclusion which investigators that the IMF was ore powerful than the Presi- emerges from the scrutiny of the timing and the sources of dent of the United States. i the. attacks on President Clinton and his circle. These attacks This is when the barrage ofjscandals against Clinton seri have been dubbed "Whitewatergate" by those anxious to ously commenced. In late Dedember,E CNN gave extraordi draw false parallels with the Watergate scandal which narily prominent coverage to the forthcoming January 1994 brought down President Nixon two decades ago. American Spectator "Troopergnte" story. The visible orches The dossier on the Hollinger, Inc. group which follows trator of "Troopergate," as well as the earlier Gel'lDifer flow on p. 62 should put to shame those opportunist Republicans ers scandal, was Arkansas law)lerClif fJackson-a sometime and U.S. news media personnel who have become complicit friend of Clinton who was a F�lbright Scholar in London at in this foreign subversion of U. S. institutions of goverment. the same time Clinton was in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. On Jan. 8, the Irish People, theinewspaper ofthe Irish Repub Neo-cons telegraph their punches lican Army's supporters in A�rica, identifiedClif f Jackson The current effort to bring down the President of the as an agent of British intellig¢nce, working directly for 10 United States was shifted into high gear in late December, Downing Street. with publication of the lurid January "Troopergate" issue On Jan. 23, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had a front-page of the American Spectator-a relatively insignificant U.S. lead story in the Sunday Telegraph claiming that a former "neo-con" publication with multiple ties to the British Hol beauty queen had been allege This campaign of vilification of the President is being Deepens as Top Aide Quits." I spearheaded by Hollinger's Sunday Telegraph of London, The Telegraph's leading role has been flaunted by Em which on Jan. 23 announced its intention to force Clinton out mett Tyrrell, the editor of the iAmerican Spectator, who on of office"before the year is out." Feb . 11 lauded Evans-Pritchardas having been "particularly However, the decision to go with this campaign was tireless in examining those scandals." The Sunday Telegraph made no later than early October. On Oct. 3, 1993, Boris ran a feature boosting TyrrelL in return. "There has always Yeltsin ordered Russian Army tanks to fire on the White been a strong British connectidn" to the American Spectator, House in Moscow, ending the parliamentary process and gushed the SundayTelegra ph, : inting out that its Washing po inaugurating a new period of instability. On the same day, ton bureau chief, Tom Bethell� is English, and that Sir Pere statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche issued grine Worsthorne, the chief c0lumnist for the Telegraph, is a statement characterizing the Russia developments as a "new an active member of the ISpectator's editorial board. point of inflection-byno means limited to the former Soviet Worsthorne himselfpraised hils friend "Bob" Tyrrell, whom Union." He appealed to the Clinton administration "to dump he described as "mastermindipg the campaign which is be the globaloney left over from George Bush." ginning to look like it might dOlfor Clinton what the Washing On Dec . 16, Vice President Albert Gore made his now ton Post did for Nixon." famous statement in Moscow criticizing the International Even as the controversy in�he United States has begun to Monetary Fund and IMF conditionalities. Gore was accom die down, and some U. S. press circles embarked on a round panied in Moscow by now-Deputy Secretary of State Strobe of self-reflection and self-criti¢ism over their role in the orgy Talbott, one of President Clinton's closest friends. On Tal of media hysteria over Whitewater, the Telegraph continued bott's return from Moscow on Dec . 20, he said that what was the onslaught. The other maj(J)r London papers were down- 60 National EIR March 25, 1994 playing Whitewater, but the Sunday Telegraph of March 13 was back on the case. "Little Rock's Mean Machine," was the headline, and underneath was highlighted the following: "Ambrose Evans LaRouche : Geopolitics Pritchard goes 'underground' in Conway, Arkansas, and finds a climate of bitterness and fear. The talk is of revenge, drives the assault the targets are the President and the political system that nurtured his climb to power. " From comments by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. in a The Telegraph article is based on information allegedly March radio interview: 16 provided to Evans-Pritchard by Larry Nichols, a former low The object of the operation is not merely to get level officialof the state governmentin Arkansas when Clin Clinton out of office, but is to absqIutely permanently ton was governor. As early as 1991, Nichols had surfaced in damage the constitutional office of the presidency, that TV and newspaper interviews making charges about then is, to damage the ability of the United States govern candidate Clinton, including the Gennifer Flowers sex saga. ment to function. Most reporters eventually concluded that Nichols's informa There is a geopolitical reason f<)r that. Pending the tion was unprovable or not as damning as he claimed. He fell point that might occur, that Mosc�w might become a offthe radarscreen even with some of the reporters who were very serious thermonuclear adversary . . . we have a doggedly pursuing every lead about Clinton-until Evans situation in which, without a supeq>ower conflict, the Pritchardcame to town and revived him. major conflict is the economic cris�s which the entire In a second article, "Whitewater: The Flood May Be Still world is suffering. The only institution which has the to Come," Evans-Pritchard complains that "Washington has power to very directly and simply tum this economic been slow to grasp the gravity of it all." But, Pritchard reports crisis around, is the governmentof the United States. wishfully: "Washington is paralyzed and is likely to remain Not because we have economi¢ muscle; we don't so" until congressional hearings on Whitewater are held. have that any more. But we do ha\le political muscle, What would the findings of such hearings do? "At best they and that political muscle could be ipdispensable in es will puncture the moral pretensions of this White House," he tablishing a new international system of credit to re proclaims; "at worst, they will lead to criminal indictments place the present IMF system, which is really bankrupt, and bring down the whole administration." in order to get the world economy moving again. Now these guys in London----.:the Conrad Black Wall Street Journal follows London types-who are running this operation against Clinton, After Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell re are very well aware of that, and they don't want that to signed on March 14--over a matter not directly related to happen. And they see the danger thllt if Clinton comes the Whitewater/Madison business-the Wall Street Journal around to economic cooperation with Moscow, as the sought out a new angle on the Clinton scandals. Having alternative to Moscow becoming a Third Rome mili brought its previous five-parteditorial series, "Who Is Web tary adversary, that Clinton will then have to take on ster Hubbell?" to a successful end, the Journalinaugurated the IMF; and if he takes on the IMlF, the logical result a new series on March 15. In its lead editorial, "Who Was will be to line up the United States, lapan, and western Webster Hubbell?-I," the Journal boasted of its 12-month continental Europe in an axis of tlconomic develop crusade against Hubbell, and disclosed its new excuse to ment cooperation to get the world economy moving continue its attacks on the Hillary Clinton group from the again. Rose law firm in Little Rock. If that happens, then the last vestige of what was What most Journalreaders may not have realized is that once called the British Empire, whilchnow exists only the Journal's new angle is an old one-which was highlight in terms of financial and ideologiaal kinds of forms, ed on the front page of the London Sunday Times on Feb . 13. is finished. And one must remember that the British On the Journal's March 14 editorial page is a lengthy article Empire organized two world wars: (contrary to what on Iowa nursing homes deals which had been brokered by some people believe happened in these two world Rose law firm partner William Kennedy III. This reprints a wars), in order to prevent precisely t!hatkind of cooper Des Moines Register article from June 13, 1993, which is ation. And whether President Clinton understands it or clearly where the London Sunday Times "Insight" team got not, that's what he's up against. much of their Feb. 13 article-a signal that the story should get more prominence. So now, the Wall Street Journalde clares its intention to go afterAssociate White House Counsel William Kennedy, as a stepping stone to get at Hillary and were targeted for further attacks by the: Feb. 13 London Sun then Bill Clinton. This should be no surprise: Webster Hub day Times, which described them as "adique inside the Rose bell, William Kennedy, Vincent Foster, and Hillary Clinton law firmknown as the Four Musketeers." EIR March 25, 1994 National 61 um, heroin, money-laundering trade in the "Golden Trian Behind Clintongate gle'" of China and Southeast A�a. An imperial rogues gallery Hollinger has a multi-tiered board of directors. The main board of directors includes: Conrad Black; Peter Bronfman, chairman of Edper, the Bronfman family's real estate con glomerate, which was built out of a bootlegging and prostitu tion fortune during ProhibitiOn! R. Donald Fullerton, chief HollingerCorp . and executive officerof Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the SOE's flagshipbank in Canada and the dominant bank in the British Empire all of the Caribbean hot moneylcenters; and Lady Thatcher's close friend Paul ReichmanD!, who became a manager of George Soros' s real estate funds afterthe Reichmann broth by Scott Thompson ers' Olympia York went bust. & Hollinger's InternationalAdvi sory Board lists: Baroness The "Whitewatergate" campaign against President Clinton . Margaret Thatcher of Kesteven as honorary senior adviser. was announced by the Sunday Telegraph of London on Jan. Thatcher benefittedtremendously from Hollinger's takeover 23 , when it called for Clinton's ouster from office "before of the Daily Telegraph in 198�. The paper, the most widely the year is out" (see p. 60). Who and what are behind this read in the English-speaking world, was transformed imme treacherous operation? diately into a house organ for the Thatcher regime. The Telegraph PIc is the crown jewel of the Hollinger The rest of the Hollinger Iboard includes: Lord Peter Corp., a media conglomerate at the center of the British Rupert Carrington as senior adviser, a founding board imperial faction. Hollinger founder, chairman, and chief ex member of Kissinger Associat¢s, Inc. and one of the British ecutive officerConrad Black is a protege of Lord Beaver imperial faction's controllers df Henry Kissinger; Kissing brook's collaborator E.P. Taylor, the head of Economic er, also a senior adviser, boastbd in a May 10, 1982 speech Warfare of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to the Royal Institute for InternationalAffairs that as Nixon's during World War II. Taylor, among his other credits, wrote secretary of state, he had worked more closely with the Brit the banking law of the Cayman Islands for offshore laun ish Foreign Officethan with his American colleagues; Italian dering of dirty money. Under Taylor, Hollinger was formerly auto manufacturer Giovanni Agnelli; Dwayne Andreas,the called Argus Corp. It included on its board of directors Ar chairman and CEO of the Archer Daniels Midland grain tbur Ross of New York City, who is alleged to be the long cartel, as well as the largest li�time contributor to the Anti time MI-6 station chief of that city and another protege of Defamation League; former Oarter administration National Lord Beaverbrook. It was one among many corporate fronts Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; National Review through which SOE economic warfare personnel had ties to publisher William F. Buckley; Jr.; junk bond buyout bandit the assassination of President John F. Kennedy through Maj. Sir James Goldsmith; Lord Jacob Rothschild, president Louis Mortimer Bloomfield and the Permindex corporate of the Institute for Jewish Affairs, which combines the Anti front. Defamation League and World Jewish Congress; Sir Evelyn The Hollinger Corp. owns 80 daily newspapers in the Rothschild, who has extended his hold from N .M. Roth Chica schild Sons, Ltd. in London 1:0 Rothschild Bank in Zurich, United States, not including its recent purchase of the & go Sun-Times. It owns over 100 weekly newspapers. The Switzerland; and former Fedellal Reserve chairman and cur combined readership exceeds 5 million Americans. rent North American Trilateral Commission chairman Paul Aside from the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Tele Volcker. graph in Britain, its flagshippublications include: the Jerusa Lord Weidenfeld, an old crony of Kissinger and a Brit fem Post, which has been turned into a mouthpiece for Gen. ish publisher, is also a director of the Jerusalem Post, along Ariel Sharon's efforts to destroy the PLO-Israel accords; the with former U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Financial Post, which is Canada's equivalent of the Wall Perle. Street Journal; and the Caymanian Compass. Directors of the Telegraph PIc, a wholly owned Hollinger The individual believed to be the moneybags for many of subsidiary, include: Rupert Hambro, managing director of these recent purchases, which sometimes cost several times Hambro Bank, an important SOE-linked bank duringWorld the book value of the papers, is Li Kai Shing, who had War II and beyond, and the British interface to the Propag been, until his replacement by his son, on the board of the anda-2 (P-2) freemasonic app�atus in Italy; and Henry Kes Hongkong and Shangai Banking Corp. The "HongShang" wick, chairman of Jardine-Matheson, the original Dope, Inc. was identified by EIR's book Dope, Inc. as running the opi- trading company. The book Dope, Inc. traces the Keswick 62 National EIR March 25, 1994 family's role back to the Opium Wars , when Britain sought to establish control over China. Another publication now owned by the Hollinger Corp . is the British Spectator magazine. The British Spectator in cludes on its board the Sunday Telegraph's senior political commentator Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, who is also on the editorial board of the American Spectator. When the Thatcherites launched their effort to block the reunification of Germany, it was the Spectator that opened its pages to British Minister of Transportation Nicholas Rid ley to rail against Germany as a "New Fourth Reich." Thatch er has since acknowledged in her memoirs that she was ob sessed with preventing the reunification of Germany, even if it meant preserving the Soviet empire . This grouping within the British imperial faction includes the Rothschild banking interests, which, through frontmen like George Soros, are rigging the world economy to blow sky high with derivatives speculation. Almost every Holling er board member is a member of one or more of the elite policymaking institutions such as Chatham House, the Bild erberg Society, and the Trilateral Commission. Neo-cons at the ' American Spectator' The instrument of the British stealth attack on the presi dency has been a "cottage industry" known as the American Spectator, which claims to have more than doubled its circu lation to 258,000 by pushing Clintongate. The American Spectator's editor-in-chief is R. Emmett Tyrrell, who, in HenryKis singer, a board member of the the Feb . IO Washington Times, hailed the call by Ambrose with a high-level roster of other British Evans-Pritchard in the Jan. 23 Sunday Telegraph to topple the Clinton administration. As part of this mutual admiration society, Sir Peregrine official Michael Ledeen, whom Secretary of State Worsthorne wrote on Feb. 1 in the Sunday Telegraph, after Alexander Haig used to cover up his andKis singer's role in l hosting Tyrrell in Britain: "Bob Tyrrell, editor and proprietor Propaganda-2 and who also showed up in Oliver North's of the American Spectator-which is making the running in "public diplomacy" efforts; Harvard's James Q. Wilson, the Whitewatergate story-was in London recently .. ..He and, of course , Sir Peregrine Worstho e. is masterminding the campaign which is beginning to look as if it might do for Clinton what the Washington Post did for Not so very ' American' Nixon ....One would have thought that the presence in While the American Spectator purports to be an Ameri London of such a newsworthy editor would have been of can publication, there are numerous !Brits, including Paul . some interest to the British media. In the event he didn't Johnson, Tom Bethell, Sir Peregrinel et aI., who help set receive a single call. ... The well-researched stories of editorial policy. Tyrrell's pilgrimage tb London in the midst sleaze revealed by the American Spectator are at least as of the "Whitewatergate" assault, to coordinate coverage , is dramatic-and potentially as damaging-as those revealed indicative, as is his intimate working relationship with Tele in the Washington Post by Woodward and Bernstein." graph Washington correspondent Evans-Pritchard . The American Spectator is run by such neo-conservatives Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is a ped' greed member of the as: Washington correspondent Tom Bethell, a distant rela British imperial set. The son of a leading figure in British tive of Britain's Lord Nicholas Bethell; investigative writer intelligence's Arab Bureau, Ambrose, by his own admission, Daniel Wattenberg; and John Podhoretz, son of C ommen has worked on intimate terms with British MI-6 (foreign tary magazine's Norman Podhoretz. Neo-conservatives on intelligence) in such hotspots as Nicaragua and central Eu I the editorial board include: Norman Podhoretz's wife Midge rope . It would be a safe assumption that Ambrose Evans Decter, who ran the Committee for a Free World; former Pritchard is functioning in the same fashion in his present U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, now at assignment, that of bringing down thk Clinton presidency. the American Enterprise Institute; former State Department We'll have more on him in next week'k EIR . EIR March 25 , 1994 National 63 Melllphis City Councilputs a spotlight on Pike statue, Freelllasons, and theKKK by Anton Chaitkin The City Council of Memphis, Tennessee debated and voted to plead guilty, against his will. During the council meeting, 6-6 on March 8 on a resolution requesting the removal of the the only time the entire audi�nce, black and white, nodded United States National Monument honoring Ku Klux Klan their agreement, was when Rj;:verend Bevel asked for justice founder Albert Pike from its position in Judiciary Square in for Ray. Washington, D.C. In a politically charged atmosphere, the Reverend Bevel amplifiecilthe demand at a well-attended council heard testimony on the Pike question from 18 citi press conference the day after the council meeting, telling zens. Excerpts fromthe discussion are given below. TV and newspaper reporters �at there could be no justice in The resolution had been introduced by Councilman America with Ray languish�g in prison. Bevel compared James Ford, a member of a distinguished African-American the role of FBI Director J. JEdgar Hoover to that of Albert poltical family with great experience in standing up to the Pike: Hoover, he said, wa� in effect the "chief judiciary political establishment. The councilman's brother is Rep. officer of the Ku Klux KI�." Bevel and Anton Chaitkin Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), who successfully defeated a politi pointed out that Hoover's FBI and the Anti-Defamation cally motivated prosecution by the Justice Department under League of B'nai B'rith had Qr. King under surveillance and President George Bush. attempted to destroy him politically, prior to King's assassi In the two days prior to the council meeting, several radio nation. If Ray gets a trial, a very large can of worms will be programs and public meetings by former Democratic vice opened. presidential candidate Rev. James Bevel, Washington Pike The Memphis City Council's political brawl over the campaign organizer Dennis Speed, and historian Anton Pike matter will have an impact on politics well beyond Chaitkin brought the issue of the Pike statue and some explo Memphis. Though the council's tie vote kills the Pike resolu sive matters related to it before a wide audience in the Tennes tion for at least six months, what came out in the meeting see, Mississippi, and Arkansas region around Memphis. may result in the statue coming down before the council can Best known among the speakers opposing the resolution reconsider its vote. A pro-Hike speaker, apparently out of was Shelby Foote, who appeared as the "soft-spoken south sync with the lies told by Pi�e supporters in previous meet ern historian" in Ken Bums's television series on the Civil ings in other cities, praised Tennessee historian Walter flem War on the Public Broadcasting System. In the Memphis City ing as beloved of the Tennessee and southern establishment. Council, however, Foote represented the Treason School of Previous masonic and Contederate speakers have tried to History, putting the satanic mass murderer and Confederate discount or disown Fleming� whose book exposing Pike as general Albert Pike on the same plane as President George the principal founder of the �lan was published in 1905. Washington. When a vote was called �or, the presiding officer took a The spokesman for the Sons of Ccmfederate Veterans voice vote and quickly ann�nced, "The nays have it." But threatened the council with "the consequences" they would Councilman Ford, backed tW by the audience, requested a suffer if they crossed the B'nai B'rith and voted to take down roll-call vote. The council members were forced to come out the Pike memorial statue. on the record. All six black members voted for the resolution. The president of the local chapter of the United Daughters The six (of the seven) white members who were present voted of the Confederacy', who is also the Shelby County treasurer against, and the tie vote killejdthe resolution. for the UDC council and vice president of the Confederate The council's racially divided vote was a front-page story Library and Research Center, denounced the resolution as an in the next morning's Me�phis Commercial Appeal. The attack on her Confederate ancestors. She neglected to note newspaper account quoted dIlly from opponents of the mea that Pike was a Bostonian. sure. Among the documents presented to the city council Speaking for the resolution, Rev. James Bevel also de members was a 1974 historical thesis by a Fisk University manded a fair trial for James Earl Ray after25 years in prison. graduate student, detailing how Albert Pike used his owner Ray was convicted of the Martin Luther King assassination ship of that very newspaper ito run his Klan terrorists and to in Memphis, when the court and his lawyer contrived for him intimidate Memphis police. i National EIR March 25, 1994 64 ev. James Bevel (left ) and Anton Chaitkin speak to the press in Memphis about the r solution befo re the city council calling fo r r�moving the statue of qonfederate general and NKKfounder Albert Pike,from its place of honor in Washington's i diciary Square . Pike in any of his works. And I state again that Mr. Chaitkin Excerpts from statements before has used Mr. Fleming as a source, a historical source linking the Memphis CityCou ncil General Pike to the KKK, and in all of Walter Fleming's works I could findno reference. Except where indicated, the citizens who testifieddid not give William Rolen their affi liations. I represent the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and one of our main concerns is history. One of our most critical con Steve McIntyre cerns is the distortion and the perversion of history for the I just want to come up to say my piece about General sake of political motive. And I think t at that's what we're Pike. I think he's being slandered quite a bit. I don't know dealing with here. I think it's unfair, under any circum that Mr. Anton Chaitkin, who claims to be a historian, he stances, to take one portion of a man' sl life, no matter what produces-if he can produce any actual evidence that Gener that portion is-unless he was an outright criminal of some al Pike was a founder or member of the Ku Klux Klan. In kind, like in the mode of a Jesse James or a Billy the Kid this day and time, just bringing up the name Ku Klux Klan, but to take one portion of any man's life and emphasize that associating a person's name with it, automatically condemns over the sum and the total of his life. An� I think that's what's him. being done here. I In particular, one of the historical references that Mr. And I think that, more inappropriately, it's being used to Chaitkin gave that associated General Pike with the Klan is propel a resolution being put forth by an organization that from Walter L. Fleming. Mr. Fleming was a historian in the has been called by the B'nai B'rith, or one, highly anti early part of the century who documented Reconstruction, Semitic, and holds what I would say were pretty peculiar indeed from a southernpoint of view. However, all historians positions. And I think that if the city co ncil were to approve since have credited Mr. Fleming with being extremely unbi this resolution, that the repercussions, or the consequences, ased in his dealings with Reconstruction, both from the may come back, and that this resolution would be used as southern and northern point of view. W.E.B. Du Bois, who giving credibility to an organization which perhaps you do wrote the definitivehi story of Reconstruction from the black not want to endorse. Americans' point of view, admitted himself that, while Mr. Once again I say our position is a HistI orical one. In our Fleming's treatment of Reconstuction was conservative, it research of Albert Pike what we have found [is] that he was was extremely unbiased. a great friend of the Native American, the American Indian. Basically, having researched all of Mr. Fleming's, or Dr. He fought throughout his life before and after the war, to Fleming's, published work, I can findno reference to General ensure that the treaties for the America Indian were kept by I I EIR March 25, 1994 National 65 the United States government. He was' a noted jurist, a poet. oppression. This isn't the I �OOs, this is the 1900s, we're As some of the councilmen-Councilman Moore knows. He going into the 21 st century. I ' was the editor of the Commercial Appeal at one time. And If the Masons would lik to' have this statue, let them he contributed to this city, in his writings and so forth. He have it. Let them pay for it I don't want my tax money brought the newspaper back, whatever its editorial policy paying for a symbol of oppres ion for my children, my grand may have been, he brought it back to life when there was children, and my great-granl hildren. So let's send a mes very little publishing being done here. sage, that Memphis is about f end its marriage with the Ku Klux Klan. I Shelby Foote I This Albert Pike handout has a paragraph that begins, City Councilman Shep !wilbun "At this time in our nation's history, when we are perhaps hope that I we would go $ead and remove a symbol that more deeply divided as a people than ever ...." There must represents something that in�ames, that infuriates, and that be something wrong there. He's overlooked a four-year inter indeed is an insult to a lot of eoPle. If we don't, think that I lude called the Civil War. And besides, I thought we were what we're doing is perpetu ing racial division not only in less deeply divided than ever. I think, I feel that we are closer this country, in this city, buti round the world. together than we have ever been in our history, especially with relations of blacks and whites. Lee Miller i The subject this evening, though, is Albert Pike. Pike The city council should n t want to associate themselves was a Confederate brigadier general for a period of about one with Lyndon LaRouche or L uis Farrakhan or any of those year. He was a champion of the Indians all of his life. He was others who have a political agenda behind tearing down a masonic leader. He was president of the Tennessee Bar statues. t Association. He got many honors in his life, and was greatly I revered by a great many people . Rev. James Bevel John Keats said once that "there's no man who can't be I'm James Bevel and I've authored and executed the right carved up on his wrong side." You can take almost anybody to vote and the freedom rides, the Mississippi project of in our history, from Andrew Jackson to George Washington '54, the Chicago Open Housjng movement, and most of the on down, and give good reasons for tearing his statue down. actions that took place in the '60s, using Christianprinciples I hope, fervently, that you won't take the misrepresentations to address constitutional violations and problems. in such things as this sheet. [Lyndon] LaRouche sent some And, of course, I was here on April 4 when Dr. King was kind of flack down here named Anton Chaitkin, who came murdered. It was April 4 in 1898 that Congress, based on down masquerading as a historian. I hope you won't pay any false information, passed the resolution [to] put up the Pike attention to him, either. statue, because the information pertaining to this man's life The tearing down of statues I think we ought to leave to was not known. Not in relationship to anybody who has a the Russians. They do it quite well. We don't do that, as a problem with him, I did my own research in books . . . general thing, and I hope you won't do it in this case. printed before the controversy came up depicting the life of Mr. Pike. Greg Todd Now I don't know whether these people [the previous Let's get on with our good relations, and not have people speakers] are just misinformed, or just do not want to tell the stirring up blacks against whites over statues. truth. I have nothing one way or the other against this man. If you go to the library, pull dut books on Pike, not by people Harry Bryant who are against him, they txplicitly point out he burned, There's no evidence that Mr. Pike belonged to the Klan. murdered, and killed black people enforcing the policies of And if he did, it's still the statue that was put up by the the Ku Klux Klan. It has nbthing to do with any political Freemasons. And I'm not representing them, but I spoke to agenda. a very high-ranking Freemason here in Memphis. It's their Now maybe that's fine with you. We need to get that kind statue, they're concerned too. And if Mr. Ford wants to of issue cleared up. Howev¢r, I will come back, because I pursue it, maybe it should come from his paycheck, because want Mr. Ford to produce another resolution, which is to somebody's going to have to pay for it. give James Earl Ray a fair trial, because it's all a part of the same problem, when we don't address justice. You see all of Mr. Abdullah this violence in these children in the streets, comes because There've been 30 city councils that have made a resolu we're always covering up and lying about our past. In our tion to remove the Albert Pike statue. The Black Caucus of religion, in our nation, the way our nation works, is that you Tennessee has made a move to remove the Albert Pike statue. have to confess, repent, correct, forgive, and make a motion The Albert Pike statue is more than a statue. It's a symbol of in the interest of the whole. 66 National EIR March 25, 1994 Anton Chaitkin phis. He came down ·here, and he fotIned the Klan, and the The National Council of Black Mayors, the city of Balti Klan was a carpetbaggerorganizatio �. Now see, my parents more, city of Newark, city of New Orleans, Buffalo, many come from Alabama. So, in order t� defend the dignity of other cities have passed resolutions asking Congress to take the South, I come here to try to say, take the statue down and down this statue. Why? Albert Pike was the principal found stop saying that the South is Klan . And these fools continue er, the chief strategist, of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil to defend that organization. War. He was the chief justice of the Ku Klux Klan. He was I say the statue should come down. I think the Masons in charge of corrupting justice, corrupting judges , corrupting can have it. I'm not for tearing it down. Let the statue be juries, corrupting police and sheriffs , corrupting the entire moved down the street, to 16th Street lin Washington, D.C. I legal profession in the South. That was his job, as he saw it. would be glad to people to So see the statue. But I organize Pike was first exposed as the boss of the Ku Klux Klan don't waitt it in Judiciary Square, wlhich represents law in by southern scholars, who approved of the Ku Klux Klan, our country, and the Klan represents lawlessness. and who defended Pike's role in the Ku Klux Klan. When Pike's defenders recently tried to say that Pike's statue should Councilman James Ford stay up-his own group-they said that the Ku Klux Klan One of the gentlemen who spo�i asked what was my was a good group and they circulated that nationally. motive for doing this. Prior to several months ago, I guess I Now, what has just taken place here today, I assure you, was somewhat ignorant to it. I don 't �oast on being . . . any without any doubt. I will show kind of historian. But I have done a little reading and a little will bring the statue down. you. You heard [about] the principal southernhistorian , Wal research on this particular issue. I'Ill going to make some ter Fleming, the dean of Vanderbilt University, a man who statements, and I'm going to make tllem very authoritative, I don't agree with his principles, but he is credited by pro because from my readings and my dwn opinion about this Confederate people with being objective scholar. Period. . . . this gentleman was definitely o.e of the founders and the You heard that, right? [Audience: "right"] You [Steve McIn maybe ...the Grand Dragon of the KKK ....I have no tyre] read the wrong version of the book, I guess. Because problems with statues of anybody. . . . But I have problems I'm going to give to the city council what's gone all over the when statues are paid [for] by my tax �ollars, to keep it clean. And this particular statue requires a hole lot of world, a photograph of Dr. Fleming's book. It has-[bell 'f guarding. rings, shouting, pandemonium while speaker holds up pa And we've got to pay the tax dollars to guard it ...on a pers). The largest picture in the middle is Albert Pike. And it continuous basis ....I have another problem with this one, has him as "Chief Justice of the Ku Klux Klan." though, too. It stands in Judiciary Square! ... I have a problem with that. [Pike was] someb(xly who probably was Dennis Speed totally against all of those principles ,[of justice] , no matter what the historians say. I'm just dedqcing from what Let me read from Albert Pike. This is from Albert Pike, I have April 16, 1868: and what about this gentl�man. Memphis Daily Appeal. read I know "With negroes for witnesses and jurors, the administra He did some good things. He organized the Freemasons. tion of justice becomes a blasphemous mockery. A Loyal He wrote their rituals. He did a lot of!positive things for the League of negroes can cause any white man to be arrested, Indians. . . . One time there was a ma�sacre when they killed and can prove any charges it chooses to have made against so many U.S. soldiers, and he almost went to jail, and got him. indicted on that. He [was the Indians' attorney], and I'm "The disfranchised people of the South . . . can find sure there was a lot of money remuneration when you're an no protection for property, liberty or life, except in secret attorney.. .. association ....We would unite every white man in the He wrote the ritual for the MasQns, but there is some South, who is opposed to negro suffrage , into one great Order evidence that he even wrote the rituals for the Grand KKK of Southern Brotherhood, with an organization complete, too ....There are many municipaliti�s, large and small, all active, vigorous, in which a few should execute the concen across the nation, that have passed re�lutions for this statue trated will of all," and then, very importantly, "whose very to be removed. . . . Most of these �ouncils are not black existence should be concealed from all but its members." councils; these are white councils, a majority of them. They What Pike was organizing was the Klan. The Klan was a have looked at the history and they ave reached the same ti' conspiracy which was a concealed conspiracy. It was because conclusions. . . . it was treasonous. Just as the charges that were made about This resolution ... [is to have] the President and the the question of Pike are treasonous by the very people that Congress ...[take the necessary action] to have this statue made it here-they they're lying. They know perfectly removed from where it is . . . so it is pot paid for by our tax know well they're lying. dollars. Now if that divides, if that pol.n,zes, let it so polarize And what really hurts me, is that, see, Pike is from Bos and let it so divide, and that's just the way the cookie ton, Pike is a carpetbagger, Pike did not come from Mem- crumbles! EIR March 25, 1994 National 67 Congressional Closeup by William Jones linton budget C sentences as racially biased. the pu�lic and then to put it behind passes House Edwards cited a just-released re us, and that is being refused," whined The House voted 223-175 on March port that showed that blacks and His Leach. 11 to approve the outlines of President panics constituted 33 of 37 defendants Gonzalez has set oversight hear Clinton's budget. It projects about (89%) of the accused murderers ings on the Resolution TrustCorp . on $1 .514 trillion in spending and $1.338 against whom the Justice Department March 24, which Republicans hope trillion in revenue, leaving a deficitof has sought the death penalty under a to use to probe Whitewater. Gonzalez $175 billion. 1988 law , reversing an historical trend said, however, that he would not Republicans offered an alternate at the federal level. None of the defen allow RepUblicans to grill administra plan. Rep. John Kasich (Ohio), the dants has been executed. tion officials who have been subpoe House Budget Committee's ranking Between 1930 and 1963, when the naed �y special counsel Robert B. member, said their plan provided ad federal government last put someone Fiske.: On March 4, Gonzalez also ditional deficit reduction as well as a to death, 85% of executed inmates ruled that Leach would not have ac tax credit of $500 for each child in were white and 15% were black, ac cess t(j) any materials made available households with income below cording to the report. Wade Hender to the iBanking Committee regarding $200,000 a year. The Kasich plan was son, director of the National Associa Madispn Guaranty. voted down 243-165. Earlier, on tion for the Advancement of Colored March 10, the House had also defeat People's Washington office, said the ed an alternative sponsored by Rep. subcommittee staff's report found "a Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.), which racially tainted abuse of discretion by would have balanced the budget with U. S. attorneys." in five years by reducing spending an Int�rstate branch additional $600 billion. Although the banking gets boost Republicans have been using budget Prospects for nationwide banking got balancing for the maximum political a boo$t on March 3 after the House gain, 114 of the 176 House Republi Banking Committee approved by a cans voted against the Solomon Leach continues demand vote of 50-1 a bill to overhaul decades amendment. for Whitewater hearings old regulations that curb the ability of The Congressional Black Caucus On "Face the Nation" on March 13, banksi to operate branches coast to proposed an alternative which would Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) repeated his coast. Lawmakers defeated two have made additional cuts in defense demands for committee hearings to in amen�ments that were backed by con and boosted domestic spending in vestigate the "Whitewater affair," sumelts but opposed by bankers. such areas as health care, aid to the which involves alleged wrongdoing Bank�rs had threatened to kill the bill homeless, crime prevention, housing, by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Leach has if the amendments passed. and education. It was rejected by a been among the most vociferous Initerstate branching would allow vote of 81-326. among RepUblicans trying to breathe consumersto deposit checks or obtain life into the British-choreographed a loart anywhere in the nation where "scandal" in an attempt to undermine their home-town bank has a branch. the power of the presidency. Bankers say the bill would save them Leach has accused House Banking millions of dollars by allowing them Committee Chairman Henry B. Gon to coqsolidate banking units that must Edwards urges counsel zalez (D-Tex.) of a "power move," now operate independently into a sin for death row inmates because he will not allow Republicans gle-b�anch network. Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif.), chair to hold committee hearings on the Tlte bill would permit healthy man of the Civil and Constitutional Clintons' dealings with Madison banks to acquire any bank in any state Rights subcommittee of the House Ju Guaranty. one year after enactment. After 18 diciary Committee, on March 15 "All the minority ever requested months, banks with subsidiaries urged members of the committee to was a hearing to lay before the Ameri arourid the nation could merge them insert into an omnibus crime bill pro can people a small scandal of multi into it unified branch system. State visions to guarantee competent coun thousand-dollar dimensions which legislatures would have three years to sel to death row inmates and to permit precipitated a multimillion-dollar loss adopt laws that would exempt their them to use statistics to challenge their to the taxpayer, and to put it before state from the plan. Banks could es- 68 National EIR March 25, 1994 tablish branches in any state that Reserve is really talking about, I ask Under questioning from Sen. Paul allows such a move. you to consider the scope of regulation Simon (D-Ill.), Jo�n Holum, director The last attempt to pass an inter in which the Federal Reserve is now of the Arms Control and Disarmament state bill failed in 1991, but the lopsid embroiled," he said on March 8. "The Agency, admitted that without chang ed vote in the House committee and Federal Reserve has complete author es in the treaty, the United States passage of a similar bill in the Senate ity to regulate bank holding compa could not deploy defensive weapons Banking Committee with White nies, which are companies owning being developed bt the Ballistic Mis House endorsement last month is like one or more commercial banks. This sile Defense Orgaqization (BMDO). ly to boost its prospects. "This action authority extends to banks with 93% The Clinton administration is . . . should put this bill on the fast of the assets in the private banking mooting such ch�gI es, and discus track toward enactment," said Ed Yin system." sions have been uMer way for some gling of the American Bankers Asso Gonzalez is a key supporter of a time now with Rus$ian counterpartsto ciation. Clinton administration bill which · revise the 1972 treaty. The purpose The committee vote, in which would bring the operation of the Fed of the revision haS been to develop only Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) under the purview of a Federal Bank shorter-range systqms to protect U.S. dissented, came after the defeat oftwo ing Commission, and is the author of troops fighting oiItside the United a measure which would allow greater States. "Concerteq efforts under amendments opposed by bankers. are One would have required banks that congressional oversight over the Fed. way in several pot�ntially hostile na branch across state lines to cash gov "Accountability is the linchpin along tions to enhance th�ir tactical ballistic ernment checks and provide lifeline with majority rule in our system of missile capabilitieS with longer-range checking. The other called on regula government since colonial times," he missiles," Lt. Gen Malcolm O'Neill tors to ensure that banks maintain or said. "Therefore , the Federal Re told the committee, improve their lending records to com serve, having this awesome power, The issue is wh�ther mobile weap munities if they do branch into another can decide in its secret open market ons systems aim�d at intercepting state. committee whether or not a business such missiles in flight can be made Consumer and community groups man will be able to live by having a compatible with !the ABM treaty, vowed to fight the bill on the House line of credit that will not make him a which does not detfuethe line between floor. "As it is now, it's pure special servant. . . . So it becomes para strategic defenses, IWhich areprohibit interest legislation with no basic pro mount that we have the information, ed, and "theater" [defenses, such as and the reason why these decisions are those under devel�pment, which tections for consumers or communi are ties," said Deepak Bhargava of the being made in secret, so that the peo permitted. The Pe�tagon is currently Association of Community Organiza ple, through their elected representa developing "upgr�des" of the land tions for Reform Now, or ACORN. tives and agents, will be able to estab based Patriot and s�a-based Aegis in Consumer groups and small banks lish the justification and the wisdom terceptors to use against short-range worry that large banks will enter com or folly of such policies." missiles, and the theater High Alti munities and drain deposits now in tude Area Defen$e (THAAD) pro community banks. gram to find and stop longer-range weapons in flight. The Clinton admin istration has prop EIR March 25, 1994 National 69 National News New York Post praised the work of Diaz's onstrate with "audience participation," community center in the Bronx, which ad how to r k a condom. ministers to the needs of 5,000 people, Lan olphi' s defense attorney is Neila J. Novak wins $1 million many of them AIDS-stricken. All things be Straub, ho is co-counsel with the Gay and ing equal, wrote the Post, he would be Lesbian dvocates and Defenders . Landol from British financier t hailed as an "angel of mercy ," except that phi, 43, . ounded the "Hot, Sexy and Safer, Michael Novak, a free market economist he committed the crime of voicing strong Inc." pr�uction company in 1987 and has from the American Enterprise Institute, has moral opposition to an event that celebrates given oter 200 shows on campuses since won the $1 million Templeton Foundation homosexuality, on the grounds that it sends then. Sh� also hosted the Boston teenagers' Prize for Progress in Religion. The prize the wrong message to children. show "�paround," and co-owned the Con was begun in 1972 by a British financier Diaz is quoted: "They say the games domani� stores. close to the royal family, Sir John Tem bring millions of dollars to New York and pleton of Nassau, Bahamas. The award we need the money. But should we sell our I states that Novak "is widely considered a moral values for money?" He confronted the pioneer for a new discipline , the theology of Bronx Democratic Delegation which ap economics . " pointed him to the Civilian Review Board J usti e criticizes Novak's brand of voodoo was analyzed and now calls for his resignation: "If what I � in an EIR cover story on Jan. 29, 1993, have done is so bad , where were you when manCJatory minimums. titled "Anti-Christian Economics: The Case the gays invaded St. Patrick's Cathedral, Suprem+ Court Justice Anthony M. Kenne of Michael Novak." interrupted a Mass and threw condoms all dy , tes*ying at a House Appropriations Novak's prize will be awarded in a pri over the place? Where were you when the sUbcom ittee hearing on the Supreme vate ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Gay Pride Parade featured nudity and public Court b dget, criticized the increasing use May 4 by His Royal Highness Prince Philip, sex acts? Where were you when the North of mand� tory minimum sentences for feder Duke of Edinburgh, who is patron of the American Man/Boy Love Association al crim� , saying that the practice was un Templeton Foundation. This will be fol marched in the Gay Pride Parade? The wise an4 often unfair. lowed by a public ceremony on May 5, when Bronx Democratic Delegation has never de In tije past decade, Congress has man Novak will speak on economics at Westmin nounced anything the gays do , no matter dated so/eral mandatory minimum senten ster Abbey . how disgusting, but they have the audacity ces fOr g and gun crimes, and more are The Templeton Foundation is entirely to come after me . " being c nsidered as part of this year's crime run by Sir John Templeton, but its panel of bill. M € y federal judges have complained judges includes many leaders of the Church bitterly or years that mandatory minimum of England and House of Lords . Among terms t� their hands in sentencing deci those this year was Lady Margaret Thatcher, sions. Kjennedy said, "I thinkI am in agree who said of Novak's work in her memoirs 'Sex ed' pornographer ment w�h most judges in the federal system that he "provided the intellectual basis for that mapdatory minimums are an impru my approach to those great questions being sued by students dent, uqwise, and often unjust mechanism brought together in political parlance as 'the The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, for sentfncing." quality of life.' " Virginia has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Kennedy said the mandatory sentencing group of Chelmsford, Massachusetts stu laws kept judges from adjusting defendants' dents, who are demanding $3 .5 million in sentenc�s according to their actual level of damages from school officialswho required culpabi.ity and expressed support for sepa them to participate in a pornographic "sexu rate fe4eral sentencing guidelines which Fracas erupts over al education" performance by so-called would �low judges to base sentences on AIDS educator Suzanne Landolphi, who circumSitances of an individual case. New York 'gay games' conducts seminars nationwide . A fight has erupted between New York's According to the Washington Times of homosC'y. Il',j 'obby and a member of the ci March 8, Landolphi delivered a 90cminute ty 's Ci\ . Re view Board , Rev. Ruben lecture "showing high school students . . . I Diaz, who had earlier denounced plans to how to masturbate , ogle teen-age boys' City Idebate on Pike statue hold "gay games" in the city . Despite mas groins, and lick a condom." According to inte sects Klan rally plans sive pressure, Reverend Diaz has refused to the Times, Landolphi advised the teens not � resign his position on the board, and efforts to take drugs, drink and drive, smoke tobac The In ' anapolis City Council has now set to deprecate him have been deflated by his co, or engage in anal sex. What she did do April 5 the initial hearing date for a reso widely acknowledged social activism in the was simulate masturbation and use lewd and lution t have the statue of Ku Klux Klan city's hardest-hit area, the South Bronx . lascivious language for body parts and ex founde� Albert Pike removed fromJudiciary An article in the March 14 issue of the cretory functions. She also graphically dem- Square in Washington, D.C. The hearings, 70 National EIR March 25, 1994 Brildly ALAN DERSHOWITZ • wrote a psychological warfare piece in the Washington Times on March 14, which will be held by the Rules and Public republics to the West .... It is public threatening that White House staffers Policy Committee, will be taking place at knowledge in Georgia that the security forc may soon begin developing "inde the tail end of rallies in Indianapolis planned es of the Shevardnadze regime are involved pendent relationships with powerful by the Klan, for April 2-5. in the republic 's rampant drug business." journalists" around the Whitewater The Pike statue was erected by the Scot Almond points to the fact that Ames scandal . "They , will begin leaking, tish Rite Freemasons in 190 1 as a tribute to would have been coordinating first with much like 'deep throat' and others the Confederate general who was the Ma KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, and , more did in Watergate." sons' chief judicial officer. Opposition to recently, with new Russian intelligence the statue grew to nationwide proportions head Yevgeny Primakov. "The question THE WHITE HOUSE named during the 1992 presidential campaign of comes to mind: Could one explanation for • Vice Adm. Leithton W. Smith, Jr. Lyndon LaRouche and his running mate America's sorry record in the war on drugs as NATO's military commander for James Bevel, which has secured resolutions be that its key intelligence was going to the the region that includes the former fromcity councils throughout the country. other side?" One further factor, wrote Al Yugoslavia. Sooth was director of In early March, Indiana Deputy State mond: "It seems reasonable to query wheth operations for U.S. forces from Commissioner of Administration Patrick er [Ames's visits to his second wife Maria's 1 1989-91 and w� the Navy's princi Carroll approved the Knights of the Ku Klux native Colombia might have given him ac pal author of the new strategy in deal Klan's application for a permit to rally at the cess to another source of income in return ing with regionaI conflicts closer to Indiana Statehouse on April 2, Holy Satur for information about the CIA's anti-narcot shore, shifting trom a Cold War em day. Cathy Cox-Overby, executive director ics drive." phasis on fightingthe Soviet Navy. of the Indiana Interreligious Commission on Human Equality, told the Indianapolis Star, THE PENTi\GON is preparing "It is rather ironic that on a weekend when • to upgrade U.S:. military ties with the Christian community is celebrating a China according to the March 8 Inter great message of love for all mankind, the national Herald Tribune. Possible Klan is going to want to come with their Michigan votes on ties may include joint peacekeeping message of division." LaRouche activists operations in A$ia or disaster relief are urging various organizations, churches, school fu nding efforts in areas spch as Central Asia, and individuals to attend the April 5 city Michigan voters went to the polls on March the daily's sourCes said. Other steps council hearings on the Pike resolution. 15 to pass a complicated formula for school include a Joint Commission on De funding, after the legislature terminated fense Conversion and regular meet propertytaxes as the means for school fund ings at the ministerial level. ing last July. The new proposal was the re sult of intense fights and negotiations be A'LAROUCHE SLATE' of 28 • tween Gov . Jim Engler and the legislature . candidates filed �n Oregon in March Did Aldrich Ames tip Under the previous plan, districts varied for federal , state; and local elections, widely in their funding , laying out as much as well as for precinct committeeman otTdrug traffickers? as $7,000 per pupil each year to as little in both Democratic and Republican The most damaging aspect of the Aldrich as $3,000. The new plan mandates a fixed parties. The primaries are set for May Ames spy affair may have been his ability amount for each student, $5,000,but fund 17. Although from different parties, to sabotage the "war on drugs," by helping ing, given the economic depression, is even the candidates slilare Democrat Lyn drug networks coming out of the former less stable than when it came primarily from don LaRouche's' program to reverse Communist bloc and Colombia, wrote Lon property taxes. Large shortfalls are ex the economic depression, and point don strategist Mark Almond in the Wall pected. to his longstandihg record, using the Street Journal on March 10. Voters were being asked to pass Propos slogan "LaRouche was right." Almond noted that Ames became head al A, which includes an amendment to the of the CIA's narcotics intelligence depart state constitution, and funds schools primar VIRGINIA'S SENATE • passed ment for the Black Sea countries in 1991 ily through an increase in the state 's sales with large vote margins two bills ap after his service as counterintelligence chief tax from 4% to 6% . Proposal A would allow proving prayer ih public schools on for easternEurope and the Soviet Union. He local districts to levy 6 mils property tax March 8. The bills had already been could have easily played a key role in the without voter approval and 18 mils with vot passed by the House. One allows for assassination in Georgia of the CIA's Fred er approval on certain types of homes and voluntary student-initiated prayer in Woodruff in August 1993, according to Al businesses, to maintain or increase current public schools; tIiIe other calls for the mond. Ames was in Georgia one week be levels of spending . Had Proposal A failed, state Board of E(lucation to develop fore Woodruff was killed, and Woodruff a backup automatically would have gone guidelines on the particulars of such was "allegedly investigating Georgia's role into effect, which is to raise the state income prayer. as a conduit of heroin from other ex-Soviet tax with no sales tax increase . EIR March 25, 1994 National 71 Editorial Sixmil lion new jobs The March Group of Seven job summit in Detroit Federal Reserve System b� nationalized, so that it 14-15 afforded President Clinton the opportunity to raise the serves the needs of the peaple of the United States, very real problem of endemic unemployment. This is rather than the ten largest u. S. banks . The Fed must useful, even though the conclusion that Clinton appears be stripped of its unconstitJ.1tional status as a quasi to have drawn about the nature of the problem is independent corporation. What is needed is a National strangely askew . How , he muses, can it be that unem Bank which, as an instrument of the federal govern ployment remains a problem, now that the U.S. econo ment, issues credit for industrial growth. my is in recovery? What is needed is something like $300 million per The answer is very simple: Far frombeing in recov year for public works projects, such as high-speed rail ery , the U.S. economy is sinking into a deepeningdepr es ways (including the development of a magnetically lev sion. A tubercular person can appear to be radiantly itated rail system) . This mIoney is needed for flood healthy because of a feverishly rosy complexion; so too, control and ensuring water fur drinking and irrigation; the present speculative binge is masking the reality of the this money is needed as f,rell to expand the over disastrous continuing decline in the real economy. stretched energy grid. The lright scale of investment This is not just an American problem; in fact, the could account for 3 million new jobs directly and indi collapse in Europe , particularly in Germany and rectly, as moribund commurj.ities again become viable, France, seems to be more dramatic , since it has been and would also be a shot in the arm to basic industries, more sudden. Whereas in the United States many peo such as steel. ple have reconciled themselves over many years to We must revitalize the space program, which will reemployment from skilled industrial jobs to low-level then act as a science driver for the entire economy. jobs in the service sector, many skilled European work Under these circumstances, another $300 million made ers are just now hitting the bricks. The International available as low-interest credits could be absorbed by Labor Organization estimates that one out of three peo industry for development bf high-technology areas. ple in the work force globally is either outright unem Here one thinks of aerospace, as well as the develop ployed, or making too little to support themselves and ment of next-generation nuclear plants and replacement their dependents. of fo ssil fuels by hydrogen as a fuel. Neither the world economy nor the U.S. economy Not only can all of this be done, but only if it is can afford to subsidize such a rate of unemployment done will there be some w�y of getting people off the over the long haul. This is the line of reasoning that has unemployment rolls and back into productive employ led President Clinton to propose that the U. S. unem ment. Conversely, the present worldwide contraction ployment insurance system be overhauled, in order to in agricultural and industrial jobs is not only creating help reeducate the work force for employment at new endemic unemployment, but also the conditions in jobs. which millions are living in abject poverty, without The question is, just what kind of new jobs does the sufficient food to put on theiir table, without clean wa U.S. President envisage will be created over the next ter, without adequate hou�ing. What is needed is a period? He may be thinking that the so-called informa mission to eradicate oppressive poverty everywhere on tion highway is the road to future prosperity . One is this planet. reminded of the aphorism: The road to hell is paved The task will not be an easy one, but if LaRouche's with good intentions! program to create 6 millioh new jobs is accepted by There is only one way to succeed: Lyndon President Clinton, then the {jJnited States will have truly LaRouche's program for reversing 30 years of "post reassumed the world leadel1ship role which is now re industrial" suicide. This means, first of all , that the quired of it. 72 National EIR March 25, 1994 SEE LAROUCHE ON CAB L E TV All programs are The LaRouche Connection unless otherwise noted. ALASKA COLORADO • MINNEAPOLIS-Ch. 32 • WESTCHESTER-Ch. 18 • ANCHORAGE-ACTV Ch. 40 • DENVE R-DCTV Ch. 57 ElR WorldNews Fridays-6 p.m. Wednesdays-9 p.m. Wed.-1 1 p.m., Fri.-7 p.m. Saturdays-9:30 p.m. OREGON • ST. 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