Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 16, Number 32, August 11, 1989
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A TOTA� W�R STRATEGY AG"O�INST PEKING by Gen. Teng C:Hieh "AII we need do is to understand how to make the most of our strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. Then we can snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. The Chinese Communist Party is extremely weak, just like a paper tiger-one poke and you could pierce it through. All the masses on the mainland are opposed to communism." -Gen. Teng Chieh is amazing little book by one of the top leaders of Taiwan ' s uomintang party, pub lished by Chinese Flag Monthly in December 1988, charted the �ou rse for the Chinese students ' revolution that erupted just a few months later. Preface by Lyndon H. LaRouche , Jr. .. Exclusive U.S. distributor: $5.99 (plus $1.50 postage and Ben Franklin Booksellers handling for first book, $.50 for 27 South King St. each additional book). Virginia Leesburg, VA 22075 residents add 4%% tax. (703) 777-3661 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman From the Editor Managing Editors: John Sigerson and Susan Welsh Editoral Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Alan Salisbury, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Webster Tarpley, William Wertz, Carol White, Christopher White Soience and Technology: Carol White n a statement released Aug. 1, Lyndon LaRouche commented on Special Services: Richard Freeman I Book Editor: Katherine Notley the hostage crisis which is the subject of our lead article on page 40: Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman "At the last record, we have one U.S. lieutenant Marine colonel Circulation Manager: Joseph Jennings apparently killed and others facing death among the hostages held INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Africa: Mary Lalevee by the terroristHezbollah, tied to Iran and to Syria's President Assad. Agriculture: Marcia Merry Now people are criticizing Israel on this, and Israel could be criti Asia: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, cized; however, the American public so far, from what I have seen Paul Goldstein in the news, is not getting the full background story. And the back Economics: Christopher White European Economics: William Engdahl, ground story is the key to the story . Laurent Murawiec "Number one, the United States policy in dealing with terrorist Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus hostages taken by Assad and his Iranian friends in the Middle East, Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Middle East: Thierry Lalevee since, to my knowledge, 1982, or at least 1983, has been a consistent Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: failure. It is time to recognize that soft dealing with Assad and the Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George Special Projects: Mark Burdman Iranians is a failure. United States: Kathleen Klenetsky "Two, on that basis, there is only one way that we can save those INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: hostages, or could save those hostages. Now, the chances are that if Bangkok: Pakdee and Sophie Tanapura Bogota: Javier Almario we do nothing, if we sit around and dicker and negotiate, the chances Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel are between 90 and 95%, that they are dead, assuredly dead. There Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger is a very slight margin of chance that the enemy, i. e., Syria's Assad Lima: Sara Madueiio and the Iranians, would give up the hostages alive; or they might Mexico City: Hugo L6pez Ochoa, Josejina Menendez give one or two up as a token. But most of them are assuredly dead. Milan: Marco Fanini There is probably a 10-20% chance that we might save the lives of New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre those hostages and free them in another way. That other way is the Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios only way to go, And we'd better be good at it, because if we fail, Rome: Leonardo Servadio, Stefania Sacchi Stockholm: Michael Ericson they're dead. Washington, D.C.: William Jones "The other problem, third, on background, is that there are deal Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund ings going on among the United States, Moscow, Beijing, and Iran, EIRIExecutive Intelligence Review (ISSN 0273...(j314) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week as well as Assad, and that these are destabilizing the world. Nobody of July and last week ofDecember by New Solidarity are International Press Service P.O. Box 65178, Washington, is talking about them; I don't know who they keeping it a secret DC 20035 (202) 457-8840 from-the Soviets know, the Chinese Communists know, the Ira European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, nians know, the Syrians know. Who doesn't know? Only the Amer Dotzheimerstrasse 166,0-6200 Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany ican people. And a few people like that. Tel: (06121) 8840. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig "I think the Americans ought to find out what this story is really In Denmark: EIR, Rosenvaengets Aile 20, 2100 Copenhagen OE, Tel. (01) 42-15-00 about," LaRouche added. In Mexico: EIR, Francisco Draz Covarrubias 54 A-3 In this issue, besides the articles featured on the cover, you will Colonia San Rafael, Mexico OF. Tel: 705-1295. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, learn a great deal from the articles exposing Satanism in contempo Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 208-7821. rary Establishment culture, following the science books in the Book Copyright © 1987 New Solidarity International Press Service. Reviews. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$IO Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. • TIillContents Interviews Book Reviews Economics 43 Aleksandr Zinoviev 22 A terrific book, but 4 Moscow uses economy to A dissident Russian mathematician where's the science? hasten Polish showdown expelled from the U ..S.S.R. Plantwatching: How Plants The huge price increases describes the emergence of a new Remember, Tell Time, Form announced by the Polish regime on Stalinist "super apparat." Relationships, and More, by Aug. 1 are intended to create a Malcolm Wilkins. situation so dire, that the 52 Gen. T'eng Chieh opposition Solidamosc is forced to The elder statesman of the 24 New biography of Louis join with the Communists in Kuomintang party in the Republic Agassiz crushing the popular rebellion. of China explains how the Louis Agassiz: A Life In Science, overseas Chinese community can by Edward Lurie. 6 Soviet Union's 'reformed' weld itself into a powerful force to economy is racked by help overthrow the Communist 25 Why Baudelaire lied about acute collapse regime of Deng Xiaoping. Part IV. Poe and drugs The Soviet leadership's perestroika military mobilization has done just Contes, Essais, Poemes, by Edgar what EIR predicted it would do to Allan Poe, translated into French the inflexible and technology with an introduction by Claude Departments hostile Soviet economy. Rachel Richard. Douglas reports. 16 Report from Rome 26 Profiling New York the Return of the vampire: Guido 9 Citibank buries Brady British way Carli. debt plan, while debt deal The Bonfire of the Vanities, by buries Mexico 18 Report from Rio Tom Wolfe. You lend, we pay! 11 Schiller Institute brief 27 Felix Warburg's magic seeks criminal probe of and the Kirkland case 57 Mrica Report Greens in Italy Georges Balanchine, Ballet Revolt in Somalia. Master, by Richard Buckle. 13 The Green referendum 58 Panama Report against pesticides 29 Ingmar Bergman: satanist u.S. invasion seen imminent. and Nazi Italian environmentalists have linked up with the Communists to The Magic Lantern, by Ingmar 59 Dateline Mexico gather 800,000 signatures. Bergman, translated from Swedish Discontent with Salinas grows. by Joan Tate. 15 Currency rates 66 Satanwatch 30 An odyssey through 17 Agriculture Wicca's underground railroad totalitarian China exposed. Yeutter 'discovers' grain shortage. Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng. 72 Editorial 19 Medicine The FBI: America's KGB. Good and bad cholesterol? 20 Business Briefs Volume 16 Number 32, August 11, 1989 Feature International National 40 Will U.S. response to 62 Commodity markets latest hostage crisis be worse police-state target than Irangate? Back in January, Lyndon Once again, a U.S. administration LaRouche warned that if he were is misplacing its faith in Iranian sent to jail at the behest of the "moderates" and Syrian "realists." Anglo-American financial elite, The Bush team sincerely believes those circles would not stop there, it can use the hostage crisis to but would eliminate any further U.S. "global independent U.S. institutions The rise of totalitarian rule in the United States: Stri kers from the United Mine Workers in southwestern condominium" deals with the standing in their way. The Virginia, May 1989. In an effort to break their strike Soviet Union. It is those deals, Chicago Mercantile Exchange is against the Pittston Coal Company, police chained which are responsible for driving now getting the "LaRouche them to a chain-link fence during an electrical storm. the Israelis into acts of treatment," and independent desperation. savings and loan bankers are next 32 What has gone wrong with on the hit-list. the Supreme Court? 42 Kremlin creates a safety The members of the Supreme valve 64 No summer hiatus in Court have abandoned the criteria Boris Yeltsin's newly founded Irangate scandal of natural law as set forth by the Interregional Group may not Bruce Rappaport, or John Framers of the Constitution, and succeed in channeling the ferment. Poindexter, or Adnan Khashoggi have drifted into the pernicious could easily point out all the radical nominalism of Oliver 44 Menem pardons skeletons in the Bush Wendell Holmes, thereby laying nationalist leaders, but administration's closet.