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economic • DO YOU REMEMBER when Boris Yeltsin aimed in April, for high-level talks and seminars at the invitation of the Russian Army's tanks at the Parliament and started the Universal Ecological Academy, of which he is a mem shooting? ber. His briefing, on return from Russia, became the first chapter of this Special Report, and the warm reception he • DO YOU REMEMBERlast December's vote for got shows that there is still time to reverse the criminality Zhirinovsky? and descent into chaos in Russia, if we act now. Were you shocked? AND ACf WE MUST, for our own sake as well as Russia's. As laRouche himself said: "Although we are While you were shocked, EIR was acting. Informed by focused upon the subject of Russia, only charlatans could nearly two decades of analysis of the Soviet Union by such speak of the future of Russia without taking into account leading thinkers as American economist Lyndon laRouche explicitly the factors which are of immediately decisive and Germany's Gen. Paul-Albert Scherer, EIR's European importance for each and all nations of this planet. Indeed, staff put together this report to warn western policymakers the present crisis within Russia (as of all of eastern Europe) that the countdown was on to what could be the century's is a relatively mild form of the catastrophe which is soon to biggest strategic disaster. strike down every nation upon this planet. The way we Then Lyndon laRouche, released from confinement as a treat the problems of Russia today is the mirror of the political prisoner in January 1994, traveled to Moscow with early- to medium-term future of China, of Japan, of North his wife, Schiller Institute Chairman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, America, and of western Europe." 142 pages, $250 EIR 94-004 Mail to: ________ __ o Please send the EIR Special Report, "Russia's Name ____________ ��__ __________________ ________ future: dictatdrship, chaos, or Address __________________________ ________ ________ ______ ___ ' reconstruction?" to the address shown. City _________________ State____ Zip___ Phone ( ___ ) ___________ Enclosed is $250.00 for each re port postpaid. Charge my 0 Mastercard 0 Visa No. ____________ o Please send a full listing of publications Exp. Date. Signature ________ ______ _______ available from EIR News Service, including other Special Reports. Make check or money order payable to: EIR News Service P.o. Box 17390 Washington, D.C. 20041-0390 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward From the Associate Editor Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White Senior Editor: Nora Hamerman he arrests of the drug-traffickersthat are the s bject of this week's Associate Editor: Susan Welsh T � Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Feature are a victory for EIR and the political m�vement of Lyndon Ronald Kokinda LaRouche, which kicked off a campaign for a war on drugs with the Carol White Science and Technology: Dope, Inc. Special Projects: Mark Burdman publication of the best-selling book in � 978. In his preface Book Editor: Katherine Notley to the second edition, dated April 10, 1986, Lyndon LaRouche laid Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman out the goals of the campaign; these speak directly to the political Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol situation today, and what the next steps by the Clinton administration INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: ' Agriculture: Marcia Merry ��be: Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos "Americans, and others, are increasingly fearful of international Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein terrorism. Few, unfortunately, understand that terrorism is so tightly Economics: Christopher White European Economics: William Engdahl integrated with the international drug-traffic that the two can not lbero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small be separated from one another. If we destroy the narcotics traffic, Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: terrorism's essential logistical base is destroyed. iHowever, destroy Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George ing the crops and shooting down the planes carrying the drugs is Kathleen Klenetsky United States: not enough. Unless the hundreds of billions of dollars of the drug INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura traffickers are confiscated, and the gUilty bankers and financial bro Bogota: Jose Restrepo kers are sent to prison, the United States and Western Europe are Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Teran helpless against terrorism. As long as such cre*ors of the money Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen laundering system as Donald T. Regan areallowed to exert influence Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueno over the policies of our own and allied governments, there is no Mexico City: Hugo Lopez Ochoa serious 'War On Drugs,' nor is there any serious action against Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra international terrorism." Paris: Christine Bierre With the arrests of Michael Abbell, Robert Vesco, and Gilberto Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson Rodriguez Orejuela, that program has taken a big step forward. Now, Washington, D.C.: William Jones the drug bankers must be jailed, and the "Bush leaguers" must be Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund cleaned out from the U.S. Department of Justice. Michael Abbell EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) served at the DOJ under Mark Richard, leaving in 1984 to become except for the second week qfJuly, and the last week of December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania an agent of the Cali Cartel. 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IIillContents Departments Strategic Studies Economics 55 Australia Dossier 58 LaRouche presents 4 Clinton puts financial Expose of royals draws blood. economic recovery reform on international program in Moscow agenda 72 Editorial Russia and the United States "have The "reforms" proposed in the final The rights of men, women, and a historic, common interest to communique of the Halifax summit children. fulfill" in putting the central of the Group of Seven will do banking system into bankruptcy and nothing to solve the crisis; but launching a new monetary system, behindthe scenes were battles over Lyndon H. LaRouche said on June the real issues of economic 8 in an address to the Institute of development. Economics of the Russian Academy Photo and graphic credits: Cover: of Sciences in Moscow. 6 Mexican private banking AFP. Page 11, EIRNS/John system is melting down Sigerson. Page 19, Courtesy of Of the 18 private banks still in Celerino Castillo. Page 22, El existence, six have resorted to the Espectador. Pages 30, 35, EIRNS/ federal bailout entity Procapte. Stuart Lewis. Page 34, EIRNS/Jon Pearl. Page 35, EIRNS. Page 42, 7 Currency Rates Courtesy Hongkong Tourist Association. Pages 59,63, EIRNS/ Rachel Douglas. 8 Japan's banking crisis could trigger global financial collapse Disclosure of huge bad loans lifts the veil off a crisis that is now five years old. 10 The Third World's biological holocaust can be stopped New research shows that easily cured nutritional deficiencies could be a major factor in countries afflicted by deadly outbreaks like that of the Ebola virus. 12 'Shock therapy' yields food crisis in CIS 14 Armenia's President deludes his countrymen "Minimum wage" is purely symbolic. 16 Business Briefs Volume22, Number26, June23, 1995 Feature International National 36 Shut down U.N. 's Beijing 66 Whitewater Starr chamber Conference on Women may be running out of Documentation: Excerpts from the steam Draft Platform for Action of It may not be accidental that at the Proposals for Consideration in the same time that the Clinton Preparation of a Draft Declaration, administration is making some and the Draft Platform for Action dramatic moves against drug Commission on the Status of trafficking and money-laundering Women at its 39th session. networks-moves which implicitly Cali drug cartel kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela hit circles closely linked to George (second from left) after his arrest in Cali, Colombia. 39 Bosnians gather forces for Bush's secret government apparatus The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration main tains that the Cali Cartel is responsible for supplying an offensiveto liberate the which came to prominence in the 80% of the cocaine sold in the United States. nation 1980s-the attacks on President To deal with the Bosnian war, Clinton himself seem to be 18 Three drug busts prove Lyndon LaRouche urges the United escalating.