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Interviews Departments Economics

SO Elena de Ramirez 12 Agriculture 4 Republicans gamble on The wife of Colombia's Mexico's "Milk Valley" is being 'suckers' rally' of Wall assassinated hero police official destroyed. Street tells why extradition to the U.S. is They hope that sufficient use of crucial to the war on narco­ 52 Mother Russia the Federal Reserve printing terrorism. A Russian princess in the presses and sufficient intervention U.S.S.R. in support of the dollar by overseas authorities will give a 53 Northern Flank Republican presidential candidate time to get elected. Book Reviews The Swedish-Angolan hostage crisis. 60 Controversies are revived 6 Currency Rates in reprint of primary 54 Middle East Report sources on Beethoven 7 Western Europe's Iran prepares an offensive. David Goldman looks at economy being wrecked by Beethoven Remembered: The the dollar's fall 55 Andean Report Biographical Notes of Franz James Baker's circle seems to Peru's terrorists assassinate priest. Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries. think that they can all at once tum Europe and Japan into importers, 72 Editorial instead of exporters; like anything What Shultz hopes will emerge else they do, it means chaos . Music from INF. 9 Hyperinflation looms in 58 Norbert Brainin brings Ibero-America classical beauty to Boston concert AIDS Update 10 Mexico is ruled by rumors Norbert Brainin, the famed violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, 16 Houston hospital closes 13 The United Nations dedicated the performance to down malthusians are succeeding Lyndon LaRouche. He and pianist in depopulation Giinter Ludwig left the audience 69 Senate beefs up AIDS The Club of Life says, "We told ennobled. testing in V A hospitals you so."

70 New indictments over 16 Business Briefs Science & Technology AIDS initiative?

18 Laser applications promise to revolutionize industry Part II of Charles B. Stevens's review of the capabilities of lasers to transform the civilian economy.

24 Zenith Star: an SDI demonstration Volume 14 Number 50, December 18, 1987

Feature International National

34 Strategic impact of INF: 62 How the INF treaty will be The debate has been stopped absurd The factor of time, and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. observes developments in the presidential that no one seems to have taken election carrq,aign, make the account of the new order of battle treaty's ratification anything but which Soviet forces intend to have certain. in place by about 1991-92.

Foreground: President Reagan and General Secretary 64 Is the city of Chicago Gorbachov, after the signing of the INF treaty. Rear: 38 German military is being held hostage to Britain's Neville Chamberlain returns to London in ' disgusted with INF Qaddafi.? 1938, after signing the Munich Pact with Hitler, pro­ claiming "peace in our time." 40 Former Gaullist minister: 66 Elephants and Donkeys INF accord 'terrifying,' 26 The tragic state of U.S.A. Bush courts Gorbachov, wins 'distant echo of Munich' counterintelligence Pravda backing. Documentation: Other voices of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. looks at opposition to the "New Munich" 67 Eye on Washington why U.S. intelligence services fail from around the world. to detect channels of Soviet EIR exclusive with Weinberger. influence reaching even into the White House. 43 Korea braces for national 68 Congressional Closeup election If Kim Dae Jung loses, his 32 Lyndon H. LaRouche: a 70 National News followers revolt; if he wins, the clearly uncomfortable army does. presidential candidate By Brig. Gen. Friedrich Th. 45 Drive to overturn Guenther (Switzerland-ret.). sovereignty in Haiti

46 Runcie adversary found dead in U.K.

48 Soviet terror imperils ASEAN summit

49 A step forward in Colombia: naming the enemy as narco-terrorism

56 International Intelligence �IIillEconomics

Republicans gambl� on 'suckers' rally' ofwan Street

by David Goldman

Republican strategists are gambling their last nickel of polit­ The problem lies in the rate at which reality intervenes ical capital on what some frankly call a "suckers' rally�' on into these wishful games. As the Federal Reserve prints mon­ Wall Street starting after the New Year, lasting long enough ey to maintain the apparent rate of consumer sales, imports to postpone the big economic reckoning until late in 1988. continue to rise-since there is little domestic production They hope that sufficient use of the Federal Reserve printing capacity to provide these sales-and are paid with cheaper presses, with domestic money-supply growth rates reaching dollars. Thus the $212 billion annual trade deficit clocked 15-25% by spring, and sufficient intervention in support of during October, an all-timeJ record , is no surprise , but the the dollar by overseas monetary authorities, will give a Re­ inevitable result of the Fedtlral Reserve's deliberate policy. publican presidential candidate time to get elected before the And these shocks of reality spur America's overseas creditors full effects of economic depression become obvious. to take their losses early, while there is still something left to The $17 .63 billion October trade deficit, reflectinghigher recover. imports in all categories, and the accompanying collapse of The Reagan administration's economic team is operating the dollar and stock prices on Dec. 10, should have dispelled on the intellectual and moral plane of a 16-year-old high the illusion of the coming "suckers' rally." The see-saw of school football team captain, whose coach has successfully the Dow Jones average, accompanied by a general decline of taught him how to cheat. A combination of falling oil prices equity values in general , since the Oct. 19 "Black Monday" and European-Japanese reflation will postpone the "second crash, reflects a massive change in ownership of U .S. stocks, wave" crash after Black Monday long enough for the "Re­ to the detriment of the near-future solvency of major Ameri­ publican team" to win the game . The strategy is not merely can financial institutions. It is a virtual repeat of late 1929 venal, but stupid. The first week of December exhausted the and early 1930. credibility of the European "reflation" ploy , at the same time American commercial bank trust departments and pen­ that the supposed center-stage effort to restore credibility­ sion funds , in consultation with the White House, rally the the congressional budget-deficit negotiations-fell apart. market at every opportunity, while overseas investors, who have lost an additional 1 0% of their stake through the dollar's The falling dollar fall since Oct. 19, sell into the rally. Bleeding and in some The apparent motive for the temporary runup of stock cases broken, Wall Street brokerage firms are betting the last prices between Dec. 7 and Dec . 9-the summit euphoria in of their capital, as in 1929, in an effort to prop up the market Washington-argues, on the contrary , for a general with­ for a few more months, imitating precisely the blunders of drawal of overseas support for the dollar and U. S. financial their grandfathers of 1930. markets. Since the United States closed the gold window in I

4 Economics EIR December 18 , 1987 1971 , the Europeans have paid indirectly, but massively, for New York Mercantile Exchange, in contrast to a sharp fall America's strategic protection, by accepting low-grade 10Us on the European spot market, where tilekey OPEC crude fell from the United States in virtually unlimited amounts, i.e., to $16.15 a barrel. dollars unbacked by gold. Now that the administration has "It is a difficult situation, especially if some members withdrawn the nuclear umbrella, a growing minority of Eu­ insist on irrationalbehavior ," said a senior Arab official who ropean financial interests arguesfor circlingthe wagons around asked not to be identified. Kuwait's oil minister, Sheik Ali the European Monetary System, and letting the dollar find its Khalifa al-Sabah, warnedin a recent published interview that own floor. he does not exclude the possibility of a collapse similar to the It appears quite possible that the Saudis, under strong one that saw prices fall to $7 a barrel last year. American pressure, may refuse to make the concessions re­ Analysts will no doubt revive the old nonsense about the quired to avert another free-fall of oil prices, on the scale of benefits of cheaper oil. Lower oil prices will benefitnothing the summer of 1986. However, whatever "psychological" but battered consumer spending, lower now than it was at the value that may have for the markets, will be overrriden by same time in 1986, even before taking inflation into account. the mayhem it will cause in the crippled financial sector of But any further decline in oil prices would smash the props the southwestern United States, not to mention Third World which have prevented a wholesale breakdown of Texas and oil producers. Louisiana banking. The 72-point fall in the Dow Jones average Dec. 4 is a The next victim, bank analysts predict, will be the First case in point. It occurred when several large professional Republic Bank of Dallas, whose fourth-quarter losses are portfolio managers gave the "sell" order for huge blocks of estimated at $325-350 million, with total 1987 losses at $659 stocks, the moment that European interest rate cuts were million. It will join the other six major Texas bank holding announced. "They took the firstgood news as signal to dump companies in suspending dividend payments . About 12.4 % remaining stocks," said one source. "It is a sign of the real of its assets, around $3.13 billion, are non-performing. About underlying mood. It's incredibly bearish. The market insi­ 40% of its loan portfolio is in Texas real estate. ders are trying the tactic of 'rally, sell ...rally again, sell,' The carnage continues among smaller banks. On Dec. 4, in order to cut their losses." the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpse t a new one-day record European governments' too-little, too-late response to in bank closures, by closing nine bll-nks and bailing out a American pressure for looser money policies prompted Eu­ tenth. This brings the total of banks closed so far this year to ropean portfolio managers to take the opportunity to sell off. 173. Four of the banks were in Nebraska, two in Lousiana, Banking authorities in London warn that the "endgame" of one in Oklahoma, one in Texas, one in Kentucky, and one in the European reflation gambit has arrived; most believe that Iowa. by March at the latest, the Fed will have to sharply raise The banking system as a whole,! including the savings interest rates, or face a drastic collapse of the dollar. Federal and loans, appears to have tipped into overall negative net Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's "only option at present profitability, despite the postponemeQt of $25 billion of Bra­ is to devalue the dollar abroad and to depreciate the internal zilian loan-loss writedowns, among 0ther bad paper lefton debt by printing liquidity like mad, to keep the credit system bankers' books. Overall numbers suggest that the snowball from breaking down given his interest in avoiding recession has just begun to roll. During the thi.d quarter, savings and until 1989," one banker warned. "This is one reason Reagan loans lost $1.6 billion. About 39 failing S&Ls in Texas ac­ so desperately wants to play the arms game with the Russians, counted for $1.3 billion of the loss. TheS& L industry's loss though he can't admit it is to open the way to huge budget exceeds $3 billion for the first nine months of the year; de­ cuts in defense. " pending on fourth-quarter results, the industry's yearly loss could rival the record $4.6 billion loss of 1981. Oil prices to collapse? Meanwhile, the commercial banks' $5.8 billion third­ Leading Rotterdam oil sources give the Vienna OPEC quarter profit looked pale against the second quarter's $10 talks which began Dec. 10 "only slightly better than a 50% billion loss. Federal regulators are frightened. "Clearly the chance to hold the line on prices." If no accord to cut the economy in the Southwest is not improving," Federal De­ present excess output above the 16.6 million barrel/day quota posit Insurance Corporation chairman L. William Seidman results, "within a week, the world oil price could collapse said recently. "Right now we do not �e any recovery in the again as it did in 1986, with no bottom in sight." figures." To eliminate the 2 million barrel/day overhang on the The massive third-quarterwrite-offs for Third World debt world market, Saudi Arabia would have to accept a much problemsdo not reflectSouthwestern loan losses, which will greater subsidy for Iraq 's position in the Gulf War; the excess hit fourth-quarterbank earnings; Seid,nan estimates that the derives in large part fromforced Iraqi sales above its quota, nation's federally insured banks will ,arn $4 billion in 1987 due to the war's financingrequirement s. Mixed reports from on assets of $3 trillion, a return on assets of 0.02%. That the Dec. 10 meeting led to a sharp rise in oil prices on the would be the industry's lowest return on assets since 1934.

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 5 Including the savings and loan numbers , the overall return on combined banking operations will actually be negative. Currency Rates Much worse results-chain-reaction runs against weaker institutions, were averted by the sharp reduction in interest The dollar in yen rates of the past several months. As noted, the leeway for New York lale afternoon fixing such a reduction, financed by the corresponding declines in European interest rates and the devaluation of the dollar, 170 reached the zero-point on Dec. 4. The best guess is that chain­ reaction runs will start in earnestduring 1988' s second quart­ 160 er. The Wall Street minority which wants the Federal Re­ ISO serve to tighten money now, and take the losses up front, 140 made itself ridiculous the week of Dec. 7, when the Wall � -...... """""-- Street Journal proclaimed in a front-page article that the -r --� 130 Federal Reserve had decided to tighten credit to support the 10/20 10/27 1113 11110 11/17 11124 1211 I2IK dollar. By Dec. 9, the Federal Reserve had erased the small increase in interest rates which derived from such specula­ The dollar in deutschemarks New York lale afternoon fixing tion. In fact, the Greenspan Fed has no choice in the matter. It must let the dollar fall, leaving it to European monetary 2.00 authorities to buy as many unwanted dollars as they might, or trigger massive problems in the domestic financialsyst em. 1.90

What happened to the budget summit? 1.80 � Newspaper editorialists around the world argued that the '" market's attention afterOct. 19 would center on efforts to cut 1.70 "-� - the U.S. budget deficit. Contrary to the then-universal ac­ "-...V '" ceptance of such nonsense, the budgetary issue has disap­ 1.60 V peared from public view after weeks of boring and useless 10/20 10127 1113 11110 11117 11124 1211 121M negotiations between the administration and Congress, and the market chose to ignore the issue entirely. Cooler heads The British pound in dollars New York lal. aft.r,loon fixin� began warning in mid-November that drastic deflationary measures in the United States would not merely guarantee a / 1.80 I /' new world depression, but would be taken at the immediate � ".- expense of such budget items as the U.S. troop presence in 1.70 ,....".,/" WesternEuro pe. That has left the post-Black Monday financial system 1.60 � I I with no policy perspective whatever for a remedy of the I factors which produced theworld 's worst stock-market crash. I.SO All that remains is what Prof. Robert Mundell of Columbia 1.40 University likes to call the suicide argument: As in the case 10/20 10127 11/3 11/10 11117 11124 12/1 121M of suicide, there is always a good reason for postponing a financialcra sh. The dollar in Swiss francs The private portfolio managers of Western Europe have s ...· York lal. aft.rnoon fixin!! no reason to continue to hold American corporate or govern­ ment paper, except to sell off their holdings in an orderly 1.70 fashion. To some extent, their own central banks are, in effect, buying this paper from them, by purchasing dollars 1.60 no one else wants on the markets, and reinvesting them in I.SO U. S. Treasurysecuritie s. They will not oppose the efforts of - the U.S. administration to float the market for a few more 40 '- 1. � ..... months; on the contrary , it is in their interest to sell at the ,,- "'" ",... maximum price. Neither will they forget Nathan Roth­ 1.30 '--: schild's legendary advice: "I became rich because I always 10/20 10/27 11/3 1'1/10 11117 11124 12/1 121M sold too soon."

6 Economics EIR December 18, 1987 Western Europe's economy being wrecked by the dollar's fall

by William Engdahl

A group of West German bankers gathered in Frankfurt in tain exportmarkets in the face of the catastrophic dollar fall. early December to hear Washington economist C. Fred It would be "economic suicide" to impose the Bergsten Bergsten outline a series of proposals for stabilizing the cur­ formula on this fragile export-oriented economy, a spokes­ rent world financial markets. man for the Munich IFO economic institute stated. But the Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Eco­ effect of the continuing revaluation of the deutschemark nomics and policy spokesman for the Trilateral Commission against the dollar since mid- 1985 is threatening to force just group, told the audience that the solution was simple. "My such economic euthanasia. proposal is that the U. S. gear its· manufactures exports to Washington is a simple-minded place these days, and achieve a net surplus of at least $200 billion per year for the Bergsten's associates don't vary from the norm. He reasons next several years." How would he do this? "Well, this means that Germany must stop exporting and begin importing U. S. that trade surplus countries must reduce their share of the goods. If Bonn won't do it willingly, well, Washington will world market. Japan, for example, must cut $70-80 billion force it to, by making German exports so expensive they will of its exports. South Korea and Taiwan must reduce their findno buyers. trade surpluses, along with West Germany, to zero ." The It is an extremely dangerous strategy , because some 43% alternative, Bergsten suggested, with a Jimmy Carter grin, of all German manufacture is tied to the export market. Eu­ was global depression. rope's largest auto maker , Germany exports almost 60%. For The largest economy in Western Europe is hard-hit by steel, exports are only slightly lower. Machine tools and the collapse in exports , primarily the result of the Washington precision engineering products are above 50% for export. Put policy of "offensive devaluation" of the dollar. Dr. Bergsten, simply, if thisex port sector is killed, Germany plunges France, assistant secretary for international monetary affairs under Italy, in fact all of WesternEurope , into depression. Carter, was delivering what passes for current Washington "consensus" on economic strategy. Dying with a DM 1.20 dollar Bergsten refused an answer when one skeptical member Current Washington strategy, underscored by George of the elite Frankfurt audience questioned whether complex Bush adviser Martin Feldstein, another Trilateral colleague economic relations could be exchanged "like so many bricks, of Bergsten, is that the dollar must plunge to the level of DM the brick of the West German trade surplus being added to 1.20. Many Americancitizens are unawareof what this means. the lack of bricks in the U.S. trade balance." That question In 1985, the German mark on internationalexchange markets goes to the heart of Bergsten's economic strategy. stood at a level of 3.40. Since then, a combination of sharp changes in Federal Reserve monetary policy and Treasury West German locomotive? Secretary Baker's "talking the dollar down" has steadily West Germany is the world's largest export economy in plunged the U.S. currency to its all-time postwar low of DM dollar terms. It presently exceeds the United States and even 1.63-even lower than the lowest point of the Carter years, Japan. Measured in exports per capita, Germany is four times when Bergsten was in office. That is a 52% plunge, or, more export-intensive than was the United States in 1986. viewed from the standpoint of German export competitive­ Most of this export trade, some 67%, is with other members ness, a 52% inflation in the price of German goods. of the 12-nation European Community, particularly France According to a number of German industry spokesmen and Great Britain. Some 10% of all German exports in 1986 surveyed by EIR , German industry has tried to hold on to went to the United States. Since 1947, the structure of Ger­ market share in exports by sharply cuttingexport profitmar­ many's economy has been built around capital goods indus­ gins. "Large German export companies like Mercedes-Benz trial performance. Its steel, machine tools, chemicals, and or Siemens have prediscounted losses on exports under a transportation vehicles are the world standard, the main ar­ falling dollar,reasoning that if they hold on to markets, they gument German industry has used in the last months to main- can recover somewhat when the dollar is revalued in the next

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 7 'boom' cycle of world trade," a spokesman for a large Mun­ of 14% steel imports flooding our domestic markets from ich bank said. "But DM 1.60 or even 1.70 is well below Taiwan, Brazil, and other countries. We simply cannot com­ where they can expect to catch up in the next boom. A DM pete with the cheap dollar." Production for 1987 will drop an below 1.60 would mean a crash for our economy." On Dec. estimated 12% below the 1985 levels to return to the depres­ 11, the mark hit 1.63. sion levels of 1982. The collapsing dollar is causing near panic in German The return to depression in German steel has produced industry. A spokesman for the machine tool sector recently emergency conditions, but the government in Bonn is refus­ emphasized, "For the export trade of German industry, the ing to grant aid to preserve jobs and steel companies facing dollar zone directly affects 16% of our exports. In addition, desperate losses. The result, barring last minute action, will it affects 10% of our imports, which are priced in dollars, be huge layoffs in the industry. Krupp, Thyssen, and Man­ and compete with domestic manufactures." nesmann, the three giants of European steel, announced plans Since the dollar peak in early 1985, the level of new in early December to lay'off 38,500 workers over the next orders to the German engineering and machinery sector, the three years. Trade unions have taken to the streets in angry heart of the capital goods economy, has plunged 25% in price protest. Some of the world's'most modem production capac­ terms. Export sales led the collapse. According to official ities are threatened with closure. After having decimated its calculations by the German machinery association, export labor force from 232,000 in 1974 down to 143,000 in 1986, sales plunged 7% after inflation from January through Octo­ the industry now approachejs the 100,000 level. Entire re­ ber-prior to the latest wave of dollar collapse. gions of the Ruhr as well as Saar Basin are becoming as Hardest hit are new orders for machine tools, of which depressed as Pittsburgh. Germany has been the world's largest exporter since the early 1980s, when dollar gyrations and high interest rates de­ The public make-work fraud stroyed the United States as a factor in advanced machine Since 1986, Washington has demanded that Germany tools. Thus, a sector of the German economy Bergsten's "reflate" its economy by low�ring interest rates to "stimulate" strategy is destroying is a vital component of Western indus­ domestic demand rather thail exports, as a way of taking the try. New orders in this branch have plunged 30% from Jan­ burden off the U. S. economy. Justifiably, the West German uary through July of this year. government and central bank officials have resisted this de­ Automobile production is not only Germany's largest mand. "No one seems to be able to explain just what they consumer of steel, and largest market for sophisticated in­ mean by reflation," a senior German industry representative dustrial automation equipment, such as industrial robots. It stated, commenting on Bergsten' s recent war cry. Bonn is is also the largest single component of the export economy. planning a DM 21 billion "irifrastructure" investment stimu­ Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen are the largest lus as a response to Washington. "The problem here is that group of car producers in Europe, and export fully 60% of its not a cent will go to aid industry or to improve real infrastruc­ production. In 1987, the delayed impact of 18 months of ture of the economy. It is wlndow-dressing to satisfy Baker. dollar gyrations began to hit this sector. Overall, German car But the funds are earmarked for 'make work' local projects exports will decline this year for the first time since the early like erecting sound baffles along the autobahn." 1980s' recession, the estimate being 2%, according to indus­ If dollar devaluation coJlltinues in 1988, the devastation try sources. But the largest and most important export mar­ wrought so far will be only the beginning for Europe. "Firms ket, the United States, will drop 18%. "Most of this is directly abroad will soon reach the point where investment in West related to the dollar," said a spokesman for VDA, the industry German equipment, no mafter how superior the quality, is association. simply no longer profitabl¢," stated the German industry But perhaps the most devastated is steel. Following the representative. catastrophic energy and interest rate shocks of the late 1970s, Despite what Mr. Baker or Mr. Bergsten may claim, it is Europe's largest and most advanced steel industry went into impossible to tum the world' s largest export economy into a depression. From peak production levels of 53 million tons model of the import-dependent U. S. economy without plung­ in 1974, German steel steadily collapsed to a low of 36 ing Western Europe and th� United States into a depression million tons in the 1982-83 recession. Following significant far worse than the 1930s. The crazy Baker circle sees the investment in advanced production capacities, especially option as "depression in Europe and Japan, or in the United continuous casting technologies, by 1985, production levels States," and George Bush is desperate to ensure that the hit again began to rise, with producers in the Ruhr predicting will be taken by Europe, at least until November 1989. That's stabilization. Then the dollar collapse hit. the real secret behind Fred Bergsten's silly proposals in "The dollar has direct effects as well as indirect," a Frankfurt. spokesman for the Duesseldorf Iron and Steel Association As Bergsten admitted then, he has not even considered stressed. "The direct effects have been the limiting of the the option of re-opening the developing sector to capital­ U. S. market. But indirectly, we have an all-time record high goods exports from the United States, Europe, and Japan.

8 Economics EIR December 18, 1987 that hyperinflation is certain by spring. In October, retail prices rose 19.5%, and wholesale prices an astounding 30 %, Hyperinflation looms forcing price controls to be imposed in early November. While lowering prices from these levels, the controls have in Ibero-America failed to stem inflation, which nonetheless grew at the brisk clip of 12 % in November. by Peter Rush The effect of October's inflationwas to collapse consum­ er spending. Sales of household appliances in November fell 40% from October; textile sales were off 30%, cement sales Scarcely two weeks after the end of the eight-nation Ibero­ are 30-40% below the beginning of 1987, and shoe sales are American heads of state summit in Acapulco, Mexico, Nov. close to 40% off January 1987 levels; Gasoline consumption 29, the "big three" countries, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, has fallen 20%, car sales are off a like amount, as are auto face hyperinflationary collapses of their economies, pro­ parts sales. Steel sales are 20% down, the domestic market voked by five years of trying to pay their foreign debts. for chemical industry sales has fallen 20%, and even food Lyndon H. LaRouche warned of exactly this danger, in products fell 10% last month. an article written on Nov.21, following the devaluation of The effects of these declines will show up in figures to be the Mexican peso, and published in the Dec.4 issue of EIR . released later in December. Already businesses have re­ With the forced peso devaluation, "Mexico's peso and mar­ sponded by laying off workers and shortening hours. Store kets exploded into a Weimar-style hyperinflation," he wrote, and factory closings are in the offing.The decline in real and "nearly every nation in South America is but a few steps incomes has already hit government revenues.For Novem­ behind Mexico.... Argentina is at the brink of similar ber, tax receipts are down 10%, which in real terms is a fall developments," as is Brazil. substantially greater than 20%. The government deficit is This reality is now being acknowledged elsewhere."Lat­ 8.5% of the GNP and rising fast.In order to be entitled to in America will be the next financial 'hot -spot.' The region's receive more money from the International Monetary Fund countries are rapidly approaching the zone of currency hy­ in early 1988, the Argentine government is committed to perinflation," Scandinavian banking sources told EIR Dec. reducing that deficitby half, by raising taxes an unimaginable 9. The bankers explained that they had arrived at their eval­ $4.5 billion-a "recessive shock" opposed by every econom­ uation, because these countries "cannot export more, and ic sector. cannot impose more domestic austerity; they have decided The collapse of the domestic economy has made a debt the only way is to depreciate their currencies." crisis inevitable for 1988, a reality which is beginning to sink Brazil: the anti-inflationary plan which Finance Minister in with the internationalbankers and �heir mouthpieces, Pres­ Luis Bresser Pereira put in place last July has broken down. ident Alfonsfn's admirers."In the pMt few weeks, Argentina Inflation in October rose to 9.2% (188% at an annualized has risen to the top of the list of trbuble spots in the debt rate), and to 12 .8% in November (236% annual rate).Many crisis," the Washington Post admitted on Dec. 8. The day expect the rate to reach 25% by December or January- before, the Wall Street Journalwrote that Argentine creditors 1,355% on an annual basis.Most analysts believe that hy­ and government officials alike assume a debt moratorium is perinflation is inevitable within the next three to six months. coming sooner, rather than later, in 1988. Nationalist economic analysts estimate that Brazil's currency Argentina's "liquid reserves are now below $1 billion­ will blow out by June, at the latest. enough to cover only two months of imports-and gold Government finances are on the brink.According to the reserves are another $3 billion. Something must happen soon. Sao Paulo representative of Libra bank, Igor Cornelsen,Bra­ They can't continue to service theiridebt," EIR's European zil not only "has the highest inflation in the world," but its banking sources commented Dec.9. public deficit, "if measured as it is in the U.S.," would be as The final document from the Acapulco summit, calling high as 30% of the Gross National Product.The Brazilian for lowering of interest rates and other measures to permit governmenthas introduced a new form of governmentpaper, the debtor nations to overcome their economic problems, has the Treasury Financial Bond, "to cover budget deficits and been sent to every government and major bank in the world. extend credit in the form of anticipation of tax revenues to As Peru's President Alan Garda commented on his return to municipalities and states," 0 Estado de Sao Paulo reported Lima, the summit' s importance lies: in setting up a mecha­ on Nov.27 . nism for the Ibero-American countries to coordinate strate­ President Jose Samey just released the proposed 1988 gies for their common problems. budget, in which fully 40% of the general operating budget Coordination is already increasing. In January, Garcia of 4.7 trillion cruzados is allocated for debt-I.88 trillion will meet in a mini-summit with Atgentina's Alfonsfn and cruzados. Brazil's Samey to discuss, among o�her things, establishing Argentina: EIR correspondents in Buenos Aires report just interest rates for their nations' debt.

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 9 Mexico is ruled by rumors The government has been put on notice by labor with the threat ojthe first general strike since the 1920s. By Mark Sonnenblick.

Warning that "Mexico is on the verge of hyperinflation," Oct. 5 and, since then, the market value of shares has gone PresidentMiguel de la Madrid decreed a package of measures down 75%. While the stock market crumbled, Mancera fa­ Dec . 4. He froze wages and prices, sharply reduced import cilitated capital flight by selling an estimated $2 billion of tariffs , and ordered governmentsubsidies for basic foods and Mexico's painfully accumulated foreign exchange to specu­ medicine. The package was a belated feint to forestall a lators jumping out of the peso. On Nov. 18, Mancera sud­ threatened Dec. 18 general strike. As de la Madrid spoke, denly stopped selling dollars., In just one day the free market the labor movement was notifying 100,000 employers that peso fell from 1,700to 2,700to the dollar. 10 million workers would strike for 46% pay increases. The shock devaluation was immediately translated into If the strike finally takes place, it will be the first general price increases. Consumers watched with anger while stores strike since the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) be­ marked up the prices of their goods each time a new rumor came Mexico's ruling party in the 1920s. The labor move­ arrived as to how many pesos it took to buy a dollar at the ment is the voter mobilization machinery on which the PRI airport or in EI Paso. Many:items disappeared as hoarders depends to legitimize its continued rule in the June 1988 closeted them in expectation of further increases. presidential elections. Fidel Velazquez was probably close to the mark in his PRI labor chieftainFidel Vehizquez admitted that the new calculation that in a single week the peso was devalued by package could ameliorate the most recent bout with inflation 30.5% and prices increased by even more . He went to Pres­ somewhat, but insisted Dec . 6 that wage demands must be ident de la Madrid Nov. 23 to demand a roll-back of the met, because they were to compensate for real wage declines devaluation and a wage increase or else a strike. De la Madrid since January. Therefore the strike is still on, he stated. gave no response until his Dec . 4 palliative package. His Real wages have been cut in half since de la Madrid and regime says wage increases will be granted only after the his central bank president Miguel Mancera took office Dec. annual cost of living review in late January. 1, 1982. Corningon top of this decline, sharp price increases The Chamber of Deputies gave its unanimous endorse­ of between 30 and 50% on some items which hit after the ment to the general strike. The Senate resolved Nov. 23 that Nov. 18 collapse in the value of the peso was the last straw the peso devaluation had been caused by the year-long orgy for Velazquez, who knows that he must bring home a large of speCUlation in the stock and dollar market which the regime wage increase now or see control over the labor movement had celebrated as "the returnof investor confidence. " It noted fall into the hands of communist-run or -influenced forces. that the speculative blowout had obliterated that confidence in whose name Mexican workers have already sacrificedhalf Stock market shock their incomes over the past five years. Mexico is already being ravaged by hyperinflation, rap­ It concluded by urging an immediate renegotiation of idly nearing that of Weimar Germany in the years preceding Mexico's $110 billion foreigp debt: "Society makes the gen­ Hitler's takeover. From January to September, inflation was eralized demand that the nation's government ask its foreign running at an annual rate of about 130% by official account. creditors to urgently renegotiate debt amortization and inter­ The officialwage-setting board reported Dec. 9 that the buy­ est payments in order to substantially reduce the outflow of ing power of the average salary had fallen 45.6% during that dollars and bring internalrecovery . " period. Compared to what has happened since October, those ParaUel government were "the good old days." The stock market bubble burst The Mancera clique brought Paul Volcker to Mexico to

10 Economics EIR December 18, 1987 give him an award for having forced through in the United trillion pesos of 28-day CETE S, but could find buyers for States at the end of 1982 the policy that Mexico must pay its only just over half of it, 2.7 trilliOll. The Bank of Mexico debts at all costs. That nexus of financial and trade policies managed to sell most of its 2.7 trillion peso offering of its is what has bankrupted not only Mexico, but also the United own 28-day paper, but only by raising its interest rate to States. 120.3%. But for 91-day paper, the Bank could only sell 4.6 According to insider columnist Jose Luis Mejias in Ex­ trillion out of 20 trillion, with a 129.9% interest rate. When celsior, Nov. 30, economic policy is not being made by the these bills stopped being bought, the Bank and the govern­ cabinet, but by Mancera' s coterie, which includes several ment both go bankrupt in very short order. Their only alter­ U.S. officials and businessmen. Mancera and company "have native is to spiral interest rates ever higher-which blows out turned the economy into a casino" by reversing ex-President the government budget at an ever faster rate. Lopez Portillo' s 1982 nationalization of the banking system To deal with this, well-known columnist Luis E. Merca­ and abandoning exchange controls "with the result that they do reports that it is widely believed that the government is have begun to loot us again, scandalously ...with the dis­ using its dollar reserves in some form of "swap" whereby astrous results the state is experiencing." internal debt is exchanged for external debt. Mercado also Under the management of Mancera' s cronies, the nation­ reports that the recent stabilization of the free-floating peso, alized banks have been asset-stripped and bankrupted. As the is believed to be due to secret Central Bank intervention, stock market crashed and capital flight increased, the banks surreptitiously using its reserves to bolster its value. were devastated by withdrawals. They raised interest rates The government which, until October, was singled out and even paid up to 300% interest to borrow from the free by Wall Street and Washington for having "the best economic market usurers which have flourished under Mancera's pro­ management in Latin America" has destroyed Mexico's own tection. The run on the banks turned into panic when the credit-by following Wall Street's advice, and despite allo­ bankers pleaded with the public not to withdraw. The panic cating 54% of all government expenditures to debt service. increased when it became known that Multibanco Mercantil De la Madrid is foundering . His government tries to un­ bank had closed seven branches for "bad management." load the blame for hyperinflation on "unscrupulous specula­ On Thursday, Nov. 26, the country was shaken by the tors and hoarders." His tearing down tariff walls-believed rumorthat the governmentwould close all banks for 48 hours by Mexican insiders to be part of a deal struck with U. S. startingMonday, Nov. 30 and forbid withdrawals when they special trade representative Clayton Yuetter in October­ reopened. The government denied it, but Mancera' s central will flood the country with cheap manufactures from South­ bank, the Bank of Mexico, had to loan 200 billion pesos to east Asia, and thus hold down consumer prices. But it is more get banks past the weekend. likely to wipe Mexico's domestic industry off the map than to "stimulate it to become more modem and competitive," as Government faces bankruptcy de la Madrid said it would, Dec. 4. The bottom line for de la Madrid and his economic team There are rumors of more shocls, including an all too are the finances of the government itself. Since 1982, the appropriately named "Aztec Plan" which would sustain debt government has relied increasingly on short-term treasury service by further blood-letting from workers, industrialists, bills called CETES, most of them 28-day or 91-day matura­ and farmers. tion. In the draft budget for 1988, de la Madrid allocated an Mexicans desperate for hopeful signs grabbed onto de la incredible 54% of all projected revenues for servicing inter­ Madrid's statement to labor leaders Dec. 7 that he was en­ nal and external debt, while 30% of the budget is to be gaged in an "exhaustive review" of Qis whole economic pro­ accounted for by net new issues of CETES; in other words, gram. He promised rapid restoration for wage erosion and the government is caught in a vicious spiral of interest costs that the "financial" rather than the "operating" side of the compelling ever more borrowing, leading to yet larger defi­ budget would be sacrificed in any a�ti-inflationary austerity cits and more interest charges. program. The daily Unomtisuno interpreted that as the Pres­ The short-term nature of the CETES is a time-bomb. ident's first public challenge to central banker Mancera. Immediately following the devaluation, the government had De la Madrid has few options for regaining control over to raise the interest rate on the CETES by 8%, to 105%, and his country from the rumors. He could use his "review" to within days raised it again to 110-1 12%. The government fool labor into demobilizing its strike only to be hit by an must, in fact, raise the rates as high as it needs to attract Aztec Plan. Or he could follow the advice of his Senate, stop money both to roll over the existing mass of CETES and to payment on the foreign debt and focus everything on domes­ place the new issues needed to cover the widening budget tic consumption and production. The first option leads to deficits. economic paralysis and social chaos, which could replicate However, according to several financial columnists writ­ the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution in which 1 million died. ing on Dec. 10, this process may already be coming unstuck. The second leads to a debtors' cartel and confrontation with Jose Perez Stuart reports that the government tried to sell 5 Washington.

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 11 Agriculture by Marcia Merry

Mexico's 'Milk Valley' being destroyed cally. Tllere are 150 small producers The global economic crisis is undercutting Mexicanfood output ready to go bankrupt right now. Typ­ ical is the case of Rogelio potential. Jara. He has invested 250 million pesos in his dairy bam operation. In a vain attempt to maintain some level of production, he T he slaughtering of thousands of ing. Since milk production has ac­ has sent 300 of his 500-animal herd to prime Mexican milk cows in the last counted for about 30% of the total in­ slaughter, but he still cannot meet ex­ 11 months exemplifies the process of come of the region, the shutdown is penses. shutdown of food output potential in devastating for the regional economy, At the "La Fortuna" ranch, only the nation, to a degree that not only as well as for the national food supply. the name remains. Its owner, J. Guad­ guarantees malnutrition, but will take The immediate cause of the herd alupe Hetmindez Gonzalez, had to sell years to reverse under the best agri­ liquidation is the fact that the costs of his assets in the Laguna cooperative, cultural policies. At the end of 1985, production per liter of milk are run­ for lack · of money to maintain his Mexican national milk output was ning at well over 400 pesos, while the 3,000-animal dairy herd . One of his about 12.5 million liters a day, and price the producer receives is about sons, a young engineer named Pedro now production is down to 7 .4 million 300 pesos per liter. Hernandez, told El Sol newspaper: liters a day and falling. The president of the Regional Cat­ "The situation is very difficult, be­ The dairy sector of the Mexican tlemen's Union of Laguna, Tomas cause every month, if not every week, economy has been hit hard by the re­ Lopez Alonso, says, "It is not serious, the price of inputs increases, the fer­ cent years of harsh terms imposed by it is super-serious." He reports that if tilizers, electricity rates, fuel and la­ the InternationalMonetary Fund: 100- the federal government does not do bor, not to mention medicines, hay, plus percent hikes in prices for elec­ anything to assist the dairymen, there and forage ." tricity, veterinary vaccines, imported will be nothing for them to do but go In milking equipment alone, the breeding stock, forage, and other in­ bankrupt. He stresses that the govern­ senior Hernandez, and fiveof his sons puts. Nevertheless, dairy operations ment-arranged imports of powdered who help in the milk business, have in certain regions, like the Lagunera milk-which he doubts are truly an investment greater than 1 00 million district, boasted fine, high-producing milk-cannot go on for long, because pesos. Because of the recent months Holstein herds. They are now being the United States and Europe are liq­ of runaway inflation, and the price of destroyed. uidating their stocks as well. milk below production, the Hernan­ The "Milk Valley" is located at the Lopez expressed the motivations dez operation is sinking deep into the southern tip of the state of Coahuila, of his fellow cattlemen in calling for red. In e�ly December, according to and is famous for its advanced, mech­ emergency federal intervention. "They Pedro HCiJ.1landez, "We had to send 30 anized agricultural methods. But in need to recognize reality. . . . We are cows to slaughter. We had no money early December, the daily El Sol de in this activity because we like cows, to pay the electricity bill for the well­ Mexico wrote the headline: "The Most because they are generous, because pumps ..' ..We had no other choice. Important Milk Valley in the Country we love them, because we want to pro­ We are being decapitalized. The price Is Being Wiped Out." Just this year, duce such a basic and indispensable of 300pe �os per liter will finish us off. 250,000 milk cows have been sent to foodstuff such as milk; but it seems If we simply want to repair the equip­ slaughter, leaving only 80,000. This that efficiency is being punished, ef­ ment in the bam, it will not be possi­ dairycenter took 38 years to develop, fort is being penalized. The milk pro­ ble. The prices of machinery and up from the desert. ducers are not looking for large prof­ equipment are unattainable." Even the specially bred imported its, only what is just and necessary to Added to this is the onset of win­ animals-the high-yielding Hol­ subsist. We don't speculate with our ter, which the marginalized farms steins-are being sacrificedfor meat, investments in the countryside; we in­ cannot weather. Freezing tempera­ so that the dairymen can raise a little vest to support the production of food tures of 6°F below zero are forecast cash to feed their remaining, shrink­ for our people." for the erld of December, according to ing milk herds. The capital investment All sizes of milk-producing oper­ the National Weather Institute of Cal­ of an estimated 1.44 trillion pesos in ations have been hard hit, and are ifornia. this will aggravate the scarc­ the animal inventory is slowly vanish- shutting down or cutting back drasti- ity of forage and hay.

12 Economics EIR December 18, 1987 Club of Life: 'We Told You So'

The United Nations malthusians are succeeding in depopulation by Nancy Spannaus

The author is president of the u.s. branch of the Club of Life . Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and their col­ laborators for more than a decade, that their denial of tech­ In August of 1984, the United Nations held a conference in nology and economic development to Third World countries Mexico City on the question of "population." As usual, that would lead to mass death; people who wanted the non-white conference was dominated by malthusian doomsayers, populations of the Third World to be wiped out! wringing their hands about their assertion that the population Among those people are not a fqw United Nations bu­ of the Third World was just growing too fast to keep up with reaucrats, who joined with the bankers and official financial the needs of "development." With nary a sign of resistance, institutions in insisting that the problem was not lack of credit the representatives of the world's nations fell in line behind for large infrastructural development and industrialization, their reasoning, voting up resolutions that called for "con­ but "overpopulation." They not only shouldhave known, but trolling population growth" in the name of "progress. " we can also testify that they actually knew what the result of The one dissonant voice at that conference came fromthe their policies would be. We had told them so. international Club of Life, an organization based on the Ju­ deo-Christian commitment of the right to life for all peoples, Genocide worse than Hitler from individuals to nations. The Club of Life distributed a Already, in August of 1984, a conservative estimate put document to hundreds of representatives at the conference, together by the Club of Life demonstratedthat the policies of proclaiming that the real danger facing mankind was not the IMF and World Bank, along with the international de­ "overpopulation," but "depopulation by the year 2000." population lobby, had been responsible for killing in the At that time, we had not yet fully realized the threat that decade since 1974 ten times the number of people murdered the retrovirus AIDS represented to populations in emiserated by Adolf Hitler, and that the body count was fast approaching lands. But an in-depth look at the way in which the Interna­ the 600 million mark. The figure was composed of three tional Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the international different approximations: first, the . largely underreported bankers were dealing with entire continents of non-white deaths from major famines, such as that of 1972-73; second, peoples, such as those in Africa, convinced us that there was the higher death rate of Third World countries due to the no danger of overpopulation, despite the high birthrate fig­ lower standard of living; and third, the deliberate denial of ures being bandied about. We had identifiedthat already 100 life to millions morethrough sterilization and abortion. million people had been murdered by the policy of denying We quote from the Club of Life' s·report on one aspect of technological development to the Third World. Already, with theestimate: "Let us take a heuristic device from the U.N. 's the absolute decline in food production per capita in Africa, own statistics to approximate the scale of outright murder and the spread of disease, it was clear that the danger was that has occurred since 1974. Our starting point is the 'death whether the continent would survive at all. differential,' the difference between the crude death rate in Today that projection has been most hideously confirmed the 'Third World' nations and thatin the industrialized world. for anyone with eyes to see beyond the ridiculous statistics If the development policy outlined at various U.N. confer­ being put up by official agencies. Africa is not only being ences, including Bucharest, had been implemented, there murdered by famine, but by the spread of AIDS to the point should be no such differential. Yet the so-called crude death that millions are doomed to die. Asia, Thero-America, and rate in sub-Saharan Africa still stands at 17.7Ithousand­ the ghettos of the so-called "advanced sector" are not far comparedto a rateof 9 .1Ithousand in the industrialized world. behind Africa. That is a differenceof more than 8 individualsper thousand­ Who has condemned these millions of starving men, totally unnecessary, deliberate deaths. women, and children to death? People who knew better. "If this differential is multiplied' by the populations of People who had been told by the Club of Life, by its founders only the 24 most famine-ravaged nations of Africa, one comes

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 13 up with a most conservative figureof 11, 790,000 deaths over derreported, thanks to the attitude of international agencies the decade of 1974-84. such as the World Health Organization. In countries like "By extending this rule of thumb to other regions of the Uganda and Zaire, reports have leaked out indicating that world-including accepting some of the most unbelievable portions of the country have AIDS infection rates as high as figuresabout crude death rates-the death toll from the com­ 30-50%. In Zaire, where t�e President's son died of the bined area of Africa, South Asia, East Asia (not including disease, there is a more liberal policy on reporting the holo­ China), and North Africa and the Middle East, amounts to a caust, which includes a devastating rate of infection among death differential of nearly 72 million people over the dec­ the country's intellectual yOllng people. ade!" Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute provided an In its paper on the threat of depopulation, the Club of Life estimate of the overall AIDS picture on the continent at an concentrated on the case of Africa. At that time the major October 1987 conference on AIDS in Africa, held in Naples, Italy. "We have to estimate that the number of infected people on that continent is between 5 and 10%," Montagnier said. "This means there are between 30 and 60 million people In August oj 1984, a conservative infected. " There is reason to believe that these figures are still con­ estimate put together by the Club oj servative. And the truth is, that there is nothing to stop the Life demonstrated that the policies plague of the 20th century from depopulating the continent. ojthe IMF and World Bank, along For, just as the Club of Life asserted, the genocidal aus­ terity imposed by the IMF and the international bankers is with the international depopulation the primary cause of the disease's spread. Even the World lobby, had been responsibleJo r Health Organization has come around to an approximation killing in the decade since 1974 ten of this view. A report recently produced by WHO and the France-Liberty Foundation has asserted that the AIDS virus times the number ojpeo ple "establishes itself most easily in a weakened organism­ murdered by AdolfHitler, and that whether weakened by malnutrition or by other dis­ the body count wasJast eases ...." The report goes:on to say that "even the lack of infrastructure becomes a factor in the propagation of AIDS. approaching the 600 million mark. [In Africa] the lack of ports, or railways, or aerial transport, is compensated for by road transportation. All across Africa, notably in landlocked counmes like Uganda or Rwanda, tracks and roads are among theprincipal vectors of the virus's threat seemed to be posed by starvation, which was threat­ penetration. " ening at least 24 nations in Africa. Yet, as we pointed out, Thus, the devastation caused by the IMF's denial of cred­ 19 of those nations were considered "targets" for reducing it, and theusurious interest rates, have eliminated all poten­ population growth ! tial barriers to the spread of the disease. Even the conserva­ Mozambique was one of the most flagrant cases. In the tive French newspaper Le Figaro, in reporting on the WHO summer of 1984, a full 3 million of the 12 million Mozam­ study, noted that the prospect is "the collapse of all black bicans-one quarter of the population-were threatened with Africa . . . the collapse of the political and social structure." famine. Infant mortality was at the rate of 105/1 ,OOO-more And then, it notes, "the collapse of Africa can only precipitate than 10 times that of the industrialized countries. In addition, a generalization of the catastrophe to the world." disease from diarrheal infections was on the rise, largely due to the cessation of large-scale clean-up programs against Can the horror be stopped? mosquitoes and swamps following the banning of DDT. Processes such as that which is now depopulating Africa Since 1984, the officialdesignation of "famine emergen­ are not immediately reversible. The currentdebacle has been cy" nations has been removed from many of the African in process for at least 15 years. If even a few leading govern­ nations, since the drought ended. But, if anything , the human ments in the world had stepped forward to follow our advice toll has increased. Deliberate sabotage of extermination pro­ in the early 1980s, there was hope that the debacle could be grams against locust plagues has resulted in the destruction stopped. Now, tens of millions are already condemned to of a great deal of the crops required to feed the population. death, no matter what is done. Increasing debt burdens have prevented countries from im­ Facing that reality, however, is the firststep toward fight­ porting the foodstuffs which they need to provide bare sub­ ing to save every human being who can possibly be saved. sistence. And then there is AIDS . And if mankind does not find that morality, it is all of hu­ Official fig�s on AIDS cases in Africa are wildly 00- manity that will pay the price.

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Dope, lnc. Aganbegyan admitted that resistance to During the peak travel months of the Gorbachov's perestroika (restructuring) is summer of 1987, the department advised ' Brazil's northeast is "fairly serious." "Perestroika is being re­ airlines not to schedule additional flights, sisted by some of the managers ," he said, becausei the air traffic system was incapable big marijuana producer "especially those who as a result of reduc­ of handJjingthem safely. It was the firsttime tions in their rights and responsibilities lose additioqal flights were not added during their authority and job. " summe� months. The Brazilian northeast has become the Aganbegyan and Sitaryan said that they BU ley was deputy largest producer of marijuana in the world, rl secretary of trans­ saw a convertible ruble as part of Soviet portatio� under Dole for four according to the president of Brazil's Na­ years . plans to play a much bigger role in the world tional Drug Abuse Information Agency economy. "We have set ourselves a task to (NIDA), Richard Lindland. Lindland made make our ruble convertible," said Aganbe­ the statement while on a trip to the United gyan. "But to do that we have to change our States. Brazil's northeast, he might have AIDS : pricing system to bring it closer to the out­ added, is one of the most impoverished areas side . We will be conducting price reforms in the world as well. in 1989 and 1990." Houston hospital His statements were confirmed by the U.S. economists, interpreting the re­ interim superintendent of the Brazilian Fed­ closes down marks, were quoted in the New York Times eral Police in the state of Pernambuco, Wla­ saying that it was unlikely that he was talk­ dimir Cutarelli. He said that Lindland's The Inslitute for Immunological Disorders ing about full convertibility. "Full convert­ statements are not surprising, because the (lID) of Houston, Texas, the first U.S. hos­ ibility would be disastrous for the Soviet northeast has all the conditions required to pital devoted exclusively to AIDS patients, balance of payments," said Przemyslaw produce marijuana, especially Pernambuco closed down on Dec . 11, after operating for Gajdeczka, a specialist on the Soviet econ­ state, where vast marijuana fields have been only a little over a year. omy at WEFA Group, formerly Wharton found . Since opening its doors in September Econometrics. "It would mean a huge shake­ The police official added that as drought 1986, the hospital has lost over $8 million, up in their economy and there would be a worsens in the northeast, marijuana planta­ primariljy because of care provided to indi­ great deal of resistance." tions will become more common. "With one gent pa�ents. It had operated on an outpa­ hectare of marijuana, a family can live." tient-only basis since November 1987. The lID stopped accepting indigent patients in 1987, Transportation March and laid off some employees, but the institute continued to lose money. lID officials have referred 450 patients Foreign Exchange Secretary calls for 1,000 to private physicians or to Jefferson Davis more air controllers Hospital, the county hospital which treats Soviets moot patients unable to pay. Dr. Peter Mansell, lID's medical direc­ convertibility of ruble James H. Burnley, IV was sworn in as tor, will return to M.D. Anderson Hospital, Transportation Secretary on Dec . 4, replac­ where � will spend much of his time ana­ Two leading Soviet economists told the press ing Elizabeth Dole, who departed to join her lyzing the records of patients treated at lID. in Washington Dec. 3 that "savings" from husband Robert's presidential campaign. American Medical International owned the disarmament made possible by U.S.­ President Reagan used the occasion to the facility. Soviet treaties could be spent on the Third call for further deregulation of the nation's World, and that economic reforms associ­ transportation industry . ated with General Secretary Mikhail Gor­ Burnley announced that the Transpor­ bachov's perestroika might soon make pos­ tation Department would hire more than sible the convertibility of the ruble. 1,000 additional air traffic controllers if Markets Abel G. Aganbegyan, the top economic Congress approves its request for a $1 bil­ adviser to Mikhail Gorbachov, and Stepan lion increase, or about 20% , in spending for U.N •. to seek Sitaryan, deputy chief of the Soviet State aviation, bringing that portion of the depart­ Planning Commission (Gosplan) raised the ment's budget up to $5.8 billion. In addi­ private financing possibility of a ruble freely convertible into tion, more inspectors and maintenance per­ other currencies and of joint U . S.-S oviet aid sonnel would be hired, Burnley said. U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de to developing countries. Aganbegyan said He didn't criticize deregulation, but said Cuellar told the General Assembly Dec. 2 Moscow was ready to spend savings from that the additional air trafficcontrollers were that the United Nations would have to bor­ disarmament "to satisfy humanitarian and needed because of a surge in numbers of row on the open market in 1988 in order to food needs of developing countries." people traveling by air. remain solvent, largely because the United

16 Economics EIR December 18, 1987 Briefly

States is $342 million behind in dues pay­ that "their capacity and willingness to ser­ • DONALD ROTH, chairman of ments. vice their debt had deteriorated." Merrill Lyncti and Co . 's merchant Perez de Cuellar's report, "The Finan­ London IBCA Bank Analysts also an­ banking subsidiary, will take up the cial Crisis of the U.N.," assumes that the nounced that they were about to downgrade posts of vice president and treasurer United States will pay about one-half of what Citibank's rating, saying the markets had of the World Bank in January 1988. it owes and make another payment at the been"fooled by their slick PRjob afterMa y." end of next year, but still projects a deficit Moody's has announced that it may low­ • PAN AMERICAN pilots have of over $100million in 1988. er its double-A- I and 2 rating on $54 billion broken with three other Pan Am He asked the General Assembly for per­ in General Motors long-term debt because unions by tentatively accepting a mission to borrow up to $50 million at com­ GM seems to have lost its "ability to regain three-year agreement that exchanges mercial interest rates on the international momentum and to strengthen its long-term about $30 million in wage cuts and markets until all members pay what they business position in the face of an increas­ another $25 million in work-rule owe. ingly difficultoperating environment. " changes for "a substantial amount of Perez de Cuellar also asked that the The debt was issued by GM itself, and stock." The four unions had been member states refinance the U.N. 's emer­ its financial subsidiary, the General Motors working together for a year to force a gency working fund to the tune oU I 00 mil­ Acceptance Corp. Over a year ago, Stan­ management change at Pan Am. Ac­ lion. dard & Poor's downgraded GM's debt. cordingto AsspciatedPress, they "had Perez de Cuellar proposed that the U.N. persuadedthe Pritzker family, which "sell" the back dues and any other debts of owns Braniff, to make an offer, and the United States, the largest delinquent had agreed to accept big wage payer, to other member countries for cash. The Debt Crisis concessions if Braniff succeeded." While the buyer of the debt will not be offi­ cially put in the position of having to col­ Argentina won't • THE BANK for International lect-the United States will pay the U.N. Settlements h,s agreed in principle to and the U.N. will pay the buyer-it still be able to pay impose on 12' member-nations' cen­ opens the door for some interesting and em­ tral banks capital reserve require­ barrassing purchases. Argentina, whose Alfonsfn governmenthas ments to "crcilte a sounder base for The U.S.S.R., another large debtor, has complied with every demand of the Inter­ banking." The proposed require­ agreed to pay the entire $250 million it owes national Monetary Fund at the expense of its ments will be debated by the central soon, and so, would be able to buy the U.S. economy and people, is now generally ex­ banks over the next six months. They debt if it wished. pected to become unable to pay further debt make off-balance-sheet business part service by sometime in the first quarter of of the net assets subject to capital re­ 1988. Officials are already predicting con­ quirements . frontation. Finance Argentine officials and creditors alike • 22 NUCLEAR power plants will admit the country will be forced into a pay­ be constructed by India's Nuclear Moody's to downgrade ments moratorium when it runs out of for­ Power Corporation in the next 13 eign exchange in early 1988. Total reserves years, at a cost of $10 billion, Dr. big American banks at present are less than $1 billion, and much M.R. Srinivasan, chairman of the of that is illiquid. Atomic Energy Commission, said in Moody's Investors Service is reported by Officials now say Argentina will be en­ New Delhi Dec . 4. The Narora proj ­ the London Financial Times to be about to tirely unable to comply with the IMF-dictat­ ect in UttarPradesh and Kakraparunit downgrade the credit rating of Citibank, ed monetary targets agreed to as recently as in Gujarat, 235 MWe each, are al­ Chase Manhattan, Chemical, Manufactur­ November, incurring a cut-off any further ready under construction, and work ers Hanover, Bank of America, and other IMF help. Commented Finance Minister has also been started on two other large U.S. lenders to developing countries. Brodersohn, "For certain reasons, we're sites. Design work for 500MWe re­ The reasons cited are "decreasing cohe­ moving toward a confrontation." actors is at an advanced stage. sion between creditor banks; effect of world President Raul Alfonsfn, speaking to trade prospects on debtors' ability to pay; more than 100 foreign journalists Dec . 5, • WEST GERMAN government reduced borrower commitment to austerity; stated, "The North [the creditors] has begun coalition parties have agreed on an impact of stockmarket crash on bank ability to understand the political nature of the debt austerity package for the health care to raise new capital in stock markets; and and the co-responsibility between debtors system there that will cut 14 billion the sharpfall in secondary markets of Third and creditors . In the last few years , the in­ deutschemarks from the DM 125 bil­ World debt. " terest rate has gone from 5% to 20% . In my lion spent annUally by the state insur­ Moody's also downgraded its rating for understanding, Argentina isn't obligated to ance companies. Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, saying pay more than 4%."

EIR December 18, 1987 Economics 17 �ITillScience & Technology

Laser appHcations pronnse to revolutionize indusby Part II oj an overoiew by Charles B. Stevens, oj the capabilities oj lasers to transJo nn the civilian economy, 'spinning oj['the Strategic DlifenseInitiative.

Summary of Part I: Through a combination of continuing Despite this record level of advances in output character­ advances in demonstrated laser capabilities in the inertial istics, until recently , the solid-state laser was not considered confinementfu sion energy R&D program and a series of a serious candidate for actual laser fu sion power plants, be­ breakthroughs by the Strategic Defense Initiative program cause of its apparently inherent low operating efficiencies. fo r developing defenses against nuclear-tipped missiles, las­ While solid-state lasers were most readily scaled to the high er capabilities have become even a little overripe fo r a broad­ powers and energies needed for crucial inertial confinement based revolution of industrial technology. The I990s will be fusion laboratory experiments, they did not appear to have seen as the initiation of a second industrial revolution-if the characteristics needed for efficient, high-repetition-rate Americans have the courage and prescience to grasp this operation needed for actual power plants . opportunityfo r economic revitalization and reindustrializa­ But the large R&D effort invested in solid-state lasers has tion. generated technological breakthroughs, which today have Lasers transfo rm more incoherent fo rms of energy into greatly enhanced their potentials for both efficient and high­ coherent beams of light. These coherent beams of light can repetition-rate operation . And while these advances have not be readily and effi ciently transmitted and fo cused through a made them the leading candidate for laser fusion reactors , wide variety of media over great distances. The laser beams they have become a leading candidate for existing industrial can be easily fo cused to power densities trillions of times applications at lower pulsed power levels. This is all the more greater than industry'scurrent utilization. true , since the realization of efficient methods of harmonic Part I discussed general applications of lasers today, and wavelength conversion permits the high-power, solid-state then took a closer look at semiconductor diode array lasers laser to reach shorter wavelengths in the ultraviolet range and and tunable solid-state lasers. This week's installment con­ thereby use the more efficient ablative shockcoupling oflaser cludes the survey of the major types of lasers available fo r light for materials processing, industrial applications. Over the past few years in particular, technologies have been demonstrated for operating solid-state lasers efficiently Fusion R&D leads to efficient high-power, at near-diffraction-limited levels. These technologies have short-wavelength solid-state lasers led to new materials , laser components , and systems archi­ The workhorse of the inertial confinementfusion research tectures that permit efficient operation at average power lev­ effort has been high-power solid-state lasers . These lasers els in the range of 100- 10,000 watts . have been developed from an output level of 1 joule at 1 Many of these improvements are being tested on the billion watt power levels and a wavelength in the range of Livermore glass zigzag slab laser which is designed to oper­ 1,000 nm in the early 1960s , to their present level of up to ate at 150 joules per pulse at a repetition rate of 2 Hertz. This 100,000joules at 100 trillion watt power levels and a wave­ laser employs an injection-locked regenerative amplifiercav­ length in the range of 250 nm for the Lawrence Livermore ity architecture incorporating a phase conjugator. Last year, National Laboratory NOVA glass laser system. high storage efficiency within the lasing medium was dem-

18 Science & Technology EIR December 18, 1987 onstrated on this laser, utilizing LHG-5 glass. Using an op­ rate , high-average-power (100- lO,OOO watt) , solid-state las­ timum reflector design, spectrally tailored lamps , combined ers , operating at harmonically generated ultraviolet wave­ with a low-loss pump cavity and flashlamp pre-pulsing, re­ lengths, is being rapidly realized through the efforts of the searchers achieved as much as 7% of the flashlampelectrical Livermore laser program. This technology will be available energy's being stored in the glass lasing medium; that is, for commercial applications soon. potentially giving a 7% operating efficiency as opposed to the fraction of a percent efficiency achieved with existing Applications high-power glass lasers . Similar performance is expected Over the past two decades, tunable lasers have become from Nd:Cr:GSGG glass when this new material is fully an essential workhorse for scientific research. High-resolu­ developed . tion and nonlinear spectroscopy, photochemistry, and non­ The bottleneck in achieving high-quality beam output, linear optics have been revolutionized as a result. The wider efficient, high-repetition-rate operation with high-power glass range of coverage offered by tunable solid-state systems per­ lasers has been the problem of waste heat dissipation within mits research into entirely new atomic and molecular pro­ the glass laser amplifying medium. Lawrence Livermore Na­ cesses and transitions. The technological implications are tional Laboratory has demonstrated that, with the proper immense. design for a glass slab geometry and cooling system, effi­ For example, color-center lasers have revolutionized re­ cient, high-quality beam output can be attained. search on nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers . Substantive A crucial aspect of this work is the ability to predict the investigations of soliton generation and transport have re­ optical effects of thermal stresses within the glass slabs. cently emerged in exciting work carried out at Bell Labs in Recent experiments have verified two-dimensional computer Murray Hill, New Jersey. Work by the group headed by Dr. codes, and major strides toward realizing full three-dimen­ L.F. Mollenauer has demonstrated low-loss transmission loss sional codes have been taken. Two. amplifier test-beds are of soliton-shaped laser pulses through optical fibers . maintained. These permit verification of computer codes for This has opened up the prospect for decreasing telephone various zigzag and gas-cooled slab architectures. Therefore , and data transmission costs by an order of magnitude. The new laser material candidates can be evaluated against nu­ decrease in transmission loss could increase the distance over merical simulation before incorporating the new laser com­ which signals could be propagated without repeater stations, ponents in a full-scale laser, where complex interactions with from the current maximum of about 500kilometers utilized other laser components make understanding the system be­ in ballistic missile field command, c:ontrol, and communi­ havior difficult. cation systems, to over 7,000 kilometers. Alternatively, the According to Livermore scientists , significant improve­ data rate over existing optical fiber lines could be increased ments in power, efficiency, and repetition rate can be ex­ more than a thousandfold. And because soliton laser pulses pected with the incorporation of new lasing materials cur­ can pass through each other with no effect, a single line could rently under development. The silicophosphate glass tech­ carry up to 100 separate channels simultaneously. nology has matured with the development of Hoya HAP-3 Further research on solitons could reveal how to utilize glass. Large crystals of Nd:GGG and Nd:Cr:GSGG have the soliton itself for compacting and later retrieving trillions been grown that have low absorption loss at the lasing wave­ of bits of data into and from a single soliton pulse. Potential­ length. Theoretical methods for predicting the fracture of ly, this could lead to a trillionfold inctease in the productivity these materials under laser operating conditions were dem­ of optical fiber communication networks. onstrated experimentally. Furthermore , techniques for slab Alternative studies have begun for utilizing solitons in strengthening were extended to improve durability of the new fiberrings as data storage for optical computers . The horizons laser materials as well . In addition to optimizing the slab of opportunity have only just begun to come into view. This design for beam quality, adaptive optics are being developed entire field ofdiscovery only became experimentally acces­ in conjunction with phase-conjugation techniques to correct sible within the last few years with the advent of tunable solid residual beam aberrations. state lasers in the 1,500nm range. The development of large-aperture crystals for harmonic Besides the growing use of optical fiber data-links, line­ transformation of NOVA's laser output from the infrared to of-sight optical links are now beginning to be developed. the ultraviolet has provided the technology for similar high­ Short-haul atmospheric data links are expected to become average-power harmonic generation at projected efficiencies widespread in the near future as the laser technology becomes of better than 80% at average output power levels of greater better established. A laser transmitter broadcasting to an op­ than 1 billion watts. A data base covering more than 120 tical receiver can provide a simple and inexpensivemeans of nonlinear materials has been developed for this effort. transmitting data across freeways, railroad rights-of-way, Optical switches needed to realize high peak power har­ and other obstacles that complicate use of conventional trans­ monic conversion and Raman phase-conjugation shifting have mission lines. Similar links are also needed for satellite-to­ also been developed. satellite communications, as already:has been developed for In summary, the technology for efficient, high-repetition- various defense applications including communication with

EIR December 18, 1987 Science & Technology 19 submarines. For terrestrial links, lasers operating with a few watts of average power at wavelengths that are easily transmitted through the atmosphere are normally used, and GaAlAs diode laser arrays, with their small size and ease of modulation, Lasers with�erf ect aim appear quite suitable. Interestingly enough, the InGaAsP diode lasers operating at 1,550 nm, which were developed Historically, it is often a conceptually simple device that for optical fiber communication links, also have the ideal triggers a technological revolution. This was the case with wavelength for good atmospheric transmission and lies be­ the proverbial light bulb and more recently with the tran­ yond the 1,400 nm limit at which permissible eye exposure sistor and microchip. This same kind of development is to laser radiation increases by several orders of magnitude . currently unfolding in the fi�ldof lasers, with the realiza­ Combining InGaAsP diode laser technology with the diode tion of phase-conjugate mitrors and processing systems. array concept should result in a laser with good output power Until the recent development of phase-conjugation, ob­ which penetrates the atmosphere well and is relatively safe. taining the optimum, distortion-free output for a coherent In this context it should be noted that these atmospheric laser beam represented the most painstaking and difficult data links can also be extended to high power levels needed of problems. But with phase-conjugation it is now possi­ for energy transmission. The use of extremely reliable laser ble, for the firsttime , to aim and eliminate distortion from sensors makes this both safe and practical , as noted in the laser beams instantaneously; automatically, perfectly, and accompanying box on phase conjugation systems. Ironically, without the need for cumbersome machinery . much of the research that went into the low-power-density All of this is possible because phase-conjugation re­ solar energy R&D of the Carter administration days, could markably permits the revelfSal of time . Imagine that we be applied to high-power-density worldwide laser transmis­ film the following series of events. A rock is thrown into sion of energy. Mirrors orbiting in space could relay laser a pool of water. A series of circular wavefronts is formed beams around the world and redirect and focus the beams and heads toward the banks of the pool . Waves already onto a few square meters of photodiodes on each. This type present in the pool distort :the circular wavefronts . The of power transmission would not be practical in densely pop­ irregularities of the pool bank further distort the wave­ ulated and developed areas, but would be most economic for front. And eventually, after several reflections off the remote regions and provide the means for rapid "electrifica­ sides of the pool, all order is lost from the originally tion" of these areas. (These systems are also being investi­ gated for possible use as a means of powering aircraft and earth-to-orbit rockets .) resonance and thereby detect the existence of trace ele­ Similar revolutions are to be expected as transition-metal­ ments-even from space. Because of the fortuitous coinci­ doped lasers are applied to ultrahigh-resolution and nonlinear dence between some molecules and the line tunable CO2 spectroscopy . These applications are expected to take off as lasers, already deployed in satellites, some experience with techniques developed for liquid dye-laser frequency stabili­ this type of remote sensing has already been demonstrated. zation areapplied to solid-state lasers . But the number of different molecules detectable with the CO2 laser is limited and the lack of continuous tunability 'Everything leaks' prevents measurement of the : absorption lineshape. Line­ Remote sensing currently tops the list for near-term ap­ shape analysis can provide information on atmospheric pres­ plications of solid-state tunable lasers. Both NASA and the sure and temperature . military are achieving rapid advances in this revolutionary The simplest remote-sensil1gtechnique utilizes measure­ field. The basic principle is that "everything leaks ." That is, ments of transmission as a function of wavelength over a all objects-even solid ones-emit trace vapors of the mol­ given path. This can be done by either placing a detector at ecules out of which they are made . Even the rapid advances one end of the path, reflecting the laser with a cooperative in existing multi-spectral, passive sensing with existing sat­ target, such as a retroreflector. or by reflecting energy from ellites only hints at what the future holds for active sensing a diffuse target, such as a hillside. In cases where reflection with differential absorption lidar-laser radar. is employed the technique is called differential absorption For example, much to the surprise and chagrin of the lidar (DIAL). superpowers, scientists from third countries demonstrated A more advanced system being developed by the SOl that it was possible to transformraw civilian satellite sensing involves the detection of back-scattered laser energy from data into pictures with much greater resolution and discrim­ aerosols in the atmosphere . This method requires the use of ination through computer enhancement of multi-spectral data . an energetic , pulsed laser for �asonable ranges and has the With the placement of tunable lasers in space, it will be advantage of yielding range-resolved data. possible to tune in on particular molecular transitions and Both space-based and terrestrial applications of these ad-

20 Science & Technology EIR December 18, 1987 circular wavefronts . Now run the film backward. The done in laser fusion research. It could align a beam car­ distorted waves will reorder themselves and eventually rying energy from a space-based orbiting power plant to a flow back to the original circular wavefronts. This "run­ receiving antenna on Earth, or on an airplane, without any ning" filmbackward is phase-conjugation. danger of the beam's wandering. It caD allow light waves In the case of phase-conjugated mirrors this means to carry signals through the air or through a length of fiber­ that any bit of incoming light is reflected directly back to optic cable without distortion-induced loss of informa­ its source. This is analogous to a wall that always returns tion. And it could allow lasers to etch ,tiny circuits on the a ball to the thrower no matter what the angle of the throw . surfaces of silicon chips without the errors caused by the Phase-conjugation makes aiming lasers quite easy. minute imperfections that occur in focusing lenses. For example, scientists have developed what is called There are two basic types of phase-conjugate systems: four-wave-mixing phase-conjugation systems for aiming In one, the triggering lasers operate at wavelengths unre­ lasers. All that's required is that the target be illuminated lated to the light that will be reflected. In the second, they with a low-power laser beam. This indicator beam can are the light that will be reflected. come from any direction, but it will reflect in all direc­ The first, the four-wave-mixing PCM consists of a tions. A tiny bit of it will therefore bounce toward the plate of clear plastic or crystalline material. Twin activat­ phase-conjugation system. Left to itself, it will hit the ing beams aretrained on the plate. Where they meet, there phase-conjugate mirror and bounce right back to the tar­ are regions where individual light waves overlap, produc­ get, covering the distance at the speed of light. But if there ing tiny hot spots. It is the hot spots-not any property of is a laser-amplification chamber between the target and the plate itself-that do the reflecting. Any clear material, the phase-conjugate mirror, the beam will return vastly therefore , can be used. intensified. The second type works on a principle called Brillouin The implications are enormous. The phase-conjugate scattering. A liquid or gas is confinedin a clear tube. When mirror can aim a defensive laser beam at a speeding mis­ struck by an incoming laser beam, the fluid reacts by sile, maintaining focus despite pockets of turbulence in forming a minute pressure wave. And the shape of the the atmosphere or irregularities in the trajectory of the wave, inevitably, is just right for reflectingthe beam back missile . It could guarantee the precise convergence of on its original path . Again, the type ofliquid used doesn't multiple lasers on a single target. This is already being matter.

vanced lidar sensing systems have immense implications for all capable of few watts of average power at selected wave­ understanding and controlling all types of natural and indus­ lengths between 250 and 350 nm and overall efficiencies of trial processes. Tunable solid-state lasers offer the best com­ a few tenths of a percent-were commercially available. All bination of high reliability and relatively high efficiency with of these systems had size and cost problems associated with long operational lifetimes required for satellite-based remote low efficiency, and high average power in the ultraviolet was sensing. difficult to achieve. In 1975 Setser and his colleagues at Various space-based systems have been proposed. One Kansas State University demonstratedthat rare gas atoms in program would place a system on the Space Station. A second metastable excited states could react [with halogen-bearing would use an unmanned satellite, the Earth Observing Sat­ molecules to form diatomic rare gas halides in a bound excit­ ellite (EOS) project. Both would use passive and active sen­ ed state-in other words to form an excimer. Decay of these sing techniques. Measurements utilizing DIAL (differential excimer molecules to a weakly bound or unbound ground absorption lidar) would monitor atmospheric chemistry and state was accompanied by emission o£ an ultraviolet photon. meteorological conditions. Later research showed that rare gas halideexcimers can also Among the potential applications in industry for laser­ be formed through rare gas-halogen ionic reactions and that based remote sensing are on-line monitoring of plant emis­ they can be produced with relatively high efficiency when a sions for pollution control , detection of potentially harmful suitable gas mixture is subjected to electron impact excita­ levels of gases in environments such as gas-handling facili­ tion. ties or coal mines, and real-time sensing of parameters in a The excimer is a particularly interesting laser since the production line for process control. very short lifetime of the ground state almost ensures popu­ lation inversion and hence optical gain whenever the excited Excimers molecule is formed. This was demonstrated experimentally Before 1976 there were few really good lasers in the by 1975 with laser action based on the, bound-freetransitions ultraviolet wavelength range. Argon ion lasers, frequency­ of the XeBr, XeF, XeCI, and KrF excimers. These lasers tripled or quadrupled Nd: YAG lasers , and nitrogen lasers- utilized electron beam irradiation of rare gas-halogen mix-

EIR December 18, 1987 Scieqce & Technology 21 tures to produce coherent output at 282, 351, 308, and 249 fore more efficient in terms of ablation . More recently, it has nm . Similar lasers utilizing transitions in ArF (193 nm) and been shown that multiphoton processes can also play a role KrCI (222 nm) were demonstrated , and it was shown that in the ablation process. they could also be excited by creating a self-sustained elec­ Research is continuing to uncover further complexities in tricaldischa rge in the laser gas mixture. the ultraviolet light driven ablation process. But despite this, The optimal operation is generally achieved when a com­ it has been shown that material is removed layer-by-layer on position of the excimer laser gas mixture of a few tenths of a a pulse-by-pulse basis. An� each layer is about .3 microns percent halogen donor (NF3, HCl , F2 , and so on), a few thick. This permits fine control of the depth of cut that is percent active rare gas species (Xe, Kr, or Ar) , and a large obtained. Furthermore , most of the laser pulse energy is percentage of a second rare gas which is used as a buffer. utilized in bond breaking and creating the ablative shock. Total operating pressures usually lie in the range of I to 5 Therefore , very little laser energy is deposited in the remain­ atmospheres. Self-sustained discharge excitation of the laser ing material . This means that the physical mechanism of is desirable for most applications because of the greater sim­ ablation differs from that oIf ordinary thermal mechanisms plicity and component reliability associated with that ap­ seen with longer wavelength laser processing. proach, but it is difficult to produce uniform discharges of In general the chief features of the excimer-driven abla­ long duration in gas mixtures of this type . Onset of discharge tion process are: 1) it removes material with extremely high inhomogeneities typically limits laser pulse durations to a precision and excellent edge definition; 2) absence of any few tens of nanoseconds in discharge-excited devices, al­ significant charring or burning of surrounding material; 3) though pulses of I microsecond have been produced with minimal heating or the remaining substrate and therefore electron beam excitation. Dissociation of the halogen donor virtually no distortion of the bulk material; and 4) the use of imposes an upper limit of about one microsecond on the mask imaging processing of entire surface instead of spot duration of pulses from any rare gas �alide device. focusing, piecemeal proces�ing of the workpiece. Recent advances in the fu sion and SOl research programs This last characteristic is crucial for efficient production have greatly improved the prospects for efficient and main­ of defect-free electronic and microchip components . The tenance-free excimer lasers despite the problems of having mask is generally made of a metal that has a much higher to utilize reactive gas mixtures, intense ultraviolet radiation fluence threshold for ablation than the material being pro­ damage to optical components , and the. need for fast, repeti­ cessed. Thus, the mask remains undamaged while the work­ tive' high-power excitation of the medium-which requires piece is etched. It is the us¢ of the mask that allows one to very fast, higly reliable switches. simultaneously process an array of holes or a comb of slots. Because of the unique manner in which ultraviolet light For repetitive patterns, the Jliafallel processing capabilities of interacts with matter, excimer lasers are currently finding the excimer laser, together with the mask imaging technique, greater application to materials processing. Most significant­ allows a much faster thr04ghput than the serial approach ly excimer lasers can remove material by ablation rather than utilized with CO2 and Nd:YlAG lasers, which generally can through thermal processes such as melting, evaporation, or only drill one hole at a time . Therefore , with the excimer vaporization. This ablative shock removal of materials per­ processing rates are measur�d in terms of area instead of the mits a much higher degree of precision than can be attained more conventional linear cutting speed. with other types of lasers. Excimers are also capable of more readily removing se­ At first it was believed that the interaction of ultraviolet lected materials from an underlying substrate . In principle, radiation with organic materials was primarily photochemi­ the CO2 and Nd: Y AG lasers (reviewed in Part I of this article) cal in nature-that is, that absorption of a single excimer­ can also do this, but in practice, because of the thermal nature laser photon by a polymer molecule leads directly to disso­ of the interaction at these longer wavelengths, considerable ciation, provided that the photon energy is greater than the disruption of the remaining: substrate occurs . With excimer bond energy. Therefore , when a polymeric material is irra­ lasers on the other hand, the absorption of energy occurs diated by an excimer laser, many chemical bonds are broken. within a localized region near the surface of the irradiated This produces molecular products which have a much greater material, and very little thetmal diffusion occurs before the specific volume than the original polymer. This, combined material ablates. Therefore ,: the exposed material can be re­ with the excess energy of the ultraviolet photon, generates moved with the underlying $ubstrate remaining virtually un­ the shock ablation removal of material. touched. But other research has shown that thermal and collective Finally, the ablated material is in the form of solid black effects also play a major role in the dynamics of shock abla­ soot and gaseous etch products consisting of CO2, CO, and tion with excimer lasers. For example, it has been shown that H20. The black soot-carbonized material-can be easily for power densities below a certain level, for a given material , removed from the workpiece and therefore leaving the laser the interaction is primarily thermal . Above the power density machined features clean and ready for subsequent process­ threshold, the interaction becomes photochemical and there- ing.

22 Science & Technology EIR December 18, 1987 Applications can be utilized to permit precise removal of thin films such In general the excimer laser is revolutionizing the pro­ as polymer films, adhesives, and ph0toresists from metallic cessing of materials ranging from polymers, semiconductors, substrates. metals through to glass. The most significant developments Alternatively, the excimer is also utilized to remove thin have occurred in: I) the processing of free-standing polymer metal films from polymer and glass substrates. In this case films; 2) selective removal of polymer films from metal sub­ when the excimer laser pulse irradiates the thin metal film, strates; and 3) selective removal of thin metal films from the bulk of the laser energy is absorbed in the metal film nonmetallic substrates . leading to localized melting. But, some of the excimer laser CO2 lasers are currently the main workhorses for cutting light penetrates to the metal-substrate interface and produces and drilling polymers . But the thermal cutting action of these a pressure build-up at this interface. This pressure at the lasers limits the minimum size of hole that can be produced. interface derives from the decomposition of a thin layer of There is also a limit on the density of holes that can be the substrate and/or degassing in the case of glass substrates. produced . The ablative nature of the excimer virtually elim­ The pressure build-up explosively removes the molten metal inates the heating of the affected zone and permits very pre­ film. This technique can also utilize masks to produce com­ cise drilling of small-diameter holes (less than 100 microns) plex patterns in single pass processing . in thin materials at spacings not much greater than the hole Excimer lasers are best suited for applications that require diameter. Also, because of the non-thermal nature of the the removal of relatively small amounts of material with a ablative process, a large number of holes can be drilled at high degree of precision and can therf�ore be combined with one time with a mask. "thermal" lasers, such as CO2 and Nd:YAG which would In general organic material s such as polymer films require carry out the rough cutting-greate,r than several millime­ excimer laser energy densities on the order of 100 millijoules ters. The non-thermal cutting action due to excimer driven per square centimeter for their removal . Metal films require shock ablation makes them particularly attractive for appli­ an order of magnitude greater fluence-one joule per square cations where side effects of conventional thermal process­ centimeter before ablation takes place.This vast difference ing, such as charring and melting, are deleterious.

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EIR December 18 , 1987 Science & Technology 23 The SDIO has already awarded Martin Marietta, together with its primary subcontractors, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company and TRW, a Phase II contract for demonstrating the feasibility of a space-based �aser experiment. The Alpha laser program is the most mature of the SDI's directed energy technologies. It is developing and validating key critical technologies neede to establish the fe asibility of space-based ballistic missile de ,ense. The simplicity of Alpha's construction and operation makes it a strong candidate for strategic defense. The Alpha Zenith Star: an laser system is constructed primarily of extruded aluminum, and derives its beam from a purely chemical reaction, which SDI demonstration is also the primary source of energy for the laser. Tests have established that Alpha can prov'de the technology to realize sufficiently high power chemical lasers for strategic defense. by Charles B. Stevens The Alpha is the follow-on to the MIRACL (Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser). On Sept. 6, 1985 the MIRACL On Nov. 24, 1987 during a visit to the Denver-based Martin laser destroyed the second stage of a Titan I booster in tests Marietta Astronautics factory, President Reagan revealed for conducted at the High Energy Laser System Test Facility at the first time the fu ll dimensions and advanced status of the the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Zenith Star space-based laser demonstration project, a model The Alpha program is managed for the SDIO by the Air of which is pictured on this page. Zenith Star is the Strategic Force Weapons Laboratory . The prime contractor is TRW, Defense Initiative (SDI) continuation of the Defense Ad­ Redondo Beach, California. I vanced Research Projects Agency space-based chemical las­ The second major element of Zenith Star is LAMP (Large er program. The two major elements of Zenith Star are the Advanced Mirror Program), shown in the third photograph . LAMP mirror and the Alpha chemical laser, both of which This program has demonstrated mirrors which are light enough elements have been demonstrated in laboratory experiments to deploy in space. LAMP is the culmination of a decade and shown in the photographs. a half of R&D effort . The LAMP mirror is being used to study technology issues involved in utilizing large optics for strategic defense applications. Performance tests of the LAMP mirror will be completed in early 1988. The successful demonstration of this segmented LAMP mirror removes one of the major tech­ nology barriers to developing directed energy weapons. The LAMP program element is managed by the Rome Air Development Center. The rime contractor for the proj ­ ect is ITEK Corporation. Eastman Kodak fabricated the LAMP mirror's center segment.

Background and prospects As originally conceived, the Zenith Star project was to have demonstrated the essential elements of space-based las­ er missile defense before the end of 1988. But congressional budget cuts in the SDI progra , and the space shuttle Chal­ lenger disaster, have delayed the program up to several years. While the Zenith Star space flight test will demonstrate all of the combined technology elements for space-based This Martin Marietta artist's concept depicts a space-based laser demonstration that would be conducted as part of the laser missile defense, the system itself is not capable of ef­ Strategic Defense Initiative program. Called Zenith Star, the fectively taking action against allistic missiles. But studies program would consist of a flight experiment to demonstrate the carried out over the past several years at TRW, and laboratory operation of a medium-power chemical laser in space, and experiments on phase arrayed lasers at the Air Force Weap­ investigate how it would acquire, track, and point at a target. ons Laboratory, show one interesting way in which Zenith Martin Marietta Sp ace Systems company in Denver, Colorado, has a $10.8 million contract fr om the SDI Organization to Star could be directly scaled to achieve such a goal. design the flight experiment. Before going into this, though, it must be understood that

24 Science & Technology I EIR December 18, 1987 The LAMP mirror is an adaptive, segmented mirror currently in final stages of acceptance testing by lTEK Corporation of The cylindrical gain generator of the Alpha chemical laser is Lexington, Massachusetts. Here a technician checks the mirror prepared fo r installation and testing at TR W' s Capistrano Test surface aft er the seventh and final segment is in place on the Site . Alpha uses atomic fluorine and h drogen to fo rm the supporting backplate . The extremely precise figure (shape) and hydrogen fluoride lasing medium. The evice then uses alignment of the mirror's lightweight fa cesheets are controlled cylindrical mirrors to extract a 2.7 mi rometer wavelength by actuators attached to the rear surfaces. The overall diameter high-power laser beam. Alpha is the key component in the of the fu lly assembled mirror is fo ur meters . concept design for the SOlO 's Zenith Star experiment.

the Zenith Star laser would carry out two distinct missions as diameter mirrors are quite feasible. As TRW studies note, part of a missile defense system. The first, which could be this virtually removes all limits on the power and brightness attained with a single module system, would utilize the Ze­ achievable with lasers. nith Star to aid other types of missile interception systems A complementary development at the Air Force Weapons through actively locating warheads in space and discriminat­ Laboratory is that of phase arraye lasers. Experiments at ing between decoys and real re-entry vehicles. this laboratory showed that many individual laser systems The second mission is that of intercepting ballistic mis­ could be made to operate as a phased array. The result is that sions in their vulnerable boost phase. This would require the combined output laser beam has an effective power den­ much higher laser power levels and larger mirrors than are sity equal to that of the square of the number individual laser represented by a single Zenith Star module. But the work at utilized. In other words 10 small l�sers, when ganged in a TRW and the Air Force Weapons Lab shows how this defi­ phased array, would have the effective firepowerof a single ciency could readily be overcome. laser 100 times more powerful than the single small laser. TRW demonstrated that the technology already exists for Potentially, the net effect is quite dramatic. Many small constructing and operating extremely large mirror arrays in laser modules, such as Zenith Star, could be operated as a space. The idea is that many small mirrors can be ganged phased array. By utilizing large phased array mirrors in geo­ together in a phased array to act like a single large mirror . synchronous orbit, orbiting lasers throughout the world could The small elements of the phased array can be mass produced combine their firepowerto achieve drfective output levels for and are therefore quite cheap. Systems acting like 100-m�ter- intercepting missiles anywhere.

EIR December 18, 1987 Science & Technology 25 TIillFeature

The tragic state of U. S.A. counterintelligence

by Lyndon H. LaRouche. Jr.

According to a recent admission by fonner U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, he has important contacts within the Soviet government, and was in contact with the circles of Moscow Procurator Pustagarov in connection with his representation of West Gennan Green Party leader Petra Kelly in her suit against New Solidarity International Press Service. That is the same Pustagarov who is an official Soviet link to old Ramsey Clark associates at the U.S. Department of Justice today, including the Criminal Divi­ sion's Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Richard. This Petra Kelly lawsuit was part of a Soviet "active measures" operation inside the United States. The Green Party of West Gennany, of which Kelly was for a time a leading figure , is a Soviet front-operation funded substantially by the government of East Gennany through Communist Party conduits inside West Gennany. After launching the suit, Kelly herself repeatedly evaded deposition, until, according to her, Ramsey Clark proposed to press the case, and became her legal counsel. This is the matter in which Clark acknowledged his consultations with the circles of the Moscow Procurator. The suit fizzled when a frazzled, finally deposed Kelly admitted to the truth­ fulness of the published allegations. That detail aside, the suit was part of a Soviet operation; Ramsey Clark was part of it, and concedes'he was in contact with Soviet authorities in the operation. After Annand Hammer's ties to Nancy Reagan's circle of friends, Ramsey Clark is one of the most conspicuous influential channels through which Soviet active measures are run inside the United States. In the case of Hammer's manifold pro-Soviet influence through the Democratic National Committee, and his strong influence among the personal circles of Mrs. Reagan, such Soviet influences on U.S. policy are often successful. Clark and Soviet agents of influence inside the World Council of Churches show up running destabilizations against U. S. allies in places such as the Philippines and South Korea, with significant support for these pro-Soviet operations from inside U. S. policy-influencingcircl es. After considering those facts, one should not be surprised that the Federal

26 Feature EIR December 18, 1987 Forum on IKE WEAP

. \ Ramsey Clark (right) speaks against the SDI . Seated are Petra Kelly of the German Green Party and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg .

Bureau of Investigation's June 1987 "Soviet Active Mea­ ations inside the U.S.A. Curiously! none of these are visibly sures in the United States: 1986- 1 987" fails to mention Clark directing U.S. counterintelligence functions. The FBI's and or Hammer by name. Except for the most pathetic, shopworn State's counterintelligence functions spend a great amount of sort of open Soviet fronts as those of the Communist Party effort covering up for Soviet operations inside the U.S.A., U.S.A., the report mentions nothing by name. More signifi­ and sometimes even assisting them This is the case with Roy cant, the report does not even provide a broad classification Godson's operations, as well as those of the relevant sections for the most important class of Soviet activities inside the at FBI and State. U. S. A. ! One wonders if the FBI counterintelligence section One might gain the impression that someone in govern­ is as disgustingly amateurish as the report suggests, or if ment does not wish the really im rtant Soviet penetration powerful political influencesmight be responsible? and active-measures operations actually touched, and that If one thought the FBI's report were pathetic, the August others think it not worth the loss 0f their careers to oppose 1987 product on the same subject issued by the U. S. Depart­ the cover-ups. The case of Rome11stein's role in assisting a ment of State is a deliberate cover-up for the Soviets. The Soviet operation against my asso iates and myself, on the latter report, although issued in the name of State's Deputy origin of the AIDS virus, illustrates a common pattern. Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Kathleen C. Bailey, appears to be chiefly the work of the U.S. Infor­ AIDS: a case study mation Agency's Herbert Romerstein. Notably, Romerstein During the past four years , I have been personally the is a subordinate of Comrade Armand Hammer's crony, U.S. target of a major Soviet operation directed from the highest Information Agency (USIA) Director Charles Z. Wick. level of Moscow. Even if we Ii it the evidence to Soviet Whereas the FBI's report is a collection of shallow, un­ officialpublica tions, the extent and virulence of the attacks glittering generalities, State's report is packed with names exceed Soviet attacks on any private figure in the West during and dates. Whereas the FBI's report is a singularly uninfor­ the entire postwar period. mative pastiche of shopworn press releases, State's report This 1983-87 Soviet operation, to date, began in the actually lies in some elaborate detail about several key Soviet immediate aftermath of President Reagan's March 23, 1983 "dezinformatsia" operations of some importance. announcement of the U. S. Strategic Defense Initiative. SiI?ce Inside or close to the U.S. government, there are able I had been conducting back-channel discussions with Soviet men and women with significant knowledge of Soviet oper- officials on this subject, on behalf of the U. S. government,

EIR December 18, 1987 Feature 27 over the period January 1982 until April 1983, as well as like Visna, by laboratory accidents. campaigning for the policy publicly and behind doors in The second part of Segal's argument, that AIDS was many centers of the world, Moscow naturally assumed that I created and distributed by the U� S.A. as a weapon of biolog­ was a principal intellectual author of the SDI policy, and ical warfare , is absurd. At present, unless we imagine that placed me number one on its hate-list as a result. some fanatical supporter of the World Wildlife Fund, ob­ During the second half of 1985, the Soviet government sessed with a bestial desire to i wipe out the entire human launched a coordinated international campaign against me species, secretly invented and spread the disease on several over the issue of AIDS . My associates had exposed Soviet continents during the 1960s, accidental laboratory creation officials in the World Health Organization as directing a of AIDS during the 1960s is th¢ only known way in which worldwide policy of covering up the extent and significance the disease could have been accidentally created and spread. of the AIDS pandemic, to which charge Moscow replied with No other explanation conforms to the known scientific evi­ savagery, focusing their campaign against the U.S. govern­ dence. ment, which Moscow repeatedly asserted that it believed was The biological experts consulted are clear on this point. secretly behind my associates' role in this matter. To create AIDS during the 1960s, the date the infection Immediately, the USIA's Herbert Romerstein, nominally first appeared, the method used would have had to have been in charge of dealing with Soviet disinformation for the State the use of a known "retrovirus" of animals, such as Visna, as Department, acted as an accomplice of Moscow in attempt­ part of a forced natural recombination in the medium of a ing to deflect responsibility for authorship of these Soviet human tissue culture. If a virus with a Visna-like core were attacks to me ! To assist in spreading his hoax, Romerstein produced accidentally in such a fashion, the new infection reportedaspects of the Soviet articles in question, but omitted would be a disease specific to human beings. All that would referenceto the attacks upon me and my associates in those be required to begin the spread of the infection, would have Soviet items ! been the additional accidents inherent in the lack of adequate . Romerstein's hoax is restated at length in a July 1987 security inherentto underfunde

28 Feature ElK December 18, 1987 Moscow attitudes toward development It is my personal and repeated knowledge, that Moscow has been opposed to what the developing Non-Aligned Na­ tions organization terms "a new world economic order." My direct knowledge in this matter dates from mid- 1975, during the preparations for the August 1976 Colombo, Sri Lanka conference of the Non-Aligned, and continues beyond the period of the March 1983 Non-Aligned conference in New Delhi, India. Admittedly, Moscow has frequently conducted propa­ ganda campaigns against the injustice of OECD nations' "imperialist" financial looting of developing nations. How­ ever, as I learnedin the instance of Peru's 1965 negotiations with Moscow, and numerous other instances during that pe­ riod and later, Moscow is consistently, sometimes violently opposed to a "new world economic order" whenever push comes to shove, as was the case of the Soviet faction oper­ ating at the New Delhi Non-Aligned conference during March 1983. (Fidel Castro was personally in support of the New Delhi resolution, but Moscow was not; so, Castro was per­ emptorily overruled within the Cuba delegation itself.) Since I have been eyeball-to�eyeball with Moscow on Brian Lantz, spokesman fo r the this issue many times over, I have learned to understand the known in 1986 as Proposition 64 , UrLI'UJu"""es exact nature of Soviet behavior to this effect. referendum in Sacramento on May Look at the map of the world, strategically. The OECD fr iends sp ent $3 million to block the ("Western industrialized") nations represent twice the popu­ lation of the Soviets, and have a level of potential productiv­ for Soviet backwardness by an extensive and deep, erosive ity per-capita twice that of the Soviet population. Tum our self-destruction of the economic Jlotential of the Western eyes next to the developing nations and populations of Cen­ world and its developing-sector friends. tral and South America, Africa, and non-communist Asia. These strategic considerations are key to the major por­ Most of the population of Central and South America has tion of Moscow's recent policies 0 the subject of AIDS. a Western European cultural potential , and hence is a region Moscow's response to AIDS at pome is elementary, and which could become an economic superpower within a gen­ will be as drastic as expediency recommends. Moscow as­ eration or less. Africa is more poorly endowed with culturally sumes that it can contain the spreatl of AIDS in the Soviet determined productive potentials, but over a span of two bloc, by public health measures, and gradual development of generations, could be brought up to recent European stan­ a cure. However, as the role of Comrade Armand Hammer's dards , or better. The situation in non-communist Asia is friends in California and in Wash ngton, against the 1986 varied, but India, for example, has the natural and cultural AIDS Proposition 64 shows, Moscow has been using its potentials of an economic superpower within a span of two channels of influence so far to prevent effective measures generations. against AIDS in the OECD nations and the non-communist Thus, the Western world so definedrepresents the over­ developing sector. whelming balance in present and future productive potential, The argument could, and must 1i>emade , that such Soviet and control over most of the land-area and maritime choke­ attitudes are as foolish as they are monstrously obnoxious. points of the planet. What happens, then, from the Soviet We know that AIDS is presently 00% lethal, and that the standpoint, if monetary reform begins to unleash the produc­ viral agent is mutating at about ten times the rate of the tive and related potentials of the non-communist developing common cold virus. It is, like all viruses ofth is type, peculiar sector? to a single species, in this case the human species. It infects Not only does economic development so unleashed build every aspect of the victim, notably the central nervous sys­ up the power of the developing sector. Development trans­ tem, where AIDS dementia begins early, and the immuno­ forms the developing sector into a self-expanding market for logical system. The possibility of devising a vaccine is vir­ capital-goods exports from the OECD nations. This means a tually zero, and no ordinary cure is feasible, although ex­ substantial increase of turnover in the machine-tool sector in traordinary approaches now being ,developed should lead to the OECD nations, and a consequently increased growth of a cure. productivity and scale of physical output in the OECD na­ Contrary to fanatically asserted lies, AIDS is not a vener­ tions. Moscow's global strategy depends upon compensating eal disease. If the density of highly-infectious contacts is

EIR December 18, 1987 Feature 29 sufficiently high, almost any route of transmission found black Africa were to become virually extinct, or if similar among viruses becomes possible. The infectious agent is not holocausts prevailed in South America, non-communist Asia, only mutating with extraordinary rapidity, but is adjusting its and the People's Republic of China, to say nothing of the outer coat in ways promoting new routes of significant trans­ nations of the Atlantic Alliance. If the sacrificeof billions of mission. lives, in this or some other manner, advances Moscow's If Moscow, or anyone else thinks that one can create cause, that becomes a "regret able price" paid for what is � ' effective "immigration" barriers against the widespread seen in Moscow as a durable historic victory for Moscow­ transmission of AIDS into local populations, once the AIDS ruled mankind on this planet �s a whole. That is the logic pandemic reaches sufficient levels of intensity in the world with which one must contend from such quarters . generally, it is playing the smug fool. This is the firstdisease On the surface, folk ignorant of Moscow's actual outlook which has ever existed which has the inherent potential to might imagine that the Soviets would welcome, at least se­ i render the human species extinct within a span of approxi­ cretly, my decades-long campaign for economic justice for mately a half a century, more or less. Those authorities, of developing nations. If one looks at the matter more closely, any nation, who play political games of cover-up in connec­ and not with myth-laden presuI)1ptions, the deeper nature of tion with this pandemic , are as traitors to the human species. my decades-long, special sort of mutual-adversary relation­ The Soviets, while formally rational, in a mechanistic ship to Moscow is rightly understood. way, on many issues, especially strategic ones, are as bad as What I have proposed is the establishment of a new mon­ any industrialized nation's government today, in attempting etary system consistent with the principles of what U.S. to lie away the existence of any facts which might impair the Treasury Secretary Alexander ijamilton was firstto name, in appearance of perfection of current policy. On this point, December 1791, "the American System of political-econo­ even their friends in other nations pronounce them perversely my." My argument has been, th�t the economic development stubbornfolk with whom to deal. Nonetheless, facts remain of the developing sector is to , the great mutual economic facts. advantage of the developing and OECD nations, on the con­ They are very insular folk, who would not weep much if dition that the relations between the two sectors are based on the so-called "mercantilist" principles of the American Sys­ tem. Moscow agrees with that estimate of the impact of my proposals. For this reason, some Soviet publications have attacked me as an "ideologue of late-capitalism." In short, I Forfu�er reading am viewed as representing a scheme for reviving the vitality of the capitalist system, at a time when Marxists and others "LaRouche attacks Moscow's AIDS disinformation," in Moscow are relying upon the capitalist system's early EIR , Aug. 28, 1987. Includes the full text of a letter by "final breakdown crisis. " LaRouche to the Soviet journal International Affairs, For the same reason, as I h�e indicated, in a more gen­ on the subject of that journal's charge that the AIDS eral way, Moscow opposes any concrete measures which viruswas developed at "germ warfare" facilities at Fort would foster significant economic development among de­ Detrick, Maryland. This Soviet campaign, which was veloping antions which are trading partners and friends of the t picked up by the Romerstein-Godson networks in the OECD nations. Hence, prior to he emergence of the sm as West, made use of misrepresentations of statements the leading issue for which Moscow has attacked me , the made by a distinguished British physician, Dr. John leading issue has been that I have been eyeball-to-eyeball Seale, who is associated with LaRouche's efforts to with Soviet policy in the developing sector. stimulate public health measures against the spread of Moscow is willing to back actions through which devel­ AIDS. oping nations break politically with the United States, al­ though since Egypt and the experience with Cuba, Moscow "Inside the 'secret government': Irangate mystery man is not willing to provide much more than arms deliveries and Roy Godson," by Herbert Quinde, EIR , Aug. 7, 1987. Soviet advisers to any developililg nations which might take this course. Even in military matters , the tale of Soviet sub­ "Whose 'disinformation'? The case of Roy Godson," sidies to client states is largely illusion. Moscow takes pay­ by Scott Thompson and Herbert Quinde, EIR , Oct. 16, ment in what it chooses, at price!> it chooses, and on terms of 1987. payment it chooses. "Comradely generosity" is more fiction than substance in the matter of Moscow's business affairs . "The Russian-Hammer connection in official Wash­ The principal center of my ccPntinuingconflict with Mos­ ington," by Criton Zoakos, Scott Thompson, and Kath­ cow on issues of economic development, is Centraland South leen Klenetsky, EIR . Nov. 7, 1987. America. Here, the terrorists, the Soviet-linked drug-runners (such as those of the Medellin; Colombia cartel), and the

30 Feature EIR December 18, 1987 Moscow assets of the Socialist International and European harassment" by the federal Department of Justice. As partof officesof the ICF'fU, are one bloc against me and my friends. this operation, the late Roy M. Cohn of the New York East Side Conservative Club was used, with leftist drug-lobbyist How Soviet measures work Dennis King. The key to Soviet operations inside the U. S. A. and West­ Similarly, in the $3 million propaganda operation against em Europe , for example, is less outright "wet affairs" acts of California Proposition 64, during 1986, the initiative came assassination by the KGB and GRU "special purpose" teams­ from the assets of "Comrade Annand Hammer" in both Cal­ although these occur increasingly. The bulk of Soviet "active ifornia and the Reagan administration, aided by Armand measures" are in the domain of psychological-warfare oper­ Hammer's associates, including National,ChairmanPaul Kirk, ations. The legal problems faced by my friends and me, in the Democratic National Committe�. This includes the involving the U . S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys harassment by Hammer-linked California Attorney General general linked to Paul Kirk's backer, Comrade AnnandHam­ van de Kamp. Out of this operation funded by the circles of mer, are an example of this. Comrade Armand Hammer-a severity-year-long Soviet The first action which Moscow takes against a person in agent since the days of Hammer's running international er­ the West whom it marks as a "potentially dangerous adver­ rands for V.1. Lenin, came the constant "political extremist sary ," is to orchestrate a campaign of personal defamation Lyndon LaRouche" throughout the computer-generated co­ and related tricks, leading toward legal or related harassment pycat journalism of AP, UPI, and the national news-media of the selected target. generally. These Moscow-orchestrated psychological-warfare op­ The role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is not an erations are conduited chiefly through news-media of the exception to this Soviet-orchestrated pattern. The ADL, a West. The hard core of such news-media defamation is run "consultant" to the Justice Department �d FBI, runs routine through Soviet assets among "leftist journalists" and the operations in support of forged KGB "evidence," concocted smaller publications of the "left," especially publications by the Soviet KGB, against selected "anti-Soviet" targets in which have no formal left-wing party affiliation. These lef­ the West. The ADL may become a bit discomfited by the tish assets are chiefly various sorts of ex-Communists and way in which Moscow recently wrote off certain aspects of social-democrats . negotiations with Edgar Bronfman and Bronfman's cronies The persistent drumbeat of hate-propaganda directed at in Israel. The recent, reported quarter-million person protest the targets from leftish publications, is then picked up by demonstration in Washington, D.C., may signal some ADL mass-media agencies within which Moscow has important adaptation to the anger against Moscow laIllong Jewish groups channels of influence. inside the U.S.A. Nonetheless, the past record is clear. For example, beginning February 1973, the Soviet KGB There are certain major news-mtldia publications, in launched a coordinated operation against me and my associ­ Western Europe and the U.S.A., which are either entirely ates in both Western Europe and the U.S.A., featuring a Soviet assets from the top down, or which have functioning drugging, abduction, and attempted brainwashing of one as­ important channels of influence within 'those publications. It sociate in Germany , and the launching of the U.S. Commu­ is a part of the routine work of counteriltelligence specialists nist Party 's youth groupin an attempt to eliminate my friends' to watch these publications and certain editors and journalists activities in the United States by drastic physical means. closely, for clear signals on the current Soviet covert opera­ This operation was supported initially, during 1973, by tions deployments. In the U.S.A., NBC-TV's Tom Brokaw the left-wing publications and organizations in the U.S.A., is one of those to be so watched. with tangible sympathy for the Communists expressed by the There are important business channels, especially those FBI and the New York Times. At the close of 1973, the situated in Twin Cities, Minnesota, and up and down the Communists planned an assassination-attempt upon me, grain belt, which have similar significance. Hollywood is bringing in a Havana-DGI-linked terrorist group, from Puer­ one of the centers of the problem, including Nancy Reagan's to Rico to New York City. The operation was discovered and friendsof the circles of USIA Director Charles Z. Wick and aborted, by aid of the New York Police Department. How­ his wife. The astonishing shift in President Reagan's ap­ ever, the New York Times, which has some special connec­ proach to dealing with Moscow, over the recent 30 months, tions to the Soviet KGB , according to legal records, launched is not without relevant reasons, including the connection the first major news media attack on me, based chiefly on between Comrade Armand Hammer and the Wick house­ left-wing materials, during January 1974. hold. According to tape-recorded testimony by New York Times Perhaps there will be happy changes in the FBI fairly agents , it was the Times, putatively in cooperation with So­ soon, long-overdue changes at USIA, and a clean-out of the viet-connected then-U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtz­ social-democratic network of liars behind Roy Godson and man, who plotted a 1979-80 nationwide press campaign set­ his cronies. The United States sorely needs a competent ting my associates and me up, according to Times reporters counterintelligence capability against Soviet "active mea­ Paul Montgomery and Howard Blum, for "fiveyears of legal sures."

EIR December 18, 1987 Feature 31 Friedrich Th. Guenther, Brigadier General (ret ), Switzerland

Lyndon H. LaRouche: a clearly uncoIllfortable presidential candidate

To the contrary , in October 1986, parts of his organization We are pleased to publish the fo llowing commentaryby Dr. have been assaulted by armed pOlice in the U. S .A., and some at-Law F. Guenther, of Losone, Ticino, Switzerland. closed down under the charges of alleged "obstruction of justice" and alleged "credit crurd misuse." Fines in the mil­ If I may, as a "consumer of background intelligence," inter­ lions were slapped upon them withoutjudgment . Against this fere in the controversies that concern Lyndon H. LaRouche, piratical, anti-constitutional action, LaRouche is defending and thereby perhaps make myself unwelcome here and there, himself in a trial that started in September 1987 in Boston, I do it based on two considerations: which has had to be interrupted when it was revealed that the 1) Who will be the successor of Ronald Reagan as Presi­ crown witness, Roy Frankhauser, could be proved to have dent of the United States cannot be a matter of indifference brought LaRouche in touch with the CIA in 1983. How to us, in the (still) free Western world-whether it will be a embarrassing! strong personality with a clear program, or a weakling, a Why is it, now, that LaRouc;:he is considered by the KGB Fabius Cunctator in the style of Jimmy Carter. as enemy number one? 2) As a Christian, I feel bound to uphold the postulate of 1) SDI: Since 1977 , he has worked in a scientificcapacity Justice, and therefore to take part in the fight against disin­ on this anti-nuclear missile defense shield, and is seen by the formation and slander-even if I receive from various quar­ Kremlin as responsible for Ronald Reagan' s adoption of SDI ters the (certainly well-meaning) monotone advice: "Hands in his speech of March 23 , 1983 . off!" 2) LaRouche is an ardent supporter of America's loyalty As a subscriber to various private background intelli­ to NATO. gence sources, I have been able for more than one year to 3) He is a vehement oppoQent of the INF Treaty , to be draw comparisons with the "EIR Strategic Alert Service" and signed on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor by Reagan and the private intelligence agency Executive Intelligence Re­ Gorbachov. He calls this treaty ,a "New Yalta." view, based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. It was not rarely 4) He is a convinced oppoqent of the counterproductive the case-at least in retrospect-that I could ascertain [in sanctions applied worldwide a�inst South Africa. other sources] an identity of content with theEIR ' s published Concerningthis , LaRouche writes: at an earlier date . Many months before the "Black Monday" of last Octo­ The Soviet motives for having me eliminated phys­ ber, Lyndon LaRouche had analyzed it as being inevitable if ically as soon as possible are obvious. They see my Ronald Reagan did not change his mistaken financialpolicy . influence growing rather rapidly and know that were After I was able to conduct a personal discussion with I to become President or to exert a strong influence Lyndon H. LaRouche, at his invitation, near Frankfurt, a on the President, their strategic game is ended. They conversation which gave me the opportunity to ask all pos­ would be forced to pull back from their present aggres­ sible questions without being asked anything myself, I feel sion and to accept the continued existence of a strong justified to form my own judgment of this man, and I feel · and economically healthy Western civilization for a morally compelled to speak out about it. The impression I long time to come. acquired of Lyndon H. LaRouche is that of a highly educated, From the U.S. side the !threat to my friends and far-sighted man. Additionally, I am in regular touch with me is naturally somewhat different: to secure what it Laurent Murawiecof EIR , a courteous, educated Frenchman thinks are favorable terms for a "summit," the Reagan of Polish origin. administration or any other must nail my hide to the In my knowledge, in spite of heavy accusations, no le­ barn-door as a price paid to Moscow as a part of the gally binding judgment has been issued against LaRouche. deal.

32 Feature EIR December 18, 1987 The imputation of LaRouche being a disguised KGB ist ....The institute's purpose is to reestablish the Western agent must therefore be characterized as an absurdity. Should alliance on a new positive basis, 'that of a healthy world it be attempted, however, to call to the witness stand (besides order' (doesn't this recall Hitler's New Order?)" the scandal-mongering magazine Der Sp iegel), right-wing The Sept. 15, 1986 issue of New Times even charges Social Democrat Roy Godson or the Heritage Foundation, LaRouche with being guilty of the assassination of Olof their shady role in the Irangate scandal will have to be pointed Palme .... to. LaRouche has always warned that, supported by Rea­ Many such examples from the Soviet "kitchen" could gan's unfortunate government directive (Executive Order be cited. 12333), there also exists besides the constitutional admin­ From the above, it can be adduced that LaRouche is istration , an apparatus, a secret parallel government, which being slandered from two sides: On the one hand, the Soviets deals in matters the President never comes to know of. call him a "neo-Nazi" and on the other hand, some Amer­ Reagan's only honest and accountable collaborator, Caspar icans and Europeans call him a "KGB agent in disguise." Weinberger, has leftthe stage in protest against the Reagan­ That he is neither the one nor the other can be proven Gorbachov accord on the removal of the medium-range on the basis of facts, and on the basis of the names and missiles from Europe . It is clear that such uncomfortable publications which can be read anytime. people as Lyndon LaRouche who are aware of the deeper In my view, Lyndon H. LaRouche is an intrepid fighter connections at play must be taken care of, minimally by for the U.S. A. as the world's leading economic and military character assassination. Hence the fact that in a U.S. slander power. As he does not shy away from exposing the evils trial, it is not incumbent upon the slanderer to bring proof, that exist in his country, he naturally makes many enemies. but upon the one slandered, who is compelled to prove his The Irangate scandal (Ollie North, Poindexter, the late Cas­ innocence ! That is why so many libel suits in tthe U.S.A. ey), the drug trade, and dirty money laundering offer indeed can go on forever without conclusion. a rich material ! In this context, it might be worth raising this question: We hope that, in spite of all slanders, Lyndon LaRouche, How come, really, defecting Soviet citizens, including even in whatever position he may be, will be able to bring about former KGB officers , who babble abroad with full impunity, the realization of his clear conception of a strong America, straight out of the Soviet "kitchen," could not be suspected in the interests of the (still) free ,Western world! of being themselves KGB agents in disguise? A report by the international Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations is perhaps of special interest. It includes a "Petition to the President of the United States" In Defense Policy which lists in detail the anti-constitutional encroachments of police against LaRouche's organization. The Fact-Finding and as a Committee includes more than 20 American personalities­ Military Phenomenon professors, judges, attorneys, generals, vice-admirals, etc. That John Weber of Hebrew Union College also is a member suffices to dispel any idea that LaRouche's organization could have anything to do with anti-Semitism. Among the European members of the Commission: Brig. Gen. (ret.) Prof. F.-A. von der Heydte and Vice Adm. K.-A. Zenker, by Professor Friedrich August former Chief of Staff of the German Navy. Frhr. von der Heydte Part IV of this report lists the various slanders printed in the Soviet press against LaRouche from 1983 through 1987. This includes the Soviet magazine New Times which Order from : appears in nine languages and millions of copies. In its issue Ben Franklin of Oct. 19, 1984, the well-known and often-quoted Soviet Booksellers, Inc. functionary Vadim Zagladin wrote: "Designs of themed. Doo 27 South King St. Here is a report from the United States. An organization Leesburg, VA 22075 calling itself the Schiller Institute (founded by Helga Zepp­ LaRouche) was set up here in August. The list of sponsors $9.95 plus shipping includes organizations of the U.S. extreme right like the ($1 .50 for first book, American Conservative Union and the Heritage Foundation, $.50 for each and also notorious West German reactionaries .... The additional book.) Bulk rates available. choice of name suggests the noblest intentions but the In­ stitute's ned-Nazi revanchist program shows that it was an act of sacrilege toward the memory of the great human-

EIR December 18, 1987 Feature 33 Strategic impact of INF: The debate has been absurd

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The analysis which fo llows was released in Boston on Dec. qualities of an excellent, recently retired U.S. Secretary of 12, 1987, under the fu ll title, "Why the debate on the 1NF Defense, Caspar Weinberger. One should have high regard agreement's strategic impact has been absurd thus far. " for Mr. Weinberger's tested qualities, and one should not underestimate actions taken under his shrewd perception of So far, almost the entirety of the debate within the United the ways of the Washington bureaucracy and matters of deal­ States, on the subject of the Gorbachov-Reagan INF agree­ ings with the Congress. However, in the former Defense ments, has been axiomatically and otherwise absurd. The Secretary's commendable acc4>mplishments, there are cer­ most conspicuous of the fallacies contributing to this general tain omissions. Whether he intended those omissions to exist folly has been the prefixing of the term "strategic" to matters or not, is moot; the omissions, in fact, do exist, and they are which by their nature are essentially merely tactical. strategically crucial. In this debate, those who insist that President Reagan has effected a "sell-out" are chieflyin the right. The Soviets have 'Strategy' defined "sacrificed" weapons which they had intended to replace as In earlier reports, I have stressed repeatedly, that in gen­ obsolete, in any case; we gave up capabilities for which we, eral warfare military means represent not more than approx­ unlike Moscow, have no back-up, and none in sight. The net imately 20% of the total allotment of effort of combined effect of the agreement, is to increase greatly Soviet military defense and offense required for victory; the remaining 80%, superiority, while decreasing our own substantially. or more, is represented by efforts of defense and offense in The attempt to see a silver lining to this part of the busi­ the domains of culture, economy, and politics. I have also ness, presumes the deployment of new U.S. capabilities, in stressed, that the relationship among these four elements­ different parts of the weapons catalogues, which are repre­ cultural, economic, political, and military-is not a linear, sented as actually or potentially offsetting the most disastrous additive one. Each element interacts with theother three, and features of President Reagan's concessions to Moscow under each pairwise interaction interacts with all other pairwise INF rubrics. It is to be noted, that all or nearly all of these interactions. mootedoff setting capabilities are now either to be scrapped, For example, in the case at hand, President Reagan, vis­ or their deployment so curtailed and hamstrung that it were ibly affected by the influencesof Comrade Armand Hammer as if they did not exist at all. on the cronies of his personal household, has visibly under­ In these parts of the discussions, no consideration is in­ gone an extensive behavioral modification. He has repudiat­ cluded of the new order of battle which Soviet forces intend ed his earlier "empire of evil" .belief, substituting assertion to have in place by about 1991-92, an omission which marks of Mikhail Gorbachov's peace-seeking passions. It is this all qualified apologies for the tactical side of the United top-down, Genscher-like cultural shift in the posture of the States' INF concessions with a damning irrelevance. United States government, m4>re than any arsenal factor, At the same time, there is a wishful exaggeration of the which defines the recent agreement, indelibly, as a "new

34 International EIR December 18, 1987 Munich" appeasement. been approached, represents, culturally, a strategic disaster It is argued that he is sticking to the SDI. It is even flowingfrom the visible behavioral modificationof the Pres­ suggested that he might have wrought some concessions from ident. Moreover, the impact of that behavioral modification Mikhail Gorbachov on this issue. Even at the best, assuming upon military factors has been to reshape the SDI policy in a there might be some half-truth in all this hopeful chatter, the way which effects a virtual and massive military sell-out. President's indicated behavioral modificationis the overrid­ The fundamental, the axiomatic issue of defense, is ing fact. whether or not the United States and its allies are committed The SDI was conceived and adopted as effecting a shift to defending Western civilization against the cultural and from "Mutually Assured Destruction" to the effect of making related impact of a Soviet "finlanditation" of Western Eu­ effective defense in general warfare feasible, in a circum­ rope, beginning with West Germany? If this axiomatic issue stance in which Soviet build-up toward the capability of is compromised, as the President's behavioral modification launching a war-winning attack was in progress. The crucial has,. for the moment, accomplished jUst such a change, then test which I personally built into the design of that SDI policy, the whole doctrine and capability of U.S. strategic defense was that if Moscow desired war-avoidance, it would accept begins to topple like a house of card�. as immediately as any Soviet regime might do , the kind of Since most people, including U.S. strategic analysts and offer which both the President and Secretary Weinberger related folk generally, have today almost a zero grasp of made during and immediately following the President's ini­ cultural processes and the efficiency of their dynamics, the tial public announcement of March 23, 1983. If the Soviets most importantfeature of the recent "new Munich" appease­ attacked the offerviolent ly, as they did, this was proof that ment may be obscured to them. The second feature of the Moscow was committed to a war-winning capability during summit, the economics of strategic rlefense, should be less not less than the medium-term. obscured even to them. The violent Soviet rejection of the President's SDI offer, Moscow's approach to the current summit negotiations, from April 1983, through and beyond the end of 1983, and the timing and pace of its summitry, is based on the assump­ including the willful shooting down of what Moscow knew tion that President Reagan is personally and politically grave­ to be a civilian Boeing 747 KAL 007 airliner, defined SDI as ly weakened, and that it is urgent that Moscow play its "Rea­ a new approach to strategic deterrence against escalating gan Card" to the fullest advantage at this moment, not waiting Soviet aggression. for the somewhat uncertain outcome of the 1988 elections in Hence, presuming that contrary to Henry Kissinger's re­ WesternEurope and the United States. Moscow sees that the peated insistence that the President is precommitted to trad­ influenceof Armand Hammer's cronies upon the President's ing off deployment for the SDI, the President's defense of household is nearly at its peak, and sees the President as SDI is not largely political cosmetics, the behavioral modi­ personally weakened in will on this account. More important fication of the President is already sufficient grounds for to Moscow than the President's weakening of personal will alarm. Whereas, earlier, SDI was defined as a new approach to resist Soviet pressures, is the economic situation. to deterrence against growing Soviet aggression, now it is Moscow's approach to summit negotiations is shaped defined as something with an altogether different purpose. almost entirely by its strategic estimates of economic and Concretely, my proposal was, that the deployment of SDI related developments in the West. This decision was reached created the preconditions for eliminating elements of the in Moscow during the spring and summer of 1982, as I nuclear arsenal. Now, the President's summit policy is, the warned the Reagan administration, through channels of my reduction of U .S. nuclear arsenals begins long prior to a still­ consultation with it on the future SDI, during that period. uncertain date of deployment of the SDI. Thus, the President Then, I made reference to the implications of the debt-crisis may be defending continued research and testing of an SDI then about to erupt in Mexico and South America. The pre­ programmed chiefly on a level of technology which is hope­ selection of Yuri Andropov, during that period, to replace lessly inadequate, but he is not committed to a date and scale the dying Leonid Brezhnev, was based upon the Soviet no­ of deployment justifying the missile reductions. Such "ad­ menklatura majority's acceptance of the Andropov-Ogarkov justments" in the policy represent a fundamental reversal of Warplan, in which plan the factor of a "final breakdown crisis the policy, a scrapping of the credibility of U.S. defense. of capitalism" was key to the proposed lines of militaryand It is a matter of dates. If an effective SDI were to be other strategic actions. During this period, U.S. intelligence deployed by 1991-92, and the INF agreements to be imple­ broke down to the effect that this aspect of the Andropov­ mented no earlier than that date , the INF agreements would Ogarkov Plan was either overlooked-which, by itself, is an be subject to one military assessment: barely tolerable. If the astonishing failure of U.S. spies inside Moscow-or was INF implementation is to occur by as early as 1992, and the simply filtered outof the strategic assessments composed in SDI not deployed until a significantly later date , then the INF Washington. implementation is an outright military sell-out. This feature of U . S. strategic intelligence failures during Thus, the manner in which the summit agreements have that period and later reflects Washington's astonishing ca-

EIR December 18, 1987 International 35 outsider, a well-informed citizen merely attempting to assist our government withoutcompensation , I came to know very well the standard practice of our official intelligence services, and appreciate most clearly the situation-of both censorship and career-minded self-censorship-ofthe U.S. government employee totally under the control of such services. What promotes Moscow's confidence in summitry with the President is not merely the impact of the ongoing inter­ national financialcollapse . Moscow is relying upon the con­ sequences of the way in which the President and leadership of the Congress are reacting , so far, to the patternsof growing federal budget deficits and other problems caused by this financial mess. Moscow has �rediscounted the strategic ef­ fect of U. S . budget-cutting antl eruption of trade wars by the U.S. against its allies. This economic situation, including the Hoover-like fol­ lies of the President and leaders of the Congress, are the most important military aspect of the INF summitry. Whatever military offsets some wishful fellows might imagine exist, to compensate for the massive appeasement within the INF Gorbachov during his interview on NBC-TV before the summit. agreement itself, those offsets are about to be swept away by The head of what President Reagan used to call "the empire of the economic policies of the Reagan administration and the evil" is now welcomed in the White House as the bearer of "peace in our time." congressional leadership. At the same time, the sheer lunacy of Treasury Secretary pacity to ignore any facts which are contrary to prevailing Baker and Commerce Secretary Verity, in conducting tra­ Washington policy-perceptions. Ifa report is transmitted from dewars and financial warfare against Japan and western Eu­ a source, reporting facts contrary to current Washington pol­ rope, ensures what Moscow regards as an accelerating "cen­ icy-guidelines, someone at a higher echelon in the filtering trifugal" tendency within the Western alliance, giving Mos­ process will write words such as "crap," "nonsense," "pure cow great opportunities to buy from Western Europe and Soviet propaganda," etc . , in the margin next to the offending Japan what Moscow desires, at Moscow's prices, on Western fact reported. The unwanted fact will be filtered out of the credit, on Moscow's terms of payment. If that continues, the intelligence compilations forwarded up the line, and suitable "Finlandization" of central Europe is more or less an imme­ demerit marks will be placed in the records next to the of­ diate prospect, and the similar relations with the rest of West­ fending source's code-name. em Europe and Japan merely a matter of time. That was the official practice on reports warning of the Since the economy of Western Europe as a whole exceeds consequences of the coup d'etat bringing Cory Aquino's the potential of the United States, U.S. economic policy, family into power in the Philippines. That was official prac­ combined with an accelerating process of U.S. budget-crisis­ tice on strategic intelligence reports from Western Europe. driven detachment of nuclear and then other military forces That was official practice on strategic intelligence respecting from emplacement in Western Europe, means that the eco­ the growing debt-crisis. Under the "amateur night" perfor­ nomic depth of strategic cap bilities shifts absolutely and mance which the late Bill Casey made of U.S. intelligence more or less irrevocably to Moscow's global favor. on these higher levels of consideration, such practice was In short, any strategic assessment of the INF summitryis rampant, as surfacing CIA and other files from that period absurd, unless it includes the cultural and economic factors attest beyond doubt. interacting with the INF and related agreements that are the I was there in much of this, and was targeted by elements subject of the "memorandum of understanding." This sum­ of the Reagan administrationfor 1984-87 operations against mitry is an absolutely strategic disaster for the United States me by the Justice Department to date, because of precisely and the Western alliance. All (liscussion of data on military these strategicissu es, despite the administration's substantial hardware as such, is wildly incompetent fallacyof composi­ debt to me on the SDI and some other matters . Surfacing tion. reports indicate how often words like "crap" were written in the margin of reports on my reporting of strategic develop­ Moscow's 'LaRouche p'robe' ments, and the facts of today show I was right on each of In all of this, I am personally the fly in Moscow's oint­ thesepoints marked with words such as "crap." Thus, as an ment. The way in which the full text of my April 12, 1987

36 International EIR December 18, 1987 letter to Soviet International Affa irs was featured in both the meant that Moscow would be obliged to scrap "the life's September Russian edition and October foreign-language work of Comrade Andropov." The reasons had been stated editions of that publication, is symptomatic. Two factions in to me clearly by Soviet representatives some weeks earlier, Moscow were responsible for the publication of that letter, in the course of back-channel discussions on possible adop­ with the attached commentaries. Both factions state clearly, tion of the SDI which I was conductiqg for the Reagan admin­ that I am a Soviet adversary, but the faction which compelled istration at that time. theeditors to publish the letter states emphatically: "He touches That Soviet official, conveying . what he represented as on some fundamental realities of today , and therefore we Moscow's official view, rather than his personal view, stat­ print the full text of that letter and our answer to it." ed, in so many words: "What you propose will work. You This issue ofInternational Affairs, the official joumal of are right about the economic spill-overs. However, if you the Soviet Foreign Ministry, was devoted to military policy, launch a crash program, as you propose, then we can not and the combination of three other featured articles and the keep up with you. That is a situation we can never tolerate. treatment of my months-old letter was part of this character Therefore, we will reject such a proposal. If your country of the editions. In Moscow, such a treatment of a letter, in launches such a program, we shall deploy such weapons such a context, is a clear signal of a Soviet strategic line set before you do." by the majority at the highest level of the Moscow command. As I reported this exchange back to the Reagan adminis­ This is not propaganda; it is a set of instructions on strategic tration then, that expressed Soviet view I believed to be an policy to all relevant Soviet officials and their relevant agents accurate statement of Moscow's assessment then. For one and assets inside Russia and in foreign nations. thing, it was scientifically and factqally accurate; it was not Obviously, the decision to publish the letter in this way Moscow propaganda. If our SDI wereimplemented as a crash was made at the highest level during some part of July or program, according to the doctrine �f technological attrition August, not later than August, during the periodGorbachov I had prsecribed, over the medium-tennthe U.S. would more was on his extended retreat. Why? The content of the letter than match Moscow in net strategic capability , and Moscow itself tells why; the character of the editions in which it is would come to live in peace under conditions of U.S. for­ featured leaves no doubt of the motives. bearance, our inclination to avoid a new general war, even Since the Soviets know, from developments of the 1982- were we able to win it decisively. 83 period, that I was a principal author of what became Moscow did not believe in our forbearance under such known as the SDI, the Soviet government and its assets in conditions, and, as I discovered soon after that conversation, othernations have been openly panic-stricken about my pre­ even assuming that the U.S. achieved no more than strategic sumed connections, either to the Reagan administration as parity in such modes of defense agaipst missiles, the adoption such, or some other potent connections inside the U.S.A. of such a U.S. policy meant that the Andropov-Ogarkov war­ power-structure. This was Moscow's publicly expressed view, plan would have to be scrapped by Moscow. in its publications, from approximately May 1983 through Moscow has been my avowed aPversary for years. They March 1984. This was again Moscow's expressed view, from set operations into motion intended to kill me as early as the very highest level of its government, during the period February 1973, and have conducted other, most hostile op­ from early August 1986 through October 1986, and, again, erations since, even prior to the Soviet 1981 "walk-in," which in several leading Soviet attacks upon me during recent led to the U.S. government's requesting me to proceed with months. the back-channel discussions of January 1982 to April 1983. Moscow is now deployed in a full-scale probe, to attempt However, the Soviets are Soviets, and pride themselves on to discover exactly what my influencemight be, and to gather realistic dealings with adversaries. So, we had the "walk-in" infonnation which might tell them how to assess the practical of 1981, and the back-channel discussions which followed significanceof the points which I made in theApril 12, 1987 that. letterpublished in InternationalAff airs. One of the reasons the back-channel discussion of 1982- Their concerns in this matter are chieflytw o: 1983 proceeded as long as they did, was that even after Dr. 1) The possible strategic significance of my economic Edward Tellerhad publicly joined the cause for what became policies. What are the possibilities my policies might be known as SDI, in October 1982, my Soviet channels in­ adopted by theU.S. governmentunder conditions of a grave fonned me that Moscow had assurances from "the highest financial crisis? levels of the Democratic Party" that therewas no chance that 2) Ifso, what would be the militaryand otherimplications my policy would reach the desk of President Reagan for of such a policy-change? signature. In other words, the cronies of AnnandH ammer in As Moscow stated clearly during late March 1983, the the government had blocked, they thought successfully, all SDI policy then announced by President Reagan-if that relevantchannel s. policy were mine, as it seemed to Moscow was the case- Thus, the President's televised address of March 23, 1983,

EIR December 18, 1987 International 37 hit Moscow-and the Democratic National Committee­ like a tidal wave. Moscow reacted by deciding that I repre­ sented a much more potent influence than they had estimated earlier. Promptly, circles associated with Leo Cherne and others , including Roy Godson, deployed into the National Security Council and other spots, setting into motion an op­ eration intended to obliterate me politically. By October 1983, German military is an operation, initially centered around NBC-TV News, was projected, aimed at prearranging a federal indictment of me disgusted with INF to be set into motion immediately after the November 1984 general election. by Luba George and iner Apel The results of that October 1983 projection are now well­ R3. known through the national news-media's reporting of sun­ dry legal cases today. This is strategically relevant only as it Just beneath the surface, a revolt is brewing in high ranks of exposes the depth of penetration of Soviet influences into our the West German military, aga.nst the Intermediate Nuclear government today , as Michael Deaver has recently suggest­ Force treaty to withdraw U. S. nklclear missiles from Europe. ed, in excerptsfrom a projected book published in The Wash­ While Chancellor Helmut Kohi boasts that "without the es­ ington Times. The crucial fact here is the way in which sential contribution of the Gerrhan government, this agree­ Moscow views me personally. ment would not have been posSible," the point has not been Moscow believes, and fears , that my economic policies lost upon the German military, that the deal will dramatically might succeed. This means that my strategic doctrine-the increase Soviet military supremacy in Europe . In the weeks original specifications foran sm policy-would be set fully preceding the Dec . 7 Reagan-Gorbachov summit, Vice Adm . into motion. As a result of 1982-1983 developments , and the Dieter Wellershoff, inspector general of the German Armed fact that Moscow's influences around the Democratic Na­ Forces, sounded the alarm that ''parallel to Gorbachov' s rhet- tional Committee and Charles Wick's circles have not yet 0ric there has been an increase in the capability of the Soviet ' obliterated me politically, Moscow is not prepared to exclude Armed Forces for invasion agaihst Western Europe." the possibility that I might even become President in January A number of strategic seminars which EIR correspond­ 1989, or at least exert a great influence on the next presiden­ ents were invited to in recent weeks made clear that informed cy. military officers perceive as the central threat, the ongoing Hence, the signal through International Affairs. The or­ restructuring (perestroika) of the Soviet forces, the stream­ der is out to all Soviet agents in relevant positions: Probe this lining of command-structures, and the enhanced special role man's influence yet once again , more exhaustively than be­ of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, commander of the Western fore , and findout what he would do, more precisely, should Theater of War. he, by some mischance happen to become the next President. This view represents in pare the extensive circulation in If I fail, Moscow wins its global objectives. If I do not Europe of EIR ' s analysis of Og/rrkov, including in the 1985 fail, then Moscow must change its policies radically. Wheth­ edition of our Special Report "Global Showdown." Alone er I succeed or fail, is not up to me . It is up to many persons among the Western media, we insisted that Ogarkov was the inside the United States, including especially circles very mastermind of Soviet military strategy, that his war plan for highly placed behind the scenes. Does the United States still irregularwarfare against the West was the operative doctrine have the sense to select a new leadership capable of defeating of the General Staff, and that hi$ concept of streamlining the the Andropov-Ogarkov Plan for world conquest, the plan on Soviet economy for war production formed the real basis of whose behalf Mikhail Gorbachov is deployed? That is the Gorbachov's famous perestroika. question which International Affairs has posed to all of its At a seminar on the relation between glasnost and the sources of information. Soviet military, which took place Dec. 4-6 near the city of That is the only hard assessment worth discussing, oilthe Muenster, representatives of the German military and the significance of the recent summitry. Many opponents of the Ministry of Defense were clear about the fact that "Ogarkov "new Munich" appeasement will dislike very much the prop­ is the best military brain in the : Soviet Union," and that he osition, that their fate , and our nation's, depend in any sig­ "played a key role in Gorbachov's rise to the post of general nificant degree upon the outcome of my presidential cam­ secretary. " paign. Nonetheless, so future history will judge their roles­ At this seminar, a senior offiCerof the First German Army as well as President Reagan's-in the grave crisis at hand. Corps stated: "The INF accord will give the Soviets a dev­ No different view of the matter is a practical one, and there­ astating superiority, which they will use for blackmail against fore no different view is a competent framing of the discus­ Europe. Again and again in the postwar period, they've tried sion of the issues involved in this INF agreement. to blackmail Europe by flexingtheir military muscle. So far,

38 International EIR December 18, 1987 it was [U. S.] nuclear weapons here, that have prevented that. status with the United States." Once the West accepts Mos­ With the INF accord, the West loses a crucial element of its cow's arms control proposals, "the Soviets will be superior defense, and this will make war feasible in Europe, again, on all levels." and once war is feasible, it also becomes possible." He said As for the role of Western Europe and Germany in this that Ogarkov' s writings on "military reforms" are most useful Soviet strategy, the official of the Bonn Ministry of Defense to study the impact of perestroikaon the Red Army. reminded the seminar audience of the fact that "in 1985, the The officer mocked the Western diplomats' line on Gor­ Soviet Armed Forces in East Germany rehearsed surprise bachov's alleged "concessions": "What we see, is a change attacks on West German cities. " Nothing has changed in that, of Reagan's mind, firstand foremost." and most noteworthy in this respect is the fact that since May 1987, a broad stream of articles in the Soviet military journals Ogarkov's 'perestroika' emphasized again and again that Gotbachov's "new thinking At the same event, a senior official of the defense ministry about defense" does not mean to become "passive." On the described Ogarkov' s doctrine in more detail, calling him "the contrary, it means to become even more aggressive. decisive man" behind the Gorbachov policy. Western mili­ The main orientation of the Soviet Armed Forces toward tary commanders may have problems getting the funds and battling the West on its own territOry, is still there. When weapons they request, said the Bonn official, but the Soviet Gorbachov took power at the Kremlin, he installed Marshal military doesn't: "Whenever the Soviet defense minister Ogarkov as commander-in-chief of the three western TVDs marches into the Politburo, he'll always get what he wants." ("theaters of military operations" in Europe , where two thirds The biggest mistake the West can make, he warned, is to of the Soviet Armed Forces are concentrated. "Ogarkov's "only watch the political element in Soviet policy, which role was to prepare the military for betterleadership ofwar," may be modified. What hasn't changed, and won't change, which was done by "decentralizing military units, making are the military-technical elements." them more efficient in terms of command structure, and im­ The latter aspect is an integral part of Soviet military provingthe mobilizing factor of the troops"-mobilizing for doctrine, never to be discussed with the West, said the Bonn war on WesternEurope and Germany most of all, that is. official, and in spite of all critiques of Stalin's era in Moscow The question remains, what the political side of Gorba­ now, the military side of Stalinism will never be discussed, chov's INF diplomacy will mean for Europe and the Ger­ either. He cited Gorbachov's Nov . 2 address on the anniver­ mans. Many believe that Gorbachov will let West Germany sary of the Russian Revolution, which yielded "roaring ap­ twist in the wind, while concentrating his efforts on France plause" when Gorbachov said that Stalin's military measures and the United Kingdom for the foreseeablefut ure. This was are not to be disputed: "No, never!" suggested by a pattern of Soviet and East Germancancella­ This speech was "not at all Gorbachov's speech," the tions of diplomatic events with West Germans following the Bonn official emphasized, "but the view of the whole Polit­ INF summit: buro." Gorbachov's address was along the traditional line of • Bonn Minister of PublicHealth Rita Sussmuth and two Soviet historiography, that "all major successes of the Soviet delegations of Social Democrats wertdisinvited from planned state occurred in the military realm." trips to East Germany in the post-summit week. Ogarkov's role was to define "economic strength as the • Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze cabled key to military strength," and his support for Gorbachov is to Bonn that he won't have time tel) visit before the end of honored by the Kremlin ruler, as all of Gorbachov's purges 1987, and likely not in early 1988, either. in the Army show one pattern: "His [Ogarkov's] people are • The Moscow court of appeals rejected a motion for coming in." pardon by young German pilot Mathias Rust, who was sen­ Gorbachov's "new economic policy" is identical with the tencedto four years in prisonfor "desecrating a holy symbol Ogarkov group's call for "increased military-technical effi­ of the Soviet state" (he landed his plane on Red Square on ciency ," stated the Bonn official . "There may be fewer mar­ May 28). The Rust case is of special propagandistic interest, shals at the parades on Red Square, but this doesn't change because prior to the INF summit, rumors in Bonn had it that anything on the military-technical side of Soviet policy. The he would be pardoned and returned to Germany "by no later military has no reason to complain about Gorbachov. " than Christmas." The West has to be very clear about this close relationship Having the INF deal in his pocket, Gorbachov drops all between Gorbachov's economic reforms and the Soviet mil­ niceties vis-a-vis the Bonn government, and preparesfor the itary: "Soviet detente policy is a war-fighting strategy. It is next round of blackmail against the West Germans. It is to demonstrate to the West that the Soviet armed forces have exactly that which the German military fears, in a post-INF the capacity to launch an offensive on warning." The central summit situation which removes . all of the longer-range aim of Soviet arms control policy is not to have fewer weap­ American missiles from European territory. Germany has to ons, but to bargain with superior military power and force face some heavy storms from the East over the weeks and the West to accept the Kremlin's claim to "equal political months ahead.

EIR December 18, 1987 International 39 Former Gaullist minister: INF accord 'terrifying,' 'distant echo of Munich'

Under the title "Smacking of Yalta , " Alain Peyrefitte,former the Soviet Union aimed toward Europe only missiles of ap­ Justice Minister in the French government of Charles de proximate precision, only utilizable in a grouped and massive Gaulle, attacks the U.S.-Soviet INF accord on thefront page row; that is to say, nuclear apOcalypse. The missiles which of the Dec. 9 Le Figaro. Peyrefitte writes, in part: the Soviets now have available-and which are not touched How not to rejoice that a stop is put to the mad course of by the accord of Washington-r-are of a surgical precision. armaments? For the firsttime in the history of the world, two They can hit their objective within a few dozen meters ' prox­ great military powers are committing themselves to destroy imity. Their threat becomes mare and more credible: for they armaments. Even more: They authorize mutual verifications are capable of destroying not only cities, but the forces sta­ for each other. Even more still: The Americans will eliminate tioned in westernEurope . only 350 nuclear weapons, against 1,500for the Soviets. Finally and especially, the essential quality of the Persh­ Such are the first impressions. But in a domain where ing was not its ability to reach Soviet territory in six minutes. psychological war is much more a threat than real war, which It was to constitute an obstacle such that it would be a trip­ no one wants, it is necessary, above all, to avoid being dupes. wire before any Soviet conven1Jional attack. Let us note that the Soviets will abandon obsolete weapons, Already, in 1945 , a President of the United States, old which they would have to replace, in any case, by 1990; and weakened, had abandonedi one-half of Europe. He con­ while the Americans renounce their best-performing weap­ fidedto William Bullitt his con�iction that Stalin "would not ons. Let us note also, that Europe is absent, more weakened attempt to annex anything, and would tryto create a world of by the failed summit of Reykjavik, while she is at the center democracy and of peace." of the debate that is proceeding along without her: object, not Again, an old and weakened American President per­ subject, of history. . . . suades himself of the good will of the Soviet empire. Is he The Americans have passed from anti-communist hyster­ getting ready to abandon the other half of Europe? ia to the hysteria of the "Gorby-show." Those whom Presi­ dent Reagan denounced several months ago as the "evil em­ pire," he sees as the incarnationof good. And the accord that he has signed, yesterday, does not suffice for him. He has 'Spectre of Munich': just declared to the Washington Times that it is necessaryto go toward: the complete denuclearization of Europe and of other opposing;voices the world . Terrifying. Americans who see clearly do not hide that they are French Minister of Culture Franfois Leotard in an editorial terrified: such as the former Commanders-in-Chiefof NATO, page commentaryin the newsP'l-perLe Figaro of Dec. 10: Generals Haig and Rogers, or former governmental officials, The first reaction [to the INF treaty] is "no" because this like Henry Kissinger and Jeane Kirkpatrick. But their cries agreement is useless and even dangerous for sedurity. Use­ of concern do not sufficeto dissipate a euphoria that seems a less because the Soviet nuclear threat over Europe remains distant echo of Munich. practically intact ....Dangerou s, because this agreementis Certain voices, including that of M. Mitterrand, speak well-balanced only on the surface .... out to reassure us: 'What are you worried about? We are Nuclear deterrence thus remains essential, and we have simply returningto the point of departure, that is, 1977, date to pursue our efforts in order to maintain our technical cred­ of deployment of the first SS-20s.' Triple error. ibility, in particular in three areas: the submarine component, In 10 years, the psychological situation has reversed it­ the neutron bomb . . . and the answer to the progress of the self. The deployment of the Pershings consolidated a new Soviet SDI. This last point, where it appears likely that the consensus around a firm defense of the West. Their with­ U.S.S.R. is in advance for the U.S., implies the moderniza­ drawal is going to shatter this consensus and relaunch neu­ tion of [France's] ballistic vectors. tralism, that is to say, the temptation of 'Finlandization. ' • Le Figaro's front-page c�oon on Dec. 9 shows Rea­ The strategic situation has not evolved any less. In 1977, gan and Gorbachov dressed as Yaudeville showmen in what

40 International EIR December 18, 1987 is labeled the "Washington Circus," taking the clothes off a Never has a simpler document been issued in history with woman wearing a crown with the word, "Europe," on it. The consequences more farreaching or more pregnant with hope." caption is: "Ronny and Gorby, in their wild strip-tease num­ With these words. On September 30, 1938, the New York ber." Times reported on the meeting between Hitler and Neville Chamberlain at Munich. "Prime Minister Wildly Cheered by West Germany Relieved Londoners," said the headline .... • losef loffe in the Siiddeutsche Zeitung newspaper of Half a century later, it is easy to see the Munich Pact for Munich Dec. 9: what it really was. . . . The euphoriawhich today permeates The INF accord crowns 30 years of Soviet campaigns to Western public opinion over the prospective signing of an drive U.S. nuclear weapons out of Europe. Ever since the intermediate nuclear forces treaty this week by President U.S. brought nuclear missiles into Europe in 1957, the So­ Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachov is reminiscent of 1938. . . . viets have looked for ways to have them pulled out again. Against the background of what Winston Churchill once The meeting of this old aim is the main aspect of the INF called "smooth-sounding platitudes,�' refusal to face unpleas­ agreement just signed between Reagan and Gorbachov. ant facts , desire for popularity, and electoral successes irre­ spective of the vital interests of the state , the condemnation Spain of the proposed treaty by the French Defence Minister, Andre • Andres Garrigo, NA TO correspondent, in the Madrid Giraud, as a "nuclear Munich" has hardly been noticed in the daily ABC Dec. 8: West .... Put to sleep by the euphoria of the INF treaty, Europe The truth is that the spectre of Munich has never left awakes at dawn, occupied by a m;lssive Soviet invasion us .... force ....Behind the bubbles of champagne, NATO is wor­ • From a letter to President Reagan fr om College de ried [about] a possible Soviet Pearl Harbor strike. The official France fe llow lean-Marie Benoist, West German diplomat communique [of the NATO meeting Dec. 2] speaks of a Hans Huyn, and the director of the London-based Institute "surprise Warsaw Pact attack," and this is no joke ....The fo r European Defense and Strategic Studies, Gerald Frost, NATO Supreme Commander has only two choices: submit, run in the Dec. 9 Wall Street Journal: or use atomic weapons. . . . Franco-German cooperation is Mr. President: not an adequate response to the challenge of the INF. The As longstanding admirers of your great personal contri­ only guarantee of security, is to close ranks within NATO bution to the cause of freedom we wish to draw your atten­ and prevent the American connection from being weakened. tion, and that of the Senate, to the risks inherent in the agree­ • Rafael Bardaji, the Group fo r Strategic Studies, in the ment now signed to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear Dec. 7 issue of the Spanish newspaper EI Pais: forces from Europe.... We believe that the accord will Reagan is sealing with Gorbachov a piece of utter irra­ seriously and adversely change the balance of military and tionality insofar as NATO is concerned: Both the strategy political forces within Europe in favor of the Soviet Union. and the presentnuclear policy of NATO will be smashed. . . . We are also fearful that unless NATO defenses are but­ Worst of all, is the sheer naivete ...of the self-same Amer­ tressed by a range of compensatory measures the agreement ican President who denounced the Soviets' systematic vio­ may set in train a course of events that will progressively lation of arms control treaties. . . . We Europeans had better undermine the fragile cohesion of the WesternAlliance .... start thinking now, about what we will say when Gorbachov . . . The cruise and Pershing II missiles serve a combi­ insists we negotiate over our tactical weapons, our dual-use nation of functions that are essentialto NATO strategy. . . . aircraft, our coastal submarines, andthe whole panoply which The missiles make a general contribution to deterrence through guaranteed deterrence in Europe. We can only hope, that the their ability to reach targets deep withiin the Soviet Union. . . . withdrawal of the Pershing lIs will not be as disastrous for The missiles link the European pillar of the alliance to the us, as that of the general they are named after. American pillar. They provide a crucialelement between the level of tactical missiles and the strategic level. Take away Other European that vital rung in the escalatory ladder and you immediately • In the Rome, Italy daily newspaper La Repubblica, throw into question the mutual transatlantic involvement and Dec. 9 (bylined Vladimiro Odinzov): solidarity that have preserved the peace for 40 years .... Next Friday, when Shultz comes to Brussels for the an­ It should also beremembered that if the Soviets break the nual Council of Ministers meeting ofNA TO , there will surely agreement-as they have violated earlier deals ... it is be some allies thinking of Chamberlain coming back from unlikely that any American President will be able to put the Munich . missiles back .... • Russian emigre writer Andrei Navrozov in the Times We regret that you have not fotlowed the advice of Eu­ of London Dec. 7, "Is the Nuclear Munich About to Be ropean political leaders who urged that what was needed to Signed?" preserve deterrencein Europe was . . . a balanced reduction

EIR December 18, 1987 International 41 of lNF forces .... fined 70 years ago as the stepping stone for the establishment of world hegemony. The combined industrial and labor pow­ United States er potential of the Warsaw Pact �d WesternEurope together • A newspaper advertisement, paid fo r by the Schiller would leave Moscow as the only superpower. Institutefo r the "Ad Hoc Committee to Stop the INF Treaty," Gorbachov left no room for · doubt about his intentions, and inserted in several U.S. newspapers as well as the Inter­ when he delivered his speech on the occasion of the 70th national Herald Tribune, was reprinted in full, in Spanish anniversary of the October ReVOlution. Moscow delights in translation, as a front-page editorial in the Dec. 9 issue of the financial collapse of the West and gloats about the "final Diario de las Americas of Miami. The newspaper is sold in breakdown crisis of capitalism." At the same time, Moscow every major Hispanic community in the United States, as gears up the communist parties of the West and the develop­ well as on newstands throughout the Western Hemisphere. ing sector and directs them to take control of an escalation in The editors' introduction said that the ad "was signed by200 irregularwarfare , which has alrtady included the murder of distinguished civic and military leaders of West Germany, two policemen in West Germany, murdered with the use of England, France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, firearms, in the context of what security officials described Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Bolivia, and the U.S .... as a military-type operation. While leaders of the terrorist Considering it of interest to its readers, we reproduce below ecologist movement applauded -the murder from Moscow, a translation of this ad. " Gorbachov received and praised,them. We the signators , direct an urgent call to the governments If the West proceeds to disarm itself, while Moscow and parliaments of all NATO countries to prevent the reali­ continues to build up increasing numbers of such Spetsnaz zation of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) treaty . What forces, then, a few years down the road, Moscow will be is at stake is nothing less than the political freedom of West­ capable of taking Western Europe , with the help of radio em civilization as a whole . We see the acute danger that the frequency and other such weapdns, based on "new physical ability of the West to defend itself is being irreversibly ne­ principles," while the West plunges further and further into gotiated away for the sake of short-term political expedien­ the pit of the depression. The West will have been defeated cies. as a political system, and Western Judeo-Christian civiliza­ The removal of the intermediate range missiles in West­ tion will have gone under, in a way not so different from the ern Europe, i.e., the Pershing 2 and lA, would eliminate the Roman empire . capability of NATO to strike deep into Soviet territory within All of this can be stopped. Ain economic emergency mo­ 13 minutes, and thus would remove a powerful deterrent to bilization of the West and a crash program for the Strategic Soviet aggression. The military effect of this would be dis­ Defense Initiative and Tacticld Defense Initiative could astrous. Not only would it bring about the danger of an quickly demonstrate the superiQrity of Western culture and extremely rapid denuclearization of Western Europe , but it civilization. would leave the continent vulnerable to the new Russian But in the meantime, Pearl Harbor Day must not become mobile ICBM systems, the SS-24 and SS-25 , and would the day on which the West disarmed itself. leave West Germany totally defenseless against the SS-21, Prevent the realization of the INF treaty ! and the Russian strategic bomber fleet. The denuclearization would bring into effect the over­ whelming conventional superiority of the Warsaw Pact. If proponents of the proposed INF treaty speak about a subse­ quent arms reduction agreement in the conventional area, it must be noted that anything less than a 6-to- 1 asymmetric conventional disarmament would bring about the irreversible defenselessness of Western Europe . Russia would quickly reach its long-term goal-to conquer the rest of Europe, without the need to fire a shot. Apartfrom the militarily irreversible effects, the political consequences of the proposed INF treaty are already shaking the foundations of the Western alliance. Ever since the infa­ mous Reykjavik summit one year ago, patriots of all Western nations have been horrified about the perspective of a new Yalta agreement between Moscow and Washington, which de facto threatens to sell out Western Europe . If West Ger­ many were Finlandized, the rest of Western Europe would soon follow. Moscow would have reached what Lenin de-

42 International EIR December 18, 1987 Sigur boasted that Asia is the"leading edge" of a worldwide movement toward democracy-despite the fact that, in the Philippines, such "democracy" is bringing the country to­ ward civil war and political disintegr.. tion . The "democratic process" imposed on South Korea by the United States has created a crisis of national institutions. "This is a high-stakes Korea braces for game," a longtime resident of Seoul was quoted as saying. "It is the biggest period of uncertainty that I can remember." national election In the last days before the electidn the prospects are be­ coming likely that: by Linda de Hoyos a) Government candidate Roh Tae Woo will win, in which case there will be an uprising of Kim Dae Jung's radical student base-heavily penetrated by North Korean spets­ Gaston Sigur, assistant secretary of State for Far Eastern and naz-forcing the South Korean military to take harsh action; Pacificaff airs, has issued the officialwarning from Washing­ or ton to the South Korean governmentthat the Korean military b) Kim Dae Jung wins the elections, in which case the not be permitted to interfere in the Dec . 16 presidential elec­ military-with or without U.S. sanction-may well carry tions. Placing a U.S. veto on movement of South Korean out a coup, also leading to bloodshed. ground troops, Sigur stated, "We cannot foresee any circum­ In either case, a South Korea in curmoil is an advantage stance under which the election would have to postponed or for both the Soviet Union and North Korea, with North Ko­ canceled." Any move to undermine the elections or to put rean special forces well-prepared to take military advantage aside the results, Sigur intoned, would lead to condemnation of the chaos to the south. by the Korean people and the world's democratic commu­ The only other option is the victory of Kim Young Sam, nity, according to the Dec. 11 Washington Times. who worked in South Korea against the government while The warning was deliveredamid rumorscirculated in the Kim Dae Jung was in exile in the Ubited States. While the last week before the elections that Kim Dae Jung, the pre­ latter's base is comprised of the radicalized students, others ferred candidate of the State Department and the private who have also been steeped in the theblogy of liberation, and networks of Project Democracy, is likely to win the national his own provincial base in Cholla, KitnYoung Sam has mass presidential elections . support within the middle class and is seen in Korea as a The South Korean military has made it plain that it will possible route to stability. Althougbi the U. S. press has re­ not accept Kim Dae Jung as President, because of his stated ported that he appears to be gaining lin the final days of the goal of accommodation to the North Korean dictatorship of campaign, observers on the scene have told EIR that it is Kim II-Sung. Furthermore, the South Korean military rightly doubtful that Kim Young Sam will bd able to pull out the lead perceives that Kim Dae Jung's election would open wide the against Kim Dae Jung. His vote could be crushed between gates to a total assault on the national institutions that have the radical vote for Kim Dae Jung, and a vote for the govern­ turned Koreafrom an agricultural nation to an industrialized ment in the hopes that Roh Tae Woo can impose stability on nation within the space of one generation. the country through a combination of reforms and military From his side, Kim Dae Jung stated that if ruling party strength. candidate Roh Tae Woo wins the elections, then "there will Kim Dae Jung has already declaredthat either he or Kim be an uprising." Threatening a repeat of the 1980 K wangju Young Sam should drop out of the race , in deference to which uprising, Kim stated Nov. 29 , "If the present government of the two Kims appears to be in the lead. In the meantime, now blocks a free and fair election, there will be a second Kim Dae Jung has ordered his student base to put maximum Syngman Rhee or a second Park Chung Hee" -that is, a pressure on Kim Young Sam to withdraw. In Seoul, students student uprising and/or assassination of rulingparty leaders. carrying posters for Kim Dae Jung are demanding a "unity There is no doubt that Kim Dae Jung could make good candidate" against the government. On Dec. 6, a 29-year-old on this threat. On Dec. 7, he met at his home for several student died after setting himself on fire to protest against the hours with Rev. Moon Ik-Hwan, the chairman of the theol­ lack of a "unity candidate." In additiOn, unconfirmedreports ogy of liberation's United Minjung Movement for Democ­ from Seoul say that Catholic Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou racy and Unification, who has led thousands of students into Whan is attempting to act as a mediator to bring about such a street battles with police. And to underline the point, Kim unity candidate. Dae Jung dispatched his student radicals to violently break up the rallies of Roh Tae Woo throughout the last week of Project Democracy agents enter Korea campaigning. From the United States, the ProjectDemocracy networks In a speech before the World Affairs Council Dec. 10, that Sigur belongs to , will attempt to arbitrate the elections

EIR December 18, 1987 International 43 through the internationalpress in the same way they dictated the final results of the February 1986 elections in the Philip­ Northeast Asia: strategJc chokepoint pines. On Nov. 28, the South Korean government stated that it would not permit either U.S. congressmen or any other for­ eigners to act as official observers of the elections-thus avoiding the error made by the deposed Ferdinand Marcos. "As far as we are concerned, it is an insult to the strong determination of the Korean people to have a fair election," said government representative Park Soo Gil. "It involves a matter of principle; it involves a matter of sovereignty." Americans should not come here "with the illusions that they are the guardians of a backward democracy," seconded an editorial in the Korea Times.

However, aides of Rep. Thomas Foglietta (D-Penn.) and U.S,S,R. , Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), both of whom are known as supporters of Kim Dae Jung, announced that they are going to Seoul. In addition, a so-called "Permanent Observer Mis­ sion" to Seoul for the elections has been organized by Mr. Choi of the Korean Institute for Human Rights in Washing­ ton. Choi is known in the U. S. Project Democracy circuit as a "close friend and supporter" of Kim Dae Jung, and his institute is considered one of Kim Dae Jung's organizations in the United States. CHINA Members of the "Permanent Observer Mission" include: • Virginia Foote , whose husband Leslie Maddeson is director of Robert White's International Center for Devel­ opment Policy, which helped sponsor Kim Dae Jung's return to South Korea in January 1985; • Edward Baker, of Harvard University's Yenching In­ stitute, a Kim Dae Jung supporter who helped Kim attain a year's fellowship at Harvard's Center for Strategic and Inter­ national Affairs during his exile; • Pharis Harvey , director of the North American Coali­ tion for Human Rights in Korea and principal in the U.S. National Council of Churches; he is also in close contact with Rev. Moon Ik-Hwan; • James Leahy, president of Emory University in Geor­ gia, a close friend of Kim Dae Jung; • Four representatives from the Physicians for Human Rights based in Somerville, Massachusetts; Director Jona­ than Fein is another close friend of Kim Dae Jung; • Six representatives of the National Democratic Insti­ * U,S, bases and military tute for International Affairs, an officialaffiliate of the State .AU,S,S,R, bases and military Department's Proj ect Democracy, led by Brian Atwood. This The map shows the U.S. and grouping is considered more "non-partisan," in keeping with in the Northeast Asian theater. concentration of fo rces, offici� U.S. policy. including the 800,OOO-man armtM fo rces of North Korea, makes • Robin Teske, coordinator of the Washington, D.C.­ this region a jlashpoint, and internal stability of South Korea based International Human Rights Law Group. Already in and Japan a critical fe ature of l.(.S. and allied strategic strength Seoul, Teske and others are receiving "evidence" of vote here. On Dec. 9, while Mikhail porbachov was signing the INF treaty with President Reagan in Wa shington, a Soviet medium­ fraud from the Kim Dae Jung camp, according to the Dec. range TU-J6 "Badger" bomber flew into Japanese airspace 11 Washington Times. over Okinawa. The Soviet plane ! ignored all radio warnings • The National Coalition for a Democratic Constitution, from Japanese jet fighters, whicll scrambled into the air against the other self-appointed "watchdog" on the scene, led the it. Several warning shots had to :be fired at the Soviet bomber riotsagainst the governmentin June. before it leftJapanese airspace tpier a total of Il minutes. The Japanese government issued a formal note of protest fo r the intrusion, the second such Soviet violation of Japanese airspace 44 International this year. calling for "the establishment of an international peacekeep­ ing force." When House Majority Leader Jim Wright cau­ tioned, "If there were any intervention, it ought to be done Drive to overturn by the OAS," Fauntroy assured the pressthat he had lined up �ipartisan support for a draft resolution requesting every su­ sovereignty in Haiti pranational agency in the book to send in troops: the U.N., the OAS , the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States , and by D.E. Pettingell the Caribbean Economic Community. By Dec. 4, the Washington Post could editorialize, "Ru­ mors are circulating in Haiti about an American military An emergency meeting of the Organization of American invasion, like the Marines' landing there in 1915 ....While States (OAS), held on Dec . 7 in Washington, rejected pro­ the Marines aren't going back to Haiti, continuing bloodshed posals for a Grenada-style invasion of Haiti in the name of there might well result in an international peacekeepingforce "democracy." While arguments for an invasion, either of to see the country through an election." U. S. Marines or a supranational force, had firstbeen couched as necessary to "save Haiti from itself," in the week before OAS warning the OAS vote , spokesmen for the U.S. EasternEstablishment On Dec. 7, the OAS called an emergency meeting, to had made clear that their goal in Haiti, is to overturn the discuss the Haitian crisis. When it came to intervention, OAS concept of sovereignty itself. member states voted "No," and issued a condemantion of Proposals that the United States lead the way in creating any attempts to intervene in the internal affairs of Haiti , or a supranational military force to police Haiti have swamped any other member states. The OAS Permanent Council re­ Washington since violence forced the Haitian governmentto solved, "To affirm that states have the fundamental duty to cancel the Nov. 29 national elections. That angered the agents abstain from intervening, directly or indirectly, for any rea­ of the "Project Democracy" secret governmentin the United son whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other States, who had pumped $8 million into setting up the ma­ State," reads the five-pointresolut ion, adopted by broad con­ chinery for the elections in Haiti, an operation centered around sensus. The resolution also called on the OAS secretary gen­ the Provisional Electoral Council. eral "to provide to the Haitian people the fullest possible The international press immediately charged that the mil­ assistance of a humanitarian nature." itary was behind the violence, and demanded the resignation Haitian Foreign Minister Herard, Abraham, traveled to of the head of the provisional government, Gen. Henri Nam­ Washington to be present at the OAS session. "His presence phrey. helped avoid the inclusion of any interventionist reference in When the Haitian governmentdisbanded the Provisional the resolution," an Ibero-American diplomat commented. Electoral Council, charging that it had sought foreign inter­ Abraham explained the position of his country and pledged ference in Haiti's internal affairs, Project Democracy that elections would take place as sotm as possible. So far, screamed that Haiti's military is the problem, and must be they are scheduled for Feb. 7, 1988. replaced by fo reign military forces! The OAS resolution was the resUilt of three hours of de­ Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-N. Y.), a strong supporter of the bate where there was no disagreement among member states National Endowment for Democracy, Project Democracy's on the issue of non-intervention. The strongest defenders of public arm,led the campaign to call for the invasion of Haiti the principle were Mexico, Peru , and Argentina. Mexican on Dec . 1. Solarz demanded that the OAS form a military OAS Ambassador Antonio de Icaza expressed his "deepest "regional peacekeeping force" to be sent to Haiti to "restore concern" over "opinions, widely reported in important news order and allow elections to take place." The United States outlets, in favor of a unilateral or multilateral intervention in would be a "key component" in the multilateral force, a Haiti." He said he was surprised tc;> hear that those who spokesman for Solarz explained. "advocate intervention, or even aggression" dared to "ex­ On Dec. 3, Brian Atwood, president of the National press their hope that the OAS would participate in such re­ Democratic Institute for InternationalAffai rs , the Democrat­ prehensible actions." ic Party's side of the NED, demanded that the OAS act to Peruvian OAS Ambassador Luis Gonzalez Posada echoed restore order in Haiti, if necessary sending in "an internation­ his Mexican colleague and called for Haitians to decide their al peacekeeping force" to do so. Atwood had just returned own electoral schedule without "pressures or interferences of from Haiti, which he had visited as the head of a 30-man any kind." Others reiterated that the principle of non-inter­ international delegation invited in by the Provisional Elec­ vention is and must continue to be the cornerstone of inter­ toral Council to observe the elections. American relations. U.S. congressmen quickly lined up behind the proposal. Afterthe OAS vote, the EasternEstablishment screamed, District of Colombia congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy "The OAS was too timid yesterday in backing free elections organized the Black Caucus to issue a statement on Dec. 2 in Haiti without endorsing an inter-American force to guar-

EIR December 18, 1987 International 45 antee the process," as the New York Times decried in its Dec. 8 editorial . Instead, the Times argued the need for a new definition to the principle of non-intervention. "Compelling circum­ stances can justify armed infringement of national sovereign­ Runcie adversary \ ty . Those circumstances prevail in Haiti today ." Accusing the Haitian governmentof permitting "chaos and terror," the found dead in U. K. Times argued, "Haiti is a special case, not one of civil war but of anarchy ," and said that the country will "descend into by Mark Burdman deeper tragedy ...without inter-American intervention."

Next target: Panama An important political-theological adversary of Queen Eliz­ Panama is the next target of this theory of non-sovereign­ abeth's beloved Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Robert Run­ ty . cie has been "removed" from the British scene. In an event Speaking at a forum on the "Crisis in Panama" held at reminiscent of some of Edgar� Allan Poe's short stories, New Georgetown University on Dec . 8, Panamanian opposition College, Oxford University don Dr. Gareth Bennett, now leader Roberto Eisenmann called for foreign intervention, identified as the author of an !attack on Runcie in an official not excluding a military invasion, into Haiti. The concept of Church of England publication, was found dead at his Oxford "sovereignty of the State" is outdated, Eisenmann said. To­ home during the evening of Dec. 7. Police are claiming that day it must become subordinated to the concept of the "sov­ "all the indications" were that Dr. Bennett had taken his life, ereignty of the individual." Haiti should be the test case for although no suicide note was found. He was found dead in this doctrine, he stated. his garage, his body lying in Iilis car with a tube leading from Sharing the podium with Eisenmann was an old foe of the exhaust to the interior of the car. Before his body was Panama's, Dr. Norman Bailey, former National Security found by a friend, Dr. Bennett's cat had been found dead in Council official. Bailey demanded that a similiar "democra­ his house. An inquest into his death was opened on Dec . 9. cy" be installed in Panama, which, he claimed, requires both AfterBennett 's death, two high-level Church ofEngland that the commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces, Gen. officials, Derek Pattinson, secretary general of the General Manuel A. Noriega, be removed, and, "getting rid of the Synod and James Shelley, secretary of the Church Commis­ institution" of the military entirely in Panama. sioners, held a press conference Dec . 8, and stated that Dr. General Noriega, a nationalist, telephoned Haitian leader Bennett had been the author of a harsh attack on Runcie' s Gen. Henri Namphy to express "Latin American understand­ leadership, which had appeared in the church's "Who's Who" ing and mutual solidarity between their two armies and gov­ publication, the 1987-88 Crocliford's Clerical Directory. ernments ," according to the New York Times Dec . 5. Both Previously, the identity of the anonymously authored Crock­ referred to the "disinformation campaigns skillfully orches­ ford 's article had been kept secret. Pattinson and Shelley trated by powerful foreign interests as well as strong internal decided to announce this, after the Oxford coroner had indi­ movements of destabilization." cated he was going to launch a police investigation to find out the author of the Crockford's piece, in an attempt to discover the motives for Dr. Bennett's death. On Dec. 4, the Daily Mail of London had headlined, "Attack on Runcie Upsets the Queen," noting: "The personal Signor Antonio Stradivari made instruments attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury in the preface to the Unequaled by calipers, lasers or meters. new Crocliford's has offended the Queen, who is head of the Modern Audio is a similar artisan-form Church of England." The Crocliford's preface accuses Run­ Employing proprietary crafty skills. cie of elitism, of being an ineffectual leader , and of oversee­ Still, no one knows, how far music reproduction can go. ing the moral decline of the c1llUrch. It had been published out Money should be spent to find out: Let's of the London headquarters of the church, at Lambeth Palace, Fund a crash program of research and development, and, therefore , with official: authorization, even if behind Encase results in attractive wooden cabinetry, Runcie's back. Advertise our accomplishment to the world According to reports from the U.K., Bennett had been And take the market over! coming under extreme pressure in the days before his death, The Listening Studio from pro-Runcie liberals in the church hierarchy. The Daily 23 Stillings Street Express reported Dec. 9 that Bennett was to "face a fierce Boston MA 02210 inquisition" called by church,officialsfor Dec. 10, to answer For the Love of Music and Technology for his actions. It can be surmised that the mobilization against Bennett

46 International ElK December 18, 1987 would have been even more intense, under conditions of the ical infighting in the Church of England. The factionallza­ East-West "New Yalta" momentum, given Runcie's Buck­ tion, politicking, and conspiracies are growing and growing, ingham Palace-backed status as a key figure in pro-Russian all in response to the liberalization of the church under Run­ Orthodox Church "ecumenical" initiatives, and given the cie. It's become a hotbed of Roman-type politics." power of pro-Eastern freemasonic operatives within the This observer said that the atmosphere of intrigue and "Runcie clique" heading the church. conspiracy was exacerbated by "the large problem of homo­ It should not be overlooked that the Anglican Commun­ sexuality among clerics. This has caused tremendous up­ ion will hold its once-a-decade Lambeth Conference early heavals. The recent Synod debate on homosexuality was one next summer, and that a major topic on the agenda will be of the most shocking debates I could ever remember. It has whether or not to eliminate the Filioque clause, identified shaken the very heart of the Anglican faith ." since the 9th century with the Western conception of tech­ Friends of Bennett are , according to British press ac­ nological progress, from the Creed. Several national Angli­ counts, "mystified" by his death, especially as he had ap­ can churches have already done so; and the worldwide An­ peared perfectly normal and happy in the past days. Dr. John glican communion is expected to vote on the issue at Lam­ Cowan, dean of New College, Oxford , said: "I have known beth. him for nearly 30 years and Ijust cannot explain it. It's totally According to several Episcopalian theologians, Runcie out of character that he could do such a thing." The Rev. and his gang have been devoting tremendous energy into Archie Miles, vicar near Bennett's Oxford home, said he did ensuring that Lambeth will give its imprimatur to the Fil­ not believe Bennett was the author of the Crockford' s attack, ioque's elimination, and were eagerly looking forward to nor that he was capable of suicide. Fellow high churchman presenting this as a "gift" to Moscow, at the millennial cele­ Roy Porter said, ''I'm appalled at the very great pressure he brations of the Christianization of Russia, almost immediate­ was put under." Conservative Church of England theologian ly afterLambeth 's conclusion. Dr. William Oddie said that Bennett had had "some powerful The most frequently heard analysis passing around Brit­ enemies." ain, is that the stress caused by the pressure led Bennett to The Times of London editorialized Dec . 9 that Bennett's commit suicide. death "may bring much bigger troubles to the Church of The Daily Express Dec . 9 comments that Bennett feared England." that the church was "gunning for him" over his damning attack on Runcie.

'Incredible infighting' Particularly violent pressure on Bennett had been coming Derivative from the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Hapgood, who is Assassination: widely rumored to be positioning himself as the next Arch­ bishop of Canterbury , should Runcie resign, and who had bitterly denounced the Crockford's preface as "scurrilous, Who Killed sour, and vindictive. " Hapgood is a strong advocate ofliberal Indira Gandhi? policies on homosexuality and AIDS. A trained biologist, he

is a medical-theological adviser to the World Council of by the Editors of Churches' AIDS task-force, a group formed specificallyas a Executive response to the LaRouche-backed California voter referen­ Intelligence dum, Proposition 64, of 1986. He is a factional ally of Run­ Review cie' s, but even more to the liberal-left and more ideologically committed to liberal views than Runcie is. Order from: Bennett was a traditionalist in church and political affairs, Ben franklin and ally of the powerful number two man of the church, Booksellers. Inc. Bishop of London Dr. Graham Leonard, Runcie's chief op­ 27 South King St. ponent on such issues as ordination of women. According to Leesburg. VA 22075 the Dec. 9 Today , Bennett's main aim in writing the Crock­ fo rd's preface, was to "unify a powerful alliance of Tory $4.95 plus ship­ politicians, including Mrs. Thatcher, and leading church­ ping ($1.50 for men, to block [Runcie's] natural successor, the Archbishop first book. $.50 for of York, Dr. John Hapgood." each additional One London observer, himself a member of the Church book). Bulk rates available. of Scotland, commented to EIR : "The pressure on Bennett was very, verygreat. There is an incredible amount of polit-

EIR December 18, 1987 International 47 and more than 10 Palestinian terrorists have been infiltrated into the Philippines, all using assumed names . On Nov. 25, the Red Army's number-two man, Osamu Maruoka, wasin the arrested on his way to South Korea from Okinawa. Before his arrest, Maruoka had traveled to eight SOviet terror inaperils different countries, including the Philippines. According to reliable intelligence sources, Marooka is "spilling the beans," ASEAN sunanait and has identifiedthe JRA operational center as Beirut with subcenters in East Berlin and Belgrade . There is a Soviet by Linda de Hoyos trainer at its Beirut headquarters . Red Army members travel a route that takes them from Burma to Jakarta, Indonesia, out of Beirut to points east. Despite the environment of lawlessness that prevails in the The European base of the Red Army, he indicates, coor­ Philippines, President Corazon Aquino has pressed ahead dinates with that of the Philippine New People's Army, which with plans to hold the Dec. 14-16 heads-of-state summit of is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, under former the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (SEAN) in Ma­ priest Luis Jalandoni. nila. The summit marks only the third time the heads of state The Utrecht NPA operation also interfaces with the spe­ of the ASEAN countries-the Philippines, Thailand, Malay­ cial terror forces of North Korea, which come under the sia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brunei-have met together. command of Kim Chong-II. North Korea is known to be For Aquino, the holding of the summit in Manila was supplying the NPA with weapons in the Philippines. Naval designed to be a feather in the cap of her government, and a authorities at the Western Command based in Puerto Prin­ signal that she has managed to bring the Philippines a modi­ cess, Palawan, confirmed in November the existence of an cum of stability. However, the security threats to the summit arms shipment from North Korea due in October. Although have already taken their toll. The conference time has been the ship did not arrive, a senior navy officer cited in the reducedfrom three days to less than two days. There will be Philippines daily Malaya, said the North Korean ship may no socializing outside of the summit site at the Philippines have been diverted either to Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam or to International Convention Centre. The required security pre­ the Spratley Islands. From these two places, the weapons, cautions have placed a pall on the summit environment, as which included semi-knockdown helicopters and SSO-76 most heads of state are insisting on bringing their own secu­ air-to ground missiles, could have been loaded into fishing rity. President Suharto of Indonesia is bringing his own heli­ boats and submarines at predesignated points along the coast­ copter and insisting on Indonesian control of all his air and line of Palawan and Mindoro Islands. road transport in the Philippines. Indonesia also wants to put Combined with the forces of the NPA itself, whose killer as many as five ships carrying special security forces in Ma­ "sparrow units" are concentrated in Manila under the protec­ nila Bay, and to keep their own fighter aircraft escorting tive cover of the city's barrios , the evidence of North Korean Suharto's arrival in Manila. and Red Army involvement in Philippine operations indi­ The summit, which was originally designed to tighten the cates that the Soviet Union's terror international has made relationshipamong the six nations-especially in economics the Philippines a special target. This comes just at the point and trade-is unlikely to achieve its aim. that the Soviets have sent a top intelligence master, Oleg The security threat to the summit is not exaggerated. Sokolov, as ambassador to Manila. Prior to Sokolov's arrival Police are now tracking down two members of the Japanese in Manila, a KGB lieutenant colonel was in Manila and Red Army known to be in the Philippines. The activation of reportedly was in contact with representatives of both the theJRA-including evidence of its involvement in the down­ NPA and Red Army. ing of Korean Air Lines flight 858 Dec . 2-has raised fears Within the increasingly violent environment in Manila, that the JRA is planning spectacular action against the sum­ it will be difficult to guarantee the summit. Manila has now mit, or the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Noboru become the target of indiscriminate terror-bombs, although Takeshita, who has been invited to a post-summit meeting, so far no one has been killed. A warning bomb went off at according to Col. Virgilio Saldajeno, Philippine Constabu­ the Convention Center in OQtober. Manila police found and lary judge advocate. The National Bureau of Investigation defused two large bombs Dec. 5. One bomb, made with 104 (NBI) and the Immigration and Deportation Commission sticks of dynamite, an electronic timing device and a deto­ have launched a manhunt for Hiroshi Sensui and Norio Sa­ nator, was found by a security guard at City Hall. A second saki,both members of the Japanese Red Army believed to be bomb was found by a studeQ-t near the front entrance of the hiding in Manila. Sensui used Sankei Trading, a trading and Philippine NormalCollege , a block from City Hall. On Dec. construction firm, as a cover, according to Saldajeno. 3., a massive car bomb shook the internationalairport , injur­ Sources cited by Japan's Kyodo news agency further ing six people, and a second ,went off a half-hour later in the reported that as of November, 13 members of the Red Army exclusive Makati business di"trict.

48 International EIR December 18, 1987 A step fOlWard in Colombia: naming the enemy as narco-terrorism by Val erie Rush

As December opened, Colombia's President and commander campaign designed to weaken the legitimacy of authority of the armed forces moved to put an end to a Soviet-run ...is promoted by agents of organized crime, by terrorists campaign to portray Colombia's military , not narco-terror­ of varied origins, by demented groups . This dirty war seeks ism, as the enemy of Colombia's democracy and national to impede the exercise of freedom of expression, to terrify well-being. That Soviet disinformation campaign has been the authorities and the citizenry. . . . I believe that it seeks joined by U . S. pro-dope journalistsand Project Democracy's unjustly to make us forget the fundamental role of the armed networks in the Western Hemisphere , all charging that Col­ forces in the consolidation of our democrac �.. " ombia's military is under control of the drug traffickers and Barco reiterated General Guerrero's call for national un­ is the primary cause of the violence that is sweeping the ity against narco-terrorism: "The ewls we must tirelessly country . combat are terrorism and drug trafficking. This fight, which The identificationof narco-terrorism as the principal arm involves the commitment of significanthuman and budgetary of Soviet-run warfare in the Western Hemisphere is the cru­ resources, must nonetheless be waged in fulfillment of an cial strategic question definingpoli cy in every country in the unpostponable obligation to the poor of our society ; in pay­ region. Upon the recognition-or failure to admit-that nar­ ment of a social debt which for too long we have been negli­ cotics and terrorism are a unified instrument of warfare , hangs gent in paying." the proper location of the role of the armed forces in defend­ In an exclusive interview with EIR , Elena de Ramirez, ing the very existence of the nations of the hemisphere. the widow of one of Colombia's most effective anti-drug To date, the U.S. State Department and U.S. military fighters, addresses the same problem. Her husband, Col. have refused to declare that narco-terrorism the enemy. Jaime Ramirez Gomez of the national anti-narcotics police, On Nov. 27, Gen. Manuel Guerrero, commander of Col­ was the right-hand man of former Justice Minister Rodrigo ombia's armed forces, declared that the military considers LaraBonil la, who led Colombia's war on drugs until the drug "the combination of drug-trafficking and subversion" as the mob shot him down in 1984. enemy which the Colombian nation must defeat in order to Ramirez's intelligence work made po1>sible the March survive. The statement answered drugmafi as' efforts to paint 1984 capture of Tranquilandia, the first "cocaine city" to be themselves as possible allies of the military in the war against discovered in the Colombian Amazon, as well as the highly "guerrillas. " successful 1985 Operation Condor I anti-drug raid in Peru, The general urged citizens to rally behind a national front conducted jointly by Colombian and Peruvian forces. Ra­ against narco-terrorism: "We Colombians cannot permit our­ mirez, too, was assassinated by mafia ,len in November selves to be intimidated by these people who are corrupting 1986, just as he was about to be promct:::d to general . As his our authorities, the Colombian people, and our youth , with wife bitterly observes, the refusal to grant Ramirez a post­ this filthy business of the drug trade. We cannot allow ... humous promotion has served as a "disincentive" to other our people to be corrupted with their money . . . and their law-enforcement agents cornmitted to fighting drugs. selective terrorism." On Dec . 3, President Virgilio Barco went one step fur­ The terrorists' dirty war ther, identifying the anti-military campaign as a central part Despite Barco's recognition of who is really running the of the narco-terrorists' irregular warfare against the state. "dirty war" in Colombia, he is up against an array of forces The true "dirty war" in Colombia is that "campaign aimed at determined to give narco-terrorism the le;:>n, in that country. weakening the legitimacy of the armed forces and, with that, When the Colombian head of state arrived in Acapulco, Mex­ theconduct of thegove rnment," Barco explained in his speech ico on Nov. 27 for a presidential summit on the common to the Jose Marfa C6rdoba Military Academy. problems facing the continent, he was met with a demand on He elaborated: "The truth is that we are suffering a 'dirty the part of the Socialist Party of Mexico (PSM), founded by war' against the government, against the armed forces, against the Mexican Communist Party, that he be declared persona society, against democracy, against civilization. . . . The non grata by the Mexican government, and his visa can-

EIR December 18, 1987 International 49 celled! The PSM accused Barco of "sponsoring a military solution to the crisis threatening the country," and called for Interview: Elena de Ramirez "international pressure to stop the bloodbath ." The Washington Post apparently agrees with the com­ munists. On Nov. 14 it devoted lengthy coverage to "alleged" military collaboration with the Medellin Cartel of drug traf­ fickers in Colomhi!! The article quoted one political figure saying that "narcotics traffickersare working with other land­ owners and cattlemen, and with sectors of the state security forces, in unleashing a dirty war against the left." Extradition crucial Within his own government, Barco is surrounded with allies of Moscow's "irregular warriors . " The President's own to war on :drugs human rights adviser is Alvaro Tirado Mejia, formerly a left­ wing journalist and currently dedicated to launching an "of­ Javier Almario and Maximiliano Londono spoke in Bo­ fensive" in favor of human rights, to include special courses gota with Mrs. Elena de R'pm(rez, widow of Col. Jaime for the armed services and military intelligence forces on Ram(rez Garcia, the fo rmtr chief of the anti-narcotics human rights. division of the Colombian National Police, on the anni­ Alfredo Vasquez Carrizosa, former head of the Colom­ versaryof her husband's assassination by narco-terror­ bian human rights committee and an ex-minister, wrote in ists. ln collaboration with Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara the daily El Espectador that Tirado Mejia showed special Bonilla, Colonel Ramirez struck major blows against the courage in admitting that state security groups violated hu­ drug traffickers, such as the break-up of Tranquilandia, a man rights in Colombia. "The problem for the government," cocaine complex in the Colombian jungle where 14 tons he said, "and especially for the chief of state, is to accept the of pure cocaine were capturedand 45 traffickersarrested, importance and veracity" of Tirado Mejia's speech. in March 1984 . I

Strait-jacketing the armed fo rces EIR: One year after Colonel Ramirez's assassination, The issue of narco-terrorism and the role of the armed how do you see the countty? Has it reacted against the forces dominated this year's annual meeting of Army com­ drugtraf fic? manders of the Americas, held Nov. 12-15 in Mardel Plata, Elena Ramirez: A year after Jaime's death I see that, Argentina. Most of the conference was held behind closed unfortunately, the step that ihas been taken has gone back­ doors, but attempts to influence the outcome of the confer­ ward, and it is a big one. Wehave regressedvery strongly ence from without were many. in the field of attacking dru� trafficking. A document circulated in Mar del Plata by the Project Democracy faction within Argentina's Peronist Partyknown EIR: What things have dhanged with respect to what as the "reformists" demanded that the Army chiefs "not in­ Minister Rodrigo Lara BonUla had achieved, with Colonel voke the fight against narco-terrorism" to justify a "revitali­ Ramirez's collaboration? ! zation of the doctrine of 'national security.' " The document Elena Ramirez: When they were working, fortunately insisted that police and security forces be primarily respon­ there was a group that was against drug trafficking, such sible for repressing the drug trade, and that if "other means" as Minister Lara Bonilla; there also was the collaboration were to be employed, it had to be a decision of individual of [U.S.] Ambassador Le�is Tambs. A time came when governments. President Belisario Betan¢ ur attacked the drug traffic. The Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil reported on Nov. 17 Thingsadvanced a lot. The: drug traffickerswere running, thatwhile Argentina's President Raul Alfonsin had "exhorted thecommanders of American armies meeting in Mar del Plata to findsolutions that will put an end to terrorism and the drug trade," he did so from the standpoint of those that view the military itself as a threat to democracy. that no money for re-equipmdnt or ammunition exists. Re­ Three, days later, Alfonsin, a favorite of the Socialist cruitment to the military in Atgentina has dropped precipi­ International, was given the "W. Averell Harriman Democ­ tously as a result. racy Award" by Project Democracy's National Democratic A new defense law proposddby Alfonsin's Radical Party, Institute in Washington. For decades, Alfonsin has been ob­ exemplifiesthe strategicimportance of the debate over narco­ sessed with dismantling the military, writing a proposal as terrorism. The text of the new law currently under debate by early as 1971 that called for the 75% reduction of the Argen­ the Congress was released to the Argentine press in time to tine military forces over the course of the succeeding decade. coincide with the Mar del PlaUt conference. It states that the His government has reduced the military budget to the point sole task of Argentina's military is to prepare to defend the

50 International EIR December 18, 1987 fleeing the country, because cultivation, transport, and the number-one officer in the world in fighting the drug shipments were attacked; the drug traffic was being hit traffick. hard from every side. The nation was made conscious of the damage that was being done. EIR: How do you believe this affects the National Po­ lice? EIR: In which areas? Elena Ramirez: Frankly, as I had the opportunity to ex­ Elena Ramirez: In the field that everyone knows: in ex­ press when they told me they were not going to promote tradition. That is the most important and the one the [drug Jaime, I told top officials of the police that this was not traffickers] fear the most. That is definitive: extradition. right, because it is a disincentive for people who are inter­ And also, you realize that the confiscations being done est in fighting drugs. That they would be saying: "I fight now are not the same; the operatives, everything ... against such criminal people, and after exposing my life, everything has shrunk. The government has not shown that of my loved ones, my career, everything, and my collaboration with the people who want to fightdr ugs; the effort is not compensated." Then they say: "Is it worth incentive which has to be given to the persons who attack going on fighting for this, or not?" I believe that this has it, has ,notbeen given from any side. And I don't see right been something that unmotivates the subordinates and now any leader trying to attack drug trafficking. many officialswho would have been in a situation to fight against this evil. EIR: Did Colonel Ramirez suffer from this disincentive? Elena Ramirez: Yes. During his life he suffered it, be­ EIR: When PopeJohn Paul II was in Colombia and spoke cause he, having fulfilled all the requirements to enroll in against the drug traffic, people reacted very positively. the course to become a general, had a hard time getting When Minister Lara Bonilla was killed, people reacted into it. He had much opposition to being enrolled into the against the drug traffic, as well as when they killed the generals' course, precisely because of the work he was editor of El Espectador, Don Guillermo Cano. Do you doing ....There was always opposition, from many per­ think that this reaction has not been exploited to combat sons, and then, when he finally did take the course and this scourge? was supposed to be promoted, his promotion was delayed. Elena Ramirez: In the case of Minil>terLara Bonilla, the people's reaction was indeed taken advantage of, because EIR: The defense minister said that they did not give him President Belisario Betancur listened to the outcry of the the promotion posthumously because he did not die in people, and that was when they applied the extradition combat. treaty. But recently, everything has been "blah, blah, blah," Elena Ramirez: I completely disagree, because the po­ and they have not really listened to the people. lice statutes say that when someone dies in combat, that person is immediately to be promoted to the next higher EIR: What was the effect that Colonel Ramirez's fight rank, and Jaime fought narcotic trafficking to the last had at the internationallevel , and what recognition did he moment. And there was combat going on even at that have? moment, because some of the agents who were near the Elena Ramirez: Internationally, Jaime was a leader; he site where my husband, Col. Jaime Ramirez was assassi­ was one of the persons who urged the formation of this nated, responded to the hired gunmen. So a combat did front of nations to unify against the drug traffic, and it take place; an ambush, which is a combat. As far as merits was, I think, a very intelligent solution on his part. It was are concerned, it is also said that Jaime was qualified as recognized in other countries more than in Colombia.

country againstforeign enemies, and therefore prohibits the Ironically, that program differed not one iota from that military from any domestic role ! put forwardby a group of communist-linked "human rights" One Radical senator attending the opening session of the activists from Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Colombia, military conference, explained that the defense law would who came to Buenos Aires while the Mar del Plata conference prohibit the country's armed forces from participating in was taking place, to plan how to convoke "an international repression against "eventual insurrectionary movements." tribunal . . . to judge military and state terrorism in Latin He added that the bill currently under consideration "will America." Attending from Colombia, was Bernardo Jaram­ expressly prohibit the Armed Forces from elaborating a hy­ illo Ossa, a deputy elected by the Colombian Communist pothesis of internalconflict ." Party's electoral front, the Patriotic Union.

EIR December 18, 1987 International 51 MotherRussia by Rachel Douglas

A Russian princess in the U.S.S.R. Brotherhoodand ran the secret police, A Soviet journal hails the patriotism of blue-blooded Kitty theOkhra na. Meshcherskaya, related to Dostoevsky's patron . The firstcousin of Meshcherskay­ a's father was V.P. Meshchersky, who in the late 1870s published the infa­ mous Dia'ry of a Writer by Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose works are being More descendants of the old Rus­ so-Japanese War of 1904. re-popularizedin the U.S.S.R. today. sian noble families are streaming into Ogonyok related the survival of In this wotk (alongside the vilest out­ the center of attention in the Soviet Princess Meshcherskaya and her bursts of ..nti-Semitism and Russian Union. One of the more extraordinary young widowed mother, and carried imperial fervor) , Dostoevsky argued instances of this was the popular four pages of excerpts from her mem­ that the �ssian revolutionary nihil­ weekly Ogonyok' s October issue (No. oirs. Meshcherskaya experienced 13 ists, predecessors of the Bolsheviks, 43) feature on the octogenarian Prin­ arrests, but she holds that "Soviet were doing holy work by cleansing cess Yekaterina Aleksandrovna power never deprived me of freedom. Russia o( Western European pollu­ Meshcherskaya, who is alive in Mos­ It always let me go, after people with­ tion. V.P.' Meshchersky, a friend and cow. In telling her story , author Feliks out conscience or honor had filedbad cousin of Okhrana founder Count N.P. Medvedev drew attention to a most reports on me." To live, she mainly Ignatyev, \.vent on to sponsor the no­ important aspect of the Russian Rev­ taught singing, but also held menial torious Okhrana agent provocateur olution: How Cheka (secret police) jobs. "Later, she began to write in Sergei Zubatov. chief Feliks Dzerzhinsky and a num­ newspapers and journals about the In the excerpted memoir, Princess ber of other aristocrats guarded the preservation of old houses in Mos­ Meshchenjkaya fondly recalls another adoption of the blue-bloods into the cow." Ogonyok quoted in full a letter Ignatyev cousin, Gen. A.A. Ignatyev, new regime-which many of their she wrote in 1983 to Patriarch Pimen nephew of N.P. Ignatyev. Stationed families had helped to create, over­ of the Russian Orthodox ChurchIMos­ as Russian, militaryattache at the Paris throwing the Romanovs. cow Patriarchate, about the vandali­ embassy before 1917, A.A. The Meshchersky family is de­ zation of the grave-site of one Tatyana ("Lyosha") Ignatyev became a Red scended from Tatars of the Crimean Baranova, a Meshchersky family nan­ Army offi«er. She writes, "He held in Khanate (annexed by Russia in 1783, ny who was a partisan hero during Na­ his name i,n a Paris bank around 200 as part of Prince Potyomkin's "New poleon's invasion of Russia. million rubles. 'This is Russia's mon­ Russia" expansion project under "She wants," gushed Medvedev, ey, it belongs to the Russian people,' Catherine the Great), who were known "for people to know the Meshchersky said Count Ignatyev, sending all 200 as the princes Shirinsky. The Shirin­ family's history of serving Rus­ million through Comrade Krasin to sky-Shikhmatov family, which played sia .... Her 'blue' blood was held Moscow." an important role in the Cheka spy against her so many times. . . . As a The princess's own mother acted organization known as "the Trust," true Russian woman, she preserved likewise. In 1917, Yekaterinarelates, was of similar origin. In the early 14th the memory of the glorious deeds of her mother said, "No matter what century, a Shirinsky prince named her family. And, having already lost awaits us, I will never leave my Ro­ Mukhamet established himself in the any hope of publishing her memoirs, dina," or Motherland. Meshchera region, later the Tambov she lived until the time ofperestroika , The first time her mother was ar­ Province of Russia; his son, Beklem­ when her desire is being fulfilled." restedby Bolsheviks, she was accused ich, "converted to the Orthodox reli­ Ogonyok did not mention that the of selling a Meshchersky-owned Bot­ gion under the name of Mikhail," ac­ Meshchersky family already had a ticelli Madonna-"speculating with cording to genealogical records. revolutionary tradition. This is no the people's property"-but Dzer­ Even the immediate family of mystery, because the great surge to­ zhinsky gave her a chance to clearher­ "Kitty" Meshcherskaya reaches back ward revolution, from the assassina­ self, and $he sent out a note to her nearly two centuries: She was a child tion of Czar Alexander IT in 1881 up daughter, "Kitty, give them the Bot­ in her father's old age. Her father, to 1917, was heavily financedand di­ ticelli. Mama." The painting was Aleksandr Meshchersky, was born in rected "from above," by the anti­ fetched, the prisoner let go, and Dzer­ 1822, when Czar Alexander I ruled Western, landed aristocrats, who par­ zhinsky instructed her to see him if Russia, and died just before the Rus- ticipated in the conspiratorial Holy there were,a ny more trouble.

52 International EIR December 18, 1987 Northem Flank by Goran Haglund

The Swedish-Angolan hostage crisis contacted the Swedish Moderate Par­ Two Swedes who were captured by UNITA guerrillas have been ty , which imme4iately got in touch with the Stockholm foreign ministry . released-no thanks to the Swedish government. At that very moment, Foreign Minis­ ter Sten Andersson and Undersecre­ tary Pierre Schori, unusually, were T wo Swedish aid workers who were fighting in Angola, to prop up the both abroad-in Havana. captured on Sept. 6 by the pro-West­ MPLA, aided by a few thousand "ad­ Speaking from Cuba, Andersson ern UNIT A guerrillas in Angola were visers" from Russia and East Ger­ found it appropriate to stress, "During releasedon Dec. 2, after a diplomatic many. my talks, I have found that Cuba and crisis that was unnecessarily pro­ Using the opportunity of Premier Sweden have a similar approach to longed by the Swedish government. It Ingvar Carlsson's September visit to most international issues." Sarcastic would appear that Stockholm was the United States, President Reagan media comments' could not but com­ more concernedto please its friends in and the State Department were asked pare Andersson' sluntimely Cuban vis­ Havana, Cuba than to safely and to make their influence with UNITA it with Premier G::arlsson' s statement swiftly bring its own citizens back felt in support of an early release of in the United St*s two months ear­ home. All in all, it cast Sweden's pol­ the two Swedes. Along with South lier, "From time to time, as is natural icy toward Angola in a revealing light. Africa, the United States is the chief for two democratic governments, we On Sept. 5, in a region northeast backer of UNITA. Other mediation are indeed evaluating international of the Angolan capital of Luanda, an efforts ran through Lisbon, Portugal, events differently." How come the electrification project recently com­ the former colonial power which was Swedish government finds it so natu­ pleted by Swedish companies with the forced out of Angola in 1975. ral to disagree with democracies, while financial aid of the Swedish govern­ Operating throughout Angola, a mostly agreeing with dictatorships? ment was inaugurated by Minister of country three times the size of Cali­ The strange impression this leftof International Aid Lena Hjelm-Wal­ forniabut with only one-third its pop­ Sweden's foreigll policy orientation len. One day later, a truck convoy es­ ulation, UNITA in recent years has was not helped by statements by the corted by Angolan government troops, captured many foreigners, and gener­ two captive Swedes, about how well en route from the inauguration site to ally released them within a few weeks. they had been treated by UNIT A, an Luanda, was attacked and captured by Among other reasons, this has been organization of�ially branded "ter­ UNITA guerrillas. Three Swedish aid meant to demonstrate the absolute in­ rorists" and "bandits" by their govern­ workers were captured. ability of the MPLA to control the ment. The two Swedes explained how While one of the three Swedes died country, in spite of massive Cuban and well organized and disciplined UNI­ shortly afterward of bullet wounds­ Russian backing, and to force some of TA was by comparison to the MPLA whose bullets is not clear-the two the countries involved into diplomatic soldiers. Their escort at the time of others were taken for a long, two­ contact with UNITA. their capture was drunkto a man, and month march toward Jamba, the UN­ Indicating UNIT A's attitude to­ represented a net loss to the security ITA capital located in Angola's south. ward the U.S. intervention on behalf of the truck convoy. Meanwhile, diplomatic maneuvering of Sweden, UNITA leader Jonas Sav­ The Swedish Moderate Party's began as to what would happen to the imbi issued an Oct. 18 declaration mediation was nonetheless refused by two Swedes once they arrived in Jam­ through his Lisbon office, stating, the Swedish government. After re­ ba. "None of UNIT A's allies is in a posi­ turning home, Foreign Minister An­ -The Swedish government refused tion to tell us what to do. " He said that dersson said he bad a choice between any direct negotiation with UNITA, the Swedes were going to be released, the Moderates' mediation and parallel as this would have been an insult to if Sweden withdrew its supportfor the efforts conducted by U.S. Vice Pres­ the Angolan one-party dictatorship of MPLA, stopped calling UNITA troops ident George Bush. Despite Anders­ the Movement for the Popular Liber­ "terrorists," and negotiated directly son's disagreementswith U . S. policy, ation of Angola (MPLA), and incon­ with UNITA. he said his choice in favor of Bush was sistent with Sweden's longstanding On Nov. 4, a few days before the not difficult to make. It delayed the "best friends" relationship with Fidel two Swedes were to arrive in Jamba, release of the two Swedes by an esti­ Castro. Some 25,000Cuban troopsare UNIT A, through its Lisbon office, mated three weeks.

ElK December 18, 1987 International 53 MidcUe EastReport by ThienyLalevee

Iran prepares an offensive American: military presence in the The tension is building as Teheran mobilizes-and the Gulf. However, on Dec. 1, the daily Risalat, which represents the more superpowers negotiate over the region. conservative layers of the clergy, had denounced the Washington negotia­ tions as a "plot against the Iranian rev­ olution," warningthat both superpow­ ers would come to an agreement at Iran's expense. However, all factions are united Since the Nov. 4 celebrations of the corps unit, doubts are growing over on the need for a show of strength. anniversarythe of takeoverof the U. S. whether they are real. How far it will go is a matter of inter­ embassy in Teheran, the war fever in For example, in the space of 48 nal debate. While those who hail the Iran has reached a peak. The ceremo­ hours, the press reported maneuvers summit negotiations will want such an nies surrounding the eighth anniver­ of that army corps in northernIran and offensive to give Iran a stronger bar­ saryof the embassy takeover have been southeast Iran; no mean achievement gaining position before accepting a the startingpoint of a nation-wide mil­ considering that this would involve frameworkfor negotiations, others will itary mobilization. Officially, this 100,000 soldiers in each case. want to useit to upset the superpower mood is to culminate in a large-scale Notwithstanding, the military mo­ agreement on the region. militaryoff ensive against Iraq, of the bilization is there . From Nov. 26 to Indicative of that internal debate kind witnessed last winter with the Dec. I, a "Baseej" week was orga­ was the Illanian decision on Nov. 30 seige of Basrah. nized throughout the country, and to make the kind of deal with France Military intelligence reports indi­ several thousand additional training on Lebantse hostages that it has re­ cate that the offensive will involve a bases were created. In early Decem­ fused to make with either the United four-pronged offensive from the north ber, it was announced that, since the States or Britain. Intelligence sources to the Gulf. The main focal points of Nov. 13 call by Ayatollah Khomeini reported that Iran decided to play its attack will again be around the south­ for a total mobilization, more than 5 "French card," both to break Iran's ern Iraqi city of Basrah, and the Ku­ million Iranians had volunteered. (That diplomatic!: isolation, as well as to de­ waiti island of Bubiyan, which the Ira­ is an admission of failure for those velop another entry into the Western nians suspect is being used by the Ira­ boasted that Iran could gather up to 20 world, only weeks before the visit of qis. million! Iranian Parliament speaker Hashemi­ On the northernand central fronts, Thus, students as well as school­ Rafsanjani to Moscow. special new units will be deployed; children have been rounded up once Aware of these discussions, Mos­ theywill be a combination of irregular again, and the Iranian media have cow will want to hold careful negoti­ Kurdish guerrilla forces, and of the proudly announced that "mobile ations with the Iranians. Ready to ac­ newly created "Badr 6 Unit," made up school units" in trucks have been sent cept Washington's proposal for a new of Iraqi Shi'ites belonging to the Su­ to the war front. While external intel­ security council resolution imposing preme Assemblyof the Islamic Rev­ ligence reports confirmedthe massing economic and military sanctions olution in Iraq (SAIRI) , and Iraqi pris­ of large armies at Iraq's borders, there against Teheran, Moscow does not oners of war forcibly enlisted. areno precise estimates; some arenow want to burn the bridges it has care­ On Nov. 17, SAIRI's chief, Baqr talking of some 265,000 in southern fully built over the recentperiod. Hakim, announced that his unit would Iran. In discussions with American of­ soon include some 100,000 soldiers. There is no contradiction in the ficials, Soviet spokesmen have hinted To boost the morale of the popu­ fact that the tension is building at a that they could consider getting rid of lation, Iran's daily newspapers are time of superpower negotiations over Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, as filled with extensive reports of large­ the Gulf. The Iranian leadership is it­ a gesture' of good will. On the one scale maneuvers, which are always at­ self dividedover the question. On Dec. side, this, could be acceptable to the " tended by leading members of the 9, Teheran hailed theU. S. -Soviet ne­ Iranians to begin negotiating. On the clergy or the government. However, gotiations over the region, thinking other, it would consolidate relations in the case of the "Mohammad" army that it would mean a decrease of the between the Soviet Union and Iran.

54 International EIR December 18, 1987 Andean Report by Valerie Rush

Peru's terrorists assassinate priest VariousShini ng Path apologists in A new phase of the narco-terrorist warfare has begun, targeting media and political circles inside Peru the Catholic Church . tried to argue that it was the "right­ wing" that murdered the priest, to set up the left. But.Shining Path's mouthpiece, El On Dec. 3, two terrorists entered a cause Father Acuna was celebrating Diario, did all but claim the murder as Catholic church in Ayacucho, Peru the Sacred Mass when he was shot in their own. The paper on Dec. 4 "jus­ during mass, and, in front of the con­ the back," he stated. The murder mer­ tified" the murder of Father Acuna by gregation , shot the priest in the back its "the most absolute condemnation, claiming that he lived with various while he was officiating the mass. along with the other assassinations women, and trafficked in Church do­ Terrorists had never dared kill a priest committed over the past eight years, nations. in Peru before, and his murder has numbering 8,000 victims." That same day; the paper carried a shaken the country . Pope John Paul II sent a telex to full-page advertisement by Shining The priest was Father Victor Acuna the Peruvian Church, expressing his Path, toasting founder Guzman's Cardenas, a man who had played a distress at the killing, and his repudia­ birthday with the pledge that violence central role in organizing resistance to tion of the violence against the Chris­ should flourish. "We speak with lead, the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) tian spirit of Peruvians. The Papal and offer our blood to write a new terrorists in Ayacucho, the terrorists' Nuncio of Peru, Msgr. Luiggi Dos­ chapter in the history of our party and home base. sena, carried the Pope's message to our people. " The murder opens a new phase in the funeral services in Ayacucho, and On Dec. 3, El Diario announced Soviet-backed narco-terrorist warfare appealed to the Peruvian people to re­ also that its extermination squads are against South and Central America, ject violence. now out for President Alan Garcia. now taking aim at the institution of the No group or individual claimed re­ Garcia has worked closely with the Catholic Church itself. Not since 1980, sponsibility for the murder, but the Catholic Church, both on efforts to when hired gunmen shot EI Salva­ killing was the first in a wave of end terrorism, an4 to change interna­ dor's Archbishop Oscar Romero in the slaughter carried out by Shining Path tional economic policy to include back at the moment that he raised the on Dec. 3 and 4, to "celebrate" the moral principles. , chalice during mass, has the institu­ birthday of their founder Abimael El Diario also ran a photograph of tion of the Church been so clearly the Guzman. President Garcia under the headline, target of terrorism. The governor of the province of "Penal Judgment against Alan Gar­ A parish priest for 20 years in Ay­ Huanta in Ayacucho was assassinated cia's Genocide." The President's pho­ acucho, Father Acuna served as chap­ the same day as Father Acuna. Twen­ tograph carried a bull's-eye on his lain for the region's Civil Guard, and ty-four hours later, the mayor of chest. secretary of the Catholic aid associa­ Huancapi, located in Huanta prov­ The terrorists' "legal" lobby has at tion, Caritas International. ince, was seriously wounded in a ter­ the same time relaunched its cam­ Acuna's program to provide food rorist attack. The Huanta governor's paign to blame President Garcia for and housing for some 2,000 widows burial took place in the midst of dy­ massacres of terrorist prisoners that and children of men assassinated by namite bombings of three high-ten­ occurred when police retook prisons Shining Path, had won him the respect sion towers in the area. which the terroristshad seized in June of many among the Indian population In Lima, police frustrated at least 1986. of the region, which Shining Path has three terrorist attempts to blow up Garcia had defused the campaign sought to control through terror. monuments, hotels, and factories in at the time by denouncing the massa­ Thousands filed past his coffin in the and around the capital city. In Chin­ cre and arresting those responsible, but days following his murder. cha, just south of Lima, the chief of a just-released report prepared by left­ Peruvian Cardinal Juan Landazuri army recruitment was assassinated in wing parliamentarians following their urged an end to the terrorist war: "I am his bed, while army 1st Sgt. Nilo Ba­ "investigation" of the events, revives disturbed and deeply pained by this zan Chavez was murdered in a Shining the charge that President Garcia bears abhorrent assassination, above all be- Path ambush of his car in Huancayo. the burden of blaQle.

EIR December 18, 1987 International 55 International Intelligence

at the end of November, organized by the Nazi warcrim es. Honduran dope link Finnish Sarnlingspartiet party . Waldheim was placed on a Justice De­ According to the Swedish daily Svenska partment "watch list" and forbidden to enter breaks into the press Dagbladet on Dec. I, Akulov said that if the the United States earlier this year. WaI­ United States launches cruise missiles from dheim, who was a young lieutenant in the The United States is beginning to recognize the Norwegian Sea over Swedish and Fin­ Wehrm�cht during World War n, denies the that Honduras is an important drug-transfer nish territory, toward the Soviet Union, the charges, which have never been substanti­ point, and is reopening the officeof the Drug Soviet Union will conduct its war of defense ated. ' Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the over Swedish and Finnish territory . In that Early in December, the OSI informed capital city of Tegucigalpa, closed in 1981, case, the Soviet Union will not respect the the intemational panel which is investigat­ the Washington Post reported on Dec . 7. neutrality of Sweden and Finland. ing the dharges, that it had found sufficient The U.S. State Department has maintained "It is unneccesary to explain what will new evidence to implicate Waldheim "in silence on the Honduran drug connection, happen with these missiles that may be acts whi�h clearly constitute persecution un­ in an effort to cover up the drug ties of Con­ launched against our country," Akulov said. der established legal precedent. " The claims tra forces based in Honduras . "No country will allow such destruction to were sent to the American member of the EIR said it first. In our Jan. 23, 1987 be sown among its people. Neither will we. panel, Bing. Gen. James Lawton Collins. cover story , "Who runs the 'Contra' cocaine The missiles will be rendered harmless be­ On Dec . 6, a leading Austrian parlia­ connection," we exposed the role of the fore that." mentari�n, Ludwig Steiner, foreign affairs Honduran-based Nicaraguan Democratic Akulov also demanded that Finland and spokesman of the Conservative People's Force (FDN), and identified Gen . Gustavo Sweden should strengthen their defenses Party , a<:cusedOSI head Neal Sher oftrying Alvarez, "Dope, Inc . 's pointman in Hon­ against American cruise missiles. to sway, the commission with a "slander duras," as a key link in the Contras' dfug The Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat campai� ." The Justice Department has to and arms-smugglingnetwork. commented in an editorial, "Even if the decide, Itesaid , if it is really willing to allow As we reported in last week's issue ("The Western missiles were not to take this route, a "subordinate official"to ruin relations with cocaine pushers' 'Honduras Connec­ the Soviet Union is preparing to use the air­ a friendly country, especially as Waldheim tion' "), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State space of its neighbors to defend its own ter­ has disproven all the Justice Department's Elliott Abrams has been at pains to insist, in ritory . The warningis clear. At the outbreak "facts. "If there were indeed any new evi­ congressional testimony , that the Honduras­ of war, Finland's and Sweden's neutrality dence, Steiner said, then it should be put on based Contras have no role in the drug trade . will not be respected. That puts new de­ the table. The issue was forced into public view mands on the way of thinking in both coun­ As �IR has documented, Neal Sher when Colombian cocaine kingpin Jorge Luis tries .... works dlosely with Soviet "justice" offi­ Ochoa was arrested on Nov. 21 for speed­ "The timing of the warning [two weeks cials, to gather "evidence" against political ing, driving a Porsche belonging to the Hon­ before the Reagan-Gorbachov summit] is targets in the West. duran military attache in Bogota. The at­ very surprising .... It raises thoughts in tache was recalled by his government. Finland and Sweden, that the agreement on The Washington Post quoted a diplomat intermediate-range missiles is not such a Cantkla reorganizes its in Honduras saying that U.S. officials may positive and tension-lessening thing. If the have looked the other way because of sup­ agreement, which is labeled a step forward, intelligence services port for Contras. "Apparently they didn't in reality starts to bring forward such de­ The Canadian Intelligence and Security Ser­ want to send the wrong signal to the mili­ mands, opinion will be turned against re­ vice, C$tada's version of a combined CIA tary ," he said. ductions of nuclear arms ." and FBI, has abolished 'its countersubver­ The Swedish foreign ministry refused sion division, and transferred relevant files comment, according to Svenska Dagbladet. Soviet 'de ense' to include to a downgraded counterespionagedivision . f The reorganization, informed sources re­ Scandinavian airspace Campaign renewed against port, will facilitate Soviet espionage and dirty-trilfks operations in Canada. The counselor of the Soviet embassy in Hel­ Austria's Wa ldheim The former Soviet ambassador to Can­ sinki, Finland, Albert Akulov, has informed ada, Aleksandr Yakovlev, is now a top ad­ Sweden and Finland that their airspace will The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) viser to Oorbachov, and is probably directly be considered as part of the Soviet defense of the U.S. Justice Department has renewed involved, according to informed Canadian perimeter, in case of nuclear war. Akulov, its international campaign to accuse Austri­ sources.' who is believed to be the KGB's deputy an President Kurt Waldheim, the former The reorganization is timed with efforts rezident at the embassy, spoke at a seminar secretary general of the United Nations, of by the Liberal Party and New Democratic

56 International EIR December 18, 1987 I Briefly

• GORBACHOV said, upon leav­ ing the United States Dec. 11, that the Soviet Union is now capable of Party to "watergate" the present Progressive a lot earlier. Nobody has proven otherwise." detecting nuclear weapons "on var­ Conservative government, through new ious naval ships, whether surface or kickback scandals. A Liberal or NDP gov­ submarines, without any actual veri­ ernment would pull Canada out of NATO , Egypt deploys troops fication or in�pection on the vessels and dissolve NORAD, thereby destroying themselves." fIe offered to sharethe U.S. early-warning systems and'hampering into Gulfregion technology withthe United States, as U. S. anti-submarine capabilities. part of future agteements. The an­ More than 13,000 Egyptian troops have been nouncement " startled some Western quietly sent into the Persian Gulf area since weapons ex�rts," according to the the beginning of November, according to Washington Times. Soviets stung by charges several intelligence sources. The Egyptian units are specificallyequipped with anti-air­ • A NEW S(>VIET TANK may be on Hitler-Stalin Pact craft defense systems and long-range artil­ invincible to current Western tech­ lery . nology, according to the 1987-88 Extreme Soviet sensitivity about the Hitler­ While the bulk of the forces have been edition of lanf' s Armor and Artillery Stalin Pact was revealed in an article in the deployed into Kuwait, some others are in Handbook, released Dec. 8. "It is re­ Soviet daily Izvestia of Nov. 29, written by the Jubail region in Saudi Arabia. ported that a ifuccessor to the T -80 is top Moscow foreign policy operative D.M. The secret deployment fo llowed the ter­ already in senJice in battalion strength Proektor ofthe Institute for World Economy mination of Saudi Arabia's military agree­ with the Sov�t Union and that this and International Relations (IMEMO). The ment with Pakistan, which had deployed may well have a 135mmgun and fur­ pact's secret protocols delivered the Baltic troops at the Saudis' North Yemen border. ther increases in armor protection," states and half of Poland into Russia's sphere Saudi-linked sources report that the decision says Jane's. of influence-where they remain today . was taken after Pakistani units (including Lyndon LaRouche focused international many Shi' ites) were caught smuggling • IRANIAll-l SPEAKER of the attention on the issue earlier this year, with weapons into Saudi Arabia. The Saudi gov­ Parliament AJi Akhbar Hashemi Raf­ a call for Gorbachov to repudiate the pact, ernment also was growing nervous at the sanjani anno,nced at the end of No­ if he is serious about glasnost. The Aug . 23 rapprochement between Islamabad and vember that Iran is negotiating a new anniversary of the pact was marked by un­ Teheran . defense pact :with the Soviet Union, usual public demonstrations against it in the BBC reportsl Rafsanjani is one of Soviet-occupied Baltic republics. those "moderate Iranians" that Ollie Proektor's article complained, "The leg­ Thatcher: Don't include North likes. end that the war began because of the Sovi­ et-German non-aggression treaty , conclud­ our nukes in arms pact • THE KlJWAITI DAILY Al ed Aug . 23, 1939, i.e., a week before Hit­ Anba is serializing EIR ' s SpecialRe­ ler's invasion of Poland, and that, conse­ British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, port Project pemocracy, the 'paral­ quently, the Soviet Union is as guilty of its who waxed eloquent in her praise of Mikhail lel governmeht' behind IranlContra­ origin as is Germany, has existed for more Gorbachov's "bold, historic, and coura­ gate . The introduction states that the than three decades. Now there are attempts geous leadership" following her two-hour report, "authored by Lyndon H. to give a second wind to this legend." meeting with him in London Dec . 7, also LaRouche," fight seem like a Rus­ Proektor protested that this was one of took care to point out that Britain's nuclear sians-versus-Americans spy novel, those events "which, because of their ex­ forces will not be subject to any superpower but "this is die way international pol­ traordinary complexity and contradictory arms-control deal . itics has really functioned, since nature, cannot be given an absolute and un­ In a British TV interview before her World War II and before . " conditional final analysis. We, of course, meeting with the Soviet leader, she declared resorted to the treaty with Germany as an that Great Britain would remain a nuclear • MANFRED WORNER, the extreme, last, and undesired means, to es­ power for the rest of her lifetime . "The main West Germah defense minister, was cape from a very dangerous world situation, way of keeping a war-free Europe is the nominated a$ the new NATO secre­ to overcome internal problems, and to gain nuclear deterrent. It is the most powerful tarygeneral , �t a conferenceof the 16 time for better preparation to repulse the deterrent the world has ever known." foreign mi�sters of the member inevitable aggression .... Asked whether Britain's Trident or Po­ countries in, Brussels on Dec . 11. laris submarine-launched missile systems "Hitler carried out his criminal aggres­ Womer will replace Peter Lord Car­ sion against Poland, independently of would be included in arms-control talks, the 30, rington, whdse' term expires June whether or not the Soviet-German treaty ex­ "Iron Lady" replied, "Not for a very long 1988. isted, since he decided on it and prepared it time."

EIR December 18, 1987 International 57 �TIillMusic

Norbert Brainin brings classical , beauty to Boston concert

by Hartmut Cramer

The recital that world-famous violinist Norbert Brainin and then calmed down in order t9 create the necessary positive leading German pianist Gunter Ludwig gave on Friday, Dec. tension before the stormy begipning of the fo llowing Presto, 4 in Boston at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, which showed both the composer and the artists as being was extraordinary in many respects. capable of mastering all rangd of human emotion. This clas­ First, because Brainin, the first violinist of the legendary sical art of shaping musical passages and creating musical Amadeus Quartet, had the courage to dedicate this concert developments immediately rerhinds one of the great German explicitly to his friend, Lyndon LaRouche, at a time when conductor Wilhelm Furtwiingl�r,who was an absolute master the American presidential candidate is being subjected to a in this respect. political witchhunt in clear violation of the U.S. Constitu­ Add to this, the fact that Btainin and Ludwig engaged in tion. a beautiful musical dialogue diIring the whole performance, Second, Brainin, with the excellent collaboration of Lud­ and that they brilliantly masteted all technical difficulties as I wig, performed some of the greatest classical sonatas for if there were none, thus demopstrating a complete freedom piano and violin in the most truthful and beautiful way pos­ of action, and you have the mqst exciting concert possible. sible. The audience responded with a standing ovation and­ Brainin's violin, a precious Stradivarius built in 1725 as if to prove right the expec�ation expressed by a speaker (named "the Chaconne" because the great German violinist from the international Comrdission to Investigate Human Joseph Joachim used to play Bach's Chaconne only on it) Rights Violations, which spopsored the concert, that "the sang beautifullythroughout the performance. This was true , power of reason and beauty will always prevail if man re­ whether in the magnificent cantabile lines of the Adagio in sponds morally"-the audience demanded an encore. Mozart's Sonata in E-Flat Major (KV 481) and throughout The artists played the Adagio cantabile, the second move­ Brahms's lyrical Sonata No. 1 in G Major (Op. 78), or in the ment of Beethoven's famous C-Minor Sonata (Op. 30, 2) so extremely dramatic passages of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata beautifully and movingly, that the audience, clearly ennobled (which is actually a concerto, as Beethoven himself wrote in by the performance, honored it with a pointedly long silence the manuscript). afterthe last tone had faded away, in order to celebrate the outstanding accomplishment e\ren more enthusiastically. Breathtaking beauty Hartmut Cramer, a GermlUl spokesman for the Commis­ The outright beauty, irony, and poetry of the Mozart and sion to Investigation Human �ights Violations, and himself Brahms sonatas left an attentive audience almost breathless, an accomplished musician, inttoduced the program, saying, but what Brainin and Ludwig accomplished after the inter­ "It is this very Constitution of the United States of America, mission, was simply a miracle. They were able to create the which is admired most by all people all over the world, who whole tension of Beethoven's extraordinarily difficult are concernedwith the securing of political freedom, human Kreutzer Sonata, from the firstfew opening bars , the Adagio dignity and the Inalienable Rights of Man, first established sostenuto: The violin started alone, reflective, forceful, but in the 1776 Declaration of In�pendence. Freedom, dignity not too loud; the piano answered powerfully, energetically, of man, and natural law are not only the fundamentals of our

58 Music EIR December 18, 1987 Norbert Brainin (right), with Lyndon LaRouche, at a reception in Brainin's honor in Boston on Dec. 4 fo llowing his concert. great Judeo-Christian-that is, Western-civilization, but with the legendary Amadeus Quartet. they are also reflected in every great work of art, worthy of As chamber music lovers around the world know, the that name. Amadeus recently disbanded after �early 40 years together "Tonight, we will all participate in one of the most beau­ following the death of violist Peter Schidlof in mid-August. tiful examples of this humanist principle: classical music. Its tradition was one of the world's �roudest, distinguished

There is simply no better way to celebrate those principles by a devotion to the masterworks 0 the classical literature than through beautiful music; music, which transcends all (the quartet has recorded only BeetHoven, Brahms, Haydn, borders , is unfettered by languages and flows directly from Mozart and Schubert) , a concern fo� simultaneous richness heart to heart with the aim of ennobling people. Thereby, of detail and breadth ofline, and a se se of eager, enlightened classical , beautiful music belongs to all people and is truly and humanistic interchange. universal. " Happily, Brainin's concert made clear that the quartet's The audience of 600 people, some of whom had come legacy will live on through the indi idual efforts of its sur­ from as far away as Montreal, Canada, and who were, by viving members. Sponsored by the Commission to Investi­ and large, people not normally classed as "concert-goers," gate Human Rights Violations, "dedicated to Mr. Brainin's I thus proved in an extraordinarily moving way, that the great good friend Lyndon H. LaRouche; and presented with the poet of freedom, Friedrich Schiller, was right when he wrote admirable collaboration of pianist Ludwig, last night's spread at the time of the American Revolution: consisted, not surprisingly, of a collection of repertory "The theater is the common channel through which the heavyweights. light of wisdom streams down from the thoughtful, better But what a richly jewelled carpet it was. In Mozart'sE­ part of society, spreading thence in mild beams throughout flat Sonata K. 481, one marvelled at Brainin's expressive the entire state: More correct notions, more refinedpr ecepts, (and judicious) use of portamento, his directly communica­ purer emotions flow from here into the veins of the popula­ tive tone, and his engagingly conversational approach, tion; the clouds of barbarism and gloomy superstition dis­ whether in the delicately inflected cantabile lines of the sec­ perse, night yields to triumphant light!" ond movement or the gregarious extroversion of the conclud­ This might sound like a miracle to many, but that Friday ing allegretto. In the outer moveme I ts of Brahms's G-major night it came true in Boston. Sonata, one was captivated by the deep and lively wisdom in every phrase, and in the adagio by its magnificentlandsca pe The Boston Globe published the fo llowing review on Dec. 5. of pastoral calm and divine pu ose. And Beethoven's Jordan Hall last night was the scene of an extraordinarily "Kreutzer" bristled with drama and dimension, passion and rewarding recital by Norbert Brainin, former first violinist purpose ....

EIR December 18, 1987 Music 59 Controversies are revived iIi r�print of primruy sources on Beethoven

by David P. Goldman

edition , sought to discredit Wegeler's testimony in toto, at­ Beethoven Remembered: tempting to prove that his clair* of childhood friendship with The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler Beethoven were false from the! beginning. Later scholarship and Ferdinand Rles favored Wegeler, citing, amo�g other evidence, the letter in Foreword by Christopher Hogwood. which Beethoven confided his growing deafness to Wegeler, Introduction by Eva Badura-Skoda. apparently the firstperson to whom he raised the issue . How­ Translated by Frederick Noonan. ever, strong internal evidence ; supports Thayer's distrust of Great Ocean Publishers; Arlington, Virginia, Wegeler's accuracy, and indeed his motives. 1987. Of Beethoven's principal her Christian Gottlob Neefe , 224 pages, with 23 illustrations, fo otnotes and te¥tc Wegeler writes only that he, "the former musical director of index. $16.95 hardbound. the Grossman Theater Company later employed as court or­ ganist and known as a composer, had little influence on the In time for the 217th anniversary of Beethoven's birth this instruction of our Ludwig; indeed he complained about Dec. 16, Great Ocean Publishers has brought out a long­ Neefe's excessively harsh criticism of his first attempts at overdue translation of two memoirs of Beethoven's life by composition. " men who knew him; his friend from his Bonn youth , Franz Neefe, who came to Bonn from Leipzig, brought with Wegeler, and his piano student Ferdinand Ries. Although the him a copy ofJ.S. Bach's WeU·Tempered Clavier, copied by standard Beethoven biographies incorporate most of the ma­ hand, since it was first published at the tum of the 19th terial in these brief works , English-speaking scholars and century . His pupil Beethoven memorized the entire cycle, a music-lovers may now consult the primary source. point which Neefe emphasized in his famous advertisement On this joyful occasion, it seems almost peevish to focus for the 14-year -old Beethoven's firstpublic concert. And this attention on apparently obscure debates over the merits of at a time when conventional scholarship claims that J . S. Bach differing accounts of Beethoven's life; indeed , the general was virtually unknown ! On the contrary: Neefe's reference reader, eager for every glimpse of the great man, prefers to to J . S. Bach in that regard was a political declaration; Bach's ignore them entirely. But great issues of principle, bearing most famous surviving son, C.P.E. Bach, was a close collab­ upon our ability to hear and reproduce Beethoven's music, orator of the circle of German republicans (including Lessing underlie the controversies. The English edition of the Ries­ and Voss) who laid the foundations of the Weimar "Classic" Wegeler memoirs inherits the old quarrels; and these touch of Schiller and Goethe . J .S. Bach's music itself was a rally­ directly or indirectly on fundamentaliss ues . The firstof these ing-point for musicians of depth and conscience throughout involves Beethoven's youthful saturation in the music of J . S. Europe . At the same time (1784) Neefe's advertisement ap­ Bach, which sheds light on the nature ofhis genius. Indirect­ peared, Mozart was first immersing himself in the same Bach ly, but of firstimportance to our own era, the Schindler debate fugues, thanks to Benjamin Franklin's collaborator Baron revivedby the edition's introduction, bears on a fundamental von Swieten. issue of musical interpretation: Can Beethoven's music be Beethoven insisted throughout his life that J.S. Bach was performed with altered instruments , and altered tuning? Eva the source from which all things in music flow, and his early Badura-Skoda's comments are so outrageous that to ignore immersion in Bach accounts for the astonishingly mature them woulddo disservice to Beethoven, who, afterall , would quality of many supposedly '1uvenile" works . Contrary to have preferred to celebrate his own birthday with a good fight the usual picture of Beethoven, the "late bloomer" verse on issues of principle. Mozart, the "child prodigy," some Beethoven works written A. W. Thayer, whose 19th-century Beethoven biography under Neefe's direction, e.g., his first (without opus) piano survives as a standard source in a still-available paperback concerto written at age 14, stand up very well to what Mozart

60 Music EIR December 18, 1987 composed at that age. The editor of the 1906 German edition Conservatory director Luigi Cherubini. of these memoirs, Alfred Kalischer, included in the transla­ Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. has demonstrated why the tion, rebutted Wegeler as follows: "What is here said about higher pitch destroys classical composers' music: classical Chr. Gottlob Neefe , however, is not to the point. Beethoven, counterpoint derives from the register-shifts of the human as he himself acknowledged, owed much to this extraordi­ voice, which classical instruments(including the Beethoven­ nary teacher, particularly in composition instruction." Kal­ era wooden-frame piano) imitate. No development was more ischer otherwise dismisses Thayer's attempts to discredit destructive to musical composition than the elevation of pitch Wegeler as a source. But the slur against Neefe goes beyond which began in the 1820s. Schindler may not have under­ the scope of permissible error, and the issue of Wegeler's stood much, but he understood the fu ndamentals, namely credibility must remain open. that Beethoven's music could not properly be performed at the London pitch. There is no record of Ries having com­ Did Ries sell out? plained about this. Ferdinand Ries, the pianist prodigy who made his fortune Schindler understood something else fundamental to in London, remains just as problematic. Eva Badura-Skoda's Beethoven's character; he devotes a chapter of his biography introduction consists largely ofan attack against the authority to Beethoven's relationship to Plato. The great composer of biographer Anton Schindler, Beethoven's personal secre­ immersed himself in Plato's work on music, less in the phys­ tary during his final years. Schindler reports Beethoven's ics of the Timaeus than in the moral stricturesset down in the conviction that Ries had sold out to the London Philistines. Republic, Book VI, Schindler reported. Beethoven's motto, . Badura-Skoda writes, "Schindler was less interested in con­ "All True Artis Moral Progress," puts him squarely in Plato's veying actual facts and impressions than in giving a censored camp in this regard, and makes him an enemy ofthe Roman­ picture of Beethoven according to his own limited under­ tics (starting with Rousseau), who have attempted to abduct standing of the master ... Indeed, she attacks the English trans­ Beethoven's posthumous reputation. lator of Schindler's biography, ·out of "concern about the Eva Badura-Skoda should know about these issues; in­ possible harm this new edition might do because the editor deed her husband, pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, on whom hangs had neglected to emphasize Schindler's questionable char­ flappingthe giant mantle of his teacherEdwin Fischer, styles acter and his tendency even to forge evidence ifhe considered himself a specialist in the Beethoven-era fortepiano. Indeed, it 'necessary' or 'advisable.' .. the Wegeler-Ries edition sports an introduction by the cult­ Schindler made a somewhat pathetic career out of his leader of the "old instruments"movement, Britishconductor relationshipto Beethoven (satirized by Heinrich Heine, among Christopher Hogwood, who seems tel believe that all means others). Although the systematic Thayer had a high opinion of music expression, e.g., string vibrato, are to be excised of his biography, Schindler is far from reliable, especially on from classical performance as "musicologically imprecise." matters pertaining to his own relationship to Beethoven, who Hogwood's dour band does, however, play more or less at appears to have merely tolerated him. Beethoven's pitch, because the old instruments cannot stand But who was, in fact, loyal to Beethoven? Ries's London any higher. They dislike music too much to understand its took the lead in ruining performance of Beethoven's music significance. by raising concert pitch, to achieve a supposedly brilliant Eva Badura-Skoda makes no mention, however, of the sound; indeed, Covent Garden's concert "A" had risen to issues of principle between Schindler and Ries. Instead, she almost 460 cycles per second (against Beethoven's 427 cy­ calls upon "Austria's most gifted and best-known grapholo­ cles), before the great soprano Adelina Pattiforced its reduc­ gist," a certain Robert Muckenschnabel, to compare Ries's tion to the late- 19th-century "French" standard of 435 cycles and Schindler's handwriting! Muckenschnabel "wrote a persecond . shockingly negative character analysis of Schindler," but In the standard histories of musical pitch, none other than described Ries as "a reliable, extraOrdinarily diligent and Anton Schindler emerges as a public campaigner for the faithful person." lower pitch. His 1855 article in the Niederrheinische Musik­ Graphology is a kooky obsession heavily funded by the zeitung on "The Present High Orchestral Pitch and Its late S.G. Warburg, who believed (among many other weird Future," demanded a return to the lower "A" prior to things) that one could read men's characters through their 1816, when the elevated tuning of the military bands handwriting. That such idiocy could 'make its way into sup­ gathered at the Congress of Vienna began to force pitch posedly reputable scholarship is a scandal by itself, and the higher. Indeed, Schindler's attack on the high pitch is the choice of Eva Badura-Skoda for the new volume's introduc­ only one mentioned by these sources during that period. tion represented poor judgment onthe publisher's part. Schindler and his friends organized the first so-called "old Nonetheless, the newly available translation gives Eng­ instruments" concerts, playing with woodwinds manufac­ lish-speaking readers the chance to better workthrough the tured earlier in the century at the lower pitch. In this respect, controversies in Beethoven scholarship for themselves, and Schindler agreed with such of Beethoven's friends as Paris that is contribution enough.

ElK December 18, 1987 Music 61 ITillNational

How the INF treaty will be stopped

by Nicholas F. Benton

The disastrous Intennediate NuclearForce (INF) treaty signed not be until August) , the greater the chances are for ratifica­ by President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorba­ tion to be defeated. That is because of the many outside chov in Washington Dec. 8, removing the only effective events which could radically change Senators' views in the deterrent to a massive Soviet military arsenal on the borders meantime, such as occurredin. 1979, when the SALT II treaty of Western Europe, is not yet binding. Ratification of the that had been signed by President Carter and Soviet leader treaty by a two-thirds vote of the U.S. Senate is still required, Brezhnev was scuttled after the Soviets invaded Afganistan. and serious opposition, which could prevent implementation, This time, in addition to a new Soviet atrocity , the most is expected to surface as the ratificationprocess begins. likely factors to torpedo the INF treaty relate to the early 1988 The U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2, states that presidential primaries, and the virtualcertainty of a financial the President "shall have power, by and with the advice and crash soon afterthe New Year. consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds In both cases, the campaign of Democratic presidential of the Senators present concur." contender Lyndon LaRouche is pivotal. LaRouche is the President Reagan wasted no time launching his campaign most articulate and outspoken among the presidential candi­ to secure Senate ratification. In a nationally televised speech dates against the INF treaty . Therefore , a strong showing for Dec. 10, he said, "I will meet with the leadership of Congress LaRouche in the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primary here tomorrow morning, and I am confident that the Senate in February, or in the "Super Tuesday" primaries on March will now act in an expeditious way to fulfillits duty under our 8, will send a loud and clear message to the Senate that the Constitution. " U.S. population wants to see the treaty rejected-and this However, Senate ratification is far from certain. Right will affectmany Senate votes. now, according to Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), there are Similarly, the economic crash will be a further vindica­ approximately 50 Senators in favor of the treaty , 25 opposed, tion of LaRouche's views, and the added credibility he will and 25 undecided. Since it will require 67 votes to ratify the gain will help catalyze opposition to the INF treaty that will treaty, the question of ratification is very much up in the air, be felt in the Senate. despite attempts by treatysupporters to insist otherwise. If the vote on ratification gets pushed back into the sum­ mer, then it will run directly into the heat of the 1988 presi­ Two factors: LaRouche and timing dential campaign, with the Democratic nominating conven­ To begin with, there is already a dispute among Senators tion scheduled for July 18-21 in Atlanta, and the Republican about when the ratificationvote will come up. It is generally convention Aug. 15-18 in New Orleans. By that time, parti­ agreed that consideration of the issue will not begin prior to sanship will become dominant over all other factors, insuring the Christmas recess, which lasts to Jan. 19. rejection of the treaty by many Democratic Senators who, The timing of the vote could be the most critical factor. according to inside sources, already secretly oppose the treaty, For example, thelonger the vote is delayed (no one thinks it but are publicly supporting it forthe moment. will come before next February, and some speculate it may The more time elapses, the greater the drumbeat of pop-

62 National ElK December 18, 1987 ular opposition to the appeasement treaty will mount, build­ the summit Dec. 9 with four newspaper columnists, where ing from the series of newspaper ads by the Ad Hoc Com­ the President revealed a startling abandonment of his previ­ mittee Against the INF Treaty, signed by over 200 interna­ ously healthy realism about the Soviets. In the interview, tional military, political, and civic leaders, which appeared Reagan said that Gorbachov "is the first and only Soviet just prior to and during the summit. Paid for by the Schiller leader that has never affirmed" the Soviet goal of world Institute, headed by LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp-La­ domination. Reagan stated, "Possibly the fundamental change Rouche, the ads appeared in the Washington Post and Wash­ is that in the past, Soviet leaders have openly expressed their ington Times. the International Herald Tribune. and the acceptance of the Marxian theory of �e one-world commu­ Manchester Union-Leader. and were the subject of news nist state; that their obligation was to expand in the world. reports in a number of newspapers in Europe and the United They no longer feel that way." States. A Cuban newspaper in Miami even ran the ad as its The President obviously has not! bothered to read the editorial. Soviet MilitaryPower report produced by his own Pentagon, In addition, at a well-attended press conference during which documents that the Soviets maintain an offensive, the summit, Adm. Thomas Moorer, former chairman of the nuclear first-strike military doctrine. Nor has he considered Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a petition signed by over his administration's own annual report on Soviet treaty vio­ 1,100 flag and general officers opposing the INF treaty and lations, issued only days before the summit, which cited any concessions on the SDI. Admiral Moorer, head of the massive Soviet violations of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) American Security Council, was accompanied by a dozen treaty, warning that the Soviets "may be preparing a nation­ retired admirals and brigadier generals, and Sen. Malcolm wide ballistic missile defense" in a tQtal breakout from the Wallop (R-Wyo.). treaty. Therefore, it might be pointed out that loyalty to the What the Senate might do President can no longer be valid grounds for any Senator to In addition to the influence of outside factors in prevent­ justify ratification of the treaty. ing ratification, there is the action that will be taken by the On the issues of verification and enforcement, a careful Senate itself in its consideration of the treaty . review of the facts will reveal to the Senate that verification, For example, prior to debating and voting on the treaty as ground-breaking and "instrusive" as it is for this treaty, on the floorof the Senate, there will be hearings before three remains impossible. As former Soviet.scientist Dmitri Mikh­ Senate committees. They will begin simultaneously, as soon eyev said at an anti-INF press confe)rence held during the as the Senate returns from its Christmas recess. The hearings summit, verification is impossible in ,the Soviet Union, be­ will be held before the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, cause "the country is so vast, so secr�tive, and has so many and Intelligence committees. underground facilities." He said that U. S. on-site inspectors The committees will hear extensive testimony from as allowed by the INF treaty will stand at the front gate of a many expert witnesses as can be found, including European factory, while SS-20s are moved out the back, out doors "the specialists, said Sen. Allen Simpson (R-Wyo). Soviets use to go out and buy their vodka. " The Armed Services Committee will focus on the issue On the issue of enforcement, there is simply no provision of whether or not the treaty will leave Europe with a sufficient for it in the treaty. deterrent to Soviet forces threatening her. The Intelligence Committee will focus on whether or not the means are suffi­ Killer amendments cient to monitor and guard against Soviet cheating on the This introduces the other option the Senate has for block­ treaty. The Foreign Relations Committee will be concerned ing the treaty: so-called "killer amendments," which can be about the overall impact of the treaty on U.S.-Soviet and added on with a simple majority vote and are binding. Senator allied relations. Wallop suggested that one such amendment could require an Most Senators will base their final decision on one of enforcement provision, such as requiring the immediate ter­ three factors: I) whether they are satisfiedthat the verification mination of the treaty upon discovery of a violation. Sen. provisions of the treaty are sufficient, 2) whether there are Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) suggested on national television Dec. 6 any enforcement provisions in the treaty , in the event the that there could be amendments which delay implementation Soviets are discovered cheating and 3) loyalty to President of the treaty contingent upon a number of things, such as: 1) Reagan. the Soviets' redressing all violations of current treaties in For example, many Republican senators, who otherwise effect, 2) Soviet withdraw I from Afganistan, or 3) the express grave reservations about the treaty, say they will vote achievement of a conventional force balance in Europe. for it solely out of loyalty to the President. But they must The addition of any such Senate-authored amendments understand that the President Reagan they were loyal to when to the treaty would be immediately binding, requiring Soviet he was first elected in 1980 is scarcely the same man today. approval. They would quickly send everything back again to This was reflected in an interview Reagan conducted during the startof the game.

EIR December 18, 1987 National 63 Is the city of Chicago being held hostage to Qaddafi? by Sheila A. Jones

As Chicago citizens read their morning newspapers , the day dafi openly funds Palestinian and Western European terror­ before Thanksgiving, Nov. 25 , they were hit with banner ists along with their "separatist," "ecologist," and "peace" headlines screaming of the sentencing of one of the most support fronts. In the course of the trial, the links to Qaddafi violent gang-cult leaders in the city, JeffFort of the group were exposed by two EI Rukn lieutenants who had turned called EI Rukn. This cult formerly was called the Black P. state evidence against Fort and the cult. Stone Nation, and its members were called The Blackstone The trial also revealed, shockingly, that while Fort him­ Rangers. Fort was sentenced to 260 years in jail. self was in Illinois state prisbn for drug running, extortion, Several hours after the announcement of the sentencing and under charges of gang-style assassinations, he was given of Fort, the entire nation learned of the death of Chicago the right to have a private telephone in his prison cell. As a Mayor Harold Washington from a sudden heart attack. result of FBI taps on that phone, authorities learned how Fort Jeff Fort and his "lieutenants" were convicted for a con­ was able to give marching orders to continue terroristactivi­ spiracy to launch assassinations against enemies of Muam­ ties across the nation. In other words, Fort carried on his mar Qaddafi and the nation of Libya. EI Rukn had received business from the prison, t6 the point that one gang-style monies and strategic advice from Qaddafi's foot soldiers, murder was ordered from this cell. directly from Libya. Several of Fort' s soldiers had been flown What is curious about the entire media coverage, as well into Libya for consultation and briefings. as the trial itself, is that there is no mention of who put this The way in which the raid on EI Rukn was carried out ghetto gang of drug-pushers and users in touch with Libya was ironic, in view of the spectacular raid on Oct. 6, 1986 and Qaddafi. There is no mention of this, but the following against publishing businesses associated with presidential points must be made: candidate Lyndon LaRouche in Leesburg, Virginia. For the It is a known fact that Minister Louis Farrakhan, who raid against LaRouche's associates, the government used heads the "Nation of Islam," has openly involved himself police helicopters, a plane, armored personnel carriers, and with this EI Rukn gang-cult, such that they have participated 400 heavily armed officials, some wielding crowbars and in past Nation of Islam "Savior's Day" conferences. The sledgehammers along with automatic weapons and shotguns. reader should recall the fact thatMinister Farrakhan received This small army invaded Leesburg even though none of the several million dollars from Qaddafi, during Farrakhan's vis­ targets had any record of violence and the objects seized it to Libya and his meeting with Qaddafiin 1985. consisted of business records, journalists' notebooks, and so In 1985, Louis Farrakhan shocked the nation, and partic­ forth . ularly the citizens of Chicago, when that year's Savior's Day In contrast, when the headquarters of EI Rukn, located conference featured via Telestar hookup, Muammar Qaddafi. on the Southside of the city of Chicago, was invaded shortly Qaddafi proceeded to brief several thousand followers of the after the Leesburg raid, law enforcement authorities confis­ Nation of Islam on why blacks in the United States must cated hand-held bazookas, machine guns, grenades, surface launch violent insurrections against the United States govern­ to air cannons, and other high-powered explosives. How­ ment. He called for all blacks to resign from the militaryand ever, the entire law enforcement team consisted of a pitiful build a "Black Army" inside the United States. handful of approximately 20. The Jesse Jackson angle Running terror from prison Another point of interest and further cause for alarm, is Several of Fort's lieutenants, including Fort himself, had an investigation, of which therehas been no further mention met with Muammar Qaddafiin Libya. The Soviet-allied Qad- in the press, involving Democratic presidential candidate

64 National EIR December 18, 1987 Jesse Jackson's half-brother, Noah Robinson. Robinson is a Chicago, and as part of his sociology degree, he had to live black multi-millionaire "entrepreneur." His name surfaced among the gangs and street people to learnto survive with a in Chicago media in regard to his ties to the El Rukn gang. $1 bill in his pocket. The Chicago media detailed the fact that Robinson had been a financier of El Rukn businesses, and was a financial sup­ Riot threat after mayor's death porterbecause he viewed them as liberators . This all becomes extremely dangerous when one looks at El Rukn has a lot of real estate holdings on the black the threatened violence which followed the death of Mayor Southside of Chicago. Robinson built his financial empire Harold Washington, from these same forces, led by Minister through ownership of franchises of almost every fast food Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson, who flew back to Chi­ operation in the city. Through a new deal to invest in a cago from a junket in the Persian Gulf. shopping mall in North Carolina, confrontations exploded, The city was under siege as Farrakhan along with Jesse which resulted in the gang-style assassination of one of Ro­ Jackson engineered a a violent Dec. 1 takeover of City Hall, binson's enemies. This was traced back to El Rukn. The trial trying to blackmail and hold hostage the City Council mem­ transcripts reveal that the enemy was assassinated, because bers who disagreed with their choice to succeed Washington "he was giving our friend, Noah Robinson trouble ." The as mayor. At least 10 alderman supporting Ed Sawyer for press articles did their best to distance Jesse Jackson from his acting mayor against the Jackson-Farrakhan choice, reported half-brother, by claiming they had a falling-out, around the receiving death threats . About 900 raucous protesters gath­ founding of Jackson's Operation PUSH ("People United to ered inside the building, hurling epithets at aldermen, while Save Humanity"). 4,000 were outside. Now, it should be noted that Farrakhan ran the chief According to Chicago press reports, aldermen stated the physical security team for Jesse Jackson in his last bid for following: President, in 1984. Farrakhan has a security team, well­ "It's intimidation. It's mob rule. ; ..I, for one, am not trainedand well-armed, called the Fruit of Islam. It turns out going to be intimidated ....When a civilized society starts that, upon his famed trip to Lebanon to release the black giving in to mob rule, that's the beginning of the end." One American officer, Goodman, who was being held hostage, it alderman was quoted: "They called up my wife and said, 'If was the Fruit of Islam, who escorted Jesse Jackson. It was your husband goes for Sawyer, he's dead.' " Louis Farrakhan who was present throughout all meetings, Another stated: "I'd accept the people's choice. Right and was crucial in opening the doors for Jesse to the Assad now, the people's choice is Tim Evans!. There's a mad crowd brothers who run Syria. out there." Don't be fooled by the media trick Jesse and Farrakhan According to the Chicago Tribune. other pro-Sawyer played when Jesse Jackson seemed to distance himself from aldermen who reported receiving death threats , even wore Farrakhan following Farrakhan's death threat to a black jour­ bulletproof vests, and found their offices and homes sur­ nalist in Washington, D.C. who had attacked Farrakhan as a rounded by night picketers, chanting, �'You 're going to die." racist. Is the city of Chicago being treated to the same kind of Now, this is very important in terms of Jesse's history irregular warfare as Western Europe, where Soviet KGB­ with the El Rukn gang-cult, for when Jackson was beginning steered anarchists, supported by the Green Party, have cre­ his career in Chicago, it was he, during the days of Mayor ated armed enclaves in such cities as Hl,I.mburg and Copen­ Richard Daley, who organized the Blackstone Rangers, along hagen, from which terrorism is deployed against the govern­ with disgruntled black policemen in Chicago, into an orga­ ment? It is a well known fact that Farrakhan is directly tied nization called Black Men Moving, a gang-terror grouping to the Green Party , through Qaddafi. The Green Book of to attack white policemen and whites. During Jesse's college Qaddafi is almost the second Koran df the Nation of Islam. days at the University of Chicago, at the Theological Semi­ Moreover, the "Rainbow Coalition" of Jesse Jackson is the narythere , he sat at the feet of Jeff Fort, and proclaimed him chief ally in the United States of the Moscow-directed Green a leader. He stated that he admired Fort as almost a saint. Party , as confirmed by the U. S. founder of the Green Party A major expose was written by former Chicago Daily in 1986, during a radio debate. Defender reporter Roy Harvey in the late 1970s, on the gang One of the firstacts Harold Washitlgtonundertaken upon and the University of Chicago's deployment of it for purposes his election was to declare Chicago a nuclear-free zone, in of terrorand violence against black residents' property . They counsel with Jesse Jackson. Chicago. is the "sister city" of burned homes to permit real estate speculators to purchase Kiev in the U.S.S.R. Following the March 18, 1986 Illinois the property for the expansion of the University of Chicago. Democratic primary victory of LaRouche candidates Janice Mr. Harvey's series, also published in EIR , detailed how Hart and Mark Fairchild, a large Russian delegation came to these gangs were a part of a social engineering project run meet with Jesse Jackson at Operation PUSH headquarters . from the University of Chicago. All this suggests that the city is iIifor very rough times, Jesse Jackson during this time was at the University of unless this terror operation is exposed. and dismantled.

EIR December 18, 1987 National 65 Elephants & Donkeys by Kathleen Klenetsky

doing deals with Moscow. "This didn't Robertson was a mean giving the farm away, but get­ rum-runner in Korea ting on with it. . . . It runs right through his character. " Many a candidate for President likes Murphy told the Washington Post to parade his war record before the that Bush had wanted the Reagan voters . B�t, it appears , Pat Robertson administration to adopt a conciliatory won't be (:meof them. The sanctimon­ tone toward Moscow early on. He ious television preacher spent his time would be "on the side of discussing in Korea running liquor for profit to things with the Soviet Union," said his fellow' GIs , in between alleged vis­ Bush courts Gorbachov, Murphy. its to prostitutes. wins Pravda backing Robetitson has been accused of Other sources told the Post that smuggling liquor and "availing him­ George Bush is reaping his reward for Bush, together with former national self' of prostitutes during the Korean being the only Republican presiden­ security adviser Robert McFarlane, War, by Paul Brosman, who served tial candidate thus far to give an un­ played a key role in prompting Reagan there witb Robertson. A retired uni­ qualified imprimatur to the "New down the road toward the "New Mun­ versity professor, Brosman contends Munich" INF Treaty: the Soviet ich" treaty, and that McFarlane-a · that Robertson was known as the Union's endorsement, and a breakfast major player in the Iran scandal­ "Masan liquor officer," for his smug­ with the great Czar Mikhail himself. continues to advise the Vice Presi­ gling success. He also said that Rob­ On Dec. 3, the Soviet Communist dent. ertson was once "scared to death" he Party daily, Pravda, hailed Bush as Another top Bush adviser is Rich­ had picked up a venereal disease from the only "good" Republican Party ard Burt, the current U.S. ambassador a prostitute. candidate in the race. (Pravda gave its to West Germany. That should touch Brosdlan's statements were con­ endorsement to Walter Mondale back off alarm bells. Not only did Burt, as tained in court documents filed in re­ in 1984.) assistant secretary of state in the Rea­ sponse to a suit Robertson has brought A week later, Bush was granted gan administration, help fashion the against former Congressman Pete his own personal audience with Gor­ so-called "zero option" as part of an McClosk¢y, for contending that Rob­ bachov. The Soviets allowed the Vice overall package to decouple NATO; ertson's father (at the time a powerful President to bring along some of his but, while working as a reporter for senator frpm Virginia) got his son out key campaign backers, so that they, the New York Times during the Carter of combat duty and into cushy assign­ too, could get a taste of how Moscow regime, he leaked crucial classified ments. rewards its collaborators. U.S. intelligence secrets. He now ca­ Bush is bending over backwards vorts around Germany with the degen­ to tell all and sundry that he always erate oligarchs of the Thurnund Taxis So what's Ted Kennedy knew that Gorbachov was a man you clan, while wining and dining the vi­ up to these days? could do business with. Stumping in olently anti-American Green Party at Iowa a few days before the summit, the U.S. embassy in Bonn. Rumors are floating around Washing­ Bush proudly asserted, "I made the By the way, Bush told TV inter­ ton that Ted Kennedy is eyeing a bid first contact with Gorbachov ever for viewer David Frost recently that he for the Democratic presidential nom­ the United States," when he went to thinks another pivotal Irangate fig­ ination. Iteportedly, Kennedy is re­ the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko. ure-Ollie North-will go down in grouping some of his old political "The minute I saw" Gorbachov, "I history as a hero. "I respect somebody hands un41er the command of former could tell there was something very who feels passionately and strongly JFK adviser Ted Sorenson. A few different about him." about values, about things, about his months ago, EIR learned that Kenne­ A top Bush adviser, retired admi­ country, his patriotism," said Bush. dy had hired five or six of his former ral Daniel Murphy, says that the Vice Gee, George, what about the Consti­ top campaign advisers to his current President was "always in favor" of tution? staff.

66 National EIR December 18, 1987 Eye on Washington by Nicholas F. Benton

modem weapons. tween the White l-Jouse and Congress Weinberger: We have tried our last month. EIR exclusive best to do that. That's an essential part "We do not view this '89 [budget of preparedness and readiness. We feel cutting] exercise as a 'let's just get with Weinberger the more prepared we are , the better through this year and then go back to Former Secretary of Defense Caspar morale is, the less likely we'll ever where we were,' " Taft said. "You Weinberger granted me a brief exclu­ have to use these great people in com­ couldn't sensibly budget on that basis, sive interview Dec. 9, one of the first bat. and we're not going to do that. We he's given following his resignation. EIR: What does the future hold, have told them to , jnstead, assume that Weinberger was being honored at the both for you and for the military? the five-yearprogram will be similarly Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, by Weinberger: Well, I hope for the constrained .... Each year will be the usa. At his request, he restricted military, what seems to be inevitable about 11-12% below what it was pro­ his remarks to the general subject of cuts this coming year will only be a grammed in our budget last year. " the usa, which presented him with one-time occurrence. Congress seems He confirmed that such deep cuts an award shortly after the interview determined to cut the budget rather would translate into a serious reduc­ occurred. deeply. But maintaining essential lev­ tion of troop levels for the United EIR: Mr. Secretary, it is obvious els to provide for our troops, to keep States. He estimated it would be a 4- why you are getting the award here them modem and well equipped, is the 5% cut-or, more than 100,000 tonight, because in a number of state­ only way to keep the peace. troops. ments you made just prior to leaving EIR: What about you? In strategic modernization pro­ office, you stressed the morale of the Weinberger: Well, I'll be doing grams, he said, "We prefer to end pro­ troops, the improved morale of U.S. a few things. Talking a bit. But most­ grams in order not to stretch out all forces over the last seven years. ly, I'll be writing. programs or larger numbers of pro­ Weinberger: Yes. grams, to keep our buying of systems EIR: What can you say are the at efficientrat es, and to go to a some­ most important contributing factors to Defense budget what smaller forc(f." this? He noted that the Strategic Air faces long-term cuts Weinberger: Probably, I feel, the Command had already moved to scrap President's leadership in security, the Contrary to the hopes expressed by its small ICBM program, the A6F. Taft public support, and the public admi­ Weinberger, however, the Pentagon added that the Strategic Defense Ini­ ration of the military and the military under new Defense Secretary Frank tiative is "not off-limits" to the budget as a career, which is a tremendous Carlucci is now drafting its plans to axe, either. "We hav.. ,een re-looking change after Vietnam, when we saw a introduce a Fiscal Year 1989 budget at the SOl program ,;mcipally in light lot of the opposition and revulsion of cut by 11-12% below the level Wein­ of what's happened to them in the '88 thatwar taken out on the troopsthem­ berger originally projected. budget where they went from $5.2 bil­ selves. That's all turned around now, According to an interview with re­ lion (requested by the President) to and there's great admiration and re­ porters Dec. 7 by Deputy Secretary of $3.9 billion (authorized by the Con­ spectfor the military forces, and I think Defense William H. Taft IV, the cut­ gress), roughly a 25% reduction. that's the President's leadership. What back is being planned not only for next We'retrying to assess withthem where we tried to do, of course, was to carry year,but for the next fiveyears at least. to go from here." out his policies in improving the con­ The deep cut involves slashing the He added, "I would certainly ex­ ditions and the quality of life. administration request from $332 bil­ pect the SOl budget to grow. I don't EIR: It's also been as a result of lion projected originally for FY89 to think it will grow. to the level that we the fact they've seen you fighting for $299 billion. The agreement that the had. I think we were asking $6.7 bil­ their best interests in talking about administration would cut $33 billion lion in '89." But, he said, that amount modernization, making surethat ifthey from its request to Congress for FY89 was based on getting the $5.2 billion do go into battle they've got the most came as part of the deal struck be- in FY88.

EIR December 18, 1987 National 67 Congressional Closeup by Kathleen Klenetsky

Dole proposes to whether the proposals will co.ntribute 9 to. get them into.li ne behind the pact. starve Third World to. the sustainable develo.pment o.fthe Go.rbacho.v had the legislato.rs' Sen. Bo.b Do.le's "co.nservative" cre­ bo.rro.wing co.untry." Such reviews pro.file do.wn pat. He o.penedthe meet­ dentials are beco.ming ever mo.re tar­ "shall address the eco.no.mic viability ing by appealing to. their no.t inco.nsi­ nished-and no.t o.nly because o.f his o.f the project, and adverse impacts o.n derable ego.s. "Co.ngress is indeed a fence-sitting o.n the INF Treaty ratifi­ the enviro.nment, natural reso.urces, mo.st important element in the politi­ catio.n issue. public health, and indigeno.us peo.­ cal ptocess," he said, and "no.thing On No.v. 30, the Senate mino.rity pie." Ifa proposal vio.lates any o.f these can happen in this co.untry witho.ut its leader teamed up with o.ne o.f the Re­ provisio.ns, the United States sho.uld participatio.n. " publican Party's mo.st rabid environ­ ensure that it is rejected. That was just what the atten­ mentalists, Sen. Dan Evans o.f Wash­ The bill also. requires the United dees-who. have been co.mplaining fo.r ingto.n, to. introduce a bill that inco.r­ States to. prevent "excessive agricul­ years that President Reagan igno.res porates the malthusian Club o.f Ro.me' s ture and co.mmodity pro.ductio.n" in them when it co.mes to. strategic poli­ prescriptio.ns fo.r eliminating the last borrower natio.ns. Evans explained that cy-wanted to.hear . prospects o.f techno.lo.gical and eco.­ this provisio.n is designed to. "address Go.rbacho.v fo.llo.wed that up by no.mic develo.pment in the Third the co.ncerns" o.f so.me members o.f declaring, "We will try to. send yo.u Wo.rld . Co.ngress "that the multilateral banks the necessary vibratio.ns. We ho.pe to. Billed as legislatio.nto. increase the are lending to. uneco.no.mic , no.n-sus­ get goo.d vibes from yo.u ." U.S. commitment to multilateral banks tainable projects that aggravate exist­ The meeting had the intended ef­ and investment funds, S. 1899 explic­ ing wo.rld surpluses in a particular fect. Senate Mino.rity Leader Bo.b Dole itly calls uponthe UnitedStates to fo.rce co.mmodity o.r to. pro.jects subsidized (R-Kan.) to.ld reporters afterwards he vario.us o.f these institutio.ns to. impose by the ho.st go.vernment." was confident that the Senate will rat­ stringent restrictio.ns o.n develo.pment Fo.r Do.le and Evans to. argue that ify the treaty witho.ut any killer and food productio.n to. borro.wer the develo.ping secto.r is pro.ducingtoo amendments-an estimate with which co.untries-all in the name o.f protect­ much food o.r to.o. many co.mmodities Go.rbacho.v co.ncurred. ing the environment. is criminal insanity. Such a pro.visio.n The co.ngressio.nal participants Dole's pro.posals fo.r the Third will no.t o.nly mean that many mo.re so.unded like a bunch o.f school-girls Wo.rld are o.f the same piece as his peo.ple in the develo.ping secto.r starve; at a rock star's co.ncert. Ho.use Speak­ presidential campaign theme, de­ it will alSo.prevent Third Wo.rld co.un­ er Jim Wright (D-Tex .) gushed that mandJ:ng eco.no.mic sacrificeat ho.me . tries from garnering the fo.reign ex­ Gorbacho.v is "quite trustwo.rthy." In statements o.n the flo.o.r o.f the change necessary to. fund any eco.­ Rep. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) pro.fessed Senate No.v. 30, Evans said the legis­ no.micdevelo.pment programso.f their himself "stunned" by the So.viet lead­ latio.n wo.uldrequire the Wo.rld Bank, o.wn. er's cando.r. Rep. To.ny Co.elho. (0- the Internatio.nal Develo.pment Asso.­ Fo.r po.litical purposes, Dole has Calif.) declared: "He's o.ne o.f us-'-a ciatio.n, and vario.us regio.nal devel­ repeatedly stressed that he is "pro-life." political animal ." But it was Republi­ o.pmentbanks to. "seek to. manage the Indeed. can Senate whip Alan Simpso.n wo.rld's environmental reso.urces to. (Wyo.. ), already o.n reco.rd in favo.r o.f ensure . . . sustainable human prog­ the treaty, who. to.o.k the cake , calling ress.... " That means driving do.wn Go.rbacho.v "fascinating, extrao.rdi­ populatio.n gro.wth and living stan­ Gorbachov lines up nary" and-witho.ut any irony appar­ dards in the Third Wo.rld, by prevent­ Congress behind INF ent -"very disarming . " ing any large-scale infrastructure de­ Mikhail Go.rbacho.v doesn't fool The o.nly half-way sensible co.m­ velo.pment. around . Faced with the prospect that ment came from Senate Majo.rity The bill specifically states thatU.S. the anti-appeasement factio.n in the Leader Bo.b Byrd (D.-W.Va.), who. participants in the multilateral insti­ Senate might succeed in preventing seemed to. have been a trifle alarmed tutio.ns in questio.n must "analyze the ratificatio.n o.fthe INF Treaty, the So.­ that such co.ngressio.nal gro.veling environmental impacts o.fmultil ateral viet dictato.rcalled to.p Ho.use and Sen­ might'no.tplay to.o. well with the Amer­ develo.pment lo.ans . . . to. determine ate leaders to. the So.viet embassyDec . ican peo.ple. "We have to.be verycare-

68 Natio.nal EIR December 18, 1987 ful and not be swept off our feet," he ''There is no dearth of critics of our warned. Senate panel bars policy," the official said. "Now peo­ Stinger sales to Bahrain ple will be saying that we're back to The Senate Appropriations Commit­ square one with the United States." tee has approved two amendments to Senate beefs up AIDS the FY 1988 foreign aid bill that are testing in V A hospitals certain to sour relations between the Despite bitter opposition from liberal United States and two strategically quarters, the Senate approved legis­ important nations: Bahrain and India. Science chainnan lation Dec. 3 that would require the The panel voted Dec. 3 to bar the decides to shelve SOl Veterans Administrationto offer AIDS sale of Stinger anti-aircraftmissiles to The Soviet Union Ihas won an impor­ testing to all of its 280,000 hospital­ any nation in the Persian Gulf for the tant ally to its campaign to destroy the ized patients under the age of 40. next year, a decision which would Strategic Defense lnitiative, under the The provision, added to an omni­ block a planned sale to Bahrain. In guise of American-Soviet collabora­ bus bill providing new benefitsto vet­ doing so, the committee ignored pleas tion in the "peacef)II uses of space." erans, was sponsored by Sen. Jesse from DefenseSecr etary Frank Carluc­ House Science, Space, and Tech­ Helms (R-N.C.), who has offered oth­ ci and Joint Chiefs chairman Adm. nology Comittee QhairmanRep . Rob­ er AIDS testing measures in the past. William Crowe, who met with com-.. ert Roe (D-N.J.), clamberedon board The amendment radically modi­ mittee members for more than an hour the bandwagon, aflera Dec. 3 meeting fies the original legislation, which had to urge them not to enact the ban. with Roald Sagd�ev, who, in addi­ specifically prohibited any wide­ The administration representa­ tion to heading the Soviet Space Re­ spread HIV testing program in V A tives reportedly stressed that Bahrain search Institute, has been among the hospitals. Helms's proposal struck has quietly supported American inter­ principal Soviet l,?bbyists against the down this provision, and replaced it ests in the Mideast for four decades, SDI. with one requiring the V A to make the and that the country had been partic­ At a joint p�ss conference the AIDS test available on the basis de­ ularly helpful to the current Persian same day, Roe deflared that he wants scribed above. Gulf escort deployment. Bahrain has to shelve the SqI and instead join Most of the opposition came from requested the Stingers on the grounds hands with the Soviets on a joint Mars the usual suspects-people like Sen. that it needs them to protect its oil mission. A common effort to explore Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), who ada­ installations from Iranian attack. Mars, he said, could shiftthe focus on mantly opposes widespread AIDS But the committee voted in favor space away from,IS tar Wars" to a mu­ testing, especially any program that of the prohibition, sponsored by Sen. tual "Star Trek." has the faintest whiff of not being Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) "The rewards Ilndbenefits to man­ strictly voluntary. In statements on the In the case ·of India, the panel ap­ kind in space are '10,000 times better Senate floor, Cranston decried what proved a measure the same day, to than the destruction of mankind in he called a "disconcerting trend-the prohibit the sale of U.S. high-tech space," Roe said, as Sagdeyev stood rush· to test as some sort of mystical items to India, unless India curtails its by smiling. The committee chairman cure for two of our nation's major nuclear weapons development. also disclosed that he had urged Pres­ health problems, AIDS and drug The Indian governmentscored the ident Reagan to discussthe prospects abuse." move. A senior official told the New of a joint mission to Mars with Mik­ But several veterans organiza­ York Times that the action was "com­ hail Gorbachov a1 the summit. tions, including the Disabled Ameri­ pletely unacceptable," and, if enacted The Soviets, along with their sym­ can Veterans, also opposed the mea­ into law, relations with the United pathizers in the United States, notably sure, partly on grounds that money to States would "suffer acrossthe board." "nuclearwinter" pseudo-scientist Carl finance the testing program would The official also warned that the Sagan, have been carefully promoting come out of the VA's already restrict­ panel's action had already bolstered the joint Mars mJssion as an alterna­ ed budget, and not fromadditional ap­ Indian political factions who oppose tive to the "militarization of space" propriations. improved relations with the U.S. through the SDI program.

EIR December 18, 1987 National 69 NationalNews

borrowed nearly $2 million against federal "MOIltsignificant, is that this matter has matching funds, has issued another $300,000 come to a head just as Soviet dictator Mik­ in letters of credit, and owes another hail Gorbachov has come to the United Walsh investigates $500,000 to vendors . States. this Commission has reviewed con­ This latest defectioh in Michigan alleg­ clusive evidence that the Soviet Union has domestic spying edly puts George Bush in command in that been a central agent in the legal efforts to Independent prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is state. In early December, 11 minor Robert­ destroy Lyndon LaRouche and his influ- investigating whether "Project Democra­ son supporters announced that they were ence ... . cy"-specificallyLt. Col. Oliver North and bolting for the Bush cariip, because of re­ ''The decision as to whether or not to Gen. Richard Secord-ran an illegal do­ ports that Robertson used Christian Broad­ pursue indictments, will directly reflect mestic spying operation targeting critics of cast Network money for his campaign. Kremlin strategy on 'the LaRouche ques­ the Reagan administration's Contra policy. , Another blow to Kemp's campaign came tion. ' According to the Dec . 7 Wall Street Dec. 7 when evangelist Tim LaHaye re­ "Though the November 1986 AIDS ini­ JoUrnal, Walsh recentlybroadened his grand signed as campaign co-chairman, citing a tiative Yt1as defeated, it received broad inter­ jury investigation to determine if the Project "scurrilous attack," in the Baltimore Sun. national attention, to the degree that, for Democracy networks were involved in any The Sun had reported that LaHaye recently many Americans, AIDS is the issue they unauthorized surveillance, intelligence­ referred to Catholicism as "a false religion" most identify with the name, 'La­ gathering, or other free-lanceinvestigations and said that the Jews' rejection of Jesus was Rouche" .... toharass or discredit political opponents. one reason for the historic troubles of Jeru­ "Since the petition circulators were all The Journal names independent film salem. duly registered California voters , Van de producer Larry Spivey and Jack Terrell, a Kamp focused on the question of their 'in­ disaffected Contra supporter, as having been tent' -whether the circulators 'intended' to subjected to illegal Project Democracy har­ reside in California 'permanently'-a sub­ assment, and that it was told by FBI number­ tle question involving no overt acts, a 'state two man, Oliver Revell, that he and · other New indictments over of mind� argument typical of Soviet-style FBI officials "became concerned" in July AIDS initiative? prosecutions.... 1986 thatNorth was using Secord and others ''Thq violation of human rights which to run a "plumbers unit" from the White A California ballot initiative making AIDS has already occurred in this case is substan­ House. subject to public health measures has touched tial . If, in addition, Soviet-style political in­ In fact, Revell was an intimate collabo­ off a furor among the counterculture's polit­ dictments are issued . . . the courts will de­ rator of N:orth's National Security Council ical leaders. Radio reports Dec . 8 said that grade themselves to become instruments of unit. the Los Angeles City Council would pass a political persecution." resolution against the initiative, which is similar to 1986's Proposition 64, and that Mayor Tom Bradley had denounced initia­ tive for "discrimination." Two Kemp backers The radio reports also indicated that in­ 'Controlled dissent' dictments would be handed down against defect to Bush Proposition 64's sponsors, also the sponsors over INF treaty Amid reports that Jack Kemp's presidential of the present initiative. An independent The battle over the INF treatyhas fractured bid is foundering on the shoals of financial Commission to Investigate Human Rights the "Reagan coalition" to such a degree that non-support, two of three co-chairmen of Violations was quick to react, issuing a press a special brand of "opponent" of this give­ his Michigan campaign resigned to form a release that began: away of Europehas been created, as perhaps "coalition of convenience" with the Bush "A new wave of arrests andindictments the only way to ensure that the treaty actual­ campaign, the Washington Post reported against political causes and persons associ­ ly gets implemented. This special brand of Dec. 8. ated with U.S. Democratic presidential can­ "opponent" roundly denounces the treaty, Theweakness of the Kemp campaign didate Lyndon H. LaRouche is probably im­ but insists it' s a/ait accompli. nationally appeared to be a major factor in minent, according to the Los Angeles Dis­ Such: "controlled dissent" is coming out the decision of the two Kemp supporters , trict Attorney's office.... If indictments of the American Conservative Union, for State Sen. Dick Posthumus and Larrain are handed down, they will be the result of example, as well as the "Summit Informa­ Thomas, whose resignations were promptly an 18-month-old investigation, initiated by tion Center," a front-group for the KGB­ accepted. California Attorney General John Van de infested Heritage Foundation. It will be al­ According to Kemp's national cam­ Kamp, of the 'petitioning methods' for most impossible to defeat the treaty , they paign manager, Charlie Black, Kemp has Proposition 64 .... say, so no one should try, but instead focus

70 National ElK December 18, 1987 Briefly

• RAISA GORBACHOV was the guest of honor at a tea given by Dem­ on "post-ratification" fights over U.S. poli­ whatsoev�r ....Other than the speech an­ ocratic Party money hag Pamela cy. nouncing the space station, in my opinion, Churchill Harriman in Washington ACU president Dan Casey told a report­ there has been no follow-up whatsoever in Dec. 10. er Dec . 8 that, while the group intends to communicating to the general public. " lobby the Senate to amend the treaty , the • ROY FRANKHAUSER, the "political reality" is that "it probably can't CIA-linked fotmer security consult­ be stopped. The best we can hope for, is to ant to Lyndon LaRouche, was found get the Senate to adopt some reservations" gUilty of conspiracy to obstruct jus­ to the treaty which · would call for stricter tice in Boston Dec. 10. One court­ verification measures, and "allow" (not re­ room observe.. was heard to com­ quire) the deployment of a theater defense NBC held in contempt ment: "That's: what happens when for Western Europe . both the proseeution and the defense Casey, who appeared at a pre-summit in 'LaRouche case' lawyer work for the federal govern- . "Anti-Appeasement Alliance" press confer­ NBC-TV has been held in contempt by U . S. ment." Court-appointed defense at­ ence in Washington, said he disagreed with District Judge Robert Keeton for "willful torney Owen Walker spent most of conservative gadfly Howard Phillips for at­ failure" to produce outtakes and payment his time attacking LaRouche, ending tacking the President and for focusing on the records concerning a key government wit­ up tarring his I client with the same INF treaty . "After all, this isn't like Ronald ness in the Boston "LaRouche case. " lies. Reagan is giving away the whole store ." LaRouche and 15 co-defendants face trial Ed Haiselmaier of the Summit Infor­ for alleged credit card fraud and conspiracy • ARMAND HAMMER recently mation Center said his group will use the to obstruct justice, but the government's key had "the birthqay party of the centuc INF ratification process to fo cus on Soviet witness, Forrest Lee Fick, has not exactly ry ," his 89th, which ended only when human rights abuses. proven himself a paragon of credibility. The he left for Moscow to get an award defense charges that he was paid l>y NBC for contributions to world peace. The News to make slanderous attacks on La­ 400 guests inqluded Soviet Ambas­ Rouche, broadcast by NBC in May 1984. sador Yuri bubinin, two Saudi Judge Keeton had ordered that out­ princes; three $embers of the British takes-unused portions-of Fick's tele­ Royal Family, royalty from Denmark Garn says Reagan vised defamatory attacks on LaRouche, and and Holland, and big qames-in film, Fick's pay stubs , be produced by 2: 15 p.m. industry, finance. ABC-TV's Bar­ gives no space leadership on Dec . 4. At the same time, Keeton had bara Walters cut the two-meter-high Sen. Jake Gam, addressing an audience of ordered CBS to produce similar outtakes for cake. contractors and space program proponents government witness Charles Tate, who ap­ at a Washington seminar, accused President peared on CBS's "West 57th Street" TV • SEN. AL · GORE was "livid" Reagan of showing "no leadership on space news series. CBS produced the outtakes for when his friendand political patron, whatsoever. " the court; NBC did not. Armand Harruner, failed to get him Gam was the first American politician On Dec . 8, Judge Keeton ordered NBC an invitation to pne of the socialevents to flyinto space aboard the Space Shuttle . to pay $500 a day in finesfor its "continuing being held for Gorbachov in Wash­ Gam was no less kind with his col­ contumacious conduct in its refusal to com­ ington. Hammer finallygot Gore and leagues, saying that they have no under­ ply with the court's order of Dec . 2, 1987." his wife, Tipper, onto the guest list standing of the effects of their budget cuts Keeton stayed the imposition of the sanc­ for a Dec. 9 luncheon for the Soviet on the space program. tions until NBC receives a decision on a stay dictator. "The appalling thing to me is that there fromthe U . S. Court of Appeals for the First is no real support for space in this body. No Circuit. NBC is appealing Keeton's produce • THE A�Y has announced pe­ one calls up, in any of these [budget] nego­ order to that court. riodic re-testing of active-duty ser­ tiations, and puts any pressure on my col­ If the Court of Appeals denies NBC's vicemen for exposure to AIDS . Un­ leagues either in the House or the Senate to motion for a stay, the sanctions will accu­ der the new pOlicy, all soldiers will say we need more for spac; contractors. We mulate until NBC complies with the court be re-tested a� least once every two order, or the LaRouche trial ends, which­ years, with liervicemen stationed hear from contractors. Well, that is not a · wide base of support .... ever happens first. Keeton states in his or­ overseas or in certain units, such as "I hesitate to say this, but the past two der, that if the Court of Appeals denies the Rangers, being screened more administrations, including this one , which NBC's motion for a stay, and NBC does not frequently. The directive, issued Nov. is mine and a Republic President I greatly comply with his order, he will consider im­ 16, was released Dec. 4. admire, has shown no leadership on space posing larger daily sanctions.

EIR December 18, 1987 National 71 "

Editorial

What Shultz wantsfrom INF Treaty

On Dec . 2, Secretary of State George Shultz delivered emergence of global market;s which dwarf the budgets an exceptional speech at the World Affairs Council of of whole governments , incl�ding our own; incredible Washington, exceptional not for its quality, but for its advances in superconductivity; breathtaking discover­ candor. That speech disclosed the ultimate purposes ies in high-energy physics. ' . which motivate the Secretary's actions and policies and All this "gee whiz" stuff, which reduces our great thus, the "hidden agenda" which animated his efforts thinker to humility, is supposed, we are told, to have to bring about the INF Treaty and the spectacular extra­ sounded the death-knell of the nation state and other vaganza of the Washington summit that went with it. such old fashioned and outlived institutional relics of Actually, a few days later, on Nov . 9, after the the distant, naive Renaissan¢e, which did not have the signing of the INF Treaty , while a guest at one of those great fortune to be graced with the likes of Shultz's i awful television shows qfthose heady few days , upon genius. being asked by the host to say what he thought about Nowhere does it occur in the philosophical excur­ the freshly signed treaty , Shultz responded by saying sion of our good Secretary , that all these , rather modest that he had said it all at that earlier, World Affairs scientific advances of our days, do not simply happen Council speech, which, he bitterly complained, had upon people; they are not the awesume gifts of some been completely ignored by all the media, and had not loftyZeit geist, some "New A.ge," which benevolently, been accorded even one line of acknowledgment. like Santa Claus, bestows its largesse upon a grateful, "Maybe I should have classified 'top secret,' "he said dumb mankind . Our :i(vances in our present-day sci­ half-jokingly, "and then the press would have been all entific potential-still, unfc;>rtunately, only a poten­ over it." tial-are the modest fruits of the quiet, loving creative That World Affairs Council speech, which EIR in­ work of millions upon millions of scientific workers tends to publish in a future issue, with our own remarks who, animated by hopes, aspirations, moral impulses, and comments in some detail, succeeded not only in every day of their lives labor with problems great and revealing the "philosophical," as it were , musings of small, and are driven to cr�te . And they make their the Secretary , but also the fashion in which the Secre­ contributions to us all , for the most part unimpressed tary believes he is applying those musings to formulate by the fruit of their work , which so much tickles the and execute the present foreign policy of the United imagination of our Secretary of State, the great, quin­ States. tessential bureaucrat who has yet to learnthat the work At the outset, Mr. Shultz confidently proclaims the of science today is what it has always been, namely, an world to be in the midst of great, sweeping, epochal endless, laborious, relentless problem-solving. transformations, a grand revolution of sorts , 'on a par If there have been the advances which so awe the with , if not more exalted, than the Agricultural Revo­ Secretary , they were possible because gifted men and lution, the advent of the Bronze Age , the Industrial women have had their moral drives and aspirations Revolution. He exempted, however, the Chlorophyl nurtured and sustained by the great edifice of the Gold­ Revolution, of some two billion years ago, from his en Renaissance, the republican nation state whose early grand vision of things . Sincerely concerned with the demise the Secretary advocates. Our Secretary , echo­ possibility that simple , ordinary humans, might miss ing Madame Blavatski , Marilyn Ferguson, and the pa­ the enormity of the event, as they had, he assured us, thetic Ralph Waldo Emerson, firmly hopes that the missed the significance of those earlier, cited revolu­ demise of this nation state will commence with the tions while they were in progress, he ably outlined some "New Age," which, he rec�ons, will begin with the awesome examples: breakthroughs in biotechnology; INF Treaty. To him, the treaty has assumed a symbolic, dizzying developments in global communications; the almost liturgical meaning .

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