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Mills was "physician-assisted" in her be disbanded. Taiwan governor resigns "suicide," by activating a computer program Shocking as the atrocities are, it is note­ as crisis shakes KMT that prompts the victim several times before worthy that the bulk of troops facing court­ delivering a lethal injection. At first, Mills maItial are Francophone. What is silently had been unable to get the signatures from passed over, is the fact that, in 1994, Bosnia James Soong, the number-three man in Tai­ three physicians that are required under the lodged a formal complaint with the United wan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT), resigned 's "Right of the Termi­ Nations, charging former Unprofor com­ his post as provincial governor of Taiwan in nally III Act," until she gave a press confer­ mander, Canadian Gen. Lewis MacKenzie early January, following President Lee ence, which received national coverage, with raping three young Bosnian girls at Teng-hui's alliance with the opposition sparking a public debate about easing the one of Radovan Karadzic's notorious rape Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), in restrictions on physician-inflicted suicide. camps. Only EIRhas reported on this atroc­ moves to dismantle the provincial govern­ Mills was then able to get the signature of ity, which was carried out on behalf of the ment. The provincial government is a paral­ 's "Dr. Death," Philip Nitschke, British Empire. lel structure to the federal government, go­ who developed the murderous computer ing back to the KMT stance that it is still program that killed her. the government for all of , in which Taiwan is just one province. Enemies of Zaire hold The pro-independence DPP has insisted that the central government be only the gov­ Canadian UN troops face court in Washington ernment of independent Taiwan. President Lee, to the anger of both Beijing and the court-martial back home A new Zairean group calling itself Rally for KMT traditionalists, has allied with the a New Society (RNS), headed by Dr. Ala­ "moderate" wing of the DPP, arguing that a The Canadian Armed Forces are reeling fuele Kalala, gave a press briefing in Wash­ declaration of independence is not neces­ from a series of exposes of the activities ington, D.C. on lan. 14, calling for President sary, since Taiwan is de facto independent of Canadian soldiers acting as part of UN Mobutu Sese Seko to step down. Kalala, already. The traditionalist leaders, many of "peacekeeping" forces. According to Mon­ who has spent the last 30 years fightingMo­ whom have left the KMT to join the New treal's Le Devoir of lan. 16, the chief of butu, said that he welcomed the invasion by Party, denounced the moves against the pro­ the Army has recommended court-martial "mercenaries in Eastern Zaire," as he re­ vincial government as a threat to peace and for a number of officers and soldiers who ferred to the invaders from the Rwandan Pa­ eventual ullification with the mainland. served in Bosnia. Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril triotic Army.Even though he denied having Soong's resignation creates a serious released two reports on lan. 17 in Ottawa, "formal relations" with the mercenaries, he leadership and succession conflictwithin the criticizing Lt. Col. David Moore's com­ said "they have our sympathy." He laid out KMT. Soong, governor since 1994 as the mand in Bosnia during 1993-94, when Ca­ a six-point plan "for a lasting and peaceful first elected government, has a popular man­ nadian troops were accused of mistreating solution in Zaire," including: date nearly as strong as Lee Teng-hui's. hospitalized mental patients, and engaging "\. Mobutu must step down. 2. The in "sexual misconduct" with nurses at the HCR-PT [Zaire's semi-transitional, semi­ same hospital. permanent parliament] should elect a Presi­ Australian premier hails Baril was also expected to explain why dent for the transition period.3. Our fellow Lt. Col. Roch Lacroix, a battalion com­ countrymen who are fightingnow in the East second murder mander with the UN peacekeeping force in of Zaire ...will then be asked to lay down Haiti, was relieved of his duties and ordered their arms and to participate in a real govern­ Premier Jeffrey Kennett of , hailed back to Canada on Jan. 15. CBC-TV's "The ment of national unity.... 5. A United Na­ the second death by legalized euthanasia in National" quoted sources as saying that Hai­ tions peacekeeping force should be sent to the Northern Territory, as "beautiful." The tians had alleged that Lacroix's forces had insure the implementation of the accord. victim, Mrs.Janet Mills, suffered a rare form used excessive force during a street con­ 6. The HCR-PT will be asked to pass a law of lymphoma known as mycosis fungoides, frontation. About 1,300 UN peacekeepers, for a general amnesty with regard to the last and which was widely reported to be termi­ including 750 from Canada, are in Haiti four decades. Thus Mobutu and his cronies nal. The disease, while not yet curable (it along with 100 officers of the Royal Cana­ will be allowed to keep all the wealth they appears as a skin disorder and frequently dian Mounted Police, sent to train the Hai­ have acquired off the backs of the people of goes undiagnosed until it is advanced), is tian police. Zaire and go to enjoy themselves wherever very treatable, and many of its sufferers die These latest allegations come on top of they choose." of other causes. Nonetheless, Kennett, a last year's court-martials of Canadian mem­ Kalala continued, "We want to make Mont Pelerin Society devotee, gushed about bers of the UN peacekeeping force, for tor­ Zaire a land of opportunity for all. ... We her euthanasia killing that "that form of exit turing a Somali teen to death. After further want to work for ajust society, in which we is beautiful." investigations, the entire regiment had to can reconcile the interests of our fellow

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THE VATICAN issued a bulletin recognizing East Timor as Indone­ sia's 27th province on Dec. 29, 1996, Indonesia's Radio Republik reported. The Nobel Committee awarded its countrymen with those of the other members nothing that could disturb the positive dy­ Peace Prize to Bishop Carlos Belo, of of the international community who would namics of the development of relations be­ Dili, East Timor, and pro-colonialist like to share in the wealth of Zaire." He twice tween Poland and Russia," Drachevskiy "independence" leader Jose Ramos­ quoted French Jacobin chieftain Georges said. adding that although Poland's prospec­ Horta, in hopes of stirring up trouble, Danton, and British East India Company tive NATO entry is not a factor that would efforts with which the bishop de­ agent Adam Smith. strengthen ties between the two countries, clined to cooperate. Until now, both one should keep calm about the issue. the Vatican and the UN have not rec­ Drachevskiy firmly denied allegations ognized Indonesia's authority over that Russia's position on NATO entry is Cambodians send up SOS the former Portuguese colony. uncompromising. In his opinion, Russia's for anti-drug assistance position is clear, logical, and supported by SCHILLER INSTITUTE labor convincing arguments. He stressed Russia leader Ricardo Reynoso Gaitan. died On Dec. 25. 1996, Cambodian police raided recognizes the right of every country to se­ in Bogota, Colombia, of injuries sus­ a villa in the capital of Phnom Penh, and lect a security alliance, but expects that Rus­ tained in an auto accident on Jan. 15. found 81 members of an alleged Chinese or­ sia's arguments against expansion will be Reynoso, 40, was a founder of the in­ ganized-crime syndicate, as well as fake respected, and that the Russian people's stitute's International Labor Com­ Chinese and Cambodian immigration fears of new divisions in Europe be taken mission, and a major contributor to stamps, 26 forged Chinese passports, a into account. The ambassador offered his its 1986 programmatic book, /bero­ phone directory listing suspected criminal opinion that a zone free of weapons of mass American Integration: 100 Million contacts in Europe, Ibero-America, the destruction, should be created around the New Jobs by the Year 2000! United States, and Africa, and a small cache Community of Independent States, in order of amphetamines. The group. including sus­ to reduce the military threat to Russia and THE CIS (Community of Indepen­ pected heads of Chinese crime syndicates in members of the Community of Indepen­ dent States) postponed its summit set Cambodia, Hongkong, and China, were held dent States, in connection with NATO to take place in Minsk, Belarus, on on charges of counterfeiting passports, ille­ expansion. gal drug use, and trafficking in human Jan. 17, on the request of Russian beings. President Boris Yeltsin. CIS secre­ Police General Skadavy and the deputy tary I van Korotchenya said Yeltsin' s chief of Cambodia's office, Col. Andreotti book indicts request was not related to the fact that Lam Buntha, have sent out an SOS for help he was hospitalized with pneumonia. to stem the meteoric rise of Phnom Penh as Italy's 'second republic' The CIS is comprised of 12 of the 15 an organized-crime center. Cambodia's re­ former Soviet republics. sources are so poor, said Police General Ska­ FonnerItalian Premier Giulio Andreotti pre­ davy, that his staff lacked vehicles to trans­ sented his new book De Prima Re Publica AUSTRIAN Chancellor Frantz port the suspects; his office has only one, (On the First Republic) in December, which Vranitzky resigned on Jan. 18, after receive-only fax, and that was donated; and, scores the so-called "second republic," II years in office, naming Finance he had to borrow the phone at the Chinese which arose after the major postwar parties Minister Viktor Klima to succeed him Embassy to follow up leads in Beijing. be­ were destroyed through political scandals as head of the Social Democratic cause the call was too expensive. Skadavy and trials. Party and chancellor. The Social De­ himself earns $30 a month, plus $2 a day for Andreotti, who has served for 40 years mocracy had suffered badly during travel. The Cambodian Interpol officehasn't as, variously, prime minister, defense minis­ the European Parliament elections in had money to pay its dues for three years. ter, and foreign minister, is under indictment October. for alleged mafia connections by the Pa­ lermo State Attorney. But, he says, support JACQUES CHIRAC has ap­ Russian envoy unfazed for separatism and the mafia in Sicily come pointed a hard-core Gaullist, Sen. "not so much from America, but from cer­ Yves Guena, to sit on France's Con­ by NATO expansion tain, more or less official, British circles." stitutional Council, replacing the late He argues that his political career was spon­ Etienne Dailly, a top member of The new Russian ambassador to Poland, sored, not by the mafia, but by Alcide de France's Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Leonid Drachevskiy, in an interview with Gaspari and Monsignor Montini (later Pope During Dailly's tenure, the council the Polish press agency PAP on Dec. 29, said Paul VI), and that he was thrown to the refused to reimburse Jacques Che­ that Poland's integration with the defense wolves because he "opposed the cover-up of minade for his Presidential campaign and economic structures of Western Europe GIadio," the Italy-based NATO secret struc­ expenses. as part of an anti-LaRouche will have no significant negative impact on ture which paralleled the U.S. secret govern­ witch-hunt. their relations. "I am convinced that there is ment apparatus under George Bush.

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