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• a · C FOREWORD George Bush and the 'Ibykus' principle, by Lyndon LaRouche Chapter 1 New revelations tie Palme .murder to Bush, Thatcher­ linked arms cartel Chapter 2 John Train: Wall Street's man in Bush's secret government Chapter 3 The Olof Palme assassination. and coverup, revisited "-1 ,.I Case studies: The DiRouche case and the Pal me assassination. The Club of the Isles and the international weapons cartel. Schalck­ Golodkowski and 'destructive engagement.' Chapter 4 The death toll rises Uwe Barschel. Andre Cools and Gerald Bull; Rajiv Gandhi. yitzhak Rabin. Cyrus Hashemi. Some other strange deaths. Chapter 5 'Paris Review' goes to Kabul CHRONOLOGY Bush-Thatcher 'secret government' operations: Andthe 1979-96 ALSO AVAILABLE: "Would A 12333 President Bob Dole Prosecute Serial MurderRing Drug Super-Kingpin George Bush?" Growing numbers of the cronies of George Bush's orgy of This EIR Special Report docu­ . worldwide drug- and weapons-trafficking, not-sa-secret wars, ments the ongoing war and just plain murder are pointing bloody fingers at each other, between U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Queen's and also at their former masters. A case in point: the murder of Own Republican Party of Sweden's Olaf Palme. 88 pages $100 1980s drug super-kingpin George Bush. Order from: Order #EIR 96-005 126 pages, $100. Order #EIR 96-003 EIRNews Service p.o. Box 17390 Washington, D.C. 20041-0390 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Antony From theAsso ciate Editor Papert, Gerald Rose,. Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Ta rpley, Carol White, Christopher White· Associate Editor: Susan Welsh T he campaign by EIR and the LaRouche mov�ment to jail George Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Herbert Walker Bush took a big step forward on Oct. 25, with the Ronald Kokinda Science and Technology: Carol White release of a new Special Report, "George Bush and the 12333 Serial Special Projects: Mark Burdman Murder Ring," available for $100 from this news service. It is a Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman sequel to our September 1996 report, "Would a President Bob Dole Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Prosecute Drug Super-Kingpin George Bush?" INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Why Bush? Lyndon LaRouche, in his introduction to the new Agriculture: Marcia Merry Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos report, spells it out: "Although out of public office, Bush is still a Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, powerful international, and national figure behind the scenes, one of Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White the vilest, meanest, and most corrupt figures in any part of today's European Economics: William Engdahl world. Your freedom, and that of our nation, hangs upon our ability Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus to purge our institutions of the evil, bootleg, unconstitutional power, Russia and Eastern Europe: represented by the secret governmentcreated for George Bush, begin­ Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George United States: Kathleen Klenetsky ning 1981, under the title of Executive Order 12333." INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Referring to the recent exposes of Bush's role as kingpin of the Bogota: Jose Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel cocaine-trafficking Contras, and in the assassination of Swedish Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tenin Prime Minister Olof Palme, LaRouche writes: "These presently on­ Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen going, fresh exposures of Thatcher and Bush, are like a Heaven­ Houston: Harley Schlanger sent gift. These facts present an opportunity for our government, our Lima: Sara Madueno Mexico City: Hugo LOpez Ochoa citizens, to free themselves from continued bloody abuses, by secret, Milan: Leonardo Servadio armed government, operating from within the precincts of our mili­ New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre tary's Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sometimes, true facts are the most effec­ Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios tive of the weapons by means of which an entire people may regain Stockholm: Michael Ericson Washington, D.C.: William Jones its lost freedom. This-right now-is such a time." Wiesbaden: Garan Haglund EIR this week provides a wealth of supporting analytical and documentary material. St. Petersburg correspondent Roman Besso­ EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week of July, and the last week of nov's Feature shows how the Bush-Thatcher "Project Democracy" December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E .. 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) networks are financing separatist insurgencies in the former U.S.S.R. 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451. t European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review hat could lead to World War III. In International, we have reports Nacbrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, 0-65013 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, 0-65205 on the demise of Bush's defense policy for the Americas; the popular Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, revolt in Belgium against perversion and corruption by Bush's politi­ Michael Liebig cal partners in high places; and the arrests in Italy of Bush-leaguers In .Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen 0E, Tel. 35-43 60 40 known as "the new Propaganda-2." See National for reports on how In Mexico: EIR, Rio Tiber No. 87, 50 piso. Colonia Cuauhtemoe. Mexico, OF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- the crimes of Bush and his family friendWilliam Weld of Massachu­ 26-43. setts are coming under increased public scrutiny. JaptJIl subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo . 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1996 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part' without permission strictly prohibited. Periodicals postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$ l0 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. - IIillContents Interviews Investigation Economics 4S Vazgen Manukian S4 The secret financial 4 Zedillo won't privatize oil; The leader of Armenia's National network behind 'wizard' speculators take revenge Democratic Union and unified George Soros Mexico's President is said to be former opposition candidate in the From a dossier by our Wiesbaden, . "retaking a·nationalist path," and as Sept. 22 Presidential elections, Germany bureau, titled "A Profile a result, financial warfare against discusses the vote fraud thatleft his of Mega-Speculator George Soros." him is escalating. country with a "semi-dictatorial Beneath the thin veneer of regime, with a democratic shell." philanthropy, Soros has been called 7 Currency Rates the master of ."hit-and-run capitalism." 8 Venezuela's austerity plan Book Reviews puts it on the road to a 61 Soros's looting of Ibero­ 'Mexican' e�plosion 6 The 'super-blowout' in America world finance Case studies of Brazil, Argentina, 10 How deregulation shot Mexico, and Peru. Die Globalisierungsfalle (The down the U.S. airlines Globalization Trap) by Hans-Peter An EIR Contributing Editor Feature Martin and Harald Schumann. by LyndQnH.LaRouche, Jr. Departments 14 Whole classes ()f patients Photo and graphic cr�ts: Cover, 72 Editorial Trout. Pages 11, 55, are denied treatment with EIRNS/Robert A crisis of the institutions. 65, EIRNS/StuartLewis. Page 19, 'managed care'. UN Photo. Pages 29, 30, EIRNS/ Children and adults with mental John Sigerson. Page 39, Agence disabilities are being denied care France Presse. Page 43, Schiller under these "managed abuse" plans. Institute. 16 Business Briefs • Volume 23. Number 44. November 1, 1996 Feature International National 18 Bush's 'democracy' lobby 36 IMF pressure is driving instigates breakup of Russia toward civil war Russia Yeltsin's firingofLebed reminded Part 4 of Roman Bessonov's series, Russians that they didn't elect a "The Anti-Utopia in Power," shows President last summer, but a how the indigenist, separatist, and continuing time of strife, as the environmentalist seeds of breakup International Monetary Fund turns of the former U.S.S.R. were planted the screws tighter on the ravaged by Gorbachov's "new thinking," economy. are and being nurtured today by the Demonstrators in Houston, Texas on Oct. 4, 1996. friends of George Bush and 38 Belgium rocked by protests Margaret Thatcher, including the as people stand up against 64 Coverup begins to crack on U.S. National Endowment for 'pornocracy' Democracy and its affiliated Bush cocaine ring Frantic efforts by the Los Angeles "quangos." 40 Italian prosecutors close in . Times and Washington Post to on 'new P-2' cover for drug super-kingpin 32 Democracy or George Bush are falling apart, as destabilization? What NED 43 Europe's responsibility in Senate hearings begin into the funds in Eurasia Bosnia-Hercegovina Contra crack-running operations Follow the money-trail of the By Gen. I.A. Graf von Kielmansegg headed by Bush and his "gopher" National Endowment for (ret.) of Germany, former chief of Oliver North. Democracy. NATO's Northern Command of Europe. 66 'Bill Weld blocked our investigation' 47 'Williamsburg II' flops: Time to dump Bush's 67 DOJ's Bromwich: Some defense policy for the oppose drug probe Americas The second Defense Ministerial of 68 Battle lines drawn against the Americas was a failure, as U.S. Secretary of
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