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20 Of pitch and transposition 11 Dateline Mexico 4 The Fed's Greenspan is Opera in Crisis: Tradition, World Bank proposes more fighting the wrong war Present, Future, by Henry genocide. His voodoo "anti-inflation" Pleasants. measures will only worsen the 12 Report from Rio current collapse of the productive 64 In defense of children u.s. tries to block aerospace deal. sectors of the economy. On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused 48 Panama Report 6 AIDS apocalypse in Africa: Children, by Billie Wright Dziech Noriega's model war on drugs. worse than the Black Death and Judge Charles R. Schudson. From the Fourth International 49 Report from Bonn Conference on AIDS and Related The iron fist of Egon Krenz. Cancers in Africa, a shocking picture emerges of a death toll 72 Editorial higher than that taken by the bubonic plague in 14th-century A glimmer of reality. Europe.

Music 8 Surgeon General Koop takes leave of office-and his senses 18 Clamor grows for return to Verdi's musical pitch 10 Currency Rates A concert in Houston, a symposium in New York, and a full-fledged festival in Munich all celebrated the 13 Agriculture principles of classical beauty which Don't blame the earthquake. lie at the heart of the campaign for tuning middle C at the natural 14 Energy Insider "scientific pitch," C=256 cycles Soviets' deepening energy persecond. catastrophe.

20 Of pitch and transposition 15 Eye on Washington Music historian and critic Henry u. S.-Soviet joint fantasy . Pleasants recounts the lengths to which opera singers used to go, in 16 Business Briefs order to protect themselves against the post-1815 frenzy to drive tuning standards into the stratosphere. •

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Feature International National

34 Soviet 'Mr. Green' named 52 Thornburgh courts the new editor of Pravda Russian legal system I van Frolov, a top member of the The Attorney General is fascinated malthusian Club of Rome, is central by the advantages of a totalitarian to Gorbachov's effort to please the police state for prosecuting political Western bankers by adopting their enemies for "crimes against the genocidal policies of "global environment," and is bringing ecological fascism." Russians to the U.S. to show how it can best be done. A demonstration by Solidarnosc in Warsaw, June 36 Colombian liberals assailed 1989. In the assessment of a former head of West 54 Administration vows to German military intelligence, a "rain of blood" is com­ as pro-drug ing throughout the Soviet bloc, and the probability of save Gorbachov Poland's new governmentsurviving is slim. 38 Rimini elites: 'South must serve the North' 55 Is the ecological police out 24 The coming bloodbath in of control in the United the Soviet bloc 39 Lebanon: national States? Western leaders are utterly blind to resistance or slavery the dangerous crisis convulsing the 58 Judge dismisses U.S. Soviet Union and its satellites, 40 Will Jiang Zemin's purge bankruptcy action against argues West German Soviet affairs backfire? LaRouche associates specialist Gen. Paul Albert Scherer For the first time , aU. S. court has (ret.). In this transcript of General 41 China threatens, the West delivered a serious blow to the "Get Scherer's address to the National appeases LaRouche" task force-by Press Club, he predicts that upholding the law. Gorbachov will be gone by next 42 'Brazil Network': spring at the latest. 60 Letter to the President: ADL-Soviet love nest Bush must declassify the gets exposed 28 Soviet workers defy strike LaRouche file! ban A recent barrage of attacks on Lyndon LaRouche in Brazil has exposed a sordid bunch of 61 Pressure mounts on White 31 A dialogue with General operatives linked to several of the House Scherer world's intelligence services. 63 77 years in jail-for 45 The 'Tiny' Rowland file political organizing His Lonrho corporation in Africa has left a trail of bribery, theft, 66 The Tavistockians today: corruption, and murder. Who funds the mind benders? 50 International Intelligence Thirty years of menticide: Part III,

68 Congressional Closeup

70 National News • ITillEconomics

The Fed's GreensPaIl is fighting the wrong war

by Steve Parsons and Anthony Wikrent

In testimony on Oct. 25 before the House Banking Commit­ trial and infrastructure sectors on an emergency basis. tee, Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan en­ But with corporate officers planning to curtail produc­ dorsed a bill by Rep. Stephen Neal (D-N.C.) that would tion, in the context of a reduction in discretionary consumer require the Fed to pursue policies to eliminate inflation within spending, the decreased cash flow and earnings will soon five years . Greenspan said that ending inflation "was a pre­ precipitate a crisis in a banking system that by normal ac­ requisite for, over time, maximizing economic growth and counting standards is already over the edge of bankruptcy. standards of living. I see no reason why over a five-year And Greenspan's anti-inflationary mania will only exacer­ period we cannot restore price stability without incurring bate the deflationary blowout. recession as a consequence of those actions." He admitted, however, that a more stringent monetary Oil policy could adversely affect growth: "Such a deadline is Profits of Shell Oil fe ll 6.6%, or $24 million, in the third attainable, but it would have costs ....During this transi­ quarter, despite a gain of $30 million from an insurance tion period , growth could be reduced for a while from what settlement. Chevron's net income fell $3 million, or 0.7%, it otherwise would have been." Greenspan emphasized that despite a rise of 1 1 % in rev�nues, of $800milli on, to $8 the Fed's efforts could produce "a major financial crunch ." billion. Texaco posted a gain of 11% for the third quarter­ Greenspan's vow to end inflation-presumably by re­ after having sold off most of its marginal producing opera­ stricting monetary growth, keeping a tight rein on credit, and tions over the past 18 months. perhaps raising interest rates-is not merely incompetent Mobil's earnings fe ll 4.5%, almost $26 million, despite monetarist voodoo; it ignores the abundant evidence that the a gain of $192 million from the sale of real estate in Hong nation is already in a deflationary economic collapse. Not Kong. Mobil's domestic operations posted a $16 million only has U.S. infrastructure , and its capacity for capital loss. Symptomatic of the suicidal response throughout Amer­ goods formation, been decimated beyond the point of physi­ ican industry , the Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 25 cal breakdown. By 1985, debt service requirements had that Mobil is preparing to again slash its exploration and surpassed the actual earnings level of the economy; society production division. Mobil already cut back its work force has been generating insufficient income to pay that debt. 15-20% last year, as did the other major oil companies. Third-quarter earnings of companies involved in basic The situation in primary oil and gas production is now so production show that their primary means of income genera­ unbalanced that the standard measure of the operating rig tion are now disintegrating . Given the insanity pervading cor­ count is no longer accurate . I. e. Kerridge, vice president of porate management circles , the re sponse will be further cut­ the Houston-based Baker Hughes, Inc., which issues regular backs in productive capabilities. As EIR founding editor Lyn­ reports on the rig count, said that the slight increase in rigs don LaRouche has emphasized, the only way to avoid eco­ engaged in the search for oil and gas does not make up for nomic collapse is to crank up production , especially of capital the overall drop in production. In August 1989, there were goods , by redirecting credit out of speculation and into indus- 5% more rigs in operation in t�e United States than in August

4 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 • 1988, but U.S. output averaged 8.079 million barrels per But income for Americans has now been slashed to the day, then compared with only 7.545 million barrels per day point that at least 50 million people aren't even covering in 1989. The average number of rigs engaged per week in minimal living expenses. As a result, all the gimmicks and 1988 was 936; for 1989, Baker Hughes is forecasting 870, rebates haven't worked: Sales of U. S. -built cars in the first the lowest rate since 1942, when drilling was nearly halted half of October dropped 19%, while sales of light trucks due to diversion of steel to the war effort . plummeted 22.8% from last year's levels. Wall Street was reported to be "stunned" when Chrysler's Steel chief financialofficer told a group ofbankers in West Germa­ Profits of the big steelmakers also plummeted in the third ny that, aside from the gain resulting from selling off45% quarter, because of a collapse in demand from the automotive, of its holdings in Mitsubishi Motor Corp., "I doubt we did appliance, and capital goods markets. The steel industry's much better than break even" in the third quarter. Wall Street second largest customers, steel service centers , are sharply had expected Chrysler to earn at least half of the $112.5 cutting back on new orders to reduce bloated inventories. million gain it posted in the third quarter of 1988. Adding to the deflationary crush, the world export price of Again, it is the production base of the economy that cold rolled steel, the steel industry's largest product, has is going to be sacrificed. The top automakers have already dropped to $460-480 a metric ton, from a high of $560 this curtailed production plans for the remainder of the year to spring. levels 10.4% below those of last year. But analysts predict The drop in profits at Bethlehem-the nation's second that production will have to be cut even more . largest steel producer after USX-was especially large, at 53.7%. Sales fe ll 11.8%, compared to levels of a year ago. Airlines Operating profits from basic steel operations were only $59 Wall Street had not expected the airlines to do as well as million from2.7 million tons of steel, versus $186 million last year, but is now reeling from the reports of third-quarter in the third quarter last year from 3.3 million tons. earnings. There are rumors that the arbitragers-the parasites Profits at Armco were down 8.3%, with sales down who latch onto a stock at the first rumor that it is the subject 46.2% to $44 1 million, compared to sales of $820 million of a takeover-will file suit against United's management to in the third quarter last year. As for the largest steel maker, try to recover the $900 million in stock deflation they have insiders report that the new owner, leveraged buyout kingpin suffered since Oct. 13. Carllcahn, wants to pull USX out of steelmaking altogether. A real surprise was USA ir, which posted a worse than Again, the leaders in the steel industry are responding expected loss of$77 . 7 million in the third quarter, after report­ by planning to cut back production. Analysts expect ship­ ing net earningsof $68.5 million for the same period last year. ments of steel to collapse another 15%, leaving total ship­ Analysts were especially surprised with the loss, because ments for 1989 at only 81 million tons, compared to 84 USAir has almost no competition out of its hub in Pittsburgh. million tons last year. And, next year, they expect steel But like every other sector of the economy, the capital shipments to collapse 15% to 75 million tons, on top of "a structure of the airlines is being decimated by the deflation very severe price drop that will really hit in the fourth caused by the collapse in disposable income. This summer, quarter." the airlines tried to drum up business by offeringa "kids fly free" program. The demand was so heavy that the airlines tried Auto to limit their losses by restricting the program to certain days The collapse in auto mirrors that in steel, where the capi­ of the week. In October, Trans WorldAirlines andPanAmeri­ tal structures of the Big Three automakers have been taking can began offering their frequent flyermembers cash rebates one direct hit after another for the past three months. In the or gift checks of $200- 1,000 for booking first class flights third quarter, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors all had across the Atlantic. big losses on their core North American auto manufacturing "Nobody was expecting this size of a loss," an analyst operations, and overall profits for the Big Three plunged at CS First Boston said of USAir. The airline analysts have 44%. Ford announced it had lost $37 million on its core already begun revising their fourthqu arter forecasts down by business, its first loss since 1982. Chryslerand GM did not at least 25%. give seperate figures for their core business, but analysts believe that Chrysler barely broke even, while GM lost al­ Retail most $300 million on its auto production in North America. The collapse is now threatening retailing giant Sears Roe­ In September, the Wall Street Journal reported that the buck, which some analysts say overextended itself by pur­ automakers were "hemorrhaging discounts," in attempting chasing Coldwell Banker and Dean Witter Reynolds. With to bolster sales and reduce bloated inventories. Large rebates a new pricing strategy in place, sales at Sears' merchandising were offered on 1990 cars-the first time ever that sales group declined three months in a row , causing a dizzying incentives were offeredat the beginning of a new model year. 25% decline in profits.

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 5 AIDS apocalypse in Mrica: worse than the Black Death by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Barring a near miracle, AIDS will kill more people in Africa Research teams from most of the African nations pre­ alone over the next 5-10 years, than died in the 14th century sented results of the most detailed test surveys for AIDS virus bubonic plague. This is the unavoidable conclusion from data infection completed in Africa so far. Based upon testing presented at the Fourth International Conference on AIDS of selected groups, this data permits one to estimate the and Related Cancers in Africa, held in Marseilles, France on prevalence of infection in some areas. We present just a Oct. 18-20. The picture which emerged there, presented in selection of these estimates. the calm, detached manner of medical professionals, was no Among blood donors in Uganda (who are usually family less than apocalyptic . members or friends of people receiving transfusions, and are From epicenters in the urban centers of Western and therefore fairly representative of the general population) Central Africa, the AIDS viruses are inexorably spreading 24.6% are infected in Entebbe, 20% in the town of Mbarara, into the African interior. The epidemic is following the 18% in Rubaga, 15% in Nabasero. In the Rakai district of highways to reach the rural areas which were mostly Uganda at least 12% of the general population is infected in untouched up to two years ago, and where 75% of Africans rural areas. Among pregnant mothers there, the figures are live. While the numbers vary from region to region, the even more dramatic: 10.6% in 1985, 13.6% in 1986, 24. 1 % rate of infection in the general population of many urban in 1987. Of the patients hospitalized in Uganda's capital centers has reached the range of 10-20%, with percentages Kampala, 61% are AIDS-infected! reaching up beyond 50% in some of the young-adult age A survey of adult food-handlers from towns along the groups. In many rural areas the rate of infection has trans-African highway in Kenya yielded 25.3% infected in already reached several percent. Meanwhile there are Mombasa, 19.4% infected in Kisumu, 23.3% infected in scattered reports of a near saturation of the population in Busia, 10% in Bungoma, 7% in Eldoret. some areas, indicating the potential for explosive, nonlin­ A survey of the general population of the Ivory Coast ear jumps in the African AIDS epidemic. yielded more than 7% infected in the urban areas. But among Due to the vast size of Africa, the minuscule resources men aged 25-34 years, the percentage was 17.3%! The available for systematic surveys, as well as an anomalously survey of a rural zone yielded 5% of the general population high rate of ambiguous test results (see below), it is impossi­ infected. A clinic for children suffering from malnutrition ble even to give a rough estimate of the total number of showed the following evolutidn in the rate of HIV infection infected persons in all of Africa. But, it is certainly in the among the children: 0% in 1980, 8.3% in 1986, 10.3% in tens of millions. Unless a scientific breakthrough occurs to 1987, 13.1% in 1988. give us a cure for AIDS in the immediate future-an unlikely Among �o-called "low-risk groups" in Tanzania, in the prospect, given the miserable state of research today-these city of Morogoro, 22% of hospital inpatients, 18% of health people are all doomed. We could see an entire continent go clinic outpatients, 11% of pregnant women, and 4% of under if the breathtaking speed of HlV spread is not halted persons going to dentists were found infected. soon. A survey of blood donors in Zambia revealed about 10% The director of the AIDS Program at the World Health infected in the urban centers and 3% in rural towns. In Organization, Dr. Jonathan Mann, predicted for Africa that Bangui, Central African Republic the prevalence of infection due to the effects of AIDS alone, "population growth in doubled each year from 1984 to 1988, reaching a level urban centers will be reduced by 25-50%" in the 1990s, and of 9% in the general population, and 20% of all hospital there is "a potential for negative population growth in some admissions there are attributed to the effects of HIV infec­ areas after the year 2000." Judging from the data presented tion. But hospital admissions are no longer a measure of at the conference, that is a gross understatement. HIV -related disease; as a research group from the Dabou

6 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 Protestant Hospital in the Ivory Coast reported, "In 1988, 31% of hospital patients were found positive and in 1989, 30% were also found seropositive ....This apparent stabil­ ity in the positivity rate may hide a significant increase among patients, since the diagnosed AIDS cases were sys­ tematically hospitalized in 1988, whereas in 1989, they are sent home when it is fe lt that no proper treatment could be offered to them." Many of the surveys presented revealed a new feature in HIV epidemiology: Among adults, the percentage of women infected is often significantly higher than that of men. It was repeatedly emphasized that AIDS will have a devastating effect on the next generations, because of the high preva­ lence observed among pregnant and child-bearing-age wom­ en. The AIDS virus is passed on to the child in over half the pregnancies. A hopeful note was the low rate of infection found in Nigeria, which one speaker suggested might be a "buffer WHO's Jonathan Mann (left) meets with a delegate at the Third zone" for AIDS in Africa. The reason for the very low InternationalAIDS Conference in June 1987. Dr. Mann's current prevalence (0.07% among 45,000 sera tested) is not clear. assessment of the AIDS threat is a gross understatement. Perhaps the "wavefronts" of infection have simply not yet reached Nigeria, which is situated between the two main Western Blot. The most likely interpretation of this is the epidemics, the one to the North, in West Africa, and the one presence of a not-yet-identifiedvirus somewhat similar to and to the South, in Central Africa. Or perhaps some unknown yet distinctly different from HIV -1 and HIV -2, and which is factor is increasing the resistance of the Nigerians to infec­ spreading in many areas along with the other two. If this new tion? Hopeful speculations were voiced about some undis­ virus or viruses turns out to cause AIDS , then many of the covered virus which might have conferredimmunity to HIV, AIDS infection figures will have to be revised drastically but were generally regarded as extremely unlikely. Maurita­ upward. nia also has an apparently very low prevalence, in spite of its location in the middle of the zone of spread of HIV-2. Austerity means mass murder African speakers and participants I spoke to referred to a But it might be much worse... disastrous situation in the health system, especially as regards A recurring theme in the conference was the extremely medications and equipment. This means that most AIDS high rate of ambiguous test results, suggesting either a dra­ cases are hardly receiving treatment, or even simple pain matically different immune reaction in Africa as compared to killers, which are oftenlack ing. The cost of treating a single the U.S. (for example) or possibly the presence of additional AIDS patient for a single week with the drug AZT, is equiva­ viruses of the HIV family not yet identified. It was in fact lent to three months' salary in Zaire ! The cost of a single exactly the occurrence of "false positives" to the original AIDS test exceeds the total yearly health expenditure per AIDS tests which led researchers some years ago to discover capita in much of Africa! Thousands of people continue to a second strain of the HIV virus, HIV-2, which predominates be infected by blood transfusions, because only a fraction of in West Africa and appears to cause AIDS in the same way the hospitals-often those supported by charitable groups­ as the original strain, HIV-1. can afford to test all their blood donors. Moreover, as a result The normal AIDS test procedure is to first screen with a of debt payments, IMF-imposed currency devaluations, and simple test called ELISA, which, however, gives some false loss of hard currency income due to collapsing raw materials positive results. The blood of those persons testing positive prices, the real cost of medicines (nearly all of which must with ELISA is then tested with a much more precise (but be imported) has gone up some 500% during this decade. more expensive) test method known as the Western Blot. The catastrophically low living standards and poor sanita­ The latter measures the response of the immune system to tion in much of Africa has played a crucial role in accelerating each of several proteins contained within the HIV virus type the spread of HIV as well as aggravating the course of disease used to make the test. Only when a clear pattern of response among those already infected. In a survey of 274 AIDS pa­ to several of these is demonstrated is the subject regarded as tients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, it was found that only a "confirmedpositive" and judged to be infected. In many of 63% of AIDS patients were still alive one week after diagno­ the studies, a high proportion (up to 30% or more) of ELISA­ sis, and only 7.5% survived afterthree months. This com­ positives showed a peculiar "incomplete" profile on the pares with an average survival time of much more than a year

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 7 health care system." He said the "laissez-faire economy works best for all of our citizens, but the health-caremar­ ketplace, although laissez-faireI is not freely competitive Surgeon General Koop takes . . . has no moderating controls working on behalf of the leave of office-and his senses patient." He blasted "the virtual absence of self-regula­ tion" by health careworkers, hospitals, and doctors as well C. Everett Koop formally retired as U .S. Surgeon General as "the absence of natural marketplace controls as competi­ on Oct. 1, but not before thoroughlyextinguishing the last tion in regard to price, quality" or service." Where has of any pro-life convictions he may have retained during Koop been for the last ten years while cost-efficiency ex­ his tenure as the nation's leading public health official. pertson state and federal levels have gouged hospital bud­ Koop ended his term with a volley of articles and inter­ gets to the bone while cutthroat competition from health views exhorting Americans to give up their "high hopes maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider of what medicine and health care can do for them." organizations (PPOs), and numerous other hybrids, went "It's clear," Koop announced, "that those high expec­ on to cannibalize what was left of health caredelivery? tations are outpacing our ability to pay for them. In other words we have a clear gap between what we would like Protecting the insurance companies to see happen in health care and what can realistically One of the "specters" behind the high cost and wastes happen." In other words, just as he told thousands of of medical care today, Koop says, is the high malpractice victims of AIDS to go die in hospices because the country premiums doctors must pay, usually out of their own was not going to spend the money to save them, and just pocket, and the practice of defensive medicine so they as he told the terminally ill that at times, withholding will not be sued. Koop's solution is to "profoundly" re­ treatment that might prolong life is the best medicine, he structure Medicare/ Medicaid. because, he says, "the is now telling all Americans that we have to triage some health care system satisfiesits own uncontrolledeconomic of the sick and elderly because their care costs too much. needs at the expense of every other sector of American Koop called on President Bush to form a blue ribbon society." Koop completely circumvents the culprits be­ commission of insurance agents, doctors, health policy hind most of his complaints-namely, the insurance com­ groups, and Congress to stir a bipartisan movement for panies. Odd that Koop, like many of those proposing national health care. "That's how we got Social Security," national health care, is not calling for federal regulation Koop said. "We had people from both houses of Congress, of the insurance companies, and demanding that these Republicans and Democrats, who espoused the cause of sharks open their books and prove their "losses" related social security, took it back to the floors of Congress, de­ to medical expendituresand malpractice. bated and got the legislation passed. And unless we do that, Koop endorsed by name the state of Oregon's new we can't win." The commission's aim would be to design health care rationing plan which states thllt "all persons a one-tier medical system that Koop alleges will "give a have an equal opportunity to receive available services." certain right of health care to everybody in this country." It also says that as the budget shrinks, so do the available In one interview, Koop pointed to the increasing cost services. of employee health care plans to industry and cited the fact While health insurancecompanies had worked to soft­ that the telephone workers and Pittston coal miners strikes en Oregonians up by rigging public opinion meetings over were both over the issue of lost or shrinking health care which patients should be denied care, and what services benefits. "The bottom line," he said, "is this: We cannot could "society" afford, medical ethicists were brought in compete in foreign markets with the way we handle our to prioritize all health services to be rendered on the basis

in the United States. clinical activity going on today:. According to Dr. Mann, the The financial situation of many African countries is des­ total WHO budget for AIDS, for all activities around the perate. Even the minuscule amount of help supplied by the world, is less than the AIDS budget of the single state of World Health Organization, the European Community, and California,excluding San Francisco! What Dr. Mann did not various governments and private agencies, has meant the say is that the WHO is not even spending this pathetic sum difference between having virtually no AIDS data, no medi­ properly, but instead is manipulating AIDS policy in a vi­ cation, and no countermeasures at all against AIDS spread, cious and very dangerous way. and the totally inadequate, but at least existent testing and As in every single previous conference co-sponsored by

8 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 of their cost-benefitanalysis. Death services-euthanasia ers, many of whom rank themselves as "pro-life," whose and abortion-were given highest priority. Serviceslow­ economic views demand that we must accept a shrunken est on the list are to be eliminated as fundsdry up. Thus, economy appropriate to a post-industrial America-at it is only "fair" that Oregon refuses to pay for expensive whatever cost to human life. With this basic sanctity oflife life-saving interventions, in favor of "improving" child­ principle compromised, it is then quite lawful and not at hood immunization programs and prenatal care for all shocking that Koop's pronouncements, from teaching impoverished mothers. According to Koop, "That was a schoolchildren about using condoms and "safe sex," to tell­ tough decision to make. But, in the economy of things in ing the elderly the "most reasonable thing" is not to try to the world of which we live, it's the kind of rationing of save the life of terminally ill patients, but "to stand back which I think, we'll be seeing more and more." and let naturetake its course"-are increasingly evil. Un­ fortunately, we can expect more of the same. No longer saving infants Commenting on his recent resignation, Koop said it What a sad irony it is that the rationing Koop so hearti­ was time to move on to bigger and better things. Was he ly endorses today will target for triage exactly those sick thinking about the bit role he will play in the latest sequel infants Koop worked to save years ago while at Childrens' to the motion picture, The Exorcist? Koop explained Hospital in Philadelphia. Back then he defied both death his decision to appear in the movie with the following .and the limits of known medical science by saving hun­ incoherent statement: "I think the occult is playing a dreds of severely handicapped newborns whom no other larger and larger role in American Society. . . . I think physician would think of treating. "Basic" health care there are some things about it that are hokey, but there is will effectively expunge Koop's and others' life-saving a very real satanic-worshiping group in this country, and interventions and all future pioneering techniques that I have been involved in public-health issues with that would stack the medical-surgical "deck" so that future three times in eight years. I think Shakespeare was right generations of critically ill newborns could live. Such when he said that we don't know everything in earth and newborns would be written off under Oregon's new law heaven. I'd say we only have a very small smattering of because such patients, besides being too expensive to what's really yet to be known." treat, would be seen as having a poor "quality of life." Does it sound as though Koop is unable or unwilling This makes them not worthy of life-or of the state's to distinguish between that which embodies a fundamen­ resources to save them. tal nurturing of human life and that which is evil and What Koop has forgotten or has never truly under­ preys on mankind? What would inspire the man serving stood is that medicine's sole priority must be saving the as the nation's foremost public health spokesman, to sit patient, and taming lethal diseases like AIDS. If science for a formal photo portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, the exists at all, it exists to serve mankind. Only this notion same man who photographed a six-year-old girl hiking so defined is the basis of all that professes to be pro-life. her dress to reveal herself sans underwear, or in another Economic science so defined and applied means we may shot, one man urinating into the mouth of another? one day look forward to an industrial transformation of Koop once warned, "We must be careful that we do the disease-ridden nations of Africa. not teach the elderly that they are worthless.They are not In the case of the United States, instituting such a moral necessarily entitled to heart transplants and teflon hips, economic program would signify a complete abrogation of but they are entitled to the same care and compassion any adherence to a "fixed"notion of economics that steadi­ as younger members of our society." We shudder as it ly drives up the numbers of unemployed, homeless, and becomes increasingly clear just what he means. uninsured. Koop simply joins plenty of other policymak- -Linda Everett

the WHO, there was no discussion of evidence pointing to triple, in the 1990s. AIDS transmission by casual contact and by insects, and No one discussed the alternativeof an all-out war against proposals for combatting AIDS spread were nearly exclu­ AIDS, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche as far back as the sively limited to the infamous "safer sex" campaign. And yet October 1985 announcement of his campaign for the U.S. Dr. Mann admitted, in responseto a reporter's question, that presidency in 1988. LaRouche demanded a halt to economic "only 40% of infections could be prevented" by the measures austerity policies, classical public health measures as earlier proposed by the WHO, even iflavishly funded! In that case, applied to the case of tuberculosis and other infectious dis­ he said, the rate of infection would only double, rather than eases, and a "Manhattan Project"-style crash program to de-

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 9 velop a cure for AIDS. Leading AIDS expertshave admitted that this approach would work, but is "politicallyunfeasible" Currency Rates given the do-nothing attitude of advanced-sector govern­ ments. But, given that an alternative exists, is the adoption The dollar in deutschemarks of the WHO policy-whichadmittedly would mean allowing New York late afternoon fixing entire nations of Africa to be wiped out-anything else but calculated murder? 2.00 � --..... The evolution of AIDS 1.90 � Various studies presented at the conference confirmed "- earlier data indicating an extremely high rate of genetic 1.80 � change in the AIDS viruses. Once a person has become in­ fected, the virus "colonizes" various tissues of thebody , for 1.70 example, lymph nodes, blood cells, or the brain. Each time 1.60 the virusgoes through its reproductive cycle in the cell, new 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10125 variants are produced and selected, adapting to the particular tissue type in which they grow. Furthermore, the malignancy The dollar in yen of these variants appears to grow as the disease progresses. New York late anernoon fixing If the infected persontransmits the infection to another per­ son, the clinical course of disease in the second person will l5ll - depend upon which of the growing number of variants was - 140 '-. ,.....".� transmitted. The more people are infected, the faster the - AIDS viruses will evolve. 130 A somber note was added by University of Alabama researcher G.M. Shaw, who presented data showing that the 120 concentration of AIDS virus particles in the blood is vastly larger than is commonly assumed, particularly in the late 110 stages of the disease. His studies indicate that titers of a 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10118 10/25 million infectious particles per milliliter may be common The British pound in dollars among persons sick with AIDS. This compares with the lev­ New York late afternoon fixing els attained in the viremic phase of equine infectious anemia, a disease of horses caused by a virus quite similar to HIV; in 1.90 that phase, the disease is easily transmitted from animal to animal by flies. Giventhat AIDS patients in Africa are com­ 1.80 monly sent home rather than hospitalized, we must expect an explosion of insect-transmitted AIDS in the villages as 1.70 soon as the number of AIDS victims reaches a critical level. Africa has become a breeding ground for evolution of a 1.60 vast and growing AIDS virus family, including emergent -- V "- 1.50 � � strains of great pathogenicity. The new "mystery strains" 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10111 10/18 10/25 suggested by the ambiguous test results may be part of this. Leading researchers have warned of a possible "nightmare" The dollar in Swiss francs development: the emergence of a strain adapted to spread by New York late afternoon fixing the respiratory route, like the common cold. At that point homo sapiens would be virtually doomed to extinction! As 1.80 the AIDS tragedy in Africa unfolds, the probability of such 1.70 � an event grows larger with every passing day...... If for no other reason, people all over the world must 1.60 \... .-/ realize that the fight against AIDS in Africa is not just a life­ � or-death issue for Africans, but will to a large extent decide , I.SO whether mankind as a whole will survive this pandemic. Africa must be saved, at whatever the cost. Otherwise we 1.40 may all become victims, in a real-life version of Edgar Allan 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 Poe's chilling story, "The Masque of the Red Death."

10 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 Dateline Mexico byRuben Cota Meza

World Bank proposes more genocide ter planting except to those few farm­ The Bank and the U.S. Agriculture Department want Mexico to ers who are still considered creditwor­ thy, and has raised interest rates. stop growing/ood, and become a prisoner o/ the grain cartel. 2) The World Bank ordered that fertilizer prices be increased to inter­ national levels and then freed from T he World Bank is seeking to fo�e for greater dependency on food im­ price controls, with imports freely Mexico to abandon its aspiration to ports as "food security." Its report permitted. The next step is ripping grow the wheat and other grains need­ states, "This security of food imports apart the state fertilizer entity, Ferti­ ed by its growing population. They must be accompanied by more oppor­ mex, by privatizing part and closing would instead put Mexico's internal tunities to export meat and crops with the rest. The bank contends that cheap food market under the control of the high commercial value. ... The fertilizer (Le., at less than world pric­ six big grain cartels which dominate Mexican government in the past has es) and subsidies have encouraged the world market. tried to resist this tendency due to the Mexicans to try to grow their own In May 1989, the World Bank importance given to food self-suffi­ food, thereby violating Yeutter's completed a report, made public only ciency and sovereignty. " thesis. recently, on Mexico's agriculture. The World Bank's prescription for 3) The bank demands that the Na­ The report flatly asserts, "A growing free trade follows from the dictates of tional Seed Producers be privatized population and the recovery of the u. S. Secretaryof Agriculture Clayton and that import of seed be freely per­ population's income levels, will ac­ Yeutter. In December 1988, Yeutter, mitted, subject only to sanitary con­ celerate the demand for food far be­ who was then Special Trade Repre­ trol. Again, it argues that "subsidized yond Mexico's agricultural capacity sentative, stressed at the Montreal seed" has made the Mexicans want to to produce them." meeting of the General Agreement on grow corn, beans, rice, and other In fact, Mexico is very far from Tariffs and Trade (GATT), "Food se­ products. "recovering the income levels" of its curity and self-sufficiency are not one Thus, the national fertilizer and people, over half of whom, according and the same goal or objective. Food seed markets are being handed over to officialestimat es, lack the means to security is the capacity to acquire food to the grain cartel companies such as satisfy the most minimal food require­ needed when needed. In fact, in some Cargill, which already control the ments. cases, food self-sufficiency can even whole U. S. seed market. By devoting all its resources to work against the objectives of food 4) The World Bank report also de­ paying debts to the World Bank and security." mands rate increases for the electricity other creditors, Mexico is simultane­ Mexican President Carlos Salinas used to run water pumps and for the ously shrinking food consumption de Gortaritook the firststep toward the water provided by irrigation districts. and its capacity to produce food. The World Bank's "restructuring" just after It wants limitations on agricultural in­ agricultural budget was cut by 55.3% he was inaugurated on Nov. 1, 1988. surance coverage. According to the from 1982 to 1988. Food production He threw the agriculture secretary out genocidal "experts," increases in pro­ per capita fell by 11.8%. Beef con­ of his economic cabinet, leaving World duction costs would be compensated sumption per capita was cut from 35 Bank sycophants. What the World by a relaxation of price controls on pounds in 1982 to only 15 pounds in Bank proposes is now already mostly in both producer and consumer goods. 1987. operation. The rest will come with his Prices, in turn, will be determined by Twenty-four million acres of ara­ National Planfor RuralModernizat ion, international price levels. The World ble land have fallen out of production to be announced Nov. 1: Bank suggests that Mexican food pric­ for lack of maintenance of water and 1) According to the World Bank, es be set by reference to the Chicago soil systems. Does the World Bank the government used to provide so commodity futures market! propose investing in rehabilitating much low-interest, long-term financ­ By getting Mexico to stop grow­ these lands? No. It demands that Mex­ ing to the agricultural sector, that it ing its own food supply, the World ico "should resort to the international caused "unproductive and unprofit­ Bank promotes its main objective: Re­ market to a greaterextent to provision able" cultivation of wheat and other duce the population by increasing itself with basic grains." grains. Salinas's Banco Rural has cut mortality rates from hunger, malnutri­ The World Bank propagandizes off all credit for the 1989-90 fall-win- tion and disease. '

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 11 Report from Rio by Silvia Palacios

u.s. tries to block aerospace deal According to Arianespace representa­ Behind Washington's opposition to the Brazil-French aerospace tive in Br�il, Jacques Mercier, in statements to the Oct. 5 Gazeta Mer­ program lies an agreement with Moscow. cantil, the United States "won the withdrawal of Germany, England, and Italy from the deal." In the face of Brazilian outrage at President George Bush appears de­ nological assistance, to no avail. its constant interference, the Bush ad­ termined to destroy any possibility of Brazil has persistently insisted ministration· made a feeble effort to mending the United States' unravel­ upon its legitimate right of access to smooth the South American giant's ing relations with its most stable ally modem technology. On July 7, when ruffled feathers. On Aug. 24, after a in the hemisphere, Brazil. First came the pact with France was being shaped meeting with U.S. Undersecretary of the designs of internationalbanks and behind closed doors, United Nations State Lawrence Eagleburger, Brazil's corporations on the Brazilian Ama­ Ambassador Paulo Nogueira Batista number-two man at the Foreign Min­ zon, encouraged by the Bush adminis­ declared in Geneva: "In the name of istry, Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima, de­ tration, and then Washington's glar­ security, the developing-sector na­ clared that "a mechanism for special ing indifference to the country's for­ tions also suffer in regard to the trans­ consultation with Brazil" had been es­ eign debt problem. Now, U.S. diplo­ fer of know-how, especially in the tablished at the vice-ministerial level. macy has taken upon itself the right to area of high technology. They are of­ He added that Brazil is "the firstcoun­ determine which countries may have ten denied access to technologies try with which the United States seeks access to modem technology, by which are of vital importance to their to test the viability of this system." launching a campaign to prevent development. " However, that "consultative France from striking a highly advanta­ The Brazilian Armed Forces have mechanism" did not last long, given geous aerospace technology deal with been especially persistent on the tech­ the Bush administration's unabashed Brazil. nology question, and cannot be ex­ interference: with the France-Brazil The technological package in pected to view lightly ongoing at­ aerospace deal. Washington's hypo­ question is for the construction and tempts at U.S. sabotage of the Brazil­ critical dealings with its ally also launching of two new communica­ French accord. make a farce out of the loudly tions satellites. The European Ari­ On Oct. 4, U.S. Vice President proclaimed "success" of trade negoti­ anespace consortium--of which Dan Quayle sent a diplomatic protest ations announced in early October by France is a major partner-is offer­ to the French government, citing the U.S. Special Trade Representative ing, among other things, to transfer to 1987 Missile Technology Control Carla Hills. According to Hills, those Brazil the technology for producing Treaty . Quayle demanded that the sig­ negotiations did away with the threat Viking-style liquid fuel engines, nator countries-Japan, West Germa­ of U . S. trade sanctions against Brazil which would provide Brazil indepen­ ny, England, Italy, Canada, the Unit­ on the issue of computer technology. dence in the construction of its own ed States, and France itself-respect It would appear that the priority of rocket-launching vehicles. This in the treaty clauses which prohibit the Bush administration in its relations tum would give Brazil a tremendous transfer of aerospace technology to with Brazil is to preserve its condo­ boost in its aerospace program, en­ the nations of the South, under the pre­ minium agreement with Moscow. abling it to join that elite group of na­ text that this could provide them with Among the provisions of such a deal, tions which controls all phases­ dangerous war-making capabilities. is to prohibit the Third World from launching and operation--of space This is not the first time that such gaining access to modem technology, systems. pressures have been aimed at France. particularly technology that might Before the French offer, Brazil In July, during the bicentennial cele­ have military applications. For to had tremendous difficulty in acquiring bration of the French Revolution, allow such' strengthening of the na­ this technology, since the "club" of Bush took up the issue with President tional sovereignty of developing na­ the seven most industrialized nations, Franc;ois Mitterrand, but the French tions would be a fatal blow to the headed by the United States, has al­ President stuck firmlybehind the Arl­ "one-world government" imperial ways refused to provide it. Brazil also anespace project. Bush then began to schemes of both Mikhail Gorbachov sought out the Soviet Union for tech- tum the screws on other countries. and his interlocutors in the West.

12 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 Agriculture by Marcia Meny

Don't blame the earthquake al "pea pack"-the canning of peas Fruit and vegetable prices are on the rise, but the California (centered in Minnesota and adjacent areas) fell last year by about half. As earthquake is only a small part of the reason . of January, the national U. S. stocks of canned peas were half of what they were in January 1988, and less than half of January 1987 stocks. At the beginning of this year, there were 6 If you've been following the news ture, the Environmental Protection million cases of size 303 cans of peas, of the impact of the California earth­ Agency, and other federal govern­ in contrast to 13 million the year be­ quake on the agricultural regions of ment branches on behalf of the food fore at that time. the state, you will have seen many a cartel companies. Therefore, in recent months con­ sorry picture of destroyed foods. The major factors involved are: sumers have noticed that a can of peas In Hollister, the quake collapsed financial hardship of the farmers; for 69 cents is a bargain, when only warehousebuildings containing some crazed environmentalist restrictions a couple years ago, you might find 400,000 tons of the summer's tomato on usage of water and fertilizer, and four for a dollar. But what happens in crop. In nearby Watsonville-the fro­ on other farm practices; the lack of the future, if you can't find peas for zen food capital of the country-an development of infrastructure for any price? ammonia leak at the Green Giant plant large-scale water and power for irriga­ Farmers have been backed to the caused $20 million in losses to frozen tion, as well as railways, roads, and wall by years of high interest rates, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and other bridges for transport to market; and heavy debt obligations, and collusion vegetables. Six other processing finally, the imposition of "free trade" by the food cartel companies and the plants in the city were also damaged. in the world food market, which has U.S. Department of Agriculture to In Freedom, just north of Watson­ undercut farmers from many nations. allow "free trade" in fruits and vegeta­ ville, thousands of pounds of apples California accounted for 49% of bles, so that the cartel profitsare high, were knocked out of their bins at the the total production of fresh vegeta­ but the price to the farmer is low. H. A. Rider and Sons cider plant. bles in the United States in 1987. Cash U. S. imports of fruits and vegeta­ The earthquake also knocked out receipts from the sale of California bles have been soaring since the early power to many irrigation systems and vegetables totaled $3. 1 billion in and mid- 1980s, especially because of processing plants, and blocked many 1987, which is one-third of all U.S. the free trade campaigns of Secretary roads normally used to take crops to vegetable receipts. Almost all the of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter. Im­ market. Agriculture-related damages acreage for these crops is irrigated. ports of canned vegetables have gone are still being tallied, but damage in However, even before the earthquake up from 240,000 pounds in 1981 to Santa Cruz County alone, the location hit, California farmers had suffered 490,000 pounds in 1988. Imports of of the quake's epicenter, could the impact of three dry years, and state frozen vegetables have gone up from amount to $5-6 million, according to and federal stalling on building new 90,000 pounds in 1981 to over the Los Angeles Times. water projects. In addition, heavy re­ 300,000 pounds in 1988. Imports of However, don't blame the high strictions are coming down on farm fresh vegetables have climbed from 2 and rising prices you see in the super­ chemicals needed for vegetable and million pounds in 1981 to 3.5 million markets for fresh produce, or for fruit crops. pounds annually by 1987 and 1988. canned and frozen fruits and vegeta­ Therefore, when a disaster hits on The value of food imports exceeded bles, on the California earthquake­ the scale of the 1988 "Killer Drought" exports in much of 1987. whose effects will ripple out through or the 1989 earthquake, there is no Much of the produce comes from the nation soon enough. What is cushion in the food chain to ease the Mexico, where nutrition has col­ shown in the last 24 months of rising situation until everything is back in lapsed to a crisis level. The deal was prices and shorter supplies of pro­ production again. Food stocks are low; struck in 1982 by the International duce, is the result of years of deliber­ farmers are going out of operation. Monetary Fund and food cartel circles ate marginalization of the farm sector For an example outside Califor­ to bully Mexico into drastic exports for fruits and vegetables, perpetrated nia, take processed vegetables. Be­ of everything, to make its foreign cur­ by the U.S. Department of Agricul- cause of the 1988 drought, the nation- rency debt payments to the banks.

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 13 EnergyInsider by WilliamEn gdahl

Soviets' deepening energy catastrophe reached a re�ord 12.56 million barrels Some little-discussed aspects of the economic breakdown that per day. The combined oil and gas export to the West gave Moscow some might astonish Western fa ns of perestroika. 80% of its llard currency export earn­ ings before the sharp fall in Western oil prices in 1986, from $26 to some $12-15 a barrel. Soviet total hard cur­ rency export earnings in the West An explosion in a gas condensate Ministry was, "Build faster and spend dropped a devastating 40% as a result pipeline near the Siberian city of To­ less." Between 1970 and 1985 the en­ of the 1986 price collapse. bolsk the week of Oct. 23 has report­ tirety of the oil and gas distribution Western petroleum engineers ac­ edly damaged major gas trunklines network was expanded 250%. quainted with the Soviet oil fields re­ from the huge Siberian Urengoi gas Now we see the results. Pipelines portthe situation could collapse in key fields. It is but the latest in a growing in the Urengoi region are severely de­ producing Qelds at any moment. As a series of disasters and breakdowns teriorating and future explosions are result of o�y a partial "deregulation" which may define world history in certain. Informed Western industry of the oil sector-the petroleum ma­ coming months. estimates say that at least 60% of the chine-building sector, the chaos in oil Until the June 3 explosion of a gas gas pipeline compressors in operation equipment Ilupply is growing by the pipeline along the Trans-Siberian across the Soviet pipeline grid need hour. Oil machine factories are now Railway, which killed hundreds in the immediate replacement after less than allowed to decide where to sell up to Bashkir Republic, natural gas was the a decade in service. Soviet pipelines 70% of their production. As one re­ bright hope of the Soviet energy strat­ lose an estimated one-third of energy sult, reports of cancellations of supply egy. The Five Year Plan had called for supply from lack of adequate com­ agreements with the state oil industry natural gas to be the bridge between pression. are numerous. Oil rigs and other dril­ reliance on crude oil and transition to Coal supply, the major fuel for So­ ling equipment have gone up in cost coal-dominated energy use by next viet electric power plants, is in an 100% in two years, but the Petroleum century. Gas utilization has been ex­ alarming condition according to in­ Ministry is still under controlled pric­ panded enormously since the late formed reports from continental Euro­ es so it is unable to pay the higher 1970s and now provides some 40% pean energy consultants. In recent costs. of domestic energy, while exports to weeks, just before onset of the severe Production of oil is beginning to Western Europe give dearly needed winter, Soviet coal stocks on site at drop. Petroleum Argus in London esti­ hard currency. electric plants are at "historic lows." mates that this year oil production Now gas explosions are hitting at Coal output nationally had dropped could be down as much as 4%, some a rate of once a month or more. One some 20 million tons in the first eight 15 million tons out of 624 million tons result of the Bashkir disaster was the months of the year over the same peri­ total. One immediate loss will be in ex­ realization that hundreds of miles of od in 1988 to 395 million tons, partly port to Ro�rdam of oil for heating by the hastily laid pipe running from Sur­ due to miners' strikes. But the real some 20-30%. There is reported a hot git in West Siberia to petrochemicals problem according to these reports is debate from Soviet energy planning plants in western U.S.S.R., were in the sudden lack of transport. There ap­ circles over reducing Western oil and the same shoddy condition as the re­ parently has been a catastrophic gas exports in order to serve national gion where the leak occurred. Sum­ breakdown in availability of railcars needs. One plan calls for imposing fur­ mer months have been used for emer­ to carry coal to both power plants and ther energy austerity on the East Euro­ gency pipe replacement before onset steel plants. The situation is so severe pean satellite economies through re­ of the bitter Russian winter. Reported­ in some regions that steel furnacesare vising expQrtprice agreements. If im­ ly, during the crash energy expansion reported on the verge of closing for posed, this will force severe energy of the 1970s and early 1980s, when lack of coking coal. austerity Qnto the already sinking Western oil prices skyrocketed and What about oil? Isn't the Soviet economies of Eastern Europe, which enticed Russian planners to "bet the Union the world's largest producer of depend on energy from the Soviet ranch" on export of gas and oil, the crude oil? In 1987 official Soviet oil Union. Let's hold the problems in the motto inside the Soviet Oil and Gas output, according again to their data, nuclear energy sector for another day.

14 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 Eye on Washington by Nicholas F. Benton

U.S.-Soviet joint fantasy et Union was, indeed, a violation of Plans announced/or building a Moscow Sheraton underscore the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty . Shevardnadze also said that the U.S. pathetic response to Soviet collapse. and Soviets "are now moving in fun­ damentally the same direction." It was the near-simultaneous speeches by Baker and Shevardnadze which made the announcement of the T he gilded main hall up the stair­ But none of this reality penetrated joint venture for the Moscow Sheraton case at the Soviet embassy was the the thick walls and heads at the Soviet so "symbolically" significant, Dubi­ site for an announcement of a joint embassy. Ambassador Dubinin was nin said. economic venture between the U.S. cautious to call the deal "symbolic," According to Dennis Maguire, and Soviets Oct. 24. Dignitaries from rather than substantive, and to hail its Sheraton senior vice-president for de­ throughout Washington, and a sizable positive "psychological" impact. velopment, the deal had other facets press contingent, gathered to hear So­ When asked by this reporter, after his for the Soviets. The kind of things that viet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin and formal remarks, about the enormous Maguire told me in remarks after the U.S. Commerce Secretary Robert needs of the Soviet economy, Dubinin formal speeches, when the champagne Mosbacher hail the new deal as a brushed off the question with the same was flowing, suggested that the Sovi­ breakthrough toward the kind of fu­ formulas given by the Soviet delega­ ets used the Sheraton project to test ture cooperation the U.S. can enjoy tion to the Baker-Shevardnadze meet­ their ability to cut their own Red tape. from its new Soviet economic partner ing in Wyoming in September. "We The deal fully by-passed the Soviet with its "new political thinking." don't need aid from the West," he tourist ministry , Intourist, said to be Mosbacher intoned, "President said. "All we need is the establish­ one of the most obstructive Soviet bu­ Bush has said that he wants to see per­ ment of normal trading relations, such reaucracies. Also, arrangements were estroikasucceed , and this is an exam­ as the granting of Most Favored Na­ made to ship in concrete from the ple of what is needed to make it tion trading status by the U.S." West, again to evade internal Soviet succeed." When I told him that U.S. State production bureaucracies and bottle­ What was it? A new Marshall Plan Department spokesmen downplay the necks. to revive the moribund Soviet econo­ value of Most Favored Nation status From that viewpoint, it would be my, in time to save Mikhail Gorba­ for the Soviets, he sharply disagreed, seen as an experiment destined for chov's political hide before winter and said that "it is more than symbol­ much broader applications once the sets in? Hardly. It was a $75 million ic." He pointed out that every case of flowof larger sums of Western capital deal to build a Sheraton Hotel in Soviet vodka that comes into the U. S. started. The deal was one of the first downtown Moscow. is slapped with a $15 duty that other in which the old Soviet law requiring It was like a sidetrip to Disneyland nations do not have to pay. at least 51% Soviet control of a joint in the middle of World War II. Up the But on the deeper troubles facing venture did not apply. This was a street in one direction, on Massachu­ the Soviets, the ambassador was un­ straight 50-50 deal, but Western com­ setts A venue, the Johns Hopkins Uni­ willing to concede any problems that panies are being invited in even if they versity Advanced International Stud­ were not under control. He pointed to want 100% of the action. ies Center was holding a forum on the speech given by U.S. Secretary of Also, the tedious negotiations whether or not Gorbachov would be State James Baker III at the Common­ which led to this deal trained a team overthrown by a workers' revolt from wealth Club in San Francisco, which of Soviet legal experts, led by Dr. below. Down the street, at the N ation­ stated that U.S.-Soviet relations were Alexander Brylov of Aeroflot, on al Press Club, Gen. Paul Albert Scher­ now better than they have ever been Western corporate law, so that future er, the former head of West German in the postwar period. He added to joint venture deals and efforts to at­ Military Intelligence, was giving a that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard tract capital can occur much more briefing to over 40 representatives of Shevardnadze's speech to the Su­ swiftly. embassies and the media on the likely preme Soviet in Moscow the same But it all smacked strongly of demise of Gorbachov this coming day, when Shevardnadze conceded wishful thinking, in the face of the winter or spring. that the Krasnoyarsk radar in the Sovi- grim onset of the Soviet winter.

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 15 Business Briefs

War on Drugs ther research is definitively desirable to im­ ternationaI macro-economic coordination. prove the reproducibility of the effects and to Their argumentsare "deeply flawed,"he said. Spain wants Marshall unravel the mystery of the observations." Representatives of the sponsoring NSF Plan to stop cocaine and EPRI stated that the recommendations for more research will include more advanced di­ Development Spain proposed a "mini-Marshall Plan" to en­ agnostic sensors to measure the productsof the reactions, and will be considered by NSF and able cocaine-producing nations to produce India · argues against other products, at a meeting of anti-drug ex­ passed on to the Department of Energy "cold pertsand state secretaries responsiblefor inter­ fusion" group, which issued a negative interim cuts ili subsidies nal security in Madrid on Oct. 24. Representa­ report in July. tives attended from Spain, Italy, the United Dr. Edward Tellercalledformoreresearch A paper prepared by the Indian government to be done in a statement released to the press, States, France, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. and now beingcirculated to member-countries and Dr. John Appleby of Texas A&M Univer­ Also discussed wereplans forthe industri­ of the World Bank, has strongly objected to sity said the cold fusion results"are widely ac­ alized nations to assist the policeforces of lber­ any reduttion of government subsidies as a cepted" now. "Texas A&M presented data at o-America with know-how and technical strategy fo r curtailing its non-development ex­ the Santa Fe meeting in May, which I would support. penditures. The paper is designed to preempt have been hesitant to believe. But we are be­ French President Franc;ois Mitterrand, World Bank pressureon India to cut subsidies. ginning to get rid of instrument artifacts, and meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Felipe The paper argues that such action would the results are widely accepted." Gonzalez in the Spanish town of Valladolid reduce the help beingprovided to the agricul­ Oct. 24, underlined that banks must opentheir tural sector, such as fertilizersubsidies, which books if the fightagainst drug trafficking is to would have a deleterious effect on the rate of succeed. "I demand the utmost severity in the agricultural growthand India's hard-won de­ fight against drug-traffickers," he said. Third World greeof relative food security. It also pointsout that such cuts would necessitate cutbacks of London professor food subsidies, which have played a signifi­ cant role 'in alleviating urban distress. Cold Fusion blasts ecologists Suchcuts, it notes, would reduce subsidies to the exportsector which wereaimed at neu­ tralizing the export disincentives which were Symposium calls for London University College economics profes­ inevitable in the first few decades of planned sor DapeekLal denounced "ecological imperi­ development as the country was following an expanded research effort alists" and advocates of "sustainable develop­ import substitution strategy of industrial­ ment" for trying to suppress development in ization. A symposium on "cold fusion" sponsored by the Third World. in a speechat London's Insti­ The paperargues that thereare constraints the National Science Foundation (NSF) and tute for Economic Affairs Oct . 19, according on reducing expenditure untilenhanced public the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to the London Financial Times. sector su luses and expansion of the tax base in Washington, D.C. concluded that morere­ Lal said that he found it deplorable that tp could overcome the problem of inadequate re­ search should be done, in a statement released dispensers of international aid funds werede­ sources. Oct. 18. The meeting's backing for such an manding that developing-sector countries save expanded research effort strikes a blow at the trees but not people in need . skeptics who have tried to dismiss claims of Lal also charged that "hysteria" is being cold fusion generation as "human error." whipped up over the "greenhouse effect" and The 50 participants summarized their re­ "ozone hole" issues. Global warming. even if Infrastructure sults, saying, "The anomalous effects reported there really is such a thing. which is not estab­ in the metal-deuterium system are lished. could "tum out to bequ ite beneficialfor Double road and bridge interesting.... New . positive results in ex­ India and Africa." even if it would hurt the cess heat production and nuclear product gen­ U.S. grain belt.he said. adding that the much­ funds, studies say eration have beenpresented and reviewed in a publicized link between the ozone layer and logical, frank, open, and orderly manner. chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was an "ephem­ On June 17. the American Road and Transpor­ Based on the information that we have. these eral" one . tation Builders Association decided to begin effects cannot be explained as a result of arti­ Lal challenged those advocating interna­ pressing for an increase in federal spending on facts, equipment, or human errors . . . . Fur- tional cooperation on the environment and in- bridges and highways from the current level of

16 Economics EIR November 3, 1989 Briefly

• JAPANESE BANKS are pulling out of Mexico, according to the lon­ don Financial Times. A director of $15 billion to $40billion a year, aftera review nounced, Korea will likely have 14 nuclear the Bank of Tokyo said that the banks of nearly four dozen studies on highway and plants in operationby the end of the century. have no incentive to put up any new bride funding requirements. Korea's ninth nuclear plant went into opera­ money for Mexico. British banks an­ The studies cited by ARTBA included a tion in September,increasing the atom's share nounced a similar decision in Sep­ Federal Highway Administration conclusion of the country's electricity generation to just tember. in November 1988 that just meeting over 50%, among the highest rates in the "constrained fullhighway needs" on the feder­ world. • FOOD IRRADIATION was al aid system required $39.4 billion annually; Electricity consumption is rising rapidly banned by the New Jersey state legis­ an American Association of State Highway along with industrial production and greater laturefor two years, the Newark Star and Transportation Officials report that $100 domestic use. lt topped 13.3 million kilowatts Ledger reported Oct. 21. The state billion in spending at all levels of government last year, compared to forecasts of 11.7 million Department of Health will conduct was required each year, compared to the $66 kilowatts. The governmentintends that nucle­ tests in the next two years to deter­ billion in 1987; a National Council on Public ar powershould account for just over 34% of mine the effects of irradiation, a tech­ Works study fromFebruary 1988 which called the fuel mix by 2001, with coal contributing nology already known to be safe . for a doubling of annual capital investments in 35%, compared with 18.5% now. Oil's share public works of all kinds; an American Trans­ should fall to 10% from24% , liquefiednatural • ONLY ONE deepwater port in portation AdvisoryCouncil call for $49billi on gas to 10% from nearly 13%, and hydro 10% the U.S. at Los Angeles/Long Beach in federal spending each year, in October against 11% now. is able to accommodate ships draw­ 1985; and in May 1983 , an Associated General ing more than 40 feet, Paul Mitchell, Contractors statement that the U.S. needed to editor of World Dredging, Mining, spend $100 billion for highways and bridges. and Construction magazine told EIR. Merrill Lynch issuedareportsincethe AR­ Trade TBA decision, estimating the cost of rehabili­ • A BANGLADESH Planning tating existing highways and bridges to be$40 u.s. attempts to open Commission report says that the av­ billion annually, for the next 11 years. erage woman in Bangladesh marries In 1982, the percentageof interstate high­ India insurance market in her mid-teens and has 10-11 preg­ way bridges classifiedas deficientby the Fed­ nancies in a lifetime, losing half of eral Highway Administration was 10.6%. Linn Williams, Deputy U.S. Trade Represen­ the newborns to disease and malnu­ That figure climbed to 13. 1% in 1984, to tative, upped the pressure on the Indian gov­ trition. It also said that out of 53.3 14.3% in 1986, and to 15.9% in 1988. ernmentto openits insurance market, while in million women in Bangladesh. less New DelhiOct . 15. than 8.5 million are literate . com­ Answering a question on the U.S. Super pared to 30% of men. 30 1 protectionisttrade laws, Williams said that Energy the insurance business in India "has been na­ • ONE MILLION Polish migrant tionalized for so many years does not mean workers will have worked in West South Korea to buDd it is necessarily good. We are talking about Germany this year. a 30% increase opening markets not just in consumer goods. over 1988 and a postwar record. the more nuclear plants When people talk about open markets, they Bonn government predicted. Full­ think about consumergoods. In fact that is not status immigration of Poles to West The Republic of Korea is planning to build really where American companies are most Germany also reached a record high three new nuclear powerplants over the next competitive.They aremuch morecompetitive in 1989. with close to 160.000 ex­ decade . and one of them is likely to come from in intermediate goods, producergoods, capital pected by the end of the year. Canada. according to the Journal of Com­ goods, which are more removed from Indian merce Oct. 18. Energy-shortSouth Korea al­ consumers. The insurance industry is a service • SOVIET HOSPITALS spread readyhas nine nuclear plants in operation. six industry that is important to us and to other AIDS. according to Izvestia of Oct. using U.S. equipment. one Canadian. and two countries. We believe it is appropriate for not 16. which reports that another hospi­ French. only the American insurance industry, but oth­ tal-spawned AIDS cluster has been The state-owned Korea Electric Power er insurance industries, to bemade available to found in a children 's hospital in Sta­ Company says the three new plants will cost the Indian consumers. If the Indian consumer vropol Krai . An anti-epidemic com­ around $3.9 billion. plus nearly $500milli on prefers to choose to buy government insur­ mission found that many medical in­ in foreign loans. ance, that is fine. Again, what we are looking stitutions have "failed to install steril­ All three plants should be complete by for is the maximum choice for the consumer. ization equipment. " 1999. With plans for two others previouslyan- We want nothing to restrictthat choice."

EIR November 3, 1989 Economics 17 �ITmMusic

Clamorg rows fo r return to Ve rdi's musicalpi tch

by John Sigerson

The Schiller Institute's battle to revive the natural principles ers who in the 19th century !sought C = 256 as the tuning underlying all classical beauty took a great step forward dur­ pitch in France and in London, 40 years prior to Verdi's ing early October, when professional musicians and classical sponsorship of the Italian government's 1884 decree setting music lovers assembled in three cities on two continents to A =432 as the standard pitch. These people strove against debate-and enjoy-the benefits of discarding the modem the romantics who claimed that there is no such thing as high tuning -pitch in favor of a return to the tuning of C = 256 natural law, and opted for the sensual gratifications of the cycles per second, as demanded not only by all the great higher tuning. The latter faction included Alexander Ellis, classical composers up through Giuseppe Verdi, but by the the translator of Hermann Helmholtz's misguided and now universe itself. entirely discredited book, The Sensations of Tone. A two-day seminar held in New York City on Oct. 10-11, Percesepe also explained ,that one of the main reasons a two-day "Ibykus Festival" held in Munich, West Germany why conventions in London and Paris finally adoptedadopted on Oct. 13-14, and a gala C= 256 concert held in Houston Oct. A=435 as a "compromise," which was generally adhered to 7, all underscored the fact that despite the defeat, earlier this up through the time of Verdi's death in the early 20th century, year, of the Schiller Institute-backed legislation in Italy to was "financial considerations," a mistake that should not be reinstitute the "Verdi A" of 432 Hz (equivalentto C=256 Hz), repeated this time. an increasing number of classical singers and instrumental­ Dennis Speed demolished Helmholtz's theory of acous­ ists, musicologists, and instrument-makers aredetermined to tics, in a speech titled "Why C=256," showing how the make it the standard worldwide-legislation or no. entire electromagnetic spectrumis characterized throughout by a "register-shift" precisely between "F" and "F-sharp ," a Debate among musicians in New York shift which could not occur ul111ess middle C is set at almost About 25 musical professionals attended the intensive precisely 256 Hz. seminar at New York's Merkin Concert Hall. Presentations Following his talk, flautist and flute collector Helen Va­ were made by the celebrated vocal coach Armen Boyajian; lenza gave a musical demonstration of classical and baroque voice teacher and author Dr. Oren Lathrop Brown; "original flutes, tuned to A=415, A=435, one almost at A=432, and instrument" flautist Helen Velanza; conductor Anthony A=440. Through the demonstrations, the audience was able Morss, and Schiller Institute speakers Jeanne Percesepe, to clearly hear the warmth of sound at the mid-tunings, the Dennis Speed, and John Sigerson. piercing quality at A=440, and the somewhat unclear, less Conference organizer Jeanne Percesepe, in reviewing the organized tones at A=415. recent campaign to return to the "Verdi" pitch, discussed One of the highlights of the seminar was the showing of the crucial role of scientist and political economist Lyndon a pre-recorded presentation by vocal coach Armen Boyajian. LaRouche in presenting the hypothesis which led to the pres­ Interviewed while seated at a piano in his studio, Boyajian ent campaign. She cited ongoing historical research which gave 13 musical examples, to demonstrate that tuning down documents the work of a grouping of scientists and compos- even less than a quarter-step would have a dramatic and

18 Music EIR November 3, 1989 beneficialeffect for the singer and audience, especially in the Sigerson also noted that, contrary to what one might crucial passaggio area of the voice, where it must shift from expect, those people possessing "perfect pitch" have found the "central" to the "head" register. He decried the all-too­ it remarkably easy to make the adjustment to the lower frequent modem-day "travesties" in opera, to stage directors tuning. This was later confirmed by Morss, who said he who try "to paint moustachioes on the Mona Lisa," and ar­ recently tested a pianist friend who has perfect pitch, by gued for returningto more traditional aesthetics. playing him a recording of parts of Mr. Brainin' s demonstra­

= The second day of the symposium was opened with the tion. After hearing the performance at A 432 , the pianist viewing of a videotape a demonstration of the superiority of reported that even though he recognized the pitch as lower, C=256 made in Munich last year by Norbert Brainin, former­ it had a certain "rightness" about it which did not at all ly firstviolinist of the Amadeus Quartet, on his 1736 Omobo­ disconcert him, as it does when he hears performances at no Stradivarius. This was followed by a report from John Sig­ other tunings. erson on research on the effects of high tuning on the Stradivar­ Maestro Morss,who is musical directorof the Lubo Opera ius violins, conducted by Prof. Bruno Barosi of the Cremona Company, especially addressed the question of instruments, Violin Building Institute in Italy (see EIR , Sept. 29, 1989, and recounted the results of his experiment with tuning at "The Geometric Secret of Stradivarius"), and on research into A=435 for a performance of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria the history of the violin, which indicates that the circles of rusticana and I pagliacci earlier this year. He stressed the need Leonardo da Vinci (one of the finest singersof his time), were for rapidly retooling the woodwind and brass instruments, also reponsible for the early development of the violin. because instrumentalists with modem instruments are simply

= Dr. Oren Brown, a voice teacher at the Juilliard School unable to "lip down" their notes to anything lower than A 435 . of Music, who spent 13 years at the Washington University Greetings and short statements were read from Lili Choo­ Hospital in St. Louis working with damaged voices, spoke of kasian, former Metropolitan Opera contralto now teaching the ill effects of high tuning on the lamyx, and made an appeal at Yale University, and father and son baritones L0uis and to lobby for a standardized, lower tuning pitch in America. Gino Quilico, performing together at the Metropolitan Opera A further session was devoted to "nuts-and-bolts" test per­ this season. formances of vocal musical examples. Lyric soprano Kath­ Also present was a member of the Board of Directors of leen Cuvelier sang passages from two arias, beginning with the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, who read from an original let­ Giacomo Puccini's "Quando m'en vo" and later Wolfgang ter from the famous soprano to the directorof Covent Garden Amadeus Mozart's "Dove sono i bei momenti," first with a in London, requesting that the tuning of the orchestra be kept piano tuned at A =440, and then with a second piano tuned at no higher than A =435 for any performances she was to sing. C=256. The singer was firstasked how the same passage felt in the voice at the lower tuning. She said that she found that, Defense of Western culture in Munich unexpectedly, her middle register felt more secure, and natu­ In contrast with the New York seminar, which was aimed ral, and that the passaggio notes were able to be fully sung. at sparking debate in New York's densely populated profes­ The singer noted that she had been analyzing what she was sional world, West Germany's Private Academy of Humanist doing as she sang, and requested that she be allowed to sing Studies in Munich held a two-day "Ibykus Festival" in Mu­ the entire aria "with the benefitof the lower tuning. " Follow­ nich centering around reviving fundamental values of West­ ing this, she told the audience that whereas before this experi­ em culture, but also addressing concrete steps for implement­ ment she had merely been a "supporter," now she was a "true ing key aspects immediately. convert" to the campaign to lower tuning. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Many additional musical examples were given, but one Schiller Institutes, stated that despite so many political and stood out above the others for its clarity. Lyric-coloratura Au­ economic developments worldwide which seem to indicate drey Luna sang from two pieces, Gaetano Donizetti's "O,luce the contrary, she is optimistic and convinced that the the di quest' anima" and Mozart's "Durch Ziirtlichkeit." She sang Schiller Institute's slogan-"Nun kommt die Schillerzeit" exquisitely at the higher tuning. However, at the lower tuning, ("The Age of Schiller Is At Hand")-is actually true. She from the audience Maestro Morss found that the voice was cited the examples of the moving scenese that West Germans "sweeter ...and more in character" with the role. have been seeing on television, of young people who fled In the final panel, John Sigerson spoke of of his experi­ from East Germany, risking their own lives in order to have ences in leading a chorus in Leesburg, Virginia, which has freedom for themselves and their children. She also reported been singing consistently at C=256 for two years now, and about events in theaters and operas in East Germany, where, has even required all individual chorus members to tune similar to events during the Nazi period, people are ostenta­ their pianos at home to that pitch. He noted a remarkable tiously applauding after key phrases during performances improvement in the stability of intonation, giving amateur of Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell or Ludwig van Beethoven's singers the ability to keep the pitch steady for long periods operatic celebration of liberty, Fidelio. of time even without the assistance of instruments. French violoncellist Eliane Magnan followed with a pre-

EIR November 3, 1989 Music 19 sentation on how the performer must approach a musical score, to achieve a true interpretation. She discussed the need to make distinctions among three types of musical lines in a polyphonic composition: those which are melodic, those which are rhythmic in character, and those which are static, and played many examples from J.S. Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to underline her point. The second day included a presentation by Muriel Mirak, executive member of the InternationalCaucus of Labor Com­ Of pitch and mittees, on classical theater. She counterposed Stanislavski 's existentialist "method acting" with the true classical tradition transposition of performance based not on the "feelings" of the performer, but on the thoughts and word of the poet, as exemplified in Operain Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future this century by the work in Germany of the circle around by HenryPleasants Gustav Griigens. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1989 In the last panel, dedicated to the C=256 campaign, the 128 pages, index, $19.95 Schiller Institute's Liliana Celani insisted, along with the initiative's originator Lyndon LaRouche, on the need for an identical approach to musical composition and to physical The fo llowing article, kindly made available to us by the science. She then introduced Spanish tenor Miguel Berrald­ author, is an expanded version of one writtenfor About the es, who sang passages from Verdi's Requiem, Jl trovatore, House, the magazine fo r the Friends of Covent Garden, in and the "Celeste Aida" from Mda at both the high and the July 1981 , fo r inclusion in the book Opera in Crisis. Dr. low tuning. Comments from the audience indicated that this Pleasants, now resides in London, was music critic fo r the demonstration was just as convincing as the demonstration Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the New York Times, and given by Italian baritone Piero Cappu ccilli at the Schiller then, from 1967 onward, the London music critic of the Institute's very first conference on tuning, held on April 9, International Herald Tribune. He has written, translated, 1988 in Milan, Italy. and edited numerous books in the field. The event was topped off with two concerts. The first In 1988, HenryPleasants endorsed the campaign of the featured three fine Italian singers-soprano Loredana Ro­ Schiller Institute to back a law thenpending before the Italian manato, tenor Mario Zecchini, and baritone Santi Amati­ Parliament, to reinstate Giuseppe Verdi's pitch of A =432 with arias from Verdi operas, all done at the tuning demanded Hertz-as opposed to the modern A =440 and even higher by Verdi himself. At the second concert, Norbert Brainin concert pitches-as the standard tuning pitchfor state-subsi­ and pianist GiinterLudwig performed sonatas by Beethoven dized schools, orchestras, and public concerts. A =432 de­ and Johannes Brahms. finesthe upper limit of a tuning based on the scientificmiddle C of 256 Hertz. Verdi in Houston The book consists of a series of lively essays, of which The tuning revolution arrived in Houston on Oct. 7 when the fo llowing sample is typical. Although we differ in our classical singers representing a cross-section of the Houston estimate of the authority of Ellis (see article, above), we musical scene performed arias and ensembles from Mozart could not agree more on the thrust of his defense of singers to Verdi. Lyric baritone Douglas Yates opened the concert from modernpitch extremes, and we findthe book delightful program by singing the aria "Ah! Per sempre io to perdei" and informative-a good holiday gift idea fo r your music fromVincenzo Bellini's I Puritani, firstat the high tuning of loving friends -Nora. Hamerman A=440, and then at A=432. Yates, a member of the National Opera Company, explained how the words are more clear at What is authentic? What is original? And what of the singer? the lower tuning, the vowels "more open," and the sound Well, authentic and original are adjectives much used nowa­ more roundand beautiful. The singer is also able to voice the days by those commendably bent on bringing us operas of E-ftat in the middle register, as intended by the composer, the standard repertoire as conceived and written by their instead of displacing the sound by "passing" the note into the authors-at least as far as the music is concerned!--cleansed higher register. of the cuts, transpositions, embellishments, cadenzas, inter­ Also appearing on the program were sopranos Lois Alba, polations, instrumental touching up, etc ., that have come Shana Hogan, and Louise Mendius; mezzo-sopranos Paula down to us in performance over the years, and are now gener­ Blackman and Jane Riley; tenors Carlton Hines and John ally accepted as "traditional," often having found their way Jennings; and baritone Rodney Stenborg, who performs with into printed vocal and orchestral scores. the Houston Grand Opera. Recent examples of this quest of authenticity have been

20 Music EIR November 3, 1989 Jesus Lopez-Cobos's edition of Donizetti's Lucia di Lam­ mermoor and Alberto Zedda's "authentic" Il barbiere di Sivi­ glia. Some seasons ago we had at Covent Garden aLes C ontes d' Hoffmann laying no claims to authenticity (with this opera there is no such thing), but with the conductor, Georges Pn!tre , insisting that everything be sung in the origi­ nal key as given in the Choudens edition. Original key-ay , for the singer, there's the rub ! Notju st "For truly 'authentic' what was it? More to the point for the singer, where was it performance of just about everythingfr om Handel in terms of the pitch prevailing at the time and place of through Gluck to Cherubini composition? Our editors, Zedda and Lopez-Cobos, for ex­ to Beethoven . . . ample, go back to the autographs and find that, let us say, orchestras would have to be Lucia's finalar ia, "Spargi d'amaro pianto," is in F rather than tuned down a semitone." the "traditional" E-flat , or that Don Basilio's "La calunnia" is in D, rather than in the C in which it is usually sung. Well, there those keys are , those tonalities, in black on I do not know what passed between tenor and conductor white in the composer's autograph . Why are not these and thereafter, but I do know that in a subsequent performance other arias now sung in the keys the composers chose for broadcast on Radio 3 he sang it-and to conspicuously better them? Lopez-Cobos has ascribed the downward transposi­ effect-in D flat, as many other tenors have done. tion as far as Lucias are concerned-andthe Mad Scene is not The problem, I venture to suggest, is not one of key, but the only one-to prima donna vainglory and convenience. of pitch. The pitch prevailing in southern Italy was consider­ "In order to cope with the top notes asked for by Donizet­ ably lower than elsewhere. Alexander John Ellis, in his The ti ," he wrote for a recording of his edition, "they have trans­ Historyof Musical Pitch ( 1 880) quotes Carlo Gervasoni' s La posed everything down, making those extra notes and all the scuola della musica (1800): "The pitch is not the same in all extra flourishes easier. . . . I consider it a musical crime to Italian cities. The pitch in Rome is, in fact, much lower change or even destroy the tonal plan of a great masterpiece than that of Lombardy ." The Lombardian pitch at that time, for the sake of being able to sing with greater ease a handful according to Ellis, was A=422 (oscillations per second, or of notes (which are not even in the original)." ops). This was the so-called "classical" pitch common (with Plausible enough, if we are thinking only of Lucia. But variations) in orchestral music throughout Europe until raised what of Edgardo and Enrico, who are not prima donnas , and later in the 19th century to accommodate the requirements who do not, as a rule, favor or exasperate us with "traditional" and predilections of wind players . It is about a semi-tone altitudinous interpolations, embellishments and cadenzas? lower than the A=440 (or a shade higher) that is standard As to the keys assigned to their music in the autograph , our today . editor is less persuasive. Of the Lucia-Enrico duet, a whole According to Ellis's estimates, the Roman pitch ranged tone lower in the "traditional" version than in the autograph , from A=403 .9 down to A=395.2, which would place it he wrote: "Incidentally, the high tessitura of the baritone in another semi-tone below the "classical" Lombardian pitch , the duet when sung in the original key, like his opening and a fu ll note below our own. Thus, Figaro's high Gs in cavatina ('Cruda funesta smania'), reveals a more lyrical "Largo al factotum" were F sharps by contemporary stan­ character than is customary, one that is in keeping with the dards elsewhere , and Fs when measured against our own youth and impetuousness of Enrico Ashton." A=440. Don Basilio's F sharps in "La calunnia" were , in All well and good as interpretive elucidation, but it over­ fact, the Es that are sung by basses in the transposition from looks, or ignores, the fact that in Donzetti's time there was the key of D to the key of C still common today . no such thing as today's high Italian baritone, for whom It is easy, in retrospect, to see what Rossini must have Enrico's music in the original keys poses no problems. The had in mind. For Il barbiere di Siviglia he needed brilliance first Enrico was Domenico Cosselli, described in contempo­ and sparkle. Had he written for his basses with the conven­ rary accounts as "basso cantante" or "the most celebrated tional notational range , their singing would have been low bass in Italy," and who numbered among his roles that of and dull. Here, therefore , he chose higher keys, knowing Assur in Rossini's Semiramide, now always assigned to those that what looked high to his singers would not, in fact, be as we think of as basses rather than baritones. high as it looked. Tenors , in the century and a half separating us from Don­ It seems pertinent to add here that those Gs in "Largo izetti's Naples of 1835, have edged higher, but not that much al factotum" should be followed by As on "presto !" They higher. And so the original key of D for Edgardo's taxing complete the obvious sequential pattern fu lfilled in the or­ final scene caused plenty of trouble for Jose Carreras at the chestra . In the autograph, the singer is given a cadence on Royal Opera premier of the Lopez-Cobos edition in 1981. two identical As an octave lower, Rossini here fo llowing the

EIR November 3, 1989 Music 21 convention adopted by earlier composers of giving singers way with the parts which she required to be transposed." an option in their shaping of such cadences, but never imagin­ Nor do we have to go back so far to findan example of a ing that the (actually unmusical) cadence would be sung as great conductor's comprehension and indulgence of a great written. singer's vocal limitations. In Erich Leinsdorf's profoundly Thus L6pez-Cobos, in imposing original keys on today's thoughtful book, The Composer's Advocate (1981), we find singers, is asking them to sing a semitone to a whole tone the following about no less puritanicaland dictatorial a con­ higher than was required of Gilbert-Louis Duprez, Fanny ductor than Arturo Toscanini: Persiani and Domenico Cosselli in Naples in 1835. Those "Toscanini was also more liberal and pragmatic with downward transpositions of which he complains became transpositions in operathan anyone else in my experience. It "traditional" simply because when Lucia went north of the has not been recorded that in Fidelio performances at the Appennines and the Alps, and was performed at the higher Salzburg Festival he invented' a new modulation. The great pitches prevailing there, the singers found the music too Lotte Lehmann was incomparably moving and well cast as damned high. LeonoralFidelio, but she had difficulties with the high notes The same had happened with II barbiere di Siviglia twen­ of the aria. When the second run in 1936 came along, Tosca­ ty years earlier when it journeyednorth from Rome. Rosina's nini wanted to relieve Lehmann's anxieties, and transposed contralto music was found congenial by sopranos. Almavi­ the entire piece one semitone lower. Everybody felt that va's music caused fewer problems because Manuel Garcia, although this was a most generous act to bring out the best Sr., who created the role was so low-voiced a tenor that he in a great artist, the recitative preceding the adagio portion could and did sing Don Giovanni. The trouble lay with the of the aria had suffered in the transposition.... In the third basses (and in Rossini's autograph Figaro, Dr. Bartolo and year, Toscanini tried to combine the original key of the recita­ Don Basilio are all listed simply as bassi). tive with a transposed aria, aDd 'invented' a new transition Dr. Bartolo's "Un dottor della mia sorte" ioE flatwas too . . . arriving at the semitone lower key of E flat." high, and Pietro Romani's "Manca un folia" was substituted. Nor was Toscanini alone in not wishing to sacrifice a Don Basilio's "La calunnia" was omitted or transposed down great performance on the altar of a semitone. The late Rosa to C. "Largo al factotum" was transposed down a whole tone Ponselle told Harold C. Schonberg, then senior music critic to B flat. Antonio Tamburini even made news of a kind by of the New York Times: singing it in B. There it stayed, in performance at least, until "I had a complex about the high C in '0 patria mia' [in the new category of Verdian high baritone emerged to restore Aida] and then [Tullio] Serafin said: 'Why worry? We can it to its original key and make of Figaro a baritone rather than transpose the ending a semitone down. Everybody does it. a bass. Caruso used to transpose his high Cs down.' " Ponselle From the foregoing it may be seen that transposition for added: "I felt pounds lighter!" the convenience and vocal health of singers was accepted In an obituary notice on Mary Garden the same Harold with far fewer reservations in the' previous century than is the C. Schonberg noted of her recordings of "Depuis Ie jour" case today�r even with none. But singers then had a greater from Charpentier's Louise: "Her most famous recording of say in the making of artistic and technical decisions than is the aria was made in 1926, toward the end of her career. She accorded them now. Consider, for example, this letter, dated had the aria transposed down fromG to F, and thus the climax 15 March, 1859, from Pauline Viardot to Luigi Arditi, who is a high A instead of B. But how easily and beautifully she was to be her conductor in performances of Verdi's Macbeth takes that note, and how elegant is the musical conception, in Dublin: and how purely the voice is projected." "Caro Maestro: Here are the transpositions which I am That transpositionshould have been so common through­ making in the part of Lady Macbeth. The most difficultof all, out most of the 19th century was essentially the result of wide which will necessitate certain changes in the instrumentation , fluctuations and variations of pitch. As noted earlier, during will be that of the cavatina. The recitative in D flat, the the 17th and 18th centuries, as far as orchestras were con­ andante, 'Vieni t'affretta,' in B flat and the allegro, 'Or tutti cerned, and thus including opera, pitch had been reasonably sorgete,' in D flat, consequently, the whole scene must be a stable at A =420, give or take and oscillation or two, in other minor third lower. Not bad ! All the rest of the act may be words, about a semitone below today's A=440. Thus, for given as written. The cabaletta, 'Trionfai ,' is not sung." truly "authentic" performance of just about everything from etc.-along with composed insertions or alterations to Handel through Gluck and Cherubini to Beethoven, Schu­ achieve suitable modulations from one key to another. bert, Weber and Rossini, orchestras would have to be tuned One can imagine the reaction of almost any conductor down a semitone (as is being ever more frequently done now today upon the receipt of such a communication. But Arditi in solo instrumental and chamber music, but is out of the cherished it, and was delighted to reproduce it in his memoirs question-because of the construction of the instruments, as a letter "illustrative of her clear knowledge of notation and not to mention the predilections of their players-for modem composition as well as her lucidity in dealing in a practical symphony orchestras), and that Beethoven, exposed to his

22 Music EIR November 3, 1989 "Eroica" as played today, would be hearing it in E instead of low voice), and that, unless applied uniformly to all voices, E flat. it violates the composer's structural plan in the sequences of But dating from the time when Tsar Alexander, at the keys from number to number and from scene to scene. Congressof Vienna in 1815, made a present of higher pitched All this is valid, especially for those endowed with abso­ instruments to an Austrian regiment,of which he was honor­ lute pitch (the ability, usually native, to identify any note ary colonel, and whose members were also subject toservice sounded at random and, consequently, any key). I would in the courttheaters , the pitch began to rise, largely because suggest, however, that the argument carriesless weight today instrumentalists, the winds especially, preferred the greater than it would have done a century or a century and a half brilliancy. Instruments had to be adapted to the higher ago, if only because the adventurous harmonic procedures pitches. They could be, and were-including the string in­ (and progressions) to which we have grown accustomed in struments. But voices could not be assisted by similar physi­ the music of Wagner and his successors have rendered most cal and mechanical alteration and adjustment. of us less sensitive than our ancestors to modulations and key The singers' only recourse was to adapt their vocal pro­ changes. duction to thehigher pitch (not an easy undertaking, and least There is, in any case, a certain ambivalence in the opera of all with the pitch varying from place to place and from world as to transposition, especially in respect of tenors , who year to year) or transposition to lower keys. There were are frequently allowed downward transposition of Rodolfo' s instances of successful rebellion, most notably by Adelina aria in La Boheme (to accommodate an alternative high C), Patti, Christine Nilsson and the tenor, Sims Reeves, in En­ the "Di quella pira" in II trovatore (toaccommodate unwrit­ gland, where in some orchestras in the 1860s and 1870s the ten high Cs), the "Salut demeure" in Faust (to ease a full­ pitch had risen to a level sensibly higher than today' s A =440. voiced high C for which head voice is more appropriate), Of more enduring effect for England was the insistence by and, as we have noted previously, the final scene of Lucia. Dr. George Cathcart, an ear and throat specialist, that the Even the closing duet of Act I of La Boheme is sometimes pitch of the orchestra be lowered to the so-called French lowered to assist the tenor to an unwritten (and unwanted) diapason (A=435) as a condition for his financial support of final high C, as reflected in the correct answer to the jocular Sir Henry Wood in the founding of the Proms in 1895. question: What opera act begins in C and ends in B? But while A=435 and today's A=44O are an improve­ Baritones are less often moved to transposition, presum­ ment on the extremes of the past, there has never been any ably because, now singing in a range of two octaves from A question of a return to the "classical" pitch of the 17th and to A (roughly that of a tenor in the first decades of the 19th 18th centuries. Thus we still have Konstanzes, Fiordiligis, century and earlier before continuing upward in head voice Leonoras, Queens of the Night, Florestans and Agathes sing­ and falsetto), they are a relatively new breed, more given to ing their fearsome arias and concerted numbers a semitone frailty at the lower than at the upper extremes of the range. higher than was required of the singers for whom they were One transposition generally accorded them, however, is that written, and who brought less weight of voice to their singing of Dappertutto's "Diamond" aria in Les Contes d' Hoffmann against the less numerous and less clamorous orchestras of down a whole tone from the E of the printed score to D. This their time. As any singer will tell you, a semitone can spell is partly because the role is often assigned to a bass-baritone, the difference between vocal pleasure and vocal distress or rather than a baritone, and partly because two cruelly exposed disaster. G sharps in the key of E are no laughing matter even for a An example is afforded by the case of the American high baritone. Yet in the Pretre production at Covent Garden, Minnie Hauk, whose London debut as Amina in La sonnam­ Siegmund Nimsgernwas required to sing it as printed, which hula at Covent Garden in 1868 was a disaster and her second he did, making a near thing of those G sharps . And this performance a triumph, prompting Henry Chorley to write despite the fact that the aria was drawn from an Offenbach in the Athenaeum: ''The chief cause of her greater success operetta,and only inserted in the Giulietta act by Hans Gregor was unquestionably the judicious lowering of her principal in Berlin in 1905 ! airs. On the first night she fairly broke down in the final In the end, it is a question of vocal performance and vocal rondo; on the second, when it was transposed a half a note health against a violation of a composer's choice of keys, lower, this outpouring of recovered joy became the most and I for one, have no hesitation in choosing in favour of thrilling feature of her performance." Chorley went on to the singer, especially in music dating from a time when the attack the abnormally high pitch, probably A=450, or even orchestral pitch was a semitone or more lower than it is higher, at Covent Garden at that time. today. There have been timeswhen , hearing a Donna Anna The case against transposition in opera is that it violates struggling with "Non mi dir" or a Konstanze struggling with the character and color associated with the key of the compos­ "Martern aller Arten" and "Ach, ich liebte," or a Queen of er's choice (there is, curiously and significantly, no similar the Night contending with "Der Holle Rache" that I have objection to transposition in the literature of solo song, with thought of founding an SPCS (Society for the Prevention of most songs published in three keys for high, medium and Cruelty to Singers) !

EIR November 3, 1989 Music 23 TIillFeature

The coming bloodbath in! the Sovietbloc

by Paul AlbertSc herer

West German specialist Gen. Paul Albert Scherer (ret.) offe red a series of prog­ noses and fo recasts about the evolution of the Soviet empire and the Communist world in general, at a press briefing on Oct. 18 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. General Scherer is one of the leading experts in the world on the political and economic affa irs of the Soviet empire. He has had a career as a journalist and as a security consultant, and was, fo r a number of years in the 1970s, the leader of the militaryintelligence and counterintelligence of the Bundeswehr of the Federal Republic of Germany. During that time General Scherer was a personal and security adviser to then-Federal Chancellor of Germany Helmut Schmidt. He was introduced to the audience by Webster Tarpley, who also translated his remarks:

Let us talk first of all about the situation of blindness which we are in in the Western world. There is a tremendous fascination with Gorbachov in the Western world, and this fascination is so great that the scene is dominated by wishful thinking. In the past two years or so, I have begun to make public appearances, and begun to become a public figure, which is someUting that the former chief of an intelligence service does not normally do. It is the case that if you know more, you have an obligation, and if you do not carry it out, you are gUilty. The necessity that we have today is for leadership from the United States as the leading power of the Western world. The situation is going to become more and more tragically difficult in the weeks and months ahead. With that, our responsibility to coming generations increases. When we look at the Eastern bloc, we cannot use the eyes of Western civiliza­ tion. The power situation in the East bloc has changed in a way that is dangerous. We think that you have heard today that [Erich] Honecker was resigned, and that his successor is now Egon Krenz. I don't want to brag, but I made this prediction to a number of congressmen at the Capitol yesterday. I gave a speech here in this

24 Feature EIR November 3, 1989 General Scherer speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. D.C. "/ gave a speech here in this building on Ap ril 29. 1989. At that time. / made a prediction that there would be a raining down of blood in the East bloc. and some people did not want to believe it at that time. Today. / will say that the rain of blood is going to be .. substantially more severe.

building on April 29 , 1989. At that time, I made a prediction My analysis proceeds from the idea that there are four that there would be a raining down of blood in the East bloc, pillars of power in the Soviet system, and that these four and some people did not want to believe it at the time. Today, pillars of power are not all favorable to Gorbachov. First, we I will say that the rain of blood is going to be substantially have the party. The party is publicly criticized by Gorbachov more severe. for incompetence. The party is shaken by these attacks, and People who know something about the Russian winter is also shaken by the loss of power of the party, and by may have some idea of what I am talking about. But before the constant purges that are carried out against the party. we examine the winter situation, let us examine the power Therefore, in the party what we see today are very strong situation in that part of the world. conflictsof loyalty, the kind we saw in the Khrushchov period I will talk about the Gorbachov group. I must note at the when Khrushchov attempted to carry out a reform of the beginning that "Gorbachov" is not an individual, not a one­ party in the period after 1962. Gorbachov is the one who has man rule, but the rule of an elite; the Nomenklatura are agreed begun to talk about sabotage on the part of the party. that they don't want one-man rule. The Gorbachov group is I make the estimate that in this part of the Soviet elite, now running the gauntlet through the valley of exhaustion of the party, in terms of what they are actually thinking among the Soviet empire. The background to this situation is that themselves, two-thirds to three-quarters are actually in an the Soviets are exhausted and their resources are insufficient. anti-Gorbachov position. I think that this changing situation is being judged far too Let us now go to the second pillar, which is the govern­ benignly by many observers in the West. ment apparatus. What I want to point to is not simply the Gorbachov has been brought in; he is the number-one governmentapparatus, but also the engineers and technocrats figure of the Soviet Union, the crown prince of Andropov. who make up the defense industries. The Gorbachov group He was brought in as part of an attempt to overcome this has been forced to change its positions in order to meet the situation of exhaustion. Suslov, now deceased, but who used demands of the military industrialists and this part of the to be the ideology pope of the Soviet bloc, described Gorba­ economic management structure. The government apparatus chov as somebody who was an extremely dynamic bundle of does not support Gorbachov's actions even though he has energy. He is, at the same time, absolutely a man of the succeeded in becoming President and, through various ma­ regime, a man of the system. That is our starting point, nipulations and tricks, at least formally speaking, has accu­ because that is Gorbachov's starting point. mulated powers that are similar to those of Stalin. Gorbachov has now been in power since March 1985 , I will give one example. Recently, for reasons of his own and for the first two years things generally went well for personal security, Gorbachov brought special units of the him-they went well in terms of domestic policy, they went security forces under his own personal command. This action well in terms of foreign policy also. The group of moderniz­ parallels the SS division that was brought under Hitler's per­ ers that came into power with him has changed substantially sonal command. Therefore, Gorbachov knows what kind of in these four years. danger he now finds himself in . The government apparatus

EIR November 3, 1989 Feature 25 is no longer really pulling with him. anything new if I say that Stalin was a criminal. Nor will I Let us now tum to the third pillar, the military apparatus. be telling you anything new if l say that Brezhnev's group The flightout ofAfghanistan that the Soviets were obliged to and his 18 years of rule are now being described as a danger­ undertake has meant a very severe test of the Soviet military ous and bad period. If you take a population and you take establishment. The political administration of the Red Army, away their belief in the system in this way, if you tell them the people who are the dictators of education for the troops, their history has all been worthless, then what will their have come into danger, and cannot operate the way they want. response be? They are going to be extremely depressed. There are certain conditions of disarmament that the General Then we have the impact of fue Afghan situation. This is Staff does not want to accept. The military apparatus for these a verysignificant part of the experienceof the Soviet masses. reasons is now rather strongly divided, and no longer enjoys There were a lot of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Large a strong representation in the Politburo and other top organs. numbers have come back as cripples, as paraplegics, and Let us now tum to the fourth pillar, the internal security they tell stories of how bad the situation of the Soviet forces apparatus. The internal security apparatus would have spe­ in Afghanistan has been. cial difficulties if the question of the abolition of the police Then we have the fact that the Soviet leadership has lost state were to arise. There is now growing concern in the five its information monopoly, whiCh, in a closed society like key areas of the international security apparatus-the KGB, theirs, is a small revolution in itself. In the Ukraine, you had the GRU, the police, the militia, and specialdivisi ons of the the Chernobyl incident, and a lot of the inside information Interior Ministry. But I would say that the security apparatus about what actually happened there has begun to spread is absolutely behind Gorbachov; they support him and they among the Soviet population. Things have gone so far that a support his policies. But the concern among these organs is lot of the jamming apparatus for foreign radio transmissions, growing about the disintegration, the paralysis, the psycho­ which had been turned off, is now in action again. logical situation among the masses. In addition to all of this, we have had the rail strikes in the Glasnost is today a razor that is being held at the throat summer, we have had the strikesof miners in the DonetsBasin, of the entire Soviet regime. The purpose of glasnost was to in Siberia,in Kazakhstan, and this has broughtthe morale level activate the masses and bring them into the fieldof political of the Soviet population to zero. If we take into account that activity as a weapon against the Nomenklatura. Gorbachov was obliged to send a telegram of congratulations So, the one group that is actively supporting Gorbachov to his Hungarian comrades, on the fact that they had liquidated in his policies is the intelligentsia. But the intelligentsia their own Communist Party, then we have an idea of the pro­ simply does not have the same kind of significance that the found shocks to which this apparatus has been exposed. internal security apparatus, or the Nomenklatura and other To summarize, for man as a strategic factor: This is a forces in Soviet society have. sinking ship. Everybody who thinks about this would like to get offthat ship if they can. The masses We are dealing not only with Great Russians here, we The Soviet masses are under the very negative impact of are dealing with 130 nationalities with their corresponding a food supply situation which is already worse than it was in languages, and their various ethnic conditions. We have to 1953. You have to remember that in quite a number of factor­ conclude that this entire construct is now entering into a ies that were deemed insufficient, the wages were cut by period of a lethal social-psychological disease. It is a termi­ 25%. Russians notoriously have a sweet tooth, they like ice nal, mortal disease that has grasped the entire organism, the cream even in the winter time. But now sugar is being ra­ nationalities who are able wish that they had left the Soviet tioned and is very hard to come by. The same goes for soap Union yesterday, rather than tomorrow. and other basic commodities. The other image I might use, without exaggeration, is Now you also have a price explosion. One of the results that this can be compared to the plague in the Middle Ages. of that is that about 60% of pensioners are below the poverty And of course, as soon as the plague appeared, everybody line. There is a tremendous loss of trust and confidence in wanted to get out of the cities where itappeared . the party, and that has been brought about by the Gorbachov Lenin said that this Russian empire was the prison house group itself. And that loss of confidenceis now compounded of peoples. This state, this entire political construction, is by the food crisis. today an obsolete creation of a colonial type. This construc­ What you hear very commonly from the Soviet man on tion, this empire, has been held togetherby the ideology on the street is something like the following: Gorbachov talks the one hand, a kind of secular religion, and on the other and talks and talks, the party is absolutely no good, and we hand, of course, by the police state apparatus. are going to hell. In addition to this loss of confidence in the leadership, Time as a strategic factor you also have a loss of belief in the system, which is a Now that I have discussed man as a strategic factor, let central factor for future developments. I won't be telling you me speak of time as a strategic factor.

26 Feature EIR November 3, 1989 We can clearly sketch the importance of the strategic to tryto do that he would be ousted immediately. factor of time, using the signals that the Gorbachov group So, we have to assume that war is going to be waged itself has sent us. We have Gorbachov's attempt to get the on two levels. I don't like the term Cold War, the term is Supreme Soviet to approve a comprehensive ban on strikes disinformation in itself. Speaking soberly, we are living in for 18 months, and that request was not honored by the the Third World War. It has reached a certain kind of truth Supreme Soviet, but rather, all he got was a partialstrike ban position in places like Afghanistan. The Third World War over a shorter period. What this very negative signal for actually began in 1948 with the blockade of Berlin. That was Gorbachov signifies is that he is not going to make it through a time when the United States enjoyed a nuclear monopoly to February 1991 unless he can prevent all strikes in such key over the entire world for about four years . The Americans at areas as railroads, mines, and so on. that time would have been in a position to oblige and force The second signal came from Shevardnadze when he the Soviets to conduct free elections in Eastern Europe. It is visited the United States on his way to Wyoming. He asked, an honor to the United States that you did not attempt to use demanded, wished, requested for Gorbachov, a summit with that to obtain worldwide domination. But at the same time President Bush before Christmas of this year. the United States exhibits a naivete that is horrifying, the There are other speeches by Gorbachov saying that he kind of naivete that we saw when Carter kissed Brezhnev, needs another two years in order get his operation together. and this naivete has not gone away, it is still with us. So, we can now rule out any idea that time is working for Let me quote a 1983 statement of Yuri Andropov , head of Gorbachov. There is no way that perestroikacould reachany the KGB for 18 years. He was the person who directed the sort of success before the year 2010. That is the professional final solution in Budapest in 1956, when he was Soviet am­ estimate of German bankers who have made inspectiontours bassador to Hungary. "We are ready to respect the interests of of the Soviet Union. There are some of them who say there the United States, if the United States is ready to do the same will be no success ofperestroika in the industrial areauntil the thing for we Soviets in Eurasia. " Think about this, and look at year 2020. You may know that there are now management the situation today , and you get the idea that what U. S. policy courses being given in Germany for Soviet planners and man­ is doing is corresponding to this proposal by Andropov. agers. There are , therefore , global understandings of the super­ powers. And these are not desirable. One example is the The Russian winter Strategic Defense Initiative. Another is the Strategic Arms Let us now turn to this coming Russian winter. The food Reduction Talks (START) negotiations. A third example is supply, the situation of heating, the standard of living-all the likely withdrawal of U . S. troops from the Federal Repub­ of that is going to deteriorate even further. We have reached lic of Germany. a point very similar to another period of Russian history, If we look at the European situation, we see that Poland 1904-05 . It is also similar to 1917, during the Kerensky and Hungary say "yes" to the perspective of their integration regime. Japan had been awakened fromits own Middle Ages into the West. The French, British, Italians, and others are in the 189Os, with aid of the United States, and resurgent somewhat disappointed by the course of events, and are Japan had obtained its military victory in the Russo-Japanese relatively careful . I must confess that I was ashamed of war of 1904-05 , and that external military defeat led to a Germany, that there was so much "Gorbymania" during revolution throughout the entire Russian Czarist empire. The Gorbachov's visit, which was a very inappropriate thing for Trans-Siberian Railroad had been completed in 1896. What the Germans to do. But now , that psychological situation happened in 1917 was that there was a series of very large has been thoroughly changed by new events. strikes on the Trans-Siberian Railroad which essentially cut Right now, we have to face the strategic demands of the off Siberiafrom the rest of Russia. Soviets. The Soviets want the denuclearization of Europe . I am of the opinion that, without exaggeration, a similar The Soviets want the halving of strategic armament, and they situation of strikes and paralysis is going to hit the Russian want conventional disarmament. The Russians try to present rail network before Christmas of this year. themselves as the inventors of peace, and they try to paint In the spring of next year, 1990, will come the final NATO as the opponent of peace. You know for yourselves decision whether the currentelite , the Gorbachov group, will that the Soviets are world champions of deception, of manipu­ be able to stay in power or not. The West naturally wants the lation, and of disinformation, especially through the use of success of Gorbachov. That is understandable if we assume agents of influence. I, as former head of a counterespionage that the possible successors are going to be much more brutal service, have concluded that the underground war waged by than he is. If you read the newspapers, you would assume the Soviets is still being waged in every way. that Gorbachov is a very serious person, that he and his group Above ground, in the visible area, we see disinformation. have attempted to implement a very serious policy. But if Underground, there is a war of intelligence agents. At the you are in the Soviet Union and you want to save the system, same time, there is use of liberation forces and the export of you can't just be serious in your policy. If Gorbachov were revolution. Some of the deception operations, for example,

EIR November 3, 1989 Feature 27 strikes. Manipulated strikes. Strikesblending into nation­ alist protests. And, even personal strikes, so to speak, in Sovietwor kers the form of surging absenteeism in industry. trik ban Winter strikes defys e The gravest strike threat looms in the transport and en­ ergy sectors. As the strike ban was debated in the Supreme Three weeks after his Oct. 2 demand for a nationwide Soviet, Pravda came out on Oct. 4 with an assessment of ban on labor strikes was transformed by the Supreme the impact of rail and coal strikes to date. Goods shipments, Soviet into a ban on strikes in vital industries Gust about it said, have been "stuck at border railway stations in Mol­ everything except for the faltering consumer goods sec­ davia, seaports in the Baltic, and so forth . The former and tor), Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov took to Izvestia's the latter have been paralyzed by strikes. The rail minister letters-to-the-editor page, to plead with workers not to reportedthe following overall figure: Because of the disor­ strike any more. His request had little effect on the ever ders, there are 100,000 freight cars 'not working,' that is, more desperate Soviet labor force. standing idle, in the country each day." On Oct. 25, it becameknown that coal miners in all the Deputy Prime Minister Lev Voronin spelled out the 12 coal mines of Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, had impact of the strikes, the ethnic clashes in the Transcauca­ walked off the job at midnight on Oct. 23-24. In defiance sus, and the non-labor-related transportation snarls, as a of the strike ban, the Vorkuta strike committee put forward shortfall of goods delivered that was 50% higher in the pay and benefitdeman ds, but also political ones: elimina­ third quarter than in the first half-year of 1989. In July tion of Article 6 of the U.S.S.R. Constitution, which de­ and August alone, 4 billion rubles worth of consumer finesthe Communist Party of the Soviet Union as the "lead­ goods and 1 billion rubles worth of food were not deliv­ ing force" in society; direct elections to the post of Presi­ ered. In September, 300,000 tons of produce were not dent; direct elections for all People's Deputies; and official shipped. "Two million tons of imported freight including recognition of miners' strike committees as trade unions. grain, sugar, and light industry goods, cannot be moved Oct. 23 also saw a two-hour warning strike by miners from seaports ....The time that ships spend standing in the Kuzbass coalfields, Siberia, which the Soviet news idle has to be paid for in convertible currency. The cause agency TASS said was motivated by "the non-fulfillment of the problems is the shortage of freightcars." of a series of points agreed with the governmentcommis­ As for fuel and raw materials, Pravda said, the coal sion after the July strike." In the Kuzbass, the miners shortfall for September alone was 3 million tons, includ­ were joined by other local workers , including from the ing 600,000 tons of coking coah Metallurgical plants are sector which most threatensto bring the Soviet economy threatened with "standstill," since they only had three to a full halt-the railroad employees. days' coking coal stocks on hand. "Fuel reserves at ther­ Nor was that all. In fact, the Soviet Union is beset by mal power stations have been drained to the minimum every sortof strike. Coal strikes. Port strikes. Threatened and coal stocks for the population's needs are only one­ cement strikes. Theatened subway strikes. Warning half of last year's figure. Let us repeatthe point: the frosts

are used to cover up massive Soviet arms exports which are are now leaving Namibia or Angola. It is important that still taking place. That is a demand of the Soviet military pro­ Mengistu in Ethiopia is no longer being fully supported. duction sector, their military engineers and managers, who But in Afghanistan, very little has changed. The Paki­ demand that high levels of military exports be maintained. stanis are being neutralized. The Iranian governmentis play­ With the oil prices on the world market continuing to ing the Russian card insofar as Afghanistan is concerned. fall, the Soviets are in no position to renounce arms exports. The arms deliveries to Nicaragua are being continued. And They bring in approximately 1 billion rubles per day. The the liberation movements in Latin America are never without same goes for Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia can in no Soviet help. way allow itself to go onto a soft line. Czechoslovakia Now, I would like to give you an estimate of the entire produces a very signficant part of this arms export. course of events. In 1920, the United States abandoned Euro­ There are some developments that look good. These are pean politics with a great deal of disillusionment because they fa�ades. It looks like certain military positions in Vietnam believed that the Versailles Treaty was going to bring another are being given up. It looks like things are being done to world war. Over the last 81 years, we have had a tremendous Cuba. It is an advantage for the West that 55,000 Cubans development of civil wars, a kind of worldwide civil war. It is

28 Feature EIR November 3, 1989 are approaching and they will spare no one-neither strik­ the next fewdays ." ers, nor those intending to strike, nor those who work At issue was a reduction of the the cement allocation conscientiously. " to the centralized construction industry by 153,000 tons, The Russian Republic's daily Sovetskaya Rossiya report­ so that that amount could be sold "through the trade net­ ed Sept. 29 from a meetingof the Supreme Soviet's Trans­ work" to the population-e.g., construction coopera­ portation, Communications and Information Technology tives. Trud, which deliberately publicized the strike threat Commission, that "the complex of questions connected and thereby built up the sense of an emergency, said that with the long-term development of transportation ...is the union committee session was "stormy, with passions perhaps causingthe greatest anxiety" in the country. From boiling as they did in the mining towns" last summer. January to August, the commission was told, the shortfall If the threat relayed by Trud seemed to introduce the in freight shipments, due to work stoppages alone, was element of official (or factional) provocation into the strike 40 million tons of goods. picture, the news from Ukraine showed the potential for Other types of transportation were threatened, the article strikes to break out of all controls and merge with national­ said. In Moscow, "like a bolt from the blue," a strike ist resistance movements in the captive nations. On Oct. 3, committee was formed of Moscow Subway workers, who Agence France Presse said that miners from 21 pits in the are discussing a package of demands, including "to al­ Lvov-Volinsk coalfield, in westernUkra ine, stopped work most double the drivers' pay, that is, to raise it to R900 for two hours to protest failure to honor strike agreement a month." It was argued that this would close the gap commitments by the authorities last summer. This news with the pay of regular railway workers. V. Tetenov , came fromUkrainian Helsinki Watch sources, at the mo­ chairman of the parliamentary commission, called this ment of the Supreme Soviet debate on the strikeban , and yet "another example of group selfishness. Every conflict just after a huge Ukrainian demonstration in Lvov. The like this, if it is expressed in a strike, is a heavy blow to same day, workers at "a number of firms" in Lvov also the whole country's economy." struck for two hours, to protest the brutality used against that Oct. 1 demonstration. The stoppage was called by a More threats strike committee, founded in Lvov on Monday, Oct. 2. The threatof a nationwide construction strike was part Just after the strike ban, Pravda's Oct. 5 front page of the lead-up to the Supreme Soviet's ban on strikes. The editorial called for "discipline" and "dictatorship of con­ official trade union daily, Trud, reported Sept. 21 on a science," in order to meet market requirements for all "warningof a possible mass strike by the [energy] sector's sorts of goods. In the process of describing how bad the construction industry workers , caused by the cement crisis has become, Pravda revealed that worker absentee­ shortfall." The threat came in a telegram from an ad hoc ism is idling trains, machines, and entire shops and plants. committee of the construction workers' (official) trade In the first six months of the year, 12,465 ,000 man-days union, to state planning and supply officials. It said that were lost due to absenteeism (compared with 2,000 ,000 "150,000construction industry workers within the Minis­ man-days lost from strikes in that period), reflecting the tryof Nuclear Power Generation and theNuclear Industry widespread disgust among Soviet workers. Every day,

system will find themselves unemployed and unpaid in 95 ,000 people fail to show up at work. -Rachel Douglas

now 45 years ago that the friendshipwith Uncle Joe was bro­ operation as the Normandy invasion. The two military tech­ ken. But all of the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam have nical revolutions that have taken place since 1945 , rule that remained, without any attention to the fact that there havebeen out absolutely. no free elections in Eastern Europe. The key to the door of the future lies in Europe. Why? I stressthat the opposite coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the Look at it the way the Russians do for a moment. They have European coast, must be maintained for the free world. the idea of the "common European house," an invention of Why? This is where we have to look at the third factor in Brezhnev. What that means in strategic terms is 500 million strategic estimates, the overall strategic potential. producers. That is the biggest market in world history, the The old Roman Empire could only exist so long as it Russians want to get into it. If the Soviets were able to domi­ held the entire Mediterranean basin, and held the opposite nate that market, by getting the U.S. out under the slogan coast, the Africancoa st, under its control. Western civiliza­ "Yankee go home," then the lights would go out here in the tion can only remain alive as long as the Atlantic can function United States and everywhere else on the Atlantic also. as a kind of internal sea of Westerncivil ization. There never I have been talking about three strategic factors: man; the will be, in all of history, a repeat of such a large amphibious development of strategic potentials, and the time factor. All

EIR November 3, 1989 Feature 29 of these factors are working against the Soviets, provided that about more than 50 million Ukrainians. You are talking about the United States be not so blind as to pull its troops out of a total of 30 million people in the Transcaucasus. You are Europe. What is essential is that through the summer of 1990, talking about 55 million people in the Muslim southern belt. the United States armed forces remain in Central Europe, with And you are talking about the large masses of people in the their full complement, and their full nuclear protection, and core of the empire, in Russia itself. that has got to be done even though the financial situation The situation is going to be about the conflicts of these inside the United States creates serious difficulties. forces, and the attempts of many of them to get away. I would I set that as a strategic timeframe for a number of reasons. like to be wrong on this, because this kind of thing brings In the present strategic situation, Poland is not going to with it war consequences. survive. That is tremendously deplorable. The West Slavic This is not to exaggerate. Here are some of the scenarios population of the Poles has grown up as an integral part of which are possible after what I have just described, after Europe. The fact that no abortive revolution has taken place Gorbachov. After Gorbachov can come, as a first possibili­ so far, is obviously to the credit of the Roman Catholic ty, a radical Communist, Beijing solution. That means a Polish Pope. The Russians, building on their experience brutal crackdown designed to destroy what the Russians after 1980, have decided to bring in Solidamosc, and oblige would call a counterrevolution. That applies to Poland, it them to take a part of the responsibility for what is going applies to Hungary, to East Germany, and it applies to the on, and as a result of taking that responsibility, Solidamosc Soviet Union itself. Because in the broad spaces of the em­ will be wiped out. pire, there is no way of avoiding it. If the Poles, as unfortunately seems likely, go into a state A second scenario: fundamentalist Communists, with of collapse with extreme turbulence, this will mean that the a flight forward strategy against the outside world. It is logistical lines of supply for the 20 divisions that the Soviets possible that a part of the military forces, in particular a maintain in East Germany, will come under extreme danger part of the land army, won't go along with this. It of interruption. could be the case that a psychological paralysis, after the It is possible, and I hope that this is not going to operations in Afghanistan, and after repeated interventions happen. In East Germany, you now have Krenz in power, against the Soviet population, will become stronger. But and he is nothing but a fundamentalist Communist. It is a surprise attack against Western Europe remains a possi­ quite possible that the insurrections could appear this bility, especially through air attack. That would be with spring, and East Germany could go into a state of all-out spetsnaz troops, and second, nuclear blackmail against the civil war. I live in the area of Saarbrucken. Egon Krenz United States. made a visit there, and stated on German television, we A third scenario: tougher reformers than Gorbachov. of the East German leadership would immediately carry They would be stressing Great Russian nationalism with out the Beijing solution, if counterrevolution were to rear open fascist overtones. These Great Russian fascists would its head in our country. attempt to get rid of Gorbachov with a putsch. They might Look at the last five to six weeks in the German Demo­ open the door to a Finlandization of Poland, Hungary, cratic Republic. About 100,000 people have fled the coun­ and other areas of Eastern Europe. They might make an try, in the full light of world pUblicity. This has had the offer of some kind of peaceful coexistence, with a market effectof a thunderbolt striking the Kremlin. First, there were of 500 million consumers open to the West Europeans. 7,000 demonstrators in the streets . The week after that, They may attempt to raise the fascination of the common it's 10,000 in the streets . By this week it is over 100,000 European house. They would attempt to neutralize Germa­ demonstrating. I can only hope that this threat by Krenz will ny because of the great psychological danger, and would not be carried out. But the loss of power by the regime is be able perhaps 20 years after that to actually attain world quite evident in East Germany, as in Poland. It's anarchistic. domination. There certainly are other scenarios. But I will stick to Looking ahead to 1990 these essential ones. I will make a forecast. If Gorbachov and his group are Let me summarize briefly. The first group would be able to survive into the summer of 1990, they will then be radical orthodox Communists, who want to stamp out the ousted in one way or another. One possible way is assassina­ sparks of counterrevolution that are now burning in so many tion. There could be a conspiracy followed by a coup d'etat. places. That will necessarily lead to insurrections, to general It could come also through insurrection, through a mass up­ strikes, and similar phenomena. That would lead to a decom­ heaval, with paralysis in the transport area, and also the position of the empire, starting in the peripheral areas. nationalities. If you know the mentality of the Great Rus­ Second scenario, the fundamentalist Communists with sians, and also the Byelorussians and the Ukrainians, you flight forward aggression to the outside . This means the know that a civil war under these conditions would be ex­ Fourth World War, if you accept my proposition that the traordinarily bloody. Look at the figures. You are talking Third World War actually began in 1948, and went under-

30 Feature EIR November 3, 1989 ground into proxy wars and similar things after the Korean conflict. The truce in that war has been in place since about 1982, since the end of the Brezhnev era. This second scenario is the one most dangerous for us, especially dangerous if the American political leadership should be so naive as to refuse to see this danger. If the American politicians are that naive, then it is possible that this rotten empire, economically rotten and psychologically rotten, could still prevail. A with The third scenario is also extremely dangerous, because dialogue it seems to offer a softer line. The American strategy and American positions really play very little role in this third GeneralScherer scenario, because the necessary precondition for . the third scenario is that U.S. troops will have already left Western On Oct. 19 at a luncheon in Washington sponsored by EIR, Europe. Gen. Paul Albert Scherer responded to questions from mem­ You have still this idea of a balance of power, which the bers of the U.S. military and intelligence community, both British have practiced in the past. You have a certain French active and retired. nervousness about a united Germany with 85 million people, and that brings this kind of thing back into play. And nobody Q: Is there any chance that things will get so bad, and maybe can deny that a market with 500 million consumers does Gorbachov if he is tough enough, if not as tough as Stalin, exercise a certain fascination. or somebody else, will say, "Let's let the United States have I am convinced that Gorbachov will fall, he will trip, he it, and launch their atomic weapons"? will stumble, in the same way that I predicted that Honecker Scherer: They wouldn't undertake a total thermonuclear as­ would be out. I would add to that the prediction that Poland, sault, because they are not suicidal, in my opinion. The for economic reasons, even with Western aid, simply will Soviet tactics in the START negotiations, the attempt to cut not make it. strategic weapons in half, indicates that the Russians would We have ahead of us an extremely dangerous course of not attempt a thermonuclear first strike in the classical, full events. It is thereforeobliga tory that we proceed with our eyes panoply. If there were to be a nuclear attack on the United open and our judgment sober. Gorbachov came to East Berlin States, it would probably come in the form of the destruction for the celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the G . D. R. , of a single, large city. They would probably expect that, in and he made a very interesting comment: If you come too retaliation for that, one large Russian city would be de­ late, you pay with your life. What he meant was to apply to stroyed. And I would say that the United States is not strong Honecker. But it applies to Gorbachov as well. IfGorbachov enough to wage a world war. Whether the Russians are strong comes too late, and he does, he comes twenty years too late, enough is unclear. I would have to assume that they are . then Gorbachov will pay with his life. The Gorbachov group and Gorbachov himself are totally Q: Returning to the concept of the idea of civil war, the overestimated. It is a consequence of wishful thinking in the fundamental problem of the Soviet Union today is economic. West, and of Western complete inability to understand the If the country falls into civil war, then how is the economic categories of thought and action that exist in the East. problem going to be solved? All of the strategic factors I have indicated speak elo­ Scherer: There is no solution to the Soviet economic prob­ quently against the continued survival of Gorbachov in 1990. lem. It won't be solved. You have to assume that, firstof all , I feel that if we wish to save Western civilization in this in this coming winter, several hundred thousand people, if crisis, it is necessary to examine these conditions I have not millions, are going to die of hunger. Whatever the West referred to, and the basic facts are known to think tanks in tries to deliver, and the West is talking about delivering wheat the West. and freeing Jews, it won't work. It is a totally anti-human We must be tough about drawing the consequences from situation of the Russians. But there is no solution but civil these facts. war, it is anarchy. One force against another. It will be like I will conclude with a quote from T.S. Eliot, from Mur­ China, when warlords took over. der in the Cathedral. "Man stumbles from unreality to unre­ ality, because he refuses to see." Q: But then, how does the Soviet Union stay a world power? It is part of our own human evolution that we must fight Scherer: Modem nuclear missile war, which can be waged to be able to see. If we don't want to be the victims of Soviet just by pushing buttons, is always possible. seers' disinformation, we have got to keep our positions the way they are until the summer of 1990. Q: But they aren't suicidal.

EIR November 3, 1989 Feature 31 Scherer: Yes, not total war. Look at it this way. We have will go up to 85 million. That is also something that [French to distinguish between a warning shot, a warning attack, President] Mitterrand is not e)\:actly happy about. wiping out one city, or one province, and an all-out total Western politicians have inot understood that Germans nuclear attack. The Soviet strategic rocket forces-assume today are not the Germans of 1945. The politicians have it they are getting their orders out of Moscow, that Moscow is wrong. Most politicians were thunderstruck when this tre­ waging civil war-they can't conceive of waging a total war, mendous exodus out of East Germany began. I predicted it, and there you are right. They are too weak for that. But for some years in advance, but nobody believed it, even when a nuclear warning shot, a way of saying, "You've got to they saw it happening. You now have 62 million Germans give us aid immediately. Stop trying to play first violin, you in the free, western part. They have so changed in their people in the U. S. And after that, we Soviets will be satisfied outlook that they are now absolute defenders of democracy, with Europe ." And I will give you three guesses if the U.S. maybe even too much. Look at this Green movement. They would fightunder those circumstances. are crazy. But they get elected. The result is that Germans Please understand, I am not an enemy of the United are totally capable of integration into free Europe. States. We are all in one boat. We have a high Western Looking at history, it will not be possible for a new civilization, which now faces this horrible challenge. The Napoleon to occupy Europe, or a Stalin. There won't be Russians are going to try to exploit every little opportunity . another Hitler. You are not going to have Charles XII of They are not crazy. They are not like Hitler. They are very Sweden conquering Europe. These great lords and domina­ deliberate in their planning process. They are highly suspi­ tors, conquering Europe, that time is gone. If yOJl have 80 cious, paranoid, afraid. This is a strategy that we might im­ million speaking German and 40 million speaking English, pute to them. Extremely terrifying threats, to soften the West, or whatever it is, they will have to learn to speak the same and the soft West then says, "Okay, let's have peace." language one way or another. The middle nations, the You can't conquer the whole world from Moscow. What Swedes, the Norwegians, the Swiss, the Belgians-they all you then get is an unbelievably anarchic course of events in know that already. In EasternEurope , up until 1945 , German the entire world for at least a decade. That could happen. was the language of trade, and in Russia, everywhere. I And what we don't have is, in the West, governments that visited Poland and Finland when I was young, and everybody are tough enough to face that. knew German. And a lot of them studied in Germany. So if you want to get away from this crazy nationalism in Central Q: What about conventional war? Europe, then we have no problem. The Germans are ready Scherer: That is excluded. Remember that in Poland, they to fitin. have to transfer their railway cars from the wide Russian But in Eastern Europe, the, direction is exactly the oppo­ gauge to the narrow European gauge. Right now, you have site. There they have got to makeup for things that they have 20 Soviet divisions in East Germany, and that has become a been denied by history . For a thousand years , they have had very dangerous fort for them to occupy. And even an attack, a different kind of development. They have got to go through from a standing start in East Germany, as long as we have a this period of nationalism. U.S. Army with nuclear weapons facing them on the other That is why we have to expectcivil war and insurrections side, that would lead to a general war. in the Soviet Empire. You've got to remember that you are The Russians now assume that the U.S. withdrawals will dealing with the biggest colonial empire in today's world. begin by springtime at the latest, because ofthe U. S. financial And even Lenin, back in 1905, said this is the prison house situation. Any weakening of that United States troop contin­ of nations. Today that is evelll more true that it was then. gent would mean that the U.S. would be out of Europe for Look at Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan. I could talk for an good , with no hope of coming back. hour just about these different nationalities. These nationali­ ties are now rising up, because they are determined to live Q: Does Margaret Thatcher's government have any idea of their own lives for a change. And when you have a sinking these things? ship, the rats always leave it. Always. Scherer: No. No. The British government has gone onto I must say something very tough . President Carter kissed a totally pro-Gorbachov line. Why? The British are now Brezhnev, in the middle of this maniac development of the obsessed with a fear of a failure of their balance of power Russian fleet, 200 billion rubles for ship construction only. strategy in Central Europe . I am not against the British, I Carter was kissing Brezhnev, and the Soviet rocket troops have many British friends. But British policy is quite anti­ were being given new interoontinental missiles. You in quated. They always think about strategic magnitudes. There America had the nuclear monopoly for four years . And you will be 85 million Germans. And the British look at that and took your best generals and sent them home. Your best gener­ think, "That's too many !" There will be at least 4 million al was sent home because he wanted to use a nuclear bomb Germans who will come out of the Soviet Union in the course on the Yalu. I could catalogue American errors for an hour. ofthe civil war. So, the German population in Central Europe I remain the friend of the United States, but among friends,

32 Feature EIR November 3, 1989 we have to say what went wrong. I can only hope that the their domestic problems. But I disagree that conventional war leadership is more clever now. . . . is not possible. It is possible. Never in history was surprise so important. In no other war were you able to knock out the Q: A few minutes ago, you said that prospects for the imme­ enemy in a matter of hours . It used to be weeks or months at diate period are , Russia engulfed in a civil war, or you used best. Now , it is almost a matter of hours . Therefore , when the concept of a Fourth World War. Can you elaborate? the Soviets say something, they mean to deceive, just to Scherer: I mean what I said. This would be the attempt create the element of surprise. And when we believe what of a post-Gorbachov leadership to get control of Western they say, you are ready to be hit between the eyes. I think resources, to build this common European house, with Ger­ they will have war outside to avoid civil war. many neutralized, and the Eastern Europeans Finlandized, Scherer: I would like to attempt to prove that civil war can Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and so forth, they begin in the Soviet Union at any time. would be Finlandized. But the Russian leadership being what Back in 1904-05 , at the time of the Russo-J apanese War, it is, there would be an insurrection in Poland. there was this revolution. The Trans-Siberian Railroad had The Fourth World War wouldn't last too long. With mod­ been completed between 1896 and 1899. That rail line was em weapons, you can change the entire situation within less occupied by strikers . The provision of the Russian troops in than 30 days. The Fourth World War would not be six years, the Far East was cut off. In the western part of the empire, or like the Third World War, which in my view went from certain military units joined with the insurrection. But it was­ 1948 to about 1985. This would be a short war, but with very n't strong enough, and therefore , the 1905 Revolution was a long turbulences associated with it. With anarchy, you don't failure . Another example, 1917. Here what you have again have any normal government. is a collapse through transportation strikes. You can see that I spoke at my press conference yesterday about three Gorbachov knows about these things, because that is his post-Gorbachov scenarios. You could have fundamentalist demand, that there be a strike ban for railroads and coal Communists, who would nevertheless be able to offer the mines. If you have partial insurrection, it is guaranteed to West a new government that would look reformist to some lead to a general strike of coal miners and railroad workers . degree, which would be an attempt to gain time. They would Secondly, when you get, which you routinely have now, attempt to master the civil war situation. I would say, it won't demonstrations of 100,000and more, then the KGB and all of work. its auxiliaries are not going to be able to stop the insurrection. The second possibility, you have the Great Russians, the When you get that, all of these component republics, in the racists, they would try to keep Russia, including Siberia. Transcaucasus, all of the peripheral states around the empire They expect a Japanese attack on Sakhalin, and that the are going to rise up at the same time. And then, as happens Japanese would attempt to seize Siberian resources. This in civil wars , individual military units are going to choose group , the racist group, would be ready to wage a Fourth one side or the other. World War if necessary . Remember that the Poles got all the way to Kiev in 1920, The other group is a radical fundamentalist Communist so weak was the Red Army at that time. There was a White group. They would be talking about this 500milli on-person Army . Trotsky was able to wipe it out only because they market. And they would say to the United States, "Either weren't united among themselves. There were lots of ethnic you go along with us, help us, or you get out of Europe, get groups that joined in with the invading troops. your nuclear weapons out above all." What that would lead So, to sum up, the revolutionary development starts with to is a period of perhaps 20 or 30 years, but ending with a large ethnic insurrections, together with a general strike. You war between the Russians on the one side , and the U.S., are going to have the defection of certain military units, and Canada, Latin America on the other. they are going to join together with bloodied sections of the You may notice that I do not have any scenarios that population, people who have been shot down during the don' t include war. I would say that there is a great deal of insurrection. Even today, without large military defections, evil in man. Lenin was stupid, in the sense that he thought you have a constant process of shooting at population groups he could impose a dictatorship through education, and con­ and even at other military groups. trolling the way people acted. It failed, and there will be more So, I would say that, by spring, you are going to have, wars. But it doesn't have to be above the nuclear threshold. It first of all, insurrections, you are going to have hunger riots, can also be below. We have at least 38 countries with ballistic general strikes, you are going to have the military coming in missiles of some kind. More than 10 countries have nuclear and shooting people down with a hard line . Then, some of weapons, and there will be more tomorrow . And that looks them are going to desert, some to the people, joining on like the way world history is going at the moment. that side of the barricades-and with that, you have the full development of civil war. Only the core area around Moscow Q: I disagree that civil war will occur inside the Soviet can be held. Union. I agree that outside war is a possibility, just to settle But I don't have to be right, I would like to be wrong.

ElK November 3, 1989 Feature 33 �TIrnInternational

Soviet 'Mr. Green' named new editor of Pravda

by Mark Burdman

When the Soviet Politburo decided Oct. 19 that Viktor Afa­ Problems of Mankind. nasyev, the editor of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper His Oct. 19promotion occurredin the midst of an unprec­ Pravda, was to be sacked from his job, Sovietologists of edented density of East-West conferences and initiatives on various stripes reported this as a blow by Mikhail Gorbachov "environmental protection," "ecology," and the like. Could against Soviet "conservatives." In reality, much more impor­ it be mere coincidence, that his appointment was announced tant than Afanasyev's dismissal, was that he was replaced by just as U. S. AttorneyGeneral Richard Thornburghwas wind­ Gorbachov's special adviser Ivan Frolov. Frolov is the most ing up his Oct. 14-19 trip to the Soviet Union, and concluding renowned proponent in the Soviet policymaking structure of an agreement with his Soviet counterparts, for the U. S. and what could be called "global ecological fascism," or "eco­ Soviet Union to set up ajoint working group on "environmen­ fascism" for short. Were the West ruled by sanity, the alarm tal protection"? bells would have been going offin every Western capital at Thornburgh's initiative is in line with U.S. Secretaryof the announcement of Frolov's appointment. State James Baker Ill's oft-sta�d commitment to negotiate Frolov has for years been the U.S.S.R. 's primary liaison the so-called "Fifth Basket" of "global issues" with the Soviet to the international green ecology movement. He is a senior Union. The U.S. State Department, Justice Department,and member of the malthusian Club of Rome International, and other agencies are tryingto do whatever they can to respond has been a chief figure in the U.S.S.R. 's Global Systems positively to Gorbachov's much-publicized December 1988 Analysis apparatus. The coordinator of Global Systems speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in Analysis in the U. S.S.R., Dr. Dzhermen Gvishiani, was co­ which the Soviet leader called · for a new world ecological founder of the Laxenburg, Austria-based International Insti­ order based on rejection of the traditional Western commit­ tute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), a prime point of ment to scientificand technological progress,and implemen­ convergence between malthusians East and West on food, tation instead of what the Soviets label "internationalecologi­ energy, and economic policy. cal security." Frolov is also a liaison to California's Esalen Institute, the Ironically, however, Frolov's appointment, and the up­ conceptual headquarters for the rock-sex-drug counterculture grading of eco-fascist policies in the Soviet Union, might con­ in the United States. It was set up in the early 1960s under tribute to Gorbachov's own downfall, even if the Soviets are the auspices of Britain's drug-besotted Aldous Huxley and absolutely committed to eco-fascism as a means of eradicating his friends. Frolov is the co-author of a book with Esalen the values of Judeo-Christian civilization. While the current writers, entitled Glasnost and Megatrends, U.S.S.R. and mood about global environmental deals is euphoric in both U.S.A . in Transition . West and East, the actual consequences of applying "green" Until his appointment as Gorbachov's special adviser in policies to the crisis-ridden Soviet economy will be cata­ 1987, Frolov was editor of the theoretical magazine Kommu­ strophic. As the next phases of physical economic collapsehit nist and head of the U. S. S.R. 's Institute for the Study of the the U.S. S.R., Gorbachov will likely be blamed, not only for

34 International EIR November 3, 1989 the economic holocaust itself, but also for having "sold out" "eco-Nazis" by the Italian press. Schwarz stated: "Even offi­ the vital interests of the Soviet Union to those Western finan­ cial Russians can sound like deep greens.... In Moscow's ciers, foundations, and policy institutes that have been pro­ cauldron of ideas, deep ecology is being mixed in with moting environmentalism over the past two decades. refurbished Marxism." Schwarz quoted Ivan Frolov, that "the problem of peace Frolov's 'Bulgarian connection' and the problem of preserving nature are dialectically interre­ What follows here is an accounting of the basic facts of lated." the "Ivan Frolov dossier" that are being completely ignored in the West. The current eco-fascist agenda Perhaps most immediately striking is a report in the Sept. The September 1989 meeting of the Eco-Forum with 28 Pravda, that the worldwide Eco-Forum for Peace met in Gorbachov, Frolov, et al ., was preceded and followed by a Moscow to discuss "nature conservation." Gorbachov per­ density of East -West ecological meetings, in which we usual­ sonally made the first entry into the Eco-Forum's Golden ly findFrolov involved either directly, or by association: Book, writing, "I welcome the peaceful ecological move­ • From Sept. 18-22, Frolov was the moderator ofa meet­ ment." According to Pravda, Academicians Ivan Frolov and ing in Moscow between delegations of the Soviet Communist Boris Laskorin of Moscow's Institute of Chemical Technolo­ Party and the West German Green party . The discussions gy took part in the session, together with the Eco-Forum's were the latest in a series of meetings that Frolov has had chief secretary, Vesselyne Neykon of Bulgaria. with Green leaders, both in West Germany and in the The Eco-Forum for Peace is based in the Bulgarian port U.S.S.R., since at least December 1985. One previous ex­ city of Varna, and is also known as the "Varna Group," or ample was a week-long "Soviet-Greens seminar" in the West the "Club of Varna." Its activities have received hardly any German town of Gohren in Lower Saxony, which was cov­ attention in the West outside of EIR (see EIR , Sept. 12, 1986, ered favorably in the March 21-27, 1989 edition of the Soviet "The ' Bulgarian connection' to environmentalist genocide. ") international weekly New Times. New Times published a The idea for the Eco-Forum was formulated during a photograph of radical Green Party leader Jutta Ditfurth sitting series of meetings between Soviet and Bulgarian officials next to Frolov. with ecologists from West Germany, Britain, France, and • From Oct. 9-14, the World Federation of United Na­ the United States during the 1982-86 period. These meetings tions Associations (WFUNA), the umbrella organization of were initiated after publishers of the Bulgarian journalMan all the United Nations Associations, held a meeting in Mos­ and Nature contacted ecologist leaders in the West. Some cow. The meeting resolved to set up a new global commis­ experts believe that the circles behind the Varnainitiative are sion, modeled on the Brandt and Palme Commissions, which part of that element in Bulgaria which is trying to revive the would focus on "global security in its ecological, humanitar­ ancient Gnostic, devil-worshiping Bulgarian cult of "Bo­ ian, and traditional military aspects," according to a report gomilism. " on Radio Moscow Oct. 17. The VarnaGroup was formally launched during an Aug. The WFUNA's head is Canadian energy magnate Mau­ 25-28, 1986 meeting on the theme, "Environmental Conser­ rice Strong, one of the early patrons of the Club of Rome and vation and the Protection of Peace in the World." The meet­ of the environmentalist movement more broadly. On Oct. ing which took place in Varna, had participation from many 17, he was interviewed by Radio Moscow, declaring that the ' international groups, including Greenpeace, the Stockholm East-West agenda must concentrate on "global security and International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the Interna­ risk management." He said the new WFUNA commission tional Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Armand would study "what kind of changes need to be made in the Hammer-funded International Physicians for the Prevention institutional structure at the international level, to deal with of Nuclear War, the Pugwash Group, UNESCO, and other ecological and environmental concerns, and for management world-federalist malthusian groups. of the global economy." Of the 100 individuals in attendance representing 30 • From Oct. 11-15, in Vienna, Austria, there was an countries, nearly 40 were from the U.S.S.R. or Bulgaria. Ecology '89 Congress, on the overall theme, "Outlook 1989: The Soviet delegation was led by Ivan Frolov, who was Integrated Strategies for the Environment, the Economy and elected presidentof the Eco-Forum. Technology," with one key sub-theme being "Policymaking In November 1988, the Eco-Forum sponsored an "eco­ for an Environmentally Compatible Economy in the 199Os." logical voyage" down the Danube River. Reporting on this This was sponsored by the Vienna Academy for the Study of event, the Nov. 28 London Guardian said the conference the Future, with official support and cooperation from the was part of "green perestroika." Reporter Walter Schwarz Club of Rome , IBM Corporation, IIASA, and others. Several favorably likened the Russian environmentalism to a particu­ top Club of Rome members were there, including co-founder larly virulent strain of ecologism known as "deep ecology"; Dr. Alexander King, who spoke on "Systemic Approaches members of the "deep ecology" movement have been labeled to an Ecology-Oriented Economic Policy." Various panels

ElK November 3, 1989 International 35 were on East-West approaches to ecology. Dzhennen Gvis­ hiani, currently director of the U.S.S.R. 's All-Union Re­ search Institute for Systems Analysis, spoke on "Environ­ mental Research and Policy in the East and Perspectives for East-West Trade Relations in the Nineties." Colombianliberals In addition to Gvishiani's contribution, Soviet officials dominated an Oct. 15 panel, "Who Will Save the Earth? Approaches to a Global Environment Program." Speakers assailed as pro-drug and participants from the U.S.S.R. included N. Vorontsov, by Jose Restrepo Minister of the Environmentand chainnan of the State Com­ mittee on Nature Protection; Prof. A. Yablokov, People's Deputy of the U.S.S.R. and head of the Soviet branch of Colombia's leading champion of the war on drugs has taken Greenpeace; Prof. Nikita Moiseyev, member of the offthe gloves against fonner President Alfonso LOpez Mi­ U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and creator of the "nuclear chelsen and his political heir, presidential candidate Ernesto winter" hoax; and Prof. Mikhail Lemeshev, head ofthe Sovi­ SamperPizano , demanding that they be brought to summary ets' Association Ecology and Peace. trial for treason and desertion in time of war. In a dramatic • Immediately following this, Lemeshev, accompanied Oct. 25 editorial commentary, the director of the embattled by membersof the Association Ecology and Peace who flewin anti-drug newspaper EI Especlador Juan Guillenno Cano, from the U.S.S.R., wentto Bonn, for a first-everjointseminar accused the two politicians of promoting the kind of neo­ with the Freiburg Oko-Institut of West Gennany. The semi­ liberal immorality-in politics and in economics-that has nar, titled "Energy and Water Economy," lasted from Oct. sponsored the cocaine cartels' dizzying rise to power. 15-20 . According to a Freiburg Oko-Institut source, one focus Lopez Michelsen is the political godfather of the cocaine of the seminar was to discuss mobilizing against "great water cartels, both because of his decade-long sponsorshipof mon­ projects," primarily referringto those large-scale water-diver­ etary policies that gave the drug tradea foothold in Colombia, sion projects in the U.S.S.R. that have not already been and his repeated political interventions on the drug mafia's shelved. The source said his outfit is totally opposed to such behalf. Samper, the country's leadingdrug legalization advo­ large projects in Brazil, Canada, and other countries. cate and free-market economist, is currently spearheading Ivan Frolov is a member of the Soviet Association Ecolo­ the efforts of pro-drug circles to force a government "dia­ gy and Peace. The chainnan of the Association is the chief logue" with (i.e., surrenderto) the drugtraffickers . editor of the Soviet publication Novy Mir, Sergei Zalygin; One can easily strip bare the theories of "moderneconom­ he is also a member of Raisa Gorbachova's Soviet Culture ics" presented by LOpez, Samperand company, wrote Cano Fund. in his editorial. According to them, "There are no drugs. The Freiburg Oko Institut has fonned a joint infonnation There is no supply and demand. There is contraband, but and data bank with the Maxim Gorky Institute of the Soviet there is no crime. There is amnesty for contraband; so also Union, to collect detailed infonnation on the economy and should there be for assassination. Everything is reduced to the environment. The data sharing is coordinated through a votes or money for electoral campaigns. It is worthless to Moscow-based group called "Green Movement," headed by insinuate the [need to] rescue human values. Thus one speaks one Popsov, editor of a magazine called Youth of the Land. of fiscal paradises like Hong Kong, Singapore, San Andres, Such data are obviously essential for the Soviets in profiling La Guajira." stress points in the West, and for accumulating the kind of Cano continues: "What is inadmissible in a nation at war, data that spetsnaz commandos would need for sabotage of and inadmissible for the chief of the military forces of a vital infrastructure during wartime or before . nation at war, is that there be deserters and traitors who lead • From Oct. 15-17, at the Pio Manzu Center in Rimini, to such desertion and such treason.... With all due respect, Italy, a meeting was held of leading Westerndignitaries such Mr. Commander-in-Chief of the Colombian Anned Forces, as fonner West Gennan Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, West you are being betrayed by your own party colleagues [and] Gennan Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Italian . . . it is unpardonable that th� not be punished following Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, and a large Soviet delega­ summary trial." tion. The publicly stated conference consensus was for chan­ This unprecedented denunciation of the immorality ram­ neling Western financial aid to the Soviet Union and Eastern pant in Colombian political circles was also sounded by the Europe, while writing off the developing sector. A special Catholic Church. In an impassioned Oct. 18 appeal before award was given in Rimini to fonner Norwegian Prime 1,000 of Colombia's leading political figures, Church Minister Gro-Harlem Brundtland, whose Brundtland Com­ spokesman and Popayan Archbishop Monsignor Samuel Bu­ mission has become the main organizational framework for itrago Trujillo denounced the degradation of the concept of implementing global eco-fascist policies. man to a mere object of consumption and production, as

36 International EIR November 3, 1989 responsible for the narco-terrorist violence that has seized ture behind the altruistic banner of peace. Now these crimi­ Colombia. "The economicist view, predominant throughout nals inform public opinion that they are the ones who want most of the ruling class, subordinates the human person to peace, while what they have been doing is bloodying consumerism, making him an instrument of production and Colombia. . . . The facts clearly demonstrate that what these an object of consumption; at the same time, according to this common criminals seek in reality is to destroy the basis for view, the dignity of the person lies in economic efficiency democracy: to intimidate the press; demoralize the popula­ and in individual freedom understood as libertinism." tion; cast doubt on the credibility of such institutions as the Congress, the judiciary, and the executive; and to affect our An 'international plot' economy . El Espectador has not limited its fire to the pin-striped 2) Organized crime has assassinated a Justice Minister, frontmen for the narcotics cartels, but is also going afterthose an attorney general, magistrates of the Supreme Court and so-called defenders of human rights, like Amnesty Interna­ of the tribunals, judges, journalists, congressmen, political tional, which hide their narco-terrorist sympathies behind a and civic leaders, and citizens of good will. In the past two cloak of respectability. The newspaper's lead editorial on months they have continued to assassinate. These criminals Oct. 26, entitled "An International Plot," denounced those now ask that the law be suspended. They offer to end their "human rights" lobbyists who cynically accuse the Colombi­ terrorist actions in exchange for revoking the state of law, an government of using the "pretext" of a war on drugs to which means nothing less than the surrender of the State and mount an alleged "dirty war" of repression against the left. of democracy. Although left unnamed in the editorial, it is known 3) The government reiterates that it has in force a policy throughoutColombia that the London-based Amnesty Inter­ to combat the drug trade and its criminal organizations, and national has just issued a new report, drawn extensively from that within this policy there is no room for transaction, nor Colombian Communist Party propaganda, denouncing the negotiation, nor dialogue. Therefore, it does not consider government of President Virgilio Barco and the Colombian any proposal for mediation with the drug trade , whether said armed forces for supposed human rights abuses-in the midst proposal be submitted directly by them or through their of that country's war to the death with the most violent of spokesmen. " drug criminals. "We are dealing with a genuine international conspira­ cy," warned El Espectador's editors , "of the kind in which the left extremes are so expert, in grim and contaminating company with the internationalagents of the drug trade . This CONSULTING harmful and punishable association to commit crime and slander has taken the most despicable and deadly forms on ARBORIST Colombia's own territory, from the joining of their activities Available to Assist in to defend and develop coca crops on our territory, to the assault on the Justice Palace ....The country must know The planning and development of once and for all that the subversive movements have degener­ wooded sites throughout the continental ated toward common criminality. " United States as well as The Colombian governmenthas been explicit that it will entertain no proposals for dialogue or negotiation with the �it. The development of urban and drug cartels, since they are not a political movement but suburban planting areas and rather "common criminals." In a recent statement issued by the Colombian National Security Council (see below), this The planning of individual position is stated officially and unequivocally. In light of El homes subdivisions or Espectador's denunciation of the criminal alliance between industrial parks the traffickersand armed subversion, it would appearincum­ bentupon the Barco governmentto reconsider its ill-advised "peace initiatives" toward these narco-terrorist forces, while there is yet time to do so. For furtherinf ormation and availability please contact Perry Crawford III

The fo llowing are excerpts from an offi cial communique is­ Crawford Tree and Landscape Services sued in the last week of October by Colombia's National 8530 West Calumet Road SecurityCouncil. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53224

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EIR November 3, 1989 International 37 should yearn for a "strong central power" in the U.S.S.R., a "restoration of authority for a transitional period," so that Rimini elites : 'South Gorbachov will not be toppled as the economic crisis gets worse and worse. He said that the "historical moment" now must serve the North' required a new European "East policy" led by West Germany. He labeled this a new Drang nach Osten (drive to the East), by Mark Burdman directed toward a full "integration of the Slavic world with the German-European world." This would involve some form of "German reunification," and a strengthening of the "European From Oct. 15-17, there was a meeting of policy influentials pole" in the world, that would counterpose its strength to the from the West and the Soviet Union at the Pio Manzu confer­ United States and to a Japanese�Asian axis. "The Germans," ence center in Rimini, Italy. In his summation speech, Catho­ said Miglio, "have fought two great world wars to be the mas­ lic University of Milan professor Gianfranco Miglio revealed ters of Europe, now they must become the masters of Europe what is really on the minds of a predominant faction of the through peaceful means." transatlantic liberal elites. In this perspective, he went on, "America will be out of According to Miglio, there are three priorities for the Europe." According to Miglio, "Soviet military power is West. First, the West should accept, ifnotactivelyencourage, not a threat to Europe. The Soviets are feeble. From my a transitional authoritarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union. information, the military class in the Soviet Union is in no Second, the West, especially West Germany acting on behalf position to interfere with the political system." of Western Europe, should massively increase financial and Asked what future there would be for the developing economic aid to the Soviet Union. This should be the driving sector in his world-strategic view, Miglio stated bluntly: force behind a full integration between Western and Eastern "We cannot make miracles for the Third World. It is pure Europe, to include expedited American troop pullout from fancy to believe that the West will launch a crusade to help Europe. Third, as financialcredits are divertedeastward , the the developing world. In any case, the differences between Southern Hemisphere countries should be written off. North and South are planetary; the conflict is fundamental. Among the speakers were former German Chancellor The South will always be the servant part of the world fo r Helmut Schmidt, former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti, the North; history tells us so." and Soviet Finance Minister Valentin Pavlov, who headed a large Soviet delegation. The conference medal of honor Soviet calls for Gorbachov dictatorship was given to Bonn Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gensch­ On Oct. 23, "positive feedback"of sorts came from a se­ er, Europe's leading appeaser of the Soviets. Pio Manzu nior Soviet official, as the Italiandaily La Repubb/ica ran an directors also gave a special award to Norway's Gro-Harlem interview with Andranik Migranian, of the KGB-linked IM­ Brundtland, who had, ironically, stepped down as prime EMO think tank. Migranian called for a "Committee of Na­ minister only hours before the conference began. Mrs. Brun­ tional Salvation" in the U.S.SiR., "led by Gorbachov as a dtland heads the World Commission on Environment and dictator." He warned:"Democracy today is againstperestroi­ Development, which has developed the guidelines for a ka.Gorbachov has very little time. Only a dictatorship will global ecological-fascist world order. allow him to rule and carry out his reforms." Migranian In an Oct. 21 discussion with EIR , Miglio affirmed that claimed that there was a "vacuum of power" in the U.S.S.R. Helmut Schmidt privately expressed complete agreement "At end of this impotent situation, I see the risk of a Soviet with his perspective. The former chancellor's public state­ Tiananmen. " ments in Rimini were perfectly coherent with what Miglio Were Gorbachov to become a dictator, Migranian said. He warnedthat a global financial crashcould be caused stressed, the West would be satisfied, since Western policy­ by the Third World debt crisis, but said that the solution makers are less concerned with democracy in the Soviet must be centered on drastic "population control" measures, Union than with the stability of Gorbachov. "Gorbachov is to deal with the "demographic explosion" in the Southern thinking about this," he said. "On Oct. 2, when he proposed Hemisphere. He called on religious leaders to join him in a to the parliament to declare the state of emergency, it was campaign to reduce population growth. Schmidt also argued sort of a general rehearsal. But there is little time." that development credits to the Third World would inevitably Yet Migranian denounced the five years under Gorba­ be consumed to buy arms, whereas the Soviet Union and its chov's rule, as having caused economic chaos , moral degra­ allies could be trusted in their stated commitment to redirect dation, and rampant criminality. He said: "We are reviving funds formerly spent on armaments , into productive forms 1917, from February to October. And to those who ask me of investment. The message: The East is a good investment, whether Gorbachov can become the dictator-reformist whom the South is a waste. we need, I answer thus: It depends on whether he feels more In his discussion with EIR , Miglio reiterated that the West a Lenin or a Kerensky."

38 International EIR November 3, 1989 Can anyone in his right mind believe this will ever happen? That Syrian intelligence will not ensure the elec­ tions of its own corrupt candidates, who will "unanimously agree" that Syria has to remain in Lebanon? Syria, having never held a single democratic election, is unlikely to bless one in another country. Lebanon: national One can only conclude that what has occurred is one of the most cynical sellouts ever. What pressures the parliamen­ tarians meeting in Taif were submitted to, will only be resistance or slavety known when they return to Lebanon. Clearly some of them are not too proud of their action, and are fearful of facing Surrender or be shot: Such are the terms of the agreement the angry protesters which gathered by the tens of thousands reached in Taif, Saudi Arabia at the end of October, after in support of Michel Aoun and of his rejection of this "crime more than three weeks of negotiations between Lebanese against the Lebanese nation." Christian and Muslim parliamentarians under the sponsor­ ship of the Arab League triumvirate of Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Behind the seHout and Morocco. The agreement provides at best a respite of a There are several factors which may have played a role few weeks, during which an unstable ceasefire will be in in the sellout. First, what has been the role of Saudi Arabia? effect. But in reality, the agreement is an attempt to neutralize One of Saudi King Fahd' s main concernsfrom the beginning Lebanese opposition to the Syrian military occupation. In the has been to prevent the Lebanese crisis from leading to a words of Lebanese Prime Minister Gen. Michel Aoun to the confrontation between Syria and Iraq. Yet, the byzantine French daily Le Figaro on Oct. 25 , it was the result of "the maneuvers within the Saudi Royal Family have added other American conspiracy" on Syria's behalf: "They could not considerations. Crown Prince Abdullah is maneuvering to achieve it in Lebanon, so they shipped the members of parlia­ eliminate Prince Sultan, the defense minister and leader of ment to Saudi Arabia. " the Sudairi clan, who is officiallyset to become crown prince Of course, one can only welcome any initiative which when Abdullah becomes king. Abdullah is reportedly strik­ calls a halt, even if only momentary, to the Syrian drive to ing a deal for a representative of the Faisal clan to become wipe out Lebanese resistance to its occupation, through sys­ crown prince instead. Consolidation of closer relations be­ tematic and blind bombardments against the civilian popula­ tween Riyadh and Damascus are part of these negotiations. tion. In the words of Maronite Patriarch Sfeir on Oct. 24, it is Saud al-Faisal has been a mere mouthpiece for Syrian inter­ necessary to prevent the emergence of "a Lebanon without ests in Lebanon. Lebanese." But it is another thing to sacrificeLebanese sover­ Why did the Christian parliamentarians in Taif endorse eignty to Syria, with Lebanon becoming merely the colony such an ill-fated deal? Corruption in some cases, blackmail that Damascus has been coveting for the past 20 years. and fear in others, perhaps. The real answer may have come Concretely, the terms of the agreement are the following: from General Aoun himself, when he addressed his support­ 1) the parliamentary election of a Maronite President by ers on Oct. 23 and called on Lebanese youth to take up their early November, setting into motion the forming of a new own responsibilities. Who are these parliamentarians after government; 2) constitutional reforms whereby the prime all? Life-long politicians who were were last elected in the minister, a Sunni Muslim, will be the actual ruler of the mid- 1970s, and whose status has not been questioned since. country. The President will no longer have veto rights in the The fear that an officialand definitechallenge to Saudi Arabia cabinet and will require a two-thirds majority of the cabinet and Syria would call into question their social and feudal to dismiss his prime minister; and 3) parliamentary changes status, and that they would be replaced by younger elites, bringing the number of deputies up to 108, equally divided seems to have played an important role. between Christians and Muslims. The chairman of the Par­ Indeed, if the Taif agreement has any meaning, it is to liament, a Shi' ite Muslim, will be elected for two years underline that the political structures of Lebanon as they have instead of the present one year. survived in the last 15 years are corrupt and obsolete. The What took three weeks of negotiations was the crafting real challenge that Aoun has correctly addressed, is the need of a carefully worded document which avoids any precise for the younger generation of Lebanese, Christians and Mus­ reference to Syrian military withdrawal from Lebanon. In lims alike, to unite in a national resistance against the foreign its stead is the vague commitment that within two years after occupier; hence to put the issue of national resistance and the the implementation of the above political reforms, negotia­ defense of national sovereignty above any loyalties to feudal tions would be started between Lebanon and Syria. Within clans. The behavior of the parliamentarians in Taif has just such negotiations, a calendar for a complete Syrian with­ driven the point home. It will not be easy, obviously; but is drawal would be established. it worth living in slavery?

EIR November 3, 1989 International 39 One 2,000-word fu lmination in this genre, however, gives an idea of the difficulty of the task confronting China's repressive leadership. The article, firstpubli shed in the theo­ retical journal Quishi and reprinted in the People's Daily, calls upon the Chinese people to once again exhibit the "spirit Will Jiang Zemin's of plain living and hard work ." This spirit has a "profound meaning, that is, a spirit of making advances and utter devo­ purge backfire? tion that is characterized by fe aring no difficulties, fe aring no sacrifices, and fightingindominably for the common interests and common ideal of the state, the nation, the people, and by Linda de Hoyos for the development of the socialist cause."

On Aug. 21, in a speech recently released to the public, Easier said than done Chinese Communist Party General Secretary head Jiang Such calls to rouse China's population to revolutionary Zemin called upon the leaders of the CCP to carry out a fervor only serve to demonstrate that the Maoist revolution relentless purge of the 48 million-member party. Under the is over; there is simply no "revolutionary spirit" in China banner of eradicating "bourgeois liberalization," targeted today. The mainland Chinese' cannot be mobilized into a will be all those who have expressed or demonstrated their frenzied replay of the Cultural Revolution to roust out the sympathy for the democracy movement that shook Beijing "dregs" of "bourgeois liberalization." The atmosphere is one and other major cities in May. of cynical disillusionment at th� bankruptcy of the Commu­ "We should not fail to see the seriousness of the problems nist regime . presentlyexi sting within our party," Jiang told the assembled Such disillusionment extends to the top of the party itself, heads of the party's organizational departments Aug. 21. and permeates the party institutions, even into the national "It is necessary to grasp the present opportune moment to security apparatus. On Sept. 8, Minister of Public Security conscientiously grasp the work of screening and purging in Wang Fang delivered a speech calling for the revitalization order to maintain the purity of our party contingent. . . . of the nation's police force, which he said was rife with We must avoid doing it superficially. We must never leave corruption and demoralization, with a demonstrated incapac­ hidden trouble untouched." To underline the point, Jiang­ ity to utilize new methods or equipment. Strengthening the who is deemed a moderate by the Western press-called for police force is a "question of profound strategic importance the revival of "criticism and self-criticism" within the party. to our country," Wang said. "Our struggle" against rebellion "It is necessary to carry out inner-party ideological struggle," "is far from over ....Our enemies have not in the least a term Jiang admitted had not been used heretofore-that is, resigned themselves to defeat." not since the end of Mao Zedong' s Great Proletarian Cultural Wang fo llowed with a stem warning to the CCP leader­ Revolution. ship: It must act fast to retrieve the mandate of heaven, or Accordingly, along with the issuance of new identity face revolution. "We are still inevitably confronted with a cards for all mainland Chinese, the party leadership has or­ lot of complicated political, economic, and social problems, dered the recall of all party membership cards, forcing the including corruption, deterioration of social order, inflation, 48 million cadre to re-register. The Hong Kong paper Ching unfair distribution, unemployment, nationality issues, reli­ Pao said on Oct. 10 that party members are now being gious problems .... Should · these problems fail to be screened with the following questions: 1) Did they support solved, social turmoil and all types of social problems will the policy of armed suppression to the rebellion? 2) Is it right certainly break out, which will in tum be made use of by and necessary to enforce the martial law order? 3) Do they antagonistic forces abroad and at home. " believe that the nature of the current rebellion and bourgeois Such "antagonistic forces" definitely exist within the liberalization conflictwith the four cardinal principles (estab­ P.R.C. today. Estimates from the P.R.C. press are that lishing the primacy of the Communist Party and communist upwards of 500,000 Communist Party members demon­ thought)? 4) Were turmoil and rebellion inevitable or caused strated during the democracy movement. As Jiang Zemin by the mistakes of some party leaders? The activities and stated in his Aug. 21 purge speech, "That a lot of our statements of all party members during the rebellion will party members took to the streets to take part in the likewise be examined. demonstrations, is indeed a serious problem." The repres­ In addition, as indicated by Prime Minister Li Peng at a sive leaders in power in Beijing have to seriously assess reception in Beijing Oct. 13, political criteria will come first whether-given the lack of support in the general popula­ in the employment of professionals. "Department chiefs must tion-they can afford to launch an attack on the party and not only be well conversant with professional work, but dismantle the institutions of policymaking that tended to must, still more, be revolutionaries and politicians." back the democracy movement.

40 International EIR November 3, 1989 sion luminary Otto Wolffvon Amerongen, president of the Asian division of the West German Industry and Commerce Association, to Beijing at the end of September, to discuss the deal with Li Pengo China threatens, The Indian news service Asian News International re­ ported on Oct. 7 that "most of the West, led by France and theWe st appeases Britain, has already 'resumed export licenses for defense equipment sold to China.' " French defense industry execu­ tives say they will soon announce deals with Beijing. Britain by MaryM. Burdman has already agreed to supply advanced radar equipment to China through Pakistan, and representatives of more than The belligerence of Communist China's threats against Hong 50 British companies, of the 48 Group, are now touring Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Tibet, Great Brit­ China to come to other deals. ain, and the United States over the past weeks should be The United States is not far behind. Ambassador James taken as fair warning that the Beijing regime, under terrible Lilley rubbed elbows with the top brass of the People's economic pressure, is very dangerous to its neighbors, espe­ LiberationArmy at the opening Oct. 17 of the Beijing " A via­ cially Hong Kong. The Beijing leadership has also renewed tion Expo/China '89" show. Some 91 companies from 14 its threats of military force against Taiwan, where crucial countries participated, including Grumman, Britain's Mar­ national elections are fast approaching. coni Defence Systems, British Aerospace, and a display of Yet, despite the fact that Beijing's leaders have twice spacesuits and ejector-seat systems from the U.S.S.R. Both warned in recent weeks that sanctions, wimpish as they are, Marconi and Grumman are working on contracts to supply are taking their toll-primarily because of China's desperate technology to upgrade China's jet-fighters, the British Sun­ economic situation-Western nations, particularly the Unit­ day Correspondent reported Oct. 22. And, in the midst of ed States and Great Britain, are vying with each other to restart yet another flurry of-never borne out-press reports about trade deals, especially in weapons, with China. On Oct. 13, the imminent lifting of martial law in Beijing, the Interna­ Prime Minister Li Peng said that the sanctionswere having an tional Herald Tribune Oct. 25 carried an astonishing public effect and warned the Chinese people that they faced years of relations piece from the New York Times Service defending austerity. Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade P.R.C. President Yang Shangkun, the man who summoned Zheng Tuobing said Oct. 26 that an estimated $10 billion in the murderous 27th Army troops into Beijing to carry out loans had been suspended and that "June 4 also had a big im­ the June 4 massacre. The article claims that "many Chinese" pact on China's imports and exports ," according to the Finan­ with high-level connections do not consider Yang a "hardlin­ cial Times Oct. 27 . China's tradedeficit hit $6.84 billion by er," he has "the best sense of humor" in the military and he the end of August, as compared to $2.56 billion last year, is a "reformer, backing Deng in everything." prompting discussion of devaluing the renminbi, Zheng said. Nonetheless, the Hindustan Times reported from discus­ Invasion of Taiwan 'not ruled out' sions with Asian diplomats in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 7, That bastion of the Liberal Establishment, the New York after the International Monetary Fund conference, that the Council on Foreign Relations, even allowed Chinese Foreign West is "quietly working the old relationship back with Minister Qian Qichen to dictate the terms for improved Sino­ China." Senior officials said the "experiment" of sanctions American relations, when he spoke before the CFR in New had "virtually failed," and Western nations, "led by France York Oct. 2. Just days after both Chinese Prime Minister Li and Britain," have already resumed, or will soon resume, Peng and Party Secretary General Jiang Zemin reiterated that arms deals with China. As for new World Bank lending, "use of force cannot be ruled out" to re-take Taiwan, at their which would open the floodgates for international banking, first big press conference in Beijing Sept. 25, Qian told the the United States "seems more flexible" on the issue than in CFR: "To meddle and interfere in the internal affairs of other June, the Hindustan Times reported. Of course, as a World countries is more often than not a destabilizing factor which Bank press spokesman told this writer Oct. 19, the World leads to strained bilateral relations." Bank office in Beijing is fully staffed, missions are going Qian demanded that the "Taiwan question" be handled to China, and disbursements for already-approved projects "properly." He warned the United States about the the Tai­ continue. wan authorities "taking advantage" of the strained relations On Oct. 18, the West German Foreign Ministry an­ between China and other countries, to improve its standing nounced that the ban on a group of banks investing DM 460 in the world. Taiwan will not succeed, Qian stated. "We million to build a subway in Shanghai would be lifted, a first appreciate the U.S. government's repeated declarations of step toward lifting sanctions, according to Bonn insiders. the 'one China' policy. We hope to see these declarations The decision was preceded by the visit of Trilateral Commis- translated into action," he said.

ElK November 3, 1989 International 41 'Brazil Network': ADL-Soviet love nest gets exposed by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazua

The most recent attacks on Lyndon LaRouche in Brazil have interest in slandering LaRouchf!goes back years. The found­ been most revealing, less so for the content of the slanders­ ing of Brazil Network in 1987 took place in the Philadelphia which have been repeated ad nauseam for the past six officesof the American Friends;Service Committee (AFSC) , months-than for the kind of organizations which were a nominally Quaker organizati()n which functions as part of forced to unveil themselves in public as working in the inter­ the networks servicing the condominium arrangement be­ ests of the condominium of power between the Anglo-Ameri­ tween the Soviets and the inteDigence circles in the United can heirs of Teddy Roosevelt's imperial tradition, and the States. leaders of the Russian nomenklatura. Since the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, the rela� Such is the case of the Anglo-American Fabian organiza­ tions of the AFSC with Soviet intelligence agencies have tion known as Brazil Network, and their friends in the Insti­ been uninterrupted, and have surfaced with renewed force in tute of Socio-Economic Studies (INESC) in Brasilia, who light of the relaunching of the one-world condominium idea. have assumed responsibility for circulating the slanders in­ The AFSC's special hatred against Lyndon LaRouche goes side Brazil. Those slanders, fabricated by the Fact-Finding back many decades, since LaRouche's family first de­ Division of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai nounced the fraudulent operations of the AFSC in the politi­ B'rith and published by the pothead Dennis King with the cal, theological, and financial arenas. help of the League for Industrial Democracy, were initially The U.S. offices of Brazil Network are housed in the circulated by the U.S. embassy in Brasilia. headquarters of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washing­ On Oct. 2, the general coordinator of the INESC, Mrs. ton, D.C. IPS controlsall the various networks of the "New Maria Jose Jaime, sent slanderous material on LaRouche to Left" for the benefit of the Ford Foundation. The IPS-Ford various members of the Brazilian national congress. Mrs. Foundation relationship goes back to the times of Eastern Jaime is an executive member of the Brazilian Communist Establishment "dean" McGeorge Bundy. Party (PCB), which is loyal to Moscow. In her introductory It is hardly a coincidence that Brazil Network is in charge letter to the material on LaRouche-material which had been of conduiting slanders against LllRouche inside Brazil, above sent to INESC by Linda Rabben, the director of the U.S. all when the Network's declared purpose is to coordinate branch of Brazil Network-Mrs. Jaime accused the U.S. Anglo-American environmentalist networks toward limiting politician of "having a history linked to fascist groups." She Brazilian sovereignty over broad regions of the Amazon. claimed to be speaking in the name of various unidentified The first attempts to challenge Brazil's sovereignty over the "progressive U.S. groups." Amazon were carried out directly by Theodore Roosevelt. This was not the first such case in which the PCB was In 1902, during the so-called "rubberboom ," the New York involved. On July 17-18 of this year, another PCB executive, Bolivian Syndicate of raw materials speculators, linked to Argemiro Ferreira, used his daily column in the news-sheet Roosevelt interests, attempted ,to appropriate the immense Tribuna de Imprensa to spew the ADUDennis King filth Brazilian territory of Acre, at the time being fought over by against LaRouche. Ferreira had already attacked the U. S. Brazil and Bolivia. This effort was part of a Rooseveltian economist four years earlier, when he attempted to defend strategy leading to the creation of the National Conservative former Rio de Janeiro mayor Israel Klabin, a great friend of Commission, for the explicit purpose of monitoring strategic Henry Kissinger closely linked to the ADL. natural resources around the globe. The most interesting aspect of the new attacks against In 1913, ex-President Roosevelt headed up a reconnais­ LaRouche appears to be the role of Brazil Network, whose sance expedition to the Amazon, organized by the malthusian

42 International EIR November 3, 1989 Henry Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural programs, better known as 'debt-for-nature swaps.' History in New York, which, together with the Smithsonian "On Sept. 30 and Oct. I of this year, the coordinator of Institution, was the origin of the conservationist movement Brazil Network in the U.S., Linda Rabben-who sent the in the United States. The Anglo-American establishment anti-LaRouche propaganda to Mrs. Maria Jose Jaime of IN­ went on to launch the eugenics movement later adopted by ESC-participated in a meeting in Sheffield, England spon­ Adolf Hitler, and then founded the Conservation Foundation, sored by the Network's sister organization of the same name which spawned the Brazil Network and its recent proposals in that country. That meeting was designed to coordinate the for exchanging foreign debt for conservationist projects in efforts of these groups toward establishing an 'International the Amazon. Federation of Defenders of the Equatorial Forest. ' In 1908, drawing on the pseudo-religious projects of Ted­ "More recently, these groups, which claim to be commit­ dy Roosevelt's "New Age," the Anti-Defamation League ted to the improvement of human rights and the protection was founded in Chicago. The ADL was controlled from the of the environment in Brazil, were involved in the operation top by the U.S. branch of the Fabian Society of Great Britain, run against the Brazilian embassy in London, during which the League for Industrial Democracy. It was the LID which hundreds of sacks of letters were piled in front of the embassy recently financed Dennis King's book, Lyndon LaRouche door, all demanding that 'the immense wealth of the Amazon and the New American Fascism. The ADL's funCtion was to beexplored for the benefitof humanity. ' carry out dirty operations, especially with organized crime, "We emphasize that these groups serve in fact as 'shock to the benefit of the Anglo-American establishment. troops' in the interests of the highest financial circles in the For this reason, the ADL maintained close ties with mob­ U. S. , England and Holland, interwoven with the royal hous­ ster Meyer Lansky and his Havana networks. Those ties es of the latter two. . . . survived the overthrow the Batista regime in Cuba, as can be "2) As for the origin of the information presented by seen in the relations the ADL maintains with Fidel Castro's INESC, [namely] Dennis King's book entitled Lyndon La­ "guest" Robert Vesco, through former ADL president Ken­ Rouche and the New American Fascism (Doubleday, 1989), neth Bialkin. It was precisely through its intimacy with orga­ we bring to your attention that this book constitutes an impor­ nized crime that the ADL developedits ties to Soviet political tant part of a disinformation campaign being run against the intelligence. accused and directed by U.S. government agencies such as The specific efforts of the ADL have been directed to the CIA, U.S. Information Agency, and others ....Sa id exploit fears of"neo-Nazi" bogeymen, the better to fundraise campaign, described by eminent legal experts as an attempt from gullible Jewish groups. There is no other explanation at "character assassination," was intensifiedthrough the Feb­ for the attacks against LaRouche by Jair Krishcke, adviser ruary 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof to the Movement for Justice and Human Rights of Rio Grande Palme, with which the name of Mr. LaRouche was ground­ do SuI, attacks which are being used to steal money from lessly associated. Jewish families in southern Brazil. "3) It is noteworthy that the material of INESC arrived at its addressees just four days before the formal presentation EIR's reply of LaRouche's defense appeal , in the case United States of The attacks of Brazil NetworklINESC-ADL were an­ America v. LaRouche et al., thereby placing in jeopardy the swered by a letter from this author to nearly 100 Brazilian rights of the accused .... congressmen. We present excerpts of that letter: "Finally, it seems strange to us that an entity like INESC, "1) With respect to the source of the information circu­ which feels it so important to contribute to the battle against lated by INESC and Brazil Network, we note that the latter all forms of human rights abuses in Brazil, in Latin America, is a part of a multinational network of like organizations, all and worldwide-according to its pamphlet 'What is IN­ involved in the international propaganda campaign directed ESC'-should place itself in the position of the prosecution, against the Brazilian nation and premised on the allegation alongside the U.S. government, in the proceedings against that this country does not possess adequate means of its own Mr. LaRouche." for resolving environmental problems and those of the indig­ enous populations of the Amazon. These groups, including A partial chronology the cited Brazil Network, have de fa cto associated them­ April 28, 1989: The Washington Post publishes a paid selves with the World Bank to hinder or prevent the execution advertisement titled " I 00 Latin American Congressmen De­ of great infrastructure and energy projects that the country mand Freedom for LaRouche," bearing 71 signatures from needs for its social and economic development. In the United the entire political spectrum of the Brazilian congress. States, the Brazil Network works closely with the Conserva­ April 29: Jornal do Brasil, the daily most read by Brazil­ tion Foundation, which has insistently promoted the adoption ian political elites, devotes its entire second page, usually on by Brazil of a barter scheme whereby Brazilian foreign debt internalpolitic s, to the LaRouche case. "Brazilians support paper would be exchanged for supposed nature conservation politician convicted in the United States" was the title of the

EIR November 3, 1989 International 43 article written by Washington correspondent Manuel Fran­ the bond set by law so that he could appeal in freedom, on cisco Brito, the son of lornal's owner. the pretext that he made fraudulent requests for loans and did April 30: 0 Globo publishes a slanderous note against not file his income tax return." LaRouche, stressing that "well-known Brazilian political May 12: The Commission to Investigate Human Rights figures" were among the Washington Post ad signers. Violations publishes the same ad from the Latin American "LaRouche is nothing more than one of the country's most congressmen in the New York Times. radical right-wingers, known for his sympathy for Nazism July 17-18: Argemio Ferreira, a director of the Brazilian and assiduous reader of poems written by Gen. George Pat­ Communist Party (PCB), devotes two of his columns in the ton," lied the note, which was datelined Washington, D.C. Tribuna de lmprensa scandal sheet to summarizing Dennis May 2: The U.S. embassy press attache in Brasilia, Wil­ King's book-length slander ofLaRouche . As emphasized in liam Barr,sends the 71 ad signers an official letter declaring: a July 20 letter from EIR to Tribuna de lmprensa publisher "Mr. LaRouche was convicted in December 1988, on 13 Helio Fernandes, it is "strange that Mr. Ferreira chose to counts of mail fraud and illegal loan solicitation. He was also depict Mr. LaRouche to its readers through an obviously convicted of damages to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. defamatory and slanderous book, solicited by the CIA and Mr. LaRouche has not filed income tax returns since 1979. other parts of the U.S. Government specifically for such "In January 1989 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. ends. This is ironic , coming from a member of the directorate (Mr. LaRouche could have received a sentence of up to 65 of the Brazilian Communist Party." Tribuna never published years for the crimes for which he was found guilty)," the the letter. embassy laments. July 30: In Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do SuI state, Jair "As for the inclusion in your speech of references to Krischke reported in the daily Zero Hora that his "Human Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, any suggestion of parallel with Mr. Rights Movement is investigating the possibility of the exis­ LaRouche is absurd. Dreyfus was victim of prejudice based tence in the state of a neo-Nazi nucleus, linked to North on anti-Semitism; the Anti-Defamation League accuses Mr. American politician Lyndon H. LaRouche, leader of an ex­ LaRouche's organization of being overtly anti-Semitic." treme-right group which propagates Nazi, fascist, and anti­ May 4: In the name of the congressmen, Deputy Oswaldo Semitic ideas. . . . He recalls that LaRouche, prisoner in the Lima Filho responds to the U.S. embassy: "Neither I nor U.S. for defrauding investors, recently had a manifesto in the signators of the cited appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court his favor signed by Latin American parliamentarians, and question the issue of merit involved in the trial, but rather the even Brazilian politicians were fooled into signing." procedural defects embedded in it, which attack the Constitu­ The note links Krischke's statements to a campaign run tion of the United States. Whatever Mr. Lyndon LaRouche's by the ADL against an alleged emergence of neo-Nazi move­ political or religious convictions may be, he is 'entitled to a ments in that southernBrazilian state. The campaign was run fair trial with due process of law' [in English in original]." by the ADL's Latin American affairsdirector, Rabbi Morton May 8: Deputy Virgildasio de Senna addresses the plena­ Rosenthal, by the B 'nai B 'rith director in Rio Grande do SuI, ry of the Chamber of Deputies: "A number of congressmen, Nilo Berlim, and by Puerto Alegre city councilman Isaac myself included, signed a document requesting the American Ainhorn. courts and Amnesty Internationalto look into the 'LaRouche A few days later, Krischke and other ADL members case'. . . . I followed the publications in English and Span­ appeared on local television in Puerto Alegre with slanderous ish that his organizations published. I am familiar with their attacks on Mr. LaRouche's wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, for charges against narcotics trafficking and 'Project having founded the Schiller Institute. Democracy'. . . . I know there are mistakes in their political Aug. 30: Helga Zepp-LaRouche visits the Brazilian Con­ formulations, but there are also many correctthin gs. It is not gress by invitation of the Nationalist Parliamentary Front. irresponsible of me to put my signature on a document which Deputy Iraja Rodrigues welcomes her in the presence of other merely asked for a fair trial. I know, Mr. President, we are congressmen. all tired of knowing that in the Soviet Union dissidents were Aug. 30: Deputy Tadeu Fran<;a communicates to the put into insane asylums. I know how dissidents are treated Chamber of Deputies the presence of "Dr. Helga Zepp­ everywhere ....In our youths, we all followed the literature LaRouche, the wife of U.S. politician and economist Lyn­ dealing with the 'Dreyfus Case.' I know judicial mistakes don LaRouche, 67 years old, currently imprisoned without are quite possible. bail for a 15-year term. In testimony to a group of congress­ "What we want, Mr. President, is for this dissident to be men from the Nationalist Parliamentary Front, Mrs. Helga­ treated justly. I don't understand how Mr. Oliver North, who Zepp LaRouche thanked the solidarity of a significant group­ lied to the U.S. Senate and Congress ...could be sentenced ing of Brazilian parliamentarians, who, together with her, to 10 years, with right to appeal in freedom, while 65-year­ appealed in solidarity for a fair trial . . . and for an immediate old [sic] Mr. LaRouche was sentenced to 15 years in prison, end to the forced labor regimen and systematic aggression to without right to conditional freedom and without right to post which Mr. Lyndon LaRouche is being subjected."

44 International EIR November 3, 1989 The 'Tiny' Rowland file A trail ojbribery , thljt, corruption, and murderfo llows Lonhro in Af rica. Firstpart ojan ElR investigative series.

Roland "Tiny" Rowland, head of Britain 's multinational Lon­ League and the U.S. Department of Justice, to assist the rho corporation, has been busy of late stirring a stew of busi­ Soviet KGB in covering up Moscow's role in assassinating ness wheeling and dealing, well-seasoned with pro-Sovietpo­ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on Feb . 28, 1986. Row­ litical intrigue. Lonrho, which was founded in 1908 as the land promoted Moscow's dis information line that it was not London and Rhodesia Mining Company (hence its name, Moscow, but Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement, Lonrho), has always been heavily involved in Africa. Today who carried out the assassination. He is allied with the Lon­ Rowland is in the dead center of the dramatic changes now don circles around the Rothschild banking family, which has under way in Namibia, the former South African colony of sought to quash any investigation into the curious role of South West Africa which holds its first-everelections on Nov. Emma Rothschild, who was Palme's lover at the time. Row­ 7, as well as in South Africa itself, which has just released land is therefore right at the center of the international side eight leaders of the outlawed Soviet-backed African National of the "Get LaRouche" strike force, which in the United Congress (ANC) after a quarter-century of imprisonment. States is run by elements of various U.S. government agen­ In Namibia, Sam Nujoma, head of the Soviet-backed cies in coordination with the ADL. terrorist South West African People's Organization (SWA­ Well-informed Swedish sources have reported that the PO) returned to the country in mid-September after an ab­ Observer had been carrying out its own investigation of evi­ sence of 30 years, to participate in the U.N.-sponsored dence that the Soviet Union knew ahead of time about Pal­ elections which will mark Namibia's formal indep<:ndence me's murder, but had decided to smother the story. Instead, from South Africa. According to informed sources, Rowland on March 16, 1986--shortly after Rowland bought the pa­ has been in close touch with Nujoma, who expects, with per-Observer journalist Christopher Mosey wrote a story U.N. help, to win the elections. In return for the logistics linking the assassination to the LaRouche-associated Europe­ and weapons support Rowland has provided, Nujoma has an Labor Party . reportedly granted Lonrho a big slice of Namibia's post­ Mosey's story was subsequently picked up in the Wash­ independence economy. Rowland is particularly interested ington Post, and with the help of the Anti-Defamation in building a railroad from Zambia across northern Botswana League, it quickly made the rounds of all the major U.S. to the Atlantic Ocean port of Walvis Bay in Namibia. news media. In South Africa, the government has released the eight Rowland's shameless activity on behalf of Soviet strate­ ANC leaders after a period of intense negotiations. At the gic goals has become a bit too much to suffer gladly. Thus, outset of the most recent round of discussions, Rowland put EIR has decided to open its extensive Rowland dossier. In the Lonrho jet at the disposal of ANC leader Oliver Tambo this and future articles in this series, we shall unfold a tale to flyhim to London, following Tambo's reputed heart attack rife with bribery, theft, corruption, terrorism, and murder on Aug. 12. The British Foreign Office has been deeply over the course of several decades. involved behind the scenes in the negotiations; the Lonrho The public perception of Rowland is that of a buccaneer­ jet just happened to be in the neighborhood when Tambo ing rogue who, in the words of a British intelligence source, was stricken, and whisked him off to London. has somehow managed to "skate around the gallows" of nu­ merous swindles and dirty operations which would have seen Rowland, Russia, and LaRouche anyone else in jail ten times over. But the perception of Rowland is indeed an expert in doing much bigger favors Rowland as a kind of loose cannon in the ranks of the British for the current Soviet leadership. He and his London-based business world, in which Lonrho ranks as Britain's 40th newspaper, the Observer, have been central players in a largest corporation, is a carefully cultivated myth. conspiracy, which also involves the Anti-Defamation In reality, Rowland, his entire career, and his corporation

EIR November 3, 1989 International 45 Lonrho have been sponsored entirely by the very highest characterized Lonrho ever since Rowland became associated circles of the British Establishment. It is true that Rowland with the company in 1961. is not welcome in the elite clubs of London, and feels a Most copies of the report, published by Her Majesty's definite bitterness in this regard; but when the Establishment Stationery Office, were instantly purchased by Lonrho, and hires a thug or an assassin, it rarely invites him home to the thus its contents remained little known to the public at large. palace for tea. He is the bought-and-paid-f or propertyof that In fact, it was lucky that there wereany results at all, because, Establishment nonetheless, and so long as he is useful, and as is usual in inquiries conceOlingLonrho, the investigation so long as any of the scandals he may embroil himself in over had been almost sabotaged at the outset. The Chartered Ac­ the course of his assignments can be contained, he will be countant originally appointed to work with Queep's Counsel kept. Slimmings was Dennis Gatrett, who had been formerly But there is reason to think that the 71-year-old Rowland, closely associated with one of Lonrho's major subsidiaries! long considered invulnerable, is skating on thin ice. First, When word of this damning connection leaked out near the according to longtime Rowland watchers, there is a growing beginning of the investigatioo, Garrett was forced to resign. awareness in Africa of his treachery and duplicity in playing Later in the spring of 1976, after the report's publication, all sides against the middle, posing as the savior of black consultations were held among the Treasury, the Department Africa while beingdeeply involved in the South Africanstate of Public Prosecutions, and leading officials of Scotland arms company, Armscor, for example. Lonrho's corporate Yard's Fraud Squad to decide what to do next. Counsel to health depends in large measure on Rowland's continued the Director of Public Prosecution David Tudor-Price favor with leading African heads of state. When that sags, summed up the report's findings in three memoranda. "This Lonrho sags badly. Second, Lonrho itself is reported to be report," he said, "reveals prima fa cie evidence of criminal in very precarious financial health, resorting to tricks such offenses in a very clear form and most of .the evidence to as selling its assets to keep up the flow of dividends to its support those offenses should be in the hands of the DTI and shareholders, thus to keep its share price up, with resultant readilyavailable to the Investigating officers. " The following ability to borrow, etc . are some of the highlights of the investigation. But the most importantvulnerability of Lonrho/Rowland Bribery: 'The DTI Inspectorsin the course of their inqui­ derives from the very nature of the beast. As will be docu­ ry asked Lonrho for a list of bribes paid in the period from mented, Lonrho rose to fame and riches since Rowland took 30 September 1961 [approximately the time Rowland joined over in 1961 because the Anglo-American Establishment Lonrho] to the commencement of their investigation on 30 built the company up, step by step, as a key component of September 1973. These wer¢ euphemistically referred to as that Establishment's intelligence services, MI-6 and the CIA. 'Special Payments.' " A substantial portion of the over£1 That Establishment struck a deal with the Soviet Union, the million in bribes was channeledthrough Rowland 's personal "New Yalta" accords, whereby major portions of the globe account: "This was said to be for the purpose of making are ceded, as in southern Africa at present, to Moscow's the recipients not only recipients of corrupt payments from sphere of influence. The next phase of Lonrho's corporate Lonrho but also obliged personally to Rowland." expansion, into China and the East bloc and Russia, is predi­ Fraud: Tudor-Price cites a "conspiracy to defraud the cated on this deal as well. But as upsurges sweep these em­ shareholders of Lonrho by Rowland" and his two closest pires and are met with crackdowns even more bloody than cronies on the Lonrho board� Alan Ball and Angus Ogilvy, Tiananmen Square, the deals which have been in place during the latter married to Princess Alexandra, cousin to the Queen. most of the postwar period, break apart as well. "A plan was apparently conceived to use Lonrho funds" to We begin our chronicleof the rise and fall of Tiny Row­ do work which would mainly benefitthe private (and undis­ land with a recounting of his long criminal career, the details closed) holdings of these threein mines in which Lonrho was of which have been thus far largely hidden from the general funding development work. Rowland had given Ball and public. Ogilvy substantial percentages in a holding company con­ trolled by himself to assure him of their cooperation, thus The 1976 DTI report allowing Rowland to dominate the Lonrho board. "Again On March 1, 1976, the two inspectors appointed by the Ball and Ogilvy were compromised by payments made to British government's Department of Trade and Industry them by Rowland and none of the relevant facts were properly (DTI) to investigate the affairs of Lonrho, Allan Heyman, disclosed to the board or to shareholders of Lonrho." In Queen's Counsel, and Sir William Slimmings, Chartered one of the major multimillion-dollar acquisitions Rowland Accountant, filed a 1 ,OOO-page report with the DTI, the result committed Lonrho to, the purchase of the rights to the Wan­ of a three-year investigation which had employed 30 persons kel rotary engine, he lied on numerous occasions, since the full-time. The report was one long indictment of the fraud, board had been opposed to the acquisition because Lonrho bribery, larceny, sanctions busting, and corruption which was then in a serious liquidity crisis. Regarding this acquisi-

46 International EIR November 3, 1989 tion, "the circular to shareholders of October 1971 was clear­ lieu of his annual consultancy, Duncan-Sandys was not only ly deliberately false. . . . It may not prove difficult to estab­ hired at £40,000 per annum, but was promised a secret pay­ lish the complicity of Ball, Rowland and [Lonrho accountant] ment of £130,000 from Rowland's slush funds in the Baha­ Butcher in this deceit." mas. Said Tudor-Price, "Its non-disclosure in the Rights Is­ Larceny: Tiny Rowland was brought into Lonrho under sue documents of 25th May 1972 was probably criminal the terms of a deal negotiated by the two cronies, Ball and and involved Rowland, Ball, Butcher, and [Duncan-]Sandys Ogilvy, to whom he was later found paying vast sums through who signed the prospectusas chairman." his holding company in the Bahamas. Under the package Tudor-Price summed up the results of his findings: "The deal these two negotiated with Rowland, Rowland made a offenses which the present report reveals are not merely tech­ series of transfersof his assets, including his main company, nical offenses. The majority of them are offenses in which Shepton Estates, to Lonrho. He received in return 1.5 million the essence is improper concealment of information from Lonrho shares-nearly one-third of Lonrho' s issued share shareholders of a public company for the purpose of private capital-and an option to purchase another 2 million at favor­ enrichment." He charged that "the following persons may able terms up to Aug. 15, 1966. Within months it emerged well have committed criminal offenses:" Rowland, Ball, that the assets with which Rowland had bought his stake in Duncan-Sandys, Ogilvy, Butcher, and Caldecott (another Lonrho had been fraudulently valued. A gold mine Rowland Lonrho director). However, he also noted, in what was to be gave as part of the deal had its ore reserves overvalued by a theme which accompanied Lonrho throughout Rowland's two-thirds, with costly development work needed to extract tenure, "A list of their names is sufficient to indicate the what was there; an auto dealership was 40% less profitable difficulties which may face a police enquiry." This referred than anticipated; another gold mine not only did not realize in particular to Establishment kingpin Duncan-Sandys and expected profits of£36 ,000, but lost £10,000; and so on and the Queen's relation Angus Ogilvy. so forth . In other words, Rowland, with the help of Ball and Though the political power of Lonrho' s board was essen­ Ogilvy, in effect stole from the shareholders of Lonrho by tial in having the charges ignored, Rowland had another receivingvaluable stock for highly overvalued or even worth­ ace in the hole. The head of Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad, less assets. The original action, which Tudor-Price noted Kenneth Etheridge, had led the criminal investigation into was "within the terms of the Larceny Act of 1861," was Rowland and Lonrho following the conclusion of the DTI compounded in 1966 when Rowland used funds in a Lonrho report. Pursuant to the Etheridge investigation, a decision credit line to fund the purchase of optional shares on his was made in February 1978 not to press any charges. One personal account! month later, Kenneth Etheridge was hired as the chief of Sanctions busting: After its Unilateral Declaration of security for Lonrho. Independence (UDI) in 1975, Rhodesia was put under sanc­ A former business partnerof Rowland's, Daniel Mayer, tions by the United Nations, whose sanctions were legally swore out the following regarding Etheridge in a court depo­ recognized by many nations including Britain. Rowland sition in a trial in Denver, Colorado in 1982: "Let me state claimed to be the undying friend of black Africa and on the record in the matter of Etheridge, this is the man proclaimed himself "an avowed enemy of Ian Smith," Rho­ who was a former senior Scotland Yard official who was desia's prime minister. However, the DTI report cites persua­ responsible for various investigations and among them was sive details to show that Rowland was regularly busting the an investigation into the pornography trade in England, and sanctions against Rhodesia to the enrichment of himself and it was brought out that during these investigations, he and his Lonrho, through exporting copperfrom Lonr ho' s Rhodesian family accepted favors from the peoplehe was investigating, mines, while claiming it came from (worthless) mines in they went on vacation with them in Malta and on the witness next-doorMozambique. stand various witnesses accused Etheridge of having either Corruption: The entire 1,0000page report is rife with blackmailed them or sought to extort money from them. details of general corruption of all sorts. One of the more Subsequently Etheridge was in charge of the investigation by egregious examples concerned the secret payments made to Scotland Yard on the affairs of Rowland and of Lonrho and Lord Duncan-Sandys, an influential figure in the British Es­ Rowland in personal conversation with me told me that he tablishment and former son-in-law of Winston Churchill. had subverted Etheridge by a promise of a good job with Duncan-Sandys had helped build Lonrho by assuring the Lonrho if the investigation was concluded in a manner satis­ transfer to Lonrho' s control of the extremely lucrative Ashan­ factory to him, Rowland, and subsequently with the investi­ ti Gold Mines in Ghana, which mines remain to this day a gation having been so concluded Rowland employed Etherid­ cornerstone of Lonrho's income. He was later hired as a ge to head Rowland's so-called department of dirty tricks "consultant" and political fixer for £10,000 a year. After a [Rowland's description] at a very substantial salary." severe boardroom crisis in 1973, Duncan-Sandys was brought in to shore up Rowland and Lonrho politically. In Next week: The biggest bank robberyin British history.

EIR November 3, 1989 International 47 PanamaReport by CarlosWe sley

Noriega's model war on drugs Michael Palmer, also doing time George Shultz's recent call to legalize dope suggests why the in a U.S. federal prison, and Ram6n Milian Rodriguez, a convicted drug U.S. turnedagainst the Panamanian commander. money-launderer, are also typical of the "witne$ses" the U.S. has trotted out against Noriega. T he Republic of Panama has led the developed a military strategy. I went It should come as no surprise that way in the war on drugs, far in ad­ to Washington and discussed the Washingtop is working with and on vance of the United States, said the question with very professional peo­ behalf of the drug pushers, given the head of the Panamanian Defense ple, who were working on this at that pro-drug sentiments of top U.S. gov­ Forces (PDF), Gen. Manuel Noriega, time. We elevated the fight against ernment officials. George Shultz, the in an exclusive interview published by drug trafficking and we did then what secretary of state under whose tenure EIDfaofMexico on Oct. 25. Noriega, the U.S. is doing now," said Noriega. the "get Noriega" campaign was who ironically finds himself falsely "The United States has taken ex launched, has just come out of the accused of drug involvement-onthe actly the plan that we had developed closet as an advocate of druglegaliza­ testimony of convicted drug traffick­ since 1972-73, which is to involve the tion. Shultz told a gathering of Stan­ ers he turnedover to U.S. law enforce­ military in the repression, in control­ ford University alumni that the war on ment-said that much of the success ling drug trafficking," he said. "We, drugs is a waste of money. "It seems the U. S. has had in fightingdrugs has and specifically I, were the ones that to me we're not really going to get been due to the assistance and exam­ internationalized this thing, seeking a anywhere I)ntil we can take the crimi­ ple set by Panama. common doctrine to bring it under nality out of the drug business," said "When no one else was turning control. And we sponsored the first Shultz, reported the Wall Street Jour­ over the criminals to the United international conferences," he sai nal on Oct. 27. "We need at least to States, we in Panama were the firstto "We are proud to have been the consider and examine forms of con­ send the criminals back to their re­ ones to unify a working doctrine to trolled legalization of drugs." spective countries for trial, as proven neutralize drug trafficking," said No­ U. S. Deputy Secretary of State by court records," Noriega said in the riega. "There was an advance with Lawrence Eagleburger, ex-president interview. Panama. Everything that is being of Kissinger Associates, attacked No­ That assertion has been corrobo­ done now is Panamanian, and I was riega in a speech at the Organization rated by U.S. law enforcement offi­ one of the participants. of American States Aug. 31, for pre­ cials. In a circular to his field offices "But what did we get? That the venting Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, in April of 1978, then head of the U.S. people who have been tried in the an admitted associate of the Medellin Drug Enforcement Administration United States, handed over by Pana­ cartel, from becoming President of Peter Bensinger stated, "In all of Cen­ manian justice, are now precisely our Panama. tral and South America . . . Noriega prosecutors and accusers." On Oct. 18-19, Juan Karamafi­ is the only one who has been cooperat­ One such is Floyd Carlton, cur­ ites and Manuel Castillo Bourcy ing" with the DEA. rently serving a drug sentence in U.S. pleaded gUilty in a Georgia court In his El Dfa interview, Noriega federal prison. Carlton, a pilot work­ to drug conspiracy and drug-money said that his collaboration with the ing for Pablo Escobar of the Medellin laundering. The two were arrested U.S. in the war against drugs goes cocaine cartel, was captured in 1985 last April , in the company of their back to the early 1970s, when Pana­ as the result of a joint operation be­ employer, ' Panamanian millionaire ma's armed forces were under the tween the Panamanian Defense Carlos Eleta, on charges of conspir­ leadership of Gen. Omar Torrijos. Al­ Forces and U.S. law enforcement. ing to introduce 600 kilos of cocaine though Panama is neither a producer But when the U.S. decided to force per month, worth $300 million, into nor a consumer of drugs, Noriega out Noriega because he stood in the the United States. Eleta was being explained, because of its geographical way of its power-sharing condomini­ funded by the Bush administration to location it had become a transship­ um arrangements with the Soviet run a propaganda campaign against ment point. Union in Central America, Carlton Noriega. BIeta, whose trial has been "I was then in G-2 [military intelli­ was offered a reduced sentence in ex­ set for January, remains free on $8 gence] . It was not our concern,but we change for lying against Noriega. million bail.

48 International EIR November 3, 1989 Report from Bonn by Rainer Apel

The iron fist of Egon Krenz for protest, but rather, work more and Make no mistake: East Germany's new leader is committed to an harder for socialism." Growing numbers ofworkers have early crackdown on the opposition . begun to refuse to "work overtime for the party ." This near-strike situation has put the transport sector in a critical state, together with the drain of truck When Egon Krenz, the new man at litia of the Kamp!gruppen, the riot drivers to the West, as refugees. the top of East Germany's SED party squads ofthe police, and the state secu­ Taking their place in the truck cab­ regime, addressed the East German rity apparatus (Stasi) were put on spe­ ins, NVA soldiers have been driving population on television, it was ob­ cial alert and posted at strategic points truckloads to East Berlin. They are servedthat during most of his speech, within the cities, the railway and high­ given civilian dress, but the fact that a he formed a fist and banged on the way system, the supply routes to the militarization of the transport sector is podium in front of him. key factories, the utilities, and all taking place, is difficult to camou­ The fist was the message. It was a along the border with West Germany, flage. warningto the mass protest movement Poland, and Czechoslovakia. On the regime's side, at an Oct. of East Germany, that the new policy These emergency measures have 25 press conference, Lt. Gen. Fried­ of "dialogue" the regime has offered, remained in effect following the fes­ heim Rausch, the police chief of East will not last for long. tivities. One of the founding members Berlin, declared that peaceful protest Those in the opposition movement of the opposition New Forum group, marches like the one of 12,000 the of East Germany who are less deluded Sebastian Pflugbeil, exposed the day before, were "under the control and better informed, don't take threatening reality in a newspaper in­ of militant elements ... aimed Krenz's new offers of leniency to­ terview Oct. 24: "An immense pres­ against the state, its organs, and the ward protesters seriously. They are sure is building up among the popula­ security forces," and warnedthat pro­ convinced that Krenz only wants to tion," he said, "and the pressure will testers were out for confrontation and win time, that he won't grant substan­ drive people to take to the streets if even planned to march towards the tial concessions, and will call offthe political changes don't occur soon. Brandenburg Gate, which directly dialogue abruptly at the earliest pos­ "I find it quite irritating," he con­ abuts the Wall. sible time. tinued, "that there is an enormous de­ "Such things we cannot tolerate," And Krenz will probably have to gree of nervousness in the security warnedthe police chief. "If it happens move quickly. From Oct. 20-23, forces ....They are still on a high again, we'll have no other option than roughly 500,000 East Germans- alert, and soldiers are not allowed to restore law and order by the means 300,000in Leipzig alone-took to the leave the barracks. Rumors are also available to us ....The street is not streets of East German cities to protest spread that protesters are planning to the place for dialogue." against him. Signatures were gathered tear the [Berlin] Wall down. Is itthe place for police-state inter­ against his election as the new chief "I'd find it much more comfort­ vention, then? On Krenz's directives, of the party, the state council, and the able," he added, "if there weren't that Rausch ordered a bloody crackdown state defense council. Their banners many army trucks with soldiers, light on protesters on Oct. 6-7. Several hun­ called for a separation of powers. artillery pieces, and armored person­ dred were detained and deported, told The guns are already poised. Dur­ nel carriers patrolling the city [East to undress-women most of all-and ing the days before his accession to Berlin] every day." were made to stand hands-up against a power in East Berlin, Krenz, in his Pflugbeil's observations were cor­ wall for hours, while they were repeat­ function as "national security chief' at roborated from other parts of East edly beaten with police clubs. the SED party Politburo, had already Germany. In the industrial south, in The scene-as the victims, imposed quasi-martial law over all of cities like Magdeburg, Dresden, and among them also a few Westernjour­ East Germany. Chemnitz, the situation has grown es­ nalists, reported after their release­ In connection with security prepa­ pecially tense, because the SED re­ was reminiscent of film footage they rations for the 40th anniversary fe stivi­ gime, and Egon Krenz himself in his saw before on television of the Chil­ ties of the SED regime on Oct. 7, the television address, have called on ean military coup in 1973, and of National Army (NV A), the armed mi- workers to "stop taking to the streets Beijing this past June.

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officesof the PLP were disconnected, which er and that have provoked Moscow. First Tu rkey-Syria crisis telephone company technicians said was was Operation Juarez, the extensive politi­ grows as plane do wned "an act of sabotage, deliberately disconnect­ cal analysis of LaRouche on the debt crisis ing the lines." of 1982-83, and his proposal to resolve it. In late September, a hammer and sickle The second was his intense international Two Syrian MiG-21s shot down a Thrkish with the initials "SL" (Sendero Luminoso, campaigG in 1982 to get the U.S. President, propeller-driven survey plane 13 miles in­ the Shining Path terrorband) appeared in the Ronald Reagan, to understand the advan­ side Turkey's Mediterranean province of elevator of the building of the PLP offices. tages for the U. S. of what he later called the Hatay, killing two pilots and three techni­ Several days later, the slogan "Death to In­ Strategic Defense Initiative." cians, on Oct. 21. formers" appeared, signed by Sendero The article reviews the chronology of The downing fo llows a diplomatic crisis Luminoso. This is the slogan customarily LaRouche'sefforts to implement the SOl, which centers on the systematic redeploy­ used by Sendero assassins to terrorize those Reagan's announcement of the SOl policy ment out of Syria of Kurdish PKK terror whom they consider enemies and informers on March 23, 1983, Soviet demands on squads. Thrkish Prime Minister Thrgut Ozal for the army. "Reagan's government that they break with recently warned Syria that it had broken a These threats come in the context of ac­ LaRouche in a clear, categorical and defini­ 1987 agreement and that retaliation may be cusations that the government of Alan Gar­ tive manner," and the subsequent Justice taken . According to the Oct. 23 Financial da is being too softin its war against subver­ Department armed assault on the offices of Times, one form of retaliation may be to cut sion, linked to a campaign in favor of legal­ LaRouche'scolla borators. the Euphrates water flow to Syria, a move izing drugs. Shining Path is killing about 3- The article says LaRouche "considers which may be necessary anyway, since Tur­ 4 people per day in Peru. himself the most importanteconomist in the key's agriculture was affected by a severe The Colombian bureau chief of EIR , Ja­ world. One doesn't know with scientific cer­ drought in the spring, causing a loss of at vier Almario, was also threatened on Oct. tainty whetherthis personage is an idealistic least $2 billion to Tu rkey's economy. 26. A woman called Almario's residence madman; full of projects for the develop­ The PKK rampage coincided with an and asked, "Is Javier there?" When told he ment of man, or a person obsessed by seeing international Kurdish congress in Paris on was not, she responded, "Tell your boss that the Russians as enemies everyWhere. The Oct. 14 chaired by French First Lady Daniel­ we are going to plant a bomb today." Power of Reason invites reflection; he is a Ie Mitterrand. A fe atured speaker was a So­ desperate human who tries to say many viet Kurd who revealed that according to a things that we don't understand. The [fu­ new census, there are more than 2 millions turej history of his activities will tell us Kurds living in the Soviet Union. The con­ Colombianpress breaks whether Lyndon LaRouche is a cynic or a gress provoked protests from Ankara. martyr. What is certain is that today he is The Tu rkish Foreign Ministry has vocif­ silence on LaRouche jailed in a U.S. prison and from there he erously protested the Kurdish actions. So sends us his books, crying with anguish that far, according to Reuters news service, the Colombian daily El Siglo ran an article Oct. he is innocent." Syrian government has made no statement 23 entitled "This man . . . wants to be fa­ on the incident. mous," accompanied by a photo of the cover of EI Poder de La Razon, the Spanish transla­ French expert warns tion of Lyndon LaRouche's autobiography, Narco-t e"orists threaten The Power of Reason. The coverage is a of 'nuclear Sarajevo' break with the heretofore standing policy of LaRouche associates the Colombian press to black out any news The crisis of the Soviet empire poses im­ concerning LaRouche. mense dangers, including the possibility of a Leaders of the International Caucus of La­ The article begins by reporting La­ "nuclear Sarajevo," and the We st is woefully bor Committees, the philosophical associa­ Rouche's charges that he is a political pris­ unprepared to face this, warned PierreLel­ tion founded by Lyndon LaRouche, have oner, comparable "to the famous Dreyfus louche, foreign policy adviser to former been the targets of death threats in Peru and case of France in 1894," that his trial was French Premier Jacques Chirac, in a com­ Colombia. presided over "by a judge he compares to mentary in the Oct. 23 Newsweek-Interna­ "Tell Luis Vasquez that at any moment the Nazi Roland Reisler [Freislerj, and that tional. we will place a bomb at your offices," was he was judged by a corrupt jury on which The article is headlined, "The Soviet the message delivered by an anonymous sat elements of the accusing agencies." Threat Is Real ," with the subhead, "We in caller to the offices of the Peruvian Labor It fe atures LaRouche's war against Hen­ the We st are not aware of the dangers that Party on Oct. 17 against the ICLC leader. ry Kissinger. "It is said that there are two the crumbling of Moscow's empire could Several days later, the telephone lines of the most special questions that frighten Kissing- pose."

50 International EIR November 3, 1989 Briefly

• KURT W ALDHEIM, the Presi­ dent of Austria, was cleared of charges of Nazi war crimes by the Lellouche says the predominant mood Chinese refugees are now also becom­ British Ministry of Defense in a re­ in the We st is one of complacency. This, he ing a serious problem for Hong Kong au­ port released in mid-October. "There says, is "unwise," since the threat from the thorities, because Communist China is re­ is no evidence of any causative, overt East "may be more real than ever. . . . The fusing to take back those who cross into act or omission from which his guilt Soviet Union still has the largest army in the Hong Kong illegally. All illegal Chinese im­ of a war crime may be inferred," the world and some 25,000 nuclear weapons, migrants apprehended in Hong Kong are director of Army Legal Services and a destabilized, but still powerful, Soviet generally turned back over to Red China wrote in a Defense Ministry report. Union is dangerous. To expect that the under a 1982 Sino-British agreement. Al­ NEAL SUER, U.S.S.R. will sit back and watch its govern­ ready there are some 400 illegal Chinese • head of the U.S. ment, its country and its allies unravel, immigrants in Hong Kong detention Justice Department's Office of Spe­ amounts to pure daydreaming. This may centers. cial Investigations "Nazi-hunting" unit, defended use of evidence in well be a lull before a storm. And we should A conference on the refugees opened the Westerncourts that is supplied from be prepared for it. week of Oct. 16 at the United Nations in Communist countries. He was ad­ "We in the We st should recognize that Geneva, Switzerland. dressing a conference on "Nazi war we are not in control of the situation we're crimes" in London Oct. 23. facing," he continues. "Looking at the We s­ t's performance these last few months, one • ARCHDUKE KARL von Haps­ gets the impression that we think we are Kissinger lobbies burg will be the featured speaker at a dealing with a short-term problem. That is "Symposium on the Significance of a grave misunderstanding ....This is no fo r Mexican regime the Jewish People for the Social and time for complacency. It is a time of great The Washington correspondent for the Mex­ Cultural Development of the Haps­ hope, but also of great potential dangers. ican daily La lornada reported on Oct. 26 burg Monarchy" in New York Oct. For half a century we worried of a 1939 that Alan Stoga, president of Henry Kissing­ 27-Nov. I. scenario with a new Hitler launching anoth­ er's private conSUlting firm, Kissinger Asso­ er Blitzkrieg . We may in fact be entering a ciates, has been hired by the governmentof THE SOVIET UNION has dra­ situation far closer to 1914 with many poten­ • President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to lobby matically increased military aid to tial Sarajevos. Only this time they might be for Mexico in the United States. "Stoga is Afghanistan, at a monthly rate nearly nuclear Sarajevos." the contact for everything economic and fi­ equal to U. S. yearly arms deliveries Lellouche attacks We sternleaders for so nancial for the government of Mexico; he to the Mujahideen, Rep. Don Ritter fixating on military disarmament, that the represents, or 'lobbies,' in the government (R-Pa.) told the Washington Times social and economic realities of Eastern Eu­ and the U.S. Congress, for the Mexican Sec­ Oct. 21. Another source noted more rope are being ignored. "All that the United weapons than food are being loaded States has come up with so far is $500 mil­ retaries of Program and Budget, Com­ merce, and Finance. For this reason, he is onto the daily airlifts. lion for Poland-the price of a single B-2 Stealth bomber," he says. frequently seen with Mexican officials, mainly second and third secretaries Jaime • THE REPUBLIKANER party Serra Puche and PedroAspe Armella." of West Germany has demanded that Indochinese refugees The Mexican government's engagement the municipal council of Wiesbaden, of Kissinger's firm is part of its decision West Germany begin negotiations protest 'repatriation' "to jettison the reticence and caution of its with the U. S. Armed Forces on a predecessors in order to play politics 'the withdrawal of U.S. troops and civil­ Over 10,000 Vietnamese refugees in Hong United States way,' and "launch a large­ ian personnel from the area. Kong staged demonstrations and at least scale conquest of its neighbor, the United 3,000 started hunger strikes over the week­ States," beginning by trying to line up "peo­ • TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI, end of Oct. 14- 15 to protest the plight of ple of influence" on its behalf. the Polish prime minister, stressed Indochinese refugees. In one protest against Stoga is quoted saying, "We must do the urgent situation Poland faces in a forced repatriation, Vietnamese carried like Japan, whose industries obtain products meeting with Pope John Paul II Oct. banners saying "Better dead than Red ." from the countries of southeast Asia. We 21. "We need aid. This means food

There are almost 59,000 refugees in Hong need to do the same, but with Mexico--not · ..and before the middle of Novem­ Kong, and only 260 have been willing to only because of the advantage of paying low ber, otherwise it will be too late ," he return to Vietnam. One repatriated man fled wages, but to take advantage of the pro­ said. again to Hong Kong. export structure of this country."

EIR November 3, 1989 International 51 �TIillNational

Thornburgh courts the Russian legal system

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Imagine you are an average U. S. businessman, the president, Chairmanof the SupremeSoviet Lukyanov; Procurator Gen­ say, of a small manufacturing company. You run afoul of eral A. T. Sukharev, Minister . of the Interior Bakatin; and, environmental requirements governingyour activity, because last but not least, KGB chail1l1an Kryuchkov. you can't afford the huge expense involved. You are awak­ Thornburgh summed up the tenor of what he described ened one morningby police, who arrest you, put you in hand­ as his "historic" trip in his account of his meeting with cuffs , and haul you off to jail. The next thing you know, an Lukyanov, which took place shortly after Mikhail Gorba­ officialfrom the prosecutor's officecomes to interrogateyou . chov's scathing attack on reformists in the Soviet press In a strong accent you can't quite place, he berates you for corps. Thornburgh told reportersthat Lukyanov had assured committing "crimes against the environment. " him that Gorbachov's comments did not mean the end of Finally, your curiosity gets the better of your anxiety. You glasnost, but reflected "frustration" with the press. "Frankly, ask him where he's from. "Russia," he says. "Are you an we could sympathize," Thornburgh said. emigre?" you ask. "No," he responds. "I am a Russian lawyer, Over the course of the five days, the American officials and I am in the United States helping the authorities to prose­ and their Soviet counterpartsbroke down into seven working cute environmental criminals. This is glasnost in action." groups, which, according to press statements issued by Is this a nightmare? Unfortunately, it is grim reality. Thornburgh's office, discussed: mutual training and greater Under the guise of helping the Soviets develop the "rule of exchanges of information on drugcases which cross interna­ law," the Bush administration and chunks of the U.S. legal tional borders; criminal, administrative, and other methods of community are conspiring to bring about the ruin of U.S. enforcement of environmental law; organized crime control; constitutional law , in favor of the totalitarian police state in the changes in commercial and international law that must force in the Soviet bloc. accompany expansion of trade and credits of the sort envi­ As part of this effort, there are 17 Soviet legal interns in sioned by Secretary of State James Baker; immigration and the United States working not only with law firms and law emigration issues; the eight-year U. S.-So viet "anti-Nazi" col­ schools, but with prosecutors' offices in several states, on is­ laboration; and criminal justice statistics collection. sues ranging from international trade to environmental crimes. Police-state collaboration The astonishing speed with which the U.S. is moving The net result of the trip was a series of formal and toward convergence with the Soviet legal system was under­ informal agreements for future collaboration that represent a scored by Attorney General Richard Thornburgh's recent trulyfr ightening move toward scuttling the rule of law in the junket to the Soviet Union. Accompanied by a number of United States. These include the formal Memorandum of high-level Justice Department officials, and John Lawn, Understanding which Thornburgh and Soviet Procurator acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Thorn­ General Sukharevcos igned to further U . S.-Soviet collabora­ burgh spent five days in the U.S.S.R. in mid-October, where tion in hunting down alleged Nazi war criminals. This means he met with Soviet legal and other officials, including Minis­ stepping up the existing joint operation between the Justice ter of Justice Yakovlev, Prime Minister Ryzhkov, Deputy Department's Office of SpecialInvestigations (OSI) and the

52 National EIR November 3, 1989 Soviets, to terrorize into silence the intensely anti-Soviet 1986, that he is believed to have colluded with U . S. Attorney emigre communities of the "captive nations" by conducting William Weld to mount a prosecution of LaRouche and his a series of frameups, along the lines of what has already been associates that ultimately resulted in a mistrial. Justice De­ done in the Karl Linnas and John Demjanjuk cases. partment sources have identified Richard as one of the "most According to Thornburgh's office, agreements were knowledgeable" people in the DoJ on the LaRouche case. reached as well on six other "major law enforcement areas ," Robert S. Mueller succeeded Weld for a time as Acting including narcotics trafficking, "environmental crimes," and U. S. Attorney, and personally supervised prosecutor John organized crime. The U.S. and Soviets will now regularly Markham in continuing the Boston vendetta against La­ exchange information on "legal research, court decisions, Rouche. Mueller is believed to have abetted a Soviet disinfor­ and information on the practical implementation of legisla­ mation campaign to pin the assassination of Swedish Prime tion" and "provisions and acts on the structure and rules of Minister Olof Pal me upon LaRouche by leaking the fact procedure of judicial and administrative bodies and other that notebooks of LaRouche's security personnel contained legal institutions." "references" to the Palme murder, the clear implication being Apart from seven working groups that will continue mu­ that LaRouche was somehow behind the assassination. The tual collaboration, Thornburgh and Yakovlev issued a joint notebooks showed that LaRouche's associates had sought to statement committing the U.S. Department of Justice and the discover who had killed Palme-and contained several leads Soviet Ministry of Justice to a future agenda that includes: to Soviet KGB-connected terrorist groups under suspicion "consultations among officials on major legal issues"; "ex­ by Swedish intelligence for the Palme slaying. changes of specialists"; a "study of the possibilities of con­ cluding agreements on mutual legal crimes"; and periodic The gulag comes to America meetings of "specialists from their ministries and other rele­ While Thornburgh was in Moscow, 17 Soviet lawyers vant government agencies dealing with the formulation and and legal scholars were fanning out across the United States implementation of policies and procedures in the areas of to take up public and private legal posts. They are here for emigration and immigration; criminal law, including orga­ six months, under the aegis of a program sponsored by the nized crime, narcotics trafficking, and terrorism; environ­ Soros Foundation and the American Bar Association. An mental law; and commercial law ." ABA publicity sheet says the program is designed to "provide The emphases on environmentalism and drugs has special outstanding young Soviet lawyers with practical experiences significance. The galloping detente between the Bush admin­ in internationaland American law, business practices, juris­ istration and Gorbachov is based in large parton their mutual prudence, and legal education," in "anticipation of growing commitment to an ecological-fascist world order, and a con­ opportunities for joint Soviet-American business, cultural comitant hostility to economic development and national and other ventures and to foster mutual understanding be­ sovereignty in the Third World. It is not too strained to envi­ tween lawyers from our two nations." sion the two superpowers deploying a joint global "environ­ Incredible as it may seem, two of them will be working for mental police," which will carry out a "legal" assault on public prosecutors . Irene Mashlenko, of the U . S.S. R. Minis­ industry and agriculture. The Thornburgh-Sukharev state­ try of Justice, has taken up a post with the State's Attorney ment reported: "Participants in the working group on the for Montgomery Country, Maryland; while Igor Kolesov, a environment agreed on the urgent need to develop more ef­ Latvian procurator, is working for the Attorney General of the fective means of enforcing environmental protection laws in State of Maine, and will then go on to the District Attorney's both nations through such measures as criminal sanctions, office in Portland, Oregon. Though they will not actually be administrative sanctions, and imposition of economic able to bring a case before a court, they will do everything but, charges on excess pollution discharges. " including the interrogation of suspects after their arrest. Nor is it hard to envision Bush and Gorbachov joining Other interns will be working at such prestigious law to topple independent, anti-colonialist Third World leaders, firms as Arnold and Porter, White and Case, and Cleary , under the guise of eliminating drug dealers-Panama' s Gen­ Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton. One, Tatiana Zaharchenko, eral Noriega being a likely firsttarget. is at the University of California's law school, where she is studying the prosecution of "environmental crimes." The 'Get LaRouche' angle One of the interns, Anna Meschanskaya, will be spend­ One aspect of the Thornburgh trip that will be of special ing a three-month stint at the San Diego law firmof Dorazio, interest to EIR readers, was the presence in the Attorney Bamhorst and Bonar. This law firm was contracted in 1987 General's entourage of two key men of the Justice Depart­ by Democratic Party honcho Sol Price, to prevent LaRouche ment's "Get LaRouche" task force-Mark Richard, Deputy associates from petitioning or campaigning on the property Assistant Attorney General , Criminal Division, and Robert of his mega-warehouse stores during the campaign to put S. Mueller, assistant to the Attorney General. It was while the anti-AIDS Proposition 69 on the California ballot. The Mark Richard was "on sabbatical" at Harvard University in suit was finally settled in favor of the LaRouche associates.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 53 The next day, interviewed by the New York Times, Presi­ dent Bush confirmedthat Washington is committed to draw­ ing down its military presence in Western Europe. Asked whether he sees the "beginning of Amerian troop withdrawal Administration vows from Europe," Bush replied, "We've already seen that in our proposal" to the conventional forces talks. "So my answer to save Gorbachov would be definitelyyes ." Strategic folly by Kathleen Klenetsky These pronouncements represent the biggest blunder yet by the Bush administration. To all but the most willfully In a matched pair of speeches this month, billed by the admin­ blind, it must now be clear that the Soviet Union is verging istration as major statements on strategic and foreign policy, on a cataclysmic political and economic crisis (see Feature). Secretary of State James Baker proclaimed that Gorbachov's The handwriting on the wall has been superseded in recent perestroika represents a marvelous opportunity for moving weeks by neon signs flashing the message that a crackdown "beyond containment" to a whole new era of chummy super­ bloodierthan Tiananmen Square is in the offing, that Gorba­ power relations, and, thus, it is obviously in the United chov's future is growing shorter by the minute. States' supreme interest to ensure Gorbachov's success. The Even the London Economise, a leading organ for Western two speeches "clearly demonstrate a new U.S. approach to pro-Soviet "Trust" networks, has just admitted that, under relations with the Soviet Union," Soviet Foreign Ministry the mounting economic and political crisis conditions in the spokesman Vadim Perfiliyevexulted on Oct. 25. "The stated Soviet Union, the role of the Soviet military is not declining, principle of stability and predictability in strategic relations as idiots in the West have been claiming, but is greatly in­ completely coincides with our own views." creasing. In its Oct. 21 issue, the City of London weekly Baker first announced that it is Washington's policy to expresses "fear at the creeping influence of military com­ underwrite perestroika in a speech to the Foreign Policy manders over political and economic decisions that should Association in New York Oct. 17. In what The New York not concern them." With all Gorbachov's talk of reforms, Times hailed as the administration's most open endorsement the fact is that the country is taking on a fully militarized yet of the Gorbachov regime, he repeatedly referred to the appearance, the Economist points out. "historic opportunity' which perestroika supposedly offers Thus far, the administration has not proffered any specific for reversing the Cold War. Gorbachov's "process of peres­ economic initiatives for propping up Gorbachov, at least in troika, combined with our own achievements . . . offers public, except for the proposal Baker extended in his Foreign promise for the future ," Baker claimed. Policy Association address, to supply technical economic "The President has said, and I have said, that we want assistance to the Soviet regime. Yet, there are numerous perestroika. including the restructuring of Soviet-American indications that the administration has several things up its relations, to succeed . . . because perestroikapromises Sovi­ sleeve-among them, extending Most Favored Nation et actions more advantageous to our interests ....By acting (MFN) status to the Soviets. realistically to engage Moscow in the search for mutual inter­ President Bush conveyed to Moscow a private statement ests, we can seize the opportunities inherent in Gorbachov's in mid-October on that topic, which insiders say reflects revolution. By standing pat, we would gain nothing and lose his desire to give Gorbachov such immediate, substantive this chance to revolutionize East-West relations. " assistance. The statement was brought to Moscow by U.S. Baker elaborated in remarks to the Commonwealth Club agribusiness magnate Dwayne Andreas , protege of Anti­ of San Francisco Oct. 23. The rubble-strewn city provided Defamation League bigwig Burton Joseph, and currently an apt setting for Baker's contention that "superpower rela­ president of the U.S.-U.S.S.R, Trade and Economic Coun­ tions are as promising as we have ever found them since cil. Andreas was in Moscow for a huge trade fair organized the Second World War ....Looking forward , we face the by the Council, where over 140 top U.S. corporations met clearest opportunity to reduce the risk of war since the dawn Soviet officials, including Gorbachov, to explore "business of the nuclear age." opportunities" in the Soviet bloc. Baker called for new breakthroughs in arms control, es­ A week later, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher pecially in the area of reducing conventional forces in Eu­ participated in a conference of the Institute for East-West rope, arguing that such cutbacks would allow both the United Security Studies in Frankfurt, West Germany, where a report States and the Soviet Union to save money on defense expen­ was issued calling for giving the Soviets MFN status, as well ditures-when, in reality, they would feed directly into exist­ as involving them in the InternationalMonetary Fund, World ing Soviet plans for streamlining its military into a more Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective offensive force. (GATT).

54 National ElK November 3, 1989 Is the ecological police out of control in the United States? by Rogelio A. Maduro

Since 1983, the Justice Department's Environmental Crimes with the nation's environmental laws." Unit has secured convictions of various people in small busi­ EPA's analysis indicated that few violators got away ness and industries amounting to 248 years of imprisonment without a penalty. Penalties were assessed in an extraordi­ for "environmental crimes." Three times as many individuals nary 92% of those enforcement cases filed by EPA under have been prosecuted as have corporations, the strategy being statutory provisions that provide for penalties. The fines and to jail as many corporate officials as possible. According to jailings are justthe tip of the iceberg, however. Many individ­ Henry Haicht, former Assistant Attorney General for Land uals are jailed for "environmental crimes" by state agencies, and Natural Resources, and now the Deputy Environmental and companies and individuals may have to spend from hun­ Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, "It has been and dred of thousands to tens of millions of dollars to clean up will continue to be Justice Department policy to conduct "hazardous waste sites," under EPA orders . environmental criminal investigations with an eye toward identifying, prosecuting, and convicting the highest ranking Cost to the economy ... corporate officials." The FBI, which had originally What is the real cost to the economy of all this policing? agreed to investigate at least 30 environmental cases annual­ No one really knows for sure. The official figure cited by ly, has actually investigated many times that amount. EPA officials is $86 billion a year. According to EPA, the These prosecutions exemplify the police-state tactics be­ cost of enforcing two statutes, the Clean Air Act and the ing used by environmentalist Gestapo entrenched in the EPA, Clean Water Act, has been over $820 billion since 1970. the Justice Department, and state Attorneys General's of­ Yet industrial experts estimate that the annual cost to the fices, to shut down American industry and destroy small economy, and the taxpayer, is closer to $160 billion a year, and medium-sized industries on behalf of giant cartels. A and that all the differentenvironmental statutes have cost the fanatical body of enforcers has shiftedthe U. S. government's economy over $2 trillion since 1970. policies from investment in basic infrastructure to resolve Companies are not the only target. On Oct. 4, the EPA any "environmental problems," to putting alleged "environ­ and the Department of Justice announced the filing of suits mental criminals" behind bars. against the cities of Detroit, Phoenix, EI Paso, and San Anto­ In an Aug. 16 press release, the EPA boasted that "EPA nio for violating the Clean Water Act, which requires cities set a record in fiscal year 1988 for penalties obtained against to control industrial discharges of "hazardous" wastewaters violators of environmental laws. The agency obtained $36.8 into their sewage systems. Fifty-seven other cities have also million in civil penalties in federal courts and in administra­ been named in recent judicial actions and administrative or­ tive proceedings. " The press release continues, . , EPA's crim­ ders seeking penalties for similar alleged violations. inal enforcement effort also got results in 1988. Fifty defen­ EPA head Reilly and Attorney General Richard Thorn­ dants were convicted of environmental crimes ....Envi­ burgh gave a joint press conference announcing the insane ronmental criminals were sentenced to 30 years of jail time measures. Although penalties against these cities are being in 1988, with 8 years ordered aftersuspension ." sought, the amounts are trivial, most being in the $30,000 EPA Administrator William K. Reilly said in a press range. The cities are not being sued for polluting their water­ conference, "I am pleased to see these record enforcement ways, but for allegedly not being forceful enough in monitor­ numbers. They show EPA and the federal government gener­ ing whether industrial pretreatment processes are eliminating ally are getting tougher on enforcement, which is the corner­ all "hazardous pollutants" before they are discharged into stone of EPA's environmental programs. We expect to see the sewer systems of the cities. These sewer waters are not even more activity in the future as we improve compliance discharged into any rivers, however, since all these cities

EIR November 3, 1989 National 55 have municipal wastewater treatment facilities which treat these seizures of assets to take place at the time of the execu­ all this wastewater, and all are in compliance with the EPA tion of a search warrant, or at the time of the arrest of the standards! So why the suits? accused-long before any trial takes place, let alone a con­ The real purposeof the suits is to establish the precedent viction. If the accused turns out to be innocent, but has lost that any state, city, or municipal body, and its officials, who his business in the process, well, says Hartigan, in effect, fail to fully enforce environmental regulations, can be held that's his tough luck. responsible for any pollution, with the officials facing per­ "We really wanted to hatpmer these people," said an sonal bankruptcy and jail terms. Attorney General Thorn­ officialof the environmental ccimtroldivision of the Attorney burgh warned, "Local officialshave a legal and moral respon­ General's office. "We felt we needed to go after their profits, sibility to those they represent and to other users of our na­ because people save huge amobnts of money by not comply­ tion's waterways to make sure local industries abide by the ing with environmental regulations." rules; otherwise they in effect become polluters themselves Another objective is to makemoney for Hartigan's office. by permitting the very discharge they are supposed to "We hope to make the environmental control division self­ police." sufficient," the same spokesman explained. "The more assets Reilly added, "These lawsuits and penalties against cities we seize and sell off, the more manpower we'll be able to in 21 states are designed to send a message to city and county hire, and the more investigaticlms and prosecutions we'll be officials: The law requires you to control the discharge of able to pursue." toxic wastewaters from industrial sources into your sewer Hartigan's law is particularly odious, because the state's systems." environmental regulations are so strict that many businesses The role of individual states in prosecuting "environmen­ simply cannot afford the expensive new equipment needed tal criminals" is critical in the ecological police-state now' in to meet them. Thus, they have a choice of going out of place. The Attorneys Generalin threestates-Mary Sue Ter­ business, laying off their employees and dealing one more ry in Virginia, Neil Hartigan in Illinois, and John Van de blow to the Midwest's dying industrial economy, or facing Kamp in California-have led the assault with their persecu­ the strong possibility of going to jail. tion of individuals and companies that are "polluting." Innocence is no defense Illinois: Hartigan's Gestapo Innocence is no longer a defense from criminal prosecu­ The state of Illinois, once the center of the nation's manu­ tion in pollution cases, according to attorneyGeorge Manni­ facturing heartland, has taken the lead in creating whole na, Jr. , who warned in the August 1989 issue of Petroleum new categories of "environmental crimes." Using stringent, Independent journal that any oorporate officer can be put in costly, and sometimes simply unachievable environmental jail for the mistakes of his subordinates or even if the compa­ standards, the state is making it impossible for virtually all ny is ignorant of its violations of the complex environmental but the largest industrial interests to stay in business. regulations. Much of this sorry state of affairs can be credited to Mannina writes, "In an ominous development for indi­ state Attorney General Neil Hartigan, who has made the vidual businessmen and women, the courts have ruled that prosecution of environmental crimes a top priority, and is civil liability for violating environmental regulations may be responsible for a series of environmental legal initiatives imposed on a corporate officerpersonally justbecause of that which include some of the harshest penalties on the books. officer's position in the corporation. Thus, a corporation's Hartigan was the driving force behind the recently adopt­ president without direct responsibility for hazardous waste ed Illinois Criminal Damage to the Environment Act, which management can be personally liable for environmental vio­ criminalizes many environmental violations, and imposes lations · because the president had the ultimate authority to fines of up to $500,000 per day per offense, and jail terms prevent the violations. ranging fromtwo to seven years, on those convicted of Class "The issue of criminal liability ," according to Mannina, Two felony charges-for example, the "calculated criminal "is equally disconcerting." He adds, "In considering what disposal of hazardous waste." Previously, the maximum total level of personal knowledge or intent is required for criminal fine was$1 0,000. conviction, the courts have held that environmental laws are The law also contains sweeping forfeiture provisions, public welfare statutes which cl>nlyrequire that an individual which permitthe state to seize vehicles and other equipment, acted 'knowingly' or 'willfully.' In public welfare statutes, plus monetary profits, from firms accused of having violated it has repeatedly been held that 'knowingly' and 'willfully' hazardous waste regulations. only mean intentionally (i.e., you knew what you weredoing Like the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt even if you did not know you were violating the law) and Organizations (RICO) statutes, this provision throws out the voluntarily (i.e., no one made you do it)." concept that a defendant is innocent until proved guilty, a Mannina, who is an attorney at the Washington law firm cornerstoneof the U . S. Constitution. Hartigan's law permits of O'Connor and Hannan, warns,"Criminal conviction does

56 National EIR November 3, 1989 not require proof that you intended to break the law. or even that you knew what the law required. In one case under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. the defendant argued that if he did not know what the regulations required The eco-fascist statutes he could not possibly have had a criminal intent to violate them. The court dismissed the defendant's argument, holding There are over 300 major statutes and over 20,000laws instead that it is completely reasonable to charge those who dealing with the environment on the books today. The choose to operate in a regulated area with complete knowl­ most important is the Superfund. technically the Com­ edge of all the regulatory requirements. . . . In another case, prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation the court held that to sustain a conviction under the Clean and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), which provided Water Act it is only necessary to show that the defendants for "liability, compensation, cleanup and emergency acted willfully or negligently and that they intended to do the response for hazardous substances released into the acts for which they were convicted. The court stated that to environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous convict it was not necessary to prove the defendants intended waste disposal sites." It provided $1.6 billion to clean to violate the law. Still another court held that to satisfy the up abandoned sites. The Superfund Amendments and 'knowingly' requirement for the Clean Water Act's false Reauthorization Act (SARA), passed in 1986, author­ statement provision, the government only had to prove that ized an additional $8.5 billion to financethe Superfund the defendant knowingly (i.e., voluntarily and intentionally) site cleanup effort. In addition, SARA enlarged the made the false statement. The government did not have to enforcement authority for the purpose of making pri­ prove that the defendant knew the law' s requirements or vate individuals and companies pay for any cleanup, purposely intended to violate the law." and increased criminal liabilities. Hazardous waste It should be pointed out that there are more than 300 levels were also redefined, which means that sites major federal statutes dealing with the environment, and over which were in fu ll compliance with Superfund, were 20,000 "environmental laws" on the books. Hundreds of new now in violation. Liabilities were made retroactive, environmental laws are added every year by federal, state, so that individuals and companies that were in fu ll and local governments, at the same time that the definition compliance before selling their property , in some cases of what constitutes "pollution" is constantly shifting within as much as a decade before, were now made liable for the laws already enacted. This makes it nearly impossible for further cleanup. the teams of lawyers in large corporations to keep up with Other major statutes used by the environmentalist the rapidly changing legislation. Smaller businesses, which Gestapo include: Resource Conservation and Recovery are now going bankrupt by the thousands due to all these new Act (RCRA); Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Safe environmental regulations, cannot afford to hire the hordes Drinking Water Act; Stationary Source Air; Mobile of lawyers needed to keep up. Source Air; Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); Mannina says, "The unmistakable message of existing Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act case law is that despite the intricate complexity of the envi­ (FIFRA). ronment's regulatory maze, ignorance of the law and of the corporation's practices are no excuse. The 'presumed knowl­ edge,' 'inferred knowledge' and 'conscious avoidance' doc­ trines proved a basis for individual corporate officercriminal the jail terms indicated for transporting minors for prostitu­ liability. And civil liability can be imposed just because you tion or even assault with intent to commit murder." are a corporate officerwith the authority to stop an environ­ Have all these enormous expenditures benefitedanyone? mental violation." Well, the EPA claims it doesn't know, and it has refused to Child rapists and violent criminals get lower jail terms publish any figures showing any benefit to the American than those accused of "environmental crimes," according to population. The only government official who has dared Reed Hopper, an attorney of the Pacific Legal Foundation. make any statistical claims is White House Counsel C. Boy­ Hopper stated, "We are becoming increasingly alarmed with den Gray , who recently told syndicated columnist Warren the distorted social values some of our prosecutors have em­ Brookes that Bush's Clean Air Act, which will add $20 bil­ braced. Regrettably, this misplaced emphasis on the so­ lion a year to the present whopping $86 billion in environ­ called 'environmental crimes' is becoming institutionalized. mental compliance costs to the economy, may result in 3,000 In 1987-88, the United States Sentencing Commission estab­ fewer cancers in 20 years. In other words, according to Gray, lished new federal sentencing guidelines which include no after $400 billion, there is the possibility that 3,000 people parole prison terms for offenses to the environment. Unbe­ will stand a lower risk of contracting cancer. lievably, these guidelines indicate jail terms for some viola­ All the public hears, however, after hundreds of billions tions of the Clean Water Act which exceed by a wide margin of dollars spent on gadgets such as catalytic converters and

EIR November 3, 1989 National 57 smokestack scrubbers, is that: Pollution is rampant, there are hazardous chemicals, deadly radon, deadlier alar, stalking us everywhere. But where are the bodies of all the people who should have died, according to all the dire predictions? The fact is that U. S. cancer death rates have decreased dramatically. The major exception is cancers produced by cigarette smok­ Judge dislllisses U. S. ing and the use of "recreational drugs" such as marijuana and cocaine, which contain massive amounts of carcinogenic substances. A 1988 report fromthe National Cancer Institute against associates indicates that "the age-adjusted mortalityrate for all cancers combined, except lung cancer, has been declining since 1950 In a 106-page opinion issued in Alexandria, Virginia on Oct. for all individuals and age groups except 85 and above." 25, federal bankruptcy Judge Martin Van Buren Bostetter, There is a 13% decrease overall, with 44,000 fewer deaths Jr. threw out an unprecedented involuntary bankruptcy action than expected. The EPA cannot explain these figures; cancer which had been brought by the federal government in April rates should have soared, according to their calculations. 1987, and had been used by the Feds to padlock the doors of The real tragedy, however, is the cost in human lives and three publishing and distribution companies associated with suffering that these environmental costs have caused. Funds Lyndon LaRouche. Bostetter's ruling is the firstserious blow that would have been used to build, maintain, and repair the U.S. Justice Department's "Get LaRouche" task force basic infrastructure, such as bridges and roads , sewer lines has gotten from any court in this country. and water lines, hospitals and schools, have been diverted to Judge Bostetter found the governmenthad filed the action "protection of the environment." Funding for technologies in "bad faith ," that the government's actions were a "con­ that would deal effectively with pollution, such as plasma structive fraud on the court," and that the action constituted torches, nuclear and fu sion energy, has been decimated. Had "improper use" of the bankruptcy law--especially against even a fraction of the $2 trillion-plus that has been wasted on debtors who were primarily dedicated to disseminating a "environmental protection," been channeled into a techno­ political viewpoint, rather than "private monetary gain." logical driver, such as the space program, all kinds of techno­ The three companies bankrupted by the Feds-Caucus logies would have been created that do not pollute. Distributors, Inc., Campaigner Publications, and the Fusion The same funds would have saved the lives of hundreds Energy Foundation-had published and distributed, to hun­ of thousands of sick, indigent, and elderly people who have dreds of thousands of subscribers, periodicals on issues in suffered and died from lack of financial resources to obtain which the LaRouche movement was involved. medical care. Had the state of Californiaused a small part of First the Justice Department used the 1987 bankruptcy to the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been wasted in wipe out those three companies, and to close down their useless environmental regulations, to instead upgrade the publications. Next, the DoJ, along with state prosecutors in highway system to earthquake standards, all those motorists Virginia and New York, proceeded to try LaRouche and a killed on Interstate 880 on Oct. 17 would still be alive today. number of his associates on "fraud" charges, for failure to repay loans which the companies could not repay, precisely because they had been closed. Thus, in October 1988 Henry Hudson, U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Va. , brought a sham indictment against Weekly EIR La-Rouche and six associates on fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the companies' inability to repay loans. Audio Reports In a three-week railroad trial before Judge Albert V. Bryan, Cassettes La-Rouche and the others were convicted on all counts, hav­ ing been barred by Judge Bryan from telling the jury that • News Analysis Reports it was the government that had forced the companies into • Exclusive Interviews bankruptcy. LaRouche, 67, is now serving 15 years in federal prison for that frameup; all six of his co-defendants are also $5001Year in prison. Make checks payable to: According to Railroad! a book on the LaRouche trial: EIR News Service, P. O. Bax 17390 "To understand the Alexandria case, it is first necessary to Wa shington, D.C. 2004 1-0390 Attn : Press understand the government's unprecedented ...involun tary MasterCard and Visa Accepted. bankruptcy against the LaRouche political movement. . . . First the Alexandria U.S. Attorney shut down three publish-

58 National EIR November 3, 1989 firstof the criminal cases the governmentbrought in its "Get LaRouche" vendetta, ended in mistrial in May 1988, with jurors telling the Boston press they all would have voted for acquittal on the basis of government misconduct. The case was dismissed after the Feds had succeeded in railroading bankruptcy action LaRouche in Alexandria. Government fraud and bad faith Now, in his Oct. 25 finding, Bostetter has ruled in favor of LaRouche of the three companies on each of the major issues they raised: 1) that the bankruptcy procedure was illegal because ing companies, operated by associates of LaRouche, throw­ there was only one petitioning creditor (the U.S. govern­ ing over a hundred employees out of work. . . . This action ment), not three, as required by law; 2) that the petition was was upheld by Judge Bryan"-the same judge who later brought in bad faith, and for an improper purpose; and 3) banned the full bankruptcy story from the criminal trial of that two of the three companies were non-profit organizations LaRouche. "Then," the book continues, "the very same U. S. (Fusion and Caucus), and therefore not subject to an involun­ Attorney"-HenryHudson-"indicted LaRouche and six as­ tary bankruptcy. sociates for not repaying the companies' debts-the same On the first point Bostetter found that "the government's debts which the companies were legally prohibited from deliberate actions and omission of . . . the number of . . . paying!" creditors" was an "improper use of the statute and invocation In April 1989, three months after LaRouche and his co­ of this Court's jurisdiction." In a footnote , the judge stated defendants were imprisoned, Rochelle Ascher was convicted that he found the "government was less than forthright in in Virginia on "securities" fraud charges-again, without revealing its actual knowledge" as to the number of creditors, being able to defend herself by presenting the details of the such that the government action was likened "to a construc­ bankruptcy. She was sentenced by an insanely inflamed jury tive fraud on the Court, wherein the Court may infer the to 86 years in state prison. Her sentence was later reduced fraudulent nature of the government's conduct." (to 20 years, still an obscenity), and her case is on appeal. As to government bad faith, Bostetter found that "The In New York State, on Aug. 31, Marielle Kronberg, government also contended that it felt an obligation to keep Lynne Speed, and Robert Primack were convicted of fraud, the involuntary filings secret. . . . This argument seems to also for nonpayment of loans. On Oct. 24, in Virginia, Mi­ suggest, however, that the government may file an involun­ chael Billington was convicted in a hideous kangaroo court tary petition as a sole creditor in instances where three peti­ (p. 63). Fourteen more LaRouche associates are to be tried tioning creditors are required to avoid publicity of its actions. in Virginia on spurious "securities fraud" charges, as are five While the government believed its needs as a creditor to companies. be unique, the treatment of the government cannot be .... Accordingly, an evaluation of the government's filing on an First time in U.S. history objective level leads this Court to conclude that the alleged Back in April 1987, it was Judge Bostetter himself who debtors have established that the government filed the peti­ signed off on the government's petition to force the three com­ tion in bad faith." panies into bankruptcy; at that time, LaRouche cried "foul !" Third, Bostetter decimated the governmentclaim that the against the government's secret, ex parte action, insisting that companies were operating for benefitof the corporate officers it was wildly illegal-in part because it was ex parte (one­ and/or LaRouche, by asserting that "the debtors strived more sided, with no opportunity for the companies to respond). And to expose the world to its political viewpoint than attain it was the firsttime in U.S. history, that the governmenthad private monetary gain." acted as a sole creditor in a bankruptcy action. LaRouche The judge's condemnation of Henry Hudson's actions charged that such unprecedented and drastic governmentac­ could, by extension, clobber other federal and state prosecu­ tion was meant to muzzle publications associated with him, tors: John Markham and Kent Robinson, the spear-carriers in flagrant violation of the First Amendment. for Hudson's Alexandria case; Virginia prosecutor John Rus­ The pretext the government used for its action, was its sell, who is running Virginia's legal lynchings; and New claim that it was trying to collect on $2 1 million in fines York prosecutor Dawn Cardi, who declared in a sentencing which had been imposed on the companies by a federal memorandum issued Oct. 26 in the "LaRouche" case there, judge in Boston. The governmenthad claimed that the three that "this case was in fact part of a multijurisdictional effort companies, plus the National Democratic Policy Committee, with the Department of Justice and the State of Virginia to had failed to provide documents subpoenaed by a grand jury. prosecute Lyndon LaRouche and various members of his The Boston federal trial of LaRouche and others, the organizations. "

EIR November 3, 1989 National 59 other national security investigations. Letter to the President 2. Files reflecting government interference with fun­ draising efforts by associates of LaRouche, including at­ tempts to harass and intimidate contributors as well as gov­ ernment contacts with banks and other financial institutions for purposes of interfering with fundraising and financial affairsof organizations identified with LaRouche. 3. Documents beginning in June 1982, which reflect that CIA veteran Walter Raymondj while at the National Security Bush must declassify Council as special assistant to the President, circulated docu­ ments within the NSC to discredit LaRouche with the Reagan theLaRouche file ! administration as a "foreign intelligence asset." 4. Correspondence files beginning August-November The fo llowing letter was sent by Warren J. H amerman, the 1982, between Henry Kissinger and his lawyers with then­ chairman of the National Democratic Policy Committee, to FBI Director William Webster, which show that Dr. Kissing­ President George Bush by certified mail on Oct. 20, 1989. er demanded that the FBI investigate LaRouche and deter­ Hamerman has made the text available to the Commission mine who funds LaRouche's organizationsand publications. to Investigate Human Rights Violations and to the press . 5. Documents which reflectefforts to discredit LaRouche and associates as agents of "Soviet disinformation"-as Dear Mr. President: shown in a declassified September 1982 FBI memorandum. This letter is to confirm that my letter of October 11, 1989 6. Documents generated off ofthe Jan. 12, 1983, re­ to you constitutes a formal request under Executive Order quest from the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory 12356 for you to use your executive powers to declassify and Board (PFIAB) to the FBI that an investigation be conducted cause to be released all material on Lyndon H. LaRouche, to determine if LaRouche and 'his political movement might Jr. in the possession of the White House, NSC, FBI, CIA, be "funded by hostile intelligence agencies." State Department, Department of Justice, the President's 7. Documents reflecting efforts by Mr. Leo Cherne, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and other government the vice-president of PFIAB, and/or Mr. Roy Godson, a agencies or inter-agency government task forces. consultant to the NSC and State Department or any of the To reiterate, I specificallyre quest that you invoke your CIA's "private" foundations, such as the Smith Richardson, powers under Executive Order 12356 to declassify and re­ Olin, and Scaife Foundations to discredit LaRouche with the lease all material on Lyndon LaRouche and his associates Administration or to otherwise interfere with the legitimate which was generated as a result of activities initiated under political activity of LaRouche and his associates. authority of Executive Order 12333, 12334, the 1983 "Smith 8. Documents which reflectthe use of press outlets such Guidelines" for domestic FBI operations, and Presidential as NBC and the New Republic by government agencies to Directive 75 and National Security Decision Directive 77 create the climate for the opening of a federal grand jury and/or other authority. Appended to this letter is a partial investigation against LaRouche beginning in October 1984, list of subject areas already known to exist which would be and the seizure of bank accounts of his campaign committees relevant to this declassification request. The list is by no and other publishing companies. means all-inclusive. 9. Documents generated from a nationwide conference My letter dated October 11, 1989 was hand-delivered in February 1986, convened by then-U .S. Attorneyfor Mas­ and logged in as received at the White House at mid-day of sachusetts William Weld in Boston for federal and local October 12, 1989 as well as sent to you via certifiedmail (P- officials. 0494 19329) the previous day. 10. Documents and correspondence which show that Sincerely yours , both news media reports and Soviet officials' claims that Warren J. Hamerman LaRouche was somehow behind the assassination of Swe­ den's Prime Minister Olof Palme were totally false and that Topics related to Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. the CIA was aware of Swedish wiretaps which showed that previously disclosed and now subject to full the Soviets knew of the Palme assassination in advance. declassification 11. Documents which reflect that Gen. Richard Secord I. Documents consisting of at least 4,700 pages which and Lt. Col. Oliver North were gathering information on have been identifiedby the FBI as "responsive" to a Freedom LaRouche and his associates. of Information Act (FOIA) request for all post- 198 1 files 12. Documents which detail the efforts of the FBI and concerningLaRouche and associated organizations compiled CIA to penetrate the LaRouche political movement using under Executive Order 12333, or for counterintelligence or intelligence stringers Fredrick Lewis, Ron Tucker, and Gary

60 National EIR November 3, 1989 Howard. countries about the medical treatment Mr. Lyndon LaRouche 13. Memorandum and correspondence maintained in has received during his stay in prison. the officesof then-General Counsel to the Office of the Vice This news is rather worrying because if such behaviours President, C. Boyden Gray, relating to LaRouche and his are real, they would be against the principles of the medical associates. profession and human rights. 14. Memorandum and correspondence regarding the If this is true, I beg you, dear Mr. President, to intervene April 1987, U.S. Government initiated involuntary bank­ with decision in order to stop such violations of human rights ruptcy proceeding against three publishing companies oper­ which are in contrast with all principles of a democratic ated by associates of LaRouche. country like the United States of America. 15. Documents reflecting active measures through U.S. With my deep respect I am remaining yours very sin- Embassies and other government agencies abroad against cerely, the influence of LaRouche and his associates in Western Prof. Franco Perraro Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. Head Physician of Emergency Medicine Division City Hospital of Udine, Italy

*** Your Excellency, Quite apart frommy parliamentary post, which I hold as an honor, as an ordinary citizen of Peru I fully identify with the principles of our Constitution, which mandates in Article 1: "The human individual is the supreme purpose of society and of the State. Both are obligated to respect and protect Pressure mounts him." Therefore, I am deeply concerned by any kind of hu­ man rights violation, no matter where, against even the hum­ blest citizen of any country. on White House My Christian, humanist, and democratic principles oblige and compel me to ask for just treatment for any person Following is a selection of the letters most recently received tried on account of his ideas, especially when they are based by President Bush concerningthe barbaric treatment of Lyn­ upon social justice and in favor of peoples which-like don LaRouche in prison. Offi cial titles are fo r identification mine-<:lamor for a solution to their economic, social, and only. political problems, to get out of a situation of unjustifiable postponement [of those solutions] . Dear Mr. President, Therefore I cannot but be concernedwi th the case of Mr. I am writing on behalf of Mr. Lyndon LaRouche, who LaRouche and his associates, a case known around the world. was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and who is current­ And, given the above, I invoke your intervention to duly ly serving this sentence in a Rochester, Minnesota prison. I protect the physical integrity of the aforesaid social fighters understand that in spite of his age and his ill health, Mr. in the process they are undergoing, and that true and impartial LaRouche has been forced to perform 7 hours hard labor justice be duly safeguarded, so as to honor those merits which daily in the prison kitchen, and moreover, he has recently have made the United States of America the standard-bearer been severely mistreated and has not received proper medical of justice and democracy in the Americas. I also request that care. I feel very unhappy about this state of affairs, and if the the proceedings of this case be publicly released worldwide. conditions described to me are correct, I would like to appeal Let the "LaRouche case," in the end, add to the proud history to you on humanitarian grounds to ensure that Mr. LaRouche of U.S. legislation, as an example and precedent of fairness is treated with more regard to his age and state of health, and for the legal orders of the other countries of the continent and that he be given a fair trial when the appeals court meets the the whole world. 6th of October. Respectfully, Sincerely, Eliseo Roman Pimentel Abdus Salam National Deputy, Peruvian National Congress Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1979 President, Third World Academy of Sciences *** The jailing of Lyndon LaRouche has sent shockwaves *** round the world and through all patriots, nationalist politi­ Dear Mr. President, cians, and freedom-loving citizens. I have got news from press and colleagues of different We are shocked and amazed by the subversion of natural

EIR November 3, 1989 National 61 justice in the U.S.A. heard before the Court of Appeals. The question we must ask is, "What are the real forces In the hope that you will stepin to get the record straight, now persecuting Lyndon LaRouche in the home of the brave I remain your and the land of the free?" Dr. Grosse-Ruyken Lyndon LaRouche is not in jail for what he has done, but President, German Medical Association simply because he is a brave and patriotic American standing up for American tradition and truth. *=1<* When President Bush releases Lyndon LaRouche, he will The November 1989 issue of Acres U.S.A. published a have proved he stands for the great American traditions of letter from Mr. LaRouche's wife , Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in truth , justice, and freedom for all under God's laws. which she describes how "the l;ircumstancesof myhusband's We hereby petition President Bush to release Lyndon conviction, which cast doubt upon the legitimacyof the entire LaRouche from prison and completely exonerate him so he U.S. legal system, have caused over 800 leading American may continue his vital work for the salvation and guidance legal experts to submit Amicus Curiae statements to the of world politics and economics. Court of Appeals. . . . Another 50 leading law experts from We appeal to the American media to present the true facts Europe have intervened into the case with Amicus Curiae behind the jailing of Lyndon LaRouche, and then the voices letters, including fo rmer Austrian Justice Minister Klecat­ of all freedom-loving people will join us in protesting to sky, Professor Waldstein from the University of Salzburg, President Bush and the U. S. administration against the denial and MaItre VarautfromFrance . The internationallaw expert of the basic constitutional rights of Lyndon LaRouche. Baron von der H eydte compared the LaRouche case with the May Almighty God save and protect America and Austra­ DreyfusAffa ir in France. More than 100 congressmen from lia and the whole world from the world crisis now bearing Brazil have signed a public st�tement demanding justice fo r down on us all. my husband." Ian Murphy, rancher, New South Wales, Australia After describing her husband's wretched circumstances Lindsey Williams, lecturer, author of Where' s the Food? and treatment, Mrs. LaRouche asks the editor of Acres U.S.A. "to bring all possible iinjluence to bear upon Presi­ *** dent Bush, to intervene through all your contacts in the Unit­ Dear Mr. President, ed States, infavor of my husband." The editor appended the I urgently request you to take measures to halt the prison fo llowing comments: conditions in the Rochester, Minnesota Federal Penitentiary , imposed on 67-year-old Mr. Lyndon LaRouche, which are We have checked the facts of this case, and find them as seriously threatening his health, and moreover that a fair stated. appeal of the case can be guaranteed. Acres U.S.A . will have a followup on how the federal Bonaventure Meyer prison system has become a veritable Gulag for certain politi­ President of the Swiss Association Pro Veritate cal and economic prisoners. For now, it must be noted that Trimbach, Switzerland judicial handling of the LaRouche case has been similar to the handling of cases discussed monthly in our Unfiltered *** News column. Lyndon LaRouche-as have some farmers­ Dear President Bush, mopped up the floor with the prosecution in a Boston trial. I receiveda most wrenchingplea of assistance from Mrs. The case should have gone tojury, which would have ren­ Zepp-LaRouche, whose husband is in state prison in Roches­ dered an innocent verdict, a poll of jurors indicated. La­ ter Minnesota. I am not aware at this point in time why Mr. Rouche stood accused of conspiracy to defraud in raising LaRouche was condemned or what U. S. laws he broke. That political contributions. This ill what the feds fall back on is immaterial here. The reason for my concern, is the treat­ when everything else fails, Senator Robert Dole once said. ment he is being subjected to by the prison wardens, which By declaring a mistrial, the Boston judge could hand the case represents a blatant breach of the human rights the American back to the federal prosecutor$ for transfer to another more state has pledged to protect. favorable clime and a new trial. The new judge in Washing­ As the president of the German Medical Association, I ton studied the case, issued an order that prevented LaRouche am gravely concerned for Mr. LaRouche's health. I appeal from using the evidence that so infuriated the Boston jury, to you to look into the inhuman prison conditions in Roches­ and in effect performed a miracle by having the federal rail­ ter, to assure that no other prisoner ever has to go through a road to jail a political outsider runon time. Acres U.S.A . will similar experience as described in the attached letter to me debate what constitutes appropriate farm technology with by his wife. Secondly, I ask of you on behalf of all supporters LaRouche, but our opposition to some of his technocratic of human rights, to order Mr. LaRouche's transfer to another ideas is not the same as approving an outbreak of judicial institution where he can gather his strength before his case is gangsterism.

62 National EIR November 3, 1989 The final week of the trial , in which Billington was sup­ posed to be able to put on his defense, was nothing more than a continuation of the collaboration among judge, prosecutor, and defense lawyer, against Billington. First the judge denied Billington's motion for a mistrial. In that motion, Billington 77 years documented how Gettings had become so hostile to Billing­ in jail ton's interests, that it had become impossible for Billington to testify in his own defense. Then Gettings agreed to a series for politicalor ganizing of six stipulations with the prosecution which kept out crucial exculpatory evidence while at the same time helping the Michael O. Billington, a political associate of Lyndon La­ prosecution . For example, Gettings agreed not to call two key Rouche, was sentenced to 77 years in prison by a Roanoke, witnesses, FBI agent Richard Egan and wealthy Connecticut Virginia jury on Oct. 24. The outrageous sentence ended one contributor Barbara Newington, both of whom could have of the most barbaric judicial proceedings in U. S. history and given testimony about how the prosecution of Billington was reflected the fact that Billington was prevented from putting part of a dirty tricks operation of the U. S. intelligence com­ on his defense by a concert of action among the prosecutor, munity directed against LaRouche. the judge, and the defense attorney. The judge also refused to consider an amicus curiae brief Billington was convicted on nine counts of "securities filed by attorney John Flannery, which supported Billing­ fraud"-failing to register to sell securities, selling unregis­ ton's claim that Gettings's hostile actions had violated Bill­ tered securities, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. ington's right to an effective defense. Never before have the Virginia "securities" laws been applied On the day the case went to the jury, Billington filed a to the solicitation of political loans-a practice which, if memo to the court entitled " Applications Upon Conviction." applied generally, would shut down virtually all political In the memo he said, "I did not wish to be convicted by the fundraising in the state . Billington was indicted in February jury hearing my case, but I fu lly expected that would be the 1987, along with 15 other LaRouche associates. He is the result given the difficulties I suffered for insisting upon a second defendant to stand trial , following Rochelle Ascher, jury. . . . I regret to say that it appears in retrospect that I who was convicted in April 1989 and sentenced by the jury insisted on my right to a jury trial at the expense of my right to 86 years in prison. The judge later commuted her sentence to a counsel of my choice . . . I am . . . asking the Court to to 10 years in prison and 10 years on probation. She is cur­ permit Mr. Gettings, whom I fired before this trial began , to rently free on bond pending appeal. withdraw so that counsel of my choice may substitute to represent my interests-at least post -trial ." 'Judicial barbarism' In a statement released immediately upon hearing of the sentence, Nancy Spannaus, a LaRouche Democratic candi­ date for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, said: "The conviction of Michael Billington today is the result of a process of judicial barbarism in which the prominent organizer in the LaRouche movement was denied his most elemental constitutional rights. Billington was confronted on theeve of trial with his lawyer calling him insane, and joining the prosecution. He was not allowed to change lawyers and thus went through the entire trial unrepresented. "As a result of this denial of his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel, Billington could not call the witnesses he wished. Nor could he himself go on the stand as he had planned from the beginning. "Billington's lawyer, Brian Gettings, wished to show that a jury trial would be a disaster and he acted to ensure that result. "The verdict also directly reflects the venality of Com­ monwealth AttorneyGeneral Mary Sue Terry, who has deter­ mined to wipe out the LaRouche movement by any means necessary, and doesn't mind ripping up the U. S. Constitution and violating all fundamental fairness to do so." Michael Billington, with his wife Gail.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 63 Nevertheless, clearly the situation is alarming, especially since there are many instances of abuse that go unrecorded. Book Review Child abuse, like more restricted Satanic practices, tends to be generational. Abused children tend to become abusers when they grow up-between 70 and 85% of child victims become sexual abusers. The American Humane Society de­ fines the average age of child sexual abuse victims as 9.3 years. It reports that 27% ofvictims are 0-5 years old, 61 % between 7 and 12 years, and 25% between 13 and 18 years. In defense of children As the permissiveness of the society has increased, par­ ticularly over the past 20 years, the barriers against adult­ by Carol White child sexual activity seem to have come down. Around half of all child abuse occurs in the home itself, that is with a parent or close relative as the abuser. It is not too much of an exaggeration to place parents of the late 1960s generation On Trial:America's Courts andTheir who were subjected to the more extreme counterculture in Treatment of SexuallyAbused Chlldren the category themselves of abused children. Many of these by Billie Wright Dziech and Judge Charles R. are unfitto become parents. Schudson Children are also increasingly subject to abuse by profes­ Beacon Press. Boston. 1989 sionals whom working parents trust with the care of their 227 pages . hardbound. $24.95. children. As more mothers are forced onto the job market while their children are young, the opportunities for Satanists and pedophiles expand. Even where the child is abused by a One fail-safe metric of the survival potential of a society parent, that parent will frequently be drawn into, and draw is its treatment of children. Today children are almost an the child into group activity. endangered species. From the time of conception on, their While the etiology of pedophiliacbehavior and of Satanic worth is systematically devalued. ritual use of child victims is not identical, abuse of children On Trial mounts a vigorous advocacyon behalf of abused tends to attach to other criminal activity, such as the sale of children. Its focus is the virtual impossibility under prevail­ pornographic pictures taken during the incident. In some ing judicial practice, to bring a perpetrator to justice. The cases, this pornography may terminate in the death of the authors document how the U.S. court system contrives to child. It is believed that both theSon of Sam killings and the prevent prosecution of even the mostblatant child abusers, by Atlanta Child murders were the subject of "snuff' films. making demands upon the child witnesses which are almost impossible for them to satisfy. The picture today The book is a sober account of how the judicial system is There has been an effort by libertarians to discredit par­ stacked against children and their parents. It is a particularly ents and others, who seek to expose the growing epidemic bitter irony-although a point which the authors do not of child abuse, as either hysterical or, worse, as publicity make-that in the United States the innocent are framedand seekers. They say that the recent wave of discoveries of child railroaded to prison, while degenerates go scot free-under abuse has taken on the natu� of a witch hunt, and that a protection of the justice system. network of parents and social service workers is encouraging Statistics show that one in three-to-four American fe­ children to manufacture standardized tales of abuse. The males amd about one in six males have been sexually victim­ authors of this book convincingly rebut this vicious lie. ized in their youth. The American Humane Association in The libertarianism which has become hegemonic and 1984 reported 200,000 cases of child sexual abuse in that one which now threatens to overwhelm Western civilization, year alone. This does not mean that all ofthese children were with the replacement of Judeo-Christian moral values by subject to Satanic rites, or even that they were violently hedonistic and in some cases overtly Satanic values, has mistreated. not occurred by accident. Individuals such as Dr. Benjamin Abuse occurs by definition, when an individual five years Spock and Alfred Kinsey were key in deliberately engineer­ older than the minor, commits a sexual act with the subject, ing this cultural shift. (Kinsey. by the way, was helped in his or a sexual act of any sort occurs with a child under the project of studying American sexual mores by none other age of 12. But abuse may involve only the initial phase of than Kenneth Anger, the avant garde film maker who has enticement, including relativelymild touching, as well as the laid claim to the mantle of Satanist Aleister Crowley. Very most vicious sodomy and so on . In that sense the statistics evil men and women conspired to produce the counterculture can be misleading. and the continued degeneration which has followed since

64 National EIR November 3, 1989 the 1960s. The Kinsey Report was intended to portray the dants-where the children were being grilled in this manner hegemonic moral values of the immediate postwarperiod as but the defense attorneys and the judges were on record con­ merely a hypocritical charade. Kinsey's message was every­ fusing the children's names and not recollecting specifictesti­ one does it, so why don't you? mony which occurred during the trial ! The following quotation from Kinsey's book, Sexual Be­ A recent CBS movie, "Do You Know the MuffinMan?" havior in the Human Female, is appropriately cited by the was an effective fictionalizationbased on the McMartin pre­ authors, as relevant to their particular subject: "It is difficult school case. Typically of the anti-child lobby, the Washing­ to understand why a child, except for its cultural condition­ ton Post television critic, Tom Shales, previewed the movie ing, should be disturbed by having its genitalia touched, or as a piece of cheap sensationalism. disturbed by seeing the genitalia of another person. . . . Over 400 children were involved in Satanic abuse at the Some of the more experienced students of juvenile problems McMartin pre-school, a prestigious day care center in Long have come to believe that the emotional reactions of the Beach, California. These children recounted experiences of parents, police and other adults . . . may disturb the child being forced to participate in pornography, rape , sodomy , more seriously than the contacts themselves. The current eating feces, engaging in sex acts with animals, animal muti­ hysteria over sex offenders may well have serious effects lation, Satanic rites, and even corpse viewing. The media on the ability of many of these chidren to work out sexual discounted the children's stories as inherently implausible. adjustments some years later in their marriages. " The manager of the center and her son have finally been brought to trial, but most of the children have been eliminated The child's day in court as witnesses in the case, and the Satanic aspects of the abuse Those who would defuse the present outcry against the have been suppressed by the prosecutor, who is aiming for a abuse of children, will cite supposed instances in which chil­ conviction on straight sexual abuse. dren have told exaggerated stories, or contradicted them­ The case has dragged on interminably. The preliminary selves, thus supposedly discrediting their testimony. The au­ hearing alone, took 18 months. Some children were made to thors document how the investigative process drives the chil­ testify before prosecutors and defense attorneys for more dren to embellish their accounts, by subjecting them to ad­ than a week; one 100year-old gave testimony for 16 days. versarial cross examination. Various similar accounts are given in the book, all Children who have suffered abuse are usually shamed by making the same case. The authors give a number of the experience. They frequently will have been threatened recommendations which would redress the situation. One by their abusers, not only with harm to themselves, but to key recommendation is to allow the admission of parent their families as well. Children who have been subjected to and medical and social work testimony of children's Satanic rituals may be even more terrorized by what they accounts of abuse, where the children themselves are too witnessed. The very young are easily frightened by situations disturbed to appear in court. Such evidence is now dis­ which are strange to them. They will tryto propitiate an adult missed as hearsay, but there are exceptions to the hearsay who is questioning them, and if pressed hard enough, will law currently in other situations. They also suggest that seek to answer questions which they do not really understand, children be protected from having to face their abusers in or in some instances simply "admit" that the abuse which open court, when they testify. they suffered did not really take place. The latter will typical­ If there is a criticism of this book, it is only that the ly occur where they feel that they are not being believed. authors have taken the honesty of officers of the court, at Young children have particular difficulty in placing face value. Unfortunately countless experiences by parents events in time and space. They also do not necessarily under­ have raised the question of whether Satanists or at the least stand what is occurring, although they can certainly testify pedophiles, have not situated themselves in key positions in to physical abuse to which they are submitted. Their memo­ law enforcement and the courts in order to protect these ries are not as good as those of adults, and memories also abuses. tend to fade faster. The existence of the North American Man-Boy Love They are hesitant to revealing what has occurredto them, Association (NAMBLA), which lobbies for lowering the even to sympathetic adults. Most court proceedings are noth­ age of consent for minors, is a case in point. Ethan Geto, ing short of exercises in brutality, in �hich the children are who was a major fundraiser for the campaign of New York treated as adversaries. Investigations preceding trial may be State Attorney General Robert Abrams, is a leading gay almost as threatening. Children havealso been held account­ rights activist with connections to NAMBLA. able for explaining why their accounts deviate in particulars No doubt the authors are aware of these and similar in the telling, even though they may not remember each atrocities, but they have rigorously delimited the case which particular debriefing to which they have been submitted­ they are making, so as not to diminish its credibility, in particularly afteryear-long time lapses. The authors cite one order to convince the widest possible audience. In this, we such instance-which resulted in the acquittal of the defen- cannot fault them.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 65 30 Ye ars of Menticide : Part III

The Tavistockians today: Who fu nds the mind benders? by Steven Meyer and Jeffrey Steinberg

Part I of this series appeared in our Oct. 6, 1989 issue, page compromise was struck, such that, even as the CIA was 34; Part II appeared in the Oct. 20 issue, on page 44 . being established, parallel private agencies such as the Rand Corporation and the Ford Foundation were coming into be­ Although the Rockefeller Commission and Church Commit­ ing as well. From the outset, Rand, the Ford Foundation, tee revelations about the Central Intelligence Agency's mind and other foundations and think tanks were firmly under control experimentation during the 1950s and 1960sproduced the top-down control of the "utopians," whose vision of a some sensational headlines in the liberal press, they appear to postwar world federalist arrangement was reflected in their have had very little impact on stopping or even slowing down sponsorship of the "post-industrial society" myth, the ecolo­ the pace of experimentation today, including large-scale ap­ gy movement, the New Age, and the drug-rock counter­ plications of the MK-Ultra research. And it's no wonder. culture. From the very outset, the role of the CIA was never This world federalist faction has also been in the fore­ fundamental to the efforts. Although some of the boys at the front of efforts to revive the Trust, a global power-sharing CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters became genuinely arrangement with Bolshevik Russia that had been attempted enthusiastic about the potential applications of LSD-25, and at the time of the Russian Revolution and up through Stalin's related non-pharmacological forms of New Age mind bend­ consolidation of power in the 1930s. ing, the apparatus which Lyndon LaRouche had labeled "the A review of the Rand Corporation's major projects dur­ real CIA" back as early as 1973 had very little to do with the ing the height of the official MK-Ultra and MK-Search federal government or the agencies created by the National efforts reveals that there has always existed a parallel, private Security Act of 1947. That "real CIA," perhaps better known probe of mind control methods. New Age gurus Aldous as the Anglo-American financial Establishment, while main­ Huxley and Lord Bertrand Russell were both actively in­ taining agents within the official intelligence agencies, and volved with the Rand efforts to induce "expanded conscious­ at times even controlling it from the top down (as during the ness" through LSD-25, marijuana, and other drugs. tenure of Adm. Stansfield Turner and the current reign of According to author Gordon Thomas, whose 1989 book William Webster), always maintained its covert operations Journey Into Madness profiled the CIA's role in the mind­ capabilities outside of and independent from the institutions bending experiments, the private research into mind-control of government. drugs and related non-pharmacological research had reached As LaRouche underscored in his mid- 1 970s exposes of such a peak of activity by the mid-1 960s that CIA director the conspiracy centered around Great Britain's Tavistock Richard Helms sought out private funding to keep some key Institute, the Anglo-American financial Establishment oper­ researchers on the governmentpayroll in the face of lucrative ates principally through an octopus-like structure made up offers from major pharmaceutical houses and research of think tanks, tax-exempt foundations, and law firms which, centers. in tum, act to spawn civic movements, protest groups, politi­ cal action committees, and even pseudo-religions, as it suits The American Family Foundation their purposes. In the two previous parts of this series, we identifiedthe Back in the immediate postwar period, some Establish­ American Family Foundation as one of the key private succes­ ment "spooks," such as IBM founder Thomas "Pop" Wat­ sor agencies to MK-Ultra. MK-Ultra stalwarts such as Dr. son, argued that the covert operations function should be Louis Jolyon West and Rabbi Maurice Davis joined AFF at its run exclusively through private agencies such as the major founding in 1979. West is formally listed as the director of the Anglo-American multinational corporations, banks, and law AFF's research advisory committee; Davis is a major figure firms, as they had been prior to World War II. An uneasy in the AFF-affiliated Cult AwarenessNetwork (AFF and CAN

66 National EIR November 3, 1989 jointly run the International Cult Education Program). From From 1980-84, the Scaife Family Foundation gave day one, AFF had no trouble lining up private funding. The $125,000 to the AFF. It gave an equal amount up through bulk of its activities are conducted by private psychiatrists, 1986, and gave $25,000 and $35,000 in 1987 and 1988. psychologists, and social workers who donate volunteer time • The Bodman and Achellis foundations, both based in to the AFF, augmenting the efforts of a small full-time paid New York City, were established with the endowment of staff. George M. Bodman, a Wall Street broker who held promi­ The AFF serves as a clearing house for a vast network nent positions with the War Trade Board and the American of "mental health" and forensic psychiatric professionals, Red Cross during the two world wars, and who was a director who in tum command tens of millions of dollars in resources of the Fifth Avenue Bank and the Bank of New York. through their positions with university-based research cen­ The Bodman Foundation, like the Scaife Family Founda­ ters and hospitals. Dr. West, for example, a former Air tion, has been a longstanding financier of such right-wing Force major who was assigned to MK-Ultra research at the social democratic "Trust" projects as Leo Cherne's Interna­ Veterans Administration hospital in Oklahoma City, current- tional Rescue Committee and such New Age centers as the 1y heads the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, the largest Henry Street Settlement House and the Temple of Under­ behavioral science research center in the United States, with standing. The Temple of Understanding, housed at the New a staff of over 1,000 full-time doctors and researchers. York Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, is a hub Because the AFF receives such heavy infusions of indi­ of Satanic-Luciferian activity among the upper crust of the rect financing, it is useful to review its public sources of New York-to-London Establishment. direct funds. According to Internal Revenue Service files, Both the Bodman and Achellis foundations are currently from 1979-88 AFF received $1-2 million in operating funds housed at the Manhattan law officesof Morris and McVeigh, from a select group of private philanthropic foundations, the whose senior partner, Lewis Spencer Morris, was a longtime most prominent being the Scaife Family Foundation, the associate of George Bodman at the Bank of New York and Bodman Foundation, and the Achellis Foundation. (In recent other Wall Street firms. Guy Rutherford, a partner in the years, the Swig Foundation of California has joined the firm, is the president and treasurer of the Bodman Founda­ list of regular supporters.) Even a cursory look at those tion, and was the vice president and treasurer of the Achellis foundations provides some leads as to the specific identities Foundation. of some of the Establishment's leading occultists. In 1979, the same year that the Morris and McVeigh firm • The Scaife Family Foundation is part of the philan­ was processing the Bodman and Achellis foundations' seed thropic and tax exempt apparatus of the Pittsburgh-based financingof the American Family Foundation, it was also rep­ Mellon-Scaife family. Richard Mellon Scaife, a pivotal fig­ resenting the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Process ure in all the family foundation efforts, is a financial angel Church, one of the important Satanic groups to emerge during of the U.S. right-wing social democracy. Richard Mellon the 1960s, had been widely linked to both the Charles Manson Scaife provided initial financial backing to one of Rabbi mass-murder cult and to the Son of Sam satanic killers of the Maurice Davis's proteges, Dennis King, a member of the late 1970s. After having skipped out of the West Coast follow­ occult New York Humanist Society, to pen a slanderous ing the Manson Family arrests, the church changed its name book about Lyndon LaRouche. Scaife came a hair's breadth to the Foundation Faith of the Millennium. away from being criminally prosecuted for tax evasion dur­ The church changed its name again after investigative re­ ing the Iran-Contra probes of 1987. searcher Maury Terry exposed the Process/Foundation Faith The Mellon branch of the Mellon-Scaife empire has links to "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz. On Oct. 23, 1979, long been associated with both the occult and mind-control the Foundation Faith of the Millennium changed its business projects. Paul Mellon, the scion of the family for decades, name to the Foundation Faith of God and proclaimed itself a was trained in the 1930s in Ascona, Switzerland, a major "Christian outreach ministry." The law firm which handled international occult center which was for years a watering that transaction was Morris and McVeigh. The partner who hole for British Satanist Aleister Crowley. Mellon studied handled the filing was Rainer Greeven. under Carl Jung, the pro-Nazi psychoanalyst. Mellon today • The Swig Foundation, a San Francisco Bay area fund, holds the largest private collection of books and manuscripts underscores the longstanding close collaboration between the on the occult in the world. Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the AFF. Melvin Swig, Another family figure, the late Billy Mellon Hitchcock, the foundation's trustee, is a Bay Area real estate mogul who was a major player in the early privatization of the MK-Ultra is both a national commission and regional board member work on LSD-25, financing Timothy Leary's offshore LSD­ of the ADL. Swig is also an executive board member of the manufacturing and distribution operations in the Caribbean American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the of­ and joining with Leary to found the Brotherhood of Eternal ficial lobby of the State of Israel inside the United States. He Love, a New Age underground movement linked to both runs an AIPAC-linked political action committee called San drug trafficking and international terrorism. Franciscans for Good Government.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 67 Congressional Closeup by William Jones

Senate moves to protect said Burton, "we are going to have 4 recentlybeen a rash of civil RICO ac­ right to demonstrate million people in this country dead or tions being used to suppress demon­ On Sept. 19 the Senate passed an dying of this terrible disease and prob­ strations and public protests which amendment to the Appropriations Bill ably another 25 to 30 million infected" have nothing at all to do with racke­ for the Departments of Veterans' Af­ by 1999. teering activity." fairs and Housing and Urban Devel­ At the cost of$5 per test, the entire While providing no details, the opment, denying funding to munici­ American population from the ages of senator said that the Senate Resolution palities which fail "to adopt and en­ 12 to 65 could be tested annually for reforming RICO "includes appro­ force a policy prohibiting the use of less than $650 million, Burton priate language to remove legitimate excessive force by law enforcement explained. The financial cost of not First Amendment activity from the agencies . . . against any individuals doing enough now will be mind-bog­ threat of RICO suits." engaged in nonviolent civil rights gling. "When we reach the 21 st centu­ demonstrations. " ry ," he said, "if a large portion of our The amendment, proposed by teenage population is infected with Sen . William Armstrong (R-Colo.), AIDS, and they are dead or dying over Scherer tells Congress: is designed to prevent the abuses of the next couple of decades, it is going Gorbachov out by summer various cities' police forces in break­ to put a tremendous burden on the In meetings with half a dozen Repre­ ing up pro-life demonstrations outside economy, not to mention the health sentatives and Senators, former West abortion clinics. "The Senate abhors costs involved." He added, "For each German military intelligence chief, the kind of beating and manhandling person who has the AIDS virus it costs Brig. Gen. Paul Albert Scherer (ret.), of peaceful demonstrators we've around $100,000 to take care of them outlined how the Soviet Union would heard about in recent press accounts, until they die. be convulsed by strikes before Christ­ and we will not tolerate it," he said. "The nation still lacks the most ba­ mas, leading to the ouster of the Gor­ "Our desire is to send an unmistakable sic knowledge to deal with the epi­ bachov group from positions of power message . . . that we are not going demic, researchers concluded. Until by the summer of 1990. to stand still and watch as nonviolent the data exist to make sound projec­ General Scherer, until 1977 the protesters are manhandled, brutal­ tions, public policy will continue to head of the military intelligence sec­ ized , and mistreated in the way de­ flyblindly into the growing storm. We tion of the West German Bundeswehr scribed in the news accounts." are facing a real pandemic ," he said. (Army), impressed on them the need The House version of the HUD to fight tooth and nail to prevent any Appropriations Bill contained a less U. S. troop withdrawal from Western stringent provision which does not re­ Europe until the summer of 1990. By quire communities applying for HUD Senate Judiciary to that time, General Scherer assured grants to certify that they have adopt­ consider RICO reform them, the situation in the Soviet Union ed and are fo llowing a policy banning Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) would have become so apparently the use of excessive force . said on Oct. 24 that the Senate Judicia­ chaotic and dangerous that there ry Committee would soon be taking would be very little supportfor such a action to reform the Racketeering In­ withdrawal . fluenced and Corrupt Organizations Some congressmen assured him . Burton: 25-30 million Act (RICO). that he need not worry , as the pace AIDS infected by 1999 "While the RICO statute provides of the legislative process would not Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) urged fe l­ an important law enforcement tool for allow for any quick decisions to be low legislators in remarks on the prosecuting organized crime racke­ made within that time-frame . House floor on Oct. 19 to put pressure teers, RICO's civil action provisions on health agencies and President Bush have increasingly been used for pur­ to implement a program which in­ poses having nothing to do with the ' cludes mandatory testing, contact law's original purpose," said the Sen­ We should not panic' tracing, and reportability for the AIDS ator. "Perhaps the most alarming SEC chief tells Congress virus. "If the United States does not abuse has been the threat it is present­ In testimony before the House sub­ come up with a strong policy soon," ing to freedom of speech. There has committee on Telecommunications

68 National EIR November 3, 1989 and Finance on Oct. 26, Richard A Turkish Foreign Ministry which would allow the use of federal Breeden, chairman of the Securities spokesman in Ankara said the U.S. money for abortions for poor women and Exchange Commission tried to government had been notified of the whose pregnancies result from rape or blame the Oct. 13 mini-crash on Wall sanctions a week ago and that they are incest. Street on the lack of information about already in effect. Sources in Washing­ Since 1981, federal law has per­ takeover financings and trading strate­ ton said the sanctions include a tempo­ mitted Federal financing of abortion gies by Wall Street brokerage firms. rary halt to U.S. Navy port visits to only when the pregnant woman's life "We should not panic in the face of 1.'urkey, a halt to bombing missions by is in danger. The vote in the House these events," said Breeden, who U. S. F- 16 planes in a test range in on Oct. 25 was 23 1-191 in favor of claimed that they demonstrated the the Konya Plateau, restrictions on the overturning the presidential veto, 51 "strength and resiliency of the na­ modernization of some U.S. military short of the two-thirds required. The tion's markets." facilities, and suspension of meetings vote , coming in the wake of the deci­ Breeden argued that greater dis­ between the U.S. Embassy and the sion of the Pennsylvania legislature to closure by the brokerage firms would Turkish governmenton military coop­ implement more stringent abortion allow the regulators to prevent stock eration. laws, was considered a victory by the market selloffs from turning into fu ll­ pro-life lobby . President Bush, who blown financialpanic s. The chairman had earlier tried to finda compromise of the Securities Industry Association on the abortion issue, fe lt that further Edward O'Brien, however, said that Congress exempts some vacillation on a controversial issue disclosures of the identities of traders programs from cuts would strengthen the growing image and their strategies would "compro­ In an overwhelming 40 1-18 vote on of the President as waffling on major mise legitimate market needs for con­ Oct. 24, Congress decided to exempt matters of principle. fidentiality," driving business abroad disaster relief aid for the San Francis­ to foreign stock exchanges and bro­ co earthquake and Hurricane Hugo kerage hous es. Although attempting from the spending limit provisions of to assuage nervous legislators , the Budget Act and the Gramm-Rud­ B rady balks at Breeden admitted that stock market man Act, so as not to let it be affected stock market regulation volatility was likely to continue. by the Gramm-Rudman sequester Treasury Secretary James Brady which President Bush signed into ef­ balked at more stringent restrictions fect on Oct. 16. This is the first con­ on the stock markets, during hearings crete step that Congress has taken in before the Senate Banking, Housing, the aftermathof the first Gramm-Rud­ and Urban Investigation Committee Turkey uses sanctions man sequester to eliminate the damag­ on Oct. 26. The senators were con­ against u.s. military ing effects of that particular piece of cerned with the violent fluctuations on In reaction to the recent U.S. Senate legislation. the markets since the Oct. 13 collapse , resolution memorializing the k illing At the moment, however, the pro­ and are desperately seeking regulatory of 1.5 million Armenians by the Otto­ ponents of the "balanced budget" still means to prevent a repeat of the Octo­ man Empire between 1915 and 1923 , hope that these exemptions remain the ber 1987 crash. the Turkish government announced "exception to the rule" and thatfurther Brady agreed with the committee on Oct. 25 , that it was imposing tem­ crises would not further undercut the that the Securities and Exchange porary sanctions against U . S. military Gramm-Rudman austerity criteria. Commission needed more powers , al­ activity in Turkey. though he warnedthe legislators about One administration official called going too far to eliminate market vola­ the actions "a shot across our bow" tility ... cannot and should not attempt meant to underline how sensitive an House upholds Bush to eliminate major market moves, issue the resolution is to Turkey . The veto on abortion whether by legislation or regula­ resolution passed the Judiciary Com­ Pro-abortion supporters were unable tion , "aid Brady . mittee earlier in October by an 8-6 to gather the necessary support to The problems the market was hav­ vote , but has not been taken up by the overrule the presidential veto of legis­ ing, Brady tried to explain, are due to fu ll Senate. lation previously passed by the House the electronic re volution.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 69 National News

men watched a horror filmand played "Dun­ a perfect lift-off of the Shuttle earlier that geons and Dragons." Bradberry was taken afternoon from the Kennedy Space Center. to a Sacramento River levee where he was Attllmptsof three anti-nuclear groups to handcuffed, repeatedly stabbed, and then stop the shuttle launch, because GaIileo is N. Y • judge orders drowned. She had asked for, and received powered by two plutonium-powered batter­ baby's murder from Bradberry a vial of his blood shortly ies, fizllied. Turning down the request for a Luis and Carlotta Alvarado of New York before his murder, to be used in rituals in­ temporlP)' restraining order for the launch, were denied their right to keep their month­ tended to bring Bradberry back from the and an appeal , the presiding judge stated old baby alive by state Supreme Court Judge dead. that it ",as in "the interest of the nation" to Helen E. Freedman who ruled Oct. 17 that The case gives the lie to the efforts of continu� with the space science program. a New York City-run hospital, Elmhurst various "white witch" networks, most GaIiIeo was deployed from Atlantis on General , has the right to murder an allegedly prominently Wicca, to convince law en­ the shuttle's fifth orbit of the Earth, and the "brain dead" child by removing him from a forcement and the public that they had noth­ Atlantis. crew gave the spacecraft a send­ respirator despite his parents' opposition . ing to do with crimes associated with Satan­ off. stating that it is now "on its way to If brain activity is not obvious. the pa­ ism and so-called "black magic ." anotherworld." tient is called dead. Yet there have been After swinging around Venus, GaIileo patients with no perceptible brain activity will make two swings around the Earth to for months, and in the case of young chil­ gain the energy it needs to arrive at Jupiter dren , for years , who have recovered . Hospi­ in 1995 , There it will begin a 22-month se­ tals are increasingly in a rush to diagnose Crooked judges ries of dazzling close encounters with Jupi­ ter's moons, and drop a probe into the Jovian brain-damaged patients as "brain dead" with are commonplace no tests taken, so they can stop costly treat­ atmosphere. ment. Insurance companies refuse to pay for Judges lie in writing their opinions. North­ care of those designated as "brain dead . " western University Law Professor Anthony Evidence and studies were presented in D' Amato charged in a recent lecture in Man­ the original court hearing that proved that hattan . truly brain dead individuals, that is. their Professor D' Amato said that judges fre­ Marcinko beats quently fudge facts and get away with it. brain is destroyed. cannot exist for more Alexandria 'railroad' than a few days--even while hooked to a Lawyers "feel that their work is subject to respirator. The body begins to break down the whim of judges who will play God with Former U.S. Navy special unit commander and decompose. In the case of baby Luis. the facts of a case, inventing them to make Richard Marcinko was acquitted of charges the child has gained weight and grown sig­ the case come out the way the judges de­ brought by U.S. Attorney Henry R. Hudson nificantly. The judge chose instead to back sire." While making a general point. D' A­ and Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Klein the 1987 N. Y. Department of Health regula­ mato's remarks were triggered by a ruling as part of their "m Wind" attack on the mili­ tion that defines death as the "irreversible by the federal appeals court for the Seventh tary . the Oct. 22 Washington Post reported . cessation of brain function." which allows Circuit in Chicago. Ajury in the courtroom of Federal Judge the hospital to tum off the respirator. Law schools also teach a disdain for the Albert Bryan. who railroaded the conviction Attorneys for the Alvarado family have truth . D' Amato added . "Professors will not of Lyndon LaRouche. acquitted Marcinko filed a motion to appeal the decision . accept a student who says that the party after two days deliberation on one charge of should simply lose. Instead . they encourage conflict of interest. and failed to reach a students to come up with any argument at verdict on two other charges. Government all . however contri ved , to win for the client . prosecutors said they had not yet decided We encourage glibness. we penalize hones­ whether to retry Marcinko on the two ty; we applaud fabrication . we discourage charges. 'White witch' guilty sensitivity of justice ." Co-defendant Charles M. Byers. an Ari­ zona arms manufacturer. was convicted on of ritual murder charges of conspiracy and conflictof interest Sandra Colleen Capps. an admitted "white for building a $1 13.000 kickback into a con­ witch" from Sacramento. California. plead tract to supply specially designed grenades guilty on Sept. 15 in the ritual murder of her Galileo launched to a spe¢ial operations unit commanded by boyfriend, Joseph Bradberry . 22. Marcinko. Bradberry was murdered by Capps and on Jupiter mission Commander Marcinko went public with four men. all members of the coven which The Galileo spacecraft attached to its two­ his story by speaking at a Human Rights Capps led. Capps had given the men LSD stage booster was deployed from the Space Tribunal conference in February 1989. of­ prior to the ritual murder. after which the Shuttle orbiter Atlantis on Oct. 18 fo llowing fe ring his support in the fight against politi-

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• 'DISMANTLE HUD to pay for the war on drugs," argued the Wall cal prosecutions. than 5% of U.S. ICBMs can now survive a Street Journal in the lead editorial After founding SEAL Team 6, Marcin­ full-scale Soviet attack. Oct. 19. The Departmentof Housing ko went on to create (OP-06D) , the code Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisc.), chairman of and Urban Development "created designation for a highly secretive Navy unit the House Armed Services Committee, has slums and invited corruption," and whose job was to test the readiness of Navy issued a report with the title, "Strategic 'Sur­ "is probably beyond reform," the facilities around the world. Marcinko's job prise Attack' Thinkable." Aspin, often al­ Journal said. was to evaluate the ability of security at lied with pro-Soviet liberals, admits, "The Navy facilities to withstand a spetsnaz at­ central reality is that we have never had a • THE WASHINGTON State Su­ tack. It is known that Marcinko was highly problem coming up with technical solutions preme Courtdenied the right to orga­ successful in proving that security systems to the ICBM vulnerability problem. The real nize on Oct. 19, ruling that the Na­ and facilities were not at the level of readi­ problem has been coming up with solutions tional Democratic Policy Commit­ ness which would repulse a spetsnaz assault. that are politically acceptable." tee, representing the Lyndon La­ Rouche wing ofthe Democratic Party does not have the right to sell litera­ ture, subscriptions, or solicit dona­ tions inside shopping centers. Bakker sentenced Farrakhan says FBI • WILLIAM WELD, the former to 45 years in prison out to get him U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Lyn­ Television evangelist Jim Bakker was sen­ Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan don LaRouche, told the Boston tenced to 45 years in prison and a $500,000 called a press conference in Washington on Globe on Oct. 22 that followers of fine by federal Judge Robert Potter on Oct. Oct. 23, to announce that the Bush adminis­ LaRouche "may have been right" 24 , for his jury conviction for living a lavish tration and the FBI are engaged in an effort when they accused him of being a lifestyle and overbooking hotel rooms at his to split his movement, kill him or indict him "dope runner." "The Weld family religious theme park, Heritage U.S.A. as a "racketeer," and launch a genocidal at­ had clipper ships in the I 840s , Weld Bakker received the especially harsh tack on black Americans. He alleged that acknowledges, 'and opium was not sentence because he allegedly showed no the War on Drugs is a pretext for these agen­ an unknown cargo at that time,' " the remorse for his actions. Judge Potter, said cies to condition the population to the idea Globe reported. he was convinced the Bakker would go out that all blacks are drug addicts, and de-sen­ and continue his pattern of fundraising ac­ sitize them to future military operations in • EARTH FIRST! terrorists de­ tivity , and therefore rejected bond pending U.S. cities. His usual racialist rhetoric and stroyed a utility company bridge in appeal , ordering Bakker to be taken imme­ defense of Qaddafi punctuated his speech. Montana and an electric substation in diately to prison. According to television His more precise charges identified the Canada recently, as part of a pattern news accounts. Judge Potter also described 40-year campaign of the FBI to intimidate where Earth First! terrorists are a demonstration of Bakker supporters out­ and harass the Muslim movement in the switching from "spiking" trees, to side the courtroom as evidence that they United States. He said that "the FBI other more dangerous acts of "would do anything" for Bakker. and there­ engineered the split in the Nation of Islam "ecotage." fore Bakker had to be immediately im­ . . . engineered the assassination of Mal­ prisoned. colm X. . . engineered the assassination of • LAURIE CABOT, appointed Martin Luther King . . . has harassed the "official witch of Massachusetts" by Nation of Islam financially in the courts . . . Gov. Michael Dukakis, has written a and is planning to indict me as a racketeer." new book entitled Power of the Wit­ Farrakhan held a rally attended by ch: The Earth, The Moon and The Land-based ICBMs l2.oo0-plus people in Washington the night Magical Path to Enlightenment before his press conference. and the local which "defends and illustrates called obsolete media played up the non-presence of Jesse Witchcraft as a way of life." The U.S. land-based ICBM force is no long­ Jackson and Mayor Marion Barry . The rally er a consideration for Soviet military plan­ was highlighted by the presentation of an • ALEISTER CROWLEY'S Sa­ ners because it is no longer a significant anti-drug award voted on by the D.C. City tanic Ordo Templi Orientis was raid­ military threat to the Soviet Union. accord­ Council to Farrakhan. The vote on the pro­ ed by California police officers on ing to the assessment of new studies on the posed award has polarized politics on the Sept. 29 who arrested 13 people for vulnerability of the U. S. ICBM force to a council, acording to the media, and is being drug-related crimes and seized items Soviet first strike cited by the October issue seen as part of a gambit by Farrakhan to describedas hashish pipes, dried opi­ of Air Force Magazine. place his chips on the table in the upcoming um poppies, and LSD. One study cited concludes that no more D.C. mayoral race.

EIR November 3, 1989 National 71 Editorial

A glimmer ofre ality

Shock waves have been erupting in the political world economic priorities on the agenda. of Britain, following the announcement of a series of His proposals echo the thesis developed by Helga resignations in Mrs . Thatcher's government. This Zepp-LaRouche in her policy statement for the Patriots shakeup is indicative of a growing recognition among for Germany, which was rel�ased on Oct. 10, and pub­ European leaders that the politics of the last decade lished in EIR last week. Entitled, "Why Europe Must have not only been bankrupt, but dangerously so. Become a Bastion of Freedom, "it called for the cooper­ The wave of departures in the U.K. government ation of France and the Federal Republic of Germany to was kicked off by the resignation of Chancellor of the establish alternate policies for economic development Exchequer Nigel Lawson. The factional issues which which would counter the delusory Anglo-American are causing this rift are firstly, the economic crisis and Gorbachov-centered policy. Mitterrand's proposals are what to do about it, and secondly, the situation in the useful, to the extent that they reflect the impulse to Soviet Union. In fact, the crisis within the Soviet em­ build something viable in Western Europe , anchored pire subsumes the economic crisis as it is faced by the in cooperation between Paris and Bonn, to get out from British, because it is in fact a reflection of the global under the insanity and delusions that are radiated out nature of the present depression . of Anglo-American policymakers , while developing Presumably Mrs . Thatcher has only now , belated­ means to do something about the dangers brewing in ly, come to recognize that her erstwhile protege , Mik­ the East. One of the first resultsof Mitterrand's initia­ hail Gorbachov, is in serious trouble. This, of course, tive may have been to trigger a government crisis in is ridiculous. In July 1985, EIR issued a Special Report Britain. entitled "Global Showdown ," and issued then and later Mitterrand laid out a policyof upgrading the institu­ a number of other reports, many of which came prompt­ tions of the European Monetary System, in order, ly to the attention of leading strategic and related policy among other initiatives, to provide investment capital study circles in Britain, as well as continental Europe to nations such as Poland-without demanding of them and the United States. These reports were based upon free-market economic reforms. The proposals were the Lyndon LaRouche's analysis, which forecast the pres­ result of consultation on O¢t. 23 with Spain's Felipe ent Soviet breakdown to occur between 1988 and 1989. Gonzalez, and on Oct. 24 with Germany's Helmut LaRouche's thesis placed the Soviet economic break­ Kohl . Simultaneously both France and Germany have down crisis within a prospective global economic extended sizable credit lines to Poland. Contrary to the breakdown crisis. insistence of Thatcher, Bush, and the U.S. Congress , The West has accepted the notion that the so-called the credit lines are not dependent on Poland satisfying reforms instituted by Gorbachov, insofar as they appear any International Monetary Fund conditionalities. to reflect Western deregulating and other ideology, are The initiatives spelled out over recent decades by somehow desirable. This only ensures the total chaos Lyndon and Helga LaRouche offer a hope for the world and breakdown of an already sick Soviet imperial phys­ which otherwise will face both economic and political ical economy . chaos . The signs from President Mitterrand seem ex­ Against the backdrop of the political acceleration tremely positive, and we can hope that the present Brit­ of Russia's economic breakdown crisis, and the global ish shakeup will mean a shift in policy there , as well . spread of deflation shocks from the economically col­ While Lyndon LaRouche and his associates remain lapsing United States, French President Mitterrand in jail, the United States will remain politically bank­ took the occasion of a speech before the European Par­ rupt, while it is rapidly becoming certifiably economi­ liament in Strasbourg to put a new set of monetary and cally bankrupt as well.

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