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Intetviews Strategic Studies Economics 37 Faisel Husseini 14 Beijing hosts superpower 4 No 'free market' road to The leader of the Palestinian huddle on Cambodia east German recovery delegation that met with Secretary The August 1990 U.N. peace The workers who said no to Marx of State Baker reports on their efforts haven't gone beyond in 1989, are again in the streets, meeting, and on post-Gulf war negotiating seating arrangements, this time saying no to the Adam prospects in the Occupied as fighting continues in 14 of the 19 Smith policies that threaten them Territories. provinces ofthis country now with! 50% unemployment. entering its 21st year of war. 39 Palestinian leaders in the Everyone wants to keep his oar in, 7 Currency Rates Occupied Territories and some even have the interests of Al-Fajr editor Hanna Siniora Cambodia in mind. 8 Peru minister blames interviewed mayors, attorneys, Fujimori for cholera journalists, and fellow editors on 17 Mekong Project is the In fact, the President's policy of what Palestinians think about the pathway to peace neglect is dictated by the country's "new world order" and provided Last year, Thailand revived a foreign creditors, who explain, their responses to EIR. multinational project to harness the "Certain countries are going to Mekong River for electricity, disappear. " 63 Dr. Robert J. Lifton transportation, and agriculture as A professor of psychiatry at City the basis for bringing peace to the 9 Agriculture region, and especially to University of New York, Dr. Lifton Sudan calls for food aid. foresees that a wave of revulsion Cambodia. will set in after Americans learned 10 Banking what slaughter was committed in 18 Mekong development plan: Failing banks and Bushspeak. the war. It is time to awaken the 'sleeping giant' 12 Business Briefs Departments In startling contrast to the abject poverty of the 50 million Thais, 11 Andean Report Laotians, Cambodians, and Washington's man in Lima. Vietnamese, the Mekong basin's water resources potential is 52 Dateline Mexico unquestionably among the world's Church fights abortion. highest.

53 Report from Rio Book Review Anti-military campaign escalates. 50 Lebanon: Who is 'biting' 54 Panama Report whom? Congress debates impeachment. Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon, by Robert Fisk. 55 Dateline Montreal Mulroney and Bush fail acid test.

72 Editorial Emergency relief for Iraq now. Volume 18 Number 13, March 29, 1991

Feature In temational National 32 Anglo-Americans drive to S8 Bush's new export kill, dismember Iraq controls: Third World, Phase two of the war has begun, U.S. to suffer with the implementation of Iraq's Technologies thatprovide your extinction by civil war, famine, and daily bread, and industrialjobs , disease. will now be controlled.

34 Gorbachov, Yeltsin 'win' 60 Activists say: Free in Soviet referendum-now LaRouche, stop the 'new Amelia Boynton Robinson addressing the March I � what? world order' meeting of the International Commission to Investi­ Close to 500participants laid out a gate Human Rights Violations, held near Washington, D.C. Others at the podium, left to right: W arrenam­ H 3S Odd bedfellows act to avoid spring offensive to freethe only ennan, coordinator of international efforts to free civil war presidential candidate opposing LaRouche; attorneyOdin Anderson; and Joyce Rubin­ The Yugoslav Army is publicly George Bush, including the first stein, a fonnerpolitical prisoner in the same case with discussion of LaRouche's motion LaRouche. refusing to back Serbian strongman Milosevic's bid for a coup. for a new trial. 24 U.S. civil rights struggle: a 63 Many people are not happy crucial lesson for today 41 Palestinians meet with about this war One fighterfor humanity who has John Paul II Interview with Dr. RobertJ. Lifton. maintained a constant outlook of cultural optimism in 60 years of 43 Superpowers decree FMLN organizing is Amelia Boynton the winner 64 Bush claims 'victory' in Robinson. From Selma, Alabama In El Salvador. phony war on drugs in 1930 to East Germany in 1990, Between "Just Cause" and"Desert she has personified the struggle of 44 Washington hurls new Storm" the President's war ondrugs is "Gone withthe Wind." all men to be free, to be brothers. insults at Japan We are proud to excerpt the forthcoming second edition of her 66 Urban leaders 'storm' 4S Birmingham Six case book Bridge Across Jordan. Bush domestic policy shocksBritain; some see Young women in New York City parallels to U.S. 'justice' have a greater chance of dying from AIDS than any other single cause. Correction: In our March 22 Feature, 46 English lawyer writes to two errors have been pointed out. It was Thornburgh on LaRouche JerusalemPatriarch Michel Sabbah who 67 Inslaw scandal still haunts led the Palestinian ecumenical Thornburgh delegation to the Pope on March 14, not 48 Pope sees 'echo of Grace' in Geries Saed Khoury, as reported on Mozart as example of true 68 Congressional Closeup page 31 . Due to a typographical error, meaning of joy Prof. Mousa Darwish of the University John Paul II's speech to the Plenary 70 National News of Bethlehem was quoted saying, "We Assembly of the Pontifical Council Palestinians consider Jerusalem as the for Dialogue with Non-Believers. capital of our state." He actually said East Jerusalem, not Jerusalem (page S6 International Intelligence 41). �TImEconomics

No 'free market' road to east German recovery ;

by Rainer Ape!

The people who made the peaceful revolution of late 1989 many of them from thefonner East bloc. They made it clear are back in the streets of east Gennan cities, gathering for that social fennent for a prdfound political change in east protest marches. Up to several hundred thousand protesters Gennany existed, and would soon make itself heard. in Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin had once called for the end According to a declaration voted up at that conference, of the socialist regime; today, tens of thousands are calling "The ruin of developing countries and the deepening eco­ for the end of another regime-the "free market" economic nomic depression in the Eng�ish-speaking world make clear management that has proven incapable of bringing jobs and that the system of Adam Smith is no more capable than that social security after the collapse of the communist regime. of Karl Marx to provide a s61ution to the economic misery The new wave of mass protests began in late January, of eastern Europe. . . . We call on the governments of East­ withharsh criticism of the Gennan government's decision to ern and Western Europe, to �ake the 'Productive Triangle' fork over close to $12 billion in tribute for the Gulf war, at a program the centerpiece of tQeirgovernment poli cy. " time it was dickering over nearly every additional single deutschemark of support for the ailing economy in east Ger­ Labor protests are growing many. An explosive fennent was building behind the scenes, The firstdays of March sa\\>the revival of the east Gennan especially at the end of February, when the new jobless fig­ protest movement, under a prominently displayed labor ures were published: 780,000 unemployed, and another 1.9 banner. million on short-work in east Gennany. This was close to On March 6, several thousand metal workers took to the 30% of the entire work force in the five eastern states of streets of Magdeburg, protesting plans for the foreclosure of Gennany, which meant that at least one member of every most of the factories there. On March 8, several hundred family was without work. women-most of them working wives who had already lost The official line of the Gennan government, shaped by their jobs-staged a protest march through downtown Leip­ the ideology of fiscal conservatism, was that the people had zig. On March 11, following the traditional Monday evening to pass through this "low point of the conjunctural valley." peace prayer at St. Nikolai cqurch, 25,000worke rs, predom­ But the demonstrations showed that people are simply not inantly from the metal-processing sector, joined for a march interested in listening to such homilies any more . of protest, attacking the government's labor market and non­ The only thing that can reverse this crisis in Gennany, investment policy. and give hope to the nations of EasternEurope as well, is an "We took to the streets before [in 1989] to bring the economic development program based on Lyndon communist regime down," a factory councilman said in his LaRouche's Paris-Berlin-Vienna "Productive Triangle" of short speech, "and we are taking to the streets now again, to infrastructural and high-technology investment. This was the fight for jobs and social security." He and others attacked theme of a conference held by the Schiller Institute in Berlin the indecision in Bonn on programs for job creation and March 1-3 (see EIR , March 15, page 4). The conference was consolidation of theproduction in east Gennan cities. attended by more than 100economists and political activists, On March 18, there were 70,000 people in the streets of

4 Economics EIR March 29, 1991 •

Leipzig, another 40,000 in Chemnitz, and several thousand each in Berlin, Rostock, Goerlitz, and Magdeburg. At the end of the day, the Lutheran Bishop of Brandenburg state, Klaus Forck, said: "I am afraid that it won't be long before we have a million people in the streets, as we had in 1989." The big protest wave in 1989 started the same way: first 3,000 and 5,000, then 20,000 and 70,000, finally 350,000 people joining for a march of protest that extended through the entire inner city of Leipzig-a city of 500,000 inhabit­ ants . Of that city's working population of 380,000, some 40,000 are now jobless, and another 100,000 on short-work. The March 18 Monday protest march in Leipzig pointed harsh criticism at the fact that Bonn's Chancellor Helmut Kohl hadn't been seen in east Germany since the December 1990 elections. "It seems the chancellor is more interested in votes than findingout what is going on in the minds of the people here," said one of the trade unionists that addressed the crowd of 70,000. Another speaker, WernerSchulz of the Green Party caucus in the German Parliament, called on Kohl to come to Leipzig to talk to people: "If he won't come to us, we should go to him." Schulz warned that the people Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressing an of Hungarian would march right up to the chancellor's doorsteps. former political prisoners in Budapest on the "Triangle" development program for Europe-the a ternative to Marx and Another labor unionist said in his speech: "Unemploy­ Adam Smith. ment here could rise to 50%. That's an entire people without work. We didn't go on the streets in the autumn of 1989 or vote for German unity for this. We will not allow ourselves including the occupation of key administrative functions by to become second-class Germans ." mostly unqualified members of the Socialist Unity Party Pastor Christian Fuhrer of the St. Nikolai Church, which (SED) of the past regime, which at its height had 2.4 million had played a role in the mass protest ferment of 1989, de­ members . The latter category of public sector jobs included manded: "There must be an end to those ideologues of the the police and judicial apparatus, th1 army , the militia, and market economy who say the market solves everything." His the party-controlled mass organizations. One-third of the ad­ statement was met with rousing applause. ministration--650,000 jobs-was to be phased out too, after a grace period of 12 months betweenl July 1, 1990 and June 'Shock therapy' won't work 30, 1991. For all of East Germany, the plans of the "free market" This couldn't work, and it didn't. It couldn't work be­ faction that moved into policymaking posts after the fall of cause of the reality of the "free mar�et"I system. What hap­ the communist regime in November 1989, envisaged laying pened was not the smooth transition tom one economic sys­ off 4 million out of a total of 10 million jobs within the next tem to another, but the collapse of most of the industries and two or three years . These people said, and probably even farm cooperatives in East Germany. believed, that with the security provided by the West German social welfare system, the shock of transition from the "out­ The shards of an economy moded socialist state-sector economy to a modem Western­ Those East German industries snecializing in exports to style market economy" could be managed without major the Comecon, the former, Moscow-tun trade community of social perturbations. Their concept was to close down one­ Eastern Europe and the Soviet Unibn, collapsed with the third of East Germany's industries right away, sell another overall disintegration of the sOcialist blOC economy in 1989- third to private investors from the West, and phase out the 90 . An estimated 1.4 million membersl of the East German remaining third over a longer period of time. work force were dependent on trade with the Soviet Union, This shock therapy approach was the original mandate producing 40% of all export goods i 1 989-mostly freight­ of the Treuhandanstalt, a state holding company that was ers, railway cars , agricultural machinery, water-borne con­ established on June 17, 1990, to take control of the entire struction cranes, machine tools, pr ·fabricated components state sector economy of East Germany-a huge empire of for home-building projects, and bptical and electronic 8,000 firms and farm cooperatives, with 6 million workers equipment. and employees. One has to add to that the 2 million workers A second category of industry s�cialized in state-subsi­ and employees of the oversized public administration sector, dized production of textiles, access, ries, and canned food

EIR March 29, 1991 Economics 5 for the West, with the aim of earning hard currencies; they Adjustments in the government approach collapsed when they no longer received the support of the In a series of meetings in mid-March,involving Chancel­ communist regime. This category also included many of the lor Kohl, the cabinet ministers of finance and economics, state farm cooperatives. and the prime ministers of the five east German states, some A third sector of the economy, the medium-sized industry adjustments were worked out to halt the economic collapse and crafts sector which was supposed to blossom under the and free the way for substantial investments in the eastern reign of the "free market," never made it into the new era. part of Germany. Of 300,000 new enterprises listed in East Germany,after the The Treuhand mandate was changed, so that the firm fall of the regime in November 1989, only 15% were in the would more closely consult with the five east German state traditional craft occupations like woodworker, roofer, car governments from now on, and shift the general emphasis mechanic, household repairman, electrician, and the like. from a policy of foreclosure or reprivatization, to employ­ Thevast majority were enterprises in the food and commodi­ ment stability. Involving the continued operation by the ty distribution sector, based on quick amortization of invest­ Treuhand of some 4-5 ,000 companies and a longer-term state ments through a drastic increase of sales. In most cases, these credit guarantee for exports to the former Comecon area,this were just distribution centers for West German producers is expected to stabilize and reconsolidate the employment of food, textiles, shoes, and other consumer goods which situation for 3-4 million workers. flooded the east German market. In many cases, there was Furthermore, the property clause was modified, moving direct collaboration between former East German state coop­ away from priority restitution :to former private owners, to eratives in the trade, food, and textile sector, and Western options for eventual expropriation with compensation to the cartels. Under such conditions, there was never any real former owner. This is expected to launch more public proj­ chance for new east German enterprises to establish them­ ects for infrastructure and indu�trial investment. selves on the market. Another important step was taken on March 12, when the The crafts and medium-sized industries in the construc­ Bonn governmentgave an export credit guaranteefor a long­ tion branch could have had a chance, but it depended on delayed contract between the Soviet State Railways and the municipal contracts which were never signed, or the private German Boxcar Manufacturers (east Germany) for the deliv­ property of real estate which could be taken as collateral by ery of 1,022 passenger cars and 1,400 refrigerator cars. With the banks that would finance the new enterprise. As for the a volume of DM 1.4 billion, the contract will secure 15,000 municipal aspect, since the first free elections for city coun­ jobs in the manufacturing branch and an estimated 15,000 cils on May 6, 1990, this level of administration has been more in the rolling stock supplying sector of east Germany only in the building phase. As for the property question, the for the next 12 months. This means secured jobs for about law worked out in the German Unity treaty of October 1990 half of the work force in the railway technology sector of east called for restitution to former owners who had been expro­ Germany. priated by the former communist regime. Compensation on Economics Minister Jtirgen Mollemann also wrote a let­ the basis of the state of affairs as it was in late 1990 was to ter endorsing the long-overdue DM 6-8 billion project for be the rare exception. This has led to a situation where most two 1 ,300-megawatt nuclear power reactors at the east Ger­ new investment projects cannot be realized, because the orig­ man sites of Greifswald and Stendal. West Germany's Siem­ inal owner of the land and factory inventory on which they ens-KWU Group wants to build the reactors at the price of are to be launched is yet to be determined. DM 4 billion each, if it gets government clearance under the A special problem, naturally, was that the state and the rather restrictive laws governing nuclear plants. Mollemann public administration have not mobilized a broad infrastruc­ discussed the project when he met with the directors of the ture investment program on the land that they owned, for three west German power giants-Bayernwerke, Preussen­ reasons of "not interfering with the free market approach." Elektra and RWE-in the first week of March, and also met This has been a big mistake, because an incentive that could in mid-March with the two prime ministers of the states have catalyzed industrial investments, namely a state pro­ which would provide the sites for the new reactors, gram for infrastructure for the energy and housing sectors, Mecklenburg-Prepomerania (the Greifswald site) and Saxe­ was not forthcoming. Instead, for reasons of maintaining Anhalt (the Stendal site). fiscal austerity over the state budget, plans for replacing the state by private investment options in transportinfrastructure From pragmatism to a coherent policy? were discussed fruitlessly over several months. The precon­ These measures from the government, although they are dition of private sector infrastructure projects would have only pragmatic adaptations to the emergency situation, do been a change of certain articles in the German Constitution show that although it is still lin need of a sound program which specify that the public transportstructure is the proper­ for the industrial reconstruction of east Germany, the Bonn ty of and in the exclusive care of the federal administration, cabinet has at least grasped the importance of moving from the individual states of Germany, and the municipalities. free market inaction to state-sector action. Limited as it may

6 Economics EIR March 29, 199 1 be , this new Bonn approach contains two elements that point in the direction of a sound investment policy. The two ele­ Currency Rates ments could capture the popular imagination through projects of a symbolic character with which the whole nation could identify. The dollar in deutschemarks The first element is the moved-up timetable for turning New York late afternoonfixing Berlin from the nominal into the living capital of the nation, 1.80 in the next few years . Implying investments in the range of , several billion deutschemarks, the decision in favor of mov­ 1.70 ing substantial government and legislative functions from Bonn to Berlin is due before the July summer recess this 1.60 year. Further, a Bonn government decision in favor of the ini­ 1.50 � �- ,/"- tiative launched in mid-February by Josef Duchac, the prime � � minister of the state of Thuringia, for the DM 8- 10 billion 1.40 project of a 6OO-kilometer-Iong Transrapid maglev rail track 1/30 216 2113 2120 2127 3/6 3/13 3120 through east Germany, is expected soon, according to senior The dollar in yen sources in the administration. New York late afternoonfixing The Duchac project already received an important en­ dorsement from Economics Minister M6llemann, who said 160 in his keynote address to the Leipzig Industry Fair on March 17 that this city had "the great chance of becoming a trade 150 pivot and servicing center for all of Europe, on the condition 140 that it is supplied with a functioning system of transpor­ tation." 130 .- � � "The realization of a Transrapid line from Berlin via - - Leipzig and Erfurt to Frankfurt, could create between 25 ,O()() 120 i and 40,000 new jobs," said M6llemann, who declared the 1130 216 2113 2120 2127 3/6 3/13 3120 commitment of his ministry to lend whatever financial re­ sources were available to such a project. The British pound in dollars New York late afternoonfixing On hand at the Leipzig Fair was Gunter Gross, the chair­ man of German Boxcar Manufacturing, Inc., who said 2.00 March 19 that such a modem railway technology project "..- ...... should be welcomed, because it would send a signal to the 1.90 � Iioo.. entire transportation sector in east Germany. """ The signal goes beyond that. The "Berlin Capital" and 1.80 the Berlin-Frankfurt Transrapid projects are leading the way from the pragmatist approach which is only capable of re­ 1.70 acting to the disasters caused by an inappropriate economic 1.60 policy, toward a systematic approach of developing the na­ 1/30 216 2113 2120 vi7 3/6 3/13 3/20 tion's infrastructure, industry, farming, research and devel­ opment, as well as stable trade relations with Germany's The dollar in Swiss francs eastern neighbors. New York late afternoonfixing Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her address to the Schiller In­ stitute's Berlin conference, emphasized that the resurrection 1.60 of the economies of the East from the "rubble-heap of social­ 1.50 ism" will only be possible with such a coherent policy, an inspiring policy. "Over one year ago," she said, "I emphati­ 1.40 cally pointed out that, in my view, we would only succeed ..r-� in seizing Europe's great historic opportunity if we tied the 1.30 J'� prospect of a comprehensive European development plan � � � with a Christian-humanist renaissance. The events of the last 1.20 year have shown us where the lack of these values has brought 1/30 216 2113 2120 2f'I.7 3/6 3/13 3120 us. It is high time that we correct our errors . "

EIR March 29, 199 1 Economics 7 vian medical profession that a sharp rise in the number of cholera victims followed Fuj imori's televised promotion of ceviche as entirely safe to eat. Said Vidal, "There are two kinds of ceviche: that of the poor and that of the rich." Fuji­ mori's dish was prepared from deep-sea fish,unlike the aver­ Peru minister blames age Peruvian's ceviche, whicb is made from fish caught in Peru's severely polluted coastal waters.

Fujimori for cholera Water cutbacks will spread cholera Latest official estimates

8 Economics EIR March 29, 1991 Agriculture by MarciaMeny

Sudan calls for food aid fication against theKhartoum govern­ The U.S. Committee for Refugees stands ex posed as an ment by U.S. officialdomand media. A Feb. 2 3 Washington Post piece, instrument of those using food as a political weapon. headlined, "Sudan's Government Still Won't Ask for Help as Drought Grows Worse," blamed Khartoum for starving its own people. Such stories n March 18, the Washington em­ munity need to come together to meet fail to report that Bush suspended aid bassyO of the Republic of the Sudan their humanitarian needs. to Sudan, and last October even di­ issued a news release, "Food Situation "According to our knowledge, verted a commercial ship with 45,000 in the Sudan: An Update." The state­ Mr. Winter has not been to Sudan for tons of wheat hellded for Port Sudan. ment called for international help to the last decade and has never sought Meantime, the U.N. High Commis­ make up a gap of up to 1.2 million tons information from the embassy. He sioner for Refugees cut the outlay of of grain needed by June. The shortfall keeps his agency surviving on stereo­ $46 annually for each Ethiopian refu­ results from two years of drought, on typed repeated reports in hearings on gee in Sudan to $38 a person. top of decades of impoverishment im­ Sudan and some other countries. His Winter's refugee front group is posed by the International Monetary release of March 7, 1991 provides circulating a 15-page discussion docu­ Fund. ample evidence of his lack of knowl­ ment in Washington that calls for According to the February Food edge and his zeal to discredit the gov­ U.N. non-governmental organiza­ Outlook report of the U.N. Food and ernmentof Sudan." tions (NGOs) and the U.S. govern­ Agriculture Organization, the 19 na­ It is an open secret in Washington, ment to conduct "cross-border" food tions of sub-Saharan Africa need 3 mil­ that the U.S. Committee for Refugees relief, "with or without Sudan govern­ lion tons of cereals in grain relief in is a front group for the Department ment approval." He says, "United 1991, after harvest shortfalls last year. of State. Funding for the committee States' policy toward Sudan needs to However, the Anglo-American wing of comes from the State Department and be people-friendly, not government­ the world food and refugee organiza­ the top EasternEstablishment founda­ friendly." tions is practicing food relief warfare: tions-the MacArthur and Ford Foun­ There is an act pending for intro­ withholding food and agricultural in­ dations, John Merck Fund, and oth­ duction to Congress called the Hom puts , and creating refugees. ers. The U.S. Committee for of Africa Recovery Act, which would The Sudanese government state­ Refugees has active operations authorize U.S. action in the region of ment singled out for criticism the "un­ against other nations of Africa, as well Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Dji­ fortunate and prejudiced position" of as South America (see its January bouti, bypassing governments and of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, as 1991 issue, "Running the Gauntlet") providing "relief' through NGOs. gi ven in a March 7 press release titled, and other Third World regions. Opposing this violation of nation­ "Famine in Sudan Begins to Kill The Bush administration has tar­ al sovereignty, an emissary of Pope Thousands," which charged that the geted Sudan for purely political rea­ John Paul II visited Khartoum on Khartoum governmentis causing hun­ sons: because the governmentof Pres­ March 13 to discuss peace and to in­ ger and death for its own people. ident Omar EI Bashir opposed the vite President El Bashir to the Vati­ The Sudanese statement said, stationing of U.S. troops in the Per­ can. EI Bashir expressed appreciation "The director of this organization, sian Gulffrom the beginning, and also for the Pope's efforts for international Mr. Roger Winter, does not hide his has a policy of attempting to become peace. open hostility and his sustained nega­ food self-sufficient in two years. Dr. Abdalla Sulayman al-Awad, tive political attitudes to the Sudan Moreover, Sudan has rich oil depos­ the head of the Islamic African Relief government. He developed the habit its, besides agricultural potential. Agency, active in nine African na­ of discrediting the Sudan government With 25 million people, of whom tions, also stressed cooperation in a by circulating unfounded information three-quarters are Muslim, its position statement March 11. He called for re­ and calling for punitive measures and along the Red Sea makes it a cultural lief aid from the European Communi­ the use of food as a political weapon bridge between Arab West Asia and ty and others, and said that this is no to hurt the Sudanese population at a black Africa. time for argumertts."We need actions time when all the international com- There has been a campaign of vili- now, and not excuses and squabbles."

EIR March 29, 1991 Economics 9 Banking by John Hoefle

Failing banks and Bushspeak While profitswere dropping, non­ Bush's banking bill goes to Congress, the tab goes to the performingiloans were on the rise, hit­ ting a recotd 2.9% of all loans. The taxpayers, and worry grows that the patch won't hold. biggest losses were from real estate loans, and net losses nearly tripled during 1990 at banks in the Northeast, and nearly doubled at banks in the Southeast and Central regions. At he Bush administration's alleged its usual "who could have known this year's end, $36 billion in real estate solutionT to the U.S. banking crisis is would happen?" statement, and the loans were reported as delinquent, aboutto bepresented to Congress as we taxpayers will cover the bad loan. Un­ compared to $22.5 billion in 1989. go to press, amidst signs of growing der the guise of protecting the taxpay­ To cover these rapidly deteriorat­ opposition to key components of the er, the Bush administration plans to ing loans, the banks wrote off $8.3 plan. stick the public with another $95 bil­ billion in l�ans in the fourth quarter. The most pressing measure is the lion. And, as the ongoing savings and For the year, the banks wrote off $29 recapitalization of the Federal Deposit loan fiasco demonstrates, that's just billion, up 27% from$23 billion in Insurance Corp.'s Bank Insurance the down payment. 1989. Despite the higher writeoffs , Fund, which stood at a mere $8.4 bil­ How Congress will react to this the banks �nded the year with $19.8

lion at the end of 1990, or 43¢ in cov­ proposal remains to be seen. The nar­ billion in i repossessed real estate, erage for every$10 0 in insured depos­ row passage of the $78 billion for compared to $12.5 billion in 1989. its. The FDIC projects that coverage phase two of the S&L bailout shows The banks also added a record will drop to 19¢ per $100 in deposits the growing uneasiness in Congress $11.5 billion to loan loss reserves dur­ by the end of this year. Regulators for voting for taxpayer bailouts. ing the fourth quarter, bringing the consider $1.25 in coverage for every The Fed is not happy about aspects yearly load loss reserve addition to $100 in deposits to be a safe level. of the Bush banking plan either. Fed­ $3 1.7 billi(!)n. While that figure just Under the administration's plan, eral Reserve Board governor John slightly exceedsthe $3 1 billion added as disclosed in a March 15 letter from LaWare recently publicly reiterated to reserves: in 1989, a much higher Treasury Undersecretary Robert the Fed's opposition to the provision percentage of those reserves were de­ Glauber to FDIC chairman William that would remove the Fed's authority voted to domestic losses. In 1990, the Seidman, the administration has de­ to regulate the biggest U.S. banks. banks set aSide $1.5 billion to cover cided to replenish the BIF by allowing While the administration fiddles losses on theirloans to the less-devel­ the FDIC to borrow up to $25 billion with its smoke and mirrors bank poli­ oped countries, compared to $10 bil­ from the Federal Reserve. The FDIC cy, the banking system continues to lion in additions in 1989. already has the authority to borrow up hemorrhage. The banks claimed an FDIC chairman Seidman charac­ to $5 billion from the Treasury, and aggregate profitof $1 .4 billion for the terized the 'condition of the banking under a formula based upon its net fourth quarter of 1990, the fourth con­ system as ''bleak,'' and described the worth , another $65 billion from the secutive quarterly drop in earnings fourth-quarter bank profits as "severe­ Federal Financing Bank. If Congress and 65% below the earnings for the ly depressed." approves this plan, it would allow the third quarter. For the year, the banks "I don't find much in here that FDIC to borrow up to $95 billion. claimed a profit of$16.6 billion, or$1 says the firSt quarter of 1991 will be The administration, in its Orwell­ billion more than they earnedin 1989. characterized as anything but bleak, ian Bushspeak, is presenting this plan The domestic operations of the but perhaps not as bleak as the last as an alternativeto a taxpayer bailout U . S. banks earned a net $1.1 billion quarter-if you can have degrees of of the banks. In theory , the loans from in the fourth quarter, the lowest level bleakness," Seidman said. "I want to the Fed will be repaid by raising the since the FDIC began keeping statis­ emphasize, 'so people don't think that deposit insurance premiums the banks tics in 1983, and about half of the the whole system is in a state of col­ pay to the FDIC, but everybody profit of the previous worst quarter. lapse, that the banks made $16.6 bil­ knows the bankrupt banks can't fund For the year, domestic operations net­ lion .... the problems that we're their own bailout. Once the money is ted $14.8 billion in 1990, down $6.7 seeing are clearly not comparable to borrowed, the government will issue billion from 1989. the S&L industry ."

10 Economics EIR March 29, 1991 Andean Report by Carlos Mendez

Washington's man in Lima of the State Department is behind the The U.S. State Department isfinancially and politically backing drafting of this pact can be seen in the fact that the Peruvian government Hernando de Soto, Peru's "informal President." admits in it that ttIe causes of the drug trade lie in coca cultivation and the trade of cocaine paste in Peru. This new posture, which tosses out the principle of co-responsibility which erious charges that he is an agent Soto's ILD, and which would funnel the governments of FernandoBelaun­ ofS the U.S. government have been all political decision-making directly de and Alan Garcia put forward in leveled against Hernando de Soto, to the President. their time . . . is very dangerous for head of the Institute for Liberty and As Oiga wrote on Feb. 18, "In our sovereignty." Democracy (ILD) in Peru and the man competition with the Shining Path" Oiga notes thatthe text of the anti­ who has become known as the "Ras­ narco-terrorists President Fujimori drug agreement with the United States putin" of the Alberto Fujimori admin­ "and his favorite, Don Hernando de repeats the arguments of Coletta istration. According to the March 11 Soto," assault "all institutionality. Youngers and John Walsh, which are issue of the Peruvian magazine Oiga, . . . The Fujimori regime, like Shin­ included in the book Coca, Cocaina y "among the contributors to the ILD is ing Path, wants to destroy everything Narcotrafico: Laberinto en los Andes, the U. S. State Department, through in order to build a new state from the (Coca, Cocaine and the Drug Traffic: its Agency for InternationalDevelop­ ashes of the ruins." Labyrinth in the Andes), edited by the ment (AID). Given the size of its do­ This is the project the U.S. State Andean Commission of Jurists. nations-much larger than that of pri­ Department is financing. Youngers and Walsh maintain that, vate U.S. organizations and Oiga revealed on March 11 that "generally, [U.S.] government offi­ foundations-the State Department in a document sent in 1985 to Peru's cials argue that coca cultivation is the has great decision-making influence Economics Ministry, the ILD "ac­ most vulnerable link in the production inside the ILD, which practically knowledges having received three do­ of narcotics and in the trafficking makes Hernandode Soto an officialof nations: one of $500,000 from AID, chain," and that it is easier to find and the United States government." another of $240,000 from the Center destroy coca crops than laboratories Oiga reports that Sen. Javier Alva for International Private Enterprise or smuggling routes. Orlandini is demanding that a con­ (CIPE), and a third of $30,000 from The U.S.-Peru agreement explic­ gressional committee be formed to in­ the Smith Richardson Foundation, itly states that "it is easier to locate, vestigate the source of ILD funds, Inc." CIPE is a wholly owned subsid­ identify, and strike a deal with 1 00 or since "if it isn't financed by Peru, and iary of Project Democracy, and the 200,000 persons, grouped in commu­ it is financed by American agencies, Smith Richardson Foundation is nal organizatioIts from the supply and it has been participating in gov­ linked to the CIA. side, than to try to confront the prob­ ernment decisions and in negotiations Oiga also mentions the Heritage lem fromthe demand side, where mil­ such as the anti-drug agreement, the Foundation as "one of the private in­ lions of people are involved." country's sovereignty will have been stitutions which has done the most to The point, concludes Oiga, is that damaged." help De Soto in his negotiations to­ the United States is now proceeding De Soto is universally acknowl­ ward the signing of the anti-drug pact" on the false ass�mption that without edged as the power behind the throne with the United States. The anti-drug drug production. there will be no con­ in Peru, a power which has pursued proposal, considered De Soto's per­ sumption. Secretary of State James two deadly policies: sonal creation, maintains that the drug Baker told Americans in November 1) the legalization of the cocaine trade should not be repressed, but that 1988 that the drUg trade is a national trade, by legalizing Peru's coCa farm­ coca crops should be "substituted, lit­ security threat. Keeping this in mind, ers; and tle by little," while creating "business and also George Bush's bloody ad­ 2) the elimination of the constitu­ zones where economic activities are venture in the Persian Gulf, says tional institutions of government going to be unregulated" or "in­ Oiga, "nothing is preventing Bush through a "popular consultation" formal." from invading, the coca-producing mechanism which would be run by De Oiga goes further: "That the hand Andean countries. "

EIR March 29, 1991 Economics 11 BusinessBrief s

AIDS sities will set up cooperative ties with Germa­ nomic, scie1lltific, and technological coopera­ ny 's Max Planck Institute for joint use of tion. Turkey is one of the Soviet Union's big­ CDC report finds research facilities. It was also agreed that the gest tradingpartners . Korea Institute of Science and Technology prisoners infected will jointly develop new materials for aircraft use with a German aerospace research insti­ The U. S. Centers for Disease Controlin Atlan­ tute, and advanced roboticstechnologies in co­ Foreign Debt ta, Georgia reports a high rate of AIDS infec­ operation with the Fraunhofer Institute. tion among prisoners , especially women. A Also under the agreement, the Korean In­ Warn of African nationwide survey of 11,000 inmates found stitute of Machineryand Metals and Braunsch­ thatrates ofHIVinfection ranged from2. 1 %to weig University of Germanywill conductjoint chaos, starvation 7.6% among men and 2.5% to 14.7% among research for the development of maglev and women. plasma-assisted material surface manufactur­ "Africa will sink into the depthsof despair . . . The researchers from the 10hns Hopkins ing technology . The Korea ResearchInstitute with bloodletting, starvation, and chaos, un­ School of Public Health and the CDC said in of Ships and Ocean Engineering will sign an less the [foreigndebt] burden is relieved inthe the lournal oftheAmerican MedicalAssocia­ agreement with Fraunhofer shortly to set up a nearfuture , '�Ugandan PresidentMusevenihas tion that these HIV infection rates are much laser center. told the European Parliament, in his capacity higher than previously reported, except for a as chairman of the Organization of African survey which found much higher ratesin stud­ Unity. ies of only New York and Maryland, states Museveni said that in addition to the $202 with high AIDS incidence. This study took ar­ Trade billion debt, Africa is crippled by the cross­ eas of moderate and high AIDS incidence for currents of the East-West conflict, complete its survey. Turkey pursues Black dependence, on raw materials and commodi­ The study showed that at nine of the 10 ties exports, and the lack of anintegrated Afri­ correctional facilities examined, female pris­ Sea economic zone can market. ,He urged not only that debt relief oners had higher rates of HIV infection than be granted, but also that prices be boosted on their male counterparts , and overall, minorit­ President Turgut Ozal of Turkey is actively raw materials, and EC agricultural subsidies ies were much more likely to beinfected than pursuing the creationof a Black Sea economic be revised ' to allow African produce to whites . zone centered on relations with neighboring compete. Soviet republics. He was interviewed by Museveni also said that the ECshould not TASS on March 10, just before his visit to the lift sanctions against South Africauntil apart­ Soviet Union. heid has been completely eradicated. Research Ozal said that in postwar West Asia, "the need arisesto create a model of cooperationto South Korea, Germany link allcountries in theregion and complement the security system. The economic aspect of Development launch joint projects the system to be establishedin theregion must ensure economic interdependence, because Swiss labor union seeks South Korea and Germany have agreed to ac­ economic imbalances prove to be sources of celerate exchanges of scientists and joint re­ conflictsin the region.. ..Its democratic sys­ solidarity with E. Europe search projects in such fields as laser, robot­ tem and an effective market economy make application, and magnetic levitation techno­ Turkey the only Muslim country which can Rejecting calls for the Swiss Army to be de­ logies, according to the Korea Times. Science­ serve as a model for postwar arrangements in ployed to policeborders against EasternEuro­ Technology Minister Kim Chin-hyon and the region ." pean economic refugees, the Swiss Christian German Research-Technology Minister Ozal condemned Saddam Hussein's ag­ Union federation has called for "real solidari­ Heinz Riesenhuber agreed to promote the gression, and favoredthe payment of warrep a­ ty" with Eastern Europe, in the words of its transfer of advanced German technologies to rations to create a "special development fund leader, Ugo Fasel, through "financing infra­ Korea in their meeting on March 2. and developmentbank, with which to coordi­ structure and investments, realizing a privi­ Under the agreement, the Korea Science nate effortsto ensure sources of finance com­ leged economic cooperation between the re­ and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) and the ing from the region's oilextracting countries" gions of the east and west, [and] opening our Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft will ex­ and "fulfilling pivotal projects for building oil markets to products of the post-communist peditescientist exchanges and hold joint semi­ and gas pipelines and solving water supply countries." . nars . The Koreans will also send more post­ problems." This union is sponsoring courses for doctoral trainees to Germany each year. Ozal signed a friendship treaty with Gor­ groups of unionists from Hungary, Poland, KOSEF-supported science research cen­ bachov on March 12, which included inter­ Czechoslovakia, and Romania, to teachthem ters and engineering researchcenters at univer- government agreements on trade, and eco- Western union methods, in an attempt to pre-

12 Economics EIR March 29, 1991 Brildly

• YURI VERSHININ, the chair­ man of the Soviet Union's Tyumen vent them from passing"from one yoke to an­ train systems, is envisaged between Siemens Gas and Oil Association, has warned other. Freed of communism, there's the dan­ and Ansaldo. that "within a year or two, we will ger thatthey will besubjected to the most cruel Potential joint ventures in Italy include a have to buy oil abroad ," and "our market laws ." north-south rail link between Milan and Na­ powerful sectoris on the brink of col­ The ultimate aim ofthe courses is to "help ples, and an east-west link betweenTrieste and lapse ." According to TASS, "More build freeunions in the post-communistcoun­ Turin . They are projected for completion by than 40 million tons of fuel has al­ tries, and fosterthe transition to a free market the end of this decade. Experts estimate the ready been lost due to reduced fi­ system which respects social needs." total investment for both tracks at DM 50 bil­ nancing, shortltges of resources, and lion. Theywouldperrnittravelat250-300kilo­ arguments over prices ." meters perhour. A private consortium is em­ barking on a third high-speed line between • THE SWISS National Parlia­ Milanand Genoa. Science ment has givep the go-ahead to two Therewas wranglingin Italy over whether tunnel projects crossing the Alps. A to solicit German aid or conduct Italian-only Naval weapons lab new rail transfer tunnel at the St. Got­ railpro jects. Italian PrimeMinisterGiulio An­ thard pass is to increase the capacity duplicates cold fusion dreottisettled the matter afterthe sudden death from a daily 400 containers/truck­ of the State Holdings Minister a few months loads to 1,000. The other tunnel ago, which made Andreotti the interim min­ A cold fusionresearcher at the Naval Weapons through Simp)on will serve private ister. Labin ChinaLake, Californiahas used the so­ cars and trucks . The projects are ex­ called cold fusionprocess to obtain excess heat pected to be approved by the Swiss and helium-4 in a basic electrolyte cell. Dr. senate and President shortly. Melvin Miles, working in collaboration with Dr. Ben Bush at the University of Texas at • GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT is Austin, said that the correlation of helium-4 Nuclear Technology laying off 110 ivorkers from itsSpace and excess heat matches theoretical computa­ Station Progratn Support Division in tions concerningcold fusion. His paperwill be Call for moving Reston, Virginia, the Wall Street published in the next issue of the Jourru:U of Journal reportc:d March 14. An addi­ Electroanalytical Chemistry . Pakistan program forward tional 60 workfrs will be fired at sub­ Despite continuing successes in cold fu­ contractors . Because of federal bud­ sion experiments since it was discovered by The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission get cuts, Grumman plans to have only two University of Utah researchers, including (PAEC) has brought immense economic , 755 workers ih the division by late three experiments that have mastered a trig­ technological, industrial, and agricultural ben­ April , comparb

EIR March 29, 1991 Economics 13 �ITillStrategic Studies

Beijing hosts superpower huddle on Cambodia

by Linda de Hoyos

During March 11-13, Beijing was the site of a hectic round nounced in August 1990, has, as this news service warned, of diplomacy concerning the Cambodian conflict, with the not advanced the "peace proce�s" in Cambodia one step. The simultaneous, but supposedly uncoordinated, arrival in the Permanent Five called for a U.N. administration to take over Chinese capital of Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Masl­ the affairs of Phnom Penh and for the Vietnamese-backed yukov; Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachov, Rus­ Phnom Penh government to self-dissolve, while the U.N. sia's point man on Indochina negotiations; U.S. Assistant oversees a cease-fireagreement and the disarming ofall parti­ Secretary of State for Far Easternand PacificAffairs Richard es in a process leading to national elections. Solomon; and the leaders of the "resistance coalition"­ In October, as all parties were deciding who would sit Prince Norodom Ranariddh, KPNLF's Son Sann, and the where on the Supreme Council, the U.N.-designated new, Khmer Rouge's Khieu Samphan. titular government of Cambodia, the Phnom Penh govern­ The frenetic pace of the bilateral meetings among all ment voiced its objections to �ts dissolution, saying that it parties conjures up images of the Marx Brothers door-dodg­ would open the way for the KhtUer Rouge's unhinderedpolit­ ing scene in "Night at the Opera." Solomon met separately ical and military penetration of the country . with Prince Sihanouk; Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin, -Beijing's chief negoiator on the Cambodia con­ Twenty-one years of war flict(a reported three-hour meeting); with Chinese Vice For­ The diplomatic impasse has hardened the Cambodia con­ eign Minister Liu Huaqin; Soviet negotiator Igor Rogachov; flict, as the country this spring enters its 21st year of war, and French Ambassador to Beijing Claude Martin. begun in 1970 when the Nixon administration pulled the Rogachov's Chinese interlocutors have not been named, plug on the Sihanouk government and launched its secret but he is known to have conferred with Vietnamese Ambassa­ bombing. dor to Beijing Dan Nyem Hoan and French Ambassador In early February, Jane's Defence Weekly reported that Martin, at their request, according to TASS March 13. Join­ Beijing was reopening arms shipments to the Khmer Rouge. ing the fracas, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced Earlier reports had surfaced that China was supplying the March 12 that Tadashi Ikeda, adviser to the Japanese embas­ Khmer guerrillas with tanks for the first time. The Chinese sy in Bangkok, would soon arrivein Beijing to meet with the had claimed that they had not ' provided any military assis­ resistancecoalition leaders. tance to the Khmer Rouge since the August Permanent Five The cause for the diplomatic scurrying is the fact that agreement. On March 1, Anatoli Ivanovich Valkov, Soviet the agreement of the United Nations Permanent Five-the ambassador to Thailand, announced in Bangkok that the So­ People's Republic of China, the United States, the Soviet viet Union would keep arming Phnom Penh. "A unilateral Union, France, and Britain--onthe Cambodian conflict, an- stopping of supplying of arms is not a solution," Valkov

14 Strategic Studies EIR March 29, 1991 Dramatis personae of the diplomatic deal in the works: The State Department's Richard Solomon; Son Sann Norodom Sihanouk; and Khieu Samphan of the Khmer Rouge. said. "We are for stopping the supply of arms but every side to Siem Reap and Kompong Cham. The other is launched participating in the conflict mustdo the same." from the Trat area in Thailand in Cambodia, where On March 8, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Duan Khmer Rouge leaders Pol Pot and Sen are based, which Jin finally made public Beijing's arming of the Khmer runs to Battambang, Pursat, and (see Figure 1). Rouge, reverting to the standard formula for such announce­ Jennar notes: "Although to date the major communica- ments: "The end of [military] assistance is a component of a tion lines do not seem to have " south of Phnom Penh, comprehensive political settlement of the Cambodian they do join south of the great lake Sap] , in Bari Baur question." district, where guerrillas cross the both ways and cut Meanwhile, the official Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan Highway 5 at the same time. It can seen that the southern­ warned on March 2 that the Khmer Rouge was using the most points of the axes are situated miles southwest and Persian Gulf war as a veil to "intensify their sabotage activi­ 60 miles southwest of Phnom Penh ties in northwestern Cambodia." With the beginning of the 140 miles apart. " dry season, the tempo of military actions is increasing. Jennar reports that the behavior Phnom Penh forces reportedly retrieved a ruby-mining town coming from Trat is "subtle. Terror massacres are com- on the Thai border from the Khmer Rouge in early March. bined with purchases of rice at than the market price " On the other side, Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts claim that and other similarly attractive �ro. ,.... "oc . There are reports the Khmer Rouge carried out grenade attacks against the that the Khmer Rouge have moved into the "liber­ central market and Defense Ministry in Phnom Penh itself, ated" areas of Cambodia by force. ' and launched attacks in the suburb of Stoeng Meanchey , populate the liberated areas with according to the March 11 Bangkok Nation. control the areas but also to keep That report, if verified, would indicate a high level of said Jean-Jacques Fresard, head of Khmer Rouge penetration in the country, as charged in No­ tee of the Red Cross in Thailand, as vember by Raoul Jennar, a consultant to the Belgian Senate Nation Jan. 15. In early 1989, for ex;amPle who surveyed Cambodia in October under the auspices of the moved 4,000 refugees across the Forum of Non-GovernmentalOrganizations in Cambodia. In Militarily, there is continual his report issued Nov. 6, 1990, Jennar wrote: "The Khmer provinces of Cambodia. Analysis of Khmer Rouge's mili- Rouge have succeeded in reestablishing themselves deep into tary activities, Jennar said, the operations now the country and can in future undertake the encircling and involve the mobilization of im;re:asedlmanpower (sometimes strangulation of cities as they did in November 1974 to April 200-300 men). This means that are able to transport 1975, which resulted in the fall of Phnom Penh." reserves of weapons and deep into the country. There are two axes of resistance penetration of the coun­ ...Finally , this means that from on they can do without try , reported Jennar, one running from the camp of O'Trao their bases back in Thailand and not suffer from a on the northern border with Thailand, where Khmer Rouge possible closure of the frontier if decided to do leaders Ta Mok and Khieu Samphan are based, which runs this."

EIR March 29, 1991 Strategic Studies 15 FIGURE 1 Khmer Rouge penetration of Cambodia

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A more interesting initiati The possibility of options Ie is on the way from Japan, Although no word has yet emerged on the results of the whose Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama will visit Beijing meetings in Beijing, on March 13, Soviet Foreign Ministry and Hanoi for talks on camb ia. Although the Japanese spokesman Vitaly Churkin pointed the way to a possible proposal is not yet disclosed, accordingfct to a March 13 Agence superpower compromise, assuming that what pleases Beijing France Presse wire, it centers bn increasing the role of the also pleases Washington. Churkin reported from Moscow United Nations. According t Japanese Foreign Ministry that the Soviet Union was in agreement with proposals made spokesman Taizo Watanabe, the plan includes "concrete 9I by Vietnam Feb. 28 for an immediate cease-firein Cambodia measures on the implementation of the suspension of war" and resumption of activities of the Supreme National Coun­ and to "prevent the revival of g�nocide." cil, reported TASS. The cease-fire is the precondition for Last month, then-Thai Pri e Minister Chatichai Choon- nlI ensuring that the Khmer Rouge operations are stopped, under havan had floated a Japan-backed plan which calls for the conditions in which Phnom Penh is supposed to give way to rehabilitation of Cambodia's infrastructure-roads, rail­ U.N. administration. ways, and airfields-in both esistance- and govemment­ The call for reviving the Supreme National Council controlled areas, even before a peace settlement is in place . . would, at least on the surface, appear to be a concession from Chatichai proposed that the cpnstruction plans be carried Phnom Penh and Vietnam, that the Khmer Rouge-which is out by the all-party Supreme National Council, using the seated on the council-is indeed a party to any settlement. Cambodian embassy in Bang ok as a base of operations. And to underscore the point, Churkin stated that "it is impor­ "Thailand would serve as a 'co�ordinator' with the U.N. and l tant that peace initiatives should be in tune with the known with donor countries, Particul lY Japan, which has offered plan put forth by the five permanent members of the U.N. to finance the rehabilitation sci erne," reported the Bangkok Security Council"-the plan heartily endorsed by the P.R.C. Nation Feb. 12. The plan has ben endorsed by Prince Noro­ and rejected by Vietnam as a violation of the U.N. Charter dom Ranariddh, son of Prince Sfhanouk, but has been greeted and of Cambodian sovereignty. with silence by the other CambMian factions so far.

16 Strategic Studies EIR March 29, 1991 terpart Kaysone Phomvihane in November, also called for the construction of two to three more bridges to link the countries across the Mekong. One bridge is now slated for construction Mekong Project is this year, with Australian funding, � will contain a railway link. It must be hoped that despite the! February military coup the pathway to peace against the Chatichai government, th€4 Thai military'spromise thatfo reignpolicy will not change includes a continuedcommit­ ment to the Subin initiatives for the Mekong. by Linda de Hoyos Who is interested? In all the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours expended by At the end of November, the Mekong Interim Committee Moscow, Washington, and Beijing in diplomatic wrangling met for its 32nd annual session. Under the leadership of the over the conflicts in Southeast Asia since World War II, very Canadian-born Chuck Lankester, the committee is focusing few have been spent on the economic development of the on four projects: the Low Pa Mong, the Luang Prabang, region, specifically the training and harnessing of the Me­ Chiang Khan, and Nam Theum I. In early November, Lan­ kong River. However, in 1990, as negotiations were pro­ kester toured Europe looking for funds. The meeting also ceeding for a comprehensive settlement in Cambodia, plans became a focal point for pulling together the regional unity for developing the Mekong were given new impetus in diplo­ needed to carry out the dam projects. Cambodia has not been macy coming from Thailand. represented on the committee since 1976, when the Khmer The initiative came fromthen-Thai ForeignMinister Sub­ Rouge took over Phnom Penh. The Interim Committee now in Pinkhayan during an October visit to Vientiane, Laos, includes Thailand, Laos, and Viet:nanJ.. In a press conference where the Thai official called for the revival of the Interim held Nov. 27 after the session, Vietaamese president of the Mekong Committee, a multinational body which has directed National VietnamMekong Committee, DinhGia Khanh, called the feasibility studies on the Mekong Project since 1957. for the inclusion of Chinaand the Union of Myanmar (Burma) Behind Subin's proposal for the Mekong was then-Thai in a program for Mekong-centered regional development. It Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan' s idea to turn the was high time, Khanh said, that all six countries sharing the Cambodian "battleground into a marketplace." Mekong coordinate efforts to utilize its potentials to capacity. In October and November, Subin consulted with both Beijing has agreed only "in principle" to participate in Phoun Sipaseut of Laos and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Mekong projects, a Thai ForeignMinistry spokesman report­ Nguyen Co Thach on proposals for a joint dam and reservoir ed Feb . 8, and China has agreed to exchangetechnical infor­ project on the Mekong along the Thai-Lao border. Subin, mation with the Interim Committee. However, the projects who is a hydraulic engineer, told the Bangkok Nation Nov. are not likely to be welcomed by Beijing's subsidiary, the 2, "I am very interested in these projects, which weremapped Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge has rejected the plans by out back when I was a student. Later, I studied these projects Thailand to begin the reconstruction of Cambodia, making at university and I was also involved as an adviser to the the full acceptance and implementation of the Permanent Mekong Interim Committee." Five plan for a U.N. takeover of Callnbodia a precondition. Thach'sblessing , reported theNa tion, for Mekong projects This stance derives not only from the perceived advantages was solicited to "make Laos feel comfortable about entering handed to the Khmer Rouge in the U;N. plan, but also from into Thai-Lao power development cooperation, which far sur­ the Pol Potist Maoist ideology . passes Thai-Vietnamese cooperation within the framework of At international meetings in the last 10 years, the Khmer the Mekong Interim Committee." Thachwas reportedly "enthu­ Rouge has feigned rej ection of the nihilistic tenets which led to siastic and open-minded," describing the long-shelved major the deaths in 1975-79 of nearly one-bal:f of the Cambodian power development proj ects as "Sleeping Beauties and Thai­ population, either through murder or starvation. However, in land as Prince Charming." The two proj ects immediately in February , it was revealed that the anti-human Pol Pot has question are the Pa Mong dam on the Mekong River and the banned the killing of animals in territory it controls. With this, Nam Theum damproj ect in a Mekong tributary inside Laos. PolPot joins with the World Wildlife Fund of Britain's Prince As the Nation further noted, "Foreign Ministry sources Philip, for whom economic development is anathema. familiar with Subin's thinking said that the minister sees hy­ The Mekong is the pathway by whlch the Southeast Asian dropower as the 'cheapest and cleanest' source of energy as an nations can join efforts in achieving mutual benefitsthat can alternative for Thailand to import crude oil imports. Thailand end the persistent degradation of its people, who have long now imports about 60% of its crude, which has risen markedly suffered as pawns of the superpowers. Far frombeing a non­ since the advent of the Gulf crisis." Subin had also brought up issue in negotiations on the Cambodian conflict, the attitude the Mekong Proj ect in a visit to Beijing in mid-November. toward the vast opportunities it preselnts is the litmus test to Prime Minister Chatichai, in discussions with his Laocoun- see who wants peace and who does not.

EIR March 29, 1991 Strategic Studies 17 Mekong development plan: It is time to awaken the's leeping giant' by Uwe Henke v. Parpart

For almost four decades, war, the hopes for lasting peace in world's highest for regions of comparablesize . Current con­ Indochina, and the Mekong Project of large-scale hydroelec­ sumptive use of the basin waters for irrigation and water tric and irrigation development in the lower basin of Asia's supply amounts to less than 1 %. At 254 megawatts of in­ third largest river have been closely intertwined. On three stalled capacity, the degree of exploitation of hydroelectric separate occasions since World War II, when peace seemed potential is also estimated currently to be 1 %. By any mea­ close at hand-upon the signing of the 1954 Geneva Ac­ sure, the river's energy and irrigation potentials are immense. cords, in 1972-73 as the Vietnam War was winding down, The Mekong is the world' $ eighth largest river in annual and again in 1990-plans for harnessing the Mekong River flow. Like the Yangtze Kiang and Burma's Salween, it rises have been put forward to foster regional stabilityand cooper­ in the Tanghla Range of northeastern Tibet, at an elevation ation. And even in the midst of war, in the 196Os, P.T. Tan, of 5,000 meters. Running initially in a southeasterly direc­ one of the project's main architects, wrote: "If we wait until tion, it soon turns due south, and flanked in the west by the wars are over before starting any project, we will all be Salween and in the east by the Yangtze, cuts through the finished before even having made the first step. We have easternmountains and plateaus of China's Yunnan province. nothing to lose in starting a project which will raise the stan­ Leaving Yunnan, the river has traveledalmost 2,000kilome­ dards of living of the people in the Lower Mekong Basin. ters, dropped 4,500meters , and reached a width of 400 me­ Perhaps by raising their standards of living, the warring fac­ ters . After forming the border between Burma and Laos for tions will realize that poverty is the real enemy of the people the next 160 km,it enters its lower basin area at the common and that they should stop fighting against each other and join Burma-Laos-Thailand frontier point. hands, pool their resources to fight poverty, and achieve the Below Burma, the Mekortg still has some 2,400 km to objective of prosperity for all." go before reaching the South China Sea, draining on its way This idea was struck again during the visit of American the Korat Plateau of Thailand, most of Cambodia, and the statesman Lyndon LaRouche to Southeast Asia in the sum­ westward slopes of the Annamite mountain chain. At the mer of 1983. Upon his return, LaRouche wrote a report junction with Thailand's Mun River, where it ceases to form published by EIR , "The Development of the Asia-Pacific the Thai-Lao border, its span has widened to 1,600 meters. Basin," which specified five "great projects" designed to After traversing southern Laos, plunging over the Khone unleash the tremendous productive potential of the region and Falls, and running through northeastern Cambodia, the Me­ encourage regional cooperation across political, factional, kong becomes navigable for small ocean-going craft below religious, and ethnic lines. Along with the construction of a Kratie. At Phnom Penh, it becomes connected to Cambodia's second Panama Canal, a Kra Canal through southern Thai­ natural catch-basin, the TonIe Sap, alternately�epending land, the development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river ba­ on the season-feeding or being fed by the Great Lake. sins, and the construction of the North-South Canal in main­ After the point of conjunction with the TonIe Sap River, the land China, LaRouche specified the development of the mainstream divides into two forks, and as these twin streams Mekong River basin as openingthe possibility of creating an continue south and enter Vietnam, they in tum divide and agricultural and industrial powerhouse in SoutheastAsia . fan out over a vast, fertile delta, emptying into the South Today the lower Mekong drainage basin has a population China Sea through numerous mouths. of approximately 50 million, representing over one-third of Along its course, the Mekong drains a total catchment the total population of the four riparian countries of Laos, areaof 795,000 square kilometers-well over twice the land Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam Table 1. At average per area of Japan-including some 185 ,000sq kmalong its upper capita annual incomes of $100-350, the basin area's people, reaches in China and Burma. The over 609,000 sq km of its including those in rural northeastern Thailand, are among the lower reaches drainage basin comprise almost the whole of world's poorest. Laos and Cambodia, one-third of Thailand, and one-fifth of In startling contrast to such abject poverty, the basin's Vietnam. The average annual discharge is more than 475,000 water resources potential is unquestionably among the million cubic meters of water, with large seasonal variations.

18 Strategic Studies EIR March 29, 1991 TABLE 1 Population and economic data for the Mekong Basin

Cambodia Laos Thailand Vietnam!

(1985) (1987) (1987) (1988) I Total

Total population 7.97 3.88 54.34 63.73 129.9 (millions) Basin population" 7.41/ 3.67/ 19.78/ 15.00/ 145.85/ (millions/% of total) 93 95 36 23 35 GOP National ($ bil) 0.7 0.7 48.0 10.8 60.2 Basin ($ bil/%) 0.7/ 0.61 6.0/ 4.0/ ! 11.21 95 98 13 37 19 Per capita income National ($) 100 156 1,014 180 ! Basic ($) 100 140 325 240

"All population figures for 1988.

The tremendous power potential of this river can be pre­ the description is apt. cisely specified. Based on total average annual discharge This was not always the case. The ancient, stronglyIodi­ into the sea, runoff from various parts of the basin, and an-influenced Mekong delta civilization of Funan (first differences in elevation between the center of each unit sur­ through sixth centuries A.D.), with its capital ofVyadhapura face and the mean sea level, the theoretical hydroelectric in the modern Cambodian province of PreyVeng , had laced potential has been calculated to be 58,000 megawatts of in­ the delta with a complex series of irrigation and communica­ stalled capacity and 505 , 000gigawatt-hours of annual energy tions canals. Many of these are still in use. Others, long silted generation. Of this, 37,650 and 194,000 GWh per year have and overgrown, have been revealed by aerial photography. been found to be technically feasible by latest studies. There is good evidence that the second delta fork of the By comparison, Thailand's total present electricity con­ Mekong, the Bassac , was originally a man-made canal, sumption is only about 40,000 GWh, or 20% of that genera­ which, if true , would constitute a remarkable hydraulic engi­ tion potential. However, between now and the end of the neering feat. century, electricitydemand in the four riparian countriescan In the seventh century, Funan was absorbed into the new­ be expected to rise by close to 100,000 GWh over present ly emerging Khmer state of Chenla, located in present-day levels, and by another 100,000 GWh by 2005, and thus will southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia, with its capital rapidly approach the total Mekong potential. A full 84% of of Isanapura at the modern site of Sambor Prei Kuk, in the the Mekong's potential power would come from Laos and lowlands between the Mekong and the TonIe Sap. The Cambodia, with Thailand and Cambodia providing the Khmers of Chenla developedsophisticated hydraulical tech­ market. niques for agriculture, notably the "captive water" technique, The lower Mekong's irrigation potential is estimated to which dammed water to be distributed by canals to less­ be a minimum of 6 million hectares of cultivable land. This elevated regions. This technique was later to be exploited to is about ten times the present reliably irrigated area. Since its fullin the complex irrigation systems of Angkor. crop yields per hectare in irrigated areas are two to three The Angkor period of the Khmer Empire dates from the times higher than in naturally rainfed areas , there exists a early ninth century to its final demise and the abandonment massive agricultural production increase potential, even with of the Angkor site in 1444. The first, great artificialreservoir­ partial utilization. Furthermore, the development of the Me­ based irrigation works of the Angkor periodwere constructed kong will end the cycle of flood and drought that afflicts under King Indravarman I (877-889) near Roluos, west of many in its basin, particularly in Thailand's Northeast. the TonIe Sap and just below Angkor. His successor, Yasa­ varman I (889-900), added a new system, fed from a large Rich history of regional development reservoir, the baray oriental, or eastern baray of modem The Mekong has been described as a "sleeping giant­ times, fed by the Siemreap River. A final system, based on neither spanned by bridge nor slowed by dam." Although it another large reservoir, the westernbaray , and again substan­ is bridged in China at several points, including by an iron tially increasing the cultivable area in the region around suspension bridge where the famous Burma Road crosses the Angkor was built under Udayadityavarman II (1050-66). Mekong east of Baoshan, for the lower reaches of the river, These elaborate artificial irrigation systems, permitting

EIR March 29, 1991 Strategic Studies 19 TileMekong River development plan is bne of the great projects Lyndon LdRouche presented to this historic m�eting in Bangkok in 1983, for ddveloping the Pacific and Indian 0 , ean basins. the assured exploitation of lands that otherwise would have Dalls on the Laos-Cambodia rder; and Sarnborand Tonie I remained unproductive, allowed the Khmers at Angkor to Sap in Cambodia. These wouL d provide over 32,000 million maintain a densely populated and highly centralized state in kilowatt-hours of electricity �r year. a relatively limited area. The Angkorian state reached its high point of advanced cultural development and influence The Mekong committe is formed in the early 12th century. Afterthat , employing its manpower The report also cited the n l d "to establish an internation­ resources in costly and futile wars of conquest and squan­ al clearing channel or clearing+ house for the exchange of dering its engineering skills in the construction of huge mo­ information and plans and the coordination of projects." On nolithic temples, it went into decline. The temple complex ECAFE's recommendation, i "preparatory meeting" of the of Angkor Wat, completed in 1150, in all its apparent mag­ four riparian countries--exclj ding Burma and China for po­ I nificence, marked the beginning of the end of the Khmer litical reasons-was held in pangkok in September 1957, Empire. and adopted the "Statute of the Committee for Coordination The modem efforts to develop the Lower Mekong Basin of Investigations of the Low6r Mekong Basin." The "Me­ began shortly afterWorld War II with the creation in 1947 kong Committee" was born, ahdhas overseen Mekong proj ­ of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far ect studies, planning, and im�lementation ever since. East (ECAFE), headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. In May The "Preparatory Meeting" also asked the U.N. Techni­ 1952, ECAFE's Bureau of Flood Control produced a study cal Assistance Administratio� to help recruit a team of water under the title "Preliminary Report on Technical Problems resources experts to review the Mekong development studies Relating to Flood Control and Water Resources Development already carried out. The U.N . Technical Assistance team of the Mekong-An International River." The study cited under the chairmanship of Lt. Gen. Raymond Wheeler (ret.) exciting specific engineering possibilities such as the devel­ of the U.S. Army Corps of �ngi! neers produced a report in opment of hydropower between the Lao capital of Vientiane 1958, entitled "Program of Studies and Investigations for and Luang Prabang and the diversion of the flow ofthe Me­ Comprehensive Development of the Lower Mekong Basin." kong for irrigating vast areas of northeastern Thailand. The "Wheeler Report" calledl for a five-year program of in­ But military action in the eastern part of the basin pre­ vestigations and an initial i vestment of $9.2 million for cluded any immediate followup. After the 1954 signing of development. The "Wheeler Report" formed the basis for the Geneva Accords attention turned again to the Mekong. much of the work done on the Mekong through the 1960s , In 1956, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, at the request of along with a 1962 Ford Fou dation study of the economic the riparian states, produced a "Reconnaissance Report­ and social impact of the propoked projects, and a 1959 recon­ Lower Mekong River Basin," which became a basic docu­ naissance survey of Mekong fubutaries under the leadership ment for planning the river's development. In addition, in of Yutaka Kubota. The wor� centered on the five project­ April-May 1956, the above-quoted P.T. Tan of ECAFE, sites as the 1956 report of Tan-Pa Mong, Khemarat, with a team of special consultants from France, India, and Khone, Sambor, and TonIep. Srap , and in addition, called for Japan, surveyed the Mekong basin. Their report-"Develop­ four top-priority projects on l Mekong tributaries-at Nam ment of Water Resources in the Lower Mekong Basin"­ Ngum, Nam Pong, Stung Battambang, and Aw Ab. Costs identified fivemainstream mUlti-purpose dam projects: at Pa for the hydropower portion o�the projects were estimated by Mong and Khemarat between Laos and Thailand; Khone the Ford Foundation to be $6- billion.

20 Strategic Studies EIR March 29, 1991 TABLE 2 National projects: key parameters, 1987 revised indicative plan

ProJects Unit Laos Thalland1 Vietnam Total

Power Generation capacity MW 536 504 1,040 Energy production GWh/year-2 492 2,850 3,342 Total investment Mil. 1987 U.S.$ 8.3 245.8 547.4 801 .5 Irrigation Total area Hectares 19,800 100,000 300,000 419,800 Incremental paddy production Tons/yr. 53,000 247,000 1,450.000 1,750,000 Direct employment Labor places 7,300 46,000 260;000 313,300 Total investment Mil. 1987 U.S.$ 32.4 244.7 413.9 691.0

1. Including investments in the period 2001 -2005 (U.S. $171.7 million) 2. Transmission line

By 1969, data collection and fe asibility evaluations had annual take from the world drug trade. been carriedout for several major projects, and several small­ er projects, such as the 150 MW Nam Ngum dam in Laos, How the Mekong Cascade would work were under construction. But work on the larger projects The Mekong Cascade is an integtated system of dams such as Pa Mong were stalled, due to the Vietnam War. and reservoirs that would regulate tbk lower 2,000 km of In 1970, the Mekong Committee commissioned a team of mainstream flow of the numerous systems studied since independent international consultants to prepare a new com­ 1956. The cascade begins with the Higb Luang Prabang dam, prehensive development plan for 1970-2000. This plan came 2000 kmfrom the mouth of the Mekong, to the Pak Lay dam to be called the "1970 Indicative Basin Plan." The 6oo-page at 1,800 km; to the Pa Mong at 1,600 km; to Bung Kan at report identified a total of 180 possible development projects. 1,400 km; to Ban Koum at 950 kn!l; and TonIe Sap at Those listed as "short-range," indicating smaller-scale proj ­ 700 km; to the Stung Treng alongside it; to Sambor at 500 km ects for construction 1970-80, have been largely completed from the mouth (see Figure 2). in Laos and Thailand, but war and lack of funds precluded The plan envisions the construction of five power proj­ construction in Cambodia and Vietnam. The Cambodia con­ ects: a 115 kilovolt transmission line in the Lao People's flicthas also acted to forestall the implementation of the long­ Democratic Republic from the existing Nam Ngum power range scheme, which called for the five maj or projects put plant to Luang Prabang; a 400 MW pumped storage plant at forward in the Tan report and seconded in the Wheeler report. Nam Chern, Thailand; a 136 MW hydropower plant at Pak Since 1976, Cambodia has had no representative on the Mun, Thailand; and a staged development of hydropower Mekong Committee, and hence it has been dubbed the "Inter­ plants at 24 MW and 480 MW respectively at Yali Falls, in im Mekong Committee." Still, it has not only survived but the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The last projects would by 1988 had managed to increase its fu nding from negligible act to provide electricity to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam amounts in the mid- 1970s to $10 million in 1989 . The Me­ (formerly Saigon), which oftengoes without power for hours kong Secretariat in Bangkok comprises 91 staff, including at a time. 44 professional staff. In 1987, the committee updated the Aside from electric power supply, the cascade's main 1970 report, publishing "Perspectives for Mekong Devel­ economic impact will derive from river flow regulation (see opment." Table 3). For reasons of "political and financial realism," the only As a snow-fed river, the Mekong has a perennial flow. mainstream dam included in the 1987 Interim Basin Plan of Lower basin flow, however, is dominated by the large annual the five listed in the long-range category in the 1970 report rainfall variation. The river begins to rise at the onset of is the Pa Mong, reduced in elevation from 250 meters to the southwest monsoon and the "wet season" in May-June, 210 meters (see Table 2). Nonetheless, project planners and attains maximum water level between August and October, engineers at the Mekong Secretariat are confidentof the tech­ then rapidly falls until December, and afterwards recedes nical and economic feasibility of the full range of the 1970 slowly during the "dry season" to reach its lowest level in projects, although with some significantmodificat ions. mid-April. The enormous volume of excess water during the The Mekong Project outlined here then includes the full wet season results in severe flooding and crop and property mainstream "Mekong Cascade." Total project costs would damage in iowland areas along the mainstream and tributaries be in the range of $20 billion (1990)-that is, 4% of the almost every year. By contrast, serious flow reduction in the

EIR March 29, 1991 Strategic Studies 21 FIGURE 2 The prc!»posed Mekong Cascade

CHINA

1 Luang rabang 2 Pak Lay� THAILAND 3 Pa MOIll 4 Bung �n 5 Ban Ko\.im 6 Stung "'Preng 7 Sambo� 8 Tonle ,p

TABLE 3 The Mekong Cascade I I Reservoir Installed Annual Lowflow Reservoir area Net Storage capacity energy Increase Project· elevation (sq km) (mll.m) (MW) GWh : m/s (mll. S)

High Luang Prabang 355/320 780 15,390 3,200 16,21Q 850 2,560 Pak Lay 275/255 370 5,580 2,500 12,7 430 2,190 Pa Mong 210/1 92 610 7,310 2,250 10,7� 470 2,000 Bung Kan Regulator Dam NA NA NA NA NA I NA NA Ban Koum 125/123 400 620 2,400 11'2 120 2,260 Stung Treng 80/75 5,000 18,900 5,400 25,84 1,460 4,100 Sambor 40/38 1,160 2,500 3,200 16.2� 260 2,850 Subtotals 8,320 50,300 18,950 92,91(� 3,590 15,960 Tonie Sap 10/3 61 ,360 54,470 NA NA i 2,500 2,600 Totals 69,680 104,770 18,950 92,91Q 6,090 18,560

'Numbers such as 355/320 indicate elevation in meters above MSL (mean sea level) of reservoirfull supply level (FSL) and low water level (LWL) respectively.

22 Strategic Studies EIR March 29, 1991 dry season, when the river discharge even in normal years in floodyears . This flowdoes not remain confinedto the river drops to 2,000 cubic meters per second, results in deep intru­ channel, but enters extensive floodways on both sides of the sion of salt water into the coastal plain of the Mekong delta, river as well as the low , wide floodplains of the tributaries in where an area of 2. 1 million hectares is regularly affected by Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. So much of the peak flow salinity intrusion. may be diverted into the tributaries that the Mekong is some­ In combination, the Mekong Cascade projects would times called "the river that flowsbackwar ds." augment low flows by some 6,000 cu mis,quadrupling cur­ Pa Mong 250 would allow regulation of even the highest rent natural flows. Not only would this go a long way toward peak flow, reducing it to 10,000-20 ,000 cu mls. All tributar­ solving the delta salinity intrusion problem, but it is also the ies would drain into the mainstream year round. Flooding as precondition for realization of the full irrigation potential far down as Cambodia would be regulated to the extent that in other basin areas. And while by themselves the cascade 75 ,000 hectares of the most fertile land on the riverbanks reservoirs cannot entirely prevent lowland flooding during there would become cultivable year round. On the other peak flow periods, inundation depths would be considerably hand, Pa Mong 250 would by itself help increase dry season reduced. Embankments in the delta and elsewhere could then flowby 3,000 cu mls. Furthermore , Pa Mong 250 would not accomplish the rest. only improve the hydraulic conditions of the lowlands along the mainstream and tributaries, it would also permit gravity The Pa Mong controversy irrigation of significant portions of northeast Thailand. Pa The Pa Mong site some 20 km upstream from Vientiane Mong 210 has virtually no such potential . where the Mekong breaks out of the uplands into the plain, is Thus, "social acceptability" and environmental concerns easily the most studied location for a major mainstream damas and the introduction of the ill-defined concept of "sustainable the centerpiece of the entire cascade. The Interim Mekong development" into Mekong Secretariat planning may have Committee has contracted Acres International Ltd. of Canada fostered a planning decision which in the long run will tum to carry out new studies on the dam . A sedimentation study has out to be neither environmentally sound nor lead to the opti­ already been accomplished by the Asian Institute of Technolo­ mizing impact for the entire project. gy, and an irrigation study by a Thai-Lao consultant will be Although the resettlement problem is both real and diffi­ completed in June 1991. The Japanese government has indi­ cult to overcome politically under current conditions, imple­ cated interest in carrying out the environmental studies, and the mentation of High Pa Mong, rather than Low Pa Mong, will Interim Committee will carry out a power system study with create large, positive economic, social and environmental the Thai and Lao electricity authorities. spinoffs that will readily offset the drawbacks of large-scale The current Interim Mekong Committee plan calls for the resettlement. dam to be 210 meters , scaled down from the original proposal First, large-scale resettlement under environmental du­ to have Pa Mong be 250 meters proposed by the U.S. Bureau ress is already ongoing in parts of Laos and northeast Thai­ of Reclamation study of 1963 . land without the dam, precisely because of unsatisfactory The Bureau of Reclamation proposed a concrete gravjty lowlands hydraulics. In recent years, with implementation dam , 115 meters high, with a crest length of 1,360meters . The of few measures to break the perennial lowlands cycle of reservoir would have a storage capacity of 98,300 cubic meters floods and droughts , and simultaneous greater market value and a surface area of 3,722 sq km, necessitating resettlement of upland cash crops, there has been a surge of people towards of some 250,000 people . Stage I electricity generating capacity the uplands . As a result, the uplands are becoming deforested was to be 4,800 MW and ultimate peak capacity 10,200 MW. and denuded at an ever-increasing pace. In Thailand, there Irrigation potential was estimated to be 40,000 hectares initial­ has also been large-scale migration from the deforested and ly , ultimately increasing to 1-2 million hectares in the dam drought-plagued Northeast to the already hopelessly over­ region and by another 2 million hectares downstream. crowded Bangkok region. A similar situation exists in Viet­ The Pa Mong dam was scaled down, due to concerns nam, where the delta region is grossly underpopulated. about the large number of people to be resettled. However, High Pa Mong could do a great deal to reverse these the former director of the Mekong Secretariat's Agriculture uncontrolled and economically, socially, and environmental­ Division, W.J. van Liere, has argued that substituting Low ly unsound population movements, in comparison with Pa Mong for High Pa Mong could be a big and systematic which well-thought-out resettlement of even several hundred mistake. His principal argument is that Pa Mong 250, but thousand people displaced by the Pa Mong reservoir is a not Pa Mong 210, is able to perform the crucial task of dra­ relatively minor problem in terms of social cost. High Pa matically improving the hydraulic conditions of the lowlands Mong's effect of creating stable lowlands land use practices all along the Mekong mainstream and tributaries below the will induce movement of people back from the uplands . It dam site. will permit, for example, the cities of Vientiane and Udon When in flood, the Mekong peak flow at Vientiane is Thani to become agro-industrial centers, and will create the 17,000 cu mls in normal years and as high as 26,000 cu mls conditions for uplands reforestation.

EIR March 29, 1991 Strategic Studies 23 TIillFeature

u. s. civil rights struggle: a crucial lesson for today by Carol White

This spring, the Schiller Institute is publishing a new edition of Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson's book, Bridge Across Jordan, in which she describes her experiences in building the civil rights movement. This is an event of major importance, because Mrs. Robinson bridges in her person, the more than 200-year fightfor freedom by black Americans and the international resistance movement of freedom fighters . Since 1930 when she moved to Selma, Alabama, she has devoted her life to this cause. Last year, her speeches before East German audiences-just as the Berlin Wall was finally coming down-had a profound effect, emphasizing for them the universal nature of their own struggle against captivity. Over the last two years in particular, we have seen an upsurge in the resistance movement, beginning in China and then shifting to the East bloc and Germany . The particular quality of that movement is typified by the fact that Friedrich Schiller's great poem the "Ode to Joy," as set by Beethoven in his Ninth Sympho­ ny , has become the anthem of that movement. The civil rights struggle in the United States marched to the song "We Shall Overcome"-surely no great work of art, but still an expression of determination and optimism and of the commitment of that movement really not to civil but to human rights . Despite the brutality of American culture today-which extends to every sector of the population, from the ghettos where children are poisoned with drugs and shot while they are at play, to the vast majority of Americans who were willing to cheer George Bush's "victory"---despite this, the civil rights movement which Amelia Boynton Robinson played an important part in building, laid the foundations for the next phase of the freedom struggle in the United States. Mrs . Robinson's story, the story of the movement which she and her husband Samuel William Boynton, and countless other brave Americans , built along with Martin Luther King, must be understood if we are to succeed in reaching the goal which they set. At the end of his life , Dr. King was moving to universalize the

24 Feature EIR March 29, 1991 Amelia Robinson lays a wreath at a statue of the poet Friedrich Schiller in Weimar, Germany, Nov. iO, i990. With her is Renate Rumpf of the Schiller institute. Mrs. Robinson's speeches to East German audiences, about her experience in tile civil rights movement, gave them a profound sense of the universal fightfo r human rights of which their struggle is a part.

struggle against discrimination. He recognized that black Americans then had not accepted the vicious axiomatic Americans were not the only victims of oppression in the assumptions of malthusianism, tha some people are useless United States, and he bitterly opposed the resurgence of colo­ eaters and have forfeited their rigtit to life. The American nialism as evidenced by the war in Vietnam. For that reason, population was, by and large, farmI ly-oriented, pro-science he waskilled . For the same reason today, Lyndon LaRouche and technology, and culturally opttmistic; they believed in is a political prisoner. progress. Racism, therefore, was In contradiction to other Mrs. Robinson has been a freedom fighterfor 60 years . cherished values, and these values could be appealed to by Her story is about the continuity between the civil rights the civil rights movement. l movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the international Martin Luther King's movemert was nonviolent. This movement which Lyndon and Helga LaRouche are building was not merely a tactic made necess� by the fact that blacks today. in the United States are a minoritYj of the population; King understood that the civil rights mov�ment could only succeed In the image of God by reaffirming the central value 0'1Christian culture-love The civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, led by for one's fellow man . This did not mean appeasing evil: To Martin Luther King, was an affirmation that mankind-all the contrary, King led his follower� to put their own bodies men and women-have been created in imago viva Dei-in on the line, in order to dramatize tPe fight against injustice the living image of God . With the murder of Martin Luther and reawaken the conscience of the nation. King and John and Robert Kennedy, the United States began In this way, blacks who had internalizedl their role as a a tum away from Christian culture, toward cultural bar­ downtrodden people would rise to heir full human dignity, barism. and at the same time their oppressors and those who passively The U.S. South, in the post-Reconstruction period, was tolerated this oppression, would be shaken out of their com­ ruled by a racialist, masonic cabal, typified by the white­ placent assumption that they could l be moral and yet accept sheeted, cross-burning Ku Klux Klan. Political brutality (or tolerate) the degradation of thei� fellow men and women. against blacks and poor whites, and a backward economy Now, not 25 years later, the foral qualities of broad which virtually replicated the economic conditions of slav­ layers of the population, upon W iCh King relied for the ery, meant that the South was a virtual fe udal despotism . Yet success of his movement, have bee lblunted. With the spread it existed under conditions in which the United States claimed of the counterculture and the conc mitant erosion of family to be the "leader of thefree world" internationally. values and moral decency, has cd e toleration of amoral

EIR March 29, 1991 Feature 25 brutality, as witnessed by the sports fever cheering by Ameri­ they are real leaders. First they have to purify themselves, cans as their pilots reduced Iraq to a rubble heap. and make a tum, in order to loo� at the world as it should be Rather than being a force for good, the United States ratherthan as it is. That is what all of us who are called to be today has become the battering ram of a new imperialism. leaders have to do. This in no way overshadows the moral premises upon which "I think Lyn is a sacrificial person. I think he is the most King built his movement; instead it makes moral regeneration selfless person I have encountered since the deaths of my of the population an even more urgently pressing task. husband and Martin Luther King. I think he is a man who has struggled and he knows that in this world, somebody has Bridge Across Jordan to make a sacrifice. And he is selfless, he is sacrificial. His Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson and the Rev. James aim is to see a change. He knows that if there isn't a change, Bevel , two of King's leading associates, are now working the whole world is going to collapse. And he is not looking with the Schiller Institute, which they see as the lawful con­ through the eyes of the oligarchies, of the people who are tinuance of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s to the strug­ runningthis world, of the racists, of the selfish. He is giving gle for human rights today. In the preface to Bridge Across us to look at people as people, because all men are created Jordan, Mrs. Robinson discusses why she views Lyndon equal. All men should have the opportunity to reach their LaRouche as a successor to Martin Luther King: potentials, whatever they might be. There should be no segre­ "I have found such Americans in the organizations asso­ gation, no discrimination. EveryOne should have a chance. ciated with Lyndon LaRouche, the political leader and econ­ "Now, that's the way I look at Lyndon LaRouche, as far omist, who today is serving a IS-year prison sentence be­ as I can see. And he has proven pimself. What other man in cause of his political views. I am a board member of the this era would be in jail and forget abouthimself in order to Schiller Institute, which was founded in 1984 by Helga Zepp­ make a ripple in the waters of the improvement of thiscountry LaRouche, wife of Lyndon LaRouche and a leader in her and this world? This is how he spends his time, even in jail. own right in Germany. The Schiller Institute's goal is to But we are going to have to get him out there, so that he can achieve freedom for all nations of the world-'that all men expand his ability to achieve his program, which is built on might be brothers' -as Friedrich Schiller, the great German a solid foundation of human dignity, human respect and love Poet of Freedom, for whom the Schiller Institute is named, for everybody. " stated in his famous Ode to Joy . LaRouche has written a foreword to the new addition of "I joined the Schiller Institute because I found it to be Mrs. Robinson's book, situating the civil rights movement continuing the civil rights struggle, in the footsteps, as it in the broader sweep of human history. In particular, he were, of Martin Luther King. As a board member who has points to the role of the principle of Christian love, agape. worked with the Schiller Institute since its inception, I have LaRouche writes: found this organization more able to carry out the program "The secret of great revolutions, of great civil rights of Dr. Martin Luther King in the economic area than any movements, as Dr. King's example illustrates, is this capaci­ other that I know. The organization may not be the most ty , which the Greek New Testament called agape, which popular, but this is because it is continuing the struggle for Latin called caritas, which the King James version of the civil rights throughout the world, fightingdru gs, corruption, Bible calls charity, which we otherwise know as love. When­ injustice, and discrimination. It was just such fighting against ever this power of love, this recognition of that divine spark, corruption and challenging the highest political officials for setting us above the beasts, prevails, wherever people can which Dr. King gave his life. The Schiller Institute has picked approximate that view of the sum total of their lives, as if up the broken pieces of Dr. King's dream. from 50 years after their deaths, whenever movements arise "Today, as it was during Dr. King's life, members of the which, out of love, produce people who are willing, not Schiller Institute, and of other organizations associated with fruitlessly, but for a purpose, to lay down their lives, so that Lyndon LaRouche, are being persecuted and thrown in pris­ their lives might have greater meaning, for this purpose­ on, as LaRouche himself was, because they have dared to there you have the great revolutions of history. preach the truth about this country and the evil into which it "If we were to project events on the basis of what is taught has fallen. Knowing this, I know that this is my fight, too." in the schools about revolutions and other struggles of the Recently, I had the occasion to talk with Mrs. Robinson past, then the human race at present were doomed. If we say about her recent series of speaking engagements against the that people struggle against this and that oppression, and war in the Persian Gulf, which had taken her to a number of so forth , and out of rage or whatnot, overthrow their cruel college campuses and high schools. I asked her how she oppressor, we should lose; the human race would lose. How­ viewed LaRouche's contribution, and she gave the following ever, if we touch the force of love, the spark of divine reason, response: we unleash a force, a creative force, a divine force, which is "I think, number one, God makes leaders, and they be­ greater than any adversary, and we win. come strong as they come up against adversities-that is, if "Those revolutions, which are based upon the appeal to

26 Feature EIR March 29, 1991 this divine spark of reason within the individual, prevailed. bama, Amelia Platts became a home extension agent in Sel­ Those which worked otherwise produced abominations, or ma, Alabama, where she met her future husband, also em­ simply failed. ployed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture extension "Yes, we must struggle against injustice. But it is not services to teach black farmers how to improve their farming enough to struggle out of anger. We must struggle out of techniques. Life in Selma for the : Boyntons was difficult. love. And that we learnbest , who have had to walk as leaders From the beginning, they tried to organize the black COmnlU­ of one degree or another, through our own Gethsemane, with nity to fight brutal political and economic oppression which the image of the Cross before us . they faced. Because the Boyntons were uncompromising op­ "That is the best I can say. I might say it better, but what ponents of the feudal plantation sys�em, they not only ran up I try to say with these poor words , is the best I can say against the white supremacists who were in political control, summarily, on the subject of current history . I believe, that but they were repudiated by membe� of the black community the great upsurge of humanity , implicit in the optimism I who feared reprisals in a place where whites could murder express, is now in progress. I am persuaded that we shall blacks with impunity. win, provided, that each of us can find in ourselves, that In her book, Mrs . Robinson recounts one particularly which makes us the right arm of the Creator, a man , a woman poignant incident where she had to struggle with herself for of Providence, within the limits of our own capacities and agape, the higher form of love, in the face of injustice. opportunities. "-Dictated from prison, Rochester, Minne­ The incident involved the frameup of two black youths, sota, Jan. 17, 1990. while the white murderer of a black woman was let off scot­ free . She writes: Mrs. Robinson's story "In spite ofthe many people who were involved in atrocit­ Mrs . Robinson's life and that of her late husband Samuel ies and who told me nothing would be done even if an Afri­ William Boynton are a testament to precisely that quality of can-American took a white man to court, I could not believe the human spirit. The Boyntons had organized in Selma, it. But although I knew the white man's ideas of justice were Alabama for more than 30 years before the great Selma warped, I saw some things in the courthouse that defied marches of 1965 . She introduces the firstchapter of her book, comprehension. with a quotation from Dr. Booker T. Washington, "Cast "Almost everybody involved in the major court cases as down your bucket where you are ," which guided her and offenders was known to my husband or to me. We took her husband in their decision to fight the long fight, despite special interest in the cases of those we felt were not guilty apparent setbacks . or who had no legal guidance. Many were members of the Reflecting on this long fight, in which she is still active, farm groups or clubs in the rural sectionwhere we had worked she opens the chapter with these words: for so long." "I was born in 1911 and reared in Savannah, Georgia, in The two cases were triedon the same day. a family of mixed heritage, like most Americans-African, The case against the two boys was precipitated by vio­ Indian , and German on both sides. As I grew to be a young lence against them and their family. Because they had refused adult, the principle of 'doing unto others as you would have to work on their day off, the overseer of their plantation had them do unto you,' and the religious training we received in gone to their farm with some white tlriends to discipline them. our little church, Church of God, made an impression upon Not finding the boys at home the gang began to beat their me , which prepared me for whatever the future held for me . mother and a younger brother, whereupon the boys emerged "Now I am neither a tot nor a young adult, but a seasoned, from hiding and began peppering �e gang with birdshot to experienced woman, having climbed through many thoms, drive them away. They were arrest�d and subsequently tried thistles, and rough and rugged mountains of life. Despite and sentenced to 30 years in prison, at hard labor. many adversities, I am still here , endowed by our Creator The second case, tried by the same judge, involved a 70- with more than a reasonable portion of health , strength , and year-old woman who had been beaten to death in her own presence of mind. I believe that, surely, God means for me house by an officer of the law. He was trying to seduce her to work toward spreading his message of truth and justice." granddaughter, and the woman refused to tell the officer In Savannah, her mother was active in the fight to give where the girl was living. women the vote. She describes this introduction to political Mrs . Robinson writes about this case: activism in the book: "I clearly remember going about with "When the court reconvened, tQeofficer charged with the mother in her horse and buggy in the city of Savannah in killing was calm, cool, perfectly at ease. Few witnesses were 1921, when I was 10 years old . My induction into politics called. The defendant was never called to the stand, and was knocking on doors and ringing doorbells, giving women neither of the lawyers seemed to have been digging deeply the proper information, taking them to the registrationboard into the practice of law . In summarizing to the jury, the and/or taking them to the polls to cast their votes." lawyer for the defense said, 'Gentlemen, this was a poor, After attending Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala- old, ignorant nigger. Her days were justabout done, she had

EIR March 29, 1991 Feature 27 nothing to offer the world.' In other words, he was saying it, was not only fought by blacks on the political battlefront, that old people, especially blacks, are rejects; worn-outtool s. but fought within each family, ·as loving parents faced the That was bad enough, but when he ended his summation, I challenge of explaining racial segregation to their children. was even more shocked. He said, 'Gentlemen, if you find How in the South of that day, tb raise children who would this officer of the law , this fine, promising gentleman, this have confidence in their God-given potential to become cre­ white man, guilty, then no white man will have the freedom ative and useful adults, in face, of the abuse meted out to to go to any nigger's house.' them and their fellows on a daily basis; how to do this while . "During the 20 to 30 minutes the jury was out, I had a encouraging and yet tempering i their child's bitterness and strange feeling-frightened and sick. I could not afford to urge to revolt against injustice? i get sick; I must see this through. Will they give him the electric chair? No, I am sure that would be too much like Marching for freedom justice. Would they give him life? I was sure not, because it This was the setting for the gteat Selma marches of 1965. was a black he killed. But they are bound to give him more These were the conditions which led parents and children than they gave the two brothers , who were sentenced to 30 together to courageously face the terror tactics of the local years each. They would have to give more to justify their white power structure and Gov. George Wallace, and to discrimination, I thought. overcome them. Mrs. Robinson was one of the great heroes "Here comes the verdict, I said to myself. I held my of this struggle. breath, and heard, 'We find the defendant not guilty, ' from She describes this high point of the civil rights movement the foreman. How in the name of God's green earth can a in her book at length. Here it is only possible to excerpt a man be found not guilty when his uniform, his gun, and his few quotations. She begins her1 account with a a tribute to shoes were spattered and soaked with the blood of the dead Martin Luther King, Jr.: woman? How? How? How? "Dr. King was not a self-made leader. He was one like ' "I was as angry as I have ever been in my life and it did Moses who was chosen by God. He reminded us many times something to me inside. It seemed as though it tore from me of the most meaningful Negro spiritual, 'When Israel was in all trust and confidenceI had in the law, the courts, the judge, Egypt's land, let my people go. Oppressed so hard they could the jury, and the white man . They were all rotten and unjust not stand, let my people go. Go down Moses, way down in and I hated all of them now for the firsttime , and I wished I Egypt's land, tell ole Pharoahto ,let my people go.' " could go some place wherethere were no white people at all. She situates the struggles Of the 1960s in the broader Oh, how I hated them!" framework of the decades-long struggle that she and other Mrs. Robinson sees this incident as a turningpoint in her black leaders had been fighting. 1 "The fight against segrega­ life. She was in danger of allowing bitterness at injustice to tion began, as I have said, many years before Dr. King came warp her own soul. Her husband, Bill Boynton, rescued her to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama. It began in little ways by recalling her to agape. She concludes with this passage: all over the South, as African-Americans, spurred by the "Several hours passed before Bill could get me to talk initial successes of the nascent divil rights movement in the rationally. He finally said, 'Amelia, you have damaged your­ 1950s, awakened to their rightful heritage and began to fight self so terriblythat your heart seems to be just as bad or worse for the rights which were guaranteedthem in the U. S. Consti­ than those who dish out injustice to our people. Who are you tution." hurting by feeling like you do? Are you hurting the white One instance of this was Atnelia Boynton's own cam­ people or are you hurting yourself? Hatred is one thing that paign for Congress, in 1964,which she and her friends used hurts the hater, not the hated. ' to spur on the movement for voter registration. "I now listened to his admonition with an open mind, and "By running for Congress,"; she writes, "I hoped to ac­ I had to admit that I was damaging myself and becoming complish two things: First, to rellease the African-American worse than those who would take a gun and blow my brains from his fear of the white man :and get him to go down in out. I didn't want to be like those people; hate caused them large numbers and register, recalling that he is a tax-paying to do as they did. I should do differently, otherwise I was a citizen; and second, to arouse the African-American to the black white-hater, whereas they were white black-haters­ fact that nonviolent resistance and going to jail were God­ and what is the difference? given rights, be he black or white. If the African-American "This was the turning point of my life. I had to change reclaimed his duty to fight to register and vote, bad govern­ within. Just as all blacks are not alike, certainly all white ment could be voted out and good governmentput in office. " people couldn't be alike. Little did I realize that, later in my Needless to say, in a state in which the ballot box was con­ life, I would have such close communication with a different trolled by GovernorWallace , and few blacks were registered segment of the white race, and that I should learn to love voters , she did not win. The next step by her and her friends them as my sisters and brothers." was to confront the governordirect ly. The fight to face injustice without becoming crushed by She recounts the story of the imarch:

28 Feature EIR March 29, 1991 "We knew that the crux of the trouble in Alabama lay in she wanted to be free, and prayers that were being offered our governor, George Wallace, and we decided to march the on our behalf, and the old lady who said she would stay on 50 miles to the state capital [of Montgomery] and hand our her knees while we were away. I lmew we would need all grievances to him. The march would begin the next day, those prayers as I looked on the faces of these men, who were Sunday, March 7, 1965 . just waiting for a chance to shed human blood. "The city knew of our plans for the march, but did not "Part of the line being across the bridge, we found our­ know how to stop it. Meetings were held day and night to selves less than 50 yards from the human wall. The com­ map out strategy by which we could appeal to the conscience mander of the troops, on a sound truck, spoke through a of the diehards. People had begun to come in from all over bullhorn and commanded us to 'stop where you are . ' Hosea the country to lend assistance in the registration and voting Williams of SCLC and Congo Jobn Lewis and all the line drive. The county board of registrars refusedto permit Afri­ behind them halted. Hosea said, 'May I say something?' can-Americans to vote, the county officials kicked them "Major Cloud retorted, 'No, you may not. Charge on about for asking to register, the governor of the state gave them, men.' them mountains of legal questions that were impossible to "The troopers, with their gas ,masks on and gas guns answer, and the Congress in Washington was still filibus­ drawn, then began to shootgas on us and the troopersin front tering and allowing the Southernbigots to twist their arms. jumped off the trucks. Those standing at attention began to We were leftno alternativebut to walk 50 miles to the capital, club us. The horses were brought on the scene and were not to ask, not to plead, but to demand the right to register more humane than the troopers; they stepped over the fallen and vote. victims. "The night before the march, we gathered at the church "As I stepped aside from the trooper's club, I felt a blow and talked with the citizens, asking them to walk with us on my arm that could have injured me permanently had it regardless of the cost, even if it meant 'your life. ' I was afraid been on my head. Another blow by a trooperas I was gasping of being killed and I said to myself, 'I cannot pay the supreme for breath knocked me to the ground and there I lay uncon­ price, because I have given too much already.' But I also scious. Others told me that my attacker had called to another then thought, 'Other mothers have given their lives for less that he had the 'damn leader.' One of them shot tear gas all in this struggle and I am determined to go through with it over me. The plastic rain cap that Margaret Moore gave me even if it does cost my life.' At that moment, a heavy burden may have saved my life; it had slippeddown over my face and fell from my mind and I was ready to suffer if need be. protected my nose somewhat from the worst of the fumes. "The next morning I rose early, cooked breakfast, and Pictures in the paper and those in the possession of theJustice fed the 15 guests staying with me. I went to Brown's Chapel Department show the trooper standing over me witha club. to offer my assistance before the march. Little did I know Some of the marchers said to the trooper, 'She is dead.' And that that day would mark one of the greatest struggles for they were told to drag me to the si� of the road. freedom in modem times. Little did I visualize what would "There were screams, cries, groans, and moans as the really take place, and what effect it would have on the nation people were brutally beaten from the front of the line all the at large. That day I met such people as the former governor way back to the church-a distance of more than a mile. of Florida, LeRoy Collins; Walter Reuther, labor leader; and State troopers and the sheriff and his men beat and clubbed other dignitaries, and I began to understand more deeply than to the ground almost everyone on �he march. The cry went before that we were not alone. . . . out for ambulances to come over the bridge and pick up the "As we approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which wounded and those thought to be dead, but Sheriff Clark spans the Alabama River, we saw the sheriff, his posse, dared one of them to cross the bridge. At last a white minister deputies, and men plucked out of the fields and stills to help and a black citizen told him, 'If you don't let the ambulance 'keep the niggers in their place.' As we crossed the bridge, I over the bridge, these people are going to retaliate by killing saw in front of us a solid wall of state troopers, standing some of you and you may be the qrst one.' The ambulance shoulder to shoulder. I said to my friend Marie, 'Those men was then permittedto pick us up. I also heard that I was taken are standing so close together an ant would get mashed to to the church after being given first aid on the way, but death if it crawled between them. They are as lifeless as when I did not respond, I was tak�n to the Good Samaritan wooden soldiers.' Marie pointed to the troopers on the sides Hospital." of our marching lines and said, 'It doesn't take all of them to Finally, after another march just to the bridge, which escort us.' But a second look convinced us that trouble was occurred without incident, on March 20, the demonstrators brewing for the nearly 1,000 marchers. received assurances of federal government protection, and "Each officer was equipped with cans of gas, guns, planned the successful, third Selma to Montgomery march. sticks, or cattle prods, as well as his regular paraphernalia. "This," she writes, "was the signal we were waiting for. Dr. Beyond them, men on horses sat at attention. I remembered King said the long-planned and twice-blockedtrek would be the words of a little girl, who wanted to go with us because the most massive march ever staged on a state capital in the

EIR March 29, 1991 Feature 29 South. He had called on friends and well-wishers to meet at home. The war, King said, "was sending their [black] sons him in Selma, and preparations were made for 3,000 people and their brothers and their husbands to fight and die in to start out the next morning, Sunday, March 21. The route extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the would take us through the downtown section, across the population. We were taking the black young men who had Edmund Pettus Bridge again, down Highway 80 to Mont­ been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles gomery .. .. away to guarantee liberties in Sdutheast Asia which they had "It was a beautifulscene. Black and white and backed by not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we the armed might of the United States, 3,200persons marched have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching out of Selma on the firstleg of an historic venture in nonvio­ together for a nation that has beeh unable to seat them togeth­ lent protest. Hundreds of army and federalized state troops er in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity stood guard in Selma and lined the highway out of the city to burning the huts of a poor village but we realize that they protect us. The troops were authorized by President Johnson, would never live on the same black in Detroit." after Governor Wallace said that Alabama could not afford In the speech he made the broadercriticism as well. The the expense of protecting the marchers. With federalized war in Vietnam was not a just war. "And as I ponder the troops on each side, helicopters over our heads, and being madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to led by Almighty God through our leader Dr. King, I felt that understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes con­ no harm could befall us now." stantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of theijunta in Saigon, but simply From then to now of the people who have been living under the curse of war Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968, at a for almost three continuous decades now. I think of them too point when he was moving to broaden the civil rights move­ because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful ment to become a human rights movement for all people. In solution there until some attempt is made to hear their broken particular, he bitterly opposed the Vietnam War. What he cries." had to say then, against the brutality of the U. S. intervention "They must see Americans as strange liberators," King in Vietnam, stands true today against the equally unjust war said, recounting how the United States forced Ho Chi Minh against Iraq. into the arms of the Soviet Union by supporting the French In the 24 years since King spoke out against the Vietnam in their post-World War II efforts to recolonize Vietnam. War, things have only gotten worse-

30 Feature EIR March 29, 1991 Institute of which she is a director. She is also a member of the board of the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change. In Norfolk, Virginia, on Feb. 19, she issued the following call, which was endorsed by the audience: "We deplore the refusal of the governmentof the United States to negotiate an end to the bloody war now being waged in the Middle East. "We further deplore the targeting of civilian populations in the area and the senseless destruction of water and electri­ cal supplies, thereby causing great harm and needless suf­ fering. "While we support our soldiers as citizens, we believe the only appropriate action is to end the conflictimmediately and bring the troops home. Thus we call upon President Bush to declare an immediate cease-fire and initiate a process of extensive negotiations to resolve the conflict. "Negotiations must begin with the immediate restoration of all water and electrical generating facilities to halt the dying. Amelia Robinson in Dresden, Germany, "We recommend a longer term reconstruction of the re­ after the Berlin Wall was opened. gion along the lines of a new Marshall Plan which should be accompanied by a comprehensive solution to all the outstand­ ing political issues. Since 1968, the United States "We call upon all civil rights leaders and other responsi­ track economically, politically, and ble citizens to join our efforts to end this conflict." which King tried to address remain death, the civil rights movement Where the movement stands real gains of the movement in n,.r,t�" tln fundamental rights At the point last summer when George Bush began to of black citizens-from the right to , to freer access to send American troops to the Gulf, he appeared to be in serious schools and public facilities-the remains that blacks trouble at home, due to the growing awareness that the U.S. (and Hispanics) still suffer prr,nn,rn.rl discrimination. More economy was in deep crisis. There was the congressional to the point, they suffer from the I deterioration of the budget crisis, the failure of the banking system, and the fact U.S. economy, in which the standard living of the poorest that state and local governments were facing bankruptcy. is becoming untenable. Basic industries were shutting down; unemployment was in­ The prospect of unemployment creasing. Now the war is over, but the same problems remain, people, but it is so bad for blacks, and as people begin to wake up from the temporary euphoria 50% of employable black males of the victory in the Gulf, this reality is sinking in. the cuts in public services such as The strongest domestic opposition to George Bush's im­ food stamps, and Medicare , hit them moral war against the Iraqi nation, came from the black One might perhaps be tempted community. Partly this was because they were disgusted by that the life work of Martin Luther the racist stench of Anglo-American imperialism. They re­ Robinson was a failure-but that jected the idea that black Americans should die to preserve King did not find a solution to the f'�V'u"." "., in power a Kuwaiti royal family which owns slaves. They tion-that remains for us to do-but recognized that the all-volunteer Army which was being sent has ennobled us all. The most ,,' "ri,,,ri,,nt to the Gulf had a disproportionate number of blacks and Hispanics in its ranks, because they were driven to join the he catalyzed, was not in the ' Army by the fact that they could not get work elsewhere. but in the people who joined the mi'\,Vf" Tlf'" t Blacks' opposition to the war was reflected by the Black how to fight for what they knew to be Caucus, after the rest of the Congress by and large joined in consequences for them personally, the cheering section for Bush. Now black political officials the principle of Christian love, are voicing the mounting discontent among Americans at the to this same principle, which has civil rights leaders economic crisis, which is throwing white and black alike out such as Mrs. Robinson to Lyndon H. LaRouche, and to the of work, and closing down state and local governments. Schiller Institute, founded by Helga 4!l�p-LaJt<.o\lcne.

EIR March 29, 1991 Feature 31 �ITillInternational

Anglo-Americans drive to kill, dismember Iraq by Joseph Brewda

Despite the infonnal cease-fire between the United States probably fail to establish any sort of state, but they probably and Iraq that was announced on Feb . 28, the Anglo-American will succeed in plunging Iraq into a lengthy civil war. It may war against Iraq is continuing . U.S. and British policy cen­ be that the Anglo-American intent is to prevent any side ters on murdering possibly millions of Iraqis through epidem­ from winning, in order to continue this civil war as long as ics, starvation, and civil war. The Anglo-American poli­ possible. This was the same method that Henry Kissinger cymakers intend to destroy Iraq 's capacity to rebuild its once­ and the U.S. governmentused to destroy Lebanon. modem economic infrastructure , and to ensure that the popu­ The Kurds, who reside in the adjoining border regions of lation that survives will remain in living conditions approxi­ Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria, have long been patronized by mating those of the most oppressed regions of Africa. British intelligence, the CIA, the Israeli Mossad, and French Moreover, it seems increasingly likely-as we go to intelligence. Last September, U.S. Secretary of State James press on March 21-that an Iranian invasion of Iraq , covertly Baker III traveled to Damascus, Syria, to enlist the support of supported by the United States, might soon begin. The occu­ President Hafez al-Assad in supporting this planned Kurdish pation, at least for the short tenn, of the northern region of insurrection, while similarly successful overtures and de­ Iraq by Turkey and the southern region by Iran , seems to be mands were made on Turkey and Iran . U.S. policy. By November, Kurdish terroristorganizations previously The reason for this savage treatment is primarily to pres­ headquartered in such cities as Amsterdam, London, and ent an object-lesson to the Third World on what the "new Paris, began opening up offices and training facilities in Jed­ world order" actually means: Any nation which rejects An­ dah , Saudi Arabia, as part of this project. These Kurds were glo-American dictates, as Iraq did, will be crushed. Howev­ armed and equipped by U.S. Special Forces teams. They er, even those states, such as Iran, Syria, and even Turkey, now are in action in the project to dismember Iraq . which cut a deal with Washington, might soon find that they Meanwhile, Iranian official reports say that even prior to too will become targets for annihilation. After all , just 18 the ground war, the Iranian government had infiltrated some months ago , Saddam Hussein and Iraq also trusted the Bush 35,000 armed men into the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The administration. Shiite insurrection, so-called, which began in the south, has really been an Iranian-led insurrection, involving Iranian Civil war threat looms units and arms. That Iraq's Shiite religious population is Shortly before the cessation of the ground war, the An­ loyal to Sunni-governed Iraq rather than to Shiite Iran , was glo-Americans put into operation the second phase of their proven during the eight year Iran-Iraq war. assault against Iraq: an insurrection by the non-Arab Kurds There is another feature of this foreign-sponsored civil in the north , and by the Arab Shiite religious denomination war which is generally ignored. One of the main purposes of in the south . Barring an Iranian invasion, these revolts will these Kurdish and Shiite insurrections is the spread of chol-

32 International EIR March 29, 1991 era, typhus, and other epidemics, as well as mass malnutri­ It should not be forgotten that the Iranian revolution of tion and starvation. 1979 was overseen by the U.S. National Security Council The U.S. Air Force systematically destroyed power under Zbigniew Brzezinski, and much more importantly, plants , sewage facilities, factories of all kinds , and other British Petroleum and British intelligence. The Anglo-Amer­ civilian targets during the air war. This bombardment, in­ ican view has been that the type of Islamic fundamentalism volving 120,000 sorties, had no military purpose. It was only represented by Ayatollah Khomeini would be more effective carried out to create the conditions for mass death of the in controlling Iran than the discredited Shah of Iran, and Iraqi population, primarily following the war. The U.S.­ could be effectively used to undennine other states in the dominated United Nations Security Council has continued region. its sanctions and embargo against Iraq-including restric­ On March 14, Bush administration spokesmen told the tions on the supplies of medicine and water treatment equip­ Washington Post that the United S�tes intended to upgrade ment, to increase mass death . Civil war prevents even mini­ relations with Iran, while Bush told Arab interviewers that mal emergency efforts to restore clear water and food to that day that he did not think that Iran should be "treated forever population. as enemies by all the countries in the region." That this is the policy largely behind the insurrection, In fact, the shattering ofIraq opens up the Arabian penin­ was indicated by one candid Saudi officialwho told this news sula to Iranian domination for the fitsttime in centuries. service, off the record , "Better an Iraq of 9 million people without Saddam Hussein, than an Iraq of 18 million people Rearranging the map of the region with him." Since the Anglo-Americans are devoted to Henry Kis­ singer's balance-of-power doctrine; it is likely that their in­ 'Great Satan' promotes Iran creased support of Iran will be accompanied by other mea­ The virtual elimination of Iraq as a functioning nation is sures to check Iran . Thus, some Arab analysts say, if the tied to the Bush administration policy of increasing the power United States endorses the creation of an Iranian satrapy in of the Iranian government at the expense of the Arabs. southernIraq, then it will sponsor the creation of a Turkish­ Despite Bush's statements on March 13 that an Iranian controlled Sunni Kurdish entity in northern Iraq . As a further land-grab of southern Iraq would be "counterproductive," check, these sources say, the United States will overthrow and that the United States is opposed to Iranian interference the Iranian-allied Syrian governmentof Hafez aI-Assad, and in Iraqi affairs , actual U.S. policy is quite different. Ameri­ replace him with a Sunni government, tied to the United can and Israeli intelligence knew of the Iranian infiltration of States and opposed to Iran. This is not difficult to do, since Basra prior to the land war, and did nothing to stop it. Since Syrian intelligence, including Assad's own bodyguard unit, that time , U. S. units now occupying the southern portions of is heavily infiltrated by the Mossad. Iraq have refused to block Iranian operations. That the United States is considering moving against Syr­ The shooting down of an Iraqi fighter-bomber by aU.S. ia was indicated by statements by White House spokesman F- 15 over Iraq on March 20 shows what U.S. policy actually Marlin Fitzwater on March 12, denouncing the Syrian re­ is. A few days prior to the incident, Bush stated that any gime's record of torture and involvement with terrorism, two flights by jets or helicopters within Iraqi territory , especially days after a CBS television special on that theme. Earlier, for use against the Iranian-linked insurrection, could lead to the Israeli government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the resumption of the war. Without such active intervention which is controlled out of London, escalated its propaganda and earlier threats , the insurrection could never have reached campaign against Damascus, just as it had done last spring the proportions that it now has . against Iraq , when the war against Iraq was being prepared. It is noteworthy, in this regard, that the overseer of the However, it also cannot bediscounted that the United States ongoing Kurdish revolt is U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Mor­ has been encouraging Iran to invade [raq, for the same reason ton Abramowitz . When Abramowitz was head of State De­ that it earlier encouraged Iraq to invade Kuwait: to lay a trap. partment intelligence during the second Reagan administra­ The United States could also then move against Iran . tion, he played a key role in arming Iran during the Iran-Iraq Other targets in this dirty balance-of-power game are war. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. That the Anglo-Americans are now an adviser to the Turkish government, has also been considering dumping the ruling Al Sabah family in Kuwait deeply involved in the Kurdish project. Perle worked closely was signaled by U. S. media targeting of that family for over­ with Abramowitz, and with the Israelis, in arming Khom­ seeing the butchery of Kuwaiti Palestinians-actions that the eini's Iran. It is also striking that U.S. Central Command U.S. military is actually secretly encouraging. The Bush chief Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf s father, Gen. Norman administration seems to believe that replacing the Al Sabah Schwartzkopf, Sr. , directed U. S. intelligence operations in clan with Kuwaiti dissidents under: U.S. control would in­ Iran in the 1950s, where he maintained close ties to several crease its control of the region. Th� corrupt Saud family of influential Iranian religious leaders . Saudi Arabia is also ripe for the same treatment.

EIR March 29, 1991 International 33 Gorbachov, Ye ltsin 'win' in Sovietref erendum-now what? by Konstantin George

The voters of nine of the fifteen republics of the U.S.S.R. vide the Moscow regime with a mandate for containing the voted March 17 in the referendum called by President Mik­ process of dissolution, while the anticipated "yes" vote on hail Gorbachov on whether they supported the continued the second question would open up the most critical bat­ existence of the U.S.S.R. in a still not totally defined "re­ tlefronts in the raging internalcrisis-in the populous repub­ newed federation." The preliminary overall results based on lics of Russia, Ukraine, and the Muslim repUblics-new tallies released by the Soviet government on March 19, pro­ political safety valves tOipostpone or contain future pro-inde­ claimed a 77% "yes" vote, based on half the vote having pendence and anti-regime upsurges in these regions. been counted, and a U.S.S.R.-wide 82% voter participation. Moscow's priority task is to achieve at least relative sta­ At first glance this gives the appearance of a resounding bility in the Slavic core and the Muslim repUblics. If it suc­ victory for Gorbachov. But to what extent was the referen­ ceeds in this, it can deal with the current drive by the other dum indeed a victory for Gorbachov, what do the voting six smaller republics to achieve full independent statehood. results actually signify, and, above all, how important is the referendum as such, measured against the real on-the-ground The initial results situation in the country? In Russia and Ukraine, majorities of over 75% voted to As we shall see, the results do have an importance, espe­ accept a new Union Treaty. Similar majorities approved on cially when the fine points are critically reviewed, but this the second question on the ballot. In Russia, the second importance pales before the impact of the storms about to question was whether the presidentof Russia should beelect­ break out across the Soviet empire this spring. ed by popular ballot. Thus, Gorbachov got his victory on question one, and his arch-rival, the Russian populist Presi­ 'Contain, postpone, buy time' dent Boris Yeltsin, emerged victorious on the second ques­ First, to get even an approximately correct analysis of the tion, given that Yeltsin is the only conceivable Russian presi­ outcome in the nine republics which did participate, one dential candidate of nationwide stature and popularity, and must ignore the irrelevantcategory of "U . S.S .R. -wide. " The would win any directvote . The vote pattern provided a clear astute observer must focus on the singular ethnicand regional profile of where potential mass ferment is greatest, namely, components of this amorphous mass, and see what actually in the large cities. While for Russia as a whole the "Yes" happened in each case. vote for direct presidential elections was 71%, it was 78% in Broadly speaking, the referendum was boycotted in the Moscow, and 86% in Yeltsin' sinative city of Sverdlovsk. Soviet Union's six Christian non-Slavic repUblics: the three This vote is being heralded in Westernmedia as a "victo­ Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the repub­ ry" for Yeltsin and a "defeat" for Gorbachov. The truth is lic of Moldova, and the republics of Georgia and Armenia in that the vote has been a qualified victory for both. The vote the Transcaucasus. All of these republics have small popula­ has saved Yeltsin from early demise by stopping what would tions, ranging from 1 to 4 million people. The nine republics probably have been a successful vote of no confidence to which held the referendum, embracing the empire's Slavic topple him in the Russian Parliamentafter it convenes March core and the Turkic Muslim republics of Central Asia and 28. In reality, Yeltsin pulled offa short-term coup, but, over Azerbaidzhan, contain the overwhelming bulk of the the mid term, committed a probably fatal blunder in having U.S.S.R. 's population. confinedthe second question to the matter of electing a Presi­ In nearly allof these nine republics, a carefully construct­ dent; in other words, the voteI'!! were not told to call for new ed second question, varying according to each republic, Russian parliamentary elections as well. This means that which followed the lead question on the new Union Treaty, the anti-Yeltsin majority will continue to sit in the Russian was placed on the ballot. The aim of this tactic was to use Parliament, biding their time until something occurs to sour the anticipated large "yes" vote on the lead question to pro- Yeltsin's fortunes, and then they will strike.

34 International EIR March 29, 1991 A similar pattern with different predicates occurred in the Ukrainian vote. Gorbachov won his vote on Ukraine Yugoslavia accepting a new Union Treaty. But the degree of anti-Mos­ cow mass ferment in the republic was clearly shown in the resounding "Yes" to the second question, which called on the "Ukrainian Supreme Soviet" to put into practice the far­ Odd bedfellows reaching "Declaration of Sovereignty" adopted by that Par­ act liament on July 16, 1990 . However, as in the Russian Federa­ tion case, there was a catch to this. The resolution that was to avoid civilwar voted up specified"sovereignty ...within the Union," i.e., by Konstantin George keeping Ukraine in the empire, and, worse, by mandating the "Ukrainian Supreme Soviet," i.e., the present Parliament with its two-thirds communist majority, to put sovereignty As of this writing on March 20, the Yugoslav Federation into practice, quietly dropped the promise that Moscow had may have pulled back fromthe brink of civil war.The threat made last autumn at the height of the mass strikesand demon­ of catastrophe has been building up over weeks, as the Feder­ strations in Ukraine for "free elections" in 1991 to elect a ation's largestrepu blic, Serbia, is pitted against theindepen­ new Ukrainian Parliament. dence-seeking northwestern republics of Croatia and Slov­ Gorbachovwas most successful in the Muslim republics, enia, and the Serbian-dominated Armed Forces have actively where under the not-so-democratic guiding hand of the local threatened a military coup. Fear of the totally Unpredictable party mafias that run these fiefdoms, votes of 90-95% were consequences should that Rubicon be crossed, however, has scored for the new Union Treaty. The same huge majorities produced a new constellation of political forces, both in were produced for companion questions, calling for fullsov­ Croatia and Slovenia, and most emphatically in theranks of ereignty foreach of these Muslim republics. the Serbian elite, to pull back from the abyss. These forces, For Gorbachov and for the Moscow leadership as a while having no love for each other, have, ironically, a com­ whole, these qualified successes come at a critical conjunc­ mon interest in preventing a civil warthis spring. ture, where mass ferment against the economic debacle is The tactical form this operation has taken is the drive to rising fast and threatening to explode. Spearheading this is undermine the key player seeking to plunge Yugoslavia into the nationwide coal miners' strike, which on March 22 will civil war, the demagogic bolshevik who is President of Ser­ enter its fourth week. What began on March 1 in the Donetsk bia, Slobodan Milosevic. region of eastern Ukraine, has since spread to involve some A series of events that occurred on March 19 points to 300,000 miners in over 165 coal mines, and to affect every likely success for the operation to declaw, if not dethrone, major coal region of the U. S .S.R.: Donetsk, the huge Kuz­ Milosevic. To start with, a declaration by the Serbian-led netsk Basin in Central Siberia, the huge Karaganda coal Yugoslav General Staff, read on Yugoslav TV, confirmed fields in Kazakhstan, the Rostov on Don region in southern that the Yugoslav Army will not stage a military coup as Russia, the Vorkuta mines in the far north of Russia, the had been desired by Milosevic. The General Staff declared coal mines of western Ukraine; and as of March 19, the categorically that the Army will "not interfere inthe political strike had spread to the coal mines of the Chelyabinsk region conflicts" in the country, and "under no circumstances" will in the Urals. the Army allow the situation to devolve into "armedclashes" The Kremlin's tough attitude toward the striking coal let alone "civil war." miners, refusing to give in to their wage and other economic Beyond that, the Army issued demands which were re­ demands in total contrast to the posture adopted by Moscow markablybalanced , in thatwhile some of these were directed in previous miners' strikes, reveals how supercharged the against Croatia and Slovenia, others rejected the Milosevic political atmosphere is. Moscow has chosen thepolicy it sees policy of trying to forge a Greater S�rbia this springby force as the lesser of two evils, preferring to take the production of arms, through detaching Serb-inhabited territories from losses and ripple effect on other industrieson the chin, rather Croatia and the central republic of Bosnia, sandwiched be­ than granting the miners a victory, and thus opening the tween Serbia and Croatia. floodgates for strikes in Soviet industries across-the-board , The partof the declaration aimed at Croatiaand Slovenia which would create far greater economic damage and unfore­ was: 1) the demand that the Territorial Forces of the Army seeable political consequences. be again placed under the command of the Yugoslav Army For Gorbachov, it's far easier to win a "mandate" on (last year, Slovenia and Croatiahad removed their Territorial paper than to win the people's support in practice. The March Forces from the central command Of Belgrade); and 2) the 17 referendum was not a crucial test, but merely an episode. demand that thefinancing of theArmed Forces be guaranteed The real test will come in April as the mass unrest seething (Croatia and Slovenia had considerably reduced their contri­ just below the surface comes closer to erupting. butions to the federal budget, above all to the ArmedForce s).

EIR March 29, 1991 International 35 Defense spending comprises 30% of the total Yugoslav fed­ republics, and presumably, wo\lld collaborate with Milose­ eral budget. vic in calling on the Army to annex for Serbia the Knin and However, the Army stated in the strongest language that Pakrac regions of Croatia. it will not allow any territorial encroachment by one republic This was the last straw for f!hestrong opposition faction against any other: "The borders in Yugoslavia will be secured in the Serbian elite behind Vuk Draskovic. Had the Milosevic from any kind of threat and no changes will be allowed." plan gone ahead, it would have unleashed not only a full­ This fires point-blank against Serbian leader Milosevic, as scale civil war between Serbia and Croatia, but forced Slov­ no other republic except Serbia has ever advanced territorial enia and Bosnia into the war a$ Croatia's allies. On top of claims on other republics. that, the Albanian resistance in Kosovo, which Milosevic Without the support of the Army, theposition ofMilosev­ had contained, but never crushed, would have exploded in ic has become all but hopeless. He had to have Army backing Serbia's rear. to pursue his planned confrontation with Croatia over its n;gionsof Pakrac and Knin, inhabited by ethnic Serbs. The 'British factor' Within hours of the General Staff declaration, the turning The constellation of forces acting to prevent civil waris point in the crisis came, as Belgrade TV announced that "it by no means confined to native Yugoslav parties. British has been decided" to hold a meeting of the Presidents of all interests are actively meddling to block the imminent threat six republics in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on March 21 , of uncontrolled disintegration, by toppling the Serbian Com­ to work out a solution to the crisis. This is tantamount to an munist regime of Milosevic. This policy, while having the order summoning Milosevic to appear in the capital of his beneficial by-product of preventing a bloodbath at thistime, arch-enemy, Croatia. If the Serbian leader shows up, he is aimed at restoring the pre-warhegemony Britain had exert­ will be humiliated and lose. Should he decide to boycott the ed in the Serb-dominated Kingdomof Yugoslavia, 1918-41. meeting, he will be more isolated than ever. Either way, he From the British imperial ,standpoint, the only viable cannot win. counter to the German and other Central European interests who are actively boosting the republicsof Croatia and Slov­ Serbian elite dumping Milosevic enia, which historically had been partof Central Europe, as The current phase of the Yugoslav crisis opened with provinces of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, is to build mass demonstrations earlier in March in Belgrade, by the up Greater Serbia. Never one to support an obvious loser, anti-communist Serbian nationalist opposition to Milosevic, Britain has no use for the vehicle of the discredited, weak, centered in the Serbian Renewal Party led by one Vuk and mentally unstable Slobodan Milosevic, and the institu­ Draskovic, an avowed Serbian chauvinist like Milosevic, tion of the Communist Party. but of the pre-war monarchist stripe. These almost daily There is strong British support for the anti-Milosevic demonstrations are the public face of a deep split in the "Greater Serbia" faction around Vuk Draskovic and his Ser­ Serbian elite over how to proceed to create a "Greater Ser­ bian Renewal Party. Draskovic:, in an interview broadcast bia." A large part of the Serbian elite, in the Armed Forces, on German TV March 15, declared that "the day I become and above all in the Serbian OrthodoxChur ch, had concluded President of Serbia," replacing Milosevic, "the first thing I that Milosevic had become a hopeless liability, and that his will do is bring back Prince Alexander" from his London "flightforward" was plunging Serbia to disaster. exile to become "the King of Serbia." This conclusion had been reached already last year, but Unlike Milosevic, Draskovic is not opposed to Yugosla­ at that time, Milosevic was unassailable-riding high on a via becoming a loose confederation of sovereignstat es, and, wave of popularitygained by his brutal suppression of ethnic indeed is not opposed to Croatia becoming independent as Albanians who live in the then-autonomous province of Ko­ such, as he stressed in the cited interview to German TV. sovo, which is within Serbia's borders. However, the worst However, like Milosevic, Draskovic, as he repeated in the winter economically since the early postwar years has de­ interview to German TV, will never allow an independent stroyed the former popularity of Milosevic (George Bush, Croatia within the present borders: "The Serbian regions take note!).The "bread factor" has become paramount. The must join Serbia ....If Croatia refuses, that means war." economy of Serbia is plagued by hyperinflation, mass unem­ Tactically, however, Draskovic is willing to take his time in ployment, and the threat of shutdown of large industrial en­ creating a Greater Serbia-British style. terprises. The crisis is qualitatively even worse than what is Thus, Yugoslavia will prObably avoid going over the going on in Russia. brink this spring, but no one should become complacent To distract attention from theshattered economy, and as over the breathing space achieved. The underlying political the only way to recouphis eroded position, Milosevic decid­ factors , centered above all in the Serbian elite's unswerving ed to launch a war against Croatia by no later than May 15. goal of creating a "Greater Serbia" out of the ruinsof Yugo­ Until that date, the Serb Borisav Jovic will be Yugoslav State slavia, mean that the civil war. now on "hold," is at some President, under the rotation system among the six federal point all but inevitable.

36 International ElK March 29, 1991 Interview: Faisel Husseini

'There is no way to address the Palestinians but as a people'

Faisel Husseini is one of the best-known Palestinian leaders ships in the world. in the Israeli Occupied Territories. On March 12, he led a lO­ We made it clear that there is no way to try to create man Palestinian delegation which met with U.S. Secretaryof any alternative leadership, because there is no alternative State James Baker in Jerusalem, a meeting which had been leadership in the area. And the reason for that is that we proposed by the United States. The stated purpose of Baker's would like to solve the whole problem of the Palestinian trip, in order to meet with the Israeli government and the people, so that we can solve the problems of the Middle East. Palestinian delegation, was to finda solution to the Palestin­ The only one that can deliver the whole Palestinian people is ian problem, in the aft ermath of the war with Iraq. the PLO. In his remarks before Congress on March 6, President From Mr. Baker's point of view, he was trying to tell us George Bush referenced U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, that there are difficulties, because the Arab states are not which demanded that Israel withdraw from the Occupied ready to talk with the PLO, that Israel is not ready to deal Territories. Bush and Baker have also claimed that the Pales­ with the PLO , and that there is a very high level of criticism tine Liberation Organization and its chairman, Yasser Ara­ of the PLO leadership. Because of that, he would like to go fa t, are "discredited" and not relevant to the peace process. on trying to solve the problems step by step, gradually, and The Israeli leadership has rejected the concept associated not go to the main problem. We ca.nnot accept this, because with these U.N. resolutions- " landfo r peace. " It also insists we believe that the Israeli government is just trying to gain that it will not meet with the PLO . time. By trying to avoid the main problem, this government Husseini was interviewed by telephone by Joseph Brewda of Israel will succeed yet another time to win another 14 on March 17. months, as they did t!tefirst time [that Baker conducted nego­ tiations, earlier in the Bush administration] . And we will find EIR: Mr. Husseini, you met with Secretary of State Baker ourselves in the end at the same point that we started from. together with other Palestinians last week on possible new U.S. initiatives toward Arab-Israeli peace and a solution to EIR: During the war and even before, the Israeli govern­ the Palestinian problem. How would you characterize the ment imposed a curfew in the Occupied Territories that led meeting and your view of the U.S. position? to malnutrition, and carried out arrests of Palestinian leaders Husseini: I believe the meeting was a frank meeting, and on various pretexts. Now we see aggressive statements by straight to the point from both sides. I believe that it was figures in the Israeli government, notably the new minister, constructive because of that. We were facing the reality as it Rehavam Zeevi, but also Foreign Minister David Levy and is. others. What do you consider the policy ofthe Israeli govern­ From our side, we make it clear that there is no way to ment, in the aftermath of this war, toward the Palestinians? address the Palestinian people except as a people. Not as Do you see a new policy of expansion, a new effort to crush inhabitantsof a certainplace , not as refugees, not as a minori­ the Palestinians? ty, but as a people. Because of that, we asked Mr. Baker to Husseini: Actually, the Israelis' main concern is not the respectthe will of the Palestinian people, the structure of the PLO, or who will represent the :Palestinians. It is not the Palestinian people, which is the PLO, which is an organiza­ Palestinian people. The main thing which is worrying the tion which has been elected by the Palestinian people, and to Israelis is the land. This government is working to keep the respect the PLO leadership, which has been elected by the land in its hands. It is because of that, that they refuse the Palestinian people. We can discuss the differences, the mis­ principle of land for peace. They want the Occupied Territor­ understandings, and the difficulties between the leadership ies. They want these territories for their use in the future , for of our people and the leadership of other nations. But, at the immigration. It is because of that, that they are against any same time, this discussion can only take place within the solution. And so they are using ,he reality of the PLO, the context of respect between our leadership and other leader- reality that the Palestinian people are inside and outside, as

EIR March 29, 1991 International 37 Peoplecanno t travel to factotheir ries,to .fields.their What weare seeingis a complete dest:ruction of the economy. People have no money to buy,and so theproducer is not ableto produce, and closes hisfactory.

a pretext not to withdraw. is doing, saying, and proposing, i� just to gain time so he can Because of that, any attempt by the external world, and have a greater Israel , a stronger Israel, which can force the especially by the U. S., to start solving this problem, must Arabs to accept what he will offer them, and no more than begin by insisting that Resolution 242 be implemented, and that. the principle of land for peace be respected. After that, they will find thatthe Israelis will change their minds and be ready EIR: There are reports of Kuwaiti military units slaughter­ to talk with the PLO, when the Israelis find that there is no ing the Palestinians in Kuwait, with the implicit or explicit way that they can avoid withdrawing from the Occupied backing of U.S. troops. What can you say on that situation? Territories. Husseini: What I can say is that this is one of the reasonsthat we are in need of a homeland, of a state. Those Palestinians in EIR: What about the clear policy of the Israeli government Kuwait did not stay there because they wanted to stay in to settle Soviet Jewish immigrants on the West Bank, in order Kuwait during the war, with the bombs, guns, and fighting. to permanently alter the demography of the region? Did you And when they stayed after the Iraqis withdrew, it was not address that point with Baker, and what is your view of that because they wanted to stay there. It was simply because situation? they had nowhere to go, they have no passport, they are not Husseini: Yes, we addressed this matter with Mr. Baker acceptable anywhere. So the only thing they can expect is to and especially the settlements themselves. Maybe the Israelis face a massacre. This is the tragedy of the Palestinian people, will not send any Soviet immigrants to the West Bank; but and because of that we would like to build a homeland for what they could do, is put them inside Israel, and push others them, to protect them from such a,destiny. We said the same onto the West Bank from the old communities within Israel. thing in Lebanon. We are facing this in Kuwait, and we faced So we made it clear to Mr. Baker that we are against any the same thing in Syria and other places. We are a people settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip, regardless of who have no homeland, no state, no identity, no passport, . where the people come from. I believe that, in this case at and we need a state so that we can protect our people and least, he is in full agreement with us. ourselves.

EIR: There have been various plans floated in the Washing­ EIR: There are indications that the Israelis are considering ton Post and New York Times of forming some sort of Pales­ stepping up massacres of Palestinians within the Occupied tinian entity without full sovereignty, so-called self-rule, Territories, either in a supposed response to some stabbing along the lines that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir incidents , or other incidents, which provide the Israelis a proposed last year, which in effect would create a supposed pretext for massacring Palestinians. Do you think this repre­ Palestinian state , but without control of much of anything, sents a danger over the coming days? except garbage collection and matters like that. Is that being Husseini: It is not necessary to be a physical massacre. What pushed by the Israelis and the Americans again? they are doing now is an economic massacre, a moral massa­ Husseini: The Americans did not say anything about that in cre , the humiliation of the Palestinian people, the destruction particular. But they tried to go back and ask about finding a of the infrastructure of the Palestinian people. Forbidding solution in stages, about the old initiative of Mr. Shamir. people from working, forbidding them from travelingto their Our answer was that we are ready for any proposal if it is a own factories, closing down the West Bank into sectors so package deal where it is clear that in the end there will be a that you can not move from one sector into another without Palestinian state. We can talk about stages, we can talk about permission, forbidding Palestinians from going to Jerusalem, schedules, we can talk about timing, but not before reaching forbidding them from going to Gaza, forbidding them from this understanding that in the end there will be a Palestinian going anywhere. So it is another kind of massacre. But I also state. believe that in time, the soldiers in the Occupied Territories Other matters , from our point of view, just lose time, and will be ready to implement [a massacre] when they are asked. allow the Zionists to change the reality in this area. By the Today I was stopped at a checkpoint in Jerusalem, and way, Mr. Shamir himself said that the aim of everything he some soldiers started to talk to me when they recognized me.

38 International EIR March 29, 1991 They told me that there is no way to go but the policy of Ze'evi, which is, "You Palestinians must leave this area and go to Jordan; this area is only for the Jews." They told me, "Look we were waiting and dreaming for the moment that we could meet you, just to kill you, but now we would like to talk." So they didn't kill me . But I believe even those Palestiniansand the people who are saying all of these things are saying them because of the influence of their government, their parties, against us. I'm sure that after my talk with those soldiers, 'new world order' their attitude changed completely. Unfortunately, Israel is by Hanna Siniora ruled right now by a government which is the main obstacle and the main element against peace and any political so­ lution. The fo llowing article has been made available fo r English language publication in EIR by Mr. Siniora, the editor of the EIR: Is the policy continuing of firing large numbers of Jerusalem Arabic daily AI-Fajr. ' Palestinians andreplacing them by Soviet Jews? Hosseini: Yes. Not only this. Now our laborers are losing What do Palestinians in the Occupied Territories think about their work inside Israel. So there is no more income for these the "new world order" that everyone is talking about? Do laborers . At the same time, our people who had been working they feel that it would open up the possibility of solving the in the Gulf, and who sent their money to us, also have lost Palestinian-Israeli conflict in a manner guaranteeing their theirjobs and their ability to send money. So they came back inalienable rights, particularly tJilose of self-determination here to try to findjobs , and now the number of unemployed and statehood? AI-Fajr interviewed Palestinians from all has become even greater. Third, those people in the Gulf walks of life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. who were sending money for their families that lived here , Hilmi Hanoun, mayor of Tulkarm, said that the "new are now themselves in a desperate situation in Amman or world order" people refer to is still so unclear that it is difficult Kuwait and other places, and so we are funding them our­ to judge its impact. What is important, he said, is not to selves and sending themour money. deviate fromthe current track of pursuing international legiti­ At thesame time, because of the curfews inside the West macy. The Palestinian issue, he ,said, is a test case for the Bank and Gaza strip, because of this policy of cutting the world community. West Bank and Gaza strip into zones which can't communi­ Bashir a1-Barghouthi, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem­ cate with each other, we cannot send the production of one based Arabic weekly AI-Tali'a, thinks the Palestinian ques­ zone into another. People cannot travel to their factories, to tion will not be long at the top . of a priorities list for the their fields. What we are seeing is a complete destruction of American administration. He foresees the Americans spend­ the economy. People have no money to buy, and so the ing more time strengthening the alliance they established producer is not able to produce, and closes his factory . Now against Iraq and turning it into a IItrategic coalition. He said we are really in need of international protection, the imple­ the strategic alliance will most likely tackle internalproblems mentation of the Geneva Convention [protecting refugees], and avoid anything the members· of the alliance may not be and not to be leftto theIsraeli government. This is the respon­ ready to handle, namely an Amerlicansolution to the Palestin­ sibility of the U.N. and the U.S., because the U.S. came up ian question. Barghouthi sees the Americans strengthening with the idea, this idea of a new order, this idea of respect the alliance by allowing it to work toward common goals, for Security Council resolutions, and U.N. resolutions, and first and foremost being the establishment of a military-eco­ international legitimacy. The only thing we are asking of nomic alliance already under way; toppling theIraqi regime; the Israelis to respect these things, to respect international and changing the PLO leadership or finding an alternativeto legitimacy by respecting the Geneva Convention, to respect it altogether. Barghouthi fears such developments would set the U.N. by respecting their resolutions and withdrawing the stage for a Camp David-like; solution to the Palestinian from these areas, and to allow peace in the Middle East. question. Unfortunately, we see that until now the Americans are The deposed mayor of Nablus, Bassam Shaka'a, said not really pushing. When the matter concerns the Palestin­ the dismantling of the socialist �amp and the problems re­ ians, they areso tough. Even if it comes to a Security Council sulting with the Soviet Union have created a feeling in the resolution against Israel, the U.S. will not use their veto. West that the internationalarena is a fair game for all manner But, after that, we do not see the U.S. actually push to of imperialist ambitions. Shaka�a thinks this reflects nega­ implement these Security Council resolutions. This is a disas­ tively on the international scene and on the nations of the ter. Everyone here feels that there is a double standard again developing world, particularly since international develop­ in dealing with matters in this area. ments and the rapid move toward detente did not coincide

EIR March 29, 1991 International 39 with internal or external economic developments, meaning thing "new" in this world order. The world has witnessed their people are no closer to fulfilling their aspirations than similar orders several times in history and has sufferedmuch they were before . This paralyzed the Soviet Union, rendering from them. He sees this order as merely another attempt at it almost useless, and certainly powerless to stop the Ameri­ Westernhegemo ny, like the Crusades. Zahhar describes the can and Western vision of the new order from taking shape. main characteristics of this order: The West's vision, he said, is clearly to hegemonize the 1) The subjugation of the Eastern bloc or what is leftof world and solve international and regional problems in a way it, namely the Soviet Union, to America, following an era of that suits their interests and consolidates their control. corruptionand decay. Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafti, head of the Red Crescent in 2) The United Nations no longer functions as the seat of the Gaza Strip, notes that American intervention in the so­ justice for the poor. The ignored resolutions of the Security called Gulf crisis, although based on Security Council resolu­ Council and the veto are flagrant examples of injustice. The tions, has proven that liberating Kuwait was not their essen­ stand of this institution on the problems of oppressed nations tial goal, but was rather intended as a means to destroy Iraq like the Palestinian nation, and its position toward the Gulf as a regional power and hegemonize the region. Abdel Sharif crisis, are clear indicators that should be taken into account said that when one studies American tactics, it no longer when the role of this institution is discussed. appears strange that the United States, while committing 3) The role of the major powers is prominent. Colonial­ this aggression despite the condemnation of the world, talks ism is disguised as help for the oppressed, and the colonial about a new world order based on international legitimacy, lackeys are normally local. The positionsof some Arab coun­ human rights, and the U.N. Charter. The U.S. is trying to tries, their media, and the statements of their leaders, as well placate the region, he said, adding that the Palestinians will as those of some Islamic countries, are very clear examples. have to wait and see how the United States will work toward Dr. Zahhar said the question remains how long the Arab this alleged goal. He said he didn't expect much other than nation will continue to be ruled by idiots and agents of the a tightening of the American grip on the region. cheapest variety. Dr. Abdel Sattar Qassim, of an-Najah University in Fayez al-Qawasmeh, a Hebron businessman, said that Nablus, told A/-Fajr that he believes the U. S. idea of a new the new world order amounts to nothing more than the ascen­ world order is not based on an objective conception of inter­ sion of one countryto the throne of the world, and the hegem­ national detente, but rather on what the United States deems ony of the strong over the weak. Recent statements by U.S. to be international detente. He said he believed the United Secretary of State James Baker that his country would not States had a specific point of view on how the world should impose a solution to the Palestinian question but would only beorder ed, and that it saw itself as hegemonizing power over help to finda solution, reflect the duality of the U.S. position. the world and thus implementing any arrangements it thinks Qawasmeh said the Palestinian people and the PLO as their fit. Qassim said that such arrangements would not take into leadership should insist on the implementation of the U.N. account the norms of peace and justice, but would stem from resolutions. American interests in the first place and the interests of its Writer and journalistRibhi aI-Shuwaiki said the United allies in the Western world in the second place. Israel and its States has kept most of its ideas about this new world order interests will fitinto the Westernslot , he said. secret. "We didn't read about it in the papers or see it in the Qassim said that Iraq was an example of how America official statements. But we felt it," said Shuwaiki, "through will confront a challenge. It unleashed its military might, he more than 1,000 air sorties daily,! and the more than half a said, so that all nations could see that the price of insurrection million soldiers equipped with the most advanced weaponry was very costly. This means that the world will face a new against Iraq." Shuwaiki said he didn't think such a world order of dictatorship and tyranny. order stemming from the barrel of a gun would mean interna­ Qassim said he saw really two choices for the Palestinian tional detente. movement regarding the new world order. They could accept Jiryis Khoury, former chairman of the Bar Association it and try to function from within it, or reject it and act on a in the West Bank, said the United States never presented a national level to wrest theArab nation out fromunder Ameri­ concept of any new order. The gist of the matter, he said, can control. Qassim said the first choice would almost cer­ is that statements were made by some U. S. leaders in the tainly mean autonomy, maybe under the slogan of a state of aftermath of the Gulf crisis about what they called a "new Palestine, although its security and fate would be in the hands world order." He says these are not concrete ideas, but rather of Israel, meaning only a disguised occupation. Qassim said visions of an international political situation lucrative for the other choice would mean a lot of hard work but would them and an embodiment of their hegemony over the world eventually result in a real solution to the Palestinian question, today. He said it is difficultto indicate the place the Palestin­ and would be preferable to surrendering to the new world ian question will take in such an imagined world order, not order. because the Palestinian question is minor, but because the Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahhar, from Gaza, doesn't see any- voiced order is not yet clear.

40 International EIR March 29, 1991 and Christians who have choseri this not always easy road, to reach mutual understanding add to help bring about justice and peace." He then proposed: "Your group should grow and develop and broaden its horizons. It is 'already a valid testimony, above all when, afterthe suffering and the injustice increased Palestinians meet by a recent conflict, it seems that there are the firstsigns of a quest for a solution. . . ." withJohn II Paul Toward an ecumenical dialogue Another leading member of the delegation, Father Nicola by Umberto Pascali Bux, told EIR : ''The Pope asked us explicitly to broaden our activity. He said, broaden your group, broaden all your In a discussion with the director of the Jerusalem-based activities!" Father Bux is the directorof the Europe Near East Christian-Islamic Al-Liqa Center, EIR received what may be Center (ENEC) based in the city of Bari, in southern Italy. the first public statement to date on the content of the historic Bari has been the historic referertcepoint for many commer­ message sent to Pope John Paul II this month by the highest cial, political, cultural, as well as religious exchanges be­ Islamic authority of Jerusalem. tween Europe and the Arab world, especially through the Dr. Geries Sa'ed Khoury told us: "In his letter to the annual Fiera del Levante, the Fair of the Levant. Pope, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem restated the unity of the Father Bux explains: "The delegation from Jerusalem, Palestinian people, both Christians and Muslim, and stressed consisting of the leadership of the Christian-Islamic Al-Liqa that the position of the Pope is welcomed positively by both Center, was' accompanied and sponsoredby us at ENEC. Our people. The Grand Mufti also thanked John Paul II for his chairman, Sen. Pietro Mezzapesa, gave the Pope our statute continuous appeals for peace and expressed the hope that in three languages, to symbolize our commitment. So the international legality be applied to every country of the Pope invited Al-Liqa to broaden its activities, its dialogue world, and the hope that the Pope will continue helping the with non-Christian entities, and ourselves at ENEC to sup­ Palestinians. " port the Christian community." ; The letter was delivered by a personal representative of What are the chances to relaunch a real ecumenical dia­ the Grand Mufti, Thiab Ayyoush (see his interview in EIR logue in the Arab world? "The situation," says Father Bux, of March 22), during the meeting of the Holy Father with an "is ambivalent. First of all, one must say that Islam's genuine Islamic-Christian delegation from Jerusalem on March 14. message is not aggressiveor bellicose towardother believers. Thanking the Pope for his efforts to keep the Persian Gulf Yes, there has been a danger to view the Gulf war as a war fromsetting Muslim against Christian, Dr. Ayyoush said religious war. But the Holy See's stance appears to have he told the Pope: "You have fought for mutual understanding averted that terrible danger. When Islam doesn't get flattened among the religions, and thus we did not feel the war was a into simplistic or reductionist pdlitical positions, it is clearly religious war." much freer to start a religious diaIogue. "In fact, I think that the initiative of the president of the Hope against hope Pan-Islamic Conference, to se�d a letter to the Pope just The Pope opened that audience with a surprising depar­ during the summit with the Patriarchs at the Vatican, is ex­ ture from his written text: "I express my desire to go to tremely symbolic. And the fact that the Grand Mufti sent a Jerusalem, and contra spem speravi [I hope against hope] . message is a clear recognition of the role played by the Catho­ These words of St. Paul could have been also the words lic Church, by the Holy See, at this time. Thus it is rather of our common father Abraham. Abraham, too, received a difficultto argue still that the Catholic Church and the 'West' promise marked by a deep contradiction, and I hope for my are identical and that the warmongering position of a part of visit to Jerusalem as I hope for my visit to Lebanon, a visit the West is that of the Church. to pray and to be with everybody. " "It is clear that there are forces in the Islamic world, as The meeting with the delegation, led by the Latin Patri­ the bishop of Algiers pointed oUt recently, who tend to lump arch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, can be considered as the together apples and oranges, but the shrewdest authorities, first concrete step of the new peace offensivein the Mideast, who are the majority, have realized this ....On the other launched by the Vatican after the ad hoc religious summit of side, it is evident that Israel is categorically refusing to accept March 4-5 , where all the Patriarchs of West Asia gathered to any discussion of Jerusalem, beCause they have annexed Je­ meet with the Pope, along with the bishops of the countries rusalem. But it is also true that the United Nations has not involved in the Gulf war. "You belong," the Pope told his recognized that annexation at all. Now we should see, as guests, "to a group conducting a dialogue between Muslims happened for Kuwait, whether there is the strength to enforce

EIR March 29, 1991 International 41 the U.N. resolution calling for Jerusalem to be a corpus separatum. In reality, the Holy See no longer insists on the EI Salvador corpus separatum, but rather speaks about an internationally guaranteed special statute. As Monsignor Tauran, the Vati­ can 'foreign minister,' said, this means requesting a series of international guaranteesconcerning the Christian commu­ nities, access to the holy places, their juridical status." Father Bux continues: "It is clear that besides these basic points, there has not yet been real progress. So much so, that Superpowers decree two years ago, Patriarch Sabbah asked the ENEC to work out a study to give content to this formula. Now we are preparing an international seminar in Bari, during the Fiera FMLN thewinner del Levante, with the participation of scholars oflaw, history, by Gretchen Small diplomacy, and so on. We will put out a draftto definewhat this Internationally Guaranteed Special Statute means. After that, we must submit it to an inter-Catholic discussion forum Elections for the national legislature and municipal govern­ and then to the analysis of the several Christian denomina­ ments in EI Salvador took place on March 10, but for Moscow tions present in Jerusalem, and finallyto Muslims and Jews. and Washington, how the citizens of that country actually This is the beginning of the process. " voted is irrelevant. The two powers are determined to force While Bux explains the broader plan from the standpoint EI Salvador's government to share power with the terrorists of an expert in law and history, Patriarch Sabbah expressed of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front, who are demanding this same concept in pastoral terms . The dialogue among international recognition of FMLN rule over parts of the believers, he said in his address to the Pope, "will help politi­ country, and the disbanding of th� nation's Army, as their cians to strengthen the dialogue, in mutual respect and with minimal conditions for turning in theirweapo ns. the aim of carrying out justice, as the only secure borders Lest there were any doubt as to the agreement on this and the only way to protect the two peoples in conflict. . . . strategy, on March15, Secretary ofState James Baker signed Both Palestinians and Israelis must have the same rights and a joint statement with his Soviet counterparts calling upon the same duties guaranteed: the right to freedom, indepen­ the Salvadoran government to "accelerate the process of ne­ dence, to decide their political future; and duties of mutual gotiations. " respect and recognition, both being protected in their dignity as human beings and children of God, both protected by one Arena won, fair and square justice and free from fear, from the spirit of revenge, and As is now customary for the developing sector, hundreds from any oppression." of foreign observers swarmed over the country on election In his address to the Pope , the director of AI-Liqa, Dr. day to "monitor" voting procedures. At the end of the voting, Khoury underlined a sentence from a speech made by John even the foreigners announced that the elections had been Paul II months ago: "The Palestinian problem is my personal fair, with only minor irregularities. problem." Khoury told EIR : "I repeated that very beautiful Initial election results demonstrated once again that the sentence to the Pope, and I told him, if it is your personal anti-communists continue to hold a firmma jority in EI Salva­ problem, then we can be secure that your work for the good dor. The ruling, anti-communist, Nationalist Republican Al­ of our people will continue what you and your predecessors liance (Arena) won around 45% of the vote; the Christian have already done. I refer to the University of Bethlehem, Democrats held onto their second place with some 25%; which was built thanks to Pope Paul VI and can continue to and vying for third place were an Arena-ally, the National function thanks to this Pope. It is a great thing, which gives Reconciliation Party (PCN) , and th� coalition of parties allied thousands of Palestinians the possibility to study and to work. with the FMLN, the Democratic Convergence (CD). This decreases the emigration of the Christians, just for a This was the firsttime FMLN s�pporters had run in elec­ start. tions in their own name, and from the standpoint of the "In my speech, I told the Pope twice that the PLO is the superpower condominium, the crucial issue in the elections only representative of the Palestinians, and that whoever was the CD's vote. Westernmedia made clear that the Anglo­ doesn't want to deal with the PLO doesn't really want peace. American Establishment hoped a large vote for the CD would The Pope listened and was smiling throughout my address. give the pro-power-sharing forces a majority in the Legisla­ At the end, he thanked me for the present we brought from tive Assembly, and thus provide a "democratic" cover for Palestine. He touched it and was moved. He said, so this is what they planned anyway. London's Financial Times wrote wood from a Bethlehem olive tree? It was a reproduction of hopefully on the eve of elections that a strong vote by the Leonardo's 'Last Supper,' inlaid on olive wood." FMLN's supporters would "break the right-wing grip on the

42 International EIR March 29, 1991 National Assembly." manders , that the FMLN has renouncedMar xism, and wants But theSalva doran people trounced the FMLN at the to achieve its goals as an unarmed political movement. Ac­ polls, giving them somewhere between 10% and 15% of the cording to a March 7 New York Times report, Villalobos now vote. Despite Arena's economic Achilles heel-it continues says that capitalist countries such as Germany, Japan, or to offer only "freetrade" liberalism-the partycontinues to Costa Rica are the new models fo� the FMLN, because they enjoy, undeniably, the support of a plurality for its anti­ are "closely tied to the United Sta(es economy," and, in the communist policy. case of Costa Rica, have no army. He reiterated the FMLN's demand that the military not be simply reformed, but "dis­ Results be damned banded." Once that reality became clear, the foreign press suddenly declared that there must have been election fraud, even Prodigal terrorists though all those observers had thought otherwise. These are the words of "a man whose movement has The first shot in this new campaign was fired by the finally seen the light," CIA stringer Georgie Anne Geyer New York Times in a March 14 editorial which asserted that wrote in a nationally syndicated column published on March because official results were not issued immediately, there 15 in the Washington Times. "These public confessions of must have been vote fraud. The New York Times demanded inner transformation" must be taken seriously, and the "vi­ that the Bush administration not release any further military cious old rightists in EI Salvador" cannot be allowed to con­ aid to the Salvadoran governmentuntil it becomes clear who vince the United States otherwise, she wrote. controls the Legislative Assembly, so critical for the future Indeed, fromthe standpoint of the FMLN, why not nego­ of negotiations between the government and the FMLN. tiate? FMLN spokesmen say "they will sign a peace deal if Likewise, London's Financial Times declared in a March territories under their control (sonie 20% of the country) be 19 article that thereal result of the elections was that Arena's recognized during a transitional disarmament period when "grip on the Legislative Assembly and the powers of state" constitutional and judicial reforms aimed at leveling the field had been "severely weakened." Therefore Arena "may be for their eventual participation in 'future elections are to be more flexible in negotiations with the guerrillas and more negotiated," the Financial Times reported March 19. Until susceptible to pressurefrom outside forces in favor of a nego­ the elections, the Army and the · government had refused tiated peace." The paper admitted that "no massive fraud" to hand over territory, the Financial Times noted, but now occurred, but stated that since "it is clear to everyone" that "foreign pressure" may change this. there were irregularities, and that "the true percentages won The United Nations, which has been running the "peace" by the contending parties may never be accurately known," negotiations between the govellUllbnt and theFMLN for the the Assembly seats should therefore be simply divided up past year, is moving to set up shop permanently in EI Salva­ between the parties through a process of negotiations. dor to oversee the power-sharing deal. U.N. Secretary Gen­ No wonder Miami' s Diario las Americas, in an editorial eral Javier Perez de Cuellar is preparing to dispatch a mission March 10, questioned whether the U.S. Liberal Establish­ to EI Salvador immediately, to finalize plans for a "U.N. ment would accept the fact that "an important majority of the presence" in EI Salvador, according to the Washington EI Salvadoran people" gave their support to Arena. Several Times. Among its plans, according to secret documents years ago, the paper noted, "important figures" in the U.S. leaked to the press, is to help fonn a "commission of nota­ Establishment stated that if Arena won the elections, the bles" set up under U.N. sponsorship, that should name, one United States would cut off aid. by one, the officer corps of the Salvadoran Army. "That is," said Diario, "that no importance would be Western intervention into EI SlIvador's war on behalf of granted to the majority will of the people,which these sectors the FMLN has given new life to narco-terroristarmies across of this greatcountry say they are so anxious to defend." the Americas, a point noted unhappily by Enrique Santos Calder6n in a column in Colombia's El Tiempo newspaperon 'Leveling the field' for the FMLN March 10. The Communist Party-<:ontrolled Sim6n Bolfvar One promise that the FMLN kept faithfully, was its Guerrilla Coordination Front in Colombia has adopted the pledge to resume its military offensive immediately afterthe "Salvadoran model," and as FMLN documents captured by elections. FMLN anti-aircraft weapons shot down a military the Salvadoran Army make plain, the FMLN views "dia­ helicopter less than 48 hours afterthe polls closed; two days logue" as a necessary instrument of its plans to seize power, later, they blew up six major power lines in the country, and he wrote . Santos Calder6n quoted! from the documents: Ne­ sabotaged power stations, cutting off 51% of the nation's gotiations are needed "to isolate the regime and change the electrical supply for more than a day. correlation of forces in favor of the armed struggle. . . . The This has not affected the foreign FMLN fan club in the process of dialogue allows us to gain support and discreditthe least. Instead, the U.S. media chose to feature declarations regime internationally. . . . We must keep up the dialogue to by Joaquin Villalobos, one of the FMLN's nastiest com- keep the enemy tied to the negotiating table. "

EIR March 29, 1991 International 43 set a good precedent-contrary to the way thingsturned out ." Ishizuka continued: "For all its success in the Gulf war, the fact remains that the U.S. h�d to depend on other coun­ Was hington hurls tries for meeting an overwhelming proportion of its war costs ....In future military conflicts, should they happen, new insults at Japan the U.S. will again count on Japan and Germany to be its major supporters , at least financially... If there's anything Japan has learned the hard way from the Gulf crisis, it's by Jeffrey Steinberg the realization that Japan can't continue to be so miserably dictated to by Washington, simply because Tokyo didn't Since the temporary cease-fire went intoeffect in the Persian know what to do in the absence of its own firm strategies Gulf, the Bush administration has been firing a continuous and policies .... Self-assertioQ and true independence in diplomatic barrage at Japan. The latest and most egregious formulation of foreign policy have been utterly absent for too calculated insults came directly from the Oval Office, when long. The Gulf war served as a catalyst to the realization by President Bush abruptly canceled his long scheduled state the Japanese that the situation can no longer be allowed to visit to Tokyo early this month and then, up until the last continue." moment, refused even to meet with Japanese Foreign Minis­ Washington, meanwhile, continues to escalate its at­ ter Taro Nakayama, who was in Washington on March 20. tacks. U.S. Ambassador Richard Armacost, part of the CIA (The Bush-Nakayama meeting did finally takeplace , but only triumvirate running Bush administration East Asia policy after the foreign minister arrived with a $7 billion check). (along with Ambassador Donald Oreggin Seoul andAmbas­ Early in March, Ichiro Ozawa, the general secretary of sador James Lilley in Beijing), . tore into Japan for failing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , had to cancel a to submit to American free trade demands at the General scheduled six�day tour of the Middle East when U, S. authori­ Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GAIT) talks. Speaking on ties refusedto grant him permission to visit occupied Kuwait. Feb . 28 in Tokyo, Armacost denounced Japan's refusal to Responding to the cancellation of Bush's Tokyo visit, Japa­ deregulate interest rate policies and submit to other freetrade nese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu told a television inter­ demands, warning, "The question is whether Japan will act viewer March 13, "The conduct of the United States makes in a timely manner or wait passively and accept the inevita­ me grind my teeth. I think that Japan is not estimated appro­ ble." On March 8, the Bush administration threatenedthat it priately in the U.S.A." would file a formal complaint at GAIT if Japan failed to This Bush administration arrogance has provoked a pro­ deregulate its interest rates by the May 1991 deadline set last found reassessment among policymakers in Tokyo, who see year by Treasury UndersecretaryI David Mulford. the situation going from bad to worse, but who have so far developed no strategy for confronting the Bush menace. Japanese-Soviet diplomacy In this context, the Kaifu governmentis proceeding with 'A feeling of dismay' plans to host Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachov April 16- A March 14 article in the International Herald Tribune 18. Although Japanese expectati0ns about a successfulsum­ reported that Bush is being widely compared with Franklin mit had been dampened by recent Soviet crackdowns in the Roosevelt, whom many Japanese believe lured Tokyo into Baltic republics, on March 14, senior Communist Partyoffi­ World War II. The Tribune quoted Prof. Sakuji Yoshimura cial Valentin Falin paid a visit to: Kaifu to deliver a message of Waseda University: "The Gulf war was a trap set by that Gorbachov was ready to make a dramatic breakthrough Americans to crush Iraq. . . . It is crucial to recognize that in their relations at the April meeting. Shortly after, it was the war began from America's own plan for a monolithic announced that LDP chairman Ozawa would probably visit control of a postwar world." Moscow prior to the summit. Soviet Foreign Minister Alek­ In the March 16 issue of the Japan Economic Journal, sandr Bessmertnykh will arrive illl Tokyo March 30-31. author Masahiko Ishizuka called on the Japanese government While the main thrust of the Japanese-Soviet talks will to "end this laissez-faire relationship with the U.S. There is be joint economic projects (Moscow is talking about a "new a feeling of dismay about the relentless use of military power economic community" involving Japan, China, Taiwan, the by the U.S., the mainstay of the allied forces. By Asian or Soviet Union, and the two Kore�s), Moscow is also hinting Oriental standards, the Anglo-American decisiveness in the that the thorny issue of the northern islands, occupiedby the use of military power-their belligerence-is disquieting Soviets since World War II, cou1d be resolved. On Feb. 28, and questionable. Many hesitated to call it a just war, with Gorbachov's military adviser Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev the massive bombing appearing less of a 'sacred mission' told Kyodo news service that it was his "personal opinion" than an exercise in self-righteousness and arrogance.. .. that the U.S.S.R. should open �s leading to the return of Had the Gulf crisis been resolved peacefully, it would have two of the islands.

44 International ElK March 29, 1991 Birmingham Sixcase shocks Britain; some see parallels to U. S. Justice' by Our SpecialCo rrespondent

On March 14, the Court of Appeal in London reversed the Amnesty International fraud convictions of six Irishmen, jailed for 16 years in Britain for Defense solicitors like Miss Gareth Pierce and Alistair crimes they never did commit. The men, the "Birmingham Logan worked seven days a week for over a decade, taking Six," were accused of having set off bombs in two pubs in enormous financialloss es. But Amnesty International, which Birmingham in 1974, killing 21 and wounding 162. continues to assert that there are no, political prisoners in the British Home Secretary Kenneth Baker had to announce United States, would not touch these Irish cases in its own in Parliament after the reversal that a Royal Commission frontyard-A mnesty is based in London-untila press cam­ will examine the entire British criminal justice system. All paign by the defense lawyers made the thing so hot they could recent major prosecutions of IRA "terrorists" have been no longer afford to stay out of it. overturned. Amnesty has also refused to touch the case of Lyndon Back in 1974, England was swept by a lynch mob mood LaRouche until now, calling it "not:political," but, in a letter like that among Americans today when they hear the word we excerpt here, an English lawyer familiar with both cases "Iraq." Six unfortunate Irishmen were arrested at Liverpool, says they are both political frameups . boarding the ferry to Belfast hours after the bombings, to There is a clamor abroad in England now for Lord Chief attend the funeral of an IRA man. They were dragged to a Justice Lane, who presided over the Six's appeal in 1987, to West Midlands police station, beaten to a pulp, and made resign. But can the whole High Court judiciaryresign? to sign confessions. Under English law, a confession, though "There was no evidQice to suggest the Six had received backed by no other proof, is itself a proof. In 1975, the six any knocking about in custody beyond the ordinary," said were sentenced to life imprisonment. Their trial lasted 45 then-Lord Chief Justice Widgery, refusingleave to appearin days, the jury overwhelmed with 132 charges and 100 wit­ 1976. nesses. Eight of those days were in camera proceedings from "If this action is allowed to proceed to trial, if the six men which the jury was barred, dealing with the admissibility of fail, it will mean that much time aM money will have been police evidence. Mr. Justice Bridge found nothing wrong expended . . . for no good purpose. If the six men win, it with that; in summing up to the jury he said he was "lost in will mean the police were guilty of perjury, that they were admiration for the way these police officers have done their guilty of violence and threats . . • that would be such an job." Had the death penalty still existed, they would all have appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would hanged. say: It cannot be right these actions should go any further," The government did take the trouble to come up with Lord Denning said, in dismissing the Six's civil action forensic evidence that two of the accused had handled nitro­ against the Home Office in 1980. glycerin. But they did not tell the Crown until 1987 that Dr. The same Lord Denning told the press in 1990: "We Herbert Bamford of the police lab, who swabbed the hands shouldn't have all these campaign$ to get the Birmingham of passengers on the Belfast ferry that night, found two other Six released. If they'd been hanged. they'd have been forgot­ passengers with apparent "nitroglycerine contamination," ten, and the whole community would have been satisifed." which came from adhesive tape used to wrap parcels. Dr. Also in 1990, Lord Cowie for the Appeal Court suddenly Bamford later said his fellow scientists in the lab agreed the said: "There is no obligation on the Crown to disclose any Griess test used was "not absolutely specific for nitroglycer­ information in their possession whichwould tend to exculpate ine." It is now known that the Director of Public Prosecutions the accused. " had heard of Bamford's material in 1987, but never disclosed it to the defense. Lastly, the identities of the real murderers Worsthorne: deport the Irish were known since 1985 at the latest. Then there was the famous October 1988 editorial by

EIR March 29, 1991 International 45 that prophet of the Gulf War, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, "When Irish Eyes are Suspect," of which I quote a few choice words: "In the special case of terrorism, 10 innocent men con­ victed could well be a lesser evil than releasing a guilty Englishlawye r,writes to one .... In the aftermath of a major IRA outrage, the police trawl Thornburgh on.LaRouche for Irish suspects. Doubtless lots caught in the trawlare only Republican sympathizers, rather than terroristsproper. Such The similarity between the Birmingham Six case and that people may not positively help the IRA. But nor are they of Lyndon LaRouche is noted in a letter written March 6 properly speaking, innocent. Certainly they withhold infor­ to U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh byIan D. mation which would help catch the bombers, and serve the Leigh, Lecturer in Law atNe wcastle UniversityEngland. IRAin otherways . Many Irish priests do too, supplying safe Mr. Leigh writes in his own nameand not as a spokesman houses . . . all these hangers-on are certainly accom­ fo r the fa culty. Excerpts of the letter fo llow: plices .... A more ruthless state than Britain would simply deport Dear Attorney General: all Irish Republican sympathizers. As it is we make them U.S.A . v. Lyndon LaRoucheet al. welcome, allow them to vote, and enjoy all the other privi­ I am writing to you as a Constitutional lawyer with leges of citizenship. . . . particular interests in national security and civil liberties, "Is it really reasonable to expect the police to apply about a case of serious conQern. Although the case is a to the Irish population in this country the presumption of domestic United States one, it is now raising international innocence that they apply to other citizens? I don't believe concern over the legal process and the recognition of hu­ that it is. Guilty many of them certainly are of making up man rights in a similar way to the "Guildford Four" and that hinterland of suport and sympathy without which the "Birmingham Six" cases in my own country. Many law­ terrorists could not do their deadly deeds .... Did the yers like myself who had regardedU. S. protection of civil conviction of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six at liberties to be far advanced tp that in our jurisdiction are least temporarily deter that hinterland? . . . There is some now being forced reluctantly to reevaluate as a result. It reason to suppose that this is what it did." involves the conviction of a political activist and former The Queen made similar, if more veiled remarks, in her U.S. presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, and a bloodcurdling New Year's message for 1991 on Iraq-and number of his associates on fraud and conspiracy charges Ireland. on January 27, 1989 ...... The surrounding circumstances and procedural U.K. as a theocratic state irregularities at the trial lend considerable credence to the Moan as he may, the truth is that England's ruling classes defendants' allegations that ,they have been the victims arenot the hapless victim of Irish terrorism. The IRAtoday­ of political persecution. . . .' I am not qualified to judge with some complications-is nothing but a plaything of Brit­ whether the allegations that LaRouche's political move­ ish intelligence, part of England's ongoing drive to harry ment was specifically targeted and smeared by the U.S. and eventually to overthrow the Republic of Ireland, and an federal authorities can be substantiated. However, the de­ integral part of the machinery for keeping peopledown inside tailed allegations made in the case papers (which I have the "United" Kingdom itself. read) seem to me to raise an inference of wrongdoing The truthis also, that laws have been in force since 1974, which at the very least requires detailed rebuttal by the giving Sir Perry , known to be close to the Royal Household, U. S. government and thorough independent investiga­ exactly what he says he wants. tion. The unimpeded exercise of the rights of political Under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, passed in the wake of the Birmingham bombings, and overhauled in 1989, the Home Secretarycan forbid British subjects from Northern Ireland(Ul ster) from entering England-eventhough North­ The new 1989 act gives the police much greater powers ern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and Ulstermen to riflethrough privileged documents, such as bank records, bearBritish passports. Under the PTA, it is a crime for a man or even attorneys' files. The pQlice need only say that they torefuse to disclose identity and movements to police officers want the documents for a "terrorist investigation." Further­ questioning him under the act. It is a crime to withhold infor­ more, the 1988 Immigration Act has given the police a new, mation concerning acts of terrorism, or which "might help" non-judicial, procedure to deport people. The Home Office apprehend terrorists. had a field day with that during the Gulf war.

46 International EIR March 29, 1991 activity and of free speech are fundamental to any democ­ ings which led to the assets of the companies with which racy, even where , as is my own case with regard to the defendants were associated being frozen, were politi­ LaRouche's apparent views, the majority may disagree cally motivated, exceptional in the extreme, and thedirect with theviews expressed. These rights are also the corner­ cause of the non-repayment of the loans on which the stone of international relations, recognized in the U.N. criminal charges were based. Whether or not the defense Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and could have sustained these allegations I am unable to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, judge, but it is clear that some aspects of them could have 1976. If it was shewn conclusively that employees of been material and that the jury was deprived of hearing the U.S. government had been engaging in systematic these. An earlier trial against the defendants had collapsed surveillance and unattributed discrediting of these defen­ when the judge found systematic mi$conduct by the prose­ dants , then to my mind, that would constitute more of a cution over suppressing information relating to these very threat to democracy than anything LaRouche might say aspects of the defense. The fact that all these events oc­ or write. In view of the now acknowledged unfortunate curred on what was in effect a re�trial and against the past history of U.S. federal authorities in political surveil­ peculiar political circumstances described above, leave lance during the 1960s and 1970s (I refer to the details the abiding impression that a miscarriage of justice has of Cointelpro revealed by Congressional Committees)­ taken place. which included admitted surveillance of groups, such as This is a matter within the direct purview of your NCLC, with which LaRouche was closely associated­ own Department. Despite the admission by government these allegations must be taken seriously. officials that files exist on LaRouche and his associates, However, as a lawyer I am more directly concerned the administration has resisted attempts to gain access to with some of the unsatisfactory fe atures of the trial pro­ them on national security grounds. Access to these files cess ....Three features particularly stand out: the jury is an essential prerequisite for the defendants' use of legal selection process, the curtailment of the defense argu­ processes challenging their convictions. Unless compel­ ment, and the severity of sentence imposed on conviction. ling evidence can be produced for the national security By normal standards in complex U.S. trials, the jury claim, the public interest in the administration of justice selection process appears to have been hastily conducted. requires that access should now be allowed. To continue . . . The level of prior publicity and public discussion of to deny access only adds credence to the defendants' asser­ LaRouche's views over several years and ...trial in a tions of political persecution. court district . . . with a very high proportion of federal The sentence imposed after conviction of 15 years' governmentemployees (including those working for intel­ imprisonment appears to have been unusually harsh for ligence agencies) both necessitated extra vigilance in the the nature of the offense charged, and in view of the fact composition of the jury in order to ensure a fair trial . . . . that LaRouche was a first offender, aged 65 . . . . It may It is clear that had greater time been spent at this stage of be that the United States government will be able to rebut the trial,it would have been revealed that one of the jurors these allegations of a gross violation of human rights. was a federal employee of an emergency planning unit There is clear primajacie case for an independent investi­ with direct intelligence links, and a substantial risk of gation of the investigation, prosecution and the sur­ prejudice .... rounding circumstances. It is now in the interests of the The judge's pre-trialrulings prevented thedefendants United States government to cooperate in the establish­ from . . . putting their defense that the prosecution was ment of an inquiry of this kind to dear what is becoming part of a systematic attempt at political persecution. In a major blemish to the international respectability of its particular, the defense were prevented from referring to investigatory agencies and legal processes and, more gen­ the fact that the government-initiatedbankruptcy proceed- erally, a blot on its record for protecting human rights.

That Sir Perry can say what he says publicly, and get the precedent. away withit , speaksvolumes about what Great Britain really The grounds well building up against thesegross miscar­ is: a theocratic, absolutist state like the Iran of the Ayatol­ riages of justice had better aim at changing what England lahs, ruled by a warrior caste, a judicial caste, and a priestly has become. Otherwise thechickens who bombed retreating caste, and led by a monarch who, as head of the Church of Iraqi columns in the Gulf war, will soon come home to England, is also the English Pope. Cromwell is the model, roost among the indigent, the Irish, and the unemployed in and Cromwell's atrocities against the Irish and the Scots are England itself.

EIR March 29, 1991 International 47 Pope sees 'echo of Grace' in Mozart as example of true meaning ofjo y

On March 16, Pope lohn Paul lImet with participants in the to the Church's reflection as a landmark on the pathway of Plenary Assembly o/ the PontificalCounci l/or Dialogue with faith. Non-Believers. They were gathered in Rome fo r a three­ day meeting on March 13-16 on the topic, "The Search/or 2) How does the quest for happiness present itself today, Happiness and Christian Faith." During the audience, what characteristics does it reveal? which took place in the Hall o/ the Consistory, the Pope gave As it emerges from the results of the inquiry published the speech printed below. for the past three years in your review Atheism and Faith, According to an article in Corriere della Sera, the Milan the aspiration to happiness is identifiedamong the traditional daily, o/ March 18, Pope Wojtyla's words o/ praise/or Mo­ populations of the Third W orId WJitha harmonious integration zart in this sp eech are unprecedentedfrom a Pontiff. Al­ into the familial and ethnic grouP. and an elementary material thoughlohn Paulll had traveledto Salzburg, Vienna in lune well-being. In contrast, it is characterized by individualism 1!;!J8, at that time he had merely mentioned the. city'smost in the societies of abundance, II¥U'kedby secularization and illustrious son without even an adjective. Corriere' s reporter religious indifference. Your attention is especially drawn to Bruno Bartolini wrote that the Vatican "/oreign minister, " these societies because they are the most afflicted by non­ lean-Louis Tauran, a great music lover, is thought to have belief; freedom is often conceived there as a capacity for suggested the tribute to Mozart to the Pope. Tauran, a Leba­ absolute self-determination, exempt from any law. For nese, was also the organizer 0/ the historic March 14 meeting many, happiness is no longer attached to the accomplishment between lohn PaullIand an ecumenical delegation o/ Pales­ of moral duty, nor the search for a personal relationship tinian religious leaders, both Muslim and Christian, which to God. In this sense, we may "peak of a rupture between was reported in EIR's last issue. happiness and morality. To seek happiness in virtue becomes The Pope's speech has been translated by EIR's editorial an alien ideal, and even strange, for a number of our contem­ stafffrom the French text provided by the Vatican press poraries. What takes priority, is the interest in one's body, offi ce. its health, its beauty, its youth. It is the image of a happiness enclosed within the vicious circ� of desire and its gratifica­ Messrs. Cardinals, Dear brethren in the episcopate, Dear tion. It is true that compassion,.benevolence toward others friends, and true generosity, even among those who are distant from the faith, arealso characteristics of these societies. 1) It is with joy that I receive you this morning and wish you This culture is often identified as narcissistic. The myth a wholehearted welcome. Members and consultants of the invented by Greek antiquity shows how the ancients, already, PontificalCouncil for the Dialogue with Non-Believers, you had an awareness of the sterilit;y of a love closed in upon have come together in Plenary Assembly, presided over by itself. Not to love anyone but o�eself, is to destroy oneself Cardinal Paul Poupard, to reflect upon a theme of never­ and perish. "For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it," ending timeliness, with profound pastoral repercussions to­ said Jesus. (Mark 8, 35). day: man's aspiration to happiness, as an anchoring point for Regard for others , forgetting oneself out of concern for the faith. This anthropological approach to faith and, at the others and their happiness, are �ese not the most expressive opposite pole, to non-belief, is one of the possible keys to images of the divine mystery? The living and true God, better responding to the dissatisfactions and anxieties, the whose countenance Jesus revealed to us, is not a solitary fears and threats that weigh upon mankind today, and from God. Among the divine Persons, everything is gift, sharing, which it seeks to free itself, in order to open wide the gates communication, in an eternal respiration of love. All the of happiness in the joyful light of Christ Risen, "that liveth happiness of God and His joy are the happiness and joy of ...and have the keys of hell and death" (Rev. 1, 18), He mutual giving. For man, create� in his semblance, there is who alone carries the definitive response to human anguish no true happiness outside of the gift of oneself. "Whosoever and despair. shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's shall save it," I thank you for having proposed this theme of happiness said Jesus (Mark 8, 35).

48 International EIR March 29, 1991 3) Another consideration is imposed. Contrary to the ancients who had such a poignant sense of the tragedy of existence, of man's solitude in the world, of his insufficiencybefore the ideal ofthe beautiful and the good, ofthe ephemeral character of all things, and finally of the inevitability of death, the society of production and consumption refuses to integrate the presence and the experience of evil and death into its idea of happiness. It builds out of this fact an image of happiness which is fragile, artificial, and ultimately false. Any system which does not deeply confront the somber enigma of life has little to say to people, and sooner or later they tire of it. Recent history has made this very evident.

4) The Christian conception of life-and of happiness-has its source in Jesus Christ, God made man, in His earthly life among us, in His death freely accepted, and in His victory over death on Easter morning. "The mystery of man," states the Second Vatican Council, "is only truly clarified in the mystery of the Word Made Flesh" (Gaudium et spes, §22). The mystery of human happiness finds its key in Jesus Christ, the archetype of all given existence. Jesus Christ abolished the painful antagonisms between heaven and earth, past and present, between man and God. The present time, still weighed down with the consequences of sin and yet already The young Mozart sharing his co�npo'sltllpns redeemed by Christ, can be lived as a time of happiness, in Haydn. the hope of its ultimate fulfillment. This world, where evil and death still prevail, can be loved in joy, because the King­ dom of God, which shall achieve its perfection when the Lord 6) Dear friends, this Plenary �"""" "V.lJ' on the aspiration to comes again, is already present on this earth (cf. Gaudium et happiness is a threshold crossed your brief, but already spes N. 39. §3)-thus constituting the outline, the image, significant history: you have oriented yourselves and the prophecy of the new earth and the new heaven. toward anthropological reflection. three years ago, . Corporeal reality can be assumed with all its weight of misery you established it: The atheistic and worldviews and suffering, and death itself can be accepted without de­ constructed in the 19th century have only a diminished spair, thanks to the promise of resurrection. Everything is influence, and the classics of no longer occupycenter saved, even everyday banality, even the most painful trials. stage. Yet the ravages of militant have engendered Forgiveness of hissins is always offered to the sinner. This a kind of new pagan religiosity. is the temptation to self- is the Christian meaning of happiness, the promise of the deification, as old as Genesis; it is arbitrary rejection of Beatitudes, the light of which we seek to propagate "like a moral law; and it is, ultimately, the experience of evil. lamp that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the Industrialized societies with technology, with their daystar arise in your hearts" (II Peter 1,19). mentalities conditioned by the media, are prey to the depreciation of values and the loss meaning. Therein 5) This year, the bicentenary of the death of Mozart recalls lies a new ground for dialogue non-believers, a task our attention to the message of joy which his work conveys, which is more necessary than ever. characterized by a feeling of happiness, like a simultaneous experience of death and of resurrection. Many discover, 7) An era of dialogue unburdened above all in his religious compositions, a veritable song of opens up with the dawning of the joy of creation redeemed and reconciled with God , an echo appreciate your sensitizing the of Grace, the inexhaustible fountain. Sharing the faith must mission, by meetings with your coIJa.t,onitolrs in various parts again become a way of sharing joy. Dialogue, which at times of the world. Pursue this work patience and discern- becomes an arid exchange of ideas , can rediscover a higher ment, while invoking the of the Holy Spirit and inspiration in the capacity for wonderment before artistic the protection of the Virgin Mary, of our joy." beauty, the reflection of the eternal and ineffable beauty of In this difficult and necessary my blessing and my God. prayers accompany you.

EIR March 29, 1991 International 49 was "surrounded by loyal 'apparatchiks .' "He is, portrayed in sum, as an authoritarian personality, seeking Maronite Book Review Christian hegemony in Lebanon, �t the expenseof everybody else. Fisk ridicules the general's desire to "liberate" his coun­ try from the Syrians, and calls "implausible" Aoun's call for a U.N. inquiry into the assassination of President Rene Moawad, after the Taif Agreement of 1989. Why "implausi­ Lebanon: Who ble"? We are not told; we are left with impressionistic anec­ dotes about the general's personality, like the report that, is 'bitlng' whom? during their interview, Aoun' s daughter sat with "a look of adoration on her face as she fumbled with a tape recorder. by SusanWe lsh The Napoleon of Lebanon was aboutto speak fromhis under­ ground garage." EIR presented quite a different view of General Aoun, and of Lebanon, in our issue of Nov. 16, 1990 ("Kissinger Destroyed the Nation of Lebanon," by Prof. Bassam EI Pitythe Nation: theAbduction of Lebanon Hashem). Professor EI Hashem, a scholar who is one of by Robert Fisk Atheneum, New York, 1990 Aoun's close associates (and by no means a "loyal apparat­ 678 pages, hardbound, $24.95 chik"), gives a compelling argument that there has been no civil war in Lebanon, but that the crisis there has been deliber­ ately fo stered and manipulated by outside powers, each for Robert Fisk has been a reporter based in Lebanon for two its own strategic objectives. British newspapers, the Times and then the Independent, It is impossible to understand anything about Lebanon since 197�fifteen years in which that nation has been "from the ground up." Indeed, a glaring omission in Fisk's plunged into unspeakable barbarism. A journalist has to be book, is that Henry Kissinger is nowhere mentioned in the either very brave or very foolish to stay in such a place-or compendious 678 pages of text, Yet it is Kissinger's plan perhapsboth . for destruction and partition of Lebanon that is now being Fisk makes clear from the outset that his is a journalistic implemented. account, not a comprehensivehistory. "I suggest no answers and offer no solutions," he writes, adding that he sees the job The beautiful dragonfly of journalists as "watching and witnessing history and then Fisk vehemently rejects any slJchstandpoint of reference, . . . recordingit as honestly as we can." derisively calling it "The Plot," and substituting for it a kind He reports ably, and the book is rich in vignettes and of romantic existentialism: stories of the tragedy which he has witnessed. For any who "The Plot, the mo'amera, the complot, undefinable and think the war in Lebanon can be understood in simplistic ubiquitous, a conspiracy of treachery in which a foreign terms , the book is a useful antidote. Fisk does not hold back hand-Syrian, Palestinian, Israeli, American, French, Lib­ fromdescribi ng-for those with the stomach strong enough yan, Iranian-was always involved. EdwardCody of the AP to keep reading-the Israel-backed Phalangist massacres of and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we Palestinians at Sabra and Chatila, or the Palestinian atrocities conducted in Lebanon, a specialchair should be set aside for against Christians in Damour, or the butcheryby Syrian Pres­ The Plot-since The Plot invariably played a leading role in ident Hafez al-Assad at Hama. For Americans in particular, all discussions we ever had with politicians, diplomats or who like things in black and white ("who are the good gunmen." guys?"), there are lessons to be learned. Rejecting this view (but not refuting it) , Fisk's thesis But is the account truthful, as a whole? For historical is that there is some chthonic quality that makes Lebanon accuracy and objectivity, it is not enough to have "been inherently destined to corrupt and destroy both itself and there"; you have to have an analysis that makes sense. De­ anyone who sets foot there. spite Fisk's claim that he is leaving the reader to draw his Thus, when a leading hashish-grower in the Bekaa Valley own conclusions, it is impossible towrite a book such as this tried to get the author to buy dope in 1977, with the sales one without expressing one's own evaluation. pitch, "We'll put as much as you need out through Damascus Take one example, Fisk's treatment of Gen. Michel International Airport-to the country of your choice," Fisk Aoun, the man who provoked the most recent act in the draws the following conclusion: Lebanesetragedy by closing down some of the ports through "And that, of course, was the clue. Syria had come to which Syria was running a brisk drug trade out of Lebanon. Lebanon and Syria was now being corrupted by Lebanon, Aoun, according to Fisk, was creating a "small militarydicta­ as surely as another great army would soon be corrupted. torship," and when Fisk interviewedhim in 1989, the general Lebanon's revenge was to welcome all her invaders and then

50 International ElK March 29, 1991 kiss them to death. The longer they stayed, the longer they in Beirut. In 1986, while Americans and Europeans were needed to stay; and each day , every hour, their presence being kidnaped and murderedri �t and left, Kapitanov meets would be imperceptibly debased and perverted and poisoned. Fisk in Libya, ascertains that the I Briton intends to return to "Those great hot, balmy fields across the Bekaa con­ Beirut, and makeshim a friendlyoff er: "If you need my help, cealed from all who went there the dangerous, moist centre call me . I can come to the airport to pick you up. Nobody is of this garden of earthly delights. It was like being bitten by going to kidnap Soviet citizens in Lebanon. " a beautiful dragonfly whose wings were of such splendour Why are Soviet citizens so safe in Lebanon? We are that the victim did not even feel the nip in the flesh. Later, never told, and speculation is left to those of us who think the skin would itch and the stranger would scratch at the "conspiracies" sometimes reflectreality . irritation, trying to remember where he had acquired so Similarly, the unfolding drama of the Iran-Contra affair, strange a mark. Much later, the flesh would swell up and involving the exchange of U.S. l)ostages kidnaped in Leba­ give pain and, very often, it would prove fatal ." non by Iranian-backed militias, for arms to the Ayatollah It is not only the poor Syrians who are "corrupted" by Khomeini and arms-for-drugs deals with the Nicaraguan their occupation of Lebanon. In another location, Fisk de­ Contras , is a crucial part of the story of Lebanon, yet is only scribes how, aftersome particularlynasty Israeli bombing of mentioned in passing. the south of Lebanon-in which everyone was classed as a Presumably, to delve into it more deeply would be to "terrorist" and could therefore be murdered-he came upon give credence to The Plot. an Israeli roadblock, manned by a blond Russian-born sol­ dier. "Nearly all the terrorists escaped," the soldier told the carload of journalists. Fisk continues: "He gazed aroundat the gentle hills of southernLeban on, and the distant hulk of Beaufort [castle] through the heat haze. Then he added something quite extraordinary . 'This What makesa nation? sure is a beautiful country, ' he said. "He had been bitten by the dragonfly. And he had not Author Robert Fisk quotes, as the frontispiece of his even felt its sting." book, a remarkable passage from the Lebanese poet But who invited that Israeli soldier to cross the border Khalil Gibran (The Garden qf the Prophet, London, and bombard the villages of Lebanon? Heinemann, 1934). The readermay find that it applies also to nations other than Lebanon. Lebanon in global geopolitics Fisk himself presents, in passing, plenty of pieces of Pity the nation that is full . of beliefs and empty of evidence against his own argument. One of the most striking religion. is his description of thegreat powers' destruction of Lebanon Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does notweave , earlier in this century. During the First World War, the Otto­ eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that mans and a locust plague produced a ghastly famine in Leba­ flows not from its own wine-press. non; this was followed by an Allied blockade of the Levant, Pity the nation that acclairlts the bully as hero, and intended to starve the Turkish troops there . The Turks , as that deems the glittering conq�eror bountiful. could be expected, commandeered the food they needed and Pity the nation that despises a passion in its dream, leftthe civilian population to starve, killing at least 300,000 yet submits in its awakening. , people inSyria and Mount Lebanon-some 120,000in Leba­ Pity the nation that raises ,not its voice save when non alone. it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, Was this somehow Lebanon's "fault"? and will rebel not save when iits neck is laid between Yet the author sees his "dragonfly" reaching back even the sword and the block. into the 19th century. Fisk finds a British newspaper of 1840 Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose which complained that in Beirut, "Anarchy is now the order philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of ' of the day, our properties and personal safety are endangered, patching and mimicking. no satisfaction can be obtained, and crimes are committed Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with withimpunity ." Fisk, noting that he had just written a similar trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to article himself, concludes: "It was as if there were something welcome another with trumpetings again. in thenature of Lebanon that made these phenomena occur." Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years Among the more interesting hints of the role played by and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. outside players in the current Lebanon crisis, is Fisk's de­ Pity the nation divided into fragments, each frag­ scription of his acquaintance Konstantin Kapitanov, a jour­ ment deeming itself a nation. nalist from the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, based

EIR March 29, 1991 International 51 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Mendez

Church fights abortion "reasoning," whose application im­ Health Secretary Kumatefinally reveals the government's policy plies that any individual who doesn't meet the three conditions he establish­ for legalized abortion. es can be eliminated by the same crite­ ria the Nazi doctors used, and as the Chiapas PRJ qfficials intend to do. According to the reforms passed in the Chiapas assembly, abortion should be he obstacle to legalizing abortion adding that "for me, there is a phase legal in cases "when it can be deter­ inT Mexico "is Catholicism . . . and which biologists call pre-embryonic, mined that the 'product' has suffered the influence of the Catholic Church in which there is still nothing clear, genetic or congenital alterations lead­ is weighty. And it is intransigent," nothing recognized as one's own, ing to birth with serious physical or Health Secretary Jesus Kumate assert­ something foreign. Some time ago, I mental deformities." ed in an interview published in the wrote an essay about the minimum ba­ Health authorities are also moving March 11 issue of Proceso magazine. sis of life in which I identified three forward with a program of voluntary Kumate went on to say that "for criteria. First, the capacity to repro­ or involuntary sterilization. On March Japanese women, when there weren't duce, that is, genetics, the nucleus, 14, Pro-Vida President Jorge Serrano pills, having abortions was like put­ and chromosomes, the human being's Limon charged that as of last Febru­ ting on makeup." The problem in reproductive apparatus." ary, health authorities had "sterilized Mexico, he complained, is "that Ca­ Second, Kumate continued, "a more than 4 million women nation­ tholicism is still very strong, despite mechanism of energy transmission wide . . . to achieve the goals estab­ the Protestant sects and the Mormons which allows [the being] to metabo­ lished by the federal government of in the southeast. This makes things lize, grow, and be nourished. Third, reducing the population growth rate very difficult; and now there's a big possession of a membrane which cre­ by 1 % by the year 2000." uproar. Every six years it starts up ates individuality, and allows differ­ Serrano Limon also reiterated that again and we have to get out the ther­ entiation from the environment, a type official campaigns to promote abor­ mometer to take the temperature." of dividing line. In the end, I believe tion are the result of foreign pressures The last thermometer reading was that of that cell or that collection of for population reduction. Referringto on the legalization of abortion (and cells, one must ask the same. Because the Chiapas abortion fight, the Arch­ euthanasia) passed at the end of last if it can still . . . be one thing or the bishop of Mon�rrey and president of year by the Chiapas state congress, other, it doesn't have the minimum the Mexican Sishops' Conference, most of whose members belong to the basis for life." Adolfo Suarez Rivera, said last Dec. Institutional Revolutionary Party The argument is false. The zy­ 21 that it wasn't enough to oppose le­ (PRI). Because of a very strong popu­ gote, and later the collection of cells galized abortion, but to also stop "in­ lar protest, that legalization had to be which make up the embryo, is distinc­ ternationalagedcies such as the World "temporarily" suspended. But, the tively human from the start, and it is Bank, the International Monetary pro-life organization . Pro-Vida has impossible to confuse it genetically Fund, and the Inter-American Devel­ charged that with his public state­ with that of any other species. From opment Bank" whose credits to the ments, the health secretary has now the moment of conception, it pos­ country "come in the form of contra­ given the go-ahead for this genocidal sesses all of the genetic elements of a ceptives." campaign to the PRJ majority in Chia­ single and specific individual human But even the abortion campaign pas, as well as to other state assembl­ being-a member of the human spe­ hasn't been enoughfor Kumate. Now ies "studying" the legalization of cies, and at the same time, absolutely he's pushing cholera as well. On abortion, such as those in Zacatecas unique. March 15, the front pages of all major and Aguascalientes. If Dr. Kumate doesn't understand Mexican dailid showed a picture of Health Secretary Kumate is not this, he should go back to medical him together with Fisheries Secretary just anti-Catholic and pro-abortion, school. As he should know, there is a Marfa de los Amgeles Moreno, eating but favors Nazi-style euthanasia. In basis for morality. fish in public "to show," in the style his statements to Proceso, he says that Most serious is the theory of eu­ of Peruvian PreJsident Fujimori, "that it's not clear when a new life begins, genics which underlies Kumate's there's no risk of cholera in Mexico. "

52 International EIR March 29, 1991 Report from Rio by Silvia Palacios

Anti-military campaign escalates institution. . . • Perhaps dazzled by The Anglo-A merican establishment would "reduce" the the technological magnificence of the war machine used in the Persian Gulf Brazilian Armed Forces out of ex istence altogether. . . . they attack the Armed Forces for their apparent fragility." The ad reminds the nation of the indispensable role the Armed Forces ince the end of the Persian Gulf the continent to oppose "the military have played in Brazilian history: "The slaughter,S there has been a notable es­ and communists." configurationof the Armed Forces is a calation in the drive to dismantle the Under Veja 's banner, various direct function not merely of possible armed forces of Ibero-America, with commentaries in that vein have been armed aggression, but particularly of special focus on Brazil. The guide­ penned by the same species of social the levels of socio-economic and tech­ lines for this campaign were already democratic intellectual which over­ nological development of the nation." laid out in the State Department-spon­ populates the U.S. State Department. During the past two months, high­ sored study issued in 1990, entitled For example, in a March 10 issue of level representatives of the Anglo­ The Militaryand Democracy:The Fu­ the daily Estado de Minas, a report American alliance have paraded ture of Civil-Military Relationsin Lat­ is published by one Clovis Brigagao, through Brazil,. with the message that in America. That volume, designed to currentlyan adviser to the Internation­ all national institutions which, like the encourage so-called "pluralist democ­ al Association of Peace Research. Bri­ Armed Forces, pose the slightest re­ racy" in Ibero-America on the ruins gagao endorses the Anglo-American sistance to Bush's "new world order," of the continent's sovereign military offensive against Iraq, insisting that will be broken. For example, Elliott institutions, was reviewed in the Jan. "Brazil needs to have a more mature "Iran-Contra" Abrams, former Assis­ 11 issue of EIR . foreign policy, and not to have rela­ tant Secretaryof State for Inter-Amer­ An article published in the Feb. 27 tions with such adventurous partners ican Affairs, arrived on Jan. 29. Ab­ issue of the magazine Veja served as as Iraq." Then, Brigagao attacks the rams is renowned for having made the green light for this latest "tum of military institution itself: "All salaries explicit Project Democracy's inten­ the screw ." Under the pretext of dis­ are low in Brazil. The unproductive tion of destroying the most crucial pil­ cussing the military situation in the Armed Forces need to provide more lars of Ibero-American society: the aftermath of the Gulf war, the article, service. " Church and the military. written by Veja director Elio Gaspari, Col. Geraldo Cavangari (ret.), di­ Another visitor was Francis Fuku­ asks, "What are the Brazilian Armed rector of the Campinas University yama, the State Department and Rand Forces good for? The Brazilian forces Center of Strategy Studies, went even Corp. 's newest acquisition. Fukuya­ are out in the streets because they are further, attacking the nuclear technol­ ma arrived in Rio de Janeiro at the fatter than King Momo [the name giv­ ogy projects developed by Brazil's invitation of the Getulio Vargas Foun­ en to the obese king of Rio's yearly Navy, as well as proposing that "the dation, and was sponsored by Citi­ Carnival debauchery] . They appear to Armed Forces should be cut, reducing bank and Coca-Cola Co. On a sup­ be inefficient because they are poorly their troops from 300,000 to posed crusade for "democracy," equipped, but the truth is that they are 100,000." Fukuyama insisted that the worst ene­ poorly equipped because their chiefs The Army Ministry retaliated at mies are those countries which, like have become inefficient." once, ordering the publication of a Iraq, aspire to sovereigntechnological Not accidentally, one of the own­ paid ad that appeared March 8 in sev­ development, and whose armed forc­ ers of Veja, Roberto Civita, is also a eral newspapers: "It is lamentable that es have played a central role in such member of the Inter-American Dia­ there are Brazilians who don't seem achievements. "Those countries will logue, made up of leading representa­ to understand the serious state of na­ continue to fightfor power and for re­ tives of the Anglo-American estab­ tional life at this moment. . . . These sources at the expense of others , and lishment. In its 1986 report, drafted are individuals who, believing them­ will measure forces basically in terms with the assistance of former U. S. selves to possess enviable efficiency of military capacity." Now, said Fu­ Secretary of Defense Robert McNa­ and to be above all suspicion, sit and kuyama, "dictators like Saddam Hus­ mara, the Dialogue proposed the cre­ criticize-not in a positive sense, but sein are going to think twice before ation of a "democratic network" on with the intention of denigrating the they act."

EIR March 29, 1991 International 53 PanamaRe port by CarlosWe sley

Congress debates impeachment Bush, who insists that Iraq must pay u.s. ships patrol the coa stline-another step toward war reparations, refuses to pay for the wanton destruction of Panama. Public annexa tion, which is ca using fissures in Endara's regime. employees are being fired, and more than a third of the country's labor force is unemployed. Senior citizens are next: There is a proposal before anama's Congress debated in mid­ which makes the nation a dependency the legislature to raise the retirement MarchP two separate motions of im­ of the government of the United age by five years. peachment against U.S-installed Presi­ States," charged Moncada. The com­ Prisoners taken at the time of the dent Guillenno "Porky" Endara. They plaint, he said, was intended to warn invasion remain in jail without a trial. charged Endara with "abuse of power" the U. S. -installed troika-Endaraand Such is the case with former legislator and with "high treason" for his collabo­ his two vice presidents, Ricardo Arias Rigoberto Paredes. Drug traffickingis ration with a foreign power in surren­ Calder6n and Guillenno "Billy" up; so are armed robberies. On March dering Panamanian sovereignty. Ford-that "if they are thinking of 18, unknown gunmen escaped with Both motions stemmed from an mortgaging the fatherland , it's not go­ $225 ,000 from the Bank of India, the incident last Dec. 5, when U.S. troops ing to be easy, because we are not 30th bank robbed since December in full combat gear deployed into Pan­ going to stand for it. " 1989. Such crimes were almost un­ ama City and occupied Panamanian The legislators rejected the motion known before the invasion. government installations. The osten­ on March 19, in a decision that was The aim is to destroy every institu­ sible pretext for the military deploy­ not unexpected. What is significant is tion and to discredit every Panamani­ ment--on the eve of the first anniver­ that the impeachment motions were an official, even those installed by sary of the bloody invasion ordered given serious consideration by a legis­ Bush, to ensurethat a permanentU . S. by George Bush in December 1989- lature where the governmentcoalition presence is seen as indispensable by was to put down a purported coup enjoys an overwhelming majority. the natives. For example, on March against Endara led by his fonner chief This precipitated a crisis between 21, Endara was to submit to the legis­ of police, Col. Eduardo Herrera(re t.), Endara and the rest of the troika. Vice lature a number of U.S-inspired a confessed agent of the CIA who has President Ford, a banker who is a fa­ amendments to the Constitution that also worked with the Israeli Mossad. vorite of the Bush administration, would abolish Panama's right to an Panama's legislative body first claimed he was out of the country at army. took up the accusation drafted by at­ the time of Herrera's uprising, and re­ But, that will not mean the demili­ torney Gilberto Medina, a private citi­ fu sed to say whether he agreed with tarization of Panama. Foreign Minis­ zen, who charged Endara with abus­ the decision to call in the U.S. troops . ter Julio Linares admits that as of three ing his constitutional powers when he Endara's wife blamed the impeach­ months ago, the U.S. Army was still agreed to allow the U.S. soldiers to ment proceedings on the Christian patrolling Panama. On March 18, put down Herrera's rebellion. After Democratic party of First Vice Presi­ Bush's proconsul, U.S. Ambassador more than four hours of deliberations, dent Arias Calder6n. "The Christian Deane Hinton, signed an accord with the rules committee of the legislature Democrats are against democracy, Arias Calder6n, by which Panama voted against the motion to impeach they are destabilizing the country," surrenderssovereignty of its territorial on March 14, because of "insufficient she said. The press printed Endara's waters to the U.S. Coast Guard. The evidence." picture with rifle in hand, and quoted agreement, long sought by the Bush The legislators again discussed him saying that he would "fight with administration, grants the U.S. the impeaching Endara on March 19, blood and fire" to keep his post. right to patrol Panamanian coasts­ when they took up a complaint The real cause of the cracks in the under the Panamanian flag! brought by attorney Gonzalo Mocan­ coalition is the Bush administration's The Endara regime has decided da Luna, who charged that Endara had policy of creeping annexation and the that the accord "is not a treaty in the committed "treason against the father­ economic crisis. fonnal sense" and thus, it will not be land" when he agreed to the interven­ Thousands of those left homeless submitted to the legislature for ratifi­ tion against Herrera. "The President by the U.S. bombing during the 1989 cation, as reqqired by Panama's Con­ has confessed to a shameful act, invasion are still homeless, because stitution.

54 International EIR March 29, 1991 Dateline Montreal by Gilles Gervais

Mulroney and Bush fail acid test existed and that the money should be With a new U.S. -Canada acid rain treaty signed, Mulroney is spent on controlling emissions. Similarly, the provisional report fully ready to get on with the new world order. of the National Acid Precipitation As­ sessment Progqun (NAPAP), submit­ ted on Sept. 11, 1987, argued that it was unnecessary to intensify mea­ n March 13, George Bush made States, Mulroney quipped, "We could sures against aqid rain in the V . S. The aO stopover in Ottawa before flying to put both of our ratings together, divide final report was disregarded even Martinique and Bermuda where , in a by two and both of us would still come though the 1 O-year, $600 million vacation-like atmosphere , he would out winners ." Later, when a telephone study had employed 3,000 of the top be instructing his senior coalition part­ rang in the roomwhere the ceremony in scientists in the Vnited States. ners in the Gulf slaughter, French honor of the V. S. President was being From lake sediments, the NAPAP President Fran<;ois Mitterrand and held, Mulroney crowed, "It's Gallup, I found that the so-called acid lakes V.K. Prime Minister John Major, on knew it would go up, but not this fast." simply were returning to their natural the next phase in the conduct of the TheV.S. -Canada treatyitself recog­ state after two centuries of de-acidifi­ new world order. nizes insane environmental actions taken cation caused by man. In the course Bush's Ottawa visit was kept short in both nations to control acid rainbased of intensive logging and farming in because Canadian Prime Minister on the unscientific approach of decreas­ the last century, the ground cover Brian Mulroney is said to be familiar ing industrial emissions by shutting down changed from forests, to farmlands with V.S. expectations regarding Cana­ industry-part of Bush's new world or­ and tree stands that were regularly da's role as the favored junior partner der. TheV.S. Congress passedthe Oean burned, making the topsoil and the in the Anglo-American-dominated new AirAct, which Lyndon LaRouche, a p0- lakes more alkaline, enabling fish to world order. The purported reason for liticalprisoner running for V.S. President thrive where they formerly had not. the visit, the signing of a bilateral ac­ in 1992, denounced as the "Gorbachov As farmers went out of business and cord on acid rain , which PresidentBush Oean AirAct ." forests grew back in the 1930s and calleda "historic moment," settledwhat In Canada, similar policy passed '40s, the topsoJ! returned to its previ­ had been the big bone of contention in 1985 , when the federal government ous acidic levels. with the V .S., and now the Canadian signed agreements with seven prov­ The NAPAP study concluded that government is ready to get on with the inces creating the Canadian Acid Rain dumping crushed limestone in the new world order. Control Program. Measures have lakes at a cost of $500,000 per year But it is Mulroney's very acquies­ since been implemented to reduce sul­ would be far more effective than cence to all of Bush's demands , espe­ fur dioxide emissions by 1994 to lev­ spending $8 billion a year to reduce cially during the Gulf crisis, which has els 50% of 1980 . The Canadian Envi­ emissions. Th� Clean Air Act will, in been the more recent source of the ronmental Protection Act became law effect, shut down hundreds of factor­ prime minister's domestic problems; on June 30, 1988 and consolidated all ies and power plants without any net what has bruised Mulroney's ego the existing laws so as to promote the con­ benefitto the environment. most were repeated accusations from cept of "sustainable" development But of course the Gorbachov the parliamentary opposition that Mul­ throughout the federal government Clean Air Act, the Canadian Environ­ roneyis unable to utter any statement or policymaking apparatus. mental Protection Act, and the up­ launch any policy without prior White Scientific advice has been ig­ coming "Green Plan" of Canada were House approval. nored. On Jan. 9, 1986 , American never meant to be confused with "re­ Mulroney expects Bush's effusive special envoy Drew Lewis and his Ca­ covery bills." They were rather meant praise for him and for Canada's "sup­ nadian counterpart William Davis to give legal credence to the radical portive" role in the Gulfto be the quick submitted their report on acid rain. ideology of the anti-science ecology boost to his popularity rating which, be­ Their main recommendation was to mob . Through9ut history, such mobs fore the bombing of Iraq, was at an all­ spend $5 billion over five years to de­ have been used as battering rams to time low for a Canadian prime minister. velop more efficient ways to bum destroy civilization , and are then usu­ Commenting on his guest's alleged coal . Environmentalists argued that ally disposed of by the tyrannical rul­ 90% popularity rating in the Vnited adequate coal-burning technologies ers of a new world order.

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"medical and humanitarian reasons." ask the United States to provide evidence to The KGB 's new image: The move did not proceed without some back legal action against Thai politicians fighting ecological crime foreknowledge on the part of the govern­ and officials believedto beinvolved in drug ment in Bonn. Government spokesman trafficking. "Our country stands to be dam­ The KGB is taking on an "aggressive" new Friedrich Vogel admitted on Germantelevi­ aged if there is no evidence to supportthis." sion that Bonn knew in advance that the role as green police, according to the Los transfer would take place, but came to the Angeles Times of March 14. the program will be run by KGB Gen.-Maj. Aleksandr conclusion it was too late to act. Vogel said that there was nothing Bonn could do than Zero securityfo r N. Karbainov, head of the "community liai­ son office," who says, "The word 'security' verbally insisting that Moscow extradite Colombip'sjudges has a very broad meaning. We don't just Honecker. fightespionage, terrorism, drug dealing and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich The Colombian Supreme Courthas sent an Genscher declared, uponhis arrival in Mos­ organized crime. We also fight ecological open letter to President Cesar Gaviria, pro­ crime ." cow on March 17, that the affair must not testing that the country'sjudges aredef ense­ lead to a crisis in German-Soviet relations. According to the Times, "The KGB 's less, "while ex-guerrillas and ex-criminals He ruled out economic sanctions or other growing role as a pollution fighter seems enjoy the protection of the state to excess." measures to to force Honecker's extra­ to be part of a general reorientation of the try The letter protests recent changes in body­ dition. organization, which was known for decades guard protection for judges, and denounces Genscher met with Soviet Foreign Min­ . . . for torturing and imprisoning dissidents Justice Minister Jaime Giraldo Angel for his ister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh, and was and for killing millions at the bidding of "total abandonmentof security"for the judi­ scheduled to meet with President Mikhail dictator Josef Stalin. . . . To improve its ciary. Gorbachov and former foreign minister image, the KGB ...chooses a 'Miss KGB ' The antHlrug, opposition daily El Es­ Eduard Shevardnadze. and, with its new public relations office, pectador editorializedon March 12 thatfail­ spotlights currentactivitie s." ure to protect the judges is the least of the On the front of "ecological crime," in government's crimes. The editors point to the "aberrant situation in the halls of the the Bashkiria Autonomous Republic, Thailand anti-drug "equipment at most oil-producing enter­ Justice Ministryof bendingpenal legislation prises is used well beyond its normal life, chief challenges u. s. to the interests of criminals... . This has regardless of the dangers to the environ­ not been explained by the justice minister, ment, the KGB told TA SS," wrote the Thailand's top anti-narcotics official, Cha­ whose strange behavior seems to derive not Times . valit Yo dmanee, responded on March 13 to from a defense of the institutions, but from the U.S. State Department's annual Interna­ his step-by-step surrenderto the illegitimate tional Narcotics Strategy Report to Con­ interests of le�al plunderers." Soviets rescue Honecker gress, containing the U.S. administration's critical assessment of the Thai government's fr om trialin Germany role in narcotics suppression. Ethnic tensions heat If you have any evidence, give it to us, The Kremlin helped Erich Honecker, the he said. up in Czechoslovakia former dictator of East Germany, to escape The State Department report expressed trial in Germany, flying him by military concern over what it describes as the "net­ Te ns of thousands of demonstrators chant­ plane from the Soviet Army hospital in Bee­ work of relationships" developedfor securi­ ing, "Independence!" and "Down with litz, where he has been kept as a fugitive typurposes betweenThai military and gov­ Prague !" marched through the Slovakian from German law for the past months, to ernment officials and narcotics-trafficking capital of Bratislava on March 11, halting Moscow on March 13. ethnic groups from Burma, which it said traffic for several hours. Marchers booed The action, in violation of German sov­ creates an environment for narcotics-related whenever thenames of Czechoslovakfeder­ ereignty, has created a political scandal. corruption. The reportsaid the United States al officials wj:re mentioned. According to Honecker was to be charged for his role had expressed its concern to the previous the London GUardian, "therally was in sup­ in ordering the shoot-to-kill practice that Thai government, which was ousted in a port of the campaign for the formation of a killed 190 East Germans at the Berlin Wall military coup on Feb. 23 . separate Slovak state which was launched and other sections of the barbed-wire border The Bangkok Post on March 14 quoted with a declaration of sovereignty last week between the two Germanys, between 1961 Chavalit: "As for allegations that Thai mili­ by a number of disparate nationalist and 1989. The Soviet authorities said the tary and governmentofficials were involved groups." transfer to Moscow had been decided for in narcotics trafficking," he said he would EIR 's intelligencesources in Vienna are

56 International EIR March 29, 1991 • THE c$ISTIAN presence in Lebanon "is bot only weakened, but looking at Czechoslovakia as a potential through an editorial in the official organ is about to disappear,"wrote the As­ flashpoint for a crisis, if the economic col­ Granma, which noted that Bush had person­ sembly of M therS Superior of Leba­ lapse is not reversed. Because of the "free ally called up Argentine President Carlos non to PopeJ hn Paul Il. "The imple­ market" policies of Finance Minister Vaclav Menem to persuade him "to break Latin mentation 0t the Taif agreements Klaus, the country is entering a period of American unity for a plate of beans ." Bush under Syrian protection has brought grave difficulties, in which ethnic antago­ was apparently successful. an attack on education, on freedom nisms are being expressed. At least five Calloni concluded, "Washington or­ of thought, qrbelief, of expression. groups are making claims for independence, dered the invasion of Panama on Dec . 20, · . . We saw �o buses--onebelong­ including Bohemians, Slovaks , Moravians, 1989, to 'democratize' that country, an inva­ ing to a schooltaught by nuns-being ethnic Hungarians (primarily in Slovakia) , sion prolonged by the continued and burned, while the driver was com­ and Silesians. strengthened military occupation that per­ pelled to remain seated in the driver's President Vaclav Havel's spokesman sists ....In fact, in the vocabulary of the seat." Michael Zantovsky has charged that Slovak new world order, 'democratization' is aspirations were being manipulated by a co­ linked to the possibility of a 'military inter- . • THE QUEBEC Equality Party alition of communists, separatists, and ad­ vention' to impose it." has passed a resolution calling for mirers of the wartime Nazi-sponsored state partition of ' the province, should of Slovakia. "It seems to me that a new Quebec separate fron Canada. The coalition is shaping up in Slovakia," he said. plan would create an "English corri­ "Its opinion on political development and Pope: Church hails dor" linking the English-speaking economic reform in Slovakia is quite differ­ progress in science eastern maritime provinces to west­ ent [from the federal view] . It revives the ernCanada. this would cut Quebec's idea of National Socialism." PopeJohn PaulII, speaking at the University connections to the U.S. border. of Camerino in Italy on March 19, urged his audience "not tolisten tothe prophetsof doom • MOSCOW'S former foreign Is Cubanext target who are ready to see catastrophes behind ev­ minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, was ery comer," because the Christian conception received by Pope John Paul II for a fo r 'new worldord er'? of science and progress gives every basis for private audi�nce at the Vatican on optimism about the future. The daily Awen­ March 15. The former Soviet diplo­ Stella Calloni wrote in Mexico's El D£a of ire, reporting on his speech March 20, called mat spent some days in Italy , prob­ March 15 that the next "great offensive" of it a preview of his forthcoming third social ing, among other things, political in­ the United States against the Third Wo rld, encyclical, on the lOOth anniversary of Pope terest in hi� new project for an afterIraq, "seems to be locatedin the deci­ Leo XIII's Rerum novarum . Institute of EUropeanAffairs . sion to get a consensus in the United Nations The conquest of space, said the Pope, is Human Rights Commission to designate a the crowning "of a technical progress which • IZVESTIA, the Soviet govern­ special rapporteur to check out the human is unprecedented up to now and is open to ment newspaper, has closed its bu­ rights situation in Cuba." boundless perspectives." In the same way, reau in Pyon8yang, North Korea, be­ Calloni also reported that the U.S. am­ "nuclear energy, at first used for purposes cause of NQrth Korean complaints bassador to the Organization of American of death , is advancing, even though amid about its fre�uent articles criticizing States (OAS), Luigi Einaudi , said in early risks which are anything but hypothetical , North Korean rigidity in the age of March that the "human rights situation in toward the goal of a production capable of perestroika. ,

Cuba is scandalous." On March 5, Pentagon satisfying growing needs." I stafferNancy Dorn predictedthat Fidel Cas­ "The Church," the Pope continued, • THE POPE said on March 11 tro would continue to be rabidly anti-U.S. "feels that it is living through one of the that in the Italian region of Tuscany, as long as economic and political problems most innovative phases of history, in which "secularism and consumerism have in Cuba continued, and warned that he the very concept of culture has expanded. weighed heavily on the culture; in the might respond to the internal crisis with "an For this reason, its social doctrine must com­ big cities people perceive the influ­ aggressive destabilization policy against mit itself forcefully to original initiatives." ence of occult power groups, while democratic governments." The Church's line must always be "af­ the practice of esoteric rites spreads; Calloni quoted Bernard Aronson, U.S. firming the primacy of man in the light of religious indifference grows and of­ Assistant Secretaryof Statefor Inter-Ameri­ God, thus enlightening culture to overcome ten becomes' practical atheism." The can Affairs, that Washington should help to the fear that man often has of his own scien­ speech is interpreted in the Italian "democratize the island." tific conquests as potential instruments of press as an attack on Freemasonry. The Cuban government responded destruction."

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Bush's new export controls : Third Wo rld, u. s. to suffe r by Kathleen Klenetsky

George Bush's war against the Third World entered a new The new controls raise fro� 11 to 50 the number of phase March 7, when the administration released harsh new chemicals that will now require .a special export license be­ export control regulations that will virtually terminate the fore they can be sold to most developing countries. Suppos­ flow of high technology to the developing sector. edly, these 50 chemicals could bbused under certain circum­ Supposedly aimed at stopping the spread of chemical stances as precursors to chemicajl weapons. weapons, the new policy-formally dubbed the Enhanced The "rub" is that almost all :of these chemicals are also Proliferation Control Initiative (EPCI), but more aptly known commonly used in a wide range of essential civilian and as the Enhanced Population Control Initiative for the lethal scientific enterprises, including the production of fertilizer, effect it will have on the developing sector-is a key part of insecticides, beer, and petroleum, as well as in treatment of Bush's genocidal plans for the Third World under his new sewage and water. world order. Without access to these chemicals, countries lacking the ability to produce them themselves, as many Third World The 'dual use' hoax countries do , will see any hopeI' of economic development Using the bogeyman of weapons proliferation, especially go up in smoke. Without the wherewithal to produce pesti­ chemical and biological weapons-a bogeyman created cides and fertilizers, they will be unable to increase food largely by the United States, using Iraq's alleged chemical yields for their population; withPut the wherewithal to pro­ weapons capability as a pretext-the administration intends vide potable water and to treat �ewage, epidemic diseases, to bring about a policy of what one high European official such as the cholera now sweepinig across Peru, will rampage has bluntly called "technological apartheid" against the de­ through the Third World, killing millions. veloping sector. But EPCI doesn't stop there. The regulations will also Targeted by the Bush administration are what are known control, for the first time, exports of equipment that could as "dual use" technologies, that is, technologies that are used hypothetically . be used to produce chemical or biological in civilian applications, but which can also have a military weapons (CBW). In addition, �y will restrict the export of use under certain circumstances. Given the state of science plants that can manufacture any of the 50 chemicals on the and technology today, the vast majority of high-technology restricted list, as well as services that might also be used in goods could conceivably have both a commercial and a mili­ this way. . tary use. Again, much of this plant abd equipment falls into the A fact sheet on the new non-proliferation regulations category of what is known as "�ual use." "The equipment issued by the administration asserts that special licenses will list, which reflects a three-month effort involving extensive now be required on "dual-use equipment with legitimate consultations with industry, is :unprecedented," states the commercial uses, but also potential applications to chemical administration fact sheet. "Never before have U.S. export and biological weapons production" (emphases added). A licenses been required for , dual-use, CBW-related State Department spokesman acknowledged recently that equipment. " previously, only those goods with a direct military use were Moreover, the regulations would: also enable the govern­ subject to such stringent controls. ment to prohibit participation by U. S. citizens in overseas

58 National ElK March 29, 1991 construction projects that might be related to weapons pro­ through the complex, time-consumipg process that the Bush duction. They contain considerably stiffer penalties for those administration will now require to dbtain an export license, who export restricted goods without a license, including 10- he explained. year prison terms. Furthermore, he noted, it is virtually impossible for U.S. "The chemicals and equipment are used mostly for very businessmen to be able to guarant�e that someday, some­ innocent purposes from pharmaceuticals to beer," points out where, a piece of equipment he ma� have exported for some Jeffery C. Van, spokesman for the Chemical Manufacturers clearly civilian use might never be diverted to a military use. Assocation. "The same equipment that is used to brew beer "We sell things like olive-oil extr�ting and peanut butter can also make chemical weapons." processing equipment," he said. "bur people can't know whether this will someday be diverted to weapons manufac­ Hit list turing. How can we possibly teIl?" , As published in the March 13 Federal Register. the new "The Commerce Department has been encouraging U.S. regulations will apply to nearly every country on the face of companies to gear up their export capabilities, and that's the globe, with the few exceptions being Australia, Austria, what the companies I represent have done," Stayin added. Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and NATO mem­ But with the new regulations, the governmentis makingthat ber countries. near impossible. Ten countries are singled out by name for the restrictions, Eric Hirschorn, an attorney fol1 the chemical industry, on thegrounds that their activities "may have CBW-related has warned that the restrictions will "bring a whole new set implications." These ten include Brazil, Argentina, North of industries under control. They are going to get the shock Korea, Ethiopia, India, and Taiwan. of their lives when they learn they'regoing to have to apply That the restrictions will have catastrophic consequences for export licenses they may not get to sell overseas." As a for the developing sector has already been recognized by result of the Bush regulations, chemical companies will "be some. India's Economic Times published a commentary dying." shortly after Bush's new export policy was announced, The Commerce Department hali admitted that the new charging that theGulf war was the beginning of a waragainst rules could affect between $50 billion and $75 billion in U.S. the Third World in the theater of technology transfer. The exports annually. commentary noted that since the area of weapons technology Unfortunately, most representatives of those U.S. firms brings together many disciplines, the U.S. can now be ex­ affected by the regulations, have Telacted pragmatically. In­ . peeted to keep a hawk-like watch on developing-sector activ- stead of forging an alliance with oJher exporting countries ities in numerous scientific fields, including supercomputers, and developing nations to prevent � restrictions fromgoing software, mathematics, metallurgy, chemical technology, into effect, they have instead demallded that the administra­ communications, space programs, and that old bogeyman, tion try to extend the restrictions to the competition. "Look, nucleartechnolo gy. with the hysteria over Iraq's chemical weapons, the adminis­ The Third World will ultimately be left with what the trationand the Congress are going to get this policy through," West considers technology "appropriate" for its stage of de­ one industry reptold EIR . So, our pnly alternative to being velopment, the commentary concluded. put at a unilateral disadvantage, i$ to get other exporting nations to adopt the same restrictions." U.S. industry will 'be dying' That suicidal perspective suits the Bush team just fine. Althoughthe Third World will suffer the worst as a result One of their main objectives is to s!(botage the economies of of Bush's new controls, exporting countries, including, em­ other advanced nations-Germany and Japan in particular­ phatically, the United States, will also be hard hit. which still believe that exporting high-technology goods to The new regulations have come under strong attack from the developing sector is a sensible:policy, since it will aid some U. S. business groups, which contend, rightly, thatthey these countries in solving the economic problems that fre­ will strangle U.S. exports . Randolph Stayin, a lawyer for quently lead to political and military instability. The U.S. several U.S. industry associations involved in the export considers Germany and Japan tobe its new enemies, because of food-processing and other equipment, warned that the they have rej ected following America's lead into a post­ product list is "so broad that it could affect all of the machin­ industrial hell-hole, and therefore are much more economi­ ery and equipment that is used in the petroleum, chemical, cally competitive. water, waste-water, and food-processing industries." The administration has asserted �fficiallythat it will seek Stayin, an attorney with the Washington, D.C. firm of a global agreement among exporting countries to abide by Barnes and Thornburg, told EIR that the new regulations the U.S. initiative. According to Commerce SecretaryRobert will have a devastating effect on U.S. export-oriented busi­ Mosbacher, the administration intends "to seek maximum nesses. "Many of the firmsI represent are small. They can't cooperation by other countries to adopt similar controls to possiblyafford to hire the lawyers it will require" to navigate stop the spread of these weapons."

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Activists say: Free LaRouche" stop the 'new world order' by Paul Gallagher

Just two weeks after the first formal presentationof the case sometimes hidden and sometimes, unfortunately, not hid­ of political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche to the United Nations, den, underlying assumptions of government and related 450 people gathered in Arlington, Virginia on March 15 to agencies which lead to a persisting pattern of Nazi-like viola­ mobilize for a new trial for LaRouche and an end to other tions of human rights, here and 'abroad." LaRouche warned abuses of the so-called "new world order." The conference that "over 25 years, George Bush has been associated, wheth­ was sponsored by the Commission to Investigate Human er as a member of Congress, CIA, President, or what-not, Rights Violations in the United States, and brought together with the kinds of fascist, or fascistoid, economic and political American political and campus activists, lawyers, and human policies which I foresaw as threatening back 30 years ago." rights activists. It received calls supporting LaRouche's free­ dom from all over the world. Worldwide calls for freedom In the major developments at the conference: The calls for LaRouche's freedom which werepresented to • Odin Anderson, LaRouche's personal lawyer, report­ the Human Rights Commission's conference were extraordi­ ed that a legal motion is very nearcompletion , demanding a nary. The International Progress Organization, a non-govern­ new trial for LaRouche based on new evidence which has mental organization of the United Nations with members in 60 emerged since his 1989 appeals, evidence revealedby docu­ countries, officially wired the conference that "IPO will . . . ments released from the federal government, by findings that support all initiatives for the liberationof Lyndon LaRouche." the federally imposed bankruptcy against LaRouche move­ Its members includejurists and fonnerjustice ministers or attor­ ment publishing companies was illegal, and by attempts to neys general of severalnatio ns. Another telegramof supportfor prosecute his associates. LaRouche's freedom from prison came from an organization • Warren Hamerman, coordinator of the effort to win "which should know," the 120,OOO-strong Association of Lith­ LaRouche's release, briefed the conference on the great interest uanian Political Prisoners. his United Nations presentation on LaRouche's case had Another valiant leader from Eastern Europe spoke at the aroused in Geneva, particularly from delegates from Third conference, Romanian trade union leader George Brasoven­ World nations opposing Bush and Kissinger's "new world eau, persecuted for 16 years for organizing against dictator order." Nicolae Ceausescu, including two years in prison. Brasoven­ • LaRouche's wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, speaking to eau made clear that the U.S. government, through Voice of the conference from Germany by telephone, proposed the America and other organs, rather than supporting him, had formation of an association of political prisoners iIithe Unit­ always told him to be more supportive of Ceausescu, who ed States. She has been backed in her efforts to win her finally killed 50,000 Romanians in his attempt to hold onto husband's release, by the political prisoners' associations of power in 1989. Brasoveneau told the conference, "It is with­ Hungary and Lithuania. out question that Lyndon LaRouche's imprisonment is a hu­ • Hamerman released a new videotapeon the LaRouche man rights violation. Bush may become the Ceausescu of the case, entitled "Lyndon LaRouche: George Bush's Man in the U.S. Lyndon LaRouche must be freed immediately, and we Iron Mask." must put an end to this kind of abuse if we are to see any • Two political colleagues jailed with LaRouche in J anu­ freedom for mankind in the future . " ary 1989 and recently released from prison, Dennis Small Peruvian Congressman Carlos Calderon Carbajal, repre­ and Joyce Rubinstein, spoke to the conference. senting that nation's opposition APRA party, personally told • Lyndon LaRouche himself, in a taped message from the conference, "We have come here to join the crusade to prison, told the conference, "We must fight the individual defend the human rights of a great defender of Latin America, battles for human rights with the view that we are going to Lyndon LaRouche. We cry, 'justice may be slow, but it will uproot-that is, expose to public view-and correct those arrive .' " Other such messages to the conference came from

60 National EIR March 29, 1991 the Catholic Church organization Pax Christi; from thegreat the conference, "Many people in the world today believe in violinist NorbertBrainin; fromformer Maryland State Senate political equality of the individual. They believe in economic leader Clarence Mitchell, and from Dr. Abdul Alim Mu­ justice ....But what is lacking, is riot only the courage to hammed, national spokesman for the Nation of Islam, who fightfor this, but also a clear understanding of what economic addressed the conference directly. So did the American-Arab justice in this world really means. It bas been especially the Muslim leaders Dr. Mohammed Mehdi, director of the Na­ work of this organization to provide this. . . . tional Council of Islamic Mfairs, and Nisar Hai, head of a "The new world order Bush is talking about, would be a nationally known Islamic Center in California. world order based on the structuresor sino My husband clear­ Mr. Hai told his audience that for the present situation of ly is the alternative to the new world order. " mankind, his view was that "the message of the Koran and Zepp-LaRouche then outlined all the areas of the world the message of Lyndon LaRouche are the same-the devel­ for which her husband, since 1975, bas devised and fought opment of the Third World." for large-scale economic development plans to stave off eco­ nomic disaster: his Middle East "Oasis Plan; his "Productive Nation of prisoners Triangle" proposal on the agenda for Europe; "Operation Helga Zepp-LaRouche's remarks to the conference Juarez"for lbero-America; his 40-year development plan for strongly attacked the decline of human rights in the United India; his PacificBa sin development plan for Southeast Asia; States, a nation of swelling numbers of homeless, jobless, and his promotion of a "water and power alliance" proposal and prisoners . Indeed, one speaker, Michigan prisons chap­ for the western U. S., Canada, and Mexico. lain Rev. Leroy Thornton, told a conference panel that the "It is a crime to deprive one person of his or her human percentage of adult Americans in prison has more than dou­ rights," she said. "But to deprive a man whose ideas represent bled since 1980, and that their production is now a huge the hope for the survival of the majo�ty of mankind: Is that industry; another, California prisoners' advocate Anthony not the worst crime of all? ...And , is his fate not immedi­ Banks, read the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ately connected to that of those people? ...I appeal to you, which outlawed slavery except for convicts in jail. passionately: Help me to free my husband. " Opponents of the death penalty spoke, and one death The motion for a new trial for LaRouche which is about to row prisoner, Joseph Giarratano, who has become a world­ befiled, his attorney OdinAnderson told the conference, is ''the renownedlegal scholar in prison and whose life had just been last opportunity for him to receive justice, in the legal area." spared by an international mobilization on the eve of his execution, wrote to the conference. LaRouche had said he Protest 'new order' ravaging Third World was "cheered by the Giarratano case in Virginia. A human Several conference speakers documented that the Kissin­ life was saved from the execution chamber, by a midnight ger-Bush "new world order" is in fact fa policy of North-South national mobilization." economic, as well as military, waragainst the Third World. "In the course of my studies-in trying to understand The most dramatic presentation concerned South how life has become so cheap---I have come to understand America, by Dennis Small of EIR , a 1988 co-defendant of that positive (man-created) laws cannot and must not be used Lyndon LaRouche. Small described the cholera epidemic to override Natural Law ," Giarratano wrote . "Every human which has exploded in Peru to 70,000 cases and 400 deaths, being possessescertain inherent and inalienable rights . These and called it "the price lbero-Americ� is paying for its politi­ rights cannot be trampled on by the State. Inalienable rights cal prisoners." The epidemic is now spreading from Peru to must once again become the guiding life-giving force of na­ other nations. Small described how Peru , whose President tions and men: be it the right to life or the right to develop Alan Garcia broke with the International Monetary Fund one's mind and contribute to reversing the collapse of the (IMP) in 1985, enjoyed two years of growth, but was abso­ society of man. As incongruous as it seems, there is a trend lutely cut off from credit in retaliation and eventually in America that is similar to the dark days of Nazism: that squeezed into economic breakdown, Current President Al­ trend is to erect 'legal artifice' against life itself. " berto Fujimori, a darling of the Blish administration, has ''The more the United States gets into a depression," said slashed what remained of public setvices, and his finance Zepp-LaRouche , "the worse it gets . The state of human rights minister actually stoppedhis health nllnisterfrom taking any in the United States, is abysmal. The case of my husband, emergency measures when the choleta broke out. who is sitting innocently in jail for more than two years at This wholesale surrender of human life and health, said the age of 68, and serving a jail sentence of 15 years, which Small, came fromthe successive imprisonment of those lead­ means at his age a life sentence, represents the worst case. ers who opposed IMF policies for Thero-America. First, Lyn­ . . . He has made himself the representative of the poor and don LaRouche in 1989; then Mexican oilworkers leader Joa­ those who have no voice in the entire world." quin Hernandez Galicia; then Panama's Gen. Manuel Referring particularly to religious groups' opposition to Noriega; then Argentina's hero of the 1982 war against Brit­ this worsening state of affairs , Helga Zepp-LaRouche told ain, Col. Muhammed Ali Seineldfn. Today, Small said, the

EIR March 29, 1991 National 61 nations oflbero-Americapay fivetimes the annual debt inter­ tion; this was described by Rogclio Maduro, author of a forth­ est alone, that they would have paid under the debt reorgani­ coming bookon the scientific hoaxesbeing usedto ban the basic zation and national investment proposals of LaRouche in his refrigeration chemicals, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Maduro

1982 economic plan, "OperationJuarez ." showed that ifthese bans tightell1 as planned during the course . of the 1990s,the nations of theworld will have to scrap620, 000 on blackmail refrigerators, 120,000 industrial�izerefrigerators , and 100,000 From Africa, a representative of the Republic of Sudan, refrigeration trucks andrailcars by theyear 2000. The"replace­ Abu Baler al Shingeiti, demonstrated the devastating oil ment technologies" will be 30 times as expensive and far less blackmail against Third World nations resulting fromBus h's effective than those based on CFCs. Gulf war. As a result of the war, Sudan must now spend Kathleen Klenetsky of EIR demonstrated that the Anglo­ 70% of its foreign currency earnings on oil, and has had its American establishment is actually moving to ban export of currency devalued by 65%-this is typical of those many many of the most vital industrial and agricultural chemicals to nations whose oil supply depended, in whole or in part, on Third World nations right now, through new export-control Iraq. In thewake of the war, he said, the Bush administration regulations put forwardby the Bush White House and follow­ is now asking Congress to cut off all development and hu­ up legislation in Congress. She quoted one of their backers, manitarian aid to the nations of the Hom of Africa: Sudan, Sen. Albert Gore, Jr. , (D-Tenn.) through his aide: "I don't Somalia, and Ethiopia. give a damn if this hurts the Third World. If it's a choice Afteroil, the next priceless economic element to be lost by between that and American troops having to go into battle, ThirdWorld nations in the"new world order" will berefrigera- then I say, screw 'em."

"I gave the people the spectacle of a naval battle be­ yond the Tiber ....After my victory I replaced in the George Bush and temples in all the cities of the province of Asia theorna­ ments which my antagonist in the war, when he despoiled the Emperor Augustus the temples, had appropriated to his private use. Silver statues of me , on foot, on horseback, and in chariotswere The fo llowing is an excerpt from the speech by Warren erected in the city to the number of about 80 ....The Hamerman to the conference of the Commission to Investi­ whole of Italy voluntarily took oath of allegiance to me gate Human Rights Violations in the United States. It was and demanded me as its leader in the war in which I was deliveredon the Ides of March. victorious at Actium. The provinces of the Spains, the Gauls, Africa, Sicily, and Sar4inia took the same oath of Through a crudely organized world media campaign, allegiance. Those who served under my standards at that George Bush has initiated his own "apotheosis" or "deifi­ time included more than seven hundred senators. . . . I cation" in the patternof the Roman emperors. The process extended the boundaries of all the provinces which were of "apotheosis" is characteristic of pagan empires such as bordered by races not yet subject to our empire. The prov­ Egypt and Rome which literally make the emperor one inces of the Gauls, the Spains, and Germany, bounded by among many gods to be worshipped. The closest historical the ocean from Gades to the m�uth of the Elbe, I reduced parallel to George Bush's intentions is the case of the to a state of peace. The Alps, from theregion which lies EmperorAugustus who died in 14 A.D. and was voted a nearest to the Adriatic as far as the Tuscan Sea, I brought "god" by the Roman Senate three days later. It was under to a state of peace without waging on any tribe an unjust the son of Augustus, the Emperor Tiberius, a decade and war.. ..On my order and under my auspices two armies a half later, that Jesus Christ was crucified. were led, at almost the same time, into Ethiopia and into After the Roman Senate deified Augustus, it issued a Arabia which is called 'The Happy,' and very large forces document entitled "The Acts of the Deified Augustus" of the enemy of both races we� cut to pieces in battle and edited by the late Emperor himself before his death, to many towns werecaptured ." explain how he "placed the whole world under the sover­ These themes of Augustus-"reducing nations to a eignty of theRoman people" and brought back "the spoils state of peace," or inviting conquered populations to "vol­ of war" and "war trib.ute" to fill the Empire's central untarily swear" allegiance to him, or gloating of "cutting treasury. to pieces" whole armies, or justifying all carnage in the A few quotations from Augustus's Acts has the unmis­ name of self-proclaimed "just wars"-are the model for takeable tone of George Bush's triumphalism: George Bush's "new world order" today.

62 National ElK March 29, 1991 Mass.], have been interested in what we've been doing. Interview: Dr. Robert J. Lifton There are also a number of people in the House; two people in the House signed our ad-Democrats Major Owens and Charlie Rangel, both black congressmen from New York. There's the Dellums group in Congress .... Manypeople arenot EIR: Will Bush be a target of this national reassessment? Lifton: I think so and I would hope so, and I think what we happy about thiswar did [in Iraq] has to be questioned very profoundly, and rivals some of what we did in Vietnam. Writing in the London Guardian on March 12, well-known author and psychologistRobert 1. Lifton asserted that many EIR: What was Bush trying to do when he ordered the shoot­ Americans have "grave misgivings" about the Bush adminis­ ing of the withdrawing Iraqi troops? tration's conduct of the Gulfwar, and fo recast a "national Lifton: Part of what went on was a strange psychological reassessment" of the entire affair. Dr. Lifton, who is present­ dance between Bush and Saddam Hussein, and a patternthey ly Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychologyat brought out in each other. Bush behaved like Captain Ahab the City Universityof New York, elaborated on these views in in Moby Dick. He developed an obsession with his version an interview with Kathy Klenetsky on March 13 . We publish of the White Whale-Saddam Hussein--on which he pro­ excerpts here: jected all evil, and then it took on a certain dynamic, which was extended into the annihilation project, including the an­ EIR: You said there will be a "national reassessment" of the nihilation, or the destruction, the mass killing, of fleeing war. How will this come about? Iraqi troops. By that point, Bush had become absolutely Lifton: It's very hard to predict how profound it will be, intransigent about any peacemaking process, or proposing how extensive it will be. I think there will be some reassess­ any peacemaking process. And I think that is scandalous and ment, and even a measure of revulsion on the part of Ameri­ unworthy of an American statesman. cans. There will be further exploration of casualties, espe­ cially Iraqi casualties. that will be disturbing to Americans. EIR: When Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.) introduced his ...I don't think the present wave of triumphalism is going resolution to impeach George Bush, he used the term "war to continue without interruption. And I don't think that the crimes" to apply to what the U.S. was doing vis-a-vis Iraq. enthusiasm and euphoria in relation to the claim of victory is Do you think this is a useful or corre

EIR March 29, 1991 International 63 So I think that has to be evaluated in relation to war crimes.

EIR: How about the Pentagon's admitted disinformation about the size of the Iraqi war machine? Lifton: That should be looked into also, because the whole Iraqi war machine was built up as a vast monolith, or as a vastly effective warmachine , which required halfa million Americans to be sent there. . . . The disinformation about the Iraqi war machine was part of the drumbeatingfor American warmaking. Bush claims 'victory'

EIR: In terms of Bush's psychological state, what would war bring him to wage this kind of war? in phony on drugs by Jeffrey Steinberg Lifton: There's an obsession in this country with doing pro­ fileson Saddam Hussein. And it's useful sometimes, because personality can matter in relation to leadership and warmak­ The Bush administration has just released two annual reports ing. But the way it's been done has been a kind of walled­ on the so-called war on drugs, ""hiChrepre sent a total white­ off demonization of Saddam Hussein, and you can't under­ wash of the tnie state of affairs. stand the war, unless you have a double profile of Saddam The first report, dated Febf1ilary 1991, is the third annual and Bush. In both cases, you want to ask about individual National Drug Control Strategy, a document signed by Presi­ psychology, ideology, and relationship to history and cul­ dent Bush and prepared by the White House drug czar. The ture . You would want to stress in Saddam not just his having report is a shameless collection of doctored statistiCs whiCh been beaten as a child, but also his ardent nationalism-his proclaim virtual "victory" in a war on drugs that has been a extreme nationalism-as part of the Baathist movement. And joke-even by Washington stc:utdards. While claiming that his relationship to a kind of collective Arab Mideasternrage the past two years saw sharp cutbacks in drug use by Ameri­ toward the West, that stems from Western colonialism and cans-surpassing all goals set out in previous Drug Control Western domination, extending through American influence Strategy reports-the White House document failed to pro­ in the Middle East. vide any data whatsoever on the two crucial indicators: total [In Bush's case] , you'd look at his individual psycholo­ availability of drugs and levels of domestiC marijuana pro­ gy, but also his ideology, whiCh has to do with American duction. In both these critical �ategories, the White House hegemony and a certain kind of American elitism, and his claimed that "data were not yetavailable." relationship to culture and history, his vision of himself as having a great moment on the world stage in relationship to No data? this war, and as probably buttressing American power at a On Feb. 8, EIR published a cover story titled, "Where time when it's been threatened, American influence in the are the sorties against U.S. pot fields, Mr. Bush?" whiCh world, and at a time when there are grave problems at home, documented the fact that in 1989,marij uana was the number in the cities, in the economy, and in other areas .. .. one cash crop in America, bringing in over $50 billion in profitsto Dope, Inc. In 37 stat�, marijuana brought in more EIR: You talked in the Guardian about the effect of the cash than the leading legitimate crops. war on the American psyche. Does it make Americans more Despite the fact that these �tatistics were compiled from inured toward human suffering at home? public sources, the Bush White House reportclaimed that no Lifton: One of the goals, consciously or preconsciously, in data were available. Had the pot statistics been published, promoting this triumphalism, is to help people forget about the fraud of the Bush adminislifation's war on drugs would terrible human problems like homelessness, and the collapse of have been exposed for all to see. our cities, drugs, violence and poverty. As one maximizes Another lie peddled in the new report is that hospital triumphalismand militarism, one is likely to diminish and mini­ emergency room incidents of drugoverdoses and drug-relat­ mize one's commitmentto dealing with dire social problems. ed injuries and deaths are dowQ 18% since 1989. According to several federal drug enforcement professionals inter­ EIR: Do you see any connection between Bush's mentality viewed by this magazine, the only decline is in the reporting on the war and his big push now for the death penalty? procedures. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), Lifton: There's a whole mentality Bush is promoting that is a federally funded program for;accumulating data from hos­ vastly unhealthy for all of us and harmful to our polity and pital emergency rooms, has elXperienced a 30% falloff in to our people. It has to do with militarism, American hegemo­ personnel and reporting rates in the past year,due to massive ny in the Third World, and a punitive approach to American budget cutbacks. The system is in such a shambles that the problems, rather than a compassionate one. government has decided to shift over from a system of

64 International EIR March 29, 1991 reporting every instance of drug-related emergency room illegal drugs. The Endara government has taken important treatment, to a random sampling method which is much less steps against money laundering, made record drug seizures, reliable. Last year, the system was totally chaotic as the and entered into important narcotics ciontrolagreements with result of severe manpower constraints and the logistical the U . S. Government.It has also begun to restructure, restaff, problemsassociated with the change in procedures. In short, and professionalize its narcotics control agencies. The record the data are worthless. of bilateral cooperation with the U.S. is good, but lack of Conspicuously absent from the White House report is resources and the need to rebuild institutions hamper Pana­ any mention of the just-resigned drug czar, William Bennett, ma's efforts." who reportedly walked out in disgust after he lost a power Apparently somebody at State experienced a pang of con­ struggle to the megalomaniacal Attorney General Richard science at this coverup, because the rest of the Panama entry Thornburgh. His recently confirmed replacement, defeated took a radically different tone: Horida Republican Gov. Robert Martinez, presided over a "Money laundering continues to be Panama's most seri­ state notorious as the entry-point of preference for every ous narcotics control problem. There have been charges of Ibero-American drug cartel. Governor Martinez was select­ corruptionor involvement in illicit narcotics against Panama­ ed for the post on the basis of his close family links to the nian officials. While some of these hllegations seem to be Bush clan-not his dubious commitment to fight against politically motivated, possible corruption continues to be a drugs. concern. On balance, however, Pamama's record of anti­ During his governorship, Jeb Bush, the President's son, narcotics cooperation is positive." was the Horida secretary of commerce. Never one for discre­ tion, Jeb got himself in the middle of one of the nastiest drug Praise with faint condemnation money-laundering scandals in the state's sordid history. The The doublespeak in the Panama case was only outdone by full extent of Jeb Bush's involvement with the cocaine­ the State Department's handling of Syria, which was denied peddling Nicaraguan Contras has yet to be told in pUblic. certification, and remains the world hub of narcotics traffick­ So much for George Bush's domestic "victories" against ing and narco-terrorism. drugs. The international situation is even worse. The harsh verbiage in the State Department's report was more than offset by Secretary of State James Baker III, who State Department double standards visited with Syrian President Hafez at-Assad just days after On March 1, 1991, the U.S. State Department's Bureau the report was released-not to discu$s Syria's dope traffick� of InternationalNarcotics Matters issued its annual "Interna­ ing activities, but to chart out the "new world order" in the tional Narcotics Control Strategy Report." In addition to pro­ aftermath of the genocidal war again$t Iraq. viding an overview of international progress in combatting The State Department report had the following to say narcotics, the report officially certified those nations which about the pals of Secretary Baker in Damascus: had been, in the eyes of the Bush administration, actively "Syria is a transit point for illicit narcotics as well as a committed to the war on drugs. Nations denied certification refiner of heroin. Much of Syria's drug trafficking activity would be cut off fromU.S. anti-drug funds. stems from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley� where Syria maintains Two cases in particular stand out in this year's report as a military presence but fails to enfOrce anti-narcotics con­ shining examples of Bush administration hypocrisy. trols. Credible reports indicate that some Syrian officers are The first is Panama, which, since the Bush administra­ directly involved in drug trafficking." tion's December 1989 invasion to "arrest" alleged drug traf­ Due to the fact that, during the reporting year, 1990, ficker Gen. Manuel Noriega, has become the hemisphere's Lebanon became a virtual militarily occupied colony of most notorious safe haven for drug money launderers. EIR Syria, the State Department report granted Lebanon a "na­ has documented this in great detail, and more recently even tional interest waiver," noting that "Lebanon had no means the New York "Times wrote about the links between U.S.­ of taking actions against narcotics prOduction and trafficking installed President Guillermo Endara and the Colombian co­ during the year because of continuing political upheaval." caine cartels. The same evidence has been widely published It is a wonder that the State Department narcotics control about the country's new Attorney General and Supreme strategy report didn't come right out and praise the Syrian Court chief justice, who sat for years on the board of one of regime. After all, it was Syria's domlinant role in the world­ Horida's leading drug money-laundering institutions, Dade­ wide narco-terrorist structure that allowed it to keep the lid land Bank. on any terrorist violence, per agreement with Washington, But the State Department report had the following to say, while the United States bombed Iraq :back to the Stone Age, in listing Panama among the governmentscertified to receive paving the way for narco-terrorist Hafez al-Assad to emerge U. S. drug enforcement aid: as the undisputed strong man in the I Arab world. "In the year afterthe militaryaction which removed Man­ Perhaps next year's report will include a new category uel Noriega, Panama JOIned the international effort to fight of certification: "cooperating drug irlformant nations."

ElK March 29, 1991 International 65 The mission we propose will take longer than 100 days, and will require a greater commitment of resources than those that were deployed in the Persian Gulf." Three-fourths of the Urbanleaders 'storm' nation lives in metropolitan areas of at least 100,000people . Messinger also called attention to the fact that the infra­ Bush domestic policy structure of the nation's cities is in ruins. "Our cities are in desperate need of large-scale federal assistance simply to provide transportation, water, and other basic services. New by H. Graham Lowry York City is currently very near the limit of what it can borrowin the bond market-and still faces the massive tasks With the elation over Desert Stonn fading fast, George Bush of rebuilding its bridges, streets, highways, sewage systems, is now under attack for his refusal to lift a finger to deal and other elements of its infrastructure ....Many of our with America's worsening domestic crisis. In congressional most heavily traveled bridges, for example, are only margin­ testimony March 12, officials of the National League of ally safe, and need immediate rehabilitation. This is a chal­ Cities proposed a crash program of urban reconstruction, lenge that Urban Stonn also must meet." demanding that the scale of resources poured into the sand in the Gulf now be mustered to reverse the destruction of Nearly half the urban population in poverty America's cities. The National League of Cities released a report at the "Now that the liberation of Kuwait has been accom­ hearing that documented the pismal standard of living in plished," said New York City's Manhattan Borough Presi­ America's central cities. By 1989, over 43% of the urban dent Ruth Messinger, "my colleagues and I propose that the population was living below the poverty level. Per capita federal government immediately undertake the liberation of income had already fallen below $10,000 by 1987 in the millions of Americans in our cities trapped by the tyranny cities of Newark, EI Paso, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, of poverty, illiteracy, hunger, unemployment, crime, and Buffalo, St. Louis, Dayton, Birmingham, Miami, New Or­ hopelessness. We propose, in short, the launching of Opera­ leans, Louisville, and San Bernardino--and was just barely tion Urban Stonn." above that level in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Mem­ Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), whose Committee on phis, Toledo, Tucson, Fresno, Columbus, Norfolk, and Government Operations conducted the hearing on the urban Pittsburgh. Newark's figure was only $7,622. crisis, charged that the central cities are in a "death spiral Among the cities surveyed, official unemployment rates [of] unemployment, wanton violence, eroding tax bases, in 1988 had already topped 12% in Baltimore, Chicago, crumbling services, and despair." He drew an ironic contrast St. Louis, and San Antonio, while Detroit's was over 17%. between the commitment to war far away, and the cold ne­ Actual unemployment levels were far higher, and have risen glect of the nation's cities. "We moved hundreds of ships, even more under Bush. The U.S. Conference of Mayors has thousands of aircraft and tanks, and one-half million men and also reported that requests for emergency food assistance women halfway around the globe to free Kuwait," Conyers increased by an average of 22% during 1990, according to a noted. "We may have liberated Kuwait-a country of fewer survey of 30 major cities, and 75% of those seeking assis­ than 2 million people-but we are in danger of losing many tance were members of familieS . of our cities." Messinger drew a grim picture of the situation in New The cost of the Gulf conflict, Conyers emphasized, "is York City, as an example of "conditions facing every metro­ estimated at $45 billion, or $213 million each day. The city politan region of this nation." More than 40% of the city's of Detroit receives a little more in one year ($292 million in children currently live below the poverty level. "What does 1990) than we spent in one day .. ..Kuwait has $100 billion that mean for their lives? It means, for one thing," she said, in its bank account to rebuild the country. But our cities are "that their lives are likely to :be brief. In the Borough of told the federal till is empty ....I ask you, isn't the crisis Manhattan that I represent, children in Central Harlem are in our cities just as much of an emergency as bailing out the less likely to live through the firstyear oflife than are children S&Ls and fighting a war in a faraway desert? . . . The U. S. in Cuba, Costa Rica, Singapore, and many other so-called spent $13 billion in four years on the Marshall Plan to rebuild 'Third World' countries." the devastated cities of WesternEurope afterWorld War II," More than one-third of all New York City public school Conyers said. "We should do no less today to meet the crisis students fail to complete high school. Unemployment in Cen­ in our cities." He cited the figureof $70 billion as the equiva­ tral Harlem reached 41 % a year ago. Tuberculosis cases in lent amount of aid in 1990. New York increased by 68% during the 1980s. The AIDS In her testimony, Messinger declared, "Clearly, any na­ epidemic is spreading fastest among poor women in their tion capable of so dramatically projecting its power half a child-bearing years, and is now the leading cause of death world away can also carry out the mission that we propose. among women between the ages of 20 and 39.

66 National EIR March 29, 1991 Canadian government documents An affidavit submitted to the court on Feb. 18 by Patricia Hamilton, a sales manager for Inslaw, showed furtherevidence of illegal sales of PROMIS . Accordingto the affidavit, Canadi­ an government documents prove that over 900 copies of PRO­ Inslaw scandal still MIS are currentlybeing used by the federal government, appar­ ently in local offices of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. haunts Thornburgh Inslaw has never sold PROMIS to the Canadians. According to the Ben-Menashe affidavit,Earl Brian, dur­ ing his sales pitch in Tel Aviv, claimed that "all U.S. intelli­ by Jeffrey Steinberg gence agencies," including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security If recent allegations presented to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Agency, were using PROMIS, and that they had obtained for the District of Columbia prove accurate, Attorney Gener­ the software from him. al Richard Thornburgh and other senior Department of Jus­ The scope of the PROMIS piracy now being revealed tice (DoJ) officials may soonfind themselves behind bars for may be one explanation for Thornburgh's systematic effort their role in a grand larceny and perjury scheme directed to cover up the scandal since he took over the postof Attorney against a Washington, D.C. computer software firm, Inslaw, General from Ed Meese in August 1988 . Inc . This is not only the assessment of Inslaw president Bill For the past year, Thornburgh has adamantly refused to Hamilton. House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jack tum over 200 sensitive DoJ documents on Inslaw to House Brooks (D-Tex.) has apparently gathered independent evi­ Judiciary Committee chairman Brooks. According to an arti­ dence linking Thornburghto what may prove to be a billion­ cle in the March 18 issue of Legal Times, a weekly newspaper dollar piracy of Inslaw's copyrighted PROMIS software . of the Washington, D.C. legal and lobbying community, The latest twist in the ongoing Inslaw saga surfaced on Brooks is probing the role of Thornburghand other top DoJ Feb. 18, when attorneys for Inslaw filedaffidavits in federal officials in whitewashing the department's handling of the bankruptcy court presenting eyewitness evidence that pirated Inslaw case. Among the senior officialsnamed by committee copies of the Inslaw software had been sold to the govern­ sources in the probe are: Gerald McDowell, chief of the ments of Canada, Israel, and Iraq . Since 1988, when a federal Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section; Michael Sha­ bankruptcy judge ruled that the DoJ had used "trickery, heen Jr. , head of the Office of Professional Responsibility; fraud, and deceit" to steal Inslaw's software, the department and Lawrence McWhorter, head of the Executive Office of has been under a permanent injunction forbidding its further U.S. Attorneys. All three senior officials of the Criminal unauthorized use. Division are long-time proteges of Thornburgh, who headed According to one affidavit by former Israeli intelligence that division during the Ford administration in the mid- officer Ari Ben-Menashe, sometime in 1987 the Israeli gov­ 1970s. ernment purchased the PROMIS software from U.S. busi­ Thornburgh has so far survived a string of scandals, in­ nessman Earl Brian. Ben-Menashe claims that he attended cluding the recent conviction on cocaine use and perjury of the meeting at which the contract between Brian and the one of his top aides, Henry Barr. His name has been associat­ Israeli government was signed. Ben-Menashe states that a ed with the hated "ThornburghDoctrine" under which U.S. Chilean arms dealer, Carlos Carduen, informed him that he intelligence agencies have been given carte blanche authority had brokered a deal between Brian and Iraqi military intelli­ to go around the world, in violation of international law, gence to sell PROMIS to Baghdad in early 1989. kidnaping individuals. In congressional testimony last year, Elliot Richardson, Now, however, Thornburgh may findhimself trapped in the attorney for Inslaw, named Earl Brian as the principal a criminal coverup or worse in a case that should have ended accomplice of past and current senior DoJ officials in the during the Reagan-Meese years. As syndicated columnist PROMIS piracy. James Kilpatrick put it in a March 15 column published in Brian, who up until recently was the majority shareholder the Miami Herald: in United Press International and Financial News Network, "In the matter of the Department of Justice and the Inslaw has been implicated by several U.S. intelligence sources in case, a remarkable thing is happenjng. The stench gets the Iran-Contra fiasco. According to one account, he was a worse. . . . More in puzzlement than in anger, one has to ask: conduit of funds to the Iranian government in late 1980 that What has got into Dick Thornburgh? As AttorneyGeneral he delayed the release of the American hostages in Teheran until ought to be doing his damndest to get to the bottom of this after the U.S. presidential elections. That affair, known as disgraceful matter. Instead, he has stalled; he has stone­ the "October surprise," implicated both William Casey and walled; he has taken refuge in legalisms; he has obstructed George Bush, among others . efforts of two congressional committees todig out the facts."

EIR March 29, 1991 International 67 Congressional Closeup by William Jones

ouse fears taxpayers where she had told Saddam that the moves to impose arms limitations on butH passes new bailout U.S. would view a conflict between the Mideast countries. "Such a move The House voted on March 15 to give Iraq and Kuwait as an Arab affair, was would not favor our friends or make the Resolution Trust Corp. an addi­ misleading. In response to a request them more secure," said Cheney. "If tional $78 billion in funds to bail out by committee chairman Sen. Claibor­ they do not get the weapons they the S&Ls in order to carry the RTC ne Pell (D-R.I.) that she release her need," warned Cheney, ''they will through September. This is the second record of the meeting (the Iraqis have have to rely even more on our own round of the bailout which has already publicly released the tape), Glaspie forces." cost $167 billion, excluding interest. refused. The day before, the House had voted Glaspie was obviously under against allocating the additional heavy administration pressure, and funds, but, lacking any alternative Secretary of State James Baker ill was policy, they agreed to the additional observed on the same floorof the Sen­ ongress demands allies funding. ate office building. But she did indi­ payC forwar by April 15 There was concern manifested cate some of the background to the On March 13, the House passed an that they were pouring money into a leadup to the war, including the fact amendment to the Persian Gulf sup­ big black hole-payment for sins pre­ that Iraq was concerned by the U. S. plemental appropriation, sponsored viously committed. "We're about to arming of Iran exposed during the Ira­ by Reps. Jim Chapman (D-Tex.) and pour $30 billion down a rat hole," n-Contra affair, and the economic Carl Pursell (R-Mich.), which de­ commented Rep. Maxine Waters (D­ warfare by Kuwait and the United mands thatU . S. allies either pay their Calif.). "This is an extraordinarily un­ Arab Emirates in driving down the promised commitments to the Gulf pleasant and difficult area of legisla­ price of oil. Saddam Hussein "was war or present an agreed upon pay­ tion," said House Speaker Tom Foley broke," said Glaspie. "The oil price in ment schedule by no later than April (D-Wash.). "Members do not want to February was $20 a barrel. Saddam 15. Sovereign nations, it seems, if vote for this bill. They want someone Hussein thought it would go up. By they are U.S. "allies," now face the else to vote for it." July, it was down to $14 a barrel." same d¢adlines as American citizens. One House aide indicated thatsome congressmen wanted to make penalties for non-compliance explicit, although, he said, some countriesare seenas sim­ ems start probe of heney says Gorbachov ply having problems getting the money Bush'sD pre-war policy relyingC on military through their legislative bureaucracy, While George Bush basks in his Gulf In testimony before the House Foreign while others are "notorious for not war "victory," which he hopes will Affairs Committee, Secretary of De­ meeting such commitments." carryhim through the 1992 presiden­ fense Richard Cheney said that recent �sure will be increased on the tial election, congressional commit­ events raised a "question about the allies to meet tl:te payments in an atmo­ tees have begun examining his pre­ course of the Soviet Union." Cheney sphere which is becoming ever more war policy� The hearings may fizzle, expressed concernabout Gorbachov's vitriolic. The Senate passed a similar but they have the longer-term poten­ inability to reform and transform the resolution 98-1 on March 19 which tial to expose Bush's setup of Iraq and Soviet Union. would restrictarms sales to alliedcoun­ insistence on war, and tarnish Bush's While past administrations would tries which did not comply with their image. use such dangers to justifyneeded de­ Gulf warcommitment. These measures The Senate Foreign Relations fense spending, Cheney has been con­ would especially affect Saudi Arabia Committee, after threats to use a sub­ tent to preside over the U. S. military and the United Arab Emirates. Total poena, finallygot the White House to pullout from Europe and the decline outstanding allied commitments are allow former U.S. Ambassador to of the U. S. military to a force capable over $53 billion, while the Treasuryhas Iraq April Glaspie to testify on March only of fightingwars against the Third receive4 only $16.9 billion. 20. Glaspie claimed that the taped World. In Germany, the Social Demo­ transcript of her discussions with Sad­ Consistent with this approach, crats have been up in arms over the dam Hussein shortly before the war, Cheney criticized congressional German payments since the war lasted

68 National EIR March 29, 1991 such a short time. They feel that the great bulk of the deficit is gross inter­ devices, including $100 million for total $6.6 billion committed by Ger­ est on the national debt-$292 billion new Patriots-something more palat­ many initially would therefore repre­ in fiscal year 1991. He adds that in able for liberal Democrats. The Nuon sent a form of tribute to the United financing the record budget deficits proposal, with stmnger supportin the States. The German government will this yearand next, "interest costs will Senate, prompted Warnerto withdraw be sending a delegation to the United jump in annual increments of $30 bil­ his amendment, and Nunn then with­ States at the end of Marchto renegoti­ lion or more. drew his proposal. ate its commitment. "Sixty cents out of every dollar in personal income taxes now goes strictly to pay gross interest on the debt," reports Hollings. pecter seeks stringent ollings blasts budget measuresS in crime bill Hhoax, otTers austerity Sen. Arlen Specter(R-Pa .) , one of the Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) lashed sponsors of the crime bill proposed by out at the illusory budget agreement focus of renewed the Bush adminis�tion, wants to out­ agreed upon by the Congress and the partisanSDI infighting do even the butchers in the White White House last year in a commen­ Two sense of Congress amendments House. Specter proposes further tary in the Washington Post on March were introduced in the Senate on amendments to further limit habeas 15, calling the budget hoax "a dirty March 13 focused on the Strategic corpus proceedings, by allowing for little secret" kept by 535 congressmen Defense Initiative (SOl). Sen. John only one appeal in the state court for and one President. Hollings notes that Warner(R -Va.) firstsubmitted a reso­ defendants facing the death penalty, thedebt has skyrocketed toward $400 lution calling for re-opening negotia­ which would coinprehend all of the billion. tions of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Mis­ issues involved, including thecompe­ The purpose of last year's agree­ sile (ABM) treaty to allow for the tency of counsel. ment, says Hollings, was to allow development of advanced missile de­ Specter, a fonner district attorney Bush to get by the 1992 election. The fense systems, and to abrogate the in Philadelphia, wants to limit the exposure of this aspect of the "dirty treaty entirely if no progress is made time for filing a habeas corpus peti­ little secret" may be the most impor­ within two years. tion in federal court to 120 days, while tant side of what Hollings says since, The amendment was added as a the Bush crime bill had already de­ as one of the authors of the insane rider to a bill which authorizes a $500 manded a time limitation for filing of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget million package of benefits for mili­ 180 days. balancing measure, he offers no solu­ tary persoonel and their families. The The right to habeas corpus is the tions to getting the economy growing, amendment was introduced after dis­ only legal means that indigent prison­ only more austerity. cussions with the White House, which ers convicted to die have to rectify any ''The great bulk of the painful 'pr0- thought they could capitalize on the discrepancies or irregularities in the posed savings,' " writes Hollings, "a "momentum" of the Gulf war. judicial system : which condemned whopping $108 billion worth-is put Although the Warner amendment themto death. The limitations placed offuntil fiscal years 1994 and 1995 , and builds on the original Reagan propos­ on the time to file could send a good only a fool believes that cuts of that al , with the lack of major funding the number of innocent people to their magnitude willever bemade." He notes proposal is self-serving as a tool for deaths. that the five-yearagreement claims that bashing anti-defense Democrats and, The Bush crime bill is a mixture fiscal years 1994 to 1996 will benefit in particular, to humiliate Senate of "reforms" which would also allow from a $110 billion "S&L bonanza," Armed Services Committee chairman into court eviden¢e from illegal search but notes wryly that withthe problems Sam Nuon (D-Ga.), who had voted and seizure. Sen. Joseph Biden (D­ the Resolution Trust Corp. now has of against the Gulf war. Del.), chairman of theSenate Judicia­ getting rid of the S&L assets, ''we'll be Nuon counterproposed directing ry Committee, has indicated that he lucky to get W¢ on the dollar for these SOl funds away from directed energy will work to pass the bill ifthe admin­ turkeys." systems and in favor of rapid develop­ istrationwill agree to include gun con­ Hollings correctly notes that the ment of ground-based kinetic energy trol legislation. [

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military victory. Was itT' asks Ridenhour. be appeale4. "Maybe the President is right. Maybe In one of the cases, Scalia noted that an we should have war-crimes trials .. ..If we extension would go beyond the execution Electric utilities do that, then why shouldn't what happened date, which would be "either futile or will to the people trapped in the middle of that disrupt the state's orderly administration of attack dereg push column-and the people who killed justice." A coalition of 40 investor-owned electric them-also come under that tribunal's utilities, under the umbrella of the Electric jurisdiction? ...It is not a happy question, Reliability Coalition, have begun an adver­ especially for a press gallery so desperately tising campaign to warn the public of the leading the escape from the so-called Viet­ Bush administration proposal to destroy the nam Syndrome." Texas bill would curb industry through deregulation. Ridenhour asks readers to consider why "The same lures of financial schemes for it was necessary to kill the people trapped grand ury abuse easy profits and alleged lower costs that led in the caravan, who were without an escape Legislationj aimed at reining in the use of to the deregulatory disasters of the 1980s­ route. Weren't they effectively prisoners at grand juries for fishingeXpeditions has been S&Ls, airlines, and telephones-are back some point? he asks. introduced into the Texas House of Repre­ again," one ad reads. "Now they're tempt­ "I hate to be the grinch, but I want to sentatives by Rep. Senfronia Thompson, ing some in Congress and the administration see, Live at Five, the on-board videos the (D-Houstori). The bill would allow grand to experiment with America's electric utilit­ aircraft cameras took of their handiwork on jury witnesses• to be accompanied by their ies-who for generations have provided the the highway from Kuwait City. . . . I want lawyer. most reliable and lowest cost power in the to see how the slaughter of the caravan was Austin District Attorney Ronnie Earle world ." substantively different from that at My Lai attacked thll bill as an "outrage," calling it a The 40 utilities service more than 75 where people were lined up and shot. " "drug trafficker, organized criminal, cor­ million people. They estimate that deregula­ rupt politician amnesty act, and it is a slap tion "will open the gates to heaping an esti­ in the face to every prosecutor and otherlaw mated $100billion in highly leveraged debt officer in Texas." onto the U.S. economy for projects that Thompson responded to Earle on the aren't needed." Dereg would allow any Scalia decision would House floor, saying, "I'm demanding that group that can talk venture capitalists into Ronnie Earle not just apologize to the Honor­ funding a project, to borrow money without expand death penalty able Senfronia Thompson but toevery honor­ any legal obligation to ever provide reliable A recent decision by Supreme Court Justice able member of this body for the outrageous power. The ad concludes, "If it ain't broke, Antonin Scalia, which defense specialists conduct and sleazy tactics that he has em­ don't break it." say will make it much more difficultto find ployed." She said Earle's comments were volunteer lawyers to serve inmates on death meant to intimidatemembers from supporting row , has set the stage for the Bush adminis­ her bill, and called upon House members to tration's efforts to expand the use of the show "that you will not bebullied by Ronnie death penalty. Earle and hiS McCarthy-liketacti cs." Ridenhour says U.S. Newly assigned by Chief Justice Wil­ Her att�ck on Earle provoked a standing liam Rehnquist as the administrative justice ovation from House members. Earle liable for war crimes for the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, brought evidence to a grand jury in January Will the "highway from Kuwait City"come Scalia overturned past practice and ruled which led to a two-count misdemeanor in­ to have the same meaning as "My Lai," asks that lack of a lawyer would no longer be dictment of House Speaker Gib Lewis. He Ron Ridenhour, in a commentary in the "good cause" for an extension of time in is continuing to go after Lewis and others in March 16 Houston Post. Ridenhour served which to filea petition for a writ of certiorari the House leadership. in the U. S. military in Vietnam and was later in capital cases. a reporter there. His 1969 letter of complaint Scalia's ruling came in response to peti­ led to the official investigation of the My tions for extension of time filedby the Texas Lai massacre. Resource Center in Austin, a federally and Ridenhour details the decapitation and privately funded group that recruits lawyers Exxon to pay fines systematic destruction of every vehicle in to handle death-row appeals. He said that the seven-mile Iraqi column thatwas fleeing none of the requests would meet the test of for Valdez oil spill Kuwait City on Feb. 26. "It was, without "good cause shown" for granting an exten­ In a precedent-setting agreement, Exxon question, a breathtaking slaughter. The kill­ sion, and said withdrawal of counsel does Corp. and Exxon Shipping Co . agreed in ing of that caravan was universally hailed not automatically justify an extension of mid-March to settle all federal and state civil in the American press as an extraordinary time . 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• J. BUSH AND CO., the firm of Jonathon Bush, President Bush's spill on March 24 , 1989, and will pay $900 of a combined "Get LaRouche" task force brother, agreed to pay $4,000to set­ million in damages. Attorney GeneralRich­ and Hollywood-gay lobby effort against tle charges that it operated in Con­ ard Thornburgh announced that Exxon had Proposition 64, the anti-AIDS ballot initia­ necticut without properlyregistering , also agreed to plead guilty to federal envi­ tive placed on the November 1986 Califor­ the March 11 Wall Street Journal re­ ronmental criminal charges and to pay a nia ballot by associates of LaRouche. Both ported. criminal fine of$100 million. Reiner and Van de Kamp were prominent This is the largest environmental crimi­ and outspoken opponents of Prop. 64, and • STUDENTS at Hampton Univer­ nal penalty in history, and sets a precedent are closely tied to the circles of California's sity in Virginia,areobjecting to Presi­ for environmental criminal prosecutions in Hollywood-gay lobby which are controlled dent Bush speaking at their com­ any type of accident. Exxon, which had by the Anti-Defamation League. mencement ceremony, the March 17 agreed to pay $1 billion in fines a long time The dismissal of charges came as the Washington Post reported. The stu­ defense was ready to document that Reiner's ago, had fought the criminal charges for that dents say that Bush is antagonistic to office never prosecuted in instances of simi­ reason. Exxon also pled guilty to a violation minorities. of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which is liar allegations, and that it had sat on charges made against his political allies. the firsttime a corporation has been convict­ • 'ONE OF THE most expensive ed of violating an internationalenvironmen­ and pervasive · public relation cam­ tal treaty . Exxon still has to contend with paigns ever launched by a foreign several other lawsuits, including one from country in the United States," is how an environmental coalition led by the Na­ the March 17 Washington Post de­ tional Wildlife Federation which is seeking Judge blocks 'Get fines the continuing campaign begun $1 billion in damages to be given by Exxon by the Kuwait ruling family during to the environmental groups so they can al­ LaRouche' document grab the Gulf crisis to draw Americans legedly fixAlaska. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Thomas into supporting the war. Although Exxon may be able to pay such Fortkort granted a temporary restrainingor­ fines, most middle-sized and smaller busi­ der (TRO) March 12 requested by four enti­ • KUWAIT "exaggerated" Iraqi nesses would be bankrupted. ties affiliated with the LaRouche political atrocities for l!'ropaganda purposes, Ironically, scientists have now estab­ movement. The request, barring the execu­ reported ABC, News on March 15. lished that significantly greaterdamage was tion of a search warrant for production of The director of the Maternity Hospi­ caused by the efforts to restore the damage bank records until a motion to quash is tal told ABC that infants allegedly from the spill than from the spill itself, and heard, was identical to one denied earlier ripped from incubators by Iraqi sol­ that, as has been seen in oil spills, within 5- by Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Richard diers had actually diedwhen the neo­ 10 years , there is no trace of damage. Kent, and is a blow to the "Get LaRouche" nate staff fled. The incubators were task force's harassment of the LaRouche hidden by a thoughtful orderly. movement. The search warrant was quashed in Fairfax on March 20. • PUBLIC HOSPITALS in Hous­ Fortkortfound that a reasonable basis to ton may tum away all but the most Last case dropped believe that the warrant was improper and seriously injured emergency roompa­ illegal existed, thus requiring the protection tients during Nriods of extreme over­ against PANIC workers the entities had asked for. Showing a consid­ crowding, the f/ouston Chronicle re­ The Office of Los Angeles District Attorney erably greater concern for constitutional ported March 15. "It's something we Ira Reiner announced March 15 that it is questions, Fortkort enjoined both Signet might have to do when things get out dropping charges against Bruce Kilber, the Bank and Loudoun County Sheriff's Lt. of control," said Dr. PhillipDellinger, last remaining defendant in the indictments Donald Moore (or any other law enforce­ directorof emergency medicineat Ben concocted by his office and that of Califor­ ment agent) from executing the warrant, un­ Taub Hospital. nia Attorney General John Van de Kamp til all arguments on its legality are heard. over three years ago against supporters of The Fairfax County and Alexandria Cir­ • FEDERAL prosecutors have Lyndon LaRouche. cuit warrants were based on an affidavit failed to get any convictions on 238 Kilber was charged in January 1988 with froma Minnesota AttorneyGeneral 's inves­ fraud charges brought against 12 Chi­ illegally registering to vote. Charges against tigator that was also used to get a seizure cago Mercantile Exchange yen trad­ Andrea Diano-Smith, who had been indict­ order for bank accounts in Philadelphia. ers. The government had alleged that ed along with Kilber, were dropped two That order was subsequently vacated by a the traders had conspired to defraud yearsago afterit was learnedthat a key piece Minnesota judge, based on material omis­ customers, but had failed to produce of evidence had been manufactured by the sions in the affidavit, particularly that the any victims tHat had suffered losses family of her husband, Lewis du Pont facts involved in a supposed "swindle" were as a result of the alleged fraud. Smith. The prosecutions were the product the subject of a civil settlement.

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Emergency reliliffo r Iraq now

Famine and disease now threaten millions of people in zens and charities and foreign governments are being the Persian Gulf region, as a result of the war. Condi­ blocked by Washington. tions in Iraq now border on famine . The destruction of The European Commission has offered a grant to water and sanitation facilities, coupled with a lack of help clean up Baghdad's water supply, but the U.S. power-generating capacity , mean spread of disease un­ opposes it. Within hours of the cease-fire, a sum of checked. £392,000 was offered by the EC to the Red Cross to We fully support the campaign for emergency relief pay for a mobile water treatment unit. EC Commission­ to Iraq which is being launched by the Schiller Institute. er for the Middle East Abel Matutes, who is to oversee The devastation of that nation has been so complete, EC humanitarian assistance for the area, cited the dan­ that without emergency measures, the stage is set for gers of polluted drinking water and epidemics. U.S. the modem-day equivalent of the Black Death which embassy officials in Europe immediately objected to swept Europe in the BOOs and destroyed three-fourths the "haste" of the offer, and moved to prevent the U.N. of the population . sanctions commission from approving it. Fewer than 1,000 calories per person per day are A shipment of 50 tons of medical supplies has been available to the people of Iraq. Over the next year, Iraq jeopardized by Washington officials. Gathered by the needs approximately 550,000 metric tons of rice, 3.1 Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interdenominational million metric tons of wheat and wheat flour (in grain pacifist charity, the relief package has not received equivalent) , plus other staples such as fats and oils, required export papers from the U.S. Treasury and sugar, animal proteins , meat, vegetables , and infant State Departments , which are stalling, despite the hu­ formula. manitarian nature of the cargo. Representatives of the Equipment, power, fuels, and chemicals are need­ group have appealed to Congtess to override adminis­ ed to supply 150 liters of safe water per person per day . tration stonewalling. A Fellowship of Reconciliation At present, there is no system for safe water provision delegation wants to embark for Iraq on March 23 with in Iraq . Required are: portable water purification units , the medicines, but they fear th�t administration officials power generators , diesel fuel, tank trucks, chlorine, may sue them. alum and other chemicals, and spare parts . A UNICEF arrangement for 12 refrigerated trucks Pharmaceuticals, equipment, staff, and facilities to transport vaccines and other medical supplies, or­ are needed both for primary health care (pre- and neo­ dered in 1990 for humanitarian use in transportbetween natal care , vaccinations, and other care) and fortreating Teheran and Baghdad, has been held up by the U.N. communicable diseases. Required are antibiotics and embargo . Seven health officials from the World Health other medicaments, immunization doses (DPT, polio, Organization and UNICEF toured Baghdad and nearby measles), and basic supplies including syringes, steril­ areas Feb . 16-21, and reported on the emergency izers , blood tests , and refrigeration boxes. needs. They arranged for a meager 54 tons of medical Despite the cease-fire, the U.S. government has supplies to be delivered. continued to pursue its genocidal policies against Iraq . What is needed now is an international task force Not only are there no moves on the part of the United to assess what is needed in detail. Even before such States to provide humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, an assessment is completed, however, relief measures but George Bush has put every conceivable obstacle in must be taken. An international outcry must be raised, the way of those governmentsand agencies which have so that George Bush is forced to lift the boycott which tried to deliver food supplies, water, or medicine. Of­ the United States is still illegally enforcing against the fers of humanitarian aid to Iraq from private U.S. citi- people of Iraq.

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