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43 Grace Bumbry 15 Andean Report 4 The BIS in shift: Dollar's The Metropolitan Opera soprano CAP's solidarity appeal rejected. rally is ended discusses how returning to the The central bankers' central bank lower musical tuning pitch, as 50 Report from Rome has decided to junk: its policy of demanded by Giuseppe Verdi, will You don't die of "advice." "exchange rate stability." This improve not only opera, but will could set off a new crash of the help revive the singing of classical financial system. German Lieder. 51 Report from Bonn Germans don't like the red flag. 6 'Patriots for Germany' conference honors 52 Report from Rio economist Friedrich List u. S. -Soviet condominium StrategicStudies Patriots chairman Helga Zepp­ denounced. LaRouche and others gathered in 18 The history of LaRouche's Cologne to honor the republican comprehensive SDI policy 53 Panama Report economist whom Prince Michael Liebig assesses Lyndon u.s. puts out contract on Noriega. Metternich considered one of the LaRouche's crucial contribution to most dangerous men of the the Strategic Defense Initiative, 54 Dateline Mexico American Revolution. beginning with the seminars held Hunger and disease stalk the land. under his guidance in 1974. 8 Currency Rates 55 From New Delhi Sri Lanka wants Indian troops out. 9 Plastic bags and ecology: the scientific facts, and the 72 Editorial politics Manifesto in defense of Panama. The secretary of Italy's Plastics and Environment Association rips into this new absurd campaign by the Greenies to get rid of plastic bags.

12 Support widens for mine workers' strike

13 Banking Thornburgh wants more cops.

14 Agriculture The drought is far from over.

16 Business Briefs Volume 16 Number 26, June 23, 1989

Feature International National

26 International AIDS 58 The White House's 'clean

Conference V: last tango air' plan • • • stinks in Montreal? The plan announced by President Scientists who attended this Bush is not only based on pornographic extravaganza were so fallacious assumptions, it will be a disgusted that many said it was the death-blow to many vital U.S. last they'll attend. industries. Why doesn't Bush go

. with nuclear energy?

29 'Kiss of death' for official Henry A. Kissinger at a recent public appearance: the line epitome of an unelected, secret, but powerful" parallel 60 The judge who inculpated government" with motives far different from those himself A report on the First International declared. Symposium on Oral AIDS, held in Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. recounts Montreal as a counter to the how Judge Albert V. Bryan of the International AIDS conference, 34 Kissinger's China card: U.S. District Court for the Eastern presented hard evidence of oral the drug connection District of Virginia made himself transmission of the HTL V virus. In defending the butcher Deng "guilty as sin" in the celebrated Xiaoping, Kissinger is also frameup trial against the maintaining his masters' interest in "LaRouche Seven." 31 AIDS: Where are we China's huge opium production today? industry. 63 Virginia Democrats try to A review of where science stands rule out politics on the nature of the virus, 37 Washington kowtows to treatment, and testing. Beijing tyrants 64 Ray Cline woos the Chinese students 38 Moscow prepares the great The "Project Democracy" crowd is terror as KGB sparks trying to keep the balance-of­ Uzbekistan riots power game alive by cutting off the Republic of China's influence on the Mainland. 39 Turkey squeezed by external crises 65 Kissinger Watch Dr. K's China policy blasted in 40 A 'new' Afghanistan Scandinavia. policy, or the same old sauce in a new bottle? 66 Eye on Washington Economy seen as Bush's downfall. 46 More fraud expected in Mexico elections 67 Satanwatch 48 Argentine crises stay, as Parish shut down over witchcraft. A1fonsin bows out 68 Congressional Closeup 49 Narco-terror gets away with murder 70 National News Colombian President Barco is still in a "dialogue" with the killers.

56 International Intelligence �TIillEconomics

The BIS in shift: Dollar's rally is ended

by ChrisWhite

On Thursday, June 15 , panic selling internationally,prompt­ by the announcement Tuesday within the United States that ed by central bankers, including the United States Federal the current account deficit,the net of all goods, services, and Reserve, brought to an end the rally in the dollar's nominal transfers of money in and out of the United States, had risen value which had begun with the new year. Losing about 2.5% sharply in the first quarter of the year, with the improvement against all currencies,the dollar registered its steepest decline in the trade balance over the same quarter more than wiped of the decade, falling by 6 pfennigs against the West German out by the loss of $8 billion in: financial income from around mark, and 6 yen against the Japanese currency. "It was a the world, the central bankers' interventiqn against the dollar stampede," said Frank Watson, vice-president at the Swiss went into high gear on Thursday, June 15. Bank Corporation. "Traders were pretty panicked," said an The BIS annual report is perhaps as much a portent of exchange sales official at the Union Bank of Switzerland. things to come as was the decision, at the regular monthly "I'm under the desk. What a bloodbath." meeting of the same outfit, in August 1987, which helped There are a lot of speculative theories going the rounds accelerate the process leading into the global stock market about why the dollar took the tumble it did. It might be better crash of October. Then, BIS members confirmed as their to ask why it didn't before. The speculation is the usual type policy, the interest rate tightening which had been ongoing of market twaddle: on the one hand, all funds available to since May. continue the dollar's rise being accounted for, and in the Their decision was followedwithin days by the firstround dollar, there was no place else to go, but down; and on the of shake-outs in the Milan, Italy and London, U.K. stock other hand, profit taking after the last months' run-up, as exchanges. speculators took their winnings and ran for cover. Now the BIS proposes to junk the crisis management The speculation overlooks the obvious. On Monday, June approach to "international policy coordination," the hallmark 12, the internationalcentral bankers' central bank, the Basel, of James Baker's legacy as treasury secretary from the time Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements, held of the Plaza agreements of 1985, and the flow-on Louvre its annual conference, with the attendance of most of the agreements of February 1987. Under this arrangement, it has representativesof the world's larger central banks. The meet­ been maintained that the responsibility to correct what are ing discussed the BIS's annual report, prepared under the called "global imbalances" rests as much upon the shoulders direction of Alexandre Lamfalussy, the bank's general man­ of surplus-producing countries, namely Japan and West Ger­ ager. Blunt and harsh in its scoring of U.S. policy since the many, as it does on those of theworld's principal deficit and middle of 1988, the report specifically counseled against debtornation, the United States. In the "coordination" scheme, maintaining currentfixations on so-called exchange rate "sta­ Japan and Germany were supposed to reduce their surpluses bility." Tuesday, the day after the meeting, central bankers as the U.S. reduced its deficit. Now the BIS announces, "All around the world began to intervene against the dollar. Helped around, there has been a policy of sustaining rather than

4 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 reducing current account balances. Adjustment has not been tinue to service the demands of America's creditors. The a pressing issue." threat is not new; it is simply that if the demanded cuts are not made, then those who providethe fundsto cover the U.S. Pressure on the United States deficitson foreign account will begin to pull their money out. For the firsttime in four years, the central bankers' central Thursday's dollar slide is seen as the beginning of that bank argues against the "policy coordination" which has been blackmail policy. dominant. "Symmetrical action"-by the U.S., Germany, and Japan-"is no longer required," the report says bluntly. Trade war builds Instead, "A substantial unilateral reduction of domestic de­ However, it is well to bear in mind that what the BIS is mand in the United States through fiscalaction could give the now recommending, is also something that the United States adjustment process the required stimulus." has beendoing. It was theU.S. administration which launched Two aspects of the "coordination" policy are attacked. the threat of trade war, for example, back in January, over Firstly, the pursuit of so-called "exchange rate stability." the question of exports of hormone-treated beef to Europe. It Under the Plaza and Louvre agreements, upper and lower was the United States which implemented the measures en­ limits were set for the dollar. Central banks would intervene acted in last year's Omnibus Trade Bill during the month of in coordinated fashion to prevent the U.S. currency falling May, specifically applying the insane "Super 30 1" penalty belowthe bottom limit, or rising above the upper limit. Though and retaliation provisions against major trading partner coun­ never made public, it was most recently believed that the tries like Japan, Brazil, India, and the members of the Euro­ level of DM 1.90 to the dollar was the upper limit. This was pean Community. And, it was Greenspan at the Federal Re­ breached in the last weeks as the dollar rose above DM 2.00 serve, who from the beginning of the year, hiked internal for the first time in years. U.S. interest rates, the better to suck funds in from every­ Secondly, the BIS attacked American government reli­ where else. ance on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to keep It is the yahoos in the U.S. financial community who funds flowing into the dollar. This undermined efforts to have been attempting to induce a shift into a psychotic round reduce the trade deficit. "National control over short-term of engineered trade wars in the obsessive delusion that thus rates," the report stated, can "pull the exchange market in the can "competitors" be defeated, or brought to heel. Now, the opposite direction from that which fundamentals would war­ BIS is applying in the financialdomain what the United States rant." In this respect, it is the United States, Britain, and has been consistently trying to impose on the rest of the Canada which share the brunt of the attack, for in each, world, in the name of "free trade." interest rates have skyrocketed in order to protect currency Only the completely insane, or totally evil, could ever from the threat of devaluation and capital flight. "Exchange maintain that anything good or useful could come from pro­ rates were being pushed away from their longer term equilib­ moting such commercial and financial warfare. What is pro­ rium by excessive capital flows." posed now is another round of global cannibalism, as the Against this, the BIS puts the onus on the United States world economy is contracted further to continue to meet the ''to take the lead in new efforts to substantially reduce the demands the bankrupt system of usury is imposing. Out of current account imbalances among the large industrial na­ this, only Gorbachov'sRussia can benefit. tions." By reducing the federal government's budget deficit, But this result is no different than would occur if the crisis it is supposed that internalU . S. consumption can be reduced, management "policycoordination" were to continue. Reality thereby dampening the threat of inflation, and lowering in­ is that of a bankrupt financial system, whose bankruptcy is terest rates. Such measures are additionally supposed to be aggravated by the measures adopted by such outfits as the required to avert the threat of a "crash landing" for the world BIS, whether in the name of avoiding what they call "a crash financial system. landing," or achieving what theycall "adjustment." It doesn't Yet, if the BIS recommendations are translated into prac­ matter whether the competitors cross the finishing line run­ tice, as rapidly as they usually are, then what the world is ning forwards or backwards; they still end up in the same headed for is precisely the kind "crash landing" the report's place. authors profess the desire to avoid. The demand for unilateral If the Plaza crisis management of the last five years is action from the United States to curb domestic consumption, replaced by the kind of "all against the U. S." gang -up that is by fiscal means, is also a threat. Leaving aside the funny advocated in the BIS report, then the new instabilities intro­ business in government offices which has reduced the trade duced into the already tottering edifice of international fi­ deficit from about $15 billion per month down to about $8 nance may very well be sufficient to set off the coming next billion, what the U.S. owes the rest of the world, in terms of seismic shock to thesystem as a whole. They helped it along interest and other charges of usury and speculation, is still in 1987. Now it lookslike the same crowd is out to help along running at between $10 and $12 billion per month. The BIS the same kind of thing in 1989. Perhaps all affected will be crowd is demanding that health, defense, and other services capable of responding more intelligently this time than they of government be cut to generate the funds required to con- did last time around.

EIR June 23, 1989 Economics 5 'Patriots for Gennany' conference honors economist Friedrich List

Friedrich List, patriot and world citizen, was the theme of unity in a Germany which was split into numerous states and the conference held in Cologne, F.R.G. on June 10 by the differentzones of taxation and fell under the political dictates Patriots for Germany party in honor of the great 19th-century of the Congress of Vienna, posed a serious challenge to fighterfor the American System of Political Economy, whose Mettemich and the other oligarchs in Europe. The powerof life and works bear a striking resemblance to the activity of List's ideas was a threat to the Vienna system. Metternich, Lyndon LaRouche over the past 20-30 years. The Patriots sensing what he called a "thought crime," launched a prose­ for Germany party was launched three years ago by Helga cution drive against List, whose initiative he denounced as Zepp-LaRouche, the West German wife of Lyndon La­ the "revolutionary party in Germany run under the guise of a Rouche, and presented a broad slate of candidates for the trade and commerce association. " June 18 European Parliament elections. A paper by Mr. List and his movement·became victims of persecution. LaRouche, entitled "A Comeback For Project Financing," He lost his seat in the Baden state parliament, and escaped which was read to the conference, appeared in EIR . June 16, prison only by leaving Germany in 1820. "I am no Socrates," 1989, page 4-6. he said, "but my own case is like his." Living in Paris during a period ofhis exile, List madethe Who was Friedrich List acquaintance of such great republican minds as Alexander The introductory address was delivered by Elke Fimmen, von Humboldt and the Marquisde Lafayette, and in London the president of the Patriots for Germany in the state of contacted Richard Rush, laterto become Secretary of Trade Bavaria. She presented Friedrich List (1789-1 846) as one of in the United States. Lafayette offered List to come to the the mainproponents of thebroad republican movement against United States, to work from there safe from Mettemich's the oligarchical system of the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The reach. List hesitated, and got arrestedby Mettemich's police architect of that system of repression, Prince Mettemich, agents. considered List "one of the most dangerous men of the rev­ After an interlude of 10 months of jail in Germany, List olution," and had him persecuted throughout his entire life. was able to emigrate to the United States in 1825, joining Keeping in mind that Mettemich is the great idol of Henry Lafayette in New York for a three-month tour which brought Kissinger, the importance of looking into List's life and works him in contact with all leading proponents of the American for the LaRouche movement today, becomes clearer. System of Political Economy-Henry Clay, John Quincy List very early in his life declared war on "that nonsense Adams, John Marshall, Mathew Carey, and Charles Inger­ of 500years of immorality" that ruled politics and economics soll, among others. in Europe. He was at the center of three networks that fought From there, List developed detailed concepts on how to the oligarchy at that time: the Prussian Reformers movement promote a real wealth of nations by means of industrial de­ in Germany, the Ecole Polytechnique movement in France, velopment. This included campaigning for the construction and the United States movement for independence. Opposing of railway nets, development of coal mining, and construc­ the physiocratic tendency of the landed oligarchy and the tion of steam engines for rapid transportation by sea or land. banks that dominated economics of his time, List believed His essays, largely written for theReadinger Adler in Read­ the creative powers of man, human rights, and mass educa­ ing, Pennsylvania, nearPhiladelp hia, were also published in tion, nourished by ajust state and constitution, to be the real Germany, by the same Cotta who before had published the source of wealth and progress. He believed in industrial de­ works of the "poet of freedom," Friedrich Schiller. velopment, most of all. Initiating the first Association of Trade and Commerce, List's return to Europe together with 70 merchants at the Frankfurt Easter Fair in In 1830, during a tide of broad popular rebellion in Eu­ 1819, List rapidly established a network of correspondents rope against the system of Vienna, List returned to the old all over Germany. The aim of the association, to promote continent under the protectionof being a Consul of the United

6 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 States. In Paris, as a Trade Envoy, he made contact with the agriculture. Industrial capitalism does care, and List was a republican poet Heinrich Heine in 1830, and became U.S. proponentof the latter camp, she said. Consul in Leipzig, a key city for the emerging industrial List argued that any violation of the principle of produc­ movement in Germany, in 1832. From here, he was able to tion would lead to inevitable collapse, and, as we experienced promote, to Metternich's deep chagrin, his ideas about the after the Great Depression, lead to fascism and war. For us construction of an all-German railway net connecting all the to look at List's life and works today, without taking a look major cities and centers of manufactures. at the present strategic world crisis situation, and how it came In spite of heavy counterorganizing, List succeeded in about, would be meaningless, she asserted. getting the railway idea into practice. Beginning in 1835, the Had the world put into reality what the papal encyclical, first railway tracks were built, and industrial development Populorum Progressio, called for in 1967; had the world put along the American model (heavy industry, protective tariffs into reality what Lyndon LaRouche. formulated in his 1975 against dumping-price imports, mechanization of agricul­ proposal for an International Development Bank, monetar­ ture, naval transportation by steam-boats, etc.) began all over ism would long have been defeated, the world wouldn't be Germany. The foundation of a German Tariffs Association where it has arrived now, Mrs. LaRouche reminded the au­ in 1834, and List's campaign for a establishing a Central dience. Bank modeled on Hamilton's First National Bank of the Instead the International Monetary Fund and the cabal U.S., marked key projects of the republican-industrialmove­ that plotted out the tripolarworld order(U .S., U.S. S. R. , and ment of those years. Red China) and the New Yalta, prevailed. What they have List was in close contact with Germans who would soon produced is absolute chaos and destruction. Look at: become big names in theindustry, likeHoesch, Pons, Stumm, • Red China and the Soviet Union, where famines and Buderus, and Duckwitz. His popularity was so high that he social decomposition rule the day; was even offered the post of chief editor of the Rheinische • The U.S.A., where 40 million citizens are forced to Zeitung, which he rejected for health reasons. Instead, Karl live below the poverty level; Marx took the post. Marx hated the American System and • lbero-America, where the dope mafia rules the whole sided with the Jacobin section of the British ImperialSystem. continent, where revenues fromdope sales are called exports; During the last years of his life, List becamethe target of • Iran, where the destruction process after the fall of the concerted attack by Metternich and his oligarchical friends Shah is escalated now, after the death of Khomeini; in Europe. The Congress of Vienna hoped to ruinthe repub­ • Even Europe is split into a wealthy northern part and lican-industrial movement by ruining List personally. The an impoverished southern belt; oligarchy, including a Prince of Thurn and Taxis, took care • Africa is in the worst of all conditions, it is written off of List: Wasting months in London, with the British, his old by the international monetarist institutions. economic theory adversaries, upon a phony promise to gain Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that the relative wealth still a breakthrough there for his ideas, his health, already in a encountered in West Germany, does not tell anything about bad condition, was ruined. List died, under rather odd cir­ the real state of the world economy, which is in the eye of a cumstances, on his way to Italy to recover, in 1846. storm-the next monetary crash is sure to hit, and it will be The Metternich cabal lost out, in spite of List's death, in worse than the last one in 1987. The question is whether this the years following. In 1848, a new Europe-wide rebellion crash is followed by a period of chaos, or by a period of forced Metternich to seek refuge in London, and although industrial recovery. the political rights movement experienced a new setback in the early 1850s, industrial development made a big leap End of the condominium forward in the second half of the 19th century over all of She said that the Pol Pot-style massacre in Beijing was Europe. List's works were translated into numerous lan­ the beginning of a new era of politics; it ends the illusion of guages, reaching Russia, India, and Japan before the 189Os, a world condominium. The proponents of the condominium and Sun Yat-sen's Republic of China in 1925. are trying to save it, as Kissinger and Bush do by delivering wheat to Red China (but having sanctions against Panama at Lessons for today the same time). There were also threats by the U.S. against The federal president of the Patriots for Germany party, Taiwan, to stay out, or else. Bush betrayed Taiwan and the Helga Zepp-LaRouche, appealed to build a new, just world Chinese, as Truman betrayed Taiwan in 1950, when the economic order in her addressto the conference. Kuomintang offered to open against the Red Chinese who Many economic arguments brought into the debate today invaded Korea, a second front on the mainland. are nothing but hypocrisy and excuses, Mrs. LaRouche said. This massacre in Beijing split the world in two camps, Basically, it's the fight between monetarism on the one side, divided by a stream of blood: On the one side, there are the and industrial capitalism on theother side. Monetarism doesn't bolshevik-fascist regimes like Red China and Soviet Russia, care about the state of industrial production, of trade, and of and the oligarchical regime that rules the United States now;

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J on the other side, it's the movement for freedom and human rights. Currency Rates Let the empires of evil know, that any violation of natural law, of human rights, will only unleash the Furies. What we The dollar in deutschemarks are witnessing these days in Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, New York late afternoon fixing also in Yugoslavia, the Baltic states and in Poland, is the Furies let loose. The U.S.A. is deeply discredited by its 2.00 - adventure against Panama, and the police-state measures ,., V- against the domestic opposition. The three world empires of 1.90 ./ today have entered a process of decay, Mrs. LaRouche re­ I""""" marked. 1.80 Lyndon LaRouche has been taking up the impulse ofList 1.70 in economic theory, the tradition ofphysical economy. The

central idea here, is that economic policy must serve man, 1.60

not the other way around, with monetarists demanding that 4/26 5/3 5110 5/17 5/24 5/31 617 6/14 millions of human beings are sacrificed to serve a certain economic system, she continued. The dollar in yen New York late afternoon fixing The central idea of LaRouche's work is the concept of relative potential population density, a reliable standard to measure economic growth and industrial progress. Human lSII "" population and its condition is the central thing: Only one­ � 140 - ... - third of the world population is well-fed, another third is - .r badly nourished, and the remaining third is exposed to famine 130- and starvation. No fewer than 512 million human beings died of starvation and epidemics, in the past nine years. There is 120 the threat posed by AIDS, especially on the African conti­ nent. This tells you all about what the Pontiff called struc­ 110 tures of sin, the speaker added, referring to the 1987-88 4126 5/3 5110 5/17 5/24 5/31 617 6/14 encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis. The British pound in dollars Friedrich List wrote that only by industrial labor, by New Yorklate afternoon fixing manufactures, can human beings realize themselves, and free themselves from the state of relative primitiveness which is 1.90 still there in the agricultural society. The Patriots for Ger­ many president recalled that Lyndon LaRouche presented his 1.80 proposal for an International Development Bank to replace the system of monetarism in 1975, and it was taken up in the 1.70 Group of 77 meetings in Colombo the year after. Then came "- the setback, when Kissinger had Pakistani Prime Minister 1.60 � � � Zulfikar Ali Bhutto killed. LaRouche met President Jose � I.SO LOpez Portillo of Mexico and wrote Operation Juarez in 4/26 5/3 5110 5/17 5/24 5/31 617 6/14 1982, and Mexico imposed capital exchange controlsin Sep­ tember of that year. But the monetarists came down on Mex­ The dollar in Swiss francs ico, and Indira Gandhi, who also met LaRouche and sup­ New York late afternoon fixing ported his ideas, was assassinated. LaRouche himself was put in jail, in the meantime. But the fightgoes on. 1.80 There are ample plans for projects which LaRouche de­ V"" signed over the past 15 years, for the Mideast, for India, for 1.70 , h ... China, for lbero-America, Africa, and the United States it­ � I""""" V self. These and other projects must be made reality, and that 1.60 is how the world can be saved from doom. One finds he is in I.SO the same tradition of Colbert, List, Mattei, Populorum Pro­ gressio, and Sun Yat-sen. Their historic fight for economic 1.40

development is ours today as well, Helga Zepp-LaRouche 4/26 5/3 5110 51J1 5/24 5/31 617 6/14 affirmed.

8 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 Plastic bags and ecology: the scientific facts, and the politics

by Corrado Perrone

Prof. Corrado Perrone,fromFlorence, Italy is the secretary it is chemically impossible to produce dioxin by burning of the Plastics and Environment Association and is one of the plastic bags. It is as if you thought you would get drunk by top experts in plastic materials in Italy. The fo llowing is drinking mineral water. translatedfr om a transcript of his presentation to the confer­ Then it has been said that the plastic bags kill marine life ence commemorating the Council of Florence, which was or suffocate dolphins or the like. Since we in the plastics field held in Rome on May 5 -6 under the sponsorship of the Schill­ were not experts on marine biology, we commissioned a er Institute (see report in EIRNo. 23, June 2, 1989). Profes­ study from the University of Pisa's Marine Biology Institute. sor Perrone's term, i verdi, has been translated here as And after a little while they told us, on the basis of their own "Greenies, " and refe rs not only to the small Green Party research into all the scientific literature and all the marine (Partito Verde) of Italy but to their many self-styled "ecolo­ biology publications in the world, that there is nowhere any gist " co-thinkers in the Radical, Communist, Socialist, and evidence that plastic residues or plastic materials in general, other parliamentaryparties as well as in the media. or bags in particular, are a cause-I am not saying a major cause, but even a measurable cause of danger or harm to I work in an industry which produces plastic bags, those marine ecosystems. This does not mean that it's a good thing famous bags that, starting next week, you will find in the for plastic bags to end up in the sea, on the contrary; not only shops and supermarkets are no longer free or available for a should they not go there, but if necessary people should be few cents, but will cost between 150 and 200 liras [about 7- trained not to throw them there. But it remains only an aes­ 1O¢ in U. S. currency]. This is because the Greenies caused thetic problem or a problem of a few isolated episodes, which Parliament to vote up, a few months ago, a law which im­ has no quantitative relevance to the eqUilibrium of the marine poses on every single plastic bag, no matter what its dimen­ environment. sions, a 100-lira tax, which becomes 119 liras due to the Next, it has been said that plastics in general and bags in Value Added Tax. This has been done because, so say the particular should be limited because they build up continu­ Greenies, you have to create a disincentive for producing an ously in the environment, because they cannot be recycled. object which they claim causes pollution. Unfortunately the This is so false that, in the industry where I work, every year Greenies have succeeded in convincing many people of this we recycle 10,000tons of polyethylene, which is the material theory, so that the majority of Italian consumers probably the bags are made out of. Not only that: In Italy there exists will pay these 150-200 liras extra, totally convinced they an industrial sector devoted to recycling plastic materials. have made their little sacrifice to contribute to safeguarding Now, the industrialistsin this sector have made the following the natural environment in which we live. counterproposal to the Ministry of the Environment: Given Well, this is completely false. For four years a discussion that you environmentalists say thatwe have to have an incen­ has been going on about the environmental impact of plastics. tive for recovery and recycling, okay let's keep the tax but There have been articles, conventions, congresses, and the exempt from it those bags that are produced with recycled conclusions that have been reached have demonstrated that plastic materials, so that there will be an incentive to recover the charges made by the Greenies against plastics in general, more and more plastic and hence to remove it from the waste and plastic bags in particular, are completely unfounded. I pile. Well the Environment Minister did not even want to don't wish to enter into technical details because that would receive them, and they were only able to maketheir proposal take too long, but in short, they have started saying, for by letter. example, that when plastic bags are burned they produce dioxin; many people believe this, and they write newspaper 'Biodegradables' are biggest polluters articles about it, but this is completely false because dioxins Then the line comes up that the plastic bags pollute be­ are chlorine based, and the material from which plastic bags cause they are not biodegradable. This is only partially true. are made, polyethylene, has no chlorine in it whatsoever. So What is true is that they are not biQdegradable, but that does

EIR June 23, 1989 Economics 9 not mean they pollute. If I pick up a rock, it is not biodegrad­ to paper ones. The polyethylene shopping bags require less able, but if I throw it into a river that doesmean it is polluting energy for production and overall induce less damage to the it. Biodegradation and pollution are two different things. For environment. " example, the pollution phenomenon in the Adriatic Sea with the growth of algae, the increased eutrophy, and so forth, is Cut Amazon to produce paper bags? due precisely to the phenomenon of biodegradation. In other Based on thisreport, th� German Environment Ministry words, the River Po pours too much biodegradable matter refused categorically to submit to the demands of the Green­ into the Adriatic, and it is precisely the decomposition of this ies who want Germany to adopt measures analogous to the material that creates pollution. Italian ones. Let us recall that, naturally, paper is made of It is true that a substance that is non-biodegradable cannot wood, and that to get wood you must cut down trees. So, the be destroyed, but it is also true that it is sitting there and not very same Greenies who fight now so fervently to preserve bothering anybody, just like a rock. Not to mention the fact the Amazon forests, and in this case may indeed be doing the that almost all biodegradation phenomena produce carbon right thing, have opened up the way to "Made in Brazil" anhydride, which is responsible for the greenhouse effect paper bags with this law: We'll see them soon in our super­ that seems to disturb the Greenies so much. The law estab­ markets, produced by thosepaper mills mounted on big float­ lishes an escape-clause; on the topic of biodegradability, it ing barges whichfol low, yearafter year, the receding borders says that those bags that are made of 90% biodegradable of the Amazon forests. material can escape the tax . This would be very nice except The paper industrialists say that trees can be replanted, that this material does not exist on the market, and this is well and this may also be true, in the sense that in Europe there is known to the persons who proposed this bill. There is no a market eqUilibrium, and hence, as many trees as get cut plastic that is 90% biodegradable. down, get replanted. But when a law like this is passed, Hence, the only concrete effect of this law will be to which makes the market explode because it deliberately fa­ create a disincentive for producing plastic bags which, as we vors one industrialproduct in the place of another, there goes saw before , do not pollute at all, and to build up an incentive your eqUilibrium. So there will be such a strong demand for instead for producing and selling paper bags, because paper paper products that to find the wood needed to satisfy it, it happens to be biodegradable. It's no accident the tax amounts will be necessary to cut down trees, which will be cut down to 119 liras, because all the previous experiments by super­ where they are, i.e., in the zones where tropical rain forests markets with paper bags have failed; not only because paper grow; this is inevitable. is inconvenient to use (it tears easily, etc.), but because its Now the Greenies know all this perfectly well. There production costs are three times as high as plastic. By impos­ have been conventions, articles, and congresses. What they ing this tax on plastic bags, they end up costing more than did was not in good faith. So why are they moving in such an paper, which gives an unfair advantage from the economic obviously contradictory way with respect to what they say standpoint to the latter at the expense of the former. Now this are theirgoals? could just be an economic distortion, a wrong way to favor one industrial product in place of another; except that paper Political plot bags are much more polluting that plastic ones, and whoever For sure, there are economic reasons: In fact the paper proposed this law, and the Environment Minister who de­ and glass industries and those of other packaging materials fends it tooth and nail, have not made a law against, but which definethemselves as ecological, are financingthe Green indeed, in favor of pollution. movements. But this is just a partialreason, because in reality We are not saying this just because we are a party to the this support came after the Green movement had already matter; it is also said by independent research institutes, by started. I believe thereis a deeperpsychological reason, even university professors, reports that have been commissioned if this is just my personal conviction. What I have said up to by the Environment Ministries of the German and Swiss now are proven scientific facts; what comes next is my own governments. In particular, the Swiss government made a opinion. comparison between the ecological impact of various pack­ If we take a look at the biographies of the majority of aging materials. Green leaders, which have been published in an interesting In the end, utilizing this data, it turnsout that a paperbag reportby EIR which is called "TheEcologist Conspiracy" [in requires almost 4 times as much energy to produce as a plastic Italian], we see that almost all these persons have a past of bag, pollutes the atmosphere 6 times more , pollutes the water protestation and violent opposition behind them. We are talk­ 75 times more (it is known that paper mills are the most ing about the 1968' ers , people who in their youth believed pollution-causing industries that exist, from the standpoint that you could overturnour societyby violence, failed at that, of water pollution), and at the end of its life cycle produces and now want to get revengeby other means. almost 4 times as much solid waste. The German government The objective of most of the Greenies is not to safeguard report concludes: "For ecological reasons it doesnot seem to nature, but to destroy industrialsociety; in the name of what, us to make sense to move from polyethylene shopping bags they honestly proposeto achieve this, I do not know. Among

10 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 Five thousand plastics industrialists and workers demonstrate in Rome on May J J. The banners are all made of recyclable plastic; the one in the fo regroundfeatures a "talking tree" which pleads, "Help me defend nature, use plastic bags." In the center background is the Schiller Jnstitute banner, "No to the Green dictatorship!" Above: Corrado Perrone. other things, a proof of this way of operating is also encoun­ upside down: The environmental impact analyses should al­ tered in the systematic attack which the Greenies lead against ways be made comparatively (and the Greenies known this every new proposal to improve our situation. well, because they have experts in their field who are tech­ Everytime we propose to build an industry, to make an nicians and are acquainted with all this). The Greenies in­ electrical power plant, to construct a highway, to erect a stead, when they present their conclusions and their theories stadium, to make a waste-treatment plant or anything that to public opinion, do them all one-way, not comparatively would help better the environment in which we live, there is but dishonestly. always the local Green on hand forming the committee that This way everything gets blocked. Power plants are not jumps up to block the project, by using a technique they call built, waste-treatment plants are blocked, the widening of environmental impact analysis and which I would like to give the Bologna-Florence highway is blocked. Anyone who has you a very simple example of. had to drive on that accursed road (which I often have to do Let's suppose someone wants to build a high-speed high­ for work-related reasons) knows that it is a death-trap. Yet way and presents himself with the project. Out pops the for years, projects have been presented to double its width; Greenie and says: "This road should not be built because its the highway company has the funds; but the local Greenies environmental impact is negative, because automobiles trav­ don't want it, because no one wants the new highway to run el down the road and they pollute with their fuel discharges, through his own property. and therefore the lands and dwellings adjacent to the road To sum up, I think that it is time, if we can, to say no to would undergo a worsening of their quality of life. Building all of this. Honestly we have to say that the Greenies have this road means pollution and the road should not be built." conquered significant power by exploiting people's sympa­ Now that all seems to follow, but it is really a trap, because thies because we all instinctively love nature. But we have to it is not done in a comparative manner; what should be con­ realize that we have given our sympathy to people who did sidered is the situation after the project were built, and what not deserve it, and we must tear offthe mask and try to stop would happen if we did not carry out the project. Cars are not them before they wreak damage which is even more serious built because roads are built; cars exist because people need than what they have already done. I hope that the Schiller them to get from one place to another. Institute, which has never let itself be conditioned by the Now if I don't make a new road for people, to get from overweening power of the mass media and has never been place A to place B, they will use the old roads; the old roads afraid to carry forward courageous and sometimes unpopular are inadequate and hence there will be more traffic, more ideas, can be the aggregating point for this battle which we congestion, more fuel emissions, more consumption of re­ hope will succeed in defeating the Greenies' plan for destroy­ sources, labor time, and so forth . But the discussion is turned ing the industrial economy.

EIR June 23, 1989 Economics 11 ton, and the company has implemented a unilateral contract which Trumka called an "economic death warrant" for the union. The company has continued operations with scabs, and with the support of Virginia state forces. Trumka raised the issue of the right to assemble, to strike or demonstrate. "Is it the right to peaceful assembly? Just ask the Chinese or Support widens for ask the 2,500people at Pittston arrested in Virginia. Is free­ dom the right to lay down your tools without losing your job? mine workers' strike Ask the Polish, or any red-blooded American who has been replaced by a strike breaker. . . . As of today, we are not only on strike against Pittston, we are on strike against the by Marcia Merry state of Virginia and every politician who's against us." Trumka renewed his call for civil disobedience, which The week of June 12 saw a dramatic broadening of support the miners have followed since April. He told the rally that of the United Mine Workers eight-week-long strike against civil disobedience has a "great tradition in this country. We the Pittston Coal Group. During the course of the bitter strike will resist peonage slavery. We will resist strike breaking by to date, the issue of the police-state role of the Virginia the governmentand the courts. We will resist with nonviolent judiciary and law enforcement has come to the fore , along­ civil resistance. Let the word go forth that the sanctity of the side the economic brutality of the Pittston officials. halls of power that pass unjust laws, that the sanctity of the The strike began April 5 by the UMW against Pittston courts that put mine workers in jail and finetheir organization Coal Group of Lebanon, in Russell County, southwestern a trillion dollars, will be violated by our civil resistance." Virginia. Originally, about 1,300 Virginia union members, Using tactics like those of the Chinese students or the 400 in West Virginia, and 300in Kentucky were involved in civil rights movement under Martin Luther King, the Pittston the action, which came after monthsof provocations by Pitts­ strikers have sat down in front of the strike breaking coal ton , and the impossibility of negotiating a new contract, trucks at many mines, only to be dragged away by state despite more than 120 bargaining sessions following the con­ troopers. The Virginia State Police have been ordered to go tract expiration Feb . 1, 1988. The issues in the strike include in for the kill by lame duck Gov. Gerald Baliles, and state basic job security, basic work times and conditions, and Attorney General Mary Sue Terry, ambitious for national minimal health benefits. prominence. Supporting the repression against the miners, On June 11, the mine workers held a 15,000-person rally Federal District Judge McGlothlin finedthe UMW nearly $3 in Charleston, West Virginia, the heart of the coal country. million in early June, rejecting labor pleas that the strike was The next day, 10,000 West Virginia mine workers staged a a Iife-or-death struggle for the union and a way of life. "Re­ sympathy walk-out, and June 13, some 1,000 Virginia min­ gardless of how the parties feel about the virtues of their ers walked out of the mines in Westmoreland County at Big fight," said McGlothlin, the strike is an "economic war" that Stone Gap. must be waged according to federal and state rules. In Vir­ Almost no national media coverage took place of this ginia, a right-to-work state, the rules are rigged to destroy spreading strike wave, despite the involvement of many other the union. The judge cited the draining of $1 million from workers such as the Eastern Airlines pilots and machinists, the state treasury each month to arrest and prosecute miners, who were present at the Charleston rally. The union is re­ as harming the economy. ceiving food and financialsupport from the AFL-CIO, Com­ The Pittston Company, parent of the coal division, for munications Workers , firefighters , Teamsters , and many oth­ the past three years has downgraded its coal mining opera­ ers, including about 90 churches fromGreen wich, Connect­ tions, and prioritized its international airfre ight division. As icut, Pittston's corporateheadquarters . reported in the company's 1988 annual report, the yearly The UMW strike against Pittston has come to represent a revenues from coal have fallen from 46% of the total com­ front of national resistance against police state measures and pany revenues, to 39% in 1987, and 32% in 1988. forced impoverishment. Between April and early June, three In May 1987, Pittston withdrew from the Bituminous strike leaders, including the regional UMW president, were Coal Operators Association, which has a national pact with jailed by a Roanoke, Virginia federal judge, and more than the UMW, on the grounds that the BCOA companies pri­ 2,500 arrests have been made for violations of a court-or­ marily sell to domestic utilities, while Pittston sells on the dered ban on union picket lines at Pittston facilities. Federal spot market to foreign steel producers, and wanted "flexibil­ and state courtanti-picketing injunctions could mean fines of ity" of terms of work-such as mining on Sunday. In the past over $1 trillion in 22 days-an outrageous police-state tactic. the BCOA companies mined 70% of U.S. coal, and today At the Charleston rally, acting UMW president Richard the share has dropped to 35%, due to unilateral actions by Trumka said that negotiations have broken down with Pitts- Pittston and others.

12 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 Banking by John Hoefle

Thornburgh wants more cops smolder. The nation's thrifts posted a That's the U.S. attorney general's "solution" to the crisis of the negative income of $3.4 billion in the firstquarter of 1989, while losing $28 thrift institutions . billion in deposits, continuing a de­ posit run which began in May 1988. Texas thrifts alone had a negative in­ On June 13, u.s. AttorneyGeneral lay in the $50 million which the Bush come of $2.2 billion during the first Richard Thornburgh stopped in Hous­ Plan would allocate for increased law quarter, and lost $3.3 billion in depos­ ton, as part of a whistle-stop tour enforcement personnel, including the its. through Texas to promote the Bush hiring of 1 00 new federal prosecutors "It's the biggest and longest [de­ Plan for the nation's troubled savings and 200new FBI agents. Coupled with posit] outflow inhisto ry,"said FHLBB and loan institutions. the increase in personnel, the Bush chief economist James Barth. The Thornburgh used the Texas visit proposalwould also increase the stat­ good side of the outflow, insisted to repeat the administration's shop­ ute of limitations periodon bank fraud Barth, is that thrifts are maintaining worncontention that the crisis that has cases from the current five years, to capital strength while they shrink, thus devastated the nation's thrifts is due to ten years. increasing their capital ratios. "No fraud on the part of thrift managers, "The result of the lack of law en­ growth is not necessarily bad," Barth and to call for a massive federal effort forcement may mean that wrongdoers said. to throw the alleged perpetrators in jail may escape punishment and millions The major bone of contention in and seize their assets. of dollars lost in S&L schemes may the June congressional actions in The Thornburgh tour was de­ never be recovered," Thornburgh said. Washington is how much investment, signed to make headlines in Texas, He also complained that the sentences or capital, the owners themselves must while back in Washington, D.C. the handed out in these cases are insuffi­ be required to invest in the S&Ls that fracas continued in the House of Rep­ cient, saying, "It's not the prosecutors they operate. Bush personally met with resentatives and the White House over who are failing to press these cases. congressmen June 15, on the eve of how to deal with the thriftcr isis. We are trying to convince the courts the expected vote on the issue, to de­ Thornburgh's theme was that the that crime in the suites is just as im­ mand stiffer requirements. Bush and mighty Department of Justice, which portant to try and prosecute as crime a host of House Democrats attribute has squandered many millions on bla­ in the streets." the failure of thriftinstitutions to poor tantly political assaults such as that The Bush Plan would also likely capitalization (and fraud) , and not to against Lyndon LaRouche and his as­ involve the renegotiation of some of economic decline. sociates, has a "shortage of resources" 1988's Southwest Plan thrift bailouts, Thornburgh 'praised the Dallas to prosecute these "very difficult cas­ by eliminating the benefit of "good Bank Fraud Task Force as a "model es." Thornburghclaimed that as many will" carried on a thrift's books. Some investigative and prosecutorial oper­ as one-third of the major bank fraud $20 billion of good will is carried on ation in the war against savings and cases were as a result not being pur­ thrifts' books,much of it held by thrifts loan fraud," calling its 36 convictions sued, allowing "significant wrong­ that took over other ailing thrifts and out of 46 individuals charged an "en­ doers" to escape. used the good will-with the bless­ viable record." The problem with bank fraud cas­ ings of the Federal Home Loan Bank But most of those victories have es, Thornburgh asserted, is that they Board (FHLBB)-to defer account­ been the result of plea bargains. The involve "some of the most complicat­ ing for the losses held by the ailing task force lost its biggest case to date, ed and outlandish rip-off schemes institutions. In a letter to Ohio Con­ the show trial of Independent Ameri­ we've ever seen in this country." In­ gressman Charles Wylie, the Justice can Savings' Thomas Gaubert, who vestigating them, he said, involves Department said that prior agreements decided to fightrather than capitulate. many hours of searching through doc­ between thrifts and regulators do not In the words of one Dallas investor, uments and computer records. prohibit Congress from imposing new "The function of the task force seems Especially, some would say, when capital standards. to be to findpeople who would confess you have to fabricate theevidence first. While Thornburgh and Bush are to being fraudsand cheats, and they've The solution, Thornburgh stated, fiddling, the thrift crisis continues to had very few takers."

EIR June 23, 1989 Economics 13 Agriculture by Robert L. Baker

The drought is far from over send cattle to slaughter. Slaughter of Many parts of the country are still on an emergency fo oting, as cows is 'Up 4% from last year, and weekly cow slaughter is 22% higher fo od stocks and cattle herds dwindle . than a year ago. In western North Dakota's Little Missouri National Grassland, ranch­ ers are cuttingtheir cattle stocks by as much as 50%, said Bill Barker,a North Dakota State University agronomist at If you believe the media commenta­ In the meantime, the share of the the StreeterExperimental Station. tors and U. S. Department of Agricul­ retail cost of the average food market Recent rains turned southern Iowa ture, the early June rainfall ended the basket that the farmer receives has green, and the com crop is surviving drought, and you can relax about your fallen 19% since 1980, and for cereal­ so far, but farmer Teri Campbell says food supply. But only do that if you based products the farmer's share has there is no subsoil moisture, and her don't like to eat. fallen 36%. The farm value of food town of Mount Ayr, Iowa, might run The Wall Street Journal headline eaten at restaurants is only 16% of its out of waterby August. on June I, "Food Inflation Worries cost, according to 1988 USDA data. The National Guard has hauled Wane as Rains Across Farm Belt Re­ Thus, if the price to the farmer were 300,000 gallons of drinking water to duce Drought Threat," is misleading. increased by 50%, restaurant prices several southernIowa towns, and new Food price inflation is here to stay un­ should at most increase 4-5%, which wells must be dugdeep into theground til the U. S. government returns to a is about the average restaurant price to find water. production-oriented food policy, as increase in each of the previous five "We're in a disaster area again this compared to the currentpolicy reduc­ years. year," Campbell says. ing the amount of food produced. These relative cost reductions have Dn a world scale, the June 11 Lon­ According to current Bureau of been obtained at the expense of don Sunday Times warned that only a Labor statistics, on an annualized ba­ 500,000 liquidated U.S. farms since 61-day reserve of global food stocks sis the cost of all food has increased 1980, with more on the way. There­ exists (comparable to the early 1970s), about 13% from January 1987 through fore , as per capita world food stocks and that adverse weather persists in March 1989. This same comparison reach historic lows, the days of cheap many world crop regions. "Large areas since January 1984 shows a 29% an­ food have come to an end, and prices of the United States, plus Canada, the nualized increase in food prices. As will be determined in light of actual Soviet Union, China, Argentina and the consumer food prices continue to and anticipated shortages. Uruguay, have experienced some of rise, government and media agricul­ The 1988 drought in North Amer­ the warmest and driest winters and tural spokesmen aretelling farmers that ica continues. The rains have only wet springs OB record." the reason market prices for farm the surface of the ground. Huge areas The danger involved-according commodities are below the cost of have severe subsoil moisture deficien­ to the Tiniesand agencies it cites such production, is because farmers are cies. In addition, the ripple effects of as the Washington-based World­ over-producing. the persisting drought are seen in many Watch Institute-is not that morefood The percentage of income U. S. other sectors, in the steep drop in cat­ is needed and people are going hun­ consumers are spending on food has tle herds. Overall, the national cattle gry, but that special measures are actually gone down. In 1965 about inventory is down to thelevel of 1961 , needed to deal with the resulting "po­ 17% of personal income was spent on which is approximately a 30% drop of litical instability" and food riots that food; in 1988 this fell to 12.5%. How­ about 40 million head since the 1975 are now breaking out. These agencies ever, there is an increasing disparity high of 135 million head. blame the human species for "over­ in purchasing ability between poorer Most discussion of the drought has population." and more wealthy households. For in­ focused on crop prospects, somewhat However, the food crisis is in real­ stance, in 1985, white households ignoring how many cattle producers ity a result of years of government and spent $20.89 per person weekly on are struggling to stay in business in the relatedprivate sector policies that have food, while black households spent midst of drought. Many ranchers, promoted shortages and production $12.24-a 71% disparity. lacking hay and pasture, are forced to decline.

14 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 Andean Report by Carlos Mendez

CAP's solidarity appeal rejected nialism," and concluded that "only the Blind to the Caracas riots and to the recent labor strike, deployment of the social force repre­ sented by agrarian producers . . . will Venezuela's President sticks with IMF austerity. be capable of cbanging the direction of current officialagricultural policy. " Undaunted by the criticism, the Venezuelan central bank on June 9 Refusing to consider the chorus of the solutions theIMF has imposed . . . raised active interest rates to 42%, and protests against his economic policies [which] is oriented toward stripping the agricultural interest rate to 30%, from practically every sector in Ven­ the Venezuelan state of its obligations despite the government's pledge that ezuela, President Carlos Andres Perez and constitutional duties in economic this would not rise above 15%. Cesar (CAP) presented business and labor and social matters. " Gil, a CTV official, said that "with the leaders May 26 with his proposal for That same day, journalist Rafael new rates, people will have to pay a National Agreement, reportedly Poleo wrote in EI Nuevo Pais that with twice for their homes, agricultural modeled on the so-called Economic the signing of the new IMF Letter of portfolios will be dangerously affect­ Solidarity Pact that has straitjacketed Intent, "the only thing that happened ed, and-worst of all-it will dis­ Mexico since the end of 1987. was that the Venezuelan government courage investment." The premise of CAP's proposal is delivered a report of the sacrifices it According to the central bank, continued austerity imposed by the In­ has imposed and plans to impose on prices of basic consumer items rose ternational Monetary Fund. In an­ its people, with the hope that such a between Februaty and April by 187%. nouncing his proposal, CAP said: presentation will convince the Fund On top of the protests, a serious "Now Venezuelans can truly believe that it should lend it more money. " warning has been added. According that the 'fresh money' so often an­ On June 1, the president of the to the daily EI Universal of June 1, the nounced, will come. After the signing Federation of Small and Medium In­ commander of the national guard, Di­ of the Letterof Intent with the Inter­ dustrialists (Fedeindustria), Jose Luis vision General Luis Ram6n Contreras national Monetary Fund . . . the final Santoro, said that the new tariff policy Laguado, declared at the Third Inter­ document was signed last Wednes­ included in CAP's solidarity proposal national Congress on Security held re­ day. And it is now up to the IMF board a hands-down death sentence for small cently in Caracas, that: "Public secu­ of directors to recommend the open­ and medium-sized industry and crafts­ rity in the country over the coming ing up of credits to the country, $4.8 men. That same day, EI Nuevo Pais months is conditioned on whether the billion over three years. . . . The doc­ reported that a group of Venezuelan packet of economic measures imple­ ument we have signed does not estab­ congressmen had joined forces to sup­ mented by the [Venezuelan] govern­ lish conditionalities any different from port and defend the Fedeindustria con­ ment succeeds or fails ....To ana­ those we had agreedto in the Letter of stituency. lyze the future of public and private Intent; it is a statement of willingness Regional producers are raising security in the country is to pose three to carry forward the economic pro­ their voices, too. On June 11, the pres­ hypotheses: that the packet of mea­ gram the country had proposed." ident of the Producers Association of sures is a success; that it is a partial The Venezuelan Workers Confed­ Rojas District (Gulirico state), Dan­ success; or that it fails. In these three eration (CTV) responded in a June 2 gelo Morfesse, said, "What CAP has cases, the security institutions will act document published by the daily EI done is pronounce a death sentence for in accordance with the circum­ Universal, which states that CAP's small and medium-sized grain pro­ stances." proposal "is not a document of har­ ducers" who cannot afford fertilizer at Venezuelan, Labor Party leader mony. . . . What it does is reaffirm the new prices decreed. The Agrarian Alejandro Peiiaoffered a different so­ the economic policy of the govern­ Federation (Fedeagro) issued a June lution, in a commentarypublished June ment . . . which has already been re­ 12 document saying that "the decision 7 in the daily Ultimas Noticias: "It is jected by the labor organizations and to raise the price of fertilizers in the urgent to channel anti-MonetaryFund the country's workers ." The CTV also current context" confirmsthat agricul­ ferment through a broad nationalist emphasized that "the government ture is not a priority for the govern­ front capable of promoting an alter­ maintains its neoliberal concept of the ment. Fedeagro charged that the gov­ native program to that of Rockefel­ problems affecting the country, and ernment favored instead "food colo- ler's friends."

EIR June 23, 1989 Economics 15 Business Briefs

The Soviet Union He proposed that a Japanese citizen become ing in Bangladesh. France will present a the next president of the World Bank, to special study on the problem. Economist warns of reflect Japan's enhanced role in the world's economy. financial collapse If countries like Japan won't go along, Environmentalism threatened Rohatyn, "the political reaction One of the Soviet Union's leading econo­ here is likely to be harsh," with the neces­ Victory for Greenpeace mists told a session of the country's new sary changes occurringonly with "some type parliament on June 8 that the country is of political or financial crisis coming along in whaling controversy heading for a financialcrash by 1992 unless to force the issue. " draconian measures are taken to cut the "We are at the dawn of a new era," said Greenpeace, the Soviet-linked group of in­ budget deficit. Robinson, painting a utopian picture of a ternational ecological fanatics, won a vic­ "Over the next two to three years, if we new Ibero-America which, once they adopt tory on June 12 at the annual meeting of the do not stop inflation, the decay of the con­ "market-oriented reforms ...can shake free International Whaling Commission in San sumer market and themonstrous budget def­ of the burden of debt." Diego. The commission agreed to extend a icit, then we face economic collapse," econ­ sanctuaryfor whales in the Indian Ocean for omist Nikolai Shmelyov told the Congress three years. Key to the victory was the re­ of People's Deputies. Shemyov said that lease of a new study by scientists associated Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov had shown The Debt Bomb with Grc:enpeace, which claims that whale in his speech to the Congress that he was populations are much lower than previously aware of the problem, but questioned if he Mitterrand to host measured. realized how acute it is. A spokesman for the Japanese delega­ If a crash were to come, "it would mean Third Wo rld leaders tion challenged the accuracy of the esti­ a total system of rationing, supremacy of the mates, but all the other countries capitulat­ shadow economy, and total loss of value for French President Fran�ois Mitterrand has ed. the ruble, and this would force a return to a invited 30 leaders of the Third World to An

16 Economics EIR June 23, 1989 Briefly

feet a day. ment at the expense of the planet's natural "If things stay the same, there's no relief resources.... All the people of the Earth in sight," said Michael Albach, environ­ are paying the price for the industrialized • 'mE FOOD SHOCK will be mental manager for the Edwards Under­ North's standard of living," it said. worse than the oil crisis," World­ ground Water District. "We're particularly The congress called for a redoubling of Watch Institute head Lester Brown concerned about the rate of decline. That efforts to repair ecological damage , sup­ said during a visit toRome . He wamed 22-foot drop in May is a record, exceeding ported the establishment of a world environ­ that if the U.S. wereto suffer another the decline of the drought periods of 1956 ment tribunal, and opposed all nuclear pow- year of disastrous drought, then "dra­ and 1984 . And we're justnow getting into er. matic choices" would have to be the peak use months of summer. " � At a closing ceremony, Romesh Chan­ faced, such as: limiting food exports, The Edwards Aquifer is one of the larg­ dra, president of the Soviet-linked World decreasing feed-grain to cattle, and est artesian aquifers in the nation, running Council of Peace, gave Nicaraguan Presi­ increasing taxes on meat. some 180 miles under six counties. It is fed dent Daniel Ortega the council's highest by rainfall that seeps into its honeycombed award for efforts to promote world peace. • INFLATION could rise to limestone formation. Scientists estimate that 1,000% in Yugoslavia this year, the it has provided drinking water for humans Financial Timesof London predicted for more than 8,000 years. FinancialMarkets on June 7. The paper notes that the San Antonio, the largest U.S. city with International Monetary Fund recent­ only one source of water, is the largest user Experts see Japan as ly had a team in Belgrade: "The IMF of water from the aquifer. The city's City is reported«> be insisting on tighten­ Water Board pumps an average of 180 mil­ trigger for new crash ing monetary and credit policies." lion gallons a day, and up to 220 million gallons a day in the summer. Farmers and A senior Swiss banking source expects Ja­ • FRENCH PRESIDENT Fran­ ranchers take about one-third of the aquifer pan to bethe "trigger" for a new crash of the �ois Mitterrand, in a speech to an in­ output for irrigation and other uses. financial system. Reviewing the global sit­ ternational colloquiumon "The Plan­ San Ant'mio normally receives about 28 uationin thewake of the October 1987 crash, et Earth," held in Paris June 12-13, inches of rain annually, but rainfall was 4.5 the source underlined that "nothing funda­ surprised everybody by calling for inches below normal for the firstfive months mental has changed. " further development of nuclear ener­ of this year. Add the sparse 19 inches the "The question is, what will be the 'trig­ gy . The development of nuclear en­ city received in 1988, and the region has had ger. ' I think Japan will be that trigger, when ergy "allowed France to reduce by a rainfall deficit of 15 inches over the past people least expect. Already there are signs one-fourth since 1980 its production 18 months. of smaIl but significant cracks. Labor unrest of carbon dioxide in the atmos­ is growing over wages; internal discipline is phere ," he said. beginningto break down; Japan's industrial Demography markets, domestic and export, are saturat­ • MICHAEL DUKAKIS, gover­ ed, and they are being priced out because of nor of Massachusetts, announced the Wo rld environmentalists the high yen." creation of a new "environmental A senior Asian banking analyst con­ strike force" to go after the state 's meet in Nicaragua curred with this evaluation. "The Tokyo industrial pplluters. Industrial pollu­ stock exchange is so overblown, with eam­ tion will noV'be considered a "violent More than 1 ,200 people from 60 nations .ings-ratios of 1,000 or 2,000 to 1. A very crime" since industrial polluters "do attended the Fourth Congress on the Fate big decline is coming, and when the crash violence against neighborhoods and and Hope of the Earthin Managua, Nicara­ comes, it will be even morehorrendous than against the water we drinkand the air gua during the first week in June. They re­ October 1987. " He said it would come either we breathe.;" leased a statement charging that human later this year or, at the latest, early 1990. beings were destroying far more than they This source added: ''There is no ration­ • TINY�OWLAND, the industri­ allowed to regenerate , and that the habitat ality any more in the financial system. The alist and dititytricks manfor the Brit­ ' which permitted life on Earthwas seriously strength of the dollar is a remarkable phe­ ish Crown, was cleared of contempt threatened for the first time. nomenon in view of what is really going on of court charges by the British House The congress condemned attempts to in the American economy. Who can talk of Lords. 1"he key to Rowland's le­ transfer current models of industrialization about eqUilibrium any more? I'm just wait­ nient treatment may be found in the to developing countries. ''These models lead ing for the Group of Seven to come to Paris lead judge, Lord Bridge, reportedly to excessive consumption, waste, and en­ in July, and say and do absolutely nothing, a former official of MI-6 (foreign in­ vironmental destruction. Industrialized except a few words on debt. They have no telligence ). countries achieved their levels of develop- idea what to do or say."

ElK June 23, 1989 Economics 17 �TIillStrategic Studies

The history of LaRouche's comprehensive SDI policy

by Michael Liebig

The author. director of the Executive Intelligence Review Sokolovsky's Soviet Military Strategy in 1963. The 1972 Nachrichtenagentur in Wiesbaden. West Germany. is afre­ Soviet-American ABM Treaty had effectively squashed the quent contributor to this review on military and strategic deployment of kinetic BMD systems, but allowed for R&D matters. What fo llows is his address to a conference co­ work in the field of BMD systems based on "new physical sponsored by the National Caucus of Labor Committees and principles." And precisely this, the Soviets have been doing the Schiller Institute in CrystalCity. Virginia on May 27-29. on a grand scale. The politico-military officialdomin Wash­ 1989. ington under Kissinger-Ford and Brzezinski-Carter not only ignored these Soviet advances, but effectively suppressed Within the United States and maybe more so outside the any attempt to make these most unpleasant facts about Soviet U.S.A., Lyndon LaRouche's name is being associated with science and technology with its military-strategic implica­ SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative. That goes for his friends tions known to a broader public. U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. and equally so for his foes. The SDI uniquely encapsulates George Keegan was to experience this, when he publicly the essential issues that are determining the fate of the United voiced concernover Soviet directed energy work in 1977. States as a world power and with it the survival of the Atlantic Alliance and the Western world as a whole. For me-a Ger­ 'Sputnik of the Seventies' man-trying to assess LaRouche's crucial contribution to LaRouche's passionate interest in advanced physics had the SDI may involve disadvantages, but it can also be rather led him and a group of acquaintances with a background in helpful to look at the strategic complex of the SDI from a physics to initiate the Fusion Energy Foundation (PEp) in point of view that goes beyond the United States. 1974. The accumulating reports concerningSoviet advances Obviously, LaRouche did not "invent" the technology of in the field of plasma physics and directed energy technolo­ ballistic missile defense (BMD). As early as 1955, the United gies were intensively discussed among LaRouche and his States began to develop anti-missile-missiles. In the early acquaintances. LaRouche concluded that the scientific, tech­ sixties the United States had precise plans for a nationwide nological, and military implications of these Russian ad­ BMD system-called "Sentinel"-with nuclear-tipped vances represented a formidable challenge to the United "Spartan" and "Sprint" anti-missile-missiles. Already in the States, that a new "Sputnik shock" was in the making. On summer of 1958 Eugen Slinger published a study, in which May 31, 1977, the PEF published the brochure "Sputnik of he discussed the shortfalls of kinetic missile defense and the Seventies" on the Soviet breakthroughsin advanced phys­ advocated the development of weapons using directed energy ics. LaRouche demanded that �e U.S. stand up to the Rus­ beams against ballistic missiles. Soviet plans to develop such sian challenge and engage in a major national effort in these directed energy weapons were made public in Marshal V.D. crucial areas of advanced physics. LaRouche wanted such a

18 Strategic Studies EIR June 23, 1989 national effort for scientific, technological, and military rea­ sons, but he wanted it for cultural reasons as well. In May 1977-the first months of the Carter administration-Mal­ thusianism was not only the "state doctrine" for the admin­ istration-that had been the case already for the previous administrations under Kissinger-but Malthusianism was to be made the "popular ideology" in the United States. That is why LaRouche did not want to just circulate some memo­ randa among political and military officials in Washington and elsewhere alerting them on the Russan challenge. La­ Rouche wanted the American people to know ! LaRouche wanted the understanding and backing of the American peo­ ple for a national science effort.That is why tens ofthousands of copies of the FEF's "Sputnik" brochure were circulated. LaRouche can be a man of great discretion. You would be most astounded were the names made public of all the officials on an international scale with whom LaRouche met and discussed the vast complex-known after 1983 as the "Strategic Defense Initiative"-between 1977 and 1985. Yet to the profound dislike and anger of political and intelligence community "fixers," LaRouche has the Lincoln-like quality of bringing genuinely important national and international Nov. 11, 1974 : LaRouche's passionate interest in advanced matters to the people ! The people must be informed and physics led him and a group of acquaintances to initiate the Fusion educated about the policies vis-a-vis "great affairs ," while Energy Foundation. Here he is shown, center background, at the the operational and technical specifics, of course, must re­ fo unding meeting in New York. main secret. Standing up to the challenge of Soviet scientific breakthroughs and their military implications, therefore , be­ came a central political issue for LaRouche ! The LaRouche LaRouche had in effect become the principal conceptual an­ 1980 presidential campaign, therefore, prominently featured tipode to the "nuclear deterrence" school of McGeorge Bun­ a national program for a beam weapons ballistic missile de­ dy, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Zbigniew Brzezin­ fense system. On Aug. 15, 1979, LaRouche published a ski, and James Schlesinger. The massive revival of the "de­ presidential campaign statement on military policy, which terrence school" and the comeback of its chief ideologues says, "A LaRouche administration will have two leading right now under the Bush regime gives additional signifi­ points in military policy. First, commitment to the develop­ cance to LaRouche's work on military strategy in the second ment of advanced-technology weapons able to 'kill' incom­ half of the 1970s. ing missiles in the stratosphere." I repeat, LaRouche said this The strategic system of nuclear deterrence makes the on Aug. 15, 1979! That is three and a half years before nuclear-tipped offensive missile of whatever range into an President Reagan's world famous March 23, 1983 television "absolute weapon." That weapon system may get technolog­ address on the SDI. ically refined by increments (MIRVing or cruise missiles), but can tolerate no qualitative technological attrition that LaRouche's fight against 'MAD' would create weapons systems which possess defensive or In order to understand how LaRouche was able to con­ offensivequalities that neutralize and supersede the offensive ceptualize the SDI, it is necessary to look at LaRouche's nuclear missile. The states with arsenals of offensivenuclear work since the mid- 1970s on statecraftand military strategy. missiles are to engage in some sort of community of fate LaRouche had grasped that advances in physics and applied based on the capacity for mutual nuclear destruction. The technologies had matured to a level which provided a solid "balance of nuclear terror" is to ensure the integrity of the scientific-technological foundation for BMD systems based superpowers' sanctuaries while not necessarily that of allied on directed energy. But beyond the scientific-technological or other third party territories. The axiomatic quality of mu­ dimension, LaRouche had, for years, systematically and tually assured nuclear destruction must be upheld while its ruthlessly dissected the U.S. military strategy of "Mutually quantity may be reduced through "arms control" agreements. Assured Destruction" (MAD) or "nuclear deterrence" and its The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 preserved thequal­ offspring, the NATO doctrine of "flexible response." The ity of the system of deterrence against technological attrition, twin sister of "deterrence" is, of course, the edifice of "arms while the SALT I and II treaties were meant to quantitatively control and disarmament." Through his work in these fields, restructure the superpowers' nuclear offensive arsenals.

EIR June 23, 1989 Strategic Studies 19 LaRouche, in his writings and in speeches, explained "how 'MADness' ruined the Pentagon." While a James Rodney Schlesinger proclaimed the "aura of power" of U. S. military capabilities, the reality was that the U.S. military strategy was reoriented towards "limited wars" in Europe and/or the Third World (again striking parallels to the Bush policies of today). All-embracing strategic stagnation produced a se­ quence of political-strategic disasters like the B-1 bomber cancellation, the neutron weapon cancelation, the bungling over the intermediate-range nuclear forces, "Euromissiles," with the "double track" scheme, Carter's Nicaragua policy, the dumping of the Shah of Iran and the hostage rescue fiasco in Iran, and finally the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Under today's Bush regime, Carter is back as the highly respected "elder statesman." Thirdly, LaRouche knew, and said so, that under the rigidly stagnant system of nuclear deterrence not only the military but the people in the United States and the other NATO countries had to become increasingly demoralized. The indeed perverse logic of threatening a nuclear holocaust as the only means of avoiding war had to materialize into Nov. The author (left) with Lyndon LaRouche at a 23. 1982: cultural pessimism and a growing sentiment toward appease­ seminar on beam weapons in Munich. West Germany . The international drive to get Reagan to adopt this new strategic ment. "Peace movements," like the "nuclear freeze" in the doctrine. had been publicly launched by LaRouche in February of U.S. or the West European anti-Euromissiles movement, that year in Washington. have expanded massively since the late 1970s. The Soviets got the Western peace movements of the 1970s and 1980s going-and then firmly controlled them-by most cleverly LaRouche assaulted the systems of nuclear deterrence by exploiting a very real dilemma, that of MAD. Deterrence firstof all pointing to the fact that the Soviet politico-military does make appeasement look rather acceptable and even command had never truly subscribed to deterrence, but pur­ fashionable. sued a military strategy of war winning, by nuclear means if LaRouche's way out of MAD in a forward direction was necessary but preferably by non- or post-nuclear means. a military strategy based on the military-technological revo­ LaRouche gave much attention to Marshal Sokolovsky's book lution associated primarily with directed energy systems. In Soviet Military Strategy and the then emerging, next-gener­ terms of fire power-i.e., the energy density of the beam­ ation Soviet military doctrine shaped decisively by Marshal and mobility-i.e., speedof light or approximations of that­ Nikolai Ogarkov. LaRouche pointed to the steadily progress­ beam weapons go orders of magnitude beyond that of even ing marginal superiority in Soviet offensive nuclear capabil­ the fastest nuclear missiles. In March 1982, LaRouche pub­ ities, the Soviet strategic defense effort, their space warfare lished a military policy Paper, which was based on a lecture capacity, their civil defense program and their ruthless, so­ to an EIR seminar in Washington a month earlier, which had called "conventional" buildup. In the· so-called "convention­ the title, "Only Beam Weapons Could Bring to an End the al" fieldOgarkov increasingly emphasized post-nuclear, ad­ Kissingerian Age of Mutual Thermonuclear Terror." vanced weaponry based on new physical principles and cor­ responding post-nuclear operational concepts focused on air­ The history of military science borne and special forces. LaRouche vehemently warnedthat A directed energy BMD system means the strategic re­ the U.S. may find itself in a situation where, either a path of habilitation of defense. Such a system eliminates the seeming ever-worsening backdowns and concessions vis-a-vis the So­ omnipotence of nuclear offense. Military strategy and genu­ viet Union, or a desperate military "flight forward" were the ine war avoidance is again founded on the dynamism of only alternatives leftfor the United States. technological attrition and logistical depth. LaRouche's con­ Secondly, LaRouche pointed to the visible demoraliza­ ceptual design of a military strategy for the United States tion of the American military, which radiated into NATO. based on a directed energy BMD system evolved out of his Under McNamara, Kissinger, and Carter's deterrence doc­ work on the history of military science that he had pursued trine (justas under the Bush regime today), the United States' since the mid 1970s. There is a real wealth of lectures and great strength, in terms of technological attrition and logis­ essays by LaRouche on military science. Contrary to ignorant tical depth, was systematically eroded. Again and again, and malign gossip, the real "sources" that LaRouche draws

20 Strategic Studies EIR June 23 , 1989 on are primary sources. mats, but certainlynot for the Red Army. LaRouche's strategic conceptions are based on intense By making Carnot-and Carnot's influence on Scharn­ intellectual labor with the works of Machiavelli, Carnot, horst and West Point-his principal references in the history Scharnhorst, and Clausewitz. LaRouche intensely studied of military science, LaRouche's concept of strategy is ob­ the American War of Independence, the history of West viously not a narrow, "military-technical" one. Instead for Point, especially concerningthe firsthalf of the 19th century, LaRouche, "War is not the sum-total of the results of individ­ and the American Civil War. He analyzed the Carnot reforms ual battles; battles are but singularities of that total war which in France, Napoleon's conduct of war, and the strategic de­ is the interdependent political, economic, cultural, and mil­ signs of Scharnhorst in the German Wars of Liberation. itarypolicies and capabilities of the opposing military forces LaRouche developed a deep understanding of the Prussian in depth." LaRouche's concept of strategy is one "grand general staff. He dissected the degenerated, bloody incom­ strategy." Politics, economic performance, and culture are petence of military leadership on all sides in the conduct of not only the indispensible components, nor even the foun­ World War I. And, LaRouche worked hard on Soviet Russian dations of strategy. For LaRouche rather, they have the qual­ military thought fromTukhachevsky , the Russian World War itative priority and quantitative terms which make up his II commanders, to Sokolovsky and Ogarkov. On the Amer­ much-cited "90%" of strategy. And indeed in modem war­ ican conduct of war during World War II, LaRouche's studies fare not more than 10% of the total effort goes into actual and focused on Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the outstanding strat­ bloody fighting as such. If war breaks out or not, and once egist and military leader. war has broken out, its course is fundamentally determined I think one can say that LaRouche's military thinking is by politics, economic performance, and culture. This is, I most strongly influencedby Lazare Carnot andGerhard von think, the core feature of LaRouche's grand strategy. And Scharnhorst,who adopted and developed the ideas of Carnot. this is a notion of strategy, that qualitatively supersedes the On the latter, LaRouche wrote, "In sum, Carnot's reforms Clausewitz dictum of "war as the continuation of politics." were based on the two central republican principles: the mo­ His "holistic" notion of strategy is equally important for bilization of the citizenry to arms, and reliance on deploying the science and technology of rapid economic progress to increase mobility and firepowerin warfare ." From the vantage point of systematic study ofthe history of military science, LaRouche was able to conceptually rip apart the "utopian," anti-MacArthur school of Anglo-Amer­ ican military thinking which got codified in the system of "nuclear deterrence." LaRouche traced the intellectual his­ tory of the post-World War II deterrence school back to the oligarchical way of warfare , or "cabinet warfare ." The ar­ chetype ofcabinet warfare is the Duke of Marlborough (1650- 1722). The strategic assumptions underlying "cabinet war­ fare" are stagnation, limitations, and rigid regulations in the conduct or war, with the people and the armed forces in a state of passivity and fatalism. In other words, the exact opposite of Carnot's way of war. While McGeorge Bundy, McNamara, or Kissinger have been on the "marketing" side of deterrence policies, the real originator of the deterrence school was Bertrand Russell. A man of evil talents, the arch­ malthusian Russell institutionalized the deterrence school in the Pugwash organization. Russell and the Pugwash organi­ zation formulated, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the central features of the system of nuclear deterrence, nothing of importance has been added since. The great intellectual effort of LaRouche in combatting the school of nuclear de­ terrence is of vital importance in the present situation, when the Bush regime is celebrating the great revival of nuclear Dec. 1, 1 a media uproar was created when a close associate deterrence and his Russian counterpart Gorbachov seems to 982,' of Lyndon LaRouche, Fiorella Operto, opened a conference on be playing so nicely along. Make no mistake, the Russian Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Italy by telling the standing-room­ politico-military command thinks that a deterrence strategy only audience of 1,200that the " beam weapons" concept is the is the right military policy for the West and Russian diplo- only way to stop nuclear war.

EIR June 23, 1989 Strategic Studies 21 grasping LaRouche's unique capacity to generate innovative have to transform thisworld ." concepts in the fields of military strategy and intelligence This powerful concept ofmoral purpose, ofnational mis­ affairs. I know many military and intelligence experts, who sion as the basis for grand strategymust be understood as the respect and admire LaRouche, but who remain deeply puz­ framework in which LaRouche situated his military policy in zled about his-in their view-"improper mixing" of seem­ general and his directed energy BMD policy specifically. ingly "separate" matters like culture and the economy with LaRouche saw in a beamdefense strategy not just the undoing military and intelligence affairs. But they are even more of nuclear deterrence and the Soviet nuclear threat. For puzzled about LaRouche's ability to create new ideas on LaRouche a beam defense strategy meant an opening up of military and intelligence matters , something that "experts" new scientific frontiers, especially space exploration. It meant with extensive, specialized professional knowledge in these also the undoing of malthusian cultural pessimism. And it areas are mostly not capable of. meant the industrial rejuvenation of the eroding physical economy of the United States by introducing revolutionary Strategy and morality production methods. Occasionally there were some echoes I think is it necessary here to look still a bit closer at the of LaRouche's ideas concerning the linkage of morality and dimensions of "culture" and "politics" within LaRouche's strategy from official or semi-officialquarte rs. Among inter­ concept of grand strategy. For LaRouche, "culture" means esting examples were EdwardTelle r's October 1982 remarks first of all theology and morality as defined by Augustinian about a beam defense strategy as a stepping stone toward Christianity. "Our firsttask is that of reaffirming and defend­ realizingthe "common aims of mankind." ing that precious spark of continuity we associate with the tradition of St. Augustine. We must do that, not only for LaRouche's campaign for ourselves, not only for our nations, for our posterity, but for strategic defense, 1981-83 the sake of all humanity. Imagine the fate of a world in which After Jimmy Carter was gone and Ronald Reagan had this spark were lost to humanity! That we could not tolerate become President, LaRouche intensified his political cam­ at any price." L yo said so in a presentation given at theEIR paign for a beam defense strategyto be adopted by theU.S. seminar, "Beam Weapons-The Strategic Implications for government. On July 20, 1981 LaRouche published another Western Europe" in Rome, Italy on Nov. 9, 1983. military policy paper, which discussed the specific require­ Matters of strategy, warfare , statecraft , and intelligence ments of a space-based beam defense system, namely the are indeed matters of life and death. War is a brutish crime, directed energy device as such, the power source, sensors for utterly unjust, if it is not fought to defend the higher purpose tracking and target acquisition, battle management, and space of human life, the dignity of man as the imago Dei ["the platforms. LaRouche's political friends and supporters as image of God"] . How can there be a great strategist or a great well as acquaintances from the PEF organized a growing military leader, if he or she has no morality, no soul, no number of public events in the U. S. which featured the beam higher purpose? A notion of strategy thatis not anchored in defense system and which demanded that the Reagan admin­ morality thus definedmust necessarily degenerate into crimes istration adopt a military strategy based on such a system. against humanity and ultimate defeat. World history, based The most important of these events was an EIR seminar in on natural law , has been the judge, over and again, on that Washington, D.C. in February 1982, which was attended by score. a large numberof political and military officials as well as a In LaRouche's notion of grand strategy, there is no place large number of representatives of foreign embassies and for slogans like "My Country-Right or Wrong." Instead, agencies. It was then that LaRouche made the crucially im­ for him grand strategy for a nation must be based on a moral portant lecture on beam weapons, which was published a purpose, a mission for that nation. For LaRouche a nation month later under the title, "Only Beam Weapons Could cannot just exist in and for itself, cannot be content with the Bring to an End the Kissingerian Age of Mutual Thermonu­ material well-being of its population and otherwise stay away clear Terror." frominternal or external trouble. A nation must not look the LaRouche's beam defense campaign coincided with the other way, when there is injustice within the nation and steady escalation of political tension around the stationing of equally so when there is injustice beyond its boundaries. A NATO's INF Euromissiles planned for 1983. The "nuclear nation with a moral purpose cannot but fight and overcome freeze"and "no firstuse" campaigns in the United States and tyrannies, unjust wars, hunger, and the lack of culture and the mass activities of the Western European "peace move­ economic progress. For the United States and its moral mis­ ments" flourished. In late 1982 LaRouche traveledto Europe, sion LaRouche once said ten years ago, "We exist not for wherehe and his associatesaddressed well-a ttended seminars ourselves ....The best way for us in the United States to on beam weapons in Bonn, Munich, Paris, Strasbourg, Mil­ define our purpose in life as a nation and as individuals is to an, Brussels, Madrid,and Stockholm. Senior West European look at this hungry world, imperiled with famine and epidem­ military and political figures requested briefings on beam ic ....We have a mission ...to use the great potential we defense by LaRouche and assO¢iatesof his. Please note, that

22 Strategic Studies EIR June 23, 1989 we are still months away from March 1983. that were set to undo the traditionally established ideas of When President Reagan made his famous TV address of defense, i.e. nuclear deterrence. March 23, 1983, in which he directed American scientists to The Russian command was determined to use every means develop the means to render nuclear missiles threatening the of political and diplomatic pressure as well as military coer­ U.S. and her allies "impotent and obsolete," most of the cion. Every Soviet intelligence asset, "useful idiot," and political and military officialdomin Washington, just as else­ appeaser in the U.S. and the West at large was to be activated where in the West and East, was profoundly shocked. Wash­ against the backers of the SDI. Even more than "outside" ington's governmental, congressional, and military appara­ political and military pressure, the Soviet command calcu­ tus was utterly unprepared for a presidential directive that, in lated on an "inside operation," an arrangement with their effect, rendered the strategic regime of nuclear deterrence traditional, established partners within the American East obsolete. The media did not know where to tum. They had Coast milieu, to strangle the SDI in the cradle so to speak. to tum to the associates of LaRouche, because hardly anyone Such an arrangement might allow the liberal Anglo-Ameri­ else could provide them with competent information. can Establishment to reconsolidate and to regain the initiative LaRouche knew immediately that the Reagan speech of lost for the moment. March 23, 1983 had the potential of a strategic punctum We do not know what secret encounters took place in the saliens. LaRouche knew that a beam defense system-from April-May period between the Soviets and Eastern Establish­ then on denominated SDI-as a comprehensive policy pack­ ment figures. What we do know is, that on April 27, 1983, age with its scientific, technological, military, political , and Georgi Arbatov met with Brent Scowcroft in Denver, Colo­ cultural components, could signify a phase-change in the rado, and that on May 26, 1983, Averell Harriman met with . overall national policy orientation of the United States and Andropov in Moscow. the Western alliance as a whole. On April 24, 1983 Yuri Andropov gave an interview to The American liberal foreign policy establishment had Der Sp iegel. In this interview, Andropov outlined the basic been caught offguard . Moscow was caught off guard. With the knowledge of the U.S. government, LaRouche had con­ ducted private and informal exchanges that included promi­ nently his beam defense concept with Soviet government representatives in the period winter 1982 to spring 1983. In these discussions the Soviet side had readily conceded the strategic validity of LaRouche's beam defense strategy, but excluded the possibility that it would ever be adopted by the U. S. government. After March 1983, LaRouche for the Rus­ sians was no longer a nuisance with stimulating ideas, but a deadly enemy to be neutralized.

The Anglo-American-Soviet countermove Already on March 27, 1983 Yuri Andropov violently attacked Reagan's SDI speech as "insane." In April 1983, the Soviet Russian politico-military command under Andro­ pov and Ogarkov had its response to the SDI ready. Under no circumstances would the Soviet Union accept a transition to a strategic relationship with the United States in which the SDI played any major role . American proposalsin the direc­ tion of "parallel deployment" of strategic defense on both sides or even the sharing of knowledge on beam technologies between the United States and Russia were categorically rejected. The Russians knew perfectly well, that beyond the field of military technology as such, the SDI would have a major impact in terms of U.S. politics and the U.S. economy. They knew the SDI could shatter the grip of the liberal Estab­ lishment over U.S. foreign and security policy. Henry Kis­ April Supporters singer himself at the Trilateral Commission meeting in Rome, 13. 1 983 : of the National Democratic Policy Committee. representing the LaRouche wing of the Democratic April 20, 1983, deplored the outflankingof the liberal Anglo­ Party. demonstrated on Capitol Hill infavor of the new strategic American Establishment through the SDI. New political forces doctrine. announced by Reagan on March 23. The Russians had had gained influence in the Reagan administration, forces already attacked the plan.

EIR June 23, 1989 Strategic Studies 23 Nov. 9,1983: LaRouche addressed a seminar on "Beam Weapons: Implications fo r Western Europe, " in Rome, one of three major seminars in the capitals of Italy, France, and Germany in 1983-84, where he detailed how ''jlexible response" can be replaced by a European Tactical Defense Initiative complementing the American SDI. A long, vitriolic article on the conference was printed in Izvestia a fe w days later.

features of his proposal for an arrangement with the liberal from the SOl toward the condominium arrangement with Anglo-A�erican Establishment against the SDI, which he Soviet Russia. The liberal Anglo-American Establishment called dangerous adventurism. In exchange for their inside went to work and delivered. On July 18, 1983, HenryKissin­ sabotage against the SOl, the Soviet Union would be ready ger was named to head the Bipartisan Commission on Central to "stabilize" the regime of nuclear deterrence through new, America. As important as Kissinger's role was in wrecking far-reaching nuclear arms control agreements. Beyond that, a regional solution of the Central American crisis through the Soviet-American relations were to be upgraded towards a Contadora Group and dragging the United States ever deeper new type of "condominium"-arrangement allowing for geo­ into the Nicaraguan quagmire, there were also senior figures political restructurings and regional crisis management. Aft­ of the liberal Establishment within the Reagan administration er all, said Andropov, the Soviet Union was a "continental doing the same and more . The most important ofthem was­ power," which had obviously different strategic interests vis­ in my view-the vice president. Nicaragua became the pri­ a-vis Western Europe, but also in Afghanistan, from the mary obsession of the Reagan administration. In the media United States as a "sea power." On the other side, he­ and in Congress, the political hysteriaover Central America Andropov-could perfectly well understand that the U. S. steadily escalated. The energies of the Reagan administration could not be "indifferent" to the "kind of government that got more and more channeled into and absorbed in Central exists in Nicaragua." Along these geopolitical and strategic America. The combined efforts of the Soviets and the liberal lines, said Andropov , the Soviet Union was searching for a Anglo-American Establishment vis-a-vis Central America "common language with the American side." did produce a classical case of "energy drain" away fromthe SOL It is also a method of political warfare systematically The Central American 'monkey trap' used against LaRouche and his associates precisely because Central America was to become the crucial flankingmove of his decisive role in bringing the SDI into existence. On of the Soviet command in collusion with the liberal Eastern Oct. 13, 1983, Reagan's National Security Adviser Bill Clark Establishment in their common war against the SOL The resigned. He and Oefense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had Reagan administration had to be lured into the Central Amer­ been the key backers of the SDI in the Reagan administration. ican "monkey trap ." Once the Reagan administration had He was replaced by Robert McFarlane-whosewife inciden­ been caught in that monkey trap , it could be drawn away tally worked for Kissinger Assm;iates. Another employee of

24 Strategic Studies EIR June 23, 1989 Kissinger Associates and known enemy of the sm, Lord throughs from being achieved since 1983 by scientists and Carrington, was named NATO secretary general on Dec. 8, engineers working on the SDI. The sm funding as projected 1983. What Kissinger had called the effort to "whittle away" in 1983 has been cut significantly since then. A lot of re­ the sm had gained momentum by late 1983. sources were diverted into the kinetic side of the sm pro­ I have given you only a very rough and rather incomplete gram. Much strategically preciou$ time was lost vis-a-vis the sketch of the multifaceted operationof sabotaging the sm a) SDI. Still, a core structure of sm research and development from within the administration; b) through every channel of is in place. And the Russian command is still quite afraid of political pressure of the liberal Establishment outside the the sm. administration; and c) through massive Russian political, In the late summer of 1983 and the spring of 1984 La­ intelligence, and military coercion. I cannot elaborate on Rouche addressed three important seminars with the theme what the Russians did in the Middle East at that time: the "Beam Weapons-The Strategic Implications for Western killing of the PLO' s Issam Sartawi, the bombing of the U. S. Europe" in Bonn, Rome, and Paris. In all three lectures embassy in Beirut, and the Beirut bombing of the Marines LaRouche presented his design forthe Atlantic Alliance. The barracksthat killed nearly 300Marines . The increasedSoviet NATO offspring of nucleardeterre nce, "flexibleresponse ," weapons deliveries to Nicaragua and the events in Grenada must be replaced by a strategy that defends Western Eu­ helped to keep up the hysteria over Central America. In rope-especially Germany-withoutdef ense equaling self­ September 1983, the Soviets shot down the KAL jetliner and destruction. This could only be done through a European the North Koreans killed four South Koreancabinet members Tactical Defense Initiative (Tm) program complementing in Rangoon, Burma. In October 1983, the Soviets organized the American sm program. The survival of NATO was the largest-ever anti-NATO demonstration in Bonn. In No­ conditional on a new strategystr essing the broadest applica­ vember, they broke off all arms control talks and deployed tion of military technologies based on "new physical princi­ submarine-launched ballistic missiles off the U. S. coasts. pies." Besides directed energy systems in a counter-missile The barrage of Soviet military threats during that period was and counter-air role, ground warfare had to be reshaped by massive, just think of the KGB's Fyodor Burlatsky writing other, new electromagnetic weaponry. Since then we have then in the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta that the sm is a learned a lot more about radio-frequency weapons. casus belli for the Soviet Union. Beyond military strategy, LaRouche presented his design Again, this listing is incomplete. I thinka lot more work for an Atlantic Alliance based on the "community of princi­ ought to be done on point a), the sabotage of the sm from ple" of sovereign nation-states, in which the United States is within the Reagan administration. I believe the role of the the primus interpares or "firstamong peers." One may argue vice president deserves special attention. In late summer this is naive "idealism" and point to brutal and cynical facts 1983, the vice president made a tour through EasternEurope of power and realpolitik. I don't think that LaRouche's con­ and Austria. On Sept. 21, 1983, Bush delivered a peculiar cept of the "community of principle" of Christian civilization speech in Vienna in which he pronounced a "brightfuture for is in any way naive. Just think what the rejection and the central Europe." The Yalta deal, Bush claimed, had been denial of these values has produced in the West, in the United "misunderstood," there had been no division of Europeinto States and Europe. The denial of these values in statecraft spheres of influence at Yalta. The true Yalta had meant a and strategy produces, on the other side of the equation, "joint responsibility" of the Soviets and the Anglo-Ameri­ degeneration, erosion of strength and power, and ultimately, cans over the liberated territories. Stalin and the Soviets had self-destruction and defeat. Clever, amoral realpolitik is not abused the Yalta deal, this abuse of the "true Yalta" had to so clever in the end. The recent events in China and within be rectified. This sounds to me strangely familiar. It seems the Soviet empire prove this. The condominium between the to be strangely close to the Kissinger-Bush plan for the "reor­ Russian Nomenklatura and the Anglo-American liberal Es­ dering" of Europe as it has emerged since the beginning of tablishment got badly shaken. Already in November 1983, this year. the Russians did not at all think that LaRouche's ideas of statecraft and strategy were naive. They sent ten Soviet in­ SDI and the Atlantic Alliance telligence operatives into the Nov. 9, 1983 EIR Rome con­ Yet in spite of the concerted sabotage efforts against the ference on sm, addressed by LaRouche, and on Nov. 15, sm, the SDI nevertheless was then, and is still, a most 1983 Izvestia published a lengthy, vitriolic article against popular policy in the U . S. population. The effortsto sabotage LaRouche. Then Russia was militarily strong, but not yet the sm did not succeed in preventing the creation of a basic shakenby an openinternal cr isis. The Russian Nomenklatura sm research and development infrastructurethrough thework will not idly lean back and see their empire cracking up. of Gen. James Abrahamson's Strategic Defense Initiative Their military power is still strong. I am convinced, that Organization. The efforts to sabotage the sm failed to pre­ dramatic circumstances rather soon will force out into the vent extraordinary scientific and technological break- open a dramatic comeback of LaRouche's design of the SDI.

EIR June 23, 1989 Strategic Studies 25 ITillFeature

International AII )S Conference V: last tango in Montreal?

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

The Fifth International Conference on AIDS, held at the Palais des Congres in Montreal fromJune 4 to June 9, may do littleto halt the spread of AIDS but it may well have done much to halt the spread of the International Conference on AIDS . With each passing year, conference organizers have beenobsessed with covering up the lack of progress in stopping this species-threatening pandemic, by staging larger and more spectacular versions of this annual soiree. This year's bash, which attracted over 11,000 participants-somewhat short of the projected 18,000- and over 900journalists , was the biggest, the gaudiest, and perhaps the last such spectacle to be inflicted on what remains of the scientificcommunity . One reason this year's conference wasn't even moreunwieldy is that the entire issue of central nervous system involvement in AIDS was the subject of a separate satellite conference in Quebec City on May 31-June 3. Yet another conference, the First International Symposium on Oral AIDS, was held at the Palais des Congres immediately priorto the Fifth International Conference. The opening ceremonies were preemptedby a groupof homosexual activists from the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP). This was the group that gave then-Vice President George Bush a hard time at the Third InternationalAIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. in 1987. This year, theyand other AIDS activists and persons with AIDS were invited, for the firsttime , to be delegates and parti­ cipants in the conference. The conference organizers gave them permissionto read a manifesto from the podium prior to the opening speaker, with the understanding that they would then leave the podium and let the conference proceed. Having delivered this oration criticizing Canadian health officials for not spending enough money on the prob­ lem, and demanding free treatment for all AIDS patients, no quarantine, and no mass testing, 50 or so of the group refused to relinquish the podium for nearly an hour. During this period, while the audience patiently waited for the opening cere-

26 Feature EIR June 23, 1989 Some of the brochures offe red fo r edification at the Montreal AIDScon ference. and a page from the program.

monies to begin, the occupants of the podium held an extend­ number of infected individuals at 5-10 million and stated, ed press conference with the assembled media. As this con­ "The epidemic is still dynamic. The virus has not plateaued. tinued, people began leaving the hall assuming that the pro­ It has not peaked." Dr. Mann went on to claim that quarantine gram had been canceled. had never stopped the spread of any infectious disease and that while "we expect the decade of the 1990s will be worse­ Video voodoo and perhaps much worse-than the 1980s, there is a source The demonstrators finally relinquished the podium and for optimism . . . in the strength and diversity of community­ the conference officially began, however not to be outdone based programs, where you have evidence of success in be­ in tastelessness by the demonstrators , the conference itself ginning to prevent infection and treat people who are ill." began with a "rap" video entitled "At Risk: Young People in Interestingly in the course ofhis speech Mann felt it necessary the Global AIDS Epidemic." to deny the possibility thatAIDS represented genocide against To quote from the conference brochure, "The film is black populations. about six young people and their views of love, sexuality, Dr. Mann's credibility on this issue wasn't helped by the relationships, drugs, AIDS, family, violence, and their fu­ performanceof Mechai Viravaida, founder of the Population ture aspirations. The film examines the stark implications of and Community Development Association of Thailand, in growing up in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic, in which the opening plenary session of the conference. Mechai, oth­ many young people sense a threat against love. 'At Risk' erwise known as the "Condom King," punctuated his speech shows how young people are living with serious risks. AIDS on encouraging children to use condoms by demonstrating is an increasing threat, as are drugs, environmental destruc­ various "educational games" such as blowing up condoms tion, the global arms race, and increasing violence." All of like balloons. this to a background ofloud, satanic, Reggae music by some­ As the epidemic continues to spread, and it becomes more thing called Quincy Delight. and more evident that present scientific and other efforts This bit of New Age propaganda, co-produced by Global cannot stop it, the number of sessions at the conference ap­ Village Information AB of Sweden, succeeded in driving pears to be the only thing that is keeping pace with the number some more people from the hall. However not everyone was of infections. This year, in addition to sessions on Epide­ offended by these videos and in fact an entire section of the miology and Public Health, Clinical Aspects, and Basic Re­ conference was devoted to AIDS videos with such appealing search, there were sessions on AIDS and the Individual; titles as "Safe Sex Slut" produced by someone, or something, AIDS, Society and Behavior; Ethics and Law; International called "Scarlot Harlot." In addition there was an entire dis­ Issues; The Economic Impact of AIDS; and an audiovisual play of SIDArt (AIDS art) for those with a taste for bio­ session. The purpose of the latter sessions appears to be that socially relevant pornography. of ensuring that if anything positive comes out of the first Dr. Jonathan Mann, director ofthe Global AIDS Program three sessions it will not be allowed to interfere with the of the World Health Organization (WHO), estimated the present "New Age" approach to public health. One is re-

EIR June 23, 1989 Feature 27 minded of the cartoon of Snoopy saying "If you can't floor Symposium on Oral AIDS broached the question of oral them with facts, baffle them with bull-." transmission of HIV infection in a way that will be difficult Those scientists who attempted to voice anything repre­ tg contain. Finally there is a strong reaction in the scientific senting a serious approach to the epidemic were the target of community against the whole New Age media spectacle that heckling and catcalls from the assembled AIDS activists. the International Conference on AIDS has become. New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph, who As one scientist at the conference observed, "They spent called for widespread testing and recording the names and $2 million to transport politicians from Africa and pay their addresses of seropositive individuals to facilitate contact trac­ hotel bills. Instead of using the money to buy detection kits ing and medical followup, was greeted by shouts of "Shame, to save lives in Africa they wasted these monies on African shame" and "Resign, resign" from the lavender fauna in the politicians. Then I met one physician from Brazil, and she audience. Outside the hall another group was collecting sig­ told me that she never in her life saw such generosity of the natures on a petition to protest the Cuban quarantine policy, Canadian government. They supported practically every­ which is admitted to have substantially slowed the spread of body interested in coming to Montreal, regardless of whether HIV infection in Cuba. they had anything to present or anything to say, or anything The problem is that as long as the current policy of the to understand! They invested a tremendous amount of mon­ World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease ey, and they didn't give a penny to Canadian scientists to Control (CDC), et al . remains unchanged, no really substan­ attend the scientific conference, and they wasted money on tial progress in reversing the spread of AIDS, and other people who are not necessarily familiar with AIDS." epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis, will be made. The He continued: "What was important was to organize the scientific sessions, for the most part, simply confirm what biggest junk conference in the world, and that's why a con­ was predictable once the nature of HIV was determined. All ference on scientific program was attacked by scientists. That's of the slogans about education and safe sex have not changed why Gallo attacked them. He said clearly, 'I saw a lot of the fact that the infection is still spreading and, again quoting . faces, and I don't think that I was obliged to see them.' He Dr. Mann: "We expect the that the decade of the 1990s will said on French TV, 'Next year I will think two times before be worse-and perhaps much worse-than the 1980s." going to San Francisco, and I will request first a scientific There is growing evidence ofcracks in the official "line" program prior to going there.' So, I think the Fifth Confer­ on mass testing, as evidenced by Dr. Stephen Joseph's speech ence has practically killed the future of world conferences on during the opening plenary session. The First International AIDS ."

the Film Language of Porn" (a German view), "Lace Up or Lose It" (U.K., on censorship), "Anthropologist as A slice of life, and Voyeur" (a view from Quebec). death, in Montreal The June 8 session is on the use of "rap" music for AIDS. But nothingbeats the poster entitled "Garlic in the treatment of AIDS." The conference looks like a combination of a Roman car­ Two thousand peoplewander about, and the scientists nival and a rubber industry trade fair, a grotesque happen­ are angry. One leading French virologist was asked what ing with countless condom stands, condom videos, ma­ he thought of this conference, "This is nuts, meaningless. chines to test condom resistance to breakage, and ma­ We don't need rap sessions about the psychological prob­ chines to shoot at condoms. Out of 6,000 posters at the lems of our patients, we are with them daily. We don't conference, perhaps 2,000deal with research, epidemiol­ need to come all the way here to hear cheap talk about ogy, and clinical medicine. The majority deal with "safe psychology. This conference shows zero progress on (non-reproductive) sex," homosexual rights and feelings, treatment, absolutely nothing. euthanasia, medical cost cutting, and the advantages of A scientist from an English-speaking African country dying at home. It is a scene reminiscent of Bruegel's is more blunt: "I'm depressed, I'm a depressed scientist, "Dance of Death" or the flagellantsof the Dark Ages. I can't stand this anymore. How many such conferences Each day one is treated tothe videos. The June 7 noon to 'gather the data' is WHO going to organize before it seminar is on "Erotica," the resume reads: "Porn has con­ decides it can act? My concern is that nothing is being troversy. Few remain indifferent to its existence or avail­ done now, just pretenses. The epidemic of AIDS is ability. This session combines several views of the con­ spreading in Africa, peopleare faIling ill everywhere, and temporary construction of pornwithin the context of Safer WHO has not even organized one program in one com­ Sex education." The speakers' titles are: "Working with munity to do something." -Garance Phau

28 Feature EIR June 23, 1989 lowed by a presentation on the mv receptor, CD4, and its Conference Report: Oral AIDS role in infection and treatment. CD4 is the new hot item being pushed as a potential "magic bull�t" for treating HIV infec­ tion. Ironically Dr. Pekovic presented evidence at the main AIDS conference which casts dO\lbt on the primary role of CD4 in HIV infection. The final presentation of the session demonstratedthat there was a difference between the bacte­ 'Kiss of death' rial population of the mouth of homosexual AIDS patients as opposed to IV-drug-using AIDS patients. This difference fo r officia1 1ine may relate to the higher incidence of HIV -associated gum disease in homosexual AIDS patients.

by John Grauerholz, M.D. Oral infections are first symptom! The second session was entitl!!d"Oral Manifestations of A significantcrack in the position that AIDS is not transmis­ AIDS." This consisted of nine presentations covering the sible by oral contact, such as kissing, occurred in Montreal, entire spectrum of HIV associated oral disease. The most Canada on June 2 and 3. The First International Symposium significant point is that oral infections are the first clinical on Oral AIDS, organized by Canadian dental researcher manifestations of AIDS. Not only that but it is ironic that Drasko D. Pekovic, brought together scientists from around HIV, which is supposedly a sexually transmitted organism, theworld to exchange information on the diagnosis and treat­ produces no ulcerations or sores of the genitals but produces ment of AIDS-associated oral diseases, as well as to investi­ a great many such lesions of the lips, tongue, gums, and oral gate the possibilities of oral transmission of AIDS and ex­ cavity. Anyone sitting through the literally dozens of slides amine risk factors faced by dental health care professionals of inflamed, ulcerated and rotting mouths, gums, and even and the safety conditions of dental services. jaws, associated with AIDS would have a hard time believing That the conference even took place is a tribute to the that contact with such mouths posed no threat of transmission persistence of Dr. Pekovic in the face of direct and indirect of HIV-especially in light of the well-documented associ­ obstruction by the World Health Organization (WHO) and ation of transmission of HIV with ulcerated lesions of the other components of the international AIDS mafia. Three genital organs, associated with real sexually transmitted dis­ groups from the United States who wanted to attend the eases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea. conference and present their results were forbidden to do so. It was the third session on Microbiology and Immunology In one case theleader of a major group working on oral AIDS which provided the coup de grace to the idea that oral trans­ in Californiaforged signatures of other members of the group mission, and specifically saliva transmission, was impossi­ on a letter withdrawingfrom participation in the conference. ble. This session opened with an overview on oral transmis­ This after5 ,000copies of an announcement, listing the group sion of HIV by Djordje Aj dukovic, of the Institut Armand as part of the conference committee, had been prepared for Frappier, which confirmed that there indeed was active in­ distribution at last year'sInternational Conference on AIDS fectious virus in at least some of the inflamed, ulcerated in Stockholm, Sweden. mouths that had appeared in the previous session. This was In spiteof this counterorganizing, 50 speakers from around followed by a presentation on salivary antibodies to HIV in the world participated in the Symposium on Oral AIDS as intravenous drug users and homosexual men by D. Archi­ opposed to only six presentations on the subject at the Fifth bald, of the University of MarylandDental School, who was International Conference. The symposium consisted of four co-chairing the session. panels and a poster session. The Panels were 1) AIDS Up­ After Dr. Archibald's presentation, things really became date, 2) Oral Manifestations of AIDS, 3) Microbiology and interesting. A presentation titled " Lymphocyte Activation by Immunology, and 4) Social Aspects, Risks and Preventive Oral Bacteria As a Factor in Transmission of AIDS by Sali­ Measures. va," by Drs. Q .L. Liu of Shanghai, Pekovic, Aj dukovic and The conference openedwith a welcome from the Director colleagues, demonstrated the presence of HIV -infected lym­ of Public Health of Quebec, Marc Dionne and a welcome phocytes in the gingiva and saliva of HIV-seropositive indi­ fromthe HonoraryChairman , Armand Frappier, Founder of viduals. These HIV-infected lymphocytes had been immu­ InstitutArmand Frapp ier, Laval, Quebec. This was followed nologically activated by bacteria in the mouth which facili­ by an address on "Antibody Response to HIV- 1 AND HIV- tated infection of the lymphocytes by HIV and stimulated the 2 Antigens" by Myron Essex of the Harvard School of Public production of high titers of virus by the infected lymphocytes. Health. They concluded that "This activation capacity of oral bacteria The firstsession discussed recent advances in understand­ may play a significantrole in the infection of PBL [peripheral ing AIDS and other HIV-1 induced diseases. This was fol- blood lymphocytes] by HIV."

EIR June 23, 1989 Feature 29 Dr. Pekovic then presented more evidence of involve­ Following this presentation, Dr. Pekovic rose and asked ment of HIV in human oral diseases. Using sophisticated Dr. lIla if he had published the case, which had occurred immunologic techniques and electron microscopy, Pekovic in 1985. Dr. Illa responded that he had been subjected to and his colleagues studied 96 patients at different stages of threats by state and federal health officials and that the HIV infection. They demonstrated the presence of HIV in laboratory which did the AIDS test on the patient had been blood lymphocytes, gingival epithelial cells (i.e. the surface closed by the State of California in spite of being one of of the gums) , lymphocytes in the gums and saliva, as well as the major medical laboratories in the state. Before closing, in areas of gingivitis and periodontitis. In fact the number of the laboratory sent Dr. lIla a reportclaiming that the positive infected lymphocytes in saliva was higher than in blood! test on the husband was an error, the only such error ever The kiss of death came in the next presentation, entitled made on a positive test and somewhat suspect since a second "AIDS Transmission and Microlesions of the Oral Mucosa," sample, from the same patient but under a different name, by a research group from the Infectious Diseases Clinic of was still listed as positive! the Medical Faculty of the University of Naples, Italy. By The denouement to this climactic case came in the final doing studies on the level of hemoglobin, a red blood cell summary of the panel, delivered by Dr. Archibald, who pigment, before and after activities such as eating, kissing, grudgingly conceded that the evidence indicated that salivary and toothbrushing, they found a significant increase after transmission might be possible and that Dr. lIla's patient brushing teeth and kissing but not after eating. They con­ might represent such a case. Afterwards it came to light that clude: his initial formulation was that there was no real scientific evidence for salivary transmission and that the California It is generally accepted that the presence of blood case was questionable. The next stage in this battle will be in the saliva is indirect evidence that microlesions are to get the conference proceedings published and circulated. present in the oral cavity. During kissing, two mu­ But the genie is now out of the bottle and those who hold cosae, both of which may contain microlesions, come the line that salivary transmission is impossible will find into close contact. The intense rubbing which occurs that line less and less tenable. during kissing can favor both the formation of mi­ The Second International Symposium on Oral AIDS is crolesions and the passage of blood from one partner already scheduled for next year in New York City and in to the other. If the blood of one partner contains HIV, light of the debacle of the Fifth International Conference on the virus can pass into the bloodstream of the other AIDS , there are indications that serious scientists are looking partner. Our study has shown that microlesions are to this conference as an alternative forum for presenting normally present in the oral mucosa and that saliva their research. Dr. Pekovic is presently committed to main­ contains blood. Therefore, we feel that passionate taining the primary focus on :oral AIDS , but his example kissing cannot be considered protective sex for the may well inspire other serious scientists to consider holding transmission of human immunodeficiency virus in- alternativeconferences to the next Roman circus. The Sixth . fection. International Conference on AIDS is presently scheduled for San Francisco in 1990. With this background, Dr. Robert lIla of Oroville, Cal­ ifornia presented the following case:

A 70-year-old woman who received blood from an HIV positive donor following coronary by-pass surgery in 1979 developed AIDS and died in 1984. Her husband, a 72-year-old man , lost 36 1bs. in 1985. He had a low helper/inducer T-lymphocytes count, Weekly EIR became HIV positive, suffered from numerous lung Audio Reports infections and neoplasms and died in 1985 of respi­ ratory failure. The husband was sexually impotent and CasseHes he denied sexual intercourse with his wife (or with • News Analysis Reports any other woman) since the time of her surgery. He • Exclusive Interviews also denied any other risk factor for HIV infection $5001Year although the couple was affectionate and kissed each Make checks payable to: other on the mouth often. The CDC officer who in­ EIR News Service, PO Box 17390 terviewed the husband and his children was unable to Wa shington, D.C 2004 1 ·0390 Attn: Press suspect any other reason for HIV infection. This case

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30 Feature EIR June 23, 1989 AIDS: Where are we today?

Dr.Jo hn Grauerholz reviews where science stands on the nature qfthe virus, treatment, and testing.

The FifthInternational Conference on AIDS has now passed rus-another misnomer) infected monocytesjust like Visna, into history and it is useful to look at where science now and produced primarybrain and lung disease, just like Visna, stands in light of what this magazine, and some of our co­ the fallback position was that infection took place via attach­ thinkers on the AIDS issue, predicted over three and four ment to the CD-4 receptor molecule, which is particularly years ago. abundant on CD-4 lymphocytes, hence their name, but is also present on some monocytes, though in much lower con­ What kind of virus? centration. On the issue of the virus itself, it was evident from the When it was shown that cells bearing this receptor are time the virus was firstidentified thatit was relatedto the so­ present in the very superficiallayers of the skin and the lining called slow viruses, such as the Visna virus of sheep rather of the mouth and arecapable of being infected by HIV, it was than the RNA tumor viruses. In 1983, Dr. John Seale of still adamantly insisted that infection could only occur by Britain had already predicted, on epidemiologic grounds, sexual contact-just as Gallo had insisted, in 1985, that high that the epidemic was most likely caused by a blood-borne, titers (levels) of free virus could be found in semen, even slow virus of the Visna type. The firstdescription of the virus, though no one has demonstrated any level of free virus in by Frangois Barre-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute, was of a semen to date. retrovirusof the lentivirus (slow virus) family. The virus was Later, it was discovered that a previously known retro­ given the descriptive name LAV (Lymphadenopathy Asso­ virus of cattle, Bovine Visna Virus, also infected lympho­ ciated Virus). cytes and produced a clinical illness like AIDS in cattle, as Subsequently Dr. Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer well as affecting the nervous system, as HIV is known to do Institute, grew out the same virus from a sample he acquired today. This virus, now called Bovine ImmunodeficiencyVi­ from the Pasteur Institute and christened it Human T-Cell rus (BIV) had earlier been seen to be capable of infecting and Leukemia Virus-III (HTLV -III), thus classifying it as the growing in human cells in the laboratory and was known to third of three human RNA tumor viruses he had discovered. be a contaminant of the serum used to grow viruses and tissue The distinction was important because it indicated that the cultures since the 1950s. primary cell affected by the virus was the T4 or CD-4 1ym­ It is now established that HlV is capable of infecting cells phocyte. When it became evident that the action of the virus which do not carrythe CD-4 surface receptor. This includes more resembled the slow viruses than the tumor viruses, not only immune system cells, such as the lymphocytes and Gallo renamed it Human T-Cell Lymphotrophic Virus-III macrophages, but connective tissue cells known as fibro­ (HTL V -III). blasts which make up much of the so-called supporting tis­ This terminology served to do two things. One, it upheld sues of the body, as well as the surface cells of the mouth, Gallo's claim that the virus was similar to his leukemia vi­ gums, and intestines. In addition, infections have been pro­ ruses and second, it obscured the relation to its actual closest duced in a number of different cell types in culture. This relatives, the Visna viruses. This was especially so since the ability to infect non CD-4 carryingcells occurs as one of the Visna virus affected cells known as monocytes whereas many genetic variations of the virus and, in the laboratory, HTL V -III infected T -4 lymphocytes, which the Visna viruses the ability to infect new types of cells, known as host varia­ did not. Since the Visna virus was known to be spread by tion, can occur in one passage. respiratory aerosols, whereas the official position was that This means that all that is necessary to produce a virus HTLV -III (or LAV) was spread by needles and sex, this with the ability to infect a new and different cell type is to distinction was important. place it in culture with the new cell typeand then harvestthe When Gallo, among others, discovered that HTLV -III! first generation of new viruses which are produced. In addi­ LA V, now known as HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Vi- tion it is now known that progJ.!ession to disease is accom-

EIR June 23, 1989 Feature 31 panied by thedevelopment of higher levels of more virulent could be isolated from a single individual, all different from strains of the virus, capable of infecting more differentcel ls. the initial infecting strain, the possibility became a certainty. In spite of all this mutation, in spite of the demonstrated It is now established that serum enhancement occurs with ability of the virus to infect many different cell types, in spite HIV and correlates with the development of disease. of documented cases in which sex, needle injection, trans­ This brings us up against one fundamental problem of fu sion, or mother-to-child transmission could be absolutely tryingto develop a vaccine against HIV. That is that a vaccine excluded, one biologic constant hasremained . HIV, or HTI..V­ which raises antibodies againSt one type of HIV may in fact III (leukemia or lymphotrophic , take your choice, they're enhance infection by another HIV type. both wrong) or LAV or ARV (AIDS Associated Retrovirus, One of Dr. Whiteside's other contentions was that infec­ which was discovered by Jay Levy of San Francisco who tion by arboviruses would activate a latent infection by a must not have as good a press agent as the others) is only retrovirus, such as HIV, and that this would account for the spread by sexual intercourse, dirty needles, blood transfu­ large number of AIDS cases in Belle Glade, Florida, where sions, and by an infected mother to her child. there was a high level of exposure to arboviruses among the Now if we return to the Visna virus of sheep we find an population afflicted by AIDS . The CDC and other agencies agent which produces two primary diseases, a chronicdegen­ denied that such "co-factors" played any role in the devel­ erative disease of the nervous system and a chronic lung opment of AIDS . infection . If we look at HIV, we see a virus which produces It is now firmlyestablished that a number of viruses, such similar diseases in humans, AIDS dementia and a number of as the herpes viruses and others, in fact produce proteins degenerative processes in the nervous system, and a primary which activate HIV which is otherwise latent and can lead to lung infection known as Chronic Lymphocytic Interstitial expression of the virus and development of Acquired Im­ Pneumonitis (CLIP). The difference is that HIV is also as­ mune Deficiency Syndrome. Conversely, if such activation sociated with the development of a characteristic form of does not occurthe AIDS virus can lie dormant for an extended immune deficiencyin certain persons. Interestingly, this de­ period. This was known as far back as 1985-86 and was one ficiency seems to occur almost exclusively in persons who of the arguments this author made to the opponents of Prop­ are already subject to some other form of immune stress, ositions 64 and 69 in California. Namely, widespread testing such as other infections or malnutrition. It is now knownthat was necessary to identify indi'Viduals with latent infection Bovine Visna Virus, now Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus, before they became ill, so that their health status could be also does this. monitored andappropriate interventions made to prevent ac­ tivation of their infections. This was roundly denounced by Immunologic enhancement the same people who are now calling for more widespread As far back as 1985, Dr. Mark Whiteside contended that testing, for preciselythe same reason. the immunosupression seen in AIDS patients was very simi­ On the question of insect transmission of HIV it is now lar to that seen in patients infected with known insect-trans­ established that the virus can survive in ticks, mosquitoes, mitted viruses, called arboviruses. Dr. Whiteside postulated and bedbugs forup to 48 hours and that cells capable of being that the development of AIDS in an HIV infected individual infected with the virus exist in the most superficial layers of could occur by a process known as immunologic enhance­ the skin. Theresponse to this has been to simply ignore the ment of infection, a processwhich had previouslybeen thought evidence and insist that insect transmission can be excluded to play a role in the development of disease fromarbov iruses. on "epidemiologic" grounds, though in fact not a single such In immunologic, or serum, enhancement the presenceof epidemiologic argument can stand up under close examina­ antibodies against a given type of virus results in more severe tion. Thesupposed lack of cases among pre-adolescent chil­ disease when the host is exposed to a closely related, but not dren is seen in such insect-transmitted diseases as malaria identical, virus. The prototype for such a disease was dengue and a numberof the arboviruses. hemorrhagic fever, a severe form of disease caused by the insect-transmitted dengue virus, which is known to exist in Antibody production delayed four subtypes. In a person with a low level of antibodies to One of the most disturbing facts which has recently come one subtype, infection with a second subtype results in p0- to light is that it is possible to be infected by HIV, to transmit tentially lethal hemorrhagic fever, instead of the usual self­ it, and even develop symptoms of brain disease without hav­ limited, if somewhat painful, febrile illness. ing a positiveantibody test. It was known at the time of the Since immunologic enhancement of infection had been discovery of the virus that this particular group of viruses demonstrated for animal retroviruses, similar to the AIDS could establish a dormant, or latent, infection within a cell, virus , this author and others predicted that a similarsituation but it was presumed that development of antibodies would would occur with HIV, especially since the AIDS virus was occur within six weeks or so of initial infection and would known to mutate so rapidly. When it developedthat mutation precede the development of clinical illness. One conclusion occurredwithin the same host and that a dozen or more strains which followed fromthis presumption was that the spread of

32 Feature ElK June 23, 1989 infection could be accurately monitored by studies based on phisticated tests, especially a test known as DNA amplifica­ development of antibodies to the virus in the population. tion or the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) are capable of With the development of tests for the presence of the detecting the virus when it exists as nothing more than a virus itself, both in its free form in the blood and in its latent segment of DNA integrated into the genetic material of the form in infected cells, it became evident that there was a host cell. The use of this test to detect seronegative, but population of individuals who could carry the virus for an infected, transfusion blood is being opposed on cost grounds extended period of time without developing antibodies. This even though cases of HIV infection by seronegative transfu­ was known as far back as 1984. One case involved a woman sions continue to be reported. who had acquired the virus from her impotent husband by In terms of treatment, there is only one effective agent kissing. Since this was not an officially accepted means of against the virus, AZT, which has been known since 1986. transmissionof the virus, a way to discount it had to be found. This drug does improvethe clinical condition of patients with Apparently on repeat testing the virus failed to grow out AIDS, reverses some of the HIV -associated changes in the of the woman's white blood cells and it was concluded that brain, and prolongs the lifespan of patients treated with it. A she had not been infected, even though the virus had previ­ number of other drugs are proving effective in treating some ously grown from her cells. Subsequently it was found that a of the infections and tumors which actually cause the death number of homosexual men showed the same phenomenon of these patients. However, these drugs are not curative; of virus growth from their white cells, followed by the in­ patients on AZT still ultimately succumb to AIDS , and these ability to grow virus from their cells. In some cases, again drugs are expensive and in limited supply. There is evidence among homosexual men, persons who were initially sero­ that they may be most effective in prolonging life if admin­ positive for antibodies to the virus subsequently tested neg­ istered before the onset of frankdisease . ative for these antibodies. However since homosexual "sex" was an accepted means of transmission it was acknowledged A demographic policy? that these people were in fact infected and that this repre­ As for the disease itself, its spread in the homosexual sented another baffling manifestation of HIV infection. community appears to be slowing and it is now spreading Now it is conclusively established that infected persons most rapidly inAfrica, Central andSouth Ameri ca, and among can carry the virus for three years or more without developing racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. This is antibodies. Not only that, but 2-5% of HIV-infected persons occurring at the same time as an increasing concern is being can develop symptoms of nervous system involvement be­ expressed about overpopulation, and many are advocating fore they develop antibodies. How can this happen? It goes the stabilization or reduction of populations throughout the back to those superficial skin cells. These cells, known as world, as a means of reducing environmental damage and Langerhans cells, are members of the monocyte family and financialcosts . have been shown to be capable of being infected with HIV. If one looks at the present official position on how HIV Since they reside out of reach of the bloodstream, the virus is transmitted and the policies being adopted to stop the can infect them without coming in contact with the blood. spread of the disease, it is interesting that they are policies These cells can also pass the virus directly to other immune which in and of themselves will decrease the birth rate-sex system cells, monocytes and lymphocytes, which then carry education for children, condoms for the minorities, and pro­ the virus throughout the body without directly exposing it to motion of homosexuality; or increase the death rate-free the bloodstream. These cells in tum can pass the virus directly needles for drug addicts and euthanasia. On the other hand, to other such cells, and so forth. the denial that environmental co-factors are operative in the This means that it is entirely possible for infection of the spread of infection and development of disease, in spite of superficial skin to occur, and for the virus to ultimately make evidence to the contrary, ensures that these conditions will its way to the brain without ever stimulating the presence of not be addressed, especially in light of current budgetary antibodies. It also means that studies which are based on constraints. When one considers that amelioration of envi­ seroconversion (development of antibodies) as a means of ronmental factors would also tend to create theconditions for determining the spread of HIV infection are seriously flawed; an expansion of population, it is hardto escape the conclusion they are flawed precisely in terms of so-called casual, or that considerations other than stopping the spread of HIV environmental, transmission of HIV. As opposed to direct infection underlie the present vehement rejection of such needle injection or sexual intercourse among persons who public health measures as mass testing and appropriate quar­ have genital sores from other venereal diseases, where there antine. is direct blood-to-blood contact, environmental transmission As someone observed in Montreal, what we are suffering is more likely to involve superficial infection which avoids from is AIDS of AIDS, the imposition of policy considera­ direct bloodstream contact. tions other than public health on a public health problem. How was it possible to know that these antibody-negative Perhaps HIV infection is not necessary to develop "AIDS" persons were in fact infected? The answer is that more so- dementia.

EIR June 23, 1989 Feature 33 Kissinger's China card: the drug connection

by Scott Thompson

Just as Red Chinese tanks rolled over the "Goddess of Lib­ viser, involved in the "open door" policy to China, who erty" statue erected by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, forced U.S. anti-narcotics and intelligence officersto lie sys­ Henry Kissinger went on a propaganda offensive through tematically that Communist China was no longer a major articles and TV appearances to denounce the students as a source of the heroin then addictingU. S. troops in Vietnam­ chaotic element that threatened the Communist reform pro­ a coverup that remains intact to this day, as four successive gram of Deng Xiaoping, the Butcher of Beijing. Kissinger, administrations have continued to uphold the China card. working also through his two "Scowgleburger" clones (Gen. Brent Scowcroft as national security adviser and Lawrence The opium war in reverse Eagleburger as deputy secretary of state), publicly and pri­ The drugging of GIs in Vietnam was a conscious policy vately advised President George Bush to act with "caution," of the Red Chinese government,which was running an opium rather than give moral support to the students, who were war in reverse. That had been their tactic since Mao Zedong motivated by the principles of the American Revolution as gave birth to the strategy of cQrrupting "white zones" with reflected through Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen. Kissinger opium, starting in 1928, according to former U.S. intelli­ warned ominously, that the Soviets might take advantage, if gence officer JosephD. Douglass in America the Vulnerable, the United States criticized Deng. A.H. Stanton Candlin in Psycho-Chemical Warfare: The Kissinger's China card is a hoax, which sends Soviet Chinese Communist Drug Offensive Against the West, and military strategists into uproarious laughter. The entire So­ several other reliable sources. First, the Red Chinese soft­ viet strategy of Sino-Soviet rapprochement had been built ened up American GIs with marijuana. Then, when alarm upon the same Deng Xiaoping, so praised by Henry Kissin­ over this menace spread, the Chinese Communists formed a ger. While Kissinger has repeatedly said that the concepts of special intelligence unit, located in south China, near the "good" and "evil" must be eliminated from his Metternichean border area of Laos, North Vietnam, and Cambodia, that balance-of-power geopolitics, EIR investigators found Kis­ floodedU.S. troops with heroin at rock bottom prices. singer's stand so contradictory and filled with lies, that we Rep. Seymour Halpern (R-N.Y.), who had toured Viet­ sought to uncover Dr. K's real motives. nam after this opium war offensive had just commenced, It can be demonstrated that Henry Kissinger, through his reported back to Congress in June 1971, that by a conserva­ global influence-peddling firm, Kissinger Associates, Inc., tive estimate 60,000 GIs were using hard drugs (the actual has profitedsubstantially from thefact that Communist China number of users among troops ranging roughly between 20% remains the world's leading producer of the heroin that floods to 30%). Evidence that this was irregular warfare was not the United States, causing thousands more casualties in this only that the packaging was all uniform, but, most impor­ war to corrupt "capitalist America." Moreover, it was Kis­ tantly that an ounce of number three heroin that would cost singer, when he was President Nixon's national security ad- $4,000in the United States, sold in South Vietnam to GIs for

34 International EIR June 23, 1989 only $20. The sudden proliferation of heroin, sold through vetoed bringing up the issue becalJse it would have been too black market Vietnamese profiteers, was so great, that GIs explosive at the initial meeting. The Communists won once were even inhaling it, rather than using the more effective more and American interests were subordinated." means of "mainlining" the narcotic into veins. It was not only Chou En-Iai, the acknowledged head of Communist Chinese leader Chou En-Iai, who had been the policy to run an "opium war in reverse" since the 1950s meeting secretly with Kissinger at the time this offensive was and 1960s, to whom Henry Kissinger kowtowed in this man­ unleashed, had actually bragged about the strategy years ner. Candlin's book Psycho-Chemical Warfare states that earlier, when he met with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser while another major Chinese Communist leader involved in this on a 12-day trip to that country in June 1965 . The story first trade was Yeh Ch'ien-ying, who had helped organize the appeared in the London Sunday Times in an article by Mo­ Long March in 1935, then established opium plantations at hammed Heika1, a close adviser to Nasser, who got it by the end of the march to obtain hard currency with which to reviewing Nasser's private diary entry of the June 23 meet­ resupply Red Chinese forces. Marshal Yeh Ch'ien-ying was ing. Nasser had written: "prominent in discussions with Henry Kissinger," according "One of the most remarkable statements Chou En-Iai to Candlin. Just how much money Red China earns from made on that evening during our discussion of the demorali­ opium trafficremains a matter of some dispute among reliable zation of American soldiers was that: 'Some of them are sources reporting on it, however, it is generally acknowl­ trying opium and we are helping them. We are planting the edged that the income from China's production of between best kinds of poppies especially for American soldiers in 2,000-8,000metric tons (making it the largest single produc­ Vietnam.' Nasser appeared to be somewhat disturbed, but er in the world) is significantly more than the hard currency Chou continued: 'We want them to maintain a large army in earningsfrom all trade, including Chinese arms sales to Iran Vietnam that will serve us as a hostage, and we wish to and so forth. demoralize the troops. The effect of this demoralization on Communist China's Crimes in Drugging the World pub­ the United States will be much greater than anyone can imag­ lished by World Anti-Communist League (WACL), China ine.' Nasser thought that Chou ...left no doubt that this Chapter, Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, from the was his course of action." Republic of China in June 1983 quotes a Nov. 27 , 1971 When several of EIR's editors were preparing the book article from the Stars and Stripes to the effect that Chinese Dope, Inc., (New York: first edition, 1978; second edition, Communists netted $1 billion from selling drugs in Southeast 1986), they encountered a former CIA officer, who, in co­ Asia (including American GIs) in the previous five years, ordination with Harry Anslinger's old Bureau of Narcotics according to CIA estimates. A June 3, 1974 English news­ and Dangerous Drugs, which had done much to publicize letter entitled Red Chinese Peddlingof Drugs released by the Red Chinese opium trafficking , had mounted an investigation information officeof the Soviet embassy in Thailand claimed to discover the origin of this flood of cheap heroin, discov­ that China exported about 2,000 tons of opium each year (a ering the infamous "Golden Triangle" as a result. The origi­ standard, minimum production figure) worth $12-15 billion, nal fieldmap of the "Golden Triangle," according to this CIA which would then have been two to three times its normal source, had: its southernvertex just north of Chiang Mai, in income from foreign trade. The W ACL pamphlet states: northern Thailand; its eastern vertex was at Kunming, the "Judging by the above figures, Chinese Communist earnings capital city of Unan province in the People's Republic of from drug traffickingwere enough to bankroll their activities China; and, its westernvertex just west of Bhamo, Burma, a of external infiltration, subversion and propaganda. Such major town on a main smuggling route from China. When income also contributed immensely to Beijing's financial the results of the investigation were forwarded to Kissinger, revenues. " then national security adviser, he reportedly threw one of his infamous "rug-chewing" fits, and the official map of the Kissinger profitsfrom China dope "Golden Triangle" has been inverted to exclude Red China One look at the clients of Kissinger Associates, Inc., ever since. dispells the belief that Kissinger has simply chosen the "lesser This story is partially corroborated by the late Rep. John evil" by covering up Red China's drug production for his Ashbrook (R-Ohio), who is quoted in Allan C. Brown's mistaken "geopolitical goals." � has demonstrably profited pamphlet "The Peking Connection: Communist China and from Red China's drugging of the world, as the following the Narcotics Trade," as having said: cases illustrate: "When the President [Nixon] journeyed to Red China • ChaseManhattan Bank. Henry Kissinger is the dep­ many of us who had observed the Red Chinese participation uty to David Rockefeller in charge of the international advi­ in the opium traffic hoped that at least Mr. Nixon would sory board of Chase Manhattan, which is a major client of pressure the Red bandits to stop this illicit contribution to Kissinger Associates. According to sources at the bank, Kis­ world misery. . . . It now appearsthat Mr. Nixon never even singer works closely with Sir Yue-Kong Pao (another mem­ broached the subject ...to Mao or Chou. Henry Kissinger ber of Chase's internationaladvisory board) to drum up bus i-

EIR June 23, 1989 International 35 ness in mainland China. Sir Y.K. Pao of Hong Kong was The degree of integration is shown by the position of two identified byEIR investigators in Dope, Inc. as a major over­ board members of Midland Bank,Si r Kit McMahon and John seas Chinese figure implicated in Red China's heroin traf­ A. Brooks, simultaneously on the board of the HongShang. ficking, because of his previous position as vice chairman of Another Midland Bank director is Thomas Jefferson Cun­ the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Group, which, again ningham, who is vice-chairman of Kissinger Associates and as documented in Dope, Inc., has been since its founding in its leading expert on Third World debt, of which Midland is 1865 one of the principal financiers of opium production in also a major holder of bad loans that may require profits from the region and beneficiariesof traffickingin the multibillions drug-money laundering to sustain. While Cunningham re­ of dollars earnedfrom such traffic. fused to speak to EIR on the nature of ties to the HongShang, Pao, who was made a Knight of the British Empire in his secretary lied that Midland could not have been guilty of 1979, had been the first overseas Chinese to be officially the proven money-laundering by a previous subsidiary, received in Beijing in 1980, where he has since been involved Crocker National Bank of San Francisco, because Midland in Deng's "reform" programs of free enterprise zones based sold the subsidiary to Wells Fargo in 1986. On Aug. 27, on the Hong Kong model . Even otherwise lying State De­ 1985, Crocker National was slapped by the u.S. Treasury partment world drug surveys-e.g., International Narcotics Department with a fine of $2.25 million for failure to report Control Strategy Report of March 1989-acknowledge that 7,877 separate currency transactions, totaling $3.98 billion, Hong Kong is a major outlet for heroin from the Golden of which $3.43 billion involved six Hong Kong banks, in­ Triangle (over half of which is smuggled through southern cluding the HongShang. In his press conference announcing China), as well as the single largest drug money laundering the fine, John M. Walker, Jr. , Assistant Treasury Secretary capital of the region. This collaboration between overseas for Enforcement and Operations, noted that large volumes of Chinese in Hong Kong and Red China on the drug trade is Golden Triangle heroin that come into the United States are the real secret of the free enterprise zones, not the joint "financed out of Hong Kong." ventures that Pao and Chase have become involved with in Actually, a spokesman for Wells Fargo confirmed that similar zones in Red China. Midland Bank had bought into Crocker National in 1981, While the Rockefeller family has had longstanding ties shortly after the money laundering that was part of the in­ with mainland China, it was reportedly Kissinger, assisted dictment began and had attained a majority interest in 1985, by drug money launder Pao, who got them re-involved there. right before the indictment, making a proverbial "fit like a One source reports that Kissinger gave an added assist through glove." Further, the HongShang is today buying into the the American-China Society that he runs from the office of Asian holdings of Wells Fargo, the current owner of Crocker his Kissinger Associates consulting firm. This is a stellar National, which was convicted of money laundering from group including: ex-Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter as Hong Kong. honorary chairman; former Secretaries of State He.nry Kis­ Cunningham came to Kissinger Associates from being singer and Cyrus Vance as chairmen; and former National president of the Orion Group, which was Chase Manhattan Security Advisers McGeorge Bundy, Robert McFarlane, and Bank's London affiliate, a sort of offshore facility established Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Secretaries of State Dean with Royal Bank of Canada, National Westminister Ltd., Rusk, Edmund Muskie, Al Haig, and William P. Rogers as and other firms identified by the authors of Dope, Inc. as vice-chairmen. However, at least one officer of this society major profiteers from the $300-500billion drug money laun­ denies that it has a "commercial" aspect to it. dromat. • Midland Bank PLC. This bank is another client of • Everbright Industrial (Holdings) Co. Apart from Sir Kissinger Associates. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Y.K. Pao's enterprises, another Chinese facility with which Eagleburger admitted in financial disclosure forms that in his Henry Kissinger has done business on the mainland is this previous incarnationas president of Kissinger Associates, he Hong Kong-based firm, which is a "state-policy" trading had handled this account. Midland Bank has been intimately company controlled by Red China to prepare for reversion of involved with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Group the colony in 1997. As of 1984, on behalf of China's govern­ for years (the keystone bank in Golden Triangle opium pro­ ment, the firm was involved in more than 30 joint ventures duction), and this arrangement became even closer with the with Japanese, American, and European firms. Everbright 1987 purchase by the "Hong Shang" of 14.9% of Midland chairman Wang Guangying has close relations with China's Bank for $714 million. Since that time, according to Mid­ leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, the Butcher of Beijing. land's 1988 annual report, the two banks have initiated a He is the brother of Wang Guangmei, the widow of Liu process of regional rationalization, that places Midland in Shaoqi, who had been president of China. Kissinger, who is charge of HongShang facilities in such drug-trafficking spots also a board member of AmericanExpr ess, is known to have as Canada, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and money-laundering introducedAmex 's chairman, JamesRobinson III, and other sites as Zurich, Switzerland, while Midland turns over its clients to conduct their business in mainland China through Asian facilities to the HongShang. Everbright.

36 International EIR June 23, 1989 "mortal threat" to theparty in Tiananmen Square. The meth­ ods come straight from the pages of 1984 . Beijing television is filled mostly with pictures of those to be tracked down and Was hington kowtows rounded up, tortured, and then put on display to the public with their "confessions" of anti-party and anti-government to Beijing tyrants activities. Many of those imprisohed will suffer the same hideous fate as the founder of democracy movement, Wei Jingsheng, who has been imprisoned and continuously tor­ by Linda de Hoyos tured physically and mentally for the last ten years. And the clamp has been put on the P.R.C. media, as the In a singularly impolitesignal to the United States of foreign­ nation's cities are "brought under control." The press is rife policy proclivities of the ruling clique of the People's Repub­ with congratulatory messages and laudatory pledges of alle­ lic of China, Beijing Foreign Minister Qian Qichen canceled giance from all party organizations and institutions to Deng his scheduled June 12 trip to the United States. The foreign Xiaoping, now referred to in China as the "great helms­ minister had been visiting Ecuador and Cuba, and was sup­ man"-a nomer heretofore reserved only for Mao, the great posedly to head for Washington, but at the last minute can­ leader of the Cultural Revolution. celed out, and made an unexpected detour to Beijing through East Germany and Moscow. In East Germany, it is likely he Placid in Washington met June 11 with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard­ Yet, despite the conclusive evidence that Deng Xiaoping nadze, who was there at the time, and on June 12, Qian spent was fully responsible for the massive butchery in Beijing a few hours at the Moscow airport meeting with Soviet Dep­ June 3-5, despite the evidence thatChina has turnedits back uty Prime Minister Igor Rogachov. once again on civilization and is acting once again to impose Another such signal came fromBeijing itself, where Vice hideous conditions of tyranny upon its own people, the ana­ Premier Yao Yilin, who the week before the Tiananmen lysts, foreign policy experts, and powers in Washington con­ Massacre had declared China's ready willingness to turn tinue to attempt to assuage the feelings of China's criminal away from the "West" and seek economic aid only from the ruling clique. East bloc, warned at the June 13 State Council meeting: "We The posture of Ambassador James Lilley is enough to must clearly understand that we must not establish a bour­ indicate the point. When asked June 11, if he thought the geois republic, otherwise China will become a vassal of the Fang Lizhi incident could be ironed out between Washington bourgeois country and we will lose our independence." and Beijing, Lilley, indicating his mission to maintain the Henry Kissinger "China card" at all costs, retorted: "I hope Anti-U.S. venom to God it can. We don't want irritants like this in the U.S.­ Beijing rhetoric toward the United States has been more China relationship. " than blunt. On June 12, China State Television quoted from Another Washington kowtow came from ex-President a viewer's telegram asking: "The American government has Ronald Reagan, who scrambled to find a way to blame the wantonly condemned China's efforts to stop violence and has democracy movement for the Beijing butchery. "It could be given protection to the ringleader of those creating disor­ that maybe the young people tried to make the move too far der. . . . Is this your so-called freedom and democracy?" and too fast with what they did." The same day, the People's Daily singled out the Voice of The "party line" cOming out of Washington coheres with America for its casualty reports, claiming that all the VOA the analysis put forward by the Royal Institute of lnternation­ reports on events in Beijing and elsewhere were lies. These al Affairs from London (see Kissinger Watch, page 65). vituperations against the UnitedStates and its press have been Despite the drama of the last weeks, China is not really in accompanied by a harsh crackdown on nearly all Western that deep a crisis. This will blow over and relations with reporters, including detentions and expulsions. Deng Xiaoping can resume at their steady pace once again. According to the South China Morning Post of June 15, This view is disgustingly immoral, more so since the inspi­ Beijing is now considering breakingrelations with both Aus­ ration for the democracy movement is not Gorbachov's glas­ tralia and the United States over the harboring of refugees nost, but the United States. from the political atrocitiescommitted now nationwide in the It is also stupid. Either the Chinese ruling clique is slam­ P.R.C. In particular, China is piqued because the U.S. em­ ming the dooron the cowering West, as it has done so before, bassy in Beijing has given asylum to the dissident physicist or it is attempting to place itself in a far stronger bargaining Fang Lizhi, who, Beijing claims, is the "mastermind" of the position for the future. In the latter case, the question is: democracy movement. What maximal concession is the P .R.C. demanding that war­ Meanwhile, the Beijing regime has gone on a rampage to rants such arrogant displays of pique toward the West? The round up the "counterrevolutionary" clique that posed a answer might be summed up in one word: Taiwan.

EIR June 23, 1989 International 37 Moscow prepares the great terror as KGB sparks Uzbekistan riots by Konstantin George

Evidence is mounting that the Soviet leadership, confronted "uncovered." Local "party and government officials" were with spreadingunrest among its imperial domains, is prepar­ behind the Uzbekistan riots, having "encouraged" the vio­ ing a modem-day sequel to the post-1934 Great Terror lence, by handing out fuel, transport, and vodka to the rioters . launched by Josef Stalin. The only question is, will Gorba­ "Severe punishment" was pledged for those who had "stained chov himself be designated to play Stalin's role, or will the party's prestige." someone else emerge, in the midst of the turmoil engulfing the Soviet Empire, to carry out the same policies? Famine threat in Uzbekistan The ugly change in the making is clearly evident in the The real cause behind the Uzbek riots is far different than way the Soviet leadership and media have been treating the the picture being portrayed by Moscow. The economy of ongoing riots in Uzbekistan. Even though it was the Soviet Uzbekistan is a Soviet-dictated cotton monoculture, where KGB which played a major role in staging the unrest, Mos­ the great bulk of the republic's largely rural population, in­ cow is speaking of a "plot," with Soviet TV, radio, and press cluding those in the Fergana Valley, the scene of the riots, speaking of "well-organized armed bands," many in convoys are very poorlypaid wage slaves, working cotton plantations. of cars and trucks, roaming through the region. Some specif­ Because nearly all arable land is devoted to cotton, Uzbek­ ics: istan, which otherwise wouldresume its historical role asthe • U.S.S.R. Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin, on Soviet granary of Central Asia, cannotsurvive without mass imports TV, June 6: "This outburst has been provoked by somebody. of grain and food from the rest of the U.S.S.R. Under con­ So fa r. I can't say by whom. But it's clear that some evil ditions of the Soviet-wide food crisis, this flow has been forces are involved who think that the worse things are, the drastically reduced, plunging the region's rural population better." into a hunger diet. In fact, the food crisis in Uzbekistan, • Gen. Col. Yuri Shatalin, chief of Interior Ministry which with 20 million people is the third most populous Troops, on Soviet TV, June 9: "We saw a large number of Soviet republic, is the worst in all of the U.S.S.R. automatic rifles, pistols, and other firearms in the hands of On top of the food shortage, Uzbek youth unemployment the attackers." is on a par with that prevailing in American black ghettos. It • General Nechayev, deputy chief of Interior Ministry was this level of desperation which drove masses of Uzbeks Troops, quoted in the June 11 military newspaper,Krasnaya to readilyjo in in the rioting, which was actually triggered by Zvezda: "We believe the actions of extremists are being di­ the KGB . The KGB was able to act through a ready-made rected by leaders with vested interests, who are using mali­ local organizing force: the thousands of Uzbek party and cious means to achieve their selfishgoals ." government cadres who have recently lost their privileged This came in the context ofemergency Soviet leadership status through the deep cuts which Moscow has made in the meetings on June 1 1-12. Immediately following those meet­ region's party and governmentbureaucracy in the past year, ings, five Politburo members were brought to Moscow air­ and the additional cuts made earlier this year in the dissolu­ port. Three-Gorbachov, propaganda department chief tion and merger of some of Uzbekistan's regions. It is a fact Alexander Y akovlev, and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard­ of Soviet life, that in a time of coming famine, being or not nadze-took off for Bonn, West Germany, for consultations being a privileged bureaucrat can make the difference be­ that had been scaled way down from the original plans; the tween one's family surviving or not. other two-internal securityczar Viktor Chebrikov and Prime These factors shaped the specific character of the rioting. Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, took off minutes later for Uzbek­ The crowds and gangs were bent on, in most cases, plunder istan. and not killing. The homes of the Meskhetian minority were On June 15, hours before Gorbachov's returnfrom Bonn , plundered, and for every case of a Meskhetian being killed, Ryzhkov announced what their on-the-spot investigation had there were dozens where the seized victims were let go, after

38 International EIR June 23, 1989 being stripped of all their possessions-in some cases, right down to the clothing they wore. The other main targets of the mobs were warehouses and homes of relatively well-to-do party and governmentfigur es. As a leader of the Uzbek movement against the cotton monoculture told Western journalists by telephone from the Thrkey squeezed republic's capital of Tashkent: "People in the villages are living on the edge of poverty and subsisting on bread and by external crises water because of the monopoly on cotton. There are 1.5 million unemployed in Uzbekistan. The real reason for this by Thieny Lalevee unthinkable slaughter is the economic, political, and cultural frustration of the people." Since the May 1 demonstrationswhich led to riots in Istanbul 'Crisis ministry' and elsewhere, there has beenno respiteon Turkey's internal Back in Moscow, the Stalin-style crackdown prepara­ political scene. But this agitation pales in the face of the tions were well-advanced even before Gorbachov' s departure international political crises hitting the easternmost NATO for Bonn. Nikolai Ryzhkov, reelected as Soviet prime min­ nation, reinforcing its sense of isolation and confirming the ister, addressed the Congress of People's Deputies on June Turks' fears about European stubbornness in rejecting their 10 to outline a vast purge and reorganization of the Soviet application for membership in the European Community. government,to be completed before the end of June. Had the A case in point is the outcryovel1 the tens of thousands of ultra-Stalinist content of that speech alone been honestly Iraqi Kurdish refugees whom Turkey took in last year, after covered and commented on in the Western media, "Gorby­ they fled the chemical weapons onslaught of the Iraqi Army. mania" would already belong to the past. The measures he While Iraq was much denounced then, concrete efforts to announced include: resettle these refugees by financingthe building of new vil­ • The creation of a new "crisis ministry" is being creat­ lages have not been forthcoming. Most European countries ed, called the "State Committee for Extraordinary Situa­ have blocked Kurdish refugees from their territory;recently tions," with extraordinary powers to deal with "unrest, dis­ Britain required visas for Kurdish refugees and Turkish citi­ asters, and accidents." zens alike, aftersome 1,000 Kurdsbad reached England. • The reduction of the currently more than 100 U.S.S.R. Things came to a head aftera visi� by Danielle Mitterrand, ministers and chairmen of state committees, to only 10, with the French First Lady, to Turkey lasl month. The fact that the roughly half the changes involving transfers, and the other visit was organized by the new French ambassador, Eric half outright dismissals. Rouleau, should have aroused suspi<;ionsin Ankara. Rouleau • The reduction of the number of members of the had to leave his first and last diplomatic posting, Tunis, much U.S.S.R. Ministries and State Committee 112 to 57; the earlier than planned, amid reports that he was plotting against number of ministries for branches of the economy goesfrom the prime minister, Mohammed M'zali. Anyhow, as soon as 52 down to 32. Mrs. Mitterrand was safely back in Paris from her private • The vast purge will not touch the ministers and minis­ and humanitarian visit to Turkey, she held a high-profile tries concernedwith internal security. The ten ministers who press conference denouncing Turkjsh human rights viola­ will stay on at their posts prominently include Defense Min­ tions against the Kurds. While a diplomatic crisis was nar­ ister Dmitri Yazov, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, rowly averted when she stressed in subsequent interviews and Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin. that these were her private views and not those of the Presi­ Huge as it is, what is presented here is merely the known, dent, the case was made. confirmed dimensions of the huge purge that will be ratified When in the first week of June, hundreds of Kurds had to when the Central Committee convenes June 26, for the third be hospitalized for what looked like systematic food poison­ extraordinary, formerly unscheduled, plenum within a mere ing-of which many died-the fingerwas pointed at Anka­ five weeks . This dynamic alone, totally without any prece­ ra. Officially, Iraqi intelligence services were blamed for the dent, underscores what sort of extraordinary, and nasty, operation, but, British media and others implied, Ankara was shocks, jolts, and eruptions, one can expect from the Soviet guilty by association and failure to prevent it. The BBC gave Union very soon. heavy publicity to the charges against Turkey aired from The purge will go much further, and perhaps even before Damascus by Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. Then, the new the month of June ends. Many leading Soviet figures are successor to Khomeini as Iran's spiritual leader, Ali Kha­ bound to become casualties, but the biggest casualty of all menei, made a much publicized defense of the Iraqi Kurdsin will be the global condominium, already mortally wounded, the fight against Baghdad. All heads turnedtoward Ankara. and the disease it spawned-"Gorbymania." But while the Kurds and Mrs. Mitterrand made it to the

EIR June 23, 1989 International 39 world's front pages, the ongoing crisis between Bulgaria and Turkey received no such fanfare. Not until Prime Minister Turgut Ozal lambasted the West on June 13 for ignoring that crisis, did the State Department agree to make a formal den­ unciation of "Bulgaria's ill treatment of its Muslim commu­ nity." The crisis had started in early May when Sofia sent paramilitary forces, and then the Army to repress Bulgarian Muslims' protests against the Bulgarianization process set A 'new' Mghanistan into motion in 1985: Muslim- or Turkish-sounding names were changed into Bulgarian Slavic names, speaking Turkish in public has been banned, and the mosques closed down. same old sauce in a When Ankara moved politically and diplomatically to defend the Muslim community, Sofia decided to play the by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra game of open borders , officiallymeaning Bulgarian Muslims could leave for Turkey. In reality, the Army was deployed to herd thousands of Bulgarian Muslims, either of Turkish eth­ nic background or Slavs converted to Islam in the Ottoman Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's recent visit to the era, to the borders . Without any belongings but a bag, with United States was the occasion for a media-hype that a new no compensation for houses or properties left behind, they Afghan policy is on the anvil. Both President Bush and Prime are being summarily dropped at the Turkish frontier. Since Minister Bhutto stated that the United States and Pakistan are early May, more than 10,000 have been expelled that way, "in full agreement" over the new policy. Afghan President forcing Ankara to build emergency refugee camps on its Dr. Najibullah-whose removal, along with the return of 3 borders . Besides the problem of integrating these refugees million refugees to Afghanistan, was otherwise identifiedas into Turkish society, the issue of how many intelligence the solution to the Afghan crisis by Miss Bhutto recently­ agents the Bulgarian authorities mixed in among the refugees added to the hype: Najibullah praised the Pakistan govern­ is no less troubling. ment for its "change of Afghan policy." But if this crisis has been lingering since 1985, why did The political-military equations on the ground in Afghan­ Sofia change policy suddenly in May 1989? The level of istan, takentogether with recent public discussion of strategy internal revolt within Bulgaria, even though it grew larger by by the Mujahideen guerrilla forces, point to the fact that for the year, is no explanation. Many Turks believe the cause the next three to four months any "new policy" is not likely lies in Moscow, and especially the way the Soviet Union has to add up to more than a variation on the old one of attempting been recently protesting Ankara's decision to modernize its to deal a convincing military setback to the Kabul govern­ forces and major military bases. Hence, the Bulgarian Mus­ ment. lims are paying the price of a direct crisis between the NATO It was the failure of the Mujahideen, despite heavy losses, and Warsaw Pact. to capture the Afghan cities of Jalalabad and Khost, that gave It could thus be expected that would Ankara be the recip­ rise to the speculation that a "new Afghan policy" was at ient ofNA TO solidarity. Instead, the U . S. Congress cut some hand. But considering the limited options open now to the $50 million in aid to Turkey at the end of May. The pretext? Mujahideen, and to Pakistan, efforts will most likely contin­ Some days earlier a Soviet pilot defected to Turkey with his ue to attain even a partial military victory in the battlefield MiG-29. While rejecting Soviet pressures to extradite him and thus re-establish the Mujahideen's credibility. Until the back to Russia, Ankara agreed to return the plane. This was Afghanistan plains start receiving ground frost in October, a normal procedure; moreover, the MiG-29 is no longer Rus­ the Mujahideen will widen the battlefrontand try to capture sia's most advanced fighterand is known to Westernservice s. at least a few provincial capitals fromthe Kabul regime. The Yet, Washington rebuked the Turks for having kept them hope is that such a policy will bear fruit and provide the from inspecting the plane. Mujahideen the necessary leverage to discuss a political so­ The new U.S. Ambassador Morton Abramowitz arrives lution with the Soviet Union-a suggestion which the Paki­ in mid-June in Ankara, with the mandate to give Turkey the stani prime minister has made a number of times in the recent West Germany treatment: neutralization. And the United period. States is making it clear that if Turgut Ozal does not agree with this agenda, it is grooming an alternative-Suleyman Tactical errors Demirel, a former right-wing premier in the 1970s whose Backing up this "new" policy is the word fromPesha war, leadership pushed Turkey to the brink, until the Army inter­ Pakistan, that the Mujahideenhave come to realize that they vened in 1980. Maybe his longstanding Freemasonic con­ had made a tactical mistake by concentrating their firepower nections make him a better known entity in Washington. only on Jalalabad, following the Soviet troop withdrawal in

40 International EIR June 23, 1989 successes in the coming few months just because a better battle tactic is adopted, would be naive. Only the most gul­ lible take the Mujahideen's excuses for failure at face value. The three-month-Iong 1alalabad campaign has brought to light other facts which add up to a very different picture. For instance: • The Mujahideen are not unified, and act more as tribal policy, or the units than as factions within a purposeful government. In spite of months of effort and oft-repeated promises, the Teh­ eran Eight (the eight-party alliance of Afghan refugees based neW" bottle? in Iran) have remained outside the interim governmentcabi­ net (for which they were heartily thanked by Soviet Ambas­ sador to Afghanistan Yuli Vorontsov during his recent visit to Teheran). It is no secret that the leaders of the Peshawar Seven (the seven-party alliance of Afghan refugees based in Pakistan) February, and thus allowing the Kabul regime to throw its feel no hesitation in abusing each other publicly. At least entire army and arms into the defense of that city. With such two-1amat-i-Islami chief Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani and a limited and predictable battleplan, the Mujahideen were National Islamic Front for Afghanistan (NIFA) chief Pir Sayed sitting ducks for the defending artillery and Afghan Air Force. Ahmed Gilani-have publicly expressed "reservations" about The "new" Afghan policy seeks to remove that predictability the elections to the Shoora-the Afghan Consultative Coun­ by opening up a number of battlefronts simultaneously, forc­ cil-to form an interim government. ing the Kabul regime to distribute its firepower. • There is evidence that the pettiness reflected in the The Mujahideen themselves have pointed to the new tack. quibbling between the leaders in Peshawar has been carried In a recent interview with India Today, a bi-monthly pub­ to the battlefield as well. In Kunar province, which is now lished fromNew Delhi, Prof. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, pres­ fully under the Mujahideen control, the Ahle Hadith under ident of the interim Afghan government based in Peshawar, Maulana 1amilur Rehman has set up a parallel governmentto readily admitted that concentrating all the rebel forces in the attack on fortified1alalabad was a mistake. Professor Mojad­ dedi said that the original plan had been to attack a number of provincial capitals at once, but that could not be done because "in some places there was heavy snow, in some places there were insufficient supplies, in some there were mistakes." In order for the Mujahideen to start a dialogue with the Soviet Union, they must establish their military credibility. There is no reason to expect that the Soviet Union, humiliated by the aborted lO-year-long campaign on the Afghan plains which brought only death and misery to the mighty Red Army, will accede to the demands of the Mujahideen in their currentrag-tag state. Moreover, one of Bhutto's demands, borne out of the realities in Afghanistan, is that Najibullah leave the scene. Even if the Kremlin agrees to such a proposal, it is doubtful whether they could make it work. Najibullah's unquestioned success against the Mujahideen has made him stronger within the party than ever before . Besides, everyone knows in Af­ ghanistan that he is not only the secretary-general of the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), but also the grandson of 1ehandad Khan, former chief of the powerful Ahmedzai tribe.

More pie-in-the-sky? Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan at the White House But to expect the Mujahideen to achieve major military with George Bush on June 6.

EIR 1une 23, 1989 International 41 that set up by an alliance of the Hezbe Islami and Ittihad-e­ be involved in this goods supply operation through the Soviet Islam, both groups that are members of the Peshawar Seven. Union. Maulana Jamilur of Ahle Hadith does not recognize the in­ terim government set up by the Peshawar Seven. Some military realities • NIFA activists have accused the Hezbe Islami of sab­ • The hostility between Pakistani frontiersmen and the otaging the Jalalabad campaign because they did not want Afghan refugees-the Mujahideen leaders in particular-is Pir Gilani to take credit for conquering the city, according to no secret, and this tension has been further exploited by the April issue of the Herald, a monthly magazine from Kabul-sponsored terrorist activities in the North West Fron­ Karachi, Pakistan. That would have exposed the oft-repeated tier Province. It is an important military factor, as the recent claim of the Hezbe Islami that its leaders Maulvi Yunus failed effort by the Mujahideen to capture the Afghan border Khalis and his deputy are the most powerful leaders in Nan­ town of Khost demonstrated. garhar province, say the NIF A men. The accusation is backed Eyewitnesses have reported that 400 Mahsud tribesmen up by evidence that the Hezbe Islarnidid not effectively block from Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency, lured by the the Jalalabad-Kabul highway at a crucial time of the cam­ offer of cash and kind from the Kabul regime, fought the paign, allowing the Kabul regime to bring in large supplies Mujahideen for the defense ofKhost. Another 1 ,500Mahsud of arms and food rations from distant Kabul to the belea­ tribesmen have since arrived in Khost for the same purpose. guered city. An authoritative source in Pakistan reports that although Ka­ bul troops are also stationed there in sufficient numbers, the Myths shattered Khost garrison is in fact primarily defended by local militias • The belief that the Kabul Army and Afghan militias composed of Zadran Pushtot>n tribesmen, along with the would desert the Kabul regime under the slightest pressure Mahsuds. from the Mujahideen commanders, has been proven by eye­ • During the Jalalabad campaign,it became evident that witness reporters from Pakistan to be nothing more than a the columns of Afghan rebels advancing across the flatplains cultivated myth. According to these reporters, the sacrifices were sitting ducks for the Afghan Air Force. High-altitude made by Afghans supporting the Kabul regime surprised bombers were grinding up the Mujahideen from an altitude many. Jalalabad's defenders fought valiantly, as did the mil­ well above the reach of the defending Stinger missiles. The itias , which consist of villagers armed by the Kabul regime. fact is that the Mujahideen are no longer involved in a guer­ One eyewitness told of how the women in a village near rilla-style hit-and-run operation, harassing the Red Army's Samarkhel, a garrison town close to Jalalabad, fought like search and destroy missions from the hilltops. trained soldiers and kept the frontline Mujahideen soldiers at Now the Mujahideen are engaged in conventional war­ bay. fare against an army which is properly trained and armed by In large part, this resistance is due to the Mujahideen's the Soviets to defend the built-up towns. There is no doubt practice of indiscriminately slaughtering prisoners of war­ that the Mujahideen will have to match the Kabul regime's even when factions among their own ranks oppose the killing artillery-tank for tank, missile for missile, heavy guns with of unarmed people. There are also reports that the Arab heavy guns-and do even better if they hope to break through volunteers who have come to fight the Jihad (Holy War) the fortified large cities. against the infidelsof Kabul, and who now number more than • It is doubtfulhow long the rebel fieldcommanders will 1,000, are forcibly marrying women from villages overrun remain under the control of the quibbling Peshawar Seven by the Mujahideen. leaders. President Najibullah' has reportedly offered a dozen • The belief that the Kabul regim could be starved into rebel commanders military rankand full autonomy over their submission has similarly turned out to be a myth. Soviet respective regions if they stop fighting. Such an offer is convoys are regularly bringing large amounts of butter and tempting; it cannot be bettered by the Mujahideen leaders. guns into Kabul via the Salang Highway connecting the Af­ How many fieldcommanders have already accepted the offer ghan capital to the Soviet border in the north. This is occur­ is moot. ring despite the fact that the territory through which the high­ These are some of the realities that need to be taken into way passes is supposedly under the control of the legendary consideration. If the purpose of the "new plan" is to strength­ Ahmed Shah Massoud, a Tajik and a follower of Professor en the hands of the Mujahideen so that they can deal with the Rabbani. Soviet Union froma position of strength for a viable political The Indian government is regularly sending humanitarian solution, these realities must be addressed. For Pakistan, the aid to Kabul as well, and according to a recent expose in a failure to do so would make meaningless the 10 years of Dubai-based paper, large amounts of Westerngoods arefind­ support given to the Mujahideen against the Soviet troops ing their way into Kabul and other Afghan cities as well. and the Kabul regime, and render impossible a solution in Dubai merchants, in collaboration with traders in Hamburg, which the refugees return to theirhomeland, and an Afghan­ West Germany and Antwerp, the Netherlands arereported to istan emerges whose government is friendly to Pakistan.

42 International EIR June 23, 1989 Interview: Grace Bumbry

Ve rdi's tuning will allow Singers to interpret great Illusic better

The following interview was conducted in Bonn, West Ger­ bring the whole "package," not just the vocal production. many on Jan. 15, 1989, by Liliana Celani and Hartmut You want to touch the audience, but in the way the composer Cramer, fo r the German-language Ibykus magazine, which has written, and the librettist has written, not just by how has kindly permitted EIR to reprint it here. Metropolitan well you sing. I think this is the only way of performing Opera soprano Grace Bumbry has the .unusual distinction of recitals. combining the careers of an op eratic artist and a distin­ Anyway, most recital music is not written for the high guished recitalist in the German Lieder repertoire. A student voice, but for the middle part of the voice. The voice speaks of the fa mous German singer Lotte Lehmann, she began her to the human being, to the person who is listening. The higher career as a mezzo-soprano and later, took up the more dra­ up you get, the less audible is the text anyway. You have to matic soprano operatic roles. sort of alter the text in order to get the tones out. That is the reason why we always try to put the literature in the middle Ibykus: Miss Bumbry, you signed the Schiller Institute pe­ voice, in the part of the voice that speaks to the audience. tition to go back to Verdi's tuning in Verona recently. What I also feel that the human voice can only stand so much. is your opinion about the present "tuning war," as the inter­ You can only stretch it so far. You don't want a coloratura to national press chose to call it? sing Aida. You don't want a very, very high voice to sing Bumbry: My opinion about the "tuning war" is that they Luisa [in Verdi's Luisa Miller] . You want a certain coloration who are against A = 432 Hz do not realize the damage they of sound. How can you portray sadness, when it's very , very , are doing to voices and at the same time to the vocal literature. very high? Because in order for singers to interpret a piece of music they have to be able to interpret it in the key that the composer Ibykus: It's impossible. wanted it. As far as the opera is concerned, I think it is Bumbry: Yes. A similarproblem comes up in the case where absolutely mandatory to go back to Verdi's tuning, because the text of an opera is translated. I think we tend to be more the young voices cannot keep up. They simply cannot hold pliable when we are translating a piece of music from one up to that. Their voices will be ruined. It is difficultenough language to another. I'll give you a good example: Janacek's at A = 440 to sing a high C; to sing a high C at 442, 444, 446, opera Jenufa , which is very often donein a foreign language. when your voice has been trained at 440, or even lower, is When I do it, for example at La Scala, in italian, I feel very criminal. uncomfortable: I feel like walking lop-sided, with one leg Thank God, I have a very wide range. So I can manage shorter than the other, because so often the musical accents these notes if I'm warned in advance. But that's not what are placed wrongly, on the wrong word. singing is all about. Anybody can manage, but you want to The same is true, if you sing a piece of music in a trans­ do more than manage. You want to be able to portray what posed key. Especially in opera. If you are singing an opera the composer has written, what the librettist has written. You that was written to be performed at A = 432 Hz, at 446-448 can't do that if you're screaming, trying to manage your vibrations, it puts a given word in the wrong color. It means voice. I believe that the lower tuning will bring about an that you are changing the interpretation, because that word is easier way of singing whereby the singers will be more able supposed to be given at a darker color, because it was intend­ to interpret the music. Now at the moment they are just ed lower. thinking about producing the notes: Let me first get thenote When you are a singer, you know what color you are out and maybe next time ...maybe next year ...well , looking for in a certain word. If I'm looking for the color, that's too late, you know. let's say, of the word Tod, [death, in German] I look for a If you are serious about music, you want to be able to dark color, as with the word Schmerz [pain] . If I sing Tod at

EIR June 23, 1989 International 43 444, that Tod is no longer dark. It changes my whole think­ the tuning was 437, 440, or 429 or whatever, and they prob­ ing, when Tod is already brighter than I really want to make ably didn't care. All they knew is that they felt this envelop­ ' it. ing warmth around them ....

Ibykus: What you are saying has special implications for Ibykus: Yes. Coming back to singing Lieder; there, the singing Lieder. question of tuning seems to be even more important, because Bumbry: Of course. Let's take Schubert's "Der Tod und they are all based on the relationship between the text, the das Miidchen," that's the best example. This particular piece poetic text, and the music- was not transposed by Schubert, I think, because it has to be Bumbry: -sure. Very often, when I prepare a new recital kept in that dark color. I think it goes down to a D natural, if program with my accompanist, we go through all of the keys you take the low note, but if you put it a little bit higher, then that a certain piece of music has been transposedto , in order it no longer has that same sinister feeling or that same morose to findthe specificcolor that I am looking for in this particular feeling. piece of music. Sometimes, even if we don't find a tran­ I remember having sung that song in Vienna in concert scribed transposition, we make our own transposition. My and since I was on a recital-tour, I did that same program accompanist has perfect pitch and he can write out the trans­ shortly afterwards in America, where the pitching was a bit position for me so that it will fitexactly the key I want. lower, just a tiny bit, I think 440, as compared to 444 in Vienna. But this is a considerable color-change and I thought Ibykus: Isn't there a contradiction? In the beginning you more comfortable to that particular song in America, because said, you want to have the pitch in which the composer has it had that color that I needed for that particular song. written. Now you say, that you transpose very often? If I had the choice, I would always do a piece of music in Bumbry: Yes and no. I don't know what tuning Schubert the tuning that the composer wanted, because he knew what wrote most of his literature in. All I know, is the color I was he was writing and what he was looking for when he was looking for, which I hope he was looking for, too. writing. These great composers like Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, Now, every piece of music says what the originalkey is, and Puccini were geniuses, whether we want to admit it or and so I try to do it in that key. With my vocal range and with not. We have to realize and accept the fact that they were my vocal color, which is quite considerable, I will try to sing geniuses and we have to serve them. It is our job to serve it in that original key. If I don't findthe color, then I have to them. It is not our job to serve ourselves or to serve the findit in another key. conductor XYZ, who also, really, is supposed to serve these wonderful composers. Ibykus: Maybe the reason that the "original" key is not any Most of today's conductors do not realize the fact, that it more the really original one, is today's higher tuning? is not they who are at the center, but the music. They are not Bumbry: Exactly. I am sure that is the reason. I am abso­ playing an instrument and they are not singing. They really lutely sure. Take the case of "Casta diva" from Bellini's should be serving all the rest of us; we are the ones who are Norma, which is normally transposed to F from the original, the instruments and they are just conducting the instruments which is G. which are being used. If a soprano does this, people say: "Well, she wasn't really a soprano, she was a mezzo-soprano; she did it because Ibykus: Speaking about conductors and orchestras, can you of her vocal problems." But ,that is not the case at all. Why give us an example of the effect the lower tuning has on did Joan Sutherland, who was one of the highest coloratura performing instrumental music? we have had these last 20-30 years, prefer to sing this aria in Bumbry: Oh yes. You know that Eugene Ormandy used to F? This example tells you something, because the whole conduct the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra for many, color of "Casta diva" is not a brilliant one. It is not a brilliant many years. I heard them once in a concert in New York City piece of music, but a prayer, and you don't put a prayer in a and I was very much impressed with the warmth of their high bright color, which will undoubtedly happen in the high sound. Since I very often go to orchestra concerts and espe­ tuning. So even Joan brings itdown to F, and if she brings it cially had been accustomed to the New York Philharmonic, down to an F, I think we can certainly feel at ease in an F, I could make a comparison. There was a clear distinction for too. which I didn't know the reason; I just thought that this or­ chestrais just superior to the New York Philharmonic. Ibykus: She signed the petition for the lower tuning together Then I found out that the reason was their tuning; it was with her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge. somewhat lower, I think they tuned at 437. But for a trained Bumbry: Of course, anybody with that right understanding ear, even without knowing what the reason was, I knew that would have signed it. Sure. there was a differencein what I heard and felt, and I imagine that this was also obvious to the rest of the people in the Ibykus: Also Bellini would agree. auditorium. Now, the wide masses surelydidn 't know whether Bumbry: Absolutely. I don't know what his pitching was,

44 International EIR June 23, 1989 Miss Bumbryin two heroic early-Verdi soprano roles (left . Abigaille in Nabucco, right. LadyMacBeth in MacBeth. Since this interview was granted. the

Italian A = 432 tuning bill was subverted to become

an A = 440 bill. The world1amous opera .� singers Tebaldi and � Cappuccilli. among � others. have denounced .a 8 this sabotage and vowed � to continue the fightfo r € the original Verdi tuning 8 with new initiatives.

but I am sure we could findout what his pitch was, when he and the United States? This kind of legislation, or at least the wrote it. artistic adoption of Verdi's tuning? Bumbry: Undoubtedly, it will spread. And after some time, Ibykus: Around the same as Verdi. given the right arguments, I think it could become wide­ Bumbry: I think so, and no matter who the composer was, spread .... from the early days , it certainly was not 440 and it certainly was not 444. This means that we, in order to get the color we Ibykus: On the question of tuning and coloring: How do you think the composer wanted, have to transpose. I findalmost solve the problem of the difference in tuning in the various every piece of music that I sing in recital music has got to be places? transposed because of the high tuning. Bumbry: Imagine I have to sing a certain song which the composer has written, let's say in the key of G, in a place Ibykus: It is not transposing; it is trying to go back to the where the tuning is going to be a bit higher than norrnal­ ' original tuning. what I call normal-then I will have to make a "concession." Bumbry: Right. And very often I find a review saying: And that concession is to transpose that piece of music into "Why is she doing it in the mezzo-key?" But it is not the the tonality which I think the composer wanted. mezzo-key or the soprano-key, it's not anybody's key. It's The question of transposing obviously involves a lot of the key that I think fitsthis particular piece ofmusic . background work, not just the music, but all the background work that I can findabout that piece of music. Ibykus: And comes closest to the composer's intention. Who else does this? Who else goes to such lengths to find Bumbry: Exactly. As a matter of fact, after having trans­ the right color? But since I have such a wide color palette in posed the music in order to find the right color and then my voice, I like to make use of those colors. I also think that looking again to the original key, we found out in many cases, this is partially the reason for my success with the public. that the key we have transposed it to, is very, very close to The people know that I have done the utmost to portray the original one, like maybe a half-tone, sometimes maybe a whatever piece of music I have chosen to interpret, let it be tone. opera or recital music. I would just like to say right here, that it is most unfortun­ Ibykus: Let's assume the legislation for the lower tuning ate, that the order of the recital music of Lieder has somehow will be approved by the Italian Senate in the next one or two fallen by the wayside or under the table. I would like it very months. Do you think it will spread out to the rest of Europe much to be able to uplift this medium, which seems to have

EIR June 23, 1989 International 45 fallen into disrepair.

Ibykus: What do you think is the cause for this, and given the fact that you are singing Lieder often both in Europe and the United States, do you see a difference between these two continents on this question? Bumbry: First of all, there is a difference, and I don't know More fraud expected whether it is just because of the fact that America is an English-speaking country which lacks an enormous recital in Mexico elections tradition. Of course you might findpockets in the U.S. where there is a tradition in Lieder-recitals, like in New York City, by Hector Apolinar Boston, or Chicago. There you have people who used to have recital subscriptions. But unfortunately the recital-subscri­ bers no longer exist, because somehow , maybe for money The July 2 election of deputies to the state congress of the reasons, it seems to be no longer interesting to do recitals. I Mexican state of Michoacan is currentlythe primary political really don't understand why .... concern of the group around President Carlos Salinas de Gortari which is determined to wipe the nationalist move­ Ibykus: How do you see the role of an artist? Like Schiller ment headed by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano from the conceived it, as a mission to upliftpeople? political map of Mexico, whatever the cost. Bumbry: Yes, I do; I certainly do . I don't think that all The stakes are high for President Salinas. Since the dis­ artists have that understanding, but I think certain artists do puted 1988 presidential elections-in which Cardenas, and and I believe that is my calling. not Salinas de Gortari, won � majority of the votes, according I often wonder, what am I here for? I have no children, I to many in Mexico-Cardenas's movement has become the am no longer married, so it must be something else. I fought rallying point for national resistance against foreign bankers' constantly with my husband about musical values and I really looting of the country, the policy which Salinas has champi­ think that the reason he and I got divorced was because of a oned. Salinas, now in the middle of negotiations with those discrepancy in our musical values. For me there was and is foreign creditors on Mexico's debt, is desperate to maintain either music or not; either you give or you don't. the illusion that his government, and economic program, are firmly in control of the country. Ibykus: How do you think about the realization of those Salinas's problem, according to the widest range of values today? The United States of America used to be a sources available to EIR , is that the situation in Michoacan country where everybody who had talent could accomplish today is of a dramatic Cardenist ferment which promises to anything. This was the case when you started your career. give the election to Cardenas's followers by a landslide. What about today? According to all impartial observers, the local campaigns of Bumbry: Well, maybe it is always the case that, if you have the ruling PRI party candidates have been a dismal failure; a talent, if you have really a great talent, you will always their electoral rallies have beenlikened to hopeless preaching succeed. It is like oil and water: The oil always rises to the in the desert. top, as does the cream in the milk, doesn't it? Michoacan is especially important because it is Cuauht­ But it is getting more and more difficult. I findthat some­ emoc Cardenas's place of birth; he was governorof the state how people don't strive for greatness anymore, they feel until 1986. His father, President and Gen. Lazaro Cardenas , comfortable to be mediocre, they even enjoy mediocrity. I revered as the founder of Mexico's national oil industry, also have never enjoyed mediocrity. I always felt that one has to comes from Michoacan, and was governor there during the strive for greatness and that is the reason why, speakingabout 1930s. In the 1988 elections, the Cardenist candidates in my country, I feel so sad about the death of Martin Luther Michoacan won all thefederal deputy posts and the two state King and the death of John F. Kennedy. I thought that we senator posts, taking 95 % of the state vote. were on the road to greatness then and with those persons There is no way the ruling PRI party can face such a being put aside, we as Americans, seem to have abruptly Cardenist fortress in an honest election, and win. stopped the advancement in our form of civilization, in our Victory for the candidates of Cardenas's Party of the form of culture. Democratic Revolution (PRD) would also create a situation If there is some way that we could reach that point again, in which the state governor, a member of the PRI party, to say nothing about striving beyond that, I would like to be would be obliged to subject his public actions to the dictates part of it, of course. of the Constitution and to the scrutiny of the state congress. Such a situation would be unprecedented in Mexican modem Ibykus: Miss Bumbry, thank you very much. history.

46 International EIR June 23, 1989 Before it pennits such a situation to occur, the Salinas "provoking violence" and a rupture of public order. On June grouping will use all means at its disposal to tryto deliver a 8, the special PRI delegate in Michoacan accused the PRD coup de grace against the Cardenist movement, in hope of of "using violence." presenting its political corpse to the country's creditor banks and to the White House. Discrediting the military The leaders of the Cardenist movement in Michoacan The army, too, is being employed to carry out these dirty understand clearly what is at stake in the elections there. In a tactics. On May 20, during an electoral tour of Michoacan, July 5 interview, Michoacan senator Cristobal Arias-an Cardenas was infonned that army forces were interfering in intimate of Cardenas-declared, "For the greatnational Car­ the PRD's campaigning. Cardenas responded by warning denist movement, the victory of the Party of the Democratic that "it is invalid to conduct politics with the army," and Revolution in Michoacan would serve as an incentive for the demanded that "the illegal interventions that members of the strengtheningof the citizenry and for fulfillmentof the law­ army are making in the [electoral] campaigns be brought to for the exercise of those principles engraved in the Consti­ an end." tution." Cardenas's criticism ofthe role of the army in Michoacan Arias stated also that "the fighthas been intense, at times accentuates the discredit into which that institution has fallen bloody due to the attacks and repression to which we have over the past seven years, due to the many accusations of been subjected. We assume a greatresponsibility , but we are corruption that have been made against some of its com­ confident that we can carry it. . . . The fight has not been manders. While the new Defense Minister Riviello Bazan free of sacrifice, ofsuffer ing, but we are optimistic that we may hope to recoverlost ground, actions such as those being can advance and open up and occupy ever larger political employed in Michoacan under ordersfrom the higher-ups are space." only serving to cause discontent both within and outside the ArmedFo rces. Failure of electoral fraud strategy Added to this is the fact that, in recent days, there has The firstphase of the Salinas group's strategy has been a been a series of highly suspicious actsof violence , prompting complete fiasco. The group of electoral fraud "experts" sent greater political and military vigilance in the state. On June by the PRI and the federal government to the state has been 8, a group of assailants attacked a passenger bus headed firmly rejected by Michoacan's citizens, who remain uncon­ toward the interior of the state. The driver was shot and lost vinced that a few small public works projects, free haircuts, control of the vehicle, which plung� over a cliff, killing 21 distribution of anti-rabies vaccines, and temporary milk dis­ persons. A few hours earlier, another bus had been sprayed tribution warrant a vote for the PRI. The group of "experts" with bullets by assailants trying to bring it to a stop. One was headed by a fonner mayor in Michoacan, Jose Guadar­ person was killed and two wounded. These two brutal and rama, fonneragriculture minister Francisco Merino Rabago, apparently senseless acts triggered a strike of bus drivers in fonner Sonora governorCarlos Armando Biebrich, and for­ protest against lack of highway security. In response, the mer agrarian refonn minister Augusto G6mez Villanueva, governmentand the army combed the region in search of the who have set up an army of bums and hustlers who are criminals, while imposing stricterand more widespread se­ spreading millions of pesos around-allegedlyto "promote" curity procedures. On June 10, individuals with high-pow­ voting. ered weapons randomly shot at several buses and cars on Given the clearfailure of this "counterinsurgent" strate­ anotherhighway , leaving one dead and two seriously wound­ gy, the Salinas forces have taken the first steps toward cre­ ed. ating a situation of tension and violence in the state, which Until now, the authorities have not arrested a single one in tum provides them a pretext to increase standing army and of the assailants. police forces in Michoacan. The idea is to intimidate-and Well-infonnedsources report that thereis already discus­ if necessary, repress-Cardenas' s followers. sion that a "state of emergency" may be declaredby state or As part of the effort, the government/PRI forces are fi­ federal authorities before the July 2 elections, in response to nancing a costly press and rumor campaign accusing the this wave of violence. PRD, and Cardenas personally, of seeking to unleash vio­ Referringto this possiblity, Sen. CristobalArias declared lence in the upcoming elections. "We will leave the aggres­ that the PRD opposes "the imposition of a military siege, sion and rage to others," declared Luis Colossio, the presi­ during and after the elections, which would be to the benefit dent of the PRI, in an implicit reference to the Cardenists of the government and to the PRI, and which would tarnish during a tour through Michoacan on April 15. Later he said theelectoral process." He categoricaIly warnedthat the gov­ that the PRI is the party of "legality [and] stability," suggest­ ernment should "carefully weigh the costs and risks, the ing that the PRD was the party of illegality and instability. consequences, should it not respect the popular will as ex­ On May 10, another PRI leader, Jose Castillo Moto, accused pressedat the polls. In this, not only Michoacan is involved, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas before the Mexico City Assembly of but the entirecountry . "

EIR June 23, 1989 International 47 on June 30, when "we will assume government in the worst crisis in history." Alfonsfn's policy of paying the foreign debt up through April of 1988, not only caused inflation; together with the Argentine crises stay, International Monetary Fund's austerity policies, it has pro­ duced unprecedented impoverishment of the Argentine peo­ as Alfonsin bows out ple. According to recent statistics, at least 8 million Argen­ tines, out of 30 million, live below poverty levels. Two million are officially unemployed. The minimum wage of by CynthiaRush 4,000 australs ($40-50) will only carry the wage-eamer, of­ ten a head of family, through 20 days of the month, without Claiming that "no President has the right to ask the people to covering the cost of rent, services, education, health services suffer indefinitely," outgoing President Raul Alfonsfn sur­ or clothing. At least half a million workers eam the minimum prised Argentina on June 12 when he announced on national wage. television that he would resign by June 30, and hand power Few details on Menem's plans for a "productive revolu­ to the opposition Peronists. Peronist candidate Carlos Saul tion" have yet been released. While Argentina's devastating Menem won the May 14 presidential elections in a landslide crisis demands an aggressive nationalist program, spokes­ victory. men have only reported that the new government will grant Alfonsfn's sudden decision, made unilaterally and with­ sharp salary increases, impose tax and public sector reforms, out consultation with Menem, has added a further degree of and replace the old currency, the austral , with a new one. chaos to what is already an untenable situation. Together There continues to be anxiety expressed among nationalist with leaders of the ruling Radical Civic Union (UCR), Al­ sectors aboutthe credentials of Menem' s chosen financemin­ fonsfn had been negotiating for weeks with the President­ ister, Miguel Roig. Roig for many years served as executive elect over transferring power well before the scheduled date vice president of the Soviet-linked grain cartel, Bunge and of Dec. 10. Given Argentina's wild hyperinflationary crisis Born. and financial chaos, spokesmen of every political and busi­ ness sector agreed that Alfonsfn was too discredited to remain Military crisis festers in power any longer. Even Cesar Jaroslavsky, UCR whip in One of the most serious problems that Alfonsfn was sup­ the lower house of Congress, reported on June 12 that "it's posed to resolve priorto leaving, is the crisis within the armed just not possible to govern the country under these circum­ forces. Alfonsfn oversaw the prosecutions of many military stances. " officers, charged with human rights violations during the Negotiators had tentatively agreed on a date of early 1970s "war against subversion." The issue has been a contin­ August, in the hope that this would give the lame duck Pres­ uing source of unrest among the armed forces. Although ident time to deal with a number of unresolved problems, much of the military high command has demanded that the among them the crisis within the armed forces, before exiting government declare an amnesty for those charged, and not the government. Judging from the June 12 announcement, prosecute any more officers; Alfonsfn refused to act, instead however, Alfonsfn has opted to deliberately burden the new simply delaying and postponing trials until after he leaves administration with a series of crises to make the task of office. This means that the issue will be leftup to Menem to governing as difficult as possible. solve, although it was Alfonsfn who adopted the policy of Under Argentina's Constitution, if Alfonsfn and his vice provoking and weakening the armed forces. president resign, they cannot hand power directly to the Pres­ The social democratic President also refused to respect ident-elect. Instead, the President of the Senate, in this case the terms of the December 1988 agreement between nation­ Menem's brother, Sen. Eduardo Menem, must assume the alist Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldfn and then Army Chief of presidency as an interim head of state . Staff Gen. Dante Caridi, made following the military action A statement issued by Menem following Alfonsfn' s an­ at Villa Martelli base led by Colonel Seineldfn. At that time, nouncement termed the President's decision as "surprising, Alfonsfn not only agreed to deal with such pressing issues as to say the least," noting that it was made right in the middle military budget, wages, and upcoming trials, but also agreed of negotiations on the transfer of power. Menem pointed out that no officer other than Colonel Seineldfn would be pun­ that Alfonsfn had committed himself to carrying out certain ished for participating in the Villa Martelli action. actions prior to resigning, which now cannot be fu lfilled, but Yet, Alfonsfn has stood: by in recent weeks and watched stated that he is nonetheless willing to assume the presidency the military high command impose sanctions on a number of "with firmness, realizing that we have the support of the nationalist officers and force others into retirement, in an people." The President-elect stated that the Peronists will effort to decapitate this section of the army . Observers de­ announce the content of his government's economic program scribe the situation within the army as "extremely grave ."

48 International EIR June 23, 1989 precisely what the guerrilla groups have been demanding as Colombia the precondition for entering into "peace dialogues" with the government-Maza seems more eager to set off quarrels between institutions that should be coordinating efforts to fightthe drug trade , than he is to stop the mafia. Maza Marquez called on AttorneyGeneral Alfonso Gom­ ez Mendez, who is tied to the left politically and through his family, to investigate a document discovered in the posses­ Narco-terror gets sion of retired Army Capt. Luis Javier Wanumen, in which details of the May 30 car-bombing were elaborated. It was away with murder later revealed that the document to which the secret service chief was giving so much credibility, accused Interior Min­ ister Raul Orejuela Bueno and the director of investigations by JavierAlmario of the National Police, Oscar Eduardo Pelaez Carmona, of being members of the drug traffickingcartel based in the state On May 30, a car-bomb triggered in the middle of Bogota of Cali and run by Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. came within inches of murdering the head of the DAS secret Defense Minister Gen. Manuel Jaime Guerrero Paz is­ service, Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez. The general survived, sued a public statement in defense of the interior minister but several innocent passers-by werekilled, including a child. pointing out that "former officer Luis Javier Wanumen Ca­ The attack was universally attributed to the drug mafia, and margo," the source of the damaging allegations, "was dis­ its boldness stunned the nation. honorably discharged from the MilitaryForces in 1984." All The response of the government of President Virgilio the governors of Colombia's departments similarly upheld Barco and of Colombian political circles, however, continues the interior minister, while National Police director General to be one of sheer impotence. Instead of battling the drug Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla defended Pelaez Carmona trafficking mafias which sponsor, finance, and train the as­ for his "special ethical and moral values ." sassination squads running rampant in the country, the gov­ The Barco government has consistently refused to make ernment has decided to step up its war against the so-called a frontal assault on the drug trade, despite the fact that it has "paramilitaries" -and against the military itself. been repeatedly proven that the drug cartel is behind the On June 12, the Barco government issued a new decree financing of terrorism on both the "left" and "right." Al­ designed to impose tougher fines andlonger prison sentences though the Army and police have managed to search out and on "those who promote, finance, lead, encourage, or carry destroy many laboratories, warehouses, and airstrips belong­ out acts leading to the formation of or recruitment of persons ing to the traffickers , the government has not provided the to armed groupscommonly known as death squads, assassin political backing for their actions in the form of extradition bands, or private justice." The penalties are also to be applied of captured traffickers and expropriation of their properties. to those who train or belong to such armed groups. Neither have the drugmoney laundries been touched, nor the The decree's wording makes clear that it is not intended "citizens above suspicion" that run cover for the drug trade . to be applied to terrorist guerrilla organizations of the "left," such as the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Col­ Renewed push for drug legalization ombia (FARC) , the April 19 Movement (M- 19), the Popular Worse yet, the political elites of Colombia are still pro­ Liberation Army (EPL) or the National Liberation Army moting the legalization of the drug trade as an acceptable (ELN). Rather, it is explicit that "when the acts described in alternative to an all-out war on drugs. The ruling Liberal this decree are committed by active or retired members of the Party's likely presidential candidate, Sen. Ernesto Samper Military Forces, National Police, or state security agencies, Pizano, is using his electoral campaign to hawk his favorite the penalty will be increased by one-third." argument for drug legalization, namely that if Colombia doesn't legalize drugs, the United States will. Mafia otTthe hook In an interview with the popular weekly Semana June 8, DAS director General Maza Marquez himself admitted Samper Pizano declared, "I hope �hat I predicted doesn't that the authors of the attack against him were the "narco­ come to pass, that by the end of the century we would be paramilitaries." But instead of urging the government to importing marijuana cigarettes stamped 'Made in U.S.A.,' launch a political-military offensive against the drug cartel, and we would be leftwith the dead and they with the profits ." he cast suspicion on the Armed Forces and police because, Samper cynically proposed that a "new model of coexist­ he said, they had failed to cooperate in investigations of the ence" with the drugtrade and with terrorismbe established, "paramilitaries." By demanding a scrutiny of possible links since they represent "two new forms of struggle" in today's between the Armed Forces and paramilitary death squads- "reality."

EIR June 23, 1989 International 49 Report from Rome by Antonio Gaspari

You don't die of 'advice' have proven tobe prof oundly true. The Umberto Sant' Angelo never thought of suicide before he met up Euthanasia Club is only the latest nov­ elty which the Italian neo-malthusian with the Nazi-modeled "Euthanasia Club." lobby has come up with in its drive to rapidly force population reduction, adding to abortion, sterilization, and euthanasia, the spread of homosexu­ ality and pornography. F rom Room 723 of the Hotel Wind­ tum called up Antonia Malfatti, and Tassinari began his unenviable ca­ sor in Milan came the continuous ring­ the two spent the night at the Hotel reer as vice president of the Institute ing of the alarm clock. A "Do Not Windsor. The morning of the 15th , for Democratic Research and the Ital­ Disturb" sign hung on the door, but Tassinari left the hotel and delivered ian Association for ContraceptiveEd­ the alarm clock kept ringing, until the the suicide letter to the address of U m­ ucation and Sterilization. He became maid, worried, went in. To her horror, berto's parents. The letter reads, president of the Association for Vol­ stretched out on the bed with his hands "Being in full possession of my mental untary Sterilization, which organizes crossed on his chest lay the 33-year­ faculties, whatever may be the cause annual Anti-clerical Meetings through old Umberto Sant' Angelo, dead. The of my death, either suicide or natural Freemasonic networks. A media mo­ only signs of probable cause of death death or something else, I desire that gul involved in the illegal P-2 Free­ were a tourniquet, two pieces of gauze, my body be cremated." masonic lodge, Maurizio Costanzo, and a small, recent puncture in his On the morning of May 15 at 9 made sure that Guido Tassinari ap­ arm-no syringe was in sight. a.m., a bloodstained handkerchief was peared on TV, despite his tiny follow­ It happened on May 15, but the found in front of the elevator. The ing. It was through one of these pro­ story landed on the front pages only handkerchief belonged to the victim, grams that Umberto Sant' Angelo first after it was found out that the likely but he, for sure, did not carry it there. contacted the Euthanasia Club. suicide of the poor Umberto However the investigation turns The co-founder of the club and the Sant' Angelo, employed as a desk clerk out-even if Tassinari did not physi­ victim's medical adviser is sexologist at the Hilton Hotel, had been instigat­ cally aid Umberto in his final act­ Giorgio Conciani, who was arrested ed by Guido Tassinari and Antonia there can be no doubt that the Euthan­ in the 1970s three times for practicing Malfatti, founders and activists of the asia Club instigates suicide. abortion, and spent a yearin jail when "Euthanasia Club." The victim's father, Ettore abortion was illegal in Italy. He has Assistant Prosecutor Filippo Gri­ Sant' Angelo, said: "If he had not met told the press, "I have practiced pas­ solia, who is investigating the case, those people, today my son would still sive euthanasia in several cases, and issued a subpoena for Guido Tassi­ be alive. Umberto did not do anything when possible also active, by showing nari , which hypothesizes the crime of on his own. He was helped and I want the patient how to take his life or by "instigation or help in suicide," and to keep these people from doing to giving advice to the family." could lead to a 5-12 year jail term for others, the evil they did to my son." In June 1988 Dr. Conciani, to­ the culprit. In March 1981, the magazine gether with Green Party candidate According to a preliminary recon­ Guerra alia Droga, the Italian edition Riccardo Zucconi and Radical Party struction of the facts, Umberto of the War on Drugs periodical then adviser Vincenzo Donvito, an­ Sant' Angelo, a shy youth subject to published in seven languages by as­ nounced the formation of a "League bouts of depression, had begun fre­ sociates of U.S. political leader Lyn­ for Responsible Procreation." Their quenting the Euthanasia Club and had don LaRouche, denounced the exis­ press release madeno bones about their confidedto his co�workers that he had tence in Italy of a "death with dignity" Nazi ideology, stating, "In European met persons around this strange asso­ lobby whose leaders included Guido history the only state which used de­ ciation who would aid him to face a Tassinari and Adele Faccio-the same mograpby massively, scientifically, possible "painless death." people who later founded the Euthan­ and rationally is the Nazi state of Ger­ On May 13, Umberto Sant' Angelo asia Club. Enraged over the article, many in the 1930s and '40s. The op­ reserved a room at the Hotel Windsor Tassinari even threatened to sue the eration carried out by Nazism was de­ for two nights. On the night of the magazine. cidedly great, in social and cultural 14th , he telephoned Tassinari, who in Nine years later, those charges terms ."

50 International EIR June 23, 1989 Report from Bonn by Rainer Apel

Germans don't like the red flag East Gennany had been brought up , The media-promoted phenomenon of "Gorbymania" can't but he would say that it was "certainly included in this context." conceal a deep horror of communism . On the Gennan Question, i.e., reunification or whatever fonn of closer Gennan-Gennan relations was possible, Gorbachov did not make the T he pictures on Gennan TV during Unlike his Gorbachovite foreign least concession. Many here had ex­ Gorbachov's visit to Bonn, seemed to minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, pected that because of the Bonn gov­ prove international warnings that mass Bonn Chancellor Helmut Kohl seems ernment's good behavior on arms con­ hysteria-Gorbymania-had cap­ uneasy about the superpower deal. trol, Gorbachov would make Kohl a tured the hearts of the West Gennans. This is why he introduced a delicate new offer on the Gennan Question, Admittedly, there were scenes of subject in his dinner speech in Bonn but he didn't. Instead, Gorbachov's overwhelming applause for Gorba­ June 12. Kohl said to the Soviet lead­ Gennan affairs adviser Nikolai Por­ chov in Bonn. But to say that this er, "Mr. General Secretary, thoughts tugalov took to the media, making marked support for the Soviet system, of peace are moving our own people clearthere had beenno changeof view. even a reformed one, is wrong . very much this year. Fifty years ago, "The most the West Gennans can The massacre in Beijing, the po­ World War II began withthe attack on hope for, is two Gennan apartments , groms in Uzbekistan and other parts Poland, which shortly before had been with two independent tenants, in the of the Soviet Union, left a deep shock divided a fourth time in history by a future House of Europe," said Portu­ upon the West Gennans that can't be shameful treaty." galov in a radio interview June 13. He painted over by Raisa and Mikhail's Journalists later hit Gorbachov's added that both Gennan tenants could public relations smiles. The Gennans spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov with develop "good neighborly relations, feel uneasy about Gorbachov-he may requests for a comment on the 1939 on the condition that both respect the be a refonner, but he's a commie like Hitler-Stalin Pact Kohl had referred to house order." Deng Xiaoping, isn't he? They also in his speech, though not by name. V ariations of this rebuff were re­ feel uneasy about the Bush adminis­ "Why remember that pact," Gerasi­ peated by other Soviet spokesmen tration's plans to pull troops out of mov said, "why not also remember while Gorbachov was in Bonn, and Europe. Can there be safety without that Gennany was the first country to also the joint Gennan-Soviet declara­ U. S. troops in Gennany? Recent make friends with the Soviet Union tion stated on the highly sensitive is­ opinion polls say that a vast majority after the revolution?Why not remem­ sue of Berlin that no change would wants the troops to stay. ber the Rapallo pact?" occur in the 1971 Four-Power Agree­ Many here wondered about re­ Observers could not help inter­ ment. In the eyes of the Soviets, this marksJohn C. Kornblum, deputy U.S. preting the big show of nice Gennan­ agreement does not mean at all that ambassador to NATO, made on the Soviet words before the the public and relations betw�en West Berlin and joint declaration Kohl and Gorbachov the media, as a coverup of real ten­ West Gennany are recognized by signed in Bonn June 13. In a TV inter­ sions. Some light on these tensions Moscow. Gorbachov refused to sign view, Kornblum called the declara­ was shed in leaks Kohl's press spokes­ two agreements (on shipping and on tion, which backs Gorbachov's idea man made June 13, when he said the space research) in Bonn, because the of a Common European House, a two leaders had, in the context of dis­ two governments could not agree on "good document." He said that the cussing theCommon European House, an interpretation to include Berlin. Bush and Gorbachov visits to Ger­ also traded views on the "importance Finally, a senior member of the many, in a span of only two weeks, of the principle of non-interference." Soviet delegation was quoted in the had set "the right framing conditions The spokesman was asked whether this press calling the joint declaration from bothsides , which have to befilled meant that West Gennannon-i nterfer­ "largely symbolic," adding the telling by pragmatic policies, now." The ence in the current turbulence in East­ phrase: "Ourcooperation with the U.S. message got across: With things set­ ern Europe, was discussed, and he re­ is much deeper and more specific." It tled by the two superpowers, Bonn's plied, "Yes." He added that he didn't is a U.S.-Soviet rope by which the job was to get into line. know whether the specificproblem of West Gennans are to be hung.

EIR June 23, 1989 International 51 Report from Rio by Silvia Palacios

U.S.-Soviet condominium denounced the Air Force Ministry has, for the first The fo reign ministrywarns of the consequences of a superpower time in the country's history, spon­ sored the visit of high-level Soviet pact fo r the Th ird World's quest fo r sovereignty. military officers to Brazil. The an­ swer, however, is still, "Nyet." "It is cheaper [for Brazil] to use our equip­ ment" to put its satellites into orbit, F or the first time, an Ibero-Ameri­ istry caused such a stir that Soviet Am­ insisted Viacheslava Balevanov, as­ can government has publicly de­ bassador to BrazilLeonid Kuzman was sistant director of the Soviet Union's nounced the existence of a new power forced to respond. On June 8, ques­ Scientific Space Research Center, in "condominium," a power-sharing pact tioned by the press on "the fear of Bra­ early May. between the superpowers as in Yalta zilian diplomacy of the existence of a From the side of the United States, of 1945 , posing serious danger to the power condominium to the detriment an historic ally of Brazil, the pressure sovereignty and development of the of the Third World," Kuzman did not has been even more brutal and insult­ Third World nations. deny the existence of such agree­ ing. The Bush government has man­ In a conference held at the com­ ments, but limited himself to the vague aged to impose as its ambassador to mand school ofthe army chief of staff, comment that "the understanding be­ Brazil one Richard Melton, who is the most important institute of mili­ tween the powers does not mean re­ known to have been involved in the tary education in Brazil, the general duced importance of the developing Iran-Contra scandal. secretary of the foreign ministry, Pau­ nations ." It waS in vain that Paulo Tarso per­ lo Tarso Flecha de Lima, "applauded The reporter's question nonethe­ sonally appealed to U. S. Secretary of East- West detente , but warned of the less clearly ruined Kuzman's party, State James Baker to desist in pushing collateral effects of an eventual ac­ for he had called the press conference the Melton nomination, when the two cord: The United States and the Soviet to announce-with great pomp-the met at the OAS emergency meeting Union should understand well that they imminent visit of an important dele­ on Panama last month. Within the dip­ would be creating a world condomin­ gation of the Soviet parliament. lomatic community in Brasilia, it is ium and , thus, there would be no room Despite the denials of the Soviet said that President Bush spoke by tele­ for the emerging nations," reported the representative, there exists abundant phone with Brazil's Sarney, to ad­ daily 0 Globo of May 31. evidence that it is precisely this "New dress two issues: Melton and Panama. The official, who frequently serves Yalta" accord which explains why Sure enough, immediately after­ as acting minister, warned that the Brazil is being treatedas a colony, first wards, the Brazilian governmentgave most immediate danger is that those by denying it the most advanced tech­ its nod of approval to the unsavory agreements "would open up discus­ nology available and simultaneously ambassadorial appointee. sion of other issues, such as ecology, by strangling it financially. Along with this, Bush has just sent where the current focus is on Brazil." For example, on the Soviet side, his special disarmament adviser, re­ In fact, as EIR has documented, economist and Gorbachov adviser tired Gen. Edward Rowney, to Brazil, ecology has proven to be the master Abel Aganbegyan, a champion ofper­ supposedly to explain to the govern­ key in opening up "understandings" estroika, has made variousrefer ences ment the agreements reached at the between the Eastern Establishment to Brazil in which he lines up explic­ recent NATO meeting. forces which came to power with itly with the usurious bankers. "It The truth is that Rowney came to George Bush, and the Soviet leader­ would be immoral to stop paying the pressure Brazil into signing the N ucle­ ship under Gorbachov and Foreign debt," he said at the beginning of this ar Non-Proliferation Treaty. Brazil has Minister Shevardnadze . For such "un­ year. He then outdid himself in offer­ consistently refused to sign the pact, derstandings" to succeed, the princi­ ing up praise to the InternationalMon­ determined to defend its right to have ple of limited sovereignty must be im­ etary Fund and World Bank. access to the most advanced nuclear posed at all cost, and in this Brazil has In the technological arena, Brazil and other technology. The United been one of the first to suffer the as­ is desperate for transfer of technology States, intoned Rowney, "expects saults of both sides. to continue autonomously building its many othercountrie s, including those The warnings of the foreign min- aerospace program. To achieve this, of EasternEurope , to sign the treaty. "

52 International EIR June 23, 1989 Panama Report by Carlos We sley

U.S. puts out contract on Noriega zation of American States (OAS) Sp itting on the OAS, the White House is acting like a player in a commission attempting to mediate a solution to the Panamanian crisis. bad Hollywood "western ." That incident was staged on orders from the Bush administration, miffed because the OAS is reportedly no longer strictly adhering to the admin­ T he U.S. government has put out a This is particularly true in the case istration's game plan for ousting No­ $5 million contract on Gen. Manuel of El Salvador, where the newly riega. Asked June 12 if the commis­ Noriega, the commander of Panama's sworn-ingovernment of PresidentAl­ sion would push Noriega to leave, Defense Forces, according to a front­ fredo Cristiani is fighting for survival commission member Diego Cordov­ page story in the Washington Times against a communist guerrilla offen­ ez, the foreign �inister of Ecuador, June 14. The bounty is reportedly the sive. On June 9, just one week after replied: "That is the only topic I will brainchild of Customs Service Com­ Cristiani 's inauguration, his principal not deal with." missioner William Von Raab, who aide, Minister of the Presidency An­ U.S. officials said that the OAS "dubbed [the plan] Operation Paladin tonio Rodriguez Porth, and two of his "would make a serious mistake" if it after the bounty hunter in the old tele­ bodyguards were machine-gunned sought to solve the crisis without first vision series 'Have Gun, Will Trav­ down by the communist Farabundo insisting on Noriega's departure. el,' " officials report. One way the Marti National Liberation Front. Quayle threatened during his tour of mercenaries to kidnap (or kill) Norie­ But instead of discussing mea­ Central America that "time is running ga are to be recruited, is through want sures to suppress this terrorist threat, out," and the U.S. plans further eco­ ads announcing the bounty, which are Quayle conducted his whirlwind four­ nomic and political sanctions against to be placed in stores and Soldier of nation Central American tour "pri­ Panama if Noriega does not leave. Fortune and People magazine, once marily to seek to rally the region's But having witnessed the U.S. ap­ the official go-ahead is given! support against Panama," according peasement of the Chinese Communist The plan is trumpeted as the latest to U.S. officials. "If the Noriega prec­ governmentfo llowing the Tiananmen innovation in a flaggingwar on drugs. edent continues, you will not only have Square massacre, many of the nations But officials bluntly told the Times that Panama as an enemy of democracy, of Ibero-America are reluctant to take it is Noriega "who would probably be but it will be joining forces with Nic­ stronger measures against Panama just the number-one targetright now," with aragua and Cuba," said Quayle. to please the administration. such Medellin cartel chiefs as Pablo He justified that claim on the fact Panamanian President Manuel Escobar and Robert Vesco relegated that Panama's militias, the Dignity Solis Palma made clear June 12 that to also-rans, whose capture brings a Battalions, are equipped with Soviet­ the U. S. economic sanctions must be lower price. And while the State De­ bloc manufactured AK-47 rifles and lifted and otherwarfare measures cease partment's nominee to head the Inter­ other weapons, which the U.S. al­ before the crisis can be solved. In a national Narcotics Affairs Office, leges were supplied by Nicaragua, televised interview the same day, No­ Melvyn Levitsky, approves of the which got them fromCu ba. The truth riega issued a similar message. "Until scheme, Drug Enforcement Admin­ is that Panama obtained those weap­ you remove the foreign substance from istration officialsare adamant that not ons, not from Nicaragua, but from Ol­ the body," he said, "you will not be only is the idea nutty, but it may well lie North's Contra supply operation. able to break the fever. That is the be unconstitutional. The weapons fell into Panama's hands same thing that is happening here. The Further confirmation that its ob­ with the June 14, 1986 capture of the [U.S.] economic aggression, military session to get Noriega has driven the vessel Pia Vesta, which the Iran-Con­ interference, and psychological pres­ Bush administration "bonkers ," came tra gang was using to illegally resup­ sure represent the foreign body, and when Vice President Dan Quayle ply the Contras. you cannot hold elections if this for­ sought to convince the wartorn na­ In yet another display of petul­ eign body is still present. You cannot tions of Central America that the big­ ance, on June 13, U.S. planes buzzed hopeto have political harmony if you gest danger they face is not the com­ the site of a scheduled meeting in Pan­ do not remove the meddling judge munist guerrillas, but Panama. ama between Noriega and an Organi- first."

EIR June 23, 1989 International 53 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Mendez

Hunger and disease stalk the land in view of the high interest rates The IMF -dictatedfa rm policy of scant investment and low price charges, low price guarantees, and ravages of the drought-worsened by supports is taking a terrible toll. lack of investment and maintenance in irrigation infrastructure. "Besides the delay in planting of , T he national grain stock of the malaria is shocking. In said period, some 70% of agricultural territory , the National Commission of Popular Sub­ malaria mortality went from 30 to more poor or non-existent germination of sistence (Conasupo) has fallen to such than 160 cases per 100,000 inhabit­ crops already sown, and the outbreak a level that it no longer has even the ants, although the ascending curve is of multiple calamities, national pro­ 'technical reserves' to feed the popu­ most clearly seen as of 1982, the year duction of basic foods is seriously lation in case a climatological or other in which the index takes off." threatened because of the drought," disaster should occur over the next six In 1986, the reportgoes on, 22,000 says a report by Julieta Medina pub­ months," reported the Mexican press cases of dengue fever were registered, lished in the June 12 issue of the news­ on May 22. The week before, the daily a figurethat represents a 36% increase paper El Financiero. El Heraldo de Mexico had already ob­ over 1985 . The increase in such con­ Medina continues: "We are facing served that Conasupo's com and bean ditions as parasites, gastroenteritis, a loss of more than 4 million tons of warehouses were empty, and that the severe respiratory infections, pneu­ food from the spring-summer crops, cited "technical reserve" -which is monias, and pulmonary tuberculosis, of which 3.6 million tons are com and supposed to equal six months worth of was evident as of 1973, but the ten­ 300,000 beans; the rest is sorghum, consumption-should serve not only dency for a sharper rise manifested wheat and rice, among others, accord­ in case of a natural disaster, but also itself in the last six years. "Diphtheria, ing to the National Farmers Confed­ to regulate thenational market to avoid which during the 1975-80 period eration and the Independent Farmers speculation. showed a clear decline and from 1981 Confederation." The current spring­ Perhaps most serious is the fact to 1983 had a zero rate of incidence, summer growing cycle, highly de­ that the weather disaster warnedabout returned in 1984, 1985, and 1986, pendent on weather conditions, is fac­ is already here, and so, too, is the reaching levels equivalent to those re­ ing terrible conditions: Rains have only speculation. In early June, it was re­ ported in 1977." been regular in the state of Chiapas, portedthat the products that raised the According to the June 12 issue of scarce in 8 other states, and non-exis­ inflation index the most were fruit, the daily Excelsior, "an outbreak of tent in 22 others. vegetables, and grain. measles, detected in the northernhills Yet the Salinas governmentinsists But the food shortage is not merely of Puebla, has combined with serious that it is cheaper to import food than a statistical or technical affair. It sig­ malnutrition to cause the deaths of 50 to invest in infrastructure and to set nifies widespread diseases and the children in the past 20 days." This re­ fair price guarantees for the produc­ deaths of thousands, perhaps mil­ port was given by the chief of epide­ ers. On June 9, the Bank of Mexico lions, of human beings. As a direct miology of the University Hospital, reported that the farm trade surplus of result of the deterioration in Mexican Maximino Betanzos, who added that the country as of February had fallen living standards between 1982 and "in epidemiological terms, the growth 81% with respect to Februaryof 1988. 1987, a "scandalous rise" in the inci­ rate has become inverted: More chil­ The reason? A 148% increase in im­ dence of diseases once considered un­ dren are dying than are being born in ports , and in particular, of basic grains. der control or eradicated outright has that zone." In mid-June, Agriculture Minister been noted, according to Olivia LOpez The future-if the Carlos Salinas Jorge de la Vega Dominguez told the Arellano and Jose Blanco Gol, profes­ de Gortari government keeps imple­ Congress that "the situation of Mexi­ sors of social medicine at the Metro­ menting the genocidal conditionalities can farming is worrisome; we are get­ politan Autonomous University­ of the International MonetaryFund­ ting further and further from food self­ Xochimilco. is still worse: outright starvation and sufficiency; decapitalization of the The professors issued a report on epidemics that could become pandem­ countryside and low price supportsare June 12 which stated that "between ics. Already Mexican agriculture is provoking bankruptcies, " but he made 1979 and 1986, the rise in deaths from facing a disaster of major proportions no proposal to resolve the problem.

54 International EIR June 23, 1989 From New Delhi by Susan Maitra

Sri Lanka wants Indian troops out Whatever Mr. Premadasa's polit­ Premadasa's move took Delhi by surprise, but it hardly seems to ical calculations are in moving to ab­ ruptly bundle offthe IPKF, it is certain portend a resolution of the island's ethnic crisis. that India's locus standi in the situa­ tion has been undermined. That the Sri Lankan President would push in this direction becameevident in earlyMay, On June 4, Sri Lanka's Foreign It was the IPKF's duty to keep the when he offered to hold peace talks Secretary Bernard Tilakaratne landed militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil with the LTIE without any precondi­ here on something of an emergency Eelam (LITE), the most powerful tions. mission. Three days earlier, speaking Tamil group that is still holding out Oddly, this move came at a time before a Buddhist monks' congrega­ militarily for an independent Tamil when by all accounts the LTIE was tion, Sri Lankan President Rana­ "homeland," at bay, while at the same on the defensive, and an elected gov­ singhe Premadasa had announced that time encouraging the democratic ernmenthad been brought to power in the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Tamil political organizations to par­ the troubled North-East Province. would be withdrawn fully from the ticipate in elections to form the gov­ (Earlier Premadasa also made the same island by July 29. ernment forthe newly created Tamil­ offer to the JVP, to no 'effect.) In Delhi, Tilakaratne, an old India majority North-Eastern Province un­ In the event, the LITE accepted. hand, was told that it was not possible der the terms of the 1987 Indo-Sri Though it is not clear what agreements to meet the timetable. The Indian side Lankan Accord. were reachedduring the week of talks , did, however, inform the presidential The result was-inevitably-that the LTIE reportedly demanded abo­ emissary that the bulk of the Indian the IPKF had to engage in full-fledged lition of the newly elected North-East soldiers would be pulled out at the ear­ warfare against a faction of the Sri provincial government (LTIE had liest possible moment. Lankan Tamils, in whose eyes the boycotted and tried militarily to pre­ Indian soldiers were deployed to IPKF came more and moreto look like vent the elections, which occurredlast Sri Lanka's northeasternprovince two an occupation force using military Nov. 19)-a demand whose accept­ years ago as part of the effort to re­ power to enforce "peace" at the com­ ance would clearlyput the entire crisis solve the island's ethnic crisis out­ mand of Colombo, the Sri Lankan back to square one. lined in the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord capital. But if the IPKF's role looked The LTIE was also categorical in signed by then-President Junius Jaye­ ambiguous to the Tamils, its very demanding the exit of the IPKF, and wardene and Prime Minister Rajiv presence became the target of hatred even hinted that it would seek a Nu­ Gandhi. Premadasa was elected Pres­ of the chauvinist Sinhalese-a motley remberg-style trial of the peacekeep­ ident on Dec. 19, 1988, succeeding mix of Maoists, Buddhist monks, and ing force's alleged atrocities and ex­ the retiring Jayewardene as the can­ opposition politicians who could not cesses. didate of the ruling UNP party . tear themselves away from the vote­ To be sure, removal of the IPKF President Premadasa' s sudden and bank the Sinhalese majority repre­ is the one thing upon which the three unilateral statement took India by sur­ sents. most visibly powerful forces in Sri prise. Although the slow withdrawal Of this group, the Janatha Vimukti Lanka-the LTIE , JVP, and the Pre­ of Indian soldiers had in fact already Peramuna (JVP), a Maoist terroristor­ madasa administration-can all agree. begun, India did not expect the Sri ganization armed tothe teeth and based It is no secret that Premadasa has fa­ Lankan President to go public with a in the southern and western parts of vored an early withdrawal of IPKF, total withdrawal timetable without so the island, became the vanguard of an and his defense minister, Ranjan Wi­ much as informing Indian authorities, anti-India hate campaign. Calling the jeratne, a close associate, has been or consulting the IPKF commander. Indian government "imperialist," and outspoken on the subject. Charged with a complex-or, as killing Sri Lankan politicians who But it is just as sure, that the agree­ some would argue , impossible-task, condoned the presence of the IPKF, ment among these three forces would the Indian Peace Keeping Force has JVPbegan a reign of terrorthat reached end with the IPKF's exit. What Pre­ found itself more in the role of a peace a new high point in May with the is­ madasa's gameplan is remains un­ enforcement than a peace-keeping suing of death threats to Indians living clear, but his recent moves certainly agency. in Sri Lanka. raise worrisomeprospec ts.

EIR June 23, 1989 International 55 International Intelligence

movement with strong arguments , and then galization of narcotics. Soviet prime minister Jaruzelski will not try to stop us." A staffer from the U.S. Congressional boosts space program "Quicker democratization produces a big Research Service commented favorably, need to prepare some historical step to end saying, ''This is the first really concrete the chapter of the PUWP and to prepare to commitment to a regional law enforcement Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in begin a new left party in Poland, a modern solution other than just vague talk. " a speech before the Soviet Parliament on left party," he said. June 7, emphasized the Soviet military space Politburoreformers said quicker democ­ program and revealed that over 75% of the ratization of Poland and sweeping changes space budget is devoted to military pUrpoSe or transformation in theparty had to go hand­ South Korea rejects es. in-hand. However, they stopped short of Ryzhkov disclosed a space budget for troop reduction proposal saying publicly that a new party was under 1989 0f 6.9 billion rubles, of which only 1.7 consideration. billion were devoted to "civilian research." The Republic of Korea on June 12 rejected Government minister Aleksander He gave a figure of 3.9 billion rubles for proposals to reduce U.S. troop strength sta­ Kwasniewski, a leading young reformer, "military research," and a further 1.3 billion tioned on its territory , calling this a danger­ said, "We need a very quick and deep trans­ rubles for the Buran space shuttle project. ous step. formation of the party , and the result ofthe Ryzhkov's speech underscored Mos­ Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) had called elections will help us do it quickly." cow's priority on the technological modern­ for a phased reduction of American troops . ization of the Soviet armed forces, and on He proposed that Washington seek talks with reaching the decisive strategic goal of con­ Seoul on cutting U.S. land, sea, and air trol over space. He stressed that the inclu­ Jamaica's Manley calls forces' strength to 10,000 over a five-year sion of outer space "doubles" the "defense period. strength of the country ." fo r anti-drug fo rce Korean Defense MinisterLee Sang-hoon Ryzhkov told deputies that defense min­ told Parliament that any change in the level Jamaica's Prime Minister Michael Manley istry experts have calculated that the project of the 43 ,OOO-strong U.S. forces in the near proposed the formation of a multinational "would increase thecombat effectiveness of future could tempt communist North Korea anti-drug force, at a press conference on our armed forces by one and a half to two to invade the South. U.S. and South Korean June 9. He said that he was working on a times." official!\ note that Pyongyang already has proposal to be submitted to European heads roughly,a two-to-one advantage over Seoul of state, the United Nations, and the Organ­ in military strength. Po lish reformers want to ization of American States (OAS), for cre­ ation of an anti-drug strike force to be mod­ junk communist party eled on U.N. peacekeeping forces. Manley, an operative of the Socialistin­ 'Common Europe' may be Reformers in the ruling Polish United ternational, leads a country that has become Workers' Party (PUWP) want to abandon it the marijuana capital of the Caribbean, un­ concentration camp and form a new leftist party , as a result of der pressure from the International Mone­ the crushing election defeat by Solidarity on tary Fund to develop lucrative "cash crops." The last time there was an effort to create a June 4, a party source told Reuters June 8. Manley said that such a force could be "Common European Home," it nearly be­ The source, a senior reform-minded id­ mobilized to come into any countryquickly, came a "Common European Concentration eologist and supporter of party leader Gen. at the invitation of its leaders, to fight drug Camp," warned the Daily Express of Lon­ Wojciech Jaruzelski, said that a "big major­ traffickers, or even , Manley suggested, sub­ don, in an editorial June 14 entitled "Gor­ ity" of the 17-member Politburo agreed with versives like the Shining Path narco-terror­ bymanill's Hidden Danger." the idea. They believe the election defeat ists in Peru. If it is under U.N. auspices, he Noting that "West Germanyis in the grip highlighted both the need to speed up dem­ said, "you would sidestep" problems of na­ of Gorbymania," the papercomments . "The ocratic change in Poland, and the inability tionalist sentiments. "It gets that problem wonder is that the Kremlin did not propose of the communist party to ever win a dem­ out of the way." this visitfor August. Then the signing of the ocratic election. lbero-American leaders have been uni­ 'historic' joint declaration could have coin­ Asked whether Jaruzelski backed the fied and adamant in opposing any such pro­ cided �atly with the 50th anniversary of ' proposal to form a new leftist party , the posal, because of the danger that it will vi­ another historic agreement between the So­ source said, "When General Jaruzelski hears olate the national sovereignty of the conti­ viet Union and Germany-the non-aggres­ the arguments for a new party, he will come nent. A similarproposal was first floated by sion pact, which, alas , paved the way for with us . We must show that we are a strong factions in Colombia that advocate the le- the dismemberment of Poland and the Sec-

56 International EIR June 23, 1989 Briefly

• ANDUI SAKHAROV was shouted down by members of the new ond World War." cal' totalitarianism ....The decision to re­ Soviet parliament June 9 when he The Exp ress further warns, "Mr. Gor­ duce the role of the army in society was one protested the massacre in China. bachov's wooing of the West Germans has of the most direct causes of Khrushchov's Mikhail Gorbachov attempted to si­ a patently obvious purpose: It is part of the fall. Mr. Gorbachov's position seems more lence him, saying "Comrade Sakhar­ Soviet design to divide NATO and uncouple solid, but the Soviet system's crisis is deeper ov, don't you respect the CongressT' the U. S. from Europe . So too is his repeated and probably longer-lasting now than then. Sakharov supposedly retorted, "I re­ call for a 'Common European Home.' It is "Given this uncertainty, we can not al­ spect humanity. I have a mandate that unclear what this cosy, Urals-to-Atlantic low ourselves to exclude any possible tum goes beyond the limits of this Con­ entity would actually be. But by definition of events, including a flight forward into a gress ." alone, it would exclude the United States. foreign adventure, in the event their empire "Mr. Gorbachov must think we have were threatened with collapse or disintegra­ • GEORGE BUSH is a mature short memories. Europe has beena common tion ." person with whom we can make a home. And twice this century the United deal, Libyan leader Muammar Qad­ States has had to come over and straighten daft said June 10, according to radio it out. The second time preventing our Com­ reports. The praiseoccurs the in midst mon European Home becoming a Common of hectic n4!gotiations in Vienna be­ European Concentration Camp." [Empha­ Helga Zepp-LaRouche tween Libya and four U. S. oil com­ sis in original] . blasts Gorby on TV panies for resumption of operations. Reagan's embargo against Libya, Helga Zepp-LaRouche , the leading candi­ imposed in 1986, will expireon June date of the Patriots for Germanyparty in the 30. Chirac: no change in West German carnpaignfor elections to the European Parliament, delivered a two-and­ • SOVIET NUCLEAR missiles Soviet militarydo ctrine a-half-minute prime-timetelevision address are targeted at Clark Air Force Base on June 15, denouncing Soviet leader Gor­ and Subic Bay Naval Station, said Jacques Chlrac, former French prime min­ bachov and the East-West condominium Alejandro Melchor, Philippine am­ ister, warnedthat Moscow'sperestroi kllhas which is deliveringGermany into the Soviet bassador to Moscow, in his annual not changed the war-winning outlook of the sphere of influence. report. First Soviet Deputy Foreign Soviet military, in a commentarypublished The broadcast occurred during Gorba­ Minister Yuri Vorontsov told this to in the Paris daily LeMonde June 10. chov's visit to the Federal Republic, and Vice President Salvador Laurel dur­ Chirac, who heads the Gaullist RPR par­ pierced the balloon of media-created pro­ ing his visitto Moscow last July. ty , says he appreciates the apparent progress Gorby euphoria that has seemingly seized in conventional disannament talks andhopes the country. It took a last-minute courtbattle • ABDELKADER HELMY, an perestroikll will work, particularly in allow­ to force the airing of the broadcast on West Egyptian-American rocket scientist ing greater freedom for Eastern European Germany's second television channel, after accused of 1rying to smuggle weap­ peoples, but warns that "this is no time for the station's management had canceled it on ons technology to Egypt, pleaded euphoria. The enormous potential of Soviet the grounds that it was "insulting" to the guilty in a federal court in Sacramen­ military intimidation remains intact, and Soviet leader. to , CalifoQIia. Sources report the continues to be modernized as fast as be­ Mrs. LaRouche spoke of the bloodbath smuggling had been sanctioned by the fore . . . . In spite of the promise that their in China and warned that this could occur U.S. to supply Iraq during the Iran­ arms factories will some day produce toys, elsewherein the Communist world, because Iraq war. the Soviet Union still produces every two thereare men in the West who areprotecting years as many tanks and cannons as the Ger­ Deng Xiaoping. During film footage of the • RUDOU' BAHRO, the ideo­ man and French armies together possess." Chinese leaders and a smiling Henry Kissin­ logue of West Germany's Green par­ "I do not doubt Mr. Gorbachov's sincer­ ger, and of the Berlin Wall and Soviet atroc­ ty , called for the emergence of "eco­ ity and good intentions . . . but I notice that ities in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, she fascism," in a TV broadcastat the end no communist regime has beenable to adjust blasted Kissinger and President Bush for of May. This would not, he said, be over time to a modem economy or greater protecting Deng. a "return to Hitler," but something democracy. The tragic events in Peking She chargedGorbachov with complicity "inthat diref;:tion, a form of fascism." spelled that out in letters of blood, after the in creating the Chinese tragedy . "Liberty is He said the state has the right to curb warning sounded by the repression in Geor­ on the rise," she concluded. "People are liv­ individual rights to protect the envi­ gia. In Moscow, powerfulforces arewaiting ing and dying for liberty . Now is the time ronment. for the chance to impose a return to 'classi- for the Patriots for Germany . "

EIR June 23, 1989 International 57 �IIillNational

The White House's 'clean air' plan . . . stinks

by Nicholas F. Benton

President Bush unveiled his death sentence for U.S. industry The fact remains, however, that the U. S. steel, auto, and in Washington June 12 with the announcement of his com­ energy-generating industries are already on the brink of ruin prehensive Clean Air Plan. While most analysts are predict­ as a result of a decade of assaults from the government since ing the package of draconian measures aimed at "cleaning up the original Clean Air Act was passed in 1970. Environmen­ the environment" will mainly hit consumer pocketbooks, it tally-created nuclear plant "cost overruns" and the more than is U.S. basic industry, which is most heavily reliant on coal­ $100billion spent on pollution controls at coal plants were generated electrical power, which is most seriously threat­ compounded by state regulatory rulings prohibiting power ened. companies from recovering costs for plants not put into pro­ First of all, there should be no illusions about the effi­ duction. ciency of the Bush plan for dealing with the problem it pur­ The Bush plan would break the camel's back for many ports to address-air pollution. industriesthat have barely remainedon their feet through this For one, leading scientists challenge the assumptions of era of assault, adding costs estimated at $14 to $18 billion a the plan, that industrial and auto emissions are the primary year to the estimated $150 billion a year already being spent cause of pollutants in the air. Studies done at Michigan State by industry solely on pollution reduction. While a total of University in 1980 showed that there was as much ozone in 107 coal-burning electric power plants in 18 states are tar­ the atmosphere in the 1870s, for example, caused by natural geted for major reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions, the conditions before there were any automobiles at all, as in the Bush plan also mandates the U. S. automobile industry to sell 1980s. 500,000 vehicles in 1995 capable of running on "clean" al­ For another, the administration had a choice of two path­ ternatives to gasoline-substances such as methanol, ethan­ ways toward affecting industry and the environment with ol, or natural gas. That figure will rise, according to the Bush such a plan. One would be to provide economic incentives, plan, to 750,000 auto sales in 1996 and to 1 million in 1997, through massive new infusions of low-interest creditand new to remain at 1 million sales of such vehicles a year for the resources targeted at bringing the technologies of the fu­ indefinite future. ture-such as nuclear fusion and high-temperature magne­ Today, roughly 12 !1lillion cars are sold annually in the tohydrodynamics-into play. The other would be to burden United States, meaning that producers will have to find enor­ an increasingly uncompetitive U. S. industry with additional mous incentives to persuade such high sales of "alternative government costs and police-state oversight. fuel" vehicles over the next few years, especially since meth­ The Bush administrationchose the latter course, the road anol-the fuel most readily available as an alternative­ to certain ruin for U. s. industry. costs more than gasoline at the pump, and takes a car about The only reason the hue and cry from U.s. industry has half as far on a tankful. not been greater is because they are fearful that Congress will make the Bush package even stiffer. In this climate of "en­ Why not go nuclear? vironmental terror," U . S. industry has been limited to muted Why didn't President Bush go the route of new technol­ warnings of possible increases in costs to the American con­ ogies, initiating policies, for example, to make it easier for sumer of the plan. nuclear power to substitute for coal as a cleaner source of

58 National EIR June 23, 1989 electrical power? best friend the environmentalists have ever had in Washing­ EIR put this question to Adm. James Watkins, the Sec­ ton, according to Frederick Krupp, executive directorof the retary of Energy, when he and William Reilly, the head of Environmental Defense Fund, speaking to a Capitol Hill the Environmental Protection Agency, unveiled the new plan audience gathered by Harvard University'S John F. Kennedy at the White House press room June 12. "What about the School of GovernmentJune 13. increased use of nuclear energy as an alternative to coal?" Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), whose wife is a leading Watkins was asked. member of the "Peace Links" organization that cavorts with He responded, "Well, I think one of the reasons that you the Soviets, called for a 50¢ tax on each gallon of gasoline. see me up here at all on a clean air bill is the fact that the Noting that a one-cent tax increase per gallon would cost President recognizes the relationship between energy and , consumers $1 billion, he said a 50¢ increase is warranted environment here in a new way, and he haS tasked me to because of the need to redress the "the ominous consequences prepare a national energy strategy which will include all of of the Greenhouse Effect." the Clean Air Bill provisions, as well as those which might While statements like that from p.S.' Congressmen cause come out of a follow-on global warming workshop, interna­ industrialists to cringe, the economic impact of the Bush tional discussions, as well as the mix of sensible energy plan, even as presented, will be far worse than most are now sources that we need for the nation for the future. " willing to publicly admit. For example, adding the "scrub­ In other words, Watkins conceded that President Bush bers" required to lower the level of sulfur oxide emissions has subsumed the nation's energy needs in a "new way" to fromthe 107 coal plants targeted by the administration could the priority of environmental concerns, which will take into cost as much as $500 million per plant. account the assertions of "global warming" hoaxsters and A. Joseph Dowd, senior vice-presidentand general coun­ "international discussions. " sel for the American Electric Power Service Corporation, Watkins tipped off the most sinister component of all which primarily serves the industrial heartland state of Ohio, contained in the plan�that it fits with the moves of Soviet commented, in a classic understatement, that "the clean-air President Mikhail Gorbachov and the leaders of the Group of proposals will have a substantial effect on rates. " Seven major Western industrial nations toward making a In the case of alternative fuels in automobiles; not only global "environmental" agenda the basis for new internation­ are these fuels moreexpensive and requirerefue ling twice as al law and a policing apparat, at the expense of the sover­ often, but billions will have to be ,spent on new pipelines, eignty of individual nations. tanker trucks, storage tanks, service pumps, and refineriesto Such a move, which puts the United States and other free produce and deliver these cleaner-burning alternative fuels nations of the world under the same law as a totalitarian in large volumes. dictatorship like the Soviet Union, is seen by experts as the And, according to experts, unless the administration adds fastest track toward imposing the one-world federalist sce­ some lucrative incentives for domestic production of these nario that freedom-lovingpeoples have been fearing for the fuels, the impact of increased use of methanol, for example, last century . will wreak havoc with the trade deficit, since the world's Seen in such a light, the Bush environmental agenda is cheapest methanol now comes from the Mideast. Building part and parcel of his so-called savings and loan bailout one new methanol plant in the United States now will cost at package, which will force American taxpayers to guarantee least $1 billion and take two years; experts predict. Today, up to $300 billion in credits to underwrite the takeoverof the the United States produces only 1.S billion gallons of meth­ nation's S&L industry by a handful of financialgiants based anol annually, compared to about 110 billion gallons of gas­ in Wall Street. By self-righteously insisting on a high capital oline. standard, the administration is ensuring that most all the But the clincher comes from the Michigan State Univer­ S&Ls will be forced to sell out to one or another of the handful sity study, which demonstrated levels of ozone in the 1870s of giant banks or newly formed conglomerates set upto pick far in excess of current government standards, with all of it them up at bargain prices, complete with their taxpayer­ being created by emissions fromplants and soils-that is, by backed guarantees. the natural environment. Not only that, researchers found in 1845 that ozone was a beneficialgermicidal agent for man. Environmental shock-troops run amok In fact, according to Dr. Hugh Ellsaesset of Lawrence Even more than their fears that Congress might impose Livermore National Laboratories iIiCalifornia, no study has even more severe restraints, it is the fear of American indus­ ever been done to prove that concentrations of ozone found try to expose the magnitude of the crime being plotted against in the worst-polluted areas of the United States, such as Los the principles of America's constitutional democracy, which Angeles, have ever posed a health, hazard to anyone. Even has rendered them mute in the face of the escalating on­ sulfur dioxide, he claims, is "quite insignificant when com­ slaught. pared to the natural 'background' pollution, which is essen­ The shock-troops of the environmentalist movement, on tial to the survival of plant species� since 'natural pollution' ' the other hand, are having a fieldday . President Bush is the is the only way most plants are naturally fertilized."

EIR June 23, 1989 National 59 Theju dge who inculpated himself

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. recounts how JudgeAlbert V. Bryan made himseif "guilty as sin" in the celebratedJrameup trial.

This is the tragic story of the last years of The Honorable U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson not seized those three firms, Albert V. Bryan, Jr. , Chief Judge of the United States' Dis­ padlocked their doors, shut down their operations, and halted trict Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. It is the un­ all payments to creditors . That shutdown occurred on April happy tale of a malevolent spider, so blinded by hatred against 20-21, 1987. That shutdown was given Judge Bryan's stamp her intended victim, that she did not see that the trap she spun of approval with his order of July 10, 1987. was best designed to destroy herself. By that means, and that means alone, Hudson and Bryan These events unfolded during a mere few months, near suppressed a semi-weekly national political newspaper op­ the close of Bryan's incumbency in the Virginia backwater posed to Henry A. Kissinger, with over 100,000 circulation of our nation's capital. His undoing was his shameful part in per issue. They also suppressed a scientific monthly with the world-famous LaRouche case. If it had been worldwide over 100,000 circulation, and deprived lenders of ten mil­ attention Bryan sought, he came soon to be compared, even lions dollars in repayment of personal loans. in distant nations, with such historic figures as England's Sir What Bryan did on July 10, 1987 was wrong morally, George Jeffreys, I Germany's Judge Roland Friesler , 2 and the politically motivated, deliberately malicious, and probably celebrated jurists in the 1894 trial of France's Captain Alfred downright evil. By itself, it did not make Bryan gUilty of the Dreyfus . 3 specific charge in the LaRouche case. It was when Bryan Bryan sat on many cases after that famous one, during compounded his immoral actions of July 10, 1987 with a the brief, but busy remaining period of his term; but, in the series of rulings beginning Nov. 10, 1988 through the morn­ strictest sense, it was the LaRouche trial which brought ing of Jan. 27, 1989, that Bryan's enormous guilt is estab­ Bryan's career to its wretched end. lished beyond quibbling. 6 Pick up the story on the morning of Jan. 27, 1989, in that Thus a corrupt federal judge inculpated himself, as the packed Alexandria courtroom where Bryan handed out his guilty party in the matter of a charge levelled against the draconian sentences against those seven innocent defendants. innocent defendants before bim. What did in Judge Bryan Even had the LaRouche case been only about money, as the was a succession of improper rulings each and all engendered prosecutorsand Bryan had insisted throughout the trial,4 then by his malice against the defendants . Such is the stuff of the legal record showed beyond doubt, that the guilty parties Iago's guilt; such is the essence of Bryan's inevitable down­ in the morning's courtroom were United States Attorney fall. Henry Hudson and Bryan himself. 5 The single legal document which nails Hudson's and It began in New York Bryan's hides to the bam door, is an order issued by Bryan The kernel of the charges against the defendants in the on July 10, 1987. It states in relevant part, "The court con­ Alexandria LaRouche case is, as we have just observed, the cluding that if the bankruptcy court makes a determination of United States government's sustained, and ultimately suc­ constitutional issues which require for their validity a right to cessful effort to bankrupt three publishing firms whose prin­ a de novo review by the United States District Court, such cipal offense was to be highly critical of former U.S. Secre­ review, if necessary, can be conducted when appeals are tary of State Henry A. Kissinger. taken ...." These three firms were, first, Campaigner Publications, The charge against the defendants in the Alexandria trial Inc., incorporated in the State of New York on April 25 , had been, that the defendants had conspired to promote the 1974. This was a publishing firm, which at the time of its solicitation of loans with the intent those loans would never shutdown, published, among other titles, a semi-weekly na­ be repaid. The bulk of the loans in question were to three tional newspaper of more than 100,000circulation , and con­ publishing firms. Those loans would have been repaid had ducted an established international news service.

60 National EIR June 23, 1989 The second was the Fusion Energy Foundation, Inc. , also those amounts needed to roll over loan-balance payments a New York State corporation, a not-for-profit scientific as­ coming due, and to proceed toward retiring the greater part sociation which published a scientific journal and also a of the balances as a whole, through funds from increased monthly magazine, Fusion, of more than 100,000 circula­ sales and contributions. tion. Except for temporary disruptions causedby V.S. govern­ The third was Caucus Distributors, Inc. , a New York not­ ment financial warfare during several periods of the 1984-85 for-profit corporation, engaged in sales, marketing, public interval, the threefir ms' policy was successful through 1985, relations, and some special publishing ventures. until March 1986, when sharply escalated V.S. government During the course of 1984, these three publishing enter­ financial warfare effected a severe, temporary fall in in­ prises elected to move their headquarters from New York comes. City to the growing market in Washington, D.C. and its The chart ofgrowth of sales and other revenues of these vicinity. The pressing reason for this decision was impending three and related firms was presented during the Alexandria expiration of New York leases, and a prospective doubling trial itself (see graph). of rental costs should those firms not move from that city. When all data are taken together, and compared with To facilitate both the move and initial settling in the debt-ratios for typical V.S. corporations, the management Virginia location, these firms took medium-term loans from practice of the relevant firms was shown to be better than political supporters . Such personal loan-balances built up most-given the factor of persisting and unexpectedly esca­ during the course of 1984 and into the middle of 1985. lated financial warfare by Vnited States government strike­ From the spring of 1985, there was a drive to halt the force agencies. growth of the absolute amount of loan-balances. From Sep­ Thus, had the V . S. governmentdesisted from its financial tember 1985 onwards, the policy was to restrict new loans to warfare against these firms, and but for the July 10, 1987

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EIR June 23, 1989 National 61 order issued by Judge Bryan, all of the creditors , including July 10, 1987. the lenders, would have been repaid by the latest due date of So, by making the ultimate non-repayment of those loans relevant loans , by the end of 1989. the crucial jury issue, the judge inculpated no one but the If these and related known facts had been allowed in prosecution and himself as the true conspirators in the loan court, there was no fraud. The accused were innocent; the case. prosecution and Judge Bryan knew that from the start. The defense might have responded by revealing that it was Henry Hudson's and Bryan's actions which caused the Spider Bryan draws the web around himself non-payments after April 19, 11987, but the judge's in limine The defense prepared to meet the prosecution's fraudu­ motion would not permit the defendants to tell the jury how lent indictment in the obvious way: Bring out the whole truth Hudson and Bryan had committed what the jury believed was of the government strike force's financial warfare . Bryan's the crime in the case. Bryan's Nov. 10 order reads in part, problem was also a simple one: Prevent the defense from ". . . that the government was the creditor which initiated bringing in the truth . the involuntary bankruptcy proceeding will not be admit­ So, step by step, in working to cover up the fraud of the ted ...." prosecution's case, Bryan drew the web of maximal culpa­ 3) When Bryan, knowing what has just been reported, bility around himself. refused to set aside the jury verdict on grounds of his own 1) The prosecution artfully dated the alleged conspiracy reversible error, and refused to grant bail pending appeal, in from "Beginning in or around July 1983, and continuing until face of such reversible error, the judge made himself as guilty at least April 19 , 1987, within the EasternDistrict of Virginia as sin itself. and elsewhere." (Oct. 14, 1988 Indictment, p. 10.) So, the case of the self-inculpated Bryan proceeded to­ The reference to 1983 was a simple hoax. The firms in ward its obvious tragic consequences. the case took no unsecured personal loans for the purpose of the move until some time into 1984. The significanceof July 1983 is only that on that date Lyndon LaRouche firsttook up Notes residence in Virginia. Thus, to make LaRouche the alleged I. Sir George Ieffreys (1648-89) of Britain, the infamous "hanging judge" "kingpin" of the alleged plot, and to locate the origin of the who presided over the "bloody assizes." plot in the Alexandria jurisdiction, the otherwise irrelevant 2. Roland Freisler, chief judge of the People's Court of Berlin in Nazi Germany, presided over the exe<;ution of those involved in the aborted latter half of 1983 was included in the term of the alleged July 20, 1944 coup against Adolf Hitler. conspiracy. None of the overt acts which the indictment 3. Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain of Iewish origin, was sentenced attributed to LaRouche during 1983 ever occurred; they were to life imprisonment on Devil' s Island after being accused of treason in a political show-trial based on forged documents. Friedrich-August von invented by the prosecution in order to fabricate the kind of der Heydte, a well-known West German professor of constitutional and fiction being crafted. international law , has drawn remarkable parallels between the Dreyfus However, the date which is of significancebearing upon and laRouche cases, in a paid advertisement appearing in the Washing­ ton Times on March I, 1989. "Just as LaRouche was," von der Heydte Bryan's self-inculpation is the latter date, April 19, 1987, the stated, "Dreyfus was deprived by the structure of the trial procedures, of day before Henry Hudson stopped the three firmsfrom con­ any opportunity to prove his innol:ence , and facts critical for his defense tinuing to pay their creditors. were excluded from the trial. . . . In both political trials, the prosecution consistently denied the political background of the accusations." Judge Bryan thus inculpated himself in the following 4. The prosecution repeatedly stated that the case was not about politics, degree on this account. just about money. In fact the firs� words out of the prosecution's mouth On Nov. 10, 1988, eleven days before the rush to trial on upon their first address to the jury was, "Members of the jury, this case is about money. It's about how the defendant got money, and to a lesser Nov. Bryan adopted a motion in limine entered by the 21, extent, what they did with that money w)len they got it." (Trial Tran­ prosecution.7 This motion barred the defense from exposing script, Vol. I, p. 4; Vol. XIV, p. 48.) the cause of the firms' financial difficulties, and specifically 5. Prosecutors made reference to the nonpayment ofloans-actually caused by the bankruptcy-in their opening and closing arguments, as well as prohibited the defense from revealing that it was the prose­ in examination of lender/witnesses. (Trial Transcript, Vol. I, pp. 4-5, cution and Judge Bryan who had stopped all repayments of 20; Vol. XV-A, p. 40;Vol . XIV, p. 83.) See also the soon-to-be-released loans by those firms. book, Railroad! 6. Nov. 10, 1988 Order. See also soon-to-be-released book, Railroad! This immoral act by Bryan did not yet inculpate him on 7. The prosecution's motion in limiF sought to exclude the defense's "in­ the main charge in the case; it was a crucial step in that tent to defend this case by claimIng vindictive prosecution, harassment direction. by the government, and that their inability to repay loans was due to 'financial warfare ' brought against them by the government ... [as] 2) Bryan repeatedly allowed the prosecution to use the irrelevant." (Motion, pp. 1-2.) Most incredibly, the in limine motion fact that certain lenders had never been repaid in full, to create conceded the one "exception" to the above "irrelevancies" was the issue the false impression that it was the defendants, rather than of the bankruptcy. This, they sta!4d, "should not be retriedin the criminal forum ." (ld. , p. 2.) Of course, �s is precisely what Bryan's July 10, the true culprit, Judge Bryan himself, who had stopped the 1987 order said might need be dorle if there were any constitutional issues firms from any future repayments on those loans, on precisely involved.

62 National EIR June 23, 1989 litical frameup was allowed to stand, the same tactics could be used against other leading Democrats. Since then, we have seen Jim Wright go down. We have seen Tony Coelho go down. And now, the dirty-tricks politics is aimed at the entire Virginia Dems try House majority." Pepper concluded, "And LaRouche offers himself to lead this fight as candidate in the 10th Congres­ sional District." At that point, the 'microphone was turned to rule out politics off. LaRouche delegate Patricia Salisbury found Attorney Some 3,000 delegates at the Virginia state Democratic con­ General Mary Sue Terry-who has led the state prosecutions vention held in Richmond on June 9-10 did their bestto avoid of 16 individuals and five corporations associated with La­ any serious politics. But six LaRouche-connected delegates, Rouche for so-called "securities violations" -and gave her a in addition to Mrs . Nancy Spannaus, who is seeking the leafletdescribing the connections of Assistant U. S. Attorney Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 1990, would not John Markham, who prosecuted LaRouche in Boston and let them escape. Alexandria, to the Process Church which spawned the Charles As far as official business went, the delegates rubber­ Manson gang and the Son of Sam killers. stamped the party's choices for statewide candidates this On June 10, Nancy Spannaus led the group in distributing November: Lt. Gov. Douglas Wilder for governor; auto deal­ leaflets announcing her slate of office seekers, including er Don Beyer for lieutenant governor; and incumbent Mary LaRouche. The leaflet also denounced the failed Kissinger Sue Terry for attorney general. Wilder, if elected, would be "China card"poli cy. the first black governorin the United States. His nomination was a foregone conclusion, and reflects more the topdown Sheriffboasts of jailing LaRouche control of the partyby the currentleadership, than any serious In the context of a bored and restive convention, saturated grassroots movement. And this control was very much in with literature produced by the LaRouche Democrats , Sheriff evidence at the convention. John Isom of Loudoun County, Virginia chose to deliver a The political show featured a display of party unity among lO-minute speech seconding the nomination of Mary Sue Wilder, current Gov. Gerald Baliles, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Terry . LaRouche is a resident of Loudoun County, and Isom Robb. Baliles and Wilder have been feuding over differences played a leading role in the local "Get LaRouche" task force. involving Baliles' s use of state police in a strikeby the United His speechwas a tirade against LaRouche and fundraisers Mine Workers union against Pittston Coal. Robb andWilder associated with him, praising Attorney General Terry for her have also had their differences, including Robb makingpub­ role in jailing the former presidential candidate. What was lic letters that were strongly critical of Wilder's 1985 cam­ surprising, was that Isom, a law enforcement officer, in uni­ paign. form , commented in a prejudicial waybefore a political gath­ The only group to oppose the beauty contest atmosphere ering, concerningongoing criminal prosecutions. and the tight control over the convention by Democratic Party In contrast to therole of the small LaRouche contingent, leaders, was the small LaRouche force. They were gathering organized labor's nearly 600 delegates had mobilized on signatures on a petition to bring an emergency resolution behalf of the mine workers , but to little effect. Bowing to from the floor condemning the government of Communist pressure not to disrupt the convention, the miners were re­ China as the Butchers of Beijing, and the Bush-Kissinger duced to standing with their backs to the podium during policy of apologizing for Deng Xiaoping and betraying the GovernorBa liles's speech. democratic movement. Even though the resolution was not And now, the Democrats will have to face their Repub­ able to be brought to the floordue to lack of time, a couple of lican opponents. GOP gubernatorial candidate Marshall hundred people signed in a short time, and the drive set off Coleman will be backed by a major party effort. The show of intense debates. Real politics had suddenly appeared in the unity behind Doug Wilder may soon tum out to be just a deathly dull environment. show. The state Democratic Party, unwilling to exercise po­ The intervention continued inside the convention, where litical leadership, is leaving that to the small LaRouche forces. Dr. Stephen Pepper, an associateof Lyndon LaRouche, sought In the November election, there will be three LaRouche election as state party chairman. The announcement caused candidates for the House of Delegates: Nereida Cordero­ the Rules Committee to determine that any candidate's nom­ Thompson in Loudoun County (32nd District), Juliette Wil­ inating statements should be limited to two minutes-but in son in Danville(2nd District) , and Linda Robinson in Norfolk practice, the chairman cut it to one minute. (87th), all running as independents. In addition, in 1990, Pepper told the convention: "Lyndon LaRouche-and I there are Nancy Spannaus for U.S. Senate, and Lyndon cherish his name-Lyndon LaRouche warnedthat if his po- LaRouche for Congress in the 10th C. D.

EIR June 23, 1989 National 63 the Communist Party, then mUlti-party elections, and finally "democracy" in the country as a whole. Such schematic views of revolutionary events are popular among the American academic circles in which Feng travels. As for the fate of Taiwan's government, Feng had scant support indeed: "If it Ray Cline woos is a government, legitimate government, that'sonly because the opponents of that government are not strong enough to the Chinese students get rid of it and put another gpvernment in." At a reception later, a less diplomatic colleague of Feng told a reporter that the model of development of Taiwan is by Leo Scanlon not to be emulated, since "there was economic development, and industry under Hitler as well," and went on to equate the In the weeks following the student insurrection in China, the nationalist Kuomintang regime with the Nazi government. entire policy apparatus of Washington, including President Academic hostility to the nationalist government, and slan­ Bush himself, has admitted to being caught "flat-footed" by ders of Chiang Kai-shek, are the stock-in-trade of the liberals the events. Under these circumstances, the announcement on who engineered the Communist victory in the 1940s, and are June 7 of the formation of a brand-new Washington-based equally common among many who call themselves "friends organization linked directly to Chinese partisans, should have of Taiwan" in the United States. contributed to an improvement in the analytical climate. But a close look at the ideology and pedigree of this new Inter­ 'World federalists' behind the scenes national Committee in Solidarity with Chinese Democracy If the bizarre concept that "democracy" can evolve out of indicates that it was created merely to fill the vacuum in a Communist regime, sounds similar to the administration policy thinking with more of the same old balance-of-power propaganda extolling the virtues of Gorbachov today-and nostrums. of the butcher Deng himself just a few months ago-that is The new organization's debut was a press conference because it comes fromthe same source. held under the auspices of the Global Strategy Council and Feng and his committee are backed by an obscure organ­ was presided over by Ray Cline, who is chairman of the ization known as the Association to Unite the Democracies, Council, and former Deputy Director of Intelligence of the which represents the views of a core of "federalists" within CIA. Principal speaker for the Committee was Feng Sheng­ the State Department and intelligence community. Energized Ping, a student from Fudan University, now studying at by the ideas of ClarenceStreit and his 1939 book Union Now, Princeton, who is a member of the Standing Committee of the AUD believes that the NATO military alliance must be­ the Chinese Alliance for Democracy, an organization of come an actual government which can subordinate the sov­ Chinese students in the United States. Feng is an editor of a ereign nations of the alliance to a federalized, "democratic" new publication, China and PacificRim Letter, published by system. In their view, Communism is a form of government Cline and the Global Strategy Council. which can be considered a precursor to democracy, and can Cline, opening the press conference, was careful to pre­ be "evolved" into a democratic system. serve his credentials as a "friend of Taiwan" by reading and The AUD asserts that the "Northern Democracies" (read: endorsing the policy position of the government of the Re­ "white Europeans") can attract and stabilize the Communist public of China, and even went so far as to praise the govern­ regimes as they reform themselves along the austerity guide­ ment of the R.O.C. for its successful record of economic lines laid down by the International Monetary Fund. More development. than one observer has commented that the alliance of Com­ Feng, for his part, scored the vacillation and hypocrisy munist regimes with the genocidal policies of the IMF is "a of the Bush administration's policy toward the opposition marriage made in hell." leaders in China, and emphasized that the U.S. establishment The AUD may be obscure, but it is not insignificant. Its has made a cowardly commitment to tolerate, and even sup­ board of directorsincludes Walter Judd and George Olmstead port, the stability of the Deng regime. But Feng was careful of the Global Strategy Council. to avoid any discussion of the ideas of Dr. Sun Yat-sen which An American representative of the organization boasted have made the R.O.C.'s success possible, and downplayed that they intend to use the membership base of the China the influence these ideas have on the mainland today. Spring movement, of which he spoke in disparaging terms, Feng's view is not a simple hostility to the R.O.C.'s and expand from there to build the new committee. Thus ruling Kuomintang party; he accepts the Communist Party as "vetted" by Ray Cline and his friends, they plan to represent the legitimate institution ruling the mainland, and counts themselves as the "official, reliable" spokesmen on Chinese himself among those who look to the present upsurge on the developments to the government, the media, and the intelli­ mainland to result in, first, multi-candidate elections within gence community.

64 National EIR June 23, 1989 Kissinger Watch by M.T. Upharsin

marked for a project of the L.M. Er­ was in Paris for, all or part of the June icsson telecommunications company. 9-11 weekend, appearing with some According to latest available infor­ frequency on French television, ped­ mation, Ericsson is one of Kissinger dling his line of de facto support for Associates' current clients. Deng Xiaoping and comrades. Dr. K's China policy Then in Denmark, on June 9, the But the real center of the "Kissin­ paper Berlingske Tidende Weekend­ ger Lobby" in Europe appears to be blasted in Scandinavia A visen carried an editorial written by Chatham House, headquarters of Lon­ In mid-May, Henry Kissinger gave a its editor-in-chief, Toeger Seidenfad­ don's Royal Institute of International speech before businessmen in Malmo, en. Seidenfaden criticized those who Affairs. Chatham House spawned the Sweden, and advised them that, given count over-much on the reform of notorious Institute for Pacific Rela­ the instability inthe Soviet Union, their communist systems, pointing, among tions, a top agency of the London­ better bet would be to invest in the other factors, to "the enormous prob­ Moscow-Beijing "Trust" interests. It People's Republic of China. Less than lems in the [communist] societies cre­ is also historically tied to the same three weeks later, Deng Xiaoping and ated by decades of ideological insani­ drug-related interests in China and en­ others among Dr. Kissinger's good ty . " In response to the present terminal virons, with which Kissinger Associ­ friends in the P.R.C. leadership began crises of the communist system, he ates today is linked. At Chatham to slaughter their own population in stressed, Western societies' response House, on May 10, 1982, Henry Kis­ Beijing, and set up police state mea­ is inadequate, in part because of a singer swore that he had been an agent sures that would "make the 'Ministry "natural inclination for stability, " of the British Foreign Office and the of Truth' in George Orwell's 1984 which leads to a "cynicism in a situa­ Whitehall Establishment since his ear­ blush," in the words of Switzerland's tion where the bloodbath in Beijing ly career. Neue Zurcher Zeitung June 1 1-12. caused worldwide disgust and con­ Speaking of Kissinger's present Some Swedish influentials are demnation. " insistence that the West continue to doing something more than blushing. "Even Henry Kissinger," com­ back Deng Xiaoping, a leading Chath­ The conservative daily Svenska Dag­ mented Seidenfaden, is transfixed by am House expert on China said June bladet on June lOran a strong editorial this idea of "stability in China-and 13: "In practical terms , he is absolute­ attack on Kissinger. Attacks on Kis­ in other death-struck communist sys­ ly right." singer are very rare in Sweden. Kis­ tems ." "Dangerous convulsions are On June 14, Chatham House re­ singer Associates has built up strong before us," he warned, advising his search fellow Gerald Segal wrote an ties with powerful Swedish business readers that "the sacrificesin Tianan­ article for the International Herald interests, including Volvo's Per Gyl­ men Square were neither meaningless Tribune, which asserted not only that lenhammer, and top figures in the nor in vain." events in China are more normal and Swedish social democracy. stable than firstseemed to be the case, Svenska Dagladet said that the but that the massacre by People's Lib­ policy of U. S. President George Bush But for Chatham House, eration Army forces was, in some sen­ and Kissinger toward China is "with­ ses, justified! "There can be no doubt he's 'absolutely right' out emotion, and its precondition is that use of force by the PLA was ex­ closed diplomacy and a capability to A counter-trend to these unprecedent­ cessive, but it also seems clear that the isolate foreign policy from a popular ed attacks on Kissinger has also begun popular reaction was more violent than democratic influence." The editorial to develop. This was hinted at by the previously depicted by Western news blamed Kissinger for having started French daily Le Figaro June 12, which media reports ," Segal wrote. this cynical policy in 1972-a policy reported that Kissinger was a frequent He insisted that "the impression based on the doctrine that "dead vic­ visitor to Paris these days, and "was that the whole of China is in crisis is tims and oppression preferably should very active on the international scene" overdrawn." The leadership in Beij­ not disturb the global game ." since George Bush's election. The pa­ ing is unified, and "may not be op­ The Swedish government an­ per noted that Kissinger had breakfast posed to finding ways to further eco­ nounced on the same day that it would on June 8 with Thierry de Bauce, the nomic reform." be cutting an export credit of $110 Secretary of State in charge of Inter­ I.e., more shady deals with Kis­ million to China, which was ear- national Cultural Relations. Kissinger singer Associates and friends?

EIR June 23, 1989 National 65 Eye on Washington by Nicholas F. Benton

Economy seen as Bush's downfall clear soon enough," he said. Clark Clifford reveals a "waitfo r the crash strategy" is "By such issues, you are speaking primarilyof the economy, aren't you," Democratic plan to topp le Bush. I said. "Yes, but other issues as well," he intoned. Democratic Party stalwart Clark that the party would come before any I asked about the current bloodlet­ Clifford had some revealing remarks personal ambitions. ting in the Congress. What effect for this reporter when we spoke during Clifford , who virtually ran the would this have on the ability of the a reception here June 12. Truman adminstration and has been a party to function? Clifford stood out in a hall filled top figure in the party throughout the Clifford told me to check the re­ with Democratic Party stars because postwar period, resorts to the old cord on the response of Republican of his preeminent role as a shaper of method of talking to everyone while chairman Lee Atwater when the news the party's policy. holding onto their forearm. of scandalous leaflet attacking Rep. He and Pamela Harriman, the It's a little less intimidating than Thomas Foley (D-Wash.) firstbroke . sponsor of the evening's fete , a fund­ grabbing someone by his lapels and "Look at what Atwater told the raising banquet for Democrats for the shoving him up against a wall, but it Wall Street Journal," Clifford advised 1990s, were the two most influential is designed to have a similar disarming me. "There, Atwater does not disas­ party leaders in a roomotherwise filled effect. sociate himself from the contents of with familiar faces of congressmen and This reporter's approach to Clif­ that leaflet." former national chairmen of the party. ford was to ask him about how he felt "You mean," I asked, "that At­ Clifford effects a humble "who, President Bush was handling the water distanced himself from that me?" demeanor that belies his true "China situation." memorandum only aftermeeting with role. For the uninitiated, he looks like Was Clifford willing to go on re­ President Bush?" an amiable octogenariantrying toswim cord, on behalf of the Democrats , put­ "Check the record," Clifford gracefully in a room full of young ting Bush down for his at best tepid pointed out. "It will confirm what I bucks half his age. response to the crackdown and mass say. It is a matter of record." But all those, including the likes slaughter of the students in Beijing? I interpreted Clifford's response to of Rep. William Gray (D-Pa.), who "I think Bush has handled the sit­ mean that the "ethics war" in the Con­ were about to be elected to fill the new uation just super," Clifford beamed. gress was still on-that there was still posts in the party's House leadership, "Well," I asked, "What do you plenty of "getting even" to take care knew that sidling up to Clifford and think is going to be Bush's Achilles of, and that Clifford was not about to paying their respects was an indispen­ heel, then?" call a truce. sable part of their evening rounds. "I think it is going to be the econ­ I asked about his views on whether Anyone who questions Clifford's omy," he said without hesitating, but or not Jackson should run for mayor clout should recall how he handled the giving my forearm anextra littlepinch. of the Districtof Columbia. Clifford's potential rift in the party between the Certainly, Clifford and his friends response might indicate whether such Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson aren't blind, even if Bush is trying to a move was sanctioned by the party , forces during the presidential primar­ ignore the issue. The Democrats are or not. ies last year. Jackson was brought in certainly glad to cash in on Bush's "I can't answer that one. I don't to meet with Clifford in a well-publi­ blundering. know if it would be a good idea or cized pow-wow, just when Jackson I asked Clifford , "I wonder about not," Clifford said. "You know, Jesse was making noises about pushing the the blurring of the distinction between doesn't have any experience in gov­ fight for the Democratic nomination the two partieson vital issues that have ernment, and a job like that takes a lot right onto the floor of the party con­ historically distinguished them. What of administrative experience." vention. is your thinking on this?" I took that answer as a firm "no." Whatever Clifford said to Jackson "I do not worry aboutth is. Events From Clifford's point of view, I sur­ in that meeting, it worked. Jackson will take care of it. You do not have to mised, the party would benefitmost if came out as tame as a kitten, insisting create any issues. They will become Jesse just went away.

66 National EIR June 23, 1989 Satanwatch by Robert L. Baker

Parish shut down over witchcraft planted . . . by the ecumenical move­ Bishop locks the doors after Minnesota parishioners kick out a ment understood as the energizing of all faiths of this planet by celebra­ heretical nun . tion." In 1983, Fox hired a witch named Starhawk to teach at his Insti­ tute for Culture and Creation Centered Spirituality, who later reported, "I am Over the past year, the parents of her image . . . she created them from very glad to discover such a strong St. Boniface Catholic Church in Stew­ humus of earth, from mud, from movement within Christian churches art, Minnesota have blocked a gnostic muck ....God looked up on her han­ that is sympathetic to the Pagan Spirit nun from teaching witchcraft to their diwork and saw it was good." and willing to learnfrom the teachings children. As a result, the church has Much of the content of Sister An­ of the Old Religion." been shut down by the Bishop, who nette's ceremonies promotes a blood­ Parents ofSt. Boniface unsuccess­ has not supported the parental objec­ and-soil attitude toward farming as­ fully appealed to various priests, tion, and instead is supporting the pa­ sociated with, among others, the Rus­ questioning the content of Sister An­ gan teachings. A local Catholic lay sian Orthodox Church. Her outlook­ nette's classes. The religion teachers group has formed, calling itself St. you can be a serf and be happy-is of St. Boniface Parish gathered on Augustine's Legions, to oppose the intended to condition rural communi­ April 16 to draw up a petition of con­ heresies and witchcraft. ties not to resist the wave of disposs­ cerns questioning the pagan practices The nun in question, Sr. Annette essions being forced on family farm­ she has taught to their children. In­ Fernholz, is a follower of the contro­ ers. This is the view promoted by a cluded was the use of such terminol­ versial Catholic heretic, Rev. Mat­ network of groups in the farm states, ogy as ritual, fe minine energy, fire thew Fox of Oakland, California. funded by the Eastern Establishment Christ, cosmos, "the earth is the body During the fall of 1988, the Vatican interests, that includes the Land Stew­ of Christ," and reference to the spirit­ ordered the silencing of Reverend Fox, ardship Project, Rural Catholic Life, ual feminism of God. a noted Dominican author and teacher Groundswell, PrairieFire, and others . As with secular feminism, spirit­ on spirituality. Fox was characterized In the Mother Earth ceremony ual feminism firstsprouted in academ­ by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of script for the Diocesan Council of ic circles among Catholic and non­ the Congregation for the Doctrine of Catholic Women last fall, the leader Catholic women studying theology. the Faith, the Vatican agency charged intoned such phrases as: "Humus: the These women influenced nuns, turn­ with maintaining Church doctrine, as brown, black substance formed from ing theminto feminist nuns or ex-nuns. promoting "dangerous and deviant" decomposing matter; the organic por­ Then, through teaching in Catholic teachings. tion of the soil; the basic stuff of seminaries and schools of theology, Since then, the parishioners of St. like ....We [humans] have a lot in they converted priests. Once they ob­ Boniface Parish are dealing with a common with compost and with earth . tainedbishops as supporters, they were shutdown of their parish by the bishop We are destined to decompose like au­ able to infiltrate nearly every area of because they have rebelled against the tumn leaves, like rotting fruit, we who Church administration and teaching. heresies of Sister Annette, who was are children of God and siblings of the Converting the grassroots, how­ hired to administer religion classes for stars." ever, proved to be trickier. To speed theyouth. She directed the girls in her Sister Annette's teacher, Rever­ up the process, methods of group parish to recite the Lord's Prayer, "Our end Fox, has been censured by Pope brainwashing, called "consciousness­ Mother in Heaven ..." and held up, Paul II because his teachings subvert­ raising," were devised. for adoration, a cloth globe she called ed Catholicism with witchcraft. Con­ Let there no lingering illusions an "Earth Pillow" -a pagan represen­ stance Cumbey, in her bookA Planned about "spiritual feminism." When­ tation of Jesus Christ. In addition, Sis­ Deception, quotes Fox as saying, ever spiritUal feminists gather today, ter Annette sponsored a Mother Earth "Today's Age of Pisces is yielding to in groups known as Women-Church, Festival on Nov. 14, 1988 in which the Age of Aquarius . . . the male they use a syncretic mix of paganism she directed the parishioners to say, conditioned model of coercion as the and witchcraft ..Leaders in devising "God sang; she created humankind in mode of divine power is being sup- such liturgies have been witches.

EIR June 23, 1989 National 67 Congressional Closeup by William Jones

legal work during the investigation of two-missile package. Although this oley damps attempt F the personal finances of Rep . Fernand might mean that the Soviets, under a to oust Lee Atwater St. Germain (D-R.I.), who lost re­ future strategic arms treaty, might also House Speaker Thomas Foley (D­ election as a result of the suspicions be so restricted, they currently have a Wash.) is trying to put a damper on cast over himby the investigation. Two large number of single-warhead mis­ the burgeoning campaign to oust Lee months later, in February 1986, the siles deployed, whereas the U.S. has Atwater as chairman of the Republi­ Los Angeles Board of Airport Com­ deployed none . can National Committee. missioners awarded a concession to The recommendations of the com­ On Friday, June Rep. Dave 10, run seven duty-free stores at the air­ mittee chairmen came on the eve of a Nagle (D-Iowa) sent a letter to his col­ port to a joint venture between two National Security Council meeting leagues calling for Atwater's resigna­ firms, Mir Kanon Inc. and Peideau which will consider new initiatives in tion after Republicans, earlier in the Inc. In July 1986, Dixon's wife, Bet­ cutting strategic arms . NSC Chairman week, had issued a leaflet attacking ty, bought a 12% interest in the stock Brent Scowcroft, a Midgetman back­ the new Speaker, comparing him to of the two businesses-an investment er, advised clients who produce the Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a self­ which earned her more than $150,000 missile before he accepted the NSC confessed homosexual . in 1987 and 1988. Dixon has said that post. Democrats were furious and be­ when the committee hired Cochran, lieved that Lee Atwater, noted for his neither he nor his wife were aware of dirty campaign tactics, was behind the the investment opportunity . memo. But Nagle withdrew the letter The only impropriety which seems at the request of Foley. Ginny Terza­ to have occurred, is that Dixon report­ ephardt, Gray elected no , spokeswoman for the Democratic G ed the investment in the wrong cate­ to Democratic leadership National Committee , told the Wash­ gory. One Republican source said that The cHection of Rep. Richard Ge­ ington Times that she believes that it didn't look likethe Republicans were phardt (D-Mo.) as Democratic Major­ Foley had asked DNC Chairman Ron going to go after Dixon as they had ity Leader and Rep. William Gray III Brown to drop the matter. Wright, but it is clear the Damocles (D-Pa.) as House Majority Whip, has Foley, elected in the aftermath of sword of similar "ethics investiga­ increasedthe hopes of Republicans that a major campaign which succeeded in tions" hangs over anyone in Congress. the Democratic opposition will be a ousting Jim Wright fromthe speaker's "kinder, gentler" opposition than that post, is considered more pliable than led by Jim Wright and Tony Coelho. the fe isty Wright by the Bush White The new leadership leaves the House. N unn, Aspin try to stop House more firmly in the grip of East­ MX missile deployment em Establishment forces . This was The chairmen of the Senate and House evident during the House passage of Armed Services Committees, Sen. Bush's legislation to deal with the Dixon latest target Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Les As­ Savings and Loan crisis by a 320 to 97 of ethics frenzy pin (0-Wisc.), respectively, urged the vote on June 15. The House leadership Rep. Julian Dixon (D-Cal.), the chair­ Bush administrationto change the U.S. allied with the White House against man of the House ethics committee positionon mobile missiles and to ban Democrats and a majority of House who did the dirty work in axing House mobile missiles that carry more than Republicans in beating down amend­ SpeakerJim Wright, is now the target one warhead. The proposal would ef­ ments which offered some protection of an ethics investigation. fectively kill the MX missile, which to the S&Ls against the depredations In February 1986, Dixon hired Los the administration plans to mount on of the major financial institutions. Angeles attorney Johnnie Cochran, the railcars , in favor of the Midgetman Speaker Foley is heavily funded president of the Los Angeles Airport missiles, which are to be mounted on by financial interests tied to Salomon Commission, as a consultant to the truck-like vechicles. Brothers , the institution leading the House ethics committee. Cochran was Nunn claimed that the votes aren't, buy-up of S&Ls by the major money paid $170,000 in 1986 and 1987 for there to sustain the administration's institutions.

68 National EIR June 23, 1989 Gregg nomination to tion or by North himself. tempt at overridefe ll only 4 votes short be forced to a vote? The subcommittee agreed that they of the 67 needed, in what seems to be In what could be the finalday of hear­ would request the diaries from the a tactic of proceeding on separate ings, Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Cal.) administration. Cranston has said that tracks in the House and Senate, in or­ and John Kerry (D-Mass.) grilled there will be a committee vote on the der to see which approach picks up Donald Gregg, President Bush's nom­ Gregg nomination on Monday, June enough votes to ensure a veto over­ inee for U.S. ambassador to South 20. ride. Korea, on his ties to the Iran-Contra In a related development, the of­ It appears that the Bush adminis­ scandal on June 15. ficeof independent counsel Lawrence trationhas won thefirst round in what Gregg gave contradictory and Walsh revealed on June 14 that they will undoubtedly prove to be a major vague statements concerning his are investigating Gregg to determine legislative tussle with the Democratic knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair. whether he may have lied to the 1987 Congress. One of the moredamaging indices that House-Senate Iran-Contra commit­ Gregg was not telling the truth, was tees about his knowledge of a secret the notes in former National Security Reagan White House operation to re­ Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North's supply the Nicaraguan Contras, ac­ Wash­ highly redacted diary referring to a cording to sourcescited by the Medicare cut in doctor's . meeting between North, Col. James ington Post. State Department legal fees could mean less care Steele, and Gregg in January 1986. adviser Abraham Sofaer said, how­ A House Ways and Means subcom­ · Gregg claims to have had no knowl­ ever, that Walsh had told Gregg last mittee approved on June 14 changes edge of the Iran-Contra affair until a month that he was the subject of the in the way physicians are compensat­ discussion with Felix Rodriguez in criminal investigation, but not a "tar­ ed for treatingMedic are and Medicaid August 1986. Gregg says that he did get." patients, as part of a plan to reduce not attend the Januarymeet ing, a claim Medicare's projected growth by $2.4 that has recently been corroboratedby billion, half the reduction recom­ Steele, who was himself involved in mended by President Bush. the Contra operation. Although presented as a plan to Gregg did admit, however, that he House prepares minimum make the compensation system more had introduced Steele to North at that wage compromise after veto "equitable," health experts expect that time. Kerry said that everything could House Democrats areprepared towork the compensation system will be or­ be cleared up if the NSC agreed to out a compromise with the White ganized in a way that will reduce the release North 's unredacted diaries House after falling 41 votes short of rate of growth in spending, and there­ fromthat period. Kerry has been seek­ that necessary to override the Presi­ fore , the amount of care provided. ing the diaries for his investigations dent's veto of the minimum wage bill The committee also cut $690 mil­ into the Iran-Contra affair, but with­ in a 247 to 178 vote on June 14. lion by continuing a 15% reduction in out success. PresidentBush has proposeda bill reimbursement for hospitals' capital Ifthe diaries indicate no reference which would increase the minimum costs, and cut $520 million which to Gregg, "I will vote for him myself," wage to$4.25 an hour over threeyears, would have helped hospitals keep up said Kerry. Gregg then commented 30¢ less thanwhat the Democrats were with the costs of inflation. Instead of thatthe diaries mention him only once, demanding. receivingcompensation for a project­ which caused some surprise in the The chief sponsor of the bill in the ed 5.3% rate of inflation, physicians panel. When Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D­ House, Rep. Augustus Hawkins (D­ would receive only a 2% increase. Md.) asked where he learned that, Cal.), said that he would want to talk Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) Gregg said that he learned it from one with the administration before craft­ noted that the targets will discourage of the lrangate investigators , insisting ing an alternative. physicians from · participating in the that he did not mean the unredacted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), program, thus re"ucingthe number of diaries, whose content would only be however, reintroduced virtually the physicians availableto treat Medicare known by someone in the administra- same bill in the Senate, where the at- patients.

EIR June 23, 1989 National 69 National News

port, "Pacing the U.S. Magnetic Fusion "LaRouche cases," both to the Italian Par­ Program," published June I, was written liament and to the Vatican. She concluded before the recent announcements of possible that she was confident that the Parliament Astronauts: The Moon cold fusion results. "will be , at least through certain factions, The report acknowledges that the U.S. totally with our cause." was a step to Mars has lost its leadership in magnetic fusion On June 8, Mrs . Cece did an interview Three Apollo 11 astronauts said the follow­ research to the European Community, and with the Spanish-language daily, Noticias on to the Apollo lunar landings in the late says that the proposed increases are neces­ del Mundo, and held a roundtable discussion I960s should have been a mission to the sary if the U.S. is to participate on an equal with Chinese leaders hosted by Mr. P.K. planet Mars, at a press conference held at footing in the next phase of international Chan, pq:sidentof the Chinese Consolidat­ the opening of the Paris Air Show on June efforts, notably the International Thermo­ ed Benevolent Association. Mr. Chan asked 9. They were clearly frustrated that that mis­ nuclear Engineering Reactor (ITER) . The in the strongest terms, that Mrs. Cece do sion never proceeded. report also recommended that U.S. private what was necessary to see a resolution passed Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot industry increase its participation in design­ by the Italian Parliament denouncing the on the Moon after Neil Armstrong, stated, ing fusion systems. butcheries being carried out by the Com­ "The Apollo trip was more successful than Federal funding for magnetic fusion re­ munist regime. Mrs . Cece's interchange with we think, but I hoped it would lead to the search is now about half as much in constant Mr. Chan was covered the next day in the conquest of Mars, and it didn't. I think in dollars as it was in 1977, which is compa­ Chinese-language dailies, World Journal, the future , people will wonder how a nation rable in size to the efforts in Japan and the and the Singtao Daily. could put all that together and then totally Soviet Union, but significantly smaller than That evening, before departing for withdraw ." the European Community effort. Rome, Mrs . Cece issued a statement of sol­ Aldrin had some strong words for the idarity with the Chinese struggle for free­ 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup in Earth orbit: dom and a call for freedom for Lyndon "Six years later [after Apollo 11] we put LaRouche. This was read in full on Friday together a mission with the Soviets which morning by a representative of Mr. Chan to gave us the hope of U.S.-Soviet coopera­ Attorneys in U.S. on a rally of 10,000 Chinatown residents. tion. Instead, it gave the Soviets the oppor­ human rights mission tunity to say the space race was now over and it had been a draw . " AttorneysMirella Cece, of Rome, Italy, and Former astronaut Mike Collins, who or­ Jacques Stul, of Paris, France, carried out a bited the Moon while his colleagues walked fact-finding tour of the New York "La­ Thornburgh's strike on its surface, stated at the press conference, Rouche case" on June 7 and 8 on behalf of the international Commission Investigate force plan opposed "I think of the Moon not so much as a planet, to but as a direction . . . a stop on the way to Human Rights Violations. Also, on June 5, U . S. Attorney General Richard Thorn­ burgh's plans to eliminate the Department Mars. I would like to see colonization of they attended the sentencing of LaRouche Mars as the long-term goal. It's very impor­ associate Rochelle Ascher in Leesburg, Vir­ of Justice's 14 organized crime strike forces, tant." ginia, and questioned prosecutors on jury has run into strenuous opposition, mainly because .t would greatly increase the powers The three astronauts are involved in two bias . Mr. Stul is a criminal attorney with 30 of local U. S. Attorneys. months of activities celebrating the 20th an­ years experience inpolitical cases. Mrs . Cece niversary of the first manned landing on the Four members of the Senate Judiciary is the president of the European Liberal Moon, on July 20, 1969. Committee, Senators Edward Kennedy (D­ Christian Movement, a tendency within the Mass.), Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Strom Thur­ Christian Democracy. mond (R-S.C.), and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), In addition to private meetings with the are opposed to the plan, and the Senate is New York defendants and attorneys, Mrs . expected to have hearings on the proposal. Cece was the honored guest at a Manhattan Research council says, reception of New York City community and religious leaders , and at a luncheon with increase fusion fu nding leaders of the Chinese community. A committee of the National Research At the Manhattan reception on June 7, Sentencing guidelines Council has recommended to the Depart­ Mrs . Cece told the gathering that she was ment of Energy that the U.S. government's coming before them "as a lawyer, as a poli­ draw wide criticism $350 million annual budget for magnetic tician, and as your sister." She reported that Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court fusion research be increased by about 20%, her precise task in New York was to be able upheld the use of new sentencing guidelines held steady for the next five years , and then to return to Rome to file a detailed report on using a formula point system in an attempt increased another 25%. The committee's re- the major human rights violations in the to standardize federal sentences, large num-

70 National EIR June 23, 1989 Briefly

SEN. DANIEL bers of judges are saying the system does staying in San Mateo. It is believed that • Patrick Moyni­ not work. Rivera travels all over California conduct­ han(D -N. Y.) was booedoff the stage Judges arecomplaining that prosecutors ing Santeria-cult ceremonies. A spokesman at a rally of 20,000 Chinese demon­ have gained power that used to belong to for the sheriffs office stated that he was strators at the U.N. on June 9. He them. Many first offenders are getting harsh reputed to be avery high-level priest of the enraged demonstrators by urging the crowd to support President Bush's jail time while chronic repeat offenders are cult, and that the cult operated a religious getting minimal sentences by expoiting the store in San Francisco called "Botanical mealymouthed approach to the China "informant"clause , which permits leniency Arubya." crisis. for "substantial" cooperation against other prosecution targets. In drug cases, the • THOMAS P. MELADY has guidelines are filling up the jails with low­ beennominated by President Bush as level "mules" who have no knowledge of the next ambassador to the Vatican. the upperrungs of the dopering which could LaRouche bio to be Former president of Sacred Heart be traded for leniency. University in Bridgeport, Connecti­ U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals published in Spanish cut, Melady is president of the Con­ Judge William W. Wilkins, Jr. , who headed A Spanish-language edition of Lyndon necticut Public Expenditure Council the Sentencing Commission, told the June LaRouche's autobiography, The Power of in Hartford. 12 Washington Post that the system's effec­ Reason: 1988, will be published in July by tiveness will depend largely on the integrity E1R . • THE NATIONAL Democratic of prosecutors. The autobiography has been translated Policy Committee, a political action HerbertHoelter, directorof the National by E1R lbero-Americanintelligence director committee representing the La­ Center on Institutions and Alternatives, says Dennis Small, and includes a new special Rouche wing of the Democratic Par­ that defense lawyers need to understand that introduction to the Spanish-language edi­ ty, was denied a stay of thecollection because judges now have less discretion, tion written by LaRouche entitled "I Be­ of multimillion-dollar contemptfines probation sentences are going to be harder come a Celebrated Political Prisoner." The by the First Cifeuit Appeals Court in to come by. "It's not an in-out decision any­ book,El poderde La raz6n, preparedduring Boston June 6. An emergency re­ more," he said. "It's not whether you go [to Small and LaRouche's incarceration in the quest to the U.S. Supreme Court will prison] , it's how long you go." Alexandria, Virginia jail, will be printed si­ seek to stay the collection until the multaneously in the U.S. and a numberof Supreme Court decides whether a Ibero-Amerlcancountri es. PAC can be fined out of existence without even anevidentiary hear ing.

• JESSE JACKSON could be a Satanist arrested good mayor of Washington, D.C. if Kissinger subpoenaed in he will push non-black issues, Bill for cocaine trafficking Rice writes in a Washington Post The Sacramento Sheriff's Department has N. Y. 'LaRouche case' commentary June 11. "While his na­ arrested six people for cocaine trafficking, Henry Kissinger was served witha subpoe­ tional stature as a black leader might including a man described as a high priest na to appear in the New York State trial of help propel him to victory . . . it is of a Santeria cult similar to the Matamoros four associatesof Lyndon LaRouche, while Washington's white minority that cult of Satanist murderers. The six were ar­ he was appearingat the Rockefeller honors presents Jackson with an opportunity rested in Redwood City and San Mateo with banquet June 13. to move into the political main­ more than $1 million worth of uncut co­ Just as Kissinger waspresenting an award stream." caine, cash, and cars. to another former Secretary of State­ At the Redwood City, California home George Shultz-the process server accost­ • THE SENATE overwhelmingly of Angel Rivera, originally identified as a ed the surprised Kissinger at the New York confirmed Richard Burt on June 14 Cuban, but now said to be a Puerto Rican, City affair. as chief U. S. negotiator on strategic police found two human skulls, one with an Kissinger was subpoenaed because of armsreductions, rej ecting chargesby embedded machete, and numerous Santeria what the LaRouche associatessay is his his­ Sen. Jesse Hel� (R-N.C.) that Burt shrines surrounded by animal remains. tory of illegal operations against the La­ bas demonstrated a "pattern of neg­ Sheriff Craig of Sacramento said that Rivera Rouche movement. In 1982-83, Kissinger ligence" toward security. The Senate had worked undercover for the Drug En­ wrotea series of letters complainingto then­ also confirmed Iran-Contra figures forcement Administration; a spokesman for FBI Director William Webster about the John D. Negroponte as ambassador the DEA refusedcomment. LaRouche movement's exposure of his ac­ to Mexico and;Bernard W. Aronson On the day of the bust, Rivera bought tivities and requested that Webster inter­ as assistant secretary of state. cocaine from three Colombians who were vene.

EIR June 23, 1989 National 71 Editorial

Manifesto in def ense ofPa nama

We are pleased to print, and to endorse , a Manifesto in tration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian govern­ defense of Panama 'Yhich has been signed by some SOO ment and for withdrawing U.S. military bases fromthat senators and congressmen from all over Ibero-Ameri­ country. This is the real issue. ca. The document could not be more timely, since no "The United States does not accept the terms of the sooner did the attention on events in China die down, 1977 Torrijos-Carter treaties because they go against than the U.S. governmentofficially renewed its lawless its traditional policy of interventionism. In reality, that assault on Panama's sovereign institutions, flaunting treaty is of historical importance to Latin America and schemes to murder Panama's first non-white top mili­ the Caribbean because it is a tool and an example to all tary commander, Gen . Manuel Noriega. the peoples who fight against thedictates of those coun­ As of this writing, the manifesto has been signed tries that oppose the development of the poorest and by 300members of Brazil's Federal Congress, includ­ fightfor a new , just, world economic order. ing two-thirds of the Senate. Signatures were also gath­ "A U.S. military intervention in Panama would be ered in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Re­ an unacceptable violation of the principles of self-de­ public , Ecuador, Peru , Uruguay, and Venezuela. In termination, as set forth in the Charter of the United addition , the Congress of Ecuador has approved a res­ Nations, and it would constitute an aggression against olution in support of Panama and condemning U.S. all the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean. intervention, a copy of which was given to its delega­ "We declare our solidarity with the people of Pan­ tion for transmittal to the government of Panama at the ama and with their legitimate political organizations, Conference of Latin American Parliamentariansin Pan­ so that, in theshortest period possible, political and ama on June 17 and 18. The manifesto text follows: economic normalcy may be reestablished that would ''The undersigned, legislators from the nations of make the holding of new elections possible. Latin America and the Caribbean, hereby inform the "It is important to stress that the political and eco­ governments of the member countries of the OAS of nomic sanctions imposed by Washington only contrib­ their apprehension about the unfolding Panamaniancri­ ute to destabilizing democracy. Therefore. it is an ab­ sis, especially, given the repeated United States gov­ solute prerequisite condition fo r there to be free and ernment statements mooting the possibility of military democratic elections withoutforeign interference, that intervention in that Central American country . The re­ the economic blockade against Panama cease. cent sending of U.S. military reinforcements to Panama ''The sovereign stance of our nations, which corre­ confirms our worries, revealing, at the same time, a sponds to the objective needs of all countries that strug­ tendency of the Bush administration to dictate a solu­ gle for their sovereignty and self-determination, is to tion to the Panama crisis, which, as we see it, should oppose foreign intervention in Panama. In that context be solved politically by the Panamanian government we also affirm the Malvinas are Argentine and that the and people , in a sovereign way, without any kind of Amazon belongs to the countries of the region. foreign meddling . Sending new militarycontingents to ''Therefore , we demand that from the member na­ PanaIlla at this moment is in itself foreign intervention . tions of the Organization of American States a clear ''The United States has repeatedly made public its and unequivocal stance in defense of Panama's sover­ intentions to not comply with the terms of the Torrijos­ eignty, against foreign militaryintervention and for the Carter treaty , which call for handing over the adminis- terms of the canal treaties to be respected."

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