Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 24, Number 36, September
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EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, From the Associate Editor Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, William Wertz Associate Editor: Susan Welsh any people who enjoy attacking “corruption” in Washington, Managing Editors: John Sigerson, M Ronald Kokinda do not seem to notice how far they themselves have gone, toward Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht participating in the moral and cultural corruption of which America’s Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley addiction to gambling is a prime example. Do you think it is “innocu- Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman ous” to scratch off a couple of lottery tickets every week at the grocery Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol store? Then read John Hoefle’s thoroughly documented Feature on INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: who really runs Gambling, Inc. Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Regular readers of EIR, and of our bestselling book Dope, Inc., Paul Goldstein Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, will not be surprised to find out that gambling is the money-launder- William Engdahl ing arm of the British oligarchy’s drug empire. Hoefle writes: “As History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small the drug trade has grown, the demands upon its money-laundering Law: Edward Spannaus arm have rapidly expanded. One major component of this money- Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George laundering apparatus, is the gambling business; casinos, with their United States: Kathleen Klenetsky heavy and substantially anonymous cash flows, have long been used INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: by organized crime to launder the proceeds from criminal opera- Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel tions.” Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n The campaign by EIR and Lyndon LaRouche against the British Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen “Invisible Empire” is at the center of a worldwide political storm. Houston: Harley Schlanger Following the publication last week of our cover story attacking fi- Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa nancier George Soros as a drug pusher for the Queen, Time magazine Milan: Leonardo Servadio came out with an attempt to lionize Soros as a “philanthropist.” The New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre same issue of Time included a puff piece on the butcher of Central Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Africa, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni (the subject of EIR’s Aug. 8 Stockholm: Michael Ericson Washington, D.C.: William Jones cover story, “The Ugandan Hell Behind London’s Museveni Myth”). 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Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1997 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Periodicals postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months—$125, 6 months—$225, 1 year—$396, Single issue—$10 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Interviews Departments Economics 53 Charles Quincy Troupe 13 Australia Dossier 4 Economic collapse fuels A state representative from St. Secret plot against the unions. German government crisis Louis, Missouri, Mr. Troupe has An intense public debate has been investigating the brutality 47 Report from New Delhi erupted about the future of against Missouri prisoners held in A dirty war rages in India’s Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s jails in Texas for nearly two years. northeast. government, which a majority of citizens consider a “non- 72 Editorial government.” Dump free trade. 6 Currency Rates Photo and graphics credits: Cover, page 17, EIRNS/Starr Valenti. Page 5, Bundesbildstelle. 7 Mexico ‘recovery’ claim: Pages 18, 62, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. another dead-cat bounce Pages 26-33, 66, EIRNS. Page 54, Courtesy of Rep. Charles Quincy 8 World population growth is Troupe. Page 69, National ceasing Archives. 10 World financial crisis recognized in Moscow 11 Mir crew overcomes obstacles in space station repair The cosmonauts who are heroically carrying out the repair mission aboard Mir, lay the blame for the problems in the Russian space program where it belongs: on the economy. 14 Business Briefs Volume 24, Number 36, September 5, 1997 Feature International National 40 Dow Jones supports return 50 Espy indictment: The real of Cambodia’s Khmer target is President Clinton Rouge The attorney for former Agriculture The Western press has almost Secretary Mike Espy summed it up: entirely blacked out a government “Never has so much been made of White Paper which proves that the so little.” Khmer Rouge is being invited back into power by Prince Ranariddh, in 52 Starr should be probed for open rebellion against the conflict of interest government. From a memorandum by Federal Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Judge Bill Wilson. 45 Spain: new flanks in the 16 Legalized gambling: fight against ETA 53 Call for Federal Britain’s Dope, Inc. A united front has begun to develop investigation of Texas among the people, the political prison beatings subverts the U.S. parties, the trade unions, the With $550 billion in wagers An interview with Charles Quincy government, and the King. Their Troupe. reportedly placed in legal gambling message: The Spanish people will facilities in 1995, gambling is big not tolerate the terrorist ETA or its 56 Terrorist funder business in the United States. The political arm, Herri Batasuna. myth has been spread that the mob Moskowitz threatens has been run out; in fact, gambling Middle East peace remains the province of organized 48 International Intelligence crime—which is run by the British 58 Summon the moral and Empire. intellectual resources to overcome the crisis 20 The spread of legal A speech by Lyndon LaRouche to a gambling meeting of the Schiller Institute at Riverside Church in New York City 23 Stock market gambling on July 27. Many compulsive gamblers prefer to play in a larger casino: the 70 National News international financial markets. 26 The enormity of the gambling market 34 Major companies of Gambling, Inc. 38 Gambling: a timeline EIREconomics Economic collapse fuels German government crisis by Rainer Apel “I have no intention of changing the cabinet,” a visibly an- But, it is also a fact that the majority of voters want this gered Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in Bonn on Aug. 25, on Kohl government out, the sooner the better. For industry, his first day upon return from the summer recess. “I will not this government, and this chancellor in particular, has be put under pressure.” But, Kohl is under pressure; it is in- demonstrated its absolute incompetence on all matters that creasing by the day, and there is not much he can do to escape are of interest to industry. The globalizers, downsizers, and it. An intense public debate has erupted throughout the nation derivatives sharks that had expected the government to about the future of this chancellor’s government—which a support them, are as disappointed with Kohl as are the me- majority of citizens consider a “non-government,” i.e., one dium-sized industries that, justifiably, are disappointed be- that is not acting at all, but, instead, concentrates all of its cause the government does not protect them against the glob- efforts to keep from falling from the chair, at the legs of which, alizers. constituencies, industry, and labor are pulling. Roland Berger, chairman of the leading German business Naturally, those who are attacking the non-government and investment consulting firm of the same name, summed of Kohl have many different, and not always sound motives, up the sentiments among industry against Kohl, in remarks but knowledgeable observers of the German political situa- made the day before Kohl’s return from the summer recess, tion who remember the big crises of the mid-1960s and the and which have made headlines in all the media. Berger said early 1980s which led to the overthrow of governments, have that the nation’s many problems will not be solved, unless a pointed out that the present crisis in Bonn and Germany is of new Grand Coalition of Christian and Social Democrats takes the type that can lead to an abrupt end of the current regime.