Institute Reps in Hungary, Slovakia

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aris Nanic, Secre- Left: Faris Nanic speaks with reporters during Ftary General in intermission between press conference and forum in Croatia of the Party of Washington, D.C. Below: Nanic addresses Town Democratic Action Meeting in Los Angeles. (S.D.A.) and former Chief of Staff to Presi- dent Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, conducted a two-week tour of the United States in late September, call-

ing on this nation to EIRNS/Stuart Lewis adopt Lyndon La- Rouche’s economic development poli- cies, as the only basis for real reconstruction of the Balkan nations. The tour was co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute. Nanic is a co-initiator, together with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp LaRouche, of an international call for “Peace through Development for the

Balkans,” which was drafted for world- EIRNS/George Hollis wide endorsement during NATO’s bombardment of Serbia last spring. Baltimore, he addressed events co-spon- of addressing each and every crisis, is the sored by local mosques and the Schiller leader of your movement. I’ve known A Balkans Marshall Plan Institute. Mr. LaRouche from 1993, when I inter- That statement calls for a Marshall Plan On his tour, Nanic told his American viewed him when he was in jail. You for the Balkans regions; a New Bretton audiences: “I’ve been talking so much have to understand that the global politi- Woods policy for the world economy about Balkan reconstruction and the cal leadership is not acting on ideas, but (including fixed exchange rates, protec- failures of the Dayton Accords, that I acting on public opinion. He is a man tion of national economies, and sovereign realize that we have to observe all of who represents the historical continuum credit generation for economic develop- these things from a broader perspective. of the best ideas that have shaped the ment); a sharp, immediate break with the I’m trying to look at solutions, and I’m world. For all the world, you have to I.M.F. and World Bank practice of thinking that radical ideas have to be give him support, to put him in position imposing austerity measures and unac- introduced. My only hope is that the to become a decision-maker. He’s the ceptable financial conditionalities on sov- shift will happen here in the United only person who can address the crisis.” ereign nations; debt moratoria for the States of America—not because the U.S. economies of the region, which have been is the only remaining superpower, but ruined by war and enforced shock thera- because of the tradition, which is the py; use of the model of the Kreditanstalt tradition of all of mankind.” Institute Reps in Hungary,Slovakia für Wiederaufbau during the post-World War II reconstruction of Germany; join- U.S. Role Necessary Schiller Institute delegation trav- ing the initiative for a Eurasian Land- The United States has the “unique Aelled to Hungary and Slovakia at Bridge in cooperation with all interested chance” to initiate the necessary global the end of June, to report on two human nations; and inclusion of all Balkan and reconstruction, Nanic said. “You cannot rights issues: first, the need for immedi- Southeastern European states in the expect from small, terrified states,” such ate postwar reconstruction in the Bal- Eurasian Land-Bridge project. as Croatia or Bosnia-Hercegovina, “to kans; and second, the gross violations of During his tour, Nanic spoke at initiate radical changes. This has to be human rights in the U.S. justice system. town meetings in Chicago, Los Angeles, done from key nations, mainly the U.S.” The delegation held a press confer- Houston, Philadelphia, and New York Nanic focussed on Lyndon La- ence on June 28 in Bratislava, Slovakia, City. He also addressed seminars in Rouche, as the key American who can which was well attended by the major New York City and Washington, D.C., carry out the needed policy: “The only press. Anno Hellenbroich described attended by U.N. and foreign embassy person I know who is, from a political NATO’s war against Yugoslavia as a vio- officials. And, in Northern Virginia and standpoint, based on ideas, and is capable lation of human rights, as well as of the

eneral Harold Bedoya (ret.), for- Gmer Commander of the Armed Forces of Colombia, gave an extremely successful news conference Sept. 7 at the National Press Club, where he briefed an international contingent of 40 reporters from government-linked and private news services, on the nature and scope of the narco-terrorist threat to Colombia and other nations, and what must be done to vanquish it. According to the senior military leader, the way the situation in Colom- bia is portrayed, as a 40-year political struggle, “is false.” What you have, is a

drug cartel—a known drug cartel— EIRNS/Stuart Lewis attempting to seize power. Bedoya noted General Harold Bedoya (ret.) addresses Washington, D.C. National Press Club. that the drug culture could have been defeated, had the will existed to do so. this. These are speculative money flows He also called on Washington to But the previous government was to Wall Street, which needs this dirty change its current policy of support for beholden to the Cali cartel, and this cur- money. Wall Street is facing a crash. the Colombian government’s “absurd” rent government was installed by the But, Bedoya pointedly added, even if negotiations with the FARC cartel, in narco-terrorist FARC cartel. they were not, they would still need this pursuit of an illusory peace that will not Using maps to address the group, the kind of money to keep their system come through this kind of capitulation. General stressed three interrelated going. General Bedoya spoke of the need points in his remarks. Second, he said, we must change the for a “change in the culture.” The state First, he called for a Marshall Plan situation in Colombia. The current gov- has but a single function—to look out for development of Colombia, specifical- ernment has been in power for one year, for the welfare and progress of its peo- ly without any conditionalities or but “it feels like a hundred.” They are ple. But the most basic norms are now involvement of the I.M.F. He attacked destroying the country and the territory. being violated. He pointed to the 4,000 Richard Grasso, the head of the New He said that Colombians “are mobi- Colombian children who have been kid- York Stock Exchange, for visiting the lized” for a change. We cannot stand the napped by the narco-terrorists, and FARC drug region recently, and talking government for the next four years. We made to carry grenades, guard drug of collaboration. General Bedoya point- must have change. We can’t have the labs, and do the narco-terrorists’ bid- ed out that what’s involved are drug indebtedness we do now. We must have ding. We cannot have children treated money flows, and that Grasso knows no more I.M.F. this way. Hungary,Slovakia

principle of national sovereignty, present- ing Lyndon LaRouche’s proposal for an immediate Marshall Plan for the region. Margaret Greenspan reported on human rights violations in the United States, concentrating on the cases of Lyndon LaRouche, who, although now free on parole, served five years in prison despite his innocence; and of her brother Michael Billington (currently serving a 77-year sentence in Virginia) EIRNS/Birgit Vitt and two other LaRouche political pris- Margaret Greenspan (left) and Anno Hellenbroich discuss human rights issues with a oners, Paul and Anita Gallagher. Hungarian journalist.