Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 24, Number 43, October 24, 1997
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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 riedrich Schiller, the great German poet and playwright (1759- Managing Editors: John Sigerson, F Ronald Kokinda 1805), worked out dramatically, in his plays, the concept of the punc- Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht tum saliens—the point of decision, or turning-point. Will the hero Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley summon the fortitude to solve the problems that confront him, and Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman his nation? Or, will he be overcome by infantilism, and go down to Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol tragic defeat, as Shakespeare’s Hamlet did? INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: If ever there was a punctum saliens in history, we are at one now. Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, In this magazine, you will find one example after another, of how Paul Goldstein Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, nations are nearing the point of no return—and yet, the solution to William Engdahl the crises confronting them is more widely recognized than ever: History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small The worldwide financial crisis. We go to press on the tenth anni- Law: Edward Spannaus versary of “Black Monday,” Oct. 19, 1987, when Wall Street stocks Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George crashed more than 500 points. Lyndon LaRouche, in a statement on United States: Kathleen Klenetsky May 27, 1987, had forecast that financial blowout—but the specula- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: tors and pundits didn’t listen to him. Today, we face a much more Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel serious threat, due in part to the explosion in financial derivatives that Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n has occurred in the intervening years. As William Engdahl reports, Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen leading spokesmen in Europe are sounding the alarm about the “no- Houston: Harley Schlanger longer-tolerable systemic risks.” Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa The Clinton-Jiang summit. Our Feature analyzes the foreign pol- Milan: Leonardo Servadio icy directions of the Clinton Presidency, on the eve of the strategic New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre summit meeting with China’s President Jiang Zemin. 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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 Departments Economic Feature Feature 18 Report from Bonn 4 Swiss central banker warns Attacks on the European Monetary of threat to ‘whole system’ Union. Lyndon LaRouche has been right all along on the global financial crisis. 19 Australia Dossier Now, even central bankers are Mont Pelerin health policy is warning that the collapse is murder. imminent. 61 From New Delhi Britain once again eyes India for President Clinton confers with Secretary of State looting. Economics Madeleine Albright. 72 Editorial 8 Mergers and deregulation 22 Where is U.S. foreign Behind the Promise Keepers cult. derailed U.S. transport policy going! Lyndon LaRouche addresses “the 10 ‘Global warming’ fraud devastating contradictions which Photo and graphics credits: have become characteristic of Cover, White House Photograph. aimed at U.S. economy current trends in the Clinton Pages 5, 23 (top and bottom right), Administration’s formulation of EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 23 12 Sweden: The ‘LaRouche foreign policy.” Of course, it’s (Zedillo), Office of the Presidency factor’ fuels pro-nuclear partly Clinton’s fault; but at his of the Republic of Mexico. Page 23 turn worst moments, the President (Jiang), New Star Publishers. Page behaves “all too much as a faithful 31, Schiller Institute. Page 33, 13 Currency Rates representative of his generation.” China Pictorial. 14 Russians look to Asia with 27 High-level visits pave way both alarm, and hope for China summit When Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called George 29 Facts and myths Soros a “rogue speculator,” concerning China Russians took notice: Soros has Helga Zepp LaRouche lays bare the terrific leverage in Russia’s science, British geopolitical lies about China education, and communications as the new “enemy image.” sectors. 30 China-U.S.A. summit: a 20 Business Briefs crossroad in history From a strategic briefing by Helga Zepp LaRouche to EIR staff, on her trip to China and India. 36 Clinton ‘in footsteps of JFK, FDR,’ but stumbles into British ‘fast trap’ In his tour of Ibero-America, the President cited Kennedy and Roosevelt on their efforts to establish a hemispheric partnership, but then fell into London’s trap to accelerate free trade. Volume 24, Number 43, October 24, 1997 International National 38 Spectre of LaRouche 50 Journal charges, 64 Clinton team targets haunts Britain’s anti-Netanyahu is preparing for British-backed terrorists military plot war The 30 terrorist organizations that A continent-wide dialogue between A shakeup of the Israeli military will be banned from activities inside Lyndon LaRouche and Ibero- leadership is reportedly in the the United States, are those American patriots on the future of works, in preparation for another identified by EIR as being backed their nations, was fuelled by a Mideast war, possibly as early as by the British monarchy. conference hosted by the Argentine the summer of 1998. Naval Center, and attended by 66 LaRouche v. Fowler case is Brazilian and Argentine military 52 Intelligence wars over back in court figures. Diana’s murder Attorneys for former Democratic Leading European security Party Chairman Donald Fowler told 40 Toward unity of the specialists are punching holes in the the court that illegal actions taken to Fatherlands Anglo-French cover-up of the bar backers of Lyndon LaRouche A speech by Brazilian Vice Adm. murder of Princess Diana. from the 1996 Democratic Se´rgio Tasso Vasquez de Aquino Convention, could happen again. (ret.). 53 Italian government bends to Wall Street marxists 68 Congressional Closeup 43 Mart´ınez: the basis for The British pulled the plug on collective securityRomano Prodi’s government in 70 National News From a presentation by Argentine order to disrupt a growing alliance Vice Adm. Carlos Mart´ınez (ret.). to defend the nation, but patriots have the tools, provided by the 44 Seineld´ın: Repudiate the LaRouche movement, to fight back. New World Order From an open letter which 56 The Kigali-Kampala imprisoned former Col. Mohamed bloody annexation of east Al´ı Seineld´ın addressed to Lt. Gen. Congo-Zaire Mart´ın Antonio Balza, Chief of Staff of the Argentine Army. 58 Queen’s disastrous trip to Pakistan, India, threatens 46 Why the military is being Commonwealth meet destroyed The former colonies didn’t take Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s kindly to Queen Elizabeth sticking introduction to the Colombian her “imperial nose” into their edition of The Plot to Annihilate the affairs. Armed Forces and the Nations of Ibero-America, scheduled to be 62 International Intelligence released in November in Bogota´. EIREconomic Feature Swiss central banker warns of threat to ‘whole system’ by William Engdahl On Oct. 14, Prof. Bruno Gehrig, a member of the Switzerland one can say when the system will collapse, but the process National Bank directorate, became the first central banker to of buying time, which has been proceeding since 1994-95, publicly warn that, if the speculative activities of the interna- actually worsens the crisis, and will make the inevitable crash tional foreign exchange markets continue in the present mode, even bigger. a huge catastrophe is immediately ahead. In remarks to the Swiss Bankers Association which were publicized in the A chain reaction Swiss financial dailyNeue Zu¨rcher Zeitungon Oct.