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& Interviews Science Technology Economics 17 Maulana Wahiduddin 24 The space effort: picking 4 It's an open secret Khan up where Apollo left off (LaRouche was right) An internationally known Islamic The program to land a man on the LaRouche forecast an early collapse scholar and president of The Moon was the largest peacetime of the global financial and monetary Islamic Center in New Delhi, scientific mobilization in history. system; the patternof events in the Maulanna Khan is also editor of the We need to revive that science bond, markets and elsewhere monthly magazine Al-Risala, and driver to end the economic corroborates that analysis, as some author of a number of books. depression. Marsha Freeman top European banking officials are reports . beginning to recognize. 46 Gen. Martin Spegelj and Prof. Sdravko Tomac 6 Venezuela's Caldera vows: General Spegelj was defense Art 'In my hands, the republic minister of Croatia until 1991. He Exhibitions shall not be lost' now works with the movement 72 Restored paintings by two Documentation: Excerptsfrom Libertas, in opposition to the Renaissance geniuses: van President Rafael Caldera's historic policies of President Franjo Eyck and van der Weyden speech, and a grid of responses Tudjman. Professor Tomac of from around the world. Zagreb University is a former vice president of the Croatian 11 Bridge project triggers parliament. Departments government crisis in Sweden 49 Rabah Kebir 21 Report from Paris Mr. Kebir is a spokesman for Operation Margarita is not 12 Currency Rates Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front complete. (FIS). He discusses the shift in Russian, British pseudo­ policy toward the FIS on the part of 61 Dateline Mexico 13 the Clinton administration, and the Zapatistas use blackmail. scientists regurgitate prospects for a peaceful solution in malthusian numerology his country . 75 The Green Front Is eco-fascism on U. S. government 14 Philip: 'Keep darkies from agenda? having babies'

80 Editorial 15 France signs on to Cairo Let's win the war on drugs. genocide Photo credits: Cover, EIRNSI Javier Almario. Page 10, Embassy of Venezuela. Pages 25, 27, 17 We need peace in the world, not population NASA. Page 31, El Espectador. Correction: In our last issue control Pages 43, 67, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. (p. 60) , Oliver North was An interview with Maulana Page 55, EIRNS/Christopher incorrectly identified as a candidate Wahiduddin Khan. Lewis . Page 73, National Gallery for governorof Virginia. He is a of Art, Andrew W. Mellon candidate for the U.S. Senate. Collection. Page 74, Collection of 19 Asia is going ahead with the J. Paul Getty Museum. nuclear power

20 Money mandarins lay siege to Africa's bank

22 Business Briefs •

Volume 21, Number28, July15, 1994

Feature International National 38 A sea-change is taking 64 Clinton policy successes place in Japan and Korea stymie British foes Japan's new government has put There's a good deal of rug chewing Wall Street and London's demands going on at Hollinger Corp. on hold, and welcomes the prospect headquarters over the President's of developing both Koreas. defusing of a whole array of hoked­ up crises. 40 Yasser Arafat makes triumphal return to Gaza 66 National Academy of Emesto Samper Pizano, the President-elect of Colom­ and Jericho Sciences hosts Cairo '94 bia, thanks to lavish funding from the drug lords. depopulation rally Documentary film on Vice President Al Gore, U.S. 30 Dope mob buys Colombian 42 Russian crime is presented Undersecretary of State for Global presidency Affairs Timothy Wirth, and other The Cali cartel's purchase of the in Washington Documentation: Excerpts from the malthusian spokesmen were office of the presidency for drug­ confronted by a spirited legalizer Ernesto Samper Pizano is film script of Stanislav Govorukhin's documentary "The demonstration by members of the now exposed for all to see. The LaRouche movement. drug mafias are way out on a limb Great Criminal Revolution." now-and it's high time to saw it NGOs flauDt bid for power off. 46 'If you want peace in the 70 Balkans, lift the arms at U.S. pre�Cairo meeting Another meeting to build support Ernesto Sam per Pizano: a embargo against Croatia' 32 for Cairo '94, this one held by the An interview with Gen. Martin tale of three bribes National CounCil on International Spegelj and Prof. Sdravko Tomac . Health. 34 Cali cartel on tape: millions 49 'It is time to tell the for Samper 76 Congressional Closeup Algerian government to stop the violence' 36 Our record against Ernesto 78 National News Samper Pizano An interview with Rabah Kebir.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche 37 Brawl in Washington over 52 drug policy addresses meeting in Rome against Cairo '94

53 'World could hold 40 billion people' Helga Zepp-LaRouche 's speech to the conference in Rome sponsored by EIR and the Italian Solidarity Movement.

56 Cairo organizers are 'aggressors against God' From a speech to the conference by Cardinal Silvio Oddi.

62 International Intelligence • �ilillEconoDlics

It's an open secret (LaRouchewas right)

by Chris White

With books on the second financialquarter closed, and results from its recent peak last October. In Germany, bonds have in for the firsthalf of the year, the biggest open secret going fallen by about lO% since the beginning of the year. the rounds internationally is that Lyndon LaRouche's ninth Less dramatic than what has happened in the United financial and economic forecast is right on the mark. States and Britain, that lO% decline is nonetheless the LaRouche's forecast was published in EIR Vol. 21 No. steepest in Germany's post-World War II history. This is 26 (June 24, 1994): "The presently existing global financial being pointed to by bankers like Hamburg's Udo Bandow, and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. who ask, "How can it be that bonds have suffered fromtheir The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next steepest fall, and no one is saying anything? What is going autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly on?" occur during President William Clinton's firstterm in office; The world's stock markets are not doing much better. it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevita­ Tokyo, the exception, is up about 20% (still around50% of its ble, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the all-time "bubble era" high), but from there the slide begins: politically improbable decision by leading governments to United States down about 7%� Germany down 11%, France put the relevant financial and monetary organizations into and Britain down 15%, Argentina and Mexico down 15 and bankruptcy reorganization. " 19%, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand down between 25 Outside of top-level European banking and related offi­ and 30%. Turkey and Poland down 50 and 40%, respec­ cials, like Roland Leuschel of Banque Bruxelles Lambert, tively. and senior officials from S.G. Warburg, along with certain, All this would seem to betoken a collapse in pricing especially leading French newspapers, it is not being discuss­ valuations of so-called financial assets, the kind of phenome­ ed publicly. However, the patternof unfolding events corrob­ non which is most easily recognized in 1987- or 1929-style orates what LaRouche has forecast. stock market crashes. That's the kind of behavior people Since Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acted usually associate with crashes. They go on to demand, when to increase u.S. short-term interest rates on Feb. 4, there has is it going to happen? Tell us what the date will be? developed a most unusual patternon international stock and They ought to know better. That is not what is going on bond markets. The pundits talk of "corrections," and ask, around the world. It is not what LaRouche is forecasting. "When will the correction be over?" They are idiots. And it is not what the "open secret" is all about. With the exception of Japan, which is in the sights of the mega-curren­ Markets are tumbling cy speculators for a killing, everything is going down, more Internationally, bond markets have been tumbling since or less everywhere at the same time. The conventional wis­ October of last year. Most severely affected has been the dom is, with the exception of huge crashes like October 1987, market for long-term British governmentdebt , the so-called that different markets in different parts of the world behave "gilts" market. This has fallen by about 20% from its peak in in different ways, at different times. But they don't. They January. So, too, has the U.S. government's 30-year bond, are all doing the same thing at once.

4 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 • Phase II of the Bretton Woods system, the monetary ey, or money equivalents. system based on floating exchange rates, futures-related That is what is going on behind the worldwide collapse speculation tied to expected behavior of currency and interest in financial markets. It is how the qlJi!lfter ended. Sweden's rates, offshore dollars and InternationalMonetary Fund con­ largest insurance company Skandia aimounced that it would ditionalities, which was put into place between Nixon's deci­ no longer be buying Swedish government bonds, because sion to take the dollar off the gold standard back in August Sweden's debt is growing out of control, an asset not consid­ 1971, and the Rambouillet monetary conference of 1975, is ered worth anything any more. disintegrating. And, it will not be put back together again. Germany's largest banks have stopped their own account trading in derivatives while they try to work out what their 'Shortage of capital' losses have been over the last six months. That is the period The "open secret" is reflected among those who are be­ in which calculations about the direction of interest rates, ginning to talk about the specter of what they call a devel­ currency rates, and who knows what else turned out to be oping "shortage of capital." In the good old days they would wrong, and when a succession of firms, like the derivatives­ have used the term "liquidity crisis.:' The idea of a "shortage trading sports goods manufacturer Balsam, the DM 300mil­ of capital" describes a phenomeon which is quite closely lion company with DM 6 billion derivatives exposure, went related to LaRouche's argument in support of his disintegra­ belly-up. tion forecasts. In the United States, the market in CMOs, collateralized Valuations of financial assets are not determined by the mortgage obligations, was used as an interestrate hedge, and replacement costs of the physical assets which underlie the nearly $1 trillion has disappeared as interest rates have gone paper-or these days, electronic-property claims. Such up. The second quarter results will see losses turned in by valuations are based on estimated price-earnings multiples. most of the securities houses which trade such things, begin­ LaRouche cited, in his forecast, the case of New York City ning with Salomon Brothers-which is already reporting slum dwellings, fully depreciated as housing assets, i.e., $200 million down the tubes-and going through Lehman worth nothing, or less, on a replacement basis, but main­ Brothers, Kidder Peabody, and Goldman Sachs. The same taining a high nominal capitalization on the basis of a multiple shows up in the so-called "super safe" money market funds of the annual rent stream that can be extracted from the (of which it is said, they are not government-insured, but no tenants of such properties. investor has ever lost anything in almoney market fund), The landlord doesn't buy the property per se. He buys which bought the interest-only strips;ofCMOs in order "to the rental income derived from the property and pays a price enhance their yields," and lost out instead. based on the hoked-up fictitious capital value to do that. These are all another form of the derivatives that the

_ Then, reinvest the income typified by the cited rental German banks stopped trading for thtir own accounts. But, stream. Demand then a proportional increase in the income all the markets which have been collapsing around the world derived from such accumulated fictitious values. Soon, you are presently driven by derivatives, since it is speculation in have a financial bubble. Cash in, for reinvestment, the ficti­ options, futures, and futures-options which largely deter­ tious gains on the fictitious capital, and you have an out­ mines spot pricing in any of such markets. of-control bubble. Why fictitious? Because relative to the Nearly three-quartersof all derivativestraded worldwide replacement costs of the assets thus bubbled, the nominal are denominated in dollars. To flee from derivatives, as a property title form of the assets doesn't represent real wealth, kind of second-order form of fictitious asset, and into real but a claim to loot present income on behalf of historical, money, or money equivalents, is thus also, in many cases, actually fully depreciated, assets. to flee from the dollar. No wonder that central banks are The bubbled fictitious values must keep growing. But expressing such reluctance to interveneto defend the dollar. the only way the bubble can grow is as a cancer does, by They do not have the resources to do it. Currency markets consuming the healthy tissue from which it extracts its nutri­ are about $1 trillion per day, of which half are spot transac­ ents. The better the bubble grows, like the cancer, the more tions and half are futures-related; interest-rate markets (yes, surely it will collapse, because the more inevitably is it de­ you can trade interest rates) are about the same magnitude stroying that which feeds it. And, in that collapse, the lever­ again. There is no combination of central banks anywherein age by which nonexistent assets were turned into further the world which disposes of the liquidity to go up against that claims against current income, and pyramided, turns against wall of speCUlative activity. the bubble itself. Thus it may not be too long after July 9-10 meeting of the Group of Seven heads of state in Naples, Italy that a new Drive to get out of fictitious assets round of collapse begins. But don't wait for it. If it is going That's the context for the beginning discussion of "capital to happen anyway, better to assume that it has already hap­ shortages." The drive is on to get out of bubbled fictitious pened, and act accordingly to support the kind of banking financial assets and into something more real, like real mon- reorganization that LaRouche has proposed.

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 5 Venezuela's Caldera voW's: 'In my hands, the republic shall not be lost' by David Ramonet

Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera on June 27 declared a food and transportation subsidy to compensate for the drop national emergency and announced a series of extraordinary in real wages. measures, including exchange controls, price controls, and The President explained that "exchange controls allow the suspension of constitutional guarantees. In one sweeping us to think of a process of lowering interest rates and the action, taken in defense of national sovereignty, he restored possibility of eliminating the zero coupon bonds," the latter to the nation-state control over its financial system, credit a mechanism used by the Central Bank to subsidize corrupt generation, and national currency. Caldera has brought banks. Venezuela's banking system under state control in order to At the same time, Guillermo Alvarez Bajares, head of permit him to run the country's economy on behalf of its the Central Information Office, reported on the nationwide citizens, rather than a group of usurers and their foreign suspension of those constitutional guarantees which protect backers. the privacy of the home, person� freedom, freedom of move­ With these measures, Venezuela has become the only ment, economic freedom, private property, and expropria­ western nation prepared to face the imminent collapse of the tion of goods with compensation. Alvarez Bajares empha­ international financial system forecast by American econo­ sized that the suspension of guarantees was not intended to mist and statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche. Under the corrupt respond to threats of public disorder, as leftists had charged, government of the deposed and jailed former President Car­ but rather to deal efficiently with the financial crisisand those los Andres Perez, almost the entirety of the Venezuelan fi­ corrupt bankers who had unleashed it. nancial system, and with it the ability to generate credit, had, By themselves, exchange I controls won't solve Vene­ in the name of "modernization" and "globalization" of the zuela's crisis. But they will stop the bleeding of reserves economy, been handed to a group of corrupt and unscrupu­ which had been occurring as a result of agreements signed lous bankers, characterized euphemistically by their grovel­ under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ing apologists as "emerging businessmen." and other free-trade accords signedby the Perez government. On June 24, during ceremonies held to commemorate the The free-trade agreement just signed with Mexico and Co­ Battle of Carabobo in 1821, which crowned the victory of lombia suffereda still-birth . Simon Bolivar during Venezuela's Independence War, and which is also celebrated as Army Day, President Caldera Warfare against Caldera broke with traditional protocol and indicated his willingness Predictably, Venezuela's foreign creditors, as well as the to "prevent the continuation of the unhealthy and criminal U.S. State Department, are tlnraged at what Caldera has tendency to ruin our currency." He added that "the national done, fearing especially that

6 Economics EIR July 15. 1994 the suspension of constitutional guarantees. President Calde­ a trap , whose final goal is to overthrow President Rafael ra feistily responded to this by telling U. S. Ambassador Jef­ Caldera." frey Davidow, during an address to the Venezuelan-Ameri­ Both civilian and military security forces confirmed this can Chamber of Commerce, that "you should do what I did to be the case with a series of raids and arrests carriedout on if you really want to win the war on drugs." Taken aback by the evening of June 30 and the morning of July 1, against the President's remarks, Davidow then snubbed Caldera by militants of the Red Flag as well as bankers and intellectuals failing to show up for the traditional Venezuelan Indepen­ linked to the former president of the failed Banco Latino, dence Day ceremonies on July 5. Representatives of the local Gustavo G6mez L6pez-a fugitive from justice-and former banking and business associations did likewise. Defense Minister Radamas Munoz Le6n. Upon taking pow­ Prior to June 27, President Caldera had done everything er, Caldera had removed Munoz Le6n from his post. Among possible to reach a "Solidarity Pact" with the banking com­ those questioned was mafiosobanker Orlando Castro, closely munity in order to deal with the collapse of the financial linked to the Radical Cause party. On July 2, the defense system. The bankers, led by Jose Alvarez Stelling and his minister announced that his forces had successfully thwarted lieutenants Jose Bouza Izquierdo and Orlando Castro-­ the destabilization efforts . members of the corrupt banking entourage linked to Carlos Andres Perez-not only rejected the agreement, but Control of the banking system launched intense financial and political warfare against the On June 30, following a lengthy cabinet meeting, Infor­ government. mation Director Alvarez Bajares issued Public Decree 248, In the week prior to June 24, speculation against the outlining the means by which the banking system will be national currency, the bolivar, had escalated, causing it to controlled. By creating a Financial Emergency Board, which plunge to a rate of 210 to the dollar-a 100% drop from last will manage the banking system under the supervision of the January's rate . The dirty war against the governmentby these finance minister, the decree makes existing banking laws "emerging bankers" also intensified, with a rumor campaign obsolete. The board will also include the president of the that resulted in a run on the banks. Among this grouping were Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV), the banking superinten­ the owners of the nine banks which recently collapsed due to dent, the director of the federal deposit insurance agency fraudulent practices which cost the state close to $6 billion Fogade, and three other members to be named by the Presi­ and the loss of $4 billion in foreign reserves. dent. It will take on the responsibilities of the old Superior Defense Minister Gen. Rafael Montero Revette an­ Council of the Banking Superintendency and the Central nounced that he was investigating "personalities from the left Bank, effectively eliminating the law which made the BCV and the right, as well as some financiers"who could be linked an autonomous institution. to the rumor campaign. President Caldera himself later said The board will exercise total control over deposits, be­ that these rumors originated with "people who still think they yond the authority of bank directorsi such that if any bank can regain their lost power." suffers a run on its deposits, the board can authorize use of A few days prior to the announcement of the emergency another bank's deposits to cover the affectedbank 's liquidity. measures, the Radical Cause (Causa R) party, a member of It is this aspect of the reform which some critics have used Fidel Castro's narco-terrorist Silo Paulo Forum, had called to charge that Caldera has "practically" nationalized bank for a no-confidence vote against and removal of Finance deposits. But according to Gustavo Tarre Briceno, a member Minister Julio Sosa Rodriguez, Caldera's right-hand man. of the social-Christian Copei party who heads the Finance Banker Carmelo Lauria, president of the Chamber of Depu­ Commission of the lower house, with this measure "no one ties and leader of the Democratic Action (AD) party, who is should have to take his money out of the bank for fear that it very close to former President Perez, lamented that he will be intervened on." couldn't request a no-confidence vote against the President Moreover, the board will strictly,supervise the banks to himself. As a destabilizing tactic, the terrorist Red Flag ensure that they rigorously comply with all the regulations (Bandera Roja) group had called for a national "pots-and­ regarding solvency so as to protect deposits. This signifi­ pans" demonstration for June 28, but this became a dead cantly reduces the powers of the Banking Superintendency, letter after Caldera's June 27 announcement. thus correcting one of the most serious flaws of the old sys­ On June 23, the daily Diario de Caracas reported that tem, by which the fraud which brought down one-fifthof the "the Venezuelan Labor Party (PL V) called on the national system occurred. Among the board's powers is the authority Armed Forces and the citizenry in general to reject the desta­ to remove any bank director involved in illicit or fraudulent bilization operation which, in its view, is led by the Vene­ activity. Deputy Tarre Briceno reported that there will be an zuelan banking lobby on behalf of foreign financialinterests immediate effortto completely reform banking laws to make against President Rafael Caldera." The daily noted that for them coherent with the functions of the Emergency Financial the PLV (Venezuelan friends of Lyndon LaRouche), the in­ Board, after which the governmentcan restore constitutional terrogation of the financeminister in the Congress "is a ploy, guarantees.

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 7 life of the country and which we have tried by all ordinary Documentation means to deal with, and which lltas led us to a point in which we feel the unpostponable necid to take the extraordinary means which the Constitution and the laws prescribe for us .. .. Caldera announces Hence the fightagainst speclillationis in the government's exchange controls hands. We feel the deep pain of our people, and especially ofthe masses and the middle cla$ses, over this savage scarcity which has been set up and we are going to fightat the people's The following excerpts are translated fr om President Rafael side so that in some way this frightful error can be correct­ Caldera's sp eech on June 27, 1994: ed .... Moreover, at the same tinlle as the exchange controls The cabinet, after meeting this morning and this afternoon, and price controls, measures will be adopted to control the made a definitive pronouncement in favor of establishing financial institutions. We are ready to rigorously enforce exchange controls. Long and laborious discussions were held all the laws which are indispensable to make the banking on this with the directors of the Central Bank of Venezuela. institutions proceed as they ought to, so that these crises don't The Central Bank, for very respectable reasons, had been get repeated .. .. maintaining-throughout many meetings-the need to try I must say in this regard that the exchange controls open other routes, other formulas which unfortunately did not a hopeful way to be able to think about a process of lowering achieve the hoped-for results. interest rates, which have reached levels absolutely incom­ I said in my inaugural address on Feb. 2 that exchange patible with the possibilities ofithe productive sectors; at the controls would not be established, and I said it in all sincerity. same time they are going to op¢n the possibility of eliminat­ That was my aim and I maintained it down to the present day. ing the zero coupon, which is :a mechanism we have come But the truth is, that the gravity of the financial system, the out against many times, and which, beyond any doubt, in persistent wave of rumors , the speculative movements which trying to relieve the situation of the country has instead pro­ have tried to bring the bolivar to the ground, have forced us duced grave consequences ... ' . to take this measure, of which we know the inconveniences, Within a general economic'policy context, Venezuela is we know the problems and risks, but which has been inevita­ a good country for investment; every day, investors show up, ble. We cannot allow our international reserves to be dried and we are ready to offerthem all the guarantees. Some may up , we cannot allow a devaluation of our currency to continue say-because they criticize everything-that the policy we which has no justification. And when I say it has no justifica­ are adopting could somehow h�bble investment. tion, it is because Venezuela produces the currency necessary Just the opposite. InvestorS need a stable currency, in­ for its legitimate commercial interchange . vestors need the security that the country's international re­ The pressure on the exchange market is due to speculative serves not be drained; investots need a regime which they movements or to the distrust sown by a series of rumors which can trust in, and it is precisely trust that we want to give have been bewildering the Venezuelans over the decisions them, as well as to all the inhabitants of this country .... which had to be taken to intervene into eight financialinstitu­ Dear Venezuelans, dear countrymen, dear friends; we tions, in which all possible ways had been tried to save them, are going to fight together to get past the crisis. You know and at last the conclusion was reached that it was practically that this crisis was not invented by the government. If any impossible to recover them. criticism can be made of this government, it is as I said in To establish exchange controls, of course in agreement my inauguration speech: We would exhaust all the ordinary with the Venezuelan Central Bank directors, another series recourses to deal with the situaltion. We have reached a time of indispensable steps was taken. One of these was the sus­ in which we have to resort to the extraordinary recourses, pension of constitutional guarantees. We have to appeal to but those recourses are within the Constitution, within the this extreme recourse so that the government had the means, democratic institutions. To maintain such democratic institu­ the appropriate instruments to be able to achieve the objec­ tions, we must adopt measures which can be harsh, rigorous, tives which are being pursued. but which are oriented in a heal1lhy, honest, fervid way toward We take full responsibility for this measure; we will carry the good of the country, for the good of Venezuela. For it out with prudence, as we have done throughout our five the good of Venezuela I repeat my confidence, my absolute months in government, but at the same time we will enforce certainty that we will have the understanding and the backing it with all necessary energy to save the country, to get it out of the Venezuelans, who are undergoing this moment so full of this crisis in which it finds itself. A crisis which we did not of anxieties and contradictiorts, but that we are going to create , a crisis which is the product of the long phase of get over it to attain the destiny that belongs to this beloved corruption, a long phase of serious errors committed in the Venezuelan homeland.

8 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 assuming the presidency, the result

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 9 .. . . economIC VIews 0 f t h e A·ustnan monetanst F'ne d nc h von Hayek. It warned that CalderaI is turning his back on the free-market policies that have bben "so succesful elsewhere" in Ibero-America, and returning to the "interventionism and paternalism of the past," which will undermine the "confi­ dence" of foreign investors.

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The measures are "insufficientI and incoherent," and they will not generate enough "corlfidence" to stem the crisis, said Gabriel Puerta; a leader of Venezuela's Red Flag, a pro-terrorist Marxist grouping parroting the views of the Wall Street Journal and Finanaial Times. He added that the moves will generate more inflAtion. "These measures are not going anywhere," said rebel Col. Hugo Chavez, the jacobjn leader of the MBR-200, who complained that the suspension of constitutional guar­ antees was aimed against the lower classes, "who continue to be buffeted by the blows otl critical poverty."

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Caldera "deserves to be cen ured," said CarmeloLau ria, I president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of I Venezuela and leader of the AD party of impeached Presi- dent Carlos Andres Perez, whJ is now in jail on charges of corruption. Himself a banker, Lauria complained on the eve of a congressional session on June 27, where it was mooted Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera: His emergency measures to that a vote of no-confidencewohld be taken against Treasury save the nation have evoked enthusiastic supportfrom some Minister Julio Sosa Rodrigue , that it was a pity that the quarters, and expressions of outrage fr om the international Constitution didn't allow for a similar vote to be taken bankers. I against the President. In the end, Congress did not take the no-confidencevote against Sost who was accused by Lauria zuela to recover the stability, development, and economic of not knowing what he was talking about and who reminded bonanza" that it has traditionally had. him of Carlos Andres Perez's f6rmer minister Miguel Rodri- I guez, only "fatter, balder, and older." . . . and the nays * * * "He really doesn't have a well-defined economic plan," 1 moaned a spokesman for Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan "Private property must be respected," said Venezuela's Bank, who described Caldera's measures as "improvised." bankers in a communique m de public on July 2 by the The spokesman was quoted in a generally unfavorable article National Banking Council and the Venezuelan Banking As­ in the June 29 issue of London's Financial Times, which sociation. The bankers, whose looting of billions of dollars complained that the emergency measures were the "strongest in supports from the public tro gh precipitated the emergen­ set of interventionist policies in Venezuela since the late cy measures, expressed their consternation in the face of 1980s," when then now-jailed former President Carlos An­ the threat of statization contained'( in the decree that suspends dres Perez imposed the International Monetary Fund's free­ the constitutional guarantees w'th the purpose, among other market reforms. restrictions, of denying and cutting of the right to property The June 29 Wall Street Journal also expressed dismay consecrated in the National IConstitution." The bankers at Caldera's measures, complaining that they were not "the threatened that "without private property, there will be no more profound structural changes that the country really confidence nor privatizations, no exchange stability, nor needs." Instead, said the Journal, Venezuela needs higher monetary equilibrium. A perseeuted private sector can never gasoline prices, a quick sell-off of all state companies, and be capable of generating the pecessary wealth to pay the across-the-board government spending cuts. taxes needed by the National Treasury." A similar statement This view was echoed by the editorials of Venezuela's demanding that the governmentre spect private property was Diario de Caracas, which subscribes to the ultra-liberal issued by the business associahon, Fedecamaras.

10 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 Bridge project triggers governmentcris is in Sweden by Tore Fredin

One week before the European Union summit meeting in can ratify the accord, referendums are going to be held in Corfu , Greece on June 23-25, Swedish Prime Minister Carl Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Austria has already held a Bildt attempted to break a two-and-a-half-year political log­ referendum, with a majority voting to join the EU. jam and gave the go-ahead for construction of a bridge to The Sweden-Denmark bridge i� one of the 11 European Denmark that would make Sweden part of Europe for the infrastructure projects included in the compromise program first time. Opponents of the project reacted with fury: Envi­ reached at Corfu. The bridge will be � boon to both countries, ronmental Minister Olof Johansson, the chairman ofthe Cen­ and to Europe as a whole. The plan specifiesthe construction ter Party, resigned, destabilizing the four-party ruling coali­ of one long (7.4 kilometer) bridge, plus several shorterbrid­ tion and leaving the country with a caretaker government ges connecting various small islands, a total of 4.2 krn in until the national elections on Sept. 18. The financial commu­ length. In addition, a tunnel of 3.7 km must be built. The nity proclaimed its lack of confidence in the government, and estimated cost is $1.9 billion. refused to buy government bonds. The idea of building a bridge between the southern Swed­ Reactions from 'the market' ish region of Skane and the Danish island of Sjrelland, on The fact that Sweden now has a lame duck government which Copenhagen is located, goes back 100 years. (See has already had an effect on the ca�strophic state of public "Denmark Is Bridging the Baltic," EIR , April 12, 1991.) finances, with state budget deficit financing running at 14% The plan to build the bridge was adopted by the last Social of the Gross National Product (see eIR , May 6, 1994). Now, Democratic government,together with the conservative gov­ things are even worse than they were last spring. The same ernment of Poul Schluter in Denmark, three years ago. But week that the governmentcrisis became public, the Swedish then the non-socialist parties won the Swedish elections in state found itself able to sell only 70% of the bonds it put on the fall of 1991, and the Center Party, as one of its conditions the market. for taking part in a coalition government, demanded that all Keep in mind that 40% of the Swedish state debt (now sorts of environmental aspects of the project be examined by amounting to over $200 billion, or, 80% of Gross National the Court for Water Conservation. Product) is in the hands of short-term investors, which ex­ That charade went on for over two and a half years. It plains why Sweden now has 3-5% higher interest rates on went so far that the present Danish government, led by Social state bonds than in Germany, while �e inflationrates are the Democratic Prime Minister Paul Nyrup Rasmussen, was just same for the Swedish and Germaneoonomie s. The difference about ready to declare war on the Swedes. Denmark made in interest rates was 1.5% in February, when the U. S. Federal sure that the bridge would be named as one of the important Reserve began to raise its interest rates. European infrastucture projects at the European Union's Cor­ But the real shock came one week later. On July 1, the fu summit. Prime Minister Bildt, a Conservative, finally put head of Skandia, the biggest insuran�e company in Scandina­ his foot down and agreed to the project, in order to please his via, BjornWolrath , declaredthat S�andia had sold out all its European pals, like Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl. holdings in state bonds because it bad no confidence in the Sweden, which is not a member of the European Union, political establishment in general and the present government was taking part in the EU meeting together with three other in particular. Wolrath's proposed SIOlution was more of the countries that have applied for membership: Norway, Fin­ old medicine, that is, more vicious austerity; this time, he land, and Austria. At Corfu , these four governments signed was backed up by the Social Demoqratic opposition. the final document applying for membership at the govern­ All this drove interest rates evep higher. On July 4, the ment level. The last step in the process to be accepted as full state finally managed to sell all its �nds, but at an interest members of the EU is that the accord has to be ratified by rate 1.5% above the level previously offered. Clearly this is each country's parliament in the fall. Before the parliaments only a temporary solution, because it means an increase of

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 11 over 10% in the state debt, which is already more than 100 billion Swedish crowns per year. Almost 25% of the state Currency budget is spent on paying interest on old debts . Rates The solution for the political establishment is to get the media to drum up an ideological barrage whose message is The dollar in deutschemarks that the ordinary Swede has to became "debt-conscious"­ New York late afternoon ftxIng skuldmedveten in Swedish, which also means to be conscious of one's gUilt. To muster popular support for this "debt­ 1.80 I I conscious austerity policy," the Swedish counterpart of Tex­ 1.70 as populist Ross Perot, Ian Wachtmeister, is mobilizing to form a new movement with the explicit aim of solving the .... "'"" 1.60 � crisis in public finance. Wachtmeister and his collaborators are taking out big ads in the papers, selling fake "state bonds" 1.SO for 100 Swedish crowns each, to raise funds for his opera­ tions, as well as to get the point across in a populistic way. 1.40 : Slt8 5I2S 618 6115 6122 6f1!J 7/6 Is an explosion coming? The dollar in yen The fact that Skandia's Wolrath is declaring "no confi­ New York late afternoon ftxIng dence" in the state indicates that heavy infighting is going on among the Swedish elite, under strong internationalpres­ : nn sure. International investors know that Sweden financially is a banana monarchy, with a budget deficitrunning out of 120 control, a crumbling real economy, and a paralyzed gov­ I ernment. 110 , This makes the Swedish economy one of the possible triggers for an international financial blowout. Remember ·1l1li that 1) the Swedish economy was one of the first to undergo lin a deep banking and financial crisis, in which the banking Slt8 5I2S 6115 7/6 sector was barely saved by the state bailing it out; 2) Swedish corporations are deeply into speculation in financial deriva­ The British pound in dollars New York late afternoon fixing tives; and 3) Sweden now has an interest level above 10%, I with virtually no inflation; that kills any idea of industrial investment. These factors, along with the paralysis of gov­ 1.80 ernment, point to the possibility of a run on the Swedish 1.70 currency. It will be a race against time to see whether the Bildt 1.60 government will be able to keep the lid on up until election -- day. Right now , Bildt and his coalition partners are playing 1.SO the same trick as the Kohl governmentin Germany: If nothing else works, keep up the "virtual reality" propaganda about an 1.40

economic upswing and financial stability until the election. Slt8 5I2S 618 I 6115 7/6 Meanwhile, the coalition government politically is up lbe dollar in Swiss frants against the wall. The Social Democratic opposition is getting New York late afternoon fbIng over 50% in the opinion polls, talking about the need for a

"strong government." That means a strong-man solution, but 1.60 no one would ever dare to say that in public. The strategy of the Social Democrats is to pursue a policy which will attract 1.SO the Liberal Party and the Center Party, and thereby split the coalition government. A new Social Democratic-led coali­ 1.40 ---. tion government,with more than 60% of the votes behind it, � ... could emerge out of the coming election. Sweden would then 1.30 get its "strong" solution, with a Mussolini-style austerity , 1.20 policy-that is, if the caretaker government is able to keep Slt8 5I2S 6115 7/6 the lid on until Sept. 18.

12 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 Russian, British pseudo-scientists regurgitate malthusian numerology by Mark Burdman

In 18th-century Venice, ex-monk Giammaria Ortes, from Radiotechnical Institute. whom Britain's Parson Thomas Malthus later plagiarized his Fedotov began: "What is the state of the biosphere, hu­ arguments for why population had to be drastically limited, manity's cradle and habitat? Is humanity immortal, or is an performed a series of arithmetic calculations, and concluded eternal night closing in on itT' Early on, Fedotov criticized that the earth could sustain no more than 3 billion people. environmentalists for not paying enough attention to "bio­ Despite, or more likely because of the fact that Ortes was a spheric stability and the limit of the biosphere's potentiali­ notorious incompetent, a group of pseudo-scientists today is ties." Meanwhile, "capitalist private enterprise ...is de­ disinterring his corpse, and insisting that the planet, indeed, stroying the biosphere. ... The Earth's quantitative can sustain no more than 3 billion persons, and perhaps as low potentialities have already been exhausted, and humanity is as 1 billion. Ortes, of course, had the excuse that population, heading for catastrophe. Nevertheless, researchignores the then, was much lower, so his calculations were futuristic. But pre-catastrophic character of the present period, therebylead­ his disciples today are advocating genocidal depopulation on ing people astray. a level far worse than the combined depradations of Hitler, "The biosphere as a living self-regulating system has lost Stalin, and Mao Zedong. stability under: the impact of man's economic activities, and Ortes's disciples are stepping forward to make their case is undergoing intensive destruction," he continued. "The sta­ in the runup up to the Sept. 5-13 U . N . -sponsored Internation­ bility threshold of its continental parthas been exceeded five al Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. to seven times over. . . . The Earth's capacity to bear the Among other criminal insanities, they are openly debating burden put on it by man's activities has a quantitative limit whether the American population should be reduced to be­ comparable to that of the load which an airliner can carry or tween 40 and 150 million over the coming decades. It would an apple-tree support. Farfrom eve body is psychologically be an illusion for northern populations to believe that only aware of the fa ct that there is a limit"' to anthropogenic activi­ the developing sector nonwhite groups are being singled out ties and that this burden can be computed." for slaughter by the Cairo population crowd. According to Fedotov, "To estimate the limit of the Earth's potentialities, such as that oflpopulation growth, sci­ 'Humanity has gone beyond the limit' ence offers two models, which may tentatively be called a Early this year, as the Cairo preparations begin to go into resource model and a biospheric one." The former is the full gear, the 2-3 billion "optimal world population" figure latest Meadows/Randers study commissioned by the Club of was being promoted by U.S. "population bomb" lunatic Paul Rome, which, claimed Fedotov, is lIIawed because it allows Ehrlich of Stanford University; Cornell University agricul­ for too many people, i.e., a limit of some 8 billion. The tural economist David Pimentel, in a speech at the annual "biosphere model" is based on "the theory of stability meeting of the American Association for the Advancement evolved by Russian physicist Victor Gorshkov." Based on of Science; and by Russian Secretary for the Ecology, Viktor Gorshkov's studies on "the stabilityi threshold or ecological Danilov-Danilyan, on March 17 for the Moscow release of a limit" of human activity, it can be slJbstantiated that "only 1 book written under his guidance, Ecology Between Past and to 3 billions" can be sustained. Fedotov says Gorshkov's Future: The World and Russia. model is preferable, since it is "based on the propertiesof the These views are being endorsed by Arkady Fedotov, a living system." He added: "The very determination of the Russian scientist writing in the Russian Foreign Ministry's admissible size of the world population is an outstanding InternationalAff airs, and by the very well-connected British scientific achievement of the last quarter of the outgoing ecologist Norman Myers. In the July 1994 issue of Interna­ century.. ... tional Affairs, Fedotov claimed to be presenting "scientific" "The biosphere lost stability early in this century. To proof that the earth can only sustain between 1-3 billion restore its stability, it is indispensable not only to restrict the people. Fedotov, a physicist, with 44 years of experience, world population but to give the surviving virgin natural heads a section at the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow entities of the Earth the status of a sanctuary. The biosphere

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 13 cannot be stabilized by merely rationalizing economic activi­ ogy, cabbalism, and Mother Earth-Gaia worship. It repre­ ties through, say, resource-saving technologies or wasteless sents a slap in the face to that rigorous and positive tradition cycles. Humanity has gone beyond the limit of the Earth's in Russian science represented 'by Mendeleyev, Vernadsky, potentialities. The world system has entered a period ofglob­ and many others. al crisis. This fundamental definition of the present period It is frightening that such lunatic drivel would be pub­ should underlie strategic programs for the development of all lished in the magazine that is officially sponsored by the nations" (all emphasis is original). Russian Foreign Ministry. On its editorialboard are Foreign Russia must take the lead in bringing humanity to "sus­ Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as well as U.N. Undersecretary tainable development," he asserted, propounding such con­ General Vladimir Petrovsky, scientists Roald Sagdeev and cepts as "anthropogenic load" and "bioconsumption," to Yevgeni Velikhov, and others of the "condominium" ilk. A show which countries are supposedly most destructive of the deputy editor, Mikhail Kaloshin, wrote a stridently malthu­ biosphere. The worst two are Japan and Germany; but Rus­ sian piece for the magazine in 1990, likening man to a "virus" sia, because it is so vast, is among the least destructive. From and endorsing radical policies pf "global ecology" (see EIR this, he concluded that Japan should pay $100 billion and Feature, June 24, 1990). lntemational Affairs, by the way, Germany $57 billion into a "Global Ecological Fund," a kind is now published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by East View of biospheric-damage compensation tax. Publications. "Russia," he went on, "may be more prepared than any other major country to fit into the model of a sustainable 'Thinking the unthinkable' world system ....We have a larger ecological reserve than From the British side, the rallying cry to genocide is other major countries. . . . In this pre-catastrophic period, it coming from Dr. NormanMyeJjs , currentlyat Green College, could not only devote a model for its own optimum develop­ Oxford, where he works under Sir Crispin Tickell, former ment but work out a concept of harmonizing interaction be­ British ambassador to the United States. Tickell has likened tween the biosphere and humanity and offer it to the world the growth of human beings to the growth of vermin (see community. " EIR , April 29, 1994). Myers i� a chief adviser to the British Not one contention of Fedotov is backed up by the slight­ government for the Cairo conference, and also advises the est shred of proof. Rather, his article is a mixture of numerol- White House, State Departrne'lt, and Pentagon in theUnited

Asked if he knew anything furtherabout Philip's state.; Philip : 'Keep darkies ment that he would like to b¢ reincarnated as a deadly from havin babies' virus, he laughed. "I never healfdthat one, but it certainly g doesn't surprise me!" This individual represents a growing number of mal­ A British insider who has discussed "population issues" thusians and ecologists who are nervous that too openly intimately with Prince Philip for many years showed his advocating genocide will cjluse a backlash against irritation at the prince's openly racist views on population Cairo '94. He said he was opposed to the approach of control. This individual, usually quite deferential about Paul Ehrlich and Dr. Norman Myers, who insist that the the Royal Consort, told a journalist:"Population is a major "carrying capacity" of the planet is around 2-3 billion, as issue, but it involves many parameters. It involves a high­ well as to those "conservationists" who are "waiting for er rate of literacy for women, and some security for the the next virus to kill people" as Gaia's solution to the lives of children. You just can't approach it the way that population problem." he does. Prince Philip frankly believes that if we would Similarly, he warned the , malthusian lobby against stop all the 'darkies' from having babies, we would be "making a caricature" of the Vatican's opposition to popu­ better off; that's what he really thinks. His views are very lation control. Instead, they should try to orchestrate a naive and primitive. Do you know, he recently told a dialogue around a misrepresentation of the church's view. conference at St. George's House, Windsor Castle, that "There is merit in the Vatican� s idea that the issue is not women should be sterilized afterhaving a third child? He controlling life but improving the quality of life. The was then reminded that he was the fifth child of his mother, problem is the either/or view: 1Ihat either we control popu­ and that he and the Queen have had fo ur children. But lation or we value life." If a useful dialogue with the what can you expect? He represents a very strong feeling Vatican could occur at Cairo, he stressed, the September in the North, that the white middle- and upper-class can 1994 population conference eould "serve a useful pur­ have children, but not the people in the South." pose. "-Mark Burdman

14 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 States. In a recent interview with an Italian journalist, Myers asserted that he agreed with Pimentel and Ehrlich on the "carryingcapacity" of the earth. In an article entitled "The Big Squeeze" published in the November-December 1993 issue of Earthwatch, Myers France signs pn to mused about the possibilities of drastically reducing the American population. Myers cited the works of CornellUni­ Cairo genocide versity's Pimentel, that "each American consumes 47 times ' by Frederique Vereycken more environmentally based goods and services than does a Chinese ....The average American family comprises two children, but when we factor in how many natural resources France has announced its plans to take part in the United these children consume and compare the American lifestyle Nations International Conference on Population and Devel­ with the global average , then the average American family, opment in September in Cairo, and released its officialposi­ in 'real world' terms, contains something like thirty to forty tion in a document that fullyendorses the malthusian premis­ children." es of the conference's organizers. Prepared by the National Myers went on: "Like all other developed countries, how­ Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the document ever, the United States does not have even the basic makings was edited by the ministries of cooperation, social affairs, of a population policy. Though it often criticizes developing foreign affairs , and education. Titled "France's Contribution countries that fail to implement their population policies with to the International Conference on Population and Develop­ sufficient vigor, the United States shows no signs of asking ment (1994)," it has been sent to the U.N. Population Fund itself what its carrying capacity might be. Lindsey Grant, a (UNFPA) to be integrated into the conclusions of the Cairo noted populationexpert, estimates that in order to sustainably conference. support the economy at today' s levels, without depleting natu­ "The neo-malthusian idea of a negative effect of demo­ ral resources, the U.S. population should number between graphic growth on economic development is still a reality," 125 and 150 million, or about the size it was in the 1940s. A the report proclaims. "It continues to provide the principal leading ecologist, Robert Constanza, puts the figure at 85- justificationsfor policies that regulate births, even if it is not 170 million, depending on per-capita consumption. Pimentel the only one." calculates 40- 100million for a self-sustaining society with The report asserts that, in the past, when there was a a quality environment. The Ehrlichs (of 'Population Bomb' sustained rate of growth and international finance, major notoriety) estimate around 75 million, about the size of 1900." rates of sustained growth were "abs�rbed" (p. 3). In today's Myers insisted that "the United States would have to "economic conjuncture," however,: this "absorption" is no clamp down completely on immigration-a tough measure longer possible, hence the necessity to decrease the rate of for a nation that owes its existence to immigrants." He demographic growth. The very termibetrays the malthusians' asserted that, "to get down to 150 million would need no disdain for mankind: Human beings are presented as funda­ more than a century-long birth rate of 1.5 children per wom­ mentally passive, tolerable burdens only during a period of an (down from today's 2.0), a rate that has already been major financial flows; the hypothesis that there is a connec­ adopted by Germany, Italy, Austria, Greece, Spain, Portu­ tion between population and a sustailned rate of growth is not gal, and Japan. A solid start could be achieved by eliminating even considered. teenage pregnancies . . . that costs the United States $25 The INED's recommendations 'specify: "France elabo­ billion a year on support services." rates its demographic and cooperation policy in this domain, Myers continued: "Who knows? Americans might soon in conformity with the recommendations adopted by the find they're turning a profound problem into a glorious op­ U . N. in its global plan of action on opulation at the Bucha­ portunity. The firststep would involve the most adventurous, rest Conference in 1974, followed byP that in Mexico in 1984, the most creative and the most incisive environmental mea­ and in the Agenda 21 ofthe Rio Conference in 1992" (p. 22). sures that humans have ever taken. Let us get on with The report emphasizes France's agll!ement with malthusian thinking the unthinkable, rather than letting forces of envi­ policies for the Third World: "The lIInderstanding of the ne­ ronmental circumstances do our thinking for us." cessity for France to take a clear policyposition on the popu­ Myers is such a savage, that he wouldn't even spare his lation of the Third World was highlighted at the Mexico own fellow Britons. An accompanying box, with the title conference in 1984" (p. 22). "Brave New Worlds," lists the various options worked out France's response to the U.N. conferences was to create by "population theorist" David Richardson for reducing Brit­ the French Center for Population and Development in 1988 ain's current population of 57 billion, to anywhere from 50 and to increase its hitherto timid financial support for the million to a level of 7 million, depending on what environ­ UNFPA. And, since 1987, the mi�ster of cooperation has mental "benefits" would accrue from such reduction! intervened into the domain of birth control by providing fi-

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 15 nancial support to several African institutions and interna­ 'demographic pressures' demandselaboration of a coordinat­ tional non-governmentalorganizations that work along these ed strategy among the countries of the North, South, and lines. East Europe. The aggravation of demographic and economic disparities between Europe and Africa and within Europe Subtle, but no less deadly cannot, in the end, be without consequences for the stability In the section on "France's Contribution," there are no and security of the prosperous nations of the North." wild declarations such as those from some Anglo-Saxons on In conclusion, the reportcalls for "regulation ofmigrato­ the necessity for a "new demographic world order." With the ry flows" that takes into account the "economic constraints" French, everything is subtle, nuance, and malthusianism is of receiving countries (p. 26). Tbe image put forwardis that encased in declarations of good intentions on "the emancipa­ of an aging, prosperous Northconfro nting an impoverished, tion of women" and the "free choice of couples" (p. 15). threatening South that is growing numerically and threatens Insisting on the complexity of the problem, the editors of to invade the North. In an interview with the May 16 issue of the report announce the deployment of anthropologists and Le Quotidien de Paris, Simone Veil, who will chair the sociologists to Africa to adapt the "informative message" French delegation at Cairo, explains this geopoliticalconcep­ about family planning to the cultural realities of the different tion: "In the current state of our demography, and if things African tribes. Recent developments in France's Africa poli­ continue, we Europeans risk being less numerous and there­ cy---devaluation of the CFA franc against the French franc, fore less influentialcompared to peoples of other continents, support for International Monetary Fund policies, etc .-un­ who, themselves, have not stoppedgrow ing. Traditionally, cover the monstrous hypocrisy behind such professions on we know, France has taken recourse to immigration to com­ the liberty and dignity of the human person. What is actually pensate for its low birth rate , but we are learning the limits motivating French leaders to accent their demographic policy of this policy." with respect to the Third World shows up as a leitmotif France, if it is going to be true to the positive traditions throughout the report: immigration. of its history, should take the lead in the resistance to the For example on page 7, INED writes: "The migratory Cairo conference and erect the bases of a new international phenomenon leaves the impression of having been sup­ financial system that can provide work and food for the bil­ pressed rather than overcome; but the expected increase of lions now and in the future .

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16 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 Interview: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

We need peace in thewor ld, not population control

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is an internationally known Is­ nonviolence, both as a policy and in practice, is far more lamic scholar and president of The Islamic Center in New powerful than violence. What Palestinians failed to achieve Delhi. He is also editor of the monthly magazine AI-Risala, by violence was achieved in South Africa by nonviolence. and author of a number of books. The Maulana was inter­ As regards India's role in this case, I have no great hopes viewed in New Delhi by Susan Maitra. of its intervention, for although India is a great country with an intelligentsia which is in favor of maintaining peace not EIR: With many others around the world EIR welcomed only in Palestine, but on a global level, its political leadership and strongly supports the peace agreement negotiated be­ is not competent to perform this task. tween the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation India is a great country, but fOF want of a competent Organization (PLO) late last year. It is EIR 's view that the leadership, it has played no important role in the past, nor economic development protocols of the agreement must be perhaps will it be able to do so in the future. However, if my set into motion at the earliest to cement the accord, and ensure appraisal is proved wrong, I shall be the happiest of men, as real peace. I hold the establishment of peace to be the most important For this and other reasons, we believe that India could task facing us today. play a very important role in helping implement the peace I agree, on the other hand, that India can make a substan­ plan . India is a longtime defender of the PLO, but has cordial tial contribution to the development plans of West Asia. relations with all other parties in the region as well, and India Thanks to the promotion of technical education, a class of has the engineering expertise and experience to contribute professionally well-qualifiedtec hnologists has come into ex­ usefully to getting the development plans going. istence in the country, along with a strong business class What is your thinking on this? How do you view the which has been on the rise for the last hundred years. This is Middle East peace process at this point? Do you think India an ongoing process, which has been given a great boost by could play a role? the present liberalization policy of the governmentof India, Khan: The peace agreement arrived at between Israel and and as a result of which we may rightly feel optimistic about the PLO in 1993 was, as I see it, less than ideal, yet I wel­ India's future role at home and abroad. With this professional comed it, because, to my way of thinking, life boils down to elite to draw upon, India is certainly in a position to contribute a willingness to accept less than the ideal. This is to adopt to the developmental works of this region. the possible as compared to the impossible. When the choice lies between the possible and the impossible, wisdom lies in opting for the former, as the latter is unattainable. Non­ EIR: In September, the United Nations is holding the Inter­ acceptance at that stage would have left the Palestinians with national Conference on Population and Development in no gain whatsoever and no stepping-stone to a better future. Cairo , Egypt. At a preparatory meeting recently in New As such, the best formula of realistic politics is to concede York. Prof. Amartya Sen, the Indian economist now teaching that politics is the art of the possible. at Harvard University, said that two approaches to the popu­ An important lesson should be learnt from the partial lation issue-the apocalyptic malth9sian approach and the nature of the PLO's success. The freedom movement in Pal­ developmental approach-were heading for a clash in Cairo. estine was launched after the Second World War, at which The malthusian lobby says rapid population growth is the time another freedom movement was launched in South Afri­ cause of poverty and underdevelopment, and is pushing hard ca. Today, the latter movement has succeeded to the extent for a strict population reduction po.icy to be enforced by that a black leader has become the President of the country , the United Nations. DevelopmentaliJts, like Professor Sen, whereas in Palestine, Palestinian leaders are still very far argue that the malthusian scare about population growth is i from their original goal. This historic experience proves that uncalled for, since food production h s kept up with popula-

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 17 tion growth in both China and South Asia, the two major population control lobby? population areas of the world. Professor Sen also argues that Khan: The Muslim community is not at present engaged in the idea that something drastic must be done about the world any planned activity. Just as it is the Islamic viewpoint that population is "tremendously dangerous" because it diverts men should live on Earth in uch a way that they benefit attention from long-term solutions through social and eco­ others, at least do not create problems for others, it is also nomic planning and education. held that no artificial checks should be applied to nature. The government of India has been silent on the issue Nature's processes should continue unhindered, and it should in recent years and an aggressive non-governmental (NGO) be our principal aim to see, net that they are checked, but population control lobby is active in the country. In your that they are rendered more frh itful. Our efforts should be view, does the government of India need to take a more channeled not into population jcontrol but into establishing decisive stance against the "apocalyptic malthusian" ap­ peace in the world, and into pra�tical matters such as ensuring proach? that there is no disruption in the distribution of foodstuffs, As a large developing nation, India will have a significant etc . voice at the Cairo meeting. What do you think India's posi­ tion should be at the Cairo conference? Khan: On the question of population control, I fully agree EIR: Do you think this is an issue on which a "grand alli­ with the developmentaIists, whose theories have been borne ance" of leaders representing the major religions could be out by the events of modem history. Since the publication in formed? What would be necessary to form such an alliance? 1789 of the mal thus ian theory that the increase in population Khan: A grand alliance of religious leaders would undoubt­ would always outstrip the food supply, resulting inevitably edly be a very positive step in the right direction. This would in poverty, the population of the world-there being little certainly help to give a constructive orientation to the prevail­ to check its growth-has increased tenfold. According to ing situation. Making efforts to bring about such an alliance Malthus, most of the people living in the world today should would be a social service of the prst order. In this, the Vatican already have starved to death. As I have pointed out in my and Al-Azhar should jointly take the initiative. [Al-Azhar is book God Arises, no such thing has happened. The reason a very prominent Islamic university in Cairo and one of the for Malthus's faulty prognosis was that, although he had oldest learning institutions of the Islamic faith-ed.] correctly gauged the increase in population, he failed to ar­ rive at a correct estimate of the world's potential to grow foodstuff. His error resulted from his being acquainted only with traditional agriculture. He had no knowledge of modem, scientificmetho ds. This shortcoming on his part rendered his entire calculation inaccurate. In this instance, I fu lly agree with Professor Amartya Sen. This is the scientificviewpoint and all the facts corrobo­ 'news' rate this theory. In the Indian context, to attach importance to population Exclusive pews re r:ts and interviews control is to tum a non-issue into an issue. There is one real Audio statements b ly ndoJl LaRouche · issue in India and that is education. I am of the firm view that �, < in the present situation, education must take a position of IJpdates Oil: • The lU!aI Eqooomy preeminence, for it is the lack of it which is the root cause of • Science an Tech nology , • rhe Fight f r Constitutional Law the majority of our problems. e The Right . Life As Mrs. Indira Gandhi once said, "Development is the e Foocf �rid griculture best contraceptive." And education is fundamental to all de­ • The Arts velopment. This is the stand which India should take at the .Th� Liyir:'lg istory of the American Cairo conference. Re pYblic e Essential R ports from around the Globe EIR: The Vatican has already spoken out strongly about the $500 for 50 Issues An hour-long audio cassett sent by first-class mail "lack of ethics" in the preparatory document for the confer­ ' eii ch week. Includes cove r I er with contents. '. ence, and will take an active role in the proceedings in Cairo. 0/ � 4 ", '* �ake checks payable to: It is well known that Islam, like Christianity, Judaism, Hin­ duism, and Buddhism, does not consider human beings to be �IR News Servi� P.O. Box 17390( Wa shingto • D.C. 20041-0390 "problems" on this Earth . What is the Islamic Ummah doing Phone2 (703) 771'.. 9451 Fax: (703) 77 1 -9492 . to counter the campaign of the malthusian NGOs and U.N.

18 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 the Taiwanese may have one by the tum of the century. The one question mark in Asia" according to Kienle, is the People's Republic of China. In vi¢wofChina's hugepopu­ lation, he said, even the smallest incneases in individual ener­ gy consumption already imply such giant increases of power Asia is going ahead supply, that power development is required at a scale not even envisioned by most in Europe and G�rmany. How the P .R.C. will solve that problem, is not known yet, but it cannot be . with nuclear power solved without nuclear technology, at is certain. Kienle said that the Asians are training� a significant num­ by Rainer Apel ber of nuclear engineers and researchers, while in Germany, only the University of Aachen still dares to train such special­ The Asians are totally unimpressed by ecologism, and will ists. Under the impact of anti-nuclear sentiments, other uni­ go ahead with nuclear power development, Friedrich Kienle versities no longer offer such training. In fact, by the begin­ of the Association of German Power Engineering Industry ning of the next century, Germany will not even have the (VDEW) said during a seminar on nuclear technology at the required number of nuclear experts to close down nuclear Loccum Evangelical Academy held on June 25-26. He added power plants in an orderly and safe way. that Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are fully committed to almost doubling their nuclear power base by the year 2010, 'Save the ecology: Go nuclear!' and that they are pushing for fast breeder technology (Japan, One result of the Asian drive to modernize its energy especially) and the high-temperature reactor (HTR)-tech­ sources may well be to step up i�s construction of high­ nologies that are banned in the West. temperature reactors, reportedProf. Kurt Kugeler of the Ger­ "The Asians are laughing about us, especially us Ger­ man nuclear research center at Jiiliah, who spoke about op­ mans, because of our problems, telling us to leave them alone tions for leaving behind"dirty" energy sources like coal, oil, and not tell them what to do. They don't take us seriously and gas. any more. And indeed, we cannot even tell them much any Kugeler claimed that thermonuclear fusion (as opposed more, because we are losing the technological edge in some to the current fission process) is still 50 years away in terms of the most advanced fields of the technology. . . . In Tai­ of feasibility, and pointed to two options in the fission field wan, they're already trying to develop their own HTR tech­ for "clean" energy sources. One of these is the vastly modern­ nology. If things don't change here, we will have to knock at ized, automatically cooled EuropeaG Project Reactor (EPR) , Asia's doors to ask them for assistance in our nuclear prob­ a light water-based reactor type already developed by Sie­ lems, because we will not have enough engineers to manage mens and Framatome (a joint Franoo-German project). The our own nuclear power stations early next century. " other is the German HTR, of which Siemens is developing Many of Asia's industrial nations have programs for pow­ the smaller "module" type of 100-200 megawatts that can be er development which envision almost doubling of nuclear built in the immediate neighborhood of population centers in power supplies: Japan will have 72 reactors by the year 2010, densely populated parts of the world. as compared to the 47 it has now, and many of the new ones The HTR is the best of the available options, Kugeler will be fast breeder reactors of the Monju type that began said, because it meets most of the safety and non-pollution operating in April of this year. Taiwan will have ten reactors standards that are requested of modem reactors; and there's instead of the six it has now; South Korea will have 18-20 still a lot of potential for improvement of the HTR. , reactors . Like most advocates of nuclear energy in Germany, how­ ever, who are still in the trenches aft�r 20 years of unsuccess­ Will Europe be left behind? fully battling the Greens, Kugeler �ndicated that he is still Should the West stick to its current policy of no new nucle­ trying to maneuver within the conceptual framework created ar construction, which policy has even been joined by the by radical environmentalism. He said that a third option French (who have no new plant on their agenda for years to would be solar cell technologies, which should be massively come), the center of nuclear power development, develop­ funded, so that a viable production cttpacitycould be built up ment of new technologies and of know-how in this fieldwill be in Germany. Already with current standards, he claimed, this Asia's industrial nations. By the early part of the next century , technology is attractive even for northern industrial regions western nations will have to come to Asia to buy the techno­ with relatively restricted sunshine intensity like Germany. logies they need, in the same way that Asians had to knock Kugeler called for a national consensus based on reason, at westerndoors in the 1950s and 196Os, Kienle warned. Ger­ "a triad of safety: nuclear fission, thermonuclear fusion, and many still has a worldwide technological edge with its HTR, solar cell technologies as the core of non-fossil energies that but the Asians are working on their own models already, and will be used in the future."

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 19 On March 30, 1994, the member countriesof the Organi­ zation for Economic Cooperation and Development sitting on the ADB's board met separately in London, and agreed upon a common strategy to tighten the financial noose around Money mandarinsla y the ADB's neck. They decided to freeze. the replenishment of the African Development F,nd-a concessionary loan affiliate of the bank-until the draconian austerity plan, siege to Mrica's bank which was intended to cripplethe bank, was implemented. by Lawrence Eyong-Echaw David Knox's "audit report," which made the austerity measures a mandatory condition for the disbursement of fur­ ther funds, said, "The bank is more and more tom between FonnerW orId Bank Vice President David Knox has success­ the conflicting stands and objectives of its shareholders. Its fully browbeaten the board of governors ofthe African De­ inability to realize quality projectlS, presenting durable advan­ velopment Bank (ADB) into accepting a 32-point economic tages for the continent, has been compromised." The report austerity plan that will close down nine of the bank's regional went on to say that "the quality Ilnd profitability of the proj­ officesand will cripple the pan-African financial institution's ects financed, is more and more doubtful, particularly be­ operations. cause there is little project evaluation, which could enable Knox secured this tour de fo rce at the 30th anniversary the bank to ameliorate its project judgment from past experi­ Board of Governors meeting in Nairobi on May 11-13. The ences. " agents of Wall Street and London money mandarins had been secretly expressing alann at the expanding success of the Black sheep ADB, which had been running credit policies in support of Babucar N'diaye, the Senegal-born general manager of national institutions, irrigation, and agriculture, hydroelec­ the bank, had already switched loyalties long before. Taking tric dams, industry, and transport facilities in Africafor the orders from western money mandarins, the AfricanBoard of past 30 years. Over the years , the ADB has been helping to Governorshas become a mere spectator of the unholy trinity fonn sub-regional development banks, finance institutions, of N'diaye, the agents of Wall Street, and the IMF. In order and pan-African organizations such as the Sierra Leone De­ to secure his perpetual reelection as head of the bank, N' diaye velopment Bank (SLDB), Banque Centrafricaine d'Investis­ has made respect for IMF conditionalities mandatory for all sement (BCI), the Development Bank of Zambia (ZDB), loan-seeking countries. He has �dopted an autocratic style of the African Project Development Facility (APDF), and real management, making nepotistiC recruitments and appoint­ estate financing institutions such as Shelter Afrique. ments, which have created an atmosphere of conflictwithin At the bank's creation in 1964 , African states were anx­ the bank. His wife, Marlyatou N'diaye, and her cousin, ious to preserve its African character, by insisting that two­ Ibrahimal Mami Barry , control the bank's strategically criti­ thirds of the share-capital must remain African. But begin­ cal department of human reso�rces. In order to ensure his ning in 1972, money mandarins in New York succeeded in reelection for a second five-yeartennin 1990, BabucarN'd i­ penetrating the bank. About 26 western, Ibero-American, aye schemed with the New York banks to eliminate potential and African countries were admitted. The veto powers of the rivals such as Donatien Bihute of Burundiand Tekalign Ged­ Africans were scrapped, in favor of decisions by consensus, ema of Ethiopia. In March, the director of the Treasury De­ which ended up giving effective veto power to the agents of partment, Ghana-born Koffi Bucknor, resigned in a huff. Wall Street. Since 1974, New York bankers had been casting N'diaye has also dismissed two Senegalese senior officials, a covetous eye on the ADB. The solid quality of its assets, Cheikh Sarr, and N'Dao , directors of the department of man­ capital structure, equity investments, assets and liability agement and of the Uhel has been installed in the Treasury management, borrowing and lending rate match, liquidity Department, while a Canadian of Indian origin has been management, and internalfinancial operations had improved appointed to control the bank's computer department, where the bank's ratings at Moody's and Fitch Investors Services. "creative accounting" operatioQs are concocted. In June 1990, Standard and Poor's upgraded the rating of the At the Nairobi General Ass¢mbly meeting of May 9, the ADB's senior debt to AAA. When, in 1991, Euromoney Libyan representative of the b�nk, Mr. Sherif, called for a magazine named the ADB "Supranational Borrower of the probe into Babacar N'diaye's IShady dealings with money Year," it became clear to the Anglo-American oligarchy that launderers at the now-defunct B�nk of Credit and Commerce the time had come to prey on the pan-African institution, International. N'diaye storrned,out of the meeting, and im­ before it became strong enough to challenge the International mediately set about rallying supportfrom the industrialized Monetary Fund (IMF) and W orId Bank. They launched a countries. So in effect, N' diaye has mortgagedthe sovereign­ double-pronged attack, through an inside plant, and took ty of the bank to Wall Street, ill exchange for a guarantee to over the African Development Fund. win a third five-year tennat its helm.

20 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 Report from Paris by Anne de la Brifiere

, Operation Margarita is not complete scribed in the cover story of EIR of A nice blow was struck against the Colombian cocaine cartels in May 21, 1993. Rene Wack tihinks that Operation France, but it needs to befollowed up . Margarita could have repercussions in other countries, perhaps in the Antilles and Guyana in the Caribbean, as well peration Margarita for the first ferred to "men of nondescript com­ as elsewhere in Europe. timeO has allowed the dismantling of plexion, with no past criminal record, What are the real financial net­ "an entire pyramid of the Colombian and with no noise. The drug traffickers works? What banking institutions are at drug cartels in France," declared Com­ use methods worthy of the intelligence theheart of the launderingoperations for missar Rene Wack, chief of the Cen­ services, especially when it comes to drug profits? Such are the questions tral Officefor Repression of Major Fi­ compartmentalization, mailboxes, which the next phase of Operation Mar­ nancial Crime. and transmissions. garita will have t6 pose and answer. Sixty-one persons, including "What could be more cunning, This operatiQn against the Colom­ some 20 Colombians, are under inter­ than to operate in Limoges! What ordi­ bian cartels is very important. How rogation in the wake of the wave of ar­ nary policeman would go looking for can it be explained, however, that it rests carried out in Paris, Marseille, money laundering in the land of porce­ is taking place after drug consumption Montpellier, Limoges, and Lille. lain? We have agents delegated by the has just been legalized in Colombia The suspects will be arraigned be­ Colombians, types whose only quality and the President-elect, Ernesto fore Paris Judge Jean-Pierre Zanotto, is a talent for being forgettable. Samper Pizano, is a fierce partisan of who is assigned to the case. Among our clients, there are numer­ drug legalization? If law enforcement The whole affair actually began ous 'Schtroumpfs,' i.e., people who agencies on a world scale really want one year ago. The U.S. Customs Ser­ are entrusted with small quantities of to be effective, they must go on to vice noticed at that time that some Co­ money to recycle on the multitudes of phase two of Operation Margaritaand lombians were regularly crossing the the most important accounts. The create the conditions for cleaning up Atlantic to travel to Europe and espe­ small streams make up the big rivers," the political cla!!s and justice within cially to France. explains the boss of the anti-money­ Colombia itself. , It was a tipoff fromthe U. S. Drug laundering office. The first objective of such a phase Enforcement Administration which Rene Wack congratulates himself would be to nullify the election of led to the arrest of"EI Turco," the sup­ on having, this time, put his hands on Samper, who has been the main posed godfather of the Colombian car­ "an entire structure of organized crime. spokesman for the drug banks' legal­ tels in Paris. . . . We have all the branchesof thenet­ ization plans since 1976, a man whom Meanwhile in the United States, in work, financial as well as material, and the cartels have shamelessly "wa­ Atlanta, Georgia, and Miami , Florida, even of the distributionof drugs, includ­ tered" since 1982 when he was cam­ 34 men have been questioned, includ­ ing the passageways which interconnect paign treasurer for former President ing three cartel "bankers." The DEA them with one another." Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. 's failed re- also seized $15 million, 43 kilos of co­ Operation Margarita brings to light election bid. caine, and 112 kilos of marijuana, and a new phenomenon: The Colombian Colombia must also go back to froze 96 banking accounts. traffickers want cocaine consumptionto penalizing drug consumption. At the same time, some 30 persons explode in France. They are no longer Failure to complete Operation

were picked up in Italy. content with using thecountry merely as Margarita by this phase two would The French commented on their a transshipment area. bring grist to the mill of the skeptics action in the course of a press confer­ The pattern complements the who see in Operation Margarita noth­ ence in Nanterre at the offices of the growing criminalization of former ing but an attempt to eliminate, after Interior Ministry. Rene Wack under­ communist easternEurope and Russia the Medellin Cattel, all the mafia car­ lined that there are two kinds of indi­ in which western Europe, especially tels (the Cali Cartel, notably, which viduals in this affair: "Sleeper agents Germany, is the target for a growing controls 70% of the Colombian co­ of the Colombian cartels, and agents black market of smuggled drugs, alco­ caine market) in ,he context of "setting infiltrated into society." hol, and cigarettes and corresponding up a state monopoly" to market Co­ In the latter category, Wack re- large-scale money laundering, as de- lombian cocaineand marijuana.

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 21 BusinessBrief s

European Union production for an expected9 billion peoplein trailer equivalent units), the June 15 Journal the year2030, he said. Diouf urged the indus­ of Commerc� reported. (The average deepsea Delors backs investment trial countries to donate more food aid; until container shipin 1990had a capacity of 1,568 in infrastructure now, countries belonging to theOrganization TEUs.) By contrast, U.S. container exports for Economic Cooperationand Development to Europe in' 1993 were just over 2.5 million have pledged only one-thirdof what is needed TEUs. EuropeanCommission President Jacques De­ just for emergency food aid. The largest U.S. export commodity lors attacked several financeministers for their shipped in containers to Africa was apparel resistanceto public financingoflarge-scale rail (6,872 TEUs), followed by cotton and fabric and other infrastructure projects on June 21. (5,798 TEUs). An EIR analysis of data from The quality of life in European states depends International Credit the U .S. Matitime Commissionin 1989 found on transport, health services, and education, that the fifth,largest U. S. export to Africa in Delors said, but a "hard and pure neo-liberal Cancel Third World debt tonnage teIUlS, after grain, waste paper, and ideology" that ignores "the idea of public different types of chemicals, was used cloth­ goods in the economy" is blocking such invest­ burden, says cardinal ing. This is likely what is beingreported as the ments. firstand second largestU.S. exportsto Africa "Is it extremely dangerous, in the matter Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze called on in containers . of public finances,to borrowto financetechno­ "rich nations" to "cancel, or at least drastically logies that will serve futuregenerat ions?" De­ reduce . . . the foreign debt of Third World lors asked, according to the June 24 French countries," at a press conference in Rome on daily Liberation. He said that trans-European June 17, the Rome daily L'Informazione re­ Medicine' transport networks are "investments for the ported. The press conference came at the end next three or five generations ahead. . . . of a meeting of cardinals in Rome called by American firm buys Would they have built railroadsin the 19thcen­ Pope John Paul II to discuss the "agenda for tury,if they had had to have the certainty , from the third millennium." AIDS vaccine license the first year of their being used, that they On June 20, journalistMaurizio Blondet, would be fully profitable?" in the daily Avvenire. a newspaper linked to The U.S. �SheffieldMedicaiTechnologies Delors singled out the British, German, the Italian Bishops Conference, wrote from has bought the license for a vaccine against and Frenchfinance ministers. ''They preach a Rwanda that the International Monetary Fund AIDS fromtfte National Institute ofHealth and doctrine hatt has failed everywhere, and yet is the cause of Africa'smisery and "underpop­ Medical Rdsearch (Inserm) in Marseille, they have the cheek to attack those who tryto ulation." "Africais not overpopulated;just the France. Je�-Claude Chermann, the head of advance an alternative. . . . I must expressmy opposite. Africais dying for politicalreasons. Inserm, told!Associ ated Presson June 22, "If anguish at the spectacle of European society It was the International Monetary Fund that everything �s well, we will conduct our first breaking up and leaving so many victims by forcedAfrican countries to replace subsistence experiment�n humans in mid- I995 underthe the wayside," he said. cultures with export ones. In Sudan, the IMF supervisionof the [U.S.] Food and Drug Ad­ has prevented theconstruction of damsand ca­ ministration." nals in the sub-Saharansouthern region. Sudan Chennann told the Paris daily Le Figaro hadfirst to pay the foreigndebt. And for three on June 22 ,that the complexity of the virus Africa years its sub-Saharan, southern region has forced his tIIam to work with seven different been plagued by drought." levels of the' virus to find "a common element 34 million threatened for all the strcrins.. ..When the virus moves out of the cell which it has infected, it carries with starvation a piece of substancecalled beta 2 microglobu­ Shipping line. We hal-e created antibodies against this

Over 34 million peoplein Africaarethreatened little piece which is always the same . These with starvation, Abdou Diouf, the director of Seaborne U.S. trade with anti-bodies areprotectors against the virus,be­ the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, cause they prevent it from entering the cell. warnedin a pressconference in Rome on June Africa is minuscule The testsonithe Rhesus monkeyhave allowed 20. EasternAfrica is the worst, with 22 million us to obtain �ti-bodieswithout toxic reaction, threatened. The situation has "dramatically Total U.S. seaborne container tradewith Afri­ that show � model is feasible." His idea is to worsened" and a "very serious foodcrisis" ex­ ca in 1993 was less than 50 shiploads, ac­ halt the mutability of the virus. "When you ists, he warned. cording to data from the Port Import and Ex­ block them\ltability factor, we should beable "Moreand more people are dying of hun­ port Reporting Service (PIERS) of Knight to stop the eVolution into the illness," he said. ger and malnutrition," he said. "In the devel­ Ridder. PIERS , which tabulates imports and The vaccine may be administeredwith the oping sector alone , 800 million people are exportsat U.S. portsas reported in ships' man­ oral poliovaccine, in orderto facilitateits dis­ chronically malnourished." The main task of ifests, calculated that U.S. exportsto all of Af­ tribution in Africa, Chermann said. the coming decades will be to upgrade food rica in 1993 totaled 76,385 TEUs (20-foot Sheffieldwill give $600,000for research

22 Economics EIR July 15, 1994 • GOLDMAN SACHS is being in­ vestigated by the Chicago Board of and $750,000 to install a new laboratory in infrastructure list. Two other priority projects Trade for atte pting to rig prices on Marseille. The city will add $600,000for the include the ThreeGorges Dam on the Yangtze j'! municipal derivatives. The in­ project. River, which will receive 3 billion yuan in vestment firmbo�� is being accused of ar­ loans from the bank this year for civil works , tificially infta�ng prices on a futures and the Beijing-Kowloon railway. contract just il'efore the contract ex­ Meanwhile, the southeasternprovince of pires, the Jun� 24 Wall Street Journal Jiangxi announced plans to build a nuclear Economic Cooperation reported. plant costing $5. 17 billion, in what would be a major expansion of the Chinese nuclear pro­ German industry must act • TAIWAN Aerospace Corp. gram,the June 24 pro-BeijingHongkong daily Chairman Sun Tao-tsun met with in Russia, says Kartte Ta Kung Pao reported. Wang Minxiang, di­ British Aero�ace PIc. officials in rectorof the provincial planning commission, London in mid-June. The meeting said that the province had set up a nuclearener­ Germanindustry should undertake new initia­ was apparently connected to Tai­ gy office to preparethe groundworkfor a plant tives in Russia, German economic adviser wan's plans to begin exporting its In­ at Maozishan, in Pengze county. He said that Wolfgang Kartte told the German economic digenous Defense Fighter in 1999. daily Handelsblatt on June 21. Kartte an­ the plant is designed for four to six 900-mega­ watt reactorunits. nounced that he will organize a conference of • THE BREAKDOWN of agricul­ all German "project designers" who are en­ ture in eastern,Europe and Russia is a gaged in central Russia, both public and pri­ threat to the European Union because vate, in Potsdam, Germany. "it could suddenly be transformed The coreof German economic activity in into tests for social stability in a dra­ Russia should be within the "golden ring" matic way," a delegation of experts around Moscow, including the cities Vladi­ Demographics warned after a trip to these countries. mir, Yaroslav, and Ivanovo, he said. Kartte They urged the EU to urgently up­ explained that the ring aroundMoscow within French birth rate grade technical and economic assis­ a 400-kilometerradius is dominated by small tance to these inations. and medium-sized businesses, as is much of continues to decline Germany, and offers good prospectsfor Ger­ • PRIVATIZATION efforts are man-Russian economic cooperation. A study conducted by the FrenchNational In­ triggering stnl<:es in Europe. In June, Karttesaid that theideological proponents stitute of Statistics (INSEE) shows botha con­ rail strikes hit Holland, France, and of a "super-liberalmarket economy"are on the tinuing decline in the birthrate in France and a Great Britain,iwhere governmentpri­ defensive in Russia and that the new Russian rise in the age at which women begin having vatization schemes are creating intol­ Parliamentis characterizedby morepragmatic children, the Newsfrom France, an English­ erable conditions for trade unions. In views in respecttomarket economy , and there­ language newsletter issued by the French Em­ Germany, su�h schemes have pro­ forenow is thetime to act. The Russian popula­ bassy in Washington, reported in June. The voked strike �tion by postal workers tion doesn'twant politicalunrest, and even the drop in the birth rate is the fifth straight year of a type that Js unprecedented in the communist parliamentarians areavoiding ma­ in a row. post-World VIar II period. jor confrontations with the government, he France has a lower birth rate, at 1 .73 chil­ said. dren per woman as of 1992, than Sweden • THE SWISS BANK Corp. fired (2.09), Norway(1 .89), Finland (1.79), Den­ six foreign e,qchange traders in June mark (1.76), Ireland (2.03), and Britain afterthe bank lost 100 million Swiss (1.79) . The average age at which women have francs in foreiign exchange specula­ China their firstchild has crept up from24 .4 years in tion. The decision is intended as a 1980 to 26 years in 1992, and over one-third warning agairi.stthe most outrageous New bank reveals plans of all Frenchchildren are bornout of wedlock. speculative sdhemes. Between 1991 and 1993, there was a stag­ for instrastructure gering dropof 48, 100in the numberof births • WESTINGHOUSE Electric in France. Corp. was issued a license by the The State Development Bank, set up in May News from France reported in the same U.S. Nucleatl Regulatory Commis­ as partof the financialreforms to financeinfra­ issue that 157 million condoms were sold in sion on June :to, authorizing export structure projects, expects to lend 80 billion France in 1993, based on figuresfrom the Na­ of low-enriched uranium to fuel the yuan ($9.3 billion) this yearfor power genera­ tional Consumer's Institute. 'The sales ofcon­ two-unit Tem�lin nuclear plant in the tion, transportation and telecommunications doms have more than tripled in France since Czech Repu�lic. The NRC empha­ projects, bank presidentYao Zhenyan told the 1986. However, various organizations and the sized the intent of Congress to "en­ June 24 London Financial Times. medical community are busy combatting a hance the United States' position as a Zhenyan said that building power plants current rumor that the condom is ineffective reliable supplier of nuclear fuel. " "all the way to Tibet" is at the top of China's against the AIDS virus," it said.

EIR July 15, 1994 Economics 23 �ITillScience & Technology

Thespace effort: picking Apollo off up where lefti The program to land a man on the Moon was the largestpeacetime scientjfic mobilization in history. We need to revive that science driver to end the economic depression. MarshaFree man reports.

As the United States and much of the world celebrate the the medical sciences, and all f�cets of American life. In­ 25th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20, the creases in productivity as a result of the capital investment future of manned space exploration itself is in doubt. The in new technologies allowed even greater resources to be global economic depression has forced a retrenchment in the allocated for science and technology. In that way, it laid the American, European, and Russian space efforts, to the point economic basis for taking man even farther than the Moon. where even programs that have been nearly completed, such It is often said that the trouble the space program finds as the Russian Mir 2 space station, or those that should have itself in today is a function of the end of the Cold War; that been completed, such as the U.S.-led international space the driving force of the Apollo program was beating the station, face an uncertain future . What is needed to reverse Russians to outer space, and that now that such competition the economic decline is a visionary space effort, with the is gone, no one can find a reason to spend the money on space goal of landing men on Mars in the second decade of the next exploration. While it is true that the "space race" from the century, to function as a science driver for the economies of late 1950s was predicated upon thedevelopment and deploy­ the world. ment of military vehicles, such as the intercontinental ballis­ President John F. Kennedy's program to land a man on tic missile (ICBM), to President Kennedy, the scientists and the Moon and return him safely to Earth within the decade of engineers, and the American public, the program to take man the 1960s was unique in two ways. First, it was a crash to the Moon was something much greater than an effort to program, not because, as is charged by austerity-mongers, it gain political or military advantage in very turbulent times. gave a "blank check" to the National Aeronautics and Space The Apollo program represented the commitment of a Administration (NASA) to accomplish the lunar landing, but nation to accomplish a great task; one of historical dimen­ because it set a timetable. In order to meet the goal, all of the sion, that had challenged man from the time he looked up necessary resources had to be mobilized, and because of the into the heavens. The idea that man and his machines could personal commitment of the President, they were. Today, cross the void of space, in an environment that provided no goals are set but are not met, because the nation's goals are air to breathe or life support of any kind, and land on another made secondary to the ill-informed decision that the re­ heavenly body, captured the imagination of everyone in the sources do not exist to achieve them. 1960s. It is estimated that approximately half of the world's Second, it was the largest peacetime mobilization of sci­ population either watched on television or listened on the entists and engineers in history. As a great research and radio as Neil Armstrong announced that he was taking "one development effort, the Apollo program required the cre­ small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind," when he ation, design, fabrication, and testing of new technologies to stepped onto the Moon on July 20, 1969. take man into a totally new environment-space. Because it The American people have never lost interest in the space was a civilian program, it fu nctioned as a "science driver" program. Ten million people each year visit the National Air for the whole U.S. economy, putting new capabilities, such and Space Museum in Washington, D. c., making it the most as computers, into widespread use in industry, agriculture, popular museum in the country. When asked why they come

24 Science & Technology EIR July 15, 1994 Within months of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins toured 24 countries as a Presidential Goodwill Tour to emphasize the willingness of the United States to share its space knowledge. Here the three astronauts are swarmed by crowds during a motorcade in Mexico City, a testimony to the global enthusiasm generated by their achievement.

there, most say because it makes them proud. The possibility The usual approach in formulating the federal budget is that man will venture out again into space, to live and work to start with what are called the nondiscretionary programs, on the Moon and to explore and colonize the planet Mars, stirs such as payments for unemployment, health care, welfare, the imagination of every young child and every adult who has social security, and veterans benefits, which are commit­ the hope that his children will participate in that mission. ments the government has made by law. Vital programs But there is no way to reach these goals through tentative, deemed to be in the national interes�, such as military spend­ incremental steps, hoping that they will someday make the ing, are added in. And then there is the more than $200billi on leap to a manned mission to Mars . A crash program that sets annual U. S. federal debt payment. the goals with a timetable is what is needed. While we have What is "left over" can be bu geted for discretionary lost time during this past quarter-century when no visionary spending, within which is included the funding for the space goals existed for the space program, we must set the long­ program and other science and technology activities. range goals for the next decades, and shape a programmatic As the real, physical economy has progessively collapsed timetable of near-term milestones that enables us to meet and tax revenues from corporate and individual income have those goals. contracted, "social safety net" spending has climbed against falling tax revenues: not only do the indigent and unemployed Turning economics on its head have to be cared for, but so also do the increasing number of There is a gross misunderstanding in Washington and working poor who qualify for food stamps and other income throughout the West of the role that investment in space and supplements. related research and development plays in the economy. In There is no magic involved in underI standing the causes general, the belief is that in times of budget deficits, worth­ of the current budget deficit. while efforts such as space exploration have to be sacrificed Aside from timid initiatives froy:I the White House to in­ because there is not enough money to pay for such "extras." crease employment opportunities and investment in industry, In reality, only investment in these kinds of great projects, construction, and other productive ectors, the approach is a and the infrastructure that makes them possible (which in­ "slash and bum" budget-cutting oJe, and the discretionary cludes education and medical care, as well as energy, water, programs, such as NASA, are the first ones on the chopping and transport upgrades), has the potential to pull the economy block. This approach is supported by both Republican "fiscal out of the current depression. consmati ves." and .elf-d"cribed t0st«iIY Oemoc ...ts ." EIR July 15, 1994 SCirce & Technology 25 Cutting the budget will never lead to economic prosperi­ vestment, jobs, and new technologies in the private sector. ty . Quite the opposite. As investments in infrastructure, edu­ A study on this subject published by EIR in 1986 yielded an cation, scientific research, and scientifically vectored great interesting result: It was not sirriply government tax dollars projects are sacrificed, and the decreasing wealth ofthe phys­ that created the 1960s economic growth. Private corporations ical economy is siphoned off to feed spiraling speculation began expanding existing facili�ies and ordering new ma­ and derivatives, the faster the economy spins downward. chine tools using their ownfinanc,ialresources after President One important exception to this upside-down idea that a Kennedy announced the Apollo JIlrogram, but before govern­ nation in economic crisis cannot afford to maintain ascien­ ment contracts had wended thei( way through the economy. tificcapability has been in the former Soviet Union. On Sept. In 1963, there was a net additio� of 124,000 metal-working 2, 1991, one month afterthe attempted coup against Mikhail machine tools in industry. In � 958, there had been a net Gorbachov, Academy of Sciences Vice President Yevgeny loss of 211 ,000. Throughout thel decade of the 196Os, heavy P. Velikhov made an impassioned plea before the Extraordi­ industry in the United States virtUally"rebuilt" itself. nary U.S.S.R. Congress of People's Deputies that they "not It was the optimism generate4 by the President's initiative break things so violently that the pieces cannot be put back that drove the economic activit , not government contracts together again." After enumerating the serious problems fac­ as such. This expectation that �tJ:te Space Age would bring ing the economy he asked: "What distinguishes Third World with it a revolution in all facet$ of economic life was ex­ countries from those in the First World? pressed in a 1962 book by the tors of Fortune magazine "In the main," he asserted, "Third World countries have when they described the relatio�. ship of the emerging space resources, they have a work force, too, but they do not have program to the aerospace indust as "hitching the economy ! science or expertise. . . . If we destroy science we shall never to the infinite. " rebuild it. ...Then we will have no future." Over three The challenge of manned sp*e travel through the Apollo decades, Velikhov has held leading positions in the Soviet program revolutionized technol�gies in energy production, Union's, and now Russia's, programs in thermonuclear fu­ electronics and computer control, medical techniques, and sion research, magnetohydrodynamics energy technology, materials. The robotic spacecra� programs, which were the the applications of lasers in industry, and the conversion of necessary precursors to sending men into space, contributed military assets to civilian use, and he has a broad understand­ to this cornucopia. The overall impact of these programs on ing of the role of science and technology in an economy. the economy was described in a study released by Chase Other spokesmen of the Russian scientific community have Econometrics in 1976 that estimated that for every $1 spent suggested that some fraction of the foreign aid that is given in the space program, $14 were! returned to the economy in from the United States go directly into the space program. new jobs, factories, technologies, products, and other eco­ It is past time to insist that the limiting factor in what is nomic activity. accomplished in space exploration should not be funding, Launching hardware into space required that it be as light but the time that is needed to rebuild the infrastructure-the and compact as possible. Heavy and bulky first-generation scientific and engineering manpower, the laboratories and computers and electronic devices based on the use of vacuum R&D facilities, the high-technology factories and skilled tubes, had to be replaced by superior technology. Space work force-needed to meet our goals. The Apollo program assets, even unmanned, would be too expensive to lose to is the paradigm of how a science driver creates the basis for failures and malfunctions. Hence, standards of production to economic growth. meet more stringent specifications were needed, surpassing anything required by even the military. The inability to meet The economics of space exploration this challenge could mean that spacecraft worth hundreds of The investment that the United States made in the Apollo millions of dollars, representing years of work, could fail on program, primarily between 1961 and 1968, created the eco­ their way to Venus or Mars. One of the differences between nomic growth enjoyed through the following decades. The the U. S. and Soviet economic systems was the ability of this Apollo expenditure, approximately $20 billion over that peri­ technology to be transferredto the economy. od , is less on an annual basis today than the American public For example: In 1964,to ensure that the standards would spends on pizza, much less video games and entertainment. be met, NASA established a re)iability program for micro­ Direct federal dollars used by the space agency during electronic products, which were subsequently adopted by the Apollo created 20 ,000 new governmentjo bs in government­ Department of Defense and the microelectronics industry as funded facilities, including NASA research laboratories, and a whole. The production of components in accordance with also paid the salaries of nearly 400,000 highly skilled manu­ NASA standards reduced the percentageof spoiled parts and facturing workers who were building the rockets and space increased production yields by about 20% , making the infant vehicles in the burgeoning aerospace industry. U.S. electronics industry the leader in the world market. But in order for there to be a permanent impact on the Nastran, a computer software package developed for ana­ economy, such government-funded activity must create in- lyzing the behavior of elastic strUcturesunder the wide range

26 Science & Technology EIR July 15, 1994 of conditions that spacecraft would be subjected to in space, The microminiaturization revolution for space applica­ was released for public use in November 1970. It had been tions created medical applications for treating diseases using developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center between tiny systems that could be implanted. The treatment of dia­ 1965 and 1970 at a cost of $3 million-an investment no betics using an implantable insulin ump was one such spin­ individual firm could afford-and has been used in aircraft off, which, it is estimated, couldJ cut the $20 billion per and automobile production, bridge construction, and power­ year in medical costs to treat this diseaseI in half, by greatly plant modeling studies. reducing the complications and ill esses through a precise To ensure the production integrity of spacecraft compo­ regulation of insulin dosage. nents before they were launched into space, NASA research­ The first implantable devices were heart pacemakers, ers developed extraordinarily precise, non-destructive test­ which have evolved as space systems improved. The first ing techniques. Ultrasonic testing technology developed by pacemaker of the late 1950s failed within less than 12 hours NASA at a cost of $2 million turned into an industry with after implantation. The first spacecraft, launched in the annual sales of $50 million by 1980. It was adapted for use 1950s, had useful lives of only a few weeks. The develop­ for quality control in the production of steel rails, aircraft, ment of rechargeable lithium batteries has extended the lives nuclear reactors, and automobiles. of both from days to years. The need for spacecraftto contain The multiplexer circuit developed for the Marshall Space control systems that allow them to respond to radio com­ Center for use in the Saturn V rocket to go to the Moon was mands from controllers on Earth led to the development of installed in most U. S. textile weaving mills between 1968 pacemakers today that respond to signals from a physician's and 1971, yielding productivity increases of 2-3%. There are console that controls the stimulation pulse rate to the heart, thousands more similar examples. for adjustment and regulation. In addition to the medical devices that have been devel­ Improving the human condition oped, largely by researchers directly involved in the space When the time approached that man would venture into program by applying the advances in new materials and mi­ space, the space agency and the doctors working in the pro­ crominiaturization, some systems developed for space have gram had a new host of challenges. Monitoring the health found direct application in treating �isease. and bodily functions of astronauts over long distances re­ On May 23, 1994, NASA and the Multiple Sclerosis quired the development of the kinds of technologies that have Association of America announced a collaborative program become an everyday part of intensive care units in today's to continue to advance the state bf the art in "cool suit" hospitals. technology, originally developed fdr lunar astronauts' space

NASA space suit technology is applied here to protect patients fr om immunological compromise, yet allow them a degree of fr eedom . In case of leukemia, organ transplant, burns, radiation injuries, and immunodeficiency, infection is frequently life-threatening. Isolation techniques first developedfor the space program have vastly improved the prognosis of these patients.

EIR July 15, 1994 OJv'v'''_v & Technology 27 30 NASA FIGURE 1 FY88 $ Billions NASA budget outlays and science and engineering 25 doctorates, 1960-88 (billions $) 20 3500 3000 15 2500

The number of u.s. citizens earning graduate degrees in 2000 the physical sciences, 1 engineering, and math has 500 closely fo llowed the fu nding , fo r the space program . � -'---- - ' 1 000 Recent educational .... - -- -'M--'ath Sciences .... , _, "reforms" have only -'------accelerated the decline in 500 science literacy. -'-,-' o Source: NASA. 1960 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 88 88

suits, to treat the disabling symptoms of multiple sclerosis NASA and the National Institutes 'Of Health are being devel­ (MS). It was found 30 years ago that lowering the core body oped to extend the use of this unique space environment to temperature of MS patients 1°F relieved some of the symp­ try to discover the fundamental biological mechanisms that toms of this disabling neurological disease. produce such disease effects, to aid scientists in their search Patients findthat after30-40 minutes of wearing a cooling for the causes, treatments, and cures. cap and torso vest adapted from astronaut space suits, they The direct application of space technologyfrom sp ace has have improved mobility, reduced fatigue, improved vision provided weather forecasting tech iques that save millions of and cognitive abilities, and decreased psychological depres­ dollars in damage to homes and ptoperty, each year. Landsat sion. This relief can last up to four hours after a cooling and other Earth remote sensing s stems have given farmers session, and cumulative improvements in functioning have the tools to evaluate the health of �eirj crops and the inventory been observed. of water resources, and have pr�vided the technology for In anticipation of the availability of longer periods of global assessments of resources. iCommunication satellites weightlessness for research purposes aboard the space station, have provided not only instantan ous connections between new equipment is being developed to study human biological all peoples of the world, but also � e ability to be a "teacher processes in space, which have already been applied to the in the sky" to isolated communities� in Third World nations treatment of disease, years before the space station will fly. where there is no other access to education. But the real promise of space for improvements in human One immeasurable impact of the Apollo program on the health is in the fundamental understanding of biological pro­ economy, and perhaps the most itnportant, was the inspira­ cesses, to help prevent as well as treat disease. Just as space­ tion of young people to dedicat� their lives to careers in based astronomy has opened a new window on the universe science and engineering. As Figure 1 shows, in the past 30 to help scientists understand the fundamental laws by going years, the number of American students pursuing studies in outside the barriers of Earth's.atmosphere, the environment the natural sciences and mathernFttics rose dramatically in of Earth orbit provides a new window on biology, by remov­ response to the Apollo initiative. :This scientific cadre, like ing one of the basic factors of life on Earth-gravity-to be those trained under Adm. Hym Rickover for the nuclear able to observe its effect on the human biology. Navy, became a pool of talent� iin the space program and Many of the changes that healthy astronauts experience throughout industry, in all of the widely varied fieldsthat the in their adaptation to the weightless environment, such as space program touches upon. loss of bone calcium and diminished effectiveness of their Does it not put the ferocious d�bates in the Congressover immune system, mimic the signs and symptoms caused by spending $14 billion per year on s ce programs in the proper diseases such as osteoporosis and AIDS . Joint programs by perspective to remember�e leve�geAa of this small investment

28 Science & Technology EIR July 15, 1994 in the economic and physical health of the world's peoples? there in the future. Because Mars is tens of millioQs of miles fromEarth even The challenge of Mars at its closest point, as opposed t() the quarter of a million Mankind has visited the Moon, but we have not yet begun miles to the Moon, manned mis�ions to Mars will require to take advantage of its unique properties and resources. quantum jumps in propulsion technology to get thereand life On that airless world should be placed a new generation of support systems that are highly reliable and entirely self­ telescopes to peer out into the universe without the interfer­ sufficient, because resupply from Earth will be difficult as ence of an atmosphere or the electromagnetically noisy envi­ well as uneconomical. ronment of Earth . Thermonuclear fusion energy. produced from the fusing Lunar oxygen and other raw materials can be exploited of light elements in the same way the stars create their energy, for use in space. Because the Moon has an effective gravita­ will be the propulsion of choice for manned Mars missions. tional force only one-seventh that of Earth, materials that are While chemical propulsion technologies similar to today's needed for more distant destinations in space that can be Space Shuttle would involve travel times of nine months or supplied from lunar manufacture are more economical than so, and fission propulsion could shorten that by a couple of those launched from the surface of the Earth. In the future , months, fusion has the potential to reduce the travel time to unique lunar resources, such as the rare isotope helium-3, Mars to a matter of weeks. This is importantfor two reasons. which can be used as fuel in nuclear fusion reactors , may be First, the radiation environment of space makes it advan­ economical to mine on the Moon and transportback to Earth. tageous to get wherever you are going as quickly as possible. Data sent back recently from the Clementine spacecraft Second, prolonged weightlessness has already been demon� suggests there may be water ice on the lunar poles. This could strated to have serious debilitating effects on humans. A crew obviate the need to transport water for a lunar colony from which arrives at Mars having suffered bone decalcification, Earth, which would otherwise involve a substantial cost. shrinkage of heart muscle, and loss of muscle tone will be To establish human civilization on the Moon, the costs of less able to start its exploratory work. creating an artificial life-sustaining environment must be re­ The development of fusion power, pushed forward due duced. This requirement will lead to new advances in closed- . to the need to travel deeper into $pace, will make available cycle life support systems where the precious water, air, and to those of us who remain on Earth a virtually inexhaustible other resources needed by plants and people will be recycled supply of energy both in the form of electricity and heat, and rather than discarded. Such life support techniques, which also in the form of coherent electromagnetic radiation, such will make it possible to live on the Moon, will also make it as lasers of varying wavelengths, which can be used for possible to develop the most hostile environments on Earth, industrial processing. such as the deserts. Living and working on Mars �ill require the creation of For lunar cities and large-scale industrial production, whole new processesfor the mining of life-supporting consum­ more advanced, high-density, compact nuclear energy abIes from its atmosphere and surface, and raw materials for sources will be developed. The two-week lunar night, and manufacture. The carbondioxide atmosphere, which is poison­ the need for highly concentrated energy will limit the use of ous for humans, could be breathhble for plants in protected solar energy . Such next-generation nuclear fission technolog­ greenhouses that are heated and shielded fromradiat ion. ies, using advanced fuel designs, direct conversion to elec­ The goal is to make this new world habitable; to perform tricity without steam turbines, and new materials for higher the scientific experiments in astronomy, geology, biology, temperatures, will push forward the commercial develop­ chemistry, agronomy, and plant physiology to unlock some ment of the second-generation nuclear reactors now stalled of the secrets of the formation of Our solar system, the devel­ by the Department of Energy_ opment of the planets, and life on Earth. The Moon, relatively nearby, will function as a test-bed The Apollo program opened up the solar system to man's for many of the new technologies that will be required for exploration. Now we must rehearse and prepare for the next mankind's next destination, Mars. Unlike the Moon, the red century's goal of man on Mars, firston Earth-orbiting space planet had a geologically active past which produced the stations, and then on the Moon. While we do that we must largest volcano in the solar system, a canyon that stretches continue to send unmanned representatives of our intelli­ 3,000 miles, and intriguing networks of channels that were gence to the planets that cannot yet be reached by man, and clearly produced by rivers. The tenuous Martian atmosphere to more distant objects. is a starting point for eventually terraforming the planet, and With an international effort that takes advantage of the provides a "mineable" source for carbon dioxide and other 30 years of space science and teclmology we have inherited, consumables. and brings into participation all of the "old" and "new" na­ While we will not be able to definitivelyanswer the ques­ tions which must be part of this effort, the next step can be tion of whether there has ever been, or whether there is life taken. The returns cannot be imagined today, but they will on Mars until we get there, we can plan now to bring life far exceed our expectations.

EIR July 15, 1994 Science & Technology 29 ITillFeature

Dope mob b�ys Colombian I presidency by Valerie Rush

Presidential elections in Colombia on June 19 deli..tered the highest office of the land into the hands of the world's largest cocaine-traffickingorganizati on, the Cali Cartel. Members of the cartel publicly announced that they were celebrating their victory. President-elect Ernesto Samper Pizano, a wholly owned creation of the cartels and chief lobbyist for drug legalization fot nearly two decades, began preparing his victory tour of the United States and Europe , to culminate in his Aug. 7 inauguration. Outgoing President Cesar Gaviria, whose Liberal Party sponsored Samper's candidacy, confidently began preparing his transition to the post of secretary general of the Organization of Amtrican States. A "narco-democracy" was born. But was it stillborn?On June 21, two days after$amper 's election victory, the Gaviria government was forced to release to the media the transcripts of a series of tape-recordings it had had in its possession fo r!nearly a week. The tape-re­ cordings were of conversations between Cali Cartel chieftainsMiguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and one of their public relation$ employees, '�ournalist" Al­ berto Giraldo. The dialogue deals with the cartel's (inancingof Samper Pizano's electoral campaign, to the tune of millions of dollars, in exchange for at least five cabinet posts. ''The presidency is in your hands," one hears Giraldo tell one of the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers after cartel fundsare pledged. It was later learned, according to Time magazine, that the U . S. State Department had also had those tapes in its possession since before the Colombian election, and yet had refused to release them, allegedly in order to avoid "interfering in the internal affairs of another country. " Time quoted one disgusted Drug Enforcement Adminis­ tration official , "No one did anything. They allowed this travesty to take place. Everybody, including the U.S. government, is participating in this coverup." Why? Because Samper's presidency is designed to serve as the first crucial step toward legalizing the drug trade in Ibero-Amel1ica and in the United States, as EIR has warned. And without those hundreds of billions in drug dollars, the financial bubbles puffed up by the International Mopetary Fund and the banking

30 Feature EIR July 15, 1994 In 1984 , a combined deployment by the Colombian government and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided the cocaine city of Tranquilandia (one of its laboratories is shown here), the biggest cocaine-producing complex ever discovered. Today, the cocaine cartel has bought the election of a President; but the widespread exposure of this travestythreatens to derail the cartel's strategy of drug legalization. elites in order to keep themselves solvent, must pop. The The complicity of elements of U . S. governmentswith the scandal of the tapes has therefore hampered, if not outright drug cartels and with their political and financialsponsors , is sunk, the Samper presidency, and the legalization lobbies nothing new. George Bush and Oliver North's Contra supply inside Washington, such as the Inter-American Dialogue and operation in the 1980s, which wa proven to be integrally the Drug Policy Foundation, are chewing the rug right now. linked to the trafficking activities f the Colombian cocaine The scandal of the tapes not only constitutes a major blow cartels, is but one example. to the political networks inside Colombia who sponsored Inside the United States, the �ght over drug policy is Samper's rise to the presidency, but it also has the potential to raging close to the surface in the ake of the State Depart­ tum the spotlight on the networks regionwide whose political ment coverup. Assistant Secretary of State Alexander Wat­ fortunes are interwoven with the drug trade. Former Vene­ son, on a European tour, publicly described Samper as a zuelan President Carlos Andres Perez is already in jail due to personal friend "for many years, " at the same time as two such exposure, and his entire criminal apparatus of narco­ deputy assistant secretaries were visiting the Colombian bankers and corrupt politicians is starting to crumble. Perez's President-elect in his New York hotelI room, coldly interro­ colleagues, like former Colombian President Alfonso Lopez gating him on the charges against im. Michelsen and Francisco Pena Gomez in the Dominican Re­ What the outcome of the Samper scandal will be is as yet public, may not be far behind. unclear. Colombia's political establishment is doing its best to pretend it never happened, and has attacked Andres Pastra­ Who's behind the expose? na, Samper's Conservative Party rresidential rival who re­ The big question is, who tapped the cartel conversations? ceived the tapes from an anonymous source and turned them There are several well-founded rumors in Colombia and over to the government, for "suUying Colombia's image Washington which suggest that the high-tech recording job abroad." Pastrana answered, "It's riotthe soap, but the body, was done by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and! that's dirty," and called on the autijorities to release incrimi­ or by Colombia's elite Search Squad, a joint Army-police nating other tapes known to be in their possession. crack team set up last year to hunt down Medellin Cartel boss While President Clinton ponders whether the United Pablo Escobar. EIR has not confirmed these reports, but they States should have a "free-trade" Jact with cocaine traffick­ appear to be credible in light of the outrage with which honest ers, Colombians looking to recoter their nat,ional dignity law enforcement and security entities in both countries view need look no further than next-doo Venezuela, whose Presi­ the "creeping legalization" of the drug trade in Colombia, dent has recaptured control of the banking system from the and the continued erosion of anti-drug efforts in Washington. drug bankers.

EIR July 15, 1994 Feature 31 Emesto Samper Pizano: a tale of three bribes by Javier Almario and Valerie Rush

Colombian President-elect Ernesto Samper Pizano has spent become the country's most pO'ferful financial group. In the weeks following his June 19 election victory trying to December of 1983, Grancolombiano' s own illicit financial convince international and national public opinion that he activities, and a well-placed inv�stigation by the Betancur is not in the pocket of his country's cocaine cartels. But the government, led to Michelsen'sidownfall. He and his top scandal that broke two days after election day, with the henchmen fled the country to Miami, and spent many years surfacing of incriminating evidence against him, just won't there as fugitives from Colombian justice. die. While at ANIF, Samper becaIfIeGrancolombiano' s point When the Colombian media published the transcript of man for a well-financed drug legalization campaign which three telephone conversations between Cali Cartel bosses included international tours, high-profile symposiums, re­ and an underling discussing Samper's going price, the Presi­ search projects, and publications. Samper worked closely dent-elect first accused defeated Conservative Party candi­ with the U.S.-based marijuana lobby, the National Organi­ date Andres Pastrana of "dirty tricks," then accused the zation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and cartel itself of concocting the tapes to try to tar his administra­ with the U.N.-linked International Cannabis Alliance for tion. When the cartel underling, "journalist" Alberto Giral­ Reform (ICAR). Samper later characterized ANIF as "the do , publicly admitted that the telephone exchanges were Latin American coordinator of tine international alliance to authentic, but cleared Samper of actually accepting the mon­ amend marijuana laws." ey, the country's political elites breathed a sigh of relief Never one for modesty, Samper privately boasted that and prayed that the matter would dissipate. That's when the the legalization campaign "is what will make me President. second tape recording arrived, this one confirming that the I am going to be President, it's already decided." cartel had met with Samper' s treasurer, and that the money­ Samper's credentials for a narco-presidency were al­ as much as $5 million-was delivered. ready publicized in this 1979 statement: "Morality, like Not only does the scandal lay bare the close-knit relations criminality, is not an absolute category, as if set for all time; between a dominant section of Colombia's political class and criminal behavior is a political determination born of the the drug cartels, but it leaves Samper's future presidency-if state, which establishes that detenninationbased on an inter­ he in fact is inaugurated on Aug. 7-indelibly branded a pretation of an ethos historico, that is, on popular ethical criminal government in the eyes of the world. sentiments. That which was a crime yesterday, today is no longer, because of this golden rule." The making of a narco-President This argument clearly had appeal to Lopez Michelsen, Samper's political career began in 1977, at the age of who took Samper out of ANIF in .980 and made him director 25, with his appointment to the coveted presidency of the of the ruling Liberal Party's newly created think-tank, the National Association of Financial Institutes (ANIF), the lob­ Institute of Liberal Studies. WheJII Lopez managed to secure bying machine of the powerful Grancolombiano financial the Liberal Party's 1982 presidential nomination, Samper group. Head of Grancolombiano and Samper's immediate was made his campaign manager. It was in that year that sponsor was banker Jaime Michelsen Uribe, a first cousin Samper met with Medellin Cartel bosses Pablo Escobar, of former Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen Carlos Lehder, and others, and ,accepted substantial cam­ and chief beneficiary of the financial "reform" Lopez imple­ paign contributions in return forLopez 's pledge to legalize mented in his first administration (1974-78), which paved drugs if re-elected. the way for firstthe marijuanaand then the cocaine "bonan­ Lopez lost that election, but "",ent on to become a perma­ za." No one was surprised when Grancolombiano tripled its nent interlocutor for the cartels. Two years later, in March assets in the first six months of 1976 alone, and went on to 1984, Cali Cartel boss Gilbertq Rodriguez Orejuela was

32 Feature EIR July 15, 1994 feeling the anti-mafia heat generated in the aftermath of accepted at least $800,000 from the cartel in 1990, in ex­ Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla's spectacular raids change for a promise to help ban extradition of drugtraffick­ against cocaine jungle cities run by the cartels. Rodriguez ers from Colombia to the United States. However, rumors prudently sold his majority holdings in the Colombian Banco in the Colombian intelligence community are that Samper de los Trabajadores to a frontman. That bank had been was paid the money as indemnification for his 1989 "acci­ created in 1974 under the benign eye ofthen-President L6pez dent." It appears that Samper had made the mistake of Michelsen as a money-laundering apparatus for the mob. chatting with a Communist Party : leader just when cartel Brought onto the bank's board of directors in Rodriguez assassins decided to assassinate the man. Samper took a Orejuela's place was, among other L6pez associates, Er­ dozen bullets, but survived to make political hay out of the nesto Samper Pizano. incident. The cartel's target was not so lucky. One month later, just days after cartel hitmen assassi­ According to a Miami Herald �count of June 23, 1994, nated Colombia's courageous justice minister Lara, L6pez U.S. congressional sources report that the Central Intelli­ secretly met with Pablo Escobar and tried to negotiate an gence Agency briefed Congress on how Samper "not only amnesty for the drug lords. He was unsuccessful then, but took money [from the cartels], but solicited it." in 1989, following the mafia murder of presidential front­ In 1991, the cartels bribed the majority of delegates to runner Luis Carlos Galan, L6pez's services were once again a Constitutent Assembly to include a ban on extradition in offered. At the head of a group of so-called "Notables," the new Colombian Constitution. Despite the existence of L6pez helped to negotiate a cartel "surrender" pact with the a videotape containing evidence of the mass bribe, President Gaviria government in 1990. Only it was the government, Gaviria and the co-presidents of the Assembly refused to not the cartels, which did the surrendering. release or investigate the evidence. The presidency of the If L6pez's public career was waning after his electoral Assembly was shared by three avid drug-legalizationpropo­ defeat in 1982, Samper's was just beginning. Under a joint nents: "former" narco-terrorist chieftain Antonio Navarro L6pez/cartel sponsorship, he went on to become a Bogota Wolf of the M-19 and Conservative Party oligarch Alvaro city councilman (1984) and a senator (1986). He tested the G6mez Hurtado-both presidential candidates-and Hora­ presidential waters in 1989, but got washed away in the cio Serpa Uribe, a representative of Samperto the Assembly anti-drug flood that followed the Galan assassination. He who was later Samper's presidential campaign manager. was nonetheless made development minister in the early Serpa has now been named as Samper's new government. years of the currentGaviria administration, and later ambas­ minister! sador to Spain before resigning in early 1994 to pursue his On election day 1994, Samper' s early dreams of reaching presidential dream. the presidency were realized. At his side throughout the As a presidential candidate, Samper toned down the victory celebration was Alfonso L6pez Michelsen, a.k.a. pro-legalization rhetoric, but his sentiment is unchanged. "The Godfather." The Cali Carte}: had to do its celebrating Samper revealed his tactic in a July 1979 interview made the next day, since-according to one cartel memberquoted available to EIR at the time. When asked if drug legalization by the Washington Times-the bars were all closed that day. were not a difficult cause for a presidential candidate to uphold (referring at the time to Ted Kennedy's presidential A non-refundable presidency ambitions), Samper answered: "Yes, I think that it is very When the post-election scandal first broke on June 21, difficult with the marijuana issue to obtain political support. Samper Pizano insisted that he wOlUld continue to wage war It is very difficult. But, if you present the issue as a social against the drug trade until his country was freed of that problem, as a problem which is causing more danger to evil. If taken at his word, Samper would clearly have to American society with enforcement than with legalization, confront the very powerful and very dangerous men who you can prove to public opinion that you are working on have repeatedly given him their financial backing over the the drug issue in the right way ....You can see, if you years. And yet, any attempt to negotiate with the traffickers look at the way legalization has been going, that when or legalize their trade would be viewed by the world as one elections are about to happen, legalization is very bad, but more proof of Samper's corruption. when the election passes, legalization goes up. Right?" Samper insists, just as he did ih 1982, that his campaign ledgers are open to anyone who wishes to review them, and Bribes, and more bribes that there are no cartel contributi(>ns in his books. But, he Samper was not only urging a negotiated "peace" with added, should it tum out that drug money had filtered into the drug cartels during this period, but was actively soliciting the campaign, the person responsible would pay the conse­ money from them to finance his presidential campaign. Ac­ quences. Afterhearing Samper's bluster, one foreigncorre­ cording to an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement spondent observed that "everyone knows that money can Administration who had infiltrated the Cali Cartel, Samper come in from any part of the world to win the favors of

EIR July 15, 1994 Feature 33 future rulers, and no one is so foolish as to put it in the And yet, for the first time in.decad es, an important chunk official records." of the country's political elite"'-headed by the Conservative

Far from dying away, the flames of scandal continue Party's Pastrana family-has I taken off the gloves against to grow. Humberto de la Calle Lombana, Samper's vice this mafia which has dominated Colombian politics, with president-elect and known as one of the heads of Masonry few exceptions, for 20 years. lIt was defeated Conservative in Colombia, has also been accused of links to the Cali Party presidential candidate j'\ndres Pastrana who quietly Cartel . "We have conducted an investigation of the close handed the first incriminatingJ tape over to the government collaborators of the vice president-elect, who are indisput­ for investigation five days before the election. Despite the ably linked to the Cali Cartel," declared French anti-drug fact that it was the daily El Tietnpo, the LOpez-linked Liberal expert Alain Labrouse on a French television program on Party mouthpiece, which went public with transcripts of the June 27. Labrouse, head of the Geopolitical Drug Observato­ tape, it is Pastrana who has lPeen accused by virtually the ry , has claimed that much of his evidence comes from Co­ entire political class of behaving like "a sore loser" in turning lombian anti-drug investigators who had to fleetheir country over the tapes to the authorit�s, instead of burying them! under threat of death. Declared Semana magazine, owned by one of LOpez De la Calle's wife, Rosalba, has also been implicated Michelsen's sons, Pastrana's "imprudent" decision to tum in fraud run through Cajanal, the state agency for retirees, the tapes over to the governrpent "has turned the Samper which she headed in 1992. According to a two-year investi­ gation conducted by the Colombian security police, DAS, not only was more than $30 million stolen from the agency on her watch, but under- and over-invoicing and similar illicit accounting practices were reportedly used by Cajanal to illegally import chemicals used in cocaine processing. Further, all of Cajanal's clinics were stocked with pharma­ CaliCartel orl tape : ceuticals purchased from Rodriguez Orejuela's pharmacy chain, La Rebaja. millions for Samper Despite the mounting evidence of corruption, Samper has received full support from outgoing President Cesar The current scandal first er$pted around a tape-recording Gaviria, whose Liberal Party sponsored Samper's presiden­ of three telephone conversations between "journalist" Al­ tial candidacy. First, Gaviria's Communications Ministry berto Giraldo, known as a Cali Cartel public relations issued a ban against any media reproducing further tran­ man, and the brothers Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez scripts of the tapes containing the explosive material on Orejuela, chieftains of the Cali Cartel. Samper. Then, in a public statement, Gaviria announced Giraldo was a columnist for the daily La Republica, that an investigation of the tapes would be pursued, but director of a television news show, and a writer for the expressed confidence that "this matter will dissipate when popular magazine Cromos, bwned by the multimillionaire [the new administration] proves that the fight against drugs Santodomingo Group, whi¢h is allied to Ernesto Samper will continue." In other words, Samper has already been Pizano and Alfonso LOpez tMichelsen. In 1981, Giraldo cleared of all charges. was press secretary for formerPresident Belisarlo Betanc­ To make certain of that, the investigation has been hand­ ur's electoral campaign. In other words, Giraldo was a ed over to Prosecutor General Gustavo de Greiff, like Samp­ "respected" journalist, although his unsavory ties to the er an ardent proponent of drug legalization. De Greiff s cartel have been public sindeat least 1987. daughter Monica was Samper's campaign manager during It was in that year that Giraldo requested a press inter­ the early part of his 1993-94 presidential bid. It is widely view with then-AttorneyGeneral Carlos Mauro Hoyos for expected that De Greiff, referred to affectionately as "the the newspaper he was working for at the time, El SigLo. old one" on the tapes, will endorse LOpez Michelsen's argu­ However, instead of showing up with a tape-recorder, ment that "Samper's prestige is the national patrimony." Giraldo presented the Attotney General with none other The vast majority of the Liberal Party-with the notable than Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, who handled the cartel's exception of former justice minister and ex-presidential can­ legal affairs. At the time, brother Gilberto was in a jail didate Enrique Parejo Gonzalez-has aligned itself with cell, and Miguel had hopes of winning his brother's re­ Samper, L6pez, and Gaviria, as have the country's leading lease. business associations. The debate in the L6pez-dominated Attorney General Hoyos reported the incident to the media has not centered on whether Sampertook cartelmoney press, which led to Giraldd's sacking by EL SigLo and to or not, but rather on "what were the obscure intentions of his being named in the book Los Jinetes de La Cocaina those who taped the conversations."

34 Feature EIR July 15, 1994 government's honeymoon into the shortest in history, which in freeing itself of Dope, Inc.'s clutches. Although there could prove good on day one for the opposition, but which are clearly elements in the Washington which are working could have an immense cost for the accuser." Wrote El on behalf of the drug legalization lobby, there are also those Espectador journalist Maria Jimena Duzan, "What bothers who are horrified at the implicationi; of a Samperpresidency one is not the presence of 'hot money' in the campaign, in Colombia. Outgoing U. S. Amb¥sador to Colombia Mor­ which is an undeniable reality of the country, but the oppor­ ris Busby met with Samper in Bog.,ta shortly after the scan­ tunistic and low way in which Pastrana manipulated the dal broke to seek "clarifications," and yet, when Samper information in the cassette." visited New York the last week in June, he was grilled in Despite the accusations and threats, Pastrana has stuck his hotel room by two senior State Department officials on to his guns, insisting that "nothing will stop the change we the charges against him. According to State Department have begun. I pledge to continue working to keep this alive." spokesman Mike McCurry, "We . . . obviously saw a need Already, his brother's newspaper La Prensa has begun to to raise the issue again. We want somevery precise clarifica­ target Alfonso L6pez Michelsen as "the man who introduced tions about allegations that have been made." Ernesto Samper to the drug trade business." As Pastrana's La Prensa noted in a recent editorial, isn't How the Clinton administration responds to the Samper this the time for "all the other tapes" in the possession of scandal could well determine whether Colombia succeeds authorities everywhere to be given a public airing?

(Cocaine Horsemen) as the Cali Cartel's public relations vous Giraldo at one point, while referring to numerous man. The adverse publicity notwithstanding, Giraldo was meetings with "Santi" in another conversation. Giraldo is hired by La Republica. In 1989, Hoyos was kidnapped instructed to tell Medina that the money will arrive in two and butchered by drug mafiaassassins . separate shipments. In one of the taped conversations, Rodriguez Orejuela Also implicated is retired Army Gen. Miguel Maza asks Giraldo, "How's the Samper thing going?" to which Marquez, who spent four years as director of the National Giraldo replies, "The presidency is in your hands." To Police's intelligence department andanother four yearsas win the vote, Giraldo explained to the cartel boss, "they director of the state security agency, the DAS. For a long need 5 billion pesos [$5.8 million] . They have 2, and need time there had been rumors that Maza worked for the Cali 3 from you." Rodriguez Orejuela responds, "Done." In a Cartel, and that he had privately backed Samper's drug later tape, Giraldo says the Samper campaign needs more legalization efforts. Maza was a presidential candidate in money, and the cartel boss says, "We've already given 4" the May 29 firstelectoral round, and won 40,000 votes. billion pesos. On June 5, as the candidates prepared for the run-off vote The Cali Cartel's "aid" to the Samper campaign was, on June 19, Maza threw his suppo and presumablyhis of course, not without strings. In addition to the "five 40,000 votes-to Samper. In the *-�apes, Giraldo asks his appointments" to the Samper cabinet the cartel intended boss for an unspecifiedamount of looneyto give to Maza to purchase with its donation, its principal demand is that Marquez, and insists that it be in c sh. it be made clear that cartel members "are decent people, Not only was Maza Marquez * torious for his refusal peoplewho want to legalize their lives, who have all their to prosecute the Cali Cartel, as helnp did the rival Medellin lives helped people." Cartel, but he was also made an viser on drug matters On the tapes, it is clear that Samper wanted the money, to Venezuelan President Carlos� Andres Perez, whose but at arm's length. One can hear Giraldo inform friendly relations with certain prOlpinenti Colombian nar­ Rodriguez Orejuela that "Number One [Samper] met with cotics traffickers is a matter of riublic record and who Eduardo [Mestre Sarmiento] and told him: 'Do what you today sits in a Caracas prison for dbfrauding his nation. have to, but don't tell me about it; do what you have It is noteworthy that Maza ad�itted to the media that to." In response, Rodriguez demands a commitment from he met with Samper Pizano and Samper's defense minis­ Samper: "This business of 'don't tell me about it,' we try appointee Fernando Botero Z4a, at the apartment of don't go along with that." Mestre Sarmiento is a Liberal Alberto Giraldo; but neither Maz nor Samper have ex­ Party regional boss with longstanding ties to Gilberto plained why Maza's decision to,* throw his support to Rodriguez Orejuela. Samper was negotiated in the apartment of the Cali Car­ Samper's campaign treasurer, Santiago Medina, is se­ tel's go-between. Surely the maJjl who was director of riously implicated in the tapes as well. "We spoke to Colombian national security for ight years must have Medina already, relax," Rodriguez Orejuela tells a ner- known about Giraldo's underworl�F links.

1 1994 ElK July 5 , Feature 35 the election passes, legalization goes up." September 1984: EIR publishes a Special Reportentitled "Narco-Terrorism in Ibero-�merica," which describes Samper Pizano as the "ColombIan contact man for the U.S. dope lobby. " Our record against April 1991: EIR publishesI another Special Report, "Bush's Surrender to Dope, Inc.: How U.S. Policy Is De­ Samper Pizano stroying Colombia." It asks wh a Sept. 29, 1980 "blacklist" drawn up by the U.S. State DepartmentYr against granting 1978: Lyndon LaRouche commissions the publication of entrance visas to Colombians suspected of links to the dope the book Dope, Inc ., in which Samper Pizano is labelled as trade , never included Lopez Michelsen and Samper Pizano, Colombia's leading drug legalization lobbyist, who collabo­ given their public record of ollaboration with the drug rated with the likes of President Jimmy Carter's drug adviser cartels. Dr. Peter Bourne, before the latter got kicked out of his post June 1991: EIR publishes I excerpts from an exclusive for illegally dispensing prescriptions to staff members . In the interview with Samper Pizano, t the time development min­ 1985 edition of Dope, Inc., also published in Spanish as ister under President Cesar Gaviria, in which he acknowl­ Narcotrafico S.A., Samper is described as the man who fun­ edges that he is closely coordin ting his country's free-trade I nelled cartel money into the Lopez Michelsen presidential policies with George Bush's "EAnterprise for the Americas" campaign in 1982. Both of Samper's mentors, Alfonso Lo­ initiative, which was specifically designed to attract foreign pez Michelsen and his banker cousin Jaime Michelsen Uribe, capital to participating countries by, among other things, are described by the book as key figuresin Colombia's branch establishing financialcent ers with flexiblere gulations, such of "Dope, Inc." as those created in Panama and arious Caribbean islands to July 1979: EIR publishes an interview with Samper Piza­ launder dirty money. no, made available by a news source in New York, in which Asked what message Samp r had for those pro-legaliza­ Samper not only describes his own proposals for the bilateral tion individuals and foundation in the United States "who (U. S.-Colombian) legalization of marijuana, but discusses had great hopes that you, in the governmentk , would do some­ his organizing efforts to win support within the Carter admin­ thing for their cause," Samper cryptically responded: "Well, istration and, he hoped , a subsequent Edward Kennedy ad­ ask me that question when I lea I e the ministry." Samper left ministration. Samper asserted that campaigning for legaliza­ the ministry in early 1992, to pa\(e the way for his presidential tion as a presidential candidate is not prudent, but that "when bid.

Ernesto Samper Pizano in New York in 1979, where he spilled the beans to a journalist on his strategy 0/ legalizing

drugs. EIR's 1985 edition o/ Dope , Inc. and its Spanish-language version, Narcotnifico S.A., pinpointed Samper as one 0/ the key figures in Colombia's branch o/ Dope, lnc.

36 Feature EIR July 15, 1994 on a firmer legal basis. If these contradictory events seem to suggest policy con­ fusion in Washington over the crucial issue of the Clinton administration's anti-drug effort, tbe perception is accurate. Brawl in Washington In the absence of a clear, top-dO\\ln elaborated strategy for conducting a war on drugs, the Clinton administration, like many other governmentsthroughout the hemisphere, has be­ over drugpo licy come embroiled in an heated behind-the-scenes battle over by Jeffrey Steinberg the proper direction to take in combatting the growing men­ ace of illegal drugs. The policy debate, here and in many Ibero-American On May 1, 1994, the U. S. governmentabruptly cancelled its capitals, has been colored by an aggressive drive by the dope policy of providing the governments of Colombia and Peru cartel and its allies to push for a total surrender in the war on with radar reconnaisance data from the high-technology drugs: legalization. AWACS monitoring system that has been crucial in their The policy battle was first brought home last year, when efforts to track and interdict illegal narcotics flights. The Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders qlade an off-the-cuff state­ action elicited cheers from the drug legalization lobby, and a ment that she favored a study of th� possible benefitsof drug flurryof protests from Ibero-American governments and anti­ decriminalization. Both the President and his drug policy drug officials of the Clinton administration. adviser immediately issued statements categorically re­ Equally abruptly , one month later, the administration jecting the Elders idea, but the DrUg Policy Foundation and announced that it was considering a new Executive Order other pro-legalization advocacy grCllups jumped on the Elders that would not only restore the data collaboration, but would call and have been attempting to peddleit ever since as a sign for the first time permit Thero-American military and police that the Clinton White House is actUally unenthusiastic about to use the intelligence to shoot down civilian aircraft that the counter-narcotics program. were clearly engaged in drug smuggling. Sen. John Kerry As recently as July 7, Lee Brown again had to come out (D-Ma.) has introduced legislation authorizing the use of the in an interview with the Washington Times, reiterating that surveillance data to shoot drug-running aircraft. "We do not intend to spend one nickel to study [legalization] In an effort to underscore the administration's ongoing because we know the problems o( drugs: They bring about committrnentto the drug war, a parade of officials appeared misery and despair, and all too often, death." on June 22 before joint hearings of the House Foreign Affairs In the same interview, however, Brown admitted that Subcommittee on International Security, InternationalOrga­ President Clinton had made a "mistake" in allowing drastic nizations and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on West­ cutbacks in the budget and personnel of the White House ern Hemisphere Affairs, to reinforce the push to restore the Office of National Drug Control li'olicy. And, although the AWACS data collaboration and pre-empt any appearance of fiscal 1993 drug war budget reach d an all-time high of over abandonment of the counter-narcotics collaboration. $12 billion, critical Pentagon antji-drug� programs, beyond White House drug policy adviser Brown read a statement just the AWACS data sharing, were shut down because they into the record which began: "I am announcing today that the were accomplishing too little. i administration will ask the Congress to enact legislation that would permit the President to waive existing criminal code The one-worlders provisions on acts of violence against civilian aircraft if the Inside the administration, there are voices beyond El­ President determines that a country faces a national security ders's that are pro-legalization. *,ichard Feinberg, former threat from the trafficking in illicit drugs and that the country director of the openly pro-Iegaliz*tion Inter-American Dia­ has appropriate procedures in place to protect innocent air­ logue, is the chief National Securi y Council staffer for Latin craft. . . . The temporary suspension of sharing certain types America. What's more, there are� !other officials at the State of information with the governments of Colombia and Peru Department and elsewhere who, While not necessarilyhard­ is not reflective of any desire to change this administration's core advocates of legalization, dd favor the stripping down policy of giving full support to the democracies in Latin of national sovereignty in favor o� increased involvement by America in our mutual fight against illegal narcotics smug­ the United Nations and the Organ�zation of American States gling. " in the internalaffairs of the hemisjhere. Those one-worlders Brown explained that an interagency review of the U. S. oppose the kind of close counteHnarcotics cooperation be­ policy had led to the temporary suspension of the data shar­ tween the U.S. and Ibero-Ameridan governments, because ing, and had also produced the decision, announced at the such efforts naturally strengthen the national militaries and hearings, that the President would seek a "narrow change" in police forces, thereby strengtheni�g some of the coreinstitu- the law to permit the renewal of the intelligence cooperation tions of national sovereignty. 1

EIR July 15, 1994 Feature 37 �TIillInternational

A sea-change is taking place in Japan and Korea

by Kathy Wolfe

Japan Socialist Party Chainnan Tomiichi Murayama was South Korean President Kim Young-sam and North Korea's elected prime minister in the Lower House of the Diet on Kim II-sung are an historic opportl1nityfor the United States, June 29, in an unusual alliance with the Liberal Democratic Japan, and China as well-a chance to move East Asia out of Party(LOP) , an adversary of 40 years. Contrary to the howls a war zone, and into the 21st century. A major multinational from the Anglo-American media, "this is not a Socialist gov­ program for high-technology inve$tment from Southto North ernment," a top Japanese intelligence source told EIR on July Korea, led by nuclear electric power, bullet trains, magnetic 7. "It is a conservative government with a Socialist prime levitation transport, science citie$, and water infrastructure, minister, which exists at a higher level" than party politics, could reunify Korea with growth.: he said. If North and South Korea cooperatedon constructingnew The new Socialist-LOP government is "a sea-change," reactors with U.S. aid, one U.S. officialtold the Washington the source said; its fonnation is meant to help President Clin­ Post of July 7, "it would be an enotmousleap forward toward ton to cool down the Korea crisis, and to help create an nonnalization"for all three . atmosphere in East Asia in which the economic development of North Korea and China can proceed. Asian development quadrangle South Korea, meanwhile, is "cautiously optimistic," one Such a high-tech boom across Korea could lead to the official toldEIR . about high-level talks which opened July 8 nuclear electric power development of China's enonnous in Geneva between North Korean Vice Foreign Minister market, and become the centerpieee of a Eurasian high-speed Kang Sok-ju and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert rail grid from Tokyo to Moscow via Seoul, Pyongyang, and Gallucci. President Clinton has accepted the original 1990 Beijing. As President John Kennedy's launching of the Apol­ proposal of then-South Korean President Noh Tae-woo for lo Moon-landing program showed, a dollar of government "a broad and thorough" discussion of the entire North-South investment in such "science-driver" technologies creates at relationship, Gallucci told a conference at Georgetown Uni­ least $10 of private investment in ,new industries. versity in Washington on June 29. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, EIR Founding Editor In exchange for a freeze on Pyongyang's plutonium pro­ Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. , propQsed such a science-driver gram, the United States will discuss diplomatic recognition program for the "European Productive Triangle," beginning for North Korea and "assistance in moving from graphite with a high-speed rail grid from Paris,to Berlin, to Vienna, [plutonium 1 reactor technology to light water reactor technol­ to reunify Gennany with such infjrastructure projects. Spurs ogy," Gallucci said. "Light water technology is superior as to Moscow would have brought �astern Europe and Russia an energy source, and it would have proliferation benefits." into this 21st-century development. He noted that Japan and South Korea have authorized the But under pressure from Britain's Margaret Thatcher­ United States to discuss "bringing their technical and eco­ as she brags in her memoirs-and from George Bush, both nomic assistance to North Korea" in financingand rebuilding Gennany and Russia instead chose the shock therapy pro­ the North's nuclear plants. grams of the International Monetary Fund. This has led to The Geneva talks and the July 25-27 summit between dis-investment, decay, and the ,threat of communists re-

38 International EIR July 15, 1994 turning to power from Berlin to Moscow. and the creation of the huge and cancerous derivatives mar­ East Asia has a chance to avoid this, and build a "develop­ ket, which has become Wall Street�s biggest headache. ment quadrangle" of infrastructure crossing from Japan, Deregulation plans written by the previous government through South and North Korea, into China. If this window of Tsutomu Hata and Ichiro Oza� would have created the of opportunity is missed, the result will be not only possible first-ever international derivatives market in Japan. Now, war in Korea, but an economic crisis in China far worse than however, a Tokyo Finance Ministryofficial told EIR on July that in Russia, with consequences that threaten the region. 2 that the Murayama cabinet has put this off. Finance Minis­ ter Takemura was until recentlyin ashimoto' s conservative The new government in Tokyo wing of the LOP, the official noted,a agrees with Hashimot9's Japan's new "odd couple" Murayama governmenthas a views, and in any case has no inte ational experience, and number of interesting features, if considered fromthis Asian so expects to rely on Hashimoto.p'! The Murayama govern­ strategic standpoint. First, "President Clinton will find Mr. ment, said the source, will not allow a foreign derivatives

Murayama very useful in dealing with North Korea," the market in Japan. I Japanese intelligence source told EIR . "Mr. Murayama has Finance Minister Takemura and the rest of the cabinet had ties to Pyongyang for years." Japan's Socialists have have also taken a strong stance against currency speculation long traveled back and forth to North Korea, a relationship and pledged to help President Clinton try to stop the current looked upon as obscure in Washington, but as a long-term crash of the dollar as bestthey can. "We must pay our biggest investment in Tokyo, where planning proceedsover decades. attention to the rapid riseof the yen," Takemura said on July Murayama, the source pointed out, "is not some sort of 1, denouncing "speculators who Should expect to get their wild revolutionary, but an old trade union man, the fifthson of fingers burnt" if they continue to dump the dollar. a fisherman, who worked for the National Railway System." London and New York outlets are already complaining The majority ofJapan 's new cabinet is composed ofLOP loudly. The Wall Street Journal of July 1 called the new conservatives who have been eager to avoid a Koreanwar and governmenta "Counter-Reformation" against the Hata-Oza­ to work for the economic development of the region. "We wa deregulation program. will aim to resolve the dispute over North Korea's suspected nuclear plans through peaceful dialogue, and try to avoid Korean-Russian cooperation sanctions," Vice PrimeMinister and Foreign Minister Yohei In Seoul, meanwhile, talks about the nuclear power­ Kono, chief of the LOP, told the press on June 30. The new based reconstruction of the North opened in the Parliament finance minister, Masayoshi Takemura, a former LOP Diet on July 5, and there has even beeq discussion of mobilizing member who has met with Kim II-sung, has also come out the science sector of the Russian elConomy for this purpose. against sanctions or military action against NorthKor ea. The "It was a very close call; there ne�ly was a war," oneSeoul London Financial Times on June 30 denounced both Kono official told EIR , "and those whol talk about war, have no and Takemura as "pacifists"for opposing war in Korea. idea what it would mean, if afteI1 40 years of building up our country, it were to all be des�yed. But we agree with British schemes are on hold everything President Clinton did-l-and now we think it's a Kono, Takemura, and Murayama are also opposed to very good idea to offer the NottQ new light water reactor expansion of Japan's role in the British-controlled Vnited nuclear technology, as part of a qroad package of negotia­ Nations, whose International Atomic Energy Agency tions, including full diplomatic relations with the V.S." (IAEA) has constantly provoked the Korean crisis by making South Korean Prime Minister Lee Yung-dug told Parlia­ demands for intrusive police powers upon the already para­ ment on July 5 that "if North Korea guarantees its nuclear noid North Koreans. The three Japanese leaders oppose revi­ transparency, we will seriously cOl.sider aiding the North, in sion of Article Nine of Japan's Constitution, which forbids cooperation with the V.S. and international community, for Japanese troop participation in V.N. deployments where the conversion of its nuclear reaCltors to those of the light fighting occurs. They even plan to slow down Japan's push water system. . . . If South and Nprth lay the foundation at for a permanent seat on the V.N. Security Council. the [July 25] summit for mutual trust and cooperation, we On economic policy, the Murayama government has put can envision wide-scale economic cooperation, including plans for trade and financial deregulation in Japan, plans joint advancement of overseas construction marketsand joint previously demanded by Wall Street and London, on hold supplies of electricity and energy. '1 for now. A significant appointment is that of former LOP President Clinton is now studying the idea that Russia Finance Minister RyutaroHashimoto as head of the Ministry could give North Korealight water nuclearpower technology of International Trade and Industry (MITI). In 1990, Hashi­ which would be calculated as rep�ments for South Korean moto coined the term "financial AIDS" to describe the Wall loans to Moscow, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported. Street disease which London and Washington were de­ South Korea extended a $3 billion loan to Moscow just before manding that Japan implement, by importing such specula­ the two countriesestablished diplomatic relations in Septem­ tive methods as junk bonds, bank reserve ratio deregulation, ber 1990, most of which is now in pefault.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 39 Yasser Arafat makes triumpQal' return to Gaza andJeri cho by Dean Andromidas

The four-day triumphal tour of Gaza and Jericho by Yasser and there are many attempts to sabotage and destroy the Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization peace of the brave. This is the way we are all requested to (PLO) , marks one more milestone on the rough road to peace defend this peacebecause this peace-is for all of us-Israelis between Palestinians and Israelis. It marks the success of the and Palestinians." peace process initiated by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Commenting on Arafat's visit, Israeli Foreign Minister Peres and Arafat, with the backing of President Bill Clin­ Peres, who was the key Israeli "*>ver behind the peace pact, ton-a peace which is premised on a broad-based economic said, "From the depths of my ht!!lll1, and without hesitation, development program not only in the Palestinian territories, I wish them well. This visit marks the implementation of but in the region as a whole. the autonomy agreement; we were serious when we signed The tour's success demonstrates that the forces working the Cairo pact." to derail that process have been stymied. The Palestine Na­ Following a July 3 cabinet rqeeting, Prime Minister Yit­ tional Authority has been inaugurated, with Arafat as its zhak Rabin, in his more pragma* language, likewise vowed president, and if the authority manages to obtain crucial eco­ that the peace process "will continue," and that Israel has "an nomic resources, it could pave the way for the formation of interest in strengthening the elements among the Palestinians a truly autonomous Palestinian state. that want the accord." The fact that the foreign-financedIsraeli opposition failed in either preventing Arafat' s arrival, or mobilizing significant Foreign-backed opposition falters national forces, also represents a clear setback for the oppo­ The Israeli opposition had vowed to bring 250,000people nents of Middle East peace. Nonetheless, the World Bank, to Jerusalem to demonstrate in <>rder to stop Arafat. But in which holds the purse strings to over $2 billion in financialaid fact they only mustered 10,000-20,000people-far less than committed to the Palestinians, continues to block sufficient the 50,000 they were able to mobilize right after the Oslo funds for even the day-to-day functioning of the authority , agreement was signed last October. Comprised mostly of the let alone the start-up of major developement projects. Israeli settlers' movement, the opposition is backed primarily by foreigners, the most important of which are in the circles 'Peace of the brave' of the Canada-based Hollinger Corp. and the U.S. Anti­ Speaking before 70,000 Palestinians on the first day of Defamation League (ADL) of B Inai B'rith. In the evening of his return to Gaza after 27 years of exile, Arafat developed the second day of the tour, 3,� demonstrators rampaged the theme of national reconstruction: "I want to remind you through East Jerusalem, attacking Palestinians and damaging that we have a big mission ahead of us-a big mission to houses and automobiles throughout the area. Another noisy build this homeland, to build our institutions, and to rebuild demonstration held in front of the prime minister's offices the institutions that Israeli occupation destroyed." He went chanted "Death to Arafat" and "R.abinis a traitor. " The dem­ on to pay homage to the Palestinians who died at the hands onstrators attempted to seize buildings, and scores were ar­ of the Israeli gunman in the Hebron massacre of last Febuary , rested. and declared that his arrival was only the beginning: "We Emerging from their cabinet meeting on July 3, the minis­ are going from here to the mosque [in Hebron] , going to ters charged that the demonstration was a "call to revolt." Nablus, and Jenin, and Tulkarm, and Qalqilya, and Bethle­ More telling was the latest poll cQnducted by the Begin-Sadat hem, and Beit Sahur, and Beit Jala, and Ramallah, and then Center for Strategic Studies at Sar Han University, showing shortly to Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Jerusalem! to pray there." that 59% of all Israelis back di�t and public negotiations The list is of the most important towns and cities in the with the PLO-the highest proportion since the signing of West Bank. He went on to say, "Peace has many enemies, the agreement.

40 International EIR July 15, 1994 Economic fight is crucial lize $1 billion to invest in light indUstry, agriculture, housing The sabotage of the economic underpinnings of the construction, tourism, and bankil1g. agreement continues to be the Achilles' heel of the accord­ Germany has meanwhile beco�e the first European gov­ a fact known quite well by the World Bank, which persists ernment to open an economic and techniCal office in Pales­ in obstructing the process. In another speech in Gaza, Arafat tine. The office will coordinate ¢velopment proje.cts, and lashed out at the World Bank's stonewalling: "I completely will aid and assist German compa ies interested in investing refuse any controls by anybody on Palestinian autonomy, in the Palestinian territories. Th�sq move follows a recent except by the Palestinians themselves. We didn't finishmili­ agreement between Arafat and tl!1e German Daimler-Benz tary occupation to get economic occupation." He charged industrial giant for assisting the �alestine National Author­ that despite over $2.4 billion pledged by international do­ ity. The office is already dr.lftibg a master plan for the nors , "All promises from the donors have evaporated." development of infrastructure, including roads, railways, Arafat was seconded by chief PLO negotiator Nabil and water treatment. Shaath, who told reporters, "All the internationaloffers are only ink on paper, and haven't been implemented. My feel­ ADL changes tactics ing is they are just promises, promises, promises." He But the opposition to durable" development-based peace pointed to the double-dealing tactics of the World Bank, in the Middle East, has been far from idle. At the end of and referred to promises only made in June. "Last time in May, an ADL delegation led by its National Director Abe Paris, we were promised $42 million, but suddenly the Foxman was in Israel for a "fact-pnding" mission, and met World Bank sends an employee telling us, 'We decided to with Prime Minister Rabin, DepQty Foreign Minister Yossi give you $10 million, because we have a budget problem.' Beilin, and the leader of the oPPQsition Likud party, Benja­ The World Bank is asking me to make my people pay taxes, min Netanyahu. Although they did not meet this time with the same as the Jews were taking from me"-a reference former defense minister and Hepry Kissinger crony Ariel to the Israeli taxes that the Palestinians had to pay to the Sharon, they did address a group of parliament members in Israeli government. a seminar on "anti-Semitism." The criminality of the World Bank was underscored by One result of the visit was a stgned commeJ;ltaryby Fox­ Arafat, who told reporters that Gaza alone needs at least man in the Hollinger Corp.-ownePJerusalem Post charging $30 million a month just to survive. With almost 1 million "LaRouchites," among others , with anti-Semitism. Foxman inhabitants, Gaza is the most densely populated place on knows all too well that he is lyini, and that his real targetis the planet, where most people live in poverty, and where LaRouche's "Oasis Plan" for ecopomic development, based unemployment is over 50%. Arafat said the World Bank on regional infrastructure and ma,�sive development of nucle­ policy would be forcing his people into "starvation." ar energy for electricity an

EIR July 15, 1994 International 41 Documentaryfilm on Russian crime is presented in Washington by Rachel Douglas

On a visit to Washington, D.C. between June 17 and June plus stockpiles of rare-earth met�s from defense plants and 24 , Russian film director and member of the State Duma of use the hard currency earned "to solve social and economic the Russian Federation (Parliament) Stanislav Govorukhin problems." (See excerpts from film script, below.) But the shocked members of Congress and others with his 1993 docu­ proceeds benefitted high officials and the swiftly growing mentary "The Great Criminal Revolution." The filmnot only mafia,not the population. depicts the perils arising from the impoverishment and crash In Khabarovsk, a city in Russia's Far East, Govorukhin criminalization of a nuclear superpower, but makes it diffi­ interviews a local godfather so rich and powerfulthat citizens cult for any viewer to deny that these were caused by the tum to him, not the government, t(l) solve crimes and personal particular brand of reforms carried out in Russia since Janu­ emergencies. Organized crime's replacement of the govern­ ary 1992, with the approval and often at the insistence of ment is, in the film director's words, the hallmark of "a western governments and the International Monetary Fund criminal-mafia state." (IMF). On the piers of St. Petersburg and Vladivostok, and at Govorukhin himself said at a June 23 press conference border crossings with Latvia and China, Govorukhin's cam­ that he should not be called a "critic of [President Boris] era recorded what the estimated $40 billion per year in capital Yeltsin's reforms," because "to say that I don't like Yeltsin's flight from Russia looks like: tons and tons of machinery, reforms would be a little bit like saying I don't like Mr. semi-processed metals, and even finished goods crushed to Clinton's novels: Clinton does not write novels, and Yeltsin be sold as scrap at dumping prices. has carried out no reforms .. ..What the West calls reforms Far from solving social problems, this looting has pulled is simply the total looting of the nation. " thousands of Russian children intcj, the criminal world. Chil­ The filmmakerencountered great interest during his visit, dren as young as nine years old are seen in "The Great Crimi­ which was sponsored by the Schiller Institute. More than 250 nal Revolution" as couriers in th� drug trade, washing cars people attended a screening of "The Great Criminal Revolu­ on Moscow streets (having quit sc�ool at 13), boasting about tion" at Georgetown University on June 20, and over 100 their lives of crime and alcohol Clonsumption, and robbing came to see it at the University of Maryland three days later. freight cars in the Far East. As trajn robbers, "Kids have the On Capitol Hill, Govorukhin was the luncheon guest of the most success. There are some real: aces. Each of them makes House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on For­ in a day more than a nuclear phys�ist in a year. " eign Policy, where parts of the documentary were shown. He At Arzamas-16, the Soviet nuc�ear weapons center, phys­ also met individual members of Congress. Both congressmen icists describe living in poverty after their labs were "thrown and those who viewed the public showings voiced horror at into the market," although they IJIIake no products they can "The Great Criminal Revolution." legally or morally sell. "We are digging graves," one says, while Arzamas-16 physicians teU of performing surgery Where crime pays without bandages, rubberglov es, or medicines. The film covers the two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the proclamation in January 1992 Did this have to happen? of "free-market" reforms under Yeltsin's then-Prime Minis­ " The destructionof Russia may seem profitable"to many ter Yegor Gaidar. On the screen are Russia's nouveauxrich­ in the West, Govorukhin said at his press conference. "But it es, the ex-Communist officials who got a leg up on amassing seems to me that any gain is shorl term, because the conse­ wealth when Gaidar decontrolled prices, and the mafiaking­ quences in the not-so-distant future could be extremely de­ pins who became their fellow travelers to billionairehood structive for western civilization. The transformation of a through extortion rackets. huge portion of the planet into a zone of crime cannot fail to Zeroing in on Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin's home base, Go­ have an impact on the criminal situation worldwide." vorukhin traces the events since Provincial GovernorE. Ros­ Govorukhin arrived in the United States amid a surge of sel's 1992 request that local firms be allowed to export sur- publicity about the growthof crime in Russia, in the Atlantic

42 International EIR July 15, 1994 MonthLy, National Public Radio, and NBC television, among other media. CIA chief James Woolsey and FBI director Louis Freeh have each testified in Congress about Russian crime, while the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division is circulating a dossier called "Eurasian/Eastern European Or­ ganized Crime." In many of these studies and congressional hearings, the emphasis is on the security of Russia's nuclear weapons: Will Russia become "the next North Korea?" "The Great Criminal Revolution" is of special use for such discussions, because it clearly shows cause and effect in Russian policy. For anybody genuinely concerned about the dangers of chaos sweeping Russia, it becomes obvious that the first step toward defusing those dangers is to reject the misery-breeding recipes of the IMF and seek ways for real economic development. Current American ideological blocks to such a realization came up in comments made to Govorukhin during his Wash­ ington talks, about how "every country, every market goes through a criminal stage in its development." This is an argu­ ment oftenused to justify the narco-mafia-dominated "infor­ mal economy" to which desperate citizens turnfor their sub­ sistence, in countries where state-sector industries have been dismantled on demand from the IMF. For his part, Govorukhin voiced the bitter anti-western Russianfilm director Stanislav speaks at a Washington press conference, introducing his film "The Great backlash that swept the Russian political scene after Yeltsin Criminal Revolution." ordered heavy artillery fireagainst thepr evious Parliament on Oct. 4, 1993 and met with approval from western countries. Despite the high turnouts for his film, Govorukhin said he the Russian Republic.) thought U. S. officials"had no use for this information. . . . In 1992, Govorukhin traveled to Vermont to film one They do not want to know." In his view, "the West" as a of the few interviews granted by Russian writer Alexander whole has only sought to profit from Russia's destruction. Solzhenitsyn during his long exile in the United States. The Asked what solutions he would propose , Govorukhin resulting two-part film, "Alexander Solzhenitsyn," was aired said at his press conference, "I'm a pessimist, and I think on Russian television, being the first reintroduction of the that all is lost. The only weak hope would be that in 1996, writer to the Russian people sinc his expUlsion from the there actually might be democratic elections. It's a very weak Soviet Union in 1973. hope, and, if I tell you the honest truth, I don't think there is His earlier films, Govorukhin sa·d, were promptly shown hope. On a daily basis, the new regime is violating even in theaters and on TV, even the controversial "This Is No I their new Constitution. The country is being run, not by the Way to Live." But now, when he is in opposition to Yeltsin's Constitution, but by presidential decree." regime, state-controlled Russian tblevision channels have not shown "The Great Criminal Re�olution." (This contrasts A best-seller with the generous publicity accorded oppositionist Vladimir Govorukhin was a popular director before he entered Zhirinovsky, whom Govorukhin c�aracterized as a provoca­ politics. The great success of his "The Rendezvous Cannot teur who has helped Yeltsin not only directly, by supporting Be Changed" vaulted him to national fame in 1979. his new Cons titution, but by enabling Yeltsin's group to In 1988, in Govorukhin' s words, he "struck out into say: "We may be bad, but if not us, then Zhirinovsky !") unfamiliar territory for me (as well as for the rest of our "At a certain point in working on the film," Govorukhin I filmmakers)-the genre of the documentary political pam­ has explained, "it suddenly dawned on me that our filmwas phlet." In the spring of 1990, his documentary on the impov­ going to be hopelessly late. I do not mean that in three or erishment of Russia and the criminalization of the young four months it would cease to be topical and its contents generation, "This is No Way to Live," influenced public would no longer be of interest to the audience. No, it would opinion and members of the Russian Republic's Supreme be too late, because the situation 'lith glasnost was deterio­ Soviet in favor of Boris Yeltsin's election as Chairman of rating so rapidly, we were going oackwards so fast, that it the Supreme Soviet, an outcome Govorukhin actively was entirely possible that by the time the film was done, sought. (One year later, Yeltsin was elected President of there would be nobody to show it t1 " Nowhere and nobody."

EIR July 15, 1994 International 43 He decided to transfonnhis film notes into a book, which Why not put a stop to this' process? Because it's not was under way when Yeltsin issued his Decree of Sept. profitable to stop it . Thousands df people live offthis opera­ 21, 1993, abolishing the elected Parliament of the Russian tion, from the high-ranking governmentofficia l or even cabi­ Federation. The author wove into his narrative the events net member who issues the license, down to the small fry from that datethrough the shelling of the Parliament building who opens the door to his superior's office. by heavy artillery on Oc t. 4, which ended the deputies' Treasures of the past, works (J)fart-but of course chiefly resistance to the decree. He obtained dramatic eyewitness oil, fuels, non-ferrous metals---'-all this goes to the West interviews with deputies and Parliament staff members who through the countries of the Neat Abroad. Earlier, caravans were inside the building when it burned. of cargo streamed out almost totally in the open. Now our The book version of The Great Criminal Revolution sold border guards have managed to detain some of it-most of out a first edition of 100,000 copies and was serialized in all , copper. ...We observed this madness everywhere, at regional papers, for a total readership in the millions. Before all the customs points on the border with the Baltic countries. the December 1993 elections, when Govorukhin entered the All of these metals are called strategic raw materials. "So Duma on the Democratic Party of Russia slate headed by what?" you might think. But if there should be, God forbid, Nikolai Travkin (though he is not a party member), the DPR a war, we would quickly realize what this means. did show two lO-minute excerpts of the film on national Estonia now occupies fourth place in the world, in the TV . export of nonferrous metals. Without having one gram of ore In an epilogue to the second Russian edition of the book, deposits of its own. It all comes fromcontraband and massive Govorukhin analyzes the events of Oct. 3 and 4--whether thievery. This little country, Whose respectable history the violent clashes at the White House and the Ostankino evokes nothing but sympathy, in the space of two years has TV Studio were "rebellion" or "provocation"---on the basis turned into a professional fence. � .. of voluminous video footage he has reviewed (see EIR , We have just scratched the surface of the looting of Rus­ March 25 , 1994, p. 51). He plans to make the September sia; already there are many questions. Not only metals, oil, and October 1993 events the subject of his next film. rare-earth elements, and gold are streaming across the bor­ der. Everything goes. Running ahead of our story, I will read you two lines from a contract, whereby the Krasnokamensk finn Centaur would supply the Chinese side 18 KamAZ Documentation trucks in exchange for 53,000 packets of chewing gum-18 tons ! 18 KarnAZes for 18 tons of gum. So when you buy gum for a child, you should realize that you have paid for it Made fo r television, Stanislav Govorukhin's "The Great twice-the first time, when we built the KamAZ plant. Do Criminal Revolution" is in three partstotalling 150 minutes. you remember how the entire country mobilized for that? It's Following are excerpts from the film script, translated from a typical example of our barter: The main thing is to draw up Russian by Rachel Douglas. a contract that is the least profitable for Russia. The less advantageous it is, the greater the sum of the deal being made From Part I, 'Russia: Wholesale and Retail' on the side, under which the buyer deposits a certain sum of All the piers in all the ports of Russia are literally over­ dollars in the seller's bank accoUint abroad. Has no one tried flowing with freight-to be shipped abroad. Timber, metal , to estimate the total deposits of Russian citizens in foreign rolled metal , non-ferrous metals. Commercial finnspurchase banks? They have tried. all these goods from the producers for rubles and sell them I will read you a document-a surviving one. The rest abroad-for dollars. At dumping prices that earn nothing for burned in the Supreme Soviet building on Oct. 4, 1993. the state. There was a fascinating archive there. The market is flooded with Russian metal . There is espe­ "On Feb. 18, 1992, [Yegor] Gaidar signed an agreement cially a lot of aluminum, for some reason. Do we have a with the American private investigators' finnKroll Associ­ surplus?No , our country is rich in mineral resources, but we ates, which undertook to determine the funds of Russian do not have any bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is individuals and companies on deposit abroad. In March, made . We derive our aluminum from alumina, practically Kroll was paid $1.5 million as an advance. But no results of from clay. This is a very expensive process. We import pure the Kroll finn's work could be found at law enforcement bauxite from China and Guinea. Imagine: Thousands of agencies or in the hands of the government." freighters carry the ore , then it is shipped across the country That is a report from the ptosecutor general's special by rail , and finally the ore arrives at the factory . We produce commission. So what do we have here? Nothing: no million the aluminum, the commercial finns buy it up, and then the and a half dollars, no results of the work. But I think that the same picture all over again-the trains, the steamers. The American detectives did their job,drew up a list of people aluminum departs abroad. having large deposits abroad, and handed the list to Gaidar.

44 International EIR July 15, 1994 I can well imagine his face when he saw the names ! They say to it. At the beginning of 1992, the chief of administration of that Gaidar was not looking for that money; he was looking Sverdlovsk Province, Rossel, requ�sted permission from the for Communist Party funds. They were looking for party government to export the surplus! stockpiles of rare-earth funds, but they found themselves! metals and other precious metals, 'which resulted from de­ The main argument of the apologists for the new order is fense industry conversion. It was proposed that the hard­ this: "Look, the shops have everything. It's expensive, but currency earnings from these exp()rts be used to solve the it's there ." Not just expensive-very expensive. We have region's social and economic problems. Rossel' s request was just shown you the cost of this abundance. What we are considered promptly. (This was J!I.Ot some walk-in, but a wasting and shipping abroad does not even belong to us. It fellow townsman of the President.) Here are the minutes of belongs to our children. We shall leave them barebottomed a government session run by Burbhlis (who also hails from and hungry, without deposits of ore, without forests, without Yekaterinburg; he taught scientific communism here). They oil, without technology. And they work only to pay the inter­ considered the request, they resol�ed to help and said, take est on the credits we lost down a bottomless hole. That is the the stuff, sell it, and solve your sOCial and economic prob­ secret of this abundance. And it could end very fast, as soon lems. For convenience, they even opened an international as Russia is completely looted. The secret of abundance is airport in Sverdlovsk. It all began with that "trivial" request. just one thing-the country should work well. But our coun­ Vanadium-5 ,OOO kg; gallium-5 ,OOO kg; scandium- try is not working and will not, until the situation changes 3,000 kg; zirconium, niobium, tantalum, indium-l ,000kg ; fundamentally. It must become profitable to work and dan­ osmium-50 kg. Incidentally, the internationalmarket price gerous to steal. At present it's the reverse: It is profitable to of a gram of one isotope of osmium. is as high as $150,000. steal, the state abets thievery and even pushes people in that For one gram! And here you have 50 kilograms. Lutecium, direction. In two years, the state has created, in the guise of cerium, yttrium, terbium. a class of property-owners, a class of thieves. The strategic reserves of our homeland began to flow to the West. At firsta thin stream, thep a deep river. There were From Part II, 'Criminal Russia' already substantial currency earnings, but requests continued Yekaterinburg is a city teeming with business. Strange to come to the government to set new quotas and issue li­ business. As soon as we set up our camera on a busy street in censes. For example, there was a 10-ton zirconium surplus, the city center, two guys came out, all pumped up, and asked but licenses were issued for 329 tops . "Who are these people? Who gave permission?" They made The trading companies became fabulously wealthy. Mil­ threatening gestures. They could have smashed our face lionaires mUltiplied as if by gemmation. This touched off a in .. .. huge wave of crime lower down Ute ladder. Of course the Last year the boss of the city's Central group, Oleg Vag­ common criminals were not abo't to sit there and watch in, was killed. Coming out of a doorway with three body­ while the commercial firms got l!ich at no risk. "Time to guards, he was shot at pointblank range by masked men with share!" they said. A large number of gangs specializing in submachine guns. Vagin was by no means underground. His extortion sprang up in the city. The commercial firms began hideout was not in the Ural taiga, but he lived in a prestigious to form their own combat units in reponse. They outgrew the building, where Governorof the Province Rossel lives. Next needs of self:defense. They are growing and growing, and door lives the brother of the President of Russia, Mikhail look at the results. The soldiers Of the mafia. The combat Yeltsin. units of organized crime. A whole army . Security personnel showed us the video "Vagin's Funer­ Are we not living in a criminal state? But our leaders al." [It shows] thousands of young people, the strong, well­ constantly shout about democracy. We are the democrats, trained, reliable footsoldiers of the country's criminal army. they say, and those who oppose u$ are dragging things back We call them "the pit bulls." I hope those amiable dogs will to barracks socialism. The reverse is the case, gentlemen. forgive us for using the term. Every city has its army of pit You are the ones dragging us b.ckwards�to a criminal­ bulls. Stop anywhere on the street and look around-you'll mafia state , the outlines of which began to appear under pick them out of the crowd. They are all dressed alike, the Brezhnev. We, the whole peoplei tore our way out of that same hairstyle, they are about the same age. It is a well­ starting in 1985. The entire people J all of society was thirsting organized force. It has been created over the past two years for the changes. And we achieved a lot, without the help of as a powerful support base of the regime. the Gaidars and Burbulises. They Were still corrupting people These youngsters will never get a real job, they will never with communist propaganda. learn to operate a bulldozer, or a machine tool, or put their In these two years all the frel!doms we achieved have nose to the grindstone of science, or defend the Motherland. been disfigured and slashed. Why: do you put on a face that They have discovered what easy money is, and they know does not belong to you? Your face is quite different. It's the the sweet taste of blood. one you will go down in history with. As the creators of the What happened in Yekaterinburg? There is a prehistory Great Criminal State.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 45 Interview: Gen. Martin Spegelj and Prof. Sdravko Tomac

'If you want peace in theBalkan s, lift thearms elllbargo against �roatia'

Gen. Martin Sp egelj (ret.) became the head of the War School But there is another option:! to make the victims of the of the Yugoslavian Army before the Serbian war. His last aggression in Croatia and Bosni�-Hercegovina able to fight, offi cial militarypost was as commander of the 5th military with the assistance of the Uni�d States and other friendly zone of fo rmer Yugoslavia, the most important, which in­ states, through aerial support, �nd thus solve the problem cluded Zagreb and Ljubljana. He retired from duty a fe w through a direct war, a direct co(lftict. months before Yugoslavia broke up . When the Serbs Of course, there are other !well-known options, all of launched the aggression against Slovenia and Croatia, Gen­ which would do very little to stpp the aggression and all of eral Spegelj had intended to fu lfillthe agreement with Slov­ which, practically speaking, lea to rewarding the aggressor. enia and join in the military defense of Slovenia against the For instance, the earlier Genev4� proposals for the partition Serbian attack and to prevent the Yugoslavian Army, as it of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Either ,I in my opinion, they do not was evacuatedfrom Croatia,from removing the heavyweap­ solve anything, or, they bring �ce at any price, which will, onry at the same time .. this policy was not that of President in a year or two, simply get us a(lotherwa r. Franjo Tudjman. General Spegeljwas removedfr om his post In short, I am for the equal status of two options: political as defense minister in 1991, before the fa ll of Vukovar . He is and military. But in order for a pOlitical option to be effective, now politically active, and works with the new opposition a military option must precede i1. movement "Libertas, " led by Zvonimir Separovic, Srecko lurdana and other Croatian patriots. EIR: What do you think of thtl state of the Serbian armed

Also taking part in the interview was Prof. Sdravko To­ forces and the supply situation? I mac, member of the political science fa cultyat Zagreb uni­ Spegelj: Serbia has much oveI"ef;timated its military capabilr versity.He is aformer vice president of the Croatian parlia­ ity. That happened because no �erious fight has so far been ment, and in 1991 was briefly a minister in the "democratic put up against Serbia. They h�ve some superiority in war unity" government of President Franjo Tudjman. techniques, and they have pract.cally limitless access to am­

The interview was conducted on April 29 in Brussels by munition. It's an open secret tllat they get significant help Katharine Kanter. from Russia, China, Iraq, and otltercountr ies. But their weak point is the quality of men th�y have at their disposal, a EIR: The most important in war is the concept of victory . weakness for which they will nQt be able to make up. Unlike How shall we win the war against Serbia? their victims, who are, in these! terms , on much more solid Spegelj: First, you have to realize who is the aggressor and ground. who the victim. Serbia is the aggressor, but not one which cannot be conquered. EIR: What do you mean by the quality of men? We need the application of force by the international Spegelj: Economically, Serbia is going through a real catas­ community, to block the border between Croatia and Serbia; trophe. It underlies all this. A si gle significant defeat on the and between Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, liftthe embar­ battlefield for Serbia, would lead� to her final defeat. My go against Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, demilitarize position is that Serbia is weak, aJId must be defeated. But the Serbia, establish the autonomy of the provinces of Kosova world does not allow this. The world has tied our hands, and Vojvodina; the conditions would then exist for refugees while giving the Serbians free rein. That is the absurdity of to return to Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. the modem world. This could be done and would bring a just peace. The aggressor would be defeated, and the victims would not take EIR: What about England and, her control over the United revenge. Nations?

46 International EIR July 15, 1994 Spegelj: I will be open. I think the official British policy In the final analysis, Croatia is far too small to solve the has been negative, and remains so, in this terrible conflict. problem of the InternationalMonetary Fund; only the Ameri­ England's official policy is to partition Bosnia-Hercegovina, can state policy can actually crack this problem, because which will benefit Serbia alone. the recession, unemployment, and the lack of industrial All obstruction to any effective response against Serbia, growth are all the fruit of the IMP's policies, which have has come from the British side. That is a fact. nothing to do with development; but rather with purely The British should tell us what their motives are . I draw financial concerns. your attention to the very real obstruction by Gen. Sir Mi­ I agree with the analyses of th� Schiller Institute on this chael Rose in Bosnia, who has been observing the military issue, which are the deepest ones I have had occasion to action. Practically everything from the side of [British "me­ see . The British, and a part of the American policy structure, diators" Peter] Carrington and then [David] Owen-all this stand behind the IMF, in the background, and are part of was a skillfully performed Serbian policy, in fact. So I the cause. evaluate official British policy as absolutely negative. The present policy of England may well lead to the same EIR: In Croatia itself, you must get the Krajina back, but results as [British Prime Minister Neville] Chamberlain's it seems that the present government is not committed to did in his time, unless other powers in the world oppose that. this. Spegelj: In this ocean of absurdities, this is one more , that the Croatian government is not committed to getting those EIR: Do you mean world war? occupied territories back, unless it can be done without the Spegelj: Yes, a European and world war. The relations of use of armed force. Whereas, the Serbians say that they the United States and Russia contribute to it. The United have got those territories by force of arms, and they will States is trying to keep Yeltsin in Russia in a tolerable state, keep them. For us to say that we will wait for them to be so [the Russians] get concessions concerning the Serbian returned peacefully, is like saying you would join steel to issue. But Russia will never be preserved if Serbia is to be water: You cannot do this without the use of force, and the upheld in her aggression. whole Croatian people will very soon become aware of it. We cannot stand for this kind of status quo much longer. EIR: U.S. Vice President Albert Gore went to Russia in In my view, the occupied territories in Croatia will be October 1993 and said of the International Monetary Fund, gotten back only within the context of the Bosnian-Hercego­ that the IMF stinks, that we should stop this nonsense, that vinan war, and only by the use of llI111ed might. I have first­ we should lift the IMF conditionalities against Russia. hand knowledge, and unfortunat¢ly, I am persuaded that The IMF went to Zagreb in April, and called for setting without the use of force, nothing . will be achieved. But to up a 'blue zone" as a condition for credits to Croatia. In this end, there must be marked changes in Croatian policy, this manner, the IMF has been directly involved in the whereas the present government will not take the necessary conduct of the war. steps. We are determined to change this, and the forces of Spegelj: I will only say that the real help to Croatia is either change have become more numerous and stronger, perhaps , concessions, or participating in building its own objects, than even the government; but, they are not formally in which means, no credits. Credits are a tragedy for Croatia. power. Because of the unstable state in Croatia, the capital doesn't We shall not get back the occupied territories without flow in. We have a vicious circle of blockade, because fresh war. So you may expect war in Croatia as well. This has capital can enter Croatia only on the basis of self-interest, to do with how we shall defeat the Serbian aggressor every­ which is lacking because of the instability. So when my where. President, Tudjman, speaks optimistically about foreign as­ sistance, help from abroad, that is illusion. Humanitarian EIR: That's what you meant when you said that it has to aid, fine, but this is not what we really need. be seen in the context of the war in Bosnia? Tomac: The policy of the International Monetary Fund is Spegelj: Exactly, yes. to drag East and West into the catastrophe. This is one of the worst world problems. Major clashes will occur because EIR: What about Unprofor pea¢ekeeping forces and the of that. United Nations, and the way they use so-called humanitarian The Russian experience should teach something to the aid in Bosnia? Croatian government. It should not fall into the same Spegelj: Regrettably, I have nothing positive to say about trap .... that. They act under the influenceof [U.N. Secretary Gener­ The promises of the International Monetary Fund were al] Mr. Boutros-Ghali and of official British policy, and bait for the Croatian government;but they will bring nothing. they thrust aside any other policy,' such as that of Germany.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 47 The U.N. policy is "peace at any price," cease-fire at tatives ofthe United Nations in Cl10atiaand Bosnia-Hercego­ any price, to separate the annies at the line of Serbian vina, and a bigger bypass: The : United States and Russia territorial conquests, and then get around to "solving" things are directly communicating over! the negotiations. over countless years. That's why Mr. Owen feels neglected. My personal In other words , what the aggressor has taken, belongs opinion is that he should withdraw into the dungeon where to him, and the victims' losses are for them to swallow. For he used to be. Either he and his people understand nothing, us to accept such a thing is an absolute catastrophe. These or they work for money. The resplt of their work directs us forces, the observers, and the purveyors of humanitarian aid to this kind of accusation that I have just made. are acting upon those premises, so the U.N. is now like the The Croatian and Bosnian governments fell into the trap League of Nations before World War II: impotent in every of Geneva, too. They started dni.wing up these maps, tun­ respect. nels, viaducts .. ..Only a naive child would not see through Owen when he starts speaking abput tunnels and viaducts­ EIR: Bosnians have told me: It's lucky for us we don 't a miracle of naivete ! But the CI"OIatian and Bosnian govern­ have the artillery and tan ks, because if we did, the British ments accepted this as serious. ' Unprofor troops would find them immediately and destroy them. It 's lucky for us that we have to conduct a partisan EIR: Now they have a "contact igroUP," as they call it, set war with only infantrymen, because otherwise, the British up in London. The British speak of a four-month cease-fire, would make sure that all of our heavy equipment was de­ during which the "future map of Bosnia" is to be discussed. stroyed. And they said that the British are strangling every In mid-April, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher main road. said in a joint press conference with the British Foreign Spegelj: Please do not comparethe British with our fighting Secretary Douglas Hurd; that n01lx>dy thinks that we can go capabilities. If we had not "taken care" of the British, they back to the way things were at tlte beginning. would be beaten by the dark by now . That is, they would Spegelj: I don't know which "beginning" he means. What have been killed. beginning did he have in mind? the creation of the world? The British forces are very small, very dispersed. They Then he's probably right. are not dangerous for anyone--except in the intelligence This four-month cease-fire and a firmer peace is an idea service. They have been sent to do intelligence jobs, not to coming out of Washington. It m� be useful. Serbia has not solve military questions in Bosnia-Hercegovina. finished her military operationsj she has not attained the core of her aims. What Serbiai has taken so far, cannot EIR: Intelligence for the Serbians in Bosnia? survive without the final objective of the operation. Spegelj: Yes, exactly. But militarily, they're insignificant. In other words, time is not on Serbia's side. The victims Otherwise, it's our territory and we have utter superiority could exploit this opportunity . I 40 not mean that we should upon it. The British have nothing to look for there. Should await God's mercy, but rather, I prepare ourselves for the we be brought to the point where we must enter a phase of final battle . Any attempt to "solye" this with map tracing, guerrilla warfare , for Serbia and her supporters it will turn or whatever, will only touch off another, wider war. to a debacle. In that case, we shall transfer our military Serbia must be demilitarized� Bosnia-Hercegovina must activities to all the other areas-to Kosova, to Vojvodina, retain her internationally recognited frontiers, and the same

Macedonia. We shall attack where we want; not where the applies to Croatia, without any separatism or "states within enemy expects us to . a state," and so on. These are th� only maps that will secure peace in the Balkans, and perhllps even European peace. EIR: It's a good idea. Should we be forced to enter a prolonged war, of uncertain Spegelj: Only then would all the roads be blocked. It's not outcome, we shall internationalize the crisis militarily, just what you say, that the British already control them. It's not as we have internationalized it p<)litically. We shall broaden so. the conflict. We shall have no �ther choice but to spread Imagine 600,000 guerrilla fighters equipped with mod­ the war, to bring the great powers before a /a it accompli, ern weapons entering the fray; this is possible when they and make them do what they halVe to do. enjoy the support of the people-which we have. That is why I don't believe that the British will start attacking somebody. EIR: You spoke of Vojvodina. and said you would take the war into Kosova. i EIR: In your view, should we break off these Geneva talks, Spegelj: Yes, but also, form alliances abroad, with coun­ all of this palaver? tries which will come to our aid, lind then we shall no longer Spegelj: I think the Geneva talks are already broken. There allow Unprofor to control our toads and so on. Because is no more . A kind of bypass has been done around Geneva they have only been protecting the aggressor. The great and Norway. From the United Nations, through the represen- powers chose the policy, and we shall respond to it.

48 International EIR July 15, 1994 Interview: Rabah Kebir

'It is time to tell theAlge rian government to stop the violence'

While in Paris fo r the D-Day celebrations, President Bill of billion dollars, but they cannot u�e the funds to help devel­ Clinton announced that his administration distinguishes be­ op the country, to do something for the welfare of the people. tween "mainstream Islam" and terrorists operating under So the economic situation is worse than before . Islamic labels, and that it was opening relations with the Islamic Salvation Front (FlS)in Algeria. EIR spoke to Rabah EIR: Considering the amount, cOJllpared to the $9 billion Kebir, spokesmanfor the FlS abroad, in early Juiy. annual debt service bill, it looks as though Algeria is gaining

nothing. i EIR: How do you characterize the current situation in Al­ Kebir: The money will go in one pocket and out the other. geria? It's important to see that the politic:al solution to the crisis is Kebir: The situation in Algeria today is very far gone, first inextricably linked to the econom.c solution. They are the of all on the political plane, because there has been no prog­ same thing. If a political solution, is not found, there will ress. Although the current government talks of dialogue, it never be an economic solution. has not taken steps in that direction. It is still practicing violence, and in a terrible fashion. For the firsttime Algerians EIR: Those who organized the rescheduling did so in hopes are seeing this kind of violence. For example, the police it would stabilize the situation. But the IMF conditions­ come into the villages and take citizens who are so-called devaluation, internal interest rate bikes, import cuts-have "close to the mujahedeen," and execute them in front of the only aggravated the social conflict. people, in broad daylight. They have repeated this several Kebir: Because of this, prices have soared. We have issued times. It's the concretization of the policy of the former head a document on the IMF deal and on the Algerian economy, of government, who said that the "relationship of fear" had which should be available in Engli�h in a couple of weeks. to be reversed. Although the Malek government was re­ I placed, the policy continues, which means that Mr. Zeroul EIR: Do you have your own econCl)micprogram? is either not master of the situation, or that he is not sincere Kebir: We have a political progratn, which gives the broad [about dialogue]. We are witnessing things that did not occur outlines of economic policy. We h*ve a special commission even in the colonial occupation period. of economists who are working on �e program.

EIR: Why is this happening? EIR: How do you see the Clinton administration's opening Kebir: It's a kind of revenge. They come into a city, and up contact with the PIS? tell the people, if a policeman dies in the city, we will kill ten Kebir: We view the new position pf the Americans as very inhabitants of the city. It's an attempt to drive a wedge be­ positive. It was a change that was necessary , in order to have tween the people and the mujahedeen, but it will not work, relations based on respect for the Algerian people. It is time because the victims are simple citizens, not terrorists. So the to tell the Algerian government to $top the violence-which situation from this point of view is very deteriorated . is what the Americans said-and make clear, that it's time to returnto dialogue, to seek a political solution. The Algerian EIR: And from the economic point of view? What has the government says one thing, but then its deeds contradict it. effect been of the agreement reached between the govern­ We had contact with the Americans before Clinton made ment and the International MonetaryFund? his statement. We talked about the same issues we have just Kebir: This policy cannot work. We are opposed to the been discussing here-the IMF. And, unfortunately, we did agreement with the IMF. We've talked about this subject not have the same point of view. They say: The rescheduling with the Americans, and with others . We said, we're against is in your own interests, in the interests of the PIS. The it. They have a different point of view. For us, the effect of population does not accept rising ppces, which creates more the IMF deal will be to make the rich richer and the poor problems for the government. They say: It is necessary for poorer. The rescheduling will give the government a couple Algeria to be a part of the interna.ional economy. We say:

EIR July 15, 1994 International 49 i The Clinton administration decided: We are co nvinced (hat the Islamic Salvation Frontis politicala reality in the country, and that nothingcan happen in Algeria without theFIS . They reached this conclusion, and as a result tried to establishcontact with us.

That's not the case; the IMF policy is not in the interests of EIR: Are you unanimously in favor of contact with Wash­ the people, and-there you have it-we took note of the fact ington, inside the FIS , or is therelopposition? that there are diverging viewpoints on this matter. But, on Kebir: With the politicians, there is no problem. They see the other hand, the political aspects, above all the need for a that the Americans, and others, for that matter, have a pro­ sincere dialogue with the FIS , this was clear, this is a point FIS position. Certainly, it was :said: You Americans had we held in common. Because if there is not a serious dialogue positions previously which were inacceptable, you supported with the FIS , as a political party, with its historical leader­ the dictatorship in one way or anc:,ther. They tried to deny it, ship, and if there is not the opportunity for internal dialogue saying, no that's not true. We showed them then, that on a within the FIS , among its cadres, to reach clarity, then the certain date , Mr. So-and-so said �uch and such. One official situation will worsen by the day, and the most extremist replied that if Mr. So-and-so sai4 that, it must have been his elements will gain control of the situation. "personal opinion." But, in spite of this, they apologized. So, therefore, clearly, there is a serious change that has taken EIR: Can you say something more about the talks with the place. Americans? Kebir: As I said, there was a divergence on economic poli­ EIR: Did the Americans define �onditions or parametersfor cy. They said it would be in our interest in the long run, the dialogue? I considering membership in the Club of Paris and so on. And Kebir: For the moment, no. Fdr the moment, the basis of that's the point on which we differ. the discussions arethe five conditions issued in December.

EIR: What did you propose? EIR: Of the FIS? Kebir: We said: We do not accept the rescheduling package. Kebir: Yes, that's the basis. Belcause it was after that press We accept cooperation between states. The rescheduling deal conference [in Bonn] that the Americans asked for contact. is against our interests because Algeria has already paid out They encouraged the idea of d�ogue. At the same time, [in debt service] more than the total amount of its foreign they raised questions about how one could concretize the debt. It is impossible to continue to follow such a policy. We dialogue, given that one of the fiveconditio ns, was that those have specialists who are studying radical measures. responsible for murder in Algeria had to be brought before a court. They did not say something different, but they said EIR: Did you propose a debt moratorium? they thought this condition was a �ort of rejectionof dialogue, Kebir: We did not get to that stage. We discussed the idea because it is not easy to demanCi that those responsible for of having talks with our economists , to finda radical solution. murder in Algeria be put on triali and judged. That condition they considered very hard. On � other hand, that was at the EIR: How long have you had contact with the Clinton ad­ first meetings. I feel that they ate looking for a serious and ministration? feasible dialogue. Which means, they are not out to pose Kebir: Since December. conditions that block dialogue.

EIR: Did they seek out contact with you? EIR: What are the other considerations? Kebir: Yes. Kebir: The Americans insist a$ always on the question of human rights. For our part, we �ave our assurances on this EIR: Why do you think they decided to do so? point, and for the future . We explained that we, the FIS , Kebir: They said: We areconvinced that the FIS is a politi­ have no problem whatsoever with this. We gave them all cal reality in the country, and that nothing can happen in guarantees. The other thing, regardingfre edoms in general­ Algeria without the FIS . They reached this conclusion, and political freedom, individual freedom, freedom of expres­ as a result tried to establish contact with the FIS . sion, freedom ofthe press, etc . ...:....we have no problems with

50 International EIR July 15, 1994 this. For our part, we told them, these freedoms are guaran­ the historical leaders of the PIS , aimong them Abdelkader teed. They received this quite well, and they saw that the Hachani, the head of the provisiofllli executive office of the PIS , with this commitment, can be a valid interlocutor. So, FIS , who has been in prison since january 1992. He is in a when at a certain moment, a French minister said that the FIS serious situation, he doesn't even have the right to go outside was a terrorist organization, the Americans replied, no, that's into the courtyard, he's in total isolation, it's a catastrophe. not true , the FIS is not. They had already had contacts and If the Algerian governmentfre es these men, and if the PIS is they knew a bit about the views of the PIS on certain issues. given the opportunity to meet and have discussions, then I This does not mean that the French don't know the same; think, despite the gravity of the sit�ation, that a solution is they know it very well, but the French want to demonize us. possible. Without this, things will get worse day by day. The government will never be able to master the situation. EIR: What is the French position now vis-a-vis the FIS? Kebir: I think the French problem is domestic, it is not a EIR: Have you, as a Muslim fon:e, taken any initiatives question of foreign policy. I mean, there is the problem of regarding the U.N. conference on l!>opulation slated to take the presidential elections [in 1995] and that plays an impor­ place in Cairo in September? The conference program calls tant role. In my opinion, their view of Algeria is quite similar for massive depopulation in the developing sector, and a one­ to the Americans'. In their reports to the Americans , the worldist government. French say that the Algerian governmentwill fall in the com­ Kebir: This is old hat for us. The! Islamic movement has ing months, that it's not durable. But at the same time, they taken a clear position against birth cpntrol long ago. The FIS say that this governmenthas to be supported. It's contradicto­ is against birth control completely ,I and is conscious of the ry . According to well-informed sources in France, the right seriousness of the issue. The only f*mily planning we allow wing is trying to have a clear, fixed line up to the elections, is what a man and his wife, on an inpividual basis, do. It is a and the line is support for the current Algerian government. personal question. But as for a birlih control policy, that is This is for electoral reasons. I think that the French are anti­ unacceptable. In other words, family planning is all right, Islamist. At a certain level, there are contacts with the but limiting births is not. A man an(l his wife may decide to French. We know that the French are convinced that the have two or three children, for now, for the moment. They Algerian regime will fall, and that the PIS is an absolutely may decide the number of children .hey want to have within strong, clearly definedreality in Algeria, but from the point a certain period of time , and then, later, decide to have more . of view of the press, and in statements by the foreign and This is a matter of organizing the family, economically, and interior ministers, they are all anti-Islamists. This is a matter so on. But if it is said that each famil� is allowed to have only of playing the French electorate. one child, no, that is forbidden by Islam.

EIR: How do you see the situation with Germany? EIR: Some malthusian lobbyists hllve tried to use the case Kebir: Germany ...Germany is always Germany. I don't of Iran, which has introduced birth control measures, to say know . The Germans receive pressures from the Algerian that Islam allows this. There is talk pf revising the Hadith to government. The Germans support the regime, and thus eliminate contradictions with birth Qontrol. place themselves against democracy, and against the people. Kebir: I don't think that's so. The Hadith are the sayings of Up to now, no German officialhas tried to talk to us, to meet, the Prophet; one can't tamper with tJIem, or with the Quran. contrary to what others in Europe have been doing. The Maybe theShi ' ites in Iran see it differently, but in the Sunni German position is not normal, we don't understand it. world, that's impossible. My wife and I have five children, and the sixth is on the way, God wil,ing! EIR: What about Italy? Kebir: Certainly, the Italians, as well as the Spanish, want EIR: How do you evaluate developments in Yemen? contact. It's just the Germans who don't. Kebir: Yemen had elections, had Ii constitution, and with the results of the elections, it legally and democratically EIR: And the British? chose a solution. What [southern: secessionist leader] al Kebir: The British, no, perhaps because they have limited Baidh did was the result of outside forces, who wanted to relations with Algeria. The British have assumed an anti­ manipulate the situation in the cOlllntry. I do not think al Islamist position. Baidh would have dared do what ! he did without foreign help. There had been war before ,between the north and EIR: What does the dialogue with America mean for the south, there had been the unificati<)ln under the north. The perspectives of your relations inside Algeria? press talks about the "north" and the "south" but the "north" Kebir: If the Algerian governmentwants a negotiated solu­ is actually the legal government, cbosen through elections. tion, which even foreign countries have been pushing, then I think the situation is on its way tP being stabilized, God pressure has to be put on the Algerian government to free willing.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 51 Conference Report

Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses meeting in Rome against CaIro '94

The Movimento Solidarieta, the Italian branch ofthe interna­ the history of this century, it should be clear that the racist, tional Solidarity Movement, jointly with Executive Intelli­ neo-malthusian policies based on the idea of Lebensraum gence Review. sponsored a conference on June 23 at the Hotel [the Nazi term for "roomenougb to live in"] and ofa superior Universo in Rome, in order to expose the United Nations plan race, leads to catastrophe, as already happened in two world to make the upcoming International Conference on Popula­ wars. She warned that if the Cairo platform succeeds, then tion and Development (Cairo '94) a general staffmeeting for at the U.N.'s World Summit for Social Development, depopulation and genocide. Among the 50 attendees were planned for March 1995, a U.N. dictatorship will impose representatives of the Catholic Church, religious pro-life or­ drastic population reduction measures, using the Internation­ ganizations, missionary centers , demographic experts, man­ al Monetary Fund as a bludgeon to force nations and govern­ agers of big industrial complexes involved in infrastructure ments into line. and similar projects, specialized media, and a group of stu­ Paolo Vitali, an expert from EIR , proved with a con­ dents on the front line in the fight in Italy and inside the densed history of the recent antli-populationgrowth promot­ Catholic Church against U.N. one-worldism. ers , and an analysis of the fabricated statistics produced to The conference was opened with a personal intervention create the "population bomb" hysteria, that so-called demo­ by His Reverend Eminence Cardinal Silvio Oddi, former graphic "science" is a fraud. He identified leading oligarchs, president of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, and such as the British Prince Philip of Edinburgh; Julian Hux­ one of the best-known and most outspoken opponents of the ley, general director of Unescl!l in the period 1946-48; and U.N. neo-malthusian program (see box). "Life is a gift of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, as the key organiz­ God," he said, "and we must not tolerate the caprice of those ers of the "cultural paradigm shift" of the New Age against who want to challenge the plan of God, deny His laws and the foundations of the Christian values and the ideas of the natural laws," he said. "This is why I personallyfind that growth and economic development. it is a crime to think about a conference which wants to The final speaker, Paolo Raimondi, president of the completely change the course of humanity. " Solidarity Movement in Italy i proved how the policy of The keynote speech was delivered by Helga Zepp­ economic looting and underdevelopment of the International LaRouche , who chairs the international advisory board of Monetary Fund has been directly responsible for the break­ the Schiller Institutes and heads the Solidarity Movement down of the economies of the developing sector, leading to internationally, and who has spearheaded an ecumenical famine, epidemics, and wars. These catastrophes, he said, campaign to shut down the Cairo conference. Mrs . Zepp­ are then used by the U.N. neQ-malthusians to paint a false LaRouche made the war on the Cairo conference into a picture of overpopulation. major theme in her campaign as the leading candidate of Presenting the audience with advance copies of the forth­ the Civil Rights Movement-Solidarity , the German branch of coming Italian translation of �e The Science of Christian the movement, in the recent European Parliament elections. Economy by Lyndon LaRouch�, Raimondi stressed that to­ In her address, which appears below, Mrs . Zepp­ day it would be a disaster if tne leaders of good will in the LaRouche recapitulated her 20-year fight against malthusian church and in the political sphere were to maintain the old depopulation and genocide. Back in 1974, she intervened separation between Christian ethics and economics. in the U. N. conference in Bucharest against the Rockefeller­ LaRouche has proven in his scientificworks that these moral sponsored "overpopulation" propaganda. In 1982, she creat­ values are economic science, the only practical one for a ed in Rome an international pro-life, pro-development orga­ policy of population growth and economic development. nization, the Club of Life, to challenge the pseudo-scientific During the intense discussion period that followed, a scenarios of The Limits to Growth of Aurelio Peccei's Club leading industrialist suggested that an exhibition of the great of Rome. infrastructure projects be organized by the Catholic Church The Cairo conference must not take place, Mrs . Zepp­ in Rome to popularize the existence of a workable alternative LaRouche argued, because if we have learned anything from to the depopulation utopia and economic depression.

52 International EIR July 15, 1994 'World could hold 40 billion people'

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

This speech was delivered by Helga Zepp-LaRouche. chair­ The just-published Human Development Report 1994 of man of the Schiller Institute in Germany. to a conference in the U. N. makes clear that what is at stake in Cairo. is nothing Rome. Italy on June 23. sp onsored jointly by EIR and by less than the first step toward establishment of a world dicta­ the Movimento Solidarieta. an Italian political party which torship, in which the U.N. bureaucratY and its sub-organiza­ supports the policies the international movementfo unded by tions is supposed to be endowed with quasi-dictatorial pow­ Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and her husband. Lyndon LaRouche. ers . To this end, a "world police," a World Court, a World Subheadings have been addedby the editors. Central Bank, a World Finance Minil>try , a World Anti-Mo­ nopoly Office, and a World Trade Oq�anization aresupposed If we have learned anything at all from the history of the to be established. The purpose of these organizations is sup­ 20th century . then it ought to be the understanding that neo­ posed to be-and about this the reportleaves no doubt-the malthusian and racist policies based on the geopolitical con­ forced reduction of the world popUlation and the disintegra­ ception of a "claim to Lebensraum" [the Naziterm for "space tion of the sovereign nation state . to live in"--ed.] for a master race, however it may be consti­ The issue in Cairo is supposed to be the general accep­ tuted , leads to catastrophe, as has already happened twice in tance of a policy of popUlation reduction . And then at the the case of the two world wars . Precisely for this reason, the World Summit for Social Development, scheduled for March United Nations population conference planned for Septem­ 1995, the instrumentarium for its implementation is supposed ber in Cairo must not be allowed to take place. to be consolidated. Should individual nations oppose the In more than one way, the attitude of the world public dictatorship of the United Nations Development Program toward the Cairo conference is a test case for mankind's [UNDP] , they will face not only drastic economic sanctions moral fitnessto survive. Since the world public seems to have and the policies of the International Monetary Fund [IMP] , become accustomed to a certain degree to genocide, sitting but also, as the special adviser of the UNDP Mabubhul Haq comfortably in their living rooms in front of the television, emphasized at a press conference in Washington, D.C., such watching the genocide in Iraq , in Bosnia, in Rwanda, to nations which do not subject themselves to the "Human De­ name but a few of the victims. now a policy is supposed to velopment Index" will also have to expect rebellions, as the belegitimized which has as its aim the reduction of the human example of the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico demonstrates population by one-half. (which was actually financed out of the North). If the world public now also swallows this, after every­ thing that has already happened, then this has approximately The fraud of 'sustainable development' the same moral effect as an ex post fa cto democratic vote in The Human Development Report 1994. written in a ter­ favor of Hitler's program of annihilation against the Jews minology which is otherwise copied, directly from Orwell's and the peoplehe called "useless eaters . " If the organizers of "Newspeak," describes the goal of '1human security" as the this conference are successful in their plan. it would indeed achievement of so-called "sustainable human development. " be the destruction of the foundations of our Christian human­ According to the UNDP, this is to be understood "as bringing ist history in Europe , as Pope John Paul II said: "The human human numbers into balance with the coping capacity of being himself would be the first victim of this policy. " societies and the carrying capacities of the nation. " At theInternational Conference on Population and Devel­ That is incredible ! That anyone dares to make such a opment in Cairo, not only are guidelines for reduction of monstrous and utterly unscientific concept as the idea of a population supposed to beestablished, which are intended to supposedly fixed "carrying capacity" of the Earth into the aim toward the option of the "low variant" of the U.N.'s foundation of his argumentation , only proves what disdain population projections-i .e., the reduction of mankind to the authors of the report have to the iintellectual level of the 2.5 billion individuals in the next 150 years; but also, quite political elites. And so it is quite consistent that these authors clearly, the issue is far more to get governments "on line," name Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill as since such a projection is patently absurd from a scientific the intellectual authors of such a program. economic standpoint. In view of the ideology of contem.pt of mankind of these

ElK July 15, 1994 International 53 intellectual ancestors, it is no wonder that "unchecked popu­ the Global 2000 Reportfor the Carter administration, which lation growth" is called the number-one threat to "human already at that time openly called for reducing the world security" on page 34 of the report. popUlation to 2 billion by the ear 2000-0nly six years Of course, the UNDP and the other U.N. institutions are from now ! Another co-author is� Paul Streeten from Sussex completely aware that these utopian ideas of a malthusian University, who saw to it that tile bureaucratic apparatus of U.N. world dictatorship cannot be realized as long as there the British Colonial Office was fullyabsorbed into the U.N. are still national sovereign governments. Consequently, the bureaucracy. report demands that expenditures of national anniesbe essen­ It is quite revealing that th4 official declaration of the tially stopped. There would then be no obstacle to a world­ French government on the Caitlo conference sees Malthus wide gunboat policy, and the "global peace dividend" could corroborated, because allegedly the idea that demographic growth has a negative effect is still an acute issue today [see p. IS]. But then, the French governmentlet the cat out of the ...a prqfe ssor qfdemogr ap hy and bag on what it is really worried about: The flood of immi­ grants which (according to this declaration) is a consequence sociology atCorn ell University, of demographic pressure, canndt remain without effects on Mayone Stycos, openly conceded the stability of the prosperous n�ions of the North! that the Cairocorif erence is in the Nazi eugenics, repackaged tradition qfthe International The issue at the Cairo conf�rence is therefore Malthus. EugenicsCon ference qf19 32; but he That much is openly admitted; but just as blatantly, the issue claimed thatfortunately a seriesqf is eugenics. In this regard, a professor of demography and sociology at CornellUniversity , Mayone Stycos, openly con­ sCientJjic advances has been made ceded that the Cairo conference is in the tradition of the in methodsqfb irthcontrol and International Eugenics Conferellce of 1932; but he claimed sterilization. that fortunately a series of scientific advances has been made in methods of birth control and Sterilization. There is a definite, if ironic usefulness to the fact that Malthus-the ideological basis I of British imperialism and then of course be used to pay foreign debts, and thus to keep eugenics-and the Nazi policy Of racial hygiene now appear the speculative bubble of the international financial system so openly in common company in relation to the Cairo confer­ inflatedfor a short while longer. ence. Both have not merely thel same ideological basis, but The demand is openly raised in the report, that a "global also a far greater historical interrelationship and affinity at demilitarization fund" and the proposed Economic Security their core than official historiography has cared to admit up Council should organize the demilitarization of the countries to now. concerned, and this should be treated as the prerequisite for The first to formulate the �vil notion of the "carrying financialaid and credits. Black on white, that means nothing capacity" of nations and of the planet Earth was not the other than the brutal application of the "food weapon" against "evil Parson Malthus," the paid scribbler for the oligarchical every country which refuses to accept the decrees of the interests of the British East Indlia Company. It was instead world government. the Venetian ex-monk and econQmist GiammariaOrt es, from Such a world police, and the already-familiar Blue Hel­ whom Malthus basically plagirutized. And Ortes himself ad­ mets , would then have the right to intervene into an entire mitted that he had taken his theo� of the "calculus of pleasure gamut of cases: mass annihilation of the population by the and pain" from Maupertuis, ani arch-opponent of Gottfried state in cases of starvation or denial of medical care, forcing Wilhelm Leibniz at the Acadeot'of Sciences in Berlin. people from their home areas, occupation or denial of the Ortes argued absurd theori�s such as the idea that the right to self-determination, and, of course, "destruction of prosperity of a nation remains (:onstant and proportional to the environment, appear to be obvious grounds." the number of its inhabitants, that there are furthermore no The World Trade Organization is supposed to have the differences between nations, �t reforms are not possible, right to completely liberalize world trade, and thus the right and that neither economic initi .. tives by the state nor other to unbridled exploitation of the developing countries or the reforms are possible. There is,1 according to Ortes, in any countries of the East. The Economic Security Council would case no possibility of raising the population's standard of then have the power to intervene against nations which op­ living. In the end, he admitted that the model for his theories pose this dictatorship. was Venice-the original model of the oligarchy and of The authors of the report include the chairman of the wealth, based on usury and etploitation practiced by the UNDP, James Gustave Speth, who was already in charge of few .

54 International EIR July IS, 1994 The basic problem with all of these oligarchical "econo­ mists" and ideologues, such as Botero (1544-1617), Ortes, Malthus, but also Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill, is the bestial image of mankind which is the basis of their perverted theories. If the human being is not fundamentally different from the animals, and is exclusively guided by the wish to achieve the greatest pleasure in his life, and to avoid as much as possible the experience of pain, then he is the perfect subject and slave, helplessly surrendered to the manipulation aimed at the maximization of the profit of the oligarchical upper class. The international eugenics movement, which developed in the malthusian tradition of British imperialism, was based on the presumption that humans should be bred according to the same criteria as horses and dogs, so that the greatest attention should be paid to the construction of bones, hair, skin, and similar characteristics.

The 1932 eugenics conference At the international conference held by the eugenics movement in 1932 at the American Museum of Natural His­ tory in New York City, and supported by the top families of the Anglo-American establishment such as the Harrimans, the man who would author Hitler's race laws, Dr. Ernst Helga Zepp-LaRouche at a political of the Civil Rights Rudin, was elected president. Hitler was universally admired Movement Solidarityin Germany, January19 94. She made the fightto stop the Cairo malthusians afocus of her party's by these circles as the one who would best be able to imple­ '94 campaign fo r the European Parliament elections in June. ment the racial hygienic measures thought to be necessary . An InternationalCongr ess for Population Science was ac­ tually supposed to have taken place in Berlin 1934, but it was series of predecessors on racial theory: "From the synthesis postponed to 1935 because "they wanted to gi ve German pop­ of the work of all these men, the Fuhrer of the German nation, ulation science the opportunity to present the population poli­ Adolf Hitler, with the support of the Interior Minister Frick, cy laws it had worked out, and which were implemented by the and guided by the anthropologists eugenicists, and social German government, and also the results of this scientifically philosophers of the nation, has undI erstood how to derive a based population policy, to experts from all countries." comprehensive racial policy of population development and The National Socialist governmentwas represented at the improvement, which promises to be epoch-making in the 1932 conference by seven ministers of the Reich, including history of race." A farsighted prognosis indeed! Dr. Camp­ the president of the Reichsbank directorate, Dr. Hjalmar bell continued: "This sets an example which other nations Schacht, and Dr. Roland Freissler, later president of the and races must follow if they do not want to lag behind infamous German Supreme Court. In the name of the con­ in their racial quality, their racial performance, and their gress, the acting president, Prof. Dr. Eugen Fischer, sent prospects for survival." a telegraph with "a reverential greeting to the Fuhrer and Whoever analyzes the intentions of the U.N. population Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler, whose far-sighted genetic conference without prejudices, car.not help but recognize and racial hygiene population policy will secure the future of that the governmentsof the North \\fhichagree to the aims of the German people." the Human Development Report 1994 (the governments of But this conference was not a meeting of the NSDAP the so-called Third World are in a different situation) have [National Socialist Workers Party] or the SS: One-third of adopted the mode of thinking of this Professor Campbell, the participants came from countries other than Germany, and of the Adolf Hitler whom he admired so much. and represented respected universities, academies, and sci­ entificassocia tions. Why I founded the Club of Life For example, Prof. Clarence Campbell from New York, In 1982, I initiated the creati09 of the Club of Life, be­ an honorary president of the Eugenics Research Institution cause I had become quite aware of just this tendency in who had already played an important role at the New York the policies of a growing number df institutions. Alexander conference, delivered a keynote speech on "The Biological King, notorious for his reforms in ducation policy and later Postulates of Population Research." He drew upon a long president of the Club of Rome, prbclaimed in an interview

EIR July 15, 1994 International 55 which we conducted with him, that the problem was that the tions cannot go because of the starvation, gang warfare , and proportion of the white Anglo-Saxon race had shrunk to 15%, epidemics. while the black, brown, and yellow people now constituted The operative policy of the governmentsI and leading in­ 85% of the world's population. According to him, it was of stitutions of the North, in Rufin' evaluation, is to construct a ' the utmost urgency that this trend be reversed! new Limes wall, just as was don during the Roman Empire, What the Jews were for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, the around the one-fifteenth of the �orld population which lives gypsies, the Slavs, and the "useless eaters ," is what the alleg­ in the zone of relative stability, 'rhilethe rest of the world is edly overpopulated nations of the so-called Third World are allowed to degenerate into chaos for centuries to come. today for the supporters of the U.N. 's depopulation plans. But there are far more brutal versions of such scenarios But even the inhabitants ofthe Mediterranean region no long­ from authors who feel no mortl scruples in the face of a er fulfillthe criteria for a pure Anglo-Saxon race-for which perspective such as what Rufina , least reflects. For example, reason these circles are jubilant about the "significant col­ the top strategist of the New Yo�k Council on Foreign Rela­ lapse" of birth rates in Italy. tions, Samuel Huntington, predicted coming wars between The parallels between the argumentation in what the Na­ civilizations, and he considers it unavoidable, if not desir­ zis said about the occupied territories of easternEurope , and able , that over 85% of the world ill be devastated for centu­ what the neo-malthusians say about the Third World, are ries by a new Dark Age, by wars WI' epidemics, and starvation. I' overwhelming. For example, Dr. Friedrich Burgdorfer, di­ So in Cairo, the issue will not be friendly family-planning rector of the Reich Statistical Office, made the prognosis at in calm and prosperous times; th� issue is an enforced reduc- I the Berlin World Population Conference, that in the year tion of the population in a worfd where the Rwandas, the 1960 , if the birth rates remained the same as they were at that Bosnias, the Georgias become increasingly numerous under time during the Third Reich, the Slavs would constitute over conditions of a steadily worseni�g economic crisis. To dis­ half of the European population, while the proportion of tribute condoms to the refugeesl in Rwanda and the victims Germans would sink to one-fourth . He illustrated his remarks in So,ni,-that ;, no ,area"" that i, tho p,axi, of tho with graphs, which are identical to those used nowadays to O. illustrate the distribution of populations. Another example: The late French geopolitician F.O. 1991: 5.3 T Miksche wrote in "At the present time, billion people live on the Earth . While the population in the western Cairo organ · industrial countries is growing by an average of only 0.5%, the growth of birth rates in the Third World is between 2% ',aggressorsag . and 3%. Only in the United States is the population growing at a rate of about 3 million annually; but over half of this is Excerptsfrom remarks deli ered byHis Reverend Emi­ accounted for by colored people, [so the increase in whites] nence Cardinal Silvio Oddi , ormer presidento/the Vati­ is by no means sufficient, together with Europe; to Hold the can Congregation for the C rgy ,' to jJ Rome conference balance against Asia, Africa, and Latin America. With the cosponsored by the Italian S lidarityMovement andEIR far higher rates of birth in most countries of the Third World, on June 23: within the relatively brief period of time of 30 years , for each 100mill ion people there will be only 10 to 12 million I have to speak at>out a pro lem I know up to a point, whites." Miksche concluded from this prognosis, that there which I know doctrinally, btl am not an expert on the would be "intercontinental race wars ," since the western subject. I have a personalf act which 1 would like to allow countries are practically inviting their future attackers to re­ myselfto tell you . I was bo into a fa milyof 14 children, store themselves by force of arms at the expense of the indus­ seven girls and seven boys, ne girl, one boy, etc . I have trial countries. told myself, alwayS thinkin about the Lord , jf instead Deja vu? These are precisely the premises upon which they had stopped at 10, I w d never have existed. So I the officialdeclaration of the French governmenton the Cairo am a gift of God. conference are founded ! Where has the spirit of the Resis­ And now we find ours lves facing somebody who tance against the Nazis gone? wants, out of a whim, to ke these creaturesbeing from The French author Jean-Christophe Rufin has performed bornwhom God has destin fOr'existence and in which a useful service with his book The Empire and the Barbar­ we can find something g , saying that there are too ians, pointing out that the unspoken but nonetheless real many people and this has 0 be avoided. I remember, · premise of the policy of the countries of the North, is that the again, a personal story , wh n I was 14: My brother was world is already split into two parts . Only 15% of the world . going to get married, and e night before, about mid­ is in a condition of relative stability, while 85% of the world oight, my mother made this speech: "Tomorrow you are , has become a zone of permanent instability, a new terra getting married. Remember at matrimonyis a sacrament incognita-an area where even journalistsor relief organiza-

56 International EIR July 15, 1994 United Nations! History repeated What is not openly discussed in the sanctimonious popu­ Consider the following quotation: lation debate, but what nevertheless defines the reality con­ "In the areas in question we ha�e to push a deliberately fronting the nations of the formerly so-called developing negative popUlation policy. With pro aganda campaigns, es­ sector (no one today speaks seriously about development), is pecially in the press, radio, movies, leaflets, shortbrochur es, the fact that the leading institutions of the North have now educational presentations and the like , the population must replaced the East-West conflict of the postwar period, with be induced toward the thought of ho� damaging it is to have the North-South conflict. many children. We must point to the costs which children What is at issue is the presumed tangible interest in Le­ entail, and then it should be pointJd out what could have bensraum for the "white Anglo-Saxon race," where the stan­ been bought instead. The great dang�rs to the health of wom­ dard of living is of course supposed to be maintained, even en which can emerge in births can be pointed out, and the if this be possible only at the expense of billions of people in like . the South and East. The credit conditions of the International "In addition to this propaganda, generous propaganda in Monetary Fund and the trade conditions imposed by GATT favor of means of birth control must be spread. An industry [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] leave no doubt specialized in such means has to e created. Neither the that this is the case. approval or dissemination of birth control means should be Lebensraum and high living standards for the white race, punishable, nor abortion. We ough� to absolutely promote and even so only for a small oligarchical upper crust: That is the establishment of abortion instituies. Midwives and med­ the issue: that these people find themselves in the tradition of ics can be trained to give abortions. The more professionally British colonialism as well as Nazi ideology-what can the the abortions are carried out, the niore the popUlation will victims do against it?-and, who in the materialistic and gain trust in this respect. Also physicians must of course be hedonistic-oriented North is going to even notice what is permitted to carry out abortions, without a violation of his going on? medical oath coming into question.

3 .% and should be treated as a sacred thing. 1 am going before these know-it-aUs who seek to' run the world, have the you )"hiJll to no obj ectivity. the tribunal of God without any re proach; do 'the oppose God betause they have same." And my brother did the same. We speak with conviction and pers asion, because birth . J have said to myse lf: These people who humanly ,0 is truly 'it gift of God, and becaus we can live on this th ink so simply, express what the will of God is on the Earth aspiring to that othe,r life for · hich we have been questionof life, and they are more intelligent and inspired created.,.. We are a simple matter, e are endowed with by God than these scientists wbo claim to be the ones to just one bOdy, but we h�ve someth g that goes beyond dycide how ma ny children should beborn into a family, . our earthly existepce, and that is w at counts. If not, we how many youngsters should grow up and develop, and would be at thelevel of animals, ab ' to talk perhaps, but are how many Should be suppressed. But who we, hUlJlan without this soul which is what disti guishes us truly from creatures,to be able to decide the destinies ofGod-to be the other earthlybeings . able to make and give the duties which God has not im­ Thisis what us, �is p which associates us on us, and to restrict God's ideas and the pennis­ more with the divinecount sthan)n with the human. This- is why Posed e sions which Godhas granted us? i evn personally I findthat it is a cn e to be able to think We cannot in our life be the aggressors against God; of a conference which wants'to c mpletely change the c we have to bethe hildren of God. We are born by God' s course of humanity, which wants 0 dictate how many will , we have an existence fromHim; we come from God , children a fami�y ought to have, w 'ch wants to dictate and we are on our way back toward God. These are the ' how many childfen shou!d be bo fundamental p�nciples of humanity which we must ke ep people, what is the numberof the, in mind: We cannot forget God . the various nations .. ..%, Even the pagans, even those who have not heard of This iswhy I say that I competel approve of what the the true God, have a concept of divinity. It may not be Ho ly Fatherd sai against this . Cai conference , which exactly right, but there is a concept of divinity. There is surel Y �!ls. aims contraryt o God's will, and we cannot .... something on which they depend, there is someone who collaborate in an action which goe against God I tetls,.them that in this worldthere is the tI;ue God. I ca�not hop<; that there will be enou gh go ' will, enough intelli­ a act differently from the l ws of nature. It seems such a gence, to reconsider theseprojects hich they have made, simple $ing-simple directives for those who are aware and rather returnto Goo's willand hat of the poor. It is 'Of, responding to God. It is possible that these scentists" my wish, li(ldI also say that i� is my prayer.. . '.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 57 "Voluntary sterilization is also to be promoted. Infant Bomb scares • mortality must not be combatted. Mothers must not be in­ But the population issue only!touches upon one aspect of structed about care for infants and children's diseases." the Cairo conference. If one replaced United Nations dou­ And finally, "Once we have converted the mass of the bletalk with the truth, one would have to call this conference [Russian] people to the idea of a one- or two-child system, the "World GovernmentConf erence." For, when a suprana­ we will have reached the goal we are aiming at." tional bureaucracy wants to seire the power in order to be No, this quoted passage is not a selection from the instruc­ able to decide who will be permitted to live and who must tions of the U.N. population conference for the so-called die, then it establishes a de facto world government; and no Third World; this quote is from Hitler's 1941 "Generalplan nation or government in this world has any sovereignty any Os1" ["General Plan for the East"] . By exploiting the raw longer! If governments agree to such a surrender of their materials and the food production in the occupied eastern sovereignty, of their rights-that is treason according to the

constitutions of most countries. i The issue in Cairo and, at the U.N. conferences planned for 1995, is the final realization of BertrandRussell 's utopia, Beginning in 1990 at the very latest, the establishment of a world government based entirely upon the population strategistsqf the neo-malthusian and pagan principles, and whose beneficiar­ ies are to be a small UNFPA [United NationsPo pulation oligarchical and predominantly British elite. Fund] have been engaged in a If one hears the term--

58 International EIR July 15, 1994 of the greatest threats to the national security of the United Empire, even though epistemologically they are a fraud; and States, against which, therefore , the food weapon may be these theories are responsible for almost all evil in history . applied. Governments of the Third World which would not volun­ What distinguishes man fro� the beasts tarily submit to the population reduction program, were to be In reality, history is the result of the creation of ideas; the forced into submission by that means-denial of credits by human race lives from the generation and transmission of the IMF, incitement of rebellion of starving populations, ideas, which are not communicated, with formalistic defini­ etc. , just to cite some of the weapons in this arsenal . tions, but in the form of metaphors. Human civilization is uniquely based on the monotheistic Prince Philip: Revert to paganism concept of the first chapter of GeQesis, which contains in How is such bestiality of thinking possible? Prince Philip, essential form all the laws of Creatiol1, and whose legitimacy husband of the nominal head of the Anglican Church who is demonstrated by the fact that man is made in the image and himself wants to be reborn as a deadly virus, in order to be likeness of God. The fact that man;is imago viva Dei does able to actively contribute to population reduction, summed not derive from the physical aspeqts, but rather, as Philo it up: At a conference in Washington, D.C., where the topic of Alexandria stresses in his commentary on Genesis, lies was religion and the environment, he demanded a return to uniquely in his power of creative reason. pre-Christian pagan cults. By imitating the creative capacity of the Creator, man This is incredible! What is hidden behind this cynical arrives at fundamental discoveries which are more and more sentence is the thesis that the pagan cults-for example the appropriate, which transform not only the physical universe, Gaia cult--consentto decisions ,for the "protection of Mother but also the behavior of man and the way in which he provides Earth ," whereas Christianity hinders such "pragmatic solu­ for his subsistence. Only man, and no other living species, is tions" because of its fixedidea that human life is inviolable. capable of this. This is the same cyclical concept of nature which per­ It is creative reason that makes man the image of God, vades the pre-Christian cultures and eugenics, and which furnishing the best argument against the concepts of the oli­ the followers of Darwin, Nietzsche, and the Nazis have in garchy. This confirms the inviolabilityof all human life, and common. the fact that there can be no slaves 011useless eaters. Creative At the international conference on population which was reason is also the only source of social wealth, because it held in Berlin in 1935, ClarenceCampbe ll, the American mem­ leads to scientific and technological progress and its produc­ berof theBritish Eugenics Societywho headed the U.S. delega­ tive application. tion, put it this way: "All life is nothing but the reaction of a Raw materials are not limited, as the neo-malthusians biological organism with its environment. All life, individual, maintain, given that every raw material is defined by the and collective, is nothing but the aggregate of such reactions. technological level which produces it. Human beings, insects, and plants areidentical in the fact that But another essential concept of the Book of Genesis, some individuals of a species are more apt thanothers to react which commands man to "be fruitful, and multiply, and re­ well to the environment. Therefore, we must get rid of the ill­ plenish the earth, and subdue it," is Qot a possible option, but born and raise the best." Campbell states that the survival of an ironclad law of Creation. "socialgroups" dependson how they "control thesoil on which they subsist," and on the group's battle to "acquire additional Christian economy land and broaden their geographic extent." As my husband Lyndon LaRouche, the economist, has This is the essence of British imperial geopolitics, but demonstrated, in his book The Scierzce of Christian Econo­ also of the Nazis' Lebensraum. my, and in other writings, demographic growth is indispens­ Naturally, the axioms from which the bestial thinking of able for the survival of humanitY,i and it is the principal the oligarchy derives-and with it, empiricism-arise from parameter for measuring economic development. a bestial conception of man. If human behavior is organized To cite only one central aspect of the book: In a function­ only around the hedonistic calculus, which aims at maximiz­ ing economy, both the energy-density of the productive pro­ ing pleasure and reducing pain to the minimum, where is the cess and the free energy of the process must increase. This is difference between mankind and the beast? This concept is a possible if potential population den!lity increases-that is, if hoax, just like the idea that good sense owes its knowledge the productive process is in the hand$ of persons who become only to sensory experience. It is not the concrete fact which more and more skilled and live longer and longer. "Be fruit­ proves something, but the way in which it is interpreted. Ordi­ ful, multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it," also narily, it is not an individual question, but a question of culture means that human beings must incrc:ase the degree of effec­ and of values and axioms which that culture transmits. tiveness of their dominion over natlJire. This is the law of the British empiricism is also a fraud, as aremalthu sianism, order of Creation, sanctioned by the Book of Genesis, and Darwinism, and the liberalism of Adam Smith. All these which can be demonstrated today b�yond any doubt with the ideologies only serve the exploitation policies of the British method of economic science.

EIR July 15, 1994 International 59 This law holds not only for one part of the population, I may allow myself to make a jo�e in this serious context, I which is bornwith light skin, and which, in order to maintain might say that there won't even be enough money for the its own power, uses junior oligarchies of black or yellow U.N. bureaucrats' paychecks. I skin, the so-called "hangers-on to power," or aspiring oli­ What we, as the Solidarity MPvement, the Schiller Insti­ garchs. God has created only one human race, whatever the tute, and the LaRouche movemdnt, are proposing, is a pro­ color of the skin, and has made it in His image and likeness. gram for global reconstruction 01 the economy with projects If the curve of demographic development is studied over which we have drafted over the ilast 25 years, starting with 2 million years of history of civilization, we discover some­ the project the British hate the most: the infrastructuraldevel­ thing significant. Up until the 15th century, the curve was opment of Eurasia. This means integrated systems of high­ very low, whereas in the last 600 years , from the Italian speed railways, roads, and wate�ays which go fromwestern Renaissance forward, it has increased in a nonlinear way. Europe to Russia, to the East, tQ China, to Southeast Asia, What makes the Italian Renaissance so important, and forming one bloc of developmeJllt. This Eurasian bloc is in why has no other civilization given comparable contributions fact the area of the highest conc¢ntration of technology and to the development of the human species? The answer is that highly skilled manpower whichj if developed, could bring only the Italian Renaissance, thanks to the spiritual conquests the world out of the hell of this depression. This is also the of the Council of Florence, found a social expression in area of the greatest population density, which could be a creating institutions which are inspired by natural law . This nucleus capable of feeding dev�lopment arms reaching the made it possible for everyone to have access to the national western coast of the United Stat;es and Africa; and it is via literary language, and fostered the emergence of the national these arms that massive technology transfers toward the de­ sovereign state as the condition for the participation of the veloping countries should in facti take place. individual in self-government. The Renaissance created in­ This proposal of ours is a pr�gram for global rebuilding, stitutions based on the Christian concept that all human minds for the creation of a New World £ConomicOrder inspired by are imago Dei, and turnedthis into a political reality. Despite Paul VI's encyclical Popu[orurlt Progressio. We want not the fact that the forces of evil-who in that period were only to keep the Cairo conference from happening, but also, centered in Venice-mobilized against the Renaissance, all with this initiative, to launch a me>vementfor global develop­ progress in science, culture, and political life goes back to ment and reconstruction. this Renaissance golden age. The idea of the Book of Genbis that man is made in the image and likeness of God, who Plust grow and multiply and We have reached a turning point subdue the earth, is not a new id a. In the 18th century,there History has now reached a decisive point, from several was a heated debate between thi$d current, representedon the standpoints. Above all, the world financial and monetary one hand by Ortes, Malthus, and later by the Darwinians,and system is arriving at its final breakdown. The bankruptcies on the other side by such thinker� as Johann Peter Siissmilch, which have been reported in the last period, such as Ferruzzi a German priest whowrote the bobkThe Divine Order, taking in Italy, Banesto in Spain, and Metallgesellschaft and the off from Genesis to demonstrate that this is the only basis for Schneider real estate group in Germany, are not isolated founding an economic system. In 1742, Siissmilch foresaw events, but are symptoms of the collapse of the financial that the carrying capacity of the �arthwould be 5 billion peo­ system which prove that the speculative bubble is a cancer ple, whereas it was only 1 bil1io� in that period. We can state that keeps on growing until it kills the patient. The collapse today that with existing technolo ies alone, the "carrying ca­ is not just the result of neo-malthusian geopolitics based on pacity" of the earth is at least 4OIgbillion people. "free trade," but is also the result of errors committed in My husband, Lyndon LaRo�che, has proved in various economic policy over the last 30 years-for example, the texts, including The Science o/ ¢hristian Economy, that de­ emphasis placed on the post-industrial society, and the cul­ mographic development and the !idea of the Book of Genesis ture of rock, sex, and drugs which has undermined the foun­ are truly the proof of economiC development. You might dations of our civilization. The race for quick profits has possibly say that God does not need Lyndon LaRouche to become manifest itself in the last 20 years in all kinds of prove that Genesis is right; but � does not hurt if somebody financial speculation, such as junk bonds, derivatives, and proves it from the economic s$dpoint, and thus makes it so forth , and is now reaching the day of final reckoning. more intelligible. I am deeply convinced that the world will Before long-in the coming weeks, months, or perhaps next only overcome the deep crisis ·into which we have fallen year-we must expect a global financialcra sh. today, if it makes the political apd economic ordercoherent The true danger, however, is not so much the crash, but with the laws of Creation. We: are at a decisive moment: the fact that no governmentis getting ready for this eventuali­ The oligarchic order must end. i For us, stopping the Cairo ty , or thinking about how to reorganize the financialsystem . conference is only the first step.i I would like to invite all of When I speak of a financialcra sh, I refer also to the collapse you to make the next step, whichiis that of bringinginto being of payments, such as pensions and the health care system. If a program of global reconstruction.

60 International EIR July 15, 1994 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Mendez

Zapatistas use blackmail claimed themselves to be the sole The terrorist Zapatista Army is putting the thumbscrews to the judges of who shquld governand what criteria will det�rmine whether the nation ifits outrageous demands are not met. Aug. 21 presidential elections are suf­ ficiently "democt!atic." Like the Inter­ American Dialo ue and some U. S. State Departmenf officials, they warn that the only test'of clean elections is acked by the rebel bishop Samuel itary intelligence has clearly identified whether the PRI Will hand power over RuizB , and with the support of the the risk represented by the Chiapas to the opposition; Washington-based Inter-American movement linking up with other guer­ On June 13, lhe bishop of Tuxtla Dialogue think-tank, the terrorists of rillas in the region, and if hooked up Gutierrez, Chiapas, Felipe Aguirre the Zapatista National Liberation to other European-based movements, Franco, who is a member of the Bish­ Army (EZLN) are threatening to pro­ could potentially transform Chiapas ops Commission for Reconciliation in voke renewed violence if the follow­ into the Lebanon of Central America. Chiapas, warnedl that the EZLN's re­ ing demands aren't accepted: the resig­ The government should therefore not jection of the government's peace pro­ nation of President Carlos Salinas de risk allowing operations inside nation­ posals is "a new declaration of civil Gortari, establishment of an interim al territory of a force with the fire­ war." government,recognition of the EZLN power of the Chiapas-based group." Responding in defense of the as a "belligerent force ," and conven­ And under the headline "Neither EZLN , Bishop uiz argued that the ing of a national constituent assembly Camacho Nor Samuel, But Instead the Zapatistas hadn*'� rejected dialogue, to rewrite the Mexican Constitution. President and the Army," the June 29 but rather meant ihat this process must The EZLN , which is based in the Siempre magazine editorialized, "at now be carried out on a national level. southern state of Chiapas and this moment, when we need defini­ But just a few days later, in an launched an uprising there on Jan. 1, tions and precision to clear up the po­ interview in the June 22 La Jornada, wants Mexicans to believe that if pow­ litical confusion dominating the na­ the EZLN's Subcommander Marcos er isn't handed over to them, the coun­ tion, it is necessary to eliminate one said that "we artn't proposing to sit try will be plunged into civil war. more lie: Neither former peace com­ down and negotiate with the govern­ While these threats aren't idle ones, missioner Manuel Camacho, nor the ment." Negotiat�ons are over, "be­ not everyone is prepared to give -in to bishop of San Crist6bal de las Casas cause what we e saying . . . is that the EZLN. Resistance is reflected in [Samuel Ruiz] are-as they have tried there is no need arto talk to a [PRI] gov­ the fact that the Army is intact and to make it appear-the authors of the ernment which' doesn't want to united, and much of the ruling Revo­ cease-fire existing in Chiapas. The change .... We're saying that we lutionary Institutional Party (PRI) real architects of that truce ...are the could talk to a different government stands behind presidential candidate President and the Mexican Army. which would result from the Aug. 21 ' Ernesto Zedillo. Zedillo has not sub­ "The undeniable perseverence of elections or froto the convention." ' mitted to the EZLN's blackmail, nor those two institutions prevented Chia­ The EZLN has proposed holding a to that of former "peace commission­ pas from becoming the site of a massa­ "democratic convention" of all oppo­ er" Manuel Camacho Solis. cre, even though the goal of the up­ sition forces in the small town of

In an article in the June 24 El Fi­ rising's leaders, of the foreign Aguascalientes, Chiapas prior to the nanciero, Federico Arreola, a close mercenaries who participated in it, election in order to rewrite the nation­ friend of the assassinated PRI presi­ and of Bishop Samuel Ruiz, was, and al constitution arideff ectively set up a dential candidate Luis Donaldo Colo­ still is, to transform [the EZLN] into a new "provisiona " government. sio, quipped sarcastically that "The national armed movement to over­ Marcos concludedi that "the only only war [EZLN] commander 'Mar­ throw the government and set up a possibility of avoiding war is to mobi­ cos' is winning, is being fought in the provisional one." lize prior to [Aug.] 21st, and then on pages of national and foreign news­ The Zapatista insurgents have the 21st or 22nd,' see if [Mexico] pas­ papers." dropped all pretense of defending ses the test of democracy." His threat On June 13, journalist Juan Ruiz their original banners of indigenism is that either thei PRI loses, or there Healy warnedin Novedades that "mil- and democracy. They have pro- will be civil war.�

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former East German State Security (the cooperation is being badly done, it is charac­ PDS makes gains in Stasi) and the former East German commu­ terized by an extremely dangerous disequi­ German state election nist party (the SED) reveal that East Berlin librium." officialshad opened a "goodwill offensive" While denying that he represents the The post-communist Party of Democratic to "American Jewish organizations" begin­ Russian military-industrial complex, he Socialism (PDS) broadened its voter base ning in 1985, in a vain effort to salvage their said: "I receive the directors of military fac­ already-crumbling regime. significantly in elections in the easternGer­ tories each day in my office. Their economic Stasi Department X handled the expand­ man state of Saxony-Anhalt on June 26, and social ptoblems are terrifying. " He says ed contact with the ADL and with the World from the 12% it won in 1990 to 19.9%. This they are trying to solve these problems, and Jewish Congress (WJC), a group taken over makes it the third largest party , after the if that means Russia must have its share in in the early 1980s by ADL honcho Edgar Social Democrats (34%) and Christian the international arms markets to survive, Bronfman, the heir to one of North Ameri­ Democrats (34.4%). there is no alternative . ca's organized crime fortunes. Another spectacular result of the Saxon­ Steinberg charges that "the ADL-East y-Anhalt elections is that the liberal Free German collusion involved a number of Democrats failed to reach the mandatory 5% dirty operations, including virtually every Lima atchbishop charges level for parliamentary seats, receiving only known attack against Lyndon LaRouche 3.4% of the vote . Four years ago, it won U.N. withge nocide and his European-based political associates 13.3%. since the late 1970s." i The Social Democrats (SPD) have so The Peruvi� daily La Republica on June The ADL-Stasi collusion has a much far rejected a Christian Democratic Union 24 reported that spokesmen for the Catholic longer history than the Wolffsohn revela­ (CDU) offer for a "grand coalition" and pre­ Church chatged that "the preparatory docu­ tions indicate. According to an FBI memo fers a minority government coalition with ment and th� perspectives opened up by the released under the Freedom of Information the Greens (5.1%). The PDS has therefore upcoming Imternational Conference on Pop­ Act, back in 1973, the FBI, under its Coin­ been given the role of crucial arbiter in the ulation and IDevelopment organized by the telpro program, had collaborated with the formation of such a minority cabinet. United Natipns augur a 'gigantic genocide' ADL, the Stasi, and the KGB in an effort The situation is pretty much the same under the plptectionand tutelage of that im­ to deploy the Communist Party , U.S.A. to in many municipalities of eastern Germany portant inte�ational organization." assassinate LaRouche. The FBI memo ex­ which don't have a clear majority candidate Lima ar4:hbishopMsgr. Augusto Vargas pressed the view that were LaRouche to be for the post of mayor, so that the PDS makes Alzamora, ;and Msgr. Alberto Brazzini, "removed from the picture" his organization the difference. The PDS , which is well-root­ president o. the Commission on the Family would soon disintegrate. ed in the cities of the eastern part of the of the Peruvian Bishops Conference, country, is by far also the biggest party pointed to the draftdocument and the United there, with 134,000 card-carrying Nations as the active agents of that geno­ members . Russianmarshal warns cide. Mons�gnor Brazzini warnedthat if the recommendations of the draft document are of anti-western mood implemented, there will be a "massive and How East Germany's alarming" lncrease in the legalization of The economic crisis and strategic humilia­ abortion �d artificial contraception. The Stasi courted the ADL tion of Russia are combining to produce an conference in Cairo will "design and recom­ anti-western mood in the Russian popula­ mend new n<>licies on population and devel­ The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai tion, warned Russian Marshal Yevgeny opment," 'Brazzini continued, "within B'rith's (ADL) long-standing treasonous Shaposhnikov, in an interview with the which lega ization of abortion, contracep­ collusion with the former East German com­ French daily Le Figaro on June 29. Sha­ tive methodsl , and new concepts on the fami­ munist secret police is grabbing headlines in poshnikov, former Defense Minister of the ly carry enbrmous weight, at a time when Germany, and many of Lyndon LaRouche's Soviet Union, was in Paris for the Eurosato­ the idea of1 the homosexual family and its enemies on both sides of the Atlantic are ry arms show. He is described by Le Figaro [right] to adopt children is gaining accep­ now running for cover, according to an arti­ as "an intimate of Boris Yeltsin." tance." The bishop debunked the assertion cle in the July 11 issue of the newspaper Asked whether he was pulling back from that promo.ion of abortion has anything to New Federalist, by Jeffrey Steinberg. his earlier support for cooperation with the do with "the health of the mother." On June 28, the German daily Frank­ West in the military domain, in view of his The Peruvian prelates also attacked the fu rter Allgemeine Zeitung published an arti­ objections to NATO's "Partnership for Peruvian delegation to the preparatory cle by a prominent German-Jewish military Peace," he replied: "No, 1 have not changed, meetings in New York for maintaining "the historian, Michael Wolffsohn, reporting I am still a partisan of cooperation with the silence of dccomplices in the face of these that newly unearthed documents from the West. What 1 am trying to say, is that this U . N . proposals." It therefore "did not repre-

62 International EIR July 15, 1994 • YOSSI BEILIN, Israel's deputy foreignminister, called for the disso­ lution of the World Zionist Organiza­ tion, in a speech described as a sent the sentiments of the majority of the Now, the University College of Cork "bombshell" by the July 2 Jerusalem Peruvian population," they said, nor was it wants to dig up a statue of Victoria originally Post. The WZO and the Jewish coherent with the Constitution, which pro­ placed there in 1849, to co morate the mme Agency, he s�d, are dominated by hibits abortion. queen's visit to Ireland when the university American Zionists, many of whom was chartered. The statue was taken down are supporting the Israeli opposition. in 1934, and buried in 1946. He called for �eir replacement by a Irish nationalists have launched a cam­ Israelfinds Hebron democratic organization called Beit paign to keep "Vic," as the statue is known, Yisrae!. murderer 'acted alone' where she belongs. A formerUCC employ­ Irish Times ee wrote to the that "it were as • THE HOLLINGER CORP.'S The Israeli report on the massacre of 50 Arab appropriate to reinstate a statue of Queen Sunday Telegraph of London on July worshippers in Hebron last February was Victoria in the UCC in the commemorative 3 called for $ritish Prime Minister released on June 26, and declared that ac­ year of the Great Famine as to erect a bust John Major to bring Margaret cording to evidence presented to the inquiry of Hitler in the University of Tel Aviv on Thatcher into his cabinet, thus en­ team, murderer Baruch Goldstein "acted the anniversary of the Holocaust." alone." The results totally clear the Israeli abling the ToIiesto win the upcoming government and Army of any responsibili­ elections. ty . They recommended that entry into the Mandela hopefu l fo r ROBERT MALVAL, Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron by indi­ • who was peace in South Africa appointed "p me minister" of Haiti viduals carrying weapons should be prohib­ q ited, and added merely that the discipline of last year by thllousted President Jean­ the Israeli soldiers guarding the site at the Most of the internalpolitical wars that were Bertrand Aris,tide, said on June 28 time of the massacre was "unsatisfactory ." expected for the post-election period have that he oppos¢s a U.S. invasion, ac­ The Palestine Liberation Organization not broken out in South Africa, President cording to th!: Los Angeles Times. has not officially responded yet. But Nabil Nelson Mandela told the French daily Le Malval took � swipe at Aristide for Shaath, a top adviser to PLO chief Yasser Monde in an interview published on July 4. saying he c�ot call for an invasion Arafat, rejected the inquiry's findings: "I First of all, there is the matter of the because it wO\lld mean his impeach­ don't think that the act in the Hebron mosque separate white Afrikaner Volks-Staat (peo­ ment for violating the Constitution. was an individual act. The Israeli govern­ ple's state) demanded before the elections "The talk of impeachment is silly," ment and the policy of [Jewish] settlement by certain Afrikaner activists. He said this said Malva!. "IYou are either opposed carry complete responsibility for this ugly idea should be rejected, but the principle of on principle, land I am opposed on crime," Shaath told reporters . Left-wing Is­ an advisory Volks-Raat (people's council) principle . . . ,or you go with it." raeli activist Uri Avneri also objected. "How has been accepted, and thereare regular dis­ SAUDI ARABIA'S can it be that after the astonishing facts set cussions with this body. "We want to show • former dep­ out by the inquiry report, no one is guilty?" that those who are demanding a separate uty consul 'in Houston, Texas, White State don't constitute, as they claim Ahmed AI-Zamani, has sought asy­ they do, the majority of the Afrikaner peo­ lum in Great;Brita in. In a press re­ Irishhave no usefor ple. They are only a tiny minority." lease, ZahrllI1i, who is the second Mandela said that his relations with Saudi diplomat to "defect" recently, statue of Queen Victoria General Viljoen, head of the Front for Liber­ expressed featsthat the Saudi author­ ty and a fervent advocate of the Volks-Staat ities were taking security measures Irishmen are protesting a proposal to dig up concept, are "excellent. . . . The extreme against him fqr his attempt to publish and restore a statue of Queen Victoria in the right political current that he represents is a book on Sau�i politics. Zahrani was city of Cork, which was buried in 1946, not a danger." As for the "neo-Nazis" of denied asylu� in the United States. the Times of London reported on June 25. Eugene Terreblanche's Afrikaner Resis­ Victoria ruledIreland during the Great Hun­ tance Movement, Terreblanchehas "lost his • CROATIAN, Bosnian, and ger, the second terrible act of genocide support.Fewerthan 100people participated Turkish forei n ministers are sched­ against Ireland (the first was Oliver Crom­ in his last demonstration, here in Pretoria. uled to meet t�n Turkey on July 17, well's attempt to eliminate the entire Irish Excellent news." to put togeth¢r programs to rebuild population). To this day, Ireland's popula­ Mandela said that collaboration with In­ Bosnia' s sh�tered economy. The tion is much lower than it was in 1844. katha Freedom Party head Mangosuthu Bu­ meeting will qcver cooperation in en­ It was Victoria's government which thelezi is "very good," the fruitfulresult of ergy, transwrt, communications, robbed Ireland of all the grain and meat it "long and painful negotiations." Even in public servic�s, finance, banking, produced while millions starved-in the tense Kwazulu-Natal, "things are for the and trade . I name of "free trade." moment going well."

EIR July 15, 1994 International 63 �ITillNational

Clinton policy successes stymiehis British foes by Jeffrey Steinberg

Through a recent series of policy successes, President Bill Support for new Eurasia �itiative Clinton has sent the enemies of his presidency scrambling, Clinton's European trip has proven to be another boost and has reconsolidated his grip on the Oval Office after it had for the administration, and yet another serious blow to his been weakened earlier this year by the British intelligence­ enem.ies, particularlyin the London Tory establishment. runWhitewatergate affair. During a tour of the Baltics imd Poland, Clinton picked The turnaboutbegan in June, with the successful cooling­ up on themes he struckduring his last visit to Europe, com­ out of a mooted nuclear showdown with North Korea-a memorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landing at conflict orchestrated from the outset by the United Nations Normandy. He told Baltic heads of state and Poland's Presi­ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Not only did dent Lech Walesa that the United States rejects any arrange­ Clinton capitalize on the diplomatic breakthrough achieved ments that would leave Centra Europe as a "gray zone" by Jimmy Carter during three days of talks with North Korean subject to Great Power spheres-of-influence� games. He ex­ leaders, but bilateral talks in Geneva, begun early this month, plicitly rejected a Russian request that Moscow be given a now hold the potential for a significanttum in U. S. postwar veto over any former Warsaw Pact states being granted full policy. Namely, for the first time in decades, the United membership status in NATO, ami promised Poland that it is States is actually supporting the delivery of nuclear power "first in line" for NATO membership. technology to a Third World nation. Underlying these statementS was a quiet but crucial Next, Clinton stood down a concerted attack on the U.S. American show of support for recent continental European dollar, led by such British and allied financialhouses as S.G. initiatives to build a Eurasian rail l'ystem asthe cornerstoneof Warburg, N .M. Rothschild, George Soros' s Quantum Fund, an economic recovery, based on what Germany's Chancellor and Banque Bruxelles Lambert. The dollar-dumping spree Helmut Kohl earlier this year called a return to "industrial was accompanied by propaganda from theLondon Financial banking" policies. Plans formally adopted-overB ritish ob­ Times, the Times of London, the London Daily Telegraph, jections-at the recent EuropeanlCommunity summit in Cor­ and other Europeannewspapers proclaiming the U. S. curren­ fu , Greece, based broadly on the '1989 "Productive Triangle" cy a victim of "lack of confidence"in Clinton's foreign policy proposal authored by Lyndon LaRouche, will see early con­ acumen. The purposeof the dollar bashing, and of the accom­ struction of 11 high-speed rail liI).es, integrating Europewith panying Clinton bashing, was to force the President to acqui­ a similar rail system planned dUI1ing Russian President Yelt­ esce to yet another raising of interest rates by the Federal sin's recent meeting with Chancellor Kohl in Bonn. Open Market Committee on the eve of the President's crucial Thus, Clinton has given his de facto support to the very week-long tripto Europe the second week in July, capped by policies that were sabotaged in 1989 by British Prime Minis­ the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy. ter Margaret Thatcher and U. S. President George Bush. He Clinton held firm, and the Fed backed down on the has also gently informed the French that the U . S. administra­ planned interest rate hikes. tion prefers to see improved Franco-German ties, instead of

64 National EIR July 15, 1994 a revival of the "Little Entente." propagandized for Thatcher and Bush's "little colonial war" against Iraq; and championed Israel's would-be generalissi­ A blow to Hollinger Corp. mo Ariel Sharon through the 1982 Lebanon invasion and the The other blow to the would-be Clinton bashers came in brutal suppression of Palestinians i� the Occupied Terri­ late June with the release of the interim report by Special tories. Prosecutor Robert Fiske, absolving White House and Trea­ But with the drive against Clinto� now stalled, the ADL sury Department officialsof any culpability in the Whitewa­ has been working around the clock to reestablish its creden­ ter affair, and upholding the original U.S. Park Service find­ tials inside the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, in order ings that White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster's death to wreak havoc against the President and his policies from was a suicide. Although high-visibility congressional hear­ within. Its primary calling card: a 190-page diatribe against ings into this first phase of the "Clintongate" business are the "Religious Right," which has grabbed headlines all over scheduled to begin on July 28, the firstround of Fiske findings the country and has sent the blood pre�sure of Pat Robertson, has taken much of the steam out of the assault on the presiden­ Jerry Falwell, and some other Cht)istian fundamentalists cy. The pundits who were forecasting Clinton's early demise soaring. have grown silent. But the ADL propaganda barrage!, aimed at currying fa­ The would-be Clinton-slayers at the Canada-based Hol­ vor at Democratic National Committee headquarters, has linger Corp.-a British intelligence front-and among u.S. also run up against some serious problems. The ADL carried neo-conservatives are scrambling to redeploy their assets in some pretty heavy baggage into the tedeployment effort. It anticipation of a longer battle against the presidency. But spent most of 1993 fending offpolice investigators who had Hollinger Corp., headed by Canadian-born Conrad Black, stumbled upon a nationwide ADL espionage ring targetting which has led the media assault on the Clinton presidency civil rights organizations, Arab-A�rican groups, Jewish since autumn 1993, is in deep financial trouble as the result peace activists, and Lyndon LaRouche. The ADL was caught of a tabloid war with Times of London owner Rupert Mur­ funneling illegally obtained FBI an� local police dossiers doch. Both newspapers have been in a cutthroat battle for the on legitimate American political activists to the old South past six months over who would gain the lion's share of African regime and to the Likud apparatus in Israel. The credit-and revenue-for destroying Clinton. picture emerged of an ADL taking up the mantle of the late In May, Hollinger chief Black quietly sold off £73 mil­ FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's Coun_erintelligence Program lion of stock in his company, apparently in preparation for a ("Cointelpro"). Three civil suits that could cost the ADL $25 bold move to grab a bigger share of the London tabloid million are still wending their way through the state and market through a reduction in the price of the Telegraph from federal court systems in California, and a recent articlein the 48 to 30 pence. When the Telegraph announced the price St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Press has the ADL in such reduction in late June, Murdoch immediately responded by financial hot water that they have been forced to shut down lowering the price of the Times from 30 to 20 pence. The four regional offices. Hollinger stock price collapsed by 35%. According to the But while ADL officialshad looked forward the prospect June 25-26 weekend edition of the Financial Times, British of a sharpthough dim-witted counteIlattackfrom the "Chris­ investors then screamed bloody murder over Black's blatant tian Right," thereby enhancing their credentials with the Hol­ insider trading manuevers, dumping his own stock on the eve lywood and New Age set inside thel Democratic Party, the of the price war gamble. Black has been subsequently cut off League got considerably more reaction that it had bargained from his usual sources of credit in "The City," and Murdoch for-particularly from some of its fonnerclosest allies in the has seized the opportunity to make a takeover move against Jewish activist community. one of Hollinger's major press holdings in his native Austra­ In early July, two longstanding neo-conservative ADL lia, the John Fairfax Group. allies went public with attacks agai�t the League. William Kristol, former top aide to Vice Pn$ident Dan Quayle and Tough times for the ADL mobsters now a GOP electoral consultant, tore into tbe ADL for creat­ One of the chessboard moves currently being made by ing a bogus rift between mainstream Repu licans and "Reli­ the enemies of a strong U.S. presidency, involves the rede­ gious Rightists." And Mona Charen, a syndicatedb columnist, ployment of the chameleon Anti-Defamation League (ADL) penned a July 6 story jabbing at the ADL's role in manufac­ of B 'nai B'rith back into the Democratic Party. Throughout turing anti-Semitic scares: "Alas, there is the crude but unde­ the Reagan and Bush years, the ADL had been the backbone niable fact that the ADL is in the �nti-Semitism business. of the Project Democracy neo-conservative apparatus at the The more it finds, the greater its prominence, and the easier heart ofthe "secret government." The ADL happily slammed it is to raise money. It is playing upon ancient fears and the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as "anti-Semites"; urged worries of American Jews-and is doing so dishonestly, with American Jews to back George Bush and Oliver North's quotes taken out of context and fiagl'antly false accusations. secret wars in Central America, Afghanistan, and Africa; It rails at imaginary enemies and bettaystrue friends."

EIR July 15, 1994 National 65 NationalAc ademy of Scienc�s hosts Cairo '94 depopulation rally by Anton Chaitkin

Strategists of the V.N. population conference known as remain poor, while they were being depopulated, and offered Cairo '94, planned for September, staged an important pre­ a typically "multicultural" explanation. paratory rally at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in "There has been a misundetstanding on the partof devel­ Washington, D.C. on June 30. Some of the more nightmarish oped countries ....We noticed ...that wealthy countries themes and objectives of global empire came out of the closet have relatively stable populationgrowth , and that othercoun­ in a made-for-television production carefully designed for tries do not. And so . . . we carneto the conclusion that rapid public acceptance. The meeting was broadcast nationally by economic development whicH can fairly be assumed will Cable News Network on July 3. produce increases in income l¢vels, will lead to the kind of But the controlled atmosphere was disrupted by the ap­ demographic transition that took place" in the West, where pearance on the previous day of the Schiller Institute's full­ fertility rates are dropping below the level needed for the page advertisement in the Washington Post, signed by some , population to repmduce itself. 300 prominent internationalfigur es, blasting the "V.N. Kill­ "And that wasn't correct,"j he continued, because "the er Conference," and by a spirited picket line outside the NAS model of economic developm4nt that produced that growth meeting. is not easily transplanted into III completely different societal The event was co-sponsored by Ted Turner(Cable News and environmental context. It is not easily accelerated with­ Network) , the Pew (Sun Oil) Charitable Trust, and a section out changing the dynamics of culture and society within of Harvard V niversity . which the growth process is engendered. The distributionof On behalf of Ted Turner and CNN, moderator Marvin wealth is not the same, and so Cln.. ..We failed ...to look Kalb introduced the event by saying that the world is "fright­ at the deeper reasons why the ; demographic transition took eningly overcrowded." place in wealthy countries. " Gore enumerated these as 1) the Vice President Albert Gore spoke first. His remarks stood "education and empowerment M women"; 2) the availability in contrast to the moderate statements made by President Bill of birth control and of informlition about birth control; and Clinton at his recent meeting with Pope John Paul II, where 3) "the survival of children." I he stated his opposition to forced abortion and to one-world 'The nations that have the' highest infant mortality and utopian schemes. child mortality rate almost always have the largest families. Gore pointed to three problems: "population explosion," . . . If all three are not present: and you still have rapid eco­ "global climate change," and "the disappearance of germ nomic growth it's not necessaItily going to work at all. The plasm," which he identifiedas "symptoms of a deeper under­ flip side of it is, that if all thre¢ of these factors are present, lying crisis in the relationship between human civilization the demographic transition canioccur in the absence of a big and the environment of the Earth itself." Stressing that popu­ change in income levels. I lation has only recently dramatically expanded, Gore de­ "There is the province in southwesternIndia , Karela . . . clared that this growth is not sustainable. one of the poorest parts of India!,where there is virtually zero Besides the increase of population, he blamed this crisis popUlation growth, because thbe three factors are present. on "the scientific and technological revolution, which has . . . [There is] a high level of literacy and education and greatly magnified the ability of human beings to have an empowerment among women, excellent child survival rates, impact on the earth's environment"; and on a "philosophical and universal, ubiquitous availability of birth control and shift . . . characterized by an arrogant assumption that we knowledge about birth control. And so even though they have are somehow separate from the Earth's environment . . . remained poor, they have a stable population. Now it seems that we are exempt from the laws of nature and the laws of to me that our challenge ought to be to really focus on these ecology." three factors, and attempt to create a partnership between Gore then threw overboard the fondly held explanation North and South, between the !developed countries and the that lowering population in poor countries would alleviate developing countries, in a way that is appropriate to the the poverty. Quite the contrary, he said, they would probably cultural, societal context in each nation ...a worldwide

66 National EIR July 15, 1994 Vice President Al Gore shares the podium with UN. Population Fund I head Nafis Sadik (left), who is also the secretary generalfor the International Conference on Population and Development, and an uncomfo rtable Ambassador Ahmed Maher El Sayed of Egypt (right). The U.N. Cairo conference aims to enforce one-world government through depopulation.

effort to create these three conditions, everywhere on the face He said that only a few other congressmen are going to ac­ of this Earth" (emphasis in original). company him to the Cairo conference; most are afraid of it because "extremists" keep raising eXfraneous issues such as Gore's 'final solution' abortion and sterilization, which get back to the voters. The moderator asked Gore to comment on the challenge of the Vatican to the globalist depopulators who are organiz­ Calling a spade a spade ing the Cairo conference. Gore referred to the pope's "excel­ When the moderator asked for audience questions, this lent" standon the environment. He said both sides can choose reporter was first in line, with a q ery to Undersecretary cooperation or confrontation. The best way to work this out, Wirth: "Aside from public relationsJ what is the difference he asserted, is for the Catholic Church to continue to speak between the Cairo conference, and the 1932 Eugenics Con­ its mind and help with issues like health care which we all gress in New York, where they cal�ed for sterilization and agree on, while he and his co-thinkers go ahead with birth doing away with excessive non-white people, and whose control. He then added that both health care and birth control participants went on to write the race laws for Adolf Hitler?" are necessary for the "final solu-" catching himself and Wirth angrily replied, "There is absolutely no reference continuing "resolution of the problem," as the select pro­ anywhere in this [draft Cairo] document to any kind of racism New Age audience laughed nervously. or any kind of sterilization or whateyer. There is a point of Among the other panelists, Timothy E. Wirth, U.S. un­ view taken by the Lyndon LaRoucre group in the United dersecretary of state for global affairs , declared, "We are the States, which is reflected in the question here, that is certainly last great superpower." He said people at the United Nations out of phase with, I think, a�y statement, any position taken applaud the United States when it takes leadership on these by any nation around the world. Cehainly radical elements issues. have a right to state their position, �ut that is not found any Jack Rosenthal, assistant managing editor of the New place in any of the [Cairo] documents or the United States of York Times, said there are exaggerations on both sides, and America." he thought the United States should give up what he asserted Shortly after this interchange, panelist Rev. Joan Brown was its overconsumption. Campbell, general secretary of the National Council of Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, a 33rd Degree Churches, pointed to the fact that "there is a demonstration Mason and co-chairman of the editorial board of the Scottish outside the building" (see box). S�e called on the media Rite Freemasons Journal, said that he had sponsored a bill present not to cover the protest. Ratper, she said, the media on population stabilization. "I got into this issue from the should "expand the center" and make agreement and consen­ standpoint of immigration restriction," Simpson explained. sus exciting and not look for disagrebment.

EIR July 15, 1994 National 67 A jittery Marvin Kalb, a fonner national TV newsman hastily managed to change the �ubject to women's rights. and now a Harvard professor, asked, "Will the demonstration What are the actual limits ito the ability of scientifically be on the news?" guided agriculture to produce food on a expanded scale for A woman college student asked the panelists: "Every a growing population? asked bnother questioner. In reply, baby is a potential vote in an increasingly democratic world . Stanford University biology �rofessor Harold Mooney at­ . . . Given the world's track record on minority rights, what tacked scientific agricultureal gether, saying that hundreds would motivate political leaders to encourage their consitu­ of obscure species are disaP tpearing, and that fertilization tency to shrink in size, rather than to increase?" She was now applies 150 pounds of Aitrogen per acre "that is not answered by Raul Yzaguirre , head of the foundation-spon­ intended to go there ....Ho � far can we go?" sored "La Raza" Hispanic organization, who responded that � "we need to stress quality over quantity" (which, of course, Image-makers for genoqide had already been repudiated by the vice president). Dorothy Other panelists then added �heir comments: Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, • Ellen Goodman, a syndi�ated columnist, said that chil­ dren used to be the veryimage iand symbol of hope. Now we associate them with the popul ion bomb. To help peopleto deal with this we have to man�ge* this issue in a verycareful way. Protesters 'unfair' • HenryW. Kendall, physks professor at the Massachu­ to Cairo-maniacs setts Instituteof Technology anPchainnan of the anti-science Union of Concerned Scientist , said that the public in the United States and other countIfpes "believes there is a magic A spirited demonstration against the Cairo '94 confer­ bullet or a set of magic bull�ts which will save us. The ence by members of the LaRouche political movement scientificcommunity does not believe this." He asserted that outside the National Academy of Sciences auditorium population will be reduced voluntarily, with mercy, or natu­ threw a spanner in the careful orchestration of the one­ rally, with brutality. worldists. One protester, dressed in a robe as Death, • Ronald Lee, professor of demography and economics sported a little button that said, "I Love Cholera." On at the University of Californi� at Berkeley, remarked that his back he had a sign that said "My friends at the depopulation cannot be fitinto a market schema; we have to ADL say 'if you are against genocide you are anti­ be prepared to accept things we do not like, to effect the Semitic.' " Other demonstrators wore signs reading, necessary changes. "Boutros-Ghali is a new Ghengis Khan, killing nations • Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics at Cam­ with his condom on"; "U.N. equals United Nazis"; bridge University in England, iin a perfect Bertrand Russell "U.N. Conference is Wirthless." accent, said that we have to get the infonnation from the Picketers chanted, "U.N. goals for '94: famine, experts, the scientists, to the pulation. This will lead to the AIDS and bloody war"; "United Nations, Lucifer's necessary change in the popular� conceptions of the problem slave, wants 3 billion in the grave"; "How does the in each country . U.N. fight disease, with condoms and vasectomies"; • Dr. Jose Barzelatto, head of the Ford Foundation's "Boutros-Ghali's killers in blue, after the Bosnians it Reproductive Health and Population division, counseled that will be yo u"; "Cairo conference says oh no , testicles we must restructure nations to emphasizewomen 's rightsand have got to go." an end to the patriarchal society. An A-frame signboard infonned passersby: "Free • Prakash Narain Tandon; a professor of neurosurgery sterilizations, guest surgeon Lorena Bobbitt." A news in India and a member of the Royal Society of London, reporter was seen taking notes on the signs and chants. proclaimed that he was speaking "for the world's academies To the great consternation of conference attendees, of science." He describedthe recent meeting of many nation­ passersby laughed at the signs and loved the rally. A al academies in New Delhi, where self-professed scientists frantic official from the State Department Agency for put their stamp of authorityon the genocidal program of the International Development tried to buttonhole picket­ U.N. In private discussion, this reporter asked Dr. Tandon if ers, "You are wrong . You are lying." he didn't agree that depopUlation pioneer Thomas Malthus Inside, as the meeting concluded, an enraged New was simply a paid liar for the British East India Company. Ager approached EIR ' s Anton Chaitkin, gesticulating: He answered, "Yes, I quite agree, of course: We know what "Your movement is causing terrible damage. It is not Malthus is, but we don't need!him, we have assembled the fair to compare this with Adolf Hitler." She did not facts anyway." wait for a reply. • Father David Toolan, associate editor of the Jesuit journalAmerica , closed the paael by a direct challenge to the

68 National EIR July 15, 1994 doesn't need more people, they assess: the numbers in the context of desired human conditions and development. Pew tells how to make ". . . Population policy and diplomacy are particular­ genocide seem acceptable ly important at the moment. . . . Oomor and developing countries are within reach of agree ent on how to ap­ proach the problem" at Cairo. j A packet of literature was provided to participants at the Another item in the Pew package, "Population and National Academy of Sciences conference, including a Political Unrest: Anarchy or Global Sec' urity?" was less "Journalist's Notebook" offering instructions on what diplomatic: Newspeak to use to make global depopulation palatable "Some . . . suggest that western industrialized coun­ to readers. The instructions were paid for by the Pew tries urge reductions in global popUlation growth because Global Stewardship Initiative, whose advisory board in­ they fear becoming 'outnumbered' and losing their eco­ cludes Emma Rothschild of Cambridge University and nomic ascendancy and strategic advantage. Accusations Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of aside, the transnational nature of population and environ­ American Hebrew Congregations. The sheet was pre­ ment trends raises some basic politic� questions for the pared for Pew by the Population Reference Bureau, a international community. . . . Can nation states tackle eugenics organization founded in 1929 by pro-Hitler Guy these challenges on their own? Or must sovereignty be S. Burch. ceded to new international mechanism,,?The forthcoming "What's in a word?" asked the handout. "Plenty when ICPO [Cairo conference] provides a fBangladesh of worship.' "

pope:"My church," he said, will cooperate with this program Cairo conference; Dr. Nafis Sadik, eltecutive director of the "at the grassroots level . . . in the schools and the parishes" U.N. Population Fund, a Pakistani who is a leading figure in around the world. the globalist movement based on British colonial ideas. Other panelists included Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a It was announced that CNN will have a two-hour prime black congresswoman from Georgia; the Egyptian ambassa­ time broadcast advocating population lfeduction, on Aug. 29, dor to the United States Ahmed Maher EI Sayed, who said shortly before the Cairo '94 conference opens in September. defensively that his country is "veryproud" to be hosting the The hostess will be Jane Fonda.

EIR July 15, 1994 National 69 NGOs flauntbid for power at u.s. pre-Cairo meeting by Carl Osgood

The dangerously growing clout of the United Nations "non­ of health services in many very poor countries, such as Boliv­ governmentalorganizations" or NGOs was made clear at the ia and Cambodia. There are 120 NGOs operating in Cambo­ recent four-day conference on "Population and the Quality dia alone. In Bolivia, the Andean Rural Health Care Project of Life," held in Arlington, Virginia, during the week of is the primary provider of health care in the rural regions. June 27, sponsored by the National Council on International They act as a substitute for and a brake on the development Health. The conference, billed as a pre-Cairo session build­ of a government-backed heal�h care infrastructure, for the ing up to the U.N. Conference on Population and Develop­ exclusive purpose of foisting Darwinian policies on desperate ment (ICPD) in Cairo next September, was attended by about rural populations, which will cut the birth rate and preclude 1,000 people, including big names in the population-fear modem health services. lobby, their junior partners from developing nations, and

spokesmen from the top anti-human organizations ranging Wirth attacks the pope i from International Planned Parenthood Federation to the One of the worries of the malthusian fanatics which was Population Council. in evidence at the NCIH conference is that opposition is A major theme of the conference was how NGOs could developing against the Cairo agenda. Tim Wirth took great and will be used to effectchanges in public policy, i.e., how pains in attempting to refute some of the charges that have to destroy the ability of any elected governmentto resist the been leveled against the Sept¢mber conference, such as the Nazi-modeled policies of coercive eugenics which are the charge that the draft program promotes policies like those of real Cairo agenda. This theme was emphasized in addresses Communist China, in which· the state forces couples into to the conference by Undersecretary of State for Global Af­ sterilization, abortion, and other violent methods of curbing fairs Timothy "Globaloney" Wirth, the Clinton administra­ births. He claimed that the Cairo Plan of Action "says it's tion's point man for Cairo. and J. Brian Atwood, administra­ wrong for family planning programs to be driven by popula­ tor of the U . S. Agency for International Development. This tion targets and quotas. Inste�d, programs should be based theme was also discussed in several working group sessions on provision of services that individuals want and will use." on NGOs. "We must reject the coercion that forces abortion or steriliza­ The chairman of the NGO Planning Committee, Billie tion and," he added in a swipe at the Vatican, which insists Miller of Barbados, went so far as to brag about the unprece­ on defending the rights of unbornhuman beings, too, "reject dentedly high participation ofNGOs in the Cairo conference, the coercion that forces a w<)man to bear a child, and we with over 1,000 accredited with the U.N. Secretariat. At the should reject strategies that in some way are intended to PrepComm III meeting in New York, "governments in­ discourage contraceptive use. 'r Wirth also railed at those who creased the access and influenceof the nongovernmentalsby "have said that ours is an 'imperialistic' approach." inviting NGO colleagues onto their delegations" and "yielded Accompanying this worry was the omnipresent concern time on the floorto NGO representatives to present positions to mitigate, coopt, or reinterpret the criticisms of the Catholic on issues ranging from women's health to indigenous peoples Church against the Cairo agenda. Diane Sherman, co-chair­ rights." This NGO participation left "stronger language on man of the communications working group within the U.S. reproductive health and rights" in the Cairo document, al­ Network for Cairo '94 said, during the U.S. Network's dis­ though much of this language is still in brackets, to be argued cussion group, that one of her duties was to "respond to the over at Cairo. Atwood added that U.S. AID is "emphasizing Vatican's attempts to undermine the Cairo document with its the involvement of NGOs at every stage of the development campaign of misinformation.'� Wirth dishonestly quoted the process, from planning to execution." PontificalAcademy of Sciences on "the unavoidable need to NGOs claim to represent grassroots activist movements, confront the population issue" as if this represented the Vati­ but in many cases, their funding comes from the major one­ can view, to imply that Pope John Paul II was isolated in his worldist American foundations, such as the Ford Foundation intransigent opposition to the iCairo conference. (The three­ and the Pew Charitable Trust. NGOs dominate the delivery year-old Pontifical Academy of Sciences report, never ac-

70 National EIR July 15, 1994 cepted as the basis of church policy, was recently resurfaced of AIDS . A speaker fromthe Mexican NGO, MexFam, deliv­ by the media in Europe to fan dissension against the pope.) ered a paper on how such methods can be used to increase use Dr. Joseph Barzelatto , who runs the Ford Foundation's of "family planning" services in rural Mexico. gamut of "family planning" programs , revealed, in response This emphasis is not limited to NGOs, of course. The U . S. to a question from EIR , that a conference that he attended government, primarily through the of�ces of Tim Wirth and in Brussels, last May, which brought together Protestant, Brian Atwood, has made the cause of "women' s reproductive Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and other theologians to discuss rights" a centerpiece of its internationalpolic ies. Atwood out­ Cairo-related issues and gloated that "there were Catholic lined how he is reorganizing AID to put women's issues at I theologians there who were totally against what the pope is the "center of everything we do." saying." This opposition will be expressed in a report which That the emphasis on "reproductive rights" is intended will be delivered to ICPD Secretary General Nafis Sadik on to bring about a fundamental change in traditional national July 19. structures is no secret. The Ford Foundation 's Dr. Jose Barzel­ Conference attendees and organizers were confronted atto told the opening session that "it is reasonable to predict twice during the conference by picket lines organized by the that, a few years from now, Cairo will tieseen as representing Schiller Institute, led by Alan Ogden, a Virginia congression­ a conceptual shift from family planning to sexual and repro­ al candidate who is a LaRouche Democrat, demanding the ductive health." What this means, is that there will be an "in­ cancellation of the Cairo conference. The pickets, with signs ternationalrecognition of sexual and reproductive rights" that demanding "No World Government"and "The World Needs goes beyond "improving existing health services" in the area More People," confronted each person entering the confer­ of population control to recognizing tnat "sexual and repro­ ence, to demand they cease working on this new Hitlerian ductive rights are a social good, indepiendent of the issue of genocide. population. "

'Sexual rights' before governments World Bank: Stop military, ' Population controllers have long realized they have to public industry, higher educa.ion "sell" their programs in order to make them more palatable What was not discussed at the conferencewas the role of to those who might not accept them otherwise. "Eugenics," the InternationalMonetary Fund and World Bank, the U.N. 's meaning "good birth," was a nice-sounding term until the supranational siblings, in denying the: nations of the devel­ atrocitiesof the Nazis were exposed to the world and the terms oping world the ability to develop. Nalional development is "birth control" and later "family planning" were invented. not only not promoted, but even rulediout, by being consid­ Now we have a campaign for the "empowerment of women," ered impossible. The most rabid malt!husian to address the through giving them "reproductive rights" and education, or conference, Margaret Catley Carlson� the president of the "human security" which, in the words of Tim Wirth, can be Population Council, claimed that "there is nothing in human measured "most ominously in the rapid, unprecedented pace history that says we can adjust our food production systems, of population growth which dwarfs all trends in its implica­ our distribution systems, our energy systems, the way we run tions." In his remarks, AID administrator Atwood blamed all our democratic societies ...There is inothing that suggests the problems of Africa on population growth. On Rwanda, in that we can absorb that amount [1 billion people in a decade] particular, he said that "there are extremists in that society as of growth in that amount of time with<)ut causing major dis­ there are extremists in every society. The elements that help ruptions. " those extremists are population growth, food scarcity, envi­ The question was raised of the imp.ct of the IMF's struc­ ronmental degradation and the inability of governments to tural adjustment policies to Tom Me�k, the senior popula­ react to provide social services." tion adviser, in the Population, Health ,I and Nutrition Depart­ The policy is a carbon copy of Henry Kissinger's 1974 ment of the World Bank. Merrick claimed that the structural National Security Study Memorandum 200 which defined adjustment programs are designed to '!address distortions in population growth in poor countries as the number-one threat economic policy which keep countrieSifrom improving both to U. S. national security, but the insidious new twist is to at societal and individual levels. " ArQong the "distortions" induce poor women to inflictit on themselves under the illu­ Merrick listed were state-owned industries, military spend­ sion of acquiring greater rights and power. ing, and higher education, which Merrick claimed, tends to There is to be a heavy emphasis on "women's health and produce gaps in education. He furthel1cl aimed that "there's reproductive rights" at Cairo and on making available repro­ no evidence that the distorted polices whichad justment seeks ductive health services (exclusively those services which pre­ to correct have ever really benefitted the poor or reduced vent reproduction, of course) accompanied by a heavy dose poverty." There is certainly no eviden¢e that these structural of Madison Avenue-style marketing campaigns, such as that adjustment programs have ever done anything more than being used by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Ser­ further impoverish nations that were : already backward to vices to increase condom use in order to "prevent" the spread begin with.

EIR July 15, 1994 National 71 Art Exhibitions

Restored paintings by two Renaissance I geniuses : van Eyck andvan der Weyden i by Warren A.J. Hamerman

One of the jewels of the National Gallery of Art's collection, van Eyck's painting is a rela�vely small work, most likely and a treasure of early Renaissance painting, Jan van Eyck's the left panel of a triptych w�th a matching right wing and Annunciation, is back on public display in Washington, D.C. larger central panel, which art now both lost. Like so much after more than two years of cleaning and restoration. of van Eyck' s oeuvre, the other parts may well have perished The painting was done in oil on oak panel around 1434 in the violent iconoclastic out�reaks which occurredin north­ in what is today Belgium. It was transferred to fabric at the ernEurope in the course of th¢ 16th-century religious wars. Imperial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in the last Extant altarpieces such as fuose by van Eyck' s contempo­ century (this happened to many panel paintings in Russia, rary van der Weyden, suggest ithat the original triptychmight because the wood deteriorated with the damp climate condi­ have had the Adoration of the Magi as its missing center, and tions there). In 1931, along with Raphael's Alba Madonna, the Visitation in the right wingb thus complementing the story now also in the National Gallery, it was one of the Czarist art of the birth of Christ with the .itwo major events that precede treasures sold by Stalin to American millionaires, in order to it in Luke's Gospel. buy food during the terrible famine caused by the forced Van Eyck, long describe

72 National EIR July 15, 1994 Visible and invisible light The Renaissance masters conveyed the interplay between what the Nicene Creed calls "all that is seen and not seen" through the metaphor of different typJ of light, divine and naturalistic. Van Eyck shows divine light streaming in from the window at the upper left in the fottrn of seven symbolic golden rays. The Holy Spirit in the form of a dove rides the middle golden ray to the head of rt1ary. The seven rays represent the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit that Christ will receive as a Branch of the Tree of �esse (Isaiah 11:2-3): wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, puri­ ty , and fear. A naturalistic light illuminates the scene from the right, lighting up the right sides f Mary, Gabriel, the open book and pillow, and casting sHadows off the left as seen by the viewer.

On the top of the back far wall 0 the church there is a bright stained glass window showing GOd the Father standing atop a world globe. Below the stained glass window are the dark recesses of the far wall until oneI reaches perhaps the most technically spectacular of all lig�t sources in the paint­ ing-the silvery-white light realistically radiating in through three lead-shot windows, which reprysent the One God in the Trinity. The interaction of these different levels of light presaged the frontiers Leonardo and aphael explored more than a half-century later, and which�l, in a different way, Velazquez and Rembrandt explored c nsiderably later.

Master detailists Northern Renaissance art grew ou of a long tradition of manuscript illumination. Painters like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and Petrus Christus[ are rightly famed for the astonishing amount of detail in their paintings, often achieved with a magnifying glass and single-bristle brush. In the van Eyck painting, the c urch architecture is a composite of older medieval Romane�que� round arches, and

the slightly pointed Gothic arches 0 the lower story. On either side of the stained glass windor on the back wall of the church there are wall paintings of two scenes from the life of Moses which prefigure Christ. The floorof the church shows scenes of the Old Testament (mostly from Samson's life) side by side with signs of the Zodiac . Next to the Virgin is an open Bible, a pillow footstool and her characteristic vase of lilies, redresenting her intellect, humility, and purity. Perhaps no Angel Gabriel in the history of painting has a more richly elaborate robe and crowh, befitting a painting done in Bruges, the center of the mos� luxurious fabrics and metalworks north of the Alps at the time. Gabriel is wearing an elaborate liturgical vestment conJisting of a sumptuous red velvet and gold decorated cope bdged in red and blue gems and rows of pearls. Under the angel's cope is a dark l green velvet liturgical garment kno!n as a dalmatic with The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck. ca. 1434-36 (oil on canvas transferred from panel. 36% x 147116 in .. National Gallery of Art. flowers and foliage on a c\oth-of-golr ground. The angel's Andrew W. Mellon Collection). elaborate dress contrasts with Mary's simple blue robe and

EIR July 15, 1994 National 73 that despite several past restor tions, much of Rogier's origi­ nal painting remains intact." Rogier van der Weyden, c nsidered the greatest Flemish master of the Renaissance toge her with van Eyck, lived from 1400 to 1464 , and his patrons tended to come from municipal governmentsand middle-class �urghers rather than the princ­ es whom van Eyck served. He traveled to Italy and made paintings, which have survived , for the Este family of Ferrara I and the Medici of Florence. A though like van Eyck he paid extraordinary attention to detail, he is known more for his expressive composition and th poignancy and religious feel­ ing of his figures, than for t' e astonishing optical effects associated with the elder pai?ter. The greater drama may partly be due to the strong influrence of Italian narrativepaint­ ing, for in Italy, ever since �lberti's work On Painting, written in 1435, the explicit i� al of painting was to express the "motions of the soul through� the motions of the body." In the picture displayed at the Getty Museum, the Christ Child is shown standing on richly embroidered cushion, turning away from the Virgi while trying to unfasten the I gold clasps of a book of hours, a popular prayer book used for the private devotions of ealthy laypeople of the day. The inclusion of the book of h urs links the picture, probably destined also for private devot on, to the "Devotio Moderna" movement which played such �n important role in the Renais­ sance in northern Europe, thr��)Ugh its educational activities I and the pervasive influence 0 The Imitation of Christ, the book written by the Devotio ¥oderna's most famous mem- ber, Thomas a Kempis. Both exhibitions accompany, the panel paintings with miniatures (book illustrations)lof related themes or styles, as Madonna and Child by Rogier van der Weyden. ca. 1460 (oil on well as photographic enlargements of x-radiographs, cross­ pane/ transferred to masonite. 19x12l/z in.,from the Huntington sections, and micro-details of I aint samples to show some of Art Collections. now on display at the Getty Museum in Ma/ibu.) the analytical techniques used headband. In the freshly restored painting, the viewer can even see the glistening brown marble in the perfectly painted columns along the side of the church behind the angel. inf0 atiOn Museum Restoration leads to discoveries r The National Gallery exhibition includes an infrared re­ For those who wish to see the van Eyck or van der flectography composite photograph of the underdrawing of Weyden restorations or oth�r exhibitions: van Eyck' s paintings, which reveals a more tender expression The National Gallery de Art in Washington, D.C. on the face of the Virgin than the final panel. This is one of is on Fourth and Constituti n. Hours are Monday-Sat­ many discoveries which modem conservation techniques can urday 10-5; Sunday 11-6. 9 dmission is free. Parking afford to students of the old masters . is on the street; Archives tstop on the Metro. Phone: Similarly, according to Mark Leonard, Getty Museum (202) 737-42 15. Conservator of Paintings, "In the process of restoring the The J. Paul Getty MuseumI in Malibu, California

Madonna and Child. we learned valuable information about is at 17985 Pacific Coast Hi¥hway. Hours are Tuesday­ Rogier's inventive working methods. For instance, cross­ Sunday 10-5. Admission is �ee , but advance parkingres­ sections of the painting's surface revealed that the artist ex­ ervations or Front Gate passe are required; MTA bus 434 perimented with an unusual combination of gilding tech­ (request museum pass fro� driver). Phone (310) 458- niques to create the ethereal gold background and distinctive 2003 (English) or (310) 458 1104 (Spanish). haloes. While cleaning the work, we were delighted to find 1

74 National EIR July 15, 1994 The Green Front by Rogelio Maduro

Is eco-fascism on U.S. government agenda? plement U.N. internationaltreaty pro­ Two internal documents reveal that environmentalist zealots are visions in the "biotegions." It states that "the Executiveibranch should di­ redefining the philosophy of government. rect federal agencies to evaluate na­ tional policies on environmental pro­ wo internal documents have re­ prepared for an April 30 Bureau of tection and resouroe management in Tcently come to light which reveal that Land Management summit, reveals light of internationailpolicies and obli­ a profound transformation in the phi­ that the national goal of ecosystem gations, and to am�nd national poli­ losophy of government is now taking management was initiated by Vice cies to more effectiyely achieve inter­ place in the U. S. federal bureaucracy. President Al Gore's National Perfor­ national objectivest' The documents, one from the Environ­ mance Review in early 1993. As a re­ The EPA also pushes sustainable mental Protection Agency (EPA) and sult of this initiative, the Interagency development. "Th" U.S. should de­ one from the Department of the Interi­ Ecosystem Management Coordina­ velop human population policies that or show that environmentalist zealots tion group was created to coordinate are consistent with �ustainable econo­ are pushing through a redefinition of all interagency efforts. This group is mies and ecosystems," the document government,from one that protects the made up of 20 federal agencies, in­ states. , interests of the citizens, to one that fos­ cluding the Bureau of Land Manage­ The implemen*ion of this agenda ters the protection of ecosystems. ment, the Forest Service, the Soil Con­ is in the final stag�s. One element is The documents indicate that vast servation Service, the National Park the National Biolo ical Survey. De­ regions of the country will be turned Service, the EPA, the Fish and Wild­ spite the fact that C��ngress has not ap­ into "ecosystems," or "bioregions" life Service, the U.S. Geological Sur­ proved the survey, it already has where all human and economic activi­ vey, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the "1,850 employees,j 4 Ecoregional of­ ty will be carefully regulated so as to National Biological Survey, the De­ fices, 13 research centers, over 60 co­ prevent any further degradation of the partment of Energy , the Department of operative research limits, and 100 field ecosystem. Governmentwill no long­ Defense, the Bureau of Mines , the Bu­ stations," according to the Interior er protect just individual "endangered reau of Reclamation, and the Mineral document. species" (over 900 and rising), but Management Service. The subversion may yet be from now on their entire habitat will These federal agencies are ordered stopped, however. More than 30 trade have to be protected. to redefine their activities according to journals have recently published ex­ According to sources, directing the philosophy of ecosystem manage­ cerpts from these documents, setting this operation are Interior Secretary ment. One of the redefinitions in the off political shockwaves. Bruce Babbitt and Timothy Wirth, DOl document is that "all ecosystem Fred Wortham, editor of Western head of the State Department'5 Uffice management activities should consid­ Livestock Journat.' reports receiving

of Global Affairs. They are being er human beings as a biological re­ thousands of phonci calls as a result of helped by a gaggle o; avlronmental­ source." his coverage. He says that calls re­ ists who have assumed key positions in According to Tom McDonnell, questing more infottnationhave come federal agencies over the past several political affairsdirector for the Ameri­ from every state ohhe union, and that years. can Sheep Industry Association, who seven senators have personally called The documents reveal that in order unearthed the documents, "under eco­ for more information. Dozens ofjour­ for this philosophy to be fully imple­ system management, the administra­ nals have requeste(l permission to re­ mented, many constitutional man­ tion does not consider itself a govern­ print his article. dates, including the separation of pow­ ment of the people, by the people, or Other journalsteporting on this in­ ers , must be overturned. The EPA for the people, but rather considers it­ clude the Livestock Market Digest, document, issued on Aug. 6, 1993, self as having to manage people as bio­ National Woolgrowers, and Loggers emphasizes that one of the biggest ob­ logical resources similar to vegeta­ World. The documentsare circulating stacles is "primacy of state enforce­ tion, minerals, water, wildlife, or among groups involved in mining, ment," because ecosystem manage­ predators . " logging, farming, and ranching, and ment must be based on "ecological This agenda also attacks national among private property groups. Sever­ rather than political boundaries." sovereignty . The EPA document re­ al senators are planning hearings to The Interior working document, veals plans to bypass Congress and im- smoke out this agenda.

EIR July 15, 1994 National 75 congressional Closeup by Carl Osgood

otion against Haiti Majority Leader George Mitchell (D­ candid�tes . invasionM plan fails Me). Two days later, those three sena­ At least one Democrat moved to The House voted 185-214 on June 27 tors co-sponsored legislation to imple­ distance himself from Fazio's re­ to reject a motion to strike $25 million ment Hurd's position. marks. lRep. Scotty Baesler (Ky.) told for U.N. peacekeeping operations in A counter-amendment suggesting the Louisville Courier Journal on Haiti from the State, Commerce, Jus­ that President Clinton continue to ap­ June 28 that "what I'm worried about tice, and Judiciary appropriations bill. peal to the U.N. Security Council to on Vic'� approach is, you'retrying to The sponsor of the motion, Jim lift the embargo passed the Senate on divide the country rather than bring Lightfoot (R-Iowa), said on the House July 1 by a 52-48 vote. A conference it together." He said he wouldn't be floor that the Clinton administration committee will "reconcile" this with seeking funds for his reelection cam­ hadn't learnedthe lessons of the U.N. the McCloskey amendment for unilat­ paign from the DCCC because "it operation in Somalia and that the rea­ eral U.S. lifting of the embargo, would look like I'm acquiescing in all son for the failure there was that "Con­ which was passed overwhelmingly by their views. " gress did not exercise sufficientover­ the House on June 8. Senate sources Faz_o's remarks provide the per­ sight." said it was possible, but not likely, fect foil for the North campaign, Pat Robert Livingston (R-La.) added that unilateral action would remain in Robert�on networks, and various con­ that President Clinton should not be the final bill. servati"e "letter-head" organizations allowed to "risk the life of one single to identjfy Fazio's bigotryas a "Dem� person in uniform for the likes of Jean­ ocratic'l tactic-never mentioning the Bertrand Aristide" without the autho­ ADL. rization of Congress. On the other side of the aisle, Alan Fazio leads ADL charge Mollohan (D-W. V.) complained that inside Democratic Party Lightfoot's amendment would "tele­ Rep. Victor Fazio (D-Calif.), head of graph" the intentions of the govern­ the Democratic Congressional Cam­ Ho�se preserves funding ment to countries where the use of paign Committee, delivered a broad­ for 'democracy' project U.S. military force is being con­ side against the Republican Party on An amendment to the State, Com­ sidered. June 21,lbased on the Anti-Defama­ merce, Justice, and Judiciary appro­ tion League (ADL) tract on the so­ priations bill to zero out funding for called "religious right." the National Endowment for Democ­ Fazio told a gathering at the Na­ racy, was defeated in the House by tional Press Club that the Republican a vote of 89-317 on June 27. NED enate rejects bid Party "is at a crossroads" and has to opponepts attacked the lack of ac­ toS lift Bosnia embargo answer the question, "should they ac­ countability for the program and the By a 50-50 Senate vote, an amend­ cept the winning tactics of the radical use of �publicly funded privategroup ment to lift the U.S. arms embargo right at any costs?" He accused GOP­ to carryout U . S. foreign policy. against Bosnia was defeated on July ers of buckling under to the influence Joel Hefley(R -Col o.), the sponsor 1. The vote followed a visit to Wash­ of the religious right because "they are of the amendment, argued that the ington by British Foreign Minister successful-they win." He pointed to NED has outlived its purposeto com­ Douglas Hurd on June 22; he met with the Oliver North campaign as the bell­ bat Sov.et imperialism and that with­ 19 congressmen and senators, mainly wether race, and demanded that Re­ out that:counterweight, its own activi­ discussing British opposition to a uni­ publicans repudiate the Christian ac­ ties "smack of the same imperialism lateral U.S. end to the embargo. tivists who have mobilized behind the endowment was created to According to a British Embassy North. combat," spokesman, Hurd was invited to a dis­ Fazio said that he and fellow Dem­ Despite the fact that the NED has cussion with the Senate Armed Ser­ ocrats are frightened of the possibility been caught destabilizing govern­ vices Committee by its chairman, of major Republican gains in Novem­ ments ofU . S .' allies, its supporters, in Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), which was also ber, and are hoping to create a "back­ the wonds of Ben Gilman (R-N.Y.), attended by Sen. John Warner (D­ lash" among moderate Republicans describedit as "a key tool ofU.S. for­ Va.). Hurd met separately with Senate which will help embattled Democratic eign pQlicy." Dana Rohrabacher (R-

76 National EIR July 15, 1994 Calif.), after bragging that he has the port on the Russian mafia'sinfiltration tions before the end of the year, Gray highest rating from the National Tax­ of the privatization program." said that Jonassaint's government is payers Union for opposing "useless Woolsey replied that while there "a puppet governm¢ntput forth by the government spending," said that "we is corruption in the privatization pro­ coup leaders, and .s such we do not are not talking about cutting useless gram, there is a big distinction be­ recognize its pron(j)uncements or its spending. We are talking about a pro­ tween corruption and organized statements and find;they are unconsti­ gram that bolsters the cause of free­ crime, and that the Department of tutional and illegaU' dom and democracy." State, USAID, and the CIA are work­ ing together to monitor the program. Woolsey cited "proliferation, ter­ rorism, international organized enate panel kays oolsey warns mafia crime, [and] anarchy in various parts 'sSoft trigger' health� plan mayW steal the bomb of the world" as chief among the prob­ The Senate Finance Committee voted CIA head James Woolsey told the lems faced by the intelligence com­ 12-8 on June 30 in favor of an House InternationalSecurity , Interna­ munity in the post-Cold War era. amended "soft trigger" health care tional Organizations, and Human proposal put forth by committee chair­ Rights subcommittee on June 27 that man Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Korea and other "hostile states" John Chafee's (R-R.I.) "rump" group threaten u. S. national security be­ ray says Aristide best of bipartisan committee members, cause they might use organized crime PresidentG for Haiti which would set up a National Health to procure or expand an arsenal of nu­ William Gray, President Clinton's Commission to make recommenda­ clear weapons. "We cannot rule out special envoy for Haiti, praised ousted tions to Congress to devise a "univer­ the possibility that organized crime Haitian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aris­ sal" health care plan in the event that groups will be able to obtain and sell tide before a hearing of the Senate For­ inducements to e�ployers did not nuclear weapons or weapons-grade eign Relations Western Hemisphere achieve coverage of 95% of the popu­ materials as a target of opportunity. subcommittee on June 28. Aristide's lation by the year 2002. We're especially concerned that hos­ performance while he was President The committeeiearlier rejected by tile states such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, was far superior to "anything that I a vote of 14-6 a proposal that con­ and North Korea may try to accelerate know that has been there before or tained a delayed employer mandate or enhance their own weapons devel­ since," Gray said. known as the "hard trigger" employer opment programs by attempting to ac­ In response to a question from mandate. quire weapons of mass destruction or committee chairman Claiborne Pell Moynihan and the rump group weapons grade material through orga­ (D-R.I.), Gray said that people "don't have diverged from the Clinton plan nized crime groups." have the right to take guns and tum [an for so-called universal coverage and Pointing to the case where a jani­ elected official] out of office simply the employer mandate provisions, in tor smuggled three kilograms of nu­ because they don't think you are the favor of a go-slqw approach that clear material out of a Moscow plant, best. And when I look at President would expand the 'number of people Woolsey warned that the strength of Aristide, I have not seen anything in covered as the "savings" from reform Russian organized crime and the cor­ my contact with him that would have become available. Both plans would ruption of the Russian government me question his ability to be a demo­ use incentives to induce employers to make it difficult to stop the prolifera­ cratically elected President in that voluntarily purch.se insurance for tion of bomb materials. country." Neither Pell nor Gray made their employees. If voluntary partici­ One congressman asked Woolsey any reference to the widely circulated pation does not provide coverage for to comment on the estimate that "30 reports of Aristide' s fondness while 95% of the population by the year to 50% of AID [U.S. Agency for In­ he was President for advocating the 2000 or so, the phm's enforced em­ ternational Development] money for murder of his political opponents by ployer mandate would go into effect. privatization is spent in a way that ulti­ "necklacing. " A third cost-control proposal by mately benefits criminal interests," When asked about provisional Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) would impose a and that in "at one briefinglast July, a President Emile Jonassaint's an­ 25% tax on insurapce companies for CIA official provided a scathing re- nouncement that there would be elec- their high-cost health care plans.

EIR July 15, 1994 National 77 National News

Moore . The FBI wiretap led to Moore being Roe. ended contact with her. McCorvey charged in a plot to kidnap and "deprogram" now livesl with her lesbian lover, whom she Smith and his wife in 1992. met when; she , McCorvey, was caught shop­ Spannaus forms PAC Smith's statement detailed some of the lifting from her store. The Times concluded unsavory characters that back his opponent: that "in a country where the rights of women to stop Oliver North "I) Humphrey backer and regular con­ and childten are still under attack," Norma Nancy Spannaus, who ran in the Democratic tributor Fred Isaacs went to jail in 1961 for McCorvey "as Jane Roe is not the symbol primary for U.S. Senate in Virginia, an­ defrauding the Twin City Rapid Transit Co. we would'have chosen; but she is the symbol nounced on June 21 that she was forming a in cahoots with the infamous Meyer Lansky we desenie . " political action committee (PAC) to defeat partner Kid Cann; the Republican nominee Oliver North, "2) Humphrey intimate Deil Gustafson whom she characterized as a "Bush opera­ was convicted of 24 felonies for skimming tive and drug-runner. " from the Tropicana Casino in Las Vegas in "The first campaign of the committee partnership with Kansas City mob figures; Wolf urges Virginia: will be to flood Virginia with a special ver­ "3) Humphrey backer Hal Greenwood Resist casino gambling sion of the bumper sticker LaRouche Demo­ was convicted of 25 felonies relating to sav­ crats are putting out in Texas and Florida ings and loan fraud; Concerned that there will be another try to [where George W. Bush and Jeb Bush are "4) Skip's brother-in-law and political legalize casino gambling in Virginia next running for governor] , 'Don't Elect That crony C. Bruce Solomonson was sentenced year, U.S� Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) wrote a Son-of-a-Bush. ' to 46 months in prison for defrauding his commentary in the July 2 Richmond Times­ "It is our intention to spearhead the kind own insurance companies." Dispatch urging Virginia to "resist" its lure. of campaign that will eliminate the threat Wolf cited a recent study funded by the that Ollie North might enter the Senate of Aspen In�titute and Ford Foundation, de­ the United States. Once Virginians get the nouncing �asino gambling for promoting or­ story that he ran planeloads of drugs into our ganized crime, destroying the economy, country , and conspired to destroy anyone 'Jane Roe' hailed as and harming the people involved in it. who got in the way, they won't buy this feminist anti-heroine The study's author, Prof. Robert Good­ story that Ollie is a folk-hero representing man, cites the following statistic: Casino Far from being the "abortion rights" move­ family values. They'll run that son-of-a­ gambling was legalized in Atlantic City, ment's version of Rosa Parks, a new book, Bush out of here in no time," she said. New Jers¢y in 1976. Since 1978, the city's I Am Roe: My Life. Roe Wade . and Free ­ . During the June 28 nationally televised v. crime inck:x exceeded that of the state as a dom of Choice by Norma McCorvey, de­ debate of the four Virginia Senate candi­ whole. By 1981, there was a near-tripling picting the Kafka-esque life of its lesbian dates on "Larry King Live," North gave the of total crimes. That brought Atlantic City heroine, shows her to be almost entirely lie to his own claims to being an outsider from 50th in the nation in per capita crime without principles. when he praised Bush as a "great states­ to first. According to a review in the New York man": ''I'd have sent George Bush to Bos­ Wolf �oncluded, "Virginians should re­ Times on July 3, McCorvey was sent away nia, Haiti, and then the rest of them-be­ sist bringing casino gambling to the Com­ to live with relatives as a child, where she . cause he knows how to solve them." He told monweal1ih because of the adverse impact it was sexually abused; she later married a King he would "call [Bush] tonight," and may have on our tourism and other business man who physically abused her. She "real­ ask him to campaign for North. concerns." ized she was pregnant," divorced her hus­ band, and moved in with her mother. Wrote the Times. she "began discovering that she was attracted to women." Her mother in­ Lewis du Pont Smith duced her to sign away custody of her child Chic o Tribune boosts after gettingher drunk. Despite the fact that ag to run for Minnesota AG she was now a practicing lesbian, she be­ integ�al fast reactor Lewis du Pont Smith, DuPont chemical heir came pregnant again. (The child was placed An editorial in the Chicago Tribune on June and associate of Democratic presidential for adoption.) 24 supported the fight to restore fundingto precandidate Lyndon LaRouche, declared Yet a third time, she "realized she was the integl!al fast reactor nuclear program. his candidacy for the Democratic-Farmer­ pregnant," during which she was picked up Headlined "Fighting to Save Good Nuclear Labor Party nomination as Minnesota's At­ by a wealthy Texas lawyer named Sarah Science,", the editorial reported that Sen. torney General, challenging incumbent Hu­ Weddington, who was looking for a case to Paul SimQn (D-Ill.) was preparing to lead a bert ("Skip") Humphrey III. In 1992, Hum­ overturn Texas's abortion laws. McCorvey fight to re�tore funding for the IFR, and not­ phrey investigator Rick Munson was caught became "Jane Roe." ed that Simon might face opposition from on an FBI wiretap discussing a national "get The case did not bring McCorvey fame the Clinton adminstration and Energy Sec­ LaRouche" campaign with former Loudoun and fortune: Weddington, not wanting to retary Hakel O'Leary. The IFR, being de­ County, Virginia Sheriff s Lt. Donald dirty her hands further with McCorvey after veloped at Argonne National Laboratory in

78 National EIR July 15, 1994 , Brilffly

• OKLAHOMA became the first Illinois, was cancelled this year under the Jahn wanted to convict them of conspiracy state in April whose legislature rationale that the United States should dis­ to commit murder. Again the jury refused. passed a resolution "Memorializing courage plutonium use around the world by But faced with confusing jury instructions, Congress to Cease:Certain Acitivities discontinuing its civilian plutonium the panel did convict several of the defen­ Concerning the ' United Nations." program. dants of carrying a firearm in the commis­ Among other things, it calls on Con­ The editorial cited the reactor's merits: sion of the crime that, remember, the jury gress to cease any support for the es­ While a "conventional reactor burnsju st 1% had already said they didn't commit. Seeing tablishment of a I"new world order" of its uranium fuel, leaving radioactive the contradiction, the judge threw out that or to any form of Il:lobalgovernment. waste and about 500 pounds of plutonium conviction. " A nearly identicaJ.bill has beenintro­ each year ...Argonne 's fast reactor is de­ Despite the protests from the jury that duced into the CaliforniaSenate . signed to consume 99% of its fuel, leaving they had mistakenly arrived at the firearms virtually no plutonium behind. Further­ conviction, the judge agreed to reinstate it, • PAULA CORBIN JONES, the more , it can burn waste from other nuclear and further ruled that the firearmswere auto­ woman who is sQing President Clin­ plants or from nuclear warheads." matic weapons, which means a stiffer sen­ ton for alleged ' sexual harassment The editorial concluded: "Since other tence. when he wa _ ,overnor has been nations, like nuclear-dependent Japan and The Times concluded, "The defendants � awarded $50,UUIi' from No Excuses France, aren'tlikely to shut down their reac­ in this case should move swiftly to appeal designer jeans to: model their wares. tors any time soon, the Clinton position is the court's ruling, and people ought to pay The deal promotclsJones as being the politically unrealistic and Argonne's reactor attention to what happens. " most "Alive and Uncensored" wom­ may offerthe best long-term solution to re­ an in America as the ceremony on ducing nuclear proliferation ....The Sen­ June 23 in New :York was the latest ate should follow Simon's leadership and in Jones's promotional tour. restore funds for the fast reactor. " Columnist: Norplant is • WALTER CRONKITE told the 'gas chamber economics' Discovery Channel that "we cannot Leftist columnist Alexander Cockburn afford not to kei:p going into outer Washington Times blasts penned a scathing attack on the contracep­ space," referri�g specifically to tive implant Norplant in the Los Angeles manned rnissio�. "We should not harsh Waco sentences Times editorial section on June 30. Cock­ abandon a prog that pushes hu­ The Washington Times denounced the bar­ burn began his column by quoting the infa­ man capabilities�; that recognizes that baric sentences meted out to seven members mous Dr. J.N. Baker, before the Alabama failing to accept the challenges be­ of the Branch Davidian religious group in State Legislature in 1935: "With bated fore us invites s�gnation," he said. its lead editorial on June 26, and defended breath . . . the world is watching the bold the innocence of the accused. The defen­ experiment in mass sterilization recently • PEG LUKS.K, who ran for gov­ dants were charged with using firearms in launched in Germany. " ernor of Pennsylvania in 1990, win­ a violent crime, during the shoot-out with Cockburncontinued, "Before Hitler and ning 42% of vote: on a shoestring bud­ federal agents in Waco, Texas in February his fellow Nazis (who said they learned get, is considerilllg running again, as 1993. "Last week a federal judge hit church much from U.S. sterilization laws) made the an independent. four years ago, Luk­ members who survived the attack with 40- discipline unfashionable, eugenics and the sik won widespread support through year sentences for their non-part in a non­ prevention of unworthy babies were hot top­ her strong campaign against "out­ conspiracy to kill federal agents ," said the ics among American social engineers. The come-based edu(:ation." She report­ editorial. "Federal prosecutors couldn't keenest engineers were not Southern crack­ ed that the camp of Republican candi­ have been happier. " ers but Northern liberals ....States pion­ date Tom Ridge !has both offered her After a pro forma effort to blame the eering sterilization laws early in the century jobs and made threatsin order to keep firestormat Waco on Attorney GeneralJanet included Robert M. Lafollette's Wisconsin her out of the raqe. Reno, who became AG in the middle of and Woodrow Wilson's New Jersey .... i the siege (which was stage-managed from "Beyond these, there is the profoundest • MARY SUIt TERRY, Virgin­ beginning to end by by Bush-era federal myth of all, which blames young, poor, un­ ia's former "get LaRouche" Attorney agents), the Times accurately summarized married mothers for drug abuse, slums and General, whose ,gubernatorial ambi­ the 51-day "standoff': "Naturally, the feds poverty. . . . Norplant will turn society tions were smashed in 1993, was re­ blamed the whole disaster on church mem­ around. These are gas chamber economics cently invited t� address a forum on

bers (carefully referredto as • cult members' and social prescriptions ....Wait for the "Overcoming ;Political Defeat." by government officials). Trouble was, a social engineers to start insisting that poor When only a dozen people showed jury of 12 impartial citizens did not. [Feder­ black female teenagers accept Norplant as a up, the moderatOr suggested the fo­ al prosecutor] Mr. Jahn and company want­ condition for probation or any form of social rum be cancellecil. Terry, who is still ed to convict the Branch Davidians of mur­ benefit, or for living in public housing, or without ajob, gttatefully left. dering federal agents. The jury refused. Mr. for existing."

EIR July 15, 1994 National 79 Editorial

Let's win the war on drugs

Nancy Reagan's campaign to "Just say no !" was a sad the International Cannabis Alliance for Reform, which parody of the kind of war that must be fought if we are was calling upon the United States to legalize Colombi­ to stop the spread of drugs . As the election of Ernesto an marijuana imports into tl)e United States. In this he Samper Pizano to the position of President of Colombia had and still has, the support of the Ollie North wing of shows, and the present senatorial campaign of Ollie the Republican Party which sought support for their North in the United States, the power of the drug mafia own involvement in drug trafficking from the writings digs deep in our society. Crucial to this is the role of of Adam Smith on behalf of the ideology of free trade. laundered drug money in sustaining the crisis-ridden Smith, of course, was on th¢ payroll of the British East global economic structure . India Company at the tim�, and his advocacy of the The recent revelations that the Samper Pizano elec­ non-regulation of drug trafficking coincided with the tion campaign was bankrolled by the cocaine cartel interests of British opium inlerests. are creating shock waves in Colombia and also have Ollie North'sbo ss, Geor e Bush, attempted tojustify already had important repercussions in the United the U.S. invasion of Panamaby � thelying pretextthat Pana­ States, where forces in the State Department and the rna's leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega, was using Panama as Drug Enforcement Administration substantiate the a base for drug trafficking. It would certainly be correct charges that he cut a deal with the Cali mafia in order now for the United States to announce that it will sever to win the run-off election. This has created sufficient diplomatic relations with Colombia should Samperbe in­ concern to place a question mark over the actual inau­ augurated, for the duration bf his term in office. guration of Samper Pizano next month . One very forceful mov� which the United States This scandal has come as no surprise to EIR . For can make to defeat the drug cartel here and in Ibero­ the past 15 years , as part of our campaign to stop the America, is to offer full support to Venezuelan Presi­ spread of drugs by hitting at the jugular-the connec­ dent Caldera in his fightto stop drug-money laundering tion of these criminal cartels to the banking system­ by imposing stringent controls on the Venezuelan bank­ we have documented the role which Samper Pizano has ing system. He did this to stem the flow of money out played as an interface between financial and criminal of the country in the wake of the collapse of Banco institutions . For this whole period, Samper has acted Latino. It should be noted that the problems in Vene­ as a broker for banking interests who were willing to zuela are of the same magnitude as a series of other support the drug cartel on behalf of Colombian and collapses of financial institUtions in the · United States foreign banks. and in Europe . Ten years ago , on the occasion of the abduction of Venezuela's economic crisis, then, comes within Patricia Paredes de Londono, who with her husband is conditions of the collapse of the international financial a leading anti-drug fighter in Colombia, we demon­ system, but it is complicated by the role of the Cisneros strated the overlap of these networks, in detail . We financial interests in Venezuela and Colombia who are documented Samper's role as a collaborator of Carlos tied in to drug-running interests in Ibero-America and Lehder, a partner of dope-lobby financierRobert Vesco Spain. Thus, by protecting e the integrity of the Vene­ in Caribbean operations. Lehder was sent to aU. S. zuelan economy, President�,Caldera has struck a blow federal prison as a major criminal. As we wrote in the at the very same drug interests who are trying to seize Aug. 14, 1984 issue of EIR , in 1982 Lehder "gave over power in Colombia. Here is a perfect opportunity for 20 million pesos to the L6pez Michelsen campaign at a the Clinton administration tb weaken the drug cartel at meeting in a Medellin hotel with Ernesto Samper Piza­ home and abroad, merely b offering the support of his no , L6pez Michelsen's campaign manager." administration to Venezuelaj 's President, while deny­ Samper was a member of the executive council of ing it to Colombia's Samper.

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