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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 20, Number 42, October 29 The ground-breaking discovery announced by Martin Fleischman Paul Ehrlich Given society's record in and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989 managing technology, the has been received, not with scientific prospect of cheap, inexhaustible a debate, but with crude political power from fusion is "like giving witch-hunt. Compare what the anti­ a machine gun to an idiot child." science mob is saying, with what Lyndon LaRouche writes in a 173- page science policy memorandum issued by the Sch iller Institute. Jeremy Rifkin Lyndon LaRouche "It's the worst thing that "These cold fusion could happen to our planet." experiments, taken together with other experiments exhibiting related kinds of anomalous Nature magazine results, should "The Utah phenomenon is become featured literally unsupported by the elements of a special evidence, could be an artifact, research project-a and given its improbability, is . 'mini-crash program' most likely to be one." of fundamental research-enjoying the moral and material support of appropriate public Tl1e New York Times and private "Given the present state of institutions of the evidence for cold fusion, the United States and government would do better other nations." to put the money on a horse." laRouche's memorandum is available for $25 postpaid from P.O. Box 66082 Washington, D.C. 20035-6082 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Susan Welsh From the Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Webster Tarpley, he decision of the International Ecological Aca emy in Moscow Carol White, Christopher White to elect Lyndon LaRouche as a corresponding member, in recogni­ Science and Technology: Carol White T d Special Services: Richard Freeman tion of his groundbreaking work in economics and the natural scienc­ Book Editor: Katherine Notley es, is going to cause plenty of distress among those ",hoimagined that Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol by locking him up in prison, they had silenced his lVoice. LaRouche INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: commented in an interview on Oct. 20, "The implication of the Agriculture: Marcia Merry award, is that this establishes, within the European and other scien­ Asia: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, tific communities, a recognition that my work in economics is the Paul Goldstein alternative to which the world is going to have to tum to get out of Economics: Christopher White European Economics: William Engdahl the mess caused by the twin collapse of both Bolshevism and of the Thero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus free-trade model in the West." Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Around the world, there is a growing recognitjon that this is so. Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George See, for example, the open letter by former Argentinian President Special Projects: Mark Burdman Arturo Frondizi to Pope John Paul II, asking the pope to intercede United States: Kathleen Klenetsky for LaRouche's freedom. Frondizi cites LaRouche's decades-long INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura fight to achieve a just economic order, and particularly the impact Bogota: Jose Restrepo of his book The Science of Christian Economy, written in prison. Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Frondizi's letter is receiving press coverage in Ibe�o-America. Houston: Harley Schlanger Last week, we reported that Georgi Arbatov, t�at stalwart of the Lima: Sara Madueiio Melbourne: Don Veitch Russian nomenklatura who pals' around with Henry Kissinger and is Mexico City: Hugo Lopez Ochoa no friend of ours, had come out warning that the western demand for Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra "shock therapy" in Russia was going to propel the world toward war. Paris: Christine Bierre Arbatov's extraordinary statements, which confirm exactly what Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson LaRouche and EIR have been saying, were totally blacked out in the Washington, D.C.: William Jones press of the United States and Europe. ButEIR is making the rounds, Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund with special distributions of the article at Harvardi University and a EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) conference of the State Department and the Worl� Affairs Council except for the second week of July, and the last week of December by EIR News Service Inc., 333Jh in San Francisco. Anybody who wants to know w�at is really going Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 544-70/0. For subscriptions: (703) 777- on in Russia, is going to have to read EIR. 9451. Finally, let me draw your attention to the big package on the European Headquarter.: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, Clinton administration's policy toward Haiti. We document what a 65013 Wiesbaden; Otto von Guericke Ring 3, 65205 Wiesbaden-Nordenstadt, Federal Republic of Germany monstrous perversion it is for the United States to be supporting the Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig psychopath Aristide. With many in Congress expressing dismay, In Dennuulc: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen 0E, Tel. 35·43 60 40 and even the CIA describing Aristide as mentally unbalanced, the In Mexico: EIR, Francisco Diaz Covarrubias 54 A-3 time is ripe for a change in policy, to scrap the geopolitical doctrines Colonia San Rafael, Mexico DF. Tel: 705-1295. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, of the "new world order. " Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1993 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-SIO Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ilillContents InteIViews Departments Economics 6 Dr. Mohammed Sarsour 19 Andean Report 4 Health care reform: a cover Dr. Sarsour is vice president of Money laundering in Venezuela. for malthusian rationing Administration and Finance at Bir Under the rubric of health refonn, Zeit University, a Palestinian 20 Dateline Mexico the United States is being put university on the West Bank. He Secret NAFfA deal exposed. through a paradigm shift, to rid discusses the prospects for patients, doctors, and nurses alike developing industry and 21 Report from Rio of their view that the role of infrastructure, under the Israeli­ Party rule on the rocks. medicine is to save and enhance Palestinian peace accord. lives. 60 Australia Dossier 38 Dominic Puthucheary Lawsuit filed against CEC. 6 Palestinians must A parliamentarian from Malaysia concentrate on getting our and a constitutional lawyer , Mr. 61 Report from Bonn economy going Puthucheary participated in an A Gennan version of Albert Gore. An interview with Dr. Mohammed international parliamentary Sarsour. delegation's fact-finding visit to Bosnia-Hercegovina. 72 Editorial Your child is not a dolphin. 9 Israel, Palestinians must build high-tech 'Second 42 Konstantin Cheremnykh Jordan River' A journalistfrom St. Petersburg reports on the situation there Investigation leading up to the December 13 Louisiana parish says no to elections. 36 MPs in Sarajevo told: river gambling There isn't much time left An international delegation of 10 14 China proposes Photo and graphic credits: Cover, parliamentarians from seven development corridor page 27, EIRNS/Philip Valenti. countries visited Bosnia, and is Pages 11, 15, EIRNS/John putting a spotlight on the 16 Currency Rates Sigerson. Page 43 , EIRNS/Rachel bankruptcy of western policy there. Douglas. Page 52, Warren Documentation: A statement 17 Australian farmers: an Hamennan (drawing). Page 52, issued by International endangered species Library of Congress (photo). Pages Parliamentarians Against Genocide 59, 67 , EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. in Bosnia and Hercegovina. 22 Banking Gonzalez queries Fed's Watergate 38 Owen, U.N. bureaucrats role. are not accountable An interview with Dominic 23 Agriculture Puthucheary . Wdrld 1993 grain harvests fall. 24 Business Briefs Volume 20, Number 42, October29, 1993 Feature International National I 40 Russian imperialism on the 64 Clinton's m.itian policy is a march in wake of coup genocidal disaster . The key events have been The American people are being fed overlooked in the West, where the a pack of media lies about what is illusion still prevails that Boris really at stake in Haiti. But when Yeltsin is a "democrat." even the CIA describes ousted dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide as a 44 Former Argentine certifiable psychotic, some are President Frondizi urges beginning to ask whether U . S. Minnesota Attorney General Skip Humphrey hosts a pope to intercede for support for him is not, perhaps, cocktail party in Minneapolis for the National Associ­ misplaced. ation of Attorneys General, on Sept. 13. LaRouche 66 Haiti's ver�on of 26 Mob ties of Minnesota AG 45 LaRouche elected to genocidalist Pol Pot Humphrey exposed academy in Russia A profile of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Attorney General Hubert "Skip" Humphrey, a leading light of the 46 New papal encyclical 68 U.S. invad�d in 1915 to national "Get LaRouche" task
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