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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 8, Number 12, March 24, 1981 NationalNews were too harsh. Although cocaine is tech Intelligence sources estimate that the nically not a "narcotic" it is listed as a U.S. deployment of Socialist Interna dangerous drug under federal controlled tional assets into what the Yipsters term Mont Pelerin says substances regulations. a new "International Liberation Move Evidence uncovered by the antidrug ment" is a harbinger of U.S.-based ter it runs Stockman group reveals that the "medical expert" rorist upsurge. This analysis is especially George C. Roche III, president of Hills testimony in the trial is identical to guide bolstered by the involvement of more dale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, told lines suggested in a Playboy-funded professional terrorist operations, such as reporters on March II that his institu handbook titled "Cocaine, Legal and the American Indian Movement. tion, a semi-official affiliate of the mo Technical Defenses" published by the netarist Mont Pelerin Society, launched National College of Criminal Defense the career of David Stockman, director Lawyers and Public Defenders. of the Office of Management and Budg According to the handbook's intro Republican Senate group et. duction, the "team effort" "resulted di Stockman, whom Roche described as rectly from a grant by the Playboy Foun breaks with Stockman a "Fabian socialist of the older-style von dation, which would not have been made Republican Senators controlling the Hayek type, " got his start in public life without the active interest of Burton Jo Senate Labor and Human Resources as a "congressman for the Hillsdale dis seph and Margaret Standish of the foun Committee chaired by Orrin Hatch of trict." dation, and Bill Helmer and Tom Passa Utah broke with a policy of solid conser "You have to understand, " Roche vant of Playboy magazine." vative-Republican support for Reagan explained, "that we are one of the first The Playboy Foundation is the major Stockman budget cuts and on March 10 places people go to in this district if they funder of the National Organization for voted down $2 billion of an $11 billion want the [congressional] seat. When the Reform of Marijuana Laws. proposed cut affecting social welfare and Dave's predecessor resigned, I was urged education programs. to run. But Dave came in to see me and The group includes Hatch, Dan we became very close friends. We knew Quayle of Indiana, Paula Hawkins of about his radical background, but we Yippies plan Florida, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, also knew he worked with Pat Moynihan, Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, a basic conservative, at Harvard." 'spring offensive' Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, and John Roche called Hillsdale "the informal The Youth International Party (Yippies) East of North Carolina. 20 college of the Mont Pelerin Society in the is planning a "spring offensive" to begin The committee voted to reduce a United States." He said he is close to with a "National Resisters Conference" percent cut in education programs to 12.5 13-3 Reagan domestic affairs adviser Martin on March 20-23. The conference is de percent, voted to continue low $1.85 Anderson, and had tutored Rep. Jack signed to regroup the street-Ievei "New income fuel assistance at billion Kemp (R-N.Y.) in monetarism during Left" forces and shape them into poten and voted unanimously to increase black Kemp's career as a football ,quarterback tial riot shock troops comprised of Yip lung benefits to miners. for the Buffalo Bills. pies, antinuclear activists, and so-called Because the vote came before the final antiracism forces. budget is presented to Congress, it could According to New York Yippie or be reconsidered, ganizer Dana Beal, the first salvo of this Decrim lobby backs "spring offensive" will be a demonstra tion against President Reagan at a Lin cocaine case coln Center, New York performance of General strike set The Playboy Foundation, a leading fun his son. der of the marijuana decrim lobby, has The "N ational Resisters Conference" in Massachusetts been discovered backing moves to legal is featuring Abbie Hoffman, the Playboy A group of Massachusetts public em ize cocaine, according to the National Foundation's Paul Krassner, antinuclear ployee unions has announced a one-day Antidrug Coalition. physicist Micho Koku, and Ben Mazel, general strike throughout the state to be Chicago Fourth Circuit Court of Ap leader of the "Rock Against Racism." held sometime in April. John Gallahue, peals Judge Richard Mills overturned a Mazel's speech is titled "The Battle the group's designated spokesman and lower court conviction relating to co Against the Klan and LaRouche, " refer president of the powerful Carmen's caine possession in the case of the State ring to EIR founder Lyndon H. La Union, told reporters that the action is of Illinois v. McCartey. The grounds for Rouche, Jr., who has consistently main endorsed by all major employee unions, - the reversal were that "cocaine is not a tained that the New Left is a proto fascist including the Service Employees Inter narcotic, " and therefore the penalties phenomenon. national Union, American Federation of 62 National EIR March 24, 1981 © 1981 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Briefly State, County and Municipal Employees, decline in the American population's ca • BAHRAM NAHIDIAN, the and the American Federation of Govern pacity for family formation. Iranian rug merchant based in ment Employees. Washington who is the ringleader The one-day strike has been dubbed of pro-Khomeini Muslim funda "U nion Appreciation Day" and is de mentalist terrorism in the United signed to elicit public support for public States, is reported to be planning a employees who are now facing thousands series of violent demonstrations of layoffs. These layoffs, and related Canadian security incident and assassination hits against anti wage and hiring freezes, are due to deep Khomeini Iranian emigres over budget cuts mandated by "Proposition 'dry run' against Reagan? the March 21 Iranian New Year 21"," a property tax limitation referen It appears that Canadian Prime Minister holiday. Iranian nationals op dum passed in November. Trudeau intentionally created a breach posed to Khomeini rule in Iran will The cutbacks threaten to decimate in President Reagan's security protection be gathering at hotels in Washing city services and thereby depopulate ur during Reagan's March 10-11 visit to ton and other major cities across ban centers. Departmental budgets in the Canada. Progressive Conservative MP the country to celebrate the New larger Massachusetts cities will be Allan Lawrence submitted a widely pub Year, and Nahidian is rumored to slashed from 25 to 60 percent in June, licized parliamentary question on March have told his followers to prepare with deeper cuts to follow in 1982. 6 condemning the then-planned precau for "suicide missions." tions as excessive, whereupon Royal Ca nadian Mounted Police Inspector Lloyd • JOSEPH HENDRIE was Larose reported to the Canadian Press called upon, in a surprise move by Employment shifts follow Agency on March 8 that Reagan's Secret the Reagan administration, to take Service guards would not be allowed to Global 2000 track back his old job at the Nuclear carry arms. Regulatory Commission, pending A startling shift taking place in the In Ottawa, although the Mounties a permanent appointment. Hen American labor force, if not altered, will had received death threats to Reagan drie, who had left the NRC be produce a collapse of family formation prior to his visit, they allowed demon cause of controversy over his and population growth, reveal Bureau of strators to come as close as 50 feet from handling of the Three Mile Island Labor Statistics data. the President at an open-air speech. On affair, was asked to take the job In the past year, employment of the-scene security personnel acknowl back when problems developed women of childbearing age rose a record edged that an assassination would have over the appointment of Memphis 835,000, accounting entirely for that pe been "easy." businessman Thomas Roberts to riod's increase in employment. In the The demonstrators included the Ira the NRC post. Sources report that past month alone, the BLS reports, while nian Students Association: In Struggle, two top Senate Republicans met "total employment rose by 230,000 ... whose founder, Charles Gagnon, also with President Reagan to oppose adult women accounted for virtually all founded the terrorist FLQ: the Canadian the Roberts nomination, indicat of the over-the-month increase." Communist Party Marxist-Leninist: and ing that Roberts's only qualifica Meantime, "employment of adult the EI Salvador Solidarity Committee, tion for the job that is vital to the men and teenagers was below the year among whose participants are the Com future of America's nuclear indus earlier level, by 270,000 and 400,000 re munist Workers Party, the American In try, seemed to be that he was a top spectively. " dian Movement, and the Yippies. campaign official for George This dramatic shift in the composi Interviewed on March 12, Cam Bush. tion of the labor force reflects a rapid Mackie, a Trudeau adviser and founder shift toward a deindustrialized economy. of the Company of Young Canadians (an • ALEXANDER HAIG is hardly Over 1979 and 1980, the economy lost Institute for Policy Studies-linked group the most popular man at Foggy 600,000 industrial jobs, but added 1.6 that earlier funded the Weathermen), Bottom. "There are a lot of people million service jobs, a massive shift to ranted about the Reagan visit, openly over here who don't like Haig, " ward nonproductive employment.