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" IIThere is a li�it to the tyrant's -Friedrichpower. Schiller, Wilhelm Tell. The long-awaited second volume of the Schiller Institute's new translations of Germany's greatest poet. Includes two plays, "Wilhelm Tell," "The Parasite"; .Dn Universal History; On Grace and Dignity; The Esthetical Lectures; and numerous poems. 562 pages. $15.00 Make checks payable to: Ben Franklin Booksellers, Inc. 27 S. King Street, Leesburg, VA 22075 Shipping: $1.50 for first book, $.50 for each additional book. Or, order both volumes of the Schiller, Poet of Free dom translations (Vol. I contains the play "Don Carlos," poems, and essays) for $25.00 postpaid. 'From the prison in which the �ugustine is the originator politician's career expires, the influence of the statesman is raised toward the of the modern Western summits of his life's providential conception Of the creative course. Since Solon, the Socratic method has become the mark of the and rational individual�' great Western statesman. 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Make checks payable to: Ben Franklin UPS: $3 + $1 each Booksellers, 27 South King Street, Leesburg, Virginia 22075. additional book. Telephone (703) 777- 3661. MasterCard and Visa accepted. Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John�gerson, Susan Welsh From the Editor Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Allen Salisbury, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Executive Webster Tarpley, William Wertz, Carol White, September 8, 1990 was a bittersweet day for the editors of Christopher White Intelligence Review and our friends and correspondents around the Science and Technology: Carol White world. It was the 68th birthday of a very great man-Lyndon H. Special Services: Richard Freeman Book Editor: Katherine Notley LaRouche, Jr. It was just one week after an international conference Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman in the outskirts of the American capital had gathered nearly 900 Circulation Manager: Cynthia Parsons people from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Agriculture: Marcia Merry India, and West Germany to discuss and elaborate on LaRouche's Asia: Linda de Hoyos work as a philosopher and statesman, as it bears upon the scientific, Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein cultural, economic, and strategicchallenges of these dangerous times Economics: Christopher White (see p. 62). European Economics: William Engdahl, Laurent Murawiec But that day also saw the darkening clouds of a world war, and Thero-America: Robyn QUijano, Dennis Small even if that does not occur in the short term, the needless, brutal Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: deaths of millions in the Middle East, as a result of a crisis orchestrat Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George ed by the Anglo-American liberal establishment. And Lyndon Special Projects: Mark Burdrrum United States: Kathleen Klenetsky LaRouche, whose capacity for always seeing things from the higher INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: standpoint of universal history is so acutely needed in such circum Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura stances, spent his 68th birthday in a federal prison-where his ene Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen mies intend for him to spend the rest of his life-unjustly confined, Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueno and unable to make the level of intervention into world affairs that Mexico City: Hugo LOpez Ochoa had been his wont until Jan. 27, 1989. Milan: Marco Fanini New Delhi: Susan Maitra Under such circumstances, it is appropriate to evoke the poet Paris: Christine Bierre Schiller's notion of the Erhabene, usually translated as the Sublime; Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Rome: Stefania Sacchi and Schiller's allusion to the Old Testament figureofJ ob, in response Stockholm: Michael Ericson to whose tragic plight, it is appropriate to feel both great sadness, Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Garan Haglund and yet great joy at his steadfast persistence in heroic virtue under circumstances to which lesser souls would have long since yielded. EIRIExecutive Intelligence Review (ISSN 0273--6314) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week Either emotion of sadness or joy, taken alone, would be banal, wrote ofJuly, the third week of August, andfirst week of Schiller. The combination of those two feelings simultaneously ex September by EIR News Service Inc., P.O. 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Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobsba, Shinjuku-Ku, and skipped two out of the last four weeks. Nonetheless, we will Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 208-7821. Copyright Cl 1990 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. publish all 50 issues for the current volume within this year. Reproduction in whole or in part without pennission strictly prohibited. Second-cl... postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. 3 months-$I25, 6 months-$225, 1 year-S396, Single issue-$\O i'oIItmuter:ss Sendalladdre changes toEIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ITrnContents Interviews Departments Economics 34 Abolhasan Bani-Sadr 11 Andean Report 4 u.S. tries to extort 'burden Iran's first President says that the Colombia becoming a money sharing' tribute Anglo-American military laundry. Like the emperors of the collapsing deployment is not directed against Roman Empire, the U.S. Iraq's Saddam Hussein, but is a 48 From New Delhi administration has beenduped by vast maneuver against the entire Caste conflict boils over. the British into believing it can region, and Europe as well. coerceother nations to foot the bill 49 Report from Rio for their Mideast adventure. But no For thirty pieces of silver. amount of mere cash canbail out Reviews the bankrupt U.S. economy at this 80 Editorial point. 52 On understanding Franz Hostages. Schubert 6 White House decides it's Lyndon LaRouche compares a 'too costly' to save 10,000 recent live broadcast of Schubert's Science & Technology infants every year Ninth Symphony ("The Great") in Administration scuttles a report that C Major to by Bruno Walter's 1959 shows how to reduce the appalling 14 High-speed rails planned in conducting of the Columbia U.S. infant death rate. France, <iermany, Italy Symphony. The second part of a series on how 8 Currency Rates the EuropeanProductive Triangle, 55 An artistic master of the as proposedby Lyndon LaRouche, age of the Council of can save the collapsing world 9 Agriculture Florence economy through generating huge World bread crisis worsens. The Genius of Jacopo Bellini: The rates of technological progress and Complete Paintings and Drawings, potential populationdensity. 10 Banking by Colin Eisler. The brink of financial meltdown. Physical Economy 12 Business Briefs SUIVey 70 Population of major regions, by age and sex, since 1960 The next in EIR' s series of data which are indispensable for constructing an accurate picture of the world economy according to the LaRouche-Riemann model. Volume 17 Number 35, September 14, 1990 Feature International National 28 Soviet objections to Gulf 58 Resistance rising to Bush's war signal end of Anglo 'splendid little war' Soviet condominium A new anti-war movement is in the Smiles and friendly handshakes at making, as calls are being heard the Sept. 9 summit between U.S. from such diverse figures as President Bush and Soviet President Lyndon LaRouche, Ramsey Clark, Gorbachov, will not alter the fact and conservative spokesmen, along that a permanent Anglo-American with black and Hispanic groups presence in the Persian Gulf is a who rightly see the waras genocide Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. has for decades beenpr0- dire threat to Soviet imperial against the world's darker-skinned to an posing solutions economic crisis which does not interests. peoples. exist, according to the ruling caste that put in him in jail. 30 Day of joy: October 3 will 60 Philosophicai association bring German unification heralds 'decade of LaRouche and Leibniz' 20 The 'Beethoven principle' 32 More evidence shows The Intemational Caucus of Labor and the LaRouche Britain wanted war Committees gathered for three days movement of policydeliberation in Arlington, Many people who may know 33 West turns its back on Iraq Virginia.