... ATOTA STRATE INST PEKING by Gen.· Ten f' tr IJAII we need do is to un , yomake the most of s weaknesses. Then we befeat. The Chinese like a paper ough. All the munism." . Teng Chieh This amazin Kuomintang 1988, charted erupted just a Exclusive U.S. di 1.50 postage and Ben Franklin book, $.50 for 27 South King St. al book). Virginia Leesburg, VA 220 4V2% tax. (703) 777-3661 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, 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, In Economics we present an eight-page special report which came Webster Tarpley, William Wertz, Carol White, Christopher White together as we were editing this issue, on the cru�l reality of Iraq Science and Technology: Carol White since "Desert Storm." The report leads with the formation of a Com­ Special Services: Richard Freeman mittee to Save the Children in Iraq, announced on May 15, and Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman the text of the committee's appeal for immediate action to end the Circulation Manager: Cynthia Parsons sanctions and rescue the Iraqi people from extinqtion. I personally INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: urge each reader to support this effort in whatever way possible. Agriculture: Marcia Merry Asia: Linda de Hoyos The call is accompanied by two extraordinary first-hand reports Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, on Iraq. If there were any lingering doubts about the genocidal Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White intentions of George Bush and his British sponsors in engineering European Economics: William Engdahl this war under United Nations auspices, they should be dispelled by lbero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. these reports and photographs. What the eyewitness accounts prove Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: is the deliberate design of those who are still prosecuting the "war Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George Special Projects: Mark Burdman on Saddam Hussein" to carry out a slaughter of the innocents. To United States: Kathleen Klenetsky quote one of the authors, "One of the great myths of this war was INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: that food and medicine would continue to be allowed into Iraq. From Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura Bogota: Jose Restrepo August to March, no food whatsoever was permitted to enter Iraq Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen (from any source) according to the provisions of Sanctions Resolu­ Houston: Harley Schlanger tions 661 and 666. " Lima: Sara Madueno Mexico City: Hugo Lopez Ochoa On May 21, we were horrified to learn that the former prime Milan: Leonardo Servadio minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, had been assassinated. His death, New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre as we report in International, must be laid at the door of those same Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios genocidal Anglo-American elites who concocted "Desert Storm." Rome: Stefania Sacchi Stockholm: Michael Ericson The cover photo highlights an example of the strong grassroots Washington, D.C.: William Jones resistance to Auschwitz policies, being mobilized by presidential Wiesbaden: Garan Haglund candidate Lyndon LaRouche and his collaborators: A truck, adorned EIRIExecutive Intelligence Review (ISSN 0273-6314) is with a large image of a magnetically levitated train and the banner, published weekly (50 issues) except for the jirst week of April, and the last week of December by EIR News "Build Maglev/No 'Free Trade' Slavery! U.S. Needs LaRouche Service Inc., 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 901, Washington, DC 20005 (202) 628-0029 Economics," crossed the state of Pennsylvania along the route of a European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review proposed high-speed maglev rail line. 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Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly namel y, fusion power. prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$iO Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. • TIillContents Interviews Science & Technology Economics 10 Lennart Skov-Hansen 20 Cold fusion generators 4 Brazilian minister: Save The deputy general of possible in five years Iiv� before paying debt Danchurchaid, the relief Physicists Frederick Mayer and Dr. Alceni Guerra blames the organization of the Danish State John Reitz have a new idea about International Monetary Fund's Church, who recently visited Iraq, what makes the controversial "cold austerity policies for the current says the country has to be put back fusion" experiments work. Their health disaster facing the continent. on its feet economically, or many Boston press conference will no more will die. doubt infuriatethose who have been 6 Group seeks to save the determined to label cold fusion a children of Iraq scientific chimera-or a fraud. Documentation: The "Plan of Departments Action" released by the Committee to Save the Children in Iraq at a 27 Books Received Bonn press conference. S6 Report from Bonn 10 Sanctions must be lifted to Germans squeezed by two stop further loss of life in superpowers. Iraq An interview with Lennart Skov­ S7 Australia Dossier HanSen. A glimpse of Australian powerbrokers. 12 Currency Rates S8 Dateline Mexico 13 When push comes to shove: The case of the Negroponte cable. Is the United Nations savior or spoiler when it comes to S9 Report from Panama humanitarian aid for Iraq? The Noriega papers. by Eric Hoskins, M.D., Medical Coordinator, Gulf Peace Team. 72 Editorial Is Bush planning a new war? 16 Clash over type of investments in China 17 Agriculture United States imports Swedish barley. 18 Business Briefs Volume 18, Number 21, May31, 1991 Feature International National 40 British 'new world order' 62 House capitulates to fast behind R�iv Gandhi track, but fight expands slaying Democratic presidential candidate The "crime" of the Indian Lyndon LaRouche is spearheading subcontinent, in the Anglo­ the resistance to NAFTA by North American oligarchy's book, is its Americans unwilling to accept the failure to become depopulated. destruction of their jobs, standard of living, and their future. � � 42 'Assassination of Gandhi is LaRouche spokesman Phil Valenti talks to the press a crime against humanity' 64 Queen Elizabeth visit alongside the "maglev mobile" driven across Pennsyl­ A statement by Lyndon H. celebrates Anglo-American vania to the capital in Harrishurg. about the alternative LaRouche, Jr. imperial alliance to NAFfA. Documentation: The Queen's speech to a joint session of the U.S. 28 'Free trade': worst threat 43 Brazilians challenge U.S.­ Congress. to U.S.A. since backed genocide Confederacy 66 U.S. markets being ftooded The Confederate States made it 44 Danger of war intensifies illegal to protect domestic industry through the Balkan with heroin and to foster national peninsula improvements. Today, the North Not the internal troubles alone, but 67 Nebraska courts still shield American Free Trade Agreement outside, deliberately evil pedophile ring will wreck what remains of U.S. manipulation could drive industry, driving down wages to Yugoslavia into civil war. 68 Congressioaal Closeup slave-labor levels, and turning Mexico into one big maquiladora. 46 French military strategy 70 National News The conclusions of a survey by returns to gunboat EIR's Economics Staff. diplomacy aimed at South 48 Military crisis builds in Argentina 50 Chinese unity debated in Hong Kong Webster Tarpley reports on a most unusual search for a national dialogue, between people from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and friends of China from abroad. 54 Sino-Soviet summit: troubled giants embrace 55 Frankfurt drug lobby hollers against ADC 60 International Intelligence • �ITrnEconoIDics Brazilianminister: Save lives before payingdebt by Silvia Palacios During the 44th General Assembly of the World Health Orga­ billion, as Guerranoted, and yet here the foreign debt jumped nization (WHO), held in Geneva in the first week of May, from $71 billion to $111 billion between 1980 and 1989. Dr. Alceni Guerra, the health minister of Brazil, blamed the This looting through the foreign debt mechanism meant that International Monetary Fund for the current disaster facing Ibero-America, and Brazil in ;particular, did not invest the the continent's health and sanitation systems. He stated that necessary resources in maintaining thehealth and other vital such international institutions as the IMF had made lbero­ infrastructure for the survival of the population. America a "sick continent," facing an imminent threat of In Brazil, for example, in terms of sanitation, the current losing millions of people to the cholera pandemic now sweep­ precarious systems are the result of investments made in the ing the region. Health conditions cannot be ignored when decade of the 1970s. The National Sanitation Plan, which developing nations renegotiate their debt conditions, the Bra­ was drawn up in the mid-1970s when Brazil launched its zilian minister asserted.