EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald From the Associate Editor Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh Managing Editor: John Sigerson wo weeks ago, EIR reported in a little news brief, a singular devel- Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht T Special Projects: Mark Burdman opment that a LaRouche campaign worker had relayed from Kalama- Book Editor: Katherine Notley zoo, Michigan: that Democratic Party leaders were officially instruct- Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol ing Democrats to vote for Republican John McCain in the Feb. 22 INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: primary, rather than vote for Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.—the only Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Democrat on the ballot. (Quite an irony, in view of the fact that the Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein Dixiecrat clique within the Democratic National Committee claims Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, that LaRouche is “not a real Democrat”!) It now turns out that what William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin was going on in Kalamazoo was no isolated phenomenon: The Gore Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small machine is complicit in a massive national vote-rigging operation, not Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: only against LaRouche, but also against Bill Bradley. The ultimate Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George beneficiary of this corruption will not be either McCain or Gore; it will United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose be George W. Bush, as LaRouche explained in a speech in Detroit, INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo reported in our National section. Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Our cover story provides dossiers on Bush and Gore: how Bush Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet made his millions by graft and insider-trading, and a rundown of the Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen most important, and strategically dangerous, of Gore’s many lies. Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Exactly one year ago, on the eve of the Presidents Day conference Melbourne: Robert Barwick of the LaRouche movement, EIR published LaRouche’s Presidential Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio campaign statement, “The Road to Recovery” (it was later issued in New Delhi: Susan Maitra book form by his campaign committee). In that document, he Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios stressed, “The underlying fact about all the current rash of political Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein crises, in every part of today’s world, is that the presently escalating Washington, D.C.: William Jones world financial and economic crisis, will continue to become ever Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund worse, for as long as the present world financial system exists.” Any EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (51 issues) Presidential candidate who does not commit himself to changing that except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania situation, he said, “does not yet have his head in the real universe.” Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) LaRouche’s warning was rejected by the American establish- 544-7010. 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Colonia Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- 26-43. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright ” 2000 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Periodicals postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months—$125, 6 months—$225, 1 year—$396, Single issue—$10 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Interviews Departments Economics 8 Riccardo Moro 72 Editorial 4 Speculation-fever and fear Professor Moro is a member of the We have entered an area of phase- become explosive mixture Executive Board of the Italian shift. The phase of outward stability, Church Committee for Debt which has prevailed since the near- Remission in the Jubilee Year. Science & Technology collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 1998, has 36 Faris Nanic 20 The unscientific hoaxes petered out. Although most Croatian political leader Nanic behind EPA’s pesticide ban investors are hyped to keep their gives a first-hand evaluation of the Dr. J. Gordon Edward analyzes money flowing into the markets, new political situation in Croatia what it means to say a chemical everyone knows that the big crash is and the problems facing the new poses “the reasonable certainty of imminent. government. no harm”—and it’s not what the Environmental Protection Agency 5 Milan is urged to back New says. Bretton Woods A motion that would commit the city to helping bring about a New Photo and graphic credits: Cover, Bretton Woods global financial pages 21, 23, 32, 39, 49, 52 (Gore), system has been introduced into the EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 9, City Council. Apostolic nunciature in the United States. Pages 12, 13, ESKOM. Page 6 Commentaries: Warnings 20, 32, 63, 66, EIRNS. Page 26, of coming crash proliferate United Nations/JL/mh. Page 33, German Enciso, ANCOL. Page 35, EIRNS/Christopher Lewis. Page 47, 8 Jubilee 2000: The poor EIRNS/Claudio Celani. Page 52 have paid their debt (Bush), ANCOL/Guillermo Tapia. An interview with Riccardo Moro. Page 52 (rally), EIRNS/Philip Valenti. Page 62, EIRNS/Steven 10 South Africa moves ahead Carr. Page 67, Death Penalty with high-temperature Information Center/Charles Stiff, reactor project Cedar Creek Pilot. The South African electricity company ESKOM has drawn up plans for an ambitious program to develop and produce small, standardized high-temperature reactor modules, both for domestic use and for export. 17 Banking Greenspan, Summers extoll derivatives. 18 Business Briefs Volume 27, Number 8, February 25, 2000 International National 32 Now there are going to be 56 Al Gore is a racist liar: the two drug DMZs in lies Bradley didn’t mention Colombia To secure the nomination, Gore is The Colombian government is trying to shut down all the about to hand over a substantial Democratic primaries that he can, chunk of territory to ELN narco- and push independents and even terrorists. In exchange, the ELN Democrats to vote for John McCain promises to sit down to “peace” in the GOP primary. Gore’s biggest talks with the government. Instead, problem is to maintain the of peace, the FARC and ELN are bodyguard of lies about his own striding down a blood-red carpet, character, and beliefs, as a cover for right into the halls of power. permitting his thuggery to work. Professional wrestlers at work. 34 Iran-Contra secrets 57 Blood and Gore for strangle German CDU 44 Will American voters buy Thatcher’s Iraqi war Wall Street’s vote-rigging 36 After the elections in game? 59 Primaries cancelled in “There are certain differences Puerto Rico, Kansas Croatia: a Marshall Plan, between this year’s Presidential or a new war? election campaign and world-class The new President of Croatia, Stipe wrestling,” said Lyndon LaRouche 61 ‘Don’t vote for the lions,’ Mesic, is facing a severe economic in Detroit. “But not much.” In LaRouche urges Michigan crisis. Will the West come through speeches in Michigan, LaRouche voters with assistance? blew the lid off the vote-rigging The transcript of a half-hour game now in process in the U.S. television spot purchased by 36 ‘We are expecting a fifth Presidential elections. Lyndon LaRouche’s Presidential Balkan war’ campaign, which aired in Michigan. An interview with Faris Nanic. 46 How George W. Bush got rich through graft, 66 Capital punishment is 40 UN aid coordinators inkickbacks, and family under assault in U.S. Iraq resign in protest connections against embargoThere is not a single business deal 69 Congressional Closeup that President Bush’s son has been 42 International Intelligenceinvolved in that did not involve 70 National News some form of “insider trading” on the family name—or worse. 48 Skullduggery and the Ohrstrom family 50 Bush’s buddies at BCCI 55 Dubya, Enron Corp., and the spoils of war EIREconomics Speculation-fever and fear become explosive mixture by Lothar Komp The phase of outward stability, which has prevailed since the concentrates on Internet and other fashionable stocks near-collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 1998, which—so he hopes—can give him 500% growth in a year, has petered out. There was no dearth of dramatic financial with a little luck. With that target in his sights, the gambler events, even in 1999.