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Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Economics 4 APEC: The Battle Lines Are Drawn Against Cover Globalization This Week The Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Brunei handed a setback to the free-trade The “lesser evil,” is advocates. still evil. Documentation: From a speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. 8 Wall Street, Treasury Crew Laugh To See Asian 42 The Most Corrupt Election in American Governments Weaken History 10 Riyadh Meeting Blasts 44 Constitutional Choice of a New President by ‘Paper Oil’ Speculation Electoral College 12 The Twilight of the Dot.Bombs 45 How Gore Destroyed the Democratic Party To Get the Nomination 13 Schiller Institute Briefs Croatians on Prospects for 49 Primaries Were Rigged Against LaRouche Balkan Cooperation 52 Disenfranchisement Charged in Florida 16 ‘Mad Cow’ Disease Again Scares Europe 53 Corruption Wins in Eighteen States 17 German Maglev Will Finally Run—in China 55 Where Did Campaigns Get That $3 Billion? 18 Business Briefs 57 World Reacts to U.S. Election Debacle 59 Americans Speak Out Volume 27, Number 47, December 1, 2000 National Economy National Interviews 20 Revive the Industrialization 61 Is There a Political Solution 75 Victor G. Freeman of Argentina’s Patagonia! for the World At This Dr. Freeman, a practicing physician The plans developed early in the Advanced Stage of Global and Washington, D.C. resident, is a 20th Century for building an Crisis? member of the board of the Public industrial city called Nahuel A report from Lyndon LaRouche’s Benefit Corp. Huap´ı—never implemented—point Nov. 14 webcast, including a the way to what should be done selection from the discussion 76 Loretta Owens today. period. The president of the American Federation of State, County and 29 IMF Bailout Means 75 Shutdown of D.C. General Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Disaster for Argentina Looms In U.S. Public Local 1033, representing more than Health Collapse 800 of D.C. General Hospital’s 2,000 employees, discusses the issues behind the strike. International 77 No Flu Shots Yet: U.S. Unready for Epidemic 30 U.S. State Dept. Departments Overthrows Peru’s Anti- 79 National News Drug Government The resignation of President 80 Editorial Alberto Fujimori marks the end of a While You Weren’t Looking... year-long campaign to overthrow the leading anti-drug government in the Americas, and to return narco- terrorism to Peru, big-time. 33 ‘Shining Path’ Inside Peruvian Army: Colonel Humala’s Strange Revolt 36 French Magistrate Caught in Princess Diana Murder Cover-Up Photo and graphic credits: Cover 39 Coming to Terms with (design), Alan Yue; (photos), America’s Vietnam War EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 7, UN Photo/M. Grant. Pages 9, 43, 48, 76, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages 16, 47, 62, 70, 72, EIRNS. Page 21, U.S. Geological Survey. Page 27, American Philosophical Society. Page 31, Office of the Presidency of Peru. Page 40, White House Photo/ David Scull. Page 50, EIRNS/ Eugene Schenk. Pages 63, 71, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Page 66, EIRNS/Robert Lucero. Pages 68, 69, EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. Page 73, NASA. EIREconomics APEC: The Battle Lines Are Drawn Against Globalization by Michael Billington The American and British Commonwealth advocates of free getting an agreement for a new round of trade negotiations, trade were handed a setback at the Nov. 12-16 meeting of run by the WTO, to begin within the coming year. However, the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in with Malaysia taking the lead—as it has over the past three Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei Darussalam. The years in regard to rejecting destructive demands made by the nations of Asia generally rallied behind an assertion of na- international financial oligarchy—the Asian nations insisted tional sovereignty and the general welfare of their popula- that a new round would not be successful if the developed tions, rather than submit to the dictates of the increasingly nations continued to impose an agenda not in the interest of discredited process of “globalization.” the developing nations. As Rafidah Aziz, Malaysia’s Interna- In the weeks preceding the APEC meeting, a memo from tional Trade and Industry Minister, told the press, “They can economist Lyndon LaRouche to the heads of state of the ten jolly well say 2001, but they are kidding themselves,” point- nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus ing to the collapse of the WTO conference in Seattle last China, Japan, and South Korea (ASEAN-Plus-3) circulated December as a case