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This is the same LaRouche lackey who's posted other things to the net.
Has anyone written to him to say hello?
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From: covici@wet.UUCP (John Covici)
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Subject: EIR China Newsletter 10/6/89 (long)
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Date: 8 Oct 89 02:07:15 GMT
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The following publication is available in the Chinese
language from EIR:
EIR CHINESE NEWSLETTER October 6, 1989
EDITORIAL:
Despite the absence of US Ambassador James Lilley from the ceremonies
held in Tienanmen Square to mark the fortieth anniversary of the
Chinese communist regime, the Bush Administration has clearly
returned to business as usual with Beijing: the Washington policy is
one of full support for Deng Xiao-ping and his associates. This is
reflected in the negotiations of Secretary of State James Baker at
the United Nations with top Beijing officials. In other words, the
policy of continued rapprochement with Red China demanded by Henry
Kissinger, and carried out by his clones in the Bush Administration,
NSC chief Brent Scowcroft and State Department number two Lawrence
Eagleburger, has prevailed for the moment. The Bush regime is being
described as "brain dead" even by Republican commentators these days,
and this hysterical insistence on the Kissinger "China card" is a
case in point. Jiang Zemin's anniversary speech was larded with calls
to renew the "class struggle" against foreign antagonists, which
supplemented his pronouncement that the June massacres were not a
tragedy. The communist regime is moving towards a Berlin-to-Beijing
"red fascist" bloc of countries waging war against their own
populations, with increasing hostility to the non-communist world.
How many more anniversaries will the Chinese communist regime be able
to celebrate? Probably not many. Colossal economic dislocations,
especially drought and famine, continue to spread under the news
blackout of marshal law. The other communist giant, the USSR, has now
entered the initial stages of its own bloody civil war, an upheaval
that will soon surpass 1904-05. Communism, the specific satanic evil
of the twentieth century, could be expunged from the globe within a
limited number of years. A key step in that direction must be the
imposition of sanctions on Beijing, with an embargo of high tech,
military assistance, and financial aid - only food and medical
supplies should be excepted. If the communists are deprived of the
aid of western financial circles, they will be decisively weakened.
But if communist economy is to be overthrown, there must be an
alternative. The United States is now in a deflationary collapse, a
violent contraction of economic activity leading to a panic run on
banks such as in 1932-33. The bankruptcy of liberal free trade usury
is evident. We must take seriously Lech Walesa's warning that mass
firings, massive price increases, and plant closings under the banner
of "price reform" and "marketization" pose the threat of civil war in
Poland. Communism must be replaced by something better: by the
American System dirigism of Hamilton, Lincoln and Sun Yat-sen,
represented today by the American statesman and political prisoner
Lyndon LaRouche.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT JACKSON HOLE
In Wyoming, the superpowers agreed that when the Baltic republics
and Eastern Europe explode, and Moscow begins to crack the whip,
then the US will look the other way. James BAKER III tacitly
confirmed as much in a Sept. 24 interview on American national
television, when he refused to commit the US to support Baltic
independence movements. Confirmation on the Soviet side came from
Sergei BOGDANOV, assistant to Georgi ARBATOV, head of the Moscow
USA-Canada Institute, in an Oct. 1 Radio Moscow commentary: "...
the USA will not exploit the situation in the Baltic republics,
nor do anything to promote secession, as it does not wish to risk
((jeopardizing)) the developing good relations with the Soviet
Union." Bogdanov cited, in addition "very delicate and difficult"
situations in Poland, Hungary and East Germany; "the Soviet Union
is in trouble, the Soviet Union is in difficulty." He concluded
by praising the "responsible behavior of the American leadership,
in not taking advantage of the Soviet Union's problems," then
added: "Why did Washington agree? Because, the Soviet Union,
irrespective of its problems, retains enormous military power."
Both sides agreed, further, that CONVENTIONAL FORCES in EUROPE
(CFE) talks in Vienna must be pushed ahead as rapidly as
possible. This would provide a negotiated framework for the US to
disengage from Europe. Another area of agreement was
intelligence-sharing, which will be intensified.
But what did NOT happen at Wyoming was just as important: the
Soviets did not offer any economic bonanzas, nor did they grant
the "SDI concession" expected. Just days after the Wyoming meet,
Yuri NAZARKIN, chief Soviet negotiator at the Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks in Geneva, told reporters that the Soviets
absolutely insisted on an SDI-START linkage. If any consensus was
reached in Wyoming on the SDI, it was mutual recognition that the
SDI is withering away, thanks to budget cuts and a weakened
commitment to the program from the White House.
CHINESE THREATEN WORLD WITH 'TRIUMPH OF SOCIALISM'
The celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the communist
takeover in China Oct. 1 were marked by military threats against
Taiwan, total repression in Beijing and Lhasa, and the renewed
assertion of CP leaders that "socialism will replace capitalism."
At the first press conference given by the newly constituted
Standing Committee of the CP Politburo Sept. 25, both Premier Li
Peng and CP head Jiang Zemin announced that the Party policy of
the "recovery of Taiwan" had not changed, and force would be used
if necessary, the first time Beijing had reitierated this policy
in a long time. They also reasserted threats that Hong Kong must
not be used as a base of operations against the PRC. As the
celebrations began Sept. 30, Jiang gave an 80-minute speech
stating that the CP is "fully confident of the communist future
of the human race," and warned of the "reactionary international
forces (that) have never abandoned their fundamental position of
hostility toward the socialist system," and said that "the
struggle against infilitration and counter-infiltration,
subversion and counter-subversion" of the socialist countries
towards capitalism "will last for a long time."
BEIJING-BERLIN AXIS EMERGES IN CRISIS
The Chinese and East German regimes have rushed to each others'
support in the face of not only external condemnation, but also
tremendous internal crisis. North Korea is the third pillar of
this unholy alliance. With the Chinese government warning on a
weekly basis that weapons are still in the hands of the
population, and tens of thousands of refugees fleeing East
Germany, even as both regimes celebrate their 40th anniversary of
power the first week of October, the axis is becoming critical
for shoring up these regimes. East German refugees arriving in
West Germany report that the news of the June 4 Tiananmen Square
massacre sent a shock through the GDR, convincing many they had
no choice but to leave.
At the Oct. 1 anniversary celebrations in Beijing, North
Korean Vice-President Li Jong Ok was the highest ranking guest,
followed by GDR Politburo member Egon Krenz. Krenz has been in
China for a week-long visit, during which he has had discussions
with his Chinese counterpart, internal security chief Qiao Shi.
Vice-Premier Yao Yilin, who announced that China could always
turn to the USSR for economic support, will visit East Germany in
October.
The GDR sent a high-powered delegation to the Chinese
embassy reception in East Berlin Sept. 29, where SED official
Hermann Axen warned that no let-up of "alertness at this highly-
sensitive border between Socialism and Imperialism, between NAT0
and the Warsaw Pact," could be allowed.
North Korean Vice-President Li's trip to Beijing was the
culmination of intensifying high-level exchanges, marked by the
August visit of North Korean Chief of the General Staff Choe
Kwang to Beijing.
SCANDALS DESTABILIZING ROC GOVERNMENT
In the last months before the crucial Dec. 2 national elections
in the Republic of China -- the first in almost 40 years -- the
ruling Kuomintang Party and opposition leaders committed to
reunifying China are being hit hard. Most damaging was the
violent death of opposition "patriarch" Yu Feng-ta Sept. 13. Yu
was a founder of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in
the ROC, but strongly supported the reunification of China and
Taiwan, undercutting the radical "independent Taiwan" DPP
faction, which is playing into Beijing's hands. Now, the U.S.
State Department, no friend of the ROC government, and US
Congressman Stephen Solarz, who has played a role in many Project
Democracy destabilizations throughout Asia, are reported looking
into the case.
In addition, KMT Justice Minister Hsiao Tien-
Tzang is being pressured to resign over alleged involement in two
golf courses which "damaged soil conservation" in a case making
daily headlines in Taiwan, and one senior KMT official has broken
ranks and urged that the legislative deputies elected on the
Chinese mainland 40 years ago, retire. The KMT leadership
maintains that these deputies should only have to stand for re-
election in the districts they represented on the mainland.
TRILATERALS JOIN BEIJING CELEBRATION
Joining the Beijing-Berlin-Pyongyang alliance in Beijing to mark
the 40th anniversary of Chinese Communism were Western leaders of
what Deng Xiaoping called the "great China-US-Russian triangle"
of world power. Former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig was
there, standing in for his good friend Henry Kissinger. On the
rostrum overlooking Tiananmen Square was Sir Adrian Swire, head
of Britain's Swire Group, one of the leading Hong Kong "hongs"
with long historical ties to the world opium trade. The Swire
Group was praised by the Chinese press last week its willingness
to carry on business despite sanctions. Swire's fellow Trilateral
Commission member Otto Wolf von Amerongen was in Beijing earlier
in the week. Von Amerongen, president of the Asian division of
the West German Industry and Commerce Association, to meet with
Politburo members Li Peng and Li Ruihan to discuss a $250
million subway for Shanghai. Von Amerongen was in Japan and the
U.S. for talks before he visited China.
HENRY KISSINGER FORCED TO TAKE THE STAND
For the very first time, Henry Kissinger was forced to take the stand
in court
Oct. 2. Kissinger was called to testify in a civil libel suit brought
by Indian
politician Morarji Desai against American author Seymour Hersh.
Kissinger was
called to either confirm or deny his connections with Desai. Kissinger
was
forced to testify because the federal judge involved in the case
threatened to
issue a bench warrant for his arrest, if Kissinger ignored the
subpoena. Today
Henry Kissinger was treated "like an ordinary citizen," chortled the
Washington
Post Oct. 2. "In more refined quarters, Henry A. Kissinger is an
international
celebrity, a friend of the powerful and an advisor to presidents and
foreign
governments. But a no-nonsense judge...has decided, to the shock of
some and
the delight of others, to treat the former secretary of state just like
any
ordinary citizen." Kissinger's lawyers had "done everything possible
to keep
him from appearing," but to no avail. Reuters noted that Kissinger was
greeted
with jeers outside the courtroom by the backers of Lyndon LaRouche.
US, JAPAN BLOCK VIETNAM ENTRY INTO WORLD MARKET
The United States and Japan have blocked Vietnam's re-entry into the
international economic community, the Far Eastern Economic Review
reported
Sept. 28. Despite the fact that Vietnam has carried out to the letter
recommendations for "structural readjustment" from the International
Monetary
Fund, Tokyo and Washington, the two largest donors in the IMF, said
Vietnam
should be extended no funds. The U.S.-Japan action has also blocked a
bridge
loan that was to be extended to Vietnam by the Banque Francaise due
Commerce
Exterieure, which also would have opened the doors to credits from the
international aid and banking community. Washington and Tokyo now say
that in
order for Vietnam to qualify as a member of the international economic
community, it must not only withdraw all its troops from Cambodia, but
also
make provisions for a political settlement for an interim government in
Cambodia.
The action from Washington and Tokyo may have resulted from
pressure
coming from Beijing. It is known that Beijing insisted that Tokyo find
it
"inconvenient" for Vietnam Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach to visit
Tokyo this
fall, as previously planned. And in Washington, with Secretary of State
James
Baker meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the United
Nations, the
Beijing-Washington relationship appears to be back to normal. On U.S.
foreign
policy toward Indochina, this translates into Washington's holding out
for
Khmer Rouge participation in any Cambodian government. Said Richard
Solomon,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and Pacific Affairs, it is
"self-deluding" to refuse to deal with the Khmer Rouge. "You're not
going
to have your hands unsullied. It is built into the structure of the
situation
that a lot of people have blood on their hands."
NO BONANZAS IN COMMUNIST BLOC
A big contributor to the looming world financial crash is the
NON-event in China and the USSR: the much-touted deals have not
materialized. China is not a huge market; it is an economic
disaster zone. In September, Vice-Premier Yao Yilin told the
National People's Congress that the population should expect more
austerity: "We face severe financial problems. We have no choice
but to vigorously raise revenue and cut spending," he said.
Revenue is being raised the same way Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachov has threatened to raise it: Every month, Chinese
workers are finding their pay cut in half because their wages are
being stolen to buy government bonds. Chinese workers already
suffer one of the very lowest per capita incomes in the world.
China is also facing a serious trade deficit -- it rose to $5.7
billion in the first half of 1989, up from $1.2 billion in the
same period in 1988. Exports only rose 6%, while imports were up
27%, and the trend has worsened since then. PRC Finance Minister
Wang Ping-chen told the NPC that "next year we will enter the
peak period of foreign loan repayments and our days will get even
tougher."
MOSCOW'S ENEMY NUMBER ONE: GERMANY
If the West does not respect the WYOMING protocols, then the
Russian bear will respond with military might. Such is the
message contained in Eduard SHEVARDNADZE's rantings to the United
Nations Sept. 25, which resurrected Moscow's enemy image of the
West, especially of GERMANY: "Fascism is the extreme and ugliest
form of nationalism. German Nazism marched under the banner of
revanchism. Now that the forces of revanchism are again becoming
active and are seeking to revise and destroy the postwar
relations in Europe, it is our duty to warn those who willingly
or unwittingly encourage these forces. The revanchism movement is
dangerous and hostile to the march of peace, to which President
BUSH referred yesterday." For the first time, the Russians place
((German)) "revanchism" in the list of ongoing regional WARS:
"regional conflicts in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and
((German)) revanchism," are seen as posing a "danger to peace....
Those who want to prosper at the expense of others do not see
that their own existence is also threatened. No people can lock
itself in the dark rooms of national selfishness." Before
Shevardnadze's anti-German diatribe, US Secretary of State James
BAKER had admitted to newsmen, that "Yes, we did discuss ... what
is called the GERMAN question" in Wyoming.
OCTOBER STRIKE WAVE IN USSR
Mikhail GORBACHEV may declare a national state of emergency, to
deal with the ides of October, which could bring crippling mass
strikes led by railway workers and coal miners, increasing
hostilities in Azerbaijan and Armenia, growing unrest in the
UKRAINE, and a renewed crisis in the Baltic republics. The state
of emergency was mooted by <i>Izvestia<n>, Sept. 29, one day
before the Russian leader made clear in a <i>Pravda<n> interview
that a strike wave, with its "devastating social and economic
consequences," would be intolerable.
Partial rail and port stoppages and slowdowns have already caused
huge delays in unloading and moving fuel and food. Hundreds of
thousands of tons of rice, tea and coffee, await unloading at
ODESSA and other Soviet ports, along with 380,000 tons of non-
food consumer goods. Mass strikes could begin any day, especially
in light of the 15-month wage freeze, starting Oct. 1; not only
railway workers, but Moscow subway workers and Ukrainian and
Russian coal workers are primed and ready to walk out. Last week,
the leaders of the Ukrainian coal miners' strike committees were
called to Moscow for emergency talks with 1st Deputy Prime
Minister, Lev VORONIN, to head off a strike.
CIA AND KGB GET TOGETHER
The Wyoming summit had barely ended when an unprecedented
gathering of senior Soviet KGB and US CIA officials began on
Sept. 24, at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
The agenda for close US-Soviet cooperation in intelligence-
sharing at Rand follows the specifications of a speech by US CIA
head William WEBSTER before the Los Angeles, California WORLD
AFFAIRS COUNCIL Sept. 19. Webster proclaimed that the focus of
the US intelligence services was now shifting, away from "Cold
War" issues, toward "intelligence on economic developments,"
especially "the strategies of our economic competitors."
The participants met under the auspices of the "US-Soviet Task
Force to Prevent Terrorism," with the official sponsorship of the
Washington SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND organization and the
unofficial sponsorship of the Terrorism Committee of the
Georgetown CSIS. Soviet participants included Major-General
Valentin ZVEZDENKOV, former KGB chief of counterterrorism; Lt-
General Feodor SHERBAK, former deputy chairman of the KGB's
Second Directorate; Igor BELYAEV, a senior journalist and Middle
East specialist for the KGB-linked <i>Literaturnaya Gazeta<n>;
Vladimir VESSENSKY, the Latin American specialist for
<i>Literaturnaya Gazeta<n>; and Andrei SHOUMIKHIN, a Middle East
specialist at the Soviet Academy of Sciences who is also
responsible for US-Soviet "regional crisis matters" at the USA-
Canada Institute in Moscow. The US side was represented by Ray
CLINE, former CIA deputy director and current chairman of the
Global Strategy Council; William COLBY, former director of the
CIA, now officially working out of CIA headquarters in Langley,
Virginia; Miles COPELAND; John MARKS, executive-director of the
Search for Common Ground, and others. British MI6 representative
Eric GROVES, of the Foundation for International Security, also
participated.
BRADY PLAN FALLS APART
MORGAN Bank's massive $2-billion-plus write-off of its Third
World debt has split the US banking community and pulled the rug
out from under the BRADY Plan. Its prospects had become so
tenuous that President BUSH had to intervene, by personally
addressing the IMF and inviting a delegation of senior banking
chiefs to the White House. Although Bush begged the bankers to
keep up support for the Brady Plan, the reaction of the majority
of bankers, especially in Europe, has ranged from lukewarm to
hostile. Statements by LLOYDS Bank chief Sir Jeremy MORSE and
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel LAWSON, derided the
plan as "foolish."
GREENS WANT DRUGS TO CUT POPULATION
Linda HENDRY, a leader of the GREEN Party told their first
national convention in Wolverhampton Sept. 22, that drug
legalization could help reduce the population: "Cannabis has the
known effect of reducing the sperm count in men, and also the
hormone activity of women to make them less likely to conceive.
People can enjoy their cannabis and know they are reducing the
population at the same time."
BBC ON KING ASSASSINATION
On Sept. 27, Britain's BBC-1 broadcast a television documentary,
presenting evidence that the US CIA and FBI were deeply involved
in a sophisticated conspiracy to kill US civil rights leader Dr.
MARTIN LUTHER KING in 1968. Documentary makers John Edgington and
John Sergeant accuse the US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE of having
covered up for the real conspirators. They claim that convicted
King assassin James Earl RAY was a "decoy and fall-guy" for the
real culprits. King's son, Martin Luther King III, is interviewed
regarding the motives behind the murder of his father: "When he
began to deal with the issue of economic parity or justice for
all people, that's when he became a real threat. That's when a
group of people said: `This is becoming dangerous.' It was all
right to fight for civil rights, but when that broadened into an
economic issue, that's when he was killed." The two authors call
for reopening official investigations into the King murder.
US CONGRESSMAN FOR `FAIR TREATMENT' FOR LAROUCHE
For the first time, a member of the US Congress, Rep. Walter
FAUNTROY, Democrat from the District of Colombia, has pledged
to take steps to ensure fair and safe treatment under the law be
accorded the imprisoned Lyndon LAROUCHE. Brazilian Congressman
Oswaldo Lima FILHO reported Sept. 29 that he had received a
statement of the pledge in a letter from his US counterpart.
Fauntroy is a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, and a ranking
member of the Black Caucus. Lima Filho is a former minister in
the Brazilian cabinet who now heads the National Parliamentary
Front of Brazil's Federal Congress. Fauntroy's letter, the
<i>Jornal de Brasilia<n> reported that day, refers to the
statement signed by Brazilian parlamentarians in protest against
the imprisonment of LaRouche. The statement, signed by 130
parliamentarians throughout Latin America, appeared as an
advertisement in the <i>Washington Post<n>.
811 US LAWYERS SIGN AMICUS CURIAE
On the eve of the Oct. 6 appeal of the case of Lyndon LAROUCHE
and six associates, advertisements in his support appeared in the
<i>New York Times<n> and <i>Washington Times<n>. The full-page ad
in the <i>Washington Times<n> Sept. 26 detailed the medical
mistreatment of LaRouche in the federal prison in Rochester,
Minnesota before and after surgery Sept. 12. The half-page ad in
the <i>New York Times<n> stated that 811 lawyers and law experts
had signed an Amicus Curiae brief which states in part: "Being
concerned with the need for protection of our citizens' civil
rights and liberties, we are deeply troubled by the violations of
due process and fundamental rights which appear to have occurred
in this case.... If the rulings of the court are allowed to stand
as precedent, this represents a potential threat to every
politically active citizen of having their voices silenced
through abuse of prosecutorial and judicial systems."
It is unprecedented in US legal history for 811 lawyers from so
many diverse organizations, law schools, and political viewpoints
signed an Amicus brief. In addition, 47 legal experts from Europe
have submitted another Amicus brief to the court.
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