Volume 23, Number 39, September 27, 1996
Interviews
Augusto Ramírez Ocampo
The former Colombian Foreign Minister is currently a member of the National Reconciliation Commission.
Oscar Alfredo Santamaría
by Javier Almario
The former Foreign Minister of El Salvador is now a member of the UN observer mission for the Nicaraguan elections.
Roberto Alvarado
by Javier Almario
A member of the negotiating commission of the Mexican government with the Zapatistas, Mr. Alvarado participated in the Peace Assembly in Bogotá, Colombia on Aug. 27.
Maria Elena Milton
The LaRouche Democrat who won the primary election in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, is running a nationally prominent campaign against the Conservative Revolution.
Departments
Report from Paris
by Christine Bierre
Who Will “Exorcise” French Fascism?
Editorial
Bob Dole’s Anti-Drug Campaign.
Strategic Studies
UN-Backed Narco-Terrorist ‘Tet Offensive’ Hits Colombia
by Valerie Rush
The FARC terrorists, cast in the mold of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, have launched a full military offensive against the nation-state.
Did the ‘Bush Manual’ Policy Set Up Gómez Hurtado for Murder?
Business under a Narco-Dictatorship
We Studied Colombia’s 1991 Constitution
An interview with Roberto Alvarado.
Book Reviews
Proof Positive That the FARC Cartel Exists
The FARC Cartel, by Maj. Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido.
A Young Boy’s Life of Horror in the FARC
En El Infierno, Una Guerrilla que Se Devora a Si Misma: Testimonio de un Ex-Integrante de las FARC (In Hell, A Guerrilla Devours Himself. Testimony of a Former FARC Member), by Jhony.
Economics
Gingrich-Style Budget Cuts Slash Germany’s Health Care
by Rainer Apel
Ailing parliamentarians were dragged from their hospital beds to secure a majority vote for austerity measures that will devastate health care for the sick and elderly.
‘Maquiladoras’ Come to Poland’s Villages
by Anna Kaczor-Wei
The pro-IMF government’s wrecking policy against agriculture, has left the farm regions vulnerable to slave-labor looting on the Mexican model.
South Korea Debates Nuclear Independence versus Free Trade
by Kathy Wolfe
Construction of two nuclear power plants in North Korea, with help from the United States, South Korea, and Japan, is moving ahead.
Arabic Daily Features LaRouches’ Silk Road
Al-Hayat reports on the Schiller Institute’s global economic reconstruction program.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
U.S. Consumer Market Basket Shrinks to the Crisis Point
by Richard Freeman
While official Washington proclaims the strongest economic growth in a decade, the reality is revealed by EIR’s “market basket” approach to analyzing the real, physical economy.
Three Jobs Today Equal One Paycheck from the 1950s
by Richard Freeman
New Segment of U.S. Workforce: Prison Labor
by Marianna Wertz
Workers’ Paychecks Evaporate, as Market Basket Collapses 50%
by Richard Freeman
Food Market Basket: Your Paycheck Compared to Your ‘Grocery Bag’
by Marcia Merry Baker
Infrastructure Deficit Adds Up to $7-10 Trillion
by Richard Freeman, Marcia Merry Baker, and Anthony K. Wikrent
Selective case studies of airlines, railroads, bridges, water infrastructure, electricity, health, and education.
While the U.S. Economy Collapses, the Bubble Grows
by John Hoefle
International
Washington’s Cowardice Risks a New War in Bosnia
by Umberto Pascali
While Henry Kissinger’s partition scenario was set back by the reelection of President Izetbegovic, still the lack of an aggressive U.S. policy for economic reconstruction leaves the nation vulnerable to a new outbreak of Greater Serbian aggression.
Italian State Opens Showdown against Secessionist Northern League
by Claudio Celani
Umberto Bossi’s lunatic project of carving out a Northern Italian nation called “Padania,” has turned out to be a resounding flop.
Belgium Arrests Tied to Iran-Contra Scandal
by Dean Andromidas
The exposure of an enormous criminal complex of pedophiles and murderers, has explosive political implications.
International Intelligence
National
EIR Report Exposes Bush as ‘Crack’ Kingpin of the ’80s
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The story is becoming the hottest issue of the 1996 election campaign, as EIR’s press conference was reported internationally.
Model Drug ‘Kingpin’ Indictment of George Bush Presented
by Edward Spannaus
Applying the legal standards that have sent thousands of drug-traffickers to prison, this one is an open-and-shut case.
‘I Am Leading a Crusade To Defeat Congressman ValuJet’
An interview with Maria Elena Milton.
Soros Finances Drive for Drug Legalization
by Scott Thompson
Democratic Senators Debunk Free Trade Lies
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood and Suzanne Rose
National News
