EIR Volume 25, Number 23, June 5, 1998

Volume 25, Number 23, June 5, 1998

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Interviews

Faisal Husseini

Mr. Husseini, the Palestinian Authority minister in charge of Jerusalem, has been a key figure in launching the peace process in the Middle East.

Dr. Miroslav Lehky

Mr. Lehky works with the Office for Investigation and Documentation of the Crimes of the Communists in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dr. Oldrich Tuma

Dr. Tuma is an historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dr. Boguslaw Banaszak

Dr. Banaszak is a jurist and a professor of constitutional law at the University in Wroclaw, Poland.

Dr. Laslo Varga

Dr. Varga is an historian and director of the Budapest City Archive.

Dr. Gheorghe Ceausescu

Dr. Ceausescu is a member of the Parliament in Bucharest, and vice president of the Civic Alliance, a coalition of several parties, which is now part of the coalition government in Romania.

Paulis Klavins

Mr. Klavins is a member of the Latvian Parliament and State Secretary in the Defense Ministry.

Investigation

Secret Stasi files: Will the truth ever come out?

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Previously secret documents show collusion between Britain’s Tiny Rowland and the East German secret services, the Stasi. But some people—East and West—are intent on keeping secret such files, which prove the treachery of the Cold War years.

Time to ensure justice for the victims of Communist rule

by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi

Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi reports on “The Heritage of Dictatorship and Internal Domestic Peace,” a conference in Berlin co-sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Berlin-Brandenburg Evangelical Academy. She conducted interviews with conference participants Dr. Miroslav Lehky, Dr. Oldrich Tuma, Dr. Boguslaw Banaszak, Dr. Laslo Varga, Dr. Gheorghe Ceausescu, and Paulis Klavins.

Departments

Australia Dossier

by Robert Barwick

Rio Tinto declares war.

Editorial

Stop the Justice Department treachery.

Economics

LaRouche was right again: ‘Asian contagion’ spreads

by William Engdahl

In the last two weeks of May, Asia’s financial and economic crises have erupted anew, spreading to Russia and the Western Hemisphere. They serve as an ominous reminder of warnings issued in January by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., who said, “If you think things are bad now, wait until March or April come around. It’s going to be impossible.”

Documentation: A selection of LaRouche’s forecasts, from 1993 to the present.

Russia: Financial panic hits, as LaRouche forecast

by Rachel Douglas

Indonesia: Deadly consequences of taking IMF advice

by Gail Billington

Documentation: Precise warnings from LaRouche on what was in store for Indonesia, and why.

South Korea: Strikes erupt against next phase of crisis

by Kathy Wolfe

IMF looting wrecks the physical economy

by Richard Freeman

Derivatives bubble is set to explode

by Richard Freeman

Some reality pierces veil of virtual reality

A selection of international commentary on the financial crisis.

Business Briefs

International

India faces policy dilemmas following nuclear tests

by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan B. Maitra

It is time for New Delhi to cut down on incendiary rhetoric and begin establishing itself as a responsible power. This requires the formulation of new policies to develop greater cooperation with India’s neighbors, as well as with larger powers in the region and beyond it.

The fate of the Mideast peace process is now in America’s hands

An interview with Faisal Husseini.

Sandline scandal causes tremors in Tony Blair’s ‘Cool Britannia’

by Dean Andromidas

Evidence that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office colluded with the British mercenary firm Sandline International, in an effort to overthrow the military junta in Sierra Leone, threatens to bring down British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, among others.

Rwanda mourns death of Seth Sendashonga

A eulogy for a leader of the Resistance Forces for Democracy, who was murdered on May 16.

Soros sets off ‘coca revolt’ in Bolivia

by Gretchen Small

The “native” coca-growers, fronting for George Soros’s drug legalization mob, have declared war on the nation.

Command structure of the Coca 90s Project

International Intelligence

National

Newt Gingrich pushes the Mideast toward war

by Dean Andromidas

Gingrich took his crusade against the Clinton Presidency to the Holy Land, where he did everything possible to undermine President Bill Clinton’s attempt to break the stalemate in the peace process.

Satellite flap aimed to destroy Clinton’s cooperation with China

by Marsha Freeman

Congress told: Hold hearings on DOJ abuses

by Debra Hanania-Freeman

The Schiller Institute sponsored a high-powered delegation from around the country, which met with at least 60 Congressional offices in Washington, demanding serious and comprehensive hearings that will prominently feature the LaRouche and “Operation Fruehmenschen” cases.