EIR Volume 25, Number 19, May 8, 1998

Volume 25, Number 19, May 8, 1998

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Departments

Australia Dossier

by Robert Barwick

Greenies don’t give a dam.

Strategic Studies

Caspian Sea development has British worried

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

This oil-rich region is of the utmost strategic significance, particularly as the Eurasian Land-Bridge opens up development prospects for all of Central Asia.

The legal status of the Caspian Sea

by Yand Shu

A guest contribution by Prof. Yand Shu, vice president of the Institute of Central Asia Studies at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China.

Economics

Exposed! The anti-German plot behind the ‘euro’

by Elisabeth Hellenbroich

The German government has declassified secret documents which show how Chancellor Kohl was pressured to agree to the European Monetary Union, as the price for the reunification of Germany.

Documentation: The British strategy against German unity, and the Bank of England’s plan today, to “manage” the euro.

Wave of bank mergers reflects a grave danger to the economy

by John Hoefle

Testimony by EIR’s John Hoefle submitted to a House Banking Committee hearing on bank mergers.

Japan’s new ‘stimulus package’ solves nothing

One small step for nuclear R&D

by Marsha Freeman

An effort to keep the nuclear option alive revolves around the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative.

Feature

Colombia must follow Peru’s strategy vs. narco-terrorism

by Dennis Small

If the situation continues as it is, Colombia will become a narco-state within a year. The United States must ally with those who are willing to fight narco-terrorism, as Peru has conducted this war.

London’s São Paulo Forum declares war on the United States

by Gretchen Small

In March, the São Paulo Forum’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) declared war against the United States, promising to turn the region into a new “Vietnam,” should the United States aid Colombia against the drug cartels.

The FARC attacks, the government negotiates, and Colombia disintegrates

by Javier Almario

Gen. Bedoya: To win, mobilize the nation

Colombia ushers in a narco-dictatorship

Peru moves decisively on narco-terrorism

Recommendations for Peru’s war on drugs

by Luis Vasquez

Samper hands FARC huge territory

International

Serbia’s Milosevic steers Balkans toward a new war

by Umberto Pascali

The strings of the Serbian dictator are being pulled from London and Paris, where the oligarchy is once again trying to blow up the Balkan powderkeg.

High protest vote in German state election

by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi

The election in the former East German state of Saxon-Anhalt, where unemployment is officially 24.1%, was a stunning defeat for Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union.

A phantom dissolves: the end of the RAF?

by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi

Helga Zepp-LaRouche on RAF terrorism

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Ukrainian ‘democracy’ is sacrificed to the IMF

by Rachel Douglas

Including a statement by Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, who is being denied the parliamentary seat to which she was elected.

Schiller Institute organizes in Poland

by Katherine Notley

Angolans protect fragile, new peace, foil British destabilization effort

by Dean Andromidas

An EIR team was invited to Angola to investigate first-hand the role of the London-based Defence Systems Ltd. and Executive Outcomes in destabilizing the peace process.