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July 6,
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By Jim Earle
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”... I decided that I had been spending too much time just
turning the pages, so I solved the problem by attaching
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Hare Krishna economics
The Hare Krishna Society had a booth
at the KLOL Rockfest in the Astrohall
Sunday. It wasn’t one of the most popu
lar exhibits since most of Houston’s drug
gies were interested in T-shirts, records
or paraphenalia, but it got my attention.
Taking the chance of being brainwashed
into joining their cult, I stopped to talk to
one of them.
“What does Hare Krishna and Hare
Rama mean, anyway?” I asked one of
them, referring to their endless chant.
“‘Hare’ is an address to the Lord’s
devotional energy. ‘Krishna’ means the
all-attractive one and ‘Rama’ means the
all-pleasing one,” one of them rattled off
without shaking his pony tail.
“Oh, you mean Ronnie Reagan?” I
asked.
“No, oh, no, the chant is a mantra that
one repeats in meditation in order to
make his life more sublime,” he said.
“Well, what do you think of Reagan’s
budget and the $100 billion deficit?” I
interupted.
“Well,” he said slowly, “I think the
budget has its positive side and its nega
tive side. The deficit is large but the spir-
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itual will survive. You see, we all need to
get back to the Godhead and not ...”
“Yes, I suppose,” Harry said.
“Well, listen, I really enjoyedallj
valuable insight, thanks,” I said
“What is YOUR mantra?” Harry
me as I was about to leave.
“Yeah, what makes me mad about it is
that the government will have to borrow
to make up the deficit and interest rates
will never go down. I mean guys like you
and I will never have a chance to own a
house,” I said.
“Yes, but you must consider the trans
cendental ...” Harry said.
“You know I heard on NBG that the
federal government will use 92 percent
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assumed a meditative pose, apparc
unaffected by the state of world
mics. I started to ask him whatheihi
about the situation in Lebanon, bu
cided otherwise.
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cense?" I said.
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Editor:
Lyndon Larouche, in a statement re
leased June 27, warned the Soviets not to
portray disgraced Secretary of State Ale
xander Haig as a scapegoat for a ^turn to
the right” in the U.S. administration poli
cies around the Lebanon war, as the
Soviets did in a TASS release Saturday.
Exactly the opposite is the case; U.S.
observers who have been horrified by the
administration’s “green light” to Israeli
madness in the Middle East know that it
the influences governing his willful de
ception of the Reagan administration in
the Malvinas crisis, the development of
the Isreali military deployment into
Lebanon and related matters. It is in this
aspect of Haig’s conduct that the signifi
cance of Soviet strategic miscalculation is
to be located and assessed.
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was Haig who was giving the go-ahead to
Israeli War Minister Ariel Sharon for the
genocidal Israeli incursion into Lebanon.
“Cautiously ecstatic” is the mood of ra
tional forces here and abroad, Larouche
reported on the Haig ouster because not
only is Haig gone but the British-dictated
debacle in Washington over both foreign
and economic policy has now come “un
stuck.”
T he f ollowing is some of the release by
Lyndon Larouche:
The key to Haig’s conduct in office is
given in a May 10 address by Haig’s for
mer boss, Henry A. Kissinger, to a
Chatham House audience in London.
Kissinger not only admitted to being
actually an agent of the British monarchy
during his service as National Security
Advisor and Secretary of State, but indi
cated, more or less accurately, that post
war U.S. foreign policy is governed by
secret, often unwritten agreements
which the British monarchy has stipu
lated to the U.S. State Department.
In the case of the setting-up of the
Malvinas crisis, well before March, and in
arranging the recent Israeli invasion of
Lebanon, Haig betrayed and deceived
his own government — as well as others
— as part of his collaboration with Lord
Carrington and the British monarchy
against the policies and vital interests of
the United States.
Letter: Relief for Lebanese homeles
Editor:
This morning (June 25), I have in
structed my staff to deliver the following
dispatch to the offices of the Soviet News
Agency TASS.
The radio news service of the New
York Times headlined its morning
broadcasts with the report that Moscow
Pravda characterizes thejust-ousted Ale
xander Haig as a “scapegoat for the fore
ign policy of the Reagan administration.”
The least significant flaw in that char
acterization is the fact that the reality of
Haig’s firing is 180-degrees opposite to
both the New York Times’ own and the
reported Pravda interpretation of the in
cident. The important fact is that such an
assessment in Moscow implies a very dan
gerous strategic miscalculation among
elements of the Soviet leadership.
The cause of Haig’s firing is that he
was caught red-handed in aggravated de
ception against the President of the Un
ited States, and that this deception was
successfully brought to the attention off
relevant circles of the White House. In
this circumstance, the continuing press
ures on the President from advisors who
insisted Haig must be kept in office, no
longer sufficed to save Haig from the
ouster which has been imminent on
many earlier occasions.
All honest patriots among informed
circles here are best described as “cau
tiously ecstatic” at Haig’s ouster.
Although the dumping of Haig does not
by itself correct the numerous problems
Haig has either directly or indirectly con
tributed to creating, it would not have
been possible to correct these problems
so long as Haig retained the massive pow
ers he and his immediate accomplices
had usurped during a recent period.
The fact of Haig’s virtually treasonous
conduct in office is less significant than
The wily old German-American oli
garch, Fritz Kraemer, who has claimed to
have “invented Henry Kissinger,” may
exaggerate slightly when he also claims to
have created General Alexander Haig.
Although Haig’s active effort to bring
France’s President Francois Mitterrand
to power during spring 1981, with help
of Irving Brown, was relatively minor
compared with the massive British and
Schlumberger roles in rigging the
French National elections, Haig was fully
complicit with Lord Garrington in aiding
the Carrington-Cheysson-Sharon axis,
and aiding the Carrington-Cheysson
agreement to revive the British-French
1916 Sykes-Picot treaty for throwing the
United States’ influence out of the Mid
dle East. Haig collaborated with the Brit
ish to isolate the United States not only
from the Middle East, but also Af rica and
Ibero-America, and to split the United
States from Japan and the Asean nations
in East Asia, with supporting British
operations aimed at destabilizing India.
We appeal to you for help in bringing
emergency relief aid to the people of
Lebanon, many of whom have been
made homeless in the recent fighting and
are urgently in need of shelter and
medical supplies. Much aid is needed and
it is needed now.
We have been in contact with the
Lebanese Mission at the United Nations.
They informed us that the U.N. Secret
ary General has established a world-wide
U.N. Disaster Relief Coordination effort
(UNDRC) and a Trust Fund for
Lebanon.
number 015-005-291, Chemical Bank of
New York, United Nations, U.N. Plaza,
New York, New York, 10017.
It is unfortunate that the people of the
U.S. are being denied access to hard in
formation on the tragic dimensions and
the enormity of the disaster that befell
the civilian population of Lebanon. We
ask you to let the U.S. government know
that you are deeply concerned about the
immensity of human suffering in Leba
non. Please ask the administration to step
up American relief efforts in wayspn
ortionate to the magnitude of (he
truction.
P.S. The Lebanese Student Assd
tion will set up a table in the
contributions on Thursday. For more
formation, please contact: Ali Fadal
696-1399; Tony Prince, 845-i
Gaby Abboud, 693-7355.
Ali
Lebanese Student Associa#
1600 Southwest Park*
The UNDRC has released a list of
urgently needed supplies: first aid equip
ment, plasma and transfusion equip
ment, surgical and dressing equipment,
water purification units, baby food, tents
and blankets.
Those wishing to help can contact:
Ilhan Lutem, U.N. Disaster Relief Coor
dinator, United Nations, U.N. Plaza,
New York, New York, 10017.
For direct financial contributions,
Brian Wilson
Aston Hall
make checks payable to: “Trust Fund for
Lebanon-U.N. General Fund,” account
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