European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse By William m. Welch associated press Magazine l Lyndon h. Larouche or. Thinks the Queen of England is involved in the drug Trade the United states is headed for economic collapse and the holocaust is is a perennial fringe candidate for . President who usually gets few votes. But Larouche has gained new attention in Light of last month s startling democratic primary victories by two of his candidates in the state of Illinois and an abundance of Larouche candidates across the nation. Organizations affiliated with Larouche Are under grand jury investigation in Boston. A Federal prosecutor s affidavit says that preliminary findings indicate the organizations have raised Money by defrauding hundreds of people across the country. The 18-month Boston inquiry is one of several overlapping civil and criminal investigations of Larouche groups. Larouche and his associates have denied allegations of wrongdoing. In the Illinois races Larouche s candidates declared americans were responding to the views held by their Leader opposition to a Law mandating a balanced Federal budget Calls for widespread testing and quarantining to combat the disease aids and condemnation of White Collar drug traffickers. Those were some of the positions the Larouche candidates put Forth in a primary which for the most part generated Little interest until they won. But they Are just a few of the positions Larouche espouses. A sampling former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger is a soviet zionism is crazy. Cult the holocaust was Israel is ruled from London As a the Queen of England is involved in the drug Trade. Former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos was opposed to me and he fell As a Poland s Trade Union Solidarity is British infiltrated and threatens Poland with economic ruin starvation and social the Fri and the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith share complicity in the assassination of India s prime minister Gandhi and the killing of the 329 passengers on the june 23, 1985, flight of air India flight 182." the United states faces economic collapse this year president Reagan s economic policies Are unchanged from Jimmy Carter administration s and . Defense capability is being destroyed right now by budget cutting. Larouche 63, a four time candidate for president expounds these views in prolific writings and in a Calm voice that grows excited when challenged. His attacks can be vicious and his critics often Are dismissed As part of the drug lobby crazy communist or homosexual. At a recent news conference Larouche snapped at a questioning reporter How can i talk with a drug Pusher like you an Issue of his new Solidarity newspaper last month said Secretary of state George Shultz should be tried for treason for Selling out allies. Let s give Shultz a fair trial first and then hang him it said. Dismissed by democratic party regulars As a Kook Larouche gained just 150,000 votes in a dozen 1984 primaries despite airing nine rambling and expensive half hour broadcasts on National television. Since the Illinois primary democratic party officials have sought to inform voters about Larouche s candidates and his views in Hopes exposure will evaporate support. It s the rantings and ravings of a madman said democratic National committee spokesman Terry Michael. It s not Ultra left or Ultra right to say Queen Elizabeth is a drug Pusher. It s underlying Larouche s views is a vast complicated web of global conspiracies some centuries old. He sees shadowy links Between the soviet Kab British intelligence the conservative heritage foundation research group the Fri the anti defamation league and International terrorists. Larouche frequently cites obscure 19th-Century German writers and secret european societies. He can present his theories with dizzying examples. In a recent Telephone interview Larouche said this history is nothing but conspiracies. There Are lawful processes which determine what kind of conspiracies work and what kinds Don to but history is nothing but the history of conspiracies intersecting what the Laws of history will allow to asked to explain his claim that the British Royal family is involved in the drug Trade Larouche responded the Westminster act of 1787, which put the British government in the drug business and they be never gone out of a spokesman for British information services at the British consulate in new York Stewart Grainger said he had never heard of the Westminster act of 1787" and could find no such reference in the Index of acts of British Larouche grew up in Massachusetts and in the late 1940s and Early 1950s was a member of the socialist workers party a trotskyite group. He ran for president in 1976 on the . Labor party ticket but by 1980 was running in democratic primaries and had made an apparent shift to the right. Larouche describes himself now As in the tradition of the american whig party forerunner of the Republican party in the first half of the 19th Century. He operates out of a heavily guarded $1.3 million estate in the Washington suburb of Leesburg a. The source of financing for his organizations and corporations is unclear. Larouche s followers sell his publications and seek support in airports and in shopping centers. Larouche remains in seclusion because he says drug pushers and the soviets have plotted his assassination. Estimates of the membership of his organization number in the hundreds and some say it has the appearance of a cult. Some journalists who have written about Larouche s organization report receiving threats and harassment. Larouche has been a proponent of a nuclear missile shield using beam weaponry before president Reagan proposed his Star wars program but he is critical of the specific technologies pushed by the White House. R fat Knock pm they re making us look like re61ar Fellers " political extremist Larouche. Up photo Lyndon la new attention for a fringe candidate wednesday april 23, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13
