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Man's Ultimate GoalWhy Mideast. Talks Collapsed

INDOCHINA'S AGONY


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Jerusalem correspondent Mark Armstronginterviews the famed Israeli jurist .

WHY nlE MIDEAST PEACETALKS FAILEDEuropean correspondents Charles Huntingarid David Ord cover Kissinger 's capitu-lation . '.,

The fall of the U.S.-suppo rted govern- .ment in Cambodi a is a virtual certa inty .And the bl itzkrieg launched by NorthVietnam could easily prove to be thebegi "nn ing of the end for non-Communist Indochina. Congressional refusal tosend " good money aiter bad " may turnout to be th e one final def initive Ame rican act : that of consigning the area overto its regional imperialist powe r. Hano i.Thus . the war that paved the way fortoday 's double-d igi t inflation; thatered many of Amer ica's all ies and -generated unprecedented anti-Americanism'in Europe; that earned the u"nited States

Amer ica 's Cu rse

-Thieu government simply couldn 't at - .ford to keep fighting in the nation ' souter per iphery. .-In response to the adm inistration pleafor a .$522 million Indochina aid package, Conqress ionel critics charg e tha tno amount of money can save the Th ieugovernment .The c ha rge is at least part ially borneout by recent rumbl ings within the Saigon gov ernment itself . Dozens of opposit ion pol iticians have been arrested oncharges of plotting to overthrow thegove rnment. Rumors have been ~ I y i n gof assassination schemes and coup attempts . on the part of the mi lita ry :Former Premier Nguyen Ky' s call forThteu 'sres iqnation underscores the belief that these are the Saigon presid en f slast days. 'The situa tion is even more bleak inCambodia . The Khmer Rouge have as trangl ehol d on the Mekong River andare slowly constricting 'the surroundedcapi tal of the Phnom Penh. Communistshe lling of the city 's airport has effec ti vely cut off the Cambodian capitalfrom its only source of supplies - theAmerican airl if t. .

by Jeff Calkins

INDOCHINA'S -AGONYM I N -BlIiONSSPINTINVAINThe unexpected success ofa-Comrnunist spring offensive has accomplishedin a few short weeks most of what

50,000 American l ives and $170 billion sought to .stave off for ten y ~ a r sSouth Vietnam 's second .Iargest city- Da Nang :- has fallen to the NorthVietnamese. With the loss of its last -bas- .. t ion in the north, the Saigon government gave up over 100,000 soldiers

and an ' estimated $ 2 billion in equipment. One official termed the loss of thecity , " t he si ng le b iggest defea t forSouth Viet nam in the pa st twentyyears . /.Whi le the re is no way to fix an exactpercentage of South Vietnam's terr itorvnow under Commun ist ,cont ro" . estimates run from 45% to 75% . Wi th thefall of Da . Nang, the war in Vietnamtakes on more of the character of ' thewar in neighboring Cambodia - anembattled mil itarv ' government contrac ted into a few remaining cities teem ing with swarms of refugees fleeing theonrushing Red offensive. .

Pa infu l Reminderof 10 Years AgoThe recent Communist gains have aparticularly excruciating svrnbolism forAmericans . It was in Oa Nang in the. spr ing of 1965 that the first cont ingentof battle-ready ' u.s. mar ines landed ..This was the beginning of the larg escale American mil i ta ry intervention inthe Indochina wa r. The ci ty symbolizesthe U.S. involvement in -Vietnam and its fall represents a stinging Ame ri-

can setback. .In th e central highlands, now totallyabandoned, a large portion of Americanblood was shed . By pull ing back intomore easily defensible areas, the Thieugovernment tried - .unsuccessfullv to follow the " coastal enclave" option

5 'INTERVIEW WITH .GIDEON HAUSNER

. . .If" the oceans are to feed 'the world ;

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DOOMSDAY REVISITEDScientific consensus is pointi rig mankindtoward : doomsday, ..but Bible prophets'speak of a world after doomsday .

LET THEM EAT FISH

2U. S. POLICY' COLLAPSINGAROUND WORLDWith almost machine-gun rapidity Washington has suffered an unprecedentedseries of global reverses.

THE INCREInBLE HUMAN O n A L ~. The Missing Dimension in KnowredgeWhatis ....mankink s ultimate goal? Hereis a -deeper look into mankind 's destiny .


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WashingtonHit with .. : ."One-Two Punch" in Mideast Indochina Policyin Shamblesure to apprec ia te the extent towhich the Comm unist insurgen cywas also an expression of genuinenationa l ism. By ta k ing ov erFrance's role in the Indochina theater, the United States became directly identified with the colomalWest righ t from the beginning.Wh en P re sid ent Nixon an nounced his "vietnamization" ofthe Vietnam war a few years back,many veteran Indochina observerssaw it merely as a clever device tolet America off the hook. Th eygave it little chance of succeeding ,and they are being proved correctThe approaching collapse of theLon Nol regime and the militarysetbacks President Thi eu's forceshave suffered are seen here in Australasiaas bit te rb lows to U.S: prestige.Americas Indochina policy is seento be in ruins. America's credibilityas a reliable ally has been severelydamaged. ' r- Don Abraham

~ .. . 'M._cruClyA-siaa a a .Tomorrow .Europe?

SYDN EY: Cease-fire in , Vietnam ! Dr . Kissinger and Le DueTho awarded Nobel Peace -Prize!Last U.S. Troops PullOu t!How capricious and crue l areh ist or y and fat e. Today, onlymonths after the above headlines,American 's foreign r a t ~ g y - atleast in Sou theas t Asia - lies in-shambles.The "collapse of the . U.S.-supported Lon Nol regime in Cambodia seems imminent. Communistforces are r ol li ng aU over SouthVietnam. More than a dozen of itsforty-four provinces are now underCommunist cont ro l. . Others arefalling almost daily, in a perverseinternal domino fashion. .

Many analysts here see Amer- ,ica's present predi cament in Indochina as the outcome of twointerrelated facto rs:F irs t was the fai lure , by theUn ited States to correctly assess theexte nt to which his torical forceswere influencing events in the region. For many centuries beforethe ...we st 's..inrrustoa int o Asia , .Cliina - exemsed 'va:rying


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Asian Nations"Reassessing" T i e ~ With U.S.by Gene H. Hogberg

Shattered Pride Before the Fall.Not since the darkest days of W o ~ l d War II lias 'the UnitedStat es been jarred by so many foreign policy failures in so shor t atime. . .. ,..With the impending collap se of Cambodia and Vietnam, withthe sudden assassinat ion of King Faisal coming on the heels of.Dr.Kissinger 's political defeat in the Mideast, and with festeringproblems inside NATO , the"conclusion is that things are i ndeed going ', poorly forWashington. .The big danger that many observers see now is that the UnitedStates, licking itsSoutheast Asian woun ds in particu lar, will retreatInto a neo-isola tionist position and neglect foreign policy commitments far more importan t than those in Indochina ever were.As James ReSton of the New ,York Times writes: "The doubt in theallied world about American action now isnot about Washington'scourage but about it s judgment . The major all ies . . . are merelyasking [President Ford] to choose what is primary and what issecondary, not to confuse Saigon or Lon Nol or Southeast Asiawith the real ly critical areas of Europe, the Middle Easrand, Japan."But can U.S. leadership make such distinctions any longer?After all, over a d ecad e ago, con trary to the lesson of Korea ,contrary to the French experience in Indochina and the. wholenature of Vietna mese 'na tionalism, America 's political and militarychieftans blindly committed the nation's heritage as well ,as its ..treasury to fight a "no win" land war in Asia .When the first battle-ready marines, proudly holding aloft Old"Glory, 'stormed 'ashore' near Da N ang in 196S,' t hey and theircommanding officers thought it would only take a few months toteach those "barefoot ve" a lesson or two. Eight years later, withthe release of the last U.S. POWs, America's once invincible military power had 'been allbut shattered (Lev. 26:19).How true-the prophecies of Isaiah 9:16: "For the leaders ofthis people cause them to err ." Our politicians and generals "err invision, they stumble in judgment" (Isa. 28:7).The sad part is that America's $170 billion investment in a lostcause could very likely be on ly the down payment on the road tofore ign policy ruin. I t remains to be seen how comfortable the

Japanese, the West Europeans , and ot he r key allies feel underWashington'sfaltering leadership of the free world. Will they feelcompelled to strike out on their own, to pursue political, economicand military programs apart from and even in opposition to those'desired inWashington?'

Thai PremierCalls forSpeedyU.S.Troop Pullout

been impossible to ope n ties withsocia list countries becau se of theunique rela t ionship with 'th eUnited States. . .In the fac e of re ce n t de velopments, however , it is obviousthat the U.S. wil l p lay a reduce drole in its former colony in the Far ..East. The Philippines is lookingmore to As ia and the Thi rdWorld.

...:... Colin Adaitand Jun Rustia

PhilippinesDiversifyingIts F ~ r e i g n PolicyMANILA: "Does Cambodianow prove the U.S. domino theoryof t he 50's']" asked noted Filip inocolumnist, Teodoro Valencia, in arecent column.He answered h is own question:"IC Cambodi a fa lls because theU.S. Congr ess refuses to givea id inquantities necessary to save i t, the-.United States will have given Asia the most vivid e xampl e of wha tAmerican , supp ort means , Asiancountries will have to reassess theirrelations with the U,S.A. . . . . The

domino theory appl ies to the ero- After two months of hectic pclit- .~ : ~ : : a n prestige in Asia ical maneuvering followin g Thai-

Partly as a result of new realities . ~ ~ ~ d ~ ~ : _ ~ : ~ r : ; h : l t ~ ~ ~ ? o ~ a ~ ~in Asia, Phi lippine Secre tary ..biy approved in mid-March an 8Car los P. Romulosaid recently that coalition govem t1?-ent ~ e a d e dhis nation is fashioning a more in- by Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj . .dependent and d iversified foreign . In a bid to win the support o f. policy. Th is shou ld not be taken as left-wing parti es in the vote of con-

~ ~ ~ ~ n ~ : : t : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ; a ~ ~ ~ : ~ l ~ fidence, Mr. Kukrit stated hewould seek th e comp le teuation of the long .... pecia l rela- withdrawal of U.S. troops fromtionship" with Washington. There Th ailand wi thin one year and the~ \ ~ e ~ f d ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i . discontinuation of u.s, arms and. ammunition shipments to Cam -tary facilities in the country. bodia fr om Am erican ba ses inPresident 'Marcos has affinned Th ailand .time and again that the govern- " I' d l ike to see it done tomorrow,ment intends to pur sue the policy .the day af ter tom orr 0Y"" .threeof nonnalizing relations with all months , six months , ' a yea r _ ascountries irrespective of race , soon a s possible," he declared. Th ecreed, religion or ideology. The vote of confiden ce' passed by a barePhilippines has already established margin of 7 votes. -diplomatic relations with the so- "Withdrawing the Ame ricancialist countries of Czechos lovak ia , forces doesn't mean that we don'tEast Germany, Poland, Hung ary, l ike America," Mr. Kukrit added.. Mongolia and Romania. The Presi- "Our good relations must con-

~ ~ ~ f ~ ~ ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ . w i l l be visi tin g tinue ," On the other hand the newPreside nt Marco s further states Prime Minister ind icates tha t Th ai -land will seek diplomatic relati onsthat the Philippines intends to nor- with the People's Republic ofmalize relations with the People's Chin a . and the openi ng of. talksRepublic of China within the year with North Vietnam. " In or de r to~ : e ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ g : : ~ ~ e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r : : : cre ate a balance in our r elati ons

TodayAsia ... (Continued)Mediterranean. In Italy the . Communist party now vies 'wi th theChristian Democrats as the largestparty in the country.Britain has recently severely cutback -its defense role, largely withdrawing from the Mediterranean tomore inshore waters . On .top ofthis, possible Brit ish withdrawalfrom the Commo n Market in thecoming referendum would furtherd issolve some of the tenuous tiesofEuropean solidarity.In the faceof America 's setbacksin Asia andthe Mideast and in viewof the crumbling multi-nation facarle orNATO , Europeans are wonderi ng if they can still rely on theirmost important ally. Fo r if theUn ited States can no longer assureWestern Europe'ssecurity,whocan?

- David Price

BRUSSELS: Concern continuesto mount in Western Eu ro pe asPortu gal moves swiftly to the lefton the political spect rum .The trend was confirmed againrecen tly as Premier Vasco Gon calves formed .a .new government,

dropping ~Mario Soares from his foreign min- .ister post -Om inously; the new -cab inet fitsthe classic pat ter n of Communisttakeover. At first the Communistsare in the minority of a left-wingcoali tion, then they acqu ire keycabinet posts, "and la te r move tooutlaw the oppos ition parties. Allthese elements are now present inPortugal . The .ouster of Soares i ssignificant because it is in the laststages of a Communist" takeoverthat the party turns on i ts formerallies of the democratic left.NATO sources here in Brusselsto ld me "we are following wha t is .hap pe ning within Portugal withworry. anxiety and some apprehen- .sion . We are worried that while

PORTUGALSHAKES NATOCREDIBILITY


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th at there is still a grea t deal of loyaltyamong the hierarchy of the Catholic Church,But in the basilica of St. Peter's, eventhough there was appl ause, the fervor tha thas greeted other papal occasions wasclearly lacking, As the Pope rode in his papal chair down thea isle o f St. Pete r's following the Mass, we heard only one lone monkcry, "Viva, Papa!"Th e following morning at the Pope's addr ess to the world ther e was even less enthu_siasm from the many thousands who hadg at he re d in St: Peter 's square , The squarewas far f rom ful l, despite the Vatican's expressed desire to bring one of the largest.crowds eve r to Rome . Large numbers whodid gather showed little interest in what wastakin g place .Bu t i f Pope Pau l's personal magnetism isno t g reat enough to inspire even Catholics,wha t are his chance s of leading Europe tounity? .Fo r this reason. and since Bible prophecydoes indicate that Europe will be guided bya powerful religious figure, i t appears that anew pope who wou ld be.able to capture themin ds of the masses may be j ust over the'horizon, .

In the Shoes of the Fisherman.As never before, the Catholic Church indeed the whole of Europe - needs a

champion who could inspire the hearts ofmen in a way that has not been done inmodem times .. . .. A.fter centu r ies during whichoccurrences have been few, could there arisein our day a pope, with miracle-workingpowers - a pop e whom the whole of Chris-tendom would follow? ._ Cou ld this be what it will take to.unite tennations in ',Europe'-and . ' . r o p e a c e _keeping force . that will go down to theMiddle Eas t and put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict? . ,If such were to occur, whatwould it meanto th e United States and Britain , predom inantly Prote stan t cou nt ries? Howwould YOUR l ife be affected if there were to

power pushing at n or thern Europ e, whichwill by that time comprise ten nations.Are we -today, through the Arab threa t toEurope'S oil l ifel ine, beginning to see theking of the south "pushing a t" the new Europe? The prophecy imp lies that as a resultof this pressu re from the south, the , European .power b loc will " enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. Hesha llenter a lso into the glorious lan d [Palestine], and many countries shall be overthrown .. . and the land of Egypt sha ll notescape" (Dan. 11:40-42).Thi s European .power is described as-planting " the tabernacles of his palace be-tween the seas in the glorious holy mountain" (vers e 45), Does this indicate that apeace-keepin g force from this ten-nationEuropean power willin the near future enterPalestine, a nd that continued pressure fromsome of the Arab nations might meet with afirm rebut tal fromthis power?

Needed - ACatalystAt the pr esent time , Europe is far from

united. Pe te r Jay, economic corre spondentfor the London Times, has stated : " Europewon't really get anywhere with economicunion unless it forms a serious politicalunion, and it can' t ach ieve an effective political union unless it unit es milit arily. Everytime somebody has tried to unite Europemil itarily, it's been a disaster , It turn s out tomean a Napoleon or a Hitler: 'Europe, threatened by growing Russianmilitary might and t roubled by America 'srapid withdrawal from the role of world policeman. might be shaken from her lethargyand forged iDt0 3 powerful union of nationsalmost overnight if another Middle East war .were so pose a threat to world. what Europe lacks is the kind of' leadership that would act as a' cataly st to brin gthe nations togeth er for a common purpose.It needs a central figure to lo ?k to tha t wouldtranscend national interes ts,".. .. :... . . ,-There is one authority to which Europeanshave looked in the past for leadership . In thedays of the Holy Roman Empire, the Vati

When Talking FailsGeneral Doug las MacArthur once stated :

"Men since the b egi nn in g of time hav e .sough t peace . Various methods through theages have been attempted to devise an inter-"national process to prevent or settledisputesbetween nations. . . . Military alliances. -bal -ances of power, leagues of nations, all inturnfailed, leaving'the only path to be by thecruc ible of war:'Trag ically, as every attempt to bring peaceby dipl omacy proves inadequate, the MiddleEast is dri fting closer to the solution thatnations have always tak en in the end: thepath of war . . .Yet another war could sever vital oi l l ifelines of European na tions, bringing abouteconomic strangulation. And the Europeanscann ot afford to take sucha risk.'

Why MiddleEast .' .PeaceTalksCollapsedn th e ambassadors of peace shall weep bi tterly"- Isaiah 33:7.,byCharles Hunting and David OrdAt a time when the United States is receiv- another explosion in the Middle East jeopar-ing a .series of blows across the globe. the dizes the security of the en tirepl anet?breakdown of Dr. Kissinger's efforts towardpeace in the Middle East is a tragic disap-pointmentto all parties. ," '. . .Yet the col lapse of the "alks was a predictable setback . For what is fast shaping up.as Plain T ruth has forecast for over fortyyears, is a crisis unparalleled in a ll humanhistory.

-.- No one wants war. The Arabs don't wantit. The Israelis c rave the security that peacewould bring: 'The United States has nothingto gain from' the explos ion of this powderkeg.- Every industrial nation on the f ace of theearth stands to lose if the re is another confiiet in the Middle -East . And so does everyunderdeveloped nation , whose people mustbe fed by oil-based fertili zers.But despite the whole world's desires forpeace in the Middle Eas t, the ambassadors


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The INCREDBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL.The Missing Dimension in Knowledge "And darkness was upon the face of thedeep [the ocea n or Ouid surface of the earth ].And the Spirit of Go d moved upont he faceof the wate rs. And God sai d, Let there belight : aod there was light And God saw thelight, tha t i t was good : and God divided thelight from the darkness" (verses 24 ) .Satan is the author of darkness. The rebellion of the angels had caused the darkness.God is the author of light and truth. Light-displays and enhances beauty, and also exposes evil. Darkness hide s both.The verses which follow in this first chap.te r of the Bible describe the renewing of theface of the earth, wi th the prod uction of thatyielding bea utiful lawns: trees, shrubs, flew

en . vegetation - then "the creation of fishand fowl, animal life,and finally ma n. .The -Great Lucifer

But first, befo re coming to man, we needto fill in the prehistory portion.How did this s in of the angels "COme totake place? How did it start?Remember, God the Creator preserves.improves and enhance s what he creat es byhis government: What he creates is createdto be used. This earth was ' to 'be inhabited. and used by angels, originally: -When God placed angels - apparently athird of all (Rev. 12:4) - on the newly created, perfect. beautiful and glorious _earth.l he set ove r them: to administer the govern- "ment of God, an archangel - a great cherub"Lucifer. Th ere were only two other cher ubsof this extremely high rank, Michael andGabri el. .So far as revea led., these are the supremepinnacle of ange ls or spirit-eomposed bein gswithin God 's power to create. This Lucifer

b y Herbe rt W . ArmstrongWa s humanity p ut here on earth for a purpose? WinstonChurchill said to th e A m er ic a n C o ngress: "There is a

purpose b ei ng w o rk e d o ut h ere below, " implying ah igher power a b ov e w or ki ng on earth . Bu t w hy ? W ha tc a us e d t h e placing o f humanity here, a nd w ha t is thatp u rp o se ? W he r e are w e going, an d w ha t is t he w ay?

Part IV

sian and of choice, else they have no individ- It is Satan who is the great destroyer!uali ty o r cha racter. .Since si n . Is th e So. now, we read in Jude 6-7: "And theof God 's law, these angels re- angels which kept not their first .estate, butbelled against God 's law, the basis of God's left their own habitation, he hath reserved ingovernment. everlasting chains under darkness unto the ,No tice carefully what ,s revealed in II Pe- j udgment of the grea t day. Even as Sodomter 2:4-5 : "For if God spared not the angels and Gomorrah, and the cit ies about them inthat sinned , but cast them down to hell, and like manner, giving them selves over to fomi -deli vered them into chains of darkness, to be cat ion. and going aft er strange flesh. are setreserved unto judgment; and spared not the forth for an example. suffering the ven-The Perfect Creation 'old world, but 'saved Noah die e ighth per- " geance of eternal fire: 'son, a preacher of righteousness. bringing in Now back to Genesis 1:1-2. Verse I. asSo now we go back and begi n at the be the flood upon the world of the ungodly." stat ed above, implies a.perfect crea tion. Godginning. . 1 Th ese verses show that univer sal sin is the author of life, of beauty, of perfection. The first four words of the Bible are : " In brings ' universal destruction to the physical Satan has brought only darkness. ugliness,the beginni ng God . .. : ' Since in the Bible earth. Th e an tediluvian sin. culminating . imperfection, violence. Verse I . shows theGod reveals himself as Creator of ALL - the with th e f lood, was worldwide; universal sin. creation of a perfect earth , glorious andentire universe with its galaxies, its suns. No t ice : ". . . the e ar th was fi lled with vio- beau tiful. Verse2 reveals the result of the sinplanets and moons - this places Go d in lence .. . . for all flesh had cor rupted his way of the angels. - .existence before all else. . upon the ea rth . . . for the earth.is filled With "And th e e ar th [became] withoutTh e next verse tells us wha t God did - violence . . ... (Gen. 6: 11-13). " But Noa h form. and void." The words "without form"created." God is, first of all , Crea tor. And found grace in the eyes of the Lord. . . . and void' ': are trans lated from the Hebrewwhat d id he create? ". .. the heaven and the "" , ~ o a ~ a just man .apd ' p ~ ~ e . ~ t in his _ tohu and bohu. A better translation is "wasteearth" (Den , I: I).. 0 "tgenerauons. and Noah walk ed WI ll i God" . and empty" " i"chaotic ,rnciiii 'OOilfusi";.;'

The King James Version rende rs the word (verses 8-9). All fle sh except Noah had The word "was" is elsewhere in Genesis" heave n".in the singular, but the origina l sinned _ over the whole earth. So, the Flood translated " became,' as in Genesis 19:26. InHebrew is in the plural - "heavens" - as it destroyed the whole earth. other words. the earth, origina lly createdshould be. It is so translated in the Revised The homosexual and other sins of Sodom perfect and bea utiful, had now becomeStandar d Version. Moffa tt. and other trans- and Go morrah spread over the t er ri tor y of chaot ic. waste. and empty, like our moon,lations. This verseis speaking of the original those two . cities. And physical destruction except its surface was covered with water.creation - the ent ire universe. incl uding our came to their entire area . The sin of the Davi d was inspired to reveal how God

N o has given us this missingdimension in knowledge. Science hasnever explained to US why man is.as h e"is -capable of sendi ng men to the moon andback, yet utterly helpless to solve hi s prob-lems here on earth. "In Part III of this series we"saw the awesome potential of man . But why ? Why doesthe C reator God purpose all th is? Why didthe living God decide to crea te man and puthim on eart h? God d oes not do things with out a reason .To . understand - to comprehend thewhole-picture in the order -of t ime sequence- we must now go a ll the way back intoprehistory. T ha t mis sin g d ime nsion inknowledge, too, is revea led in the Word of -'God - God's message and revelation ofknowledge tomankind. "

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ISRAEL '5 MA SADA and t he r am p ( left )" which the Romans built to the rock .

J \ I I ~ S A P A : "Sy-rnbolOf I s r a e l ' ~ R e $ o l y e. - - . . .After the fall of Je rusalem in A.D. 70,Masada, a b oa t- sh ap ed rock rising more - Sylva's Siegethan 1,300 feet above the western shore of Sylva marched to the. site of Masada with 'the Dead Sea, rema ine d as the last unde- his Tenth Legion, accompanied by auxiliaryfeated outpostof the Zealot defenders. troops and thousands of water-carryingpris-According to Jewish historian Flavius 10- oners of war. They marched across the bar sephus , Masada was f ir st for ti fi ed by Jona- ren desert with t imber and provi sions for athan the.priest. . prolonged struggle. . . 'But the man who made Masada a formi - Atop Masada, Eleazar ben Mair , leader ofdable fortress was Herod the Gre at - the the Zealots , prep ared to defend the rock.same man who had built the great Temple in Supplies and water were rationed and fortiJerusalem! . fications were again made ready . .Between 36 'and 30 B.C..Herod built a Sylva and his men established a garrisoncasemate wall around the top of Mas ad a, at the base of the fortress and constructed adefense towers. storehouses; great water cis- wall that completely surrounded the rock ofterns , barracks , arsenals and palaces. Masada to prevent any.Jews from escapingIn A.D. 66. when the Jewish rebe llion into the desert . -

sions ; for they wil lbe a testimonial when .weare dead that we were not subdued for wantof necessaries , but that .. . we have preferreddeath before slavery: 'They believed it betterto die than to submit. They took the ir own l ives ra ther thangive the the satisfaction of surrender.. . Israe l c- ANational Masada?

Today the nat ion o f Israel is under constant siege, constant threat of attack:. Yet theIsrae lis are determined to hang on, to survive as a sovereign na ti on. The his torichomeland of the Jewish people has becom ea national Masad a. It is the land their Godgave them when he brought them out ofEgyptian slavery. It is a plac e where Jews

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Brita in will NOT be in that emp ir e soon tocome. This united Europ e will c on qu erIsrael .- if you know who Israel is today . andI do not mean .Judah, known as the Israelistoday. All t ha t involves a number of other .prophecies , which there is not room to-ex-plain here .Bu t this "k in g of Babylon" sh all at thetime of this prophecy have been utterly defeate d by the intervention of the livingChristin his powerand glory. Continue on:"The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet :th ey break forth into singing. Yea, the f irtrees rejoice .. . and the cedars o f Lebanon,saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller iscome up against us" (verses 7-8). .I want to interpose an interesting bit ofinformation right bere . The cedars of Lebanon . biblically famous, are almost totally cutdown. Only one small clump of these treesremains, high in the mountains . I have seenand photographed them. However, perhapsthe finest specimen of the cedars of Leban onsurviv ing on ear th are on the AmbassadorCollege campus in England. We have prizedthem highly. It is in terest ing to see that thisprophec y, . written 500 yea rs B.C.,should record the fact tha t these beautifuland stately trees should have been so largelyfeUed. .This passage in Isaiah 14 speaks of thedoom of thiscoming king atthe hands oftheglorified , all-powerfulChrist . It refers tohimas Satan's chief political ruler and militarydestroyer, totally deceived by Satan in theyears very shortly ahead ofus.Then, coming to.: verse 12, this humanearthly type of S at an the devil suddenlyleap s to Satan himself - the former arch angel, Lucifer:"How ar t thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer,-.son of the morning! how'artthou cutdown to the ground, which did st weaken the .nations!" A bet te r t ranslation her e is: "Howart thou, who didst weaken the nations, cut .down to the ground." The RSV translates it:"How you are cut down to the ground, youwho laid the nations low!" This the fann erLuc ifer did -through the human politicalmilitary leader in his power - spoken of inthe firsteleven verses.The name "Luc ifer" means "shining starof the dawn," or "bringer of light ," as Godfirst create d him. Nowcontinue : " For thouhast said in thine heart, I will ascend intoheaven, I will exalt my throne above thestars[angels] of God." Notice, Lucifer had a t hron e; he was aruler. His throne was on earth, f or he was 'going to ascend into heaven.Dontinue .." I will sit also upon the mount of thecongregation, in the sides of the north : I wil l


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by Gary Alexander and Ron HorswellA prophet is not without honor except in his own century.Take the case of Thomas Robert Mal

thus, who. as economists and prognos-t icators go . has suffered more abuseand scorn than just about any modernprophet . It was Malthus who f irst to ld usearth had a population problem.

. Malthusian Mathematics" I say that the power of population is

indefinitely greater than the power ofthe earth to produce . subsistence forman : ' he wrote in the late 1790's ." Population, when unchecked . increases in a geometrical ratio . Subsist ence i nc reases in an arithmeticalratio ." To Malthus . this meant the rewas absolutely no hope for effectivelyso lving the wo rld 's poverty prob lem .Wi th the increase in pop ulationtoday, Tom Malthushas become a new born hero . Cur rent l i terature aboundswith te rms l ike " Neo-Malthusian, " " Malthusian Math : ' or " The SecondComing of Thomas Malthus." Now wesee a new crop of doomsdayers vyingfor Malthus ' man tle.

Heilbronner's Causesof "Worr idoom"In his new book , An Inquiry Into theHuman Prospect, economist Robert

Heilbronner l i sts w ha t he feels are" three main sources . or perhaps levelsof exp lanation , fo r .the pall that hasfa llen over our spi rits ."The f irst basic source of " worridoom"he cal ls topical, meaning the horde ofdisconcerting events w hose unleashingwe fa i thful ly fol low v ia the var ious massmedia. According to Hei lbronner , " v io


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THE FOUR HORSEMEN (as viewed by Albrecht Durer, p . 8) were quantifed by Thomas' Malthus (left) and the MIT computer (right) .

would th ink of a way to express majorworld trends in computer language andforetell our future in a pr intout . Andsince compute rs never make mistakes(except on credit card bills), there wouldbe no need to argue about whether th efuture would be heaven or 'hell, sincewe 'd have it spread out right before usin binary black and white .Sure enough, the first computer" wor ld model " has been constructed. Itwa s dev eloped at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the results obtained from it were published in a now"f amous book called Limits to Growth.And while no one is claiming that MITcomputers have irrevocably spread outour future before us, the authors of Lim-its to Growth fee l that they can makesome broad predictions with certainty .One such broad prediction is that " if thepresent growth trends in world popu lation , industrialization, pollution, foodprodu ction, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the l imits to growthon this planet wil l be reached some timewit hin thenextone hundred years ."A second broad prediction is that itwill be impossible for technology to saveus from the firs t prediction . The scient ists arrived at this conclusion by allowing for what they considered generoustechnological advances in raw mate rialsusage, food 'product ion and pollutioncontrol. Even so, the computer spelledout disaster unless both populationg rowth and economic growth (as weknow it) were halted,If we are to avoid such disaster, Lim-its to Growth tell s us, societ ies mustbegi n .,preparing for a period of g reattransit ion - the tran sition f rom growthto global equilibrium : ' Even plannedand prepared for, the trans ition is forecasted as " painfu l, " but the computeragrees with many scien tists in sayingthat if we don ' t plan , we wi ll bump our 'g ro wi n g head s agains t on e of th eeart h 's natural limits - such as too fewraw materials or too much pollution.

The " Painful Transition"The majority of our present prognosticators of doom - whe ther they bemilitary, ecological , or economic prophets - feel man can save himself .

conscious choi ce, by catastrophe ratherthan by calculation ." The problem is that the challenge tosurvival sti ll lies suf fi ci en tl y far in thefuture , and the ine rt ia l mom entum ofthe present industrial order is still sogreat, that no substant ia l voluntary di munit ion of growth , much less aplanned reorganization of society, istoda y even remotely imaginable."But Heilbronner sees a possib le solut ion through a benevolent Big Brother:

" Candor compels me to suggest, thatthe passage through the gauntlet aheadmay be poss ible onl y under governments capable of ral ly ing obedience farmore effectively than wou ld be possib lein a democratic sett ing ."

Arnold Toynbee echoes this distasteful solution: '" can imag ine theworld being held together and kept atpeace in the year 2000 by an atrociou sly tyrannical dictatorship wh ichwould not hesitate to kil l or torture anyone who , in its eyes, was a menace tothe unquestioning acceptance of its ab

Unti l modern doomsdayers made usstop and look around, we were rol li ngmerrily along in this perpetual civi lization machine, unaware that we wereonly one smoggy breath away fromturning that del ightfuLcontraption in to arusty hulk stranded by a' stagnant cesspool . :Perhaps it' s the height of rea list icopt imism to speak of a post-doomsday

wor ld . T ha t' s wher e Bible prophecystands alone in its unbounded optimism.

"Israelite Prophecy"With th e advent of computers, prophecy has come a long way, bu t we'shouldn 't forge t that its tap root runs

three millennia deep . The world's f irstprophets were those cal led of God andsent to the nation of ancient Israel.The Encyclopaedia Britannica statesthat " as a matter of historical fact , themost outstanding and influential pro-

phetic phenomenon, as far as Westerncu lture is concerned . was Israel iteprophecy" (197 0 edition). An earl ier

Greeks had the ir oracles , and medievalpalaces had theircourt magicians.Today, although we still have diviners , astrologers, palmists, an d

orac les of al l kinds, the dubious art ofprediction is becoming more respectable , more scient ific, and , in fact , verymuch more in demand. Recent decadeshave witnessed the emergence of a newbreed of " prophets" called futurists .Their standard method of prediction involves the identification of trends andthe n extrapolating those trends into th efuture to show what probably wil l happen i f trends are not interrupted.But the strictly mechanical methodsof trend extrapolation have not provedvery successful.If you would compare th e success ofthe b iblical predictions of 2, 50 0 yearsago to those predictions made by scientists just 25 years ago , you would f indthat Isaiah , Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Danie l described the world of 197 5 farmore accurately th an did the scient istsof 19501

The "Modern Jeremiah"The prophet wh o gave his name toth e pejorative term , jerem iad, is seemingly back on the job after a 2,500-yearsabbatical, during which he apparentlyearned a Ph.D . in investigative journalism .Foreseeing the calamities to str ike

during th e twentieth century , Jeremiahwrote , " Alas! For that day is g reat, sothat none is like it is tl)e tim e ofJacob's trouble; bu t he shall be savedout of it " (Jeremiah 30 :7).This typ ical " jeremiad " sp eak s ofdoomsday (as " Jacob' s trouble") , but italso sp eaks of th e posit ive po st doomsday world (we " shall be savedout of i t ') ' The ent irety of bibl icalprophecy is similarly balanced betweenthe good news and the bad, betweendoomsday and the wonderful world thatfollows it.And as far as " modern Jeremiahs"go , the upbeat Jeremiah beginning inchapter 31 , verse 7, deserves the term" jer em iad " j us t as much as h isdoomsday counterpart in chapter 3D,verse 7.Jeremiah th e op timist wrote, " For


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LET THEM EAT 'FISH!

financial ly for both parties. A 1 ~ 0 major medical setbacks , people who d idn 't have themedi cal insurance to cover that emergencythat came along . How jmany. people canhandle a $50,000 cancer in the ir fami ly? .Easy credit is a factor - the temp tations ofeasy credit .And , of course , recession and inflation.Many people who come to us were watchingit pretty dose . They were right on the line,and suddenly everything was ten to fourteenpercenthigher incost.PT: In our society, are peopleover-stimulatedto engage in credit buying?SB:. Some peop le are what -we call "crediholies." I know of people who will 'say,"Le t' s go out and just have a day at theshopping mall ," f or lack of anything else todo. We see a lot of this - the impulse buyer. .not sitting down and planninghis needs , butjust walking by the store and saying, "Hey,looks great." And he has the card handy.PT: Does credit buying help or hinder a person in the long run?SB: I think that most e co nomi st s wouldagree that the use of credit isa very important aspect of Americanlife. It's really a verysmall percentage, in the long run, who eitherabuse the privilege or t hrough misfortuneget into problems with the use of credit .PT: If someone is deep in debt, what oositivesteps can he take ?S8 : Immediately he should contact his creditors and tell them, " I'm having a problem,I'm going through a divorce;' " I'veju st lost

PT: Would yo u give us a profi le of t he kindof person who comes to youfor help?S8: Wefind peop le coming to us with takehome pay of $400 a ,month. We are alsodea ling with .people who eani $35,000 ayear,with professionals - doctors, attorneys,teachers, and even some CPA's. The averageindebtedness per client today . in Los Angeles, is $9,600 [exclusive of autos an d r ealestate); a yea r ago tbat was only S6,OCMJ.PT: What are the reasons for these peoples'financialproblems? .SO: We see an awfu l lot o f people who aregoing 'throng? divorce, which is devastating

Every day hundred s of people discover:hat they can no .longer make ends meet .They encounter some sort of financial setback , job loss, and they finally fai l a t the irfinancial brinkmanship,Wha tever the reasons, there are some pos-, i tive steps that people should take to makel ifeout on the financial limb more tolerable.; Plain Truth interviewed Stan Benson ofConsumer .Credit Counselors, Inc., a non profit service dedicated to helping' those whoare financially over-indebted. His advice fol- .lows :

Keeping YourWallet Above.Water

FADFILIPINOS, funded by the FAO, harves t cultured milkfish near Orani, Bataan.

by Charles F. VinsonIf world population predicti ons come true, jumped from $500,000 per year to over $20food production worldwide must somehow million . Some of the increas e was due tobe expanded .to stave off inevitable famine. more intense coastal fishing. More signifi-Most estimatessuggest that produ ction must cantly , the coastal ponds recently developedd oub le in the next twenty years merely for in northe rn Java have ma de a tremendousnutritional st and ar ds to r em ai n at ' the ir con tr ibut ion "in the form of milk-fish and.present inadequate levels. shr imp. A good pond wil l produce around-,At p resent 'rates land agriculture -v is ex- one ton of fish per hectare (2'12 acres) , butpanding .more s lowly than population. In scientists tending intensely managed pondsaddition, future expansion on a Jarge sca le i s havep roduced four t imes tha t f igure.unlikely because most tof world's arable . On ' -theJ"6ther" slde -of theJiorld ,l and is already under cultivation .


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We live in a dog-eat-dogsociety, We calI our society "the rat race." ,We are acalloused generation. Apart from the real tragedies portrayed in newspaper.headlines, news magazines, and 1Y coverage, the average person by time hereaches adulthood has been a personal eyewitness to the kill ings of more than13,000 people in his living room via the television set .

We're told more than ten thousand people die every day from starvation.We arc told six million Jews died in concentration camps, while tens of millionssuffered agonizing deaths under the heel of the communist boot. Earthquakes,tidal waves , and floods in far away places cause death tolls numbering more thanhalf-a-million . .Small in comparison (but nOI for any individual i nvolved) is the tale of.carnage wrought by the Los Angeles slasher, the . Boston bomber, and : thehomicidal maniac sni pe r from a Tex as tower . Major diseases take the lives ofhundreds of thousands of people each year, and in the United Stales alone wemanage to 'destroy almost 50,000 lives a year on ' ou r highways in the h ideouscrunch of crushing metal..Rampant crime in the streets; burglaries, kidnapping , and rap e; corruptionin government ; a general mistrust of all per sons in authority and a seeminglytotal breakdown of the family unit - ,a ll these lead to a personal reaction ofwithdrawal into the self, a general disillusionment, a bitterness, a hopeiessfeeling .that nothing isgoing to tum out all right.

This entire scene is over lai d with the most hideous and un imaginable,though seemingly inevitable, threat of -human extin ction from overpowering.. ~ ~ I l ~ c ~ e ~ ~ w a r ? ~ ~ a t i ~ p ~ o . ~ l : total..vpollutionofall life-giving resources, germ warfare, nerve gases; etc.: . . ,Is it any wonder that when .he foresaw the generation you and I are living

through, Jesus said, "Sin will be rampant everywhere and will cool the love ofmany." (Matthew 24 :12, The Living Bible.)In this milieu itseems hopeless to think thatanyone can help . It' s every manfor himself, get mine while the get ti ng is good , eat, drink,- and be merry, fortomorrowwe may die . The personal reaction of the vast majority only adds to thetotal trauma this generation faces. .But who cares? What can I do? Wha t can you do? What can anybody do?Caring costs, caring hurts, caring frustrates.But as with anything that is worthwhile, no matter what the cost, caringbuilds character tha t cannot be destroyed. Caring turns the mind and the hear toutside its self-interest Circle and makes what life we have richer. If things are asbad as they seem they are - arid in fact they are much worse - then there isnothing to lose from offering love to the loveless, hope to the hopeless, and carefor those who may not even care for themselves.Sowhy not begin in a small way and exercise a little care muscl e - for your

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by David Jon HillW h y N O ~Care?

- bly been out of deb t within two, three, fouror six months.PT: But isn't bankruptcy an easy woyOU! ofdebt?58 : For fourteen years it's on your creditreport thatyou filedbankruptcy. That makesit very,very difficult to establish credit againwith major department stores, banks, finance companies and so forth . That doesn'tmean that you can 't get credi t. There aresome of what we c3J1 " less than reputable "firms that will actually go to the banl:rupteycourts and will seekoutthe listsofeverybody whohas filed bankruptcy to solicit for credit accounts .Thereason theydo this is that they cansell their merchandise for a much higher costto people whoCant use bankruptcy asa meansof escape. Because you can only file bank-ruptcy once everys ix years. PT: Are people aware of the seriousness of ourtimes?SB: Well, I think there's a g reat seriousness.We've noted, for example , dia t people arenow beginning to cut back o.n the ir c reditpurchases. They're putting more money intotheir savings and loan accounts or their bankaccounts.However, we don't see tha t too much withthe people who come to our agency for help.These people are the ones who have reacheda certain [expense] level. They don't want to.give up anything.PT: Are you saying in effect that one of theproblems isa lack ofa spirit of sacrifice?SB: Absolutely. 0 .

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problems. It raised consumer pri ces andworkers' wages - being financed. through an in flated econ omy by govern ment print ing presses which were grinding out billions of paper dollars. backedby nothing except whatever ' wan ingconfidence was left.Vietnam cau sed th e gr eatest di ssentin Amer ican histo ry. ignit ing riots and

demonstrat ions on campuses, sendingdraft dodgers to Canada and Sweden.priests to jail , and part-t ime soldiers totrial. . , .V ietnam drove President Johnsonfrom the House and engenderedd istrust of leaders and gov ernment.V ietnam accelerated the g rowth of acounter -cu lt u re in America . w ith afr ightened, hopeless ';yo ut h .tu rni ng todrugs, rock con certs , fr ee love , crime,and v iolence . It redu ced mean ingful debate to"sbOIl,!Lrtg . l l \ ltbosewno wore the 'f lag and ,tho se whobu rned it. The'hard hats arid the longha irs, the lel t and the right . the liberaland the radical. and th e yo u ng and th eold all foughte ach other.V ietnam inflamed all th e st r ai ns in

amounts of ma npower and equipmenta nd t ha t t an k w ar ia re w as a sea sonalaffa ir l imited to roadways.But the le sso n of Korea and the sageadvice of military leaders of World WarI Iwere ignored by the policy makers of.Washington. From our earl ier posture of ,_support for Ho Chi MiOh. we shifted 'tothe sup port of a cor rupt gove n;ment inSa igon .. And so the war was joined . Dozens ofVietnamese names now trickle .easiiyf rom Amer ican lips. Hundreds of thousands of our cit izens have bee n the re .Oa Nang . Ben Hoa . Cam' Ra nh Bay.Hue . There are the memories of buddieswho die d there, the memories .of th e" l iv ing room " wa r, fought on te levi sionbefore Ame ricans at dinner tim e. th ememories of Calley 's trial.

When Richard Nixon came to theH o O s e Vietnam was " John son 's

war. " Quickly. it became " Nixon' s war "to the antiwar protestors.Now , the w ar was being ' w ound .

down . Gradua l d isengagement , as theVietnamese t roops could take over bat'tlefield posit ions f rom the ir Am ericanbenefactors. became the rule of theday. .Ski l lful negotiations f inally brought

about the relea se of most POWs, and sothe long wa r was " over : ' " PEACE Aft er12 Years, It' the headlines said .But the fighting went on and on . Th e.only d ifference was ' th ose who weredying were . ,Q9t ,.Americans,. Vietnam

g r a a u a - " y becarnecrhird-paq e.: news :'Todav.t .u's back on page one. '.Jt s th ecovet story- of ou r magazines.

TheWar That Cha ngedA People

victories. no natio nal heroes, no st irr ingpatriotic songs : It w as a war w it hout anyclea r front - w i thout even a real"hcrnefrcnt ." '. . .Mill ions of Americans came to simplyloa the the Vietnam war . As a whole .

they wan ted it ove r . Finally. it may godown in history as a war started by thegovernment . and ended by the people.

.Garner Ted ArmstrongSPIIKSDUTI

All for NoughtStunned Americans may now refl ect

upon the exultant headlines fol lowingformer P re si de nt Nixon 's announcement that a peace agreement had beencon cl ud ed w ith Communist f orces inVietnam . "T he long war is over ," theyshouted. " Peace after 12 yea rs : ' theycrowed . " Peace?"Though Americans were no lonqer" di rectl y " (a very debatable term . as

. . subsequent revelations tri ckled ou t to Wa rn ings Ignoredth e public) involved in th e Vietnam Pull out all stops - fight to wi n -struggle . .t he war continued unabated . figh t"to survive ~ fi g ht to pr eserve de-Today , as we see th e incredible night- mocracy? Sure . Americans have pro vedmare of human suffering and l isten -to their willingness to do that . Fight to de-

. d e ~ t _ c r i an entire ,nati on ; .as, '. s t r o y , . e n e m y Sure ., But i ' {lean..on ". ' . ~ ~ ~ ~ , ~ . a . f } ~ t t t ) , ~ ~ . e ~ V ? f 6 ~ c c f ~ h ~ c o n f e r e n c e, ~ ~ < ....:::' dead ::- ,as we" llsten,-appalled ;' to the eves '.. t able?" Comm it t roops."piecemea l "tow itness" accounts of ' frenzied . panic- batt le? Fight ' for real estate you know

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Very "pleasant surprise! Altho ugh I'veheard of Plain Truth, this is my first encou n t er wi th it ; , i t's presen tly passingthrou gh many hands. Keep it coming!!!(Maybe turn down tbe "God" part 'a linle. )Scott Johnston,Indianapo lis, ~1 would -like to let you know how I feel

Now abo ut the oil - wehave enough forourse lves. According to forecasts 'we don 'thave enough to keep sending it to the U.S.and still maintain self-sufficiency. We havebeen a lot more conservation-minded thanthe U.S. - even to selling milk in re-usablecart ons and special bags.What we have is .a neighbor who hasbeen gorging himself on his sir lo in likethere's 'no tomorrow. Having near ly donewith it, he is now lookingcovetously at our. carefully conserved hamburger. And wedon 't like it. .What am I doing in the U.S.? Studying.Do I plan to stay forever? Hel l no. Up t il lthen , I am endeavouring to mak e like a. good citizen (I notice I 'm trying harder toco nserve than a lot of my Americanfriends) , and I 'm overpaying my taxes likeeverybody else.

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prevented . large-scale harvest ing for fouryears . When peace brought fishing fleetsback into the area, stocks had 'replenishedthemselves.remarkably well. Size as well asquantity was up dramatically . The same wastrue,after World War II .

by J . G. Cala nder

Fish ( C : : ' t i n ~ ~ d from page 10)Coloni'do City, Texas. Yields there are reported to be the equivalent of 100 tons peracreper year with intensive feeding. ,The J apane se , as usual , have be en one

AMODEST .PROPOSAL FORADICTATORSHIPIN ITALY .

commented to my friend, "I . guess Ita liansdon' t work in the afternoon ." He said, "No,you have it all wrong. Morning is when Italians don 't work. Aftern oon is when theydon't come towork:'Now, after four days in this land of robustred wine, pasta, and musical governm ents,I've finally l ea rn ed to avoid anyone wholooks official. The whole Italian economy isone vast waste land of paperwork . ParalysisROME: As I boarded the early morning ' is a way of life. Everywhere ther e is a fonnAlpine Express in Munich, bound for Rome, to fill.I got my first taste of .Italy . After a week of To cope with this morass of red tape I- nottraveling the trains of northern Euro pe. I to men tion the pasta higher taxes,had become spoiled by the luxury and punc- price controls, wild dri vers, and all the othertuali ty of European tra ins. They were often bangups of Italian daily ,life _ some local I have no qua rrel with your philosophyp un ct ua l to the second Th is Italia n train, businesses have installed a special expediter - I suppose I really agree with all you havehowever, departed thirty minutes late; and - the spicciofoccondi -c whosesoledu tyis ,to written (what I ha ve re ad, that is). I am aour "first class" accommodat ions were de- bribe whomever needs bribing to get ,some- political conservative - real conservative -cidedly second rate. Strike one . thing done. . and I have a strong religious conviction. . . .The dining car was strike two. I had be- The idea has meri t, but why stop at the Beyond that , I cannot equate the "pov-

come accustomed to the finest mea ls on priva te level? Wha t It a ly needs is a "super- erty program ," the "a rms problem," the. wheels, but when I asked directions to the sptcctafaccondt" who could get things done "energy cri si s," the interna tional " incomedining car the Alpine Express, ,I got a "at a national level, someone who; miracle of . tr a d e d isputes ," th e "o il emba rgo ,"blank look and "whaaa ?". I finally found it: miracles, could get the mail de livered the ..women.s liberation... the "United (?71)an un heated (below freez ing ) cem en t- same year it 's sent. After al l, when it takes Nat ions," " inflation," "s mo king" an dfloored cattle ca r where a frantic Italian three years toge t a pension check, you might plain old-fashioned hunger with the impor-(wh o spok e no Ge rman, although we were aswell get anotherj ob . . tanceo f the gospel . . . . .in Gennany) sold tepid coffee and sta le It's time Italy gave up the ir cumbersome A hungry bel ly i s a pitiful. painful, sadbuns. That was my breakfast and lunch dur- charade of democracy. Nobody takes the thing - granted. But please leave God, theing the nine-hour train ride. Italian government seriousl y anymore, least Bible, and Chri st out of it. Each should beStrike three goes to the Italian bureau- of all the Italians. Enough! Politics in Italy dealt with on its own term s. Your battl ecracy. Italy was the on ly na tion in Buropev has .grown stale. Itali an prime ministers against social evil is good, bu t i t should bethat sto pped us at the border, instead of come and go soIast they don't havetime to labelled ju st tha t: a battle again st socialmerely sending a dep uty to examine our have their portr aits painted. much less hung . evil. Not rel igion. 'papers .while the tra in was in motion. So we Th is governmental.obscurity and bureau- Robert Crean,lost another. half-hour at the Brenner Pass cratie bungling has reached the satura tion Yard ley. PA I write in response to you r WHY NOTshowing our passports. point. Let's have a strong hand from some- column in the March 8, 1975 Plain Truth.As we switched cars in .v erona, we had where to pick the pieces, someo ne who People who know God, Mr. Hill, neverour second taste of the pro totypical. Italian would be recognizable if you saw his face in Robert L.Kuhn, your articl e is a master- pret end they are God .. .. Li tt l e children

r : - : a .,l u.s. . ~ i s t o ~ book: . , ,,, .'" _ Politics of Ete rJlity" is the not ye t in ,tune with reality might....... ~ ~ D ; ! : ~ Y ~ I ~ I . ! ! ~ 2 1 ! : W 9 . ; $ ~ a ~ J l ~ ~ ~ ? ever ' ' ! . ' ? . : ..d ~ ~ ' -'PO dvwail ; " " I ~ O O O T f i e r e '" ma n m e n t s ' c a ' '.nanny , a n d a t f a l : r e h g l o n _ C o u l a . .they -'' :: ' cnobody walttng m hne at the exchange wm- bedeck the landscape WIth hISpicture pasted .you make a leaf le t or pamphlet of that asylums, hopelessly lo st for any cons true-dow, but the man beh ind the glass was on his newly built publi c works. Th is benign magnificent article? . . tive contributions to society. On ly people"bus y," sh uffling one paper to one pile, an- duce could fulfill his transcendent role as Mabel Bowles, whose:conception of God is small will sug- .other paper to the first pile, and back again . "t he rightful he ir o f Caesar" in a new Ro- Bristo l, CO . gest to someone to pr etend he isGod.I waited for ten minutes, then began to manEmpire. W HY NOT show a lit tle courage and givemeekly ask for my, change. Five minut es No more weak unst ab le center -l ef t coal i- In your Plain Truth of Janu ary 1975, your readers some plain tru th abo ut Godhe up and lazily examined all tions masquerading as democracy. Let a new p . 30, you sta ted th at nobody else is and his salvation through Christ? .. .d e n t l f i ~ t l o papers, be fo re reluctantly superspiccia faccondi lead the way back to . preaching the Word . I felt that was a D. E. Andersori,gtvmg me past glories. . strange comment, seeing that the Jehovah 's Evansto n, ILI was lucky to get-any service. You see, i t Who knows _ he migh t even make the Witnesses a re preaching the Word of God ,was almost quitting t ime in the afte rnoon . I-. t rains run on time. 0 in pr acticall y every cou n try i n th ewo rld . . . . 'Al so in Plain Truth of February 8. 1975,p. 15, an art icle by Gerhard Marx -statesthat there are noministers in operation inthe atheistic "state of Albania . Well,_uponresearch , I was very mu ch surprised to findthat Jehovah's Witnesses are "working underground"I n Albania to spread the truth ,


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BRITAIN-SINKINGWITH FLAIRTelly Savalas, TV"tough New Ycrk .police ace, Kojak, recently took up residence. inLondon: Interviewed for BBe television ,Savalas was aske d why be had decided tomake Brita in his home when the future ofthe nat ion looks so bleak . He answered that

.. .60,000 DeathsTh e Nat ional Resourc'es Defense Councilclaims that continued buildup of aerosolpropellants in the atmosphere is depletingthe ozone layer that shields the earth ~ r o m

SST's and Nuclear BombsThe potential dangers from SST's and nuclear explosions are staggering. Both the SSTand nuclear bombs inject nitrogen oxides. into the a tmosphere that can significantlyreduce the protect ion afforded by the ozonelayer.. A (SO percent increase in nitrogen oxidesmay decrease ozone levels by between 7%and 12%. This would result in a 14% to 24%increase in potentially hazardous ultravioletradiation reaching earth's surface.

Scenario or Disaster?Vet before mankind lapses into hysteriaover Ban the Bomb," (pun intended) perhaps we should remember the story of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide . The secompoundsi--. being spewed out from ourindustrial society with its prodigi ous con

s u m p t ~ o n of fossil fuels - were. supposed totrap sunlight in "the greenhouse effect,"cause an overall heat ing of the earth .But this has not occurred. Rather, theearth seems to be cooling down of late. Car- .bon monoxide and dioxide are apparently, having little effect, ot at least are beingcounteracted by some opposing processes.The point is that not enough is yet knownabout jhe functioning of our atmosphere orabout the production and destruction of ozone: The earth's sophisticated life-supportsyst em often has a r emar ka ble capacity torecover from even the most ill-conceivedblunders of mankind, and qui te possibly aweakened "ozo ne filter" will allow the product ion of ozone at a. significantly higherrate. After all , ultraviolet light is directlyrespon sible for producing ozone in the f irstplace! Perha ps the whole system has a longterm negative feedback stability. .On the other hand, aerosol s have probablyalready 'doomed more people than were

Catastrophic Cata lysts killed by the atomic bombdropped on Hiro- .Yet the most alarming 'threat is o b a b l ~ is very real , and it's notthe.aerosclcan.. . ... . , ,' .':' ..,H '" i'r ,?; .. J . , . J , . _ .. . .oJ ,'


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