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The philosophic a pproach of moderneducation is that of the ancient Greekand Roman philosophers. And theydidn't know the answer , .

But here I have rapped out four typedpages of this talk on my office type­writer, and I have been informed that Iam 'already past the usual deadline forgelling this to the printers, so I'm afraidI 'cannot take time to get that answerinto this present talk. It ought to taketen to twenty typed pages to explain it,anyway. So it probably would be betterto write it as a full article later on .

But don 't think you already know theanswer. You don't !

I thought I did; yet I did not know thefull answer until just recently. -When weSTOP GROWING in knowledge, we'rethrough. I don 't propose to be throughyet - if keeping my mind open to newtruth. when it is PROVED to be truth, willkeep me going . I think.I can guaranteethe answer will surprise you.

Just what ARE you ? What IS ahuman being?

Yes WHAT?The TRUE answer, I think, is not only

thr illing and exciting, but it is also tM­PORTANT!

By, the way, if you are facing thisquestion about whether to allend college- ,or which college - I suggest you writefor the Ambassador College catalog.

Send your request for the catalog 10 :Admis sions Office, Ambassador College,300 West Green Street, Pasadena, Cali­fornia 91123 . The latest catalog will giveyou full information and will be mailedto you as soon as possible. 0

income. Money can 't buy happiness orcontentment, or the things that reallysatisfy - CONTtNUALLY, without ever aletdown.

But I am no longer a lad of eighteen.I'm even older than Jack Benny 's thirty­nine. And ,I not only know these an­swers, but I know also that there is onlyONE PLACE ON EARTH where a studentmay learn these answers that are worthmore than all the money in the world.But, for that matter, when you learn'these answers and apply them , you don'thave to worry about money - for thev ery application of these pr inciplesbrings economic security.

The only college or university onearth that teaches these MOST IMPOR­TANT areas of knowledge are the twoAmbassador Colleges - at Pasadena,California, and at Big Sandy, Texas .

People remark that they never haveseen such a happy atmosphere as theAmbassador College campus.

"Why, all your students seem to reallyenjoy life," they say. "They seem alive,alert, full of spark and interest - andHAPPY! "

"You're right ," I reply. "They 00 ­and they AREI"

When I started writing the first para­graph of this Personal talk , what I had inmind was to tell you WHAT man IS . I

·in tend ed to show you that sciencedoesn 't reall y know. What we call edu­cation in the usual sense. as dissemi ­nated at colleges and universities.generally doesn 't know. And they can'tteach what they themselves do not,know!

EDUCATION FOR lIIEI - K

Even today we can find an occasional"change of pace" by attending a game.There we will see thousands beingthrilled by scintillating play. Are thesebasketball " fans" enjoying life? If youask them, at the moment. the answermight be 'y ou 'bet I " Are they bored?Not during the excitement of the game!Do they feel a sort of menial, emotional,or spiritual hunger? Not during the thrillof the game. .- But after the game - then what?

Why, after the game is over and the"fans". have gone home , do they experi ­ence a letdown - until the next game~ orthe next experience ofsome pleasure?

I got to wondering. After the game, Idon't experience any letdown. I don'thave to suffer the experience of EMPTI­

NESS, boredom. or this sort of soul hun­ger - whatever it is - until the nextexciting entertainment. As a matter offact, I find my -Iife interesting, in­vigorating, stimulating, satisfying, andabundant at all timeslll is tremendouslyexciting at times . But it is never boring.never dull, never discontented!

WHY? What's the difference?I know what's the difference. I want to

tell you what it is.The answer is bound up in these ques­

tions I asked at the beginning of thisPersonal talk with my readers.

I have learned WHAT man lSII have learned that "man was put on

this earth for a PURPOSE, and I havelearned what that purpose IS I I havelearned HOW to fulfill it, I have learnedWHAT the true values are. and what arethe false. And I have learned the secretof a full, abundant, interesting, enjoy ­able life! NOT merely during a basket­ball game or s~me occasionalentertainment! ALL THE TIME! .

I have learned THE WAY to peace ofmind, 10 invigorating, satisfying, alwaysinteresting living. I have learned WHY Iam here. WHERE I am going . and THE

W AY to gel there . I'm on my way therenow, and the journey is more interestingthan I can tell you! There's never a let­down. There used to be - years ago ,before I learned these answers. But notany more!

Yes, if I were a young man graduatingfrom high school, I'd look for the collegeor university that would teach me WHAT

I am. WHY. and what are the TRUE VAL­

UES . I'd wan t to learn something morethan merely a profession for earning an

And sure enough, in their senior yearthese boy s went on to win the first na- .tional championship - late winter of1939. That was the first year the NCAAhad a nat ional playoff leading to a na-tional championship. .

What Is Life?

Did you ever wonder why it is thatnearly everybody wants to live a life thatis pleasing, enjoyable, interesting ­without boredom, aches, pains . suffer­ing, or unpleasant environments or cir­cumstances? .And yet, nearly everyoneexperiences a HUNGER for somethingthat will really SATISFY; and yet, some­how. he never finds ' it .' except at brief

-in tervals that never seem to last.When this Work of God was only

about two years under way - or three ­in Eugene, Oregon. and I was, most ofthe time , preaching in evangelistic cam­pa igns about six nights a week, broad­casting every Sunday, editing andmimeographing Plain Truth, and coun­selling with scores of people, .I found theneed of something relaxing - somethingto get my mind for a lillie while off ofthese serio us problems and this drivingact ivity . Mrs . Armstrong and I found atotal change, mentally, in attending oc­casional basketball games at the Univer­sity of Oregon basketball pavilion,MacArthur Court. At that time the Uni­vers ity of Oregon had a team of soph ­omores and one senior' which looked like

Is a man truiy educated unlesS . he

knows WHAT HE IS? And unless heknow s WHY he is, whether there isany purpose or meaning to life, and

what that is? And unless he knows wherehe is going in the end? And unless heknows the true values from the false andTHE WAY to such desired conditions aspeace, happiness, prosperity, and the en­joyable, pleasant, and interesting life?

Right now many high school seniorsare facing the problem of whether to goon to college - and if so, which college .

, If I were a .young man or youngwoman facing that question, I'm verysure - knowing what I know now - thatI would want to know which college oruniversity teaches these things . I'm sureI'd want to allend the school of higherlearning which would teach me notmerely how to earn a living - pardonme, I mean an existence - but the onewhich would teach me HOW TOLI VEl

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ing has set Syria and Egypt to feuding ,each accusing the other of interfering inthe conflict. Syria and Iraq . which havebeen making separate initiatives towardending the Lebanese conflict, have alsobeen wrangling over each other's moves.

The Syria-Egypt quarrel over Lebanoncomes on top of already strained rela­tions. The two countries have been en­gaged in bitter polemics because ofSyria'S opposition to the controversialSinai disengagement accord reached lastsummer between Egypt and Israel. Syria,the Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO), and other radical Arab states havelabelled the accord a " se llout," brandingEgypt a "traitor to the Arab cause." Syr ialeels the accord has taken Egypt " out 01the battle.". leaving Syria largely isolatedin her confrontation with Israel.

Consequently. Syria - skeptical aboutthe prospects for further Mideast diplo­macy - is pushing for the formation of a" northern front" with Iraq. Jordan, thePLO. and eventually even Lebanon,which would be able to wage war . if nec ­essary, w~hout . Egypt's participation: .I1 .

- bickering with Iraq can be overcome,such a coalition may eventuallY be possible.

Many observers feel that economicallytroubled Egypt, on the other hand, willwant to spend th is year concentrating onthe exploitation of the Sinai oil fields re­turned to her as part of the accord withIsrael , rather than on waging a war shecan ill afford (Plain Trutn , Sept. 20, 1975) .

The Palestinian question is another im­portant consideration. The grievances ofmillions of displaced Palestinians willhave to Ultimately be reckoned with, orwar will be inevitable. Yet Israeli PrimeMinister Rabin steadfastly declines todeal with the Palestinians - especiallythe ,PLO - or to entertain the idea of apossible Palestinian state on the WestBank of the Jordan. There is, however,apparently some division in his cabineton these issues, with a few Officials saidto be leaning toward some accom­modation with the Palestinians.

The presidential election in the UnitedStates this fall is also a factor in the war ­or-peace equation. Wash ington wouldunquestionably prefer a more-or-tesstranquil Middle East during the campaignmonths and will undoubtedly exert its in­f1ue nce accordingly.

~And f inally, the Kremlin too would un ­- doubtedly prefer a " no-war, no-peace"situation this year , thinking it wise toavoid potential causes of fr iction with theU.S. in major world arenas lna year whenthe Soviet Union will be importing largeQuantities of American grain.

Amid all the uncertainties of the com ­plex Middle East situation. one thing issure. Events there, as Plain Truth haspredicted for over 40 years, will ultimatelybring the nations of the world to a su­preme crisis at the 'c lose of this age ofhuman experience. Plain Truth will con ­tinue to bring In-depth articles on themany aspects of this vital topi,c. 0

by Keith Stump

War In '761

Will war again fla re up in the MiddleEast this year? In a sense. the war hasnever stopped. Guerrilla raids , air strikes,and terrorist bombings are daily remind­ers of the unsettled Arab-Israeli dispute.Whether a lilth full -scale conflict mayer upt is an impossible question to answerwith any degree 01 certainty. The volatileMiddle East delies pred ic tion .

There are factors. however. which pro­vide a few indications. but they can be nomore than that.

Firstly, continuing rivalry in the Arabworld may prevent, at least temporarily. aresumption of the Arab-Israeli confl ict.

For over nine months, a bitter civil warhas been under way in Lebanon betweenMoslem leftists and rig ht-wing ChristianFalangists, clai ming thousands of lives .Besi des disru pt ing that once serene,commercially energetic nation, the fight·

Since earliest antiquity, the Middle Easthas been the setting for countless wars,repeated invasions, and frequent domi­nation by foreign powers. Those through­out history who have made their homeson this -strategic land bridge - lying as­

. tride the traditional routes of trade andcommunication between three continents- have done so with the certain knowl­edge that one day they would have tolight to defend them.

The current conflict between Jew andAra b in the Mid dle East is actually a rela­tively recent phenomenon. Civilizations ofthe distant past fought there even beforeJews and Arabs - both the progeny 01the patriarch Abraham - existed as apeople. Later, Assyrians and Babyloniansinvaded the land . carrying the people ofIsrael int o captivity. Subsequently, theRomans. Seljuk Turks, Crusaders. andOttomans - among others - waged waron the coveted soil. occupying it for vary­ing lengths of time . Napoleon's armiesswept across its barren deserts. And earlyin this -century. Arab and British forces

" ousted .the pccupying Turks. " _.It was really not until the end of the quarter­

century-long British mandate over Pales­tine in 1948 that the national armies ofIsrael and the Arab states first clashed In

"the area- each claiming the land as its ownby virtue of history and religion.

Three subsequent wars - in 1956,1967, and 1973 ~ ravaged the area with­out sett ling the territorial dispute. Theone-time land of milk and honey remains,lamentably, a land 01 blood." Moreover, the new factor of oil - 'of

little import ance until recent decades ­has focused the concern of · the ent ireworld onto the conflict, which in timespast might have otherwise been viewedas of only regional significance. Now theliteral survival of many nations - espe­cially those of Western Europe. - rests onwho controls the region . So the outsiderswatch with concern. wondering when theestranged chil dren of Abraham will againshed one another's blood.

BRITAIN "BREWING UP"TROUBLE FOR EECIn his "Speaks Out" column, Editor Garner TedArmstrong makes some firsthand observations ofBritain 's economic problems.

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15RADIO lTV LOGIn recent months, Garner Ted Armstrong added 'dozens of new radio and TV markets. Maybe YOURarea now carries his voice.

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HOW WILL WE FEEDTHE WORLD'S 6 BILLION?In the second installment of our new series , HumanSurvival , Plain Truth examines the immense probelem of feeding the earth's exploding population .··-

ORCHIDS AND ONIONSOur readers ' respond to the " Personal From theEditor," " The New Civil War," and " The SugarConspiracy. "

BRIDGING NATIONAL DIFFERENCESColumnist Stanley R. Rader reports on his conver­sations with three recent Japanese prime ministers.

WORLDWATCHThe gleeful exposure of every CIA activity 'couldhave serious consequences for America's security.

CAMPAIGNING BEGINS FOR1976 GERMAN ELECTIONSUnlike the still-confused American election derby,the battle lines in Bonn are well defined.

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WEST GERMAN chancellor candidates, Kohl (left) and Schmidt.

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The Vatican'sNew Activism

co nference recently dropped thebombshell statement that "onecannot be simultaneously aChristian and a Marxist." Com­ing as it does after years of "dia­logue" between Catholics andMarxists in order to establishsome sort of common ground,the declaration underscores theVatican's fear that Italy mightconie under communist domi ­natio n. -

Pope Pa ul personally ap­proved the change in policywhich reflects his grow ing con­cern that the Com munists may 'win the municipal elections inRome next spring. The Com­munists already control or sharein the control of every major

- Italian city except Rome andPalermo, With the Communistswinning more than a third of

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rope-w ide elect ions on the.sameday: in the spring of 1978, toelect representatives to the Eu­ropean parliament. .

As much cohesion as thesemoves show, there are yet majorchanges needed before theCommunity Canachieve its pro­fessed goal - a European unionby 1980.

Gaston Thorn, premier andforeign min ister of Luxembourgwho is also the current presi­dent of the EC Council of Min­isters, stated in an interview in[he European edition of News­week: " . . it's impossible tocontinue on ' present lines ...under present conditions, we .:

' only skim the problems, wedon't solve 'them."

In addition to procedural'changes needed in the presentstructure. there are other areasthat need profound alterationand , in some cases, bold newinitiatives if Europe is to consol­idate its growing strength inworld affairs. These other areasinclude the need for commonpoliciesjn defense, foreign af­fairs, and energy. to mentionthe most important.

Yet for all t h e pettysquabbles that surface frommonth to month among themember states, the words writ­ten by Anthony Sampson sev­eral years ago in his book, TheNew Europeans, hold equallytrue today: "However bitter thearg uments at . Brussels • . theCommon Market remains anew kind of forum where na­tional rivalries take for granteda common objective. .. , Thenew machinery is still working,still influencing people andbringing them together."

- Ray Kosanke

non , On November 10 he dis ­patched his pe rso na l envoy,Cardinal Pao li Bertoli , to con­duct talks with warring Chris­tia n and Moslem leaders.Cardinal Bertoli personallybore a letter from the pope to "Lebanon's President SuleimanFranjieh to convey the pontiff'S" sympathy an d readiness tomake every effort to restorepeace between the conflict ingparties," Whi le the Vatican ef­forts in Lebanon have met withlittle success thus far , the sig­nificant fact is the pope's will­ingness to personally becomeinvolved in a Middle East dispute,

Mean while in Europe, theCatholic Church has launchedits biggest offensive . againstcom munism since Pius X II ex­com municated communist vot­ers in 1949. The Italian bishops'

BRUSSELS: The Europea nCommunity, or Common Mar­ket, is increasingly speaking onthe international scene with onevoice. Some examples are:

• In the United Nat ions thenine have adop ted a oommon Euro­pean posit ion on major issues .

• At 'the, 27-nation north­south dia logue begun this pastDecember in Paris, the nine havebeen represented by a singlespokesman. As a reflection of itsever-increasing importance asthe world's greatest trading bloc ,the EC has two co-chairmanshipson the fourcomm ittees created towork throughout the yea r. Noother nation or group of nationswas granted more than one chair­manship.

• The nine Community na­tions jointly signed the final act ofthe Euro pean security confer­ence in Helsinki last Augustwhen Italy's Prime Minister AldoMoro signed in his capacity asPresident of the European Council

• .D uring several sessions ofthe Euro -Arab dia logue he ld lastyea r, a single Euro pean delega­tion was present as a joint com­munity-cooperation exercise.

• After the Dublin commu­nity summit last March the nineoffered their united servicestoward helping achieve a peace­ful resolution of the Cyprusproblem, The Common Markethas association agreements withthe three countries concerned ...,..G reece, Turkey, an d Cyprus,

• The Community last yearestablished a new Europeanunit of account based on a com­pos ite "basket" of th e nine com­m uni ty c urrencies. Themembers further agreed to in­troduce a uniform passport in1978, in addition 10 holding Eu-

12-year sentence for gun run­ning for Arab guerrillas.

The secretariat's pronounce­ment, the Ca pucci affair, and awhole stri ng of Va tican pro­nou ncements over the past fiveyears which shows trong sympa ­thy with Third World causesseem to imply an increasing pa­pal preference for coming downon the Arab side of the MiddleEast equation, The effects re­main to b e seen" th ough itseems likely that the Vaticanwill benefit from the increasingdiplomatic isolat ion of Israel,

Pope Pau l has also init iatedseve ral peace moves in Leba-

coalition, therefore. is expectedto pull in roughly 50% of theba llots.

Though the two coali tionpartners have had their sha re ofdisagreements, little chance isseen of an actual breakup atthis time. {Prior to 1969 theFOP had been allied with theSPO's 'rival, the conservativeChristianDemocratic Union.)

The opposition CDU, headedby Chairman Helmut Kohl(governor of the Rhineland­'Palatinate state), along with itsBa varian "sister" part y theChristian Soeial Union (CSU) ,also commands a combined50% of the elec torate, accordingto polls.

A close battle between thetwo coalitions is thus indicatedfor the fall election,

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A Deadl ock in the Bundestag?

Political observers hold outlitt le possi bility of the SPO'sgaining an absol ute majo rity inthe Bundestag (the lower houseof parliament) in the fall elec­tion. Recent pu blic opinionpolls ind icate tha t only an esti­mated 41% of the vote will go tothe SPO. '

To retain power, therefore,the SPD will have to maintainits coalition alliance with thesmall liberal Free DemocraticParty (FOP), with which it hasbeen in partnership since 1969.

The FOP, headed -by Chair­man Hans Dietrich Genscher(also foreign minister in theSc hmidt cabinet) , will co m­mand about 9% of the elector- .ate , ac cording to cu rrentestimates. The socialist-liberal

Pope Paul VI has recentlylaunched major dip lomatic of­fensives in two critical .areas ofthe world , the Middle East andEurope.

The Vatican Secretariat forno n-C hristians has come outstrongly 'for a Middle Eastpeace settlement which includes"recognition of the rights of Pal­estinians and a special status forChristia n' ho ly places in Israeland the Israeli-occupied westbank of the Jordan." At thesame time the Vatican is pres­suring the Israeli government torelease Archbishop Hi la rion

. Capucci who is now serving a

As 1976 begins, West Ger­mans like Americans are begin­ning to turn their attention totheir coming fall elections.

But unlike the still-confusedAmerican campaign . the battle 'lines in West Germany areclear-cut and well defined. Thecontending parties have alreadyput their internal partysquabbles behind them andhave settled upon their candi­dates for chancellor in the Octo­ber federal election.

The deck s have thus beencleared for a vigorous nat ionalcampaign which is alreadymoving into full swing ,

Surface Unity

At its biannual cong ress inthe industrial city of Mannheimin November, the ruling SoeialO emocrat ic Party (SPO)patched up , for the most part, athree-way ideological split inthe party to achieve at leas t asurface show of unity . The SPOis headed by former ChancellorWilly Brandt (party chairman)and current Chancellor Helm utSchmidt (vice-chairman).

The split had involved theradical leftist faction of theparty (the "Young Socialists" orJusos) , the moderates, and theparty's "right wing ."

A consensus was finally 'achieved, however, and Brandtand Schmidt were over­whelmingly reelected to theirparty offices.

Schmidt , the incumbe ntchancellor who succeeded to theoffice in May 1974 after the res­ignation of Brandt in the wakeof an espionage scandal, waspredictably named as theparty's chancellor can didate inthe coming election.

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Warldwalahby Ge ne H. Hogb er g

"Is America Going Mad?"To friend s and enem ies a like. the Un ited Sta tes is taking on

the image of a shac kled giant. In thi s case , the Lilli pu tian s tyingdown G ulliver a rc not foreigners. but American s themse lves ­especia lly key figures in Co ngress a long with members of the presswho . in the ir pos t-Wa terga te q uest for a tot ally op en soc iety. nolon ger feel the re is any such thin g as a legitimate sta te secre t.

Th e issue ca me 10 a head with the assassin ati o n in G reece ofRicha rd Welch, a CIA agent auac hed to the U.S. emb assy inAthens. Angry U.S. intelligence ch iefs blam ed the leth al blowing ofWelch's cover on a va riety of sources - continued Co ngressiona lprobing of CIA o pera tions, a rece nt flur ry of spy-ferre ting books byex·CIA agents, a nd a qu art erly ex pose magazine ca lled Counterspy.which had ide ntified the wherea bo uts o f Welch a nd ov er 200 othe rag ents in recen t issues.

No one - not eve n forme r C IA directors - denies the agencyhas. o n occasion. ove rstepped its cha rtered resp on sibilities. T hatsho uld not be surpr ising given the fact tha t in thi s imperfect andideolog ically com peti tive wor ld, ove r 40 na tions. la rge a nd sma ll.a re engaged in cla ndes tine o pera tions.

But the juicy fro nt-page headline news of speci fic C IA cove rtac tivities. such as involvem ent in the Allende overthrow in Ch ile.ha ve led man y Am erican s to believe the CIA is noth ing but aFran kenstein mo nster, runn ing am uck withou t any con tro l. No th­ing is fur ther fro m the tru th. No na tion al int elligence orga niza tionis subjec t to more supervision than the CIA. Mo reo ver . provenins tan ces of im proper ac tivities a re few. But the chas ing a fte r ever ysp icy rumo r to fill new spape r headlin es a nd the lead story of thenigh tly news telecasts takes p recedence over the facts.

T he up shot is a severe ha m perin g of American in tel ligenceofficia ls in performing their ma in - but la rgely unh era ld ed ­function: the nonpub licized ga the ring. ass imila tion. a nd eva lua tionof in forma tion necessary for the sec uri ty of the nati o n. Retir­ing CIA Direc to r Will iam E. Co lby co mplained last yea r tha t"the almos t hyste rica l exc itement that surro unds any news storyme ntioning the CIA. or refe rring even to a perfectly legitima teactivi ty of the CIA. has ra ised the questio n whe the r sec re t in­telligence opera tions ca n be co nd ucte d by the United Sta tes."

He adde d in tes timo ny befo re a Hou se subco mmi tte e tha tmo ra le in the agency was low. ag ents ove rseas were worrie d a boutex pos ure. a nd "a number of in telligence services abroad withwhich the C IA works have exp ressed concern over its situa t ion andove r the fat e of sensitive informat ion they provid e to us."

A big q uestion now is whethe r the U.S . will be ab le to co n­tinu e to obta in critica l int elligence fro m commu nist de fectors o runderground Soviet in for ma nts - if they ca n no lon ger trust theCI A o r its Co ng ressional wa tchdogs to keep a secre t. How impor­ta nt this fac tor is ca n be illust rat ed by the case. 13 yea rs ago . ofCo l. O leg Penk ovsky. who sat a t the very nerv e center o f the Sovie tmi litary estab lishme nt. Wi thout the dera iled inte lligence he pro­vid ed, President John F. Kenn ed y wou ld have been in a very poorpos itio n to deal with the 1962 C uba n missile C risis.

London's Daily Telegraph , in a n ed itorial titled " Is Ame ricaGoing Mad ?" views the de ter ior a ting U.S. scen e thi s way : "T heUn ited Sta tes sho uld kno w tha t her Euro pean co usins and a lliesare a ppa lled a nd d isgu sted by the presen t ope n di sarray of he rpu blic life. T he self-cri ticism a nd se lf-des tructive ten d encies a rerun ning mad. with no countervail ing force in sight. She has noforei gn policy a ny mo re, becau se Co ngress will not a llow it. Herint elligence a rm . the CIA, is being gutted and rend ered inop er a­tive , the nam es of its staff bein g pub lished so that they ca n bemurdered . Her Presid en t and Secreta ry o f Sta te a re bei nghounded, not for what they do b ut sim ply bec a use they are peop lethe re. to be pull ed down for the fun of it: '

T he Telegraph ed ito r co ncluded by plead ing: " Pleas e Ame rica,for God's sake pull yo urse lf together: '

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BUMPER CROPSBUCK W EATHERTRENDS

W ell -tim ed w e t we a t h erswelled Ame rica' s gra in harvestto rec o rd -brea kin g y ie lds in1975.

When the final U.S. Dep art ­men t o f Agric ulture repo rtswe re in. whea t production stoodat 2.3 bi llion bu shels - a 19%increase ove r 1974. Th e corny ield amo unted to 5.8 bi llionbushels. a 25% increase over thedrought -seared 1974 cro p.

Ho w lon g the goo d ne wsfro m the farm belt - so critica lto hung ry mout hs around thewor ld - will last, however , is amatt er of no small co nce rn .

Som e scientists a re predi ctin gthat dev asta ting drou ght lastin gfrom thr ee to eight years will hitth e Grea t Pla ins with in thed ecade .

" T he climate t rends tha tso me scientists a re pred ictin gcou ld bring us to a poi nt of ca t­as tro phic co nve rgence betweenthe increasing populat ion andinad equ ate food supplies muchsoo ner than man y peopl e ex­peer." says Henry Lan sford ofthe Na tio na l C enter for At mo­sp heric Resear ch .

Wh at a re the se clim atic in­dicators?

First is a 20-yea r drough tcycle in the Am erican midw estwhic h last hit in the 1950s. T hiscycle has followed a co nsisten tpa tte rn eve r s ince th e m id ­1800s whe n well-doc umentedrecord s were first kept. Th e du stbowl of the thi rt ies was pa rt ofth is cycle .

Dr. W all e r O . R o b ert s ,fo rmerly of the Na tiona l Ce nterfor Atmosph er ic Research. post­ulates a correla tion betweensu nspo t ac tivity and the 20-yea rdroug ht cycle. Sunsp ots occureve ry 10 o r I I y ea rs. T hedrought cycle see ms to corre la tewith alternating sunspot activity.

Another t re nd which mayfu rther complica te crop-crip ­pling d rou ght before the end o fthi s decade is the grad ual cool­ing o f the ea rth.

Fro m 1890 to 1940, the ea rthex pe rienced a peri od of warm erweather. Th e resu lt was a grow­ing season that was increase dby two to three weeks.

Since 1940. however, a low­er ing in tempera ture has cu tback the growi ng season bya bo u t two weeks. As tempera ­ture s co ntinue to dro p with thi scoo ling trend . gra in prod uctionon Am eri ca 's nor the rn plainscoul d be severe ly curta iled .

Despite the shorter growingsea son . the period from them id -1 960 s u n til 19 74 saw abur st of pro d uctivity tha t over­flowed U.S. gra na ries. T hisab unda nce was a tt rib uted solelyto "a rema rka ble run of normal

weathe r" by a U.S. governmentreport pu blished after the 1973ha rvest.

T his same report . however .went on to spell the fat e of the1974 har vest : "T he rel iab ility o fgra in yields in the midw est inrece nt yea rs is d ue to a n ex­traordi na ry seq uence of favor ­able seasons. T his ca nno t beex pec ted to cont inu e."

And, ind eed it hasn' t.1974 brou ght a hot sco rching

su mme r to the midwest. Th edrou gh t- we akened co rn cro pyielde d / 8% less than the pre­vio us yea r.

In 19 75, a relentl ess he a twave canc elled hopes for wha ta p p ea r e d to be a s u p e r­a b u nd a nt c ro p in Io wa a ndneighboring sla tes. Only " last­minut e" un expected ra ins a l­layed farme rs' worst fea rs.

Texas and Ca liforn ia con ­tinu e to suffe r some dro ught .a nd the lack o f moisture hasa lrea dy cut pred ictions for thewi n te r whe at har vest 9% be­low last year's record . Insectinfesta tions in part s of O kla­hom a a nd Kansas th reat en tored uce the crop still fur ther.

Even thou gh this yea r's har ­ves t may still be la rge enough toprevent maj or food shortages.the pro spects for any significantbuild up of food rese rves a ppea rd immer by the day. With thep rospe c t of coo le r weat her.sho rter grow ing seasons. and anov erd ue 20-year d rought cycle,fu tu re seve re c rop sho r tfa llsmay pro ve to be all too like ly apossib ility. 0

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the votes in the regiona l elec­tion s last June. the Vat ican isnow taking the spec ter of aCo m m u nist-domi na ted Ita lyver y seriously.

Man y ob servers believe tha tin spite of the chu rch's d iplo­ma tic efforts to reach an accom­modat ion with the comm unistregim es of Eastern Europe. theVatican is not ab ou t to accep tcomm un ist govern me nts ru lingin the West and will thereforeuse its leverage to prevent the mfrom coming to power.

Th is fea r has spa rked the re­ce nt pap al push for the un ifi­cat ion of Western Euro pe. (SeePlain Truth, Novem be r 22,1975.) In a speec h befo re mo reth an 80 bishop s, cardi na ls, andpr ela tes, Pope Paul ca lled for are a wa ken ing o f "Eu ro pe'sC h ristian soul. where its unity isroot ed : '

T he pont iff'S call for Euro­pea n uni on co incides with signsof a growing theological co n­serva tism. In the last severa lmon ths the pope has reaffirmedthe full scope of his autho rityo ve r t he C a t ho l ic C h u rch ,re iter a ted the officia l church

GIRMAN IlIClIONS[Cont inued from page 3)

St rauss Backs Off

T he C DU/C SU a llia nce, likethe SPD /FD P coa lition, has notbeen without its personal andide ological feuds.

Th e j unior partner of the coa­lition, the CSU headed by fieryult racon serva tive Fr an z JosefStr auss, has its membership al­most entire ly in the sta te ofBavar ia . Th e CSU ru ns its can­did a tes exclusively in that state.tho ugh Dr . Stra uss has sym pa­thizers th roughou t the nat ion.

The C DU runs in the othernine West G erman sta tes a nd inWest Berlin. Thus there is noac tua l com petition between thetwo coaliti on partners. and theyare looked upon as o ne par ty inna tio na l influ ence.

Some conservat ives. however ,had beg un to fea r last yea r tha tStrau ss might "go na tion al: 'tha t is, expand his right -wingBavarian sta te party into a full­fled ged national part y, withhimself as the cand idate forchancellor.

An o pinio n poll in Jun e hadindi ca ted that if the CSU ca r­ried on an ind ependent nat ionalca mp aign . the two co nserva tiveparti es might receive 3% to 6%mo re votes than under the cu r­re n t "c lectorate-sha ring" se tup.

Th e poll added to a lrea dystra ined rela tions betw een thetwo "s ister pa rties" which haddevelo ped in 1972 when theC DU lost the fede ral elect ion ,

dogma aga inst a rt ificia l birthco ntro l. a nd condemn ed "doc­tr ina l d isputes" in proposing re­newed eva ngelization efforts .Th ere a rc eve n some sma ll in­d icati on s o f an increasing mil i­ta ncy tow ard non- C ath o li creligion s.

In a 13,000-wo rd apos tolicexho rtati on given in Decem ber.the pop e term ed non-Chri stianre ligion s " inco mplete" and sa idthe church should intensify itsefforts to convert those who em­braced such fai ths. T he poped id not specify a ny non-Chris­tian fai th . but his sta teme nt ap­pear ed to be a ll-encom passi ng.including Judaism an d Islam.He co nveyed his churc h's " re­spect a nd es te e m" fo r no n­Ch ristia n religion s but said theyhad not succeeded in estab­lish ing "a n authentic and livingrelati on ship" with G od .

In mid-October the pont iffmade a rare but critical reference tothe Reformation . sta ting that ithad held back European un ity.

T his sudden flurry of activityon the part of the Vati can , bot hin d ip lom acy a nd theo logy ,seems to indi ca te tha t the Ro­man Ca tho lic Church is gea ringup '0play an expanded role inworld a ffairs. 0

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while at the same time the CSUdid exceptionally well in re­gional polling. The CSU, led bythe aggressive Strauss, has alsoharbored serious doubts about ,CDU chief Kohl, whom it sees 'as being somewhat weak ;andvacillating.

Nevertheless , Strauss and hisCSU decided to back off latelast year and pledged to supportKohl in the interests of the"common cause." The CSUstated that the CDU, as the big­ger member of the "union," had

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tempt to gain a nationwidefollowing and win the chancel­lorship on .its own in the nextelection.

Strauss has frequentl y beenpictured as having an eye onthe chancellor's office, but it isdoubted whether he has the na­tional appeal to ever realize hisambitious dream.

It has been suggested that theonly way he may ever attain theoffice is by Kohl 's winning thenational election and then leav­ing office in midterm, as threeof the five postwar 'chancellorshave done for one reason or an­other. Strauss would then moveinto the position in the samemanner as did Schmidt follow­ing Brandt's surprise resigna­tion in 1974.

"Security Ri,sk"

Because of the conservatives 'suspicion of detente with theSoviet bloc, Willy Brandt inearly campaigning openlyca ll e d the conservativeCDU /CSU a "security risk" toWest Germany, implying thatthe conservatives might start awar with the communist blocif

BAVARIA'S STRAUSS backed oul the CDU /CSU coalition everof chan cellor derby. comes to power in Bonn.

Brandt , -who became WestGermany's first Socialist chan­

the .right jo designate the coali- cellor in 1969, was the drivingnon 's candidate for chancellor. forcebehind thenation's policyA CSU memorandum added , of Ostpolitik, or reconciliationhowever, that "the CSU still with the East.holds to its opinion that its own CDU-chief Kohl termedchairman [Strauss) is the most Brandt's remark "a reminder ofsuitable candidate." . Weimar" (the short-lived Ger-

In lieu . of the top office, . man parliamentary democracyDr. Strauss will undoubtedly be . preceding the Nazi era) andawarded an important cabinet demanded that Brandt take itpost should the conservative coa- back. This Brandt has refusedlition succeed in gaining power. . to do. In the meantime Schmidt

If the CDU does not succeed has seconded the original "secu­this autumn, many feel the CSU ' rity risk" accusation. .might then make the break and . Despite the current numericalfinally "go .national " in an at- . equality of the two opposing co-

Zionism andMr. Kohby Nonnan Cousins

The other night, I sat arounda large table and listened to agroup of U.N. ambassadors at­tempting to justify the positionof their countries at the UnitedNations.

One of them was a youngman - he must have been in hisearly 30s - who belied the no­tion that the Third World na­tions have nothing to contributeto world order and /or intendonly on using the forums of theUnited Nations as an amplify­ing system for propagandaagainst the United States andthe West in general . '

The young man was P. T.Koh , head of the Singaporemission to the United Nations .What impressed me most of allabout Koh was that he has theeloquence, logic, and commonsense we have a right to expectof the people whose job it is tomaintain world peace.

Before Koh spoke, the con­versation at the table soundedlike an extension of the debates

"alitio~s in the opinion polls, it"isgenerally felt that the SPD hasthe advantage due to the popu­lar personalities of Brandt andSchmidt. Other observers, how­ever, feel that the conservativesmight surprise everyone bysqueaking through with a baremajority at the polls.

Should the CDU/CSU unionsucceed in .its bid for power thisfall, West Germany may be infor substantial changes in bothdomestic and foreignaffairs. 0

in the General Assembly. Theambassadors were trying to jus­tify the positions of their gov­ernments.

Ambassador Koh began by'saying he hoped the day wouldcome when the delegates to theUnited Nations would considerglobal issues according to whatwas best for the world ratherthan . just for their own coun­tries. He pointed to the GeneralAssembly resolution equatingZionism with racism as an ex­ample of narrow national self­interest leading to an act ofprej udice and injustice. He wentaround the entire table, exam­ining each country's actions atthe United Nations .

He addressed himself to theambassador from Cyprus, a dis­tinguished elder statesman who 'over the years has been an elo­que nt advocate of a strength­ened United 'Nations with thecapacity to enforoe law on thebasis ofjust ice on a world scale.

Ambassador Koh said heknew the ambassador from Cy­prus was aware how historicallyabsurd it was to say that Zion­ism was a form of racism. Buthe also knew that Cyprus

. needed support for its own U.N.resolution condemning Turkeyfor aggression. And there weremore than two dozen Arab orMuslim states whose votes wereessential for that purpose . .

Then the Singapore ambassa­dor addressed himself to the en­tire group. He said he had beentold by several members thatIsrael was racist because non ­Jews did not enjoy full eco­nomic and political opportunityin Israel. Ambassador Koh re­ferred to one , Muslim countryafter another in which Chris­tians and 'other non-Muslimswere unable to obtain govem~

ment or university jobs on a parwith Muslims. If racism is de­fined as discrimination, Am­bassador Koh said, then it wasobvious that many Muslim-na­tions would have to condemnthemselve s.

Koh asked 'his fellow am­bassadors whether they actuallyknew what Zionism was at thetime the resolution came upand, if not, 'whether they hadtaken the trouble to find out . Hesaid that he 'himself was notashamed to admit that he hadno knowledge about Zionismwhen he was called upon tovote. So he went to the basicsource - Theodore Herzl's bookon Zionism,. "Gentlemen," he said, "do

you know what I discovered? Idiscovered that Zionism is noth­ing more than nationalism - apopular movement to create 'and maintain an independentnation. So we're all the same.How can we condemn Zionismfor having the same basic objec­tives that we do ourselves?"

Ambassador Koh then wenton to say that the only hope forworld ,peace was to create aworld organization capable ofmeeting problems that calls forintelligent and impartial judg­ments .

"Gentlemen," he said, "un­less we can think and debatehonestly and objectively andhave respect for basic facts,then we will separate ourselvesfrom the benefits of an in­telligence and ultimately will

. lose our souls .nP. T. Koh is a young man but

I have a hunch the world maycome to know him well in theyears ahead - and this is all tothe good.

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to the ChiefWASHINGTON: The Amer­

ican Indians seem to be dividedoverwhetherornot to participateinthe Bicentennial celebration nextyear . Some tribes are going alongwith the festivities because theyhave decided it's good for theirjewelry business. But others areboycotting them on the groundsthat the Indians really have noth­ing to celebrate .

Chief Hard Nose of the Kalo­rama Indians, whose forefathersonce hunted buffalo and bearwhere the Watergate nowstands, told me his people haveno interest in celebrating the

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200th anniversary of the UnitedStates .

~Why should we celebrate ananniversary that was the start of.us losing everything on this conti­nentT'

"How can you say that?" Iasked . "You 've got a Bureau ofIndian Affairs." .

"Before you people formed acountry, we had clean air, freshwater and blue skies. And wehad an ozone layer to keep usfrom getting skin cancer . Nowyou've messed things up sobadly it isn't even safe to eatchicken eggs."

"But, Chief, look what wegave to your continent : rail­roads , highways , suburbs ,shopping centers and tradingstamps . Where would theAmerican Indian betoday with­out thewhite man?"

"We'd be living in PalmSprings and Beverly Hills."

"Ah, but what kind of lifewould you be living?" I asked ."You'd still be in tents sleepingonbuffalohidesand fishinginstreamsand danci ng around fires. Whattype of existence is that?"

"It's better than selling souve­nirs on the rim of the GrandCanyon," Chief Hard Nosesaid. "Frankly, I don't knowwhat you people are celebratinganyway. Look what you've doneto New York! When we soldyou Manhattan Island for $24,New York bonds were worththeir weight in beads. Everytribe with a pension fundfought to buy them. Now youcan't give them away.

"When the settlers first ar­rived there were trees and hillsand streams from Wall "Streetup to Columbia University. Youcould ride a horse from theHudson River to the East Riverin 10 min utes. Now it takes an

hour to get from .First Avenue Chief Hard Nose said, "Whyto the West Side Highway. don 't you try us?"What kind of progress is that?" "We must forget the past," I

"New York isn't America," I told him. "Your people and ourpo inted out to Ch ief Hard people must join hands and re­Nose. " Look at Detroit and joice in this great BicentennialNewark and Wilmington, Dela- celebration. You are part of ourware. The Indians never could culture . Without Indians therehave developed those places on might never have been a movietheir own. When we celebrate industry or John Wayne."our 200th anniversary; we're "I forgot about John Wayne,"celebrating it for all Americans, he admitted.and that includes you Indians. "And don't fo r ge t yourWe couldn't have made it with- people gave us the names forout you." three professional footb all

"Why do you say that?" teams . No other ethnic group"Don't forget it was on your has been so honored."

land that we found the gas and Chief Hard Nose thought foroil and coal and from that made a moment and then said, "If wethis country what it is today." join in your Bicentennial, will

"Then how come we don't get ' you honor the treaties andanything out of it?" promises you made to us for the

"Because we know you are a last 200 years?"proud people who would never HOf course:' I promised.accept money for land that was "Have we ever lied to you?"stolen from you." CopyriptI975.L-...... n.a

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Bridging National DifferencesTokyo, J apan, December II , 1975: On e yea r ago today. Mr. Herber t Arm stronga nd I were received by Japa n's Prime Minister Take o Mik i. who had recent lytaken office. For more than seven yea rs we had been workin g with the help ofman y of Mr. Miki's colleag ues in the Jap anese Diet . along with outstandi ngleaders fro m unive rsit ies. indu stry. and society. to promote bette r understandingbetw een the peop le of Japan and the United States - a nd . in addition. betweenthe people of Ja pan an d the nations of the develop ing wor ld.

Mr . Miki's predecessors. the late Eisaku Sa to a nd Ka keui Tan aka. had givenus much encouragement in what was a seemingly impossible task and one thatwas a ppa ren tly at that time running aga inst a very strong tide. Secretary of Sta teK iss inger, fo r exa m p le, had very deepl y offended th e Ja panese and PrimeMinister Saw, d riving Japan ese -Amer ican rela tion s to th ei r lo west po st war poi n t.M r. K issin ger ha d fa iled to con sull Mr . Sato and o the r membe rs o f hi s go vern ­me nt befo re hi s 1972 " sec re t mi ssion" to C hina , ca usin g Mr. Sat o a nd hisgovern ment to lose conside rable face in J apan as we ll as in the en tire free wo rlda nd hast en ing the reti rem en t of Prim e Mi ni ster Sa to . Sh ortly after h is re tirem en t,M r. Sa to to ld me in his horn e th at he was ver y co ncerned a bo u t the Japanese­A meri can rela tion sh ip su rv iving M r. K issin ger's we ll-publicized "s hoc k:' as itwas co m mo nly re fe rred to in Ja pa n. Refer rin g to M r. K issinger , Mr. Sa to sta ted ," He for got that one sho uld co nsult wi th o ne's frien ds first befo re o ne co nsultswith o ne's enemies ."

T he U ni ted States itself a nd the A merica n peop le in the las t yea r a nd a hal fhav e a lso suffered not o ne o r two shocks, bu t a who le series o f shoc ks whic h ha vebee n unp recedent ed in U.S. history. The psychological effects of these socia ltemblo rs are still lar gely unmeasured .

Public faith in U .S. institution s ha s be en se rio us ly co rro ded and replac ed bywid es pread di stru st , ske p ticism a nd cy nicis m, as institution a fte r institution isre vea led to have been a ffected by de ca y a nd co rruption of p rop ortion s her et ofor eunsu spect ed by a tru sting America n ci tize n ry. Eve ry day new revelati on s a bo utim po rta n t a ge ncies o f the U.S. gov e rn me nt a nd importa nt po litica l figures of thepa st a nd present lit er all y shock the co nscience of th e A merican pe o ple.

Despite a ll o f th is, however , re la tion s be twee n th e Un ited States a nd Ja pa na re actua lly improvin g beca use th e U .S. fo reig n po licy is, pe rha ps fo r th e firsttim e. tak ing fu ll cog nizance of the im po rtance of Japan in the Pacific a rea a ndth rough out th e free world. Fo r too lon g, America has tak e n its close rela tio nshi pwith th e Japanese people too much fo r g ra n ted as it so ug h t new fr iends a nda llia nces, incl ud ing deten te wi th Ru ssia a nd fu ll wo rki ng relat ion sh ips withC hi na - much like th e insuran ce ma n who ta kes hi s good clie nt s a nd theirre new a ls for gra n ted as he dev ot es hi s energies a nd time in pursu it of newbus iness.

Pres id en t Fo rd's ne w Pacifi c doctr ine em phas izes just ho w importan t th ePacific a rea is to th e U nited States a nd to th e peace of the wo rld . DespiteAm eri ca ' s se tba ck in Vietn am a nd its withdrawa l fro m th e Asia n mainland(exce p t in So ut h Ko rea) , th e doc trin e reco gn izes th e promi ne n t ro le Ja pa n mu stplay if the goa ls a nd objectiv es of the U.S. and the free world are to be real ized.Wi th Japan the U.S. can have a military posture tha t will support its allieswi tho u t interferi ng in the int ern al affai rs of each cou n try. Ma in tai n ing the To kyolink will a lso prevent Russia. a nd fo r th at matter . C hina , from obtain ing hege­mony over th e en tire Pacific reg io n. It is Japan th a t will be able to es tablish tru lyim po rta n t eco no m ic a nd social ties wi th C hi na . lt is Japan tha t wi ll be free ofbasic ethnic differences which hind er a true a nd full un der standing be tween th enat ion s o f the Eas t a nd the West . And it is Jap an th a t will be a ble to a vo id thecolonial label which has been so often and so rightfully ascr ibed to the nat ions ofthe West.

W e sho uld co n tinue to work closely with o ur frie nds a nd co llea gu es inJapan . no t o n ly to promote better under standing be twee n the Uni ted Sta tes a ndJapa n bUI betwee n a ll nat ion s of the wo rld. J ap an has a lready evidenced a g rea tinterest in helpin g the nations of the Third World . We have had the privilege ofwo rking closely wi th o u tsta nd ing Die t mem bers and o the r J apanese leaders inAfrica, in th e M idd le East , th rou gh out So u theast Asia , in India , a nd in Ce n tra la nd Sou th Am erica . Vari ou s projects invo lving Ja pan ese insti tut ions a nd Am ­bass a do r Co lleg e, a nd in the fu ture the Am bassad or In tern a tio nal C ultu ra lFo unda tio n. will con tinue to play a n important ro le. 0

letter sA G rowth Process

Concerning your article in Plain Truthweek end ing November I. 1975. ca lled" Christianity Is a Growth Process." J havenever read such an inspiring art icle. Youhave no idea how much that article help edme . An articl e like that should make thefront page of this count ry's newspap crs.

Mrs. Henry Lanier,Atlantic City, NJ

Your Personal column in the Novemb erI Plain Truth, "C hristianity Is a G rowthProcess," is so wonderful and uplifting. Itgives us courage to get right up and try,and try, again and aga in. T hank you forthis most helpfu l article. I intend to study ittho roughly.

Lois Mart in,Go ldonna, LA

Mr. Arm strong's article on "C hristianityIs a G rowth Process" in Plain Trut h onNovemb er I is the greatest yet! Never haveI read so much truth in so few word s. It haschan ged my life. I read it every day andwhen tempta tion is grea t. I read it again. Itseems 10 inspire me to try hard er 10 dowhat Go d has plann ed for my life.

I wish all the world could read it as theybegin a new day which br ings us closer tothat wonde rfu l world tomorrow he tells usabo ut so often.

I hop e yo u will give it 10 us in pam phletform that I may pass it on to friends. Ithan k God for the frien d who first told meabo ut Plain r-a«

Mrs. J. R. Jack so n.Marietta, G A

Civil War Among Our Readers

"The New Civil War" by Ron Horswellis an o utstand ing litera ry achievement!Bravo, Plain Truth ]

Jacq ueline Sweit helm .Rockville Centre, NY

I ju st reread "T he New Civi l War." It is,with out a dou bt, the poorest wri tten articleprinted by you ever.

I won't waste my time and effort with acritiq ue.

While I'm a t it. who do I write to , theeditor-in-chief, ed itor. managing editor, as­sistant 10 the editor. news editor. fea tureed itor. or one of the senior edi tors?

I'm serious. I've never written anythinglike this to you before. Do you seriouslycall this plain trut h? With so many ed itors.who accep ts the blame for passing this?

Please don 't take this to mean I'm totallyaga inst you. I pray often for you an d sincereading the article, I will pray for )'ou moreoften.

Bob Markwith.Plain field, IN

In your October 18, 1975 issue, RonHorswell's "The Ncw Civil War." Mr. 1I0r·swell has a wonde rful comprehension oftru th. His definit ion of our social organize­tion (government) is the most clear of anyI've ever heard. His support o f Amb assa­dor Daniel Moynihan with some of the

tru ths poin tedly expressed, includin g in­consistencies. is abo ut to lift us 10 a lessapathetic position of appraisal. Bully!

Raymond W. Sayre,Balt imore, MD

Sugar: The Dentists Respond

The article in Plain Truth, November I,1975 by Arthur W. Docken. is essentiallycorrect and a good documentation of thecase agai nst sugar in dental disease. Unfor­tu na tely there is one glaring fault in hissto ry - the suggestion that honey can besafely substituted for sugar to avoid deni alprobl ems. This is ab solu tely incorrect.Honey is an excellent substrate for acid­prod ucing bacte ria of the mouth, and willresult in a high decay rate if used freely inplace of sugar. It is unfor tunate tha t anothe rwise useful ar ticle would contain suchmisinform ation for your reade rs. We havema ny early decay prob lems in sma ll chi l­dren who have used nursing bottles con­taining fru it j uices. The point is thatnatural suga rs are quite capable of causingdental disease if ingested frequ entl y andespec ially if in a sticky o r adhesive me­d ium .

David B. Law, DDS, MS.Professor of

Child ren's Dent istry,University of Washington ,

School of Denti stry,Seattle, WA

I wou ld like to help the readers of PlainTruth learn 10 prevent cavities. Your ar­tid e, "The Sugar Conspiracy," gives an ex­cellent explanation of the ca use-e ffectrelati onship of sugar and cavities. It shouldalso be point ed out that any sugar. whetherit com es from natural sugar cane. natur alsuga r bee ts, natur al honey, or even the nat­ural sugar in apples or any fru it. can causecavi ties by the same fermentation process.Eliminating the sugar is excellent. butsome times impractical, so tha t a com­bination of cutting down on sugar inta ke,no matter what source, and by removingthe o ther component of the fermentationprocess (the bacteria) will enable childrento live health y, cavity-free lives.

It is also possible 10 preven t cav ities byfirst effectively removing the bacteria andthe bacterial plaq ue (the white sticky masson the teeth) just prior to eat ing any na tu­ra j sugars. Thi s breaks the fermentationchain. Instead of removing the sugar youare removing the bacteria and accomplish­ing the same thing. However. it does nothelp obesity. heart disease. or other diseasepro blems caused by high suga r intake.

Sheldon Schwebel, DDS,Mill Valley. CA

UriI have seen the fantastic cover story of

"Science Examin es the Supern atu ral" inthe October 1975 issue of Plain Truth. Iwould appreciate very much if yo u couldsend me ten copies of this issue.P.S. II's a grea t magazine.

Uri Geller.New York , NY

• M r. Geller is ref erring 10 our internationaledition o/Plain Tr uth.

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by Donald D. Schroeder

By the year 2000

HOW WILLWE FEED

THE WORLD'Se.LLION?

in peace and stability with . " " LuxuryClub" of three "quarters of a billionhuman beings living in a score of ad­vanced and well-fed countries while therest of humanity watches the slim meansof survival steadily shrink from its grasp .When the poor have nothing to eat andDO hope for future progress, they alsohave nothing to lose by violent revolution.

Despite the multitude of warnings· that mankind can solve the onrushingfood-population crisis only if he acts im­mediately, most nations are acting as ifit's somebody else's problem, or as if .they can tackle it after they get othernagging problems out of the way .

"We are participating in a grand-scaleevasion of reality which bears all thesigns of insanity,' said Dr. GeorgBorgstrom, Doted population expert, afew years ago. "Nothing less is reqniredthan a global will to act" to ward off thecalamity.he said . .

· "Very few grasp the magnitude of thedanger that confronts tis," said ThomasM. Ware, head of the . Freedom FromHunger Foundation, before a Senatesubcommittee as early as ·1965. "The ca­tastrophe is DOt something that mayhappen; on the contrary, it is a mathe­matical.certainty it will happen.' . _

It is happening today, but few, East orWest, seem overly concerned. .

T"" years ago the world populationand food crisis was propelled to worldattention when 1974 was designated as"World Population Year." Several rhet­oric-tilled international meetings were

. held ; yet today none of the proposedlofty schemes have gott en off the groundto forestall future famines and starvation.

All is not totally hopeless even yet .DOD Paarlberg; chief economist for theU.S. Department of Agriculture, statesthat "for the next decade there is a rea­sonable likelihood that food productioncan be kept haIfa step ahead of popu­lation.' But after that, he says, projectedbirth rates zoom off the charts and foodproduction at current levels simp lyWOD't be able to keep pace.

A Centwy of UnprecedentedPopulation Growth

. Many do not realize that populationincreases _in this century are unparal­leled in recorded history . Only a luckycombination of the past few decades ofgood weather and Dew agricultural tech­nology has permitted nations to barely

· keep ahead of burgeoning populationdemands. But in the years ahead thestork is destined to outdistance the plow.

It is hard to imagine today's Dearly 2%annual world population growth rate as"explosive," but the figure is deceptivelysmall. Compared with the rest of history ,it is a staggering rate and portends in­credibly rapid population -increases forthe rest of this century.

A look at mankind's history of popu­lation growth is Decessary to appreciatethis fact.

. Due to wac, disease , and starvation.world population grew at mere fractionsof 1% annually until this century. At

beginning of the twenty-first century,food production four times the presentlevel will be required.

A New Dark Age?

Since the early '1960s, literally hUD­dreds of top-ranking leaders in all fieldshave echoed apocalyptic warnings offamines ahead unless mankind unitedlyacts to rapidly increase food suppliesand to blunt population growth.

The population experts and statisti­clans teU us if three to four billion morehuman beings are added in this centuryto today's four billion human .inhabi­tants, only abject poverty, economicstagnation, and permanent se m i­starvation will await the vast majority ofmankind.

The world, they tell us, cannot survive

What haunts " food futurists" is this :Food supplies can only be increasedgradually, but populations are destinedto grow explosively despite reductions inbirth rates all over the world in recentyears.

ID 1965 global population was in­creasing at 2% annually. Due to nationaland international efforts, the rate wasbrought down to 1.7% in 1974. Whetherfuture declines will be rapid enough tostave off massive famines is a great un­answeredquestion.

Population and food officials disclosethat close to a doubling of current foodproduction is already Deeded just tobring the present world's population upto an adequate dietary level. Even if weaccept the conservative figure of six bil­lion people living OD the earth at the

The world failed to replenish itsdepleted food stocks in 1975, andthe outlook for the hungry in 1976Is bleak. Bumper grain harvestsIn North America were offset bypoor crops In Europe and the So­"let Union. Year-end wheatstocks are likely to be e"en lowerthan In 1974 when they weredrained by a worldwide foodshortage. As a result, the worldwill be dependent for what it eatsin 1976 on what it grows ­UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL .news release, December 29, 1915.

S ileDtly, ominously, inexorably, the .food-population crisis is closingin on our overcrowded world ­

DOW containing four billion people as ofNovember 1975. It is the most complexand Dearly insoluble problem that hasever faced the human race. Next to nu­clear annihilation, this crisis is the great­est threat to survival for hundreds ofmillions of the earth's inhabitants. Yet itis largely an ignored crisis.

Already the world is hard pressed tokeep food supplies ahead of populationgrowth and food demand. There is .lessfood per persoD OD the planet todaythan thirty years ago. World populationis growing almost 2%per year, food sup­ply is increasing 2~%, but food demandis increasing 3% per year. Affluence andrising expectations are emerging as amajor new clainiant OD world food sup ­

. plies, in addition to population in­creases .

Humanity as a whole is literally livinghand to mouth, staking everything ODthe next grain harvest and dependingUPOD the hlessings of good weather. IDrecent years~ however, monsoon failures,droughts, and other weather upsets havedevastated immense crop areas in theSoviet UDioD, China, Africa, India; aDdeven parts of the United States. UDderthe combined assault of bad weather,soaring populations, ' and affluent de­mands, world grain reserves have plum­meted from 95 days in 1961 to less than30 days today.

Unremittingly, the ragged leadingedge of famine's scythe reaps an increas­ing toll in 'suffering and death in theearth's famine belt - Africa, LatinAmerica, and maDYparts of Asia . HUD­ger and malnutrition presently plagueover half of humanity. Over 500 millionare chronically hungry, barely survivingOD the edge of life. These unfortunatemillions are more or less recognizablebecause of physical disabilities or thebloated or emaciated bodies indicativeof nutritionaldeficiencies.Less recogniz­able are the tragic numbers of peoplewhose mental development is per­manently stunted. Most of these arechildren, a quarter to a halfof whom diebefore 'age five. So far , scores of millionsare dying silently each year from theravag~ ofmalnutrition and starvation. .

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- Matt. 24:7, RSV

".. • and there will be faminesand earthquakes in variousplaces."

Birth Control or Else

With almost one voice population ex­perts say that if birth rates in most of thedeve loping world are not d rasticallydropped, all other attempts by govern­ments to combat , the population-foodcrisis will be futile . '

But, even assuming the unachievable,how do governments suddenly and radi- ,cally change the most intimate sexualbehavior of their citizens? Can the fre­quently unstable, corrupt, and poor gov­ernments in these nati ons persuade thei rteeming and often illiterate masses toreject trib al traditions such as the cus­tom of producing multiple sons for fu­ture security? Can they suddenly changeinefficient agricultural practices? Cangovernments wipe C?ut .superstitious food

taboos that in many widespread areasdo not perm it chicken, eggs, milk, andother rich protein source s to be used asfood?

Reaching zero population growth inoverfed Western nations does very littleto solve the problem in the main arenaof the food-population . race: Asia ,Africa, and Latin America.

" Consid ering the gr owing inter ­dependence among the nations of theearth and the proliferation of sophis­ticated weaponry around the world, nocountry - however farsighted it may bein controlling its own population - canescape the consequences of the failure ofothers to mode rate population growth,"said Dr. Russell Peterson, chairman ofthe U.S. Council on EnvironmentalQuality .

Science to the Rescue?

In North America, 40% of the diet ismilk, meat , eggs, and fish; in Africa,11%; in the Near East, 9%; in the FarEast, only 5%. Admittedly, North Amer­icans could do with less of such foods,but what can science do to materiallychange such overwhelm ing odds?

Rising expectations and affluenc e indeveloped nations are actually adding tothe disparity by creating new demandson shrinking world food supplies. Peopleincreasingly want "indirect" proteinfrom meat , not directly from grains andvegetables. A nd the rich nat ion s are out­bidding the poor and needy nations whocannot as readily afford to pay.

An .even more critical factor than ris­ing affluence is the fact that virtually all

men t level. In the less developed coun­tr ies su ch a si tuati on seemsinconceivable during the coming 50years . . ." '( World Population Projec­tions : A Itemauve Paths to Zero Growth,p.26). .

Philander Claxton , special assistant tothe secretary of state for populationmatters, puts the problem in the sim­plest of terms: "The world must preparefor a world population of at least 6 bil­lion by 2000. There is nothing exceptfamine, pestilence, or nuclear - war toprevent it from reaching that figure.T hat's the min imum."

Six Billion No Matter What ?

Another, aspect of the populationcrisis is not as fully appreciated as itshould be. A major globa l food crisis isassured unle ss very dramati c reductionsin birth rates are forthcoming, '

"We should unde rstand that even ifall known fam ily-planning methodswere 'pushed to the fullest, the world' s ,population will still [almost] double byabout 2006," said Douglas Ensminger,an 'internationally recognized popu­lation expert.

'.'Even if we succeed in substa ntiallylowering the world population rate , thenumber of peop le for several decadeswill grow faster than we are likely tosucceed in increasing food production,"adds Ensminger.

Several developed nation s have comevery close to achieving zero populationgrowth . A few have achieved it. .

Assuming the miraculous happenedand the number of children born toevery woman in the developing coun­tries was cut in half (roughly replace ­me nt -level ferti lity ), zero worldpopulation growth would still not beachieved until the end of the next cen­tury .

If a population ceiling of two childrenwere suddenly universall y adopted, itwould still mean over five billion peopleon earth by the year 2000, and worldpopulation would gradu ally level offonly after that high threshold had been .reached.

The primary problem responsible forthis condition stems from the very struc­ture of the population in many devel­oping nations. In many of these lands ,the number of people under 15 years ofage comprises 40% or more of the popu­lace . Median age in these countries isaround 19 compared to 31 in the devel­oped countries. This means record num­bers of women will be coming into theirpeak childbearing years in the next fewdecades . Consequently, populations indeveloping nations will continueto swellfor some time to come even if fertilityrates steadily drop to rep lacement levels,which all officials consider extremely un­likely . There is no evidence such a pre ·cipitous birth-rate dec line is imminentin the developing world. .

The U.S. Population Reference Bu­reau summed up th i~ situation as fol­lows: " In order to achieve a nongrowingpopulation, even in most of the moredeve loped countries, fertility would haveto decline significantly below the replace -

Two countr ies alone, India and China"account for over a third -of all human­kind . Any temporary agricultural gainsin these two nations are offset almostimmediately by an exploding popu ­lation . Each country adds the popu­lation of an Australia (14 million) everyyear , a United States (215 million) in adecade .

Unless dramatic steps are taken now,by the turn of the century India's popu ­lation will hit one billion, the Philip ­pines will mushroom from 42 million to100 million , and Indonesia's alreadyteeming 130 million population will al­most double.

The chances of stemm ing this growingtide of humanity "registers somewhere 'between slim and none .

some catastrophe. som e officials esti­mate that world population will reach6.5 to 7 billion around the year 2000.

But worse yet, the 'annual populationincrease in many developing nations inLatin America, Africa, and Asia is not2% annually but as much as 31'z% - arate that doubles population every 20years.

Death Rates Cut in Half

The major reason for the sudden pop­ulation growth in this century has notbeen higher birth rates , but lowereddeath rate s. Medical, chemical, and san-

" itary breakthroughs have cut death ratesin half in this century. Millions now sur­vive diseases that were once commonlyfatal.

The post-World War II use of DDT,for example, employed to kill malaria-

_ carrying mosquitoes . has drastically low-'ered the death rate .in most under­developed areas . Life expectancy inarea s such as India has jumped from 29years in 1940 to 55 years today .

Latin America, the ' former "sleepinggiant, " passed the 200 million popu­lation mark in 1960 and exploded to 300miUion only 12 years later in 1972. At a25-year doubling rate, Latin Americamust prepare to feed, house, and employ645 million Latins by the year 2000 - atripling of population in this century ­unless the culturally and religiouslyalien practice of birth comrcl takes holdimmediately. Mexico 'alone will jumpfrom 60 million to 135 million by theyear 2000, at the present growth rate .

Nearly 60% of humanity lives in Asia.

1830First Billion Severalthousand

Second Billion 100 1930Third Billion 30 1960Fourth Billion 15 1975Fifth Billion 11 1986Sixth Billion 9 1995

By the end of this century, U.N . statis­tics indicate that world population willbe increasing by a billion persons everyfive years.

World population has doubled from 2billion to 4 billion since just beforeWorld War II - in tnelifetime of manyreading Plain Truth. BUilding upontoday 's population, a 2% ann ual worldpopulation increase means world popu­lation doubles every 35 years. Barring

yearly increases ' of around 0.1% peryear , it took thousands of years forworld pop ulation to reach an estimated250 to 300 million at the time of Chris t.

At a slightly higher rate, it took 16more centuries. to around the year 1650,for world population to increase to 500million (give or take 100 million to allowfor the Crusades, bubonic plague, andother high death factorsj.Twq hundredyears ago at the birth of the UnitedStates in 1776, world population was,according to rough estimates, around700 million. Not until 1830 did the worldfinally reach its first billion.

, But look at the incredibly short timeperiods requ ired to add additional bil­lions in the years after 1830, particularlyin the twentieth century!

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the readily exploitable arable land in theworld (3.5 billion acres) is already undercultivation. The vast majority of land inmost countries is unsatisfactory forfarming, being too precipitous and toorugged , or having soil too infertile.

Only 1% of Australia is suitable forcropland, only 10%of China, only 5% ofCanada. Unfortunately the equatorialrain forests of the world or the Amazonbasin is no agricultural EI Dorado. Thesoil is so thin, so low in fertility, and sohigh in fragility that it is leached ofessential nutrients after the heavy rainsofjust a few growing seasons .

Experts estimate 6.6 billion moreacres could be tilled if governments werewilling to pay massive developmentcosts . But nations whose GNP averagesout to around a few hundred. dollars ayear per person simply cannoi alford toshell out the minimum of $400 per acre(over $1,000 is a better average) to bring .new lands into production .

Where will water for the new landscome .from? Most readily exploitablewater sources have already beendammed or tapped. In addition, over­grazing or poor irrigation practices areannually turning thousands of acres ofonce arable land into barren ground orsalt deserts .

Everywhere in the world , three quar­ters or so of new population growth endsup in cities. In developing and indus­trialized nations. alike, cities . creepdeeper into fertile countrysides, replac­ing fields of wheat, com, and rice withhousing projects and paved roadways.

Can America Play God?

When food shortages or famines de­velop anywhere in the world, all eyesimmediately tum .toward North Amer- 'ica. The United States, along with Can­ada , supplies . 85% of the world 'sinternationally traded grain. Not asingle significant new exporter of grainhas appeared in the past quarter .cen-tury . -

America may no longer be the police­man of the world , but it has become itsgrocer. After feeding their own country­men. American farmers have left overfor export nearly 60%of their wheat andrice, nearly half of their soybeans, onefourth of their grain sorghum, and overone fifth of their com .

"In a world of food scarcity . .. NorthAmerica must decide who gets howmuch food and on what terms," said oneU.S. agricultural official.

America is blessed with the largestcontiguous land mass of fertile soil, goodgrowing climate, and adequate rainfallof any place on earth. While the bestgrowing land jn the U.S. lies south of the45th parallel, most of the Soviet Union'slies above it. That's the main reason

_Soviet grain production is a very chancything. "The best land in Russia has aclimate something like North Dakota ­and from there on it gets worse," saidone noted climatologist.

Nearly every government officialagrees the United States can apply itstremendous agricultural capacity as a le­ver on foreign countries to adopt pol­icies beneficial to Washington if itchooses to do so.

There is strong evidence, for example,that the Soviet Union did not try to

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.interfere with the Sinai agreement be­tween Egypt and Israel because of theSoviet need to purchase American grain.A significant amount of the warming upin U.S.-Egyptian relations has beencredited to food by U.S. Secretary ofAgriculture Earl Butz. "I had a littlewheat in my pocket, " says Butt.

But since food is such an elementalhuman need , withholding it to anyneedy nation would raise a moral di­lemma. "Can you imagine the repercus·sions of the U.S. trying to play God?"asks one White House official.

As formidable as it is, it is certain thateven the great food-producing capacityof the U.S. could not feed a worldstricken with huge famines for very long.America's safety reserve of idle cropland has already been thrown into pro­duction. There is only so much the U.S.can produce and give. A huge moraldilemma faces American leadership inthe near future if the country withoutenough food for all must decide whoshall eat and who shall starve .

No one wants to think about such asituation, ' but those who have thoughtabout it cautiously present the case fortriage, a French term first applied towounded soldiers : In the first categoryare those who can survive without treat­ment though they 'may be suffering se­verely - the "walking wounded." In thesecond category are those who can besaved by immediate care. In _the last"category are those so seriously woundedthey cannot survive regardless of thetreatment given to them - the "can't besaved ."

Cruel as it sounds, the' U.S. could con­ceivably be forced to write olf millionsof starving people in "third-category"nations whose population growth has farexceeded their own agricultural capacity.

Wcather Upsets Ahead: Will AmericaEveD Be Able to Feed Itself? -

As we have seen, population growthin the years ahead will generate moreand more famines even in relativelygood years . But the biggest single factorthat presently separates all nations fromfeast or famine is not yearly populationgrowth, but weather . Leading climato­logists warn that even the United Statesmaybe headed for tough years if certainadverse weather cycles of the past arerepeated.

"The evidence is now abundantlyclear that the climate of the earth ischanging in a direction that is not prom­ising in terms of our ability to feed theworld," says Reid Bryson, noted Univer- .sity of Wisconsin climatologist.

With world food supplies so pre­carious, "even a mild drought in theGreat Plains could be a disaster," adds aU.S. agricultural official.

Mankind, · with reasonable. ' weather ,can possibly avoid mass famines for asmuch as a decade. But if any suddenchange of weather hits the world 'sbreadbasket nations, massive faminescould result almost ovemigh l. .

Will the U.S. see a return of the dust ­bowl years of the thirties and fifties?

So vital a factor is the weather that itwill be the subject of Part 2 of theFood-Population Crisis in the next issueof Plain Truth.

(To Be Continued)

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WORDSARE JC

HARD TO EATWASHINGTON: The world's four

billionth inhabitant gasped his firstbreath during the third week of Novem­ber 1975 according to those who calcu­late such things. Significantly, worldpopulation experts were gathered herefor a. major conference at the very timethis historic event took place .

The international convention spon ·sored by the World Population Societywas designed as a follow-up to theUnited Nations conference on popu­lation in Bucharest, Romania . in August1974. .

The Bucharest conference, through itscontroversies if not through its accom ­plishments, "finally put population onthe front page around the world ," ac­cording to Senator Charles Percy (Re­publican senator from Illinois), amember of the U.S. delegation there:

But this time , the follow-up confer­ence was curiously relegated to the so­ciety page. One had to look closely in

articles reporting 00 the meeting of theShah of Iran's sister with some Senatewives and on Mrs. Marcos, wife of thePhilippine president, having tea withMrs . Ford to find out that two foreigndignitaries were "in town to speak at apopulation conference."

Indicative of the reduced interest inthis conference would be a comparisonbetween the 15 journalists who werehere to cover it and the 660 who hadcovered the Bucharest conference onlyone year ago.

It seems the same pattern is nowbeing followed in dealing with the popu­la tion crisis that has been evidenced inother crises which have precipitated in­ternational conferences. .

Remember pollution? A few years agoit was a major public issue. First camethe growing public awareness resultingin pressure on national governmentsand international organizations to "dosomething." Then came the major head­line-grabbing conference in Stockholm,Sweden, in June 1972.

This conference served a two-foldpurpose. On the one hand, it provided apreliminary assessment of the global ex-

tent of the problem so that research.could be directed toward ways in which .the problem could be attacked. But theother purpose of the Stockholm confer­ence and other similar conferences hasbeen to serve as high-water marks of thetide of public interest.

The results from the studies are nowcorning in. But where is the public inter­est, or more importantly, the politicalwill necessary to take action based onthose results?

There was the famous World FoodConference in Rome in November 1974and the Law of the Sea Conference ioGeneva in the spring of 1975. In theplanning stage now is a major inter­national conference on human habitatswhich is slated for Vancouver, BritishColumbia. When Armageddon is un­leashed , there will probably be a confer­ence in session on how to avoid it, punsnovelist Arthur Koestler. .

But what is the result of this' "muchspeaking"? Aside from iotensified re­search into and publicity generated by ,these several global crisis areas, verylittle. For example:

• No real attempts are under way to

make a serious dent in the world's ex-:ploding population, most of which is inthe developiog Third and Fourth Worldcountries . Conflicting ideologies and re­ligious traditions virtually assure failure.

• Despite urgent pleadings fromleading world food experts tn establishfood stockpiles, next to nothing has beendone in spite of the fact that world foodreserves are at their lowest level ever. Amorass of political "considerations" ioboth food exporting and importingcountries frustrates food reserve . plan-ning . .

• Law of the Sea conferences in­variably bog down nver the political hotpotato of national sovereignty of off­shore waters. Meanwhile, the over-fish­ing of the oceans continues, and a newthreat - global sea pollution - proceedsvirtually unchecked. .

In spite of what has already been ac­complished - or perhaps better put,publicized - in world population, iofood , in pollution, and in other crises. itis nothing compared to the job 'yet re­maining to be done . World citizen num­ber four billion would agree .

- Henry Sturcke

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Ganesh, the Hindu god of prosperity.The strong Hindu belief in the sanctityof animal life has allowed the rat popu­lation in India to grow to 2.5 billion, sothat the "revered rodents" now out­number the human population five to ,

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Agricultural loss;" from rat infesta­tion exceed S240 million a year; yetmost rural villagers remain reluctant touse rat poison because of their religiousconvictions.

Other areas of the Third Worldpresent similar conditions. In Africa,fifty-five million people could be fedfrom the grain which is iostead con­sumed by rats, locusts, birds, beetles,moths , weevils, and bacteria. Further­more, over 4 .24 million square miles ofgood grazing land is off limits for cattleproduction because it is dominated bythe tsetse fiy which spreads sleepingsickness among domestic animals .

Food spoilage isn't the exclusive prov­ince of the developing countries either .The Department of Agriculture esti­mates that up to a third of the potentialA merican grain harvest is lost to insects ,disease, and weeds . Dr . Elvin C. Stak ­man, plant pathologist at the Universityof Minnesota, believes that Americanfarmers plant over 75 million acres ofcrop land a year in order to supportweeds and pests.

At the moment.food development ex­perts are working on · several ways ofstemming the waste of food crops . Moreeffective drying of grains, hermetic seal­ing oflarge airtight bins, and greater useof plastic bags to keep insects out of thefood are all possibilities.

Yet the fact that the United States, atechnologically advanced country withall these means at its disposal, still losesa disproportionate amount of its crop topests is discouraging. This casts a doubton the possibility that 200 million tonsof grain in the underdeveloped worldcan be diverted away ' from voraciouspests and into hungry human mouths.

- Jeff Calki;'s

" But for rodents, pests, and poor stor­age, India would be a food surplus coun­try," reports a U.N. DevelopmentProgram study . Over 10 million tons offood grains are lost each year because offaulty storage, which is about a fifth ofthe domestic crop:'and' more than- twicethe amount of food India had to importio 1974.

While the jute sacks or mud contain­ers in which Indian farmers traditionallystore their crops are much of the prob­lem, an uncontrolled rodent populationplays the primary role in lowering In­dia's grain output. '

Many people in India consider rats"holy," and Hinduism teaches that theyare to be . considered as the "divinemounts" of the elephant-headed Lord

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result in an immediate 25% increase inedible grains without any change in agri­

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Third World is not kept in large ware-. Rats, birds.jnsects, and moisture spoil houses or giant grain ' elevators but

;:m_.....~.. - .!fo;. :,",~ent:)ugb graiil in -India .each year to make_-,-. ~ather)s_stored by.farmers .in .their local ­-····>"'l1p (or'the l:"'iltITe world food shortage::- . --, ' villages 'under less than ideal conditions,

In" the 'underdeveloped world as a often only iobtirlap sacks or simplywhol e, some .experts estimate that more heaped up in a comer. As a result. overthan half the potential food crop is S2 billion worth of food is lost eachwasted . In fact , if the pests that attacked year.the world's feed grains were brought un- To make matters worse. the insects,der control, an ' additional 200 million rodents, and microorganisms which at-tons of grain could be made available - tack grain also lower its nutritional qual-enough to feed one billion people each ity because these pests go for the higheryear. . protein portion of the grain .

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'Ed ucation of peoples to use them? Whois. going to pay for the research anddevelopment?

Some scientists are excited over ad­va nces made in synthesizing aminoacids, ' the components of protein. Th eyenvision the age when man will produ ceprotein in the laborat ory. But such ideasa re only dreams toda y. True, somepro gress has been made . And even 'coaland oil have been successfully convertedinto "usable" fats and oils.

But there is no evidence at all that, synthetics will significantly contri bute to

feed ing the world in the next genera tion.In a book edited by Clifford M. Har­

din" former U.S. Secretary of Agricul­ture , one food -science expert observes:"There are those, of -course. who puttheir faith in nonconven tional agricul­ture , in the biological or chemical syn­thesis of foods... . The time has not yetcome. however, when facto ries can pro­duce the bu lk of basic foods that morethan three billion hum an beings require.We cannot wait for poten tial miracleswhile millions of people hunger. Formany decades stiU we must depend onconventional agriculture and its im­provement" (Overcoming World Hunger,p. 93).. Indeed , merel y 10 provide foo d

thro ugh chemistry for one single yea r'sadded popul ation - some 80 million ­wou ld "requ ire facili tie s greatly ex­ceeding the total synthetic-organ ic in­d ustry of the United .States. An annualinv,estment of at least fifteen billion dol­lar s would be needed . In short. the costof .supplying any.s ubstantial porti on ofman kind 's diet through synthetic foodsfrom petroleum or coal would be incred­ibly high. To ad d just a half pound ofsynthetics a day to the die ts of 5 billion .pe rsons would "requ ire over 2.5 milliontons of petroleum a day! .

The sad truth is that we are stilldecades away from factory foods - ifindeed they ever arr ive. And the prob­lem is tha t man kind simply doesn't havedecades to wait. "New foods" provideno significant solution to the world'sfood-pop ulation crisis. 0

Flour of the Sea - FPC .

Other experiments in new food pro­d uction have included the developmentof Fish Protein Concentrate (FPC),touted as a solution for part of theworld's hunger prob lem. Tasteless andodorless; FP C looks much like ord inarywheat flour . It can be made from j ustabo ut any kind of sea life - fish. shell­fish, shrimp, krill, etc.

But even if the total wor ld sea catchcould be evenly distributed as FPC , itwould amount to only an .ounce or soper person per day . ,

Some people have suggested totallysynthetic foods - proteins made fromraw materials readily ava ilable,

Food expert G eorg Borgstrom is notoptimistic. " Des pite the euphori a overvarious new high-pr ote in foods nowemer ging from laboratories, thei r impa cto n hum an nutr it ion h as been in­significan t." says Borgstrom .

Even if such " foods" were good to eat,most are hardly in the test-tube stageyet. Many are still being researched.What ab out production? Distribution?

by Robert Ginskey

Can new an d exotic foods be massproduced to feed the world 's hun gry?What abo ut algae, "flour from the sea,"or synthetic proteins?

Many enthusiasts have prophesied .tha t man -made foods will ult imatelyease the food shortage. But the facts arefarfromencouraging, The problems insuch an undertaking are si m p lyenormous .

Consider , for example, .the possibilityof utilizing the miscroscop ic sea orga­nisms called plankt on for food . In order

. to extract enou gh plankton to equal thenutritional equ ivalent of a pound ofbeans , a man-made plankt on gathererwould have to strain the equ ivalent offifteen one- story houses full of water .Even in very rich areas of the ocean likethe Gulf of Maine or the North Sea,some 5,000 tons of strained water wouldyield only 10 pounds of plankton ! The 'cost of such a processor .and the energyto run it ap pears to rule ou t suchsche mes.

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runnlng out?What 's all this no ise about fami ne and overpopulation?

T he re have always be en famines , r ight? What's so differentno w ?

For ma~y of us, the insi stent warnings about a comingfood crisis ate a little hard to take. Hardly a ' week goes byw ithou t som eone telling us th at the world is doomed. Su relyit can't be that ba d , can . jt ?

U nfo rtunately, the world is faci ng an unprecedentedcrisis. T he problem is hideously sim ple. The eart h is sm all,and there are too many of us. The ir resisti b le mathematicso f pop ula ti on growth point to a supremedisaster , probablyin this very century , The approaching food-populatio ncri sis was predicted centuries 'ag o .

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earth shall reel to and fro" or "the sunshall be turned into darkness" maymean, if indeed they are anything morethan spiey doses of poetic license. Butthe essential ' message of the ancientprophets is clear . They proclaimed thatman's moral and ethical actions werethe keys to his future . They warned mento rediscover sin, or the future wouldcome crashing down. And as our mod­ern world is rediscovering, that messageis as valid as ever.

Confusing Doom With Gloom ,

, Our latte r prophets, like the former,have been called doomsdayers, an ap­pellation which most of them dislike andrightfu lly so. Althougb their words seempessimistic to our miracle-accustomedears, their essential message is not one of 'pessimism but ratber one of change, nottechnical cbange but changes in humancharacter. Instead of seeing the qualityof the future being dependent on what istech nologically possible, these prognos­ticators see it as dependent 'on what ishumanly possib le.

Speaking althe "{orld Future Societyconvention, Jay Forrester, tbe MIT pro­fessor whose researc h in systems dynam­ics laid the founda tion for the famousLimits to Growth study , said he feels amajor presentation error of the Limitsresearch has been its,emphasis on pbysi ­cal limitations (i,e.; population, resourcesupplies, etc.) rather than on the socialand political constraints that make thenecessary changes difficult if not nearlyimpossible.

Rising Expectations

Until recently most of. our major in­stitutions have cast a blind eye in tbis

inversions, assorted ecological mega-dis­asters, traumatic ' termination ofeconomic growth, and violent redis­tribution of wealth.

Our modem seers have revived a pro­pbetic tradition that goes back a longway, all the way back , in fact, to tbedays of Isaiah, Jeremiab and Ezekiel."Discontinuity" is an old concept givena new ' name . Jeremiah referred to it asfollows: "Alas! that day is so great thereis none like it ; it is a time of distress forJacob .. :' (Jer , 30:7, RSV).

Daniel called ii "a time of trouble,such as never has been since there was anation till that time .. ." (Dan; 12: I,RSY). Jesus Christ prophesied that"there will be great tribulation, such as .has not been from the beginning of theworld until now, no, and never will .be"(Matt. 24:21, RSV).

In our' modem age, at least until re­cently, we neglected the messages of thebiblical prophets. We conside red theirwords too ancient or too difficult. But asevidenced by the recent wave of interestin the Bible (lind especially in propb­ecy), we bave come to realize that wescrutinized too critically . '

It is certainly true that we may notknow what every passage such as "the

direction. We have said, for example,that science and technology are neutral.However, the avowed neutrality of theinternal combustion engine doesn 't clearthe smog from Tokyo or Los Angeles .Theoretical impartiality of nuclear phys­ics doesn't prevent an arms race .

Now our ethical expectations arechanging. The emergence of ecology asa prominent branch of science is signifi­cant, for ecology has been called the firstethical science . It concerns itself not onlywith what can be done but also withwbat should be done. It entails not onlylaws but also values, values whose in­fluence is gradually permeating society.To cite one precedent-setting instance,the blocking of the SST in the UnitedStates was the first time in Western tech­nological history that a project of suchmagnitude was halted in advance on en­vironmental considerations.

In tbe field ofeconomics, botb domes­tic and international, there is now greatbesitation to dogmatically state that tra­ditional economic theories can ade­quately deal with all the moralresponsibilities presented by povertyand extreme disparities of wealth.

Businesses large and small are comingto realize tbat they can only continue toexist if tbey respond to demands from

" Repent and turn from aI/ your trans- the public that are ' entirely new in na-gressl ons, lest IniqUity be your ture. People are coming to demand notru in • • • • gel you rselves a new heart only goods and services from business

, and a new splrl"" but also ethical standards pertaining tothe environment, to hiring and promo-

- Eze"!".',.18:~O, 31,R,5V ' lion , policies;" and to , political con- _·nections. (To - the consternation ofbusinessmen, the change in psychologyis far from complete as illustrated by thefact that the public demand for moralitydoes not yet oversbadow its demand formore miracles.)

Too Little, Too Late?

So tbere has been some change . Yal­ues have been altered. Practices re­vamped. Institutions restructured. Howmuch more cbange and how drastic itshould be are matters of dispute. Butone thing is clear . Much more funda­mental changes will be required if man­kind is to avoid his prophesiedGotterdammerung.

In this regard as well, the modemprophets are following in tbe sandaltracks of the ancients, although on thistheme of changes in human character,the ancients were far ahead in both un­derstanding and eloquence of presenta­tion . An imperative transfonnation ofthe human heart is among the most con­sistently present and thoroughly devel­oped themes of the Old Testamentprophets. Joel said : "Rend your hearts"(Joel 2:13). From Ezekiel: "Repent andtum from all your transgressions, lestiniquity be your ruin . . . . arid get 'your­selves a new heart and a new spirit!"(Ezek, 18:30, 31, RSY.) Also Jeremiah:"T urn now, every one of you, from hisevil way and wrong doings .. ." (Jer.25:5, RSV).

The tenor of the modem prophets isset: The future will be shaped more bymorality tban by miracles. If we fail toestablish and act upon adequate moraland ethical standards, then tbe futurewill not be bright. Or, as the ancientprophets would have put it: Surely yoursins shall find you out . 0

T he Approaching Day ofDiscontinuity

The essence of the discont inuity con­cept as preached by the new prophets isthat our present course of civilizationhas inherent within it a day of reckon­ing, Unless we " repent," there is comingupon us the great and terrible Day ofthe Lord in the form of temperature

• 'Air conditioning in almost all newhomes. '

• Television transmittal across oceans.• Space travel, probably even to the

moon.We felt we were operating on a con­

tinuum of one technological miracle af­ter another, and the future was sure tobe more of the same . If that prognostica­tion philosophy had continued un­changed, we would by now all firmlybelieve that witbin tbe lifetimes of mostof us, this old orb would be scarcelydistinguishahle from even the mostimaginative view of heaven.

In reality, however, tbe majoritytoday has abandoned bope of any tech­nologically induced beatific visions thisside of deatb. Rather than fantastic talesof a perpetual fiesta (sobered only bythe possibility that the communistsmight rain on our party), we now feelquite sure that we ourselves have over­indulged at our own banquet. We fore­casted beadily and then made our ownforecasts come tr ue. We tasted allbrands of progress - regular, filter king,menthol, and extra long - and now wehave cancer. " . __ -~., ::. .J •. . ',.• _

.Inthevocabulary of today's prophet,the key word "miracles" has been re­placed by "discontinuity." A typicalforecast goes something like this onetaken from an essay written by 'LesterBrown for last summer's World FutureSociety convention, Brown sees ahead". .. a shift away from historically accel­erating growth, a shift in political powerfrom industrial countries to raw materi­als suppliers, and shifts in emphasisfrom economic growth to distribution,from supply expansion to demand con- 'servation, and in international trade,from access to markets to access to sup:plies." AIl of this places us, in Brown's

. opinion, on "the verge of one of thegreater discontinuities in human his- 'tory"; i.e., the age of miracles is over.

The impact that the specter of dis­continuities makes on our thinking isenormous. In the 50s and 60s, when weexpanded then-present trends, the emer­gent future seemed qu ite desirable. As aresult, we were basically satisfied withour societal institutions, be they govern­mental, economic, or whatever. In the70s, when we expand present trends, the

- future takes on a sinister bue. Tbe resultis that we ques tion alI our establishedinstitutions. Such questioning contrib­utes further to the general instabilitythat' -a lready seems to comprise toomuch of the future.

Miracles YO. Discontinuity

In the 1950s and 60s, "miracles" wasprobably the most utilized word in theprognosticator's vocabulary. A typicalforecast went something like this onefrom 1955: "A bright, exciting future,full of opportunities. You will be livingmuch better than you do now. Get yourmind adjusted to miracles, coming fast ."

Whether we got our minds adjusted ornot, the "miracles" did come fast . Here,just to illustrate, are some of the moreoften made forecasts of the late 50s andearly 60s: '

• Electric power produced fromatoms.

• .Long-distance telephone direct dial­ing.

by Ron Horswell

If we are to survive the rutute. wemay have to "rediscover sin." That's theway economist-futurist Kenneth Bould­ing put it at last summer's convention ofthe World Future Society. AlthoughHollywood hasn't yet latched on to it asa motion picture title, we seem to beliving in the "Day of the Prophet," atime when gloomy Jeremiahs andIsaiahs once again roam the earth ex­posing sins that society has forgotten.

The Modem Plophets

Our latter-day prophets are not feed­ing on locusts and wild honey, and theyare clad in doctorate degrees rather thancamel skins and leathern loincloths.Their message is that the future will beshaped more by morality than, by mira- ,des of technology. To phrase that moresuccinctly and old-fashionedly, "sin"can undermine even the most optimisticforecast. The implication is that we canonly ensure an enjoyable tomorrow byfacing some hard decisions today.

Twenty, fifteen, or even ten years agowe would scarcely have tolerated such

. spoilers casting righteous aspersions on, our, golden calf of progress . Back then

our ora-cleswere of a different caste . Themessage from most every Delphi wascrystal clear - somehow an incredible,

. unstoppable, divine chain reaction oftechnical and , scientific progress hadbeen detonated. No matter where youlived , be it Brooklyn, Bombay, Beirut, orBangkok, it was only a matter of timebefore your neighborhood would be fig­uratively in the suburbs of Disneyland.It wasn't a question of morality or ethics .It was a simple matter of knowing theright equations and subscribing to theright journals.

There was, to be sure; one dark cloudeven in those headier days: the commu­nist menace with the accompanyingthreat of first atomic and then nuclearwar. But that dose of pessimism wasdifferent from the prophetic messageswe hear today . The Red threat was per­ceived as an evil force against which wein the white hats must stand firm. Itdidn't take a prophet to point out thesins of someone else .

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ture of government on this weary planetthan all the world's foam-flecked revolu­tionaries running around espousing"class conflagration" could ever do.

The revolution which will solve theproblems of Satan, sin, and human na­ture has yet to occur. Mao Tse-tung hastried in vain to remold man into thecommunist image - witness the contin­ual agony in the Chinese press over"materialism." The Chinese communistsdon't have eterna/life to offer, and theystill have trouble providing their peoplewith anything other than an incrediblydreary, material existence .

Christ, on the other hand, promisesboth eternal life and material abun­dance when his "revolution" comes topass . :'. . . The plowman shall overtakethe reaper, and the treader of grapeshim that soweth seed; and the moun­tains shall drop sweet wine, and all thehills shall melt" (Amos 9: 13).

The description is that of a world ofplenty for all, including Chile's urbanpoor, whose plight religious workerssuch as Inez find so despairing. Such aworld is coming. It is being hastened bythe Work of God . 0

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thing you could do would be probablymore than their present physical humangovernments do for them .

Work! Lay the foundation for Christ 'sreturn. The Old Testament states thatthe world will have to be prepared be- .fore the Messiah will come. "Behold, Iwill send my messenger, and he shallprepare the way before me, . ." (Mal.3:1) . "The voice of him that crieth in thewilderness, Prepare ye the way of theLord . . ." (Isa , 40:3).

The biblical prescription for endingthe horrors of oppressive government isnot to engage in violent revolution - oreven write "congress persons ." It is toactively work in laying the groundworkfor the time when Christ's own powerstructure will take over . That means thepreaching of the gospel.

The principle of leverage is involved .Every effort you make toward furtheringthe gospel furthers the day when themyriad evils which seemingly can't- besolved will be solved . The Church ofGod is dedicated to the purpose of pre­paring the world for that day. Your sup­port of the Church of God and the Workit is doing does more to change the na-

have is for a change, a very radicalchange . . . ." That's why Inez and herfriends have become Marxists .

A typical pauem emerges : A priest ornun goes into the slums honestly hopingto "do something" for the poor peopleliving there . But the situation is a hope­less mess, and the government is usuallyseen as a cruel oppressor. Since the con­ventional means of helping the . poorseem to be gelling nowhere , the priest orDun, in frustration, turns to communism.Impatient with the -genuinely wretchedconditions in which more than twothirds of the world live, many religiousworkers tum to Marxism because atleast it promises the poor a victory in anall-out "class struggle."

True Liberation

The priests and nuns who take uparms to fight alongside the communistsin Latin America are right about onething: If the terrible problems of thepoor are going to be solved, it will meana total upheaval - an institutional andstructural change. .

They are also right that someone isgoing to haveto usc .force and-violencein' order to effect' this change. The"power structure" (the apostle Paul usedthe phrase, "the powers that be") simplyisn't going to lie down and play dead.

Paul made it clear, in Romans 13,however, that Christians are not to try tooverturn the status quo now." But theyare going to get the chance.

Christians will have the opportunityto help Christ institute divine govern­ment, which will overthrow the .existingpowers that be. Revelation 19: II de­scribes Christ's return to earth in termsof "making war." And Revelation 11:15describes the transfer of power fromhuman fallible government to super­natural. infallible government. .

This is why Christ instructs his dis­ciples to pray : "Thy kingdom come . Thywill be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

Don't Just Stand There

In the ultimate spiritual sense , Chris­tians are long-term activists who advo­cate the radical solution of asupernatural coup d'etat. But there are anumber of things you can do now - asan individual - to promote this divine"change of administration."

Pray - Thy kingdom come: God him­self will eventually make the decision tosend Christ back to earth. Requests tohim that he do so can have the effect ofhastening the decision.

Do what you can now for people. Justbecause the rest 'of the world is intent onmaking life miserable for itself doesn'tmean you have to help it along . Onecould assume the posture of an am­bassador of the government of God ­acting within one's limited scope toshare with others the benefits of thatgovernment. Consider the interests ofothers. In many cases, whatever small

"Proclaim liberty throughout allthe land unto all the Inhabitantsthereof."

Revolutionary "Christians"

The spectacle of professing Christiansforsaking the simplest and clearest prin ­ciples of Christ - basic benevolence andnonviolence toward all of humanity - .and taking up alms in some " liberation"movement contains some vital lessonsabout the sorry state of the world andwhat can be done to change it,

Simply put, for much of humanity,conditions are wretched. An emotionaldesire for an end to such .misery causessome religionists to disregard all logic,knowledge ,of economics , or the Bibleand take up communism.

For example, .F. Reid Buckley, anAmerican novelist, describes the squalorwith which Inez came in contact whileworking among Chile's poor: I

".. . Infants deformed by hunger anddisease , and with nothing to be done forthem . . . families of eight and ten peoplecrammed into a single room cabin, therain sluicing in, the muck of the sod1I00r ankle deep, the frigid Andeanwinds whistling through cracks andknotholes ineffectively stuffed with rags.There was no work. There was no hope.Brothers slept with sisters for warmth,and sometimes lay with them. In­ebriated fathers (wine, cheaper thanfood , narcotizes hunger) lay with daugh­ters . It is hard to speak of depravity withsuch conditions, but there were incestand resulting Mongolism and terribledebasement . . . ."

This is what Inez saw in the hovels.that ring Chile's cities. Buckley notes:"The only hope she and her charges can

by Jeff Calkins

Inez is a Roman Catholic nun work­ing in the shantytowns surrounding amajor city in Chile. She is also a com­munist. dedicated to the violent over­throw of the existing government ­ready to take up 'arms . even die in abloody confrontation if necessary in or­der to overhaul her society.

Inez has made a long journey regard­ing her personal loyalties : from os­tensibly serving Christ, who said, "Resistnot evil" and "Love your enemies, blessthem that curse you" to serving the gos­pel of Karl Marx, who called the work­ing class to violent revolution: "Workersof the world unite, you have nothing tolose but your chains." ,

Inez is only one of many . In LatinAmerica particularly, revolutionarygroups and guerrilla terrorists such asthe infamous Tupamaros are supportedby local missionaries sent from variousProtestant denominations in the United

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have also taken up the communist cause- even though it means being at oddswith the official stance of their church.

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original entry terms and threatening toquit the org anization -if it didn't get them.That renegotiation quickly became a dip­lomatic charade aimed at soothing Wil­son's anti-Common Market critics withinhis own party .

Leaders in the other eight countries ,realizing Wilson 's internal difficulties,went along, giving Wilson much neededoutside support. In return, the continen­tals had hoped for a greater show of unityfrom London after the successful referen­dum. Those hopes persisted despitewarnings from Roy Hattersly, Min ister ofState for foreign and commonwealth at­fairs, that the prospects of Europeanunion were very remote and that " it' s notthe policy of the British government topromote it. "

So for these reasons Britain's partnersin Eur ope are feeling a bit bruised anddepressed knowing that there are likely tobe other obstacles thrown up by-Britain incoming months and years .

For many , many years Plain Truth hasbeen saying that eventually a " UnitedStates of Europe" is going to emerge.The other nations of Europe, and mostspecifically West Germany, want to br ingabout complete political unity of Europe.

"These nations 'are disturbed by thecontinuing arms race between the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union (de spite de­tente), by the always potentially explosivesituation in the Middle East, and by tnewar right now developing in Angola. Theyare sick and tired of playing the role ofmere spectators on the world scene, un­able to greatly influence conditions vitalto.Europe'aown security. And .yet, ,-they ,;, .~ -=--.,

have at present no powerful global voice.Many of them want to see a EuropeanCommon Market grow Into a Un itedStates of Europe with full military - andnuclear - power, able to act in a decisivemanner, and perhaps arbitrating betweenEast and West. _

As I have said recently, it is not re­quired that a United States of Europegrow out of the context of the EuropeanEconomic Community . It is true that someof the nations 'presently in the EconomicCommunity will become a part of a thirdpower bloc with its own nuclear arms ­both tactical an d strategic, no doubt. It isalso true that there is emerging more andmore a drive toward full political unity inEurope. But whatever context in whichsuch a third power bloc should eme rge ,

.the point is that this power bloc is proph­esied in the pages of your Bible, in thebook of Daniel and , indirectly at least , inthe book of Revelation - the 13th and17th chapters. Also in the book of Eze­kiel , in many of the prophecies of Isaiahand Jeremiah, and particularly in some ofthe prophecies in what are called the mi­nor prophets, such as Hosea and others,there are passages which clearly showwhat is going to happen to the UnitedStates and Britain if we don't-change ourindividual and national ways in the future.

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It's no wonder that other Europeansare beginning to question whether theBr it ish are n't ac ting stubbornly indepen­dent simply to take their minds off the irown terrible domestic problems.

Others clai m that there never was anychance that Britain, with its long history

_ of jealous ly guarded sove reignty, wouldever happily move into a posture of coop­eration and harmony with _its CommonMa rket associates. Britain entered theCommon Market with a ConservativeParty government in power. Then laterthe present Labour government tookover, demand ing a renegotiation of the

"What's he got that we haven 't?"

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SPillS OUT!·Britain "Brewing Up' ~Trouble for EEC )(

been traveling to Britain - 19 years nowsince I first visited this country - I havecome to know a bit about British workhabits. I have seen the problem grow in­creasingly worse.

We used to comment back in the early_19605 how the British workmen seemedto come to tea and . once in a while. tooka "work break." That wa"s due to the Brit ­ish custom of " brewing up ." (It was quitean experience for other allied soldiers inWorld War II, in the North African earn­paign, and even in the battle for Europeto see Brit ish tank commanders who wererattling along on an attack suddenly puttover and " brew up" their tea .)

When one sees Brit ish workmen takingtheir tea "break from ten o 'clock in themorning until nearly eleven . then again attwo o'clock, and perhaps again at four,he begins to wonder: When in the worldis the work ever done? .

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NOON: The Common Market nat ions problems of the Chrysler SUbsidiary . The These observations are made, by theare becoming increasingly irked by Br it ish governm ent has had to guarantee way, co mp letely irrespective of nation-the Br itish att itude these days. Britain, to bailout the Chrysler corporation in alistic or political attitudes. No one haspopularly labeled the "Sick Man of Britain simply because of the total lnabll- spoken out more forcefully, continuously,

Europe," has been , officially at least, a ity, it seems, of Chrysler to produce at a or perhaps bitingly concerning Americanmember of the European Economic Com- profit in Britain. One strike after another, work habits , inferior production, or na-munity for three years now. But in a vari- with endless demands for more pay for tional sickness than have I. It would be aety of issues fac ing the Common Market less work, is absolutely killing the produc- sha me if British ci tize ns were inclined toin the last few months, Britain has taken tivity of this nation - at least that of its dismiss very real problems by su mmarilywhat has been considered a petty o r an once proud automotive industry. assigning me to the " ugly American" ro leunrealistic stand vis-a -vis the other mem - For example, as BBC television re- or calling me " that colonial " who seemsbers of the West European bloc. ported the other n ight , the Chrysler ' to de light in taking pot shots at the British

Recently, for example, the British re- corporation had decided to begin pro- people. I happen to believe that, by thejected community-wide water pollution duction of a highly competitive light· grace of God, ','there will always be ancontrol measures on the grounds that weight new model it hopes is going to get England " _ but I also believe it will becontinental standards were too stringent. the company back on its feet financially. through a great deal of tribulation andThe British are also opposed to various But instead of producing the new model national SUffering br ought upon a proud

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feet on the issue of direct elections to the Because com pany cost control expertsEuropean parliament. Her EEC partners had calculated they co uld pro duce twicesee the parliament decision a vital step as many cars in their French factory fortoward a democratic European union. the same cost and with the same size

And to top all this , in December Britain work force! The pla nt near Paris has notdemanded a seat of its own at the North- suffered from a strike in 23 years ! lmag-South international economic conference ine ! The exact numbe r of workmen will bein Par is. The Common Market was sup- ab le to produce do uble th~ nu mber ofposed to be represented by a single de le- automobiles il) Paris for the same cost.gation at that conference. The insistence Something is drasti~ally wro ng whe non a separate seat at the North-South British labor and management allow a sit -dialogue stirred German Chancellor Hel- uation such as this to persist and when ,mut Schmidt to write a stinging rebuke to instead of so lvin g the problem, they re-Pr ime Minister Harold Wi lson . sort to govern ment subsidies to bail out

The reason for all of this, which many corporations .which sim ply cannot getpeople thought would threaten the con- the ir ~wn affairs in order and produce atference itself, was that Britam'a North !l profit.Sea oi l will put her in the role of a pro- In all of the many , many years I have

ducer - a potential exporter - as well as ...~;:u;~~~--------...;.---------------..a consumer by the end of t~'e nextdecade or so . .

In the end, a face-saving compromisewas reached. The nine, including Bn tain,did speak " as one, " but Britain was pe r­mined the privilege of also addressing theconference separately if she so desired ­but only within the parameters 01 theCommon Market position .

No wo nde r it is often said that it is Br it­ain ,' no longer France, that is the leadingobstacle to European unity these days.

It all comes back to Britain 's naggingdomestic problems . I'm absolutely as­tounded at what I see whe n I visit Britain.Ouring the recent holiday season, ' I sawmassive traffic jams, Christmas sho ppersthronging the streets, and people spend­ing as if there were no tom orrow. Andthey are d o ing so in spite of rjsingunemployment, zooming inflation (over25% a year), and the co ntinuous slide inthe value 01 the pound (now at the lowestebb in its entire history, hovering right inthe neighborhood of $2.00).

The news here has also been full of the

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- ATHENS - WOOL, 1470 kc, 8:00a.m. Mon.-Fri.

BWEFIa.D ..;..WKOY . 1240 kc, 6:00p.m. Mon .-Sat . 1:30 p.m. SUD.

BOSTON - WRYT t 950 kc, 12:30 p.m.Mcn-F ri., 12:30 p .m. Sun.

· CAYCE - WCAY, 620 kc.• 12:00 noonMon.-Fri .

CHARLESTON - WCHS. 580 kc.,10:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat .

·CHATTANOOGA - WDEF , 1370 kc..

n~~;.~~~6:~~n~.Ssu:~: 5:00 a.m.CINCINNATI - WCKY. 1530 kc.. 5:00

a.m. daily.CINCINNATI - WLW. 700 kc, 11:00

p.rn..Sun . .CLEVELAND - WERE. 1300kc.• 11:00

p.m . Mon .-Sun . .DAYTON- WONE. 980 kc.• I I:30 p.m.

Mon.-Fri .. 8:30 p.m. Sun .· OETROIT · - WLDM-FM, 95.5 mc.,

1:15a.m. Mon. -Sat. 9:00 a.m. Sun .ERIE - WWGO. 1450 kc , 10:00 p.m.

Mon.-SaL. 12mid. Mon .-Sat .-FLI NT - WKMF, 1470 kc, 10:00 p.m.

Mon.-Fri . .- GAINESVILLE - WAKA. 1390 kc,

7:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.- GAYLORD - WATC, 900 kc.• 12:30

p.m. Mon .-F ri.-GREENVILLE - WNCT AM • FM

1070 kc. &. 107.7 me.•6:30 p.m. Mon.­Sat.

HARRISBURG - WHP. 580 ke.. 7:30p.m . daily.

- HARTFORD - WCNX, IISO I.e., 12:30p.m. Mon .-Fri.

J ACKSO NVIU£, Fl.. - WOII(. 1090kc.. 12 noon daily .

- JACKSO NVILLE, N.C. - WLAS. 910.-ke.• 7:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.

- J OHNSTOWN - WJAC , 850 I.e.• 7:00p.m..Mon.-Fri.

- KINGS P ORT - WKPT, 1400 _ke.,12:30 p.m. Mon .-Fri .

- KISS IMMEE - WFIV, 1080 ke.• t2 :30p.m. Mon .-Fri . .

- LANCASTE R - WXRL, 1300 kc.. 6:30a.m. Mon.-Fri.

- LENOIR,- WJR I. 1340 ke.. 6:30 p.m.Mon.-Fri .

- LONDON - WFTG, 1400 ke.. 12:30p.m. Mon.-Fri .

LOUISVILLE - WHAS, 840 I.e.• 11:30p.m. Mon.-Fri., 8:00 p.m. Sun.

MIAMI - WIOD, 610 ke.• 8:25 p.m.MOD.-Sa t.. 8:30 p.m. Sun .

-MONTPELIER - WSKI , 1240 kc..6:00 p.m. Mon .-Fri .

NEW HAYEN - WELl, 960 kc.. 10:30p.m. Mon .-Fri .. 9:00 p.m. Sun . &:SaL

NEW ROCHELLE - WVOx, 1460 kc..12:30 p.m. Mon .-Sat.. 10:00 a.m. Sun.

NEW YORK - WOR , 7 10 ke.. 6:30 a.m.&. 11:30 p.m. Sun.• 10:30 p.m. Mon .­Fri .

-NORFOLK - WTID, 1270 ke., 1l :30a.m. Mon.-Fr i.

PHILADELPHIA - WRCP, 1540 ke.• 12nom, Mon.-Sa t.• 10:30 a.m. Sun .

- PIKEVIU E - WPKE, 1240 ke.. 6:30a.m. Mon.-Fri.

PITTSBURGH - WPIT, 730 ke.• 12noo n. Mon .-Sat .; 11:00 a.m. Sun .

- PITTS BURGH - KQV. 1410 I.e.. 10:00p.m. Mon .-F ri.

-PORTSMOUTH - WIOI, 1010 I.e.•12:35 p.m. Mon.-Fri .

FEBRUA RY 1976

PROVIDENCE - WJAR , 920 kc.. 11:30p.m. Mon.-F ri.

RALEIGH - WPTF . 680 kc.. 1:15 p.m.Mon.-Sa t.. 9:30 a.m. Sun .

RICHMOND - WRVA. 1140 kc., 10:00p.m. dail y.

ROANOKE - WFIR, 960 I.c..,-7:oo p.m.daily.

ROCHESTER - WHAM, 1180 ke..11:30 p.m. Mon .-Fri.• 10:00 a.m. Sun.

- ROCHESTER - WWNH, 9 30 kc.. 6:30 'p.m. Mon .-Fri.

SCRANTON - WGBI . 9 10 kc. . 12:30p.m. Mon .-Sun .

SPRINGFIELD - WACE , 730 kc.• 12

_S;~nC~~' . _ wsoa. 1220 kc.,7:00 a.m. Mon •.f=rt.

-TAMPA - WINQ, 1010 kc., 5:00 p.m.Mon.-F ri.

TOLEDO - WSPD, 1370 kc., 6:30 p.m.d aily.

-WALTERBORO - WALD, 1060 lee••12:00 noon Mon.-Fr i.

WHEELING - WWVA, 1170 lee.. 5:00a.m. Mce.-Fri., 8:30 p.m. Sun .-F ri..10:30 a.m . &: 11:30 p.m. SUD.

Central Time-ATOKA - KEOR-AM. 1110 kc., 12:35

p.m. Mon.-Fri . .-ATOKA - KlEN-FM, 93.3 me.• 6:30

p.m. Mon.-Fri .AUSTIN - KLBJ , 590 lee.• 6:30 p.m.

Mon .-Sat.. 9:30 a.m. SUD. .alRMINGHAM - WYDE. 850 kc., 7:00

p.m. Mon.·Sat.. 6:30 p.m. SUD.. CHICAGO - WMAQ, 670 kc.• 5:05 a.m.

Men -Sat.-COFFEYVILLE - KGGF. 960 kc..

5:00 a.m. Mon .-Fr i.• 6:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri . ' . '

-DALLAS - KRLD, 1080 kc.• 4 :30 a.m.Mon.-Sun., 10:45 p.m. Mon .-Sat.•11:00 p.m. Sun.

-DES MOINES - KWKY. 1150 ke.;12:30 p.m. &:9:30 p.m. dail y.

DULUTH - WEBC, 560 te.. 12:00 nOODMon. -SaL

- FARGO - KRAD, 1590 kc.,12:30 p.m.Moa -Fri,

GADSDEN · - WAAX 570 kc, 12:30p.m. Mon.-Sat.• 12 aoce , Sun .

GLADEWATER - KEES . 1430 kc.• 12noon da ily.

HOUSTON - -KPRC , 950 kc., 10:30p.m. daily.

- J ONES BORO - KNEA. 970 kc., 5:30p.m. M on-Fri,

KANSAS CITY - KMBZ, 980 kc.,10:30p.m. d aily.

- KANSAS CITY - WDAF-FM, 12:30p.m. Su n•• 11:30 a.m. Sun .

LmLE ROCK - KAA Y. 1090 kc, 7:30p.m. daily.• 9:30 a.m. Sun; 5:15 a.m.Mon .-SaL

MEMPHIS - WREC , 600 ke.• 11:00p.m. Mon.-Sat .

MILWAUKEE - 'WIS N, Lt30 kc ., 11:30p.m. Mon.-Fri.

MOBILE - WKRG , 7 10 Itc.. &. 99.9 me.11:30 a.m. Mon.-F ri.. &: 7:30 a.m.Sa t. &:SUD. 8:00 p.m. daily (FM ).

MT. VERNON - WMIX. 940 I.e.. 7:00p.m. dail y.

NASHVILLE - WSIX, 980 lee.. 8:30p.m. Mon .-Sat .• 8:00 p.m. Sun .

NEW ORLEANS - WWL. 870 ke.• 8:30p.m. Mon ..saL

OKLAHOMA CITY - KTOK. 1000 lee...10:30 p.m. daily .

PAMPA - KGRO . 1230 te.; 6:00 p.m.Mo n.-FrL

PEORIA - WMBD, 1470 ke.. 10:30 p.m.da ily.

-ROLLA - KCLU AM & FM. 1590 kc..94.3mc 8:30 a.m. Mon.-Fri.

-RUSSEUVIUE - KARV. 1490 Ite..10:00 p.m. Mon .-FrL

ST . PAUL - KRSI, 950 I.e.. 8:00 p.m.daily. .

SAN ANTONIO - WOAI, 1200 ke.•5:00 a.m. Mon.-Sat.. 10:05 p.m. Sun.

-SHERMAN - KTXO, 1500 ke.. 5:00p.m. Mon .-Fri . .

-SIOUX FAUS - KIOV-FM. 104.7me12:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri .

SIOUX FALLS - KSCJ, l360 ke.. 6: 15p.m. Mon.-Sun.

-TEXARKANA - KOSY, 790 I.e.. 5:30p.m. Mon.-Fri.

WATERLOO - KXEL, 1540 t e.• 8:30p.m. Mon.-Sat.. 8:00 p.m. Sun.• 105.7FM . I I :30 a.m. Sun .

-WATERTOWN - KWAT-F'M, 96. lm e12:00 noon Mon. ·Fri. .

Mountain Time-ALBUQUERQUE - KOB. 770 Itc.,

11:00 p.m. Mon.-Sat.. 9:30 a.m. Sun .CASPER - KTWO, 1030 te.. 6:05 p.m.

& 10:05 p.m . daily .DENVER - KOA, 850 t e.. 10:30 p.m.

Mon.-Sat.•7:00 p.ml Su n.

-FARMINGTON KRZE, 1280 kc,6:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri

FlAGSTAFF - KCLS, 600 kc., 12:30p.m. daily.

KAUSPEU - KllFl, 1180 kc., 6:30 ·p.m. da ily.

PRESCOTT - KYCA, 1490 kc.• 7:00p.m. Mon .-Sat.

SALT LAKE CITY - KSL, · 1160 ke.•5:06 a.m. . de. 11:06 p.m. Mon.-Sat.,5:30 a.m. & 11:15 p.m. SUD.

TUCSON - KTUC, 1400 kc., 1 2:4~

p.m. dail y, 6:00 a.m. Mon.-Sat.. 6:30a.m. Sun.

WHEATLAND - KYCN, 1340 kc., 5:30p.m. Mon .-Fri .

Pacific TimeANCHORAGE - KYAK, 650 kc.• 9:00

p.m. daily.CARSON CITY - KKBC-FM. 97.3 me.•

-1:00 a.m. Mon .-Sat. 9:00 p.m. SUR.COVINA - KGRB, 900 kc.. KOD-FM.

98.3 me.• 12 noon Mon-Sat.• 9:00a.m. Sun.

EUGENE - KORE, 1050 kc, 7:00 a.m.daily.

FRESNO - KMJ , 580 kc.• 9:00 p.m.Mon .-Sun.

LAS VEGAS - KVEcrAM & FM, 970I.e.~ 92.3me 6:30 a.m. daily.

LOS ANGELES - KLAC. 570 kc.•10:30 p.m. Mon .-Sat .• 9:00 a.m. Sun.

MEDFORD - KAGN-FM, 98.5me 8:00a.m. Mon.- Fri.

MEDFORD - KSHA, 860 ke.• 7:00 a.m.Mon.-SaL

ONTARIO - KSVA, 1380 kc.• 7:00 p.m.Mon.- Fri .

PASCO - KOTY, 1340 kc , 12:30 p.m.Mon.-Sat.• 12:00 p .m. Sun.

PORTLAND - KYXI, 1520 kc., 10:30p.m. Mon.-Pri.

SACRAMENTO - KRAK. 1140 kc.•8:30 p.m. Mon .-Sat .

SAN DIEGO - KSDO, 1130 kc.• 10:30p.m. Mon .·S at. .

SAN FRANCISCO - KNBR, 680 ke..11:30 p.m. Mon .-SaL

SAN FRANCISCO - KKIS, 990 lee..10:00 p.m. Mon.-Sat.

SANTA ROSA - KPLS, I ISOkc ., 7:00a..m.Mon.-Fri.

SEATTLE - KIRO. 7 10 Icc.• 5:00 a.m.Me n-S at; 11:30 p .m. Mon.-F ri.

SEWARD - K~XA, 950 kc., 12:30 p.m.Mon.-Sat . •

YAKIMA - KUTI, 980 lee.• 9:30 p.m.Su n.-Thurs. &.Sat., 7:30 p.m. Fri. .

.cANADIAN STATIONSAUanllc Time

BAIE-VERTE - CKIM, 1240 kc ., 6:30p.m. daily .

CAMBELLTON - CKNB, 950 kc.• 9:30p.m. Mon.-Sat., 10:00 p.m. Su n.

FREDERICTON. - CFNB, 550 kc.•­lO;05 p.m. da ily.

GANDER - CKGA, 730 kc.• 6:30 p.m.daily. , ..

GRAND FALLS - CKCM , 620 ke.• 6:30p.m. da ily.

MARYSTOWN - CHCM, 560 kc.. 6:30p.rn.daily.

MONCTON - CKCW . 1220 ke., 9:30p.m. Mon.-Sat.. 8;00 p.m. Sun .

NEWCASTLE - CFAN, 790 ke., 9:30p.m. Mon .-Sa t.

SAINT JOHN'S - VOCM. 590 lee., 6:30p.m. daily .

SYDNEY - CJCB. 1270 Icc.• 6:00 p.m.daily.

YARMOUTH - CJLS. 1340 I.e.. 7:00p.m. Mon.:Sat_ 4:30 p.rn. Sun .

Eastern TImeBLIND RIVER - CJNR, 730 te .• 6:30

p.m. daily.BRANTFORD - CKPC, 1380 ke.• 6:30. - p.m . daily.CORNWALL - CJSS, 1220 ke., 10:30

p.m. d aily.ELLIOTT LAKE - CKNR, 1340 ke.•

6:30 p.m. daily.HUU - CKCH. 7:00 a.m. Sun.KINGSTON - CKWS. 960 lee.. 10:30

p.m. MOR.· Fri.. I I :IO p.m. Sat .• 10:05p.rn. Sun.

KIRKLAND LAKE - CJKL, 560 ke..9:00 p.m. daily .

LEAMINGTON - CHYR, 7 10 ke.• 5:30a.m. & 6:30 p .m. da ily.

LINDSAY - CKLY. 910 lee.. 8:45 p.m.Mon.·Fri. . -.

MONTREAL - CFMB, 1410 t e.. 6:30a.m. Mon.-Sat.. 1:30 p.m. Sun.

MONTREAL (French) - CFMB, 1410kc., 5:00 p.m. Sat . & Sun ;'

MONTREAL - CFOX. 1470 Icc.•CFGM, 980 te .• 11:00 p.m. Mon.­Sat.• 9:30 p.m. Sun.

. NEW LlSKEARD - CJTT, 1230 ke.•9:00 p.m. da ily.

THE GARNER TEDARMSTRONGTELECAST

W~~ill[lWTI\!l .[mOO

u.s.STATIONSEastern Time

AKRON - Channel 23. WAKR -TV.10:30 p.m. Sun.

ALBANY - Channel 10 , WT EN-TV.2:30 p.m. Sat .

-ALPENA, - Channel 11 . WBKS-TV,11:JO a.m. Sun .

ATLANTA - Channel 11, WXI A-TV.10:30 a.m. Sun .

-BANGOR - ChannelS, WABI-TV.4;00 p.m. Sa t.

BINGHAMPTON, N.Y. - Channel 40 ,WICZ-TV. 7:30 p.m. SaL'

CHARLESTON - Channel 2, WCB D-TV. 12:00 noon Sun . _

CINCINNATI - ChannelS, WLWT­TV. 11:30 a.m. Sun :

COLUMBIA - Channel 19, WN OK -TV. 4:00 p.m. Sat. .

COLUMBUS - Channel., WLWC­TV. 10:30 a.m. Sun .

DAYTON .=-- Channel 2., WLWD-TV.11:30 a m. Sun.

-FLINT - Channel 12. WJRT-1V .10:30 a.m. Sun .

GREENVILLE, N.C . - Channe4 _9.WNcr-TV. 7:00 p.m. Sun.

HUNTINGTON. W.V_ ~ Channel 13 ,WOWK -'lV. 12:30 p.m. Sun .

INDIANAPOLIS - Channel 4, WTfV·TV. 12:30 p.m. Sat ..

JACKSONVILLE - Channel 12 ,WT LV-TV. 7:00 p.m. Sun .

JOHNSON CITY --, Channel 11 ,WJHL-TV. 10:30 a.m. Sun .

LANSING - Channel 10 . WILX-TV.10:00 a.m. Sun.

_LOUISVILLE - Channel 41 , WD R B­TV, 1:00 p .m. Sat .

NEW YORK - Channel 9, WO R-TV,Rotating schedul e

PHILADELPHIA - Channel 17 ,WPHL-TV. 11:00 p.m . Sun .

PORTLAND - Channel 8, WMTW ­TV.I I:3Oa .m.Sun.

PORTSMOUTH - Channe' 10,WAVY -TV. 1:00 p.m. Sun .

PROVIDENCE - Channel 1 2. WPRI­TV. 3:00 p.m. Sat .

-SALISBURY - Channel 16 . WBOC-TV. 11:00 a.m . Sun. .

SOUTH BEND ~ Channel 22 , WSBT­TV,12:00p.m.Sun.

SPRINGFIELD - Channel 40,WH YN -TV, 1:00 p.m. Sat .

STEUBENVILLE - Channe' 9 .WSTV·TV. 12 noon Sun.

WASHINGTON. D.C. - Channel 7,_WMAL-'lV. 10:00 a.m. Sun .

Centra~ Tlm.eABILENE - Channel 12 , KTXS -TV.

5:30 p.m. SUR.-ALEXANDRIA - ChannelS. KA LB­

TV, 10:00 a.m. Sun .AMARILLO - Channel 10. KFDA­

TV. 2:00 p.m. Sal..BEAUMONT - Channel 12 , KBMT·

lV. 2:00 p.m. SUR.-BISMARK - ChannelS. KFYR-TV.

12:00 noon Sat . .CHICAGO - Channel .., WSNS -TV.

9:30 p.m. Sun .CORPUS CHRISTI - Channel 3,

Kill-TV. 2:00 p.m. Su n.DALLAS-FT . WORTH - Channel 11,

KTVT-TV. 1:30 p.m. Sun.DOTHAN - Channel 18 , WDH N-TV.

6:30 p.ro..SatEL PASO - Channel 13, K ELP-TV.

1:00 p.m. SaL. ·EVANSVILLE - Channel 1., WFIE­

TV. II:oo a.m . Sun .-FARGO - Channel 11, KTHI -lV,

3:30 p.m. Sun .FT. SMITH - ChannelS. K FSM-TV ,

1:30 p.m. Sun .

GARDEN CITY - Channel 11 .KG LD- TV. 1:00 p.m . Sun .

GREAT BEND - Channel 2. KC KT·TV. 1:30 p.m. Sun .

HATTIESBURG - Channel 7.WDAM-TV. 12:30 p.m. Sat . •

-HOUSTON - Channel 39, KHTV­TV, 3:00 p.m. Sat.

HUNTSVILLE - Channel 48, WYUR­TV, 5:30 p.m. Sun . .

KANSAS CITY - Channel 4, WDAF­lV. 11:30 a.m. Sun .

LUBBOCK - Channel 11 , KC DD-TV.12:00 p.m. Sun .

LUFKIN - Channel 9, KTR E-TV, 2:00. p.m . Sun .

MCCOOK - Channel 8, KOM C-lV.1:30 p.m. Sun.

MERIDIAN - Channel 1" WTO K-­'rv. 10:00 a.m. Sun.

MIDLAND - Channel 2. KMID-TV•.4:00 p.m. Sa t.

MINNEAPOLIS · - Channel 11 .WT CN ·TV . 9:30 a.m. Sun .

MONROE - Channel 10 . KTVE -TV.: z.oo p.m. Sun .

MONTGOMERY - Channel 32 ,WKAB-TV. 5:00 p.m. Sun . ,

NASHVILLE - Channel 2, WN GE ­l TV. 6:00 p.m. Sat.

NEW ORLEANS - Channel 4, wwt,TV. 11:30 a.m. Su n.

NORTH PLATTE - Channel 2 ,• KNOP·TV , 6:30 p.m.Mon .

OKLAHOMA CITY - Channel 5,KOCO-TV. l l :30 a.m.Sun.

OMAHA - Channel 6, WOWT- TV.3:00 p.m. Sat . .

PEORIA - Channel 19, WRA U-lV.1:30 p.m. Sun .

ROCKFORD - Channel 13 , WREX­TV. 9:00 a .m. SUD.

SAN ANTONIO - Channel 12, KSAT­TV. 5:00 p.m. Sun.

SHREVEPORT --' Channel 6, KTAL-·TV. 12:30 p.m. Sat .

SPRINGFIELD, MO. _ .Channel 27 ,KMTC -TV. 5:30 p.m. Sa t

SPRINGFIELD - Channel 20 , WICS­TV. 12:30 p.m . Sat .

TEMPLE .- Channel 6. KeEN-TV.10:00 a.m. Sun .

TOPEKA - Channel 27 , KTSB-TV .12:30 p.m. Sat.

TUPELO - Channel 9, WTWV -TV.4:30 p.m. Sat.

-TYLER - . ,Channel 7, _KLTV- TV,10:00 a.m. Sun.

WICHITA - Channel 5, KARD-TV.1:00 p.m. Su n . .

WICHITA FALLS - Channel 6,KAUZ-TV. 3 :~ p.m. Sat .

Mountain TimeBOISE - Channel 6 , Krvl-TV. 3:00

p.m. Su n.GRAND JUNCTION - ChannelS,

KREX -TV. 4:30 p.m. Mon .PUEBLO - ChannelS. KOAA -TV,

9:30 a.m . Sun.RAPID CITY - Channel 7. KRSD-TV.

6:30 p.m. Wed.-ROSWEU - Channel 10 . KBIM ­

TV. 6:30 p.m. Wed .SALT LAKE CITY - ChannelS. KSL­

TV. 12:30 p.m. Sa t.TUCSON - Channel 10 . KG UN -TV•

12:00 noo n Sat.

PaclllcTlmeANCHORAGE - Channel 13 , K IMO­

TV. 6:30 p.m. Wed .FAIRBANKS - Channel 11 . KTVF ­

TV. 5:00 p.m. Sat. .- HONOLULU ..:. Channel 2, K HON­

TV. 10:30 a.m. ~ un .

LAS VEGAS - Channel 8. KlAS-TV.4:00 p.m. Sat

,LOS ANGELES - Channel 9, _K H]­TV. 10:30 p.m. Wed .

PORTlAND - Channel 12. KPlV­TV; 11:00 a.m. Sa t.

RENO - Channel 2. KTVN-TV. 3:30p.m: Sat

SACRAMENTO - C hanne l 12,KOVR-TV. 11:00 a.m. Sun .

SPOKANE - Channel 6; KH Q-TV.1:30 p.m. Sun. .

TACOMA - Channe4 11 ; KSTW -TV.II :30 a.m. Sat.

.cANADIAN STATIONSAtlantIc TIme

HAUFAX - ChannelS, OeM-TV.2:30 p.m. Sun.

SAINT JOHN - Channel 6, OON-TV. l:OO p.m. Sun . .

SYDNEY - Channel 4, CJeB-TV. 2:30p.m. Sun . .

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