Man's Ultimate Goal

Why Mideast. Talks Collapsed

INDOCHINA'S AGONY

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Jerusalem correspondent Mark Armstrongintervi ew s the famed Israeli jurist .

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

The fall of the U .S.-suppo rted govern- .ment in Cambodi a is a virtual certa inty.And the blitzkrieg launched by NorthVietnam could easily prove to be thebegi"nning of the end for non-Commu­nist Indochina . Congres sion al refusal tosend " good money aiter bad " may turnout to be th e one fi nal def in it ive Ame ri­can act : that of cons ign ing the area overto its regional imp eria list powe r. Hano i.

Thus . th e war that paved the way fortoday 's double-d igi t inflat ion; that ang~

ered many of America's all ies and -gen­erated unprecedented anti-Americanism 'in Europe ; that earned the u"nited State sthe, scorn of rn~ch of the world ; thatdi vided the nation against · itself andgenerated a decade of internal tu rmoil , -.may now come to an end with one fina l" NO· ' from the American Congres s. Thefantastic investment of Am erican man­power and materiel is being wr itten off- a dra mat ic fulfillment of th e biblica lcurse in Leviticus 26 :20, .,And youshalf spend your strength in vain ." 0

America 's Cu rse

-Thieu government simply couldn 't at - .ford to keep fighting in the nation 'souter per iphery. .-

In response to the adm in istrat ion pleafor a .$52 2 million Indochina aid pack­age , Conqress ionel cr it ics charg e tha tno amount of money can save the Th ieugovernment .

The charge is at least part ially borneout by recent rumbl ing s w ithi n the Sai­gon gov ernment itself . Dozens of oppo­sit ion poli ticians have been arrested oncha rges of plotti ng to overthrow th egove rnment. Rumors have been ~Iying

of assassination schemes and coup at­tempts . on the part of th e mi lita ry :Former Prem ier Nguyen Ky ' s call forThteu 'sresiqnation underscores the be­lief that these are the Saigon presid enf slast days. '

The situa tion is even more bleak inCambodia . The Khmer Roug e hav e astranglehold on the Mekong River andare slowly constrict ing 'the surroundedcapital of the Phnom Penh . Communistshe lling of the city 's airport has effec ­ti vely cut off ·the Cambodian capita lfrom its only source of supplies - th eAmerican airl ift. .

by Jeff Calkins

INDOCHINA'S -AGONY:MIN 'AN~D-BllIiONSSPINTINVAIN

The un expected success ofa -Comrnu­nist spring offens ive has accomplishedin a few short weeks most of what50,000 American lives and $ 170 bil­lion sought to .stave off for ten y~ars .

South Vietnam 's second .Ia rgest city- Da Nang :- has fallen to the NorthVietnamese. With the loss of its last -bas- .

. t ion in the north, the Saigon govern­ment gave up over 100,000 soldiersand an ' estimated $ 2 billion in equip­ment. One official termed the loss of thecity , " the single ·biggest defeat forSouth Viet nam in the pa st twentyyears . /

.Whi le the re is no way to fix an exactpercentage of South Vietnam 's territorvnow under Communist ,cont ro". esti­mat es run from 45% to 75 % . Wi th thefall of Da . Nang, the war in Vietnamtak es on more of the character of ' thewa r in neighboring Cambodia· - anembattled mil itarv ' government con­trac ted into a few remaining cit ies teem ­ing with swarms of refug ees fleeing theonrushing Red offensive . .

Painfu l Remi nde rof 10 Years Ago

The recent Comm unist gai ns have aparticularly excru ciat ing svrnbolism forAmericans. It was in Oa Nang in the

. spring of 1.965 that the first cont ingentof batt le-ready ' u.s. mar ines landed .

.This was th e beginning of the large­scale Am erican mil itary intervention inthe Indochina wa r. The ci ty symbolizesth e U.S. involvement in - Vietnam ­and its fall represents a sting ing Ame ri-can setback. .

In th e central highlands, now totallyabandoned, a large portion of Americanblood was shed . By pull ing back intomore easily defensible areas, ·the Thieugov ernment tried - .unsuccessfu llv ­to follow the " coastal enclave" optionfir st advocated by Lieutenant General'James Gavin , an idea' rejected . by 'lhe

. Johnson administra tion -years ago .

. - ,._ .._.- T,h~'~id' Controversy

The pro ximate cause. of the retreat,according to U .S. Defens e SecretaryJames Schlesinger, was congress ionalreluctance to fund any increa se in Amer­ican aid . W ithout additional funding th e

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INTERVIEW WITH.GIDEON HAUSNER

. . .If" the oceans are to feed 'the world ;mariculture will lead the way; .' reportsAssociate Editor Charles Vin son .

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

LET THEM EAT FISH

2U. S. POLICY' CO LLAPSINGAROUND WORLDWith almost machine-gun rapidity Wash­ington has suffered an unpreceden tedser ies of global reverses .

THE INCREInBLE HUMAN POTENnAL~. The Missing Dimension in KnowredgeWhatis ....mankinks ultimate goal? Hereis a -deeper look into mankind 's destiny.

GARNER TED ARMSTRONGSPEAKS OUT! __~;~ - - , ... - "

~ .:rhe 'edil"or- rec; lis the war in whichmany gave so much for so !itt le. ·

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u.s.:fORllGNPOliCY:COllAPSING:AROUND .10RlDWashington Hit with .. : ."One-Two Punch" in Mideast

Indochina Policyin Shambles

ure to appreciate the extent towhich the Comm unist insurgen cywas also an expression of genuinenationa li sm . By tak ing ov erFrance's role in the Indochina the­ater, the United States became di­rectly identifi ed with the coloma lWest righ t from the beginning.

Wh en P res id ent Nixon an ­nounced his "vietnamizat ion" ofthe Vietna m war a few years back,many veteran Indochin a observerssaw it merely as a clever device tolet Ameri ca off the hook. Th eygave it little chance of succeeding ,and they are being proved correct

The approac hing collapse of theLon Nol regim e and the militarysetbacks President Thieu's forceshave suffered are seen here in Aus­tralasia as bitter blows to U.S: pres­tige.

America's Indochina policy is seento be in ru ins. America's credibilityas a reliab le ally has been severelydamaged . ' r

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Tomorrow .Europe?

LON DON ; The recent traumaticreverses of American foreign policyin Southeast Asia and the Midd leEast raise a vision of horror amo ngEu rope 's mili tary and fore ign plan­ners. The clear implication of thecurrent nee -isola tion ism.... in th eU.S. Congress is that Europe mightbe affected next, even thou gh lead- .ers .on both 'sides .of the Atlanticknow - or should know - that the -,fall of Cambodia can i n no way becompared with the need for contin­ued American support for vastlymore vita l interests in Europe.

In the Middle East the failure ofDr . Kissinger's latest mission ofshuttle dipl omacy an d the removal

, of the stabi lizing influence 'of King. Faisal of Saudi Ara bia have only.added - to ",European uncertain tyabout the America ll' leade rship-of,the West. This has heightened po__litical tensions 'in the area alread ysimm ering with the possibil ity of afurth er out break of war this year.. To Europe ano ther such Mideast

conflagra tion would be calamitous .Her economi c surviva l depends onco nti nued infusions of MiddleEas tern oil.

The leftward swing of Portugalund erlin es ano ther nagging anxietyof Europe. Her southern flank isnow dangerously exposed to Sovietinroaus.Notonly is therethe possi­bility of Portugal becomi ng Com ­mun ist - an un tenable situation ­bu t the pa rtial wit hd rawal ofG reece and Turkey has serious lyweakened NATO power in the

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arion a bit more realistical ly in herfavor .

SYDN EY: Cease-fire in , Viet­nam ! Dr . Kissinger and Le Du eTh o awar ded Nobel Peace -Prize!Last U.S. Troops Pull Ou t!

How capricious and crue l areh ist or y and fat e. T od ay , on lymonths after the above headlines,American's foreign strat~gy - atleast in Southeast Asia - lies in

-shambles.The "collapse of the. U.S.-sup­

ported Lon Nol regime in Cam­bodia seem s imminent. Communistforces are rolling aU over SouthVietnam. More than a dozen of itsforty -fo ur provinces are now underCo mmu nist control. . Others arefalling almost daily, in a perverseinternal domin o fashion. .

Many analysts here see Amer - ,ica's present predi cament in In­dochin a as the outcome of twointerrelate d facto rs:

F irs t was the fai lure , by theUn ited States to correctl y assess theextent to which historical forc eswere influencing events in the re­gion. For many centuries beforethe...west 's..in rrustoa int o Asia , .Cliina -"exemsed 'va:rying <Jegreesohegemony throu ghout SoutheastAsia. Chin a' s internal de cay com ­bined with the expan sion of theWest cha nged all that. Some Aus­trali an observers feel that wha t isnow taking place is simply a rever­sion - at least in part - to the

.historical pattern.Second has been Ameri ca's fail -

bade, it was hoped that Kissinger'sstep-by-s tep shutt le d ipl om acycou ld provide th,at needed boost to

. the faltering U.S. image abroad. '

The Stencb of Petrodollars

prices ' fourfold . Some sources inOPE C beli eve that Fa isal's death

;~~d plunge the oil ,c::anc:( in~ ..itsworst ' crisis ever, though ther e . isconsiderab le disagreement on thispoint: .

"King Faisal always o pposed theidea of a confrontation betweenproducers and consumers," com­mented one OP EC sou rce. "It re­mains to be seen how the ' newsitua tion will affect the organiza­tion. " ' 0

Europe to Pl ay -a Role?

The cooling of Ameri can rel a­tions with Israel , alo ng with her

F ew Amer ican s realize bo w . poor preced ent o f a bandon inggre atly their country's position ai a Cambodia an d South Vietna m,world power had deteri orated since makes Israel ' even mor e wary ofthe ouster of Richard Nixon from depending on American guaranteesthe p residency . America's indeci- for her sec uri ty . F ur thermore ,sive and- inactive foreign posture .is Am erica's pas t pro-Israel stancetaken as a .symp tom of weakn-ess... . mak es her un acce pt abl e to theInd eed,.as his 200th birthd ay rolls , . Arao S:-Both-of; these factors will

. around , Uncle Sam seems to be open the door for furth er 'Eur opean ­hea ding toward his last gasp in - . involvement at the Gen eva ' con ­stead of his "second wind " in the vention.eyes o f the world . While ' he was in Wash ington,_ When Washin gton anno unced form er West G erm an Cha ncellor

; the reassessmen t of its policy to- Willy Brandt proposed. that West- .ward Israel - and then coupled em Eu rope play the role of co­that with blaming her for the fail- guarantor of any final Mide ast set­ure of" the second-s tage negotia- dement. The European Commu­tions - Isr aelis felt be tra yed. nity would support that role byAlth ough the official reaction is direct involvement in the economicone of "surprise," the man on the deve lopment of Isra el an d h erstreet is less tac tful. To him the Arab n ei ghbors. Alt hough h estench of oil and petr odoll ars in didn 't menti on it, a role in patrol­Was hingt on could be smelled in ling the buffer zones likely to beTel Aviv. ' crea ted along the bord ers should

Aconcerted Israeli drive is now not be ruled out. Moreover, it'sunde r way to educ ate Co ngress and comm on knowledg e that the Vati­the Ameri can public with the facts can seeks to ad minister the holyof the matter, as viewed from Jeru- pl aces in Jeru salem .salem. It is hoped here that Jewish . Vita l to.world peace, the Mideastleaders and the "Jewish lobby" can will continue to spawn surprises.pe rsuad e Congress to s.ee the situ- "' - Chris Patton

newe d hostili ties with IsraeL Thereis speculation that Presiden t AnwarSad at of Egypt may also he forcedto ad opt a harder stan ce as a resultof the Kissinger failure and the as­sassinati on of the Saudi . chief-of­sta te.

Faisal, whose country - a keymember of the 13-nation OPE C ­possesses the world's largest know n .oil reserves, had also been a pow-.erful force for stabilizing oil.prices,.despite .his past lead in boosting

Skeptical tsrael.Cools·to U.S.Pledges ofSupport

.... Faisal's Death Adds. Uncertainty

The untimely death of Kin g Fa i­sal of Saudi Arabia on March 25has only served to complicat e Mid­east matters. It bas deprived theArab world of a powe rful moder­at ing influen ce at a tim e of height­ened Mideast ten sion over thebreakdown of the Kissinger peaceeffon. . _ _.

. As keepe r of Islam's two holycities, Mecca and Medin a, Faisalwas the spiri tual leade r of 600 mil­lion Mo slems. He was known for ,his to tal abhorrence of Commu­nism, fear of Soviet expansio nism,and intense des ire to settle theArab -Israe li dispute de spit e hisstaunch anti -lsraelisrn. .

There is some concern that themore radical elements in the Arabworld may now move toward re-

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LABELING H ENRY KISS.lNGER as' " Russia's Secret Weapon. " rioters in J erusalem demon strate against U.S.p olicy' in the Middle East .

Admitting that hi s per sonalshuttle dipl om acy had reached a

. dead end after encountering "irrec­oncila ble " differences" between ­Arab and Israeli leader s, Secretaryof State Kissinger recently cau­tioned that "the world has ente red" a moment of potentially. gravedan ger" requ iring full-scale inter­nati onal dipl om acy.

K iss in ge r a voide d ass es si ngblam e for the collapse of the talks,tho ugh administrat ion officialsview Israel's tough stance as the .prin cipal roadbl ock in the negotia - --------------- ...,... _tions. .

Though .Kissinge r views as "ex­tre mely unlikel y" the possibilitythat the step -by-step bilateral tac ticcould ever be em ployed again inthe Mide ast, he has emph asizedthat c the . Unite d Sta tes is "de ter­

. mined to cont inue the search forpeace -and j ustice ~in' the Middl e _East. " He has announced-that .the JER USALEM: Te ars of sorrowUn ited State s will seek the resump- we re mixed with sighs of relieftion of the multinational 'G eneva .when Secretary 'of State HenryConference in"an effort to prevent -, Kissinger ann ounced the failure of ..renewed warfa re. his late st attempt to bri ng progress

toward peace in the Mid east. Th erewas sorrow becaus e Egypt had no tacce p ted Israel 's " o u tstre tchedhand :" Relief becau se Rabin's cab­

"in et had not 'com pro mised onIsrael's security for what was corn­monly consi dered as rela tivelyempty Egyptian. proposals in ex­change for the Abou Rode is oilfields and Sinai's stra tegic Mitlaand Giddi passes. .

Upo n his~epartuie from Ben­G urion airport. a dejected Kiss­inger proclai med, "This is a sadda y for Ameri ca which has in- .vested much hope an d faith . Weknow it is a sad day also for Israel,which needs and wants p~a~ sobadly:'

Am erica a nd Pre sid en t Fo rdwere in genu ine . need of a diplo­matic boost. · With the "j ust and

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Asian Nations"Reassessing"Tie~With U.S.

by Gene H. Hogberg

Shattered Pride Before the Fall.Not since the darkest days of Wo~ld War II lias 'the· United

Stat es been jarred by so man y fore ign policy failure s in so short atime. . ..' ,..

With the impending collap se of Cambodia and Vietnam, withthe sudden assassinat ion of King Faisal coming on the heels of.Dr .Kissinger 's political defeat in the Mide ast, and with festeringprob­lems inside NATO , the"conclusion is that thin gs are indeed going '

, ~ery poorly for Washington. .The big danger that many observers see now is that the United

States, licking its Southeast Asian woun ds in particu lar, will retreatInto a neo-isola tionis t position and neglect foreign policy com­mitments far more impo rtan t than those in Indochina ever were.As James ReSton of the New ,York Times writes: "T he doubt in theallied world about American action now is not about Wash ington'scourage but about its judgment . The major allies ... are merelyasking [President Ford] to choose what is primary and what issecondary, not to confuse Saigon or Lon Nol or Southeast Asiawith the really critica l areas of Europe, the Middle Easrand

, Japan."But can U.S. leadership make such distinctions an y longer ?

After all, over a decade ago, contrary to the lesson of Korea ,contrary to the French experience in Indochina and the. wholenature of Vietna mese 'na tionalism, America 's political and militarychieftans blindly committed the nation's heritage as well ,as its ..treasury to fight a "no win" land war in Asia .

When the first battle-ready marines, proudly holding aloft Old" G lory, 'stormed 'ashore' near Da N ang in ··196S,'t hey and their

commanding officers thought it would only take a few months toteach those " barefoot ve" a lesson or two. Eight years later, withthe release of the last U.S. POWs, America 's once invincible mili­tary power had 'been all but shattered (Lev. 26:19).

How true -the prophecies of Isaiah 9:16: "For the leaders ofthis people cause them to err ." Our politicians and generals "err invision, they stumble in judgment" (Isa. 28:7).

The sad part is that America's $170 billion investment in a lostcause could very likely be only the down payment on the road toforeign policy ruin. It remains to be seen how comfortable theJapanese, the West Europeans, and other key allies feel underWashington'sfaltering leaders hip of the free world. Will they feelcompelled to strike out on their own, to pursue political , economicand military programs apart from and even in opposition to those'desired in Washingto n? '

Thai PremierCalls forSpeedyU.S. Troop Pullout

been impossible to ope n ties withsocia list countries because of theunique rela tio nsh ip with 'th eUnited State s. . .

In the face of recent de vel ­opments, however, it is obviousthat the U.S. will play a reduce drole in its former colony in the Far .

. East. The Philippines is look ingmore to Asia and the Third World .....

...:... Colin Adaitand Jun Rustia··

BANGKOK, · March 3D, 1975,Reuter: The Bangk ok Post, todaypublished what it said was'a NorthVietnamese document indicatingtha t the Communists intend to setup a federation comprising Viet­nam, Cambodia and Laos, and aprotectorate in part ·of NortheastThailand. The authenticity of thedocument could not immediatelybe confirmed, and the paper dis­claimed respon sibil ity for its accu­racy. The document said a finaloffensive to unify Vietnam wouldcome next yea r and the Lon Nolgovernment in Cambodia would bedefeated by the eod of this year.

Substantial military efforts ~ byCommunist insurgents were ex­pected in northeast Thailand in thenext two years . the document alsorevealed. 0

HANOI'SGRANDDESIGN?

PhilippinesDiversifyingIts F~reign Policy

MANILA: " Does Cambodianow prove the U.S. dom ino theoryof the 50's']" asked noted Filip inocolumnist, Teodoro Valencia, in arecent column.

He answered his own question :"IC Cambodia falls because theU.S. Congr ess refuses to give aid inquantities necessary to save it, the

-.United States will have given Asia ·the most vivid example of wha tAmerican , supp ort means , Asiancountries will have to reassess theirrelations with the U,S.A. . . . . Thedomino theory applies to the ero- After two months of hectic pclit- .~~~ t~~ ~:~::an prestige in Asia ical maneuvering followin g Th ai-

Partly as a result of new realities . ~~~d~~:_~:~r:;h:lt~~~?o~a~~~ea:~in Asia, Philippine Secretary ..biy approved in mid-March an 8­Car los P. Romulo said recently that . p~rty coalition govem t1?-ent ~eadedhis nation is fashioning a more in- by Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj . .dependent and dive rsified foreign . In a bid to win the support of

. policy. Th is should not be taken as left-wing parti es in the vote of con-

~~~~n~::t:~~~~r~~~;sa~~~:~l~ fidence, Mr. Kukrit stated hewould seek th e c o m p le te

uation of the long ....specia l rela- withdrawal of U.S. troops fromtionship" with Washington . There Th ailand within one year and the

~.~~~~~·t~\~e~~~fd~~~~~i~. · · .d isco ntin uation of u.s, arms and. ammunition shipments to Cam-

tary facilities in the country. bodia from Am erican ba ses inPresident 'Marcos has affinned Th ailand.

time and again that the govern- " I' d like to see it done tomorrow,ment intends to pursue the policy .the day after tomorr0Y"" .threeof nonnalizing relations with all months , six month s, ' a yea r _ ascountries irrespective of race , soon as possible," he declared. Th ecreed, religion or ideology. The vote of confiden ce' passed by a barePhilippines has already establ ished margin of 7 votes. -diplomatic relations with the so- "Withdrawin g the Americancialist coun tries of Czechoslovak ia, forces doesn't mean that we don 'tEast G erman y, Poland, Hung ary, like America," Mr. Kukrit added.

. Mongolia and Romania. The Presi- " Our good relat ions must con-~~~f~~~~a~~~.will be visiting tinue ," On the other hand the new

Preside nt Marco s further states Prime Minister indicates that Th ai-land will seek diplomatic relati ons

that the Philippines intends to nor- with the People's Republic ofmalize relations with the People' s Chin a . and the openi ng of. talksRep ublic of China within the year with North Vietnam. " In order to

~~ ~:e~:~~~~g ::~~e~~~ ~~r:::; create a balance in our relati onswith the superpowers, this govern-

Union. In the past it would have ment will proceed in recognizingand no rma lizing rela tions wit hChina," he said.

U.S. P resence Substa ntia lThe United Sta tes main tain's

four large air bases in Thail and ,with 350 Air Force plane s. in­eluding 17 B-52strategic bombers,27,000 American servicemen arestationed at the . bases . The U.S.presence has be~me · a focus 'ofcontroversy stirred by Thai stu­den ts and liberal and left-wing par­ties ' who see it as a roadbl ock.1 toimproved re lations with China ,North Vietnam. and the Sovietbloc. I •

At the he igh t of U.S : in­volvement in Indochina (1968-69),48,000 U.S. troops were stat ionedin Thailand, conducting bombingra ids in Vietnam. Laos. and Cam ­bodia .

American government sourceshave sta ted that if Thailand wantsU.S. troops withdrawn, they will bewithdrawn. 0

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Mediterranean. In Italy the . Com­munist party now vies 'with theChristian Democrats as the largestparty in the country.

Britain has recently severely cutback -its defense role, largely with ­d rawing from the Mediterranean tomore inshore waters . On .top ofthis, possible British withdrawalfrom the Common Mark et in thecoming referendum would furtherd issolve some of the tenuous ties ofEuropean solida rity.

In the face of America 's setbacksin Asia and the Mideast and in viewof the crumbl ing multi-nation fa­carle or NATO , Europe ans are won­deri ng if they can still rely on theirmost important ally. Fo r if theUnited States can no longer assureWestern Europe 's security, who can?

- David Price

BRUSSELS: Concern continuesto mount in Western Europe asPortu gal moves swiftly to the lefton the political spect rum.

The trend was confirmed againrecen tly as Premier Vasco Gon ­calves formed .a .new governm ent,dropping S ,?cial~~!.tY..J~_a!!£r,"Mario Soares from his foreign min- .ister post -

Om inous ly; the new -cab inet fitsthe classic pattern of Communis ttakeover. At first the Comm unistsare in the minority of a left-wingcoalition, then they acquire keycabinet posts, "and later move tooutlaw the oppos ition parties . Allthese elements are now present inPortugal . The .ouster of Soares issignificant because it is in the laststages of a Communist" takeoverthat the party turns on its formerallies of the democratic left.

NATO sources here in Brusselstold me "we are following what is .hap pening within Portugal withworry. anxiety and some apprehen- .sion. We are worried that whilePortugal is now remain ing faithfulto its NATO commitments, weknow other forces within the coun ­try are against NATO member-ship." -

NATO has no procedure to dis­continue a member country's in­volvement in the alliance althougha country may withdr aw ,i ~ it de­sires to. ...With Communist partic i­pants in any member government,NATO takes measures to give ade­quate protection , to coafidential "material within the alliance . This isespecially true with , regard to nu­clear weapon strategy.

Th e whole effect of the turm oilwithin Portugal only serves to fur­ther weaken NATO 's ability tostand up and represent the back­bone of Western defense.

With the southeastern flank ofNATO already virtually tom asun­der over Cyprus with Greece andTurkey at each othe r's throats, Por­tugal's restlessness may be the finalstraw in NATO's ability to operateeffectively. .

- Ray Kosanke

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that there is still a grea t deal of loyaltyamong the hierarchy of the Ca tholic Church,

But in the basilica of St. Peter's, eventhough there was appl ause, the fervor tha thas greeted o ther papal occasion s wasclearly lacking, As the Pope rode in his pa­pal chair down the aisle o f St. Pete r's follow­ing the Mass, we heard only one lone monkcry, "Viva, Papa!"

Th e following morning at the Pope's ad­dr ess to the world ther e was even less enthu­

_siasm from the many thousands who hadgathered in St: Peter's square, The squarewas far from full, despite the Vatica n's ex­pressed desire to bring one of the largest .crowds ever to Rome. Large numbers whodid gather showed little interest in what wastakin g place .

But if Pope Paul's personal magnetism isnot great enough to inspire even Catho lics,what are his chance s of leading Europe tounit y? .

Fo r this reason. and since Bible prophecydoes indicate that Europe will be guided bya powerful religious figure, it appears that anew pope who would be .ab le to capture themin ds of the masses may be just over the'horizon, .

In the Shoes of the Fisherman

. As never before , the Catholic Church ­indeed the whole of Europe - needs achampion who could inspire the hearts ofmen in a way that has not been done inmodem times .. . .

. A.fter centu r ies during which . :m ir~cul~·~occurrences have been few, could there arise­in our day a pope, with miracle-work ing~powers - a pope whom the who le of Chri s-tendom would follow? ._ Cou ld this be what it will take to.unite tennations in ',Europ e'-and . io · '.rorge~. :;~.peace4 -''-_

keeping force . that will go down to theMiddle East and put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict? . ,

If such were to occur, whatwould it meanto th e United Stat es and Bri tain , pre­dom inantly Prote stant cou nt rie s? Howwould YOUR life be affected if there were tobe a modem Holy Roman Emp ire led by aperson working "awesome . miracles?

The Bible, which Plain Truth has used forover four decades to forecast world tren dsand conditions, supplies the vital answer.

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power pushing at northern Europe, whichwill by that time comprise ten nations.

Are we -today, through the Arab threat toEurope'S oil lifeline, beginning to see theking of the south "pushing at" the new Eu­rope? The prophecy implies that as a resultof this pressure from the south, the , Euro­pean .power bloc will " enter into the coun­tries, and shall overflow and pass over. Hesha ll enter also into the glorious land [Pales­tine], and many countries shall be over­thrown .. . and the land of Egypt shall notescape" (Dan. 11:40-42).

Thi s European . power is described as-planting " the tabernacles of his palace be­tween the seas in the glorious holy moun­tain" (verse 45), Does this indicate that apeace-keepin g force from this ten-nationEuropean power will in the near future enterPalestine, and that continued pressure fromsome of the Arab nations might meet with afirm rebut tal fromthis power ?

Needed - A Catalyst

At the pr esent time , Europe is far fromunited. Peter Jay, economic corre spondentfor the London Times, has stated: " Europewon 't really get anywhere with economicunion unless it forms a serious politicalunion, and it can't ach ieve an effective polit­ical union unless it unit es militarily. Everytime somebody has tried to unite Eur op emil itarily, it's been a disaster , It turn s out tomean a Na poleon or a Hitler : '

Europe, threatened by growing Russianmilitary might and troubled by America 'srapid withdrawal from the role of world po­liceman. might be shaken from her lethargyand forged iDt03 powerful union of nationsalmost overnig ht if another Middl e East war .were so pose a threat to world peac~.

. :~ Bu~ what Europe lacks is the kind of' lead­ership that would act as a' cataly st to brin gthe nations togeth er for a common pu rpose.It needs a central figure to lo ?k to tha t wouldtranscend national interes ts, "..... :... .~. . ,-

There is one authority to which Europeanshave looked in the past for leadersh ip. In thedays of the Holy Rom an Empire, the Vati­can proved to beva r powerful uniting vin­~uence in Europe.

And Now - a New.Pope?

In Rome on Christmas Eve for the start ofthe Pope' s Holy Yea r. it was painfully evi­

~ dent that Pope Paul v.I has.failed to cap turethe imagination of,the masses. :

We were able to attend the special service,at which primarily dign itaries of the churchwere in attend ance, which preceded the mid­night Mass . The brilliantly arrayed Pope .now aging. was applauded on several occa ­sions. Despite the stormy term of officewhich. he has. experienced, it was evident

" Coming :'" A "Pax Romana"?It is becoming, p~nfully evident that if

there is ever. going to be stability in the oil .world . a fonn of arbitrator 'superior toAmerica's Secretary of State is required. A ,peace-keeping power with teeth is the onlyway to a lastin g solution,

Where Dr. Kissinger has failed , could thenati ons'of Europe bring peace?

Speaking of our unparalleled age of traveland the knowledge explosion (Da n. 12:4),the pro phet Daniel referred to a southern

Dr. Kissinger is known to believe that fur­ther dipl omatic moves in the ·Middle Eastmust include the Eur opean nations. whohave SO much at stake if there is renewedfighting.

Britain's Daily Telegraph commented,March 24: "The whole of the West; andespecially Europe. after an unprecedentedseries of reverses in Gre ece. Turkey, Cyprusand Portugal, is confro nted with new perilswhich it is ill-equipped to meet"

Will conti nued failure to talk a way to .peace and .the growin g inability. of the I '

United States to guara ntee Europe's Middle. East oil .supply lead European nations toformulate their own Middle EaSt peace set­tlement? -

Whe n Talking Fails

General Doug las MacArthu r once stated :"Men since the beginning of time hav e .sought peace . Various methods through theages have been attempted to devise an in ter-"national process to prevent or sett le disput esbe tween nations. . . . Military alliances. -bal­

-ances of power, leagues of na tions, all inturn failed, leaving'the only path to be by thecruc ible of war:'

Trag ically, as every attempt to bring peaceby dipl oma cy proves inadequate, the MiddleEast is dri fting closer to the solution thatna tions have always taken in the end: thepa th of war. . .

Yet ano ther war could sever vital oil life­lines of European nations, bringing abou teconomic strang ulation. And the Europeanscann ot afford to take such a risk.'

o f peace are already bitterly disappointed ­and they are going to weep bitterly beforemuch more time has passed . -

Tbey Don't Know T he Way

As soon as it became apparent that hispeace- shuttle had reached a dead end " Dr .Kissinger , showing obvious disappointmentat the.fa ilure of the talks , flew"to confer withPresident Ford.

Despite his disillusionment, the Secretaryof State could ' not afford to .give up hope .Perhaps the..shuttle could be resumed when .the . situation has quietened. Or maybe theparti es could be brought back to the GenevaConference . .

Yet there is a growing awareness amongthe world 's nations that "even a return toGeneva would be merely anoth er straw toclutch at. Few expect any positive ground tobe gained in the talks. .

It is becoming increasingly apparent thatprospects for peace in the Middle East arebleak. A solution is as distant as ever . Noteven Di. Kissinger. with hispersonal credi­bility among both Arabs and Israeli s, can'bring peace. . · ..

In the words of the prophet Isaiah , "Theway of peace they know not: '

But can the world afford to stand idly by if

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER RABIN. left. with U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger, March23, sadly a.nnounced end to Mideast negotiations.

Why Middle East .' .PeaceTalksCollapsedn ••• th e ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly"-Isaiah 33:7.~ ,

by Char les Hunting and David Ord

At a time when the United States is receiv- another explosion in the Middle East jeop ar-ing a .series of blows across the globe. the dize s the securi ty of the en tire pl anet?breakdown of Dr. Kissinger's efforts towardpeace in the Middle East is a tragic disap-pointment to all partie s. , " '. . .

Yet the collapse of the "t alks was a pre­dictable setback . For what is fast shaping up .as Plain T ruth has forecast for over fortyyears, is a crisis unpara lleled in all hum anhistory.-'.- No one wants war . The Arab s don't wantit. The Israeli s crave the security that peacewould bring: 'T he United States has nothingto gain from' the explosion of this powderkeg.- Every industrial nation on the face of theearth stands to lose if there is another con­fiiet in the Midd le-East. And so does everyund erdeveloped nation , whose people mustbe fed by oil-based fertili zers.

But despite the whole world's desires forpeace in the Middle East, the amba ssadors

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Th e oil boom is likely to alter the king-. :dom totally. As the Saudis assume completeownership of their oil wealth , new towns arebeing plann ed, 'Yells .dug ," hospitals ' and ,schoo~_~.r:.~....~;~j~g ~uilt ~.~~~1? with roa~\~~~"better ccmmurucatron facilities. : c:...-:' •.

. Durin g the , October 1973 Arab -Israel iWar. Faisal used his oil reso urces as a po- .­ten t politica l weapon against Israel. --Afounding member of the Organization ofPe tro leum Exporting Co untries , SaudiArabia slowed down .its-oil output and in­creased ' oil prices. severely dislocatin g the , 'economies of the West. . :

Fa isal was a shrewd, sophisticated rulerwhose lined face with its hawk nose and 'hooded eyes seldo in seemed to smile. Since .ascending the throne to replace his depo sedbrother in Nove mbe r 1964. he faced thedaun ting proble m of ruli ng strictly by the

.o rdinances of the Koran,' Moslem's HolyBook - he did not smoke and alcohol isforbidd en in Saudi Ara bia - in an-increas­ingly mate rialistic and technical world. ,

Although de termined that all his peo plemust benefit, Fais al remained an absolutemonarch and showed no sign of wantin g to"change to what the West unde rstands as amore democratics ociety.

Paisal was the royal head of some 3,000Saudi princ es and ,2,OOO roya l women fromfour generations. Faisal himself had .eightsons and six daught ers by four wives, two ofwhom he divorced man y years later , andanother died. " ,

He consulted senior princes and tribalchiefs on impo rtant matters but made aUimportant decisions himsel f. His power,

.' basically paternalistic and tribal, was un­hampered by the trappings of w estern de­mocracy . He was . his own Prime Ministerand For eign Minister.

In a land repu ted to be full of gold-platedCadillacs (the gold in fact covers the bump­ers, the other pa rts are normally chromed)he had no fleet of limousines. He traveledwith only a small guard and frequently sa t inthe front seat along with his driver.

Co nsidering his immens e wealth and p0­litical weight, King F aisal appare ntly saidlittle publ icly athi~ ' meetings with other'Arab leaders .

One of his favorite proverbs was: ."Go dgave man two ears and one tongue so wecould listen twice as much as we talk ." 0

;. Born the_so.n of at:t- obscuredesert s~~i,~.hIn ~ 1906. Faisal rose to contr olthe Tate 'andfor tune of Western industry. When 'he wasborn . oil had not yet been discovered inArab ia, and indeed the Saud i kingdom andIsrael - were but dreams 'in the minds ofstrong-willed men in the sandy expanses.._ofthe Arabi an pen insula and in sophisticatedcentral-Europe.

Arabia was a land of such desolation andausterity ' that only three Europeans wereknown to have pen etrated its' interior in theprevious century. . .

Before he was 70. Fa isal-Ibn Abdul Aziz 'Al-Saud - his name mean s "sword" inAra­bian - wielded 'influence 'far beyond the ~Arabian peninsula: As keeper of SaudiArab ia's millions of barrel s of oil, his in­Iluence touch ed nearly every human being- from the industria lists and their wor kersin Europe and the United States to the citi­zens of the develop ing thi rd world .

A devout Moslem, Faisal learned to liveand rulein austerit y as the laws of Islam' andthe 'tribe commanded, through a com­bi~ation of faith and p,erson al autocracy. 'Atthe same time. his faith made him both ant i­Zionis t and anti-Co mmunist to a level wherehe scarcely distinguished between the two.As a reigning monarch , he abhorred boththe athe ism of communism and the politi calthreat it posed by encouraging revolut ionarymo vements. -

As guardi~n of Islam's two holie st places,Medina , where Mohammed is buried andMecca,' he was implacable in demandingthat .Jerusalem,' Islam 's third holiest shrine.be returned to Arab administration.

King Paisa! had deep personal, religiousreasons for his adamant stand on Jerusalem.As he aged , he disclosed that he wanted topray _at .Jerusalem's Dome of the RockMosque , built on the spot where, accordingto Arab legend. Mohammed ascende d intoheaven .

On the dome stic front, Saudi Arabia ­under Fai sal's guidance '- made a gradualtransition from a Nomadic tribal society toamodem state. A huge territory of 927,000square miles, it has a popu lat ionofsome 5.7million peop~e.

King FaisalofSaudi Arabia.". 1906·1975

The f ollowing biography of Saudi A~abia ';late ruler, King Fatsal, is excerptedfrom Reu-ter's news service dispatches. , ' .'

Europe Should Act asMideast Peace"Co-guarantor": Brandt

WASHIN GTON. March ' 27. 1975. Reu­ter : Fonner West G erman Chancello r WillyBrand t said here today a final Midd le Eastsettlement must be a joint responsibility ofthe United States and the Soviet Union. .

He also urged "more Western Europeaninterest in and even engage ment in thearea:'

Mr. Brandt was speak ing at the Na tionalPress Club following a meeting at the Whi teHouse with President Ford and Secretary ofState Henry Kissinger. ' . " '"

Mr. Brandt said the most probable newcourse seemed to be to 'move to a recon­vened Geneva conference.

. He expressed the belief that "whatever is,.done in between, finally there must be a co­responsib ility of both world powers to bringabo ut a peace sett lement." '

Recomm ending mo_re Western Europeaninterest in the area, he said : " It isoutside ou rdoor. It '. influences us in a most di rectw·ay. . ~ . If and when a peace settlement hasmade Some progress, .or the draft of it. Eu­rope should "play the role of something like aco· guarantor. . -. . .:

"But ,what is more important is to in­troduce .a possible new element of stabilitywhich would be European readiness to enterinto economic projects which may interestIsrael as well as her Arab neighbors.". Asked if he believed the influence -of theUnited States were in decline. he appearedto disagree with the Ford administratio n'sargument that if Congress refused any fur­ther milita ry aid to Indochina . this country'simage abroad .would suffer. Th e credibility _of the United State s would not be reduced as'

, far as German-relations were concerned, headded. 0 ' . ..

A: Israel will deal with Arabs who acceptthe,fact of her existence. Dealing with some­one who says you should disappear from theface of the earth makes no sense, What isthere to deal with?

Q: There has been much speculation ofpressure from the United State s onIsrael tobe more flexible . There are recent repor tsfrom Washing ton of Ame rican reassessme ntof Middl e East policy. Do you think thereare, any circumsta nces which could conceiv­ably cause t~e United States to drasticallydecrease its programof supporting Israel?

A: First of all, I wouldn' t like to use thegeneral term of " pressure:' I hope that thereare still basic goals, ideas, and interests Com­mon to the United Stat es 'and to Israel. Th isis what has brought about American supportso far . Since these basic goals. interests, andideas continue as the .problem continues. Ihope the assistance will go on,

Q : Do you feel war is imminent?A: I wouldn't say that, but by way of

preparation I think we have to be ready forit. For two reasons I don' t th ink it's immi­nenl First of all, I believe that Arab .rulers in '-their hearts know that they can not win thatwar. And secondly they also know tha t it willnor advan ce them an inch forward . So if

. there is still any reasoning in this area, andpeople are not carried away by their ownemotional outbursts, then there should be nowar . 0 .

Interview with Gideon Hausner

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Q: Mr . Hausner. ·"how d~ you vi~w the 'breakdown of Henry Kissinger's n egotiations?

A: I'm sorry the"nego tiations broke down.I think our approach wasreasonable, con­ciliatory . We were preparedfor a far-reach ­ing compromise . T he Prime Mi nis t er[Rabi n) at the very opening of the negotia­tions said the territories were no problem,and this is not really .the crux of the problem.The problem is whether the Arabs will reallyaccept peace as the natural conditio n be­tween us and them . : .. If theirs is the atti ­tude of complete refusal of acceptance offaetsand refusal to accept ... the existenceof Israel no matte r what boundaries, then ofcourse ther~ is little 'prospect for any othereffort . - -

Q: The qu estion Is.now, where does Israel "go from here? Are you in favor of an earlyresumption of the Ge neva confe rence? .

A: I never thought that Ge neva could beor should be: '. for that matter , avoided. Ithink that Geneva offers an oppo rtunity fora Large-scale ar rangement. Only I wanted toput the Geneva talks into the proper per­spective and the proper mood by having theKissinge r mission succeed, Because then thewhole momentum would move in this direc­tion. Nowthat his mission failed, I'm not so 'sure of the direction of the Ge neva talks .Witho ut the proper preparation - the proce.,dur e and the mode of progress -cGenevastands little chance .

In Geneva we willfirst and foremost putthe problem tothe Arab s: "N o matter wherethe boundar ies will run, supposing they runto your satis factio n, are you prepared to .make peace with us?" Because if they arenot, then it's no use to discuss boundariesand lines. Th is will be the crucial problem.

Q: Wbat role would the Palestinians playat Ge neva'? -

A: The trouble is that the Palestinians assuch have no voice. Th ere are self-anointedspeakers who assume:.the role .to speak forthe Palest inians . These are the bomb throw-ers. , .. _

. Q: Will Israel ever deal with YassirArafator the PLO? .

WEEK END ING APRIL 19. 1975

Only two days after the col/apse of Henry .Kissinger's personal diplomacy in the Mid ­east, Plain Truth correspondent' in Jerusalem.Mark A rmstrong. obtained an interview withnoted Israeli attorney, author and politicalfigure, Gideon Hausner.

Mr.'Hausner was the prosecuting attorneyof Adolf Eichmann and author of Justice inJerusalem . He is today a respected and influ­ential member of the Israeli government.

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The INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL.The Missing Dimension in Knowledge

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"And darkness was upon the face of thedeep [the ocea n or Ouid surface of the earth ].And the Spiri t of Go d moved upo nthe faceof the wate rs. And Go d said, Let there belight: aod there was light And God saw thelight , that it was good : and Go d divided thelight from the darkness" (verses 24).

Satan is the author of darkness. The rebel­lion of the angels had caused the darkness.God is the author of light and truth. Light

·-displays and enha nces bea uty, and also ex­poses evil. Darkness hide s bo th.

T he verses which follow in this first chap.ter of the Bible describe the renewing of theface of the eart h, with the prod uction of thatyie lding bea utiful lawns: trees, shru bs, flew­en. vegeta tion - then "the creation of fishand fowl , animal life, and finally ma n. .

The -Great Lucifer

But first, befo re coming to man, we needto fill in the prehistory portion.

How did this sin of the angels "COme totake place? How did it start?

Remember, God the Creator preserves.impro ves and enhances wha t he creat es byhis government: What he crea tes is crea tedto be used . This earth was ' to 'be inh abited

. and used by angels, originally: -When God placed angels - apparently a

third of all (Rev. 12:4) - on the newly cre­ated, perfect. bea utiful an d glorious _eart h.

l he set over them: to administer the govern- "ment of God, an archa ngel - a grea t cherub

"Lucifer. Th ere were only two other cher ubsof this extremely high rank, Michael andGabri el. .

So far as revea led., these are the supre mepinn acle of ange ls or spirit-eomposed bein gswithin God 's pow er to create. This Luciferwas a super being of awesome. majesticbea uty , dazzling bright ness, supreme knowl­edge, wisdom and power - perfect as Godcrea ted him ! But Go d of necessity created inhim the power of choi ce and decision , or hecould not have been a being of individualityand character.

I want you to grasp fully the suprememagnifi cence of this towering pinnacle ofGod 's created beings. Two different biblicalpassages tell us of his original created state .

First, notice what is revea led in Isaiah 14:T his fam<:>us chapter "begins with the time ,

sho rtly ahead of us now, when the etern alGo d shall have intervened in this world 'saffairs . The people of Israe l (not necessaril yor exclusively the Israelis or Judah) shallhave been taken as captive slaves , and Godsha ll intervene and bring them back _to thePa lestinian homeland . -

"And it sha ll come to pass in the day tha tthe Lord shall give thee rest from thy sor­row, and from thy fea r, an d from the hardbondage wherei n thou wast made to serve ,that thou sha lt take up this proverb againstthe king of Babylon, and say, How hath theoppressor ceased ! .the golden city cea sed!T he Lord "hath broken the staff of thewicked, and the scep tre of the ru lers. Hewho smot e the people in wrath .. : he thatru led the nations in anger, is-persecuted , andnone hindereth" (verses 3-6).

This is NOT speaking of the king of Baby­lon, Nebuchadnezzar . The time is yet ahea dof us - but sho rtly ah ead . It is speaki ng ofthe modern successor of that ancient Nebu ­chad nezzar . It Is"speaking of the one whowill be RULER of the soon-co ming resu r­recte d " Holy Rom an Empi re" - a sort ofsoo n-coming "U nited States .of Europe" - aun ion of ten "nations to rise up out of orfollowing the Commo n Market of today.

by Herbe rt W . Armstrong

Was humanity put here on earth for a purpose? WinstonChurchill said to the American Congress: "There is apurpose being worked out here below, " implying a

higher power above working on earth. But why? Whatcaused the placing of humanity here, and what is thatpurpose? Where are we going, and what is the way?

Part IV

sian and of choice , else they have no indivi d- It is Satan who is the great destroyer!uality o r cha rac te r. .Since si n . Is the So. now, we read in Jude 6-7: "An d the

"":, transg~:S:sion of God 's law, these angels re- angels which kept not their first .esta te, butbelled agains t God 's law, the basis of God 's left their own habitation , he hath reserved ingovernment. everlasting chains und er darkness un to the ,

No tice carefully what ,is revealed in II Pe- j udgment of the great day. Even as Sodomter 2:4-5: "For if God spare d not the angels and Go morrah, an d the cities about the m inthat sinn ed , but cast them dow n to hell, and like mann er, giving them selves over to fomi -deli vered them into chains of darkness, to be cat ion. an d going aft er strange flesh. are setreserved unto judgment; and spa red not the forth for an example. suffering the ven-

The Perfect Creation 'old world, but 'saved N oah die eighth per - " geance of ete rna l fire: 'son, a preach er of righ teousness. brin ging in Now back to Genesis 1:1-2. Verse I. as

So now we go back and begi n at the be· the flood upon the world of the ungodly." stat ed above , implies a.perfect crea tion. Godginning. . 1 Th ese verses show that univer sal sin is the autho r of life, of beau ty, of perfection. •

The first four words of the Bible are : " In brings ' universal destruction to the physical Sata n has brough t only darkness. ugliness,the beginni ng God . .. : ' Since in the Bible earth . Th e an tediluvian sin. culminating . imperfection , violence . Verse I . shows theGod reveals himself as Creator of ALL - the with the flood , was worldwide; universal sin. creation of a perfect ea rth , glorious anden tire universe with its galaxies , its suns. No tice: ". . . the earth was fi lled with vio- beau tiful. Verse 2 reveals the result of the sinplanets and moons - this places Go d in lence .. . . for all flesh had cor rupted his way of the angels. - .existence before all else. . upon the ea rth . . . for the earth.is filled With "A nd the earth ~as [became] witho ut

T he next verse tells us wha t Go d did - violence . . ... (Gen. 6: 11-13). " But Noa h form. and void." T he words "wit hout fo rm"created ." ·God is, first of all , Crea tor. And found grace in the eyes of the Lord. . . . and void' ': are trans late d from the He brewwhat did he crea te? ". .. the heaven and the "" ,~oa~ _~as a just man .apd 'p~~e.~t~ in his _~ tohu and bohu. A better translation is "wasteearth" (Den , I: I).. · 0 "tgenerauons. and Noa h walk ed WIlli God" . and empty" " i"chaotic ,rnciiii 'OOilfusi";.;'~ The King James Versio n rende rs the wor d (verses 8-9). All flesh except Noah had Th e word "was" is elsewhere in Gen esis

" heave n".in the singula r, but the original sinned _ over the whole earth. So, the Flood translated " became,' as in Ge nes is 19:26. InHebrew is in the pl ural - "hea vens" - as it destroyed the whole earth. other words. the earth, origina lly createdshould be. It is so translated in the Revised The homosexual and other sins of Sodo m ~ perfect and bea utiful, had now becomeStan dar d Version. Moffa tt. and other trans- and Go mo rrah sprea d over the territory of chaotic. waste. and em pty, like our moo n,lati ons . Thi s verse is speaking of the original those two . cities. And physica l destruction except its surface was covered with water.creation - the ent ire universe. including our came to their enti re area . The sin of the Davi d was inspire d to reveal how Godearth. The original Heb rew words (thes e ang els was worldwide ; the des truction of the renewed the face of the earth: "T hou send-words were origi nally written by Moses) im- physica l earth was /worldwide. est forth thy spiri t, they are crea ted: andply a perfect creation. Go d reveals h imself The verses quoted above placed the sin- thou renewest the face of the earth" (Ps.as Crea tor o f perfec tion, ligh t. and beau ty. ning of the angels prior to the antedil uvian 104:30).Every reference in the Bible desc ribes the sins tha t started - with Adam. prior to the Now another surprise for mos t read ers.condition of any phase of Go d's 'creation as creation of man . And that shou ld be a sur. Here is another bit of the missing di mension"very good" -:.... perfect. prise reveali ng of o ne phas e of the missing in kno wledge . actually revealed in the Bible,

Thi s first verse of the Bible actually speak s dimension in knowledge! Angels inhabited but unrecognized by religion. by science.of the origi nal PH YSICAL creat ion in its en- this ea rth before the creatio n of man. an d by high er education.tirety "" the universe - including the eart h, And the governme nt of Go d was admin is- From verse 2 of Gen esis l on, the rem ain-perhaps millions of years ago - as a perfect tered on earth un til the rebellion of the sin- der of this first cha pter' of the Bible is notcrea tion, bea utifu l and broad ! Go d is a per- ning ange ls. de scribing the origi na l crea tion of the eart h.fectio nist! How long these angels inhabited the earth But it is describ ing a renewing of the face of

In Job 38:4.1. 7, God is speakin g specifi - befo re the creation of man is not revealed. It the eart h, after it had become waste andcally of the creati on of this earth. He said all might have been millions of years . More on empty as a result of the sin of the angels.the angels (created "so ns of God ") shouted that later. But these ange ls sinned . Sin is the What is described from verse 2 on, in thefor joy at the creat ion of the earth . T his transgression of Go d's law (I John 3:4). An d supposed "creation chapte r" of the Bible,revea ls tha t ange ls were created before the God's law is the basis of God's government. did occur, accord ing to the Bible, approxi-creation of the earth - and probably be fore So we know the se an gels, apparently a third mat ely 6,oqo years ago. But that could havethe material universe. Th e suns, planets , and of all the angels (Re v. 12:4f, sin ned - re- been millions or tri llions of years after theastral bodies are material substance. Angels be lled against the government of God. And actual creat ion of the eart h described inare individ ually created spirit beings, com- sin carries penalties . The penalty for the sin verse I!posed solely of spirit. · of the ang els is not death, as it is for ma n. I will comment later on the length of time

It will come as a surp rise to many to learn Angels are imm ort al spirit beings and can . ' it might have taken before all ea rth's angelsthat angels inha bited this earth BEFORE the no t die. Th ese spiri t beings had been given turn ed to rebe llion.creation of man . Thi s passage from Job im- dominion over the _P HYSICAL EARTH as a pas. Th e eart h had become waste and emp ty.pli es it: session and an abode . G od did not creat e it waste and empty, or in

Th e universal, worldwide sin of the angels confusion. God is not the author of con-result ed in the physical. destruction of the fusion (I Cor. 14:33) . This same Hebr ewface of the earth. wor d - tohu - meani ng waste and empty,

God is creator. Go d is also ruler ove r his was inspired in Isa iah 45: 18, whe re it iscreation . He preserves what he creates by his translated "in vain." Using the origina l He-government. What Go d creates, he has ere- brew "word, as originally inspi red, it reads,ate d for a purpose - to be used, preserved, "For thus sai th the Lord that ' crea ted thean d main tained . And this use is regulated by heavens; God himself tha t form ed the earthGoo 's government. When the angels re- and made it; he hath establis hed it, he ere-belledagain!!God'l government. the preser- ated it nol in vain [tohu], he formed it to bevation of the physical ean h and all its inhabit ed ."origina l beauty and glory ceased - and Continue now with the remainder of versephysical des truction to the surface of the 2 (G en. 1).earth resu lted! The eart h had become chaotic, waste, and

God is creator , preserver, and ru ler. empty : .

N o ~RE. LIGION has given us this missingdimension in knowled ge. Science has

never expla ined to US why man is.as h e"is ­capable of sending men to the moon andback, yet utterly he lp less to solve his prob-lems here on earth. "

In Part III of this series we"saw the awe­some poten tial of man . But why ? Why doestheCrea tor God purpose all th is? Why didthe living Go d deci de to crea te ma n and puthim on eart h? Go d d oes not do things with­out a reason .

To . under stan d - to comprehend thewhole -picture in the order -of time seque nce- we must now go a ll the way back intopreh istory. T hat m issin g d imension inknowledge, too, is revealed in the Word of -'God - Go d's message and revelation ofkno wledge to ma nkind. "

Angels on Eart~ Si nned

Othe r passages place angels on earth priorto man . _ .

Notice II Peter 2:4-6. First in time order. were "a ngels that sinn ed ." Nex t in time se­

quence, the ante diluvian wor ld beginn ingwith Adam, carrying through to the Flood.Afte r tha t, Sodom an d Gom orrah .

Thil \lQQk of booki, containing the re­vealed knowledge of the Cre ato r God. tellsus that God created angels as holy angels ­composed of sp irit. But can you imagi neange ls becom ing sinn ing angel s? Angelswere created with power of thought, of deci -

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ISRA EL '5 MASA DA and the ramp (left)" which the Romans built to ~aptu~ the rock .

J\II~SAPA:"Sy-rnbol Of Israel'~Re$ol ye,_ '. - ~ - .. .

After the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70,Masada, a boat-shaped rock rising mor e - Sylva's Siegethan 1,300 feet above the western shore of Sylva marched to the. site of Masada with 'the Dead Sea, remained as the last und e- his Tenth Legion, accompanied by auxiliaryfeated outpost of the Zealot defenders. troops and thousands of water-carrying pris-

According to Jewish historian Flavius 10- oners of war. They marched across the bar ­sephus, Masada was first fortified by Jona- ren desert with timber and provisions for athan the.priest. . prolonged struggle. . ~ . '

But the man who made Masad a a formi - Atop Masada, Eleazar ben Mair , leader ofdable fortress was Herod the Gre at - the the Zealots , prep ared to defend the rock.same man who had built the great Temple in Supplies and water were rationed and forti­Jerusalem! . fications were again made ready . .

Between 36 'and 30 B.C..·Herod built a ~ Sylva and his men established a garrisoncasemate wall around the top of Masada, at the base of the fortress and constructed adefense towers. storehouses; great water cis- wall that completely surrounded the rock ofterns , barracks , arsenals and palaces. Masada to prevent any.Jews from escaping

In A.D. 66. when the Jewish rebe llion into the desert . -against the Roman occupation began, the At the same time the Roman govern orZealots captured Masada and held it _. and his men began construction of a massivethroughout the entire war. ramp of earth and stones on the rocky site of

Jerusalem fell . in .A.D. 70 but Masada the western approach to Masada where therefused to be conquered, It became a point . cliffs were lowest . When the ramp was com­of frustration to the Roman strategists who I pleted, the Romans built a siege tower andtried time after time, but in vain, to take the under a covering fusillade of stones andfortress . . . spears from its top, they moved a powerful

Following Jerusa lem's collapse, a few sur - battering ram up the 'ramp. After ' repeatedviving patriots joined the defen ding group of efforts the Romans breached the ' wall inZeal ots on Masada. The number of de- A.D. 73. Then it ~~ only a matter of timefende rs rose to 960 men: wom en , and before the legions broke through.children. . .

With Masada as a base of operations. a A Testimony of Silenceband of Zea lots would occasiona lly leave the When the soldiers of Sylva finally pouredfortress and launch:' a raid on a nearby Ro- through the breach, they were met not withman garrison. Harassed for near ly two years defending Jews but with an unexpected si-by these raid ing parties , the Romans became lence . Where were the defenders? Had theyincreasingly infuriated. _ escaped through some unknown passage?

Masada had become more than just a rock- None had escaped. .All 'but two women_out there in the desert. Now it was a symbol. and five children were dead. But not at theIt was the last surviving outpost of Jewish hands of the Romans!rebellion against the invincible might of The defenders of Masada had agreed thatRome . a rallying point for the fanatica l surrender to the Romans was untenable. " IZealo ts. cannot but esteem it a favour that God hath

In A.D. 72 the Roman governor, Flavius . granted us, tha t it is still in our power to dieSylva, resolved to crush this irritating, frus- brave ly, and in a state of freedom," saidtrat ing ou~post of resistance. He spared no Eleaza r, their leader. in urging mass suicide.effort in making his preparations. . ••. .. And let U;S spare nothing but our provi-

sions; for they will be a testimonial when .weare dead that we were not subd ued for wantof necessaries , but that ... we have preferreddeath before slavery:'

They believed it better to die than to sub­mit. They took their own lives rather thangive the R~m~ the satisfaction of surrender.

. . Israe l c- A National Masada?

Toda y the nation of Israel is under con­stant siege, constant threat of attack:. Yet theIsrae lis are determined to hang on, to sur­vive as a sovereign nation. The historichomeland of the Jewish people has becom ea national Masad a. It is the land their Godgave them when he brought them out ofEgyptian slavery. It is a place where Jewscan live in dignity and self-respect. And it isa land worth defending - no matter whatthe cost. .

Noted Israeli-archaeolo gist Yigael Yadin ,who headed up the team that excavated Ma­sada in the sixties, summed it all up when -hewrote: " . .. Masada represents for all of usin Israel . " a, symbol of courage, a monu­ment to ourrgreat nat ional figures, beroeswho phose death over a life of physical andmoral. serfdom" (Masada, Herod's Fortressand the Z ealots Last Stand, p. 13).

Today's Israeli sees the present militarysituation, as the modem equivalent of theRoman legions of the first cen tury . Greatlyoutnumbered by millions in the surroundingArab nations, the modem Israeli must lookto such symbols to bolster his coura ge in theface of apparently overwhelming oddsagai nst his survival. ..

It is not the Israelis' desire to emu late theZea lots' suicidal example. Rather they be­lieve the siege of Masad a teaches them theymust keep their country strong enough sothat they will never .. be . faced with theZealots' desperate choice . That is why re­cru its. of the Israeli Annored Corps swearthis oath of allegiance on its summits:

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Brita in will NOT be in that empire soon tocome. This united Europe will conquerIsrael.- if you know who Israel is today . andI do not mean .Judah, known as the Israelistoday. All that involves a number of other .prophecie s, which there is not room to-ex­plain here .

But this "king of Babylon" shall at thetime of this prophecy have been utterly de­feate d by the intervention of the livingChrist in his power and glory. Continue on:

"The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet :they break forth into singing. Yea, the firtrees rejoice ... and the cedars of Lebanon,saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller iscome up against us" (verses 7-8). .

I want to interpose an interesting bit ofinfo rmation right bere . The cedars of Leba­non .....biblically famous, are almost totally cutdown. Only one small clump of these treesremains, high in the mountains. I have seenand photographed them . However, perhapsthe finest specimen of the cedars of Leban onsurviving on earth are on the Am bassadorCollege campus in England. We have prizedthem highly . It is interesting to see that thisprophec y, . written ~me 500 yea rs B.C.,should record the fact tha t these beautifuland stately trees should have been so largelyfeUed. .

This passage in Isaiah 14 speaks of thedoo m of this coming king at the hands of theglorified, all-powerful Christ . It refers to himas Satan's chief political ruler and militarydestroyer, totally deceived by Satan in theyears very shortly ahead of us.

T hen, coming to.: verse 12, this humanearthl y type of Satan the devil suddenlyleaps to Satan himself - the former arch ­angel, Lucifer :

" How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lu­cifer,-.son of the morning! how'artthou cutdown to the ground, which did st weaken the .nations!" A better translation her e is: "Howart thou , who didst weaken the nations, cut .down to the ground." The RSV translates it:" How you are cut down to the ground, youwho laid the nations low!" This the fannerLucifer did -through the human ·political­military leader in his power - spoken of inthe first eleven verses.

The name "Luc ifer" means "shining starof the dawn," or "bringer of light ," as Godfirst created him. Now continue : " For thouhast said in thine heart, I will ascend intoheaven, I will exalt my throne above thestars [angels] of God ." •

Notice, Lucifer had a throne; he was aruler. His throne was on earth, for he was 'going to ascend into heave n.Dontinue..

" I will sit also upon the mount of thecongregation, in the sides of the north : I willascend abo ve the heights of the clouds; I willhe like the Most High" (verses '13-14). Ac­tually, it is plain that Lucifer had nothingless in mind than knockin g the Creator Godoff his throne and becoming supreme godhimself. .. '

Apparently he planned to put himself inplace of God over the universe . .' ., But finally, as the context returns again tothe human type : "Yet thou shalt be broughtdown to hell [Heb . sheo/], to the sides of thepit" (verse IS). .

Fro m that point, the thought returns tothe human king. Here was the supreme mas­

. terpiece of God's creative power , as an indi­vidually created being , threatening to turnon his own maker - as a frankenstein , todestroy his own maker - and assume all hispowers to rule the whole universe.

His was NOT a government based upon theprinciple of love -: of giving, of outgo ingconcern for the good of others, but based onSELF-CE NTEREDNESS, _on vanity, lust andgreed, on envy, jealousy , the spirit of com­petition, hatr ed, violence and destructi on, ondarkness and error, instead of light andtruth , on ugliness instead of beauty .

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A prophet is not without honor ­except in his own century.

Take the case of Thomas Robert Mal­thus, who. as economists and prognos­t icators go . has suffered more abuseand scorn than just about any modernprophet . It was Malthus who first told usearth had a population problem.

. Malthusian Mathematics

" I say that the power of population isindefinitely greater than the power ofthe earth to produce . subsistence forman : ' he wrote in the late 1790's ." Populat ion, when unchecked . in­creases in a geometrical ratio . Subsis­tence increases in an arithmeticalratio ." To Malthus. this meant therewas absolutely no hope for effectivelysolving the world 's poverty prob lem .

Wi th the increase in pop ulationtoday, Tom Malthushas become a new ­born hero . Cur rent literature aboundswith te rms like " Neo-M alt h usian,"·" Malthusian Math: ' or " The SecondComing of Thomas Malthus." Now wesee a new crop of doomsdayers vyingfor Malthus' mantle.

Heilbronner's Causesof "Worridoom"

In his new book , An Inquiry Into theHuman Prospect, economist RobertHeilbronner lists w hat he feels are" th ree main sources. or perhaps levelsof exp lanat ion , for .the pall that hasfa llen over our spi rits . "

The first basic source of " w orridoom"he calls topical, meaning the horde ofdisconcerting events w hose unleashingwe faithfully follow via the various massmedi a. According to Hei lbronner, " v io­lence in stree t crime , race riots , bomb­ings, bi zarre airplane hijackinqs, andshocking assassinations " fall into th iscategory. which is, of course, headed bythe lat e great Vietnam War.

Asecond contributor to worridoom , inthe Heilb ronner diagnosis. is attitudina lchange, such as " our sta rt led aware­ness that t he quality of our su rround­ings, or life, is deteriorating ." Into thissecond category falls the psvcholoq icatimpact of the ecological, environmental.and energy crises.

Heilbronner identifies the thi rd horsepull ing the worridoom troika as civ­itlzetionet malaise . By this he means thefailure of the almighty dollar, pound ,franc, or Ind ian wampum to truly sat­isfy . Doubling Gross National Productdoes not double happiness. This civ ­ilization malaise " ref lects the inabi lity ofa civilization directed to material im­provement - higher incomes, betterdiets, miracles of medicine , triu mphs ofapplied physics and chemistry - to sat ­isfy t he human sp irit ."

.That' s probably a fairly good way ofcategorizing the maelstrom of fore­bodi ngs th rough which we mustpresently try to navigate . And it explainswhy, although mo st of us naturallygrav itate toward opt imism, we haveco me to find a simi larity betw een ourownsecretmisgivings andthe thoughts:p! afla,ssic pessimist like Malthus.

Computer-Cod ed Catastrophe

We should have known that in ourcom puter age, sooner or later , someone

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THE FOUR HORSEMEN (as viewed by Albrecht Dur er, p . 8) were quantified by Thomas' Mal thus (left) and the MIT computer (right) .

wo uld think of a way to express majorworld tre nds in computer language andforetell our future in a pr intout. Andsince computers never mak e mistakes(except on cred it card bill s), there wouldbe no need to argue about whether th efuture would be heaven or ' hell, sincewe 'd have it spread out right bef ore usin bina ry black and white .

Sure enough , the first computer" w orld model " has been constructed . Itwas dev eloped at Massachusetts Insti­tute of Technology , and the results ob­tained from it were published in a now­"famous book called Limits to Growth.And while no one is claiming that MITcom pute rs have irrevocably spread outour future before us, the authors of Lim­its to Growth fee l that they can makesome broad predictions w ith certainty .One such broad prediction is that " if thepresent growth tr ends in world popu ­latio n, industrialization, pollution , foodprodu ct ion , and resource depletion con­tinu e unchanged, the limits to growthon this planet will be reached some tim ewithin the next one hundred years ."

A second bro ad prediction is that itwill be impossib le for technology to saveus from the firs t prediction . The scien­t ists arrived at this conclusion by allow­ing for w hat th ey con sidered generoustechnological advances in raw mate rialsusage, food 'product ion and pollutioncont rol. Even so, the computer spelledout disaster unl ess both populationgrowth and econo mic growth (as weknow it) w ere halted,

If we are to avoid such disaster, Lim­its to Growth tell s us, societies mustbegin .,preparing for a per iod of greattransit ion - th e tran sit ion from growthto global equilib rium : ' Even plannedand prepar ed for , the trans ition is for e­casted as " painful," bu t the computeragrees w ith many scien tis ts in say ingthat if we don ' t plan , we will bump our 'g ro wi ng head s against on e of theeart h 's natural limits - such as too fewraw materials or too much pollution .

The " Pain fu l Transition "

The majority of our present prognos­ticators of doom - whe ther they bemil ita ry , ecologica l, or economic proph­ets - feel man can save himself .Something can be don e; the worstmig ht be avert ed .

The ir pessim istic predictions only tak eon a Malthusian inevitability when werealize that men usually lack the chara c­ter and flexibility to make the necessarychan ges .

M anki nd won 't be forced to form agiant Nerolc str ing section and fiddle itsow n fina le, even though th e conductor' sscore calls for it .

As Heilbronner wrote, " If then , bythe quest ion ' Is the re hop e for man ?',we ask whether it is possibl e to meet thecha llenges of th e ' future without thepaymen t of a fearful price , the answermust be: No, there is no such hope. "

Heil bron ners favorite solu tion - a" no-growt h economy " - would run sodeeply against the personal interests ofso man y people that it seems unlikelywe will smoothly and voluntarily makethe swi tch .

" Therefore, " Heilbronner fears, " theoutlook is for what we may call con ­vulsive change ' - change for ced uponus by external events rather than by

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con sciou s choi ce, by catastrophe rath erthan by calculation .

" The problem is that the challenge tosurvival still lies sufficiently far in thefuture, and the inertial mom entum ofthe present industrial order is still sogreat, that no substantial vo luntary di ­munition of growth , much less aplanned reorganization of society, istoda y even remotely imaginab le."

But Heilbronner sees a possib le solu­tion through a ben evolent Big Brother:

" Candor compels me to suggest, thatthe passage through the gauntlet aheadmay be possible onl y under govern­ments capable of rallying obed ience farmore effe cti vely than wou ld be possib lein a democratic sett ing ."

Arnold Toynbee echoes this dis­tasteful solution: '" can imag ine theworld being held together and kept atpeac e in the year 2000 by an atro­ciou sly tyrannical dictatorship wh ichwould no t hesitate to kill or torture any ­one who, in its eyes, was a menace tothe unquestioning acceptance of its ab­solute authority ... If the reluctant rna­jority does accept th is dictatorship ... Ithink th ey will be making the rightchoice, because it would enable thehuman race to surv ive " (Surviving theFuture). .

Pessimism. Optimism. or Realism?

Mal thus. Heilbronner and the MITcomputer are only three - amongthousands - of the professional proph­ets of doom . The se pessimists anddoomsdayers have done us optimists abig favor. They've left us with the real­ization that civilization could fai l. Un­nerving as that feeling is, it may bebetter than believing that this mess wenow live in will continue to muddlethrough eternity.

The optimists had come to believethat man had devised what no otherspecies or age of man had the ability tobuild - a perpetual civil ization rna­chine - which; once set in motion ,would never cease functioning, leavingus free to behave in any manner wemight want .

Until modern doomsdayers made usstop and look around, we were rollingme rrily along in this perpetual civ­ilizat ion machine, unaware that we wereonly one smoggy breath awa y fromturning that del ightfuLcontraption into arusty hulk stranded by a' stagnant cess­pool . :

Perhaps it' s the height of realisticoptimism to speak of a post-doom sdayworld. That's where Bible prophecystands alone in its unbounded optimism.

"Israelite Prophecy"

With th e advent of computers, proph­ecy has come a long way, but w e'shou ldn ' t forge t that its tap root runsthree millennia deep . The world 's firstprophets were those called of God andsent to the nation of ancient Israel.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica state sthat " as a matter of historical fact , themost outstanding and influent ial pro-­phetic phenomenon, as far as Westerncu lture is concerned . was Israel iteprophecy" (1 970 edition ). An earl ierediti on even stated , " The Hebrewprophet stands alone among divinelyappointed and inspired men of any reli ­gion " (15th edition).

The authoritative textbook, A Surveyof Old Testament Introduction, goe seven further, stat ing: " The Holy Bible islike no other book in the world . It is theonly book which presents itself as thewritten revelation of the one true God ,intended for the salvation of man, anddemonstrating its divine authority bymany infallible proofs . Other relig iou sdocuments .. . may cla im to be thevery word of God , but they contain nosuch self-authenticating proofs as doesthe Bib le (for example, the phenomenaof fulfilled prophecy). "

Human Prediction

Uninspired men have been tryi ng topenetrate the dark vale of the future forcenturies. Ancient diviners in Egypt andMesopotamia examined the entrails ofanimals for omens concerning futureevents. Astrologers have studied theheaven seeking the same. Ancient

Greeks had the ir oracles , and medievalpalac es had their court magicians.

Today, although we still have di­viners , astrologer s , palmist s , andoracles of all kinds, the dubiou s art ofprediction is becoming more respe ct­able , more scientific, and , in fact , verymuch more in demand. Recent decad eshave witnessed the emergence of a newbreed of " prophets" called futuris ts .Their standard m ethod of prediction in­volves the identification of trends andthen extrapolating those trends into th efuture to show what probably will hap ­pen if trends are not interrupted.

But the strictly mechanical methodsof trend extrapolation hav e not provedvery successful.

If you would compare th e success ofthe biblical predictions of 2, 50 0 yearsago to those predictions mad e by scien­tists just 25 years ago , you would findthat Isaiah , Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Dan­ie l described the world of 1975 farmore accurately than did the scie nt istsof 19501

The "Modern Jeremiah"

The prophet wh o gav e his name tothe pejorative term , jerem iad, is seem­ingly back on the job after a 2,500-yearsabbatical, during which he apparentlyearned a Ph.D . in investigative journal­ism .

Foreseeing th e calamitie s to str ikeduring th e twentieth century , Jeremiahwrote, " A las! For that day is great, sothat none is like ~t :. it is t l)e time ofJacob's trouble; but he shall be savedout of it" (Jeremiah 30:7).

This typical " jerem iad" speaks ofdoomsday (as " Jacob' s trouble") , but italso sp eaks of th e posi tive post ­doomsday world (we " shall be sav edout of i t ')' The ent irety of biblicalprophecy is similarly balanced betweenthe good news and the bad, betweendoomsday and the wonderful world thatfollows it.

And as far as " modern Jeremiahs"go , the upbeat Jeremiah beginning inchapter 31 , ver se 7, deserv es the term" je rem iad" jus t as much as h isdoomsday counterpart in chapter 3D,verse 7.

Jeremiah th e optim ist wrote, " Forthus saith the Lord ; Sing with gladnessfor Jacob, and shout among the ch ief ofthe nations: publ ish ye , prai se ye, andsay, 0 Lord , save thy people, the rem­nant of Israel.

" Behold, I will br ing th em from thenort h country , and gather them fromt he coasts of th e earth , and w ith themthe blind and the lame , the woman w ithchild and her that travaileth with childtogether:- a great company shall returnthither.

" They shall com e with weeping , andwith suppl ications will I lead them: I willcause them to walk by th e rivers ofwaters in a stra ight way, wh erein theyshall not stumble . , ." (Jer. 31 :7-9). ,

The Bible conta ins more good newsthan bad news . Write for a free sub­scription to The Good News magazineand the booklet The Wonderful WorldTomorrow - What It Will Be Like . Af­ter you 've read them, we defy you tocall us " Prophets of Doom ," Instead,think of Plain Truth as the herald of thepost-doornsdav world - th e worldtomorrow. 0

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financial ly for both parties. A1~0 major med­ical setbacks , people who didn 't have themedi cal insurance to cover that emergencythat came along . How jmany. people canhandle a $50,000 cancer in their fami ly? .Easy credit is a factor - the temp tations ofeasy credit .

And , of course, recession and inflation.Many people who come to us were watchingit pretty dose. They were right on the line,and suddenly everything was ten to fourteenpercent higher in cost.PT: In our society, are people over-stimulatedto engage in credit buying?SB:. Some people are what -we call "credi­holies." I know of people who will 'say,"Let's go out and just have a day at theshopping mall ," for lack of anythin g else todo . We see a lot of this - the impul se buyer. .not sitting down and planning his needs , butjust walking by the store and saying, " Hey,looks great ." And he has the card handy.PT: Does credit buy ing help or hinder a per­son in the long run ?SB: I think that most economists wouldagree that the use of credit is a very impor­tant aspect of American life. It's really a verysmall percentage, in the long run, who eitherabuse the privilege or through misfortuneget into problems with the use of credit .PT: If someone is deep in debt, what oositivesteps can he take ?S8 : Immediately he should conta ct his cred­itors and tell them, " I'm having a problem ,I'm going through a divorce;' " I've just lost

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by Charles F. Vinson

If world population predicti ons come true, jumped from $500,000 per year to over $20food production worldwide must somehow million . Some of the increas e was due tobe expanded .to stave off inevitable famine. more intense coastal fishing. More signifi-Most estimates suggest that produ ction must cantly , the coastal ponds recently developeddouble in the next twenty years merely for in northe rn Java have ma de a tremendousnutritional standards to remain at ' their contribution "in the form of milk-fish and

. present inadequate levels. shrimp. A good pond will produce around-,At present 'rates land agriculture -v is ex- one ton of fish per hectare (2'12 acres), but

panding .more slowly than popu lation . In scientists tending intensely managed pondsaddition, future expan sion on a Jarge scale is have produced four times that figure.unlikely because most tof th~ world's arable . On ' -theJ"6ther" slde -of theJiorld,>~·rftish.~·

land is already under ·cultivation.-<- . - biologists have recentl y -had gratifying s'uc--"Th ese facts are nothing new _to scientists, cess in raising turbot from the egg stage

who for years have been searching for a through metam orph osis to the adult fish. Allworkable way out of the food vs. population was done in fish tanks, with a tremend ousnightmare. In the past many forward-look- yield per hectare of water. .ing agronomists put their faith in the 'oceans Aquaculturists have mastered the tech-as the salty savior of earth's malnourished nique of shellfish husbandry to a. greatermillions . The idea was promising because degree than for any ,other type of marinethe sea's bounty seemed lim itl ess. For life. In Spain, rafts trailing 20-foot ropes todecades the annual ocean harvest grew ....at which mussel larvae are attached produce 80double the population rate. . millio n pounds of meat per year .

But no longer . Today, overfishing and pol- The Japanese have long been ' masters of. lution have contributed to the depletion and oyster culture, wing an approach similar -to

virt ual destruction of some of the world 's ' the Spaniards: The y now average nearly 50richest fishing grounds. In 1975, the hungry . million pounds of oyster meat . per year perworld's demand for fish and fish products acre . The Austr alians are also significan twill be 107 million tons. Some scientists esti- producers, using the same raft and ropemate that the seas can support an annual methods. In the U.S., experiments in thistake of only 100 million tons . The fish stocks type of mariculture in the waters off Newcann ot replenish themselves from year to England are also proving successful.year if more.is taken . _ While offshore pollution is indeed a men -

To make matters worse, cooperation be- ace to the na tural fishing industry, one formtween major fishing nationsris practically ofeffiuent may prove to be a resource. Ther-nonexistent. Disp utes such as the Icelandic mal discha rges into the ocean have been acod war and the- Ecuadorian tuna tussle are point of environmental concern for somenot uncommon. Nat ions with massive fish- time, yet now the re is evidence that in someing fleets seem to care little about preserving areas the raised water temperatures maythe ocean' s bounty for future generations. pro ve beneficial to mariculture. Most mari-The idea apparently is to increase the annual culture attempts in northern waters weretake regardless of the consequences;" limited to the warmer months, because the

Today , the. only real hope of significan tly marine population is dependent on the natu-and beneficially increasing marine produc- ral nutrient concentration in drainage fromtivity - and overall world food production - rivers and estuarie s. Naturally, that nutrientdoes not lie . in the high seas, but in the content is higher insummer. \.shallows of the continental shelves . There , On the other hand, the thermal dischargethe fledgling science of aquaculture - or from a powe r plant is a source of warmmartculture as it is called when practicedin water, which enables the 'maintenance' ofsalt water - shows good promise of putting proper tempe ratures and water environmentmore food on tom orrow's table . - and thus food supply - all year round.

Assuming that offshore pollution and ex- This has proven profitable on Long Island ,ploitati on of coastal areas does not destroy New York, where mollusks such as oysterssuitable sites for mariculture - as famous are now being cult ivated year round on aocea nographer Jacques Yves-Costeau be- commercial scale, using the coolant waterlieves is happening - then mariculture has from the Long Island Lighting Company atthe statistical capability of meeting the long- Northport, Long Island. •term requirements of man's ' future meat- . Catfish are being cultured commerciallyprotein needs. _ year round at the ,fossil-fueled pow~r plant

Indonesia . is a case in point. In the past of the Texas Electric Service Co. at Lakefive years the Indo nesian fish harvest has (Continued on page J3. col. J)

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

We're told more than ten thousand people die every day from starvation.We arc told six million Jews died in concentration camps, while tens of millionssuffered agonizing deaths under the heel of the communist boot. Earthquakes,tidal waves , and floods in far away places cause death tolls numbering more thanhalf-a-million. .

Small in comparison (but nOI for any individual involved) is the tale of.carnage wrough t by the Los Angeles slasher, the . Boston bomber, and : th ehomicidal maniac sniper from a Tex as tower . Major d iseas es take the lives ofhundreds of thousands of people each year, and in the United Stales alone wemanage to 'destroy almost 50,000 lives a year on ' our highways in the hideouscrunch ofcrushing metal.

.Rampant crime in the streets; burglaries, kidnapping, and rap e ; corruptionin government ; a general mistrust of all persons in authority and a seeminglytotal breakdown of the fa mily unit - ,all these lead to a personal reaction ofwithdrawal into the self, a general disillusionment, a bitterness, a hopeiessfeeling .that nothing is going to tum out all right.

This entire scene is over laid with the most hideous and un imaginable,th ough seemingly inevitable, threat of -human extin ction from overpo wering

,S9UfP~..: ,~P-~.~,~ , ~o~!d.~~,e. :. Il~c~e~~~war. ~~:,.P?~~ati~~, ~.e~p~o~~~~,;.~l:i total..vpollutionofall life-giving resources, germ warfare, nerve gases ; etc .: . . ,

Is it any wonder that when.he foresaw the generation you and I are livingthrough, Jesus said, "Sin will be ra mpant everywhere and will cool the love ofmany." (Matthew 24 : 12, The Living Bible.)

In this milieu it seems hopeless to think that anyone can help . It' s every manfor himself, get mine while the getting is good , eat, drink,- and be merry, fortomorrow we may die . The personal reacti on of the vast majority only adds to thetotal trauma this genera tion faces . .

But who cares? What can I do? What can you do ? What can anybody do?Caring costs, caring hurts, caring frustrates.

But as with anything that is worthwhile, no matter what the cost, caringbuilds character tha t cannot be destroyed. Caring turns the mind and the heartoutside its self-interest Circle and makes what life we have richer. If things are asbad as they seem they are - arid in fact they are mu ch worse - then there isnothing to lose from offering love to the loveless, hope to the hopeless, and carefor those who may not even care for themselves.

So why not begin in a small way a nd exercise a little care muscl e - for your. wife, your husband, your children, your neighbors, your work associates andfinally, maybe, even the poor sick world as a whole .

Why not care?

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or that cigarette? Isn't it true there is no .taste, only smell? . ..,

Don't get me wrong. I'm on ly asking que s­tions. It ju st seems like comm on sense. Thelungs ~ere designed to purify the blood byexchanging wastes and carb on dioxide foroxygen. It's the most basic and vital funct ion 'of the human body : pulmonary circulati on.The body seeks to eliminate poisons, ye tsmo kers inhal e -directly into . their mouths ,throats , and lungs tobacco smoke con tainin g ,a number of noxious ingredients and poi­sons, .many of which are carcinoge nic. De- 'fensive systems and cleansing mechanismsare forced to work overtime in an effort tocope with the invasion. -,

Ofcourse, the human body is marvelouslyadaptable. You might be a smoker and liveto be SO, or 90, or even 100. But you probablywon't . More likely it will be a nonsm oker. "

Don't get me wrong. I don't care if yousmoke. It' s your life.;Fine . But as forme, I'mstill scared of fire. 0 .

by David Jon Hill

WhyNO~

Care?

about it. I don 't enjoy going to a restaurant. or riding public transportation and having to

breathe billowing cloud s of smoke. But if it·means so much to smokers, if it gives themso much pleasure, 111 gladly suffer for theirsake.. But 1 think the thing that galls me the

.. most is the hypocrisy of it all - cigarette adsshowing a fresh- faced , ruddy couple lappin gand splashin g in the water of a mountainstream amidst a green forest and a clear ,blue , vibrant sky with fresh, clean air. Whatdo cigarettes have to do with a fresh-faced ,ruddy couple splashing in the water of amountain stream surro unded by a green for­est, a clear, blue, vibrant sky and fresh, cleanair? Isn't cigarette smoke the total antithesisof fresh air?

And doctors who smoke? How can thosewho have dedicated the ir lives to the preser ­vation of life knowingly make a mockery oftheir own life to others by their examp le?

And ads telling us abou! the "taste" of this

- bly been out of deb t within two, three, fouror six mont hs.PT: But isn't bankrupt cy an easy woyO U! ofdebt?58: For fourteen years it's on your cred itreport that you filed bankruptcy. That makesit very, very difficult to establish credit againwith major department stores, banks , fi­nance companies and so forth . That doesn'tmean that you can't get credi t. There aresome of what we c3J1 " less than reputable"firms that will actually go to the banl:rupteycourts and will seek out the lists ofeverybody whohas filed bankruptcy to solicit for credit ac­counts . The reason they do this is that they cansell their merchandise for a much higher costto people who Can't use bankruptcy asa meansof escape. Because you can only file bank -rupt cy once every six years. •PT: Are people aware ofthe seriousness of ourtimes?SB: Well, I think there 's a great serio usness.We've noted, for exampl e, diat people arenow beginning to cut back o.n their cred itpurchases. The y're putting more money intotheir savings and loan accounts or their bankaccounts.

However, we don't see that too much withthe peo ple who come to our agency for help .The se people are the ones who have reacheda certain [expense] level. They don't want to

.give up anything.PT: Are you saying in effe ct that one of theproblems is a lack ofa spirit ofsacrifice?SB: Absolutely. 0 .

Confessions of a'Nonsmoker <.

my job." or, "I 've had a medica l setback."Surprising to ma ny. the creditors are human;they may ask, "Can you pay the interestonly?" or. "W hen do you think you' ll beab le to start your paymen ts agai n?"

But people hide. They skip payments, andthen they're in troub le. To communicatewith the creditors . I would say. is of para­mou nt impo rtance.

And one of the first things a person shoulddo isseek profession al counse ling.

And, let's say the problem is unemploy­ment . .Peo ple should find out what's avail­able to them throu gh government progr am s.It's very. very import ant to kno w what isavailable to yo u through the law.P'I': Do you fi nd that people in financialstraits cut the wrong thi,,-gs out of their bud ­gets?SB: When a person gets in debt, he begins tosay to himself, "Where can I cut back?"Oftentimes he makes the wrong choices . Wefind, for example, tha t the first thing cut outis life insu rance or heal th insurance .PT: Should people consider bankrup tcy ?SB: Thefederal bankruptcy laws, I think,are a good thing for those people who abso­lutely have to use bankruptcy as a way o ut,But one of my concerns is the many callstha t we receive from peo ple who ask us tohelp them file bankruptcy. And when wequestion -them a little bit, we find out thatthey're only $1,500 to $2,000 in debt. If theyhad come to Consumer Credi t Cou nselors,they could have set up abudget and proba-

by Ron :~;l::~,~:iii~~t~~~'tF~~te~;;;:~7;i :; jT;;~i~ti-;;IJ~''?n~t:;;f:tGuipt~lJi~k .~si;f,~, have ...never smoked a cigarette: . bulle t? Don't drop a 'drop of nicotine -on '. . ·

Never! I don 't say that in self-righteousness. your pet rabbi t an d don't smoke cigarett es -It's justa f~t. ~ the life you save may be your own,

When I was about six years old, I was Th ere was also the very practical consid-playing in thebackyard with a friend. We eratio n that cigaret tes cost money: I think athad cigarettes. J ust. childish mischief, we the time I was still more interested in buyingwere playing "grown-up." Maybe I thought I baseball cards. - .was Hump hrey Bogart . But . the wicked And my par en ts dido 't smoke, which was 'weeds were only in our mo uths. T hey a good exampl e. Anyway, it all seemed kindweren' t lit. . of silly - especially that fire dangling so

Jus t then my Mom came out. Saying close to. my lips. So I didn 't smoke, and Isomet hing to the effect of "C igarettes, uh?" wasn' t really ostracized. .'

- she rushed back into the bouse and soon . Now that I'm older , and ,hopefully evenreappeared with a match - a match , of all wiser, I've often wondered. "Why do adul ts,things. Seeking I _guess to traumatize me who ought to be older and wiser, smoke?" _againstsmoking for the rest of my life, she Having ab solutely no co mprehens ion .kind ly offered to light , my cigarette ." But about what makes cigarette smo ke so keen ,somehow, at that age, the' idea of smoke and I've asked friends: "Why do you smoke?"fire under my nose didn't appeal to me. The answer, almost universal, can be sum-Th at, and the fearof the unkn own; caused mafized in one word: "pl easur e... ·me to decide I ,sbould gracefully decline . I . ' ''But,' ~J would say, sta tistics from Reader'sthink I got ~ tongue-lashing anyway. Digest dancing in 'my head , " don't you know

Some years -later, as a teen-ager, it was that smoking.is bad for your health ?" t:"in" amo ng my peer group to smoke. Again, And the answer, again, is almost universal.it was "grown-up! ' And we'"all desperate ly It goes someth ing like th is: "We've all ge t-towanted to be grown up. But at the risk of go sometime. Look. I could get killed walk-being called a "j erk" and a "fink" and - ing across the.street tomorrow! '"cbicken," I decided to go the nonconform- To me, the answer seems to obfuscate theist route . For one thing I still didn 't like the whole issue. Sure, you could get killed cross-smell, the smoke and the fire. And 1 remem- ing the street. Maybe by the little old lady ofbered a parody I had read in M ad magazine Pasaden a, the terror of Colorado Boulev ard.about "Marlboro country," the local hospital And -Iighming could strike. The sky could ·cancer ward. Although it was .a satire, it fall . A million things could happ en.seemed to ,ring true. 1 guess, too, I was the But what if you don't get hit crossing theonly kid on my block who read Reader's street? Will the pleasure seem worth it if-youDigest. I didn't see how anyo ne could smoke end up dying of lung cancer in "Ma rlboro .afte r reading a Reader's Digest article against country"? You know, it doesn 't always hap -smoking . Quo tes like: " In pure fonn nieo- pen to the other guy. Probably most of thetine is a violent ,poison. One drop on a rab- people in cancer wards didn 't think it wouldbit's skin throws the rabbit into instant happen.to them .shock. The nicotine content of a trifle more Sure, smoking isn't the only reason . .But ifthan two cigarettes, if injected into the you' re a 'smoker, you've heard the statis tics. Ibloodst ream, would kill a smoker _swiftly. If won't bore yau with them. I won't evenyou smoke a pack a day, you inh ale 400 mention them . You know nonsmokers livemilligrams of-nicotine a week, which in a longer, so why knowingly shorten your life?

.single injection would kill you qu ick as a Don't get me wrong. I'm not condemning,bullet" ("·How Harm ful Is Smoking?" Our just asking questions . If you want to smoke,Human Body , The Read er s Digest Associa- it's all right with me. To each his own.tion, 1962, p. 147). I don't want to get glandular or red-faced

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tacks - by th e gre ateSt ·un leashi ng ofconventional f irepower th e world hadever seen surpa ssing even th at of W orldWar I!.

Viet nam split the leaders of the nat ion ­into two polarized groups, cha racterize das " haw ks" or " doves," and shattereda long tra dition of bipartisan support fora Presiden t' s foreign po licy .

Viet nam made. .military con scriptionand t he military establishment so un ­pop ular that both parties called for an"a llvolunteer" army .

Vietna m drained awa y billions of dol­lars and energy from giant domest icproblems. It raised consumer pri ces andworkers' wages - being financed

. through an inflated econ om y by govern ­ment p rint ing presses which w ere grind­ing out billions of pa per dollars. backedby nothing except w hatev er ' waningconfidence was left.

Vietnam cau sed th e gr eat est dissen tin American histo ry . ign it ing riots anddemonstrations on campuses, sen di ngdraft dodgers to Canada and Sweden.priests to jail , and part-t im e sold iers totrial. . , .

Vietnam dr ove President J ohn sonfrom the W~ite House and engenderedd istrust of lead ers and gov ernment.

Vietnam accelerated the growth of aco un ter-cu lt u re in America. w ith afr ightened, hopeless ';yo uth .tu rni ng todrugs, rock con certs , fr ee love , crime,and v iolence . It redu ced m eaningful de­bate to"sbOIl,!Lrtg ·.mil t cJ:\~ s •..bJllll\le~~tbosewno wore the 'flag and ,tho se w hobu rned it. The'hard hats arid the longha irs, the lelt and the right . the liberaland the radical. and th e yo ung and th eold all fought each other.

Vietnam inflam ed all th e strains inconte mpora ry America -.:,' betw eenraces . 'classes, :,'and 'generat ions, It di ­

. v ided America ns aga inst ' Am erica ns ashad not occurred sinc e th e Civi l W ar. Iteroded the authority and cred ibility ofour major institutions, not on ly th e gov·ernment and the mi lit ary but also bu si­ne ss, universit ies, rel igions and .eve nscience . The CIA and the FBI becam enot only suspect, but w ere also con -'vic ted by their own ad mis sion s.

In the beg inning of tne war Ameri- :cans '.thought we " had a 'purpose fo rfighting ln . Vie tn am - to hon or ourcom m itments, ' t o stop Comm unist aq ­gre ssion on a distant shore , to help ahelpl ess count ry. to su pport a " de moc­racy " and the' right of a free peo ple todecide in fre e elections the kj nd of gov.ernment the y want ed .

In the middle 'of the war -no oneseemed surewhv w e w ere fig ht ing . Atthe end of Am e r ican m i li ta ry i n­volvement. we knew it had been a co­lossal mistake. \

And now, the death throes of SouthViet nam hold us tran sfixed in horror . Allwe fought to pr event is happ en ing . The56 .000 Ame ricans who died did. infact . die in va in . The more than $ 170billion was money down th e d rain . Theprophecy - " your strength sha ll bespe nt in vain': (lev . 26 :20) - hascome to pass; the pr@diction was true.

To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill,.. Never have so ma ny paid so much forso little ." What a useless, heart-break­ing . mon umental human t ragedy w ehav e wrought . ·0

U.S . Bombing in To nnagesWorld War II: 2.057.244 tons ;

Korean War: 635,000 ton s; Indo­china Wa r: 7.100.0 00 tons .

Length of U.S . Invo lvementin Major W~rs

World W ar I : 1 vr. 7 mo .; WorldWar II: 3 vr., 8 mo .; Korea n: 3 yr.,1 mc .: Vietnam: 12 yr. .

amounts of ma npower and equipmentand that tank wariare was a sea sonalaffa ir limited to roadways.

But the lesson of Korea and the sageadvice of military leaders of World WarII were ignored by the policy makers of

.Washington. From ou r earl ier posture of ,_support for Ho Chi MiOh. we shifted 'tothe sup port of a corrupt gove n;ment inSa igon .. And so the war was joined . Dozens of

Vietnamese names now trickle .easiiyfrom American lips. Hundreds of thou­sands of our ci t izens have bee n there.Oa Nang . Ben Hoa. Cam' Ranh Bay.Hue . There are the memories of buddieswho die d there, the memories .of th e" liv ing roo m " wa r, fought on te levi sionbefore Americans at dinner time. th emem ories of Calley 's trial.

When Richard Nixon cam e to theWhite~ HoOse . Vietnam was " Johnson 'swar. " Quickly. it became " Nixon' s war "to the antiwar protestors.

Now, the w ar was being ' w ou nd .down. Gradual d isengagement , as theVietnamese t roops could take over bat­'t lef ield positions from their Am er icanbenefactors. became the rule of theda y. .

Skillful negotiat ions finally broughtabout the relea se of most POWs, and sothe long wa r w as " over: ' " PEACE After12 Years, It' the headlines said .

But t he fighting went on and on . Th e. only d ifference was ' those who w eredying were. ,Q.9t ,.American s,. Vietnamgraaua-"y, ~, becarnecrhird-paqe.: news:'Todav.t .u 's back on page ·one. '.Jt's th ecovet story- of our magazines .

The War Th at Cha ngedA People

Make no mistake abo ut it. Vietnamchanged America in many 'signif icantways,

Vietnam revi ved dormant yearningsfo r isol at ion from foreign , troubles:w hich is be ing cont inuously reflected inothe r areas , including attitudes towardAmerican support of Israel.

Vietnam destroyed America 's feelingsthat it possessed the " r ightness" tosolve the world 's problems. Our "right­ness " wassull ied by the screams of thedying under massive B·5 2 bombing at-

AMERICA'S·WARS

Battle Deaths. In Wo rld War I. 53.402 America n serv icemen were killed in act ion : In

World War II, the toll was 291.557. For the Korean War . 33 .629. an d inVietnam. 45.940.

Wounded in Act ionWorld Wa r . 1: 204.002: World '

War II: 670,B46; The Korean Wa r:10 3 ,2 B4 ; Vietnam : 303.475 .

The Cost of t he Warin Billions of Dollars

World Wa,r I: 2 5 .7 ; World War II:. 34 1; Korean : 54 ; Vietnam : 170 .

victories. no natio nal hero es, no st irr ingpatriotic songs: It w as a war w ithout anyclea r front - w ithout even a real"hcrnefrcnt." '...

Millions of Americans came to simp lyloathe the Vietnam war. ·As a whole .they wan ted it ove r . Finally. it may godown in history as a war started by thegovernment. and ended by the peop le.

.Gar ner Ted Armstrong

SPIIKSDUTI

All for NoughtStunned Americans may now refl ect

upon the exultant headlines followingformer President Nixon 's an nounce­ment that a peace agreement had beenconcluded w ith Communist f orces inVietnam. "The long war is over," theysho uted. " Peace after 12 years: ' theycrowed . " Peace?"

Th ough Americans were no lonqer" d irectl y " (a very debatable term . as

.. subsequent revelations tri ckled out to Warn ings Ig noredth e public) involved in th e Vietnam Pull ou t all stops - fight to win -st ruggle. .t he war conti nued unabated . f ight"to survi ve ~ fi ght to pr eserve de-Today, as we see th e incred ible night- mocracy? Sure . Americans have pro vedmare of human suffering and listen -to their willingness to do that. Fight to de-t~.~ .de~th , _cri,es . ,o,f an entire ,nati on; .as, '. stroy;~~,.enemy? Sure ., But i ' {lean..on "

. ' . -,:' ~' ~~Y1~~t~1~~S,~9~,,;rae~;~ 'J!'l';;~~ i"1~~,~. a.f}~?~ttt),~ ,~~.e~V?j, f6~c:.~ im ~tcf~h'~~conference,~~<...:.:::' dead ::-,as we "llsten,-appalled ;' to the eve s '.., t ab le?" Commit t ro o ps."piecemea l "to

~; w itness " acco unts of ' frenzied. panic- batt le? Fight ' for real estate you know::11,',': <st ricken mobs fleeing before the ad - your leaders will aba ndon tomorrow?

vancmq Communists; as we read of Fight as an extension of your govern.wh ole Vietnamese divisions abandoning rnents po licy or to prevent the " dom inohundreds of millions of dollars worth of theory " from taking effect?U .S .-made weapons to th e enemy and Americans don 't know' how to do

' tu rn ing theirquns on their ow n kindred that .in ma d sprees of looting or f renz ied ef- Ko rea shou ld have taught u s aforts at esca pe . we sho uld rellect upon bloody, painful lesson. .those head lines .a nd the events of the Evendurinq the later stages of World60s wh ich p receded them . W ar II , Ame rican commanders warned

By 1973, Vietnam had become one we m ust never beco me involved in aof , t he worst nig htmares of American lan d w ar in Asia . They knew, from fight-history. The United States hac been ing the elusive Japanese in' Burma thatheavily involved in Vietnam for about the jungles -of Sout heast As ia w ere as12 years - w ith the last five or six formidable an enemy as hostile armies.preceding 1973 lit erall y shaking ·the na- that they could gobble up enormoustion to ' its fC!.undations; . causing rev er- . r----'---------· ~berations which • . in t u rn . shook everynation on 'earth . By the time of thosenow ironic headl in es announc ing" war' s end ," th ere were no gr eat cele­bra t ions , no explosive national bell ring ­ing . The re we re no t icker-tape paradeswelcorninqreturninq troops - no realsense of sat isfact ion for a job " welldone, "Vietn~m was the war that changed

"Am erica . It changed us mentally. mer­all y , emotionally, and spiri t ually . It quiteliterally took as grievous a ' toll on theAm eri can home f ront as it did on theVietnam battlefront . It cost ' 46,000American l ives in com bat and another10.000 lost fro m other causes . It ha dcost $1 70 BILLION - financed by defi-cit government spend ing, w hich in turnpumped far too much money into theeconom y, which in turn direc tly led tothe st ifling per iod of " stagflation" wenow suffer . M oreover . it caused a griev ­ous wound to the spirit of Am er ica ,

It was a' war that p rodu ced no fam ous

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Janet P.,N ew York City, !'lY

Very "pleasant surprise! Although I'veheard of Plain Truth, this is my first en­cou nt er wi th it ; , i t's pr esently passin gthrou gh man y hands . Keep it coming!!!(Maybe turn down tbe "God" part 'a linle. )

Scott Joh nston,Indianap olis,~

I'm in the prin ting ,business, and I knowhow expensive the old form at must havebeen . Much more practical to switch to

. newsprint. Very good. Thanks.Marybeth Vaughn,

G en. Mgr .• Tyler Star, .Tyler, TX

1 wou ld -like to let you know how I feelabout the form at of the new Plain Truthmag azine . I'm sickened to tears, my heartis broken, my bod y is numb : I don't care ifyou prin t Plain Truth on kleen ex or thecheapest pa per that mone y,can buy, butlet) keep it the grea t magaz ine it was be­fore.

Look at how much space is Used in "Art _.Buchwald : Biring Your Own Bullet" ando ther stories and cart oon s. Wher e did the"God -insp ired writers of the old Plain TrUth

. go? I have the 'feeling that the -Plain Truthhas been degraded . . . . .

\.. Th e old Plain Truth and Good News _mag azine are the grea test writte n materi alin the world tod ay, other than the Bible.And I couldn't wait till they arri ved. But ;no", when Lthink of the Plain Truth, tearsand much sorrow come to my heart . . ' ~ ,...,.,

William John Drew ,Jackson. ~I

Now abo ut the oil - we have enoug h forourse lves. Accordin g to forecasts 'we don 'thave enough to keep sending it to the U.S.and still mainta in self-sufficiency. We havebeen a lot more conse rvation-minded thanthe U.S. - even to selling milk in re-usablecart ons and special bags.

What we have is .a neighbor who hasbeen gorging himself on his sirloin likethere's 'no tomorr ow. Having nearly don ewith it, he is now looking covetous ly at our

. carefully conserve d hamburger. And wedon 't like it. .

What am I doing in the U.S.? Studying.Do I plan to stay forever? Hell no. Up tillthen , I am end eavouring to make like a

. good citizen (I notice I'm trying hard er toco nse rve than a lo t of my Americanfriends), and I'm overpayi ng my taxes likeeverybody else.

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. :I would like .to tell you that you radi atespirituallY."l:Jn·,milIions of people and inspite- of the degener ation of humanity,ther e.are millions to who m you give mean ­ing 10 their lives by the Word of God.

Anonym ous woman ,. La Courn eve.France '

You have here one slightly miffed Can a­dian. In your issue, week ending Feb. Sth,you had an article on U.S.-Canadian rela­tio~ which ~~, of slipped on a couple ofpoin ts. For a Start, the so-called ','technical­ity'" about. the DES hormone. Twenty-twocountries (or thereabouts) have ceasedbuying American meat because of the ad­ditives. There was a joint 'agreement be.tween the ' U.S. and Canada tha t no DESwould be used. This "didn't sit too well withU.S. cattlemen, so they got their lobb ybusy and had it repealed on this side of the

·b? rder. .We simply don 't . want the crap - ' _and I mean the meat . .'

Incidentally, life expectancy is a yearhigher in Ca~da.~

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prevented . large-scale harvesting for fouryears . When peace brought fishing fleetsback into the area, stocks had 'replenishedthemse lves .re marka bly well. Size as well asquan tity was up dramatically. The same wastrue,after World War II .

Th is reple nishing of species is possible inmost if not all heavily overfished areas of theoceans.. Realizing this, many looked to last 'year's~aw of the Sea Co nference:'as a partial solu­uon-to the overharvesti ng problem . The pur ­pose:of the conference was to write a treaty

. for the developm en t of ocean resources as!I1~nkind's co~~on heritage - including.mIOeral exploitation, freed om ' of ' navigation

. ~nd pollution contr ol. .': _ Sadly, the outcome of the confere nce wasnegligible. Little or no agreement was forth ­coming between nati ons, mostof which wereunwilling to · coope rate in" the ' use of theirown designated patches of continenta l shelf.

So the rare of the' "sea cont inu es, andmany pOP':llar varietie s of free .swimmingfood fish - the choicest kinds - . have nowreached . their peak harvest or are now indecline. A nd because of pollution, the seasare shrinking in the ir na tural _capability toprodu ce food. .

It remains to be seen whether or not man­kind will learn to man age the natural 'foodresources of the oceans before they are gone .In the meantime, the -development of thescience of mariculture is one bright spot int he generally bleak world food crisis. 0 '--_'-_ _ -"_""- -'-- .:.-_.....:~:..::.:.::..._

by J . G. Cala nde r

Fish (C::'tin~~d from page 10)

Coloni'do City, Te xas. Yields there are re­ported to be the equivalent of 100 tons peracre per year with intensive feeding . ,

The Japanese, as usual , have been onestep ahead in the utilization of therm al sea"pollution. Shrim p; eel, yellowtail, seabream,ayn and whitefish are all participan ts in ex- .periments which have been carrie d on since1964 and which have proven successful forthe most part . -. .

Th e British commenced tests on the cu l­tur~ of plaice and sole -on an experimental

.basis ten years ago using the thermal dis­charge from a .nuclear plant'"in .Scotland.With some temperatur e control and supple­

_mental feeding; fish growth from the egg to aPh-lb. size and larger was attained in less .than two years. It takes nature twice as long.

Not aU types ofmarine life are 'acceptable10 all people. Some types are more nutritiousand healthful than others. Most people natu ­rally ,prefer to eat the free-swimming typesof fish, which unfortuna tely are difficult toraise in an aqu aculture situatio n du e to theirmigratio n and feeding h·abits. .

Because of this, many oceanographers arepressing strongly for much strieter contro lson traditio nal kinds of open-sea fishing.Even depleted stocks of fish can replenishthemselves rapidly if onlyleft alon e.

For exampl e, the Nort h Sea, oldest of Eu­ropean fishing waters, was badly depleted atthe outset of the first world war. Hostilit ies

AMODEST .PROPOSAL FORA DICTATORSHIPIN ITALY .

commented to my friend, "I . guess Ita liansdo n' t work in the afternoon ." He said, "No,you have it all wrong. Mo rning is when Ital­ians don 't work. Aftern oon is when theydon't come to work:'

Now, after four days in this land of robustred wine, pasta, and musical governm ents,I've finally learned to avoid anyone wholooks official. The whole Italian economy ison e vast waste land of pape rwork. Paralysis

ROME: As I boa rded the early morning ' is a way of life. Everywhere ther e is a fonnAlpine Express in Munich , bound for Rome, to fill.I got my first taste of .Italy . After a week of To cope with this morass of red tape I- nottraveling the trains of north ern Euro pe. I to mention the pasta _~honage. higher taxes,had become spoiled by the luxury and punc- price controls, wild dri vers, and all the othertuality of European tra ins. They were often bangup s of Italian daily ,life _ some local I have no qua rrel with your philosoph ypunctual to the second This Italia n train, businesses have installed a special expediter - I suppose I really agree with all you havehowever, departed thirty minutes late; and - the spicciofocco ndi -c whose sole du ty is ,to written (what I have read, that is). I am aour "first class" accommo da tions were de- brib e whomever need s bribing to get ,some- political conservati ve - real conserv ative -cidedly second ra te. Strike one . thing done. . and I have a strong religious conviction. . . .

The dining car was strike two. I had be- The idea ·has meri t, but why stop at the Beyond that, I canno t equate the "pov-come accustomed to the finest mea ls on priva te level? Wha t Italy needs is a "super- erty program ," the "a rms problem," the

. wheels, but when I asked direct ions to the sptcctafaccondt" who could get things done " energy crisis," the in terna tional " incomedining car ~n the Alpine Express, ,I got a "at a nation al level, someone who; miracle of . tra d e disp u tes, " th e "o il e m ba rgo ,"blank look and "whaaa ?". I finally found it: miracles, could get the mail de livered the ..women.s libera tion... the "United (?71)an un heated (be low freezing) cem ent- same year it' s sent. After all, when it takes Nat ions," " inflation," "s moking" an dfloored cattle car where a frantic Italian three years to get a pension check, you might plain old-fashioned hunger with the impor-(who spoke no Ge rma n, although we were as well get anothe r job . . tance of the gospel . . . . .in Gennany) sold tepid coffee and sta le It's time Italy gave up their cumbe rsome A hungry belly is a pitiful. painful, sadbuns. That was my breakfast and lunch dur- charade of democracy. Nobody takes the thing - granted. But please leave God, theing the nine-h our train ride. Italian government seriousl y anymore, least Bible, and Chri st out of it. Each shou ld be

Strike three goes to the Italian bureau- of all the Italians. Enough! Politics in Italy dealt with on its ow n term s. Your battl ecracy. Italy was the on ly nation in Buropev has .grown stale. Itali an prime ministers against social evil is good, but it shou ld bethat stopped us at the border, instead of com e and go soIast they don't havetime to labelled ju st tha t: a battle again st socialmerely sending a dep uty to examine our have their portr aits painted. much less hung . evil. Not religion . 'papers .while the train was in motion. So we Th is govern menta l.obscurity and bureau- Robert Crean,lost another. half-hour at the Brenn er Pass cratie bungling has reached the satura tion Yard ley. PA I write in response to your WHY NOT

showing our p assports. poi nt. Let's have a strong han d from some - column in the March 8, 1975 Plain Truth.As we switched cars in .v erona, we had where to pick ~p the pieces, someo ne who People who know G od, Mr. Hill, never

our second taste of the pro totypical. Italian would be recognizabl e if you saw his face in Robert L.Kuhn, your article is a master- pretend they are God.. .. Little children.~v~~. s~r:-:an~.,l ~~n:~d ~o cha~&e u.s. U:,a.~eI4 ~.~isto~ book:. , ,,., .'" _ piec~.! ~'The Politics of EterJlity" is the b~st ~ho ~re not ye t in,tun e with reali ty mi ght

......., 'C.ikt!~¥s ,Cm tot··Jlr~h)~~~~R'i*D;!:~f!ti~J ll~t ~ . ~~n~Y~I~I.!!~21£!:WI~,~~11>L~~~,9.;$~a~~ I .;;~; q~Jl~~~?~; ,I :~~ve ever ~~,ad ' '!F;''!.~~tC~rl~" ~. ;~~,agl!1.'?.: th~y, ~r;e :9~q2:,t\.?~1~ ~Eg;:~rs.~~..d~~'- I ;;;. ~l-~. ;..;;;~ ,·,~J'PO dvwail~~;""I.~OOO'fira' or" so. 'TfiereL,~as • '," ma n ments,),¥'carry" 'out ~.SocI~l't ~efonns.-)~n1i '''..nanny ISi,and;~hatfalse:rehglon ' IS, _Coula - ~. .they 'are :God ;ar~ ~ sometimeshocked~up In '~ ' -'' :: ' cnobody walttng m hne at the exchange wm- bedeck the landscape WIth hISpicture pasted .you make a leaflet or pamphl et of that asylum s, hop elessly lost fo r any cons true-dow, but the man behind the glass was on his newly built publi c works. Th is benign magnificent article? . . tive contributions to society. On ly people"bus y," shuffling one paper to one pile, an- duce could fulfill ·his transcenden t role as Mabel Bowles, whose:conception of God is small will sug- .other paper to the first pile, and back again . "t he rightful heir of Caesar" ·in a new Ro- Bristol, CO . gest to someone to pr etend he is God.

I waited for ten minut es, then began to man Empire. W HY NO T show a little courage and givemeekly ask for my, change. Five minut es No more weak unstab le center -left coal i- In your Plain Truth of Janu ary 1975, your readers some plain truth about G odlate~, he !ook~d up and lazily examined all tions masquerad ing as dem ocracy. Let a new p . 30 , you sta ted th at nobody else is and his salvati on through Christ? ...~y. Identlfi~tlon papers, before reluctan tly superspicciafaccondi lead the way back to . preaching the Word . I felt that was a D. E. And ersori,gtvmg me hr~. past glories. . strange comment, seeing that the Jehovah 's Evansto n, IL

I was lucky to get-any service. You see, it Who knows _ he migh t even make the Witnesses are preaching the Word of God,was almost qu itting time in the afte rnoon . I-. trains run on time . 0 in pr acti cally every cou ntry i n th e

world . . . . 'Also in Plain Truth of February 8. 1975,

p. 15, an art icle by Gerhard Marx -statesthat there are noministers in operation inthe atheistic "state of Albania . Well,_uponresearch, I was very mu ch surprised to findthat Jehovah's Witnesses are "working un­dergroun d"I n Albania to spread the truth,and in other Iron Curta in countries also.

Art Jeavons , .. . Kirtland , OH

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The March 31 cover of Newsweek maga ­zine depicted a severely injured Vietnamesebaby inthe arms of its mother. Although thesex of the child was not immediately obvi­ous , newsstands in Dallas chose to cover itup as if it were Playboy or Penthouse.

But which was the true obscenity, thechild 's nudity or the smeared blood, cakeddirt , painful bums, and open wounds on thebaby 's nude body? Could the good den izensof Dallas call this child "obscene" but thewar which injured it not' obscene? .Appar­ently so.

This upside-down morality is also evi­dent in movie ratings and textbook bum­ings. A movie showing the ,female form is R­rated; if a male caresses that form , it is X­rated; but if he chops her apart withswordor knife. it's G-rated. It seems America 'slove-affair with violence is exceeded only byits violent reaction to love affairs.

It's time we reevaluate the-meaning ofobscenity. How about this definit ion: ':O~­

scenity, noun ; that .idea, word , or actionwhich hurts another human being." Butsince most of us would 'rather make war thanlove, "obscenity" will continue to meannaked bodies and four-letter words - likeB-A -B-Y. O ·

The INCREDIBLEHUMAN POTENTIAL...

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describing this supreme angelic creation ~fGod , in Ezekiel 28.

Lucifer a Created Being

Actually, the entire <:<>Dcept here in/chap­ter 26 speaks of the ancient great com­merc ial city of Tyre . It was the commercialmetropolis of the anci~nt world , even asBabylon was the political capital. Tyre was'the New York , the London, the Tokyo, orthe Paris of the ancient world . The ancientTyre , port of the world 's shippers and mer­chants , gloried herself in her beauty, even asParis in our time . ..

Chapter 27 carries on with comparisons topassage s in the 18ih chapter of the book ofRevelation referring to a politico-religious

. leader to come (vs. 9-19).But coming to chapter 28, the theme

comes more completely to the time just nowahead of us, the same time depicted in Isaiah14, that speaks of the prince of Tyre, anearthly ruler . God says to the prophet Eze­kiel: "Son of man, say unto the prince ofTyros [actuaIJy referring to a powerful reli­gious leader to arise SOON , in our time], Thussaith the Lord God; Because thine heart islifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god , I sitin the seat of God [cf:I1' Thess. 2:4]. in themidst of the seas; yet thou art a man , and

. not God, though thou set thine heart as theheart of God: Behold, thou art .wiser thanDaniel ; there is no secret that they can hidefrom thee: with thy wisdom and with thineunderstanding thou hast ~oUe~ l~ee riches,

.' therefore ihussaiih theLord God; Because 'thou.hast set thine heart as the heart of God;behold , therefore I will bring strangers uponthee , the terrible of the nations . . . they shallbring thee down to the pit, and thou shaltdie the deaths of them that are slain in themids t of the seas" (Ezek. 28 :2-8).

What a Super Being!

But at this point, as in Isaiah 14, the lesser ·human type lifts to a greater spirit anti type .This is the same Lucifer .

Ezekiel the pro-phet continues:" Moreover. the word of the Lord came

unto me, saying, Son of man, take up alamentation upon the king.of Tyros , and sayunto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thousealest up the sum, full of wisdom , and per­fect in beauty" (verses 11-12). .

Please read that again! God would neversay anything like that of a human. man. Thissuperb spirit being filled up the sum total ofwisdom , perfection and beauty. He was thesupreme pinnacle, the masterpiece, of God's

. creation, as an individually created being,the greatest one in the almi~hty power ofGod to create! .

"Thou hast been in Eden the .garden of .God" (verse 13). yet he had inhabited thisearth. His throne was here . "Every preciousstone was thy covering . , , the workmanshipof thy tabrets and of thy pipes was preparedin thee in the day that thou wast created"(verse 13)., He was a created being - notborn human. He was a spirit , being - nothuman flesh. Great genius arid skill in musicwere created in him. Now that he bas becomeperverted in all thinking, acting and being,he is the rea~ author ~f modem pervertedmusic - of discordant . moans , squawks ,shrieks, wails - unhappy, discouraQedmoods. Think of all the supreme talent, abil­ity; and potential in a being created withsuch capacities. And all perverted! Allgonesour - all dissipated. turned to hatred, de­struction, hopelessness!

Yet, take courage. The awesome human

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potential, if we care enough about it to.resistSatan 's wiles and evils and discouragementsand to persevere in ,Got!:s- way, is infinitely

. superior and higher than Lucifer 's -:,'even ascreated, before 'he turned to rebellion andiniquity!

But continuing this particular revelationof the crucially important missing dimensionin knowledge :"Thou all 'the anointedcherub that covereth; and I have set theeso:' says God of this Lucifer . This takes usback -to the 25th chapter of Exodus , whereGod gave Moses the pattern for the Ark ofthe Covenant. The description begins withverse 10, and verses 18-20 show, in the mate­rial pattern, the two cherubs who were sta­tioned at each end of the very throne of Godin heaven - the throne of the government ofGod over the entire universe . The wings ofthe two cherubim covered the throne ofGod .

Trained at UniverseHeadquarters

This Lucifer , then, had been stationed atthe very throne of God . He was trained andexperienced in the administration of thegovernment of God . God chose such abeing, 'well-experienced and trained, to bethe chief executive in the administration.ofthe government of God over the angels whoinhabited the whole earth. .

Continue: ": .. thou wast -upon the holymountain of God; thou hast walked up anddownin the midst of the stones of fire:' Thisis not talking ' about any 'human being. Butcontinue: . ,

"Thou wast perfect in thy ways ,from theday that thou wast created , till iniquity [law- .lessness] was found in thee" {Ezek. 28:15).He ha~ complete knowledge; understanding

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knowledge , - even of results and con­sequences - this superb being, the highestthat even God could create , turned to rebel­lion against his maker - against the way thatproduces every good . He turned to law­lessness. He had been trained in the admin­istration of perfect law and order. As long asLucifer continued in this perfect way, therewas happiness and joy unsp~akable_£ver thewhole earth. There was glorious peace ­beautiful harmony, perfect love, coopera­tion, The government of God produced a ·wonderfully happy state - as long as Luciferwas loyal in the conduct of his administra­tion.

What Caused Angels' Sin?What caused the angels on earth to sin, to

tum to lawlessness? Certainly the ordinaryangels did not persuade this great super­being to tum traitor. No, it was in him thatiniquity was found ..But, after how long? Wedon't know. God does ' not reveal that! Itcould have been any 'number of years fromone or Jess to millions times millions .

And then , even after Lucifer himselfmade the decision to rebel and try to invadeGod's heaven to take over the universe , it isnot revealed how long it took ' him to per­suade all of the angels to tum traitor andfollow him .

,. I know the method be used. He uses' thesame method still today in leading deceivedhunians into disloyalty, rebellion, and self­centered opposition \against God's, govern­ment. First, he turned one or t,:"o to envy,jealousy, and resentment over an imaginedinjustice '-;-then into disloyalty. Then he usesthat one or two, like a rotten apple in a crate ,to stir up resentment, feelings of self-pity,disloyalty and rebellion in others next tothem . And, as each rotten apple rots thosenext toIt until the whole crate is rotten , soSatan proceeds. '

If, in the government of God today, the"rotten apples" are not thrown out earlyenough, they would destroy the whole gov-

,ernrnent. But, once thrown out of the crate , been offered the awesome potential of popu-they cannot do any more damage to those in lating and carrying out a .tremendous "cre·the crate . -, ative program th rou ghou t .t he enti re

But think how long it must have taken the universe . When they turned trait or on earth ,soured and emb ittered Lucifer to turn mil- their sin must" have also brought physicallions of holy angels into resentment, bitter- destruction to the other planets through outness, disloyalty , and finally open and vicious the universe , which were potentially andrebellion. It could have taken .hundreds, cond itionally put in subjection to them .thousands, or millions of years . This was all As God surveyed this cataclysmic tragedy ,before the first human man was created. he must have reali zed that since the highest,

All this happened after the original ere- most perfect being within ' his alm ightyation of the earth ; described in verse 1 of power had turned to rebellio n. it left GodGenesis '1.Verse 2 of this "creation" chapter . himself as the only being who would not anddescribes a condition resulting from .this sin cannot sin.of the angels . The events describ~d in verse And God is the father of the divine God2, therefore, may. have occurred millions of family . , .years after the original creation of the earth. .Notice John 1:1·5. Th e "Word" who was

The earth, therefore, may have been ere - "made flesh (verse 14) has existed always -ated millions of years ago. But continue this from eternity - with the Father. God thepassage in Ezekiel 28: "By themultitude of Father has creat ed all thing s - the entir ethy merchandise they have filled the midst of universe - by him who became Jesus Christthee with violence , and thou hast sinned : (Eph . 3:9; Col. I: 16-17).therefore I will cast thee as profane out of When Jesus - was on earth, he prayed to

.. the mountain .of God: and I will destroy God, his father in heaven . The Father spoke{remove] thee , o covering cherub, from the of .Jesus as "my beloved son , in whom I ammidst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was' well pleased." Jesus lived on earth as alifted up becauseorthy beauty, thou hast human, tempted in,all points as we are, yetcorrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy without sin.brightness : I will east thee to the ground. " . The fourth word in all the Bible is "G od"(verses 16-17). At this point the context" re- (Gen. 1:1). And the original Hebrew word isturns to the soon-to-appear, human, rel i- " Elohim," a uni-plural noun like the wordgious-political ruler - of whom the prince of family . church , or group: The fam ily is G od.ancient Tyre was a forerunner. There is one God - the one family, but

Earlier in this installment, 'I showed you more than one person .how physical destruction, ugliness, and dark- dod saw that no being less than God , inness had covered theface.ofthe·earth, as the the God family , could be certainly relie d onresult of the sin of Lucifer (who is now the never to sin - to be like God -c- whc canno tDevil) and these"angels that sinned" (now sin . To fulfill ,his purpose for the entire vastdemons), and how in six days God had re- universe , God saw that nothing less than 'newed the face of the earth (Gen. 1:2·25). himself (as the Go d famil y) could .be, abso-

But why did God create man on the earth lutely relied upon to carry out .that supreme

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uman minds.rthe "mind-of humans-made in his imageand likene ss, butGod, only inferior and limited. God made made first from material flesh and blood,us in his image , after his likeness (form and subject to death if there .is sin there - ' yetshape), only composed of matter instead of with the possibility of being born into thespirit. But God says, " Let this mind be in divine family fathered by God the Fath er,you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. God saw how this could be don e by2:5). We can , to some degree, think even as Christ, who gave himself for that purpose,God thinks. How must God have looked at And that is why God put man on thethe situation, as p:e started renewing the face earth. That is what caused God to do [hisof the earth - after the colossal debacle of most colossal, tremendous thi-ngever under-the angels? taken by the supreme, almight y God .

He had created a beautiful, perfect ere- In Part V will appear an eye-opening, sur-. ation in the earth. He populated it with holy prising explanation of the super-col ossalangels - probably millions of them , He put PURPOSE! 0 _ .over then, as kings, on an earthly throne, thearchangel c- the cherub Lucifer . Lucifer wasthe supreme masterpiece ,of God 's 'creative 0power as a single separately created spirit BL ODY BABY BANNEDbeing . He was the most perfect in beauty,power, mind, knowledge, intellect, wisdom ,within the almighty power of God to create .God can create no highe r or more perfect.

Yet this great being, knowledgeable,trained and experienced at ' God's ownthrone in heaven over the universe and theadministration 'of the government of God,had rejected that government, corrupt in hisown way, rebelled against administering oreven obeying it. He had led all his angelsastray and into the sin of rebellion and dis­loyalty.

Now consider further. Apparently the en­tire universe had been created also at thetime of the earth's creation] There is no evi­dence either in God 's revealed ' Word, nor inscience that any of tbe planets in endlessouter space had been inhabited with , anyform of life. But God does nothing in vain .He always has a purpose.

Apparently all such planets in the entireuniverse NOW are waste and empty (tohuand bahu) like the earth was, as described inGenesis 1:2. BUl God did not create them insuch conditions of decay - like our moon .

. Evidently if the angels had maintained theearth in its-original beautiful condition, im­proved it, carried ou~ God's instructions, andobeyed his government, they would have

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BRITAIN-SINKING WITH FLAIR

Telly Savalas, TV"tough New Ycrk .po­lice ace, Kojak, recentl y took up residen ce. inLondon: Interview ed for BBe tele vision ,Savalas was asked why be had decided tomake Britain his home when the future of .~.

the nation looks so bleak . He answered thathe had a certa in admiration for the Britishpeople. He liked thei r style -:--·theirfl qir!

Some flair! The nat ion is now livingbeyo nd its means to the extent of 6p in everypound. Everi'Dicken's Mr. Micawber, whenhe oversp ent by 6 old pence in every pound,was living beyond his means by only 2.5 newpence!

And nowada ys, unlike Mr . Micawber,who in the end immigrated to Australi a tomake good , the nation no longer has a Com­monwea lth that will save her in her hour ofneed - an hour of need which cou ld welltum into an hour of desperation if, in a finalfit of "flair.." the British people vote to leavethe European Community in June .

- _Mcanwhile~ In the face of massive in-- flation a nd- the threat of unreasonable wageclaims, the' government - in true_socia tist- ·· ·sty le - relies upon "a more equ itable dis:persian of wealth" as part of its effort toappease the unions. Magnanimous prin ­ciples, but with no new wealth being created.dispersion is the right word - dispersion tothe winds!

No wonder lead ing commentators areclaiming that the politician s are simply re­arranging the deckchairs on board the Tita ­nic.

That's flair. 0

.. .60,000 Deaths

Th e Nat ional Resourc'es Defense Councilclaims that continued buildup of aerosolpropellan ts in the atmosphere is depletingthe ozone layer that shields the earth ~rom

ultrav iolet radiation and is increasing therisk of radiation-induced skin cancer. Thecouncil asserts that within 20 years the'ozone

, layer may-be dep leted by as much as 16%resulting in 500.000 to 1.5 million addi tionalcases of skin cancer and 20,000 to 60,000dea ths annually.

'The irony," says famed astronomer andex-biologist Carl .Sagan, "is that every sprayof your deodorant may contribute to an at­mospheric catast rophe . . . we may be thebest smelli?g dead me~'in history -"

Oth er Dangers

_:. T.he£..a:~_c_ts .~f increased radiation on vege~tation .are lessclear. Some .p lants appe~ .tohave their growth ' retarded wh~~ they "areexposed to increased .ultraviolet radiation.An increased inciden ce of mut ation has beenobserved in certain experimental strains; andthere are some indications tha t increasedrad iation 'will interfere with the growth ofplankton in the ocean. Ozone ,dep letionmight also produce climatol ogical effects.An increase in ultravio let radiation might,for example, lead to an increas ed melting ofpolar ice. Alternatively, a redistributionof ozone in the atm osphere might leadto a reduction in average global tempera­ture .

SST' s and Nuclear BombsThe potential danger s from SST's and nu­

clear explosions are staggering. Both the SSTand nuclear bomb s inject nitrogen oxides

. into the atmosphere that can significantlyreduce the protect ion afforded by the ozonelayer.

. A (SO percent increase in nitrogen oxid esmay decrease ozone levels by between 7%and 12%. T his would result in a 14% to 24%increase in potent ially hazardous ultravioletradiation reaching ~e earth's surface.

Scenario or Disaster?

Vet before mankind lapses into hysteriaover «Ban the Bomb," (pun intended) per­haps we should remember the story of ca r­bon monoxide and carb on dioxide . The secomp oundsi--. being spewed out from ourindustrial society with its prodigi ou s con ­sumpt~on of fossil fuels - were. supposed totrap sunlight in "the greenhouse effect,"cause an overall heat ing of the earth .

But ~ this has not occurred. Rath er, theearth seems to be coolin g down of late. Car- .bon monoxide and dioxide are apparently

, having little effect, ot at least are beingcounteracted by some opposing processes.

The point is that not enough is yet knownabo ut jhe functioning of our atmosphere orabo ut the production and destructi on of oz­one: The earth's sophisticated life-supportsystem often has a remarkable capacity torecover from even the most ill-conceivedblunders of mank ind , and qui te possibly aweakened "ozo ne filter" will allow the pro­duct ion of ozone at a.' significantly higherrate. After all, ultraviolet light is directl yrespon sible for producing ozone in the firstplace! Perha ps the whole system has a long­term negative feedback stability. .

On the other hand , aerosol s have probablyalready 'doomed more people than were

Catastrophic Cata lysts killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiro- .

Yet the most alarming 'threat is p~obably ~~~~a\~h.~~~eat is very real , and it's notthe.aerosclcan.. . ... . , ,' .':' . .,H '" i 'r ,?;l··· .. J . , . J , . _ .. . .oJ ,'<.11'·" 1;0 . ' 1' l

~~~he"'3.erosol~propellants""a:re largely-in-enw- - I.Vle ,..are ·+b·talkmg . """, s ays· space · scien IS •

chemical reactio n and have generally been Thomas M: onah~e, " about ~?e end of theassumed ,to be harmless. In certain cases, world - doomsday In 25 years. .however , where ultravio let light causes de- . Aerosols? <?zone? D.oom~dar? The Ironycomposition, a '.'catalytic" reac tion can occur IS ~verwhelmIDg: the implications are POl-in the atmospbere which destroys ozone . gnantly proph~t1c. Our Aerosol ,Armaged-

An estimated 10 billion pounds of aerosol .don ~ay yet cc;me to pass, not with a ban g.gases are already present in the atmosphere but With a pssst. 0and every year nearly a billion additional -r-__

pounds are being dissipated into the envi­ronment from spray cans and industrial ap­plications. The result is a growing concernthat the ozone layer may be markedly re­duced over the next two decade s. . .

by Robert Ginskey

Nuclear War, Energy Crisis, Food Shortage, and NOW...

AEROSOLARM"AGEDDONWh at do supersonic transports, aerosol

sprays, and nuclear weapons have in com­mon? All produce chemical agen ts capa bleof penetrating and decompo sing the protec­tive ozone in the earth 's 'atmo sphere. With­

. out the ozone , all living thin gs. could diefrom exposure to the worst of the sun's ul-travio let radiation. .

The chemica l agents in quest ion are ox­ides of nitrogen, released in to the upper at- .mosphere by the jet engines of"supersonictransp orts (SST' s) and by nuclear explosions,and free chlo rine, derived from propellantsused in aeroso l ca ns. Relat ivel y smallamounts of these agents are sufficient to de­stroy large quantities of ozone , itself an ex­tremel y unstabl ~ mole.cul~.

Orval B. Berton

Let megrow lovely growing old - .So many fine things do;Laces and ivory, and gold ,And silks need no t be new ;And there is healin g in old treesOld streets a glamour hold; •Why may not I, as well as theseGrow lovely, growing old?

Grow LovelyGrowing Old

by D. P. Wainwright

by Dennis G. LUk~r

Religion'in Australia'

attitudes have remained with modem Aus­tralia: and have produced a less religiously'inclined nation of people, when compared toAmerica , Canada or the -average Europeancountry. -

Although the population generally is verysecular , surveys reveal that a majority ofpeople hold to some sort of morality. The

Churchesare not v~ry important to mo~t Golden Rule , "do unto others as you wouldAustralians. Even thou gh 87 percent of the have them do unto you," could be inter-population officially claims a religious be- preted as an expression of Australian " mate-lief. only about 25 percent attends church. ship" - treat ing others as a " mate" orAttendance is far less than in Canada (44%) "buddy': and giving them a "fair-go:' Aus-and Americ a (43%) but more than in Britain ." tralians are basicall y humanists, believing in(20%).,The major denominations in Austra- the dignity of man and the value of human life.lia are Church of England, Catholic, Meth- ,;The traditional concepts 'o f Q risti'!-nityodist and Presbyterian - in that order. The are accepted , but contrary doctrines are re- _more religiously ' em otional e v:_~ngelical jected. As one Austral ian writer put it, " Hellgroups, like Bap tists, are not strong in Aus- has been abolished as unfair to underdogs. Iftralia ( 1.4% of population compared with thereIs a happ y eternal life, it's for every-16.7% in U.S.). one. The concept of evil is uri-Australian:

Austral ians love their personal freedom One must look for the good in people ." , .... a<

and independence, and many of them feel Recent surveys in Austra lia show thatreligion might interfere with something they church attendance is declining, especiall ywant to do. There is definite opposition to among young people . Reasons mos t often" Bible bangers " and " religionists," generally given for not attendi ng were "lack of inter-

. called "wo wsers'' in Australia. Until fairly est," "too busy," "more interested in sport ,"recently, "wc wsers" were politicall y influen- "services too dull " and "too much hypoc-tial, and they attacked drinking, gambling, risy,' Th ese answers hit at the root of thesmoki ng. and sport 00' Sunday s - pleasures problem. Religion in the church es today justand pastimes the average Australian espe- does not offer what the average 'Australiancially enjoys. . . wants - something challenging and inter-

Aust rali a ; un like America, was not esting, something that gives answers tofounded by religious people seeking reli- " today's problems and a purpose in life thatgious freedom . The first settlement in 1770 fits theAustralian. concept - a "fair-go" forwas mo stl y made up of convicts from everyone . · .England, not religious pilgrims . Subsequent Traditional religion in Australia is sterile.immigra tion did not change this, so Austra- It will die unless the churches get back tolia's early development was witho ut reli- teaching the Bible and the true prin ciples ofgio us mot ivati on. Ea rly tr adition s and " mateship" reveal ed in that book . 0

.Christian Psychiatry

Not so with a Christian. The first stagewhen God dea ls with an individual is thesame as taken by the psychiatri st; Goddrives the individual into his neurosis (ormental problems) to the point where he is

When a Chris tian friend of mine recentl y forced to face his real self and become dis-visited a psychiatrist," he was . surprised to gusted with it.find that prayer was recommended as part of _ But now the difference is that futurethe treatment. Not that the psychiatrist be- strength in life comes nor from boosting thelieved in Go d, but he felt that if his patients ego and rebuild ing a wreck, but from aban-had such a belief, prayer could he of some doning the wreck of your previous humanther apeu tic value. . existence ana beginning to assume the char-

It's no coincidence that increasing reliance , ~ter of a totally different person: Jesus Christu~n psychiatry has generally paralleled an .ThisIs what Paul means when he Says, "'I amovera ll decline in the effectiveness of trad i- crucified with Chri st : nevertheless I live; yettional Christianity. -' .not l, but Chri st liveth in me" (G al. 2:20).Such

However, disbelief in God has not solved an individual can live with a minimum of the• society's mental problems. It has only' given normal defense mechanisms since his main

the psychiatrists a great deal more work to . concern is no longer to protect the ego .butdo. rather to allow';it to be replaced by the characte r

What many.people haven 't rea lized is that of Christ : This does not, however, elimina tether e are many similarities between the way theindividua[personality~utratherei:1bancespsychia try commonly ' trea ts neuro sis and the talent.,charm and vitality of the person bywhat the Bible advocates in such a case. The freeing him from the burdens of vanity, jeal-ultimate "cure" for the Christian, however, o usy, lust, and greed . .is totally different from the ,results the psy- The psychiatrist, often without realizing it,chiatris t often achieves for his patient. brin gs the mentally disturbed individual

A ~lk I..had with a clinical psychologist in close to a point which would be called "re-private practice exernplifiesa fa irly standard .. pentance" in ,theo logy. But .then instead ofapproach in treating menta l pro15letns . Nor- -offering ;the p8:tien t a brand new tire. hemal therapy is to drive theIndividual into . h~fl(t~.hi~'aretread. .0 , . i. .,.--:....-'0his neuro sis to the point where he is forced ' ,to face the way he really is. So far so good .The patien t is encouraged to become re­pelled by his style of living; he becomesgenuinely sick of himself.

Once this stage is reached he is shown thathe is now free to fulfill his real potential. Heis encouraged to recogniz e his unique tal-ents. .

From then on the process is one of build­ing up the ego of the individual so that hecan begin to fulfill this potential. With suc­cessful treatment he becomes a person whois hum anly capitalizing on the valid and nat ­ura l talents he has.Cur~ complete.

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