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THE MOST DANGEROUS CHILDHOOD DISEASEATALE OF TWO GERMANIES


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THI "MISSING OIIINSION".IN10DeATION-

AAmbassador College, pasadena.. opened its doors for the 29th consecutive year, I was moved onceaga in to recallthe amazing growthof this Work .Few realize the magnitude to whichthi s worldwide Work of God has grown.It is now a major-scale educational program worldwide. . IActual ly , the Work started in 1934with j ust me and my wife.The college, with an undergraduate

curriculum and students in residence oncampus, was founded later in 1947 withfour students and a facu lty of eight.Today there a re two campuses andabo ut 1,400 students.But much larger in size and power ofimpact is the extension program of the. college. This is, in itself, a huge industryworldwide. It is an in-the-home educational service for all peoples.Today th e sun never sets on our offices, plants, and operations around theworld . Our employed staf f now reachesinto the thousands and its expendituresinto the multiple millions. .

It is the intriguing story of making themissing dimension in education availableto millions of people. It is the successstory of something never done before of a .huge educational enterprise worldwide - seemingly incredible, yet an acoomplished and l iving fact . And I didn 'tbuild or accomplish it. No man could!Here, in bri ef condensation, is thestory from its beginning. .I had experienced an uncommonearly.tra ining in business, in the specificfield of jo urnalism and advertis ing. Th isled to catching the vision of the missing

.sickening oonditions of pover ty, ignorance , filth and squalor, starvation , disease a nd dea th in the l ives of more thanhal f of all the earth's population - insuch countries as India, Egypt , and in somany areas in Asia ,A frica, South America - not to speak of some areas equallywretched here in the United States andparts of Europe:But WHY? To me it d idn 't make sense.For every effect Ihere had to be a CAUSE.I didn 't know the CAUSE. Nor was itrevealed through edu cation.The n, at age thirt y-five, I was challenged and angered ' into an in-depthstud y of evolution and of the biblicalaccount of special crea tion. I studied thewritings of Darwin, Lyell, Huxley, Spencer, Haeckel and Vogt. I research ed intoscientific evidence for or against theexistence of God. From all sources, I he is going, and the WAY to this tran-found absolu te proof, to me, of the exis- scendent potential, of which educ ators,. tence of. God and the autho ri ty of the scientists and theo logians seem whollyBible. I fou nd absolute proof, to me, of unaware.the falsity of th e theory of evolution. I found revealed the factth at the veryAnd I found, of all places, in the Bible fo undation of education to fii one forthe ANSWER to the question of all the happy and successful living is being toworld's evils. tally ignored. Th at foundation is aware-I learned wha t it seemed neither ness of the purpose of life, knowledge Ofscience. education nor religion had dis- what man is, recognition of the true val-covered , that there is in livin g, in- ues as opposed to the false, and knowl- .exorable moti on an inv is ible spiritual . edge of .the WAY which i s the CAUSE ofLAW that regulates all human r el at ion- every desiredeffect. That knowledge isships. I learned through this the ca se of the ,dimension-that is missing in' today 'sall world ills. education. :The living, but invisible, spiritual law Thi s 'lew knowledge resulted in a se-is simply the on e WAY OF LIFE that is riesof lecture s in and near Eugene-O rediametrically contrary to the way hu- gon, in .the summer and autumn of I g33.manity has been traveling. It is the way : Response was spontaneo us. Later, an inof love instead of lust, the way of giving, . vitation followed to speak on radio stasharing , serving, and helping, instead of tion KORE. F rank Hill, the owner,

achieve on-the-scerie coverage. Firsthand .informati on and opinions aregained through personal , in-depth inter viewswith world leaders and those making tomorrow's headlines.One month after The World Tomorrow broadcast was born. Plain Truth. onFebruary I, 1934, mad e itsmost humblebow - an 8-page mimeographed"magazine" print ed by use of a borrowed typewriter on a mimeograph, theuse of which was donated by the localmimeograph sales agent. I was the compositor, Mrs. Armstrong ran the press -rby hand - and she kept the mailing listby pen and ink.Th at .first edition consisted of approximately 175 copies. The total cost of thestencils, ink and paper was probahly lessthan $2.From that almost infinitesimal begin


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Sbo rne by the po or in the form of higherpri ces in the goods they imported fromthe rich .Ou t of the Soup KitchenAmong the specific demands of the

Third World are :- At least on e percent of th e GNP ofrich nations to go for foreign aid .- More power to expropriate (withoutpaying market pr ices for compensation )mu ltin ational co rporatio ns.- The suspension or cancellation ofthe debt Th ird World nations owe dev eloped nations.The Wall Street Journal notes that suc hproposals amount to se tt ing up an in ternation al welfare syst em - a "s oupkitchen" approach to helping poor nations .In such a system , handouts take theform of development grants, low interestloans, fiat creation of int ernationa l exchange. as well as d irect aid . Wha t theTh ird World reall y needs , the Journ alpo int s out . is also what the rich nationsneed : f ree t rade , jo b opportunities. ca pi-

IIThe rising cho rus of demands on thepa rt of the world 's poores t nations maysoo n become the major diplomatic problem confronting the industrialized nationsof the West andJapan .A recent ser ies of international centerences has al lowed the numerous have

not nations to renew the ir ca ll for a " newworld economic order," wherebymuch ofth e wealth of the industria l pow ers wou ldbe transferred to the "developing nations " of Asia. Africa, and Latin Ameri ca .Meetings of the International MonetaryFund . the World Bank. a group of 82"n on -aligned" nations, and the UnitedNations Special Assembly have a ll pro vided co nvenient forums for the ThirdWorld to air its belief that industr ial nation s shou ld reduce the ir standard of liv ing so the poo r can raise theirs .To paraph rase the prophet Joel , theweak are now saying . " I am strong " (Joel3:10) .

Through colonialism. the rich nat ions,it is cha rged , ruthlessly exploited thepoor ones .Upon th is be lie f and upon the assertion tha t the ri ch nations have brough traw mater ial s fr om the po or at low pr icesand so ld them back manufactured goodsat high pr i ces restst he th ird world 's case .But the history of colonial ism is by nomeans undisputed . European auth or Erikvon Kuehnelt-L eddt hn po in ts out th at,con trary to popular belief. European col onies were rarel y paying. propositions.For the most part . European countriespo ured mor e money into their co loniesth an they got out of them. Furthermore ,non colonized areas suc h as Nepal, Bhu tan , Afghanistan. or Eth iop ia haven'tdone any better econom icall y than theircolonized brethren .Needed: Free TradeThe other half of the Th ird World argu

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THE NEW "CIVIL WAR"As the poor nations arise (se e cover ) , anorth-vs.-south " war between the states" seemsinevitable.

THE MOST DANGEROUSCHILDHOOD DISEASEChild abuse is rampant . The only answ er is toch ange the parent. Parents Anonymous isfu lf il li ng that need.

A TALEOF TWO GERMANIESOur Bonn co rrespondents compare conditionsin East and West Ge rmany a generation altertheir div ision .

THE HIGH PRICE OF PEACE" Lasting peace ," write the experts, " is probablyunattainable ." Furthermore , it would be moreexpensive than war!

A BUCHWALDIAN BICENTENNIALIf the Declaration of Independence were televi sed , it wou ld fi rst need to be censored ,reports Art Buchwald .


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German marks, which is on lyabout $2 ,400 to $3 ,500 . Butshould an East German workerwith an average monthly incomewant to bUyone 01these roilingluxury items, he would have topwt aside th e entirety of hismonthly salary for the" com ingtwoto three years, Notonly this,but he would have to wait5 to 8years for the car to be -delivered .So some people order a.new carat the time they get their "old"new one delivered .While basic foodstuffs are , ingeneral, not very expensive. the people have to pay very highprices lor "ju xury " loods. Twopounds of a medlum-qradecoffee, lor example, cost about 70marks ($10), a bot tle 01American whiskey 80 marks (about$12) . Prices lor housing, .co a l,public transport , and ce rtainother basicnecessit ies are dellbe ra te ly kept very low. Medical. and dental services are generallysupplied free. .Even with all these advantagesan East German family can onlyexis t if both a dul ts have a job .This is because the average in

come per worker is about 850East German ' mar ks a mon th(about $125). / ,The attraction and appeal 01Wes t Ge rmany seems t o besomewhat less than i t onc e was.East Germans are livi ng reasonably well now , and in some ways

Across theOder-Neisse,.Life Is BetterNowPlain .Truth correspondent inBonn, Wolfgang Thomsen, re-cently took a tirsthand look atconditions in communist EastGermany. Here is his report.. I f you shou ld meet an old acquaintance aga in a tt er , say ,about 13 years , you might ' notewith pleasant surprise a mellowin g in at ti tu de or an i n t e r e s t i n gchange in his behavior. Thesame changes can occur In nat ions as wel l. One could takeEast Germany - the German-,Democratic Repub lic, o r GOA as a good example .Recently, when I crossed thebor der into t he GOR f rom WestGermany, I notfced that thepeople's pol ice, or Volkspolizeland the cus toms off icers handled their duties in a far morerelaxed and Iriendlymanner thanwas the case over a decade ago .Many West Germans are .taking advan tage of the more relaxed atmosphere prevail ingbetween the two German ies ,West Germans are now permit ted to use their own cars ,tovisit their relatives dwelling in theEast. Prev iously tney had totravel by train to the ir destmation ; on ly In rare ' occasion scould they tra,

Three decades after I tscollapse and unconditional surrender InWorldWar II, the Ge rman'nation, though dividedby the Iron Cur ta ln, "Isplaying an increasinglycrl tlcal role in Europeanaffairs. Two Plain Truthcorrespondents In ' ourBonn ottice lake a lookat condlllons In bothEast andWest.Gennany.

Pressure from WithoutGe rmany's inward reluctanceto go to the head of the class,strengthened by the poorlycamouftaged hostility of neigh

bo rs such as France, has up tonow squelched any Germanpower-thinking in the bud. Yeta significant, unexpected faciorhas come in to play: pressurefrom without, from close allies

constitute the world's largestnat ional sav ings account atpresent - twice that of theU.S.A. and larger than those ofGreat Britain, France, and Italycombined.But world financiers envy 'theBonn government's skillful handling of the pre sent .recessioneven more than its considerableassets. Bonn's trouble-shootingtrio of Chancellor Schmidt, Finance Minister HansA pel andEconomics Minister Hans Fride richs could boast of a 6.5%rate of inflation at the end oflast year, lowest in ~ Westernworld. And, despi te a 22-yearhigh of over one million unemployed, large-scale social conflict is nonexistent (largely dueto cooperative unions).

Suspicious Neighbors_"Yet Germany 's long-runningWirtschaftswunder has triggeredno corresponding politicalboom. Finance Minister Apelstill says , " Fo r me, 'worldpower' means ' pay for the"others.' " Bonn 's influence onthe international scene has forthemost part consisted of a burgeoning expo r t t rad e, economic/ financial help, .andvarious aid programs to the developing nations.Many German ' politicians,. bu sine ssmen a na thinkers

by Victor R0'1t

A TALE -OF TWO GERMANIESTheReluctant .World PowerFlexes Its Muscles

BONN: "And what do youthink Germany should do if theoil producing countries impose .ano ther oil embargo?" I askedmy taxicab skipper in Berlin.The -mmediate answer : "Saddleup the Bundeswehr, chargedown to the Middle East, andknock all those sheiks off 'theirhigh horse!"-Outs poken wor ds .indeedfrom a citizen of a nation bentfor three decade son staying onthe outer periphery of the worldpolitical arena. Yet they symbolize, perhaps, ' a significantchange in attitude. West Ger-" many, economic colossus yetpolitical dwarf, is at last awakening to a political awareness.Of course, not every-Germ anbreathes as much ' political fireas the taxi dr ivers of Berlin.~ e y - s e n r n r ~breed. To 'most Germans, thevery thought of" their nat iononce again becoming a majorworld power is repugnant. Itholds too many aching memories. .After World War II , thegovernment in Bonn faithfully. charted a course leading to botha phoenix-like economic resurrection and virtually total political disengagement. Both goalshave been achieved.Yet an irr esistible combination offactorsis forcing the


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PresidentFord'sFirst Year

remarkable degree in meetingthe main need confronting him.It is possible, indeed, that hisplace in the presidential historyof the nat ion will be as a manwho restored respectfor the off iceat a critical time .by"NormanCousins One has only to look at thesituation as it stood-a year ago

Many of the nat ion' s news to realize the exten tof the probcommentators an d editorial lem. People were dazed at thewriters this past week have been rapid deterioration of Richardevaluating Gerald For d' s first Nixon 's Presidency, culminatfull year in the Presidency . ing in his re si gn at ion : MostWhat seems to me most st riking shocking of all perhaps was theabout these appr ai sa ls is the- evidence that an Americanemphasis theyplace on Gerald . Presidentwas willing to goFord's honesty and decency . along with a blackmail situationOrdinarily, these basic virtues involvingobstruction ofjustice.would be taken for granted. But The tape recordi ng has Presithe exper ienceof Watergate has dent Nixon saying he would becaused the American people to- willing to pay $1 million totake nothing for granted. If a meet the bl ackma il d eman ds gfnational survey were to be - the Watergate criminals. Thetaken today of what the Ameri- record also shows he said therecan people look for in a Presi- would be no difficulty in get ti ngd en t, p er so na l ho ne st y a nd such a large sum for : that purdecency would probably be . pose and that he ins tructed hisclose to the top of the list, along subo rdi nat es to t ra nsmi t thewith wisdOli'i, courage, decisive- money williout gellingcaught.ness and a sense of responsi- That same tape, incidentally,bility to-all-the people and not has the President making ajust to any political or economic , statement that has been somesector . ' what glossed over -in the public

It was precisely the failure of reports. The Pre side '\ t made aR icha rd Nixon on the level of d is tinc tion between Howardpersonal integrity that created a Hunt ..and the _other ,.criminaIs 'crisis of 'public 'confiaence in' who would be paid off. Nixongovernment a .year ago . No said he was par ticu larlyworriedmore important challenge , about Howard Hunt because oftherefore , confronted Gerald . everything Howard Hunt knew.Ford than to r es to re this con- The imp li ca tion was that Huntfidence . This he has done . De- linew a great deal that hadn 'tspite wide opposition to his surfaced. What, besides Water-

, - . . Thomsen - Plein Tru!hWEST GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at a recentpress conference in Hamburg. ,ReluctantWorldPower(Continued from page 3)fairs . For years, the UnitedStates has expected West Ger many to contribute effectivelytoward NATO's defense capacity. Vet the Washington Post article indicates the U.S. nowexpects much mo re than thisfrom Bonn.


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victorious" or that "Socialismgives life goal and purpose."On the other hand , those inthe West - if.they are honest -mus t a lso ask them selveswhether their own forms of pol itl-cal and social organization areprovid ing the answersto the plethora of problems which' besethuman society. 0

Life IsBetterNow(Continued frofn page 3)years of lts existence as a sepa-rate nation. Unlike its West German counterpart, the GOA isblessed with few natural resources othe r than the skill andenergy of its 17 million citizens.Desp ite the meager provisionsshe started out with - and whatlittle industry the easte rn part ofthe old Reich had was takenaway by the Russians in a " reverse Marshall Plan" - the GORhas risen from nowhere to become the ninth largest industrial "power in the world. It "s an indispensable , a nd perhaps the

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.j n the Sov iet Union's entire Eastbloc confederation .Lifein East Germany may, byour "capitalistic" standards, bedull, but it is not intolerable . Thepeop le work hard but also seemtobe able torelax far betterthanthei r b ro thers on the other side"of the Iron Curtain. They taketheir t ime .and are generally notin as much of a rat-race as WestEuropeans. And opportu nities POSTERS bearing socielisticfor conversations are generally propaganda ere found tnrouqn-,not neglected . . out East Germany. The sign atWestern visitors generally are the right , f ou nd o n a ma in streetemba rrassed by the political 510- _ in Dresd en. says;" "Socialism.g ans plastered everywhere on gives meaning an.d purpose towalls and billboards in every East . the l ives of the people." Below,.German city which repetiticusly ' : a n Eas t Euro pe an youtn drivingproclaim that "Socialism will be an American- b ui lt tracto r.


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basic agreement. ' on even how to goabout discussing the issues may render'use less a ll interna tional forums, inc luding the Uni ted Nat ions , thus contributing to heightened world tensions. .Th'e exact goals of the "new international economicorder" are impossibleto precisely discern, but its primary goal,.no doubt, is the redistribution of wealth

w ~ r l d w i d e It i s thi s redis tr ibut ionistphilosophy that legit imizes producers'associations, as well as the acts of nationalization and expropriation. Underthis philosophy, these acts are defined asnothing more than righteously movingtoward greater equal ity and properlycl aiming " repa ra ti ons" for nor thern'.imperialism." .In addit ion, the South perceives thatthe economic intelligentsia of Western

capitalism has failed, after two decadesof trying, to come up wi th "an adequatetheory to expl ain how it would be possi b le fo r some of th e m ore d isadvantaged nations to achieve an ysignificant growth. From such a posture.some nations feel their plight can onlybe bettered if they lay claim to thewealth of others.The World Fabian SocietyDaniel Moynihan; newly appointedU.S. ambassador to the United Nations,claims there isyet another largely unrec

ognized reason for the emergence of theredistribution movement. Writ ing in arecent i ssue of C!Jmmenrary 'magazine,Mr. Moynihan states that t he world isfeeling the results of the "British revolution," The Thi rd World, a ccordi ng t o

Thus the essence of the a rgumen trages between the rich man's wallet andthe poor man's bel ly. The Nor th is arguing (or merely remaining smugly s il ent) from i ts posit ion of power, whilethe South is arguing with two mainweapons: rhetoric in the U.N,'s key con- 'ventions and the int roduct ion of "producer's associations."Rheioric will be discussed later."Producer'sAssociations"Producer's associations, or resourcecartels, are, if t he ir 'defende rs can bebelieved, the greatest force for economicgood to emerge sinceKeynes discovered

that nations could spend more than theyearn . Their value, according to one U.N.document, is in "assist ing in'promotion,of sus ta ined growth of world economyand accelerating development of developing countries."Producer's Associations exist for twobasic reasons. One i s to stabili ze theoften wildly fluctuating prices of commodities. The other reason is to use col lective clout, of one form or ano ther , toraise the market price of the commodity.In essence, this channels wealth from therich commodity buyer to the relat ivelypoor commodity seller.The North takes a d immer view ofsuch "producer's associations," usuallycalling them cartels. ' The Northernerwould argue, and rightfully so, that theimmense . financial st rai n placed onmany poor nat ions is far g re at er than-the effect that such cartel s have on therich 'nations. In other words, Bangladeshsuffered far more than the United States

G e t ready for another North-vs.South "war between th estates," fought over slavery .This t ime the bat tl es won' t be fought atGettysburg, Vicksburg, or BullRun. Thenew skirmishes may be fought anywherefrom Saskatoon to Singapore, .and thearsenal of potential weapons may rangefrom prices in your supermarket to nuclearweapons.The two antagonis ts are, general lyspeaking, the North .(the developedworld) and the Sou th ( th e underdeveloped world). This classic match-upmay even tual ly heat up enough t o displace the East-West square-off as thepredominant ideological, political. andmilitaryconfrontation on earth.In somewhat of a role reversal, it's thesoutherners who ' are trying to freetheslaves, which they consider to be them-selves. "Down South" is where theworld's .misery and agony l ie concentrated. In the richer ,


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t ake place seemingly unnot iced, andthousands of pol it ical pri soners rot intheir cells. ' As another example, theThi rd World bloc s taged a vir tual celebra tion on the U.N. floor when Taiwan. was ' ki cked out of the i nt er nat ion albody, even though the U.N. supposedlyis open to a ll governments who are inclear controlof theirterritory.American spokesmen should find numerous .opportunit ies for pointing outthe copious amounts o i Orwelliandouble-think implicit in th e T hir dWorld call for the "sovereignty of every. s ta te over i ts natural resources and all .economic activities !' In actual fact, theThird World only wants their own statesto have total sovereignty over the ir resources. It expects other states (i,e., thedeveloped world) to give up part ial soverei gnty over t hei r resources and tosharethem with all. .', Furthermore, the fervent cry. for resource sovereignty often comes fromthose who know that such sovereigntywould help them maintain tight controlof the ir national economies, thus helping to hold togethertheirquitedisunited.and perhaps oppressive regimes.

Our representative should state thatsocial ism has proven to be a compara. tively poor means of pr oduci ng newweal th and a qui te ineffec tive way ofredistributing it. We should presentourcase that just as there is a g re at deal oftruth in the statement that an individualis responsible for his economic circums tances , so al so is there considerablet ruth in s ta ting that individual nationsare 'responsible for the ir own nat iona lcircumstances.

inequal it ies and redress exisung in- .just ices , make i t poss ible to e limina tethe widening gap between the developed and the developing countries andensure steadily accelerating economicand social devel opment in peace andjus ti ce for present and future genera-tions." .Conference BustingTurning now to the Sou th 's second

major weapon, rhetoric: the ThirdWorld bloc, wi th communist help, hasbegun putt ing bizarre new twists on global problems through a series of famousworld conferences.The first was the UnitedNations Conference on the Human Environment .held in 1972at Stockholm. Rather thanparticipating in a meaningful discussionon ecological and environmental problems, the Th ird World tested a newdogma: the developed world had gollenrich by pol luting the environment, andnow the richpolluters wanted to freeze'the r ich -poor i nequal it y i nt o a s ta tusquo , using "concern over ecology" as anexcuse to prevent development in thepooiSouth .Next came the United Nations WorldPopulation Conference held in 1974 atBucharest . Here the doctrine was promulgated that the developed.world wasattempting to 'foist off population control on the devel oping nations as ameans of keeping them in a subservientposition. The term "population problem" was a sinister misnomer for whatwas rea lly a pol icy of genocide, madenecessary by excessive consumption ofresources in the developed world.

cannot moral ly ignore the plight of thepainfully impoverished nations. That,however, is merely an argument for foreign aid. But that bringsup the questions : How much aid? Whom should itbe given to?What strings should be attached? Those are all complex questionsto be answered by our economic andpolitical experts;.At present, there is a forceful antiforeign-aid wave washing through boththe U.S. pub li c and the Congress. Inpart thi s i sa response to the harsh accusations from the Third World. In part itreflects the ineffectiveness of most foreign aid. But, if we in the U.S. are honest , we will probably have to admit thatwe haven't tried very hard to make ouraid effective. Most of it has been militaryin nature. Much of it has been direct ed to l ocat ions where it woul d bemost polit ically effective rather thanmost misery-alleviating. Finally, ourhesitancy to exterid more assistance isprobably due , as much as any th ing, tothe effect inflat ion and recession havehad in making us uncer ta in about ourown economic future.In short , weshould not be looking forexcuses to withhold aid, but for ways tomake it effective.

As the world's rich, we must formulate a phi losophy concerni ng the severity of dispari ties of wealth which we .will tolerate. In the UnitedStates, i t hasonly been in t he last two decade s thatwe have adopted the philosophy that allcitizens should be insured at least a minimum subsistence. But we have not yetext ended t hat r eason ing to the rest ofthe. world . Globally, our position is more

..oligopolies, and dictatorships - systemswhere t ruth was defined by the powersthat were. Gali1eos were humiliated,witches were burned , and heretics weresent to Devil's Island or Siberia. .Our social organization, built on thetwin pil lars of democracy and capital

ism, was devised to eliminate the shroudthat the, all-powerful state threw overhuman potential. The central purpose ofour experiment was not to e limin at epovert y of the stomach, but to i ns ur e .against poverty of the human spirit; notto eliminate disparity of material possessions, bu t to e radica te the dispari ty ofpower where one man can acquirewealth by force. In short, we should notclaim that our system will solve all troubles everywhere, but rather we shouldclaim that our system works reasonablywe)l in r e s ~ t i n g tyranny.Needed: A Feared Spokesmanfor the WestJohn Scal i, former U.S. Ambassadorto the U.N., decried the "tyranny of themajorit),;" More .and more the ThirdWorld bloc seems to think that if it can

become a "majori ty" - if it can acquiret he necessary political and economicmuscle - then it can define what is"true" and "good" almost at whim .When the .majority says, for example,t he re' s no food and population crisis(only a cr ime ..of over-consumption inthe developed world), tha t' s a s tep in thedirection of a new dark-agementality.The developed world has not ye t re- :sisted that tendency with the force andeloquence it must. In world opinion, theview of the rich is a minority. That ne

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most others with her problem, Jolly detested wha t she was do ing to her daughter and desperately wanted someone tohelp her stop. .I n 1970, Jolly, with the help of her therapist , .f ounded Mothers Anonymous, anexperiment to see i f child abusers co uldeffectiveiy help eac h othe r to help them . selves. At the time , -Jolly was not motlvated so muc h by a desire to help oth erabusive parents as by a desperate needto change her own beh avior. Today Paren ts Anonymous ( the name wa schanged ) has over 2QO chapters acrossthe U.S. and Canada and well over 5,000members.The success of Parents Ano nymou sl ies in its unspoken pr inc iple tha t whe nyou see a pic ture of a battered chi ld in anewspaper, you see only hall the tragedy.The other hall Is the emot ionally batteredadu lt . The abusive pa rent feels ali enatedfrom ' his fam ily, from society, and fromthe law . "The guilt feelings, th e leelingsof rottenness, the feeling' of - I should bedead " t he depressi on , th e su icidalthoughts - it 's not fun to wal k aroundwith that on your bac k, " says Jo lly . Whenit comes to ' the parents involved, "We 'vebeen long on po inting our fi n gers bu tvery short on do ing anythi ng else."Whe n a troub led person calls ParentsAnonymous, PA tries as much as possibleto handle the case according to the indiv idual's immediate needs. If the caller is .so emotionally distraught that he or she' needs someone to confide in at once , there is 'someone there, on thephone or through aquic k visit. :Most chapters of Parents Anonymous

haveweekly meet ings at whi ch one of thepr imary topics i;i the d iscussion of alter-natives. For example, at a recent meetinga young mother describedhow her youngson made her very angry a few days ago .At th e tim e, she happened to be holding a

.Eve.ryy .ear, hundreds o f thousands ofchildren suffer the pangs 01 childhood's most common, and certa inlyits most dangerous, disease. Th'e- symptoms may be inv isible, or th eymay be bru ises or bro ken bones. Theresul t i s often death or permanent bra indamage. For those who survive, the

effects usually ' remain for a life time .The disease that sends them to a hos pital at age f ive also puts th em in a 1eformatory at age fi fteen and in a statepenitentiary by age twenty. It Is the raredelinquent In juvenile ha ll who did not atone time or another sutter from this d isease . Think of as many notorious cnm lnals . international despots , and assassinsasyou can , and you wil l l ind that almosta ll o f them were afflicted with this diseaseas a child . Th is disease is child abuse.Child abuse is ep idem ic. In t he UnitedStates, some 300 ,000 cas es are reportedeach year, bu t al l the experts agree thatthis is merely the tip of an immeasurableIceberg . Furthermore, the iceberg seemsto be growing larger. Between 1966 and1970 , the Incidence ot ' reported childabuse swe lled over 500%, although ag reat dea l of this increase is due to betterreporting .The Parent a. CrlmlnalIn the lat e 1950s and ea rly 60s, the

media (and hence al l society) " discovered " child abuse . It made predictably "good copy - lots of inhum an inte rest.Sho r t l y thereafter , state aft e r s ia tepassed laws insuring th at abused ch ildren could be taken trorn the ir parents ifnecessary and the abusers prosecuted ascrim inals . In the public's mind , ch ildabusers became criminals needing punishment ra ther t han t . roubled peop leneeding help .Even If society had been inclined tohelp, no one seemed to know wha t to do .

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abuse, or emotional dep rivation . " 1wish,"says Jolly, "I could present to the publica picture 01 a broken heart, a brokensp irit. a bro k en ident i ty - of a ch ild who ,by the t ime he' s lour years old , t ru ly believes he should have never been born. Ithink the horror that such a pictu re wouldreflect would make any pictu re of physical abuse look like Pollyanna going downthe yellow brick road by compa ri son. I .' ,, continually ask myself : Is this par t 01 the 'thing beh ind youth s ui ci des - pe opl etrying to 'unborn.' themselves, trying to doanyt hing to please mommy or daddy?"The Inherited DiseaseJ Child abusers don't li t neatly in to anysocial or economic classificat ion . WhileIt's true that statistics show most abusiveparents to be poo r, th is is primar ily because the betterof f can keep the ir namesout of the criminal record books. likewise, there is no fi rm, precisely accuratepsychological profile of a ch ild abuser.Only a small percentageare psychotic.Parents who abuse their ' children are,In tact, very much like other parents . Allparents, unless they are, as Jol l y K. putsit , " living saints : human vegetables, or .liars." must admi t they have occasional

A bad dec ision made at age 8 may bepainful . but at 21 it could easi ly be dtsastrous. We adu lts have discovered, inwisdom of hindsigh t, that mistakes madein childhood have far less ser ious consequences than those we make in ear lyadulthood .Yo u can help your child make gooddecisions, if you are w il li ng to put somethought, effort, and time into it. ,

T ~ n l q u e s for Decision-MakingThe re are basic techniques for organizing and making decisions. They areequal ly val id fo r adu lts o r children . They Inclu!!e:1. Get all the fact s on a ma tter or a

problem beforehand."Th is phrase has be come a cliche. jn ou r society,_but it isnevertheless " true . Children should seetheir parents' dedicated effort to " get 'allthe facts ." Doing this can of ten make theright decision obv ious . In any problembetween peopl e, there are always at leasttwo sides. Make sure you get all the oppos ing viewpoints .2. List decisions by pr iority. Whenchoosing which job to do, which item to

" I wish I could present to thepUblic a' p icture of a brokenheart, a broken spirit, a brokenidentity - a child wh o, by ,thetime he 's four years ol d,. trUly believes he should havenever been b o r n " - Jol ly K. Founder.Parents AnonymOU$hostile feelings toward their children. Thedi ff e rence between the abuser and the

gangrene, but on the other hand, theywere easy to control. It even be camegreat sport to toss them around like alootball.

Network tele vision might even run a bicentennial minute on how , amidst the religious origins of ou r nation, parents triedto literally scare the devil out of the ir kids.

common moral lesson involved takingchildren to visit the gi bbet , where -theywere forced to inspect ro tt ing co rpseshanging there as an example 01 whathappens to bad children when they growup . Who le c lasses were taken out ofschool to wi tness hangings , and parentsw0l! ld often whip their children_ after-"wards to make them remember what theyhad seen" (Llo yd DeMause, Psychology ,Today , April 1975).Yet what is s i g n i c a n ~ is that the fartherback we look , the worse the problem was.Or to lo ok at it in the more optimistic.reverse sense, the situation has graduallyimproved down through history. Babieshave come a long , long way . They neverhad it so good. -Second Chil dhoodChild abuse is rmadult disea se, inmany ways. Successful programs lik eParents Anonymous recognize that the

typical child 'abuser sti ll suffers, alongwith his children, from his own childhood.Jol ly explains: ''Welik e t o th ink of our .progr_am as a way that peo ple can reexperience nurturing without the "nega-. tlve things they went through when theywere [abused)children." To that end Parents Anonymous is concerned not onlyw ith helping people develop alternativemodes of behavior, but. also with givingenthusiastic appreciation when they putthe alternatives into practice.Everyone I needs nurturing, adults andchildren alike . We seem to be com ing torealize tha t abusive parents are as much

TeachingYour ChildrenToMakeW ise DecisionsWhat you can do to help yourchild make the best choices Inthe major dec/siems01his life.by Clif ford C. Marcu ssen

the technlques you are using to help youmake a good decision.If your chi ldren se e you -using these. techniques, then you can help them usethe techniques in thei r own ' " petty problems" (which are not petty to them !)When two children are arguing 'over whois to do which part of the yard work, forins tance, do not stomp in , issue' orders ,and reprimand them for arguing . Instead,'help them learn how to come to a decision that solves the argument. Ask themto list a ll their options - d ifferent ways 01diViding the work between them , switching jobs every week, do ing all the workevery other week, or changing the 'timewhen the job isdone.'Get each ch il d to tell his side 01 theissue, then you may tell your side. Youmay also want to bring out all the f ac tsabout 'any pr ior agreements. who didwhat last week, or reasons why one 01them must go somewhere else. Then askthem to dec ide how to solve the ir ownproblem, in fo rm in g them 01 the consequences of continuing the "argumentand not getting the work done.As you go through these steps, te ll the.ch ild ren what you are doing. After a fewexper iences in solving arguments th isway, they wil l know the steps and be ableto use the steps t hemselves. In the endthey will not only get the work done, butlearn valuable decision-making skills .II. Wide-ranging Experience'Good techn iques do not in themselves. " lead ,to good decisions . Good "decisionsare based on knOWledge-and u n d 6 r s t a n dIng of the issue being weighed, and these

are dependent on previous experience .For example, a young, protected teenage girl who has had -li tt le experiencewith males during ch ildhood and ear lyteen-age is an easy victim for a youngman who has a good line and a smooth


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ganic chemicals in public water supplysystems exists throughout the country."The Nation's Drinking Problem

The difficulty that now faces publichealth officials is what to do abou t it.Most of the carcinogenic substances including chloroform and 'carbon tetrachloride - are traceable to reactionswith chlorine, the chemical used to "purify" most of the 240,000 public drinkingwater systems in the U.S. and protect usfrom water-borne bacterial infectionssuch as typhoid and cholera"Ch lo ri ne itself is not su spect ed ofbeing carcinogenic. However , in cornbinations with other chemicals that havefound their into the nat ion's riversand groundwater networks, chlorine becomes significant. Ozone .and activatedcharcoal have been suggested as possible substitutes for chlorine, but a massive switch to such alternatives would bea gigantic undertaking.Another problem is tha t no one knowswhat the " threshold concentration " isfor the various carcinogens being foundin our drinking water or if sub-threshold"safe" levels even exist.Two of the chemicals now found inU.S. water systems - dieldrin 'and vinylchloride - are highly carcinogenic. Butsafe upper limi ts for such toxic .compounds are often 'frustratingly difficult todefine, especial ly when polit ical andeoonomic considerations are at stake.Americans h av e l on g complainedabout the qua li ty of the drinking water

in other countries. Folk wisdom had itthat the best insurance aga ins t intestinaldistress while visit ing foreign na tionswas "don't drink the water: 'The irony is that the once-pristinedrinking water of t ire United States may

Caution: /'Drinking waterMay Be HazardousToYourHealth \IbyDexter Faulkner and RobertGlnskeyAs if l ife were not already hazardousenough. the re is now one more environ. mental crisis with which we will have tocontend : Drinking water may cause can-cer. "Last November, the EnvironmentalDefense Fund reported tha t s tudies ofMississippi water supplies had indicateda possible l ink between certain cancers

and consumption of municipally treatedMississippi River water. Specifically, thereport asserted that the cancer mortalityrate was 15 percent higher among white males who drank water obtained fromthe Mississippi than among those whoobtained their water from (presumably 'purer) wells.At the same time, the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) confirmed thata whole host of potentially carcinogenic(cancer causing) organic chemicals hadbeen found in certa in munic ipal watersupplies. The EPA s ta ted that 66 suchchemical compounds had been identified in the New Or lean s water supply,which is obt ai ned from the MississippiRiver . As a result, the EPA embarked ona much J1!ore extensive s t u ~ of chem'ica l contaminants' in the drinking water .of U.S.-cities.Since then a worrisome, if not frightening, picture of U.S. public water supplies has emerged. The EPA has nowannounced that al l of the maj or Ll.S.drinking water systems recently studied


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by Robert Ginskey"i.asting peace, while no t t h e o r ~ i i c a l i y impossible; is probablyunattainable; even if it could be achieved, it would almost certainlyno t be in the best interests of a stable society to achieve it. ..- Report from Iron Mountain ..'

THE HIGH PRICEOFPEACE

1:.e most everything else in our-modem world, the cos t of peace hasbeen rapidly soaring. There was at ime when nati onal peace and security(i.e., superior arms) could be purchasedfor comparatively paltry sums, bu tt oday the annual cost of peace hasreached into the multiple billions.Back in 1951, for example, the nationsof the world spent a mere $300 millionon . foreign purchases of conventionalweapons. In fiscal 1914, they laid outsome $18 billion - a s tagger ing6 ,000%increase. Yet these figures represent onlyinternational arms purchases. Addingdomestic "peace costs," we find the nations of the world are now spendi ng$240 bi ll ion a year on "de fense" and"world peace." .The .U.S. a lone has spent over $1.5t ri ll ion on def en se since .the ' end ofWorld War II . In 1974, the U.S. led it!sales of international arms with some $8

billion in weapons sold, followed by theSoviet Union ($5.5 billion) , then Franceand Brit ain. Since 1950, the U.S. hasso ld or given away over $86 bil lion inarms to various nations. presumably toinsure world peace .

guided munitions was one breakthroughthat i s having a profound effect on thepeace-keeping abilities of the world .Stimulated by the effective use made oflaser-guided bombs in Vietnam, there 'now exi sts a whole class of precisionguided munitions. They include allthose bombs, missiles, and other projectiles that can score d ir ec t hits on the irtargets at fu ll range, with a high probability often approaching ' perfection one shot, one hit. According to the design of these missiles, the target may bea tank, ship, aircraft, bridge, radar installation , a concentra tion of armor , ortroops.

The Costsof PeaceWhat is the price for such peace-keeping weaponry? Th e .cost of precisionguided missilesvaries from about $3,000fo r ' an anti-tank missile to about$500,000 for an anti-ship missile. Even

the expensive ones, however, are hundreds of times cheaper than some potential targe ts - a modem fighter can costabout $20 mill ion, a cru iser over $100million, and a tank between $500,000and $900,000.

example, if both sides use a full panoplyof automatic weapons, how will victorybe determined? Will the victor be the. one with the b iggest a rs enal at the beginning of war'! If so, we are movi nginto an era in which nat ions will spendeven more on weapons than they.do now.Yes , the pr ice of "peace" i s indeedescalating. But what about true peace not an insane arms race that goes by thename of "defense," "security,' "balance of power," or "wo rld peace" - but real,genuine peace? Whatabout a peace thati s not just the abs ence of war, bu t anabsence of even the preparation for war?Surely i t would be absurd to talk aboutsuch a peace as being too costly. Orwould it? .

Can Man Afford Peace?In the mi dd le I960s, a secret think

tank was commissioned to objectivelyanalyze the possibility and (desirabilityof peace. The primary purpose of theanalysis was to see just how feasible anddesirable total world peace would actuiilly be. Of course, in mak ing such astudy, it was also necessary to considerth e benef its war provides the nat ionswho choose i tas a way of life.The result of over 2 \


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diagnostic p'rograms for , the software(logic), while another computer, theBurroughs B-6500, is wholly devoted totalking to I I: .LIAC IV. "Nobody" elsecan : This general-purpose computer isresponsible for translatingthe many languages of - the 'computer programmersinto the hardware-determined languageofthe big machine itself. .Compu te rs are now 'designing newcomputers. Computers are progra!fi ming, testing and improving-each other.Networks of compu te rs are linked bysatellites! It used to be science fict ion.

-Now it's just science . And very real.New techniques of memory storage utilizing laser beams, holography, andcryogenic diodes - give today's computers the capacity to store more than onet ri llion - 1,000,000,000,000 - "b its" (orthe . basic pieces) of infor in at ion in acomparatively small space . One wouldneed about 250,000 standard magnetictapes to maintain an equivalent amountof data. 'This summer, IBM planned to come outwith the IBM 3850, a mass storage device with a memory capacity of over 4, quadrillion (4,000,000,000,000,000) bitsof information]TheBrain Behind theComputer

Of course. tiiese computer memoriesremember because human brains de-signed them. Computers compute because human ,brains developed them ., :,Th e 'compu t e r/ h'a s ' d r a ma t i c a l l y; '"evolved" because human minds madeit evolve. It did 'not take millions 'uponmillions of years. About 30 .years wasquite sufficient:By comparison, examine the extraordinary h uman b ra in. From the eye

Te human .mind developed the computer c- the electronicbrain - froma crude idea to an elegant, supersophisticated masterpiece. Yet random chance supposedly "evolved" theincompreh ensibly superior human mindfromsmall organicmolecules.Are we to believe that the computerwas designed by the humanmind, bu t the

human mind i tsel f just happened bycoincidence? Did random chance create' rational thinking?Origin of the Computer ,

It is impassible to establish the exact. date for the birth of the computer. TheChinese abacus goes back to ant iqu ity"but most scientific historians point to the"difference engine" of Charles Babbage,an English mathematician and eccentric .genius of the early nineteenth century, asthe progenitor of the computer. '.Nearly 'a cen tu ry l at er, in 1915, theFord Instrument Company produced acrude "mechanical lJlonster" operatingon voltages and rotatinggears.Actually it ,was an ear ly analog or "continuouslymeasuring"computer.Then, in 1939, Dr. Howard Aiken ofHarvard designed a machine which uti- .liiedtwo majorbreakthroughs: the use ofreal numbers (digits) ratherthan analogs,and the self-contained ability to makelogical decisions. But Aiken 's digitalcomputer ' wa s l imited by its electromechanical construction; its movingparts ' continuously became faulty or

: : . . ~ m .result. .errors were"".quently introduced. . l.The next fundamental advancement incomputer technology occurred in 1943when th e U.S. Army substituted electroniccireuits forelectromechanical moving parts. A new machine , ENIAC


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The prime mmister ' received Mr. neglected the agricultural areas, whereArmstrong and mysel f, as well as Mr. more than 80%of the Thai people l ive.Michael Ravid, the former Israeli Con- Alrea dy plans are being .made to in-sui Gener al to Los' Angeles . Th is was crease ' the bu dg et for the new year byour first mee ting with the new prime 30% and to channel much of the budgetminister, although we had had several into welfare and housing in every dis-meetings with his two predecessors, trict of the country.Vast changes have-pr ime min is t er s Ki t tikachorn and been made in the taxation system. andSanya. . ' just recently the king donated anotherFor more than f ive .years we-rhave 25,000 acres of his own personal land forbeen carrying on an educational effort the poor. .in .Thailand, in cooperation with the Just before our meet ing began withking, to educate the hill-tribe people. the pr ime minister, one of his closestMobile schools have been established, advisors stated that our PIesence inand Ambassador College students, grad- Thailand at this moment was very pro-ua te s and have served on a pitious, He said that it is time for thevolunteer basis. In' the future these true friends of the Thai people to showprojects , aswell asothers, will be carried their friendship by investingin his coun-on by the Ambassador I nt er na tional try- Now is the t ime, he said, to give usCult ural Foundation, which received the economicaid without the strings of rnili-blessing of the prime minister and his tary bases . .pledge to cooperate with it. Although there is always a c ha nce_Prime Minister Kukrit was verym uch that the mil itary would seek to regainof the opinion that a strong cultural pro control, t here is less dange r of this , itgram between his Thai people and the . would appear, s ince U.S. military pres-people of the neighboring communist ence has been so vastl y d im in ished instat es would be perhaps the most effec- the entire Southeast Asian area . Duringtive way to establish relations which .the military regime the -government waswould u lt imately lead to norma l rela- actua lly suppo rt ed and p ropped up bytionships between the two countries and the United States, particularly becausetheir people. In this regar d the prime of the U.S. needs to use Thai bases forminis ter was very much impressed . by waging the war in Vie tn am. Now thatthe AICF concert series and the AICF's the -war has ended and the U.S. noambitious plans for the future, which longer has the same need for the mili-will include a worldwide effort to use . tary liases , it is clear that the mil it ar ymusic and culture to bring about world ;. does not have. the continued-support of .peace, and promote bet ter un de rst and in g the U.S. gover nment, and it never reallybetween peoples everywhe re. had the support of the Thai people.Th e prime minister , an Oxford And yet, it is very obvious that thegraduate, is clearly both a scholar and entire s it ua ti on in Tha il and con tinues to. an intellectual, as well as a writer and a be fraught with d an ge r from out si de aslong-time parliamentarian. He has also . well as from within.The menace of com-been editor and publisher of one of the mun ism con tinues , and there is everyleading newspapers in Thailand. A prac reason to believe that much of the politi-ticing Buddhist, he beli eves vety firmly cal activity , particularly among the stu-

only a few days. At that point Kukrithims el f came to the fore de spi te hisparty 's having only 18 seats out of 269.With a coali tion government of ' 140seats and with 22 parties actually represen ted in the parliament-. one can seejust how fragi le this f ir st demOCraticThai government really is.. Since the end of mil itary rule, however, much has .occurred in SoutheastAsia to make an alrea dy unstable areaeven more unstable. The worldwide economic recession, the col lapse 'of theSouth Vietnamese government, the lim'ited U.S. military presence in the area,and thr eats from communist neighbors,as wel l as the continued conflict among .the various splintered political groups,have greatly increased the task tha t thenew prime minister and his fragile government faces. Jus t last mon th, for example. ' the prime minister's personalresidence was r an sacked by a mob ofpolicemen. '- -

lit- strillby Stanley R. Rader

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BANGKOK: For some six .'monthsnow Thai Prime Minister Kukrit Pramojhas managed by a rare skill for compromise and"his own popularity to keepa shaky coalition government togetheras Thailand struggles to keep democracyalive after 40 y e a r ~ of military dictatorship .Some two years ago, the Thai people ,led by young university stude nts, overthrew the military dictatorship of PrimeMinister Kittikachorn. For the next 18months the countrywas governed by aninterim cabinet and the king's personalappointee, Prime Ministe r Sanya, a nonpolitical figure and former rector of theuniversity . . .In January 1975, after the adoption ofa new Constitution, the first electionswere finally held. It was Prime MinisterKukrit 's brother who emerged as thefirst coalition choice for prime minister.bu t unfor tunate ly he was able. to holdth; coalition government t?gether, for

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expense.involved .- God will not forgiveus.God wil l not forgive our indifference to

suffering unless or unt il we become muc hmore empathetic and t en derly compassionate toward su ffering and areing to go out of ou r way not 'on ly to "prevent it, but to give merciful succorwhen suffering Is occurring.No, as long as we con tinue to act theway we act and live the way we live, aslong as ou r homes are being rent asunder and ripped apart, as long as iIIegilirnacy is on the r ise , as long as we 're in't he .grips of a g igantic crime .wave thatreaches i nto eve ry home IQ the United _States to a greater or lesser degree, aslong as we continue in the way of vialence and mayhem in ent erta inment , aslong aswe continue on our national pleasure binge - being virtually he ld captiveby the society we have creat ed whichFran kenstein-like now turns upon us tnen Godwill no f hea r such a prayer.Do you know that God actually says, "IWill not hear them:'? There are scripturesin the Bib l e wh ich show It 's useless to cal lout lo God and say "save us, " " help us, "" protect us" wh ile we continue to wallow

in sin. . . . .In Isa iah the first chapter God declares," Hear the word o f the Lord, you ru lers ofSod om " - this Is directed to wa rd nat ional leaders - and " give hear to theteach ing of our God , you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude ofyour sacrifices?" (Isaiah 1:10-11, RSV.)Cons ider all the prayers, all the church

services, all the church-go.ng in th eUn ited states. Forty pe rcent of th e U.S;.papulation is in church every week. Relig ious boo ks rep resent one of th e mostrapidly grOWng areas in alrt he publishingindustry. Th ere has recently been a growing interest in re lig ion, espep ially amongcollege students and you ng people . But

scars of nature left to those who comeafter us, ou r love of money, our contemptfor small things and our worship of bigt hings, the loneliness of l ife in big cities,the dull complacency of sma ll towns, thedegeneracy of our cu lture, ou r bad manners, and ou r indifference to suffering .Fo r these wrongs 'done and for rightthings le ft undone, Good Lo rd fo rgiveus. " .You k{ low what God said in answer to

that prayer? I bel ieve he said ; " No , Iwo n't! No, I won 't ;o rgive you for thosethings . No, I will not forgive your 'wantonwaste of soi l and sea, until you qult wasting them. No, -I will not forgiVe yoursquandering of energy, unt il you qui!squandering it. No , I w il l no t fergive yourdesecration oJ natural beau ty until youquit desecrating it. And no , I won 't forgiveyour l ove of money, because you've gotmore than love - you 've go t an ego t istical, sWelling , grotesque, an-out-erp roportion lust for money. No, I won 'tforgive your contempt for small th ingsand worship of big th ings , because youhaven't repen ted of ttyet. No , I won 'tfo rgive the lonel iness of life in big citiesand dull complacency of small towns, because you peo ple 'ar e on , an abso luteb inge just l ike Sodom and Gomorrah - a.b ir:tge of national and degeneracy '

It's .time for us, as weapproach our 200thbirthday, to reflect on theneed f or anew revolutionin the United States not a revolution 'of guns,but a .revolution of

where we are going. Today, the UnitedSta tes is ina cr is isof the spirit.Let 's not kid ourselves, If I had to ld you15 years ago that the United States wouldbe where we are tod ay, I don 't think youwould have bel ieved me. I don 't thinkanybody wo uld have bel ieved me. Be- "cause our national state of affa irs today isjust unbelievable.We need to realize that any countrywhich does not know where it is going ,what It should be, what is its true nationaland international role, but which beginsto strivemerely to hang on to what i t has ,is doomed to fa ilure. Historyshould teachus that' It ' s t ime for us to reflecfonthe need fora new revolution in the United States not a revolution of guns. bu t a revolutionof the spirit. It's time for us, as we app roach our 200th birthday, to wonderwhether or not the entirety of the sys temneeds revision - meaning soc iety , the

. Gamer Ted ArmstrongSPIAKSOUT

I se ems it was only a 'feV{ year s agothat Ame r ica di d n't have a doubt inthe worl d. We walked buoyantly ; wewere on top of the world; we were theb iggest, most powerfu l nation the worldhad ever kn own; we seemed to knowexacUy where we were go ing , why .We wanted to showother nations how ,todo it as well. " Cornucopia Amer ica" the wonderful, abundant, beautiful America after World War . II, where everyonewas promised a jeep and a he licopter inhi s fr o nt yard . We were riding high then ;we were the greatest.Bu t then, not too many years later, our

cities were . fill ed with crime, ou rcam puses . were ' sce nes "of v iolen t contronta tlon. : ou r Pres ident wasnated, Dr . Martin Luther King and Robert 'Kennedy wer e k il led, racial conflict wor sened , Vietnam involvement deepened,Wate rgate hit the head l ines, inflation and ". th e energy c risis came along, and now -

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KANSAS CITY - KMBZ. 980kc., to:30p.m.daily.LITTLE ROCK - KAAY, J090kc., 7:30p.m. daily., 9:30 a.m. Sun., 5:15 a.m.Men-Sat, . ' .MEMPHIS - WREC, 600 kc., 10:30p.m. MOD-Sat. .MILWAUKEE - WISN. 1130 kc., 11:30p.m. MOD-Fri., 9:00 a.m. &.9 :30 p.m.SUD .eM OBI LE - WKRG, AM & FM. 710kc., 99.9 hz 11:30 a.m. Mon.-Fri., 8:00p.m. daily, 7:30 a.m. Sat. & Sun.MT . VERNON - WMIX.94O kc., 7:30p.m. daily.NASHVILLE - WSIX. 980 kc., 8:30p.m. Mon.-Sat., 8:00 p.m.Sun.NEW ORLEANS - WWL , 870 kc. 8:30p.m. Mon.-Sat.OKLAHOMA CITY ....:.... KTOK , ' l lXXl kc.,10:30p.m..d aily.OMAHA - KLNG , 1490 kc.. 6 :30 p.m.daily .PAMPA - KGRO, 1230 kc., 5:30 p.m.daily._ . .PEORIA - WMBD. 1470kc., 10:30 p.m.daily. .SIOUX CITY - KSCJ . 1360 kc., MonSUR. 6:15p.m.ST. PAUL - KRSI , 950 kc. 8:00 p.m.dai ly. .'SAN ANTONIO WOAI . 1200 kc.5:00 a.m. Mon-S at., 10:05 p.m. SUR.WATERLOO - KXEL, 1540 kc. , 8 :30. r 1 ~ 3 0 : ' ~ p.m. Sun., 1.05.7

Mou;'tain TimeALBUQUERQU'E - KOB, 770 kc., 9:30a.m..Sun. 11:00 p.m . daily.CARSON CITY - KKBC-FM , . 7:00a.m, Men-Sat.9:00 p.m. Sun.CASPER - KTWC? 1030 kc, 6:05 p.m.& 10:05 p .m. daily. ' . .DENVER - KOA, 850 kc., 10:30 p.m.MOD-Sat. . 7:00 p.m. Sun.FLAGSTAFF - KCLS. 600 kc. 6:00p.m. daily.KALISPELL - KOFI, 1180 kc. 6:30p.m. daily.SALT LAKE CtTY - KSL, tl60 kc.,5:06 ll.m. & 11:06 p.m. Mon.-Sat.5:30 a.m. & 11:25 p.m. Sun.TUCSON - KTUC , 1400 kc., 12:45p.m.. daily . 99.5 FM. KFMM . 6:00a.m. Mon -Sat., 6:30 a.m. Sun .

Pacific TimeANCHORAGE - KYAK . 650 kc., 9:00p.m. da ily.COVINA - KGRB . 900 kc., KBOB-FM,12 noon Mon-Sat., 9:00a.m. SUD

Eastern TimeBLIND RIVER - CJNR , 730 kc., 6:30p.m. da ily.BRANTFORD - CKPC, 1380 kc., 6:30 p.rn. daily.COflNWA,U - CJSS. 1220 kc ., 10:39p.m.delly,ELLIOTT LAKE - CKNR. 1340 kc.,6:30 p.m. da ily.HULL - CKCH. 7:00 a.m. Sun .KINGSTON - CKWS , 960 kc. 10:30p.m. Mon.-Fri., II :10 p.m. su , 10:05p.m.Sun.KIRKLAND LAKE - CJK L. 560 kc.9:00 p.m.da ily.LEAMINGTON - CHYR, 710 kC,5:30a.m. & 6:30 p.m. daily.LINDSAY - CKLY.910 kc. 8:45 p.m.Mon-Fri.MONTREAL - CFMB , 1410 kc.. 6:30a.m. Mon- Sat ., 1:30 p.m. Su n.MONTREAL (French) - CFMB , 1410kc. 5:00 p.m. Sat. &.Sun .MONTREAL - CFOX. 1470 kc.,CFGM, 980 kc., u.eop.m . Mon..Sat" 9:30 p.m.S UDNEW L1SKEARD - CJTT. 1230 kc.,9:00 p.m. da ily.NORTH BAY - CFCH. 600 kc. 9:00p.m. daily.PEMBROKE "":"" CHQ_V, . 1350 kc. , 8:00p.m. daily. -- -RIMOUSKI - CJBR . 900 kc., 7:00 a.m.Sun.. SAULT STE. MARIE - CKCY. 920 kc.,6:30 p.m. daily.S.HERBROOKE - CHLT , 630 kc., 8:45a.m . SUDSHERBROOKE - CKTS. 900 kc. 9:30. p.m. Mon .-Fri ., 10:30 a.m. Sun.SMITH FALLS - CJET. 630 kc., 8:30

~ ~ ~ 3 6:30 p.m.STE. AGATHA (French) CJSA .1230 kc ., 6 :30 p.m. Mon ., Wed. &.Fri. .ST. JEAN - CKCV. 7 :00 a.m. Sun .THETFORD MINES - CKlD . 9:30a.m. SUDTHUNDER BAY - CKPR, 580 kc., 9:30p.m. Sun.THUNDER BAY CKPR-FM . 94.3me., 8:30 p.m. daily.TIMMINS - CKGB, 680 kc., 10:00 p.m.Sun., 9:30 p.m. MOD-Sat. .TROIS RIVIERES - CHLH , 550 kc.7:00 a .m. Sun.

Central TimeDAUPH IN - CKDM . 730 kc:, 6:30 p.m.daily. 'DRYDEN - CKDR . 900 Icc . 7:30 p.m.Mon.-Fri., 10:30 p.m. Sun.

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AKRON - Channel 23, WAKRTV,10:30 p.m.Sun.ALBANY - Channe l 10, WTEN -TV,11:30 a.m. Sun . _ATLANTA - Channel 11, WXIA-iV ,12 noon SUD-SINGHAMPTON. N.Y. - Channel40,WICZ-TV, 7:30 p.m. Sat. . CHARLESTON ....:Channel 2, WCBD'r v, 12:30 p.m.Sun .COLUMBIA - Cha nnel 19, WNOK'r v, 5:30 p.m. Sat.COLUMBUS .;.... Channel 4 , WLWCTV, 10:30 a.m . Sun.DAYTON -- Channel 2, WLWD-TV,11:30 a.m. Sun .FLINT - Channel 12, WJRT.TY, 3:00.p.m. Sat.GREENVILLE S.C. Channe l 4,WFBCTV, 12noon Sun.GREENVIUE N.C. ' - Channe l 9,WNCT.TV, 10:30 p.m. Sun.INDIANAPOUS - Channel 4, WlTVTV, 12:30 p.m. Sat.JOHNSON CITY - Channe l 1"WJH L-iV . 10:30 a.m. Sun.LANSING - Channel 10, WILX-TV,10:00 a.m. Sun . .NEW YORK - Channel 9, WOR-TV,10:00 p.m. Sun.- Rotating Schedule

PHILADELPH IA - Channel 17,WPHL-TV, n .oo p.m.Sun.PLATTSBURGH - ChannelS ,WPlZ-'rv , 5:30 p.m. Sat. .

KANSAS CITY - Chan nel 4 , WDAFTV, 1:00 p.m. SUDLUBBOCK - Chan nel 11. KCBD-TV,12nOODSUDLUFKIN - Channel 9, . KTREiV ,10:30 p.m. Sun .MCCOOK - Channel 8, KOMe-TV ,1:30 p.m. Sun.MERIDIAN -:- Channel 1" WTOKTV, 10:00 a.m. Sun.MIDLAND - Channel 2, KMJD-TV,12 noon Sat.MINNEAPOLIS ' - Cha nne l " ,WTCN-TV, 9:30a .m. SUD. .MONROE - Chann el 10,5:00 p.m. SUR.MONTGOMERY - Channel 32,WKABTV, 5:00 p.m. Sun .NASHVILLE - Channel 2, WNGETV, 6:00 p.m. Sat.NEW ORLEANS - Channe r 4, WWLTV, 11:00a.m. SUDNORTH 'PLATTE Channel 2,KNOP-TV;6 :30p.m . Mon .OKLAHOMA CITY - Channel 5.KOCO-TV, 11:30 a.m.SUDPEORIA - Channel -19, WRAU-TV,10:30 a.m. Sun. .ROCKFORD - Channel 13. WREXTV, 9:00 a.m. Sun.SAN ANTONIO - Channel 12, K S A TJfV, 6:30 p.m. Sat. . .SHREVEPORT - Channel 6 , KTALTV, 12:30 p.m. Sat.SPRINGFIELD, MO. - Cha nnel 27,KMTC-TV, 9:30 p.m . Sun .SPRINGFIELD, ILL _ JChanne1 20,WICSTV, 1:00 p.m. Sat. ST. LOUIS - Channel 9, KETC -TV,6:00 p .m. Wed .TEMPLE - Channel 6, KCEN-TV,11:00 a.m. Sun.TOPEKA .: Channel 27, KTSB-TV ,12:30 p.m. Sat.TUPELO - Channel 9, WIWV-TV,5:00 p.m. Sat.TYLER - Channel 7, KLTV-TV, 10:30p.m.Sun.WICHITA ..,. Channel 3, KARD-TV , 12noon Sun. . .WICHITA FALLS - Cha n ne l 6,KAUZTV, 11:00a.m . Sun.

Mounteln TimeBIUINGS .: Channel 8, KULR-TV,5:30 p.m. Sat.- BOISE - Cha nnel 6, 3:30p.m. Sun .EL PASO -r-Cfiannel 13, KELP-TV.1:00 p.m. Sat.GRAND JUNCTION Channel 5,K R E X ~ T V 4:30 p.m. Mon .- PUEBLO - Channe l S, KOAA-TV,9:30 p.m. Sun.


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