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ABUNDANT liVINGyou to be a JOY to others, as well as toyourself.Now this is not to say that the re arenever troubles in the Chri stian life, Fa rfrom it. There will be PERSECUTIONS.Jesus Christ was persecuted . Hesaid, " Ifthey have perse cuted me,' they will persecute you." That comes from WITHOUT.'Bu t UNHAP 'PINESS is .sornething tha tsp rings from WITHI!'! Happiness ' is aSTATE OF MIND; happiness is .WITHIN.And the person who does ' ha ve this inward peace - this joy, th is patience andlove, and absence of resentment and bitterness - isn't ' going to be anywhere,near as disturbed and unhappy as whenhe didn 't ha ve them. You' ll always faceproblems -v- but you'll have fAITH 'and' God 's help in solving them . But problems and tests of faith are good for us the very building blocks of perfect spiritual character. 'I know that the Bible says : "Manyare the a fflictions of the righteous," bu t'the same scripture adds, "b ut the Eternal del ivereth him out of them all"

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of OTHERS. It will mean tha i yo u arereally GIVING OUT - that you are radiant and HAPP,Y. And love results in j o y -that's the second of .these fru its. Theth ird is pe,ace. ' Instead of an att itude ofhostility, instead of going around quarrel ing, being resentful and bitter, angry,an d arguing, you 'll be in an attitude ofPEACE - peace iri your mind and with, your neighbor and with your GOD.Next come s "longsuffering. " That ,means pa tience. How much has impatience made you unhappy? Prob ably impa tience makes more people unhappythan almost anything else! If you canreall y come to have pat ience, you'll beacquiring one of the things that willallow you to be happy and mak e lifeworth living ;

Theh next ' is gentleness. That makesothers happy and automa\ically a dd s to,your happiness. And then goodness andfaith ! Faith is confidence' - not SELF-confidence, bu t RELIANCE on the SUPREME' POWER . It means that the ' su PREMEpower of God is working for YOU.

And He came that we might enjoy full,AB UNDANT life ETERNALLY. God ' Almighty intended the real Christ ian lifeto be HAPPY . Jesus sa id; "My JoY I leavewith you!"

There a WAY of life that causespeace, happiness, and joy. God the greatCreator set THAT WAY as an inexorableLAW - an invisible spir itual law - toPRODUCE peace, happiness, joy, abundance! There is a cause for every effect.In this unhappy confused world we havediscontentment, unhappiness, wretched- '. hess, suffering. Th e world is full of that.It SHOULD be full of peace, ' happiness,and joy. There's a CAUSE. People don 'tlike God's law. That law is the CAUSE ofpeace and , everything desir able andgood. People ;"anl everything that isgood and des irable. They just don'twant to OBEY,that which would cau se it!They want to BE right, but they don'twant to DO right.Christ came to call people to REPENTRepent of WHAT? Repent of cau sing un'happiness, stri fe, war, and pain '- andthen to receive the gifl of t he holy spirit.

And what kind of resul ts will the spiritof God p}oduce in you? .I 'll tell you, first,' what it WONT produce. It won 't produce the morbid, un

happy, painful, 'gloomy life that manythink is the Chr is tian life. Let the Bibletell you what "fr uit " it wil l produce inyou. "But ,the fruit of the Spirit is love,j oy , peace,", longsuffering, ~ n t l e n egoodness, faith, meekness, temperance:.ag ainst .such there is no law" (G alatians5:22-23). 'Look at that more closely: " the fruitof the spirit" - this is the spir it of GOD.

This is the holy spirit that God impartsonly to those who have repented - thatis, turned FROM tha t which has caused

WY DO some religious peoplefeel tha t thei r religious life 'must be one of giving ' up allthe fun and enjoyment of living - that in order to plea se God, theymustendure a life of morbid gloom?For that matter why do some NONreligious people feel ,that to become a ,Christian would mean a life of livingpainful penance?As a boy f was brought up in a respec tab le Protestant church of tradi-tional Christianity. I never did ,knowvery much, as a boy, a bout what thechurch b.elieved --!J ut I di d know that itrega rded sin I as viola ting lheir manyDON'TS: - don 't smoke, don't dance,'don' t play cards , don 't go to the theater,don 't drink a .drop of wine, don 't do this,don' t do tha t!A world-famous philosoph er, edit or ,and lecturer whom I knew said he hadno desire to live a life 'or -Christian repression. "I desire," he said, " to be radiant, chee rful, friend ly - to meet peoplewith a smile." He was a highly educatedma n -r- but he was a biblical illiterate ! 'Whe re do people get all the se distorted ideas ab out the religion of JesusChrist? Certain ly NOT out of the Bible .The y know nothing of the Jesus of the 'Bible, who said , "I am come that they

/ might have LIFE, and tha t they mighthave it mor e abundantly."_ , Somehow a' lot of ,people ha ve re' - - ~ ' d " a " C welfd and 'false ideas

about jesus Christ - I mean the Jesu s ofYOUR BIBLE. Actually, I think almost NOONE knows ' what the, Bible says aboutHim.It seems most people think SIN is thething that is BEST for us, but which astern, wrathful God denies us. Someyears ago a lit tle book was selling big on


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"RICH NATIONS11 SUMMIT:PROMISES HARD TO KEEPThe heads of state of six industrial powers 'metnear Paris to discuss the troubled world economy.They reached few conclusions. . .

THEPASSING"OEUROE'S OlD GUARD byDavid Price

tion at differing nationalities, languages,and r el ig ions - even a lphabe ts - whichis Yugoslavia.Numerous purges of a sp ir in g politicians during the years have meant thatthere is no heir apparent to Tito . Insteadhe has engineered a new constitutionwhich decrees that, a fter his departure,power will p ass to a col le ct ive councilwith members drawn tram the-constituentregions of Yugoslavia.

Some observers teel the shared authori ty plan is a rec ipe tor d isas te r. They l1e-Iieve that the Soviet Union will attempt todrive a wedge between nationalist tactions of the federat ion, with the object atbringing all or part at Yugosl av ia backinto the Moscow orbi t, from which shewas expelled in 1948.Of course, such activity would be in clear violation of the principles of the Eu

ropean Secur it y .Conference . Nevertheless, a Soviet-controlled corr ido r,through Yugoslavia woulcr 'realiz e thecenturies-old . R u s ~ i a n dream of a door-wayan' the Mediterranean Sea. Sovietna val bases on the Adriatic would shake the . ..very toundations of . NATO and put' thedemocracies of Italy , Greece and Turkeyin grave danger.'Brezhnev - S tepdownBelieved NearI t has been apparent that for some t imeGeneral-Secretary Leonid- Brezhnev hasbeen suffer ing 'f rom some type of sick

. LOrmaN : The Franc o era in Spain isover. And with .i ts passing undoubtedlywi ll also pass Spain's . relative tranquilityof the last three and a half decades.

Changes must take place soon in othercountries ruled by aging patriarchal leaders . The future of Yugoslavia af ter T ito isuncertain. The country has l ong bornethe intimate stamp of his own personality.Moreover, the un ce rt ai n health of theU.S.S.R's Leonid Brezhnev and his im-. pending retirement cast a greater shadowover the whole of Europe. Will his successor fol low the path of detente or wil lhe choose a policy of more aggressiveand violent exp lo it at io n of the Wes t' s" cr isis of capitalism"?Juan Carlos' .Thankless Task\ General Franco'ssuccessor, King JuanCarlos I, is faced with the thank less taskof heading off dissent and possible revolution in the country . Rea li zing that themost important pillar 'of Spanish society is' the army, the King .tJa,;tried assidu. ously to curry support framits ranks. " -..The support of the army will be especially important in a ssuri ng an o rder lyand peace fu l t rans it io n from the autocratic sty le of F ranco to a perhaps moredemocratic style under Juan Carlos. Recently Spa in has been rocked by shootings and bombings by urban guerr il laswanting greater pol it ica l f reedom .andseparatism. In the twilight of his rule ,Franco earned the o dium at left-wing

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A HOLLOW VICTO RY FORDR. KISSINGERWill the sacking of Defense Secretary Schlesinqerbackfire in Mr. Ford 's ' face? Columnist Stanley R.Rader analyzes the controversial move.

FOOD FACTS AND FALLACIESSupermarke t p ri ces will never be as Iow as theyonce were, despi te ten common fal lacies peopleascr ibe to food finances. -

6CHINA DISCOVERS OIL POWERThe " Sheiks of the East" have discovered that the' presence of oil may bring unexpected economicand geopolitical benefits.


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PRIMEMINISTERWilson and President Fordat the six-nation economic summit in France.ECONOMIC SLUMP,FEAR OF TRADE WARJRIGH :NATONS:' S U M M T ~PRDMISISHAD TO 'KIIP

fo r the land is full ofbloody crimes, and thecity is full of violence.

- Ezeki el 7:23Many of the nation's leadingcriminal justice officials met re

cently in Washington, D.C.Most doubted that merely morepolice and b ette r courts andpri sons would significantly reduce crime rates . Only a change, in society 's moral values will,they agreed. And these values,most felt, must be based first onfamily cohesiveness, love, andinstruction if} self-d iscipline.These character trait s must be further supported by the community, . the chu rch, and th eschools.

Glenn D. King, executive d i- rector of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, saidat this meeting: "At the presen ttime there is no effective det er. rent to crime at all. In the past-there' was a soc ial stigma a t

tounding numbers of Ameri ca n s do not th in k it isworthwhile toreport they havebeen the victims of crim inal at tacks .Arrest odds demonstrate thatcrime pays. Fol lowing the average of the past sever al years,only .21% of serious crimes were"cleared" by arrest in 1974.

While their worr ies over theeconomy have s lackened a bitin the last few mon ths, Americans are not about to enjoy anyr el ie f from the wave of crimeand violence - c lipping .alongat double-digit increases.Accor di ng to the late st FBIcrime report, the 1974 increasewas the largest yearly jump inU.S. history - a whopping 18%over 1973. Police reported over10,1 mil lion serious crimes forthe year - four times as many asreported only ten years ago!

One of the biggest surprisesin the annual survey was the20% increase for 1974 in suburban and rural crime , while citiesof over 250,000 population registered "only" a 12% increase.

Another surprise was the rapidly increasing involvement ofwomen in c rime . Arres ts '"Ofwomen since 1960 have increased almost 110%; arrests ofmales in the same period rose24%. ' . ' .The "crime clock" shows that,nat ionwide, there is a murder,rape, robbery, assault, burglary,or other t heft every three sec

onds. Arid since it ' has beenclearly demonstrated that muchmore cr ime - ' from two to f ivet imes in some categori es - goesunreported than enters into,official statistics, an. average of oneserious crime _every second is 'probably much closer to reality.So much for the criminals.

Double Digit Inflation-I C In rime.

Boom followed by the Bust ledto worldwide social unres t, political extremism and finallyglobal warfare. .The big taskbefore the six men;therefore , was to try to pull theWestern world out of the recession without spi ll ing over intoeither 'runaway inf lation or a disastrous trade war.The results of the conferenceshowed how hard this goal is toachieve. .mate is the worst since the"The alli ed statesmen who

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CHINA'S OIL PRODUCTIONuntil 1949 was less than 100 ,000tons (about 2 ,000 barrels a day) of ,crude oil. Subsequent productionisshown inthis graph, according tostatistics provided by the Paris dailynewspaper, Le Monde:BARRELS PER DAY INTHOUSANDS

Alaska's North Slope . Other oilexper ts estimate potential reserves larger than those of theentire Mideast.

Frightened EuropeThe shock of seeing Russiantroops massed on the YugoslavItalian border would send shockwaves throughout " he rest ofWestern Europe. There wouldbe outc rie s in cert ai n quartersfor free Eu rope to deve lop itsown milit ary defense system

(probably relying on tacticalnuclear weapons) as well as acrash program toward politicalunion .A Russian takeover of Yugosla via would wreak havoc onthe Italian political scene . TheI tal ian communis ts would f irstof all gain immed ia te ext rastrength. The I talian government might be forced at last totake the communists into theluling 'coa lition. The resultcould be a "Finlandized" Italy,moving into a neutr al ist position , dropping out of NATOand becoming subservient tothe Kremlin. ,

NATO, in its p re sent form,would very likely collapse. London's Daily Telegraph warnsthat the a lliance, under thestrain of the ' events in Yugoslavia, as well as the GrecoTurkish troubles, "might wellnot surv ive." Conceivably , thetrend which would begin with'the neutralization of Italy couldcontinue 'unabated throughoutWestern Europe. Leftist governments would come to or stay inpower in Spain, Portugal, Italy ,France, and the Low Countries.At this poi nt, a violent reacj ion could se t in. The same sort

of leftish-tinted political chaoswft ich pre vailed in Eur ope inthe 1930s could occur again.

YUGOSLAVIA(Continued from page 3)"ample, seems to indicat e thatth e " Brezhnev doctrine" whe reby the U.S.S.R.' asserts itsr ight to 'militari ly intervene in 'the affairs of its East Europeanbloc - is alive and well . ,. The major clause of the treatystates that the partners agree toundertake the 'necessary stepsfor "the protection and defenseof the historic achievements of ,socialism." .Most diplomats' believe the words have the sort ofelasticity which would 'allow So- 'viet t anks to keep the East Germans in line under the pretextof "protecting socialism.' Fewdoubt tha t the same reasoningwouldn't be appli ed someday toYugoslavia.

Political Housecleaningin Belgrade 'Yugoslavian authori ties are

already alarmed over the possibility . The Tito government isnow prosecu ting a number ofpro-Moscow communists. Fearing that the Russians are tryingto stir up divis ion among Yugoslavia's diverse nationalities, authori ties in. Belg rade are alsocracking down on leaders in thevarious .republics and autono"mous regions whostray tho far 'from the concept of Yugoslavfederalism.

Furthermore , guerrilla war-'fare classes are now being con-'ducted in Yugoslavian schools.At the same time, Yugoslaviahas speeded up construction ofthe new fighter-bomber it isbuilding jointly with neighboring Romania; another maverick

sorb s th e g re at majority ofChina's oil exports, thoughpresent export tonnages are stillrelatively sma ll in relation toJapan's needs . But, as a result ,Russian's Siberian oil fields arenot as attractive to Tokyo asthey once were.

China crude has been used tomaintain leverage with NorthKorea and Nor th Vietnam. Oil sales at s pe ci al r at es h av egreased diplomatic wheels withthe Phi lippines and Thailand.For others, . the Chinese askwhat the traff ic will bear reaping OPEC benefits withoutincurr ing any , limiting obliga-tions . '

Whether the new communis t"Sheiks of the East " fully tapChina'soil producing potentialdepends on a . lot of vagaries:direction of the communist Chinese l eade rship in the yearsahead, acceptance or rejectionof major foreign technologicalass is tance or mutual bilateraldeals, and overall t rade and pol iti ca l r el at ions with the rest ofthe free world . All of these areasare still big question marks . 0

Geopolitical LeverageNaturally the magicof blackgold has awakened the Chineseleadership to economic and political potentials that wereotherwise elusive . Suddenly anew great leap forward toward

industrialization is pos sible.Such expanded oil productionformed the basis for Chou En-lai'sp ledge i'n January to 'move theChinese economy "into the frontranks of the world" by 1990., China 's present oil needs ,whi le growing, are not huge(80% of its energy comes fromcoa l). Thi s leaves r ap id ly expanding oil product ion for exports ,which Chinese leadersreal ize is the quickes t and leastpainful way for Peking to solveits ' vexing .shortage of foreignexchange.Already Chinese oil power isexercising significant leverageand i nf luence on the world po

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ChinaDiscoversOil PowerIn an age when-nil meanspower, communist Ch ina is in abig hurry to tap its newly discovered oi l reserves and join thebig leagu e of oil producers.With a flurry of activity fromthe desolate stretches near theSoviet border to the S outhChina Sea, China's ' backwardoil ind ustry is pressing hard tofind, t ap, refine, and sell itsnew-found treasure trove . NearShangha i, construction of an"oil city" complete with ref inery, pe tr ochem ical complex,and tanker facilities goes onaround the clock. .In the fifties, Chin a was consid ered-to be poor in oil reservesby Western geologists. From ,importing over 60% of its oilne eds from Ru ssia in thosedays, China has come to theplace where she, is now moretha n self-sufficient. With L2million barrels a day in production, Ch ina is already second to "Indonesi a in Asian output. With 'sufficient Western technologicalhelp, some oil experts even feelChina, by the ear ly 1980s, could

match the output of Saudi .Arabia today.China' s suspected large deepwater oil pools almo st certainlywill requ ire U.S. technology - ,, and very likely help ma intainthe politic al "connection" to


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Rhodesia-Ten Years LaterSALISBURY , RHODESIA :The nation which British PrimeMinister Haro ld Wilson saidwould be brought down "in amatter of weeks, rather thanmonths" celebrated its tenth.anniversary of i ndependence onNovember II .A friendless nat ion, defyingthe world , firmly committed toprinciples other countries detest, Rhodesia has emerged witha stable government in a continent of coups, countercoups,and.revolutions .Few Rhodesians envisionedthe events that would followtheir uni lateral declarat ion ofindependence (U .D .!.) fromBritain that Friday morning in1965. Most expected a constitutional settlement over the weekend, with Rhodesia accepted asa Domin io n within the BritishCommonwealth. But the British

government would no t backdown on its insistence o n aspeedy path to black major ityrule for the rebel colony.IfHarold Wilson, through thewe-British .a:pp oin ted . GovernorGener al in Sa lisbu ry , had ordered the arrest of the rebel

prime minister and his cabinet,the whole enterprise might havefailed . While Wilson hesitated,.Rhodesia consolidated.Within weeks, Harold Wilsonappeared at the U.N . urging allmembers to cease trading withthe rebel gover nmen t in Rhodesia . Neighboring white-ruledSouth Africa and the Portu- .guese colony , of Mozambiquerefused to comply - a severeblow to Wilson's strategy.Negotiations were tr iedagai n. Two sets of talks followed be tween the two primeministers, on board H.M.S . Ti-ger (1966) and H.M.S. Fearless(1968) . The prime minis tersagreed, but Mr . Smi th was unable to sell the proposals to theright wing of his party.A further blow to a settlement caine in 1969, when Rhodesia int roduced a republi can'constitution, breaking the finall ink wit li Bri tain - the Crown .

EconomyStill unrecognized and a virtual pariah among the nations,Rhodesia was batt ling ' throughon the economic front.

In the first e ight years a fte rU.D .!., Rhodesia's productionin the mining sector more thandoubled. Gold, nickel, asbestos,chr ome and coal are all minedin large quanti ties and l ike tobacco sold abroad .secretly.Chrome isopenly purchased bythe U.S. as a strategic metal.

The manufacturing sectorgrew in leaps and bounds following independence. As foreign goods became unavailable,enterpr is ing Rhodesian businessmen. p roduced t he ir ownvers ions. At first, these productswere o ft en i nfe rio r, but nowthey rank as top qua li ty p roducts anywhere in the world.While Eord and BMC closeddown t he ir mot or assemblyplants due . to a .lack of spareparts , French and I ta li an companies opened new ones.. '. However, cars remain Rhodesia 's most apparent problem.A newcomer to Rhodesia soonnotices the age and the price ofmost cars . Pre-1965 models sellat exo rb it an t prices, but customers have no choice as moneyis not ava ilabl e for luxu ry imports. Petrol is rationed, 'not because it is unavailable, bu tbecause there is no foreign cur:rency to pay for i t.

Settlement?. . . ..The change of government in'Britain in 1970 opened the door

to a new settlement o pportu nity . Rhodesian leaders meanwh i le jhav e approved . th eprinciple of gradual progress toblack majority rule.

The situation has been complicated by other changes however. Future direct negotiationsare unlikely between Bri tainand the Rhodesian government.The formula now is for Rhodesia's black nationalist groupsand the white gover nmen t toget together on a joint program.When these two'opposing forcesagree, British recognition willbe a mere formali ty.Also complicating th e.chances of a real s et tl emen t isthe division with in the blacknationalist movement itself.TheA .N.C . (African Nation alCouncil ), uni ted only last December, has now split again intotwo factions.. The hard- line ' terrorist faction, based in Lusaka, Zambia,is led by Bishop Abel Muzarewa. The more moderate wingis led by Joshua Nkomo whopresently has a s trong popularfollowing among the Afr icanpopulation.The three-year-old waragainst black terrorism is an inc reasing d ra in on the nati on 'seconomy. .A11 white men between.the ages of 18 and '50 aredrafted into the security forcesfor a period of five'weeks, two

or three times a year. This practice is noticeably harming Rhodesia's economy and is leadingto disillusionment and despairamon g many Rhodesians . Asignificant number of youngwhites , faced with a l ifet ime ofmilitary service, are leaving thecountry.If Smi th were to make a majo r concession to the blacks ,there is now a good chance of apeaceful set tl ement and recognit ion from the community ofnations . Once adamant aboutno power-sharing, the rulingRhodesian Front is now talkingopenly of a mixed-race cabinetand the possibility of a blackprime minister. Racial barriersare g radual ly bei ng r emoved,and equal opportunity is beingintroduced.

Whatever the settlement, thewhites believe they have earneda permanent place under theRhodesian sun . Prime MinisterIan Smith has stressed he wantsa society where "neither racedominates the other."That's not an easy task in a,cou ntry where blacks ou tnumber whites 22 to I. But, after defying the world for tenyears , Rhodesians are not abou tto surrender to the forces ofblack ' nationalism, terrorism,economic sanctions and ostrac ism by the wor ld. ci .. - Melvin Rhodes

ART BUCHWALDExplaining

The r ea so n we .a re buyingwheat and com and grain fromthe Uni ted States is because ofdetente. Our . leader ComradeBrezhnev is b ringi ng peace tothe world by accepting capitalist

do with the 'American wheat?". "Eat i t, you Trotskyite. Weare going to eat the Am.ericangrain to prove to the Un itedStatesthat communism will getfat on cap ita lism 's mistakes.

f inal ly comes the revolut ion.""But you said the UnitedStates has a surplus ofwheat.""They do unless .we buy it.Ivan , I don't want to send youto the KGB office, so will you

when the Soviet Union has hadanother bumper crop of grain.Let me see the hands of anyoneelse in the class whose motherscouldn't buy bread this morning. . . . Put down your hands,


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bean crop this year was almos t IS billion bushels , or 75 percent of total worldproduction. America expor ts over 40percent of her soybean crop each year ,while 55 percent of world soybean tradeemanates from the United States. '.

Fallacy #3 : The Farmers AreGetting RichFact: True, farmers are generally bette roff than in most previous years, and ifexport doors remain ?pen, rural prosperity will probably continue, The sudden swelling of grain prices made 1973an all-time record year for farm profits,but that's not the whole story.Farmers suffer from/h e energycrisis,'inflation, and high interest rates evenmore than most other Americans. The.price of agricultural machinery has risen"35 percent in the last two years and 70percent since 1967. The average price offertilizer and agr icultural chemicals isup 125 percent from two years ago.And one good crop year 'doth not arich farmer make! One year giveth, andthe next year taketh away. After the1973 record, farm profits fell by 37 percent in 1974. Many farmers are heavilymortgaged, and a bad crop year or tumbling prices in a good crop yea r couldtrigger massive foreclosures. With therising cost of feed grains , many cattleranchers are currently on the financial ,brink. 'Fallacy #4 : Food Exporters PushPrices UpFact: If the U.S. closed its export doors,prices would temporarily go down , butin the long run these low prices woulddrive farmers out of business, therebycutt ing product ion and forcing pr icesback up. . ..If the government choseto avert foreclosure on the farms , it could supportthe farmer w i t ~ massive payments. Con-

The 'J o llyGrain Giant -',American

Fallacy # 1: Earl Butz Caused ItFact: The Depar tment of Agricul iurehas certainly made some mistakes overthe years , but Earl Butz's biggest blunder issimply that he becamesecretary ofagriculture at ai time when the forcesthat affect food prices were changingfrom a situation of domestic surplus toone of worldwide shortage.Earl Butz understands and articulatesthe essence of the food crisis often andwell. Writing in Skeptic, he observed,"T here can be no adequate supplies offood produced in any country that insists on clinging to a so-called cheapfood policy. It won't work ." .Alas, dear Earl of Ag, yon consumer .spends too much on food to buy yourargument or eat your words, even, though you're right.Fallacy #2 : The Russians. Caused ItFact: It is true that the Soviets bought a .lot of U.S. grain at low prices in 1972,causing grain prices to skyrocket the followingyear.However, food prices con tinued torise dramatically in 1974 and 1975 whenthe Russians were not in the market.Clearly other factors were involved . Themain problem with Russian wheat purchases is that the Soviets have only en- 'tered th e international marketsporadically and un expectedly, TheRussian wheat problem now seems to be'-' so lved with the 'conclusion" of a a.s::,-Soviet agreement that provides for anSoviet grain purchases.

grubbing" oil companies with their "obscene profits." Likewise, the food crisismust have its villains. There are morescapegoats than you can shake yourfood stamps at. You can even take yourpick between ; farmer s, agribusiness,grain companies, commodity speculators, consumer advocates, environmentalists, communists, the Illuminati,banks, any secretary of agriculture fromHenry Wallace on, any President sinceHerbert Hoover, a whole assortment of"middle men" (truckers, processors, andlabor in ,general) , supermarket chains,advertisers, exporters, and , of course,God, who's accused of botch ing theweather.It's time to separate some facts from' fallacies. '

by Ron Horswell

Selecting a ScapegoatThe energy crisis has its scapegoats the "cunning" Arabs and the "money-

What do many Americans consider tobe a "food crisis"?Is it when thousands starve each dayand billions , are chronically malnourished? No, Is it when drought grips theSahel or floods wipe out crops in Bangladesh? Of course not !A genuine bona fide food crisis iswhen supermarket prices in the Uni tedStates' rise forty percent.in three years .It's when Americans spend more of theirdisposable income for food (17.4 percentin 1975) than in any year since 1967.Now thai's " a real disaster, a terrible"food crisis."

Food 'Facls,and Fallacies


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sumers would then pay for the ir foodtwice.once at the supermarket and onceagain through higher taxes.In addi tion to higher food . prices;America's large balance of. tra de earnings from agricultural exports would belost. making it d ifficult if not impossibleto buy international necessities such as gil.Finally there is ihe moral andgeopolitical implication of seeing the world'swealthiest nat ion slamming its granar iesshut in the faces of the world 's less fortu na te peoples.Fallacy #5 : Gr ain Reserves AretheAnswerFact: Reserves cannot be rebui lt without ,closing the doo r o n exports (with all theat tendant problems listed under the cat-egorya bove). .Blessed shall be thy basket and,thy store . . and ihou shalt 'lend unto many nations, andthou shalt no t borrow.

- Deut. 28: ; 12As a nation we may ask if rese rves areneeded 'to pro tect ourselves against pr ivation due to a bad crop year (the like ofwhich we have not had in recent history). but tha t' s a totally different qu estion. But if you thin k reserves wiU keepfood prices low - fo rget it. The supplyand demand equation must now includethe demand of th e whole hungry world.deman d.

FaUaey #6 : Government SubsidiesShould EndGove rnment subsidies to the non -

, producing farmer actually ended recently.The governmentis now only comm ittedto support commodity "target prices,"which costs little.Actually, two third s of the Dep artment of Agriculture budget goes to an-

FaUacy #9 : American Food IsHigh -pricedFact : Americans spend less of t he ir disposable income ( 17.4%) on food ' thanany othe r nation. The British spend 25percent; the Japanese'27 percent ; Eur opean nati ons spend 30 percent andmore ; in Asia and Africa. it's weU over50 percent. Food is stilI cheap in the U.S.We cou ld try to make it cheaper by closing export doors' and jsolating oursurplus. Or we could recognize that toda y's food crisis demands internationalleadership.Fallacy ,# 10: America Can (and Should)"Go It Alone" ,Fact:' American food policy wiUincreasingly become world food pol icy, for the,simple reason that th e Un ited States hasa vir tualcorner on the market (see box) .Supply and demand yet live, and demand for food has n ev er been higher.There is economic demand in -the formof marks. pounds, f rancs, yen , pesos,and rubles, and t he re is mor al demand, in the specter ofgaunt. hungry faces .

Whether supply ' rises toward worlddemandis a choice for Ame rica. If shechooses to "go it alone," she will indeedbe alone. She would be a nation withouta friend, a na tion without a Conscience,and a nati on without a future - aU beca use she would be a nation without thef acts, a people clinging to faUacies aboutthe "food crisis." 0r - - - - - - - - - - ~ - ,If youre movng please'letus know 4 weeks inadvance,Attach yourmailing label toI give usyour old address, write in your .' . new a d ~ r e s below. r---- -

1 ~ 8 J r i 1 lby Stanley R, Rader

AHollow Victory for Dr.Kissinger, -In January' 1973the Israeli and Egyptian forces signed what was referred toas the 10I Disengagement Pact. The actual s igning took pla ce in the Sinai andwas executed by the respective field commanderso f the opposing forces. Immedi

at ely t he reaf te r, to lend a little pomp and circumstance to the mil it aryities, Henry Kissinger flew to Aswan in upper Egypt to "celebrate" the occasio nwith President Sadat . Mr . Herbert Armstrong and I were alr eady in Aswan,having arrived an hour earl ier than Dr: Kissinger with members of a' Japanesedelegation, The following day, after conferring with Deputy Prime Minister Dr:Abdel Hatem, we flew to Israel for a meeting with Deputy Prime Min ister YigaelAllon (who isnow Israel's foreign minister as well). , 'I was 'very much interes ted in knowing just what Dr: Kissinger's role hadbeen in bringing about the so-called disengagement pact, and I asked Mr. Allondirectly for his assessment. With a very wry ' smile , Mr . Allon sa id thatDr: Kissinger's .prime contribuiion was to .get Arab leaders in Syria and Egypt toag ree on one thing: that there was something undesirable ab out Isr aeli armsbe ing within some fifty miles of Damascus and Cairo. . '

Alth ough I had not been present and canno t vouch for the veracity of thestory, I have been told that when Dr . Kissinger first arrived in Pekingsecret mission for President Nixon, his ploy tothaw the very cold relationsh ip (infact 'unre la tlonship) between the Uni ted States and the Peop le's Republic ofChi na was to poin t to a map showing clearly the f ront ier between China andRu ssia, upon which map he hasti ly drew some und istinguishable marks and said,"Gentlemen: those are Soviet troops, that is the Sino-Russian border, and tha t isyou r enemy." Apparently, if-the sto ry is true, the Chinese also ag reed that therewas something undesirable about ha ving countless Russian divis ions, as well asSovietmissiles andother-military hardware , poised on their borders.', If it were true , however, one can easily see 'why Dr . Kissinger's recent trip toChina could well lie described as "chilly," and one can easily see why the Chineseare not looking forward (nor is President Ford) to Mr . Ford 's for thcoming visit toPeking. If the Chinese were cool to Dr. Kissinger several weeks ago, it is very easyto predict how VI;ry cool they will be now that Secretary of Defense JamesSchlesinger has been removed from office s- because it is very well known thatthe most effective and per suasive cr itic of detente in the U.S. government wasMr. Schlesinger, who not only was pe rsuasive bu t was also well-informed andintellectually astute . In addi tion, he was Dr . Kissinger's mos t severe critic, not in


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THE U.N. AT3DDeep TroubleBehind the FacadeI ising impressively from the bankS of 34% e arli er this year - has been evenNew York ' C ity's East River" the ', further eroded by the U.N. vote .United Nations' tall,.stately Secre- ,,: . ' Increasing numbers of Americans aretariat building and the neighboring .demand lnq the complete wiltidrawal of 'General Assemb'ly,Conference; and Li- ' the U.S. from the United Nations. Somebrary bui ld ings project an image of dig - lire even ,call ing for 'the removal of U.N.nity, stability, and purpose. ' neadquarters from U.S. soil and its trans -Few visitors walking for the 'first time ,;! plantation in Vienna, Geneva, or; moreinio the modern, well-l it lobby of the Gen> "" cyntcauy, in Antarctica: Arthe least, most

' er al Assembly b ui ld in g fail to . be ' im- Americans would like to see some sort ofpressed ' by ' a sense of tar-reachlnq - curtaumenr of the huge U.S'. contributionimportance. -Surely; behind these 'walls totne U.N. bUdget.serious diplomats from around the globe ' " The U.S. has con tr ibuted more thanare careful ly pondering ,' and resolving 'onethi rd of all funds received by theweighty matters of great international sig- in,!he course of its 3D-year history. ~nif icance - str iv ing, in the words of the year Washington is footing 25% ($81 .3'U.N. Charter, " to save succeeding gener- , ' mil lion) of the total U.N. budget of $325.1, '.', ations from the scourge,o !.v,rar"., .";:" , : . !,: ',' millio!" At the same .time', the Soviet,::: 'But behind this i llusory facade l ies the . Union; its allies, and many develop ing .increasingly apparent reali ty - the United Third World nations remain heavily 'in ar-_Nations" ,30 years old last month, is in rears, refusing to pay their full 'sl'are de-deep troub'e. ' . , spi te their continued uti lization': of theU.N,forum .

The U.N. carries on i ts books 65.4 million In-overdue assessments against na- .tions refusing to pay. Over one half ofth is- $36.4 million - is owed by th.e S ovietUnion, Byelorussia, and the Ukraine, thethree votes the Soviets have in the Gen

"lntamcus Act" 'In an action strongly denounced by theUnited States, the U.N. General Assemblyin early Novembervoted 72 to 35, with 32abstentions and 3 nations absent, to declare Zionlsm e- the,movementto set upa


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serving propaganda , for attracting publicity, and for verbal ly attacking and em-barrassing one 's adversaries. 'The highly publicized appearances

during the past year of Yasir Aratat, chiefof the terrorist ,Palestinian liberation Organization and a self-admitted murdererof women and children, and of Uganda'serratic. Hitler-admiring President Idi Amin(labelled a " racist murderer" by U.S. Ambassador Moynihan) have been w idel y' cited as examples of the abuse of theGeneralAssembly.The reason fo r the 'inc reasingly dismalrecord of the General Assembly is easilyunderstood . It is an axiom of internationalre lat ion s that nat io ns do not gener al lybring to the U.N. forum disputes whichthey feel they can mutua ll y solve . Such, disputes are solved bilaterally or througha more regional forum such as NATO. theEEC, or the OAS . 'If the involved nations. on' the otherhand . are tota l ly and irrevocably bent onwar . the U.N. is again ,generally ignored ." The West's basic misconception," observes veteran polit ical observer Otto vonHabsburg, "i s the belief that this organizat ion is an ' instrument for the preservation ,of peace. Everybody should 'haiieunderstood that i f two count ries are 'determined to fight 'each other, al l the incantations 'of 'the international authoritiescannot chimge their course of action .", ,Wha t,disputes,.then, find their way intothe GenEiy'1Assembly? In themain. theyare those which show l it tl e p romise ofimmediate bilateral 'resolution and overwhich the involved par ties are not ,ready' ,oi wil ling to go 'to war. Sincethe U.N. hasno real power to impose a set tlement. itmerely provides one or both parties to the. d ispute a marvelous opportunity topreserit its cause to the wor ld .A showdown 1I'0te may be called in theAssembly, for cing member nations to

choose upsldes in a confrontation whichdoes not dlrectlyconcern them or to display solidarity with their particular votingbloc wtien they may not totally agree with

opment and economic cooperation wasachieved by the chief U.S. negotiator anda leading Thi rd World spokesman in the, U.N. cafeteria,In addit ion, it must be remembered thatdespite warnings of the General Assembly 's " t hr ea t" to the Un it ed States, anyreal power the U.N. can exert lies - as italways has - in the Security Council .where the U,S. can at any time exerc iseits veto prerogative., This, however . by no means obv ia testhe need for meaningful reform in theGeneral Assembly. Says a recent art iclein the London Times: "I n i ts thir ty-yearhistory. the U.N. has never appeared lessequipped to meet the challenges of afragile world than it does today , and hasnever stoodmore inneed of reform."One Vote, One MessOne major area singled out - by theUnited States, at least - as needful ofchange is 'the "method', of voting in theGeneral Assembly. Over one half of the,U.N .' s 142 membe r nat io ns have fewe'r .

people than New York City! Yet each nalion has fUlly one vote - no more, no less' - in the Assembly. The Ma ld ive I sl ands(pop . .115,000), in ,other words , car ry asrnucn weighlin the Assembly as does theUnited Statesor Britain. .Fortune 's analysis of the U.N. notestha t under the preseri t one nat ion, onevote configuration, " the' nations that' aredominant in Ihe world - .by wealth ..power , even popul at io n - are a tiny mi.nority. and the nat ions that are weak andunimportant are in a position of unassail-abtersupertortty . " Theoref lcauy. theanalysis adds . it would be possible "toassemble a.major it y in the General Assembly thai.would r ep resent as l it tle as4.7% of the world 's populat ion, 1.3% ofgross world product. and an even smallerfraction of the world's military power."Vot ing reform, however , would entailsubstan tive changes in the U.N. charter,which would prove a nearly impossibletask. The organization's smaller members

bly . the U,S. would retaliate, at min imum, natio ns, the U.N, is simply l imited in wha tby severely slashing its appropriations to . it can do. It is doing just about all that i tsthe U.N. And as its single largest contnb- sovereign members will . at present, allowutor, even a token reduc tion of U.S. pay- it to do . . -rnents wou ld cause hardshi p in the The U.N. is not a world.9overnment-organization. ' not even the embryo of one. It is s implyFurthermore; should the U.S. - whose an assoc ia ti on of sovere ign states - an'support , in the words of Henry Kissinger, instrument of .international diplomacyis "the l i feblood of the orqanlzation " - with many limitations and shortcomings.ever be driven 10complete ly sever t ies to Onlywhen nations, in a spi ri t of mutua lthe world body, it could no longer even understanding, . abandon their self ishhold f or th the pre tense of being a v iable aims and pet ty quarrels and lea rn to co-organization of any real worth. ' operate for the good of all , will a tru lyeffective world 'government be possible.Beating Swords Inscribed on a marble wall at the U.N. ,Into Plowshares headquarters i n New York City is a por-The orig inal f ramers of the U.N. charter tion 'o f the ancient prophecy of Isaiati 2:4,had a noble aspirat ion. A mechanism for symbolizing the ult imate goal of the U.N.:international discussion and cooperation' , "They shall beat the ir swords in toon problems ' of g loba l significance is .,plowshares,. and their spears into pruneven more essential today ' .than it was; inghooks: nation 'shall not lift up sword

three decades ago . "Worldwide organi- ,against .nauon , nei ther shal l they learnzation," 'observed President Ford on the war anymore,"occasion of the U.N.'s 30th anniversary, The first portion of this prophecy - not" i s necessary to ,dea l wi th w o r l d ~ i d e quoted ori the marbleWall - provides theproblems." ' an swer to how wor ldwide peace andU.N. Secretary General K U ! b , : l l , I ~ > ~ e i m .p rosper lt y wil l u lt imately be ach ieved:also ' noted that the " probtem fEfacing " An d ,he ' [God) shall jUdge among themankind are. in the main, problems com- nat ions, and shan rebuke manymoil to all n at io ns and reg ions , and it is people. . . . :' .not possib le to resolve them anymore by The world wil l soon see the realizationpurely national. or even regional, re- of its c enturies -ol d dream of permanen tsponses." , peace - but not through the e ffor ts ofBut in a world of sovereign and diverse man. 0


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sion had forecast energy consumption and about 33% of 'the nation's total en-tripling by the year 2000. ergy consumption. Shortage of naturalOne st udy asserts t ha t Ameri ca will gas t hreat ens t o become America's num -need to build ' a new power p lant every ber one worry.25 days for the next 20 years if our The Federal Power Commission pre -energy consumption is 'not controlled.' d ie ts that in the year ending next AprilYet , energy authority Frank Murray be- I, gas shortages will cut 45% deeper thanlieves that even -this esliinate may be too in the p rev ious 12mon ths. This will giveconservat ive (see accompanying inter- rise to a serious crisis this winter, even ifview). weather is only normally cold. It couldThe fact is that the developed West- mean devastating loss of jobs and clos-em world, e specia lly the Uni ted States, ing of plants, ser iously affecting thehas been on an energy-guzzling binge of economy. The economic recovery we allunprecedented proport ions for over 30 . hope for may very well be nipped in theyears . The U.S. has 6% of the ear th 's bud due to inc reasingener gy shor tages.population , bu t uses }5% of all the .en- Now, as winter is beginning, the Fed-ergy consumed in the ' world . Most of eral Energy Admin is tra tion is s ay ingthat energy comes from fossil fuels. In that the nat ion's network of interstatefact, petroleum fuets account for 75% of gas pipel ines will be . 1.3 trillion cubicU.S. energy consumption. Last year feet shor t of the 9 trillion cubic feetAmericans burned up some 25 billion needed for the winter. Large shortages,cubic feet of natural gas and 6.3 billion ranging up to 30%, are forecast for por-.barrels of oil. tions of ' t he mid-Atl anti c coast fromSouth Carol ina to New York . .Is Energy Independence Possible? Sooner orlater, the U.S. will run outExperts say i t wil l be extremely diffi- of oil and n atura l gas, even if pricescult, if not impossible, to become total ly quintuple and consumption levels off.energy independent . The U.S. imports De sp ite this, the U.S. continues to ,use36% of'the oil it uses, while the p roven importe d o il at near pre-embargo levels.reserves in the u .s. have been steadily The U.S. now imports 26% of its oil fromdecliningsince 1971. Every day, the U.S. . .Ara b countries, up from 16% in tateconsumes some 17 million bar re ls of oil, 1974. With 80% of the free wor ld 's o ilbut dai ly domestic production is only underlying the OPEC nations, the U.S.about 9 mil lion barrels. And the gap is is now more dependent than ever onnot narrowing; it's widening. Arab oil, and more vu lne rab le to anIncreasing scarcity at home is under- embargo than in 0l:!0ber".-..scored--by-the-cfac(.thahpetroleumcpr.o- ."".197-3. , .... 'ducers have been s inking more holes. . . h . The Hidden Energy Crisismto Amencan soil t an a! any timesince the mid-1960s ; yet very li ttle new Our dependence on 'oil and naturaloil is being discovered. Last year the gas for hea ting 'and t ransport at ion isnumber of wells drilled in the U.S. rose a la rm ingl yacute. But oil and gas are not .15%above the 1973 level to 32,000, but used only as fuel ; ' th ey are also used in.th e na tion produc ed 7% fewer barrels makin g a myriad of petrochemicals andper day (8.4 million) than the year be- .plastics which directly affect our dailyfore. In the first quarter of 1975, 8,568 lives. Literally thousands of products -wells were drilled, 22% more than dur- including carpets, paints, pesticides, fer-ing the s ame quarter of 1974; yet , pro- tilizers, drugs, and synthet ic fibers -by Robert Ginskey


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(I) Get along with less energy andface the consequences, with all its potentially disastrous effects on the economyand our standard ofliving.(2) Rely more on ,imports of oil andgas. competing with the rest of the worldand placing ourselves in a precariousand vulnerable posit ion with respect to '

future price increases and /o r embargoes .(3) Develop new. alternative en ergy sources of our own . This option willtake time. foresight. and dedication. andcertainly is not without risks and possible failures (see accompanying articles) .Actually. all these choices should playa . part in America 's energy future. Thefirst option has already been exercised toa .certain extent. Electrical -power consumption is down, cars are being engineered for better gas mileage, and homeinsulation is increasing. Much more canbe done in terms of conservation and thereduction of waste. But, ' conservationalone is not the answer. We need op-tions two and three as well. .Option two, the dependence on for-, eign oil . may be acceptable in the shortrun if it cu shion s the tr ansi tion to options one and three . But if it only delaysor precludes the implementation of theother options. the increasing reliance onexpensive and uncertain foreign sourcesof energycan only spell economic. politica l, and perhaps even military disasterin the future . .-The greatest long-term hope must l ieinoption t hre e - the development ofalte.rnative energy sources . With a 'good

m e a s ~ r e of luck and hard work. optionthree may provide the ult imate answer. toour energy needs. But time is short.Robert C. Seamans, Jr ., the head ofERDA . puts it this w ~ y : "Twice before ithas happened: from wood to coal in the19th century, and from coal to oil and

As supplies of oil and natural gasdwindle, a nlimber of alternative energysources are being seriously consideredfor providing future power.Coal isa prime candidate for meetingAmerica 's future energy needs . Trulystaggering amounts of energy are lockedup in Nor th Ameri can coal deposits.The U.S. has 1.3 to 2.0 trillion tons ofcoal. of which 390 billion tons are con- .sidered readily recoverable. At currentlevels of consumption . the U.S. has a1,600:year supply of coal.But coal is bulky and expensive toship . It requires large storage facilities,and much of it is high in sulfur andothe,r impurities. Moreover, despite .extensive research, scientists have not yetfound a truly ' reliable way to cleanse thestack gases of coal-burning electric generators.Yet if the technologies for coal gasifi-'cation and liquefaction ' can be developed on a commerc ia l scale, the onetime king of American energy might return to the throne.Nuclear fission also holds promise.Already. 56 nuclear plants generate over8% of the electrical power in the U.S;One pound of uranium, with .presenttechnology. will-supply as much heat as50,000 pounds of coal going into a coal- 'burning plant. Proponents of nuclearpower claim that nuclear-generated'e lectr icity is also .less expensive thanelectricity generated by fossil fuels.


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cent conversion efficiency, the total u.s.demand for electricity could be met. Solar heating and cooling programs couldsave the equivalent of I million bbl. Ofoil daily by 1985. This is because morethan 80% of the average homeowner'senergy bill is for heating, cooling, andhot water. One quart er of the energyconsumed in the U.S. goes to this end .The challenge is to come up withcheap and reliable systems. So far, solarenergy has had only very limi ted use.This is partly because we have hadabundant, cheap fossil fuels in the 'past.Solar energy development isalso verycapital-intensive. In four years, federalfunding for solar-energy research hasgone from less than I million dollars tomore than 100 million. The Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) has a f iscal '76 budge t of$144 million for solar research. But evenwith lavish -governrnent support expertscaution that i t will be many years beforethis energy source accounts for any appreciable portion of the nation's needs. -.Wind-generated electricity is being reborn in certain areas of the 'countrywhere wind velocities average )5 to 20miles per hour. This generally occurs incoastal regions , the Great Plains and onthe U.S.-Canadian border. Hill andmountain tops are also likely locations. :Huge (100 megawatt) systems are beingplanned, requiring 50 to 100 w i n d ~ i l l sper 50acres ofland. . .The primary.difficulty is that wind isintermittent, hence the need for suitablestorage devices for the generated electricity. Whe ther wind can make a significant contribution to our energyneeds remains to beseen.Geotbermal energy is a bright prospect, especially west of the Rockies. AI: 'ready dry steam from the Big Geyse rarea north of San Francisco is gener-

What power sou rc es can wecount on in the future? Will 'con-servation play an important partin tomorrow's energy picture? Tofind out, 'Plain Truth in terviewedarepresentative from the Center fo rStrategic and .Internationaltes, Georgetown University,Washington, D.C.Plain Truth: .Mr. Murray, are 'we facinga . long-term energy crisis or is the current problem merely a temporary inconvenience to the American people?Murray: I think the general public hassimply not grasped the seriousness of,the energy crisis, We have experienced a

centages to change radically in the nextfew years?Mu rray: No, not in the next few years.The system that we have evolved overthe last eighty years, is so large, so complex, ' and so . thoroughly interwoven throughout our economic and social systems that i t' s very difficult to change itrapidly without tremendous upheaval.That's '.why imports will undoubtedlycontinue for many years .P lain Truth: How much of our tota l energy supply isimported?Murray : We cur rent ly impor t somewhere be tween six and seven 'millionbarrels of petroleum every day. This isabout 40% of our petroleum c o n ~sumption. We also import a significantamount of nat ural gas. In total, we probably import in the neighborhood ofabout a fifth of our total energy requirements right now.P lain Truth: Is the Uni ted Statesmoredependent upon foreign sources todaythan say fiveyears ago?Murray: In terms .of petroleum, we'reimport ing almost twice as much as wewere in .1970. That's not a very comforting fact, and it's 'unl ikely to change inthe near future . In fact, assuming thereis a significant economic recovery in thenext six months to a year, it's probablethat those imports will go up.not down.Pla in Truth: What impact will the Alaskan pipeline have on our energy supply?Murray: The pipeline capacity has been

; . , d ~ a t a b ( ) u t t , ' Y 9 j . l l i o n per.day. In terms of our current production;this would be about a fifth of our domestically produced petroleum. So. it issignificant. .Plain Truth: Where does.nuclear energyrank as an alternative energy source incomparison to fossil-type fuels.Murray: Basically, nuclear power isused .for the generation of electrical energy.This in some degree limits its applicability, particularly to the current eco

which is provided by coal. They canboth become very significant.So you're confronted with a dilemmabetween the environmental problems associated with one fuel versus the environmental prob lems associated withanother. These are the types of thing sthat societies have to weigh and evaluate.P lain Truth: Is energy from control led'nuclear fusion a likely prospect in thenext 25 years?Murray: Fusion energy is really in itsinfancy . I think from that one must conclude that fusion power in a commercialsense ismany years away. Probably one

really ought to think in terms of decadesrather than years .Pla in Tr ut h: Is it true that if we keepincreasing' our demands as in the pastfew years that we'll need to completeone new power p lant every 25 days forthe next"20years?Murrayz-That's probably a .conservati-:e'estimate compared with some that I'veheard. We may well be faced with thatsituation if we continue to increase ourenergy consumption the way we have inthe past. Of course , the whole point ofmuch of the debate and discussion goingon now revolves around the ideas ofconservation and of changing the ene rgyconsumption patterns of the people.P la in T ru th : You mentioned con-servation. If we.curtail or drastically reduce consumption of energy, will thisadversely affect the economy? ., Murray:.'There seems to be a very directrelationship between ene rgy con-sumption and various measures of economic well-being. . Some people useGNP, some people use employment,some use disposable income. No matterwhat Yl?u use, traditionally and historically , we've had a very tight relationshipbetween increases in energy con-sumption and increases in economicwell-being. It's unlikely that we canchange this relationship quickly. Now,


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Women'sl ib '75:Moderates vs.Marxists ,by Linda Blosser and Jeff Calkins

Taking a cue from .the motion picture,"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," theNatio na l O rganiza tion of Women(NOW) set aside Wednesday, October29, as a nat ional women's strike, 10 be'known as "'Alice Doesn't." Women wereasked tocancel alltheir normal activities- shop ping, working, and even sex - todemonstrate how much "the system" depends upon them.The move resembled the themeof theancient Greek play, Lysistrata, in whichthe woinen of Athens tried to force the irmenfolk to stop a war by withholdingtheir conjugal dues. But the modern ver-' s ion wasn't nearl y as successful: Employers and husbands across the count ryreported almost no deviations from thenormal flow of life:' It seems mostwomen weren't even aware that theywere supposed to strike. -In the end,Alice did.Ironically, there was another departure from the story line of Lysis/rata.The participants in the NOW campaigntheir activities not to pro/est awar, bu t rather to escalate a war - thewarfor equalityof ihe sexes.

The Equality of the Sexes :To most peop le in our increasinglysecular, equality-worshipping society,sexual equality would seem to be a laudable goal. gut th e worthiness. of the goaldepends upon what is meant by "equality."1f the feminists mean the recogni

has real momentum and will not cease .until the patriarchal system in most ofour cultures is overthrown."The key phrase, "patriarchal system,"as used by women's libbers , means morethan an overbearing, middle-aged male and his extended_family. It means awhole system of morality - much of itgrounded upon biblical principl es which acts to preserve and protect thefamily unit as the building blockof society.

MS: Marxist Sisters?Appropriately, the women 's movement adopted the clenched fist - the

same symbol that the Black revolutionaries and the Marxists use as one oftheir symbois. .. The movement, as it now stands,wants to overthrow more tlian discrimination against women. It wants to overthrow all of the sexua l distinctions thatmake up a part of civilized culture, bothWestern and Oriental. And they will in-deed fight to do this. ', ' .Women's Lib has more in commonwith Marxist revolutionaries than ju stthe symbol of a fist. Some of the moreradical writers in the magazine MS. arevirtually plagia rizing Marxist speecheswhen they write about "oppression,"."liberation," "exploitation," and "sexism." Perhaps the ' letters MS shouldsta nd for Marxist Sisters. Indeed, theavowed leaders of Women's Lib - Germaine Greer, Glor ia Steinem, BettyFreidan and many others - hold extremely left-wing political views.Just as the average Marxist scornschange s which make- socie ty functionbetter, so the Women 's Lib militantscall for a society- far different from onewhich simply .pays equal wages andallows women to rise to their fullest extent. They want a society without thedreaded "patriarchy" and the "traditional middle-class morality," .whichoften rests on a biblical base:

-ably Marxist. The Soviet Union, a bastion of male chauvin ism where thewomen hold lull-time jobs and also takeca re of the family, is rarely condemnedby them. Instead, feminist leaders speakof the ','decline of capitalist economies"as if they were Marxi st theoreticians.Marxism in Mexico City

At the International Women's o ~ f e rence held last summer in Mexico City,the theme was, not equal opportunities .for woman, but the promulgation of an .iriternational welfare state, whereby the"declining capitalist" economies would

family's influence, often are totalitarianin nature.A family ,unit necessitates roles andpurposes of some sort. No person willstick to a family with all its demands ontime and labor unless there is a: purp osefor his efforts . When the radical feminists call for complete sexual freedomand the abolit ion 01 any roles (whether 'they be t rad ition al or non-traditionalmakes no difference), they are advocating the destruction of the family andsociety as weknow it.At this point, the ultimate goals of thehard-core liberationist become clear :


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of the earth would seem to be in a giantupheaval. .And he spoke in terminology that cou ldonly be understood after August 1945 in the modern day of nuclear weaponsarsenals that can deliver the killing powerto exterminate the entire,human race inan .all-out g loba l World War III. That

newscaster was named Jesus Christ..The prophecies Jesus left beh ind wereso couched in futuristic language that ithas never occurred to most that they refer to the day in which we live and thetime just ahead of us in wor ld events.

before, the U.N. is a focal point of globalcontroversy , bitterness, and racism . 'The Uni ted Nat ions was formed in theaftermath of a shocked world discoveringthe persecution 'and the extermination ofsix m il li on Jews in H it le r's ovens . TheUnited Nations was establ ished in a time

when wor ld leaders vowed that such aholocaust could never again overtakefree people anywhere in the wor ld .. Nowthe U.N., thanks to the farce of the one- 'nat ion, one-vote principle and the muster ing of huge btoc-votinqmajortties , hascome full circle to condemn the' verypeople who were the most vivid exampleof rac ial persecution. Watch Western EuropeThe U.N. General Assembly has be-come nothing more than a shrill sounding For many years in 'Plain Truth I have

board of anti-democratic, anti -American been saying that you are going to see twopropaganda. It has no power to impose a major events develop . I stressed tor yearssettlement upon any antagonists in any during;the very depth 01 U.S. involvementcorner of the wor ld . I t has only the power in V ietnam tha t events in both ' Europeto generate a great deal of rhetor ic and a and the M iddle East would someday palegreat deal of publicity. into insignif icance our preoccupation withI was surprised when I f ound that a the war in Sou theast Asia. That hasrecent poll said that U.S. public approval happened ! 'of the Uni ted Nat ions stood -at 34%. But . For years on The World Tomorrowth at was before these recent events. I broadcast, I have ta lked about an im-woutdlmaqine at least it 'l l be down below pend ing .Uni ted States of Europe, a third10%. by the time the full impact of that superpower bloc armed eventually wit hresolut ion finds it s way' into the public its own nuclear weapons, and said that i tconsciousness : One thing is sure: The would ' emerge ' to become of far morehollow shell on the East River is neither a co nc ern to the United States than ,Viei-step toward world peace or wor ld gove rn- nam ever was.ment , no r is it, in fact , either " united'.' or There is a 'union coming in Europe .even representative 'of " nations." I sug- Now, interestingly enough , Pope Pau l VIgest New 'York City buy the U.N., with in Rome has been saying some thingsb dAb d th d 1 It about the responsibility of the " Christianorrowe ._ ra money, an en au< "" . civilization':' to save tneconttnentot .Eu-rope. Recently, as we reported fully in thelast issue of Plain Truth, the pope said, that " our mission as bishops in Europetakes on a gr ipping perspective." He

added that " no other human force in Europe can render the service that is confided to us, promoters of th e faith , toawaken the Christian soul of Europewhere its unity is rooted."It 's remarkable to read some 'of theth ings that are being said about uni ty in

Prophecles tor Our Time NowViewing all of the above , 'i s it any won

der then that men and-nations have notsucceeded in their .quest fo r ' worldpeace? Is it any wonder that s ince theestablishment of " man's last hope forworld peace" we have had wars and revolutions going on all ar ound the worldalong with unbridled hatred, racism , and

- Isaiah 59:8

reason and international cooperation. Itwas cal led " man's last hope for worldpeace." It was said by the great leadersof that t ime that the only real solution to .the world 's problemswas a world government. Many 'idea lists saw the United Na- 'tions as a step in that direction .It was billed as being a place wherenat ions, large and small , cou ld . all givevoice to their various ideas on how tocreate a new wor ld order out of the ravages of global war . The nations couldattempt toge ther to tackle problems corn- :man to 'them all - economic reconstruc-

The way of peace they k n o w n O i ;there is no judgment intheir goings.

tion and development, health , and food ,among o thers. And they could , whennecessary, act upon resolutions to condemn the acttons -ot any member-state

Te " Dis- united Non-nat ions" have. done it aga in. They nave voted tolink Zionism with racism in what theU.S. Ambassador Qaniel Moynihanlabeled " an infamous act."By now you 've all heard about it. Perhaps you heard some of the rhetoric ,ontelevision newscasts.And by the way, did you not ice whovoted in favor of that resolution? Nationssuc h as Yemen; South Yemen , the UnitedArab Emirates, Sri Lanka - in fact, virtually the ent irety of the Third World. Alsoon the list were such "powers" as Omanand Mali . And saoromee Princ ipe. A lotof you don't even know where those na-tions are located. . ' , 'Sao Tome e Principe, for you r information , is not hing but a couple of islandsjust off the west coast.of Africa, below thebulge of the continent. It 's a former Portu guese col onial possession wh ich ,alon g with Angola and other Portugueseco lonies in Africa, have recen tly ach ievedindependence .Sao Tome e Principe has an airstrip,but not much else. I stopped there for jet

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