Hope for the Future

TheMissing Dimension in Sex

Tough Decisionfor U.S.
- TAIPEI OR PEKING
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HOPI.fOR IHIIUIURI
D
o YOU see a bright future There is a CAUSE for the state of
ahead? For ' you? For human- the world today. And there has to be
ity? ' . . a CAUSE that will produce the peace-
.Personally, I do - and if ful and happy world tomorrow.
you can join me in saying that, you There had to be a first cause for the
are one in a hundred thousand! very existence of tmatter, of life, of
Where is any good news today? forces and energies.
Where is any future to be found in But today, it is considered. "in-
nations developing nuclear weapons tellectual" to be willingly IGNORaNT
which can erase all human, animal . of that . I have said that in the first
and plant life from the earth? two centuries of the so-called Chris-
Where is any hope to be found in tian era, it was popular to embrace
the wretchedness, ignorance, paY gnosticism - meaning, "we know ."
erty, squalor and filth in which more But today, it is popular to embrace
than half the world's population agnosticism meaning, "we don't
lives? know - we are ignorant." Today,
Where is any joyous anticipation ignorance is embraced and labeled
to be found in prosperous "have" "knowledge."
nations where sources of drinking Is it IGNORANCE to recognize the
water - the rivers ' and lakes - are .facts of the great first cause who re-
being polluted and the air we veals the true cause of all of today's
breathe is being befouled, the soil is ills? Is it wise, intellectual and
worn out and contaminated and the . knowledgeable to be deliberately ig-
foods are being robbed of nutrition norant of basic facts and truth?
in food factories; where homes and . There are two main ways of life -
families are being broken up, crime two basic principles - two funda-
is rapidly increasing, racial problems mental philosophies. One is the way
and"violence are erupting, and sick- of GIVING, the other of GElTING.
ness and mental disturbances mul- ' One is LOVE, the other LUST. One
tiplying? . . " believes it is more blessed to give.
Where is happiness today? Sixty . than to receive. The other insists that
years ago, driving along country acquiring, taking, accumulating, in
roads in Iowa, I saw and heard farm- the way of competition, leads to
ers plowing behind teams of horses, progress and happiness .
singing happily as they walked. The one way is God-centered, the
Today, the .farmers ride tractors '7 other. is sst.r-centered. .The one ac-
but where .did the singing and. the cepts the Golden Rule. , the other
happiness go? Where do we find en- says, "Do it to others before they do
couraging reassurance for tomorrow it to you."
on university campuses where the .The one is the way of the divine
leaders of tomorrow are consigning nature ; the other, the way of human
morality to the limbo of an out- nature. The one is the way ofhumil-
moded past, where suicides are on ity; the other, of vanity.
the increase, and where unproved This world - all civilization :.c. this
doctrines are being absorbed by im- ' world's society - is based on the
pressionable minds? hostile, competitive, SELF-centered
Where do we find inspiration in way. :It has produced every wail of
the assertions of world leaders and human woe. It is the .way that now
the "great," warning us that we must threatens the extinction of humanity.
adjust to a future of growing prob- This all .means one thing. Man,
lems and dangers where there are imbued with human nature, is ut-
NO SOLUTIONS? terly UNABLE to solve his problems ",
Well, for those of the above pre- He can only worsen problems and
.vailing concepts, the future must in- create new ones. By the "knowl-
deed appear discouragingly bleak - edge" and efforts of man, this world
if they take a look at it instead of is doomed and hopeless.
kidding themselves into the assump- Is there, then. inothing to live for?
tion ' that by ignoring the dangers Is. there no hope for the future? Not
they will somehow go away. within the knowledge, the skills and
There is a CAUSE for every effect. abilities of this world's great minds.
Of self-professed "great". men, God
. says, "Professing themselves to be
wise, they have become fools!"
But there emphatically is a bright
future ahead! The world tomorrow
- which the Plain Truth proclaims -
will bring . world ' peace, universal
prosperity, universal right education,
universal good health .
In the wonderful world tomorrow,
we shall have knowledge 'of the TRUE
values. People will cease chasing the
false values and suffering the painful ,
consequences. People will learn the
WAY to real happiness and find it.
Life will be continuously interesting
and invigorating. There will be
world peace. There will be universal
prosperity.
But I am not naive enough to sup-
pose that this utopia ' will blossom
forth automatically, through the im-
minent acceptance of these truths by
all mankind. This coming utopia
does not depend on the planning or
doing of men. It will be produced in
spite a/men.
The greatest event of all history
will be the coming of the living Jesus
Christ again to earth. But this time,
he is not coming asthe gentle young
man from Nazareth, bringing the
announcement that led to his flog-
ging and death at the hands of angry
men. Jesus Christ rose from the
dead. He went to the throne of the
government of the vast universe to
be GLORIFIED, and coronated as su-
preme RULER over the entire earth .
When he returns, the world will
know something of the meaning of
"the power and the glory! "
His eyes will flash like flames of
fire. His face will not be pale white.
It will be like the sun shiningin FULL
STRENGTH. He will come with all the
POWER that created the universe!
He is 'coming to crush every gov-
ernment of men, as if to grind them
into powder! He is coming as the
King of kings, ruling over ALL NA-
TIONS.
He is coming to change human na-
ture!
He is coming to enforce the WAY
of outgoing concern, or love, of giv-
ing, serving" sharing, ' helping, in-
stead of grasping, taking and self-
centeredness.
He is coming to abolish war, com-
petition, strife and violence. He is
coming to inaugurate a universal,
right education. He' is coming to
clean up this filthy earth. He is com-
ing to restore the government of
God as the all-powerful world gov-
ernment. Yes, I see a very bright
future - just ahead!
It's the only GOOD NEWS in the
world today! 0
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THE MISSING DIMENSION IN SEX
Chapter 2 of the Editor-in-Chiefs revised : .:
book.
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peace and .continued to hold at , bay
over' 2 mill ion Japanese who would
otherwise have been fi ghti ng Ameri-
cans in the western Pacif ic. later,
following his expulsion from the Chi-
nese mainland in 1949 by Commu-
nist forces under Mao Tse-t ung , the
,strong-wi ll ed General issimo i nspi red
America's admirat ion with his unre-
lenting determination to one day
l ead his armies back to the mainland
invictory.
by Keitt> Stump
Following ' in the footsteps of his
predecessor , President Ford is' plano,
ning a state visit to the People's Re-
publ ic of China later this year.
Speculations are rampant as to what
new initiatives might be forthcoming
from the visit .
" He' s not a tourist," an official in .
Taipei , capital of the ' " ot her China ' '
on the island of Taiwan , recently re-
marked somewhat glumly toa vis-.:
iting journalist. ," He' ll certainly want
to accomplish sornethinq .j ' '
That " somethi ng,' " th';people of Pro and Co';
Nationalist China fear, could be fur - ' Proponents of ,recognizing Peking
ther steps toward "event ual recogni- assert that the United States cannot
tion of Communi st China , ,,;" ./ affo rd to ignore, a' nuclear-power of
Thevdeath of Nationalist leader 800 mill ion people . "Furt hermore, ,
Chiang Kai-shek i n 'Apri l prompted - they observe, recogn ii ibn does not
widespread speculation that. the -, necessarllvmean approval. 'And fi- '
U.S, might now feel free to change nally, recognition of Peking would
its longstanding ' policy.toward Tai- " give the U.S. ' maneuver- >
wan - the primary ; obstacle -to .' ..ability againsfthe Soviet Union. .
closer Opponents of withdra" Wing recoq-
ass"rt that tbe
cent reaff irmation '. of ,,' the U.S. U.S. has little to gain from any fur-
cornrni t mentrto.rt he :;isl and ' has , >ther moves toward full relations with
helped to allay': N;;tio'il'iilist '(,,'a'ik, at':i :/ttie mainland "?""',butmuch
least temporarily. Butas one reviews First . to term inate diplomatic rela-
the developments in Washington- tions with Taiwan would , automati-
Peking relations' during the past four cally abrogate the 1954 ' Mutual
years, it becomes obvious that be- Defense Treaty betwee n the U.S.
sides full recognit ion of the Commu- and Taiwan, which obl iges the U .S.
nist giant, there is l ittle else of ' to de,fend the island . Forthe U.S. to
i mportance left to be accomplished unilaterally scrap this t reaty with a
- and little reason for a state visit . t ime-tested fr iend would, they as-
Henry Ki ssinger's undercover sert , result i n a further loss,of U.S.
miss ion to Peking in July 1971 ini - credibility around the world.
tiated U.S. overtures toward the There is also the question, .oppo-
People's Republic, end ing ,2Q years nent s point out, of who and what
of mutual host ility and nonrecoqn i- the U.S. would be recognizing.. Ag-
tion . The Kissinger sojourn led to ing leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou
President Nixon' s historic Chi na tr ip En-lai are not farfrom death 's door. '
in February 1972. There is much uncertainty as to how
A year later, mainland China and the chips will fall within China aft er.
the' United Stat es opened " li aison their departure. So is now the ti me.
offices " in each other's capitals. , for recogni ti on?
Washington, however, continues to Finally, ' there is the basic issue of
formally recognize the National ist political morality. In abandoning a
government on Taiwan despite .t his longstanding, faithful and tested ally
de facto recognition of, Peking. l i n favor of recogn izing , its avowed
Until recent years, the..National ist , enemy, the United States would be
government had been recogni zed by sacrificing a friend on the altar of ,
most nati ons as the legitimate gov- political expedience and would ' lose
ernrnent of China . But after Taiwan , a large 'measure of national self -re- "
was ousted from its U.N. seat in spect in the bargain. opponents of
- 19 7 1 in favor of Peking , dozens of Peking recognit ion assert .'
nat ions withdrew recogniti on - from . Despite all these considerations,
the Natio nalists. Currently, only 30 most observers feel that recognition
nati ons still recognize Taiwan. In of Peking is only a matter oftime.
. contrast . over 90 nat ions have es- But no matter wha t face-saving for o'
tabl ished ties with Peking . mula Wash ington may , eventually
-.For Americans, Taiwan is a sensi - come up with to explain such a
tive and emoti onal issue . During move, to the people of Taiwan, . at
World War II , Chiang Kai-s hek least, it will be a clear -cut case of
refused Japan' s offer of a separate being sold down th e river. 0"
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IN BRIEF
General Counsel to the Editor-in-Ch ief ,
Stanley Rader , sees renewed pride i n
U.S, power in the wake of the Mayaguez.
IS THE AMERICAN
ECONOMY CURABLE
When an immovable recession meets
an irresist ible ' inflation, something has
to give . . . or it?
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG 12
SPEAKS OUT!
It's Moshe Kol's turn to "speak out, "
as Editor Garner Ted Armstrong inter-
views the ' Israeli Minister of Tourism.
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PLAYING POKER WITH
PETRODOLLARS
Aces in the hole are replaced by der-
ricks in t he desert in this bizarre game
of winner-take-oil.
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WHEN TERRORISTS GO'NUCLEAR
'In ' our ' ce'riier " spread , s'ci enc-e-' 'Editor
Robert Ginskey shows how easily nuclear
t error ist s could blackmail a .cit y. a
nat ion . . . or the entire earth .'
SIGN OF A TOUGHER AMERICA? '
President Ford acted swiftly
l utely to restore honor on the high seas
- and honor at home.
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Returnof the Mayaguez
SIGI 'OF AIOUGHIR,AMIRICA?
Panama Canal:
NewMove
toErodeControl
world waterway. At the same
time, the 'State Department is
"continuing to work out the "de-
tails" of a new canal treaty
which will hand full ownership
of the canal to Panama (see
Plain Truth, April 5, 1975). .
Apparently the giveaway will
not he accomplished without a
fight ; over 36 Senators have af-
fixed their names to a resolution
that theU.S. must not surrender
sovereignty over the 50-square-
milezone.
They are also expected to reo
sist the new State Department
attempt to subtly erode U.S.
thority in advance of a formal
treaty. ' ' ," , "
Since it only requires a third
' of the Senate to block any
treaty, it. would seem that the
canal will remain under .Ameri-
can jurisdiction for some time to
come . However, the "historical
mOmentum" surrounding the
canal issueis against A11lerican
reteniion, Nearly- every revision
"of'lhe principles of the original
1903 treaty which gave the U.S. '
"sovereignnghts in perpetuity"
has . weakened ' the American
claim to canal control.
The biggest single "adjust-
ment" was the"decision made in
, tq allow.Panamanian Ilags
to Ily alongside the Stars and
Stripes at selected points in the
zone. This action was meant to
SYmbolize Panama's"titular"or
residual sovereignty in the zone .,
.Friction between Panamanians
and American "Zonians" over
the Ilag issue erupted into
bloody violence in January
1964. "
The popular argument that
U.S. "relations" with the rest of
Latin America will be harmed if
the canal zone is 'not surren-
dered, however , may weaken
the anti-giveaway Senate bloc.
It is believed that onlytwenty of
the thirty-six Senators who
signed the resolution are said to
be really hard-core . opponents
of a new treaty.
If, -or perhaps better yet,
when, the canal does go, it will
not only mean one more step
backward in a long American
trek from the pinnacle of world
power and prestige it. enjoyed
just after World War II. Even
more, it will represent the loss
of one of the vital "gates" (see
Genesis 22:17) promised to the
descendants of Abraham. 0
Reports are circulating in
Washington that authority in
the U.S.-rontrolled Panama Ca-
nal Zone over police, fire pro-
tection, .and postal services will
soon be unilaterally handed
over .to the Republic of Pan-
ama. The situation would be
analogous to, say, authorities
.Tijuana, Mexico, assuming civil
functions in San Diego, Califor-
nia, prior to the revers ion to
'Mexico of America's south-
western states.
The move is ,obviously in-
tended to move the United
States further along the road of
total relinquishment of ,U.S.
,sovereign rights to the strategic
The Exception That Proves ' .
the Rule
, Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of
the U.S.S. Pueblo, has said that
if the North Kor eans' seizure of
that ship in 1968 had heen han -
dled .the same as the Cam-
bodian seizure ot'the Mayaguez,
the Cambodians would never
have -dared capture the Ameri-
can vessel in the first place.
His statement underscores
the fact that the headlong re-
vided:: La Cite said the United'
States had been treated as a '
paper tiger and, in order not to
lose face, had to react and show
its teeth. La Libre Belgique,
, however, said the incident had
only hurt American prestige.
Domestically, the American
Congress joined in broad bi-
partisan support of President
Ford's handling of the ship seiz-
ure. Praisecame fromboth con-
servatives (Senator Barry
Goldwater said he was gladMr.'
Ford had "the guts to do what :
he should have done") and lib-
erals (Idaho , Democrat Frank
Church said Mr . Ford.was to be .
commended for the way he
handled the crisis): '
The only exception came ,
from the left-wing of the Demo-
cratic party. Senator George
McGovern called the action
"precipitous," adding, however,
that " i t appears to have
worked." .
treat in which the United States
found itself at the time of the
Cambodian seizure was largely
the result of America's failure to
Use power it already had . After
. vacitlating militarily ' for .a

-. The most ,to: had finally Conducted
the 'Mayaguez operation oc- fion in Southeast Asia with defi-
curred in Thailand. In Bangkok, nite goals and purposes. It was
thousands of demonstrators against. this backdrop that many
burned President Ford in effigy. observers applauded the strong
The Thai government recalled . action which ' forced the return
its ambassador from Washing- of the Mayaguez .
ton. Prime Minister Kukrit Pra- But, despite this isolated in-
mojdenOunced the United cident, the U.S. remains in glo-:
States for having "violated our bal retreat. The recapture of
sovereignty" in using the U.S. . one merchant ,ship does not
base in Thailand as a staging erase recent American failures
point. An angry Thai Foreign in Indochina or the Mideast.
Ministry' official, upon learning . The doubts tliat the Indochina
that Cambodian boats had been collapse raised in American ,al-
sunk by U.S. planes based on lies still remairi .
, Thai soil, called it "piracy" and The, timing 'of the Mayaguez
"madness" - an action taken incident was unique. 'After the
with no thought for the con- Vietnam' debacle, the forthright
sequences to ' Thailand. The action off the Cambodian coast
Thai government demanded an could not have come at a beller
apology from Washington. The time. But would the U.S. act the
United States .responded with a same six ' months from now
message of "regret" for the at- when circumstances are differ-
-tion, but no apology. Bangkok ent?
accepted it nevertheless. In this instance, President
Ford's personal prestige was, on'
the line. Already under fire
from his own party for being a
weak leader, he had to react
with strength at the point where
world perception ,of American
power was at its lowest ebb
sui": the thirties.
It remains doubtful whether
the Mayaguez :iricident will
mark the reassertion of Ameri-
can strength in world affairs.
The historical momentumiSgo"
ing in the other direction. 0
1(5. fromhelicopter on Koh Tang istend.
" For one ' brief moment, the China accused the ' United
United States once again acted States of committing an "out-
like a great power. In mid-May, .right act of piracy" by bombing"
decisive and direct military ac- Cambodian territory ' and ship-
tion successfully recovered the ping, ignoring the ' fact that it
U.S. 'merchan t ship Mayaguez ' was Khmer Rouge gunboats
with its 39 crewmen from Cam- . which had originally "pirated"
bodian hands. - the unarmed merchant vessel in
' The incident wasrdistin- international waters .:" :
guished by its brevity. . The South Africa, on the other
Khmer Rouge government of hand, generally applauded the
Cambodia seized the American American use of force. Plain
vessel on Monday, May 12; by ' Truth correspondent Robert E.
Thursday, MayI5, the U.S. had ' Fahey reports that the news
, the ship back. " "helped most South Africans -,
After diplomatic overtures to enjoy their breakfast and head
the People's Republic of China to work in a cheerful frame of
and a: request for United Na- mind. After so many embarrass-
tions intervention had failed, . ing reversals, it seemed the
200 American marines, with the Americans were showing a bit
help of air cover.physically re-' more self-respect." ,
took the pirated Mayaguez in In Britain, the Daily Mail
Koh Tang harbor. Soon after- pointed out that the"Americans
ward, a. Cambodian fishing were "justified in going tothe
boat, Ilyiitg white flags, turned . limit to rescue their men and
over the captured crewmen. their ship," sentiments generally
In the course ,of the fighting; echoed by conservative and
nearly a fourth of Cambodia's middle-of-the-road papers such
known navy - three Khmer as the 'Daily Express and The
Rouge gunboats - were sunk. Times. The liberal Guardian,
The swift use of 'American however; . called the incursion ,
power , in contrast to the pro- "both hasty and reckless" and
' tracted military operations , of said President Ford had tried
the Vietnam war, drew a mixed "too much too soon."
world reaction. The Belgium press was ' di- '
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Mrs. Gandhi
Walks a
Tightrope '
by Norman Cousins
NEW DELHi: It is difficult
to think of any head of state
whose political life is more of a
high-wire balancing act than
that of Indira Gandhi, prime

minister of India,
'- .Like her father, Jawaharlal
Nehru , first prime minister of
India, Mrs. Gandhi's main job
is to keep her nation united,
, Considering the ethnic and cul-
tur al pluralism oflndia, withl4 STRIKING ITALIAN airport workers demons.trate in Rome ,
separate major languages and '
hundreds of sects and subsects . : ITALY IN'TURMOIL
this is one of the most difficult
political undertakings in his- Italy's future survival may be of a "dictatorship ofihe proleta-
tory. She is widely criticized, threatened by possible Commu- riat."
but almost everyone agrees that nist power sharing in the gov- In a recent interview pub-
", she is probably the only politi- ernment as ' well as potential lished by the Turin newspaper,
, cal figure in, India today who Neo-Fascist reaction, La Stampa, the leader of Italy's
can hold the country together. At the general elections in dominant Christian Democratic
Some people complain be- 1977, the Communists are ex- Party, Ami ntor e Fanfani ,
cause she doesn't use all the pected to significantly increase ' warned ' that his party would
powers of her office to solve the their votes and boost their , commit political suicide if it '
. country's problems. Others at- chance of sharing real power in agreed to a " Christian
tack her with equal severity be- . : national .politics for the first Democratic/Communist coali- :
cause she has been too arbitrary time. " , , ' tion in the future: , .i
" . . i'- . ' An electorial triumphby
_, and r counterpressures . are -as events in -Portugal is. any )n- ; - 'Communists could provoke a
fierce as they,' are , prodigious. dication, power sharing by the strong reaction from the right,
Just in the past 10 years, India's , Communists is an .eventual one- especially from the extreme ele-
population has swelled to more way ticket tothe establishment ment the Italian Social
than 500 million , an increase of , ' ' Movement. In retaliation, the
almost 100 million since .Jawa- Communists - already control-
harlal Nehru' s death. The recognition ' of Israel and to ling Italy's three largest unions
amount of. arable land ' has close the Israeli consulate In --' could paralyze the nation by
shrunk <luring this period. The Bombay . calling a national strike:
government is attempting va- Mrs . Gandhi has resisted Italy's continual political
liantly but with small success to both these pressures. Her recog- stagnation has permitted violent
'.. stem the onrushing population , nition of the Palestine Libera- extremist elements to arise. The
- . tide. The number of mouths to tion Organization (PLO) is less growing incidence of street bat-
feed is beyond the food-growing an act of partiality tban an at- ' ties by the politically motivated
capacity of the country. It is tempt to maintain a stance 'fa- mobs in the larger Italian cities
also greater than the amount of voring a negotiated settlement are reminiscent of pre-Musso-
, food India is able to import of the Palestinian question. . lini days. '
from .the outside world. Meanwhile, however, the rec- Although the Nee-Fascists do
India is a Hindu country, but ognition of the PLO has pro not have the numerical support
its minority of 60 million Mos- duced shock waves abroad, the Communists hive, they did
lems represents a major factor especially in the United States , emerge , however , with almost
in government policy" both do- intensifying the already strained 10 percent of the votes in the
mestic . and foreign . India can relations. Mrs. Gandhi is con- last elections, Since that time
never forget that the presence of fident that in time this relation- there has been an upsurge in
, so many Moslems could create ship. can be restored. Like her radical, rightist activities with
a serious internal ' crisis in the father, she places the highest some members embarking on a
event of a break with Pakistan. value on the goodwill of the terrorist campaign of violence
The 'sympathy of India's Mos- U.S., but feels she must be and intimidation. Rumors of
lems for the Arabs in the guided primarily by what she rightist plots.iauempted coups,
Middle East crisis is a potent conceives to be the best interests and assassinations are increas-
factor in the formation of In- '. ef''the Indian people . ingly becoming part of the Ital-
.dian foreign policy. A related The Uriited States , of course, ians' day-to-day conversation.
pressure on the prime minister's is guided by tbe same , basic In addition, ,ihe specter of vio-
Middle East policy comes from principle. The great tragedy in lent crime .: often politically
India's dependence on the Arab ' the modem world is that as the motivated _ is rearing its ugly
states for its oil. Pakistan gets its separate national interests, un- ' head, and kidnappings are on
oil at "a low price, while, India's derstandable though they may the increase. Amid such ,politi- ,
oil costs have quadrupled. Vast be, Come into conflict, the main. cal and social turmoil, we may
pressure has been brought on loser is the human interest, 0 be close to witnessing the ' twi-
the prime minister to withdraw OWl. light of Italian democracy . . 0
4
by GeneH. Hogberg
Bitter MemoriesKept Alive
'WARSAW: It is hard for the casual observer, walking along
Warsaw's broad, brightly lit boulevards, to realize that this now-
bustling capital lay in near-total ruins 30 years ago. But Warsaw"
like ' the phoenix of legend, hasrisen from the ashes to become
perhaps the most impressive and appealing city- in the whole
communist world. . ' " ',, ' ..
But the memories of that most cruel of all human conflicts
remain deeply etched in both the soil and psycbe of Poland and the '
other lands of Eastern Europewhich I have been touring along
with Plain Truth Washington correspondent Dexter Faulkner.
. In Warsaw itself, at-thesite of the old Jewish ghetto, a solitary
monument of Swedish granite - originally intended to be part of
Hitler's Victory Column iil Berlin - stands as mute testimony to
the valiant fighters of the ghetto who_challenged their Nazi 0pl'res-
sors to a three-week standoff before seal ing their inevitable fate :'
, Two hundred miles to the south of Warsaw, the grueso/lle
concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau are visible for all to
see almost in, their entirety, especially in the case of Auschwitz .
Here , one is able to' tour the dormitory blocks; the prison cells, the
crematoria, and the displays of prison life and conditions. One tries
to contemplate the enormityof the crimes perpetrated here - the
torturous, inhuman. brutal deaths of four million men. women and
children - but the mind fights against what the eyes see. ": -, "
" border banners and ,posters in - ,.

yoke 30 years .ago by-the Red Army- We noticed .that in Prague
nearly every shop ,window dutifully displayed its "May 9" .victory
, placard. (This was done partlyto maintain the facade of Czech-
Russia,;, solidarity. There were no posters proclaiming the country's
"re-liberation" in August 1968.)
In Romania and Yugoslavia, where we also traveled, solemn'
May 9' ceremonies commemorated tire final victory over : Nazi '
Germany. In Belgrade, where we 'Stopped 'on May 8, workmen
weie ,adding the finishing touches to the parade stand where the
aging President Tito and his aides were to view independent Yugo-
slavia's armed 'forces the following day. It was largel y Josip Broz ,
Tito and his band of partisans, of course, who rid Yugoslavia of the
"fascist pest." "
The following day in Bucharest, Romania, we witnessedthe
somber Victory' Day proceedings at the base oj: the Soviet War
Memorial "';'a bit more subdued perhaps since, for the greatest pait
of the war, Romanian soldiers fought on the German side. ,
The biggest celebration 'of all was reserved for the Soviet
Union itself, Western were surprised to note that thesize
and scope of this year's observance even eclipsed that of the 25th
auniversary in 1970. The role of Soviet armed forces in the "Great
Patriotic War" was exaggerated even , further this year' by Soviet
historians, the participation, of her democratic allies being further
discounted and diminished. ' ,
In the West, by rather stark contrast, the memories of, the
struggle against the greatest single tyranny known to date seem tp ,
have waned, perhaps dulled by the influence of two decades of .-
nearly unbroken prosperity: French President Giscard d'Estaing
even decided that this 'year' s celebration of the end of the war
should be the last, that further future observances would only harm
the close cooperation of a rehabilitated Germany with her Euro-
pean allies. Predictably, many Frenchmen, especially those who
fought in the resistance movement, reacted in outrage against their
President's suggestion. They also didn't take too heartily to -the
recommendation of some French officials that West Germany
should be entrusted with an equal hand iii the operation of a
European nuclear defense force, suggested to be created from the
pooled resources of the British and French weapons systems.
One wonders. Do the Soviets and their, allies in Eastern Eu-
rope know something - or, at least, have a greater sense of history
and apprehension of the future than the somnolent West? 0
WEEK ENDING JUNE 7, t975
...

BUREAU REPORTS
South African
TradeWith Europe
Soars
. EURODIF and EURENCO.
Even after these are producing
. '{I980 at the earliest , according
to exper ts here) ; Europe will
still have to import the raw ura -
nium - primarily from third
world countries anxious to dem-
onstra te their power as sup-
pliers. ' . ' .
. Cl earl y, Europe'Sindustry, al-
ready reeling from the blows of
worldwid e recession, has no safe
energy supply.' .
The biggest thr eat is thetime-
,lag ' that even this ambitious
program offers: 10 yea rs. Who
can guarantee stable access to .
Middle ' Ea s t o i l in ihe '
meantime?
- Henry S turr;ke
u.s. Lags
in Ship_building
.Uganda'Chief Will
Erect Monument to Hitler
LONDON, April 23, Reut er;
Ugandan ' President Idi Amin
today reitera ted his belief that
Nazi leader Adolf Hitle r was a
great man andsaid he 'would
. erect a monument to him on' a
spot where British and German
troop s fought in the First World
War . '
' Radio Uganda, monitored
here, said General Amin told
Mrs. Ruth' HillS, the German-
hom estranged wife of British
teacher Denis Hills, who is un-
WEEK ENDING JUNE 7, 1975
der arrest on. espi onage charges,
that he had ' received a warn.
welcome when he visited West
Germany in February : 1972. ..
General Amin.met Mrs. HiIIs
today " to present her with a
certificate of permanent resi-
dence ;
The Ugandan president
' praised the Germans, particu-:
larly Hitler, for their bravery ,
but said he had ' been disap -
pointed not to see Hitler's por-
trait or a monument io him in
. Berlin, the Rad io Uganda
broadcast added. Radi o
Uganda quoted General Amin
as saying j h at, although some
people felt Adolf Hitler was
bad, he was a great man and a
real conqueror -whose name
would never forgotten.
An historical spot in Kizegi
province would be named after
the late dictator and a monu-
ment to him would be. erected, .
the Ugandan leader added.
British and ,German troops
fought in the province during .
the First World War : Uganda
had been a German colony be-
fore the war . 0
chinesewarnEurope,
toStrengthen '.
OwnDefense .
PEKING, April 22, Reuter:
The Chinese think a new world
Waf could breakoutin Western
Europe because 'countries there
ar e 'weak and neglect their de-
fense, 'sources close to a visiting I
Belgian delegation said: . The
sources were giving an account .
of talks .between Chinese offi-
cials and the - Belgian Prime
Minister, Leo Tindemans, who '
is on a ten-day visit.
Mr . Tindemans told reporters
today that his exchanges had -
cente red on Western European
unit y and defense. He added
that he had also discussed Tai-
wan, China 's relat ions wit h
America and .Russia, and the
energy crisis with the Chine se
side, led by vice-premier Chi
Teng -kuei . Sources close to his
delegation elaborated on these
rema rks, saying how the Chi-
nese had warned of the risk of
war in Europe.
The Belgian sources also said
that Peking favored NATO as a
counter to Soviet expansionism,
but thought it ought not to de-
pend on the U.S. for defense , 0
5
================================plaintMh
THI MISSING DIMINSIDNIN
The dissemination of knowledge about sex has
occurred only since WoNd War I. Medieval
ignorance, coupled with the "sex-is-shameful"
attitude andchurch repression, caused
frustiation andmiserably unhappymlilrriages.
But themodem diffusion ofsex knowledge and
the pennissive sexual freec/oms of the "new
'morality" haveplunged the Westem world
from-the frying pan into the fire. Why?
WEEK ENDING JUNE 7, t975
There has to be a cause .
f or all ' the world's evils!
There has to be 'a Cause
for the WOrsening moral
problem! There can be two
kinds of knowledge -
true and false.
'this account with any remote conception
that it might explain the origin of the
scientific method of KNOWLEDGE PRO-
DUCTION. Or, that it might reveal . the
very source of the fatal missing dimen-
sion! Certainly almost no one - theolo-
gians included - has ever UNDERSTOOD
what this account really doesSAY!
Begin at the Beginning
i think we must begin our view of the
forbidden fruit narrative at the begin-
' ning, the very firSt verse in the Bible.
So. we begin: "In 'the beginning,
Ood . .. ." That statement definitely
puts God in existence before all else. No
postulate - no guess - no "perhaps" -r:
just the simple positive statemeni,
".. . created the heaven and the earth."
'Whether fact or fiction - truth or er-
ror - that is what was written, purport-
ing to be the revealed Word of Ood.
. Something tremendous is indicated to
have occurredbetween what is stated to
have been the original creation of the
earth (verse I) and the statement in
The Cause of Errors
For many years now, I have observed
that errors almost always come from a
false basic premise, carelessly assumed
as self-evident, and taken for granted
witho ut question, then building on that
false basic hypothesis. The basic premise
for knowledge production in our time
has been the evolutionary concept. It
has been the eyeglasses through which
all questions have been viewed. Yet it
remains and .Pt its very na-
ture it is a theory not subject to proof. It
is a FAITH. And to question it is -:- to' .
those who embrace this faith - aca-
demic heresy!
Do we, then, DARE question the theo-
ries so generally accepted by advanced
scholarship? Is it ' heretical to question
their assumed conclusions and ask for . i
PROOF? Is it academic heresy to look at I
theother sideof the coin? . I
Suppose, now, WE 'appropriate the ac- j
Academic Freedom ademicfreedom to carefully examine that I
In this feverish development of which has been diSmissed without exam- .J
knowledge production, scholars in uni - ination. :1
versities have been placing great empha- Ii might prove exciting and enIight- . .,1' .
sis . on academic freedom. :Academic ening, at this point, to allow ourselves
. freedom' is defined as the independent the latitude of academic freedom
judgment allowed teachers, scholars , sci- unprejudicially to examine the biblical . J
entists , students, in the pursuit of knowl- narrative of the forbidden fruit. That bit
edge. . of revelation purports to describe the
Science as a whole and higher educa- crucial initial event in human experi-
tion have exercised the academic free- ence that changed the entire course of
dom to postulate a' creation without a history.
Creator. They have engaged in the ac- The firstthree chapters of the Bible do ,
tivity of knowledge production with to- have something to say about sex and
tal rejection of any possibility ' of the marriage. And, after all, .the man and
miraculous, the supernatural, the exis- the woman there described were naked;>
tence of God "" or anything outside tJii: . weren't they? . . . ,, ', . l
realm ' of tlie material: They have 're- Evidently few, ifany - whetherscien- I
jected utterly revelation' as a source of tist, scholar or theologian - have viewed ,..... -]
basic knowledge! ' ,
When I engaged in research on the J
theory of evolution, I studied Darwin;
Haeckel, Huxley, Vogt, Chamberlain
and other exponents 'of the' theory. Bill
also I looked at .the other side of the
question. But I would venture to saythat
most of those whose ' higher education
has been acquired during the past half
century have been taught and have ac-
cepted without question .the evolution-
ary theory, not having examined with any
seriousness the biblical evidences of spe-
cial creation. To go along with the evo-
lutionary concept has become tbe
scholarly "IN" thing . In most Institutions .
of higher learning, the world's "best
seller" has been dismissed without a
hearing.
Is it not human to err?
Could it be possible for the most
highly educated minds to have been in-
tellectually misled or deceived? Could
they, viewing only one' side of the ques -
tion, be infallible, entirely above making
mistakes? .
There has to be a knowledge gap - a
missing dimension ;.... somewhere! It's
. high time we learn what it is!
For every effect, there has to be a
CAUSE!
There has to be a. CAUSE for all the
world 's evils! There has to be a CAUSE
for the worsening moral problemi There.
can be TWO KINDS of knowledge .:' true
and false.
power of two nations - Britain and the
United Staies - 1800 to 1803. With this
suddenly acquired material wealth : our
people became materialistically minded:
The New Messiah - Modern
Science
Our scientists assured- the world that
man had progressed to the point where .'
. he could safely dispense .with the super-
stitious.crutch of religion ' and belief in
God . Now humanity could rely on the
new messiah - modemscience.
"Given.sufficient knowledge," said the
scientists, "we shall solve all of human-
ity's problems and cure all the. world's
ills:' The tools of modern science were
merely a stepped-Up use of those man
had employed since the dawn of history
- observation, experimentation. and
human reason.
So knowledge production has in-
creased at a 'continuously. accelerating
pace . And this includes the area of sex!
But Evils Increased Also
But, paradoxically, humanity's prob-
lems, troubles and evils have "been
increasing at an equal pace of accelera-
tion! In. the one most recent decade,
from 1960 to 1970, man's total fund of
knowledge DOUBLED! But, incredibly, in
that same ten 'short years the world's
TROUBLES and EVILS doubled also!
WHAT'S WRONG with the dictum'that
knowledge is the sole need for solutions?
Increasing evils have come with increas-
ing knowledge! That's the hard, cold
fact that must be faced!
Is it wrong to Possess or gain KNOWL-
EDGE? Most certainly not! Am I discour-
aging the acquisition of knowledge? By
NO MEANS! .
On the other hand, we are face to face
with the FACT that evils have escalated
along with the production of knowledge:
That does not necessarily mean that the I
knowledge produced caused the evils. It
does mean that the knowledge produced .
did not cure existing evils or prevent new
evils. .
6
by Herbert W. Armstrong
Part II
'ry'HE most vital dimension in knowl-
edge about Sex and marriage has
been missing.
But this vital dimension ismissing not
..only from knowledge about sex and .
marriage, It is missing from 'knowledge
in general.
To understand, we need to realize the
impetus \>ehind the general knowledge
explosion and ' HOW' the most vital di-
mension cameto be mIssing: ' . .,I:! ,
The dramatic rise in the world's total
rwid of knowledge began, roughly, 170
years ago, with the advent of modem
science. The new knowledge in the fields
of science .and technology developed
slowly at first. Knowledge production
.gained momentum gradually, and then,
finally, came the knowledge explosion .
Even when I was a boy, we used kero-
sene lamps, horse-and-buggy trans-'
portation, and the little "dinky" trolley-
cars which had just replaced the horse-
drawn street cars. Radio, television, and
airplanes were unheard of by most
people.
It's hard to realize, now, that this
world went along on virtually an even
keel - with no material progress to
speak of - for thousands of ,years. It was
primarily an agricultural world, using
primitive farming methods. The cast-
iron plow was not invented until 1797 -
the disc plow not until 1896, when .I was
a growingboy. The first harvester came
in 1836. .
Think of it! Through those long mil-
lennia the world was virtually without
transportation or means of communica-
tion . Transportation was by foot, mule-
back, camel , elephant or horse. By sea it .
was by slow-moving sailboat. The tele-
phone was not invented until 1876, wire-
less in 1896. The first steamboat
(Fulton) was 1803.
I!, my lifetime we have seen the ma-
chine age, the jet age, the nuclear age,
and the space age. What stimulated this
accelerating materialistic development?
It occurred simultaneously with the
sudden spurt to national wealth and
i :
I'i\
Tbe Subtle Temptation
Satan subtly went first to the woman.
He got to tbe man through his wife.
"And he said unto the woman, Yea ,
bath God said, Ye sball not eat of every
tree of the garden? And tbe woman said
unto tbe serpent.Wemay eat oftbe fruit
of the trees of the garden: but of tbe
fruit of tbe tree wbicb is in the midst of
the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neitber sball ye toucb it, lest ye
die . And the serpent said unto tbe
woman, Ye sball not surely die : for God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your ,eyes sball be opened, and ye
sball be as gods [margin: God] , knowing
good and evil" (Genesis 3: 1-5).
The narration here attributes astute
subtlety to tbe devil. First, he discredited
God. In effect, he said, "You can't rely
on God's word . He said you are mortal
and can die. He knows better tban tbat;
he knows your minds are so perfect that
YOU can be GOD."
(Continued on page 15)
Tbe Cause of World's Evils
Consider further: A just God could
not have warned tbe first humans of the
DEATH penalty witbout having fully re-
vealed to them the spiritual law tbe
transgression of wbich carried that pen-
' alty ...:the law codified as the Ten Com-
-mandments. Remember, tbe details are
not written' here - only the bigbly con-
densed overall SUMMARY of wbat God
taught them.
So God had explained fully to Adam
andEve his WAY OF LIFE - the "GIVE
WAY" - bis inexorable spiritual LAW.
God bad already SET IN MOTION the
LAW (bat causes all GOOD. He had ex-
- plained also THE WAY that causes EViLS '
- the transgression ofthat law - else be
eOuld'not have told them tbat for trans-
gression tbey would pay the
penalty - DEATH.
More clearly stated, God gave man
his own choice. He could choose to CAUSE
every good and to receive eternal life in
happiness. Or , be could choose to CAUSE
. evils. .It is HuMANITY- not God - that
CAUSES allihe evils that befall man. The
choice is MAN'S. What man sows, that
does he reap. -
Yet bere 's tbe crucial point: It was
necessary for- them to TAKE HIS WORD
FORIT - the spiritual law is as invisible
as tbe laws of gravity and inertia! They
could not SEE this law. But God had
TOLD them of GOOD, and tbe
way OfEYIL. ' .
Now come to Cbapter 3 in Genesis.
"Now the serpent was more subtile
than any beast of tbe field which the
Lord God had made" (verse I) .
Mucb of the Bible is in symbols - but
the Bible explains its own symbols . It is,
of course, very out-of-date to believe in -
a devil today, but tbe Bible plainly
speaks of a devil, named Satan. In Reve-
lation 12:9 and 20:2, the symbol serpent
is plainly explained to represent . tbe
devil.
Notice , now, the temptation.
The Cause of Peace and Happiness
It is' a LAW as REAL, as inflexibly -re-
lentless as the law of gravity! It governs
and regulates all buman relationships!
WHYshould it seem incongruous tbat
man's Maker - _the Creator of all mat-
th ere exis ts,
overall, only two basic ways
of life - two di vergent
philos ophie s. They travel
in opposite directions .
'1 state them very si!!1Ply:
One is the way of give -
the other 'of get .
ter , force and energy - the Creator of
the laws of physics and chemistry, grav-
ity and inertia - should also have created
and set in motion this SPIRITUAL LAW to
CAUSE every GOOD result for man?"
IF the Creator is a God of LOVE - IF
our M3:keiiSa Godof allpower -could'
be possibly have done otherwise? Could
be have neglected to .provide a WAY - a
CA USE - to produce peace, happiness,
prosperity, successful lives" abundant
, well-being?
I repeat: There bas to be a CAUSE for
every EFFECT.
If there is to be peace , happiness,
abundant well-being, SOMETHING MUST
CAUSE IT! God could not be God witbout
providing a CAUSE for every desired
GOOD.
Isn't -it about time we realize that IN
LOVE for the mankind be created, God
also created and set in motion in-
exorably tbis spiritual LAW to provide
the CAUSE of every GOOD result!
Now recapitulate: DEATH is tbe pen-
alty of SIN is the TRANSGRESSION of
this LAw! To transgress this law is to re-
ject the WAY that would CAUSE tbe GOOD
all humans want - to tum to the WAY
that CAUSES every EViL result. God FOR-
BADE Adam and Eve jo take tbe fruit of
tbe tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, under penalty of DEATH!
WHY? Because he wanted tbem to
choose the WAY ,of every desired GOOD
- because be wanted them to avoid
causing evils, sorrows, pains. suffering,
unhappiness: Therefore, taking tbis fruit
was symbolic of TRANSGRESSING God's
spiritual LAW!
_To' have taken of the tree of LIFE was
merely symbolic of receiving tbe GIFTof
God's boly spirit, the very LOVE OF God
(Romans 5:5) whicb FULFILLS thisspiri-
tual law (Romans 13: 10) and wbicb _
God gives only to those wbo OBEY bis
law (Acts 5:32).
tbat the narrative bere is -exceedingly of VANITY, lust and greed;' of com-
brief. It toucbes only the high spots. -. petition and .strife; of envy, jealousy,
There is every indication that God gave and unconcern for the welfare of others:
Adam and ' Eve considerable basic in- Few realize' this vital )'ACT:,-The
struction sufficient for their needs for "GIVE" way is actually an invisible, yet
the moment. Orily the high-point poi- inexorable, SPIRITUAL LAW in activemo-
tions of this instruction are summarized. tion . It is summarized, in principle;. by
But sufficient is to sbow that tbe Ten Commandments.
tbey were fully instructed in THE WAY to
live that would CAUSE every GOOD elfect
- peace, bappiness, prosperity, com-
forts, interesting life, abundant well-
being.
, Notice, now, how much is summa-
rized and condensed into few words. .
"And out of the ground made tbe
Lord God to grow every tree tbat is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree oflife also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and eVIl: . . . A;;i\ the Lord God
, commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of tbe .garden tbou mayest freely
eat: bui ofthe tree of the knowledge of .
good and 'evil, 'thou sbalt not , eat of it:
for in the day tbat tbou eatest thereof
thou sbalt surely die" (Genesis 2:9, 16
17). - . '
God told .Adam that be was mortal
and could die. He told him that he bad
been formed of matter froni the . earth
(verse 7) and also "dust thou art, and
unto dust sbalt thou return" (chapter 3,
verse 19).
. " Notice; and re-
vealed here , The tree of LIFE symbolized
- eternal life. They did not, as yet , possess
immortal life. Tbis was freely olfered to
Adam and Eve as God's GIFT.
Compelled to Make a Choice
But they were reqnired to make a
choice .
Also in the .garden was anothersym-
bolic tree - the tree of "the knowledge
of good and evil." To make the wrong
choice of taking of tbat forbidden tree
, would impose tbe penalty of DEATH.
"Thou shalt SURELY die, " said God IF
tbey cbose ,to disobey and take of that
tree.
In other words, as we read in Romans
6:23: "For the wages of sin is DEATH;
but tbe gift of God is ETERNAL LIFE.. .."
This clearly shows that God revealed tbe
gospel to tbem. And what istbe Bible
definition of SIN?"Sin is," it is written in
I John 3:4, "the -transgression of the
law: '
Actually, tbere exist, overall, only .
TWOBASIC WAYS of life - two divergent
philosophies, They travel in opposite di-
rections : I state them very 'simply: One is
the way of GIVE - tbe other of GET.
More specifically , the one is the way
of humility and of outgoing concern for
otbers equal to self-concern. It is tbe
- way, of cooperation, ' serving" helping,
sharing, of consideration, patience and
kindness. More important, it is also THE
WAY of obedience to, reliance on, and
worship solely toward , God. It is the
God-centered way, of LOVE toward God
and LOVE toward neighbor.
'The opposite is the SELF-centered way
_Soul - Spirit or Material? ".
Here ' is a dogmatic statement that
God designed and created SEX!
And next, chapter 2, verse 7: "And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground,' and breathed into his ' nos-
trilsthe breath of life; and man became
a living soul :" The flat statement ishere
recorded :1Jiaf niade'from lilac
terial substance (dustof the ground) BE-'
CAME a soul - a plain emphatic
statement that the': "soul" was made
from matter, NOT spirit.
Next, comes -the statement that God
planted a garden,' or park: in Eden, and
there he put the man whom he had
formed,
Note well these facts: The plain state-
ment is that the man and woman were
created as the final act of creation on the
sixth day of the week described in the
first chapter of Genesis. They had been
created, even as we have been born,
with -human minds as yet unfil1edwith
knowledge: But they were created as
adults, with adult-capacity minds , ca-
pable of receiving and reasoning from
knowledge.
So their Creator began immediately' ,
toinstruct - them in necessary basic
knowledge. :And this, it is made plain,
Included instruction in . SEX and MAR-
RIAGE.
Naked - And Unasbamed
God bad said : "Be fruitful, and mul-
tiply, and replenish the earth" (1:28).
Again, "And they were both naked,the
man and his wife, and :were not
ashamed."
_ Mark, please, tbe plain statement that
the attitude of shame was not imparted
by God. At the conclusion of God's ini-
tial instruction - which included in-
struction about sex and reproduction' .:
there was no-sense .of indecency or
shame about.that which God had de'
signed and created.
At tllis point we must bear in mind
verse 2: "And the earth was [became] ,
without fonn and void" (Hebrew, tohu
and bohu) meaning ruin, confusion,
emptiness (see any-Hebrew-English lexi-
con). What occurred between events and
conditions described in those two verses
is revealed in many other biblical pas-
sages: And this allows for any duration
of time between the two verses . So far as
biblical statements are concerned, the
original creation could have occurred
millions of ye,,!, prior to the state de-
scribed in the second verse.
,;'Coming to the ,26th verse, chapter, I, it
is stated: "And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness."
Other biblical passages state that man is
in -the same form and' shape ' as God -t-
but with this difference: that God is
composed of SPIRIT and man of physical
matter.
Now verse 27: "So God created man
in his own image.jn the image of God
created he him; male and female cre-
ated he them." ,
WEEK END[NG JUNE 7, [975 7
IIII TIIIoIISTS
GO IDCIIAI
by Robert Ginskey
T
o The Honorable Mayor of Your
Beautiful City: A radio-controlled
nuclear bomb has been carefully
conceal ed near the heart of your me -
tropolis. If you distribute 20 million dol-
lars in small bills to the minority
members of your community within the
next three days. you will be notified of
the bomb 's location and no harm will
befall you or your people. However; if
you feil to meet these demands, the
nuclear device will be detonated. Tens
of thousands will be kiited, your city will
be destroyed, . 'and radioactive con-
tamination will render it uninhabitable.
Enclosed are" the plans for the device.
You bomb- experts will confirm that I
know what I 'm talking about - and
I'm not ki ddingl
In 1970, a precocious 14-year-old Or-
lando , Florida boy .sent 1 0 ~ 1 officials a
note threatening to annihilate the city
wi th an H-bomb if he were not given $ 1
million. He supplemented his demands
with a conv incing set of detailed plans
that had experts more than slightly wor-
ried.
The boy was eventually appre-
hended, and his nuclear black-mail
turned out to be a hoax . But the verY
fact that he was able to supply a realis-
tic set of plans for a nuclear bomb sent
ripples of concern and uneasiness
throughout the nation. Were home-
mad e nuclear bombs nearer than we
dared to admit? Was the day' that terror,
ists go nuclear frighteningly close at
hand?
Prying Inside Pandora's Box
Several factors . determine just how
difficult (or easy) it is to desig n and con-
struct a nuclear bomb . (see the accorn-
pan ying box). Only six nations - the
U.S., U.S.S.R. , China , Britain, France,
and India - have so far managed to
pry into the explosive secrets of Pan':
dora 's nuclear box. But one thing is
clear. If the essential materials are avail-
able , it ' is very possible to make an
atom ic bomb us ing information that is
ava ilable to the public .
" Any reasonably . intelligent person
can build a nuclear bomb, " cla ims Dr, .
Theodore B. Taylor , who helped design
much of Amer ica's nuclear arsenal. Tay-
lor has long argued that with a do-it-
yourself bomb gu ide drawn from pub-
licly available federal doc uments or the
local library, a person could buy -or
steal - much of the materials foi a
nuclear bomb.
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As if to prove Taylor's point, a recent
TV documentary, " The Pluton ium Con-
nection, " revealed that a 20-year-old"
M.I.T. college student had designed a
crude but workable atomic bomb in five
weeks, The Publ ic Broadcast ing Service,
(PBS) challenged the student to desi gn
the bomb to test the theory that a home-
made' nuclear weapon could be fash-
ioned solely through the use of available
publ ished documents.
The student said he relied solely on
reports and files available in such places
as his college library and the Atomic
Energy Commission's , own public read -
ing room.
" All of these books are available
through the National Technical Informa -
tion Service in Washington, D.C., " the
student observed. "I went down and
picked them up myself, about ' five ..dol-
lars.a book . . . . Irs really no problem to
go down there and get enough informa-
tion to design a bomb. "
Even the Encyclopedia Americana
gives a very informat ive discussion of
t he principles and techniques used in
making nuclear explosives.
Atomic scientists were shocked at
what they considered a " fa ir chance"
that the student 's bomb would go off.
Swedish Defense Ministry scientist Jan
Prawitz stated that the .devlc e might
have the power of 100 tons of TNT, and
added, " In the hands of the terrorist.
from the point of view of authorities
negotiating with the terrorist. the fact
that the bomb might go off is tbe-irnpor-
t',"tthing."-
.. Now, what you do, you detonate the
TNT, " st ates the " st ude nt " on the PBS
documentary. "That squeezes the
tamper and the plutonium core together
enough that the plutonium becomes su-
per criti cal . It stays together long
enough that you get a chain reac t ion
and, boom, you get .bomb.
" lt ' s that simple. "
Nuclear Theft
Granted, it is possible to design an A-
bomb, but just how wo uld one acq uire
t he nece ssa ry fissionable mate rial? Un-
doubtedly this is the greatest obstacle
for a would-be nuclear terrorist . So phis-
ticated nuclear processing plants a re in-
credi bly expensive. Vet the soluticnmav
be surprisingly and distressingly si mple:
theft .
Military supplies of nuclear materials
and even complete weapons are now
widely dispersed around the world . The
U.S. keeps 7,000 nuclear warheads in
Europe alorie, with 213 designated for
use not by the U.S. but by our .allies .
The security su rrounding such su pply
dumps is often ap pallingly inadequate:
Retired Adm-. Gene R. laRocque. a
former Navy fleet commander and
strategic planner who now heads "t he
Center for Defense Information, recently
admonished a Se nate atormc ' energy
su bcommittee that " re la t ive ly few
men " guard U.S. nuclear warheads and
"bombs stored in such countries as
Greece, Turkey an d South Korea . " A
well-planned, well-executed terrorist at-
tack could easily ca pture ou r nuclear
weapons, and a fast plane or helico pter
could get them out of the country just as
easily , "laRocquewarned.
The danger of at omic . blackmail re-
sulting from stol en military su pplies
could be minimize d by increasing secu-
rity and / or reducing the numbers of
such wea pons in vulnerable areas. But
unfortunately, another source of illicit
nuclear material is also on the horizon
- the atomic power industry:
. : Pt.m Tfll rh
Nuclear power plants " burn" ura-
nium and plutonium, both elements
used in making an atomic bomb. While
be ing used for power generation, the
uranium and plutonium a re relatively
.: safe from theft because they are mixed
with other highly radioactiye substances
that make removal of the nuclear fuel
ext remely difficult and hazardous. ,
However, the fuel must eventually be
removed from the plant an-d shipped out
to a reprocessing facility . It is here that
the various isotopes of uranium and plu-
toniurn are separated from other rad io-
act ive by-products as part of the
recycling process. . While transporting
: such nuclear material to and from a re-
actor, and especially at the reprocessinq
plant itself, theft can much more easily
occur.
A rece nt Ford Foundation study, .. Nu-
clear Theft: Risks and Safeguards," as-
serts that ' 'transportation is the weakest
link" in the nuclear fuel cycle from the
. sta ndpoint of vulnerability to theft and
diversion. But the report adds that even
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while in storage at a reprocessing plant,
nuclear materials are often surprisingly
suscept ible to theft . .
The problem of atomic theft is also .
compounded by the fact that it is ex- -
tremely difficult to keep t rack of all the
nuclear materi al. Thousands of kilo-
grams of plutonium are produced each
yea r in nuclear reactors: vet less than
four ki lograms are required to make an
at omic bomb.
The limit of error for " Material Unac-
count ed For" (MUF) is from 0.5 to 1.0
per cent f or most reprocessing, .opera-
t ions . Since a reprocessi ng plant mi ght
handle 15, 000 kil ograms of pluton ium
per year, t his means 1!l0 kilograms
could be ' 105t " wi thout anyone neces-
sari l y suspecti ng theft. Yet . that's
enough plutonium for dozens of atomic
bombs! " The degree of protection is
l ess t han is typically given to money in
vaults;" >says Theodore Taylor , co-au-
t hor of the Ford Foundation Study .
Adds Taylor, ' '' We guard our money
better than we have guarded, are
guarding or will gua rd our nucl ea r mate-
ri al . . -. th e ov erwhelming majority of ,
plant' managers I talked to . said they
couldn' t stop: theft by a large group of
prof essionals .. We "need more guards,
alarms andsurveinance."
.CD Explosive
Plain Trur/lA" : UPl Photo
ABOVE are rough diagrams of two types of fission bombs. The first is a uranium-
235 gun-assembly, which is the type bomb dropped at Hiroshima (pictured above).
It contained less than 100 Ibs. of uranium but released the equivalen t destructive
. Iorce of 20,000 tons of T.N. T. In this design, one section of U-235 is shot into
the other by the use of high explosives to achieve atomic fission.
The second type demon strates the implosion technique, and was used in the
first "Trinity " test blast and later at Nagasaki. It requires a high explosive shell to
be detonated . eround two or more pieces of fissionable material, in this case
plutonium-239. Soph isticated atomic bombs using the implosion design can be
small enough to be carried in a suitcase.
would Produce a " f i zzle" - a lot of
heat. and vapor, but not a real ' ex-
plosion. Thus the idea that a man
could hold a sub-critical mass of ura-
nium in each , hand and threaten to
create anA-bomb by' bringing them
together is totally unrealistic. A f izzle
would undoubtedly occur and radio-
activity would be dispersed over a
small area ; bu t no explosion would
resul t .
To produce an atomic bomb, the
subcriticel 'masses must be very.
quickly brought together by the use
of high explosives.
Just how much fissionable mate-
rial is needed? A few kilograms (a
kilogram is about 2 .2 pounds) is
usually sufficient. But spec ial tech-
niques of compressing f issi onable
material can drastically reduce the
amount needed to :' go critical . " Un-
de r certain conditions on ly a few
ounces 'of plutoniurn mavbe critical
quantity.
Thus, there are two requirements
for building a nuclear. bomb: (1) A
suitable mechanism using high ex-
plosives must be devised to combine
subcritical masses of uranium or :
plutonium into a critical mass i n a
very short time; (2) A source of high
grade fiss ionable material must be
available.
The proliferation of nuclear weap-
- ons shows that neither of these re-
quirements is especially difficult to
meet.
One of the most intriguing and
sign ificant discoveries of the twen-
tieth century was that atoms could
be spl it or " fi ssioned. " . Just before
World War II , scientists found that
fast moving subatomic particles
suc h as neutrons could cause heavy
atoms like uranium-23,5 to f ission
into lighter atoms, and also release
prodigious amounts of energy .
Equally important was the d iscovery
that the fissioning of a uranium atom
produces -2 or 3 additional neutrons
that could, in 'turn. fission other ura-
nium atoms in a chain reaction .
Therein l ies the key to an atomic
bomb. All that is required is a suf-
fi cient amount of fissionabl e mate-
rial to sustain a rapid nuclear cha in
react ion . lnsuch a situation a ' sud-
den release of energy equal to hun-
dreds or . thousands of tons of TNT
can' occur 'i n less than a mill ionth of
a second.
In practice, of course, the making
of an ' atomic bomb is not a tr ivial
achievement . A means must be
found to bring two or more " sub-
critical " (i .e., non-chain reaction
sustaining) masses of uranium or
plutonium together in one lump i n
much less than a thousandth of a
second. A slower assembly time
The Atomic Bomb
-HowIt Works
U-235
'"
jack ing of nucl ear bombs or fissionable
mat erial and employing them as ex-
ceedingly powerful explosive devices ,
The st unning succ esses of the Palestin-
ian' guerrillas - Olympic murders, air-
plane hijack ings, ambush massacres -
have demonstrated that both nuclear
fuel and U.S. tactical nuclear stockpiles
could well be vulnerab le to raids' by
dedicated and disc iplined terrorists.
Today, more than 50 major terrorist
groups are reported to exist worldwide.
A, half dozen terrorists with either a sto-
len or homemade "nucl ear weapon could
cause thousands of deaths in a city like
New York.
According to Barry Schneider of the
Ceoter for Defense Information i n
Washington, D.C. , "a on e-m egaton
bomb exploded on Manhattan ' Island
would inflict casualties exceeding the
cornbined totals of the American dead '
from the Revolutionary War, th e Wa r of
1812, the Mexican War , the U.S. Civil
War, the Spanish-American War , World
War I. World War II, the Korean War ,
and the Vietnam War.
Indeed, if t errorists use atomic weap-
ons, t he-whole str at egic doctrine of mu-
tual deterrence will become obsolete
and all the vaunted nuclear might of the
.U.S. (and other countries as well) will no
longer serve to ward 'off 'all possible nu-
A Bomb fo r Every Terrorist clea r threats. .
thini"on1ing after-a nuclear
industry is experiencing about '4 MUF's explosi ve has destroyed half of an
a year . "At one nuclear fac il ity i n Penn- American City, " says Dr . Fred C. lk le,
some 100 kilograms of ura- Dir ector of th e U.S. Arms Control" and
nium were unaccounted for over a f ive- Disarmament Agency . " How are we go-
year period. ' Happi ly, no proven thefts ' ing to apply our theories of mutual de -
have occu rr ed , so far. Yet there is a terren ce, of first strike, and second
growing. fear that weapons-grade pluto- strike, of strateqic stability conceived for '
nium or uran ium could be siphoned aff a bipolar world, if we cannot tell wh ose
by some of 'th e 120,000 persons who nuclear explosive it was? Or even if we
have access t o U.S. nuclear weapons I could tell , but it turned out to be an
and .weapons-q rade fi ssionable material organization such as might exist in the
- . not t o mention outside agents, future - an organization perhaps
t hieves, and t error ists. ' ded icated people but no clearly def ined
In man y cases, t he purpose for such nat ional territory - what good would
thef ts Could be purely financial . Pluto- our more than 2,000 nuclear missiles
nium, for example, is far more valuable and bombe'rs do? .. . Our society and
than' . gold and sell s for over '$ 300 an our polit ical institutions might simply
ounce. Plutonium is also incredibly prove incapable to 'coping with this new
toxic, another f act or that could play into age of imrnment terror:"
' t errorist hands. Will ter rorists go nuclear? Can
.Plutonium- 239 is at least 20 ,000 safeguards be instit uted to prevent a
times more toxic than cobra venom "or nightmare of uncontrolled nudear
pot assium "cyanide and 1,000' times eration and terror? -
mo re toxic than modern nerve .gases. A . Nuclear expert " Mason Will rich be-
mi llionth of a gram is reported to cause lieves that safeguards aqalnst nuclear
can cer. A baseball sized mass of pluto- " t hef t and sabotaqe must deal with " t he
,"nium in just one atomic bomb could the- risk of malfunctioning humans."
-oret ical lv - ' if properly dispersed - possibility of nuclear violence
cause cancer in almost every human using material diverted from civilian in-
being on earth. Plutonium-238, used i n ', dustry is fundamentally a human prob-
nuclear powered batteries, is even more lem for wh ich there is no technological
t oxi c - 300"t i mes more tox ic than plu- fix , " says Willrich . " There is no final
t oni um- 239. The plutonium-238 i n just solution . ' Nor is there any alternative to
one small nuclear. battery , \f dispersed dealing with it effectively unt il the last
in small part icl es by a terrorist group, fi ssi onable atom has been split . "
would produce very serious radioactive No finatsotution ? A sobering if not
contamination over hundreds of square" frightening thought in a world which
mil es. seems to ' be entering a new dark age of
Thegreatest worrv, however, is that unprecedented violence and nuclear
an ominous potential exists for the hi- brinkmanship. 0
WEEK ENDING niNE 7, 1975
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t"es ;stible force n ;mmo'f'oble object . .
would lead the U.S. economy int o eier-
nal fine-tuned prospe ri ty through the
simple expedient of unbalanced bud gets
and lower taxes. There was no economic '
ill the President's Coun cii of Economic
Advisers couldn't diagn ose and cure -
usuall y thr ough the opiate of printing ..
more money, The attitude was also re-
flected in the feeling of self-confident
- omnipotence that produced the national
quagmire of Vietnam.
One of the first signs that somethi ng
was wrong in Camelot was the nagging
stagnation of Great Britain. Governed
by essenti ally the sa me set of phil osoph-
ically interventionist nostrums as the
U.S. (only more so), the" United King-
dom had become bogged down in a ' ", ' "
stop-go series of booms and busts. The combined to show tha t the American been .helped, ,programs,
United States , it seems, was headed in ' economy , can indeed follow j n .Bri tish morally laudable. But it's 110 .use. pre" .
the same directi on, but , Britain seemed ' footsteps. " tending that the ma ssiv e shi ft of ..
, to be gett ing there first. Economists within the Ford Adminis- resources from producers to non-pro- t,
The clima x of U.S. involvement in ' tration now project both unemployment ducers hasn't worked a huge burdenou. .
Vietnam around 1969 strangely coin- and inflat ion rates of 8 per cent, to -com- " the economy as a whole. !: '
cided with the pun cturing of our eco- memorate the nation's Bicent ennial. ' The American middle class is no bet- .
nomic bubble. The federal government This is the economic equival ent of hav- ter olf now than it was in 1965, even
had just gone into the red by $25 billion, ing severe cases of both low blood sugar though the ' economy has greatly ,' ex" ,
an unprecedented deficit for that day. and hypertension. ' panded si nce. Nearly all, t he : ext ra :',
Eight years , of continuous economic ' wealt h ha s . gon e into t he nation's .:
boom ended, and, with rising inflation, The Diagnosis bloated public sector - where it has cov-
businesses began laying men olf. Reces- Since 1965, nearly all the extra wealth ered both good causes. (social security ",
sion set in. the U,S. has generated has gone .into payments) and some not so good causes; ,
, Since that time, asuccessionof bud- welfare , sOcial ,- " Moreover, in the last ten years, ' the "
get -busting defi cits securit y, . unemployment compensation.r co untry's ' .economj c .
management by the ' Federal Reservein and food stamps. ' reached the point of overload, 'Inflation '
the ' presidential election year of 1972 To the elfect that tlJ.e poor and elderly was only the blowing of a fuse "" oo a ,:
by Jeff Calkins
n he that earneth wages,
earneth wages to put it into a
bag with holes. n (Haggai i:6)
Is the American
Economy,"
Curable?
Back in the heady, halcyon days of
the early 1960' s when unemployment
was declining and inflation was a tame
two percent. gov ernment economis ts en-
shrin ed an economic myth called the
"Phillips Curve."
Named aft er a prominent 'Brit ish
economist , it postulated that inflation
and unemployment canceled each other
out. It was the economic power of posi-
tive t hi nk ing, I f yo u h ad h igh
. unemployment ; , Phillips believed , at
least you wouldn't have Infla tion, and
vice versa.
Furt hermore, the theo ry produced the
notion that inflation could be solved by
higher unemployment. Last year's dis-
mal statistics of double-digit inflation
and near- double-digit unemployment .
prove itdoesn' t'always work. '
, Many of us remember .the early years '
of theKennedy Presidency asa blissful '
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by Stan ley R. Rader
symptom that the whole house may be
about to bum down. The United States
simply has over-estimated its wealth and
tried to do too much : militarily defend
the non-Communist 'world, educate
every child .. to graduate school, make
war on poverty, and compel business to
solve deep-rooted sociological problems.
American ambitions have exceeded
American . poieney. To accomplish its
lofty social visipns, the country has bor-
rowed heavily against the future. The
interest on the national debt alone now
exceeds $30 billion.
manitarian values , Mr. Kissinger's rela- >
tions With Congress are worsening, and
yet if the legislative and executive.
branches of the government are to work
together in forming effective national
foreign policy of a consensus nature, the
Congress will have to respect the Secre-
tary of State , Unfortunately Mr. -Kiss-
inger has shown a certain , high-
handedness in dealing with Congress as
well as a marked preference for working
LONDON, May 12: under circumstances that are antithetical
Two questions are posed by Euro- u.s. efforts to strengthen the South Viet- to that which would be required if Con-
peans in the wake ' of the U.S . namese to stand independently even in gress is to maintain a strong role in for-
withdrawal from .Indochina, What will the face of future aggression ' from the mulaling basic U.S. foreign policy.
the United States do in the future north were unsuccessful and were .
The Prescription . vis its commitments to its allies in Eu- doomed to be unsuccessful from -the " Just today it was reported, in the New
Th
ur II S J I . d will M Kiss' . . start since PresidentNixon was unable York t Times, that, Mr , Kissinger may
that ':roUghou/;he to fulfill his promises to President Thieu have made sonie ill-advised statemenls
flation at the same time Using the stan- dent Ford's term? and his government to use force if neces- -. about.Arab, Japanese and Russian lead-
dard economic medicine which has been It is ironical how strong the European sary to enforce the Peace Accords of ' ers during his ill-fated step by step ap-
in vogue since the Depression . These reaction has been to the events of the January 1973. But at no time have Mr. proach to peace in the area. The Israeli
, theories may have worked in the thirties past several weeks in Cambodia and Kissinger or Mr. Nixon, and now Presi- government is trying to suppress the
when the economy exhibited all the ten- Vietnam - ironical because during tJie dent Ford, failed to restate firmly and publicalion . by an Israeli journalist '
sile strength of a limp balloon, but they long U.S. involvement in that area there precisely that the United States would which is reportedly -replete with refer-'
do not "take" today. had not only been a singular lack of . honor its commitment worldwide . ences , to statements made by Mr . Kiss-
The standard medicine consists of material and moral support from its Eu- The United States is making this plain inger and leaked by an Israeli
printing more money io 'stimulate the ropean allies but repeatedly there had to its 'real or potential adversaries who- government official to the author. If this
\demand side of the equation. B,!! to also been sharp criticism and rebuke of ever they may be and wherever they be true, Mr. Kissinger's value in the
fight both unemployment and inflation the U.S. effort: Now that the .United may be. TheUnited.States has , in fact, Middle East may be completely elimi-
you must concentrate on supply. Pro- ' States has, in fact, done what was for so -. already had its first Jest in this regard; nated. .
ducing extra goods will put more of the ' Iong advocated, however, these same when it had to, apply force_against the I remember only too well being ad-
jobless to work as well as tend to hold European allies. are directly and in- .: : Cambodian government for its seizure .
prices down. ;' .' directly stating that the United States of the American merchant ship May - tian Permanent Representative to the .
The rub is that the national supply of has abandoned South Vietnam or at aguez. Perhaps .this provocative act by' " United Nations in Geneva, Dr. El-Erian,
gllOdS"Jani:!.isetvlces"'Clln'f-ll!'"'tncieased' c least has failed to supporr'an'ally and it . the 'Cambodian governmentwasone de-"" that -the major role that Kissinger had
without the U.S. ' government consciously _has shirked its moral responsibilities; not signed to. test"the mettle 0tthe United- played.in bringing about the initial dis-
withdrawing from some of what it is only to the government of Saigon, but to States at this particu larly delicate time. engagement pact _between the Israeli-
domg:1:ike"" family whose purchases those many thousands of South Viet- Perhaps there will be other probes in ' Egyptian forces and the Israeli-Syrian
overextend its income, something must namese who supported U.S, programs . other places to do the same. I have as- forces was that of the admired and re-
go - the ' expensive military machinery, and policies and who were not able to be sured my European colleagues that the spected intermediary ' who could be
the large standing army, the com- evacuated during the dramatic war's- . United States will react to any provoca- trusted by all parties - this being par-
mitment to lift the elderly and poor out end rescue operations. The Europeans tive and aggressive acts in a decisive, ticularly important as both Egypt and
of poverty, the educational system, or , now realize once again how very much immediate and effective manner, Syria could not and would not talk to
the myriad of special causes the govern- they must look to tlie United States. Vis-a-vis Mr. Kissinger, notwithstand- the Israelis directly. But, if as reported
ment serves(gtants to, the ' arts and Public opinion polls .abroad only two ing his recently avowed intention to stay by the New York Times, Mr. Kissinger
sciences, disease.research, spaceexplora: ' years ago 'showed that Mr. Kissinger was' in office for the benefit of the country has, in fact, made disparaging remarks
tion, etc.), TheY: sitDply"cannot all . be. the most popular American in the eyes .. and the world, ids difficult toforesee his about Arab leaders during his confer-
afforded :' " of the EUropean peopleaBut his image " staying on the scene too much .longer . ences with the Israelis at a time when he
The political apparatus, however, is of Captain Marvel. one able to "single- All of . his policies have unfortunately was treated with respect, admiration and
unable to make ' a clear-cut list of prior- handedly" resolve some of the most resulted in fail ure or have been very trust by the. leaders of the .Arab nations,
ities. Politicians in ademocracy are nor- knotty problems confronting mankind, seriously tarnished -and unfortunately it is difficult to see. how Mr. Kissinger
mallybereft of the willpower to make has now. been very badly tarnished. seem devoid of the kind Of idealism that could justify that conduct and remain of
hard decisions - particularly any deci- Many of the people with whomI speak is expected of the United States abroad any value in future ' negotiations along
sion which may deprive any segment of are concerned that, should Kissinger re- and by the American people . Mr. Kiss- the lines of the past. This would be par-
the electorate of money flowing from the main in office, American diplomacy dur- inger's poliey is dominated by his over- . ticularly sad since both President Sadat
federal kitty. The inevitable result is ing the next. two' years ' will 'suffer all view ' of the world, of the basic and Prime Minister Rabin have sug-
warning and compromise in which no because ofa lack of unity and idealism. relationship between the .United States gested on several occasions since the col-
real cutbacks are ever made . . I have tried to reassure .my friends . and the U.s .S.R"the United States and .lapse of the last'round of talks that they
Human governments are wont. to in- that America will not turn its back on its European allies, and -the United would still welcome new ,initiatives by
crease their spending. Opening up some ' the world and that the withdrawal from " States and Japan. iHe has fromtime to the United States and Mr . Kissinger .
new porkbarrel is a convenient way to Indochina does not suggest that it will. . time aliena ted our European allies by .. . In .addition to the foregoing it seems
look generous . ,Too many politicians like President Nixon made it plain upon failing 'to counsel with them or advise that Mr. Kissinger, even if he should
to posture as "benefactors," as they con- gaining office in 1969 that lie. intended them in advance.as was the case during remain in office, is not going to have the
spicuously fire up the g,overnment en- fully to disengage American forces from the October 1973 Middle Eastern crisis. independent ' and ' all-powerful position
gines to solve whatever real or iinagined that area at the earliest possible .oppor- He has also deeply offended the Japa- in foreign policy matters that he has had
crisis is fashionable at the time. tunity consistent with an honorable nese on occasion. Basically Mr. Kiss-" for some time. President Ford will meet
If inflation and recession are to be peace, including the return of all Ameri- inger believes that the Russians are with President Sadat in Salzburg early
exorcised' out of the economy, the "pub- can prisoners of war. It is plain from constantly watching 'the United States /""" next month and will probably meet also
. lie sector" will have to make definite, everything that Mr . Kissinger and Mr. for signs of a weakening in the U.S. . with .Prime Minister Rabin. Mr. Kiss-
conscious contractions. Nixon said during the period 1969-1973 resolve tomeet its obligations, particu- inger is meanwhile making additional
Since the economic solution depends that both were concerned with the credi - larly where the commitment of U.S. ' plans with members of President Ford's
on the restraint of the politicians and the bility of the United States worldwide as .forces would be involved. Consequently, White House staff, many of whom feel
public, logic demands the gloomiest pos- a result of the ultimate .disengagement Mr. Kissinger has found himself main- he should not be allowed to dominate
sible conclusion: the economy won't be that Mr . Nixon and Mr. Kissinger knew taining the status quo even if such a both' the National Security Council and
cured. 0 was unavoidable. Unfortunately, the posture would require ignoring basic hu- the State Department. 0
WEEK ENDING JUNE 7, 1975
II

InterviewWithMoshe Kol
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SPIAKSOUTI
the fervent desire to pray someday Tourism can build bridges for
in the Old City at -the Dome of the peace - people meeting together ,
Rock . This means the 'Sa udi Arabian in peace, conducting business, ' and :
people still hope to someday repos- so on . ,'. ; . " :1
sess the holy places for the Muslim GTA: You recently went to the
religion. Isn 't Jerusalem itself very can and had a short talk with Pope
crucial to a 'solution in the Middle Paul VI. What was the purpose of
East? your with Pope Paul and what
KOL: Jerusalem will never be di- was discussed? " .
vided again. There is no reason to KOL: I am responsible here in the '
divide the city . It is now a peaceful government for the task of welcom-
city . Jews and Arabs are living to- ing the Christian pilgrims - also .
gether, workin q together , con- the Muslims and Greek Orthodox- '
ducting business together. It's open during the 1975' H'oly .Yea r,' so the':
to people from all religions . Asl said purpose of my visit was to ask the '
when I was in New York, I was ready Pope to encourage the pilgrims who '
to give a very nice welcome to King come to Rome toprbceed to Jerusa- :
Faisal if he came to pray at the lem also, ';..
mosque, but if King Faisal wanted to The Pope was very com-
come here only' when Jews will NOT plimentary, and we (agreed that the
W
e' re visiting ' with Minister stated program. We are ready to talk be here: then he c o u ld never Vatican would encouragethe 'people .
Moshe Kol, Minister of to Palestinians about the "Palesti n- achieve, ne ver 'realize, ' t his dream. who-come to Rome to continue. to ,
. Tourism for IsraeL We ian problem, " but the PLO was not' And I can sa y the same about King Jerusalem. Two thousand years ago".
want to ask a few ques- elected by the Palestinians torepre- Khaled. ' these: two, cities.were at war: Now :
tions about the current situation in sent them. .' In 19 74 , we had 125,000 Arab we are in very peaceful coexistence. "
the Middle East , but we 'll start with King Hussein's idea of a Palestin- - vis itors coming ' here. They traveled GTA: D,o 'you feel 'that 'increased
the tourism picture. ia n-J orda nia n Federation was a very . all over Israel , with no limitations. I Catholic-Jewish dialogue is go ing to '
Has the current Mideast situation ' good idea . Today, King Hussein is . don't know of any such example support Israel's . position with the
hurt Israel' s tourist income, and, un - out of the picture, after the Rabat elsewhere in the world. They are predominately .Catholic . European '
der the current conditions, would conference, but , maybe the Arab people from " e ne my countries" powers?
this summer be a good time for leaders will .as k him to come back who are speaking about the destruc- KOL: I don't think' it has any ' in-
Americans to visit Israel? ""-.:;;" ' nto. t he picture after they -realize we tion of Israel. yet they are permitted fluence on Israel's relationships with,
KOL:The'declirie in ,tourismdur,ng ' -.a re nor readvtoneqotiate with the to go everywhere to see and enjoy ,
.. :1 . Israel. They could pray in ,the AI- the politics in the Western world are
' Aksa mosque' or t he ,Domeof I. "
situation there; "in; ' il$rJ1,lsrae l '\N,11 ' n.0lcr iegot,ate With ' would like rel igious piiiiciPles "to
U
MidElast" tension's <anyboiJ\i under :tile{th,sat:.bt ' opim : lt was ne ver so open' to people have more influence, I am ,sorryJllat
have allcontrlbuted to :this:decline ; '" , We will not , PLp ; of all religi ons as it is now. , ' t he pol itiCians ' of 'today"ar" " o\ ', eli-
But we have en joyed an increase of for we know the Palestinian pe ople GTA: Why is this not widelyknown giously ni'inded ' whe n they 'are dis;;
11 percent i,! Canadian tourists, and to be rnoderate people"in,;geneml, in the W este rn press? Icthinkmost cussing'the problemsof the
in creases from Austral ia, Argentina, although thei r ' leaders hip' is ' verY Americans don'tiknow. that ' there TI;Ji's could very muchhelp to build a
and South Africa . The decline from neqative, :,', :' " _ were 125,OOO 'Aratis freiilyvisit ing better world.rAfter all ; we are living ,
Europe was very small, so the situ- The Geneva 'conference is irnpor- in Israel. Did 12 5,000 Jews visit in a craz y world'now. ,. "c
ation is not bad at all. tant, and the PalestinIan problem is Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan? , The Western world is again going ,
I' m ' sure this summer will be a important. We must find construe- KOL: No, th,ey ani no-t permitted to in the direction of appeasementvis-
safe -t i rne to visit Israel. I don't ex- tive solutions to the', 'proble m. The , go, although they would like to go . I a-vis the -Arab leaders, ' because' of
pectany war this year, even though Palestinian peoplevare tentitled to have proposed -to the ministers of oil. Your Presidenrsaid only a 'few
there are the constant threats ana ' such a solution, ' b'lji n ot with the tourism of Arab countries 't hat we ' days ago that if there' would be wiir
speeches, We are ' even ,now dis- PLO, " should cultivate tourists here in the there would be ' another boycott of
cussing the possibility of holding the GTA: After the assassination of King area, sothat millions of them' could oil. I think it is not a good po licy to'
Geneva Conference meetings ' this Faisal , his brother released a state- come, to visit al/ our in the " keep appealing to the Arab leaders; '
summer. , ment through the Ministry'of Infor- area, ' I would recommend tourists ,t he leaders of ' t he desert, sojthat
GTA: So you' expect that as long as mation of , .." see the' pyramids of Egypt. ' for ' in- they can really dictatetothe world
both s ides are hoping to negotiate' at policies would be abou t identical to stance" wh ile t hey , would recom- how to live . ' '" ','
Geneva therewon 't be 'a ny renewed those , of his brother. This incl uded mend th e holy places of Jerusalem, ' I believe that 'we h"ite'to' govern
hostilities? ' ' . the world by humanitarian prinCiples
KOL: After the Secretary of. State's among leaders.:"ln "1974,
mediation ' was interrupted, there Arafat appeared in 'the U.N. ,with 'a'
were two possibilities _ either he gun, andhe got a standing ovation ;'
would try to ' renew the mediations It's 'very shocking! BU,t Israel is not
(and I don'tsee how that can' hap- , zechoslovakia, and . Israel will not
pen) or the Geneva " Conference . yield sovereignty .":".. ' ,', ,-
would convene. 'If theGeneva Con- " The Middle East call be the most
,fe rence convenes, we willhave de- flourishing ' a rea in ttie world; not'
bates and ' maybe 'even hot only .beca use -the great cultures of
discussions, but I don't believe we ' ll the world were created ' here, but
have hot shooting! ' als o because of its future potential. "
GTA: What about the position of the We don 't want any more "victo-
Israeli government vis-a-vis the Pal- : ries ." because we don't want any
estinian Liberation Organization? mo re wars . We d on't want to kill
The PLO insists on going to Geneva Arabs, and we don' twant our boys
and being part of the talks. to be killed. If we are fo work for,
, KOL: The Israeli government will not peace and a better life, we have to'
, negotiate with the PLO, because the be inspired bvthe principles of reli-
PLO program means the destruction gion, the great pr inciples of
of the state of Israel. This is their God . 0 '
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HireYour Own
.Hip-Pocket God
by Ron Horswell
Ki ng David, in rather desperat e
straits, once implored God to break the '
teeth of his enemies, cut them to pieces
and sweep them away in a whirlwind. In
fact, to hear David talk, God was quite
amenable to doing almost anything via- '..
lent, up to and including shaking the
eart h and showering occasional celestial
arrows on the wicked, if it would help
the Shepherd King's cause.
Ever since. . there have been those
who; cause in hand, have sought to offer
a few ritual s or prayers to God in ex-
change for the services of his angelic
. mercenaries . Unfortunately for those so
inclined, God seems rather reluct ant to
dispat ch a cadre of cherubs 'upon every
requ est. In fact, he' s been known to be
downright stingy with his legions.
But this .hasn' t greatly impeded some
of the more perceptive, who soon dis-
covered that it didn 't much matter if
God was on your side as long as people
thought he was. So down through the
ages, God 's been the Silent Partner in
innumerable ventures, both business
and military, even to the point of sancti-
fying both sides of a war at the same
time .
The British labored unde r the "white
man 'S burden." The French, a' "civ-
ilizing mission," We Americans sweated
to fulfill our "manifest destiny" as cho-
sen pawns of God 's holy will. Granted,
we "pawns" rooked the Indi ans. We got
cheap land , cheap resource s and cheap
labor , but what a small price for the
heathen to pay in exchange for the torch
of "freedom," the light of Christianity,
and a little firewater thrown in on the .
side: '
Pious imperialists have 'always seen
the advantage of compari ng themselves
to Israel of old. God, if you recall, gave
.ancient Israel, upon entering Canaan.
carte blanch e to conquer, exterminate,
and occupy.
As Senator Albert Beveridge put it
' about the time Ameri ca was getting em-
pire hungry: "God has not been . pre-
pa ring the English-speaking and
Teutonic .peoples for a thousand year s
for nothing. . . , He has made us the
master organ izers of the world to estab -
lish system wher e chaos reigns. . .. .He
has made us adept in government that
we may administer government among
savage and senile peoples .. . . And of all
'our race he has marked the American
peopl e as His chosen nat ion to finally
lead in the regeneration of the world ."
How selfless! How noble! How conve-
nien t!
Once having "Israelized" yourself, all
you need is a contemporary Cana anite
- a foe you can bill as pagan or atheistic
or degene rat e, a foe obviously and bla-
tantl y aligned with the minions of evil, a _
foe to be smashed with divine ven-
geance or conquered with divine mercy.
Of cour se, we Americans weren't the
only ones smart enough to empl oy God.
After all, whom do you think Napoleon,
Mus solini and Hitler claimed. as a
backer? The Devil?
Hitler believed and ,convinced others
that the hope of the world lay with the .
Aryan nice. Doth ' not nature hersel f
preach the clear doctrine of Aryan supe-
riority? To pollute the Aryan race meant
(quoting Mein Kampf! ."nothing less
than sinning against the will of the-Eter-
nal Creator." .
Hitler, like so many others, got his will
mixed up with God's. God was em-
ployed . -.
And somewhere, somehow, by some-
one, God is no doubt still being em-
ployed. . .
Yet it seems doubtful that the Creator
is a " Kelly God," out for odd-j ob hire,
to scare those who need scaring, to con-
vince th ose who need convincing, or to
brand those who need branding.
For some reason, it's been hard for US
hum ans to distinguish between seeking
God's will ' and seeking our own will
in His name. Surel y there is some-
one kneeling right now in heartfelt
prayer:
Our Father who art in Heaven,
Hall owed be Thy Name,
My Kingd om Come ,
My will be done, on earth,
But endorsed in heaven. . .. 0
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, The latest devel opment in church' lit-
urgy seems to be explosive com-
' bi n at ion of sex a nd spir i t u a li ty,
reminiscent of the good old Bible days.
In East Lan sing. iMichigan, the Uni- ,-
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Ear ly reports show that the featured
mov ies '"" . " Love an d the French :
Woma n" and "Seven Short Sexy Sto-
ries" - are attracting far more viewers
than , last year's Disney films and far
more t:Jloney than . Bingo ever
dreamed of. .. . .
Meanwhile, down in the Bible Belt,
the First Church of Richard-
son, Texas, has spumed celluloid in fa-
vor of firsthand female flesh. The'y have
their own stripper-.
. The Richa rdsoncongregau on was re-
cent ly graced with a divine revelati on
named Diana King, who graciously
nated her time and talent to do on Sun-
day morning what she does for a living
on Saturday night.
Needl ess to say. the audience was ec-
static. According to the pastor, Bill
Nichols, 200 adult members. and their
children watched in "fascinated silence"
as Diana did (or und id) her thing. (One
wonders if the church members nor-
mally sit through servi ces in such "fasci- .
nated silence. ") Mr . Nichols
commented, uf" haven't had ' one com-
plaint. I feel like exotic dancing is a part
of life. It fit very well into our service."
, Dian a herself waxed eloquent on ihe
cosmic joys of laying, the truth bare. "I
create a fantas y.' I turn people on: I
'really felt good, It' s hardto articulate
Nud.
-t y'.-0Church ho.w. you're things in church
. . this way .. . . It s affirmmg nature and
; .':. _ _ __ c_ _ _. __ -
. ... " P'f<::.. ,
ductlons are In t1ieoffing: "h vould lik"
to do a sermon using the . exotic dance,
and members of thecongregation could
j oin me if they wished."
What an interesting, even ' arousing,
idea. Furth ermore it would be oh so
biblical! Just think. members of the .con-
gregat ion could join in, take off their
clothes, and "rise up to play" just like
the ancient Israelit es (Exodus 32:6). ,If
the church budget could s tand it, they
could even choreograph the exotic danc -
ers around a ' golden calf. ' What spiritu- .
aIity! There's no limit to the series of
Passion PlaySthat 'could be builtaround
the Bible. Af!er .all, doesn't the apostle
Paul point us' back to the ancient Israel- ,
ites - swinging desert nomads that they
were - for our examples (see I Corinthi-
ans 1O:6)?
Speaking of Corinthians, a permissive
pastor would be extremely biblical if he
tried running his church the . way the
Corinthians did - fornicat ion and all. .
The Greek verb "t o Corinthianize" "
meant "to pr ostitute oneself." How sub-
lime- How spiritual. How sexy. .
"Th e Bible is, after all, a pretty sexy
book, in places. The key is to pick the
right places - and ignore the rest. .
Diana Kirig and Bill Nichols have ob-
viously pioneered :a new ' concept in
Ameri can religion . Man y listless congre-
gations desperately need to be "turned
on" to religion . Consequently, addi ng
sex to religion holds immense pot ential
for lighting the revival flame.
Yes, the clock can be moved ' back to
"that old time religion," back to " Bible
times" - like . Sodom . and Gomor-
rah. 0 '
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Payi Poker
.w ith.Petr odollars,
by Ron Horswell and Jeff Calkins
themoney under camel saddles, but it's
far from ideal.
Everyone (but 'OPEC) 'is losing the
game 'of petroleum . poker . The real
problem is that only a few "losers" are
allowed to play under-the-table poker
with the S60 billion of surplus "petro-
dollars ." In other words, the under-the-
table stakes are so high that it won't be
nations are. also losing their
shirts. The outlook for some such na-
tions is economic depression. Unfortu-
nately, depression in one major
industrial nation ,(such as Italy or Brit-
ain) could easily ' through the
other industrialized nations. '
In the first year of wallet-wilting oil
prices, the international banking system
did a much beller job of recycling these
petrodollars than many thought it could,
but every day the surplus grows, it be-
comes clearer and clearer that the
present-day semi -official arrangements
can't hold up indefinitely .
Given the current status quo, it seems
certain that in the coming months , some
players will be forced to drop out of the
.game. Whether they'll fold with a whim-
per or make an international bang can't
now be foreseen. What we can be sure of
is that whoever is forced out of the game
will definitely be a "sore loser." .
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Petroleum Poker
With. a little imagination and a dis-
concerting degree of truth, we can liken
the whole situation to a poker game. '
Imagine, if you would, the world's na-
tions gathered around a , poker table
stacked high with chips. .
In one comer, members of the OPEC
countries are .raking in SIOO billion per
year in winnings, based upon their "ace
in the hole" (also known as oil in the
well). .
Certain .overly p,opulous and
veloped OPEC members, such as Nige- :
ria and Indonesia, have little tiouble
finding ways to spend their share of the
loot at home. Meanwhile, the Mideast
members are busily replacing sand
dunes with skyscrapers in an orgy of ..
conspicuous consumption.
Out of their S100 billion, however,
they can only spend about S40 billion.
At the poker table, that 's , analogous \0
re-betting S40 billion in the next poker
hand, while the other S60 billion is
drained out of the game .
For the most part, that troublesome .
S60 billion (called ,"petrodollars") has
been sloshing thmugh the bank pipe-
lines of Europe and the United States '
like an under-the-table loan to Certain ,
good credit risks.' This sort ' of gentle-
man's agreement is better than hiding
14
Fonner Winners NowLosers
At the industrial end of the table,
things aren't all rosy either. Certain
Prophecy and Petrodollars
Until 1974, when . the oil producing
nations raked in a record trade surplus .
of S97. billion, Daniel II :43 conldn't be
readily Understood. This amazing .
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no more as long as Art
Buchwald writes for your magazine. .
Herbert Edwards,
Binghamton, NY
I think it.is wrong to have.Art Buchwald
in the pages of Plain Truth. Is it right to
spend ,God's , money on a non-Christian
writer, : whose , purpose is to ' aggrandize
himself, i.e., his "humor"? I assume a fee is
paid to him or his syndicate, for the privi-
lege ofpolluting the pages of truth with his
soothsaying, politically (worldly) oriented
comments.
Wmild not "the Work be better served by
having "a column written by a converted,
praying, Holy Spirit inspired author in his
place and space? Are we coming oul of the
world by propagating the words of this
overweight, cigar-chomping. carnal-
minded buffoon whose quality of humor is-
open to debate, to [say]the least?
. Henry Penna,
Massapequa, NY
We on the Plain Truth staff don't al-
ways"agree with everything that An Buch-
wald writes - and we're certain he wouldn't
alWayY'ftgree' with us,' either; (In actuality, ..
mere fracttonofhis .proltfio out- ,.
put.) However, when an astute 'sat.irist,like .
Buchwald zeroes in on the foibles ofhuman
nature, both individually and on the national
level. we feel "our readers should have the
.qpportunity to see what he has to say. As
Britain 's Prince Charles said just the other
day. most important thing is to retain
your sense of humor. If you lose that, 'and
your 'ability to laugh at yourself. you 're,de-
feated "
On the point of "Christian writers, .. we're
not certain of Mr. Buchwald's religious per - :
Suasion, and frankly are not even interested
infinding out. .
However, inthis light, it is interesting 'to
note that the" apostle Paul. a very literate
man, quoted the "non-Christian" poet and
seer. Epimenides, in a passage which even-
tually became part of scripture (see Titus
1:12). ,
Harold J. McBreen,
.New Shrewsbury, NJ
< Never in my life have I read a newspa-
per or magazine from cover to cover as I.
read Plain Truth. I cannot imagine who
could have given my name and address to
you but I thank that person.
Cheers to Plain Truth!!! '
. ' . ' Miss Zia eyer;
Salt River; Cape RSA
Frankly, I had my doubts that my leller
would see-the light of day in .your paper ;
(week_ending April IS, 1975).' . '
The truth is hard to come by these days.
I am beginning to , believe that you . are
trying hard to tell' it it is - continue
sending the Plain Truth to us.
I Saul Goodman,
Bronx, NY
Mini -Orchids
Let me that the Plain Truth news
magazine is one of the finest published in
this country. It makes the "standard" news
magazines look like children's primers.
Your literate -intell ectual level is on a par
with the British publication, The Econo-
mist.
I jnst finished reading Part III of the
Incredible Human' ' Potential by Herbert
Armstrong and I just have to say - AMAZ- .
'. INO! I think it is wonderful that Herbert
Armstrong can write such an inspiring bib-
'tical article twice a month while he is doing
such a great job going before the nations of
this world with the Gospel.
For strength like that, God has to be
direc:ting it! -
Mrs. JohnL. Bass,
Marietta, GA
Panama do to justify such a sacrifice? What , ->. The C()ntroveny .
can Panama give us, or deny us, that :" Art Buchwald's parodies are great!
should us to give Panama .$? Margaret Kellner,
much as the, of day? Does Arnen- Elberfeld, IN
can .fee l .jt so important to convince the _.
world we're the Go04 . Guys , that we
should make sacrifices like this in the hope
. of achieving it? -
If so, let him look at Israel and her -treat-
ment by the United Nations. That's what
happens when you make sacrifices for
world .
Alfred B. Mason, M.D.,
Long Beach, CA
G.A.,
Eugene, OR
.. and Far East
Mr. Rader's recent article on the Do-
. mino Theory left one' with the impression-
that his Thai friend knows what is best for
Southeast Asia and that is U.S. isolation -
ism. Perhaps so, but I think my Vietnamese
friends might disagree, as; might
of thousands of refugees in Cambodia and
Vietnam.
. For my own part, each time another
country falls to Communism, I see part of
my own freedom withering away_ How
many more millions of people..must be
murdered before someone answers . pleas
for help with a realistic form of aid? . .
r . ; ., William Patrick Gooley,
z, ' .,: Annapolis, MD
absolutely unlike the Plain Truth editorial
. policy. lellers
The Mideast
An onion for Adli Muhtadi's article "Sa-
dat's Window to Peace," in which he said,
"The only missing element for a renewal of
the secretary of state's efforts in the region
would be Israel's : realization that it bas
committed a mistake by not accepting an
interim agreement with Egypt....
makes two grave errors, bothof
, which are heavily laden with pro-Arab po-
litical opinion. One, he states dogmatically
that a " mistake" was made , and that it was
Israel 's mistake . Secondly, he makes it
pear there was ,3 perfectly acceptable
"agreement" out to.Israel by Sadat,
Muhtadi's Arab prejudices are -blatantly
obvi ous - hardly the ' type material one
would expect to read in the Plain ' Truth,
which bas, over the years continually tried
to faithfully present ALL sides of each pic- APanamanian Orchid '
Thank you for printing the truth about
Bibleprophecy. the Panama giveaway (PlainTruth, April
5, 1975). I spent four years in the Zone
The Israeli government negotiated -face (1962-66) , including the riots of January,
to' face with Egypt through the: daily meet- 1964, and was close enough to what went
; t. 'ID.#e.. J: ',...ou.no:ns..1o.
on .flie .contment of .Africa. tThe subject:
How to arrange giving Egypt back its help- One expects; of course, to find rampant
Iessly surrounded 3rd army . Later, Israel nationalism in a countryIike Panama . . . .
'pulled back ' from its forward "defense line What astonished almost all of us in the
: af'the' Suez Canal itself, allowing a U.N. Zone , however'....was to find the most ramp.
peace-keeping force to take up buffer posi- ant Panamanian nationalism echoed and
tions. but control over the strate - amplified , in the mB&S media of the
gic Gidi andMitla passes. Finally, Israel U.S.A. . . ' . : "
agreed to give up both passes, and the Abu When you think it over, it does seem
- Rodeis oil fields (captured from Egypt in queer that for a radical measure like sur-
"Sinai), and' felt it was quiteliterally "bend- rendering the Canal, a major strategic and
ingover backwardv.to offer Sadat an hon- economic loss for the nation, the State De-
orable compromise . in 'r e t ur n .fo r a partment can't think up any better justifi-
. nonbelligerency statement from Egypt cation than that maybe it would make
..For Muhtadijwhose credentials listed in Panama love ..us. . or keep Panama from
" the' article ' 'showed a Palestinian back- injuring us ' . . .
td ' assert.that Israel made a mis- -.. First , all ' of the concessions
take-by not ' '' acce pt i ng'' an interim we'vemadeto Panama in the past have
.'agreement is utterly ' misleading, totally bought us Panama's love, or even Pan-
, f alse from the .Israeli point of ,view, and ama's tolerance, Second, what on earth can
, It is the prerogative of GOD ALONE to
determine what is right and what is sin
r- what is-good and what is evil. God
has not delegated to man the right or
power to decide WHAT is sin - but he
compels Us to'decide WHETHER to sin, or
to obey his law..
; To rightly determine what is GOOD re-
quired the creative power to produce
' and set in motion such inexorable LAWS
as this spiritual law and the laws of
physics and chemistry - a law which
_'AUTOMATICALLY causes GOOD if obeyed
land EVILS when disobeyed!
Adam and -Eve had only Goo's WORD
that they were mortal and could 'die.
. Now Satan disputed this. He said they
were IMMORTAL sOULS. .

"(Continued
from page 7) .
WHOM should they believe? They had
no PROOF, except God's word. But now
Satan discr edited that, and claimed just
the opposite. .
Satan said their intellectual powers
wereso great they could determine for .
themselves what is GOOD and what is
evil. That 'is a Goo-prerogative. "You
can be Goo!" said Satan.
This Satan was appealing to their
human vAmri-. Remember, theybad
just been created, with perfect human
minds, not God minds - . but perfect
human minds. They allowed the thought
to enter their minds that they possessed
intellectual powers so GREAT that they
could assume the Go d-prerogative of
PRODUCING THE KNOWLEDGE of what is
GOOD and what is EVIL!
Intellectual vanity seized them! They
were thrilled, enthralled, intoxicated
with vanity at the grand prospect.
How, after all, could they be sure God
had told them the truth?
T he First Scientific
. Experimenl
They saw (verse 6) - they used obser-
vation - that the forbidden tree was
good for food, pleasant to their eyes, and
desired to make them wise. Intellectual
vanity was stirred. In the ecstasy of this
vanity they used human reason. They \le.
cided to 'rej ect revelation imparted by
God and to make the .very first SCIEN- .
T1FIC EXPERIMENT!
They took the forbidden fruit and ate
it! .
They .took to them;e/ve. the pre- .
rogative of deciding what is GOOD and
what is EVIL. In so doing, they 'rej ected
the God-centered WAY of God's spiri-
tual law, and, rejecting it, of necessity
they chose the way that transgresses it!
They PIONEERED in deciding for them-
selves what is right and what is wrong - .
what is righteousness and what is ,sin!
And .humanity has been doing what
seems right in its own eyes ever since .
And HOW did they do it? They (I) re-
jected .revelation, (2) used observation,
(3) used experimentation, and (4) used
human reason. And that is' precisely the
"scientific" method used by modem
science today! .
And the result of that experiment?
THEY OlEo! They 'produced the first
child delinquent, the first criminal and
murderer!
The most VITAL dimension of knowl-
edge was MISSING from their "scientific"
procedure! . 0 ,
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