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MAJOR SHIFTS ON THE WORLD SCENEWILL CHANGING WEATHER BRING MASS FAMINES?


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Anited States senator preached asermon in a Methodist pulpi t inLos Angeles a few years ago. Ofall things, imagine a well-knownsenator saying that pa triotism is a falsegod to many people. And he isright ."Love of country can trans ce nd theloveof God," he said, " and we must. lintime of stress; avoid making patriotism areligion."He said a number of other things Icould ha ve said, myself. Among the}dols professing Christians worship, hecited prosperity, science. pa triotism, peace- and some people actually make anido l of the Bible, strange as that maysound . Some, he said, worship the Biblefor itself - NOT as containing TRUTHSnecessary for salvation - and, I add , asa GU IDE to a WAY OF LIFE.What is your ido l? What are YOUreally dedicated to? Isit earn ing a living- maki ng money? Wha t absorbs yourmind, your thoughts, your time? Whatare you really devoted to? Is it GOD a bove all else? Or is it your hobby, yourwife or husband, your children, yourhome, your sports, or your amusementsand entertainments? What do you keepyo ur MIND on most of the time? Whatmost occupies you r INTEREST? Is itt friends - SOCiCty? Is it PEO PLE, or is itr T H I N ~ _ ~~ couldn't be GOD,could it?With most, it's not. And , if not, there isl danger of having your interests becomeI your idols. You end up serving yourr idols instead of the living God .

r lu st WHAT IS RELIG ION ?t Is it merely an incidental interest. sec-

Th e first law is to have the RIGHTGOAL.That GOAL - God 's PURPOSE for having put the breath ort ife in you - is thatyou be born of GOD 10 share with Himthe GLORY of creation, to inhe rit Hisdivine NATURE, to be LIKE HIM, to do'what He does, to accomplish what Heaccomplishes, enjoy what He ENJOYS peace, happiness , joy , resplendentGLORYin LIFE EVERLASTING .No othe r goal cou ld be as great. .It issuperlative.But what are you,'now? Just a mass ofma tter, pu t together like a machine.Your present existence has to be constantly SUSTAINED. You have to keepdrawing a breath of air into your lungsabout every two or three seconds. Youhave to eat food on the average of at leastthree times every day. You have totake care of eliminati ng the impuritiesfrom food, and you have to bathe andclease your body. Maybe you don'treally have to "brush your teeth afterevery meal " as a certain toothpaste TVcommercial keeps repeating like aphonograph record that got stuck. Butyou do have to maintain and sustainyou r physical anatomy to keep on existing, and even then you are aging anddegenerating every day and every year.In fact the most cer ta in thing in "thisexistence we-call "life" is that this machine process is going to run down YOUAREGOINGTODIEActually, we have to simply keeppumping life into ourselves constantly tocon tin ue exist ing - 'to continue consciousness.

God - He supernaturally puts withinyou His HOLY SPIRIT. This impregnatesyou wit h HIS LIFE- begets you as Hischild, ac\ually yet unborn. Actually,what many professing 'Christians call"b eing born aga in" should be termed"b eing begotten."Technically, to be "born of God"means to be changed in compositionfrom flesh and blood mailer to SPIRIT no longer mort al. no longer human: su r 'it does put within you a NEWNATURE.enti rely op posite to HUMAN NATUREYou are, as Scripture says, given "exceeding great and precious promises;that by these ye might be PARTAKERS OFTHE DIVNE NATURE" (II Peter 1:4). Of

on the matter of DRIVING, not on conversat ion or other things.In the sam e manner, if you let otherinterests or material pursu its steal firstpla ce in your mind, heart, and interest,you are pu tting yourself in danger of a .SPIRITUAL SMASHUP that could rob youof eternal life.Th at's why God doesn't want you tohave these other gods BEFORE Him. Foryour own sake - in your own interest yo u must keep Him enthroned and enshrined constantly ABOVE ALL.You must .study HIS WORD in order to be in-structed by Him.Instructed in what? Instructed in trueKNOWLEDGE - knowledge of God 's


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MAJOR SHIFTS ON THEWORLD SCENEIn two vital world arenas - Asia'Minor and the FarEast - major diplomatic reshuff l ings are underway which could have signi f icant worldwideimplications. '

3GREECE TO BECOMENUMBER TEN?In a surpr ise move, the European Economic 'Community has decided to begin negot ia tions whichmay br ing Greece into the t rade bloc as its tenthmember.

5THE BAHAMAS - A FRIENDLYN EI GH BO R IN THE C ARI BB EANHistory, culture , and modern-day economics tiethis mutti-lsland nation close to the United States.Read this special report by Clarence S. Bass.

WILL CHANGING WEATHERBRING MASS FAMINES?Ominous changes in world weather patterns maythreaten the food supply 9f hundreds of mill ionsworldwide! Part 3 of our "Human Survival " series .

12LEBANON'S TRAGIC ' DEMISE ,The cri si s in Lebanon has reminded the world ofthe ever-present dangers in the explosive MiddleEast.

by Jell Calkins and HenrySturckeThe race is on . With primary ballots

counted in places l ike Dixville Notch. NewHampsh ire (pop . 29), the public f lurry ofchoosing a pres ident. lasting until nextJanuary 20, Inauguration Day. nas begun .For most of us, interest in the campaignbeg ins with the televised images oftanned men in ski parkas or overcoatstramping through the New Hampsh iresnows during the f irst of some thirty primar ies to be held this year . Bu t any serfaus ef fort for the job began months andeven -yea rs ago , as men began qu ietlytesting and lining up support among theop inion makers, power b roke rs , and potential f inancial backers in our soc iety.

Between any hopeful, then, who meetsthe simple qualifications cal led for by theConstitution and that desk in the OvalOffice lies a gauntlet of fund-raising,caucuses, primaries , conventions , continuous press scrutiny, and the election inNovember, fol lowed by the ant i-climacticsitting of the Electora l College.The entire system resembles some ofCharles Darwin's theories. As the late.Adla i Stevenson once remarked : " Victory -:goes to the last.survivor."Turned 011EleclorateIn November the voters wil l be asked tochoose one of two men , each the suc

cessful contender for the nomination of amajor party. Each wil l have made a careerof politics at a time when opinion pollshave found tha t politicans rank belowgarbage collectors in public esteem.The big cliche this season is that theAmerican electorate is turned off andcyn ical , that they no longer t rust "government " t o solve the big problems confronting the nation and the world .A Harris Survey reports that:

Hopes and Promises Dashed on theRocks of RealityNowhere can the futility of political manbe seen more clearly than when a candi

dat e who has a clear idea of wha t hewants to do finds his goals frustratedonce he is elected to office. Two majorexamplescome to mind.John Kennedy came t o off ice as a lib

eral optimist with a clear set of programsin his mind by which he hoped to transform the United States i nto a more decentsoc iety fundamentally and transform theworld into a safer, morehumane place fora ll o f its inhabitants.No t only did Mr , Kennedy not succeedin pushing his programs past a Congressdom inated by his own party, but later ,

after his successor Lyndon Johnson hadmaneuve red the Kennedy pr og ramsthrough Congress under the Great so c iety label , t he p rograms were subsequently acknowledged as failures -bysuch liberal democrats asMr . Brown.Mr. Kennedy's hopes for wo rld improvement wereaashed --on-the--rocks ofreal i ty by the policieso f the Soviet Unio n -and the immense problems of the devetoping countries. Even today, the mos t ar-dent proponents of foreign aid such asSweden 's Gunnar Myrdal label the ideal-istic aid programs of the ear ly 1960s asabysmal fa ilures.On the other s ide o f the political spectrum, Ronald Reagan began his term asCalifornia's governor in 1966 with a clearvision of what he wanted to do . Mr. Reagan 's "Creative Society" proposed to rollback the power of government from theind ividual "and l iberate the construct iveenerg ies of the "pnvate sector."After eight years of governorship, taxeshad gone up , California 's state budget


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MAJORSHifTS oNTHI WORlD selNISHORT-LIVED SMILES. Soviet ForeignMinisterGromyko, right, andJapanese Prime Minister Miki chat amicably in mid-January - justdays prio. to Japan's decision to conclude a peace treaty with Chins .

navals trength in the Pacific. theeco nomi c development of Siberia, and Brezhnev's prop osedsecurity pact for all of Asia havesigna led to the Jap anese that. the Soviets have hopes of push- .ing their influence eastward.Another reason why the Jap

Healing Historic Wounds 'TURKEY BOLSTERS TIESWITH THE SOVIET UNIONica l document on friendly relations and cooperation" at ahigh-level meet ing in the nearfuture. The final joi nt communique noted that the talks werein the "tradition of friendl y cooperation established by KemalAtaturk and Lenin.". The communique also saidthat Premier Dem irel and Turkish President Fahri Koruturkhad accepted invitations to visitMoscow .At home, however, PremierDernirel remains as adamantlyopposed to domestic communism as ever. And as the SovietUnio n st ill supports ex iledTurkish communists, Demirel isstill 'suspicious of the Kremlin'sult imate designs on Turkey.Some Tu rks feel the SovietUnion's objec tive - dominanceand, if possible, control over theBosporus-D ardanelles water-way - has not changed, onlyher tactics for achieving it. Theybelieve the Kremlin is trying to(Continued on page 4, col. 2)

Following some two decadesof Cold War conf ron ta t ion ,Tu rke y and the Soviet 'Unionbegan reestabl ishing contacts inthe late 1960s.Various development projecis were initi ated,including the large Iskenderuniron and steel combine and analuminum factory at Seydisehir,north of the Taurusmountains.In 1975, the Soviet Unionbacked Turkey in itsconfrontationwith Gree ceoverCyprus, fearingG reek control oftheislandwouldturn i t into a possible NATO"aircraft carrier."Now, with problems in its rela tions with the United Statesand Western Europe (whereTurkey is an associate memberof the EEC), Ankara appears tobe finalizing the proce ss of rec- .onciliation with the Soviets.In D ecember, Soviet PremierAlexei Kosygi n pa id a 4-dayvisit to theTurkish capital at Turkey's invitation. The meetingresulted in a promise that thetwo nations would sign a "polit-

. Uncerta in ty in its relations'with the West is moving Turkeytoward friendlier ties with itslong-time adversary, the SovietUnion.As a result of the sudden u.s.arms .embargo levied againstTurkey last year, Turkish offic ia ls no longer feel they can beassured of support from theirdistant American allies in theevent of any futur e ' militaryconfrontation with the U.S.S.R.Taking a cue from the U.S.,they have therefore begun engag ing in a bit of their own detente-making in an attempt toease tensions with their giantneighbor to the north. ,Congress cut off arms aid toTurkey in February 1975whenAnkara used American weapons inits invasion ofCyprus.This was asharp. blow ' to the primarilyAmerican -equipped Turk isharmy. In retal ia tion, Turkeyclosed " own some 26 U.S. basesin the country last July , including'sens it ive U.S. listenin g postswh ich eav esdropped on thesouthern Soviet Union.Altho ugh the U.S. ban on

Moscow RebuffedJAPAN AND CHINA r, FORGE CLOSER LINKS~ e m a t i ~r pressure from the Sovie t Union,I' Ja pa n decided in mid-Januaryof th is year to finally conclude apeace treaty with Russia's archrival China, f orma lly endingWorld War II ,The move heraldsa much closer relationship be


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Excerpts from the Tindemans Report

New Report Forms"BuildngBlock"lor United Europeby Ray Kosanke

BRUSSELS : "E u ro pe isthrea tened. Europe is divided,a nd the greatest danger comesfrom her d ivisions. The hourhas come to take act io n commen surate with the dange r. . _.We can tomo rrow build thegreatest political formation andthe greatest economic unit ourage has seen. Never will the history of the world have known sopowerful a gathering of freemen : '

Tomorrow has come and Europe is building. This is themessage from European leade rsacross the political spectrum inth is first quarter of 1976. Th eabove quot e was first made inthe Hag ue in 1948 at the Con-gre ss of Europe that year. It wascited in early February this yea rby the man whom the nineheads of gove rnment of the European Economic Communitychose to form ulate a futuristicreport on j ust how Eu ropeshould go about the process ofunion.

Th e ma n , Be lg ia n PrimeMini s te r Le o Tinde mans ,presented his final d ra ft in Jan-uary of this year after spend ingall of 1975 in Euro pe-w ide consultatio ns. His report is nowbeing used as the basic buil dingblock from which debates. d iscussions, and fu ture planninga re being la unched.

The wide ranging documen t(see accompanying box for excerpts) call s for harmonizationof existing na tional policies on a

port in Februa ry of this year atits Council of Europe meetingin Br usse ls to p romote Tin demans' efforts and to add bot ha timetable and a procedure foracco mplishing Euro pea n unionover the years a head .Th e po li tica l basi s for auni ted Europe was given majorimpetus a t the Febr uary meeting when former Wes t GermanChance llor Wi lly Brandt an nou nced his candidacy for the

Leo Tindemans, 53-year-oldprime minister of Belgium forthe last two years, was commissioned by the other heads of government o f the E uropeanCommon Market to p rep aresingle-handedly the latest studyand recommendations on thefuture of European unity.The{allowing are the principalconclus ions and recommendat ions advanced by Mr. Tindemans on Jan uary 7, 1976 inhis 41-page report entitled "Eu ropean Union: Report 10 the European Council. .. Europe's Vulnera bility

"During my visits (aroundEurope preparing the report] Iwas struck by the widespreadfee ling that we are vulnerableand powe rless. This is a newexper i ence for our peopl es inrecent history . .. . What weightdo isolated vo ices have unl ess

Europea n Par liament when itholds its first-eve r Europe-widepopular elect ion two years fromnow. (Delegates are presen tlyappo inted by the governmentsof the nine member nations.)An Independent MilitaryRat her start ling. the Euro

pean Movement's dra ft declaratio n stated that t he ac t io nproposed by the Belgian pr imemin is ter relating to the formation of a commo n foreign policyand a European defense effor t"m ust be decid ed and implemented asea rly as 1976."Whil e such an ach ievement isha rdly a possibility this year unless Euro pe is sudden ly anddr ama t ic all y threatene d fromwithout, steps are being takenwhich will see Europe with anincreasingly inde penden t de-

"The construction of Europeis the only all-inclusi ve answerto th is challenge. . It is theon ly an swer which seeks everywhe re to rega in some of thecontrol and power which isslippi ng from us, and to ena b le usto build the society in wh ich wewa nt to live.At a time when unemptoyment an d inf lati o n are rampantin a ll o ur countries , whereeve ryone q uestio ns the causesof the weaknes s of our economic an d poli t ical structures,and when the prosperity of Europ e depends on factors outsideour control, the European effortmu st . . . shape a more ju st socie ty in wh ich our common values are observed so that we ca nmake our vo ice heard in theworld with the powe r of ourun ion behind it." Rel at io ns With America

fense st r uc tu re wi t h everymon t h that passes.An " Ind epende nt EuropeanGroup " has just been established at a meeting in Rome of theten European NATO countriesp lu s Fr a nc e . " Wi t ho u tint erfering in nationa l responsibilities ." the gro up is supposed toharmonize na tional ar ms equip me nt plan s. reac h ag reements onjoi nt military projects, and eliminate ove r lapp ing in the production of Euro pea n arma ments.Wh ile similar effor ts areb ei ng made within the officialNATO structure as well, th isEuro pean gro up has beenset upto be inde pendent of NATOand of the United States - primarily to allow Fran ce to get inon the ac t of a Europea n defense effor t. At presen t, internalFrench politics ha ve made any

Major Work Yet to Be Done"E uropean un ion will not be

complete until it has drawn up acommon de fense policy."" T h e r e is [p re sently] noagreement on how to achieve acommon economic an d moneta ry po licy, nor is there evenany sustained discussion of thesubject. And yet this is a basicrequirement for achieving a Euro pea n union."

No Progress WithoutWil l to Act"The belie f tha t the union isvita l and necessary will ena bleus to ove rcome conflicts of inte re st and di fferences of opinion . Only the will to ach ieve

union can give the necessarypowers to th e co mmon in st itutions. Withou t th is politi calkiss of life the institutions of theun ion wi ll a lways lack sub

suc h moves within NATO or inconjunction with the Americansimpossi ble. The lEG is trying toget around this obs tacle .Even as the lEG was beingset up at the Rome meeting,back in Brussels Bel gi an Defe nse Minister Pau l VandenBoeynan ts ca me ou t wit h aspeech cle a rly designed to promote European mil i tary unitywhile moving away from depende nce on the Un ited Sta tes formi litary security :"E urope ca n no longer satisfyitself by trusting the Ame ricans.. . . What will become ofus if the United Sta tes ' nuclea rurnbre lla we re to d isapp ear tomorrow? We' d be i n re altroub le. Europe must unite noton ly poli tically but a lso mi litarily. It is a n eces si ty for ou rsecurity." 0JAPAN AND CHINA(Continued (rom page 3)Russian aircraft continued to f iyove r remote areas of Japaneseterritory.The upshot of all this is thatthe era of Japan's traditional"soft line" toward the SovietUnion app ears to be ove r. In itsplace must come much friendlier con tacts with Peking.The origins of Japan 's betterre lationship with Ch ina bega nin 1972 with Pres iden t Nixon 'sfamed tri p to Peking . After thattime. the Japanese followed theAmerican lead of both "de-tente " with the Soviet Unionand close r ties to th e Peopl e'sRep ublic of China . Bu t Japa-nese rela t ions improved muc hmore rap idly with China thanthey d idwith Russia .Then came the d iscovery ofoil in Chi na . Con trasted withthe froze n was tes of Siberia,Chinese oil is relatively easy toextract. The Japanese have onlybeen too eager to se ll sop his


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oping countries. It established a hotelcorporation and an agricultural corporation. The hotel corpora tion managesthree hotels which it purchased in 1974,,and . the agricultural corporation is responsible for dairy and farming interestpurchased in 1975.Hope for a BetterYear in1976In his radio interview, Mr. Pindlingexpressed hope that 1976would be better because of the economic improve .ment apparent in North America .' Heexplained: "Some more money is beingput into circulation-and surplus moneyanywhere in the pocket of the t rave le rwill mean a few more t ourists for ourselves." Mr. Pindling also pointed out

that three or four years of active promot ion of the Bahamas in European markets have begun to payoff.During 'th e first few months of 1976,the Bahamas has prospered from a resolut ion approved by the Uni ted Nat ionsGeneral Assembly the resolutionequating "Zionism with racism." Whenthousands of Jewish tourists cancelledthei r reserva tions in count ries whichvoted for the General Assembly's biasedresolution, the Bahamas -' which votedagainst the resolution - benefited on therebound .FinanciaJ CeeterAlthough tourism isst il l the majorin-

_dustry (1,380,600 visitors in 1975), theBahamas has long been developing as _"an importani financial center. Each day,several million dollars circulate by wayof currency exchanges. investments. and .trading in stocks and gold bars.

PRIME MINtSTER of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands, Lynden O. Pindling

During the week ofFebruary 18-23, PlainTruth Editor-in-Chief Herbert W. Armstrong conducted a series of public lectures in Nassau, Commonwealth of theBahama Islands. Hundreds of interestedBahamian Plain Truth readers were inattendance.In conjunct ion wi th his personal af -pearance in the is lands. Mr. Armstrongfelt that the worldwidereadershipof PlainTruth would find this up-to-date report on conditions in the Bahamas interesting: Itwas written by Clarence S. Bass. PlainTruth correspondent residing in SanJuan, Puerto Rico, whofrequently visitsthe Bahamas.

t ing just 'east and southeastof southern Florida are seven hundred islands and cays known as theBahamas. Some thirty of these islandsare inhabited. With a history of threehundred years of former Bri ti sh rule. :they represent the thi rd oldest parl iamentary democracy in the western hemisphere - after Bermuda and Barbados.When Columbus first landed on th esmall island which he named San Salvador (al so known as Wat lin' s Island) on

October 12, 1492, he found a t ri be of THEeople called Arawaks, whom he named -"Indians," because he t hought he had 'reached the East Indies. _The Arawaks -l , ~ ~ ; ~ : : ~ f ~ : f : : ; ~ ; ~ : : ; ; ~ i m s B . l H ' . M ~ " ' . Si : ~ ~ T ~ i : '1M N 'H -, , pea ce fu l Arawaks and used them m ' _ ' _, ,thei r search for gold. Arawaks died by A'FRIENOny NEIGHSO-R IN


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be concerned, as would (he Americanpeople. if the Bahamas became alignedto any extent with Cuba. However. onemust remember that from the point ofview of the government of the Bahamas.it wou ld not be wise to be unfriendly toCuba merely because it is a communistcountry.The rationale of Bahamas being opento ta lks with Cuba is this: The Bahamashas two near neighbors: Cuba and theUnited States. The best policy is to trytomaint a in friendship with both. The Mi ami Herald reporter asked Mr. Adderley: " I f there have been no practicaleffects from establishing rela tions withCuba, why do so?"Mr. Adderley' s answer was: "Well,they are perhaps the closest geographical neighbor to the Bahamas, evencloser than the United State s, and webelieve it is in our interest to be ab le toresol ve on a friendly basis any littleproblems that arise wi th immed iateneighbors,"

Education and TaxationOne maj or domestic pro blem nowfacing the Bahamian government is howto support a rapid increase in the num ber of pupils enro lled in governmentschools . Prior to 197 I. free educationwas provided in gove rnment schools asfar as grade 10. At that time the economy was booming and many jobs wereavailable for those who left school at theend of the tenth grade. In 1971, however. the government extended free educa tion to inelude grade 12. By then theeconomy was beginning to slow down,and fewer and fewer pupils were drop ping out of schoo l at gra de 10, becausejo bs were not ava ilable. In fact there hasbee n a 54% increase in school enroll ment in gove rnment schools duri ng thelast ten years. Enrollment in 1965 was29,509 ; in 1974.45.007.In 1974. Prime Minister Pindling.

speaking to bankers in Nassau. statedthe government's intention not to impl ement an income lax. He pragmaticallySlated. though. that " roads and hospitalshave to be paid for. whether in a taxha ven or in an industrial sta te : ' So itwould not be strange if. in the nea r fu

which will culminate in July 4th receptions for U.S. visitors in the Bahamas.Seventy-five percent of the Bahamas 'annual visito r tot al comes from theUnited Sta tes. Interestingly, the Bahamas is the sevent h largest contributor ofvisitors to the United States.But even among brothers and the bestof friends there a re sometimes disagreements. This is true of the Unit edSta tes and the Bahamas as well. Dur ingthe summer of 1975, discussions between them abo ut fish ing rights for U.S.fishe rmen ended in failure.Ano ther area of concern betwee n thetwo governments is the future of severalAmerican bases on Andros. Eleuthera .a nd G ra nd Bahama . Mr . Adde rleysta led tha t if an agreement over thebases was impossible. the United Statescould be asked to give up the bases. Themain difficulty seems to be ove r howmuch the United States is willing to payper yea r for the use of the bases. Areliab le source stated that 25 milliondollars was men tioned by an unnamedsou rce in the U.S. government. Appar

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HUMANSURVIVAL -WILL CHANGING ,WEATHER BRINGMASS FAMINES?

by Donald D. SchroederOminous changes In worldweatherpatterns are taking place. Expertsare fearful thatmajor crop failureswithin the decade could Imperilthe lives of hundreds of millionsof people.Evide nce abo unds that the world 'sweat her is changing to a less beneficent norm. Telltal e signs areeverywhere. ..- In 1975, as in 1972, the SovietUnion suffered devastating crop lossesfrom an unusually cold winte r and below nonnal precipitation in vital grain.growing areas. Permafrost is movingsout h in to agricultural land .

L . _ In recent monsoons .havefa iled or dropped far less than averagera in in India and pa rts of China. whileBanglade sh and other nat ions in South-1 east Asia are frequently clobbered withI devastating rain sand floods . .:'L-........,::.,....El)gland's growingseason has -been -s--cut almost two weeks since the early19505.- Arctic ice and snow cover increased12% in 1972 and has persisted since.- Fishermen from Iceland complain

erally favorable weather was a more orless permament feature.New seeds. crop varieties, fertilizers,pesticides, and farming technology wereoptimized to the narrow spectrum of favorable temperature cha nges and rainfall that prevailed . Th e marriage" offavorable weath er and advanced technology produced impressive yields 100% for corn alone. All this cou ld wellfail with a return to more normal meaning more adverse and unreliable -weather conditions; .The U.S. government 's leading clima tologist , J. Murray Mitchell Jr. , saidthe uniformly good U.S. crop-growingweather of the past 15 years is "almost afluke, in a cl imat e that over the longerrun hasvaried much more than that: 'Reid Bryson , climat ologist at the Un iversity of Wisconsin, says the ' favorable

w ~ a t h e r period we have ju st livedthrough "has been the most abnormal ofthe last thousand years ." .Jam es McQui gg. a government c limatologist a t the University of Missouri,adds tha t "the probability of get ting another 15 consecutive yea rs (as productive as the pas t 15 years] is abo ut one in

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to arou nd 1890 was characterized as a" Lit tl e Ice Age" with its seve re wintersand greater extremes of weath er. Fromaround th e tu rn of thi s century toproximately 1940 the world entered awarming spe ll. In th e No rt he rn Hemi sph ere. part icularl y. the ave rage temperature rose. acco rding to one estima te.almost two degrees Fa hrenheit . Duringth is beneficen t period wor ld populati o ndou bled and mod ern agriculture prospered.No w weather re sulti ng from th epresent cooling tre nd threatens to become more un reliab le for crop production with its greater seaso na l va riationsin tempe rature and mois tur e.While scien tists d isagree as to thecause or perm an ency of the ear th 's coo ling. a wea lt h o f obse rvations fro mwea ther satellites and othe r instrument sshows its major effect : A gradual ex pansio n in recent yea rs of the circumpolarvo rte x - th e grea t icy wind s that swee plike an undulating ski rt a round th e topand bo ttom of th e pla ne t. It is fell byman y wea thermen th at in recen t yearsthe se expanding winds have pushe d vita l monsoon rai ns ou t of th eir no rma lpa ths and dumped th em elsewhere.

w eather Upsets Causea Rude AwakeningIt took a ser ies o f major weat her up sets in kcy food -producing a reas of theworld to jolt fa rmers and wea th ermen tosuspect something seriously wrong may bedevelopi ng in world weathe r pattern s.A combina tion ofp oor wea ther cond i

tions around th e world in 1972 - inInd ia. Ru ss ia . C hina. Austra lia . and Africa - ju s t a bout wiped out wo rld foodreser ves .In 1974. an unusua lly wet spr ing overmuch of th e U.S. corn bell was followedby a d rought in the G rea t Plains. Thencame an ea rly frost that reduced grai np rod uction a t a period in histor y whengra in reserves were at a twenty-year low ." I do n' t believe the wo rld's presentpop ulation is sustainable if the re weremo re than th ree yea rs like 1972 in arow." says Reid Bryson, climatologist a tthe Universi ty of Wiscon sin. He andother wea th ermen ar e disturbed by th e

Dr . Irving Krick, not ed long-rangewea the r forecaster . told our researchsta ff: "Now we th ink that the latt er hal fo f th e seventies will bring more ge nera ldrought. ex te nd ing from th e Southwestup , encroachi ng farther north a nd cas tin to th e gra in belts o f Kansas, th e corna reas of Iowa, Illin ois. and so fort h."Dr. Ste phen H. Schn eider, researchsc ientist a t t he Bo ulder . Co lo rad o .wea t he r resea rch ce nter, a lso told ourin terviewers recently: " I would say tha tthe odds of hav ing d rought condition s inthe seven ties a re probab ly high er th anthe y were in the sixties withou t a ny th eory at a ll - j ust beca use we've had ave ry good stretch in the la st fiftee n yea rsin the United Sta tes."Technology to the RescueHow can mankind meet th e thre at of

mor e un favorable wea ther?In an extended drought . massive irr iga tion is a tempor a ry. not a permanent.so lution as gro und and surface wa terresources become quickly depleted .Lar ge -scal e. a rti ficia lly ind uced rain(use less to begi n with without sufficien tme isture-bcar ing clo ud s) poten tia lly ca ndo as much ha rm as good. Increasingra in fall in o ne a rea by such method soften merely ro bs an ot her a rea of itsvi ta l sha re . if it doesn 't cau se ot he rhav oc.With the ir presen t sta te of incompletekn ow ledg e. mete orologists know theyda re not a ttem pt massive interference inwea ther o r th ey could turn a reg iona lcalamity int o a wider catast rophe . Yet inthe immediat e fu tur e, favorab le weatherand good rain wil l b e even more importan t for human surviva l than moderntechnolo gy. fertilizers. o r fuel.Is Mankind He lpless ? gWhy so muc h adverse wea ther ? Is ita ll scien tifica lly expla ina ble? More impo rtant. is ma nkind totally helpless befo re the massive and complex for c es ofwea the r? An often forgotten and ignor ed source , the Bible. reveals the answe r. It is God who ultimately contro lsthe weather.Wea th er o per a tes accor d ing to physica l a nd chemica l laws. T he Creator Go d

cient Israelites of th e rea son for protracted spells of inclement wea th er:" . . . when heaven is shut up. and there isno ra in. because they have sinned againstthee . . . " (I Kings 8:35; see also Amos4:6-9).

Th e examplesof the Bible reveal tha tthe right kind o f pra yer. o r lac k of it , ca nchange wea ther one way o r the o the r(James 5:16-18). God is merciful (Matthe w 5:45 ), and he says he will int ervenewith healing wea t he r if a na tion hum


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will probably experience water shortages by the end of the decade even withno further increases in the use of irrigation. And most of the earth's irrigationpotentialhas already been tapped .Irrigation also has detrimental ecological aspects. Millions of acres in Pakistan, Egypt, Greece, and South Americahave been transformed into ' veritablesalt deserts because of excessive use ofirrigation techni ques : Irrigated acreshave also become a fertile breedingground forparasiticdiseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis. 'Moreover, the fertilizers on which theGreen Revolut ion is so dependent arenow in very, tight supply. And what -isavailable is often prohibitively expensive. This i s largely due to the sky,rocketing cost of fertilizer rawmaterials- chiefly natural gas - as well as thecost of the energy needed for fertil izer .production. Since there is no likelihoodof a returnto eithercheap energy orrawma terials in the foreseeable future, thecost of fert ilizer will undoubtedly cont inue to soar;' with grave .implicationsfor the Green Revolution .

THE BROWNING OFTHE GREEN REVOLUTIONThe mid-1960's witnessed a muchba llyhooed scientific b reak through in c ro p pro ductionknown as the Green Revolution . -Considered a major contribution 'in theba ttle to expand grain production in the- food deficient countries, the Green Revolution focused on the development andinternational dissemination .of highyielding dwarf wheats and - rices. Thenew strains were highly responsive toferti lizer and prom is ed to significantlyincreaseyields if properly cultivated. .When the new strainswere introducedin nat ions such as the Philippines, Mexico , Ceylon, and Ind ia, s tu nn in g in. creases in crop yie lds fo llowed . Indiado ubled its wheat crop in a six-yearper iod - a t ruly incred ible accomplishment. Mex ico, the Philippines, Pakis tan , _and Tur ke y also had remarkable in- "creases in crop production.The successes of the Green Revolution enabled many countries to cut backin grain imports and to even begin expor t ing grain. India, riding the crest ofthe Green Revolution, was nearly selfsufficient in grain by 1970. Mexico be-. gan exporting ten percent of its grain "Miracle Grains"Vulnerablecrop. The _Philippines, thanks to theGreen Revolutjon,stopped , importing The hybrid grains of the Green Revo- _

: " , , > , - - M ~ ~ ~ - ~. .Beginning in 1972, crop y ields not meant increased use of costly chemicalonly leve lled off but d ec lined 22 mil li on pes ti cide s to p ro tect the l ess hearty hy-metric tons, or seven percent. Output of brids. A dangerous trend toward cropall g ra in s combined fell by four per cent , uni formity has also developed which has


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Throughout history, disease has been mank ind 's greatest .enemy in terms of sheer loss of l ife. The Black Plague of thefourteenth century is estimated to have wiped out one thirdto one half of humanity. Even as late as the twentieth cen-tury, the influenza epidemic of 1918 cla imed more lives thanwere lost during the fi rst World War . Today, most peoplefeel that devastating epidemics are unlikely to occur in themore advanced countries. Still , health officials warn that,under certain cond itions , plague-like epidemics cou ld oc

We haven't seen.. l 1 \ e l i s t o f t h egreat epidemios.

on weekends. The researchers determined that floating particulates belchedfrom factories were seeding clouds (supplying nuclei upon which moisturecould condense) - triggering the extraweekday rain.Even more surprisi ng was the discovery tha t one city's pollution can causeanother city's rain .Drifting ' pollut an t s can seed cloudshovering over suburbs as far as 30 milesdownwind of industrial areas, triggering10% to 30% more frequent rainfall thaninother comparable locat ions.Cha ngnon notes La Porte , Indi ana , asa famous case in point. Located 30 milesdownwind (eas t) of heavily industr ia li z ed Chica go , La Porte h a sexpe rienced an unusual increase in precipitation of between 30% and 40% since1925.Between 1951 and 1965 - a period ofrapid growth in the steel industry - LaPort e had 31% more rain , 38% morethunderstorms, and 246 more days ofha il than nearby weather sta tions in illinois, Indiana, and Michigan .Although the La Porte case 'continuesto be shrouded insome controversy, thebasic idea that a city can affect weatherbeyo nd its own borde rs remai ns confirmed . Forty-three percent of all Ameri-

...cans tiving-in-cit ieso r-in their.downwind-eshadows are affected by industrially induced weather .Increasing evidence also indicates tha tman may be de stroying th e atmosphere 's protective ozone layer with the -,exhaust from je t aircraft, the products ofnucle ar tests, and the fluorocarbons usedin aerosols. .Much has yet to be l ea rned about themany factors that contribute to changing globa l weather patterns. So far, itwoul d seem that man is affecting theearth's wea the r more by accident thanhe is in deliberate attempts at control.Although ,man' s activities may seemminiscule compa red to the forces thatgenera te weather, climatologist Walte rOrr Roberts feels "there might be some

Today, "n a tur al causes" can nolonger take full credit for upsetweather and changing climate.Modem technology is making man anunwitting yet pote ntially significant contrib utor.Man , in his far- reaching industrialand agricu ltural activities. is inadvertently altering at least some local or regional meteorological patt ern s, if no tweathe ron a greater scale.Between 1880 and 1940 the earth'saverage temperature rose slightly overone degree Fahrenhe i t. According tosome scientists, this rise was partly dueto an increase in heat-absorbing carbondioxide - six billion ton s of which arebelched skyward each year from gasoline-burning autos and heat-stoking factories.But at the same time. man y tons ofairborne particulates (smoke, soot , dust,etc .) from both industrial and agricult ur al activities are either abso rbing orback-scattering the sun's heat , contribut ing.according to some weat hermen, toa cooling trend which has dropped global temperatures nearly 3/4 of a degreein recent decades.Some scientists feel if it were not forthis offsettin g factor, man's contribution~ ~ ~ ~ ~couf a mcreast'liie eartli's temperaturean additional two to three degrees withinthe next century.Overgrazing of land and the prospectof deforestation in the tropics pose additional problems. Such prac tices can increase the eart h's albedo (amount ofsunlight reflected back in to space fromthe earth), thus further contributing to acool weather trend.Computer predic tions have dete rmined that reducing tropical forest acreage in Asia, South America , and Africawould reduce worldwide temperatures :by 1/3 of a degree. Accompanying ared uction in temperatures would be aneight-inch decrease in rainfall ' in thetropics and a half- inch drop in the


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His matchless LOVE toward us. I'm surewe don 't grasp what a supreme price Hepaid to make it possible. He wants us tobe CHANGED - to overcome and root outthis debas ing, r ot te n c ar na li ty we allhave in us - and to GROW into Hisrighteousness, that we may SHARE HisGLORY_And, yo u know, I believeGo d wants

and longs to share the supreml;: GLORYthat He has with YOU! Make it yoursupreme ov erall life VOCATION, andWORK HARD AT IT! 0

or benef it you, but it could consign YOUto "ternal punishment! Whether YOU believe -it or not , I have come, by years ofexperience and l ea rning the HARD WAY ,to have supreme faith that GOD willnever neglect to correct or punish mewherever I deserve it! You may TRUSTHIMto do it!Remember what a GLORIOUS GOALwe have before us!How GRATEFUL we ought to be! Howour hearts ought to be FLOODED withlove and gratitude to the g re at God for

quires utter CONSECRATION . It requirestotal EARNESTNESS.Yes, it requires the appl ication of theother six laws of SUCCESS: education, inwhich the Bible is the main t ex tbook;good physical health; DRIVE, or concentrated DILIGENCE and EFFORT; resourcefulness; s tick ing to it - enduring ; andcontinual contact with , and the guidance, help , and power of GOD.

True spiritual mindedness is not asticky sentimentalism. It is NOT a certainemotion al mood . It is not the use of acertain religious phraseology, sayingconstantly , "Praise the Lord," or,"Glory, Hallelujah ." I hav e knownmany people whose TALK is so very"spir itual" - but whose hearts were asfar from God as the prophet Isaiah described. (See Isaiah 29:13 )"Jesus Christ was a perfectly SPIRITUALman, But He did not go about usingsuch mushy language. He was not a gir lish, effeminate, sentimental, or emotional weakling . He was a strong, virile,masterful, yet kind and gentle MAN. Hepossessed LEADERSHIP, STRENGTH, PUR POSE, and SUPREME STRON G WILL, yetthese masculine qualities of strength andpower were perfectly blended with wisdom , judgment, knowledge, understandin g , justice , an d al so pa rience ,compassion, and mercy . He was fi lledwith PEACE, LOVE, and FAITH_ And His" WILL, s tr ong as it was , was total ly .. yielded and obedient to GOD_AU thiswas the character of GOD.

He is our PAITERN. We must imitateHim - copy Him,Look at the men of God in the OldTestament : Abraham, Noah, Joseph,David, Daniel, Elijah. They were all different from Christ in one respect inwhich you and I must also be dif fe rent .Th ey h ad h um an weaknesses, and alldid sin; ye t these men all repented andstrove to overcome . But they were allmen of strong PURPOSE, strong WILLguided by God, all possessed leadership,but also love, faith , and a consecrated

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(Continuedfrom pOKe I)PRAYER, you cannot maintain CQNTACT .with God . And when that conta ct is broken, you are CUT OFF from Him, and Hisspiritual LIFE, LOVE, and very NATUREcease flowing into you .

For. understand , these divine attr ibutes of His spirit DOFLOW! They areIN MOTION . They do not stagnate. YoueitherGROW spiritually in knowledge, in .grace. and . in ' God's character or you 'deteriorate back toward becoming amere physical animal , to die in ETERNALPUNISHMENT in the lake of fire!But if God , arid the things of God His revealed knowledge, His law, Hislove , His WAY for you to live - are .constantly foremost in your mind, yourthoughts, and your interest, then you arePRAYING ALWAYS. You are ina constantSPIRIT Of PRAYER - a constant MENTALATTITUDE of prayer. The contact withGod must be perpetual!

This kind of Chr is tian l ife, the onlykind that truly ISChristian, requires, asthe Bible emphasizes repeatedly, zealousDILIGENCE. You must CONCENTRATE onit. You must be DEDICATED to it. It re-


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Washin9ton. D.C., January 11, 1976:'P rime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israelarrived several days ago in Washington to urge the Ford Administrati on torestore $500,000,000 in aid that i t had announced plans to cut for the fiscal yea r1976-1977. Mr. Rabin also wanted to reassess the overall Middle East situationand, of course, secure broad public support in the Un it ed States for what willsurely be an Israeli hardening of its position in future negotia tions with Egyptand Syria. . .President Ford hosted Mr. Rabin as guest of honor at a special dinner at theWhite House, and Mr. Rabin addressed a jo int session of the Congress. He wasassured by President Ford of cont inued American support.T he President urged further steps to advance peace negotiations; bu t Mr .Rabin 'said, "You canno t achieve peace bot from the standpoint of strength. Itcannot be done' from a standpoin t of weakness. Witha weak Israel. no one willnegotiate. Only in a strong Israel can there be a hop e for peace." .Recent events in Lebanon have perhaps made Israel's position more acceptab le to the United States. In bringing about a destruction of a Lebanon that hasthrived for almost a millennium asa haven for minority groups from all over theMideas t - minorities as disparate as Christian Mar onites, Arm enians, Dru ses,and Jews (as well as Palestinian refugees 'du ring the past 20 years) - the Arabworld has demonstr ated Israel's r igh t to be skeptical of Moslem or Arab tolerance and at rue desire forpeace andreconciliation in the area . .of all .of the Arab states;' Lebanon was .the only democracy. It was the .only country with a free press, free elections. and civil liberti es. It had been heldup for so many years by moderates in the Arab world as an example ofChristians and Moslems (as well .as other minority groups) living together inpeace, harmony, and cooperation as they ' succeeded in bui ld ing a financia lcommunity without parallel in the Arab world. .Now PLO forces, supported by Syria . are patrolling the str ee ts of Beirut,although there is some evidence that a withd rawal of these forces is tak ing place.Mr. Arafat has demonstrated that he is ca lling the shots, however, and tha t hehas stro ng backing from Syria, th e most bellico se o f Israel's neighbors.In the ' Lebanese crisis the world was reminded once again of the terribledangers that are ever-present in the explosive Middle East . Confrontation between the superpowers was a distinct possibility last week. The United States wasforced to exercise all of its influence to persuade Israel to restrain itself, perhaps.from invading Lebanon to protect Israel's vital interests. At the same time, theUnited States was forced to exercise great restraint in the face of an eleventh

lettersBaikal and Tahoe >--

It was with great trepidation that I readthe article, "T he Death of the Oceans" in;the January issue. It is very regrettable that Ga-mer Ted Armstrong in thisarticle has compromised his integrity asstat ing fact.. . . When a gross ,untruth isstated it makes one skeptical about accepling any other statement as truth.The gross untruth: "The world 's largest'fresh-water lake, l ake Baikal" - area13,180 sq. miles (ranks 81h if we eliminatethe Caspian).Fact, Lake Superior: area .31,820 sq.miles.Sec ond doub tfu l statement: " LakeTahoe . . . one of the largest fresh-waterlakes in the world.. . ."I think he is letting his imagination runaway with his reason. .Lake Tahoe doesn't qualify in the fir stfifty. Let us have fact, nor fiction.H. J. Bolivar,Oliver, B.C. The answer to the question you posed liesin the meaning ofthe word "largest.", Larg-est in wha t way? By surface area? Or byvolume? ,The fact is. volume is now being increas-ingly used as the determinant fo r rankingbod ies of water by size. The 1974 edition(15th edition) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, fo r example, rates Lake Baikal in Si -beria first in size on this basis (see volume/0 , page 600).Lak e Baikal - the' world's deepest fresh -water lake (overa mile deep) - is believed tocontain one fifth of the entire w o r l d f reshwater reserves, almost as much as al l of theGreat Lakes combined! Baikal containsabout 11.000 cubic kilometers (or 5,000 cu-bic. miles) of water. Lake Superior, by con-trast, contains only 11.000 cubic k ilometers(or 1,000 cubic miles). In total volume ofwater. thereore, Lake Superior is f arfrom

Mrs. Margaret Brown,Placerville,CAR egard i.ng Wom en ' s Lib e r a i io n :Women. l ike .men. sho uld be allowedch oice , th e freedom 10 decide . Somewomen shou ldn' t be allowed anywherenear children. Just because they can breed"does not -make them mothers.Some are abso lute slobs where runn ing ahouse is concerned. but they can run ade partment or ward. Some loathe cooking.sewing or any of the so-called "fe mininearts:'Then the re are men of great ten dernessand love who adore children. There arethose who love to cook, make things andrun a home very efficiently. And why not'!Lei men also enjoy the freedom of choice.The family will not disappear, bUI it willcha nge radically, which is good. lis conception i s left over from another age, when afem ale bore children endlessly .and wasonly va lu ed for ' her abili ty to do so. . . .Brains. intell igence are essent ia l todaywhether male or female , and we can' t a fford to waste any. Brenda Smith ,lake Como, FLI prop ose adding a simple sen tence 10ERA as il s tan ds now. The exact wordingcould be chang ed if needed, but I word if:uno person may be denied the right ofpersonal choice in mailers regard ing traditional sex roles, o r natural differences be

tween the sexes."Isn't personal choice what 99% of theWomen 's Libbe rs s ay they wan t'! And isn'tthis same right of personal cho ice whatmake s the opposition so mad'! I dou bt ifover 1% of the Iibbers are actually Marxists. despit e the fact that they make mostof


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wo rld , to appear to be so totally righ teou s of our troops. Bu t Americans came face-that we would never dare engage in any to -face for the f irst time, in Korea, withkind of furtive or clandestine ' acti vities .Am erican military personnel desertingelsewhere in the world. not only the ir army , bu t also desertingThe Soviet Union, on the oth er hand , the ir countryand going over to theother side.doesn't recognize any " rul es," but will Many, i fnot most. of the deserters haveplay the game 01 big power poli t ics any come back to the Un ited State s, and weway i t ca n.And many other s t ~ t e s are the have seen that they learned som e rath ersame way . 'f severe lessons. Butit too k th em 10,15, orBut we are righteous, you see. We are more years to learn those lessons.holy. We play fair, and we want them to But .t was the agony of the long conflictapprec iate that. We 'r e 'sure they will. in Viet nam that really changed Ame ricanWe 're su re that by the time we expo se attitudes toward the military. We began toevery CIA agent in the entirety of the see young men refus ing to go int o battle,,wo rld , all of these wonderful peop le who directly contravening commands of theirwa nt us dead , who wou ld re jo ice in their off icers. And, as if that wasn' t enough , westreets to see us go straight down the heard reports of ope n warfare behind the.drain, will laud and praise America ( in l ines among our own troops, where thethe ir government-controlled news media) enl isted men were act ually shooting atand say what a marvelous country she is: their own off ice rs! And where off icers" L ook at that honesty . Looka t th at integ- didn't . dare venture into the rice pad-rity . Isn 't i t wo nderful t ha t Ame ric a dies ahead of some of the enliste d mendoesn ' t have such a thi ng as an unoer- . for tear-they would be the ones to end upcover agent? America i s so openminded. with a bullet in the ir back.Isn 't America wonderful?'" Our young people 'of to day want all theOne would have to be insane to believe pleasures of our . mater ial i st ic society .

other nat ions would lo ok at America that They want the ir automobiles . They wa ntway . It just doesn 't make sense . the ir homes. They wan t the ir job s. TheyHere we are, the world 's wea lthiest na- want the ir freedoms that they take sot ion . We also happen to be a democratic much for granted;nat ion . We happen to bel ieve in the bas ic Our people want the va rious govern fr ee doms and the dignity of humankind . mental programs - housing subs idies,We happen to believe precious are those food stamps, and various other welfarefound ing concepts and precepts of ou r prog rams and help for the poor.forebears an d found ing fathe rs who Bu t in cred ibly , we are dete rm ined wecould env ision and pr oduce such abso- shall not ma intain the kind of mi li tary or-lutely marvelous documen ts as the Dec la- ganization that ca'" guarantee the reten-ration of Independence, the Constitution tion of our way of l ife. .of the United States , and the Bill of . I teve already said there is anotherRights : .. .,. - . . " , : ' ~ way . B ~ t . ot co ursei -ycu and l ' both knowThere are only two possible ways in " 'we 'd becrazier than a mandrill if we think 'which we can mai nt ain our wealth and this wor ld, let a lo ne the United States ' ofou r freedoms: e it he r by the force of our America, is going to depend upon Godmilitary o r by t rus t ing God . Now , it's obvi- for it s protect ion . In Isaiah 40:21-22 we

problems." There are peop le in Congress 'and in governmental positions who actually advocate such a " wo r ld dropout"policy (always claiming the Vietnam debac le as their rationale).Ai the end 01World War I I, the UnitedStates emerged holding ju st about all themarbles. We were the biggest military andindustrial power the world had ever seen .We alone possessed the nuc lear weapons with which to inti midate, if we sochose, the enti rety of the wand .From that time on the Un ited States,lik e it or no t. was shoved into a ro le of" playing America was the bighop e for the underdeveloped world. TheU.S. supplied not only money, bu t alsotechn ical kn ow- how and s ki ll ed rnan- 'power in a massive effort to bring impoverished peoples out ' of the ir g rind ingpoverty. But today, nea rly a ll of these nations , it seems , are our avowedenemies .There' s something else rather annoying that we are beginning to see happen

GarnerTed ArmstrongSPEAKSOUT!

Tere is a gigantic battlefield being. d rawn today, which is, in fact, theentirety of _he wor ld . Onon e sideare arrayed the " have" nations ; onthe other side are the,"h ave-not" nations.The first group comprises th e indust ria lized, non-Commun ist. democratic nati ons with on ly abou t 750 million citizens .in Europe and Brita in , the United 'States ,So uth Africa, AuStra lia, and Canada .These 750 million citizens are consuminga d isproport ionate chunk of the naturalresources of the world , producing a greatpercentageo f its manufactured commoditie s and goods, and enjoying, as a result,the very highest s tandards of living _n allhistory .Then, on the othe r hand , the re are thehundred or more nat ions which are und eveloped , poor, usually in the .thrces ofviolent overthrows, coups d 'etat , guerrillawarfare, c ivil war , and str ife ""': an d qu iteof ten the unwittinq pawn s in the ideo log i, cal struggle between the superpowers .


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MAJOR SHIFTS ONTHEWORLD SCENEWILLCHANGING WEATHERBRINGMASS FAMINES?

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and superstition. I f you'd like to knowmore about the difference between the rea l Jesus and hismysterious " impostor," write .for the f ree booklet entitledTheReal Jesus.

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Te real Jesus of Nazareth bore littleor no resemblance to the imageabove. The Christ who lived andtaught in Galilee and Judea was not theJesus perpetuated by tradition . He wasno t the f rail, petulant, effeminate Jesuswhose image has adorned relig ious artfor centuries. A strong and vigorousyoung man, Jesus of Nazareth workedfor years as'a carpenter before he began his ministry . His hair was not especially long. He didn 't wea r a for lo rn ,morose expression. And he had no haloshimmering mysteriously over his head.Unhappily, much of the character andmessage of the real Jesus Christ hasbeen obscured by t radition , half-truth

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WRITE TO:

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UNITED STATE S: P.O. Box III . Pasadena, California 91123". ;-1 QrMda: Plain Truth. P.O. Box44 venecuver, DC: v6C 2M2: ' = ~ ~ I t : 3 0 ~ K ; ~ o t D ~ 50595Mixico5. 0 ' 1 UfIJ'N Ki:fcl::. (l1li/ ElIFOf#: P.O. Box 11151. Albans, Herts . Enpand ~ : ' J . . J ~ ~ Po: Johanncsbuq ~ P.O. BoxU.A.lQ.Union AYe.. Sl:li5bury AIUl fQ1c tIft4S..AJiG P.O. 202, ~ Heads. 3uccnslalld421: ~ " ; ' M i : . J Aucthn I.N.z. Wat /'::l!,:G.P.O. Box6063 SaDJuan, PueT10R.ko 00936I e lure 10notify us immediately of aDy mUSe in )"OUt addre:sS. Please~ U . ~ r ~ m : : a J . = b i l i ~ t:"tfla::a - ; d ~ ~ l ! ~ k ~pholovaPU , or DWIIUC1"ipu. -

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