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Bombay-VisiOn 01 India's FutureThe Politics of Eternity _

CURING THE ENGLISH SICKNESS


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Personal rrom...

THE,' DIDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HESAID.They condemn th e ' customs Jesusobserved , and observ e cu stomsJesus and the Bible condemn.Today , a professing adherent of" Christianity" will say, in surprise," W hy , you surely don ' t ta ke the

Bible literell v, do you ?"Humans hav e wr itten book s bythe millions . People read and takethem literally, They take them to

mean what they say :.-. and saywhat they mean. But the Bible? Theycan 't seem to believe it can meanwhat it p lainly says,For example , the Bibl e says, " Thewages of sin is DEATH" (Romans6 :23) , But professing Chr isti ans willsay , " But death doesn 't meen deat h- it means .everlast ing life in hellfire! " God sAYs"death" - bu t th eydon 't believe what God says - andsince this is his word , they don 'tbelieve what God says! .. This same verse says, also , " Butthe g if t of God is eternal l ife through 'J esus Chr ist ou r Lord ," Do they believe eterna l l ife is a gift of God ? No ,

on him. Then said Jesus to thoseJews which believed on him , If ye .continue in my word [his MESSAGE] ,then are ye my 'disciples indeed; andye shall know the truth , and thetruth shall make you free " (John8 :30-32) : '. They' answered hi';' sarcasticallyand hostilely, Th ey were Abraham 'sdescendants and were a lready free ," I know that ye 'are Abraham 'sseed ,' : 'responded Jesus, "but .yese ek 'to kill me . : because 'my word[hi s gospel message] hath no placein you ," " . .They believed on the messenger- bu t they rejected his message -

they didn 't bel ieve what he said!Jesus continued , " Bu t now youseek to kill 'me, a man that hath told. yo u the truth' [his gospel message].

wh ich I have hea rd of God ,"Later, Jesus said , " a nd becau se Itell you the truth , ye believe menot. , , why do ye not 'believe me?"(verses 45 46 ,) '.. Before the end of the f irst century

Would you BELIEVE what yourMaker said? Would you?Adam and Eve didn 't .God their Creator. had given themhis way of life . If they rejected i t,

turning to t he ir own 'way, it wouldbr ing sorrow, curses, unhappiness,suffering - and death !But Satan, in the symbolic form ofa serpent , came along and said God

l ie d. T hey would not surely "die:They wer e immortal sou ls , He reminded them' of the superior humanminds they had , They could workou t th eir ow n w ay of life - andafter all , could they believe God?They only had his word for it .They must have said , " Yes; that'sright! Af ter all, how can webe sure?Al l we have is God's w ord for it .We :d better make an experiment.and be sure! Let ' s pu t it to the test.Let's take to ourselves the decision- the knowledge of what is goodand what is evil. " .They made th e first scientific ex- :

per iment. Even tod ay, the scientificmethod ' rejects reve la tion as' asource of . knowledge and under-standing . .Adam and Eve rejected divine rev

elation , as does modern . sciencetoday . They didn 't bel ieve what theirCreator said! And it was " when thewoman saw [observat ion] that thetree [o f the forb idden frui t ] wasgood fo r food , and that i t was p leasant to the eyes , and a tree to bedesired to make ' one wise [humanreason] , she tookof the fru it thereof[she made the experiment]. and did

TE more I travel arou nd theeart h, the more I see th e sickenin g cond it ion s in th e worldtod ay, and the more I gl eanfrom history , th e more convinced Ibecome that the real root cause of a llof humanity 's troubles and evils may 'be summed up in six words : " They .d idn 't believe what he said ." And

[' th ey still don 't bel ieve what he says.. today! .. .Suppose you had suddenly com e1 in to consciousness - ju st now hav -l ing been suddenly created the fi rstr human being. You r Maker is sitt ingI besid e you , reveal ing to you vitalI: knowledge so d irely necessary foryou to know .i_ He tells you that he has made youI and th e w ife he has created beside, you so that you can reproduce you r[: kind . In due t ime you w ill populateL the earth w it h m il lion s of your off-I spring.I He reveals to you that he has pro -

vided for yo u a WAY OF LIFE th at w ill'r. CAUSE. and ' produce ' PEACE betweenindividuals, groups, and nations that

shall a ri se . Th is way of life is aninexorabl e spiritual law as automat ic

~ : ; I ~ ~ : ; : .; . st rates to...you. It_is the bas ic law of, .....--h is .qovernrnent by which he , rulesy- . the -vast universe he has created . ' ItI ' is the ' law 'o f love. It w ill producei peace , happiness , joy , abundance,f' universal .prosperity , 'a nd if . you andI your children choose it as way

of l if.e'h e will give you also the g if t, of eterna l l ife , which he has not yet


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by J eff Calkins'W orst cris is yet. " .' worst since the

War." The words appear with monotonousregularity. Brita in is bathed in bad news .London 's Financial Times finds .... it selfquoting the poetry of T. S. Eliot to de 'scr ibe Brita in 's growing mood of pessi mism : " Oh da rk, dark, dark, and dark thesun and ' moon .. . and cold the 'sensean d los t t he mot iv e of act ion .': .At cu r rent prices. Britain 's top 1,000firms could easily be purchased withabout two thirds of this year's Arab oi lsurplus funds. The iro ny -s that theArabs; even we re the y interested insuch action , may not consider thoseBritish firms very good risks:

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6 'THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALThe Missing Dimension in KnowledgeA deeper dook int o man's pu rpose andfu ture .

Our bureau chiefs and correspondentsaro und th e world analyze current trendsin their areas .

TIDAL WAVE OF RED INKSTRAINS U.S. ECONOMYThe soar ing Un ited States nat ional debt 'th reatens to underm ine econom ic recovery.

BUREAU REPORTS

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JPOLITICS OF ETERNITYThe history of man is a record of reliq iousconfl ict . Wh ich side was God on?' " '8BOMBAY - Vision of India's FutureAt a dinner in his honor in Bombay,


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TIDAL WAVE OF RED INKSTRAINS U.S. ECONO 'MY

Britain Tumbles Down -Europe's Economic:Ladder

na ted heir to Iran's throne . (TheSh ah ha s ap p rov ed th e in ter changeable use of " Ira n" and "Persia'" as the official name of thecountry .) Empress Farah has beenname d regent for the Crown Princeshould the Shah die before his' sonturns 20 in )980.Iran 's energetic monarch has survived two extremely close assassina t ion attempts since assuming thethrone. " I'll stay alive till such timeasI 'Il have finished what Iset outto accomplish," he has confidentlydeclared. "An d that day has been .marked by God. not by those whowish to assassinateme ."

Revolution From theTop Down"Th e king's job is a big head .ache," the ruler commen ted recently. And his task, to bC sure. isnot an easy one. Over half his nation (roughly the size of WesternEurope) is still illiterate. the majority live in poverty, and most of theland is unworkable ' without artificial irrigation.The Shah . consequen tly, has initia ted extensive projects to construct dams. roads. nuclear powerplants. schools, hospitals. and steelmills all over the country, la rgelyfunde d with the oil money which ispouring into the national treasuryat a rate of over $2 billion a month.These programs are part of what hecalls the "Shah- People Revolution." (Continued on page 4, col. 4)

The Last Raysof EmpireFlicker AwayPrompted by economic trouble,Britai n's Labour Governme nt hasannounced a ten year. S11.2 billioncut in defense spending. includingover .$720 million for 1975.There will be a reduction ofabou t ' 35.000 se rvice men andabo ut 30.000 civilians in defenserelated jobs. Twelve Royal AirForce bases will be closed.

King of Kings, Light of theAryans. Shadow of the Almighty,Vice-Regent of God. Centre of the .Un iverse. The man who todayholds these ancie nt royal titles,Shah Mohammed Riza Pah la vi ofIran, is a, monarch with a vision. :That vision isto revive the glory ofthe an ci ent Pe rsi a n Empir e bytransforming his backward but oil- " .rich Moslem nation of 32 millionpeop le into a major power within25yea rs.If all goes acco rding to theS hah' s pl ans, th is env is ione d"Great Civilizatio n" will rival thepowe r and influence which the fifthcentury B.C. Persian Empire ofCyrus an d Dar ius commanded inthe ancient world."Let-me tell. yo u: ' the 55-yearold monarch asserted in an inter- .view last year, " in 25 years we willbe the Sth largest world power andwe sha ll have aro und 65 millionpeople." On the road to tha t goal.he hopes to achieve the level of thecurr en t European powers in 10 to12yea rs - a Wirtschaft swunder unparalleled since the days of WestGe rma ny's sp ectacula r pos twar ,'rise.The 'Shah is in a hur ry because,though Iran is currently the world'ssecond greatest oil-exporting nation ' after Saudi Arabia. its crudew_ll begin running out by 1990 orso. Th e Shah aims to develop hisnation before that hap pens.

Crowned HimselfThe ambitious king ascended theemeralda nd ruby-studded Peacock

NEWSMAKER PROFILEShah 01 Iran -How to SpendOil BillionsLeast of HisWorries

hand plus payments difficuliieso nthe other are squeezing the Britisheconomy in a dr amatic p incermovement. Devaluat ion is seen asno cure because an economy inwhich imports play so large a rolecan't afford to pay more for thoseimports.Th e frantic searc h for solutionsranges beyond price con tro ls toproposals for radical impo rt restrictions. Th iswould be a move of desperation - one which just mightbring th e who le inte r nationalhou se-of- ca rd s tr ading syst emcrashing down as other nations institute their own protectionist measu res. Certainly, at the very least,

The stable, common-se nse British nation . the Mother of Parliaments. more and more resembles abanana republic.The prestigious Hudson Institutepredicts that by the early eightiesBritain will take Spain's position asone of the poorest places to live inEurope .Inflation boils along at ' 22 percent - or 27 percent depending 'onwhich statistics one uses. No democr acy. say the historians. everlong ,survived inflation rates over20 percent. -, . .In three .years, England's moneysupply has grown by sixty percent- a staggering amount to absorb.

Burdened under a projected deficit of $52 billion in 1976, $70 billion if Congress doe sn 't go alongwith proposed budget cuts, theUoiled States Treasury plansbo rrow an estimated $28 billion inthe nex t five months. The move'will spill more red ink onto govern:.ment books than at any time since,World WarI l .To facilit ate the massive deficitspending. Tre asu ry officials haveasked for a hike in the nationaldeb t ceili ng from $495 to $604 billion. Th e newfigure represents approximately $2,800 for every man,woman , and chi ld living in the.United States.The "extra indebtedness reflectsto some degree the effects of taxcuts to pull the economy out o f thecurrent But it also repre -- - -sents- the "unwillingness (and, inpart, inab ility) o f both the executive and legislative bodies - especia lly ! t he latter -r to cu r tai lspending. ,It' s not popu lar to cut the socialwelfare spending that has causedthe lio n' s share of the increase in- the federal budget since 1965. Andit's almost impossible to lop offmandate d. legally non-reducibleprograms that were passed in moreprosperous days when Americans

thought they were heading into the"Great Society."In terest alone' on the nationaldebt now runs over 30 billio n .dollars a year. third b ~ h i n d socialwelfare and de fense in federal outlay.

Q. Mr. President, when yPu wereMino rity Leader of the House.wouldyo u not have been horrified bya president who . . . predicted a $30billion deficit and then proposed abig lax cut on top of it?A. Well. I'm horrified as Prest-dent.From President Ford's press conference.JanuBry21.1975 .


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by Gene H. Hogberg

Prime Time CrimeWarldlftlillah

NEW YORK: Every time I come to this place it's less fun and far more da ngerous. Even a hilarious Broadway play ("GM'sFavorite," incidentally) fails to divert. one's attention long enoughfrom the tor rent of crime that sweeps ove r the city every hour ofthe day. ,It all draws full play on the city's television news. Noth ingquite compares with it on the tube anywhere else in th e Country.New Yorkers rea lly have no need of watching Kojak (a seriessupposedly based upon their city's police files) or Police Woman orBaretta or .any other of a proliferating number of pol ice dram asdominating prime-time television -They get live action for two ormore hours every night!The 6:00 p.m, and 10:00 'p.m. local news slots seem to benothing but illustrated police blotters. For a full hour at eachsitting (the first before dinner; the second at bedtime) the viewer istrea ted to an endless procession of murders, muggings, annedrobberies, arsons, bombings, plus the usual (for New York) tales ofgraft , corruption an d vice of every descr ip tion. Increasing theexcitement , on-the-scene reporters intercept each broadcast two orthree times with live coverage of a crime in the making.My hea rt especially goes out to former Los' Ange les newsmanTorn .Snyder now anchoring the WNBC 6:00p .m. news. Back inL.A. Tom hosted an up-beat " happy news" formal. He engaged inchuckles and small-talk with his sports reporter and weather girLBut not here in, New York. Before .the camera he sits, grimly. retelli ng -the day 's Ideal horrors; behind him is superimposed th e. .giant word"GUNPOINT'! He recounts the stories .. . "This afternoon at 2:50, three anned men entered a -liquor storewarehouse in .Queens , tied up eight employees, shot one. . . ." , .\':, ." ' .Pity Tom . Pity my cab driver who looked like the old comics tr ip character Andy Gump, He had no teeth . They were allsmashed in during a robbery. He refuses now evento wear hisfalse

. "Mr . Secre tary, is there any wordabout my nuclear.aircraft carrier?"an admiral asks."1- have good news for you onthat . You get the second one we'regoing to build ."'The second one? Who gets' thefirst one?""Kuwa it.""Why is Kuwait getti ng a nu

cle ar ca rrier b ef or e t he U .S.Navy?" ."Because we couldn' t a fford tobu ild it unless we sold a 'carrier tothem. You see they're financing 'uson it and i t' s on ly fair they get theprototype,""But," the adm i ral asks, "whathapp ensIf the ballo on goe s up and Kuwai t has a nuclear carrierand we're still waiti ng for ours?""We 'Il ju st borrow some submarin es from Libya ," the assistantsecretary says."Th is is rid iculous," the AirForce general says. "Everything wemake we sell to our potential ene-mies." -"W ell it isn't my fault ," t he assistant secretary repli es peevishly." Military equipment costs money,and the only ones who seem to haveany are the oil-producing countries.We can' t afford to f inance our defens e un less they share in the costo four new arms.""Does this mean I 'm not going t.oget any new helicopters?" the command ant of the Marine Co rps asks."That decision hasn 't been mad eyet. We did promise the Sheik ofAbu Dhabi 'bedget first cracktatbuying our helicopters. But he's

" : o ~ e x p r e s ~ e ~ an .in t eres t in an-tiaircraft missiles smce we've soldthe F-14s to Iran. If he doe sn'twant the hel icopters , general, youcan have them." ."Thankfully he doesn 't wan t an

. (Editor 's note: The Unite d St ateshas agreed to sell S au di A ra bi a$800 million worth of modernj et fi ghters. The Sa udi A rabiangovernment rep orts the warplanes"will strengthen Saudi A rabia's abil-tty to defend the soil of the kingdom . " In neighbor ing Ir an , theShah is buying sophisticated U.s.made planes and attack helicopters- 10 be delivered even bef ore orders10 the U.s. Navy andArmy .)

WASHINGTON - There is a certain amount of sa be r rattling going on in W ashington . Henry' Kiss-ri ng er in a Business Week interviewdid not rule out the use of forceagainst oi l-producing nations ifthey strangled the West. It is onething to mak e such threats but anothe r to carry them out.Th e maj or pr o blem fo r theUnited State s seems to be that. inorder t o pay for foreign o il. we'vebeen export ing all sorts of mil itaryequipment to the very countriestha t we're saber rattling against. 'There must be some wild meetingsgoingon at thePentagon these days.An assistant secretary for-defense

" I'm happy to r e p o ~ thatwe've sold $5 bi ll ion worth of F-14jet s to Iran."An Air Force general says, " Butwe were promised the next batch ofF-14jets.""I 'm sorry ," the assistant secre

ART BUCHWALDBitingYour OwnBullet

EthiopiaEHChangesTyranniesA RevolutionGoes Haywire

The bizarre events in Eth iopiadu ring the past yea r conj u re upeerie visions of the terrors of thefamous revolutions of. history. Already the Wall Stre et Journal hascalled the Ethiopian scene "a c,?nden sed re-run of the F re nc h Revolution." The turm oil also has itsparallel to the China o f the middle1960's. The picture of tens of thousands of Ethiopian students dem onstrating in favor of socialism andthe p lan to consc ript. 25,000 highschool students and collegians tothe rural countryside to se t up collective farms mirr ors the ideologica l fe r vo r o f M a o ' s Gr e atProletarian Cultural Revolutio n.In February 1973, a revol t byEthiopians over pay and living conditions set t he pol it ic al dom inosfalling . The l as t domino, EmperorHaile Selassie, was ousted f rom his. "lifet ime" office in September.Still, the jigsaw puzzle picture of arevolut ion gone haywire did not. f all i nto -pla ce unt il the milit arygovernment startled the world withthe announcement that sixty members of the "old regime" had beenexecuted overnight. Among the executed was General Aman Adorn,who had been the stro ngman of therulin g provisional military advisory


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BUREAU REPORTS

RhodesiaBuffetedLONDON : With the liberati onof . Portuguese andthe forthcoming independence ofAngola , Rhodesian Prime MinisterIan Smith realizes that his positionis now substantially weaker than, 0year s ago when Rhode sia unilaterall y declared its independencerather than submit to a British planfor eventual majority rule withinthe coun try. ,. Because whites are outnumberedsome 20 to I by the black population in Rhodesia, the white-ruled

s tate is being pressured 'more thanever by the .Black African states tomove toward the principle of "oneman one vote."And realizing the implica tions ofthe latest "hurricane of ,change"that has swept through the south

one of the EC's commissioners,said : "We 'wait with impat ience forthe moment when the democra tically elected Portuguese government will app ly for membership inthe Community."But in the months that have followed, enthusiasm has 'cooled onboth sides. Now Mario Soares, foreign minister of Portugal, speaks ofthe need to"comec loser to the ECby stages, with caution." Membership has been relegated to a "longterm aim," inhis assessment ;. Spain? Wait and see, say Community sources. Spain has made it. no secret it would like to join;. France has for some time -beenchampionin g Sp a in ' s in te re s tswithin the Community. But bothBrussels and Madrid realize nothing can be don e until the trend ofpost-Franco Spain is clear.Turkey and Cyprus both haveassociation agreements with the EC,similarto that of Greece. But Coinmunity 'officials feel that Cyprus'tiny economy and Turkey's low percapita gross domestic ' produ ctmean tha t accession is still a longway off. Present political instabil ityin the area doesn 't help either. .- Henry Sturcke

BRUSSELS : Political changes inEurope during 1974 have ' alteredthe pace of the move toward unityon the Continent. Right-w ing regimes disappeared in' Portuga l and'Greece, opening long-closed doorsto possible membership in the nownine-member . European Community . Meanwhi le some pre sentmembers - most notab ly Britainand Denmark - , have been disenchanted with the EC and debatedepart ure from it. Britain will holda nationwide referendum on the"issue of continued membership

Europe's .Nine"..or Seven ... .or Twelve?

cording to present p lans, withinfive yea rs Australia should be selling I ran $A230 'million worth ofagricultural products annually.The re is talk that Iran will alsosign future agreeme nts to providefor purchase of Australia's considera ble mineral wealth such asbauxite, iron ore, coal and uranium . These raw materials wouldbe earmarked for the Shah 's ambi tious industr ial expansion Prvgram. Iran's interest in se curinglong-term suppl ie s of uran ium isinsurance against the day when itsoilfields run dry and it is forced todepend on alternative sources forits own energy needs - includingnuclear power.The 'growth in trade betweenIran and Australia could ha veother..ramifications. Iran has fong expressed concern over the p r e sence of Soviet naval units in theIndian, Ocean. Iran 's need to protect i ts increasing trade with thePacific and Asian regions will provide it wi th a rat ionale for holdingnaval maneuvers or even stationingnaval units in the Indian Ocean .The Shah also envisions a vasteconomic community embracingthe li tt ora l states of the India nOcean - including Australia. Thetrade agreement brings his dreamsone step closer to fulfillment.- DonAbraham

- Dexter Faulkner

The AII."anee Particular ly aggravating was thefact he had not discussed before-Th t C Id S hand with them his intenti ons of .a ou nap talking with Arafat , whose organi-. zation has not been officially recog-WASHINGTON , D .C. : The nizedbytheBonri government.possib il ity that fighting might . The ruling Social Democraticbreak out again in the Middle East, Part y washed i ts hands of anybringing in its wake a new oil em- involvement in th e Schroederbargo, is a topic of considerable sojourn. The federal government,concern here in Washington an d i n according to a spokesman, was in-; : r t ~ ~ formed of the meet ing only 48ha s specia l rea sons for- anxiety hours before it took place.

about th e current situation. Recent The upshot of the Schroeder afreports 'indicate that t he potential fai r is this: It i s becoming moreapparent to some officials in Bonnconsequ ences of a new Arab-I sraeli . just how difficult it IS for the F edwa r i s becoming one of the biggest eral Republic to maintain its strictforeign polic y headache s "con - neutr ality in . the Mideast shouldf ron t i ng Chan ce ll o r Helmut anothe r war erupt , carrying with itSchmidt's government. . the prospect of a more devastat ingLarge quantities of American oil embargo.arms and militar y equipment are Germany' s ,clo se partnershipstockpiled inWest Germany. In the with the U.S., as well as her senseevent of a new Mideast war, any of "duty to the fate of the Jews,"U.S. a tt empt to re supply Israel according to one Bundestag offiwould certainly involve drawing cial. binds Germany ideologicallyupon these stocks and transporting to helping safeguard Israel's right 'them from air bases and ports to live as wel l as her territorial in-within West Germany. tegrity. . .Such a 'move would Tun.directly On the other hand, Germanycounter to West Germany's policy must protect her industries so danof "strict neutrali ty" in the Middle gerously dependent upon access toEast. That was made quite clear Arab oil. Thi s makes Ge rmany'sduring the 9 c t o ~ war . ~ e n .{"palancing act .between Jews:U:S." shipments from "West Ger Arabs," according to' a Bonn for-

I ~ ~ ~ e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ; l ~ d f ~ ~ s ~ ~ ~ ; eign office official, the "most diffi-strained confrontations of their cul t assignmen t of her foreignlong postwar alliance. ' . ' P O ~ ~ ~ ~ e d e r ' tete-A-tete with Ara- .Chancellor He lmut Schmidt , . fat -is very possibly an unofficialleader of Western Euro pe's most forerunner of what can be expectedpowerful nation, recently said West in the future _ a more direct roleGermany will not "be drawn , in to for Bonn in the effort to maintain .co nflicts [in the Middle East] peace in the Mideast. Though ideoagainst our will." logically Germany will declare her-He referred to Dr. Kiss inger 's se lf infavorof Israel' s right to existnow-famous remark, 'q uo ted in a within safe boundaries, she cannotBusiness Week magazine interview, . r isk cutt ing her own 'economicthat mili tary force could not be throat . As a commentator for Dieruled.out to prevent "actual stran- Welt put it, I fwedo not achieve ao f the ind u s t r i a peaceful solution, we cal). become

wrapped in the possible catastrophe . Weare not spectators in thebalcony."

TheWol1AskS InLONDON, Jan . 22, 1975 (Reuter) - President Id i Amin has toldQu ee n Elizabeth he is . coming to

Britain in August to give advice toits liberation movements, according to Radio Uganda monitoredhere. .I n a message toQueen Elizabeth,the unpredictable Uga ndan President said he was advisingher of hisvisit now "so that you may have

Last Rays of Empire(Con tinued from page 3)The most stunning cutback of all

was the decision to termin,te theSimonstown agreement with theRepublic ofSouth Africa for navaldefense of the sea lanes arou nd theCape of .Good Hop e. The movewas in deference to the left-wing ofthe British Labour Party, whichgenerally dislikes anything havingto do with South Africa.The Labour Party's Na tional Executive Committee had previouslycensured the cabinet for Britain'srecent participation with Sou th Africa in joint naval exercises. Military analysts, however, .po int outthe strategic value of th e Cape ofGood Hope , now even more im-po rtant in view of the Brit ish dependence on the oil tanker routetha t courses through the area.Britain's role will now be strictlylimited to that of a minor European power. The major concentration of al l her military resources isto be centered on' defend ing theBritish Isles and the European theate r.The wide-ranging ' defense cutback bill is indicat ive of Britain'smove from impe rial greatness in tothe minor league of European :nations. As a United Press international corres pondent summed itup: "Brita in has stripped its once-mighty military presence to a fewscattered garrisons, letting the sunfinally set on a fo rmer imperial

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shall I resemble it?" (Luke 13:18) - andthencame a parable."And again he sa id, Whereunto sha ll Ilike n th e k in gdom o f God? It is lik eleaven . . ." and then follows the parable ofthe leaven(Luke 13:20-21).One of his mo st important parables is recorded in the 19th chapter 'of Luke: " . . . headded and spake a parable, because he was .nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thoughtthat the ki ngdom of God should immediatelyappear" (Luke 19:11). Then he gave theparable of the nobleman going to a far coun try to receive for himself a kingdom and toreturn - the picture of Christ's ascension toheaven, whe re the' corona tion ceremonyshall take pla ce. and his return to earth torul e all nations, as King o fk ings and Lord oflord s, in all the supreme power and glory ofthe great God . . :What gospel did the apostles and Paulproclaim?

Did Apostles and PaulPreach ADifferent Gospel?After Christ' s resurrection, the discipleswere with him for ty days. Were they talkingamong themse lves about any other gospelduring tha t t ime than the kingdom of God?Notice, j ust before Jesus ascended intoheaven. Lu ke had previously. recorded whatJesus had don e and said "until the day inwhich he was taken up. after that he throughthe Holy [Gho st)Spirit had given commandments unt o the apostles.whom he had cho-,sen: to whom also he showed himself aliveafter his passion by many infallible proofs,being seen of them forty days. and speaking. of the things pertaining to the kingdom ofGod . . . "(Acts 1:2-3).Notice af te r his resurrection what Christwas speaking to his disciples abo ut was ..thethings pertaining to the kingdom of God."

"Now after that John was put in prison,Jesus came into Ga lilee, preaching the gospel . .. .." What gospel? ".. . the gospel of thekingdom of God . .. . n Tha t is the gospelChrist proclaimed . The message he broughtwas the message abo ut the kingdom of GodThat is the message God wan ted proclaimed AS A WITNESS to all nation s! But

since the f ir st century 'the world has knownNOTHING of the kingdom of God becausethat message was ' not proclaimed to theworld after the first century .That message, whe n explain ed and fullyunderstood,.covers a very wide range of revealed knowledge. It reveals what sciencehas been utterly UNABLE to discover - whatreligion has never revealed - what thiswor ld's educat ion has never known nortaught.NoteThesePo ints

There are a number of points to be notedwhich are significant.One is, that in Malach i's prophecy, Chri st; .. s e n g e r bearing a ! s ~ g ;. but moreover, he is calIed the messenger ofthe covenant. " which carries very importantmeaning. to be explained later.Again, notice the 15th ver se of Ma rk l.Jesus came into Galilee "preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God" and saying,"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom ofGod is at hand: repent ye, and believe the

s it poss ible the whole world ha s be en dec eived - as to th e e wesom e pUR-POSE o f hum an life - as. to th e way to wo rld pe ace an d ho w it will come ?This is ' th e eye-opening s tory o f ho w th e real gospel message brought tomankind 'b y J esus Chris t co nta insd this missing dimension ' in knowledgean d o f how that m essage was suppressed and the m os t vital of all k nowledgewi thhe ld. .ity? The gospel explains how Satan came tobe the vast, though invisible and hidden..POWER that sways and actually rules thisworld. It explains why Sata n moved with alhis wiles and subtlety to suppress, throughhumans he could this vital gospel message which God sent by Jesus Christ to mankind .

The true gospel message, had humanityheeded it, would I have saved this worldnearly all its anguish, troubles, suffering,an devils.It is impossib le for me, in a few words, tomake it clear enough with sufficient emphasis to .cause the reader to comprehend thesupreme. tremendous meaning and importanceof that true gospel message. . ..And even today, when heard . it is seldomreally understood in all. i ts colossal significance because Sata n has thrown up such asmokescreen of false and counterfei t religions, "gospels," and teachings that thehearer or re ader is left confused and indoubt and unbel ief - or in a state of indif-_ i m p o r t .. ~..N evertheless; now'j ust: before ofthis age: Almighty God ha s decreed "hat

"this gospel of the "kingdom sha ll hepreached in all the world for a witness untoall nat ions, and then shall the end come"(Matt. 24: 14). Th is is the message the eterna lGod is delivering now, by me, -o the headsof governments in world capitals all over the

PART llThe INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL .

The Missing Dimension in "Knowledgeby Herber tW . Armstrong"D "RT I of this serie s presented the evir dence showing that the most importan tof all knowledge . sent by the .Creator of allraces, was suppressed and another "gospel"subs tituted ona very deceived world. Th eworld heard thereafter about the messenger.but not the message he brought. The timehas come when tha t awesome message mustbe revealed to the world.

What,Then, Is theTrue Gospel?Thetru e gospel is the good news that Godsent from heaven by Jesus ChristThat message , when f u l ly understood, revea ls a

human potentia l so stupendous it appears atfirst to be totally beyond belief] It is incred-ibly wonderfu l news revealed from the Creator.It reveals what science has been utterly"uNABLE to.d iscover. It revea ls wha t religionhas entirely overlooked - perhaps as toowonderfully awesome to believe! It revealswha t this world's higher .education has neverknown or taught!It reveals the most wonderful TRUTH ahuman mind could come to know.It reveals what I term the MISSING DIMENSION INKNOWLEDGE - the most necessaryknowledge so vital to know!That vital message reveals why humanitywas put he re on earth . That's vita! knowledge science -cannot 'discover, religion' has.not revealed. education cannot teach. ':.Why? Were we put here for a PURPOSE?What isthat purpose? .Is there, after all. purpose and meani ng tohuman life? That's vital knowledge OUTSIDEthe scope of today's science, religion, or education!


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British SchoolDisciplineTakesaThrashingby Phi l-Steven'sGreat concern is being shown by schoolteachers in England over the increasing incidence of violence in the classrooms. Re

ports from the National A ssociation ofSchoolmasters . indica te that - serious disciplinary problems have .risen a staggering6.000% in three years .Thre e areas of complaint are most com- .monoArson is the'most serious. A dangerousand growing minority of students actuallyboast of having set f ire to their classrooms. .No less importan t is the growing number ofteachers physically assaulted by students.Masters speak of being thumped in the"face.kicked by pup ils wea ring "b ovver" boots.and even having to be hospitalized. Teac hersalso complain of the growing use of foullanguage. Pupils curse and become abusivewhen told to work. .If the teacher. corrects his students forthese offenses, he runs the risk of having hiscar tires slashed or windscreen (windshield)scratched . -These incidents are not confined to older"hardened" pupils. Sadly. even five-year-oldchildren have been suspended simply because their behavior was uncontrollable:Deeply a la rmed by the situation . the65.000 member National Association 0/.Schoolmasters held a special confere nce. Dr.Rhodes Boyson, Conservative member ofParliament, put forward suggestions to deal

w j t h ' ! h e , : d j ~ ' d i : s c i p l i n ~ "_i- >..,., ".. ~ , - ' ~ _ .:This former headmaster explained thatthe breakdown in order had little todo withthe economic situation. but rather with alack of structure and 'purpose within theschool system itself. For example. schoolslacking an established timetable for lessonswere bringing mise ry to children who subconsciously wanted security; without whichthey would express frustra tion through rebellion.

THE ,POLITICSOF ETERNITYby Robert L. KuhnNothing so exemplifiest he transcendental

Dr. Boyson pointed out tha t e h ~ v i o .in school"is generally l inked to behavior insociety. Children in school naturally tend toimitate the rebel lious attitudes of theirelders. Students' behavior at school wi ll re-flect the values they learn at home. .He emphasized that the parents' role inshaping young people's attitudes is vital; yetmany parents ar e unconcerned about theirchildren's education. School, for many parents, is simply a convenient place to dum ptheir kids whi le they both go out to work.Children are commonly placed in nurseryschools or day-care centers before .age three- and some even before theycan walk. 'Dr. Boyson was skeptical tftat the economic advantages gained by both pa rentsworking could compensate for the inevitablelack of family attention and training those .children would experience. Beyond that,however, he stressed that even in a " norma!"environment there must be greater parentalinvolvement if the schoo ls are to be successful in administering and sustaining ord erand discipline.

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IiVision of India's FutureDa recent visit to .lndia. Mr .Herbert Armstrong was told byPrime Minister Indira Gandh i. that the fore ign press always .. portrays the problems of Ind ia wi thgreat detail bu t hard ly ever reportsthe positive steps India is taking tosolve some of the ir problems. It' ssurely tru e that in Ind ia all of themajor problems facing the entiretyof the wo rld ' are exemplif ied overpopulation, indust ry vs. agr icu l' ture , economic growth vs. pollut ion, etc . India faces a seemingl yinsurmountable populat ion problem . Each year the equivalent population of Australia is added to . thealready terribly overcrowded popu-


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lace. India needs to provide upwards ' of 15 9 ,000 ;000 jobs ' toemp loy its huge labor force. Yet. inall , of th is, the leadership of thecou ntry . is ..trying to do w h a t it.can . .The cit y, of Bombay, India's mostmodern metropolis, w i.th ' tall steeland glass skyscrapers remin iscent ofAmerican ci t i es, por trays India's.qreat achievements as well as.its se->vere problems" as no other locat ionon the subcontinent can .Wh ile many of Bombay's 6 million inhabitants work and dwe ll inair- conditioned bu i,ldings , a fourth ofthe population lives either on thepavement or in clapboard and bur-

lap shanties without - elec tr i ci ty or sources. into agriculture. Bombay's' plumbing. ' ' economic dilemma is .a microcosm.Bornbay, like other cit ies in Ind ia, of the g reate r one facing India as ais immensely crowded. In the morn- whole:.If the city opts for develing ; over a ' mill ion . and . a' quarter ' '. opmerit , i t will create more jobs, opworkers jam trams which ' transport .. portunities, and wealth -: - but at- hern to 'work in the commercial sec- . what c o ~ t ? Water, power and sewtion.rThe trams ; built for loads of . age systems are already overloaded1,750 , carry 3 ,000 at peak hours. - and adding a heavier burden. It ' is in the context of the city's might hasten collapse of the variouscrowding populat ion and rude dis- city services . ..par ity between r ich and poor that is The d e ve lo p me n t c on t ro ve r symi rr ored the chal len ge f ac ing the meshes with the . one big p ro bl emnat ion asa whole : Whether to stress ..th e rest of India f ac es : o ve rfurther industrial growth in an e ffo rt p opul at io n. Bombay w i ll g r ow to 10to lift the nat io n out of p over ty, or ,m i l l i o n w i t h in 15 years . Th ewhe ther to hold the reins on a lready eno rmous pressure for jobs and foodstrained urban growth and d iver t re- and the poten tial for pol it ical unres t

put a vise-l ike pressure on officials tostimulate economic growth . But ifcity services are already strained, theextra load of development may onlyprecipitate a total breakdown.Ind ia is-a land .of tremendous opportunity ; yet .it is hampered byfrequent economic .bottlenecks : itsindustr ia l inf rast ructure is a lreadystruggl ing with demands placedupon it . Yet the demands will growas India str ives to p rovide new jobsfor her expanding popula tion. Thisproblem is b ei ng d ea lt with inBombay. How Bombay tackles itshould give us a good picture ofhow the ' Indian economy will go inthe future. 0


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... In 'Bombay; .IndiaHrbert Armstrong , edito;. in,c hi ef of P lain Truth. was reocen tly in Bom b ay for a seriesof meetings in preparat ion forhis upcoming campaign on March 1in the Cricket Stadium . At the newObe ro i Sheraton Hotel a 'testimonial'dinner was att ended by more than40 0 distinguished guests who had

been invited by Dr. Nagendra Singh ,a just ice of the Internat ional Court atthe Hague, one of India 's leadi ngc it izens and a close persona l friendof Mr. Armstrong . The audience included the Speaker of the Maha-rashtra Legislature (Maharashtra is astate much like a U.S. state , 'ofwhich Bombay is the cente r) ; Mr.

Patel. the Presiden t of the BombayCongress ,Party (the ru ling party inInd ia and as well as Bombay); theChief Just ice of the High Court ofBombay and more than twenty ofhis associate justices; the Vice-Chancellor of the Un iversity of Bombay ;Mr. T. K. Tope (the governor of the. s tate is the Chancel lor); various pro -

fessors f rom most of the major.facul-t ies of the universities of Bombav.:the mos t imp ortant civil servants ofthe fede ral and state governments ,in cl ud ing the Port Authority, Customs , Income Tax, Railways, Banks(the governorof the Reserve Bank ofIndia , Mr . Jagannathau , waspresent) , the Telephone Depa rt-

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ment , Hadio and Film Divisions,Passport and Postal . Also present .were some of the leading industr ialists and commercial magnates,headed by Admiral S. M . Nanda,Chairma n and Manag ing Director ofthe Shipping Corporation of India,the sixth largest sh ipping companyin the world (Admiral Nanda was theChief of Staff of the Indian Navydu ring the recent India-Pakistan Warand was declared a national hero by .his government), the Consul Generalof Czechoslovakia and the DeputyHigh Commissioners for Australiaand Great Britain. -Many of th ose present not only

expressed deep appreciation for Mr .

Armstrong's remarks , ' bu t also extended invitations to him to be aguest of honor at funct ions whichthey were to host during our vis i t.Admiral Nanda, accordingly, hosteda dinner in honor of Mr , Armstrongand Dr. Singh at the Taj Mahal Hotela few days later, surprising Mr. Arm-strong by wheeling out a large cakein his honor, cal l ing attention to thefact that i t was the great Creator andMr. Armstrong 's message of peacewhich were being honored that evening, Mr , Armstrong was not expected to speak, but nonetheless diddeliver some compelling impromptucomments.

On .the day before his depar tu re,

Mr. Armstrong had three importantactivities. First, a luncheon hosted .by a very prominent Ind ian familyfrom the exclusive. Parsee sect . TheHeeriee family had been very movedby Mr . Armstrong 's remarks and expressed a keen desire to find ou tmore about Mr . Armstrong and hisbeliefs, which they thought we'reparticularly valuable and importantfor mank ind today . After the luncheon , during wh ich Mr. Armstrongagain spoke, Mr. Heerjee offered todo what he cou ld to have Mr. 'Arm-strong speak before numerou sgroups prior to his M ar ch 1 ap pearance.Fol lowi nq tha t l uncheon" Mr.

Armstrong and Dr. Singh were received by the Governor, His. Excellency Nawab Ali Yavar Jung , 'w hois one of Ind ia's most prominent citizens. The governor had previouslybeen ambassador to Argentina ,Egypt. France and the _Un i tedStates. and asgovernor of the Stateof Maharashtra, is a lso the chancellor ' of the ten universities in thatstate, including the Universi ty of 'Bombay, Mr . Armstrong and Dr.Singh covered a var iety of subjectswith the governor, primarily in thefield of educa tion and the e ffor ts of. M r. Armstrong and Dr. Singh forworld peace in t he ir m utu alfields . 0


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by David Jo n HillWhy NOT?

BeDifferent!T he r ut worn by the rat race gro ws ever deeper . Sameness and rout ine

strangely dominate in an e ra of dynam ic change unpreced ent ed in the history ofmankind , Standardization , the assemb ly line. :and modul ism ar e paradoxicallythe bywords in an era when the cap acity for variety has rea ched an ap ex for even .the commonest o f men . '

Wh y not different?Themoment 1stepped into the cab 1 real- I'm no t ta lking about be ing differen t by putting on the unifo rm of someized it was different from any other taxi I turned -off reb el. Inste ad . be different in a po sitive. exhi larating, an d personallyhad eve rbeen in. The.floor was covered with sa tisfying manner, produc tive both to yourself an d society around you.a light-colored mohair rug. Brightly colored Fo r starters:

fall leaves were carefully strewn around the . _ .Pu.t the TV in th e gar a ge and get reacquainted with yo u r family, Try it foredges. Small reproductions of paintings byVan Gogh and Ga uguin wer e fixed to the a wh ol e week. You CANdo it! 'inner partition, in the place usually occupied - Read a book , any book, all the way thro ugh, If yo u wan t to real ly beby advertising cards, The windows were different; make tha t book the Bible . 'spotless. . _ Br eak a habit, any habit. You've been telling yourself yo u can qu itI complimented the driver. a black manwho wore a tie and jacket. then told him 1 smo king anyt ime you want. Do it for a month. Then she d t he habit pe rma nent ly:had never ridden in a cleaner or more attrac- - Make thi s week a be-nice-to-your-wife .week. Brin g her home some flow-tive cab, ers , buy her a sma ll gift , take he r ou t to d inner." I like to hear iny passengers say that," he _ Lear n to basic with your han ds. Take a cou rs e in potteryreplied. .making or "ba sket 'weaving, learn .simple mech anics, do yo ur own han dyman

v : : ' k . ~ ~ h ~ ~ e h i ~ r i I ~ ~ ~ 1 e c ~ : ~ repair work around .the hom e. " ."them in Central Park at the height of the fall - Strike up a conversation in an el evator. Ne xt time somebody throws .anseason. . insult at-you in traffic or the cafe teria line , throw them back a big smile and say ;Then I 'asked the driver about the art re- ,"T hanks -:" 1 neededthat!" . . . , . . . ._ ', . ... ,- .. '" .'0 '.. C'.: " : .: ,lproductions, .; c . r: ... : , ~ u ' M W -"We bought t ilepictures at tile MetropolitanMuseum." hesaid. "Not very expensive. My Citizen , Eat ju st two small bowls of rice ,some thin soup , and hal f a glass of raw

passengers comment on the paintin gs too." . milk . No thing else ."How long have you been decorating.your . - Most of all, i f-you wan t to rea lly be d ifferent , find ou t if the re isn't som ecab like this?" real purpose to a ll thi s chao s we c'aU1ife." It's not-my cab." hesaid. "It's-acompa ny Turn a round and sw im up streamaga ins t the current of the soc iety aro un dcab. I got the idea about 20 years ago. At , you . ' "

by Norman CousinsEDITO R' S NOTE: Plain Truth Editor-inChief. HerbertW. Arm strong. has longstressed the importance of qual ity in all aspects of human life. The character of the cam.;puses of Ambassador College reflects thisviewpoint. But does striving fo r quality pay off fo r an individual andfor those who come intocon tact with him? Noted author NormanCousins takes a look at this question.

The Power 01aGood Example

Ten GreatPeople

{Continuedfrom pax" I)became a living sou l. " To this " sou,". God said he would " surely die ' if hedis obeyed , taking the forbidden fruitIt was Sat an who said : " Ye shall NOTsurely die ." Today those wh o pro fessChrist believe what Satan said . But the ydo not believe what God said !

And w h at a b ou t m od e rn science andhigher education? Like our f irst parents,they reject revelation (what God says) as .a bas i c source of know ledge. Do theybelieve there was a flood -mNoah '5 day?God says th ere was . but they do notbelieve what he says! What abouthigher education? God says the waterso f t he Red S ea parted, and the Israeliteswalked across on the dry floor of -thesea. In hi s Word. God says the walls ofwater returned . covering and drowningPharaoh and his army . But ca n y ou f in dthat j n the ancient history texts? Theydon 't believe what God said!God shows us the way to wo rld peace '- peace between individuals, betwee ngroup s, b e tw e e n n a ti o ns . But men donot believe what God says, and so wehav e no' peace ., God shows us t he wa y to peace. hap-piness, prosperity in abundance andet e rn a l W e a s hi s gift. But m en. exceptfor :th e very few , do n 't believe what Godsays ! Instead. humanity suffers on! 0


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111-gtr.dl. by Stanley R. Ra,derBOMBAY, JANUARY 26, 1975

O nce again we have found th at circums tances do force us to be flexible a ndread y to change our schedule, no matte r how carefully we have tried to plan andcontr ol events, as Mr. Armstrong travels throughout the worl d bringing hismessage of hope to mankind.

We are wrapping up our first visit to Bombay, a magnificent city where wehave made man y friends. Upon arrival we were met by Dr. Nagendra Singh ofth e In ternational Cour t of Ju st ice a t th e Hague , wh o was ma king on e of his ownnow infrequent visits to Bombay, and on the evening of the 21st, Dr . Singhintroduced Mr. Armstrong to more than 400 distinguished guests re presentingthe legislatur e, jud iciary and execu tiv e b ranch of the sta te government , as well ascommuni ty leaders from the fie lds of education, industry and commerce. Mr..Armstrong spoke for more than 30 minutes to a 'v ery wa rm and ent hus iasticaudience.

But the very next day, after meeting with community leade rs concerning ourp la ns fo r a maj or ca mpaign in May.:we were adv i se d th at we wo uld ha ve tomove up OUf sched ule because of a va riety of factors beyond our cont rol, andMarch I was fixed- to culmina te a week-long campaign beginning on February21: This has mean t a change in our schedules for March. April and May, bu tdu rin g th e ne xt few days we a re makin g the necessary adjustme nts as we movefrom Bombay to Ca iro and on to Europe.

Ev eryone here is very much con cerned abou t the situation in th e M iddleEast, as we ll as th e inc rea sing impor t ance of the Indian Ocean , as a consequenceof the worldwide oil problem. Mr. Kissinger commented about the potential useof force to av oid ~ g u ~ a . t i o n , and , of course, th e: te rrible s ~ l ? i N t y C!f a majorconrrontatioii ' between'jhe U.S:;a n'd th e U.S.S.R. shouldm omentum toward th epeaceful solution in the"Middle East be lost,

As you readers of Plain Truth have long recognized , .we have devotedsignificant space for a grea t many years to the problems of the impending energycrisis, famine a nd ecology , in addi tio n to all o f th e, other economic, social a ndmo ral issues of .o ti r tim e. Eac h of th ose three enumerat ed is su es has figu redprominently in our discussions with the people here. It brings to mind commentsthat Prime Min ister Indira Ga ndhi made to Mr. Armstrong several yea rs agowhen she said that "a ll the problems confronting mankind can be found righthere in India." One does not have to look very far to find them, but India istrying to overcome them and to help its people, although oftentimes only itsfailures to 'overcome are emphasized by the media in ot he r part s of the world .Sin ce ou r first visit to India we ha ve published numerous ar ticles ab out itspeople, as well as its efforts, and we have been complimented by representa tivesof the government on the richness of our arti cles and their fairness. With Indi acom ing more a nd more to im portance in the eye s of those wh o he ret ofore hav efailed to recognize its pivota l posi tion in the world, we shall be spendi ng more

The INCREDIBLEHUMAN POTENTIAL...(Cont inued from page 6)years in"his own hired house, and receivedal l that ca me in unto him , preachin g thekingdom of God . .. " (Acts28:30).Did Paul preach any other gospel? To theGalat ians he wrote, "Bu t though we, or anangel from heaven, preach any other gospelunto you than that wh ich wehave preac hedun to you. let him be accursed. As we saidbe for e, so s ay I now again, If any manpreach any other gospe l unt o you than thatye have received, let him be accursed" (Gal.1:8-9).But verses 6 and 7 showed that the Galatians had, already. turned to another gospel.Jesus spoke of his message -";the kingdomof God - as the t'wo rd" tha t he spoke. Theapos tles, a syou'Uread all through the bookof Acts, went everywhere pr.ea ch ing " theword" - meanin g the kingdom of God.

The Vas t Comprehensi venessof a Full U.nderstandingI must call the reader's att erition again at._ th is point _o the fact that a ful l and complete.understanding of the message sen t by Godthe Fa ther to all mank ind. by his divinemessenger Jesus Christ, invo lves a vast comprehension of God' s g reat purpose, and ofevents prehistoric, historic , present and future.I might say it mean s an-overall under

stand ing of everything! Once unde rstood, itwill se em that man , with his supposedly stupendous fund of knowledge, such as disseminated in the grea t universities, is, in fact,o W(antile ! ' " ' s e e ' " ma n kn ows; now ,almost nothing! Fer the missing dimensionin knowledge .is the all-important knowledge!So I ask the reader to 'expect GREATTHNGS to be revealed in this and comingarticles.

The "Gospels" BeingPreached TodayI have said that you hear many gospelprog rams toda y. On e uses the slogan ," Preaching Christ to the Nations:' Onemight - ask . "Well, what' s WRONG about

pr e ach i ng ABOUT Chri st?" Or. . "Wha t'swrong about preaching a gospel of grace?"Or "What's wrong about proclaiming a mes-sage about salvation?" .I have shown you the. Scrip tures showingthey start ed , even ' in the first ce nt ur y.preaching abo ut a DIFFERENT Jesus - a Jesus

be upon hisshoulder : and his name shall becalled Wonderful . Counselor, Th e mightyGod, T he everlasting Father, The Prince ofPeace. Of the increase of his government andpeace there sha ll be no end, upon the throneof David, and upon hi s kingdom. to orde r it,and to establish it wi th judgment and withj ust ic e from henceforth even for eve r. Thezeal of the Lord of hosts will per form th is"(Isa. 9:6-7).The angel Gabriel is a super archangel a cherub - one of on ly three men tioned inthe Bible. It is recorded , "And in the sixthmonth [of the pregnancy of Elizabeth] theangel Gabriel was sent from God unt o a ci tyof Ga lilee, named Naz areth. to a virgin espoused [betroth ed) to a man whose namewas Joseph, o f the house of David; and thevirgin's name Mary. And the angelcame in unto her, and said, Hail, tho u tha tart highly favored, the Lord i s .with thee:blessed art thouamong women . .. . And the. angel said unto her, Fe ar no t, Ma ry : forthou hast found favor with Go d. And , behold, "hou sha lt conceive in thy womb, andbring forth a son, and shalt call his nameJesus. He shall be great, and sha ll be calledthe Son of the Highest; and the Lo rd Go dshall give unto him the throne of his fatherDavid: and he shal l reign over the house ofJacob for ever; an d of his kipgdom ' thereshallheno end" (Luke 1:26-33). .Whe n Jesus was on t rial for his life beforePilate , Pilate said unto him, " A rt thou a kingthen? Jesusa nswered, Thou sayest that I ama king. To this end was I born. and for thiscause came I in to the world. that I shouldbear witness unto the tru th."However, Je sus also expla ined to Pilatethat his kingdom ":"" his rulersh ip - was no tthisworl.d - this time -- - .

' i n i t J j i Sworld . . . but now is my kingdom not from'hence" (John 18:37, 36). .What Christ 's Gospel, Was All About

I say Christ's gospel - the message hebrought from God - was the advance goodnews of the esta blishment of t he kingdom ofGod . But j ust what all does that include?And why is the kingdom of God neces-sary? .Just how does it affect and relat e directlyto your person al and ind ividual life?Actually, Christ's message of God's coming kingd om is directly concern ed withworld conditions as they arc: - with humanna ture - its source and originc - with worldevils, suffering, unhapp iness - with worldpeace. It' s conce rn ed with government - .with the reason present human governments


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o ff ic ia l governmenta l pos tu re ' of ' terribly obsolete) , including torpedoseeking a halt to the danger ousbusi- boats and miss ile-equipped patrolness of manufacturing and traff ick- chasers. The United States recentlyin g in conventi onal death -dealing sold the Shah of Iran $ 4 billionweapons, which generally find their worth of weapons, including F-4way into the hands of uns table gov- Phantoms, and the even super io r Fernments. 14 swing-wing 'f ighter developed forBut , behind all such ballyhoo lies the U.S. Navy. Iran is also gettingthe stark fact that there is daily, con - over 1,000 new tanks from Britaintinual dea ling in arms on the part of 'including quite a number from Brit the United States . Ironically, much ain 's Rhine Army suppl ies, and hunof the arms shipments are going to dreds more from the U .S., thuscountries only recently referred to, if proving NATO members, for all theirindirectly, by Henry Kissinger, who words about the 'need to maintainsaid that he would not rule out the large forces in Europe 'as a bulwarkuse of force in the Middle East if aga inst Sov ie t aggress ion, are quickto des troy the Sov ie t M IRVs. The're- Western powers were faced with to jump on the arms sales band-fore, the U.S. " ABM " program will " strangulation. " . wagon when qu ick prof its can bebecome clearly obsolete. Perhaps most difficult to under- realized .In terms of des tructive force , the stand is the fact that several Mideast Saud i Arabia has been supp liedtac ti cians have had to invent new governmen ts will receive sophis- with 'U .S. arms for more' than 2

words to convey meaning to people t icated weapons beforeU .S. defense decades , but by far the largest dealjaded by multi-megaton nuclear war- forces receive them! For examp le, was the recently approved contractheads . Today, they speak of super- the U.S. Marine Corps would l ike its to purchase 60 F-5 (lightweight) jetsonic bombers carrying "two world own share of the recently developed, f ighters, including a large t ra in ingwar two's " in thei r bomb bays or highly sophisticated , antitank mis- program' for Saudi p il ot s at U.S. air" th ree world war two 's " in destruc- siles (capable of being fired by an bases.t ive capability 'of nuc lear miss iles. infantryman and proved highly ef- A State Department spokesman(This means the explosive force un- fective) , but ttie Mar ines are being said the sale would "contr ibute toleashed would equal , more or less, told they will have to wait until De- the 'legitimate self-defense needs" ofthe amount of explosives utilized by cember - after the U .S. sells ttie the country, and Mr. K issinger saidall part icipants in World War 11.) TOW antitank missiles to 14 nations he believed it would " contr ibute toActually, w ith " overki ll " enough ' 'and gives them away to three stability in the area."to annihilate the whole world several others. Defense Secretary James Schles-[ ' l ~ s ~ . V \ ~ N - , e : L , J ~ " ! l r ~ i ' I ' i Q ~ ~ ~ l ) j ~ y .i n g " , ~ defends':'Sl1eh..;,yol uriri.f,lp_!s_take cheer m the . news that the SU - ' receivmq r ts first consrqnment of the ' arms 'deals 'with ' the oil-producingperpowers are thi nking serious ly newly developed attack helicopters, Arabs by .a rguing that it helps imabout '' ' Iimiting' ' such dest ru ct ive capab le of fl ight in near zero visibi l - prove relat ions between Washingtoncapac ity - in the nei ghborhood of , ity weather, equipped with f an tast ic and Mideast cap itals.say, destruction of the world " only " search and destroy" radar and Naturally, there are always " rea-about 7 or 8 times," instead of .20 weapons, it will have to wait about 2 sons " for such arms sales or gifts.

Garner Ted Armstrong,SPIIKS.OUT!Te United'States is deeply committed to arms l imitat ions ,right? No, wrong .Shockingly, if ." peace" wereto break 'out tomorrow , war wou ldsurel y be the resul t! Why such ' aparado x? Simply because the majorindustrialized powers are so deeplycommitted to their own " defense"programs that instant " peace," render ing ai l such industr ies 'obsolete,wou ld throw the combined economies of the world into such chaos asto br ing about dramatic social revolutions, rearming, and war..l t Is-the ult imate irony that , whi lewe in Amer ica seem to be striv ing

toward defusing a danqerous lvarmed world. . the United States -r e- ,mains the number 'one traff icker inarms .

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by James Mac OvertonCOMO, TEXAS -Hopkins County claimsto be the dai ry cap ital of the natio n. But inflation ' o f feed costs is dri ving many dairymen out of business and causing seriouslosses to othe rs. .Th e situation drove dair ym en to shootmore than 100 calves at this community

about 50 miles from Ambassador College.Big Sandy, on Jan . 10, to protest rising feedcosts and dwindling dairy profits. ."We are not killin g these catt le for anybu t to keep them from literally starv ing to deat h," sa id Paul Lawrence. one ofthe organizers of the protest. . ,The group had originally planned: to kill1,000 or more ca tt le and bury them in ' atrench 60 feet long and 20 feet deep .' Thepreceding night, however, plan s wer echanged. The 100 ca ttle that wer e killedwere given away to those whowanted them,while the farmers donated 35 l ive calves toan Amarillo, Texas,orphanage." I hope that we can let the people ofAmerica know what kind of situation thatwe're in," stated Arnold Folmar of Como. aspokesman . for the group and one of . theorganizers of the project. " It's not very fun nyto get up at 3 in the morning and know.when 'you &e t up that you are goinf, to lose from$20 (o'$CC i day " " .. . I,:. ~ ; : tLosses like these seemed common amongthe dairymen represented.Roy Hall, a ,farmer who lives at nearbySulphur Springs, sa id he had to take $20,000out of savingsjus t to stay even. -"I received _a feed bill las t month for$7,000 and a milk check for $6.000," statedDanny Sickles of Commerce; Texa s. .'"Gaylo n Odom of Sulphur Sprin gs, whodid not back the protes t. said , " I' ve lost$10,000 in the last three or four mon ths." He-felt he could. stay in busines s. however , because "the banker h as n' t got a lien on my catt le."" I 'm not go ing to be forced out ." said."Eventually it will work itself out . tha t is. ifwe can get some help ' f rom our governmen t." ."I was getting $8.66 a hundred pounds for

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row Straits of Malacca. Recent investiga-tionsin the Malacca Straits reveal more than for tyareas of shallows" where any supertankercould founder. The prob lem is magnified bythe fac t tha t four f if th s of a supertanker isbelow the water line when"fully laden. 'Modem navigators. using echo-sounding '.equipment and detailed chart s, often allowonly a minimal clearance of one fathom (six-feet). Unfortunately, m,any of these chartsare not 'completely accurate. Even. with the

greatest of care;,acci dent s, are inevitable. Asthe world's insatiable thirst for oil increases ,so does tbe risk of more tanker calamities.- ChrisCarpenter

and we are not pe rf ect ' human beings.We ' tried very hard though. And at leastsome fine qua lities w e ~ e bui lt into a humanpersonality that will last along time .Any advice for other parents before yourchild leaves home? Yes. One phrase tha tkeeps ringing in my mind is: "Do itnow."Don't put off that famil y outi ng or thelong talk you intend to have with your son or

daughter. Do it now. Give them the hugsand kisses, the love and the necessary correction, and the detailed c o u n and guidanceas to how to orient their lives. Give themyour t ime, your self, your laughter and yourtear s.. Share your life deepl y with your children so they will never forget.Do it now. Don 't wait until tomorrow .Tomorrow may never come, or tomorrowmay suddenly become the day they, good-bye, an d you . fight back the tears asthey leave home and famil y to begin indep e n d lives o f their own. G .

Th e Japanese supertanker Sh owa Marurecently ran aground,while passing throughthe Strait s of Malacca. ju st south of Singapore , spilling 844,060 gallons of oi l in to thesea before salvage operations could even begin. It"was one of the worst oil spills sincethe gigantic maru line was quilt in the ~ . o 'The Sh owa Maru isone of 480 such supertank ers afloa t. At 237,000 tons, it is merelyhalf the size of the ' largest supertanker, the '476,292-ton Globtik Tokyo. If the Sh owaMaru could be stuck. how will. the largertank ers fare? "Eighty per cent of Japan 's oi l suppliesfrom the Middle East pass through the nar - ,

SUPERTANKER Globtik Tokyo. twice as large as g r o t i ~ d e d Sh'owa Maru.

by Roderick MeredithElizabeth, our firstborn child, l ef t homethis morning. She didn 't run away. Sh e t raveled 5,000 miles to attend a collegeI n another country.When I hugged her and kissed her as sheleft , I felt tears coming to my eyes. I knewthin gs wo uld never be . exactly the sameagain .The last eighteen ,.yea rs have gone soquickl y. . .Did my wife I lo ve her. teach her,inspire her and help her on the way in l ife aswe should have? Only God knows - . for theintricate and sensitive balancing of time, -emotion and effort are hardt o evaluate precisely in 'this human sphere.Could we'have done better? Of course we

could. But we were not parents, '

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which the U.S . will have none, sincewe' couldn 't afford them) . Saudiowned U.S . tanks would befiqhtinqU .S . tanks , while Arab groundtroops would destroy U .S . tankswith TOW an titank missiles. But .theMarine Corps could not retaliate because their own .TOW antitank missiles would not have been deliveredyet . We sold all those to the Arabs .So Oman , Abu Dhabi , Bahrein,Kuwait, Saudi Arab ia, Lebanon, Jordan , and Iran all get U .S. arms ofone sort or another, with -indicationsthat larger sales are in the offing .Off icials of Northrop were not asterr ibly disappointed as it mighthave been assumed -when their experim ental twin-engin ed YF-l 7. Cobra was no t chosen as America 'snew combat f ighter. They found encouraqernen t in the possibility of" extensive foreign sales" of the newairplane..T he ju stification for all this traff icking in arms? I t 's quite s imp le . " Ifwe don 't sell them the arms , someone else will , " .goes the reason ing ," so why shouldn 't we help our balance of payments situation?"Such . pragmatic reasoning maysound ' quite logical ,on the surface,bu t i t doesn 't seem to fi t the imageof a country apparently dedicated to

. f \ 5 t ~ ~ { . ; . ' V 2 f ! ~ ~ C ! . . < ! danqerouslv u nst ab le w o rl d . : Itsomeh ow seem s to make hollowmockery of U.S. attempts to ha lt theprol iferation of weapons in theworldwhile , remaining the major armsdealer among all nat ions,, From 1961 to 1971, the UnitedStates supplied near ly $ 23 billionworth of major weapons systems to74 countries , while th e Soviet .Un ion lagged far behind with $15billion to 3 7 countries.


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