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DISARMANENTTALK5-
ANY HOPE OF SUCCESS?
Geneva, Swjtzerland, is again host to
majar world conferences dealing with
arms control. Early this year three
separate disarmament conferences
were concurrently under way.
This past February, the 40-nation
United Nations Committee on Oisar–
mament reconvened for one of its
regular sessions (cover photo) .
Al the talks, the Soviet Union, long
opposed lo outside inspectors
checking its compliance with arms
agreements, proposed a system of
on-site inspections for a future treaty
banning all nuclear testing.
The U.S. delegation reportad !ha!
it seemed lo stop short of guaran–
teed inspections.
START and INF Talks
Even more significan! !han the U.N.
talks are two separate rounds of bi–
lateral discussions underway be–
tween the world's two superpowers.
The first , !he Strategic Arms Re–
duction Talks, or START, deals with
proposed cuts in !he strategic-inter–
continental-nuclear torces
ot
!he
United States and !he Soviet Union.
The START negotiations take up
where !he ill-fated SAL
T
11 treaty, nev–
er ratified by !he U.S. Senate, left off.
Concurren! with the START nego–
tiations are the lntermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. So-called
"theater " nuclear weapons based in
Europe now Ioom as the most diffi–
cult of all lo control.
For the past six years, al the rate
ot
one a week, !he Soviet Union has
deployed powerful and accurate new
SS-20 missiles. Two thirds of them
are based west of the Ural Moun–
tains, a 20-minute flight time from
West Germany.
Late this year the United States is
scheduled lo deploy its own interme–
diate-range weapons, 108 Pershing 11
missiles and 464 ground-launched
cruise missiles.
The Soviet Unían is particularly
disturbad over the prospects of the
Pershing 11, a missile that could
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reach targets in the U.S.S.R. after a
flight time of only about eight min–
utes.
Dealing with Symptoms
Most experts expect little to come of
the START and INF negotiations in
Geneva, or of the long-stalled MBFR
(Mutual and Balanced Force Reduc–
tion) conventional arms talks in Vienna.
The conflict between the United
States and the Soviet Unían, like that
between France and Germany in the
early 1930s, noted the late Hans J .
Morgenthau, "is being fought on two
levels: on the
superficiallevel
of dis–
armament and on the fundamental
level of the struggle for power."
Furthermore, and this is the crux
of the matter, Mr. Morgenthau· said,
"Political settlement must precede
disarmament. Without political settle–
ment, disarmament has no chance
for success."
Down through history, nations
have been "putting the cart before
the horse." Oisarmament has never
brought peace in !he absence of the
settlement of underlying power con–
flicts.
The settlement of conflicts in the
hearts and minds of men mus! come
first. But humans , by themselves ,
cannot bring that about.
Only the reestablishment of the
government of God-a world-ruling
government over competing, distrust–
ful and warring nations-will have
the power to resolve conflicts, en–
abling the nations to disarm at last.
The returning Jesus Christ, we
read in the Scripture, "shall judge
between the nations, and shall re–
buke many people; they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks; na–
tion shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war
anymore" (lsa. 2:4, RAV).
Oisarmament can never produce
peace. But peace, God's way, will
lead to disarmament.
-Gene
H.
Hogberg
pr_oduced
did not cure
existing
evlls,
or prevent new evils!
The
ANSWER
becomes plain.
There was
something wrong
with
the knowledge being produced, or
else the needed
MISSING DIMENSION
in knowledge was not bei n g
discovered.
To the dictum of science that,
g i ven sufficient k nowled ge,
man k ind 's problems wou ld be
solved and humanity's ills cured,
1
add this: Solut ions come from the
right
knowledge that supplies the
right
answer- the t rue
CAUSE
of
both the evils and the
CAUSE
that
would produce peace and joy and
ever~
GOOD
result ; and, secondly,
solut10ns come from the appl ication
of that knowledge:
ls l t Not Human to Err?
Could it be
possible
for the most
highly educated minds to have been
intellectually misled or deceived?
Could they, viewing
only"one side
of
the question, be infallible, entirely
above making mislakes?
For many years now,
l
have
observed that errors almost always
come when a person starts with a
false basic premise-careless ly
assumed as self-evident and taken
for granted without question- and
then builds on that false basic
hypothesis.
Suppose we now appropriate the
academic freedom to question that
wbich ed ucators have d ismissed
without examination.
ls it possible for us to find the
EXPLANATION
ofwhy
MAN ÍS
as he
ÍS,
WH Y
the world is fill ed with evi ls? Js
ít possible for us to discover the
CAUSE
of all human suffer ing,
anguísh,
unhappi n ess
and
inequalily? l s it possible to find the
CAUSE
l hat would produce peace,
happi ness, abundance a nd
prosperily- lhe
CAUSE
whic h world
leaders have apparenlly overlooked?
Is il possible lo find the key to
h.uman survival?
The answer to t he preced ing
questions is ves! Ves, il is possible to
answer these basic questions that
have haunted man as long as he has
existed. Ves, there is an answer lo
these questions that deal with man's
very survival. l f you want
ANSWERS
to these questions, wr ite for our
booklet
Why Were You Born?
lt's
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The PLAIN TRUTH