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WHE
WE
E
GOING!
by
Gene H. Hogberg
The world is racing toward the end
of the century. And the role
of Germany once again confounds
both Moscow and Washington.
T
HE LAST
months of
1983 produced a string
of startling, unexpected
events.
On the first day of Septem–
ber, a South Korean civilian air–
liner was shot from the skies,
having inexplicably ftown over
Soviet territory in the Far
East.
The world barely recovered from
this shock when the next month
produced a series of stunning inci-
38
dents. First, on October 9, 17 top
South Korean officials, four of
them cabinet ministers, were assas–
sinated in a bomb blast while
visiting Rangoon, Burma. Later,
three officials of the North Korean
military, who had slipped into the
country before the explosion, were
charged with the gruesome mur–
der.
Later in the month, horrific bomb
blasts took the lives of nearly 300
French and American members of
the multinational "peacekeeping"
forces in Beirut, Lebanon. Two
weeks later, Israelis and Arabs per–
ished in a similar incident.
Granada "Biitz"
October 25, two days after the Bei–
rut massacres, U.S. forces, com–
bined with those of six eastern Ca–
ribbean nations, intervened in the
tiny "Spice Island" nation of Gre–
nada.
American citizens, whose lives
were potentially in danger, were
flown back to safety in the United
States. And as a corollary, the
Soviet-Cuban plan to communize
The
PLAIN TRUTH