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of God. The Church as God's
body of people is bting
PREPARED
for His Kingdom-and the resto–
ration of His
GOVERNMENT.
This
DUALITY
in God's pro–
gram is brought out in a clear
UNDERSTANDI NG
of the
TWO
COVENANTS,
known as the old,
and the new covenant. This will
be covered in chapter 8- the
Church.
For a more complete under–
standing of ancient Israel's his–
tory even into the 20th century,
be sure to read our special book,
The United States and Britain in
Prophecy.
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MINERALS
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ing heights, creating monetary
chaos everywhere.
Other Resources
Space does nat permit an exami–
nation of other critica! minerals
such as uranium, tungsten, vana–
dium, columbium and titanium
(another essential aerospace
metal.) But regardless of the
metal, the picture is nearly always
the same- imports make up a
distressingly high percentage of
the supply.
The European Economic Com–
munity (EEC) nations and Japan
are even more dependent on
material imports than the United
States. The EEC and Japan are
97 percent to 100 percent depen–
dent upon imparts far six critica!
metals-chromium, manganese,
cobalt, bauxite, capper and nick–
el.
When West German Chancel–
lar Helmut Schmidt recently
went to Moscow, he is known to
have told President Leonid
Brezhnev of his grave concern
over Soviet advances in the Afri–
can subcantinent, given Germa–
ny's dependence upan stability in
the region.
Problem wlth Stockpiles,
Alternate Sources
After years of neglect, the U.S.
government is trying both to
stimulate damestic praduction of
minerals where passible, and to
September 1980
build up a stackpile of critica! raw
materials. But there are many
problems, the most important af
which is that no one seems to be
in charge at the highest leve! of
minerals management.
Secandly, according ta John D.
Margan, Jr., chief staff officer af
the U.S. Bureau of Mines,
though the United States has vast
resources of critica! metals, much
of it-chromium is a prime ex–
ample-is of low grade, and
expensive and difficult to extract.
In additian, environmental pres–
sures have severely restricted
access to mineral deposits, espe–
cially those on federally owned
lands.
Minerals experts generally dis–
miss the alternate method of
seabed mining as being impracti–
cal, given taday's technology.
Seabed modules would require
energy-intensive refining tech–
niques. Industry sources speak of
needing billion-dollar facilities.
As for stockpiles,
Aviation
Week
&
Space Technology,
in its
May 5, 1980, issue reports that
"stares of 93 strategic minerals in
the natianal defense stockpile
average 48 percent of goals, giving
the U.S. an 18-month wartime
capability, despite the fact that the
stockpile is intended to support a
three-year conventianal war."
The Pacific Basin and Austra–
lia have untapped natural re–
sources, but here, as is the case
with stimulating domestic pro–
duction, the question is
time.
"The problem is transition," re–
ports the
New Yorker,
quoted
earlier. " It would take from five
to 1Oyears to adjust to a cutoff of
chromium from South Africa."
The
Journa/ of Commerce
adds
that unless a more diversified and
ratianal minerals policy is devel–
oped, "calamity [is] surely await–
ing us. "
Deadly T rap Set
From all appearances, the United
States and the rest of the West–
ern Warld is walking straight into
a trap, as we near the biblical
crisis at the clase of the age.
Sauth Africa today is in the
midst of rapid, almost tumul–
tuous, social change. Its gavern-
ment is pushing reforms it hopes
will meet the needs of its diverse
peoples. Yet at the same time
Communist-supplied radical rev–
alutionaries, apposed ta evolu–
tianary change, have stepped up
their attacks. The bald assault in
June upon South Africa's vital
coal-to-petroleum complex was
part of their escalated program.
At the same time, Mascow–
backed insurgents have been step–
ping up their violence inside
Sauth-West Africaf Namibia, the
mineral-rich territary ruled by
South Africa now on the verge of
independence. Insurgent plans
were dealt asevere, albeit tempo–
rary setback by a massive four–
week raid by South African
forces against their bases aver the
barder in Angola. More than 250
tons of Communist-made military
equipment was captured.
Pretor ia was sharply con–
demned in the U.N. Security
Council for its "attack on the
People's Republic of Angola,"
the guerrilla host country.
Ca ll for Sanct lons
Further escalation af violence in
sauthern Africa, prampted and
encouraged by communist agents,
is certain to result in a showdown
someday with the demand in the
United Nations for a total trade
embargo against South Africa.
But note this: The United States
and the rest of the mineral-depen–
dent Free World stands ta lose
far more than South Africa ever
would in the process.
Política! forces inside Western
Europe recognize what is happen–
ing and may take measures in the
near future ta avoid falling into
the Moscow-abetted sanctions or
disinvestments trap.
The United States, hawever,
elevating its own conception of
"human rights" over geopolitics
will probably fall into it. It has yet
to learn what one of her congres–
sianal leaders, Senatar Harry
Byrd, said sorne time aga afautside
interest in South Africa: "The
conflict in southern Africa is not a
struggle for national liberation
between the forces of good and
evi l.
lt
is a war for resources and
strategic position." o
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