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which the U.S. will have none. since
we couldn't afford them). Saudi–
owned U.S. tanks would be .fighting
U.S . tanks, while Arab ground
troops would destroy U.S. tanks
with TOiiV antitank missiles. But the
Marine Corps could not retaliate be–
cause their own TOW antitank mis–
siles would not have been delivered
yet. We sold all those to the Artlbs.
So Oman, Abu Dhabi , Bahrein,
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon. Jor–
dan. and lran all get U.S. arms of
one son or another. with indications
that larger sales are in the offing.
Officials of Northrop were not as
terribly disappointed as it might
have been assumed when their ex–
perimental twin·engined YF-1 7
Cobra was not chosen as America·s
new combat fighter. They found en–
couragement in the possibility of
"extensiva foreign sales" of the new
airplane.
The justification for all this traf–
ficking in arms? lt's quite simple. "lf
we don't sell them the arms. some–
one else will, .. goes the reasoning,
"so why shouldn't we help our bal–
ance of payments situátion?"
Such pragmatic reasoning may
sound quite logical
pn
the surface,
but it doesn't seem to fit the image
of a country apparently dedicated to
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dangerously unstable world . •
1t
somehow seems to make hollow
mockery of U.S. attempts to halt the
proliferation of w'eapons in the world
while remaining the majar arms
dealer among all nations .
From 1961 to 1971, the United
States supplied nearly $23 b i llion
worth of major weapons systems to
74
countries, while the Soviet
Union lagged far behind w i th $ 1
5
billión to 3
7
countrie~.
"Piow shares into Swords"
LOVE THEM NOW
by
Roderick Meredith
Eliubeth. our firstborn ehild, len borne
th.is moming. She didn't run away. She Lrav–
eled
S.OOO
miles to aucnd a college 'in an–
other coontry.
Wben 1bugged her and k.issed ber as she
left,
J
feh tears coming to my eycs.
1
1mc-w
things would never
be
ex_actly the same
a.gatn.
Thc last eighteen / years have gone so
quickly.
.
Did
my wire
and 1 love her. teach her,
inspire her and hclp her on the way in
lite
as
we should have? Only God knows - for the
intricare
and
-s.ensitive balancing of time.
~
emotion and etfort are hard
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evaluate prc·
CLSely
1n
this human spherc.
Could
we have
dO!lC
bc:uer1
or
coursc: we
could. But
we.
were not petfect parents.
aod
we.
are
not
perfect human beings.
We <ried very bard though. And
at
least
sorne fine qualities
were
buih
into
a
human
pcrsonality that willlast a' long ümc.
Any advice for other paren!$ before your
child leaves home? Yes. Óne phrase that
keeps ringing in m
y
mind is: ..
Do
i1
oow."
Don'c put off
that family
outing
or
the
long ralk you
intend to
have
with
your son
or
daughter. Do
it
now, Give
Lhem the
bugs:
aod kis:ses. the !ove aod the oecessary correc–
tion.
and the
detailed counsel a.nd guidance
as
to
how to orient their
Ji
ves. ·Gíve them
your time, yourself. your
lat!glner
and your
tean, Share your life deeply with your cbil·
dren
so
they
wi11
ncver forgel .
Do
it
now. Don•r wait unril tomorrow.
Tomorrow may never come, or tomorrow
may suddenly become the day they wave
• good-bye, and you fight
back
the tears as
they leave home and family
to
begin inde·
pendent
Ji
ves
of rheir
own.
O
SUPERTANKER
.Giobtik Tokyo.
twice as lorge os grounded
Showa Maru.
""'
The Japanese supertanker
Showa Maru
recently ran aground while passing through
th~
Straits of
Mala~.
just
south
or
Singa–
pote. spilling 844,000 gallons of oil inlo the
sea before salvage operation.1 could evcn
bc–
gin. lt was one of the worst oil spills since
the gigantíc
moru
line was buih lri the
I~O's.
The
Showa Maru
is
one
of480 such
super–
tan.kcrs aftoal. At 237.000 tons. it is merely
half the size of the largest supertanker, the
476,292-ton
Globlik Tokyo.
lf !he
Show.a
Man.t
c:ould be stuck. how will thc largcr
tankers fare?
Eighty P.ercent of Japan's oil supplies
from the Middle EAst
pass
through the nar-.
row
Srraits
of
M~l;,eca.
Recent investigation.s
in the Malacca Straits reveal more
thar~
forty
arcas of shallows. where. any sUpertanker
could founder. The problem is niagnilied by
the faca that four fifths of a supertanker is
below
the
water line when·rully taden.
Modern navigators. using c:chO·SOuoding
equipmént
and
deuüled charts. often allow
on1y a min.imal clearánce of
on~
Jathom
(six
feet). Unfortunately. many of these charts
are not compJetely aocurate. Even with the
greatest of care. accidentS are inevitable.
As
the world's insaüable thirst for oil increases,
so dots
the
risk: ofmore tanker calamities.
- Chris Carpenter
Today, arms pour into the Middle
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Eastl Bible prophecy foretold
pr~-
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cisely thatl Jesus warned about "ar–
mies around Jerusalem'· (Luke
21
:20),
and Daniel 's 11rh chapter
clearly spells out coming war in the
Mideast (Dan. 11
:40-45).
Today, Joel's prophecy of the
srming of the nations is being
brought to completion! "Proclaim
this among the nations: Prepare .
war, stir up the mighty men. Let all
the men of war draw near, let them
come up. Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruning hooks into
spears; let the weak say.
'1
am a
warrior' "(Joel 3:9-1
O,
RSV).
Today, we arm the very nations
against which our Sec·retary of State
warns we may someday find our–
selves pitted in combat. And we do
so with weapons not yet available in .
sufficient quanti ty to our own armed
!orces.
Personally.-
1
call that the apex of
stupidity.
o
WEEK ENDINO FEB. 22. 1975
THEGREAT
TEXAS
CALF KILLING
by
James Mac Overton
COM_O, TEXAS- Hopkins County claims
to be the dairy capital of the natioo. But Ín·
6ation of
fecd
costs
1s
driving many dairy–
men
out of busi"ness and causing señous
losses
to o thers.
•
ThC situatioo drove dairytnen to shoot
more than 100 calves at chis commuoity
about 50 miles from Ambas.sador Collegc.
Big Sandy. on Jan. 10, to protest rising feed
costs and dwindling dairy profits.
..We are not killing these cante for any
reaso'? but
10
keep them from 1iterally starv–
ing to death," said Paul Lawrcnce. one of
the
organizers of the protest.
The group had originally planned·
10
kili
1,000 or more cattlc and bury thcm io a
tteneh
60
feet long and 20 feet deep. The
preceding night. however. plans were
. changed. The 100 caule that were killed
Were given
away to
those
who'wanted them.
wbile rhe farmers donated 35 live calves to
an Amarillo. Texas, orphanage.
"1 hope that we ean let the peoyle of
America know whal kind of situation that
we're ¡n." stated Arnold FoJmar of Como. a
spokesman . for the g.roup and one of thc
organizers of the project "h's not
very
fu.nny
to gel up .:u 3 in the rnoming and know when
you get
u¡>
that you are •oin•
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lose
fr~m
Slo
ló"~O-;tdij.'' '
t.•
·H
p
t •Yw~
....
r,..,,y.
r ·
Losses
líke thesc:. seemed common amoog
the dairymen represented.
Roy Hall, a farmer who 1ives at oearby
Sulphur Springo. said he bad
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take $20.000
out ofsavings ju.st to stay even.
''1 received. a feed bill last month for
.$7,000 and
a
millc
check
ror
$6.000,"
Slated
Oanny Sickles of Commerce, Texas.
' Gaylon Odom of Sulphur Springo. wbo
did not b:.ck che protest. said. •·rve lost
$10,000
in
the lastthree or four montlu." He
.. felt be could stay in business. however. be-–
-t3\1St ..
the banker hasn't got a líen on my •
caule."
·
•
hrm
not going
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be
forced out."'
h~
s.aid.
' 'Eventually it
wiJJ
work
itself out. that is.
if
wc can gct
sorne
help from our govem·
ment.' '
·
"1
was geuing
S8.6ó
a
hundred pounds for
milk here
a
while back." Mr. Odom said.
"l'd been paying S7.60 per hundredweight
for feed. You need
á
margin of $3 per hun-
dred pounds to make ends meet."
·
"Witbin 1974. wc.,jost approximately
$25.000 . . • mainly in thc last six months. ·•
stated Monty Merrell or Sulphur Blull'.
Texas.
"Last year, the same caJves that you are
seeiQg killed today brought from
$20
10
S50
when they were
jusi •
week old or less." be
Slated. ..Now they mig.ht bring from
SO
cents
to S20_¡u most·•
These comments were all indication.s of
tbe dairymen's plig)ll.
"Our situatiQn has become so setious in
the
pá$1
few weeks
that we feel
wha1
we
are
doing here
is
the only way lefi to make our
plight known lo 'the general public and lo
the politicians in .Washington
who
wi11
not
lisren to
us:•
stated Me.
lawre.nc:e.
Perhaps the
publicity
in this and Othcr
newspapers around che na(.ion w•ll case thc
dairy farmer's temporary plight. Perhaps
not. Either way. the fanner's grisfy demon–
stration of economic' frustration
i¡
a gñm
reminder of the 1930's'and
a
possible fore·
taste of
ano~her
decp reeession in
agricul·
ture. O
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