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PANAMA CANAL ISSUE
FLARES ANEW
3
Will the United States cede cont(ol over
the world's most strategic piece of real
estate? Controversy is b'rewing.
5
ART BUCHWALD
Political humorist takes a look at some·
strange "disappearing .acts" in Wash–
ington .
OUR DEGRADING DOLE
6
When we visited our local welfare office,
there were no " Welfare Cadillacs"
parked
outside
just poor people parked
inside..
CURING THE CANCER
OF CRIME
Crime skyrpcketed 16% in
issue 'devotes three pages
booklet offer) to crime's
cures.
.8
1974.- Tllis
(and a free
causes and
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
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SPEAKS OUT!
"1
know you believe you understood
what you think
1
said, but perhaps what
you heard was not what
1
said!"
13
FOOTHOLD IN THE MINISTRY
The pulpit séems to be the last crum–
bling bastion of male domiQance, but
what does the- Bible say about female
preachers?
ORCHIDS
&
ONIONS
14
Someone said we print 98% favorable
letters ,from .the Bible Belt. Not latelyl
DOMINO.THEORY
REVISITED
15
Stanley R.
Ra·d~r.
General ·CoÚnsel to
the Editor-in-Chief, takes
~he
"Domino
Theory" to task.
2
•
lATIN AMIRICA'S
AGGRISSIVI NIW NATIDNAliSM
Throughout a vast area once thought
to be virtually the private domain of
U.S. business interests. nation after na·
tion is attempting to shed
big-~er
de–
pendency and to exercise more control
over
it$
own
eco~ic
and
politice!
fu·
ture.
Ecuador's
" tuna war" Wtth fiShong
fleets, the cancellation of
a
trip to South
Americe by, Henry Kissinger in Febru·
ary. Panama's demands for sovereignty
ovar the U.S.-oontrolled Canal Zona,
and growing Latin pressure for ·im–
proved relations with Communist Cuba
are but a few symptoms of the restless
new mood prevalen! throut¡hout the
Westem Hemisphere.
Shaking Off "Colonialism",
The ma¡or grievance from whoch all
others flow has been a deep-681 ,_nt·
ment of eolonial-style dependency on ,
the giant neighbor to the north.
The new shape oJ Latín Americe, ac–
cording
tO
the present genoration of
Latín leaders, must be forged, not in
Washington, but in Caracas. Mexieo
City and other Latín American ·eapitels
' 'Nobody is handing out _proxies any
more for the U.S. to eonduet their for–
eign affairs,"
says
a Brazihan leader
echoong the new mood.
Big foreign (partieularfy American)
subsidiarles have already experieneed
the spín-offs of resurgen! nationalísm. A
rash of reoent expropriatíons - in oop–
per and iron ore mines and oH facilities
_; havo oecwred .
The most serious breaeh in hemisphe–
ric tíes, however, erupted earfy thls year
woth the enactment ola new U.S. trade
bill . One elaus. declares that members
of OPEC. as well as countries that
" al·
feet Unitod StatH lnterests" will be ex–
ciudad from preferential trade
treatment. Thís means. in effect. that
the United States mar1<et is closed to
the export of manufacturad goods from
Venezuela and ·ecuador - OPEC mem–
bers - and might be barred to eny
other country that might in futura em–
bar1< on a nationalist eoonomic Poliey.
The bill and tt\e violent reaetion to it
throughout Latín Americe
was respon–
sible more than any other
reason
for
forcing United States Seeretary of Stete
Henry Kissínger to cancel his planned
tour of severa! Latín nations óne month
later.
The sueeess of the OPEC earte! h.as
had oleetrifying effect on most Latín
eountries. signifieant suppliers of
around
20
importan! raw mataríais for
the United StatH and other industrial
natoons. " Alter the Arabs. we will be
Hexing ou' muscles. ··
says
an Argentona
diplomet.
AJready. latin produoers of beu•ite.
eoffee, ooppe.r. sugar and even benenas
are attempting to form eartels with sim–
ilar produeers in other parts of the
world .
Havana In, W81hlngton Out
In eontext of the new reassertiveness,
radically different ínter-Americen organi·
zations and institutlons -
without
United
S
tates piiFticipation
-
are being
diseussed behind the
seenes.
Older
hamispheric institutoons. sueh
as
the
U.S.-dominated Organizatoon
of
Ameri–
can States (OAS),
faee
e stiff ehallenge.
The idea for a new Latín American
eeonornic system called
Sistema Eco–
nomico Latino-emerlceno
(SELAM) is
gaining support. The scheme is being
actively pushed by Mexico - (it is the
bralnchild of Mexiean president Luis
Echeverria) - and ool·rieh Venezuela.
Negotiating teams from Mexico City
and Caracas have also traveled
.fre–
quently to Havana. Cube's Castro.
ae–
cording to one source, " fully suppons"
such a new economic system ··wnhout
the
partiápation
of
outsiders." meaning
ot
oourse,
the
U.S..
s.nc:e
it would
offer a
wayforCuba toidentifyitselfwith the rest
of the Latín world without compromising
its adopted Marxist ldeals. lt would also
provide Havana wi1h enother means to
skirt the 14-year-old. U .S.-imposed
eco–
nomic blockade.
Oetails of the embryonic SELAM are
few and lar between, but soma experts
believe it has tha promiso of developing
into an organization simtlar to the Euro-–
pean Common Mar1<et.
Latín Ameriea may seem to be an unin–
terest ing side theater of theworld tomost
norteamericanos.
But drastic change is
certain to come to pass in an ania long
considerad lo
be
safely tucked away in
America's·hip poeket.
WhatwiiiWashington'sreaction
be–
when it finally
wakes
up
10
show its
predic:tably belated concem? No one ean
say
for sure
now.
But
on~
thong is certain.
WithWashington·s syatomof
amanceson
shaky' ground around the world the
UnitedStates can hardlyafford tosee "its
worfd" south of the border crumble
away.
o
WEEK ENDINO ,APRIL
5.
1975