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U. S. POLICY COLLAPSING
AROUND WORLD
2
With almost machine-gun rapidity Wash–
ington has suffered an unprecedented'
series of global reverses.
WHY THE MIDEAST PEACE
4
TALKS FAILED
European corresponden1S Charles Hunting
and David Ord cover Kissinger's capitu–
lation.
INTERVIEW WITH
GIDEON HAUSNER
5
Jerusalem correspondent Mark Armstrong
interviews the famed Israelí jurist.
THE INCRmiBLE HUMAN
~TENnAL~
lhe Misslng Di'!'ension
in
Knowfedge
What is mankind' s ultimate goal? Here
is a deeper lobk into mankind's destiny.
DOOMSDAY REVISITED
Scientific consensus is pointing mankind
toward doomsday, but Bible prophets
speak of a worfd after doomsday.
LET THEM EAT FISH
lf the oceans are to feed the world,
mariculture will Jead the way, reports
Associate Editor Charles V ioson.
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
SPEAKS OUT_!
1~
_ Jhe edílor- recalls the war in which so
many gave so much for so little.
WEEK ENDINO
APRIL 19, 197S
INDOCHINA'S AGDNY:
MIN ANO BllliDNS SPINT IN VAIN
by
Jeff Calkins
The unexpected success of a Commu–
nist spring offensiVe has accomplished
in a few shon weeks most of What
50.000
American hves and
$170
bil–
lion soughtto Slave off for ten years.
SOuth Vietnam·s
seco<~d
largest
city
- Oa Nang - has fallen to the North
Vietnamese. With the loss of its last bas–
tion in the north, the Saigon govem–
ment gave up over
100,000
soldiers
and an estimated
s
2
billion in equipo
ment. One official termed the loss of the
city, " the single biggest defeat for
South
Vi~tnam
In the past twenty
years.
·•
~
While thore is no way to fix an exact
percentage of South Vietnam's t!'rñt ol')<
now under Communist
controt
esti·
metes run from
45%
to
75%.
With the
lall of Oa Nang, the war in Vietnam
takes on more of the character of' the
war in neighboring Cambodia - an
embanled military govemment con–
trected mto a
few
remaining
cities
teem·
ing with swarms of refugees fleeing the
onrushing Red offen$ive.
Pelnfvl Reminder
of 10 Yeero Ago
The recen1 Communist gains have
a
particularly excruciating sym&l ism for
Americana.
h
was In Oa Nang in the
spring of
1
965
lhat the first con1ingent
of battle-ready U.S. marines landed.
This was the beginning of the large·
scale American milllary intervention in
the lndochina war. The city symbolizes
the U.S. ínvolvement in Voetnam -
and its lall represents a stinging Ameri–
canselbeck.
In the central highlands,
now
totally
abandonad. a larga portion of American
blood was shed. By pulling back into
more easily delensible areas, -1he Thieu
government triad - unsuccessfvlly -
10 follow the "coastal enclave" option
first advocaled by Lieútenant General
James Gavin, en idea rejected. bv- the
Johnson
ad~ini~tralion·yeíirs
ago.
The Aid Co ntrovarsy
The proximate cause of the retreat.
according to U.S. Defensa Secretary
James Schlesinger. was congressional
reluctance to lund any increase in Amer·
ican aid Without additional funding the
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Thíeu government simply couldn't al–
lord to keep lighting in the nation's
outer periphe"t.
In response to the administration plea
lora
1522
mollion lndochina
aid
pack–
age, Congressional ciitocs charge that
no amount of money can save the Thieu
govemment.
The charge is at least pertially bome
out by recent rumblings within 1he Sai–
gon govemmen1 itself. Oozens of opPQ–
sition politicians havo been arrested on
chargos of plotting to overthrow the
governmont . Rumors have been flying
of assassination schemes and coúp 81·
templs on tha part of lhe military.
Formar Premiar Nguyen Ky's
call
for
Thieu's resignation underscores the be–
lief thal these arethe Saigon president's
lastdays.
The
situation is even more bleal( in
Cambodl8 . The Khmer Rouge have a
stranglehold on
the
Mekong River and
are slowly constricting the surrounded
capital of the Phnom Penh. Cómmunist
shelling of the
city's
airport has ef'fec·
tively cut off the Cambodian capital
from its only oource of
s~pplies
- the
American airlift.
·
America'a Curse
The fall of the U.S.-supported govem–
ment in Cambodia is
a
virtual certainty.
And lhe blitzkrieg launched by North
Vietnam could aasily prove to be the
beginníng ol the end for non-Commu–
nist lndochina . Congressional refusal to
send "good money alter bad" may 1urn
out to be the one final definitive Ameri–
can act: thet of consigning the ares ovar
to its regional impeñalist power. Hanoi.
Thus. the war that paved
the
way
for
loday's double-digil inflation; that ang–
ered many ol America's allies and gen–
erated unprecedented anti·AmeJ:icanism
In Europa;
11\fJ..&!l~d
the u'riited States
the. scorn of much of the world; that
divided the natlon agaíns1 itself and
generated a d&cade of int erna! turmoil,
may now come 10 an end wíth one final
"No" from the American Congress. The
fantestic investment of Ameñcan man·
power and matériel is being written off
- a dramalic fulfillment of the biblical
curse in Leviticus
26:20,
" And you
shall spend your strength in vain. "
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