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AMODEST
PROPOSALFOR
ADICTATORSHIP
IN ITALY
byJ
G. Calander
ROME:
A3 1
boarded the early moming
Alptne Express in Munich. bound for Rome.
l gol m
y
fir$1 taste of ltaly. Afler a week of
traveling the trains of northem Europe. 1
had
become spoiled by the luxuiy and punc–
tuality of Europe.an tnlins. They wcre onen
punctu.a.l to the
#CtJnd.
Tbis Italian train.
bowevcr, departed
lh.iny
minutes late, and
our
"Arst
cbss" aeoommodations wcre de·
Cldedly second ratc. Strilr.e one.
The dirun& car was s<ñke two.
1
bad be·
come accustomed to
lhc:
finc:st
mcals on
whecls. but. when
1
asted
dirCCiloos 10 the
dtniog car on the Alpioe Express. l got
a
blaok look and "'whaur·. llinally found it:
a n unheated (below freezing) cement·
ftoored cattle car where a frantic llolian
(wbo spoke no Oermao. although we were
in Oerrnony) sold tepid cofree and stale
buns. That was my breakfast and lunch dur·
in&
lb
e
ninc·hour tta.in ride.
Stnke three goes
10
the !tallan bureau·
crocy. lt.aly wu the only nation
lD
Europe
that stopped
U$
11 the border, tnstead or
merely sendon&
a
depu<y 10 cumUle our
papers while the
train
"'U
in motaon.
So
we
lost another half·hour at tbe Brenner Pass
sbowing our passports.
As
wc switchcd ears in Vcrona, we bad
our •«>ond taste of the prototypical halinn
civtl servant. 1wanted
tO
change U.S. travel·
-~._$íetl:s
int'&l.liJ'a.:,i!;io"lhing
Ji.)oCh.
¡U.~
podtetl!blnge,
IOO,OOO·Iifa
ONO.
There "'•• •
oobody waitin& in line at the exchange win·
dow. but the man bchind the sJus was
"busy" shuftling one paper 10 onc pole. an·
other paper 10 lhe
first
pilc, and back apm.
1 wa.utd for reo
minutes, then
bcpn
to
mcekly ask fo• my change. F!Ve monutcs
later, be lookcd up and Wily examined
al/
my identifi.cation papers. beforc
reluc~An~y
giving me
lira.
1
wa.\ lueky to
get·any
servicc:. You see, it
wu almost qu1tting time
in
lhe ancmoon.
t,
Flsh
rc::ttinu•d
Jrom
pazo 1o;
Colorado City, Texas. Yields thcre
are
re–
poned 10 be the equivalen! of
100
tons per
acre
per
year
with
intensive
feedin&-
The Japanese. as
usual,
havc been one
s tcp a head in the utilization
o(
thenn&l sea
pollucion. Shrimp,
ee~
ycUowtail. subream,
ayn
and whitefish are
aU
participants
in ex·
perimcot.S whkh have been canied on since
1964 and which bave proven
succes.srut
for
the moot pan.
The Britosh commenoed tests oo the eul·
ture or plaiec and aole on an experimental
basu
ten
ycars
ago
using
the tbermal dis–
cbarae from
a
nuclear
plant in Scollancl.
Wotb some temperature <Onlrol and fllpple–
meotal feedin¡. lisb
growth
from tbo
•&&
10
a
1
~
..
Jb.
siu
ancf larger was
au.ained
m tcss
than
two years.
lt
takes nature
twice
a.s
long..
N
oc all types ofmarine life
are
aoeeptable
lO all people.
Som~
typés are more nutritious
and healthi\Jithao otbers. Most people natu·
rally prefer
10
eat the free·swimmiog <ypes
Of
lish,
wbich unfortuo.alely are ditlicult lO
raue
lD
an aquaeulture situatioo duc:
\0
their
m•gratioo and feedingltabits.
B«:ause of thi>, many t>OCa110SJ11pber$ are
pressiog strOosJy for much sttic<er oontrOls
on tradilional kinds of open-Jea lisbiog.
Evcn depleted stocb of lisb can repleoisb
themselvu rapidl_y ifonly len &looe.
l'or exarnple, the Nortb
Sea,
oldest of Eu–
ropeOID ftshin& waters, wa.s badly depletcd al
thc outset or the fint world
war.
Kosúlíties
WEEK ENDINO APRJL
19, 197$
commented to my rricnd. "1 gucss ltalian.s
don't worlc in tbe al"ternoon." He said, "No,
you
bave
it
all wrong..
Morning
is
wbea
JtaJ.
ian.s don'l
work.
A!\cmoon is wben tbey
don't
conttt
lo work.."
Now, aner four days Ul this land of robust
red wine.
pasta.
and musical govemments.
l've linally leamed 10 avoid anyone wbo
loots olliciaL The wbole ltaloan e<:ooomy
is
ooe
vast
wasteland of paperwork. Paralysis
;. a way of life. Everywhere there ;. a form
tofiU.
To copeWilh this morass of red tape - not
10
mentioo the puta shortage. higher
taxes,
prioc controL$, wild drivers. and all the othcr
hangups of ltalian daily life - rome local
bU$inesscs have instaUed a special expediter
- the
spicdajaccondi -
whQSe sote du<y io,to
bribe whomover oeeds bnbin&
10
get
.ome·
tbingdonc.
The idea
bas
men~
but why stop at tbe
private levo!? Wbat ltaly needs is a
"sup<r·
splcdajaca,.di"
wbo could get tbings done
at
a natiooal
level,
someone
wb« miracle of
miraclcs., could
get
the mail
dclivered
the
same year it's sent. Aner aH. when
it
takes
three yea"
10
get
a
peqsion check, you might
u
well get another¡ob.
lt's time haly ¡ave up
tbeir
cumbersome
chanode of democraey. Nobody takcs the
llllliao govemmenc $tñously anymore, least
o(
all tbe ltalians. Eoough! Polilic$ in ltaly
bas
.grown
itale. ltaloan prime miniscen
come and go so fast they don't have time 10
bave tbeir portraits patt>,Jcd. mucb lcss hung.
Thi> govemmental obtcuri<y and bureau·
cratie bungli.ng hu reaehed the saturation
poinc. Lefs bave a strong hand from some–
where to pick up the pi«:es, someone wbo
would be reoognizable ir you saw bis face in
a history
book.
'A
beoevoJent
díctAtor
could
buj1<1:
great
monuments.,
~
Ouc
IOcial
refóifu.s."'~and
bedeclo: tbe landscape with bis picture paited
oo
bis
newly built pubhe worb. This
bcnign
dll<e
could fuiiiJI hos transeendent role as
"the ñghtful heir of
C.esar"
in
a
oew Ro–
man Empire.
No more weat unstable center-ten
e:oali–
tions masquerading., demoorocy. Let a oew
suptrspicciafaccondi
lead the way back to
pastgloñcs.
Who lcoows - he might cven make the
trains run
on time.
O
preve.nted large-.scale h.arvcslin.¡ for
(our
ycars.
Wben peaec brougbt
lislúng
8ccts
haek into the
arca.
stoeks had repleDisbed
them.selvcs rcmarbbly weU. Sizc u weD as
quantiry was up dramatically. The same
was
rnoe aner World Warll.
This replenisbing of speeies ;. possible in
mose if not aU beavily overflshcd arcas orthe
oceao.s.
Reatizing this, many lookcd 10 '"' ' year's
Law
of the Sea Confercnce a.s a partiat solu–
tion·to che overharvesting problem. Thc
pur·
pose
Of
the COofereocc
WIS lO
write a lrea<y
_for the devclopmeot of ocean raources as
~otind's
oommon heñtase -
including
mineTal
explollaiJOo. frecdom of navigation
and poDulion control
Sadly~
the outcomc of tbe
conftrcnoe was
negliJible.
LittJe Qr no asreement was fonb·
comiog between
nat.ions.
most ofwhich weie
unwilling
lO·
coopcrate in the use of the'lr
own dcsignated patche> ofcontinental sheU:
So
the raj>e of lbe sea eonlinucs, and
many popular varietics
o(
(r~e
swimnting
food lish - tbe choicest kinds - hove now
reached their peak barvcst or are now in
decline. Aud bccause of pc>llulioo. the seas
are shriok.ing in tbor natural capabili<y
to
produce
food.
h remaiQ$
to
be
seen whether or oot
a:w:a–
ldod
will
leam 10 m•n•&• tbe natural
(ood
resources of tbe oceans before <bey are gooc.
In
the meantime, the dcvelopment of the
science of
mariculcurc: is
one
bright
spot in
.the generally bleak world food crisis. o
orchidscr-
.....5
letters
1
have no quarrel witb your philosophy
-1
suppose
1
really agree with
aU
you have
wriuen (what
1
have
read,
that i>).
1
am
1
pol1tteal
conservative-
rMI
conscrvattve –
and 1have a
stron&
n:ligious
cooviction~
....
Beyood
Iba~
1
cannot equate the
"po•·
crty program." the
"anns
problem,.. the
"eocr¡y crisis;• the intcmational "incotnc
tradc disputes,•• tbe ..
oH
embargo, "
"women's Uberatioo." the "Unitcd
(m)
Nation.s,·• ''inflation," ..smoking•• and
plain old·fashionod
hunger
with the ionpor·
lance of the gospel ....
A hungry belly is a pitiful, painf'ul. sad
tbing - grantecl. But please leave Ood, the
Bible, aod Christ out of
i~
Each should be
dc:ah wilh on
its
own terms. Your baule
aga1DSI
social
evil
is
g<>Od.
but it sbould be
labeUed
JUSI
tbat:
a
bat~e
agamsc
social
evtl
No/
reli&ioo.
Robert
Crean.
Yardley. PA
Roben L. Kuhn, your article
is
a master·
pl~el
'"The Poliaics of Etemity" is thc best
defirucion
1
have ever
read of.
wbat.
ChriS·
tiarutyi>, and
wba<
filie religton
u .
Coulcl –
you make • leallet or pamphlet or lhat
ma,rulicent attiele?
MabeiBewlcs.
Bnscot. CO
In
your
Plaln Truth
of January
1975,
p .
30,
you stated thac nobody else is
preaehing tbe Word.
1
felt that
was
a
strange
contment.
seeiog thar
thc: Jebovah's
Witnesses are preaching tbe Word of Ood,
in practicalty every cou.ntry io thc
world ... .
Aúo
in
Plain TnJth
o(
l'ebruary
8, 1975.
p.
15,
an article
by
Oerbard Marx statcs
that
tbere. are oo mirüsten
in
operation
lD
the atbcistie mtc of Albania. Well. upon
rescasch,
1
wu very much
surprúed
10
find
that Jebovah'a: Wirnesses are ""'wortins un·
deraround" in Albania lo spread the truth.
and in other !roo Cwu.in counlñes also.
AnJeavoros,
• Kirtland. OH
1
would like
10
tell you thac you radiate
spiritually on milfioros of people and in
spite
or
the degeneration
o(
bumanity.
tbere
are
millions to whom you
&i••
mean·
me
10 tbeir livcs by the Word ofOocl.
Anoo.ymous woma.n,
La
Coumcve, France
You
have bere one
slightly
mül'cd
Canap
dian.
Ln
your issuc) week end.ing, Feb. 8Lh.
you had an article on U.S.-Canadian rela–
tio!" whieh
~rt
of
~lippcd
on a couple of
pomiS. For a
~can,
the so-called ..tcebnical·
ity" aboul !he DES bormone. Twenly·two
countries (or thcreabouts) have ceased
buyl.ng American meat because of the ad–
dJtives.
Tbere
was
a jo.int agrecmcnt
be·
twcco tbe U.S.
and
Canada
tbat no DES
would be
used.
This
didn'tsittoa weU with
U.S. caulemen. so they goc tbetr lobby
busy and had ic repealed on
Ibis
side of the
border. We simply don"t want tbe erap -
and
1
mean lhe
meat
lneidentalty, life expectancy is a year
higber in Canada••
Now about the oil - we have
eno~gh
ror
oursclvC$, According 10 fore<:asts we don't
have enough to keep sending it 10 tbe U.S.
and
stiU maintain self·sufficiency. We bave
been a
lot
more «Jn.servation-minded lhan.
the U.S. - even
10
sellin¡ milk in re-usable
canoDS
aod special bap.
What
we have
u a nei&Jlbor
who
has
beco gorging himsel( on hi> sirloin like
ther-e·s
no tomorrow..
Ha~ns
nearly done
with
i~
he
is:
now
lookang
oovetousty at
our
carefully conserved hamburger. And we
don't
like
it.
Whac aro
1
doing in tloe U.S.? Studying.
Do
1
plan
10
stay forever7 Hell no. Up tiU
then,
1
am
codeavounn& to make like
a
good átizen
(1
notice
l'm trying harder 10
conserve tbao a lot
or
my
Arntricao
fñcnds). and
l"m
overpayin& my t.axcs like
everybody e
!se.
Janet
P.•
New York City.
NY
1
Wrile
in
response lO your WRY NOT
column in the March
8, 1975
Ploin
Tnu!r.
People who know Ood. Mr. Hill, never
pretend they are Ood•. . .
Lit~e
children
who
are
nor
ycr in ru.nc
wídt
rea!iry
might
imagin~
they are. Ood.
A~u.hs
wb? pre!;.nd
they are Ood
are
some11mu looked 11p
in·
asylums, hopeiCMiy lost for any coostruo–
tive <Ootñbutions to aociety.
Only
J>!'Ople
wbose
co"""p110n ofOod ;. small will sug–
gcstto someone 10 prctend he;. Oocl.
WHY
NOT
sbow a tittle coura&e and 3ive
your readers some pla.in ttutb about God
and hio salvatioo through Chñst? ...
D.
1!.
Anderson,
Evanston,
IL
Very ·pteasanc surprisel Although l've
bcard
o( Plain
Tn~th,
this
i.s
my
first
en–
counter with
it:
it's presen1Jy passi_ng
!hrough maoy haods. Kccp it coming!!!
(Maybc
tum down tbe ..
Ood"
pan
a linte.)
Scou JohnS!oo.
lndianapolis, IN
1
would like
10
Jet you know how
1
feel
about the formal
o(
the new
Plain
Trut!r
magazine. l'm sickened to tears, my hean
;. broken, my body
ü
numb. l don'l care if
you pñnt
1'/a/n Truth
on kleenex or tbe
eheapesc paper that money can buy. but
let*s
keep it
the
'rcat magazine
lt was
be·
rore.
Look
at
bow
much spacc ;.
used
í.o •
An
Buchwald: Biring Your Owo Bulle!" aod
othcr storics and cartoons. Where did thc
Ood· ipspired wriler$
or
the old
P/ain Trvrh
go?
1
have tbe fccltng tba t the
PIDin
Truth
has
beco
degradecl. ..•
The old
Pltdn Truth
and
Good
N~s
magazine are tbc g.reate.st wriuen material
in thc world tnday. other than the Bible.
And
1
couldn"t
wait
üll they arñved. But
now when
1
think or the
P/aln
Trutfr.
tears
and much sorrow come to m
y
hea:n.
'
William John
Drcw,
Jackson, MI
l"m
in tbe pñntin& bU$iness. aod
1
know
bow expensive the old ronnat must
hav~
becn.
~uch
more practica! 10 switch 10
newspñnt. Very good. Thanb.
Marybelh Vaughn,
Gen. Mgr., Tyler
~lar,
Tyler,1(<
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