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ISOLATIONIST TREND IN U.S.
WORRIES EUROPEANS
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Western Europa is deeply concerned
over defensa ties with Washington.
SADAT'S WINDOW
TO PEACE
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Egypt's President is proving to be a
shrewd tactician as he maneuvers 'in the
complex Mideast arena .
WATERGATE AND THE
VIETNAM DEBACLE
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How Mr. Nixon's domestic crisis crippled
America's foreign policy.
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A TIME TO QUAKE
1974 was the year of the Disaster Film.
According to some scientists.
1982
will
~e th~
year of
th~
Real Thing.
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ASTROLOGY-
SOMETHlNG FOR EVERYBODY
Our staff astronomer grades " zero for
the Zodiac, " examining numerous dis–
proofs of our national hobby.
ANCIENT SPIRITS
HAUNT MODERN SCIENCE
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Research in parapsychology proves the
existence of a spirit world around us.
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
SPEAKS OUT
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The Editor compares recent Arab press
raleases with thé prophecies of Daniel.
ORCHIDS AND ONIONS
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We answer questions from our readers,
. admitting errors ·and defending truth.
MORE THAN ONE MAN
COULD DO
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How will true peace be achieved? Not
until there is a basic change in human
natura, w rites Stanley R. Rader .
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"THIRD IDRlDWAR.
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~
UNDIR·WAY
fDR 30 YIARS...
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President Thieu, Saigon, October 4, 1973
by
Stanley R. Rader
Tokyo, Japan, April
11 :
In his inaugural address in January
1961. President Kennedy made his
first
and proud declaretion that it
WIIS
n~•
sary for the world to know. whother the
world liked it or not. that the United
1;tates would pay eny price. assume any
burden. triumph over any adversity.
as–
sist any friend and combat any enemy
to assure the survival and ihe victory of
liberty.
last night, over fourteen years lator
Presiden! Ford dehvered his "State of
the Wor1d" address bafore both Houses
of Congress in the wake of the contin·
uing debacle in South Vietnam, the fail- ·
ure of Mr. Ki.ssinger's shuttle diplomacy
in the Middle East, the imminent
ool–
lapse of Cambodia and the flight of
Presiden!
~on
Nol. the assassination of
King
Fai~l-of
Saudi Arabia , tho conlliC1
' between the
two
NATO allies. Greece
and Turkey. over Cyprus, and the dra–
matlc tum to the lalt in Portugal.
President Ford st ressed that American
offorts since the end of World War
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have saved nations and millions of
people throughout the wond end that,
as
a
result.
"pHce is a res/¡xospact 101'
us
Md
a// nadons.
"and that
" American
effotts
have
prevented World
w..,
111
for
more thM
a
generalion. ••
6ut.
1
cannot help but recell Thurs–
day, October 4 , \973, in Saigon. when
Mr. Armstrong and
1
were received by
President Thieu of the Republic of Viet–
nam in the Presidential Palac:e and the
ansuing dialogue that lastad for more
than an hour. This was not our
first
visit
to Saigon, but it was our
first
audience
with President Thieu, and. frankly,
1
had
been much influenced prior 10 that
meeting by the effort.s of the media
worldwide, including our most vocif–
erous dissenters in the United $tates of
our entire American Vietnam effort. who
claimed that the people of South Viet–
nam would prefer the
Voet
Cong to the
repressive and corrupt regime of Presi·
dent Thieu.
However. 1 found that President
Thieu was not the man described by
the media, but was ·an intelligent.
articulate and far-seeing leader of a
gov·
ernment and a people fighting for their
independence, as they had for so long.
Prasident Thieu was well steeped in the
histot'Y of his country, as well as
in
the
history of the wor1d. and he was very •
f rank and open in his di.scussion about
the future of his country in light of the
withdrawal of the American military
support in accordance with the "agree·
ment on ending the -war and restoring
peac:e in Vietnam...
President Thieu stated that America
feiled to recognize that the
Third World
Wsr
had been under way for almost
thirty
yee.,.
The Soviet Union. he
notad. realited very soon alter World
wer
11
that it could never confront the
United States in a direct conflict. This
was true before
Ruuia
echieved its
own
nuclear eapacity and remained uue
even alter it became the second greet
nuclear power of the world . The
U.S.S.R. could. however. accomplish
ots goals and
its
primary objective of
wot'ld domination by the useof its satel·
lite and client states which it would sup–
ply with weapons, including the most
moclem aircrah. missiles. tanks. antiair·
cralt
devices
and
the
like.
as
well as
t raining all thair personnel. These client
states would probe and attack American
interests in placaswhere the Soviets
1,11
the chances were best for
StlCCe3S
in the
short ·or long run. Every step would be
taken. however. to avoid
a
major con–
frontation with the United States. In
fact. the client states were cautioned
end even prevented from aC1S
so
pre>–
vocative that they would arouse
the
United $tates to such
a
point that U.S.
retaliatory measures would unleash the
kind of military power that would d&–
stroy the cliant state. just
as
the
U.S.
hed destroyad the mighty Japanese mil·
itary; machine during the Second Wor1d
War.
Presiden! Thieu stated that
"t
any
mo–
ment
another military
conflict
could
break
out -
in
the
Middle
EIJSI,
for
example, between the Arabs and lsreel.
or in his own country. and all that would
be necessary would be Moscow's giving
the green light to Egypt and Syria in the
lllíddle East and to North Vietnam or
North Koree in the Far East.
We flew home to California immedi–
ately alter our audience wíth Presldent
Thieu. Less
than thirty-sht hours
later 1
was reviewing our
~meeting.
on Satur·
¡!ay. October 6. 1973, with one of my
friends in the Los Angeles area who wss
a formér colonel in the United States
Marine Corp.
-1
told him
how
impressad 1
was
with Presiden! Thieu and his grasp
ot wor1d affairs and hita great concem
that an armed conflict might break out
at any moment
as
a result of Russia's
desire to use its client states to the full–
est ¡n order to accomplosh
its
objectives.
My friend looked at ma and said, "You
must be kidding. .Haven't you heard the
news7" 1sald. " No. 1haven't although 1
had just read the morning newspaper: ·
"Tum your .radio on. The Egyptíans
have crossed the canal in force and the
Syrians have gained much ¡¡round on
(Continued on
page 6. col. 5)
WEEK ENDINO MAY
3,
197S