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VAJíCAN-
lSSUlS
NlW CAU.
FOR
EUROPE~UMTY
In an unpublicized but.highly lmportant speech
to his bishops, Pope
Patll
VI called tor a unlted
Christian Europe.
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AMER1CA'S MOUNTAIN OF DEBT
As total public and prívate debt nears three
trllllon dollars, each American man, woman,
and child owes over $13,0001
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THANKSGIVING DAY- WHAT
SHOULD IT MEAN TO YOU?
Between football and turkey. the name of the day
has lost its meaning. Thanks to whom? For what?
How otten? And
wby?
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LIMITS TO GROWTH
Our reporters covered the first of five biennlal
conferences dedicated to the predicament of
mankind: to grow or not to grow.
THE GREAT QUAKE:
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WHEN WILL IT COME?
We In California think otten about earthquakes,
but the time is coming when they may strlke In
unexpected places.
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ORCHIDS AND ONIONS
The series on the human potential and the
mlssíng dlmenslon in sex stíll draw the largest
number of reader responses .
BUILDING HUMANITARIAN
BRIDGE$
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Stanley
R.
Rader covers the 30th anniversary
concert of the United Natlons, conducted by
Maestro Cario Maria Giulinl.
WHAT WE NEED ARE
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LEADERS - NOT FOLLOWERS
Our leaders don't lead, they foliow, writes editor
Garner Ted Armstrong in hls regular "speaks
out" column .
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by
Donald
O. Schroeder
Kldnappings. assassinatioos. bomb–
lngs, and tt>reata
o1
vlotence to publie
ollieials anct lnnoc:ent bystan<len halle
become
daity featurea
in
world ,_,.,
The recent maehln811un 1úllings of
two
Turkish amba»adors in Vienna and Parls
wlthln a •- days of each other under·
score the growlng vlolence.
Olher recent attacks demonstrate the
suóden terrorist prollferation: ttle dis–
appearanee
ot two American embassy
ol·
flcials
In
Beirut;
!he abduction of several
U.S. mílitary advisors In the strll•torn
provlnce of Eritrea In Ethio¡¡la; the kld·
napping of
a
Brltlsh consul In Asmara,
capital ot the sarne provlnce; the bomb–
lng of downtown offices in three Ameri–
can
eítles
allln one moming. supposeóty
the
worlt
of
an
unóergrounó organlzatlon
pushlng tor Puerto Riean inoepenóence.
In the lrish Republlc. Dutch industrlallst
Tlede Herrema has auffered days of beat·
lngs and threats of death from two deter·
minad trish Aepubliean Army terrorlS!S.
At
the
time
ot
thiS
writing,
he
has not
yet
been
treed.
althougll poliee
and
army
speelalists have
surroonded
the kldnap.
pen·
hideout.
Almost daily, pollee, public otflc::lals.
and buslnessmen
(a
1,\ercedes-Ben~
ex,
ecutlve m<ist rec::ently)
'in
Arge"ntlna
.;,¿–
other strlfe-torn areas
ot
Latin Amer1ca
are kldnappeó or kllled by dillerse bends
of terroriSIS.
In ltaty. gangland terrorism extorts miJ.
Jlons lrom tamlilea of kldnapped proml·
nent citizens. And whlle plane hl)ac::klngs
have been greauy reduced through fnten–
slve airline screenlng and the reluctance
of more and more natjons to avold the
reperrussions trom being refuge zones
tor
terrorist lanólngs. hljac::klngs remain
an ever presenl threal
Naw
Breed
ol
Vlolanca
Ten years ego. such radical tac::llcs to
exploit politlc.al or other grievances were
rare. especialty In the United Statas. Now
no one
is
really sale. Lewis Hoffaeker.
specfal assistant to the Seeretary of
State, summarlzed recently: "The wor1d·
has lived wlth vlolence and terror slnce
the beginnlng o f time. But we now are
experlencing new forms of lnternatlonal
terrorlsm whlch have reached the point
where innoeent peopte anywhere can
be
vletimized."
Terrorist
activ1ty.
moreover, 18 con·
taglous. Close to one hundred organizad
t arrorlst groups are recognlzed In the
world at present. They spread over the
polltical spectrum of causes from ex–
treme right to extreme lett anó bear not
onty the familiar abbreviated tilles sueh
as the P.LO.• S.L A.. or l .R.A., but also
such rarely publlclzed names as the
Basque ETA, the Croatian Ustasha, and
the Tupermaros In South Americe, to
name but a few.
Terrorist prollferatlon caused one Turk·
lsh diploma! to plnpoint the lmmense
problem
fac1ng
anti·terroñst oount&f"..
measures tollowlng the killing of the
Turkish ambassador In Pa.rls; " God
knows who is responslble for thle .•. ex–
tremlst Greek Cyprlots, the Oev Gelc
Turkish Jeftist movement. the Kurda,
or
i
.
J.!
~
.
~
.
God knows
who.
·In any case they are
crazy:·
The ultlmate fear of governments
everywllefe is
lhe
chaos wfl¡ch would
re–
sult from nuclear weapons talllng into ter–
rorlst hands as suc::h weapons and
technology prolife<ate.
Anll-tarror
Laws
Stymled
What are the
odds
of stopplng lnter–
national terrorlst
acfivity?
11'1
not a
posl–
tlve plclure, bvt nota tolally hopelessone
either at thls point.
The hundreds ot terrorlst breeding
grounds In the wortd are not going to
quietty dlsappear. For there are too many
examples ot government corruplion and
repression - otton the breedlng ground
for rabaiJlous movementa. Hatred.
whether stemming trom real
O<
lmaglned
lnjustic... ls awluJty difficult to control
once permitled to blossom.
Only tough lnternatlonal Jaws sup–
ported by
•-r
nation againat provlding
reluge
ancS
support
for
terrOffsts.•
eoupled
with
qulck
punishment
for lho9e
caught.
can -
begln
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tum
!he
tide.
Terrorists
everywhere
need
to be regarded tor what
they are firsl and foremost:
MURDERERSI
A.nylilj~g el~
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any
other attempt al justf.
"tying orrallonalizlng thelr actlvffies, is
eu·
phem1stle folly.
The status of antHerrorist lnternational
law. however.
is
in
disgrac:etul limbo. In
1972.
the U.N. General
Assembty
Legal
Commltfee rejected tha proposal that
member natlons return terrorlst criminals
for trlalln the country of thelr crlme. They
valed
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In favor of
a
"do-nothing"
study instead. Then the General
Assem·
bty turneó around and invlled the
spokes–
man of one of the workl's best-known
terroriSI groups to speak
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them.
lt's
a
welró wor1d. Everyone decrles ter–
rorlst vlolence when
1t
strlkes close to
home. But pressure groups in many na–
tions do not permit officlal cond&mnation
of tarrorism as
a
principia. even 1f in–
noeents
must
die.
Our wor1d la plagued wlth too many
nations and kleologles who abet and en·
courage terrorism as a means of "ad·
vanclng the revolutlonary procesa...
Killers
ot
lnnoc.ents are caJied " heroes,"
not murderers_ They wage " liberation:·
not war.
Terrorlsm and lhe growlng acceptanc:e
of vlolent means to ac::hleve frustrated
ends were actually foretold
tor
our age. In
the Blble one flnds !he amazlng pre–
diction: " Thls know also. that In the Jast
days pertfous
times
sha//
come.
For
men
shall be Jovers of their own selves. cov·
etous. boas1ers. proud, blasphemers, dis–
obedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
without natural affection, trucebreakers
... lncontlnent, fierce. dosplse;s of those
that are good. traitora. heady, high·
mlnded , ....
(JI
nmothy 3:1-5).
Untll terrorlsm and vlolenc::e are re–
jec::ted
u
solutions lo achleYe political
re–
sulta. terrorism will
feed
and grow on
itself and endanger all
ot
us more and
more, clalming addltlonal lnnocent vlc·
llms. Wlll
JI
have to take the return of
Jesus Christ himself belore the madness
stops? o
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER
22.
1975
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