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WILL RUSSIA RULE
THE WAVES?
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Soviet sea power is growing fas!. The goal is to
control sea lanes vital to the Western world.
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"'AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH''
News Editor Gene H. Hogberg lool<s into history
for an explanatlon of today's.epidemic of violence.
THE BASIC CAUSE OF
CONFLICT
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Columnist Stanley Rader reports on the "get"
principie at work in governments around the
world.
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HUM~N
SURVIVAL
A new' series, beginning this issue, explores in
depth the most importan! question tooay: Will
mankind survive t_he 20th century?
THE GRIM SPECTER OF
TOTAL WAR
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The greatest worldwide arms race in history -
costing over $240 billion a year - is out of control.
What will be the end of it all?
MINING THE SEAS OF
TOMORROW'S FISH
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· Fish and chips is still a. staple of the British diét.
but tor how much longer?
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IS EVERY DAY
\\JUST LIKE ANY QTHER
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Religion Editor John
R.
Schr.oeder examines
biblical evidence·for sabbath keeping.
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THE
DEATH OF THE OCEANS?
The world's seas are not as big as they seem .
They can die from man·s pollution, writes Garner
Ted Armstrong.
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DOIS -AMIRICA
Sllll STAND fDR ANYTHING?
'py
Gene H. Hogberg and Jelf
Calkin~
"What is still called Western civ- 1960s, however, the assault became an
ilization," wr.ites the distinguished open insurrection. with lhe advenl of lhe
English journalist. Malcolm Muggeridge,
campus revolt. ,
"ls In an advanced slage of decomposi-
Authorlty figures, sexual morality, and
Ílon."
prívate P.rosperily have been under attack
America's .bicentennial year puts this ever since. In every sphere of American
assessment sharply inlo focus. lncreas- society, il seems. the bedrock values of
lngly, the values upon which American
commoo sense are being thrown lo the
civilizatlon was built are considerad ei- winds tly various personal and sexual
lher unfashionable or obsolete.
"liberation" movemenls that wanl to an- ·
In place of time-honored virtues of hard
nlhilate every last reslraint on personal
work, lhrilt, self-discipline, self-reliance,
conduc( and instilutionalize 'lhe "per-
sharply defined moraJ ·concepts,.belief in
missive society."
family lile, artd love of counlry. one sees
The whole point of Jean Raspail's re-
lnstead lhe 'opposite corrupting vices
cent and controversial book,
The Camp
strangllng out the goo& the welfare ethic,
of the Saints,
is· that a soclety must be-
massive indebledness approaching ap-
lleve In itself and its root values or il will
palling amounts both for individuals and
die. James Burnham makes much the
the government,.a bloated governmental
same polnt In hls epic book,
Suicide
of
bureaucracy that stifles lnltlative and
the West.
squelches drfve, materialistic self-indul-
Burnham is pessimlstic about Amer-
gence, rampan! immorality - better yet,
ica's prospects for survival, as is Robert
amoralily, with glant segments of our Nisbet, who In hls recent
boof<;:rwi~
of
population "doing thelr own thing" In all
Authority,
argues that America has
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aspects of their_persor¡ai· Jives, oblivious
ready enterad a "twilighl age" in whlctl '
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otno·return'anddeeltn'e- isinelliláble. .. ..· -
The upshot is a highly divided, frag-
As sin - the breaking of God's basic
mented society of individuals living in
laws of lile - produces evil results indi-
a "non-nation" thal no longer believes in vidually, the compounding of, these sins
ltself or knows what il stands tor in the on a national scale is leading to a nation
world.
confused as to its national goals - a na-
Jaroslav Pelikan, dean of Yale's gradu-
tion mÓrally adrllt, cut off from the God in
ate school, speaks pessimistically of the whom it claims to pul its trust, afloat on
rapidly changing altitudes In today's the wor1d scene
without
any
real
purpose.
Am·erica regarding moral relativism and
lt was Russell Kirk who has polnte<t out
self·indulgence. Wryly, he asserts that the
in hls bicentennially orientad book.
The
dllference between ancient Rome and
Roots ot American Orper,
thal "all as-
America today is thal whlle back then
pects ot civilization arise out of a people's
only a minority could alford to lndulge lts
religion." Yet Americans are abandoning
senses. today "everybody's entitled to be
religious values and are increasingly !iv-
depravad."
ing on an exclusively materialistic plane.
- The continuad existence of a democ-
One futurologist says the Unlted States ls
racy such as America's depends upon
enterlng an entirely new period of a reli-
the character of the nation as a whole,
giously neutral slate and an unbelieving
not fust of its leaders, who, of c::ourse. are
majority.
the product of thal very society. Because
Because of the secular trend, the hope
of this. the founding fathers foslered lhe . lor any consensus of values which it can
concept of "republlcan virtue," the idea
hold up lo the world is diminishing. As the
thal the citizenry should exercise a fair
presiden! of one west coast university put
amount of restraint, self-disclpline, and
it, " The unique feature of the present
responsibility.
moral crisis is not so much a more wide-
Most Americans today, however, seem· spread violation of standards as il is the
oblivious to the direct connection be-
rejection of the idea that there are any."
tween personal moral responsibility and
lndeed, the rejectlon of standards and
the health of the nation as a whole as il values .has taken its toll on the moral re-
moves into competition with other na-
solve el the United States to believe in.
tions and ideologles on the world scene.
ilselt. The tamous track-and-field star of
The plain fact is, the survival of Amer-
the 1930s, Glenn Cunningham, sums up
· ica is as much, if not more, dependen!
the matter succlnctly, "Too.many people
upon its int!)rnal soundness than its ex-
have lost pride in their country, pride in
ternal militacy defensesl Thli example that
everything,... .
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tell my kids, 'You stand
America and Americans set for them-
for something, or fall for anything .' "
salves and other nations is of equal im;
There is a reason why the United States
portance toa "showing of the flag" in the
faces a challenge from lhe communist
far-flung corners of the world.
world greater today than ever before. For,
The Age of Revott
Where and when, then, dld Amerlca
jump the track of sound-minded think.ing?
The baslc core of American values has
been steadlly under assault in inlellectual
circles since Victorlan times. In the early
as it has been saill many times. commu–
nism can be llkened to a cancer that
teeds upon and ultimately consumes
other corrupt social systems.
The United States has precious. little
time lelt to regaln its health to meet the
challenge. o
JANUARY 1976