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MAJOR SHIFTS ON THE
WORLD SCENE
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In two vital world arenas- Asia Mlnor and the Far
East - major diplomatic reshuffllngs are under–
way wh ich could h<Jve significant worldwide
implications.
GREECE TO BECOME
NUMBER TEN?
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In a surprlse move, the European Economlc Com–
munity has declded to begín negotlatlons which
may brlng Greece lnto the trade bloc as
1ts
tenth
member.
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THE BAHAMAS - A FRIENDLY
NEIGHBOR IN THE CARIBBEAN
Hlstory, culture, and modern-day economlcs tíe
thís multí-lsland natíon close to the Uníted States.
Read this speclai report by Clarence S. Bass.
WILL CHANGING WEATHER
BRING MASS FAMINES?
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Ominous changas in world weather patterns may
threaten the food supply of hundreds of millions
worldwldel Part 3 of our "Human Survival" series.
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LEBANON'S TRAGIC DEMISE
The crisis In Lebanon has reminded the world of
the ever-present dangers in the explosiva Middle
East.
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ORCHIDS AND ONIONS
Our readers comment on the slze of Lake Baíkal
and the perennlally lavorite topic of Women 's
lib
(yawn).
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AMERICA'5 TWO CHOICES
Editor Garner Ted Armstrong explalns the
on/y
two ways the Unlted States can malntaín lts lree–
doms and way of lile.
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lliCHON '7&-DOIS RMili
ANY DlffiRINCI
WHO WINS?
by
Jeff Calklns and Henry
Sturc~e
The race ls on. Wijh prlmary ballots
counted in placas llke Oixville Notch, New
Hampshire (pop.
29),
the public flurry ol
choosing
a
presiden!. lasting until next
January
20,
lnauguration Oay, has
1>.–
gun.
For most of us. lnterest In the campalgn
begins wllh the televised lmages of
tanned men In ski pa11<as or overcoata
tramplng through the New Hampshlre
snows durlng the llrst ol some thirty pri–
marias to be held thls year. But eny seri–
ous effort for the
job
began months and
even years ago, as men began quletly
testing and Unlng up support among the
opinion makera. power broke<s. and po–
tential financia! beckers in our society.
Between any nopelul, then. who meets
the simple quallllcations callad lor by the
Constitution and that desk in the Oval
Office lles a gaunllel ol lund-raising.
caucuses. prlmarles, conventions. con·
linuous press scrullny, and the election in
November, followed by the anti-climaclic
sittlng of the Electoral College.
The entJre sys:tem resembles sorne of
Charles Oarwin's theories.
As
the late
Adlai Stevenson
onee
remarked: "ViCtory
goes to the
la.st
suMVOr."
Turnad
Off
Electorate
In November the voters
will
be asked to
choose one ot
two
men, each the suc–
cesslul contender
tor
the nomlnatlon of
a
major party. Each wlll have made a carear
ot
polillcs al a lime when opinion poiiS
have found that pollticans rank below
garbage collectors In public esteem.
The big cliché this season is that the
American eteclorate is turned off and
cynicaJ. that they no ionger trust " gov–
ernment" to solve the big problems con–
tronting the nation and the world.
A Harrls Survey reports that.
- 66"
ot
American adults polled do
not toresee lasllng peace in their lifellme.
- 65"
see
no end lo·racial and rell–
gious dlscrlmlnatlon.
- 53"
say not everyone
can
live in a
clean env1ronment.
- 51"
doubt that starvation can be
etim1nated
In
thetr llfetime.
- 53"
do not thlnk that wars
can
be
avolded.
The poli suggesls a "new realism" on
the part of the American people.
11
this ls
really
so,
then there is hope Americana
will come to sea lhat ·the major issues
whlch have always laced man throughout
the centurlea - war, dlscrimlnallon,
star–
vallon, u well as the relatively modern
one of pollutlon - aren'! going lo be
"solved" by man - because of
flis
very
natura. The truth ls, conectiVa human na–
ture keeps man trom ac:nleving the uto–
p ias trad ltlonall y promlsed by
protessional politicians.
1t
took an ex-Jesuit seminañan, Callfor–
nia's governor Jerry Brown, to articulate
the problem: "A lot of intractable prob–
lema are belng seen as just that - lntract–
able." He adds: "The Idea that you can
buy out of unemployment, pollutlon. and
world responslbllity on the cheap jusi
isn'tso.··
Hopea and
Promlsa
Daahed on
!he
Rocka of Reallty
Nowhere can the f\ltillty of pol1tlcal man
be seen more clearty than when a candi–
data who has
a clear
Idea of whal he
\ll&nts lo do flnds hls goals trustrated
once he ls elected to office. Two major
examples come to mlnd.
John Kennedy cama lo ottlce as a lib–
eral opllmist wlth a clear set
ot
programs
In hls mlnd by whlch he hoped to trans–
f!)rm the Uniled States into
a
more decent
society fundamentally and transform lhe
world into a safer. more humane place for
all of its lnhabítants.
Not onty did Mr. Kennedy not succeed
In pushing his programa past
a
Congress
domlnated by his own party, but later.
alter hls successor Lyndon Johnson had
maneuvered the Kennedy programs
lhrough Congress under the Great So–
cl ety label. the programa were sub–
sequenlly acl<nowledged as l allures by
such liberal democrats as Mr. Brown.
Mr. Kennedy's
hopea
for world
lm–
provemenl wereClashed
on
th-ocks-!!!_
reallty
by
!he
pollcies
of the Soviet Un10n
and the immense problema of the devet–
oping countries. Even today. the most ar–
den! proponents ot IO<eign
ald
such as
Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal label the ideal·
talle ald programs of the early t960s as
abysmal taiiures.
On the other side
ot
the pollllcal spac–
trum. Ronald Reagan began hls term as
Callfornía's govemor In
1966
wllh a ctear
vislon of what he wanled lo do. Mr. Rea–
gan's "Creative Soclety" proposed to roll
back the power
ot
government from the
Individual and Nberate the construcllve
energies
ot
!he "private sector."
Alter eighl years of govemorship,
taxes
had gone up, Calitornla's atate budget
had doubled, and there was no actual
reduclion in the state bureaucracy. Mr.
Reagan was largely prevented from im–
plemenling his vision of govarnment by a
otate legislatura dominated by lhe oppo–
sltlon party, by the inherent momentum of
bureaucracy ltself, and
by
" cantrilugal
torce" which limits the ections of
any
elected executive
to
thoee lníliaUves for
whlch he
can
rally
majority
support.
In the end, Mr. Reagan·s "Creativa
So–
clety" solved no more real problema than
the Kennedy..Johnson "Great Soclety."
, The lssues are ulllmatety theologlcal.
The Blble doesn't stale thal Chrlst's re–
turn ls going to come about because he
wants to vlsit the utopia down here that
man has created - rather the opposlte.
Chrlst comes back at
a
moment when
man ls
about
lo biow hlmself off the earth.
Christ
comes
back
lo
establlsh lhe
milten–
nlum that man couldn't
bf1ng
about
by
hlmself.
The truth
fs
thal no mafter who
i~
elected presiden!, all won't be well as
long as humen beings wlth human natura
do the governlng. And all won't be well
untll someone who transcends human
nalure takes control
ot
man•a affairs. That
"candidata" and ultimate vlctor ls Jesus
Christ. o
MARCH
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