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About Our Cover December 1972VOL. XXXVII NO. 10Re-elected by an unp recedente d 49-statelandslide, President Richard Milhous Nixonis ready to pursue for another four yearshis goal of "a full generation of peace."In the November 7 balloting the presidentreceived a popular vote of 61%, compared

to 38% for Democratic candidate GeorgeS. McGovern . The overwhelming mandategave evidence that the majority of Americans found Me. Ni xon's plan for windingdown the war in Vietnam more acceptablethan that of his opponent, and tha t theyapproved of his diplomatic initiatives duringhis first four years of office. W ith a settlement in V i e t ~ a in sigh t, Mr. Nixon islooking to the world at large and to thelong -t erm fut ure, in wh ich he hopesnat ions will move from an era of confront ation to an era of negotiation.

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IN THIS ISSUEPersonal from the Editor .Russia's Mideast Dilemma ..Why No "Peace on Earth"? .Advance NewsRemember Stockholm? .Behold These Stones .The Love That Satisfies

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WHY No World Peace?

ONE OF the ways that men aretrying to bring about \X'ORLDPEACE between nat ions is theOl ympic games. We recently had asample of that "peace" at the 1972games in Munich, West Germany .

I think our readers need to know afew very significant facts. For this isju st another example of what 's. \X'RONG with human efforts for worldPEACE. Heads o f governments ando thers have been trying to bringabout world peace since the verydawn of history. But the y don't knowthe WAY to peace.These Olympic games have been

going on every four years - on andoff - since somewhere close to 800B.C. Th e origin of th e Olympicgames is not known , exac tly. Theyhave died out at tim es - and thenlate r been revived aga in .

They use the symbol of the five interlocked rings - supposed to be thesymbol of the spirit of brotherhood .Th e gene ral idea is that the variousnations send their finest physical specimens of youth to the games to meetin friendship and brotherhood, demon straring thei r various ph ysical skillsin spot ts. It 's supposed to bring thenations of the world together in afriendl y meeting of PEACE.But DOES IT? Did the Munich

games promote world peace? Let mePLAIN TRUTH December 1972

quickly review what actually happened - and th en tell you what' swrong with the whole idea - andWHY the games CANNOT promotepeace.

If you check the origin and spiritof th e games in the Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica, you 'll find that before thecontests opened, all the competitors,the trainers and the judges swore asolemn oath to keep the competitio nclean and fa ir and to g ive just decisions - and I understand that thi s isst ill done today. But solemn oaths donot always mean mu ch. The g racefulness and go od sportsmanship of thecontestants - and the method ofAI/red Henn ig - PLAIN TRUTH

winning - were esteemed equallywith the victory itself.

It was through th e effor ts of aFrench Baron Pierre de Couberrinthat the Olympic games were revivedin our time. He was not an athle tehimself, but a brilli ant educato r andscholar. He believed that one of thereason s for the g lory of the go ldenage o f ancient Greece was th e emphasis placed on physical culture andfrequent athletic festiva ls. He con cluded that nothing bu t GOOD cou ldresult if the athletes of all countries ofthe wo rld were brough t togetheronce every four years on the friendlyfield s of amateur sport, unmindf ul o f

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RUSSIA'S MIDEASTby Reouf el-Gemmel

The Soviet Union has discovered what the UnitedStates a lre ad y knows - economic and militaryaid does not buy friends and allies. Here is why

Egypt told the Russians: Get Out!

T HE LAND of Egypt in midsummer is an oven where temperatu res soar to 120 degreesFahrenhei t day-in and day-out - andwhere tempers tend to ge t even hotter.

Little wonder that in Ju ly, a goodmany were stunned to hear of Sadar'sdecision to expel some 15,000 to20,000 Soviet advisers. To some, itwas expected, especially since the anti Communist ball started rolling in theSudan a year earlier.

Anti-Communist UpheavalsIt all began in the Republic of the

Sudan.Sudan's President since 1969 has

been forty -two year old Major General Gaafar el-Nurneiry. As leader ofthe ruling Revolutionary CommandCouncil, he has faced nine attemptedcoups. In July 1971, members of thearmy eli te which governs this nat ionof 21 million staged - under Communist guidance - the most confusing hot-weather spectacular sincethe Sudan won independence fromBritain 16-years ago .

The Moscow-supported upheavalsof July 1971 were of major significance for one important reason.2

Moscow's so-called allies, namelyEgypt ,and Syria, were unflinchinglyagainst the Communist takeover, and,with the help of Libya, successfullyspearheaded a countercoup thatpl aced anti -Communist Numeiryback in power.

At the onset of the attemptedcoup, th e Soviet Ambassador toEgypt, Vladimir Vinogradov, was reported to have called on EgyptianPresident Anwar Sadat to urge him tosupport the Communist rebels. Sadatis said to have reacted to the proposalangrily , te ll ing the Ambassador thathe could never take such an action.

Hours later, Boris Ponomarev, asecretary of the Soviet CommunistParty, met Sadat in Cairo and againappealed for support for the coup. Sadar replied that Communism wouldnever be accepted in the A rab world andthat he would fight it uncompromisingly.The Soviet Union was about to learnthat Sadar differentiated between acceptance of Soviet aid and acceptanceof Communism.

The Soviet Union also go t a kickin its political pants from friendlyLibya. Shortly after the takeover inthe Sudan, three of the coup leaders,with their military aides, took off for


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ARAB SOLIDARITY - (Above) Egypti an soldiers learn how to operate anarmo red reconnaissance veh icle. (Left )Hands c lasped , symbo l izing theircountries ' un ity : Pres ident Anwar elSadat of Egypt and President Muammarel-Ooddof of Libya. Their talks inBenghazi ended wi th a proclamationmerging Egypt and Libya into one state .(Right) President Sadat of Egypt in con versation with the Sudanese President,Gaafar Nume ir y, at a reception inKhartoum .

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Khartoum , Sudan, via a BOAC jet.At the strong urgi ng of Egypt' s President Sadar, the Libyan boss, ColonelQaddafi, forced the BOAC plane toland in Libya and took two of theSudanese Communists off the planeby force.

The two countries then airlifted a2,000-man brigade of loyal Sudanesetroops from the Suez Canal to an airbase near Kh artoum . They spearheaded the attack that reinstated Nurneiry as Sudanese head of state. Kicknumber two for the Soviet Union !

The result of the short-lived Redcoup in the Sudan was a nasty jolt forRussian-Arab harmony. The Arabsbecame even more suspicious of theRussian military advisers and technicians when it was learned that theyhad tried to sto p loyalist troops fromusing tank s and aircraft against therebels by disabl ing the tanks and hampering government efforts to putdown the insurgency.

The countercoup was a distinct setback for the Russians , but they had toswallow the ir pride.

Th e Sudan had the largest Communist party in Africa, with some20,000 members. Once Nurneiry wasback in power, he triggered a vigo rous crackdown on the Communistleaders. Many of them were immediately executed, including the secreta r y-gen e ra l o f th e Suda ne seCommun ist Party and the Presidentof the Sudanese Federation of TradeUnions. Nurneiry to ld his peop le toarrest all Communists. "They are traitors and murderers," he said.

The execu tion of the secretary-general may not be the biggest setbackthe Russians have received in theMiddle East. But it was a humiliatingslap in the face.

At a time when the Soviets shouldhave been reaping the rewards of theirlong and pati ent cultivation of theArabs, Nurneiry's revolutionary Sudanese regime, supposedly a friend ofthe Sov iet Union, launched the fiercest anti-Communist witch-hunt theArab world has seen for many years.PLAIN TRUTH December 1972

It was really too much for the Russians.Numeiry also expelled Soviet and

Bulgarian diplomats from his country, recalled his ambassadors to thosetwo Communist count ries and senthis defense minister to Peking to discuss economic and military aid, previous ly suppl ied by Moscow.

Moscow 's Grow ingUnpo pularity

The alliance between Soviet imperialism and Arab nationalism has always been one of cynical expediency.One reason is the basic contradictionbetween Communi sm and Islam. Another is that the Arabs have been inveigled into opening their ga tes tothe only country in the world that hasstrategic designs against their lands -the neighboring Russian superpower.

In spite of the Soviet Union 's aidto the Arab countries, not one of theArab leaders in power is a Communist . Sadat, a st rict Moslem , is evenmore suspicious of Communism thanwas Nasser. The Sovi et -Egyptiantreaty cannot conceal the fact that theKreml in has lately lost just about allit s important friends in Cairo.

Qaddafi of Libya is fanatically into lerant of Communism - to saynothing of the' various Arab sheikhs.

Even President Hafez el-Assad ofSyria would like to become less dependent on the Soviet Union for economic and military aid. According toone Russian diplomat: "Syria takeseverything from us - except adv ice."Hussein is obviously "pro-Western."Iraq is in a state of confusion. Merrocco and Saudi Arabia are monarchies wh ich are naturall y ant iCommunist.

Libya's Qaddafi has stro ng influence over Egypt and Syria, especially in view of the fact that thethree coun tries presentl y constitutethe Federation of Arab Republics andthat Egypt and Libya are presentl ymerging. Hi s uncompromisingly antiCommunist stand will certainly ruboff on the o ther Arab leaders.There is no doub t tha t the bigg estloser in all the events tha t too k placeduring the past year in the Arabworl d is the Soviet Union. Theavowed defenders of Nasser's herita g e , m en wh o o nce en j oyedMoscow's favor, were all put on trialin Cairo , including Ali Sabry, theformer vice-president and "Moscow'sman in Cairo."

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Ali Sabry." Sadat is said to have retorted: "All Egyptians liked N ikiraKhrushchev." The la te Mr. Khrushchev was removed from office in October 1964, partl y because he mademajor Soviet aid commitments toEgypt without consulting his Kremlin colleagues.Th e Kremlin's over-hasty supportfor the attempted K hartoum couponce again illustrates the difficultiesthe great powers have in maintainingtheir positio ns in an Arab worldplunged into a state of perma nentturmoil.It is sign ificant tha t Numeiry, at

the t ime, risked a complete split withthe Soviet Union, his chief source ofweapons and economic assistance, byexecuting 14 alleged ring leaders ofthe abortive coup. He is vehementl yresisting any suggestions of reconciliation with the Communists. Th eSoviet Union knew that if it haltedits econ omic and mili t ary assistanceto the Sudan, it wou ld be risking adeterioration of relations with Cairo.This is exactly what happened!

Comm un ist Parties BannedThroughou t the Middle East, the

Communist Party is illegal except intwo nations - Lebanon and, ironically, Israel. Superficially, most Arabstates may look like perfect targets forMarx ist-Leninist explo iration . Thearea is in constant upheaval; the nations are very poor and are aliena tedfrom W estern nations.

But tha t is on ly a surface observation . Psychologically, Arabs makepoor converts to Communism. Fatalistic fellahin (peasants) of the villagesare too conservative and too steepedin the Islamic faith to accept Commun ism. It is true that Arab nati onshave become increasingly dependenton the Soviet Union for aid - in thehopes that they might be able to resto re a new era of Mohammed theProphet. But the Arabs are puttingtheir weapons to very revealing uses.

The Arabs are taking weapo nsfrom the communis tic Soviet Union6

to kill off local Communis ts. Thus itis qui re apparent that Soviet weaponsin the Middle East have hard ly beeneffective in their intended purpose. Ino ther words , the Soviets have beendefeati ng their own purpose.

The Soviet Union, up to now , hasbeen willing to sacrifi ce a few localArab Communist s in return forbroader geographical gains for itself.It was a cynical trade-off. but giventhe attitudes of the Arab world, itwas the. on ly available route forMoscow.It was believed in some circles that

the only real use the Arabs had forthe Soviet Union was in con nectionwith the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nowthat the Sovie ts refuse to supplyEgypt with the offensive weapons itneeds to wage a war, their usefulnesshas ended. Russia will find its influence in the area decreasing at a fargreater rate than it was attained.Many Arab leaders have not for

gotten that, 25 years ago , the SovietUnion and the Communist Party ap-proved the partition of Palestine andgranted recognition to the state of Israel, a move that Arab leaders desperately opposed .

I t is a political fact that Moscow'sposition in the Arab countr ies hasnever been as secure as the SovietUn ion's investment in arms , advisersand aid migh t warrant .

Soviet Ob jectivesNapoleon said that Egypt was the

gateway to three continents . This observarion has not go ne unnoticed bythe Russians. Their ob jective sometimes politically sugar-coated is to cont rol Egypt and ot her Arabgovernments directly through Communist regimes a t ind irectly by economic or military dependence. Theirprime consideration is to oust theUnited States from the Arab worldand to cut off Europe's oil supply,which comes from or through thearea. This is a flanking movementwhich they hope will make theUni ted States a secondary power and

force 'Europe to deal with Commu nist-supported regimes.

These motives explain why theRussians put up with all the insultsthey receive at the hands of the Arabgovernments. their so-called allies.

Euro peans to Fill Vacuum?"Nature abho rs a vacuum." saidthe philosophers, and obviously somepower has to fill the vacuum createdin Egypt by the departure of the Ru ssians.The W este rn Europeans are, con

sequently, begi nning to gain a footho ld in the Midd le East. W itness theconso rtium of Western European nations presently bargaining for thebui lding of the Egyptian "Sumed"pipelines from Suez to Alexandria .The project will cost approximately30 percent of what it cost the Russians to build the Aswan High Dam .It was the Aswan Dam assistance thatput the Soviets solidly in to theMiddle East scene. The pipel ine maydo the same for the Europeans.

There are o ther developmen tswhich reflect growing European interest in the area.France is becoming very popular in

the Middle East. French tourists haveflooded Egypt and other North African count ries, not to mention the 110Mirage jets they are selling to Libya.Britain is even considering supplyingEgypt with jets and warships. Sir AlecDouglas-Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, visited Egypt in September1971. Thi s was the first such visit by aBritish Foreign Secre tary since the1956 Suez crisis.In the Middle East, a land of con

stant turmoil. anything cou ld happen .It is very likely that Egypt will turnto Europe and even the Un ited States,just as the Suda n has done. (Sudanhas just recentl y resumed diplomaticrelations with the United States, broken off during the Six-Day \X'ar.)Even though Sadar has been talk

ing a lot about war, many Egyptiansbelieve it is only a diversionary tacticto soo the the hawkish elements in thearmy, who want war even though

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Avions Marcel Dassaultthey know it is presently impossible todefeat Israel militarily.

Th e recent moves in Egypt indicatea strong leaning toward a political solution to the entire conflict. It alsovery clearly shows tha t Sadar isn't apuppet controlled by Moscow.

After a quarter century o f Communist -fostered hosti li ty in the Mideast,the conflict could take a very differentturn - with Western Europe playinga major role. A stunned world willyet see how very possible it is for theArabs and the Israelis to be caught ina new web o f international intrigues- this time invo lving no t only theUnited States, but We stern Europeand the Soviet Union as well.

It migh t no t happen tomorrow ornext year, but it will happen!PLAIN TRUTH December 1972

T he Coming CrisisThe en tire area of the Middle East

is pro phesied, in the Holy Bible(Dan iel 11:41-45), to become the tragic focal point o f the greatest international crisis the world will everface. This prophesied crisis will inevitably invo lve the interest o f the greatpowers in Arab and Persian oil. Itwill involve the strategic location o fIsrael and the Suez. It will involve thequestion o f the status o f Jerusalem a city holy to three faiths . Bibleprophecy ind icates in Daniel 11 thathuman beings will be unable to solvetheir national differences over theMiddle East.

If you'd like to know what hasbeen pro phesied about the Middle

FRENCH MIRAGE 5 with all its armaments . Franc e ha s sold 110 Miragejets to Egypt's neighbor Libya. Theseincluded the advanced combat Mirage5 shown here. The del iveries, spacedove r the next few years, will signifIcantly bolster Co l. Qaddafi's air force.East, then write for ou r free article"The Middle East in Prophecy."

To deliver man from the comingcrisis and holocaust, Almighty Go dwill have to intervene to force peaceupon an angry world. I t may be veryhard t o believe that the Middle East.once a ho t-bed o f str ife and hatred ,will know peace.

Bu t it wi ll come'Peace will at last have meaning in

an area in wh ich the traditional greeting is "PEACE"! D

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WhyNo "Peace on Ear th"?

It's a beautiful message: "Peace on earth, good-w ill toward men. / I Here is why man has never beenable to make it come true - and how it will be

brought to earth in our time!byWilliam R.Wh ikehart

SRING WEATHER doesn ' t usuallycome to Washington, D .C. unt ilabout mid-April. And Friday ,March 27, 1970 was no exception.That day, a coo l breeze gently swayedthe still barren trees that lined Arlington National Cemetery, the largestmi litary burial ground in the UnitedState s.

Through the endless sea of whiteand gray grave markers moved a funeral procession . The co lor guard andprecision drill team, followed byseven beautiful white stallions pullinga flag-draped casket, resembl ed theceremony held for the late John F.Kennedy. On ly this was March instead of November, and almost sevenyears later.

Just behind the slowl y moving en-SOLDIER TAKES TIME OUT from thefury of batt le to kneel in prayer amidstthe rubble of a bombed-out cathedralin the area near Quang Tri, South V ietnam . Associa te d Pres s


tourage, in an official U. S. Army staffcar, rode the grieving parents of thedeceased. Their son, a young Armyhelicopter pilot , had been killed justdays earlier in Vietnam, another casualty of the war.To the hundreds of onlookers vis

it ing the cemetery that day, it lookedlike just another of the countless military funerals resulting from the IndoChina conflict. But for me, it was themost traumatic day of my life. Yousee, the parents in that staff car weremy parents. The funeral was for my22-year-old brother , Mark.

W hy Did I t Happen?On Tuesday of th e preceding

week, the giant CH-47B helicoptermy brother was flying was sho t downin Quang Ngai province on SouthVietnam's central coast. All five menaboard were killed almost instantly.I vivid ly recall the perplexing,

angry tho ug hts that raced through

my mind that day in Arlington ."Why did he have to die? It justdoesn 't make any sense. It's so insane ,such a tragic waste ! Why do menhave to fight ? Why can 't men settletheir differences some other way?Why do men have to have differences? Why can' t men live togetherin peace?"Countless father s, mothers, hus

bands, wives , brothers, and sistershave asked the same nagging questions down through history as war after war has taken its bloody toll inhuman lives. Think of the countlesstimes they have been left with onlyqu estions and the futile, empty searchfor a peace that never came.

These questions are more piercingthan ever today. Why can' t menachieve peace? Why can' t men findthe way that produces peace? Does sucha way even exist?It 's about time, particularly during

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earth, goodwi ll toward men ," that weface these most urgent questions, andfind the ANSWERS. Ir's time we findout why there is so much turmoi l andconfusion in roday's world, why solittl e peace at every level of humanendeavor.

In ter nat ional LunacyLet 's start by examining ou r great

est failure in the search for peacewar.

War is the most catastrophic ofmankind 's follies. It is an incrediblewaste whi ch accomplishes Iirrle, ifanything, that is positive. Its price isenormous in terms of wasted mo ney,resources, land , property, and , interms of lost human lives. And yet,despite the fantastic waste, nati onsfind themselves e ithe r at war or continu ously preparing for it. On an intern ati on al scale, it amo unts tonothing less than mass lunacy.You'd th ink that with so mu ch

conflict, men would at least se ttl e forsome periods of meaningful peace,just as a change of pace. Yet , the insanity of war has plagued man eversince Cain slew Abel.In fact , the overall global situation

has, in the "enlightened" twentiethcen tury, deteriorated. W orld W ar Iwas supposedly the "war to end allwars." That is, unt il W orld War II ,whi ch - with the advent of nuclearweapons - had to be the "war to endall wars." Further conflict culminating in nuclear W orld W ar III willmean no t on ly "ending all wars," buteverything else, includ ing the humanrace! Peace has now become a mustfor humanity. Th e alternative is ulti mate catastrophe.Despite this urgen t situation, the

nations, since 1945, have fought some" 100 wars and other major conflicts"(Unesco Courier, N ov. 1970) . At least30 mili tary conflagrations and civildisruptions rage somew here in theworld at thi s very moment.And so today the killing and the

destruct ion cont in ue unabated . Arrmes cont inue to march off to waronl y to return and bury their dead .10

And families gr ieve. And nations pickup the pieces in preparation for the.next conflict . And on and on wou ldg o th e en dl ess bl oodshed , excep t . . . toda y, there's the Bomb and plenty of them . In fact, there areenough bombs to wipe ou t everyman , woman, and child on eart h upto 150 times over. " (Is it rational toeven consider blowing apart civilization more than once?) And so,we have finally come to the tragicplace where , for the first tim e in history, as the late John F. Kennedywarned, "Mankind mu st put an endto war, or war will put an end tomankind ."Meanwhile, as the nations' Arma

geddon draws nearer with each passing day, men sit around the peacetables, groping for solut ions, plaintively asking , "W hy can 't nationslive togeth er in peace?"

Why Turbu lent Societies?Af ter in ternational nuclear in

sanity, maintaining domestic peaceand tranquility within individu al nations is almost as grave a problem.In the generation or so since 1945,

the nations of the world have beentorn by some 160 social revolutions,75 rebellion s for independence, andover 40 political assassi nations - allwithin separate, individua l societies!Currently, some two dozen nation sare confronting chronic internationalstr i fe, ranging from diso rders to allou t civil war.

No mat ter where you may look inroday's world - no matter which society you care to observe - you seeprecious little internal peace.Take a qui ck glance at the societies

of the world as 1972 draws to a close.The United States: an uneasy domestic peace amid a growing undercurrent of disillusionment with the"establishment ." Britain : periodi cst r ikes and co ntin uous eco nomicstrife. No rt he rn Ireland : conti nuingbloodshed stemming from social, po-"Es timate by American No bel Prize-winni ng scientist Dr. Linus Paul ing. as qu oted in Technocrat. Dec.1968.

lin eal, and religious civil war. Viet nam : one of the most costly anddevastating conflicts in history - allresulting from what began as a civilwar between nor th and south.Then there are the internal dis

orders and riots in Japan, Red China,Indi a, Pakistan, Indonesia, Centraland South America, and in virtua llyall the new nations of Africa.

On and on goes the endless list ofturmoil - whites against whites,whites against blacks, blacks againstwhites, blacks against blacks, Protestants against Catholics, Arabs againstIsraelis, work ers against management ,chi ldren against parents, dissidentsagainst the establishment, erc., etc.And so, as men conti nue to hate ,

figh t, and kill one another, you can' thelp but wonder, "W hy can' t menwithin nations live together in peace?"

"Hate Thy Neighbor""Do it unto thy neighbor first be

for e he pulls it on you." "Turn theot her cheek - away from thy neigh- Ibor, tha t is." "Hate thy neighbor."These precepts, codes of conduct,

or whatever, seem to sum up the waypeople tend to feel toward each otherin society today.Genu ine friendliness, hospitali ty,even a smile , once considered normal,

seem strange and odd today, especially in public. Even the appearanceof friendliness is greeted with suspicion as if it were a sign of inherentweakness or abnormality. W ith practically everybody else reacting withtruculence and hostility, most peopleseldom think of being warm and considerate.

Nowhere does this creeping cancerof no nemotionalism seem to be moreprevalent than in the crowded,decaying urban centers of the world.Here, in the dehumanized steel andconcrete jungles, the disease festersand grows. Courtesy and kind ness become increasingly punished wh ileapathy and haugh tiness are rewardedby acceptance . As one psychologistdescribed it, city-dwellers seem moreand more to " in te rpre t rudeness and

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belligerence as a sign of power - ' thekind of conscious flaun ting of therules' th at is taken to signify superiority."

The population implosion intoth ese ci ties makes the -problem snowball. As mo re and more people crowdinto the smog-choked urban megalopolises, more and more streets,freeways, downtown business cen ters,housing projects, shopping centers,etc ., become clu tt ered ! Increasingnumbers of people find more andmore of their time taken up in thecompetitive struggle against their fellow man . Hard-core urban life has often deteriora ted into li ttl e more thana nerve-shattering existence. And aman's hatred for his neighbor growsdeeper and deeper as a resulr.Th is makes you want to stop yourneighbor and ask , "W hy can' t we getalong together?"

Disinteg rating FamiliesNow here does the growing lack of

peace have a more damaging , deva stat ing effect than in the home. Society's mo st basic building blockappears to be literally coming apart atthe seams - the combined result ofgrowing turmoil from within and arelentl ess attack from withou t.

Those fami lies not already tornasunder by divorce or separation oftenfind themselve s confronting an increasing array of difficulties on the inside. "Cold war," punctuated byoccasional moments of "hot con frontation ," seems to be the t rend onthe hu sband-wife front. Parents don ' ttalk much to their kids - or eachother. Children don 't commun icatewith Dad and Mom . Fathers andmothers seem unable to understandthe increasing pressures (drugs , sex,erc.) on their teens. Teens can 't understand why parents get so uptightabout what they do. And the gulf between them all grows wider andwider.

Preying upon the family unit andthe home are numerous pressures exuding from an increasingly permi ssivesociety.Wi th the miniskirt, the Pill , aPLAIN TRUTH December 1972

g row ing apathy and cont empt formarriage , the conti n uous bombardment from the mass medi a of SEX,SEX, SEX, amid growing permi ssiveness, is it any wo nder increasing numbers of men, women, and teens findthemselves involved in growing sexual activity before and outside of marr iage - non e of whic h h elp smaintain peace on the home front )

You look at society, you look atyour own fami ly, and wonder : "W hyare we doing th is?"

Mental Turmoi lWith so much confusion , turmoil ,

and discord extant in the worl d, itshould not come as a g reat shock tofind peace of min d also rare.

Some 15 to 30 percent of thewo rld 's popu lation su ffers from oneform or another of ser ious menta l oremo tional disorder. Accord ing to theWorld Health Organi zation, over1,000 people kill themselves everyday. Schizophrenia , paranoia , and ahost of other psycho tic afflictions areon the increase everywhere. According to one study, every ot her adult inNew York Ci ty is in need of psychiatric help . Another study found thatonly 12 percen t of the chi ld ren inthat city were what could be termedas mentally healthy.

One could go on, endlessly catalog ing the effects brought about by thelack of peace in the world tod ay. Butwhy go on ? You don 't need to be reacqua inted with the problems unlessyou are told the solutions, too.

That is the whole purpose of th isarticle - to uncover the basic causesof the turmoil , wh y there is so littlepeace,' an d wha t the solutions are. Because, believe it or not , solut ions doexist ! They always have. It is just thatmankind in general, and possibly youin particular, haven't been looking inthe right direction .

Missing Dimension in th eSearch fo r Peace

Actually , th e causes for th e turmoiland discord are relativ ely simple.T hese causes interact with each other

to produce conditions under whichpeace is virtually impossible. Thesimp le causes are the inherent attitudes and behavior of huma n beings,the faulty structure of a dege nerati ngsociety, and the influences emanatingfrom an unseen, wro ngl y mot ivatedspirit realm. In other words, simplypu t, the reason why men can 't achievepeace is due to the pull s of human nature and society - bo th influenced bySatan th e Devi l. (Mos t regul ar subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH will understand what is meant by the term"Satan the ' DeviL" If you would likeadditional information in detail onwho and what this being is, just writefor our free article "D id God Create aDevil?" )

O r, pu t ting it another way, we willnever - I mean neuer - achievepeace interna tionally, nationally, ecologically, collective ly, or personallyun til we first establish peace with God!For onl y God is capable of alteringand removing the causes whi ch prevent peace.

Mankind has yet to learn thislesson! Peace will never come unlessthere is peace with Go d first - andon His term s, not ours . An y way,other th an God's way, that attemptsto bring peace will no t, cannot, work.As the popular song goes: " It 's impossib le" - it is as simple as that.

Of course, you hear so mu ch todayabo ut making your "peace with God ,brother." Religion ists talk about it.So-called Jesu s Freaks pro claim it. Butdo the y really know what they aretalk ing about ?

The sad truth is, men have neverreally di scovered what real " peacewith God" is - from God's point ofview, N ot th at they couldn' t have, because they could have, if they hadonly believed and obeyed the Bookthat reveals Go d's point of viewthe Bible !

Actu ally, the Bible is the key tothe whole question of peace. It , and italone, provides the reason why menhave been unable to achieve peace,wha t the real and last ing solution is,and how tha t solutio n is soon to

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come to thi s war-t orn ear th. It alonereveals how the nature of man , society, and th e Devil have combinedto preven t peace . But it also revealsjust how the se causes can be controlled and al rered God 's way to usherin peace at every level.According to the Bible , man could

have had peace all along if he had justmet the following th ree conditions th e causes of peace.

One: A Law of PeaceAdherence to an abso lute standard

or law is th e first cause of peace. T hatLaw, refer red to in the Bible as God'sLaw, the Law o f liberty (James 1:25 ;2:10-12) , produces peace as the auto-matic resu lt or effect of obedience.Men have never followed that way.They call ita yoke of bondage. Th ere

fore, they have never had peace. I t 'sjust that simp le.Let me ci te a few examples of how

Go d's Law operates.H ow could nations, on an in ter

na t ional level, continue to fight andkill if forced to ob ey th e one simpleinjunction "Thou shalt no t kill " ?(Exodus 20:13.) Ju st think of thecountless million s of lives th at wouldhave been spared by un condi tionalobedience to four simple words.Obed ience to God 's standard guar

antees peace and tranquil ity on th edom est ic scene . No t ice Levit icus26:6: "And I will g ive you peace inth e land, and ye shall lie down , andnon e shall make you afrai d . . . . " N otice th at the promise is condition al obedience must come first (verse 3).Peace between neighbors? What

about the second g reat commandment : "Thou shalt love thy neighboras th yself" ? (Matthew 22 :39.)Peace in the family) Three o f theT en Commandments are design ed todirectly pro tect the sanctity ofmarriage and home (Exodus 20: 12,14, 17) .God's Law is the on ly way to peace

of mind . Those who are care fu l tocont inuously walk down, or follow ,th e pathways of that Law find peaceat every turn (Proverbs 3:7) . Those12

who live and obey God 's Law experience g reat peace of mind as a way oflife (Psalm 119 :165).O n the ot her hand, those who

refu se or neglect to obey it, find peaceo f mind an impossibili ty (Isaiah57:2 1).Th e fact remains , unless and until

we ge t in to harmon y with Go d'sLaw, we will never have peace. Butthere mu st be more .

Two : A Mind of PeaceThe precepts and pri nciples of

Go d's Law stand as little more th anem pty, meaningless words on th epages of the Bibl e unless actua ted bya frame of mind or attitude tha t earnestly desir es to put Go d 's Law int opracti ce. Th e Bible refers to thi s kindof mind as a m ind guided by and imbued with the Spirit of God, theSpiri t of peace.If all men in all nations were im

bued wi th th e power of this Spirit,they wo uld be capable of controllingth e innate drives and lusts that lie atthe root cause of war (James 4: 1).Similarly, if men wit hin ind ividualsocieties were mot ivated by th is g reatg if t, th e same peace would ensue on adomesti c scale.Th e human emotions produced byGo d's Spi rit in a man's life are concern, kindness, con sideration , a desireto con t ribut e to th e welfare of o thers- and PEACE (Galatians 5:22-23) . Byhaving God's Spiri t, a man is able tolive ge nuinely and sincerely at peacewith his neighbor , his famil y, andhimself.Obeying God's Law through the

Spi rit of God ena bles a man to resistth e causes whi ch prevent peace in hisow n life. And ye t, for the dream of" peace on eart h" to become a realityo n a worldwide scale, a third condition mu st be met.

Three : A Government ofPeace

Tha t requirement involv es acknowledging God's government ofpeace.The Bible reveals that in just a few

short years, just before mankind isabout to annihilate him self, God isgo ing to supernaturally intervene toprevent suc h insani ty and finally establi sh Hi s government on th is earthas the ul tim at e solution to peace(Revela tion 11:15) . It will be theg reatest act ofpeace in history!At that t ime, when J esus Chr ist the

Messiah - the " Prince of Peace"(Isaiah 9 :6) - returns to th is warwrack ed earth , the hor rendous cycleof war after war after war wi ll at lastbe bro ken , never to resume again!Na tions will be forced to beat bayonets, tanks, guns - even spears into tractors, plowshares, pruninghooks, and other useful farming implements (Isaiah 2:4).God 's government wi ll usher indomestic peace within as well as

among nations. People living in socie ty wi ll dwell together harmoniou sly or face painful , yet loving,co rrection (Revelation 2:27) .Men, who naturally love them

selves an awful lo t, will strive to loveth eir neighbors just as much as themselves (Matthew 22:39). Governmentsponso red educational programs wi llteach everyone th e great sancri ty andimportance of the basic uni t of socie ty - the hom e. Peace of mindth rough God's Spir it wi ll finallybe available to all men the wo rldover.T hat government will also remove

from office the ma licious spirit being ,Satan the D evil , who has so cleve rlyled mankind away from every paththa t produces peace. So on after Go d'sgovernment is established, this d iaboli cal " au t ho r o f co nfus io n"

, (I Corinthians 14:33) will be in carcerated and kep t away from mankind (Revelation 20:1-3) wh ile Godand men carry o n the task of procuring peace - f orever.!God is a Go d of peace (Romans

15:33) . Bu t peace can come on ly ifpursued His way. This season let 's layaside selfishness and begin seekingreal " peace on ear th , goodwill towardmen," God's way. 0



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advancenewsin the wake of today's WORLD EVENTS

United States to E xportA tomic Secrets?Brita in's favored position vis-a-vis America n nuclear

secrets may soon be at an end.France, long disp leased with Britain's privileged po

sit ion, will undoubtedly seek u.s. nuclear informationwith the exp irat ion in 1973 of America's McMahon Act.France would also pressure Britain into sharing herlong-accumulated arsenal of nuclear secrets and knowhow . As interpreted, the McMahon Act forbid s the exporting of American nuclear secrets to any nation exceptBritain .

French access to U.S. atomic secrets could, in theeyes of some, be the beg inning of what could eventuallybecome an independent West European nuclear force. Itcould prompt Britain to more quickly turn to a growingEuropean concept of defense . Proponents of a West Euro pean force see its embryonic beginn ing in a pooli ng ofBritain's largely submarine-based nuclear force and theFrench nuclear force de frappe. Britain and France couldthen , u til izing technological secrets provided by theUnited States, produce warheads for missiles made in theFederal Republic of Germany - propelling Western Europe along the road to nuclear powerdom .

J apan may also benefit from U.S. atomic secrets inthe nea r future. Th is possibility was raised earlier thi s yearduri ng meetings between President Nixon and JapanesePrime Minister Tanaka. The J apanese, though not a nuclear military power, have long sought secret U.S. atomictechnology to advance their peacetime atomic energy program, by whic h they are hoping to decrease their dependence on oil. J oin t U.S.-Japanese construction of a billiondo llar uranium enrichment plant is being contemplated.

The chief advantage in such a deal for the Uni tedStates is economic.

President N ixon's agreement to encourage the jointenrichment plant is another indication of how seriouslyPLAIN TRUTH December 1972

the United States regards its balance-of-trade problem withJ apan. Should the plant becom e a reality, the Japanesewould apparently invest some $500 mill ion in it, thus easing the mammoth balance-of-payments deficit the U.S.now runs wi th J apan. lI Gr ai n Drai n" Threatens

U.S. Wheat ReservesIn th e wake of th e most severe Soviet crop failure in

a decade, the Soviet Union has pur chased a billion dollars'worth of grain from the United States, with sizeable imports predicted for the future . Thus the Soviet Union, anation accustomed to being a grain exporter, has been elevated to the No.2 spot (behind J apan) on the list of foreign purchasers of U.S. g rain.

The crisis began last year when, after a summer oflittle rain, cold temperatures prematurely arrived, accompanied by light snowfall - thus freezing the ground before enough snow fell to proteCt the newly-planted wheat.Spring arrived late, followed by the hottest and driestsummer in a century. Torrential rains during the autumnharvest delive red the final blow. Thousands of acres ofwheat were lost in the Ukraine alone, the traditional g rainbasket o f the USSR. Gross ine ffic iency and mismanagemen t in the massive Soviet harvest apparatus complicatedthe situation. This combination of factors sent Ru ssia tothe United States in August to purchase some 400 mill ionbushels of U.S. wheat - one fourth of the enti re Ameri can wheat crop .

The massive wheat purchase, wh ich takes a sizeablebite ou t of America's 1972 crop, also promises to reachdeeply into U.S. -wheat reserves. According to AssistantAgriculture Secretary Carroll G. Brunthaver, the Uni tedStates is dow n to a "prudent minimum reserve," and theRussian purchases have created "a potential shortage" ofwheat in the United States. Nevertheless, a sizeable U.S.wheat sale to mainland China - 20 million bushels was arranged in September.

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While some farmers and grain exporters are happy,many weather experts do not share the same joy. For sometime, patches of drough t have been striking parts of theU.S. wh eat belt. Shou ld the d rought become extensive inany one year, the gra in drain to foreign nations could leadto a serious shortage of whea t in th e United States.

Spain's Dilemma - Europe orIsolation?Spain is facing one of her greatest dilem mas. He r

place, tradi tionally, is with W estern Europe. Consequently, she eagerly desires mem bership in the EuropeanCo mmo n Market, which is soon to expa nd.

Bu t one major obstacle stands in the way: Generalissimo Francisco Franco 's au thori ta rian regime, whi chstretches back to three years be fore the outbreak of W orldW ar II. Th e present EEC member countries are all democracies. Either Spain makes the necessary poli tical concessions and liberalizes her authoritarian government, orshe must be prepared to face isolation from an integratingEurope . Spain , however, does not appear willing, atpresent, to pay the poli tical price.

Spain concluded a preferential trade agreement withthe EEC in 1970, bu t th e scheduled entry of Britain,Ireland and D en mark into the Common Market next yearwill render the arrangement obsolete. Britain is ' a majortrading partner of Spain, absorbing a good share of Spain'sagric ultura l products. W it h Britain in the EEC, the British market will be protected by high tar iffs, an d Spain willbe left in the lurch.

Look ing at the broader picture, the EEC Sixpresently absorb 37 percent of Spain's exports. Th e eightEFTA (Euro pean Free T rade Association) countries - allof whi ch will be tied to the EEC in one way or another bynex t year - absorb 17 percen t. O f Spain's to tal imports,33 percent come from the EEC Six and 16 percent fromthe EI TA Eight. T hus Spain is dependent on the EEt-EFTA gr oup for some 51 percen t of her foreign trade.

Th e .Spanish government's presen t atti tude is summed up by Foreign Minister Gregor io Lopez Bravo:"Spain is eager to join the EEC as a full member, but weare not in a hu rry. Europe is a community in every senseof the term. But this community will be viable on ly if itpermits each member country to retain its individuali ty."

So for the time being , Spain will probably seek anew preferential trade arrangement rather than press forfull or associate membership.

It appears now that only after the death of the agingbut still energe tic Franco and the assumption of power byJuan Carlos de Borbon , will Spain begin to move closer tothe European democracies.14

Mexico Looks to JapanMexico is turning to J apan for help in winning eco

nomi c independence from the United States.Early in 1972, Mexican President Luis Echeverria

Alverez, accompanied by some 30 cabinet ministers andothe r high-ranking officials, journeyed to To kyo for a 6day visit to lay the foundation for closer economic ties between the two count ries. Echeverria's purpose for the visit,in his wo rds, was "t o halt the Mexico economy's excessivereliance on the United States."

Trade ties between the two countr ies have beensteadily increasing over the past decade. Mexican exportsto J apan have increased more than 8 percent a year, andJ apan 's exports to Mexico have increased at an annualrate of more than 20 percent. Bu t Mexico would like tosec still large r increases, plu s o ther forms of cooperation .

Growing American pro tectionism has sparked thisMexican trade offensive in the Far East. Struggling toovercome a $1 billion trade deficit, Mexico is seeking financia l and techn ical assistance from J apan, as well as newmarkets. Mexican products are encountering increasing resistance in th e U.S. marketplace.

Mexico in the past, has relied on the Uni ted Statesfor some 70 percen t of her foreign trade. She was hard hi tin August 1971, when the U.S. imposed the tem porary 10percen t surcharge on im ports. Adding to the problem, theU.S. has been slow to gra nt Mexico and o ther developi ngnations trade preferences in the U.S. Th ere is also fear inMex ico abo ut possible new import restrictions on Mexican farm products, now being contemplated by W ashing to n .What do both To kyo and Mexico City hope to gainby increased cooperation? Ja pan would like to supplyMexi co with many of the man ufactured goods Mexiconow purchases from the U.S. In return, Japan would transfer some of its agricultural purchases from the U.S. toMexico.

In addi tion, Mexico is hoping fo r more Ja panese private investment and the possibil ity of using Japan as a"warehouse" for Mexican products en rou te to Australia,the Phi lippines, Taiwan and mainland China. The Mexican government also sought - and apparently received an agreement from the J apanese to assist in the expansionof three We s t Coast Mexican ports, Manzanillo , Mazarlanand Topolobampo, as well as the developmen t ofMexico 's steel, mining , fishing , and shipbuilding industries.

For the United States, any such shift in Mexico'strade posture could only mean a wo rsening of its own international balance-o f-payments difficulties.

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REMEMBERSTOCKHOLM?

Why the U.N. Conference onEnvironment failed to cometo g r ips with t he g loba l

pollution crisis!by Ray Kosanke

Bru ssels, Belgium

SUPPOSE you had been in Stockho lm in June 1972. You wouldhave seen representatives of 114

of the world's governments assembledin a major conference about theearth's environmental problems. Th eywould be, you migh t well suppose,serious-minded individu als - selectedor elected for their competence, loyalty and tenacity - meeting togetherfor long hours to work out majorproblems.

Why not sit in on one of the committee meetings typical of most thattranspired dur ing the 11-day conference?

Not Wha t You SupposedTwenty minutes after the sched

uled 10 a.m. meeting was to begin ,the committee chairman opens inSpanish , giving a rundown of thevarious items and declarations to becovered. He then recognizes " thehonorable delegate" of the FederalPLAIN TR UTH December 1972

Republic of Germany (each speaker isrecognized as " the honorable delega te") , who wants to add a line to theorigin al statement of purpose made inthe day's agenda and at the same timeto declare his app roval of the statement.

Next , the representative of Senegalspeaks, desiring to alter a line. Indi athen comes forth , also wishi ng tochange a line . The delegate from Perucomes out with a lon g statement disagreeing with the or iginal statementof int en t. He asks to be allowed topresent a paper on the matter. Ecuador adds a suggestion.

Th en Italy supp orts W est Germany's earlier proposal and desires tosee a better channel of communication established among the Mediterranean countries. Lesotho is given thefloor and wants to substi tu te thewords "low cost" for "suitable" inthe last subparagraph on the first pageof the agenda statement . France wants

to subsritu te the word "networks" forthe word "centers." Finland and Argentina say they are unhappy becausethey can' t hear the translation - dueto the noise pollution on the floor ofthe chamber! Malta wants to quittalking abo ut words and have an informa l discussion abou t the Mediterranean. The chair's response is, " Put itinto a written proposal."N igeria wants to stop the session

and wait for the morning's commentsand changes to be translated and written out . Bolivia and Spain follow,st ating t hat soi l conserva t io nshouldn 't be forgotten. Algeria question s whether the purpose of this conference is to degenerate in to asubregional discussion. Furthermore,Algeria wants to discuss politics,namely the naval fleets present in theMediterranean.Singapore, Pakistan, Mexico, Gu a

temala, Canada, the United States,West Germany, Norway, Switzerland,

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Britain , India and J apan all followw it h statements, ob j ecti on s, insertions, etc. Brazil speaks up, feelingthat there is a certain element of coercio n in a \ '1{1est German amendment.Austral ia, Senegal and Costa Ricaagain have thei r-bits to say.

Th e preceding is a description of ameeting that actuall y took place during Stockholm's environmental conference. I got up and left th atparti cular meet ing - after stayinguntil wel l into the afternoon . Presum ably, you would have left too!

Four W aste d Years?1 had sat in on a United Nations

Gen eral Assembly session several yearsago and was generally aware of whattran spired at such international meetings ; nonetheless, I was stunned athow little was accomplished in Sto ckholm and was shocked to see thepickiness, the concern for minor details and technicalities that were absurd ly unim por tant in the context ofthe mammoth pollution problemsobvious to all at the conference. Allof this was a reflection of nationalselfishness. Apparently none of the114 nations represented were willingto lose or g ive up any possible advantage to any other nation !. After four years of preparati on (thedecision to call such a conference wasmade by the United Nations GeneralAssembly in 1968) , and th e expenditure of million s of doll ars andthou sand s of man -hours, what , inrealit y, was accomplished)

A declaration on the human environment, consist ing of a preambleand 26 principles sett ing forth theguidelines for international environmental behavior , was approved. An"Earrhwarch" system to mon i tor theearth ' s environmental problems wasalso approved. Th e conference did infact bring 114 nations tog et her to atleast talk abo ut the earth's major po lluti on pro blems. It has indeed underlined the international nature of thecrisis - that no nati on can anylonger keep its pollution to itself. Airand sea currents see to that. .16

Having said this, we must unfortunatel y point ou t that all of the principles, resoluti ons and directives pu tforward during the enti re conferenceare suggestions onlv! Th ey must first beapproved by the U.N. General Assembly. After that, they become no morethan "official suggestions."And sadly, they are not binding even on the governments that supported them!

Selfish N ationa l InterestsMost governments are happy to en

courage mo re fact-finding abou t the

" ... when any envi-ronmental issue is pursuedto its origins it reveals aninescapab le truth . . . apeace among men mustprecede the peace w ithnature."

worldwide problems of the enviro nment and are g lad to see furthermoni tor ing of the effects of pollutionon the earth's vi tal life-support systems. But the same governmentswere , and are today, instantly host ileto any policy proposals wh ich mighteven appear to confl ict with theirshort-term economic interests.

"You see," they say, "it's a question of economics." In other words,which nati on is going to be the firstto force its industries to ei ther cleanup or sh ut down?Which governmentis go ing to force its manu facturers toproduce quality product s for export,utilizing pollution-free methods andequipment? Such efforts cost hugesums of money. \'I{1h ich nati on is go ing to be willing to clean itself upand rhcrcbv put its products on themarket with price tags 20 to 50 percent higher than the existing worldmarket price for those products ?

In the weeks and months since theStockholm Conference, the responsehas been all too predictable. Th e testing ground is, o f course, the in ter-

nati ona l mark etp lace. Look at oneexample. In Stockholm, the rescue ofwhales from extinction came closer towinning unan imous approval thanany other single cause. By a vote of 53to 0, a working committee approveda resolu tion for a 20-year moratoriumon all whale hunti ng, and the conference, as a whole, agreed.

But in July, when the 14 nationsof the International Whaling Commission considered the matter in Lon don , commerce as usual prevailed.Whi le cutting down on the allowedquo ta of certain species of whales, theCommi ssion refused a mora tor ium.Why? Because several nations areconcerned abo ut the sizable investment they have made in factory shipsand whaling equipmen t . For them ,too many job s and too much moneyare at stake.

Surely the g reed of man wou ld bestemmed by the though t of wipi ngwhole species of wild life off theface of the eart h!

Hardly! The facts prove otherwise.Since the year 1600. 359 species ofwildlife have disappeared from theeart h. But that was due to the ignorance of past generations of " unenlightened" men, go es the argument.N onsense! Today, in the exalted ageof science, the extinction rate is muchmore rapid. Presentl y, there are 922species on the endangered list.*

For all the posirive words wrirtenabout Stockholm, realit y still confronts us.

The ideolog ical and economic di fferences that divide the world appeared covered up by the final 26poin t document, but they were alltoo apparent during the com mitteemeetings and debates. Th e UnitedStates d isapproved of widespread crit icisms of the massive defoliation andmethodical denuding of thousands of*297 species of mamm als. 359 species of birds.187 species of reptiles and amphibians and 79species of fish are endangered. (Sources : 1. In ternational Union for the Conservation of Natureand Na tural Resou rces Red Book. Ap ril 1971:2. World W ildlife Fund : 3. New York ZoologicalSociety N ewsletter. No vember 1968.)

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acres in Vietnam. South Africa opposed Principle Number 1 of the 26because it sought to con demn apartheid and racial segregation. Chinafoug ht to om i t Prin ciple N umber 26whic h called for an end to all nucleartest ing . ( In spite of wo rldwide protests. France was testing its nuclearweapons even duri ng th is conference.)

"Th i rd World" DilemmaTh e environmenta l concerns of de

veloping nations are very differentfrom those of the ind ustr ial nations.Developing count ries (commonly referred to as the Th ird W orld) want toexploi t their natural resources rapid lyand process more of th em at home inorder to earn foreign exchange andraise their standards of living.

"The wea lthy count ries wo rryabout car fumes . We worry aboutstarva tion." This is typical of theviewpoint of representatives of theThi rd W orld. To them, it's a matterof priorities. "Some of us wouldrather see smoke com ing out of a factory and men employed than no factory at all."

If growth is going to be limited tosafeguard the environment, what canbe done to assure a decent standard ofliving for the people of the ThirdWorld ) If the wo rld's resources mus tbe ratio ned, how can tha t be doneequitably, and who will make the de-. . )crsrons:

Many are the men who recognizethe necessity of immediate act ion.Speaking at Stockholm, the SecretaryGe neral of the Council of Europe,Dr. Jujo Toncic-Sorinj stated : "Thisconference has come about . . .because the warnings of the scientistsand other responsible leaders havebecom e too serio us to be disregarded. . . . If th is Co nference is to bethe milestone it must be . . . all thegovernments and peoples of thewo rld [mu st} start planning, managing and governi ng our planet as theircommo n heritage. This supposes thata grea ter sense of in ternational solidarity th an exists today can be createdPLAIN TRUTH December 1972

by a dramatic cooperative effort . . . ."Governments are made up of men

and women - people who as individuals and together as nation-statesmust work out the solutions to g lobal problems in harmony if they are tosucceed . Dr. Barry Commoner, a leading U. S. environmental scientist,boiled it down : " . . . when any envi ronmental issue is pursued to its orig ins it reveals an in escapabletruth . . . a peace among men mustprecede the peace with nature."

Human Nature - Root ofthe Problem

It is un fashionable to poin t ou t thesums of mankind's failings . It isequally unpopular to challenge thepopular concept that man is basicallyall righ t and will solve his problemswith a little more tim e, mon ey andeducation.

But it should be obvious that thebasic problem at the Stockholm Conference, and in most ot her such conferences, is the g reed and self-interestof man. This is not to say tha t peopleare not sincere. Many people are notonly sincere, bu t are also honestlydoing the ir best to improve things.T hey ARE seeking solutions . T hey DOwant peace. They DO seek happinessand success for themselves AND others. But - and this is the crux of thematter - they do not realize thatman , in and of himself, does NOT possess the capability to direct his way oflife to peace.

Man has a tremendous capacity forinvention and for app reciation of thefine arts. He writes sympho nies andbuilds huge cities. Yet, as U. AlexisJo hnson, U. S. Undersecretary of Statefor Political Affairs, pointed ou t recently, "Techno logy is hurrying usinto the future at a rate that neithero u r und er stand i ng nor o u r insti tut ions. including our diplomaticones . seem able to comprehend orcope with."

Men ofte n try their best. Yet thesolutions they propose, the decisionsthey make, the avenues they follow- which may seem log ical and ra-

tion a! to them from their own viewpoint and position - on ly add to thetragic record of history. Humanity isb lind to the real causes of war. misery,deat h and poll ution. The fundamental cause is selfishness - the way ofgetting instead of the way of givingand helping others.

The obvious solution to all theques tions and problems posed earlierin this article was never even men tioned at the Stockholm Conference:a wor ld government dedicated to theway of selflessness. love and giving.Ir's a must - there's no other answer.But the fact is that it is impossibleunder the present system of sovereignnation-states - with all their conflicting self-interests - for divided mankind to 'build such a world government of and by himself.

We state unequivocally and boldlythat man must have the help of theBeing who put him on this earth ifhe is to solve the problems which hefaces. Man must come to recognizehis own basic na ture and realize thathe will not find the solutions to hisproblems in Stockholm or anywhereelse withour the direct help of an external source.

Yes, we mean God! D

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BEHOLD THESESTONES

by Ernest L. Martin and John E. PortunePhotography by John E. P or tu ne

J RUSALEM is probably the mostimpor tan t archaeolog ical siteavailable to the scientific historian. Few sites anywhere are likely torival for the lure of discovery the extensive three-year-old excavations nearthe Southern and the Wes tern Wallof the Temple Mount.Under the direcrion of ProfessorBenjami n Mazar, former President ofHebrew University, the "dig" alongthe walls of the Temple Mount is revealing to historians more about Jerusalem's past - especially the time ofHerod and of Jesus - than any otherrecord except Josephus' account andthe Bible itself. There is an air of antiquity in every shovelful.To the Israelis, the dig is bringing

to ligh t, after nine teen centuries, thetim e of Herod the Great (someti mescalled th e period of the SecondTemple). For nearly 1,900 years, therewere only "empty centuries" after theRomans destroyed the Jewish state inSTONES AND COLUMNS buried fo rcentur ies now lie exposed on t he site ofone of archaeology's mos t importan td igs of al l time - at the Temp le Mountwall in J er us alem .


A.D . 70 and shoved the giant stonesdown from the top of Jerusalem 'sTemple Moun t.

Many Israelis emo tionally associatethemselves with the Herodian Commonwealth when the Second Temp lewas buil t. The intervening nineteencenturies, though certainly recognizedas having passed, are viewed nationally and poli t ically as a hiatus - atime which never existed. The 1948emergence of the state of Israel is almost look ed upon as a continuationof that ancient Commonwealth. Anyscientific evidence tha t makes thatt ime more real represents to Israelisan anchorage for the cont inued existence of their new nation.

To Christians, the time of KingHerod is important because it was thetime of Jesus and the apostles. TheTyropoeon valley on the west of thedig has been filled so thoroughly thatthe Lower or Herod ian City southand west of the Temple Mount disappeared entirely. In the digging as far down as 70 feet - archaeologists and students have been uncovering the city of Jesus' time andare sifting through the alluvium ofthis Upper City.

In the hands of Ambassador Colleg e students, the New Testament iseach day becoming more and mo re areality.

T he Bible Lives in StoneAlong the Southern Wall, for ex

ample, diggers have uncovered a seriesof beautifully arranged steps, over 100feet lo ng , leading up to the DoubleGates into the Temple enclosure (t hemajo r entrance to the Southern Wallof the ancient Temple). These steps,uncovered in the summer session of1971, have probably not been walkedon since the days of the apostles.Standing there , realizing that you areone of the first to retrace their footsteps, words 'almost fail you. TheNew Testament , a long with Jewishhistory, seems to come alive beneathyour feet.

A few yards to the right of thesesteps, near the Triple Gate of theSouthern Wall, are many ritual bath s.Thev remind one of the New Testament accounts of how meticulous theJews were about ceremonial cleanliness and purification in the time ofChri st.

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were many commercial shops associated with the Temple sacrifices. Aperson could have bough t animals orbirds for sacrifice, or he cou ld havechanged his money in order to paythe yearly Temple tax of halfa shekel.

Jesus threw our those moneychangers and Temple merchants for alittl e recognized reason that lives inthe art ifacts of the dig. The "moneychangers were there to preventRoman or o ther pagan coins with effigies (pictures of men or anim als) onthem from being taken into the holy

Mark says, "For the Pharisees, and allth e Jews , do not eat un less they washtheir hands, observing the tradition ofthe elders . . . and there are manyother traditio ns which they observe,the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze" (Mark 7:3-4, RSV) .

Goi ng through these southernDouble Ga tes or the Triple Ga tes(called the Huldah Gates by laterJews), one would have found himselfinside the southern edge of the Courtof the Gentiles. It was here that Jesusdrove out the money changers. Inside

JESUS' CITY IS GONE. Above, rubble from the upper city, which in Jesus' t ime layatop the hill in the background, now fills the Tyropoeon Valley a t the wes t of the dig.Left, the Temple Mount from the south. Arrows show the ex tens ive size of wha t manyhave called the "Big Dig," because of the extensive area of the excavations. Overthe last three years major work has proceeded thro ugh a reas A, Band C.

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Temple area. The strict Pharisaicalparty among th e Jews thought it wasa sin to picture any human or animalform. J esus himself showed elsewherein the gospel accounts that such arigid interpretation was not specifically required by using just such acoin with Caesar's image on it .The money changers were there forthe business of exchanging the heathen coinage for less offensive localcoins, or for those from Caesarea andTyre . Jesus' anger flared ou t at themno t because they were handling themoney but because of their outrageo us rate of exchange, perhaps asmu ch as a third of what the coinswere worth. To Him , they were making a profit in the name of God byrobbery .

The Tem ptation RelivedAt the southeastern corner of the

wall of the Temple Mount, there isanother fascinating reminder that oneis walking on the very ground wheremany of the New Testament eventstook place - the Temple's pinnacle,associated with the Devil 's temptation ofJesus ,

In the New Testament record,Satan took Jesus from the wildernessof Judaea to a high pinnacle .of theTemple (a high tower or ba tt lementat the southeast corner) and daredHim to jump off. Old ' Testament

"Jesus went up to Jerusalem . . . andfound i n t h e t e m p l e those thatsold . . . and drove them al l out . . ."(John 2 : 13 - 1 5 ) . Arrow shows existinga rc he s o f the Triple Gates on the SouthWall through which Jesus may wellhave d r iven the money change rs(above).Co ins fo r Sacrifice (Korban)? - Topthree pagan co ins were fo rbidden inthe Temple . Lower Jew ish o r Tyriancoins were permit ted . Money changersmade the exchange . Jesus drove themoney changers out fo r their exorbitantexchange ra tes (r ight) .

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"THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER , . . " (Matt.24:2) . In A.D. 70 , Jesus' prophecy in reference to the Temple was fulfilled. Onlyportions of the lower wall around the Temple Mount (B) remain. Uppe r stones (A)were added centuries later. Some of the stones which originally stood atop theimmense wall were l at er re-used (C) in a building of the 8th century A.D.

scriptures had said that the Messiahwould be pro tected if he accidentallyfell.

But no wonder Satan took him tothat particular spot ! I t was the highest in all Jerusalem. Josephus describes thi s pinnacle as being so highthat when one viewed the K idronValley (immediately below) from it,it made one dizzy to look dow n. According to the description, it was almost as high as a 35-story building.Today, on ly a fraction of the drop

remains. Washed-in debris from theUpper Ci ty, which covers what wasg round level in Jesus' day, has buriedmany feet of the magn ificent Herodian stones of the lower part of thewall of the Temple Moun t. On ly afew of the original courses of sto neremain above the surface. Also, afterthe destruction of A.D . 70, the topcourses of stone along the wall wereremoved and used in bui ldings latercons truc ted in the area. The upperportion of the presen t wall of" theTemple Mount was built in Turkishtimes and is lower than the original.Josephus records that the royal bat

tlement rose higher than the wall itself. Add this addi tional height to theorigi nal wall, plus the extra dep th ofthe valley, and one wou ld have had afall of several hundred feet if on e hadfallen from the p innacle of theTemple. Even as one stands atop thewall today, the story of the temptation seems very real.

"B ehold These Stones"Jesus, before his death in A.D. 31,

predicted the destruction of theTemple as He stood across from theKidron Valley on the Mount ofOlives while loo king at the Templeand the spot where many students, includ ing those from Ambassado r College , dig each summer. The disciples,just before Jesus' prediction, hadcalled H is a ttention to the grand andmajestic stones which made up theTemple, its adjacent buildings , andthe walls surrounding it (Mark 13:1) .Carved from native white lime

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tion wall blocks measure as larg e as30 feet by 5 feet on a side and weig hup to an est imated one hundred tons.Even more impressive than the ac

tual stones themselves is the structural architecture of the walls. Eachstone was so precisely posit ioned thatno mortar was needed. The fitti ngwas so accurate that no t even a thi nkn ife blade could be wedged betweenadjacent stones.Yet Jesus, knowing what was soon

to happen, said of the bui ldings onthe Temple Mount: "Do you seethese great buildings? There will notbe left here one stone upon another"(Mark 13:2, RSV) . Today, as a stark

witness to the reality of His prediction, nothing of that once magnificent Temple and its adjoiningbuildings remains. The city of Jesus'time is gone. The city now, pic turesque and delightful as it may be tolocals and tourists alike, is pathetic incomparison to what it was in Jesus'day.

Through the science of archaeology, the per iod of Herod and theNew Testament is becom ing morereal every day. With each shovelful ofmaterial, we are seeing just how truethe Bible really is. Here the past trulybecomes alive as you "beho ld thesestones." D



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THE LOVE THATSATISFIESTo be loved is the most desperate of human needs.In an age of dizzying change and frustrating lone-liness, the need to find the love that satisfies is one

of man's most basic searches.

W .LIVE in a dislocated, root less and transient world . Itis a world taxing our abi lity to main rain sani ty. I t is the age ofAlvin Toffier's Future Shock. Westernman "must search ou t to tally newways to anchor himself," says Toffier,"for all the old roots - religion, nation , community, family or profession- are now shaking."

One may disagree with some ofToffler's solutions, bu t there is nodo ubt that all the old roots are beingshattered by the impact of a worldthat th reatens to isolate the individualand to buffet him about with end lesschanges.

Th at new way to anchor ourselvesis with the love that satisfies, the subject o f this article.

T he Search for LoveEvery human finds himself a part

of the hunt to find this meaning. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm sees thi shunt for union in love as man 's mostbasic qu est.PLAIN TRUTH De cember 1972

by Paul W illiam Kroll

"The deepest need of man," saysFromm, " is the need to overcome separateness, to leave the prison of hisaloneness.,,*

Humans in every age and cultureare faced with discovering the solut ion to one basic ques t ion . InFromm's words, it is " th e question ofhow to overcome separateness, howto ach ieve union, how to transcendone's own individual life and find atone -ment."

In our age, the love that can shatter this prison of separateness is amost basic need.

To experience the kind of love thatwill tru ly give meaning to our lives,we must first understand wh ich lovesor pseudo -loves do not permanentlysatisfy. They have blinded man's eyesto the on ly love that can br ing complete satisfaction.

Our misd irected search for the lovethat satisfies is reflected in the noti on All quotes attri bu ted to Erich Fromm are from hisbook . The A rt of Loving. Bantam Books. New York ,1956.

of romanti c love. In the last few generations , the ideal of romanti c lovehas captured the imagination of theWes tern world . Romant ic love isused as a gimmick to sell trinkets andtoi letries. Product advertisements running the gamut from breakfast cerealsto breath sprays insert a hefty portionof romance into their hard sell.

W e sing about this romantic lovein the thousands of popular songsground out in the pas t severaldecades. Turn on the radio and youmay hear :

SHE: "I don 't know much aboutthis thing called love."

HE: " I don 't know much about iteither, baby, bu t I'm will ing to try."THEY : " Let 's find love together,

baby, you and me . .. that's the wayit 's go t to be."

The words of this popu lar Ameri can song aptly express the humanpursuit for some kind of love thatwill sat isfy.

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"Baby, Light My Fire" have virtuallyidolized romantic love . Young peoplefrom somewhere around age 14 to 20spend a good portion of the ir timesearching for romance.

Please do not take this for an openseason "pot-shot" at teen-agers. Th eneed to find un ion with another person is a basic human drive . The pointbeing made is that human beings at avery critical juncture in thei r lives when they ought to start understanding what the true love tha t satisfiesreally is - are derailed into a psychological and emo tio nal ditch.

O ur W orId of M aterial"Goodies"

As the young adolescent is makinghis way through the jungle of romantic love, he soon stumbles upon another maze-like detour. The detoursays: "Indulge yourself." Th is detourthrus ts the individual into a most curious world.

It is the twentieth century world ofthe love of "things." For the firsttime in human history, broad segments of the population can find access to material wealth. We can buyto our heart's content.

We can gu lp booze, poke filtert ipped cigarettes between our lips,dine ou t in splendor, buy color television sets on extended credit. From allthis splendor we receive a momentarysense of wel l-being. And for years theindividual may confuse this temporary feeling with real fulfillment.

Erich Fromm pu t it in earthyterms: "Man' s happiness today consists in 'having fun' . . . . The world isone great object for our appetite, abig apple , a big bottle, a big breast;we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones - andthe eternally disappointed ones."

This is not a diatribe against physical enjoyment or a clarion call forpoverty. There is an expression thatsays, "Money may not buy happiness- bu t it sure helps." To be poor isnot a vir tue. But nei ther is using thematerial world as an Ersatz substi tutefor the hunger in our heartsand minds.26

A thi rd kind of love that fails tosatisfy can on ly be understood bygrasping what the essence of lovereally is. Simply pu t, the essence oflove invo lves union, attachment, acceptance. It requi res one-ness or atone-ment. The Bible tells us that" two cannot walk together unlessthey be agreed." Love assumes thattwo minds - because it is with themind that we love - accept eachot her and hol d similar hopes anddreams.

The absence of th is kind of unionis separateness, aloneness - being cutoff. But no man can be an island andstand alone. Every man and womanmust find acceptance and un ion wi thsome thing.

There are, of course, people whoare ut terly alone. At least, they feelcomple tely rejected and alone without love. They are defined as theInsane.

It is simply impossible for a humanto live in a state of utter alonenessand lack of love . The mind cravesunion wi th someone or something.This is why false loves can flour ish insocieties cut off from the love thatsatisfies. The man who feels rejectedand alone is a prime candidate forsuch external influences.

Anatomy of a TrueBeliever

Philosopher Eric Hoffer has made alife study of mass movements andwhy people are caught up in them. Anumber of years ago, he wrote awidely acclaimed book, The True Be-liever. In this book , Hoffer analyzedthe mental makeup of the personwho becomes a true believer of a massmovement."The ideal potential convert,"stated Hoffer, "is the individual whostands alone." Hoffer continued : "Arising mass movement attracts andholds a fol lowing not by its doctr ineand promises but by the refuge it offers from anxieties, barrenness andmeaninglessness of an individual'sexistence."

Yet today , we find meaninglessness

a characteristic of our culture. Thisfeeling cuts us off psycho logically andmakes us feel insignificant. Insignificance becomes a synonym foraloneness.

In his book, Hoffer gives examplesof this feeling. For example, whenfacing Stalin 's police, the individualRussian citizen felt meaningless. Heseemed powerless and alone - insignificant - and hence felt unable,psychologica lly and physically, to resist.

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But facing the invading Nazi German armies , the Russian citizen sawhimself as part of a powerful nation.His aloneness and insignificance evaporated. The indiv idual 's life had acquired meaning and purpose. He wasuni ted with all Soviet citi zens in thestruggle for Mother Russia. Psychological union gave power to his life.

The Russian could identify with apower greater than he - a power thatboth needed him and gave him support. This reciprocity - this union ofneeds and aims - was a kind of loverelationship.

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the nation can disappear. O r it canturn against the indiv idual. At best,th is union, called "nationalism," ismerely the most noble expression ofconformity.

In its baser forms, th is kind of lovefinds expression in abject conformi tyto customs, pract ices and beliefs. " Itis a union ," says Fromm, " in whichthe individual self disappears to alarge extent, and where the aim is tobelong to the herd ." Fromm continues with the thoug ht that "one canonly understand the power to fear tobe different , the fear to be only a fewsteps away from th e herd , if on e un derstands the depths of the need no tto be separate."

R eally " Do in g TheirOwn T hing"?

Many young people (as do olderpeople) claim to be individualisticand reject society. The youthful expression of this "indiv idualistic "attitude may be the wearing of outlandish clothes, the smoking of pot,the wearing of long hair.

If one looks deep ly eno ugh, hefinds that such groups of peopl e areconforming to their own subcultures.They are just as slavishly dependenton the approbation of their peerdominated tyranny as anyone in thesilent majority.

A human simply cannot rejecteveryone and everything to standalone. Nei ther can a human mindmaintain sani ty in a state of to tal rejection. The human mind canno t exist in psychological isolation . J ust asnature abhors a physical vacuum , themind abhors an "acceptance vacuum ." One can on ly reject this so hecan accept that. A mind can survivebeing rejected by one group on ly if itcan find acceptance in some fashionelsewhere. An individual must findunion and love somewhere - if on lywith one other mind .

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romantici sm of the " I can' t live withou t you, baby" synd rome is one expression of thi s love .

Some people simply stay lonely.T hey mu st gra pple wi th minds thatperiodi cally thr eaten to slip into theabyss of insanity. These are the depressed mind s of the aged, the pariahs, the sick and the unloved.

O ther humans drown th emselvesin orgies of accomplishment. T hesepeople "get results" by being entrepreneurs, salesmen , the best in thefield, the men with a line in Who'sWho?, the creators of masterpieces.Ability and the need to be loveddrives them to supe rhuman accom plishment.

To accomplish is not wrong. Bu tto use accomplishment for win ningthe kind of love that must satisfypermanently is to chase the wind.Today's success is tomorrow's failure.During the Great Depression, for examp le, many successfu l men commit ted suicide. They had used successas a love staff to lean on; it proved tobe a broken reed.

The love which comes from theapprobation of humans is transitory.Circumstance cuts its power. Circumstance made even Napo leon a prisoner on the island of Elba. Dea thtook a Churchill. For death is the ultimate barrier to a love tha t can satisfy permanently . Death makes lifeitself impermanent.

Why People Turn toReligion

And so it is that since time immemorial men have tu rned to rel igion inhope of discovering the love thatreally satisfies. In rel ig ion, the helpless, alone and mortal human couldfind un ion with a superior being - abeing tha t could love and protectbeyond the changing vicissitudes offamily , friends, success, mate, nati onand even life itself and who could explain the traumas of life and tran scend the limits of tim e with a lovethat endured.

But religion became, as Lenin ando thers so carefully observed, the

opiate of the people - a sort of spiritual vodka. Th is world's religionsmerely manipulated the very elementshumans feared by casting a shadow infro nt of the love that really satisfies.The religious use of con formity, ceremonial ente rtainment , orgi astic ritual,fear of punishment , deprivation andthe use of military power to force acceptance to a certain way of thinkingbli nded men 's eyes to the love thatsat isfies. Religion has seldom used orknown of the love that would reallysatisfy - the very need its adh erentswere seeking to fulfill.

Man : T he Helpless BeingTo understand what this love is,

we mu st first unders tand ourselves.Man is, as Fromm puts i t, " l ife beingaware of itself." He is aware of thefact that at one time he was born andthat soon he must die. Man knowsthat he does not want to die. Heknows himself as a separate being ;but a being that is basically powerlessand alone.

"This awareness of himself as a separate entity," says Fromm, " the awareness of his own short life span . . . . theawareness of his aloneness and separateness, of his helpl essness before theforces of nature and of society, all th ismakes his separate, disunited existen ce an unbearable prison . He wouldbecome insane could he no t liberatehimself from this prison and reachout, un iting himself in some form orother wi th men ."

Yet this union, this fusion withanother person or persons does notreally satisfy. The other person is asweak as he is. Any love or in terpersonal union with a human though a very hig h form of love must be subsidiary and secondary tothe true love that satisfies.

If human love is not the ultimatelove, where then can we find th is lovethat will satisfy)

To find this love that satisfies, wemu st first understand what has beenoverlooked in ideas regarding love . Inlove, one assumes, by definition , thatthere is a unio n. T he lack of union -

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separateness - is the lack of love."The experience of separateness

arouses anxiety," says Fromm. " It isindeed, the source of all anxie ty. . . . "Beyond that, it arouses shame and thefeeling of guilt. T his experience ofg uilt and shame in separateness is expressed in the Biblical stOry of Adamand Eve.

Adam and Eve :Paradise Lost

"After Adam and Eve have eatenof the ' tree of knowledge of good andevil,' after they have disobeyed [thereis no good and evil unle ss there isfreedom to disobey] .. . they saw thatthey were naked and they wereashamed.' "Fromm implies that the separateness being spoken of

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