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PROPHECY IN TODAV'S WOR ~WS A 5 the world careens around the .l'\.. calendar into the new year, the prospects for world peace look grim. 1967 threatens to be a continua· tieD of 1966, only more so. Yet world peace is comjng - in a manner and at a time few expect! This decade has become the age of WAR - guerrilla war, undeclared war (which is war nevertheless), and the threat of nuclear war. Few realize that the greatest prophet who ever lived Jesus Christ of Nazareth - revealed that j1lst before wo rld peace breaks out all over the earth the world today would be exactly as we find it. " And ye shall hear of wars and rll1t10fS of wars," Jesus said. "For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom ..." (Mat. 24:6, 7). And then would come The Wonderful World Tomorrow! But look for a moment at today's world. The V ietnam Fixation The biggest and most publicized war today is the growing conflict in Vietnam. This interminable struggle now threatens to spi ll over into northeast Thailand. But other potential " Vietnams" are brewing elsewhere in the world. Never have "rumors of war" been so prolific as right now. The Middle East is once again a swirling, seeth ing cauldron of charged emotions. The Arab-Jew crisis has again come to the fore. Jordan, other Arab states are incensed at Israel's recent puni. tive raid on a Jordanian border vi llage. r raq, Syria are in a war of words over a vital oil pipeline. While they argue, 20 percent of Europe's oi l supply is shut off. At the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, the ugly situation in Aden grows worse by the day. Nasser·trained PIP Photo Elements of the rag-tag Angola n rebel army ot reveille. Portuguese government is attempting to quell insurrections in all three of its African possessions. agents have turned Aden and its surrounding area into a land of terror. The British insist they wi II pull out of Aden by 1968. But who will take their place and fill a dangerous vacuulTI of power? It is obvious for all to sec that any government which takes over is doomed to collapse into the hands of Arab extremists. 1968 is definitely the deadline for peace in Aden ~ In Africa Across the strategic B{lb e/ lvIandeb sea gate from Aden, seri ous conflict is developing in East Africa. T he Somali Republic, flexing its muscles with Soviet arms, is coveting the territory of tiny Prench Somaliland. "SeI f·determination for all Somali peoples" is the slogan - or rather the verbal disguise for agg ressIon. The Somalis are openly demanding huge slices of Ethiopia and Kenya. Other Somali kinsmen live in these two areas. The situation has now become so serious that a total trade and communi· cations break has developed between Kenya and Somalia. Along their border is a strip of "no-man's·land" fifteen miles wide! The U ni ted States has promised Ethi· opia jet fighte r planes to counterbalance Soviet MIG·19s on their way to Somalia. In almost every new world conflict the big powers are drawn in, seemingly often against their will! An entire issue of The PLAIN TRUTH couldn't begin to explain all of Africa's equall y serious threats to peace. One is the Rhodesian crisis. Another fi nds Portugal engaged in a three·front guerrilla war in its African
possessions of Ango la, Mozantbique and Portuguese G uinea. This Iittle-heard-of war is costing Po rtugal 40 pe rcent of her annual nationa l budget. O ve r 100,000 Portuguese.- troops arc tied down - 20,000 in tiny Portuguese Guinea alone. This \Vest African enclave is certainly one of the worl d 's most obscure battlegrounds. Now - An "Arms Crawl" in South America A low- keyed anns race (dubbed an "anns crawl " by some) is developing In South America. Argentina's pu rchase of 25 outdated American jets in 1965 started it off. This alarmed Argentina's age-old antagonist, Chile. Chi le then contracted to buy 2 l British jets. Pem has now ordered 24 more-advanced British models. Now Brazi l wan ts to buy 100 jets from Germany or elsewhere. Venezuela is said to be ,. fe-evaluating" its air force needs. O nce again the United States is caught in lhe midd le. W ashington is striving to become the sole supplier of air a nTIS. It can th us "control the escalation," as the argument goes, by parcel ing out a few jets here, a few there, and so on. Throughout Latin America a veritable Pandora's box of problems could erupt at any g iven time. Venezuela has been under ma rtial law for weeks. An invasion of Haiti b)' disgruntled exi les is imn~ in e nt. And based in Miami, florida, alone, are revolutionary groups aiming to overthrow FIVE Latin American governments! And bord er disputes? You wouldn't belie l ie the utterl y absurd border claims some Latin countries have against their neighbors. Venezuela claims that two thirds of newl )' independent Guyana is " hi storicall y" Venezuelan territory. To make it worse, Surinam, on G uyana's eastern Aank would li ke a portion of the remaining third. Ecuador and Peru ha ve a longstanding border squabble. Bolivia wants the Antofagasta region back from Chile. It's almost laughable. But what if these clai ms are backed up with modern jet planes and other sophisticated weapons? Said one U . S. correspondent cove r ing Latin America : "TIle enti re area is a ti me bomb that must be defused." up, Photo Arab soldiers of the Aden Federal Army crouch at their machine gun post o n th e rocky slopes on the border separa ting th e Aden Protecto rate and the Yem en. Th e barren frontier has been the scene of many border clashes between th e Aden Army and raid ing Yeme ni tribesmen. The whole Aden Protectorate incl udes the Crown Colony of Aden as well as the East and West Protectorates of 23 sheikdoms. Britain annexed it in 1839. Europe Too Even in prosperous Europe a border clash is escalating . T his time it's Austria and Italy. At issue is Ita ly's troublesome South T irol district, once a part of the old Austrian Empire. The Germanspeaking T iroleans demand eventual reunion with their fo rmer homeland. Almost each night brings new reports of blown-up power stations, or of explosions in ltalian police barracks. The once- lucrative tour ist trade 111 the beautiFu l, Italian Alpine area is nearl y dead . W hat a pity men refuse to live at peace wi th ead l other ! Yet strange as it might seem, there W ILL come an end to this dizzying round of continuous stri fe and struggle among men and nations. And that in less than 10 years ! How ? Our brand -new, beautifully ill ustrated booklet tells how. It's entitled: " THE WONDER FUL WO RLD TOMO HROW. IVhat 11 W ill Be Like.' · Write for it. It's absolutely free !
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