ASCENDING ABOVE WORLD CRISIS:-SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SKILLS FOR LIFE AND HOPE

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1977
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Checkpoint
A NETWORK NEWSLETTER FOR PEOPLE CONCERNED
WITH FUTURE CIVILIZED GLOBAL SYSTEMS
BOX 19127, WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036
PHONE (202) 785.0708
ASCENDING ABOVE WORLD CRISIS:- SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & SKILLS FOR LIFE AND HOPE
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WORLD LEADERSHIP HAS FAILED TO EMERGE AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. National governments
are lost in world crisis. Basic assumptions of all national defense strategists have become
obsolete. A generation of Kremlin/White House competitive research and development has
produced the power to destroy mankind, a power the mythologies had claimed that God alone
could command. Kremlin and White House policies of supplying military weapons to both sides
of festering wars around the world,firing the flames of world-wide inflation and dread, are
leading directly toward global tragedy and chaos. Only a "miracle" may save humanity. BUT .
THIS "MIRACLE POWER" MAY BE WITHIN REACH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AND CONGRESS - -
UNEXPLORED. For the first time in history,knowledge and skills in all fields make it feasible
to launch a new generation of research and development and testing of world-sized systems,
management structures and legal institutions to stabilize international relations without
threats of war,thereby releasing energies,resources and human creativity to assist all people
in the struggles for food,clothing,housing,energy,clean air & water, health, education and
national security. No national leader has emerged who dares proclaim clearly defined next-
generation goals t0 develop and demonstrate LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR PLANET EARTH, in contrast
to the past generation's success in developing power of death,destruction and obliteration.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 28,1964,reporting the ordination of the late Harriet B.
Kurtz,former editor of CHECKPOINT, to a unique all-faith ministry, wrote under the headline
" WOMAN TO TAKE PEACE MINISTRY - She and Husband to Press 'War Safety Control' "
" Man has attained the power to effect a man-made Doomsday," Mrs. Kurtz said.
" This power is new to man; before, it was God's alone. This potential embarrasses
and frightens man and will do so until we internalize what until now has been only
book knowledge .the knowledge that we are made in the image of God and therefore
have it latently in our nature to handle aright this nuclear dilemma. "
Mr. Kurtz said The nation which emerges into world leadership in the coming
generation will be the nation with the strategic vision to provide Leadership
in transforming one-nation defense power into a11-nation security power,capable
of guaranteeing positive national security and political independence for itself,
its neighbors and its enemies. "
THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE PRESIDENT TO "NEGOTIATE" WITH, OR BEG PERMISSION FROM
ANY FOREIGN LEADERS BEFORE PROVIDING NEW INSPIRATION AND LEADERSHIP FOR THE PATRIOTIC PEOPLE
OF ALL NATIONS. The President, with bi-partisan support of Congress,has the unprecedented
power to (1) meet all requirements for national defense in the coming generation AND IN ADDITION
(2) challenge the nations of the world to a next-generation "race" in the research and
development and breakdown testing of civilized world systems to guard the securit and
independence and progress of all nations .the three "gut issues" for w is a American
people fought their Revolution.
HARRIET'S DEATH ON JUNE 17,1977 CAUSED BUSY PEOPLE IN MANY FIELDS AROUND THE WORLD
TO PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND TO LOOK UP. In looking ~ many have caught a glimpse of Harriet's
vision and faith in man's creative powers. In the mythologies of most world religions God-sized
Power means (1) the power to destroy humanity in one hand, and in the other hand (2) the
compassionate power to protect and enrich life for all humanity on the planet below. In the
National Security Council & Staff an American President has superior command & staff assistance
in wielding the power of death for humanity. But nowhere in the White House is there a Council
. reporting to the President, and to the American eo le t~ir ugh~ir-e~t3 Con ress .
se arate from and in addition to the National Security Council ti~~~h which t e resident
can re ease the creativi~ ty and ower and character of the American ep ople for world initiatives
pioneering the future systems and institutions of a civilized world order.
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE October 31, 1977
( (Senator Adlai Stevenson CTll , )
is Chairman,Subcommittee on
Science,Technology & Space;
& Chairman,Subcommittee on
Collection?production ~
Quality o,t' Intelli~ence.)~
PEACEFUL USES OF CIVILIAN AND
MII,ITARY SPACE TECHNOLOGY:
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF HOW-
ARD AND HARRIET KURTZ
Mr. STEVENSON. Mr. President, as
a commentary on this year's Nobel Peace
Prize awards, Walter Cronkite of CBS
News recently expressed his view on the
use of space technology for world peace.
Walter Cronkite speciflcaily mentioned
Howard and the late Harriet Kurtz,
Americans who have dedicated their lives
to the implementation of space age tech-
nology for international peace.
In much the same vein, Bruce Cal-
lander, editor of the Air Force Times,
pointed out in his column how much
of the technology and knowledge devel-
oped for national defense can be used to
help achieve a more peaceful and just
world. Mr. Callender noted specifically
how the Kurtzes, through war control
planners, have pursued this goal.
I commend to my colleagues the views
expressed in this commentaries, and I
ask unanimous consent that the complete
texts be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the mate-
rial was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
[CBS Radio Network]
WALTEa CRONHITE REPORTING
WALTER CaONHITE. This is Walter Cronkite
reporting with news and commentary on
the CB$ Radio Network.
Ordinarily, the Nobel Peace Prize is
awarded to people of some prominence-a
Sakhalov, a Henry Kissinger, a Martin
Luther King. This week, however, the 1978
prize was given to a pair of relatively ob-
scure Ulster women who-out of obscurity-
created a growing peace movement among
the women of Northern Ireland. Such rec-
ognition, of course, is encouraging to those
who receive it. But it also serves to remind
us that there are many remarkable people
1n our midst who have,dedicated their lives
to something other than their own well-
being, but whose ideas and contributions
often are lost in obscurity. '
112ar1ead Corrigan and Betty Williams, the
recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, both are
in their thirties. Their efforts to sell peace in
Northern Ireland are about two yells old, and
they may or may not share credit for the fact
that violence there has been considerably
refluced since they began. Howard and $ar-
riet Kurtz are in their sixties, For 20 years,
they devoted their lives and what little they
had is the way of fortune to selling an idea
for international peace. They now are deeply
in debt, and she is fighting a desperate battle
with cancer. So far, their ideas had few
takers, but they keep trying. The Kurtzes
now live in Washington. He's an engineer and
s~former lieutenant colonel in the Air Force;
she's an ordained minister. Their idea is to
employ space age technology in the service
of world peace. Specifically, they propose
that the IInlted States initiate a kind of glo-
bal information service, plugging all nations
into a system of orbiting satellitce that
would provide everyone with economic, envi-
ronmental, and even military intelligence
about everyone else. In short, an open world.
Now this, of course, is an astonishingly naive
idea, and it hasn't been helped by the form in
which it is communicated: closely typed
pages written in the poorly structured rush
of language common to people who feel they
have too much to say to say it simply, and
who want too much to convince to be cred-
ible. To make matters worse, the communica-
tion is laced with the seeming paranoia of
obsessed people who are used to having their
obsessions scorned. And of course, the
Kurtzes have been scorned. They made all
the rounds; they've talked to government
officials, reporters, and editors. They managed
to get their Idea printed in the report of a
Congressional committee, and last spring it
got sympathetic treatment in the Washing-
ton Post.
But for the most part, their presentations
probably are filed under "K" for kooky ideas,
or in the waste basket. But consider for a
moment some kind of system far an inter-
national sharing of satellite information net
only as feasible, but probably inevitable at
some point. And in military terms, the satel-
lite already has opened the world far those
who can afford the satellites. The satellite
has made possible a series of American-Soviet
nuclear agreements, even dEtente itself, by
making Soviet objections to on-site inspec-
tion Srrelavant. It's possible that Howard and
Harriet Kurtz could have the germ of a valid
concept. We're so used to judging ideas by
their covers that we might laugh at the in-
vention of the wheel, if it were not pre-
sented by a noted authority. The fact that
two people with no official sanction have had
the audacity to devote their lives to an idea
and the presumption to push it is enough in
itself to thrn us away. But we :night remem-
ber that some of the kookiest ideas on record
have come from the White House, the Penta-
gon, and corporate board rooms. And that
some of the best have come from unsanc-
boned people like the Kurtzes and the two
Ulster women: naive people who didn't know
that wisdom had been monopolized and li-
censed. There will be no Nobel Prize for the
Kurtzes. But the nobility of their self-sacri-
fice for an ideal deserves thought and recog-
nition.
[From the Air Force Times, Oct. 24, 1977] betterment of the nation and the world in
ways which would not compromise the na-
TIME TO GNE Mn,rrARY DIIE CREDIT tiOn'8 defense or reduce readinee8?
(Commentary by Bruce Callander) A group cal3ed the War Control Plan-
What the military services need, some of ners-the non-militant peace group which
the critics contend, is a peacetime mission has been discussed in those pages from time
which will: to time--suggests a way. They propose a
Excite the country's best young people world effort using space technology and
to the point whero they will flock to the other capabilities to locate new energy
colors. sources and mineral depcette, improve ag-
Convince the taxpay0rs that every penny ;icillture, detect natural disasters in the
of their defense money is going Lo a useful, making, forecast and control weather and
constructive purpose. enhance world communications.
Give career military people such a sense Each nation could partidpate is such a
of importance and such a feeling of being Drogram by in,esting some of !te mllitary
appreciated that they will consider the pay resources, the Wsr Control Planners con-
and benefits only secondary. tend, but without giving up any of its de-
Dispell the image of the armed forces as iense capsbllltiee.
paid killers and replace it with one in which The ~~~ ~~dY PaI'tiaPa~ to a 3e-
they are viewed as humanitarians in 6rce in such ventures, but thane to w cea'tsta
uniform. sense of nstionsi' emtrarrasameat sbaut such
The ad agency which could concoct that psrtidpstion sad the military invohrement
kind of corporate image for the services is played low key,
probably could write its own ticket. Perhaps it 1a time to bring tee military
Unhappily-or happily, depending on out of the closet, recognise 1t as eo?ethln6
your point of view-Madison Avenue prob- other than s accessary evll sad r'eiotors na-
ably isn't up to it. tional pride in its eaistenoe. Not needed?
The Vietnam war did not make the serv- ~Osae7Aar t1Ns kid A~iR o[ ew3isose; IJs ;s11
ices the most popular institution in town. ~ yeiieee tisst ffie s=aao~ ~o~ ti~4tg~
The rising cost of defense hasn't helped. People Issemtk neavlse iis~deE~t ncHsisf/ons As
Concern over serious domestic problems has ttizwt ~ dislike rret Aseilsg ,yule to eilnct
put day-to-day survival ahead of long- contemporary styles? Qr .is .it a deeper prob-
range survival ill the minds of many people. lezni of being markefl as s mem"Ger of an or-
The military probably enjoys greater pub- ~ganization with a+hich 'Choy aTe rrot anxious
Sic approval than it did during the Vietnam itO ~ so PramlatrlUly 'k4enklA3eAp
war or in past times of peace, but that 1s
not saying a lot. Long before Kipling put
the sentiment in verse, people were saying
that a soldier with no war to fight is about
as welcome among his fellow citizens as a
case of hives.
In wartime-at least when there is gen-
eral public support for the war ca??..~-the
situation is different. But St is not neces-
sarily the professional soldier who is hon-
ored. Often as not, it is the shori~1~].i~ Af .a ra
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