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Fidel Castro's loudly proclaimed pro
gram of "exporting communism" has
gone worldwide now that his exercises ir
Latin America?notably Panama?are
going so well for him. The myth abou
Cuba's dictator being at long range with
Moscow was also squelched during his
world tour, where he luxuriated in the
glory of his success in Africa, where his
troops fought for Angola. Castro is show
on his Moscow stop here, from left
Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny
Castro, General Secretary Leonid Bre
hnev, Andrei Gromyko, Carlos Rodriguez,
and Alexei Kosygin. For a look at Castro's
adventures, see pages 4 and 5.
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"The United States is the leader of
the Western world. Therefore it is
also my leader."
These words spoken by B.J. Vorster,
prime minister of South Africa, and
echoed recently by I.D. Smith, prime
minister of Rhodesia, have apparently
been accepted without question by the
general public.
By size and influence the U.S. is un-
doubtedly the leader of the Western
world. But where is its leadership taking
the Western world and how reliable is
it as an ally of other Western countries?
This question is also being asked by
Americans who are unhappy over their
country's weakness in the face of com-
munist aggression
The detente policy of "peaceful co-
existence" with the U.S.S.R. is seen as
all concessions by the U.S.A. and all
gains by the Soviet Union. It is clear that
the U.S.S.R. does not consider itself
bound to observe the same ground rules
that inhibit the actions of the U.S.
There is no deceit in such an attitude.
The U.S.S.R. has always proclaimed world
conquest for communism as its undevia-
ting aim. To the achievement of this tar-
get all its efforts and resources, of men
and materials, are directed. The U.S.S.R.
is thus the only country in the world that
knows exactly what it intends to do and
how it will do it.
By contrast, all the other major powers,
esPecially the U.S.A. and Britain, while
paying lip-service to anti-communism,
have in fact made their accommodation
with communism and no longer oppose it.
Castro Plottin
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
By Mike Blair
ROSEAU, Dominica?Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro, buoyed by his
recent success in Angola, is now cast-
ing a covetous eye closer to home?
towards the nearby Caribbean island
country of Dominica, one of the sev-
eral small islands of the Lesser An-
tilles.
According to sources in the Dominica
capital of Ronseau, the Cuban Red dic-
tator has several specific aims:
? Dominica is located near the exact
center of the gateway to the Eastern
Caribbean, the passageway through which
most vessels must travel to and from the
vital Panama Canal.
? The small island nation, with a popu-
lation of only about 70,000, lends itself
well to an advanced Cuban or Soviet
submarine base in the Eastern Caribbean.
? The island is located near the vital
sea lanes to and from the oil-rich Ven-
ezuelan coast. Cuba has depended heavily
upon an oil supply from far off Soviet or
Chinese bases. Dominican off-shore .oil
reserves are just beginning to be ex-
plored.
Late last year a delegation of Cuban
economic "experts" toured the island.
As a result, various "Cuban-Dominican
Friendship Clubs" began to spring up
throughout the country. In January
official ties with Castro's Cuba were com-
menced when the Cubans ,offered the re-
source-rich but development-poor Domin-
icans health, agricultural and various
forms of economic assistance.
The U.S. in particular, by its ac-
quiescence in the detente policy, by its
vast technological and financial aid to the
U.S.S.R., and especially by recent SALT
agreements?limiting American defense
spending in the vain hope that the
U.S.S.R. will reciprocate?has done more
to build up Soviet military strength in
the 31 years since World War II than the
U.S.S.R. could have achieved by its own
efforts in a century.
The U.S. has allowed itself to be dis-
armed by its own government to a position
of second place to the U.S.S.R. Even if
rearmament were to be immediately
resumed on a 24-hour basis, there is no
hope that the U.S. could ever catch up.
It is probably true that the technical
_quality of U.S. nuclear missiles and wea-
pons is higher than that of the U.S.S.R.,
In view of the fact that the island
nation has been more or less ignored by
U.S. foreign interests, Dominican Premier
Patrick John is reportedly of the opinion
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but the sheer preponderance of weight
and numbers of the latter's weaponry is
likely to prevail in a first-strike war (in-
deed it is unlikely that there will ever be
an opportunity for any retaliatory second
strike).
The U.S. has staked its future in inter-
nationalism through multi-lateral trade
agreements, international cartels and con-
glomerates, and by international financial
banking through the International Mone-
tary Fund, which it controls to all extent
and purposes.
The government has rendered America
highly vulnerable to communist blackmail
by arming and financing its enemy; by
relieving the enemy of the necessity of
feeding itself, by dumping vast quantities
of grain on the U.S.S.R., thereby permit-
ting millions of workers to be released
from agriculture to work in munitions
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that Marxism will be the best ideological
course for the nation's future.
Until 1961, Dominica had been a British
colony for more than 200 years. Since
Sowiet Dictator Leonid Brezhnev (left) and Fidel Castro
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1961, the island has been internally in-
dependent, within the British Common-
wealth, with the British maintaining the
island's foreign affairs and defense. How-
ever, with Britain tied down with prob-
lems in Ireland and Wales, the future of
Dominica is far from uppeiniost in the
minds of British officials.
The island is scheduled to gain com-
plete independence from Britain in
November.
, When this happens, Dominica will be
responsible for its own military security.
Currently, the little nation's armed forces
consists of about 25 armed police officers,
a constabulary-type of organization, and
about a dozen customs officials.
There is no army, no navy and no air
force. Dominica's poor economy makes
any plans for future military forces little
inbre than a dream.
Sources on the island indicate that Cas-
tro will probably make his move after
independence in November, when the
island's defense leaves British jurisdic-
tion.
The island would lend itself well to
guerrilla-type warfare. Much of the island
is mountainous with dense rain forests,
not too unlike what Castro was familiar
? with during his early days of battle against
the Batista regime in Cuba.
It would be totally impossible for
Dominica's police force to effectively
combat mountain-based guerrilla units
on the island. In addition, the island's
miles of secluded beaches lend them-
selves to seaborne landings. Dominica
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
By Peggy Poor
MIAMI?Informed Cuban exiles here are cyn-
ically betting that timing of the saccharin ban with
overtures for "normalization" of relations with
Castro's Communist dictatorship are far from ac-
cidental.
On the contrary, it's a clear case of that new
bureaucratic "in" term: linkage.
The "normalization" whoopla is for trade,
the exiles argue. But all Cuba has to trade, besides
a little nickel and a little copper, is sugar. And the
U.S. does not need sugar. In fact, sugar producers
in this country are asking for protection against any
imports.
But does that picture change when saccharin
is banned?
And how will banning of saccharin affect the dol-
lars and cents aspect of the problem, the exiles
ask. The price of sugar iskway down on the world
market. By the normal dynamics of supply and de-
mand, a ban on sugar substitutes might be ex-
pected to boost it.
Cuba is so broke, the exiles point out, that back
orders are overflowing dockside warehouses in
Japan, for example, because Castro's credit has
run out. U.S. taxpayers will have to put up the
money for any deal, as the taxpayers subsidize
the wheat deals with the Soviets. But if the sugar
price is inflated by a saccharin ban, the picture on
paper looks less painful.
Besides that, the exiles contend, Cuba does not
eet De
need to sell sugar to the United States. She already
has markets. Russia already takes the bulk at an
inflated paper price in exchange for goods she
supplies in a deal to Russia's overall advantage.
Cuba has had no surplus with the remainder,
although the world price is too depressed now to
make the trade very profitable.
Knowledgeable exiles speculate that the present
rush to resume trade with the Caribbean tyrant is
probably traceable to pressure from whatever
banking institutions are holding the paper on Cu-
ba's staggering indebtedness.
When relations are "normalized," the U.S.
taxpayer will probably underwrite such risks, as
has been the practice elsewhere in undeveloped
nations or those prone to confiscations.
factories; by making America 40 per cent
dependent on foreign oil which the So-
viets' growing control of all the oceans and
seas of the world can interrupt at any mo-
ment; and by permitting dangerous left-
wing ideologies to grow unchecked in
America to the serious detriment of na-
tional morale.
After the Vietnam war it is seriously
doubted if American troops will ever again
engage in a foreign war; indeed it is to
be wondered if they will even fight for
America.
The United States' reliability as an ally
of the West is nil. Four times, at least,
in recent history has the United States
let itself and/or its allies down rather
than risk confrontation with the U.S.S.R.:
? In 1963 at the Bay of Pigs, the Ken-
nedy administration abandoned the anti-
Castro Cubans to their fate and let Cuba
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fall into communist hands, thereby pro-
viding a springboard for communist
attacks on North America.
? In the Korean War (1950-1953) the
military victory of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur was sabotaged by U.S. politicians
and North Korea was handed over to the
communists.
? In Vietnam the "no-win" policy of
the U.S. and the intervention of the Soviet
agent, Dr. Henry Kissinger, resulted in
not only the passage of all Vietnam into
communist hands, but destroyed the mili-
tary potential, morale and credibility of
the U.S. Army.
? In Angola, in 1975, the U.S., having
first nodded assent to South African inter-
vention in South Angola (in defense of
the Kunene hydroelectric scheme), not
only withdrew its support but threatened
sanctions against South Africa if the
Island
does not have a single coastal patrol
vessel.
If Castro decides to go the guerrilla
warfare route in Dominica, which might
not be necessary due to the left-leaning
government of Premier John, there are
two groups with which he can work.
Dominica is predominantly black. Of
the 70,000 inhabitants, only between 75
and 100 are white and about 2,000 are
native Carib Indians. Among the black
population are about 150 to 200
"Dreads," or black power terrorists.
Both the "Dreads" and the Caribs offer
the Cubans possible allies on the island.
Prior to Premier John coming to power
two years ago, the Island was governed
by Premier Edward Leblanc. Both John
and Leblanc are members of the island's
Labor Party. The only other party is the
Freedom Party, which is outnunaberd
by about two-to-one.
Leblanc fell from power during a crisis
with the "Dreads."
He was accused of being too soft on the
terrorists, who were responsible for milt.-
dering at least one of the island's whites
? and burning down several of their homes.
When the Leblanc government toppled,
John immediately declared "open sea-
son" on the terrorists, who could then be
shot on sight. Since then they have gone
underground. It is significant that when
latter persisted in its actions, thus
allowing Angola to become a Marxist
dictatorship and imperilling the safety of
all southern Africa.
It is interesting, if idle, to speculate
what would have happened if South Africa
had defied the U.S. Government and
chased the Cubans out of Angola. Accord-
ing to South African Defense Force
sources, South Africa had 2,000 men in
the field and was already walking through
Angola like a hot knife through butter;
there were another 200,000 in reserve.
The United States would have had to
either back down or implement its threat
by clamping an oil embargo on South
Africa; thereby declaring itself on the side
of Soviet aggression and opposed to its
so-called Western Allies.
Other examples, too numerous to cata-
logue, include the behavior of the U.S.
the Cuban delegation visited Dominica
late last year, they conferred primarily
with former Premier Leblanc.
The Caribs have an intense dislike of
the blacks of the island and have reported-
ly, on a number of occasions, tried to ob-
tain guns for a revolt. The Caribs are
more or less confined to a reserve on the
island. However, they are upset with the
black majority intruding upon their land.
Although the northern part of the is-
land would well lend itself to a submarine
base, the Dominicans lack a good deep-
water port, which has held the island's
economic development in check. In ad-
dition, the nation has but one small air-
port.
The mountainous terrain limits the con-
struction of a larger field without the ex-
penditure of vast sums which the Domin-
icans lack. Presently there are two flights
in and two flights out daily from the tiny
field, all by small, two-engined props.
Due to wind currents and the mountains
the landings are often cancelled at the
last moment.
Comically, visitors to the islands
can usually determine if the planes are
going to land by watching a small one-
truck fire station at the end of the run-
way. If the crew suddenly dons its gear
and jumps aboard the antiquated truck,
the plane above is about to land.
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Reportedly, one of the "Dreads"
attended the Tenth World Congress of
the Communist Fourth International
as one of the two Antilles' delegates.
They voted in favor of furthering Com-
munist expansion in Latin America
through the use of terrorism and guerrilla
warfare.
The Cuban interest in Dominica has
met with considerable criticism among
both the people and the press of the is-
land. However, the absence of an Ameri-
can mission, or even interest, in the tiny
nation leaves a gaping hole in U.S.
foreign policy in Latin America.
U.S. leaders are forgetting the vital
role that the islands of the Eastern Carib-
bean played during World War II. They
were well-guarded then by the Americans
and British who knew only too well what
a German intrusion into the area would
mean to the trade lanes to and from Pan-
ama.
At the peak of the Cuban action in An-
gola, Dominican Premier Patrick John's
friend to the nearby southeast, then
Prime Minister Errol Walton Barrow of
the island nation of Barbados, was up to
his eyebrows in aiding the Cuban effort.
Barrow allowed Cuban aircraft to use
the Barbados' airfields to refuel enroute
to and from Angola.
at Suez in 1956; and indeed the conquest
of Africa by the Soviets can largely be
laid at the door of successive U.S. govern-
ments since Potsdam, Yalta, etc., when
the destruction of the British Empire was
planned by Roosevelt and Stalin?the
British Empire and its system of imperial
preference tariffs being considered highly
disadvantageous to American trade.
The destruction of British influence in
East Africa led to the establishment of
another communist springboard, Zanzi-
bar.
What sort of anti-communism is it,
as practiced by the U.S. and Britain,
which pours millions of dollars into An-
gola and Mozambique?both marxist
dictatorships?while applying every form
of pressure short of direct armed attack
on Rhodesia and South Africa, both pros-
perous, well-conducted and reliably
anti-communist states?
As the "South African Observer"
(Jan. 1977) said:
"In the Frelimo communist takeover
of Mozambique, America did not turn a
hair and went on to vote aid for the re-
gime. In Angola the U.S. Congress re-
fused to allow the Ford administration
to raise a finger on behalf of the West,
of which America is supposed to be the
leader.
"This failure to act in Angola assured a
direct Russian entry into the world's
most emotionally charged racial and
political issue.
"Thus with America's determination
now to enforce black majority rule on
Rhodesia, the stage is being set there to
replay Angola, where Moscow's all-out
diplomacy and military support (especially
troops from Cuba) carried the day for the
communist forces against the Western-
backed non-communist factions.
"That southern Africa's extensive raw
materials and control of the sea lanes
around the Cape of Good Hope happen to
be essential for the West's security has
still to make any seeming impression on
Washington.
"This is the same United States which
(South Africa's) prime minister, Mr.
Vorster, recently declared 'is the leader of
the Western world. Therefore it is also
my leader.' "
The recent pronouncements of the new
U.S. ambassador to the UN, Andrew
Young, his background in civil rights.
movements and association with militant
black organizations, do nothing to re-
assure Rhodesia and South Africa that the
United States is on their side in their
battle, not f6r white supremacy, but for
sheer survival.
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RICHMOND, Va.?Governor Mills Godwin vetoed a bill that would have
made January 1 "Martin Luther King, Day" in Virginia after being advised of
the effects of the legislation by Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT.
The bill, vetoed April 2, had been introduced by a black state senator, Doug-
las Wilder.
The day preceeding Godwin's veto, his office told The SPOTLIGHT that he
had received many calls, telegrams and letters asking him to veto the bill.
The bill was given very little publicity. In fact, so little known was the legisla-
tion that most Virginians still know nothing of it.
s Godwin vetoes "King Day
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Richmond sources said there was considerable thought given to replacing
Washington's birthday with "Martin Luther King day." Fearing adverse
public reaction, it was dropped. Even though rumors to this effect were ram-
pant, no legislators took public credit for suggesting it.
Martin Luther King Jr., whose speeches lit the torch of anarchy and de-
struction in many large cities throughout the U.S. during the 1960s,was called
the "most notorious liar in the country by the late FBI Director, J. Edgar
Hoover.
Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio) in the
October 4, 1967 "Congressional Record"
said King "has done more for the Com-
munist Party than any other person of this
decade." Ashbrook said that King openly
identified himself with "Communists
and radicals," engaged in "criminal
activity, appearing at the most way-out
meetings in the nation," and advocated
"racism" and "revolution."
January 15, King's birthday, is of-
ficially recognized in a Virginia resolution
King had a long history of advocating
"non-violence" while inciting massive
riots and civil disobedience.
According to columnist Paul Scott, in
1967, King's organization studied the
"Buddhist use of street gangs in Saigon
demonstrations," and contacted "street
gangs (in Chicago)" to recruit as mem-
bers in his Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
King's famous Selma (Ala.) march in
1965 was blasted by Rep. William L.
Dickinson in a speech to the House.
He said, "Drunkeness and sex orgies
were the order of the day in Selma, on the
road to Montgomery and in Montgomery.
The participants in the march consisted
of Negroes, do-gooders, Communists
and human flotsam such as adventurers,
beatniks and prostitutes . .
"The Communist Party, with a powerful
assist by the 'National Council of Church-
es,' gave those groups cohesiveness,
money and direction?and they were
promised all the sex they would want from
opposite members of either race . . . Free
love among this group was not only con-
doned, it was encouraged. They were told
that only by the ultimate sex act with one
of another color can they demonstrate they
have no prejudice."
The story was the same all over the
country?usually accompanied by mass
destruction of property, extensive bodily
injuries and some deaths. Commented
columnist Morrie Ryskind, "It's a sad
fact, but wherever Martin Luther King
goes, violence seems to follow."
King also surrounded himself with
many well known Communists. Karl
Prussion, a former counterspy for the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
stated in a sworn affidavit that "Martin
HONOLULU, Hawaii?Using the
"Pearl of the Pacific" as their gate-
way, uncounted thousands of Filipinos
and other Asiatics are flooding the
U.S. and draining the Social Security
Trust Fund of millions of dollars.
When the "immigrants" arrive
here, they are given a Social Security
Green Card inviting them to apply for
"Supplemental Old Age Benefits"
if they become destitute.
A SPOTLIGHT source in southern
California reported a typical case as
follows: "It's only one of the thou-
sands like it, costing the U.S. tax-
payers millions of dollars a month
as payment to those (foreigners)
who have never earned a dime in
the U.S. or paid one cent of taxes into
the (Social Security) fund."
A Mrs. Juan Fernandos (a fictitious
name) petitioned for immigrant visas
for her mother and father to come to
the U.S. as "babysitters" for her
four children. The mother was allowed
entry and by the second month
she was in the U.S., she was drawing
$200 a month from Social Security.
Two months after, that was raised to
$220 a month. The father has not
completed arrangements to come to
the U.S.
"Mrs. Fernandos mother brought
another woman to our house for a
visit. She was bragging about how she
was drawing more money from the
U.S. than she could ever get in the
Philippines. The other lady, who is
also Filipino, said she would call
her daughter who is a U.S. citizen,
and get on the same pension."
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Luther King has either been a member of,
or wittingly has accepted support from,
over 60 Communist fronts, individuals,
and/or organizations, which give aid
or espouse Communist causes."
Nonetheless, liberal legislators main-
tain that such proof is only a "smear"
tactic to discredit King.
Another undercover operative of the
FBI, Mrs. Julia Brown, spent more than
nine years as a member of the Communist
Party in Cleveland. A black, Mrs. Brown
called King "one of the worst enemies
my people ever had.
"Communist leaders . . . also told us
to promote Martin Luther King, to unite
Negroes and whites behind him, and to
turn him into some sort of national hero.
We were to look to King as the leader in
this struggle, the Communists said,
rIbecause he was on our side!
"I knew they were right," said Mrs.
Brown, "because while I was in the Com-
munist Party I learned that Martin Luther
King attended a Communist training
school (Highlander Folk School, Terme-
see). I learned that several of his aides and
assistants were Communists and that
ceived funds from Communists and that
he was taking directions from Com-
munists."
But the state senator who introduced
the legislation to immortalize King,
Sen. Wilder, discounts all of that.
"I don't know that he (King) was ever
a communist, or that he was ever associ-
ated with communists," Wilder said. V
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richer and older civilizations of South Europe and
the Near East. First and foremost, the Hellenic
Aryans brought a new humanizing influence to
bear on the fossilized cultures of the Mediterranean
peoples. We find this in religion and in the arts.
Pelasgian and Cretan gods feasted on
human sacrifices. Even in the days of the Punic
Wars the otherwise gifted Carthaginians had no
higher conception of religion than burning infants
to their terrible god. Zeus, in contrast, exhibits
revulsion and divine anger against Tantalus and
Lycaon when these kings saggrifice children in his
name. The prevailing Mdliterranean religion
was devoted to worshipping half-human monsters
and all manner of zoological freaks. In Egypt even
beetles were sacred. The legendary Greek heroes
refused to worship non-human gods and the myths
are full of their exploits against Gorgons, Hydrae,
Pythons, Centaurs and miscellaneous nightmares.
Aryan art and science were cultivated with real-
ism and reason as the guiding principles. The Hell-
enes were the first to proportion beauty and
make it the standard of their art. The formalism
of Egypt cannot compare to the living grace of
Greek sculpture and design. Greek science and
philosophy concerned itself with the entire domain
of Nature. Its searching curiosity left nothing
unprobed. The mighty science of Egypt and
Babylon was chiefly engineering, the utilitarian
art of building irrigation works and surveying
fields. It never developed into a speculative disci-
pline as did Greek science. ?
The Hellenes were not long burdened with an-
cient superstitions and traditions. When the su-
pernatural stood in the way of progress, they cut
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through it without pause or regret. Hippocrates
became the father of medicine by separating reli-
gion from therapeutics. He substituted drugs and
sanitation for demons and prayers. Polybius was
the father of modern history. He made it a cause-
and-effect phenomenon instead of tales of super-
natural interferences in the affairs of men. Con-
trast the Hebrews who considered every temporal
event an act 'of god. Another Aryan invention
was constitutional government. This we owe to
Solon. Before this time most of the civilized world
groaned under the burden of tyrannical priest-
kings. With Athenian democracy as the example,
mankind began to turn away from divine kingships
and set the course for the developments modern
Europe ultimately fulfilled. The realism and reason
which rules European civilization today are the
fruits of the seeds the ancient Hellenic Aryans
sowed in the fertile soil of their Mediterranean
empire. That is our debt. That is our glory. IT
LOS ANGELES? In a last-minute
propaganda campaign to frighten
potential tax strikers, the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) moved against
the spreading tax strike movement by
having Ardie McBrearty, chairman of
the United States Taxpayers Union
(USTU), indicted on April 6.
McBrearty is one of the best-known
leaders of the tax strike movement, and
USTU is the leading organized force be-
hind the movement.
McBrearty was indicted by the grand
jury for the central district of Los Angeles
on one count of failure to file an income
form. But he was indicted for failure to file
in 1973, the one year since 1970 that he
did file. In 1973, McBrearty filed a so-call-
ed "Fifth Amendment Return." He in-
cluded with the form a two-and-a-half-inch
file specifying his objections to each of the
questions on the 1040.
McBrearty's indictment should be no
surprise to SPOTLIGHT readers. At the
Phoenix, Ariz., "Constitutional Conven-
tion" March 19, (The SPOTLIGHT,
April 4), tax strike leader David Martin
predicted indictments.
Martin said he'd been told by a friendly
IRS supervisor to expect indictments of
5000 tax strikers. The indictments would
all be bluffs, Martin said, he was told,
"and prosecution will not be sought. The
idea is to intimidate the people, as the
press will give great publicity to the indict-
ments. ' '
The IRS did not inform McBrearty of his
indictment, notifying a local newspaper
first, which then called McBrearty.
In an exclusive SPOTLIGHT interview,
McBrearty said April 6 that he'd contacted
the U.S. attorney's office here on three
separate occasions requesting the oppor-
tunity to appear on his own behalf if the
U.S. attorney went to the grand jury for
an indictment.
He added that he'd contacted the fore-
men of the various grand juries in his
area, but apparently they didn't feel a
citizen bad the right to defend himself in
such a circumstance, so he was not called
to testify on his own behalf?a clear
violation of due process of law guaranteed
by the Constitution.
"I'm very pleased (with the one-count
failure-to-file indictment) because they
were threatening me with (a) conspiracy
(indictment)," McBrearty said. "This
gives me the opportunity to prove the un-
equal application of the income tax law.
"This indictment is obviously just a
'PR' (public relations; propaganda)
operation of the IRS designed to frighten
timid taxpayers and keep them in line,"
McBrearty concluded. "The tax strike is
growing so rapidly that the IRS needs the
publicity about this indictment before
April 15. However, I expect they will lose
interest in the prosecution later this
year."
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WASHINGTON?The Environ-
mental Protection Agency (EPA) has
for the past two years prohibited
Americans from having the benefits
of silver-purified water?despite
tests that show it is superior to
chlorine.
The EPA has prohibited the installation
of new silver purification systems for
swimming pools and forbids suppliers
from providing makeup or replacement
materials for existing systems.
American Water Purification, Inc.,
of San Francisco, has kept many swim-
ming pools crystal clear and free from bac-
teria by using a combination of activated
carbon containing silver and silver screens
which are made anodic by the passage of
the circulating water between permanent
magnets separated by silver wire elec-
trodes connected to the screens.
Efforts are being made to correct the
EPA action. The EPA uses a 1964 "stan-
dard test method" which says that any
water purification system must meet
certain requirements for killing bacteria
:in' distilled water. This test, however, is
irrelevant to actual swimming pool water
which contains a host of organic and in-
organic material.
Scores of independent tests by many
methods in six countries have shown
that silver promptly kills bacteria in water
purity over long periods of time.
For swimming pools, silver in filters
keeps water crystal clear as well as clean,
without the usual disinfectants that sting
and bleach. It adds to the joy of swimming.
The most dramatic purification tests
occurred Nov. 1976 in a 20,000-gallon
swimming pool in Nebraska. There was no
disinfectant of any kind in the water. Fifty
gallons of municipal sew age plant effluent
were put into the pool. That produced a
dangerous concentration of 7,000 E. coli
cells per 100 milliliters (half cup) of water.
Ardie McBrearty receives Bicentennial
Liberty Award at Liberty Lobby's Bicen-
tennial Celebration, July 4, 1976
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RICHARD L. DAVIES
Contents of the pool then were pumped
through a tank containing alternating
anodic and cathodic silver electrodes for
disinfection. Within three hours the pool
was entirely free of E. coli and the water,
analyzed by the atomic absorption pro-
cess, contained only 3.2 parts of silver per
billion parts of water.
To determine the enduring efficiency of
silver purification, the Allegheny County
Health Department in Pennsylvania co-n=
ducted tests in a 152,000-gallon pool
which previously had been disinfected by
a 50-pounds-per-day gas chlorinator. That
system was replaced by a silver system for
the swimming seasons in 1974 and 1975.
Pool water circulated through a filter
of activated carbon impregnated with
metallic silver.
The County Health Department took up
to 50 daily samples and found that silver
ions remained in the pool at the low,
steady rate of 20 parts per billion, with
water free of coliform, pseudomonas and
staphylococcus bacteria throughout the
two seasons. In contrast, 65 water samples
from 30 other pools having a mean con-
centration of 700 parts per billion of avail-
able chlorine for disinfection showed a
mean of 1.3 pseudomonas and 7.3 staph
cells per milliliter of water.
"This data," the Health Department re-
ported, "indicates that silver is equal to
chlorine in maintaining essentially coli-
form-free pool water, and is somewhat
better than chlorine in destroying pseu-
domonas and staph aureus organisms.
The latter two organisms are important
from the standpoint of better health.
"It should also be noted that there were
no visible growths of algae during the test-
ing period." The Health Department
reported its conclusions thus:
"Silver is an effective bactericide for
swimming pool water treatment.
''Silver disinfection is easier and safer
than other purifying agents.
"Silver does not produce changes in
pH thus eliminating the need to add pH
adjustment chemicals.
"Silver at prescribed dosages is non
toxic to humans."
A reduction in pool maintenance costs
was also noted.
How does silver do the job? In Novem-
ber, Richard L. Davies, Executive Director
of The Silver Institute, explained it to the
annual convention in Chicago of the Na-
tional Swimming Pool Institute. Silver acts
as a catalyst for oxygen of the air that's
dissolved in water, he said; the catalytic
action of silver oxidizes the enzymes of
bacteria and that kills the bacteria.
Other firms for years have been market-
ing silver water purifiers in Switzerland,
Germany, Japan and Mexico.
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12- SPOTLIGHT, April 18, 1977
State Officials Charge Tax Revolution in Tiny Liberty
Is Threatening to Disrupt System Throughout New York
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
By Mike Blair
LIBERTY, N.Y.?What began as a
tax protest against unfair property
tax exemptions in a rural township in
upstate New York has grown by such
leaps that it threatens to disrupt
the state's entire system of taxation.
It all began (SPOTLIGHT, January 31)
when a plumber in the rural village of
Liberty became an ordained mail-order
minister of the "Universal Life Church"
and then proceeded to ordain some 118
adults of the Township of Hardenburgh,
the overwhelming majority of the adult
landowners of the town.
Sweetheart2 of
Becomes Terror o
In so doing, they were granted property
tax exempt status by the town's assessor.
The massive tax protest was precipitated
by a loophole in the state tax law whic
provides tax exempt status for religious
groups.
Various cults and factions, ranging from
Buddhist monks to -Moonies.?' had been
usua the loophole at the expense of Har-
denburgh's full-time resident taxpayers.
Now, the former plumber, George
McLain, who has gone from minister to
bishop and now cardinal of the mail-order
church, has completed the remarkable
feat of ordaining more ministers in the
church than there are members of the
the Tax Rebellion
the Court Room
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
By Martin A. Larson
To me, one of the most interesting and heartening incidents which occurred
at the immensely successful convention of the United States Taxpayers Union
in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 18-19, was the appearance of a slim young wo-
an, Lynn Johnston, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
A member of the Libertarian Party, a student of George Kindred's law
course, and a tax-resister for ten of her 29 years, she has refused to pay city,
state, or federal income taxes by filing Fifth Amendment forms, to which she
attached a 44-page memo explaining her position and the unconstitutionality
of such levies.
At ajury trial, held on February 7, 1977,
Dolly Thoburn, a proprietor of Fairfax (Va.) Christian Bookstore, displays a selection of patriotic and Christian texts at the recent
convention of the American Association of Christian Schools in Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Thoburn is a major supplier of the famed Mc-
Guffy readers?used extensively in private schools throughout the nation.
in Grand Rapids, she represented herself.
Since she was charged by the city with
non-payment of the tax, the case was
prosecuted by City Attorney George
Weible and Assistant City Attorney Rob-
ert Mourning in the Court of District
Judge Louis E. Simhauser.
Durin argument, she contended that
all income taxes, as now collected, are
unconstitutional; that they violate the
Fourth and Fifth Amendments; that Con-
gress has no power to transfer the taxing
power to an agency of the Executive
Branch of the federal government; that
the powers exercised by the IRS violate
the principles of separation of govern-
mental powers; that the 16th Amendment
is invalid because Ohio at the time of
ratification was not legally a state; that
she had asked the IRS and the city author-
ities how she could file a return without
waiving her constitutional rights, but
had received no answer or explanation;
that Chief Justice Marshall had declared
laws repugnant to the Constitution
null and void; and that, since the IRS
ode violates several provisions of the
Constitution, the entire statute under
IRS 'Rules' Against School Exemption
WASHINGTON?With no authority
whatsoever, the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) has "ruled" that any
. private school which discriminates on
racial or ethnic grounds will lose its
tax exempt status.
Attorney William Lehrfeld, chairman of
the Exempt Organizations Committee of
the Council on Taxation of the Federal
Bar Association, spoke before 200 repre-
sentatives of the American Association of
Christian Schools here at their annual
conference. Lehrfeld, formerly employed
with the Internal Revenue Service, spoke
on how racial discrimination can affect
the tax exempt status of a private Christ-
ian school.
Lehrfeld said that the Supreme Court
(Green vs. Conally) ruled that a private
school which practices racial exclusion
violates the policy of the federal govern-
ment to encourage desegregated schools
and therefore is not entitleel to federal
tax exemption. V.
Other cases also cited included two
. . . Without Any Authority Whatsoever
Washington, D.C.- suburban schools
that barred blacks.
To date, the courts have not addressed
themselves to private schools that dis-
criminate on religious grounds?fearing
a clash between the First Amendment
guarantee of the "free exercise of reli-
gion" and the 13th Amendment (income
tax).
"Both Fairfax Bruster and Bobby
School were organized in response to
secular considerations and their educa-
tional policies were not designed to propa-
gate the tenets of any particular religion.
Both schools accept students without re-
gard to their religious affiliation or lack
thereof," said Lehrfeld.
"At the onset, it is important to note
some of the questions that these cases do
not present," said Lehrfeld.
"They do not present any question as to
the right of a private social organization
to lirnit its membership on racial or any
other grounds.
"They do not present any question of a
private school limiting its student body to
boys, to girls or to .the. adherents of a
particular faith.
. . the Civil Rights Act is in no way
addressed to such categories of selectiv-
ity. They do not even apply to . private
sectarian schools which practice racial
exclusion on religions grounds."
Lehrfeld said that the Justice Depart-
ment and the Supreme Court "ducked"
the issue of religious schools because of
possible infringement of First Amend-
ment guarantees.
If a religious school?carrying out the
tenets of its religious beliefs?"declines
to invite individuals Who are of a different
race" they are well. within the law as
established by the courts, said. Lehrfeld.
As far as the IRS is concerned, it is
altogether a different story.
"The IRS has rushed headlong into this
area and stated flatly that a church,
acting as such (i.e., practicing racial_
discrimination in its own schoca in can-y-
ing out. its own tenets, if its private school
denies admission on racial grounds? -
that church will no longer be recognized
as a tax exempt organization."
If the school is operated "side by side"
with a church, but is a separate corpora-
tion, then only the school will lose its.
tax exempt status, he said. ?
"The question must arise in your mind,
well, what about the congregation? Is
the S going to intrude in the .cangrega-.
tion? Is it going ? to intrude into the
"era.rchy of the church? Is it- going, to
determine whether or not the . racial or
ethnic composition of the deacons or
? minister or congregation is inconsistent
with its concept of public policies? -?
"Ten years ago I thoughtl Would have
a. glib answer for you?based simply on
a church school. But we are now living
with an IRS ruling where they flatly state
that they are going to monitor?cast the
first stone, if you will?certain racial
and ethnic practices of church institu-
tions,"? said Lehrfeld.
"'I calm& give any er of light at
the end of the tonne said Lehrfeld,
"as far as hew far the IRS will go." ? 7
clergy of any other faith in the entire
State of New York.
With his ministerial ordination, each
new Universal Life Church minister de-
clares his home tax exempt as his church.
Usually, the living room is made the
church and the remainder of the home
the parsonage.
"I've ordained 23,275 ministers in the
Universal Life Church," McLain said,
and by June the number will be 100,
000." No one doubts his sincerity or his
ability to accomplish such a feat, including
some very troubled state officials.
General Assembly Speaker Stanley
Steingut of New York City expressed con-
cern that the state's tax structure can be
ruined.
Lester Bourke, supervisor of the Town
of Hardenburgh, who joined his fellow
townspeople in the protest, said, "Stanley
Steingut told me last week that when 50
per cent of the land in the state is off the
tax rolls, government won't be affordable
any more."
At present, according to Assembly-
man Peter Mirto, another New York City
liberal Democrat who chairs the State
Assembly's Committee on Real Property
Tax, there is a whopping 46 per cent of
the state's land off the tax rolls.
Actually, the state accounts for much of
the loss of land from the tax rolls. In ad-
dition to the state buying up forest land
and removing it from the tax rolls, New
York laws have been an open invitation
to every conceivable organization to claim
to be religious and thus exempt.
At a recent hearing in nearby Monti-
cello, N.Y., the Committee on Real Prop-
erty Tax, which is considering "legal
action" against assessors who grant
wholesale property tax exemptions to
Universal Life Church members, was con-
fronted by Cardinal McLain.
"We're looking for salvation and
equality" McLain said. "And we're going
to get it. You just rest assured."
McLain blasted the liberal New York
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"Cardinal" Ge
news media which has branded ITLC rev-
erends as "$2 ministers."
"Listen," McLain declared, "we're
as legitimate as any other religion in this
country and we're applying for and we're
going to get what is legally ours. If there
are no changes in the law, you people
in the state government are going to wind
up owning every house in this stinking
state."
Supervisor Bourke also appeared be-
fore the committee, stating: "The Uni-
versal Life Church dows not deserve tax
exemption, but neither do the Boy Scouts,
the Zen Buddhists, the Transcendental
Meditation people and the Moonies."
Demanding a statewide referendum
orge McLain
On tax exemptions, Bourke said,
it, let the people vote on this."
"Farmers are traditionally conservative
people," Rudolph Noetzel of the Sullivan
County Farm Bureau declared. "But we
have a radical idea. Put everything back
on the tax rolls. No more free rides in
New York State."
"You are witnessing here a people's
revolt in Sullivan County," Fred Haas of
the Committee for Fair Taxation pro-
claimed. "The message is quite clear."
"The laws are archaic," retired teacher
Carolyn Hobbs told the committee. "We'll
pay our fair share, but there should be
no exemptions except on publicly owned
land."
"Damn
which it operates is null and void.
At the trial, Miss Johnston was per-
mitted to question the prospective jurors
and thus to dismiss those who might be
prejudiced against her because of their
own economic position and interests.
In a stunning reversal of what has hap-
pened in various U.S. District Courts, she
was acquitted after a brief period of
consultation by the panel.
Miss Johnston achieved wide publicity
in her own state; on February 10 the De-
troit "News" ? one of the largest metro-
politan dailies in the country?carried a
feature story of the event; and on Feb-
ruary 26, "The Michigan Daily" pub-
lished by the students at the University
of Ann Arbor, carried the news in a front-
page story with a banner headline, in
which Lynn was quoted as saying: "I'm
never paying. And there's not a damn
thing they (the IRS) can do about it."
She added that she had given a specific
answer to each question on the tax forms
by citing the Fourth and Fifth Amend-
ments to the Constitution.
We do not know what the future holds
in store for this brave and articulate young
woman. But one thing is certain: she has
already carved a niche for herself in the
annals of the tax-rebellion movement.
She has lit another torch that will not soon
be extinguished.
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God's Word
ea, .1(1(1 Linn will live godly in
'rseeuli
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EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
As George Kindred, dean of the
Layman Educational Guild at Law and
chairman of the Patriots Tax Com-
mittee, was preparing for his Active
Patriots Classroom March 25, the area
around his home was suddenly
swarming with lawmen brandishing
riot guns, submachine guns and
other weapons.
Kindred's wife Dorothy said "It looked
like a comedy version of a television
thriller. I couldn't believe my eyes. Both
uniformed and plain clothes police were
running back and forth. Some were diving
behind trees, bushes and vehicles, while
other appeared to be frozen with fear . . .
it's a wonder they didn't shoot each other
in their panic and disorganization." A
neighbor estimated that there were at
least 10 cars and two dozen men in the
raiding party.
The confused group was made up of
personnel from the IRS, the marshall's
office, state police, and sheriff's depart-
ment.
The raiding party arrived less than
15 minutes after Kindred granted a
"friendly" Michigan State Police detec-
tive an interview on an unrelated and in-
nocent matter and Kindred was waiting
for the detective to arrive.
The marshals had a bench warrant and
indictment charging Kindred with "aiding
and abetting false tax forms and fraud-
ulent withholding certificates."
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When asked to see the papers, the mar-
shal indicated that the warrant and indict-
ment from northern Iowa were on the way
to them.
Asked the reason for such a large dis-
play of force, the marshals stated that they
had heard that Kindred had many friends
and they wanted to avoid bloodshed by
a surprise attack.
"If I wanted gunplay with any of you,
you wouldn't have to come to me; I would
come to you," Kindred said. "This is
plain Mickey Mouse stuff, and comical."
Kindred was lodged in Detroit Police
headquarters 70 miles away, and released
the next morning on his own recogni-
zance. At the hearing March 28, Kindred
argued that he had not seen the warrant
and indictment, and had no knowledge of
the charges. Another hearing was set for
April 18.
It is obvious as to what is happening,"
Kindred said. Carter's hatchet man,
Morris Dees, said he would wipe out the
"rightwing" in 90 days. (SPOTLIGHT,
January 10). On top of that, the IRS is
trying to knock off the leaders in the cause
against confiscatory and unconstitutional
taxation, one by one. They pay special
attention to those who teach constitutional
law and how to assert one's rights against
tyranny and bureaucratic despotism. If
teaching patriotism and the Constitution
is aiding and abetting a crime, then the
First Amendment is dead and buried.
"The government's charges, forced by
the IRS, are absolutely erroneous and they
know it. They know perfectly well that I
have never counseled anyone on how to
file any kind of tax form and they have
made themselves subject to both criminal
and civil actions by their desperate and
fool-hardy attempt to discourage and si-
lence my educational endeavors," Kin-
dred added.
"All their tactics to frighten people into
compliance and surrender of rights are
an exercise in futility," Kindred said.
"Soon the judges shall be judged and the
tormentors tormented." 7
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Deputy's
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
Tracey Ehre
The image-makers for the Atlanta-
based Coca Cola Company?manufac-
turers of America's number one cola
drink?have over the decades suc-
cessfully cultivated an outward facade
of benevolence that may well be un-
paralleled in the annals of corpor-
ate affairs.
) The firm has managed to maintain a
public image that appears untarnished to
the naked eye of the private citizen. Such
astute conservatives as Senators Barry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and John Tower (R-
Tex. ) were lulled by the company's facade;
not only did they vote to approve the nom-
ination of fomer CocaCola president
Charles W; Duncan as undersecretary
of Defense, but they also joined in a unan-
imous committee vote allowing Duncan to
retain approximately $13 million worth of
Coca Cola common stock.
The apparent reason for this was that
they were successfully fed the corporate
line that Coca Cola was merely a soft drink
company with no interests beyond the
marketing of their cola and other beverage
drinks.
Thus Duncan,became the first exception
to the much touted White House guide-
lines requiring all Carter-appointees to
divest themselves of corporate holdings.
To complicate this picture further,The
SPOTLIGHT has ascertained that the
reasons given for this exception vary with
the source.
For example, a UPI report quoted
Senate Armed Services Committee
Chairman John Stennis (D-Miss.) as
saying, The committee made an outright
exception to the rule and will not ask him
to divest himself of the stock.''
In explaining the rationale for this ex-
ception, UPI quotes Stennis as saying that
Coca Cola is not involved in military pro-
cienti
S sts Bucking
ancer Bureaucrats
curement contracts, but simply sells soft
drinks to the Pentagon. He added that the
company's Pentagon business amounted
to only $13 million a year, or less than one-
half of one percent of Coca Cola's annual
$3 billion in sales.
Stennis apparently made no comments
as to how these particular figures were ob-
tained, nor did he note that there were
competing soft drink companies?such as
Pepsi Cola, Royal Crown, etc.?who
would be placed at a profound disadvan-
tage in their dealing with the military.
James Smith, a staff member of the
Stennis Committee, offered a somewhat
different explanation in the course of an
interview with The SPOTLIGHT. In con-
firming that Duncan had been allowed to
keep his stock, Smith stated that the com-
mittee acted as it did because "in accor-
dance with the Carter guidelines he was
not required to dispose of it unless it
would impact inordinately on his decision-
making." He added that the committee
considered the case and "saw no conflict
of interest in the matter."
Smith also noted that Duncan was,
under the law, prohibited from making
any decisions that would affect Coca Cola
and that the committee was aware of the
company's multinational interests at the
time of the vote. He volunteered that there
was no recorded vote taken either in the
committee or in the Senate on the Duncan
nomination or the stock exemption to the
best of his recollection.
The real reason for this exemption from
the provisions of the Carter-Mondale
conflict of interest and financial guide-
lines appears however to have little to do
with either the Stennis or Smith explana-
tions.
A February 9, 1977, White House press
release reveals instead that the Senate
was merely complying with the wishes of
President Carter, whose close relationship
with Coca Cola has been repeatedly docu-
7
By Bernadine Bailey
After six years of explaining why
success in the fight against cancer
should not be expected for years, and
despite spending billions, the only
reported progress in the govern-
ment's cancer program seems to be
that the "U.S. is gaining knowledge"
in the field of cancer "from the U.S.-
Soviet research effort."
But, the Department of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare (HEW) announcement
to this effect last November was unspeci-
fic, intimating that it will be a long time
before results can be evaluated.
Meanwhile, many thousands of unfor-
tunate cancer victims, their doctors,
and their friends are being hounded by
government agents. Some have been
prosecuted because they are using
effective cancer therapy not officially
approved.
Now, however, a vigorous offensive is
being organized to combat the cancer
bureaucrats who have been obstructing
the fight against cancer by independent
doctors, researchers and scientists.'
One of these courageous'sioneers
was the world-renowned scien?st Dr.
Andrew Ivy, who developed a successful
treatment for cancer many years ago.
But Dr. Ivy was continually harassed
and persecuted by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) until in utter frus-
tration, he recently decided to retire. This
distressed numerous patients he was
helping with his discovery, Carcalon.
The FDA has never allowed the drug to
be shipped out of Illinois, with the result
that many cancer victims had been forced
to move to Chicago, literally, in order to
keep alive.
Although Dr. Ivy had spectacular
success with Carcalon, and hundreds of
persons living today owe their lives to
his research, he never called it a "cure,"
and never charged for the treatment.
Nevertheless, indisputable evidence
over a period of years clearly demons-
trated that his therapy eliminated pain,
reduced the size of tumors, and gave a
noticeable feeling of well-being in a large
percentage of cases. Thirty-five varieties
of cancer have been successfully treated
in this way.
In view of this phenomenal success,
the Ivy Cancer Research Foundation has
determined to carry on the work begun by
Dr. Ivy. Patients are continuing to receive
his treatment. Further research is being
carried on by Dr. Z. Godlowski, a practi-
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mented by The SPOTLIGHT. The release
clearly confirms the President's over-
riding role in the matter by stating:
"Under the President's guidelines,
which were released by the Carter-Mond-
dale Transition Group January 4, the Pres-
ident intends that any exceptions to the
guidelines be made only with his express
consent with respect to Level I and II ap-
pointments." (Level I and II refer to Sec-
retaries and to other high-ranking Cabinet
officials.)
The primary reasons for granting the
exemption were outlined as follows: In
the case of Duncan the exception was
allowed because sale of the stock in
question would cause serious and unrea-
sonable financial loss because of the taxes
imposed on such a sale of the stock. In
addition, Mr. Duncan's...disqualification
on matters affecting the firm in question
would rarely inhibit" his actions.
An examination of correspondence
addressed to the undersecretary by the
President concerning this matter further
reveals that although Duncan is required
to place his holdings in the hands of a
trustee, he will maintain an active role in
relation to his Coke stock, Carter wrote in
part:
You will transfer your other publicly
held securities and your Coca Cola stock
to a trustee or trustees who will be ap-
propriately instructed to insulate invest-
ments from you and your family; and who
will be fully authorized and directed to buy
and sell assets of the trust in their discre-
tion without your knowledge except that
you may limit their discretion to sell some
or all of the stock in the Coca Cola Com-
pany.
"You will formally disqualify your-
self as deputy secretary of Defense from
acting on any particular matter as defined
in 18 U.S.C. 208(a) affecting the financial
interests of the Coca Cola Company."
What this actually translates to is that
Cancer
On Laetril
Duncan?unlike any other administration
appointee to date?remains free to mon-
itor and make all decisions with regard to
his Coca Cola holdings. These facts of
course have been either totally ignored or
deeply buried by the establishment press.
Instead, the public has in effect been
seduced into believing that the giant con-
glomerate's activities are of such a benign
nature that the firm would be hard
pressed to have any vested interest in the
affairs of the U.S. military. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
An examination of Coca Cola's corpor-
ate activities reveals a long-standing and
almost symbiotic relationship with the
Department of Defense and its far-flung
military installations that dates back to the
outbreak of World War II.
According to the firm's published his-
tory, the thrust and direction of the com-
pany's effort during World War II were
nunciated by then Coca Cola president
Robert W. Woodruff who issued the fol-
lowing directive:
We will see that every man in uniform
gets a bottle of Coca Cola for five cents
wherever he is and whatever it costs.
Although this soft drink is far from nut-
ritious and certainly not an essential
dietary staple for the U.S. armed forces,
Coca Cola went to great lengths?with the
cozy cooperation of the American military
to fulfill its pledge.
In so doing, they coincidentally in-
creased their worldwide infiltration of
foreign markets so as to emerge from the
war in a greatly strengthened financial
condition. Their efforts also created a
greatly strengthened product loyalty
among Americans overseas (as well as
foreign nationals) and undoubtedly
introduced many thousands of GI's to
this possibly habit-forming drink for the
first time.
Among the methods and incidents
that contributed to the keeping of Wood-
EXCLUSIVE TO SPOTLIGHT
WASHINGTON?The American
Cancer Society (ACS) told The SPOT-
LIGHT April 4 that testimonials citing
laetrile efficacy are "unreliable,
and claimed a 'cure" for colon can-
cer.
ondoned
druff's promise?which was to result in
more than five billion bottles of coke
being consumed by American military
personnel throughout the world?the
following are among those cited in Coca
Cola's published history.
? The shipping of 64 complete bottling
plants for installation as close as possible
to all combat areas in the world.
? The designation of so-called "tech-
nical observers" to operate these plants?
all Coca Cola employees who were
attached to the armed forces and three of
whom were to become war casualties.
? The development of combination ice-
making machines and coke dispensers
called "jungle units" which were de-
signed to fit on almost all military trans-
portation facilities, so that the drink would
be available to combat personnel in the
Pacific.
? The dispatch of a cablegram from
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower?and known
as the 'Eisenhower Order' ?requesting
the shipment of 10 bottling plants to North
Africa. This was the result of negotiations
between the little-known Coca Cola Export
Corp. and the American Army Command
in North Africa. ,
? The presence of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur at the gala re-opening of coke's
Manila bottling plant on August 1, 1945.
MacArthur signed a card that was at-
tached to the first bottle off the assembly
line, and corporate PR literature boasts
that this bottle and the signed card are
still on display in coke's Atlanta Archives.
As a result of these and many efforts?
all successfully orchestrated with the help
of the American military and the Depart-
ment of Defense where coke's former
president is now the No. 2 man? the corp-
oration ended the war with 155 bottling
plants operating in the six former military
theaters of operation.
Many of these had been installed with
ciety Slaps
nd Claims Colon
the help of armed forces personnel. and
at a time when Democratic big-wig
James A. Farley?who had been Pres-
ident Frankin D. Roosevelt's Postmaster
General?was serving as board chairman
of the Export Corporation.
In the years since the war, Coca Cola
has established operations not only in
nations friendly to the U.S., but in such
politically sensitive areas as the Soviet-
dominated countries of Eastern Europe.
The company also has been extremely
active in the "third world" nations, and
in 1974 it owned four bottling plants in
Southern Africa in addition to having
franchised an additional 48 plants in the
same area.
Duncan also enjoyed the opportunity of
becoming personally aquainted with Coca
Cola's vested overseas interests, for he
served four years as the chairman of Coca
Cola Europe. President Carter's close
friend and unofficial advisor, J. Paul
Austin?now chairman of Coca Cola and
at one point widely rumored to be in line
for a top cabinet post?was in charge of
the African division of the Export Corp.
for about four years.
Although the staggering worldwide
economic leverage exerted by Coca Cola,
its subsidiaries and its bottlers is certainly
sufficient to raise serious doubts and
questions about the appointment of
Duncan to the powerful Defense post and
the exception made by both the Senate
and the White House in allowing him to
keep his vast stockholdings, Coca Cola's
involvement on the international scene
goes even further.
The company's entire business and so-
called community relations activities are
so vast that The SPOTLEGHT plans to
explore them further.
They are, however, all aimed at cemen-
ting the firm's economic position in hun-
dreds of nations?both allies and adver-
saries of the U.S.?and in many nations
Testimonials
The SPOTLIGHT obtained its informa-
tion by a reporter calling the Washington
office saying he had colon cancer and
asked if laetrile would be of any help.
The reporter said he was not under the
care of a physician because he wanted
more information about laetrile before
he underwent surgery and chemotherapy
?the recommended treatment promoted
by ACS and other government funded
anti-cancer organizations.
-"The big concern is that you not wait,"
said Mrs. Madancy of ACS, "because the
cure for colon cancer is very good if you
DR. ANDREW IVY
cing physician who was born in Poland,
educated in Britain, and for 20 years has
been on the staffs of Henrotin and St.
Mary's hospitals in Chicago.
Dr. George Washington Crane, na-
tionally syndicated medical columnist
and president of the Ivy Cancer Research
Foundation, recently declared:
-We feel that since we are fortunate to
have an effective therapy, we have a duty
to help suffering humanity, and cancer
victims specifically. We do not intend to
permit government bureaucrats, many of
them without medical credentials or ex-
perience, to deny relief to patients in
need of help. We propose to find a way
to put a stop to this insanity and to make
Dr. Ivy's therapy available in all our
states.''
MARION, Ill. ? A man convicted of
a crime later admitted to in a death-
bed confession by a Klan member is
up for parole consideration after
serving four years of a nine-year
sentence for blowing up empty school
buses in Pontiac, Mich., during the
1971 busing controversy.
Rev. Robert Miles is in the U.S. federal
prison in Marion, Ill., for the alleged
crime of depriving "children of the right
to an education" ? a fancy way of saying
he blew up 10 empty school buses.
According to Miles the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) had prior knowledge
that the empty buses were to be blown up
three weeks in advance but did not in-
form local authorities. The FBI even of-
fered to put Miles on their payroll as an
informer after he garnered a respectable
20,000 votes for the state legislature in
1970. Miles refused.
In the latter part of this month he will
be considered for parole?although the
prison parole committee' has declined to
recommend him despite his record as a
model'' prisoner.
Miles has distinguished himself as a
Christian leader among the inmates
and publishes a prison newspaper which
features patriotic and Christian articles
written by Miles and other inmates.
The Committee to Free Robert Miles
in a letter to Carter, said "Draft evaders
were pardoned to heal the wounds of the
Vietnam war. Wealthy Red heiresses are
free on bail despite terrorist activities . . .
Watergate prisoners have been given
parole and freedom . . . Please exert your
influence to obtain the parole of this
man."
Letters in support of Miles parole may
be sent to: Prison Parole Committee,
U.S. Prison, Marion, Ill. 62959.
Elmer Tackett, a member of the Ku
Klux Klan in Ann Arbor, Mich., gave
newsmen a death bed confessionon
March 1, 1974 that he alone was respon-
sible for the bombings.
Cure
SPOTLIGHT, April 18, 1977 -15
get it early. But when you wait it really
gets harder."
The medical establishment has been
quick to attack laetrile proponents because
they claim a -"cure." Now, however, the
ACS claims their own "cure" but the
statistics indicate they are waging a
losing battle with their "cure."
According to ACS's own statistics
the cancer rate accelerated in 1972 at
its fastest pace in 22 years despite the
massive amount of government and pri-
vate money doled out to research insti-
tutions.
ACS takes in about $93 million an-
nually. The American Hospital Associa-
tion places the total cost of cancer re-
search and treatment at $3 billion annual-
ly?an increase of 150 percent over a
10-year period.
Despite numerous tests which support
laetrile, the ACS maintains that none
exist.
"It (laetrile) has been the most widely
tested cancer drug," said Mrs. Madancy.
"You know testimonials are unreliable.
You just can't rely on testimonials."
It is becoming difficult for the medical
monopoly to ignore the hundreds of peo-
ple who insist that laetrile has successfully
CHARLES W. DUNCAN
Coca Cola and its bottlers sponsor pro-
grams clearly aimed at shaping the minds
and values of young children.
If you wonder just how Undersecretary
Duncan views his former company's inter-
national activities, the following remark,
made in the course of an interview with
the Atlanta "Journal"sometime prior to
1974, is revealing:
We sell our products in five socialist
countries, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Poland and Czechoslovakia.... I think it's
good when a company such as ours goes
into a socialist country."
Given these publicly expressed views by
the undersecretary on the oppressed,
Soviet dominated nations of Eastern
Europe (for which the Carter's Admin-
instration has professed such compassion
with regard to the issue of human rights)
together with Coca Cola's avowed eco-
nomic and social domination of a large
portion of this planet, an investigation of
this so-called "stock divestiture excep-
tion" should be launched by the Con-
gress.
Both the Congress and the public
should keep a close eye on the man who
will be making significant decisions on
matters ranging from weapons sales to
the deployment of military intelligence
units. In almost every case, Duncan will
be making policy decisions that will
affect not only the interests of the Amer-
ican public but of the international for-
tunes of Coca Cola.
The argument that this corporation's
relationship to the Pentagon is merely
limited to the sale of $13 million worth
of soft drinks simply does not hold water.
The evidence is not only on the record, but
was placed there by Coca Cola itself.
controlled their cancer.
Tests indicating laetrile efficacy were
conducted by the McNaughton Founda-
tion (1967), Manfred von Ardenne Re-
search Institute in Dresden, Germany
(1974), Sloan Kettering Institute (1974)
but the findings were suppressed for more
than one year), the University of San
Francisco's SCIND laboratories (1971),
Pasteur Institute (1971) and many others
conducted by physicians and independent
researchers.
Despite these well-documented tests,
ACS told The SPOTLIGHT, "Nobody has
been able to show any objective proof
that it has any value. That's it in a nut-
shell."
When asked if ACS had sponsored any
investigations into the claims made for
laetrile, the answer was "no."
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April 15
TRIM (Tax Reform Immediately)
committee will have a dinner at Three
Sisters Restaurant, Dover, N.J., 7 p.m.
Cost: $15. per person. Contact Adam
Habuda, 115 Rt. 46, Rockaway, N.J.,
07866. Phone [phone].
April 16
An "Anti-Tax Rally" will be held at
noon in front of the State House in Tren-
ton, N.J. Call [phone].
April 16
Peggy Christensen will speak on W-4
withholding at the Holiday Inn, Bet-
tendorf, Iowa (1-70 and Middle Rd.).
Tickets cost $10. Place advance registra-
tions with Harold Francisco, P.O. Box 66,
Pleasant Valley, Iowa, 52767. Phone
[phone].
April 19
The American Independent Party of
Missouri will hold a planning meeting for
Western Missouri in St. Joseph. The r
meeting will be hosted by the Buchanan
County Committee. Contact the AIP,
P.O. Box 1705 WPS, St. Joseph, Mo.
64507.
April 22-24
The Bilderberger group will hold its
annual conference in Torquay (Devonshire
County), England. For details call Charles
Muller at (212-752-6515) in New York.
April 23
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the Holiday Inn, Moline, Ill., just off I-
280 and 1-74 near the airport. Cost is
$25 for advance registration or $35 at
the door. Contact Harold Francisco, P.O.
Box 66, Pleasant Valley, Iowa, 52767 or
phone [phone].
April 23-24
The "California Libertarian Alliance"
will present "The Future of Freedom"
conference at the University of California.
Tom Hayden and David Friedman will
debate Soviet dissenter Pavel Litvinov,
the expelled grandson of Stalin's Soviet
foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov will
speak. John Matonis will speak on the
tax rebellion. Admission: $15. in advance
and $20. at the door. Student rate: $7.
in advance, $12. at the door. Send regis-
tration fee to "California Libertarian
Alliance," P.O. Box 1202, Free Venice,
Calif. 90291.
April 27-30.
The "Natural Food Associates" will
hold their national convention in Evans-
ville, Ind., 9 a.m, at the Executive Inn.
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