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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand November 27, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 7 Franco to Trincc Juan Carlos was expected to unsettle the nation and make Morocco's maich to the desert a victory march. But Prince Juan Carlos himself tlew to the Sahara frontier and a battle line was drawn. It wasn't until the march that the national press in the U.S. had to explain why several thousand miles of empty desert was important to so many people. As they originally explained, it all had something to do with national pride. . .or something. In fact, as they finally admitted, $200 billion worth of phosphate was the pric. Europe has never forgiven Franco for his civil war and Spain's neutrality during World War II. Europe, and obviously Henry Kissinger, would be much more comfortable with a socialist go ernment in Spain rather tha: a monarchy. This is wh when King Hassan visitc Washington officially la year, delivery was arranged tanks plus ar for 200 8 unspecified number of Both the tanks an.-thaircraft are the same typ. our forces in Europe use. Another pertinent fact conveniently overlooked by the national media in this arms deal is that ordinarily the U.S. government includes a stipulation that American weapons must not be used THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heah and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our benificent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. Abraham Lincoln, 1863. Kissinger and the Spanish Sahara By Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C. (Lib-ertLobby News Service) This program reported exclusively on Sept. 18 that Spain and Morocco were on the verge of open conflict over the phosphate rich Spanish Sahara. Since then. King Hassan of Morocco has marched 350,000 of his loyal subjects into the desert, and Spain moved troops into the area. Well, thats only part of the story. On Aug. 22 the Spanish newspaper Arriba reported that the Spanish government was unwilling to renew the leases on U.S. military bases in Spain if the y M-4- U.S. continues military, dip- lomatic and economic sup- port for Hassan. Henry Kissinger, who is largely responsible for the present flap in the Spanish desert, has seen to it that Morocco was supplied with modern aircraft, tanks, advanced electronic equipment and other self-sufficie- nt military hardware, most of it on long term credit. Hassan has received CIA support and money for many years and if, at a crucial time in Spanish history, with Franco on his deathbed, the anticommunist regime could be discredited and toppled, a resurgence of the Borbon dynasty in Spain could be avoided. The nationalists of Spain care nothing for the Atlantic Union and have become increasingly bitter over the unfair economic tactics used by the European Common Market against Spain. It must have come as a shock to Kissinger that the Spanish army was ready to fight for the Spanish Sahara. The transfer of power from To Your Special out of metropolitan territory, the theory being that this precludes colonial wars or wars of aggression. This was not the case with the Moroccan arms deal. At this point we do not know for sure whether the leases for our military bases in Spain have been renewed. Admittedly this is a crucial time for Spain. ..and for the U.S. Those Spanish bases are essential to Americas security, particularly now, following what happend in Portugual. Readers comments are welcome. Please pass along any Ijoints of view to Liberty Lobby , 300 Independence Dept. 11-1- A ve., S.E., 20003. D.C Friends Who Enjoy READING THE TRUTH To: UNITED STATES TAXPAYERS UNION Box 2757, El Cajon, California 92021 Yes. I feel there should be a Union to protect taxpayers rights. Please send information to: Yearly Single Copy Price . . . 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