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Show 'i f The Paper That Dares To Take u. A Stand Bv Robert M. Bartell D.C. WASHINGTON, (Lib- erty Lobby News Service) Youve heard of the Gallup and Harris Polls, haven't you? After asking a thousand or so people, Gallup and Harris declare that the entire U.S. population 210 million of us support or oppose this program or issue, by some percentage. But another poll receives responses from as many as 10 to 20 times the number of people reached by Gallup and Harris: the American Monitor Poll. The American Monitor Poll receives opinions from 15,000 to 25,000 respondents each month. AMP is sponsored by 300-1- 0 Action, a citizens Washington-base- d action group which delivers the results of the polling to the offices of all congressmen, both representatives and senators. The American Monitor Poll is and noncommercial. Its respondents are widely diversified and represent a broad spectrum of citizenship among eliscattered voters. gible the throughout country in more than 250 congressional districts. The poll is conducted by volunteer team captains, who contact an average of 20 team members locally each month. AMP's Interestingly. results often contradict Gallup and Harris on many issues. Consider gun control. Gallup and Harris report that most Americans support it. But the AMP found Americans opposed to gun control by 90 ! So who's right? Well, lets look at the results of a referendum in Massachusetts last November. It was on a proposal that w'ould have virtually banned handgun ownership in the Bay State. According non-partis- an so-call-ed ft J s J t s t t -- !? ? , f , ft 9 .1 t, J. the referendum should have passed easily. Instead, it was defeated 75 ! by And Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states. Not surprisingly, members of Congress have begun to take note of AMP. Recently the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress reported a number of requests from congressmen for information on 300-1- 0 Action and AMP. Some senators and representatives contacted 300-1- 0 Action on their own, to find out more about it or to praise it. The list of congressmen who are relying on AMP to give them dependable reflections of public opinion is bipartisan and Even liberals are noticing AMP. Sen. Richard Stone recently contacted AMP to about it. Rep. inquire Joseph Fisher, a liberal Democrat from Virginia, wrote AMP that he recently appreciated the opportunity to study the opinions of his constituents. Bill Reps. Ketchum, J. Maijorie Holt, Kenneth Robinson. Bob Stump, Robert Daniel and others have thanked 300-1- 0 Action for providing them with AMP results. Some noted that the poll confirmed their own opinions on certain issues. important Rep James Collins called AMP in the Congressional Record Common sense from the people. Many AMP participants have compared their congressman's voting record with the results of the poll for his district, and then spread the word that their congressman is either voting as his constituents feel . . . or is ignoring them. Last year three congressmen were defeated in districts in which AMP was active. So which seems most credible: the thousand or so of Gallup or Harris or the 25,000 responses of the American Monitor Poll? non-ideologi- (D-Fla- (R-Te- .) x.) ... Reader's rommcnls are welcome. Please pass aliidK any points of view to Liberty Lobby. Dept. 5 20. .100 Independence Ave.. S.K.. Washington. D.C. 2000.1. .EMERGENCY - STOP PASSAGE of JUDGMENTS TREATY! act upon: the latest ROCKEFELLER BILDERBERGER ploy to merge America Common Market Learn about PROFESSOR SAYS VIRTUES NOT OLD-FASHIONE- D Stanford psychologist Richard Bluin emerged from a three-yea- r research long project enough to voice the finding that the new morality we have had shoved down our throats since the is strictly bad news. We were surprised, he said, to find that the best protection a child can have is the against drugs of group moral virtues. Families that believed in God and country, went to loved church regularly, children but disciplined them strictly, and respected were not the police, a with bothered drug families But that problem. believed children must be free to find themselves, that practiced no religion or and that little very were or mistrusted disrespectful to authority, generally had youngsters who took to drugs. This conjecture is from Stanfords director of the Joint Program in Drugs, Crime and Community Studies. Its about time, Stanford! mid-Sixti- es old-fashion- ed -- Dr. Max Rafferty, -- Sword of the Lord ...this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou hast sent. -- John 1 7:3 of the The rights colonists as Christians... may understood by be best and carefully reading of institution the studying the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament. -- Samuel Adams j AN IMMEDIATE OUTCRY NEEDED FROM: The State Department, always timidly concerned about world intangible have would us opinion, believe left-win- g Panamanian claims that we took advantage of their country when we took title to the Canal Zone in perpetuity and built the Canal. ; LEARN HOW: from a descriptive pamphlet. Send 2bd, or ten for $1.00, to: Center for Federal Policy Review 1509 16th Street, N. W., Suite 614 Washington, D. C. 20036 -- Congressman Gene Snyder, Republican, Kentucky oooooooooooooooo EXPOSE YOUR FRIENDS Name Address City . Cong. Dist. State REPORT University countries. f . JUne 2, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 9 to Gallup and Harris, Ample Evidence i to the Utah Independent 12 Assorted Back Issues for ONLY $1.00 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOVIETS STOCKPILING WEAPONS IN AFRICA By Washington: Paul Scott Soviet The Union is stockpiling huge quantities of modern weapons in a Africa, strategic area of strife-tor- n An estimated two divisions of have been supplies military shipped in recent weeks from the Black Sea ports of southern Russia and eastern European countries to Libya. There the war materials are being stored for future military operations in both Africa and the Middle East. The stockpiling of Soviet weapons is considered the most alarming development in Africa so far this year according to intelligence officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This new and growing Soviet threat was behind the frank warning NATO officials presented to President Carter during his recent visit to western Europe for the economic summit. These NATO officials stressed that the western alliance could face in the immediate future the possibility of military forces of the Communist Warsaw Pact nations being used outside of western Europe and should develop such a policy for that contingency. In addition to the massive stockpiling of military supplies in Libya, this growing Soviet bloc military threat is highlighted by the little noticed built-u- p of 3, 000 East German military personnel in Angola. In his closed door conference in Vienna with Vice President Walter Mondale, South African Minister John Vorster Prime warned that the presence of combat troops from East Germany, a member of the Warsaw Pact alliance, is as much of a threat to NATO's southern flank and western Europes oil life- line to the Red Sea as to the security of South Africa. Whether Vice President Mondale grasps the full East Germans in Angola as the equivalent to a Cuban military force of 30,000 and a black African army of 100,000." The East Germans presence means that the Kremlin has already begun to turn Angola into a major advance military operational base for all of southern Africa. It will be available for use against Rhodesia and South Africa and then later against Brazil and other countries in South America. SOVIET BASK IN LIBYA The creation of a Soviet military operation base in Libya now appears to have several purposes. The weapons being stockpiled there can be used as advance supplies for operations in either southern Africa or as part of a larger pinccr movement against Egypt to help establish Soviet control of the Horn of Africa, which guards the sea routes to the oil-riPersian Gulf. With Cuban and Soviet bloc military forces moving in by the ch thousands in Ethiopia and Somalia, the Russians will soon be able to use these new bases to bring military and diplomatic pressure on Egypt from the south. The Libyan base will permit the Kremlin to come from the other direction. Along with this new overt military threat, Libya since at least 1972 has actively assisted a number of terrorist groups and individuals, including the perpetrators of the massacre of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Primarily, Libya has been the home of several rejection ist" factions of the Palestinian movement who have broken away from the more moderate Palestinian leaders. With the extra supply of arms coming from Russia, these groups will be able to step up their terror activities throughout Africa and spread them into the southern of western Europe in region countries like Italy, Greece, and Spain. significance of Vorsters statement wasn't clear since the Minnesota STATE DEPARTMENT Democrat appeared poorly briefed This possibility was on the size and types of Soviet bloc REPORT and their hinted at in the State Departments military personnel letter to Senator Jacob Javits purpose throughout Africa. a member of the Senate When a British correspondent suggested that the Carter Foreign. Relations Committee. The letter identified Libya, administration was less afraid of in Iraq, Somalia, and South Yemen, Communist penetration southern Africa than previous as the countries known to have ones. Vorster said he did not want aided terrorists in recent years. It to comment at this delicate then warns: There is unfortunately, every stage maybe you are right, maybe international indication that you arent." As for the South Africans, terrorism is on the increase and we they are as deeply concerned about will have to prepare ourselves to the presence of the 3,000 East deal with further attacks on Germans in Angola as they are the American citizens and installations Cubans because of the abroad including those of 20,000 former's fighting ability and the American companies in Africa and Germans' long history of interest in southern Europe." These are the developments South West Africa (Namibia), which now serves as a buffer which the Carter administration between South Africa and Marxist must soon begin addressing itself if if is to have an African policy that controlled Angola. A high-lev- el South African s worthy of the support of the American people. diplomat here describes the 3,000 (R-N- |