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Show June 11, JHanion By Marilyn The UTAH INDEPENDENT Cjforum By Tom Page 3 Anderson Manion THE DIARY OF THE ENEMY'S UNITED FRONT October 5: Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet. I am as small as the pollen of a flower, but it is I already. I will be a girl. I will have blonde hair and blue eyes. Nearly everything is settled already, even that I shall love flowers. October 19: I have grown a little, but I am still too small to do anything by myself. My mother does almost everything for me, though she still does not know that she is carrying me under her heart. But, is it true that I am not yet a real person? That only my mother exists? I am a real person, just as a small crumb of. bread is still real bread. My mother is, and I am. October 23: My mouth is just now beginning to open. Just in a year or so Ill be think laughing; and later Ill start to talk. My first word will be For better got panicky we couldnt have or for worse, trouble in two places and we American in- - compromised in the Far East, volvement in which was exactly what she the Indochi- - wanted. na war will Russia has no interest in end in the taking over Israel. What Russia swants to do is create enough tant future, panic regarding the Middle East For bet-- to force us to compromise in Ameri- - Southeast Asia. This is the ter can boys will number one target. Now the not be dying on Indochinese war in the Middle East also has battlefields. For worse, unless a very bad effect in the sense Vietnamization succeeds, the that it turns all of the Arab Communists will take over world against the United States, South Vietnam, thus weakening and this is a colossal thing the prestige and power of the more than 110 million Arabs in whole free world. the Middle East. We cannot af-For worse, the Communists ford to let that happen, have started many more wars in By alienating the Arab their day. The Reds call the world, in regard to the Israel-shot- s: Korea, Vietnam, The Arab war, we are liable to lose Middle East. No matter how the northern half of Africa, many pacifists march in the and this is extremely serious, Communist-instigate- d The only thing we can do is, by street. wars will continue until Com- - putting pressure both on Russia munism is stopped. and on Israel, force a perma- in the Middle Father Daniel Lyons made a nent cease-fir- e return visit to the Manion For- - East. And the United States has um microphone not too long the power to do it. All we have ago to discuss the subject of to do is get tough. Communist-cause- d Russia wants several things, wars. Father is the Editor of Twin Circle, She depends on us. She needs the National Catholic Newspa- - bur trade. She needs credit and per. He has been on the spot in unfortunately she is getting Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos both. She wants to open the and is one of the few real ex- - Suez Canal. If we threaten by perts on the war there. He cutting down on credit to Rus-th:nthe critical question of sia and her colonials, we can today boils down to Commu- - get peace. We also must put nism vs. Freedom. Here is what pressure on Israel and get a cease fire that is permanent in he told the Forum audiences: There is global strategy com- - the Middle East, Russia and China work to-aing out from between Moscow Peking. They work together gether against the United States ve7 well against us. They work in other parts of the world as toeether to help Hanoi for ex- - well. We know, for example, that Russia is giving a million ample. There is a global strategy, dollars a day to Cuba to for-ju- st Over 900 revolution. as in 1949 when Russia ment wanted to make us compromise Americans have gone down to in Ch;na. Russia wanted to take Cuba to be trained there to be ov-China md she created a revolutionaries and guerillas, in Berlin. Everybody crisis Marilyn Manion big not-too-di- . mama. October 25: Today my heart began to beat. It will beat softly for the rest of my life, never stopping; after many years it will tire, it will stop, and then ks I shall die. November 2: 1 am growing continually, My arms and legs are taking shape, but I must wait a long time before these tiny legs will raise me to my mothers arms; before these little arms will be able to conquer the earth and befriend . nd November 12: Tiny fingers are beginning to form on my hands. How small they are; one day Ill stroke my mothers hair to my mouth and shell say, Oh, dirty. November 20: Only today that doctor told my mother that I am living here under her heart. Viewpoint William A FETUS How happy she must be. Are you happy, mother? November 25: My mother and father are probably thinking about a name for me; and they dont even know that I am a little girl; so they are .probably calling me Andy. But I want to be called Barbara. I am growing so big. December 10: My hair is growing. It is as bright and shiny as the sun. I wonder what kind of hair my mother has? December 13: I am almost able to see, though it is night around me. When mother brings me into the world, it will be full of sunshine and overflowing with flowers. I have never seen a flower you know, but more than anything, 1 want to see my mother. How do you look, cutting the baby into several pieces in order to get it out. The head may be crushed with the forceps to reduce its size for withdrawal. Bleeding is profuse until the womb is scraped competely empty. The bits and pieces of the baby are then disposed of. Larger babies to be aborted may require an abdominal operation similar to a Caesarean section. The womb is cut open and the baby lifted out. It usually squirms and moves its arms and legs. It tries to breathe and may manage a feeble cry. If the lungs are too immature to function normally, it will soon stop moving, but frequently the heart continues to beat for several hours before it dies. The doctor can stick a large needle through the mother's belly wall and into the womb. After withdrawing some fluid, a strong, sterile, saltwater solution is injected in effect pickling the baby alive. The baby may thrash about for a few moments, but soon it becomes perfectly still and dies. In about 24 Mother? December 24: I wonder if my mother hears the delicate beat of my heart? Some children are born with sickly hearts, and then the gentle fingers of the doctor perform miracles to make them healthy. But my heart is healthy. It beats so You tup-tuevenly: Tup-tushall have a healthy daughter. hours labor will start and the Mother. already dead body is delivered. December 28: Today, my mothThis technique can be used er killed me. right up to the very end of Here are the four ways to a pregnancy. kill an unborn child, as reI heard about one young Citithe Minnesota ported by pregnant mother who went to zens Concerned for Life, Inc.: see her doctor for an abortion, with To abort an early pregnancy taking her a tube her. the doctor inserts the of the Doctor, I just cant bear to opening through sucto a it connects raise womb and any more children and my tion separation. The vacuum is husband says we just cant afso powerful that the fetus is ford it. I understand, my dear," said instantly broken up into a fluid cartiand the kindly doctor, and we can mass of blood, tissue lage. It quickly passes through certainly take care of that.-Hto the this tube and is collected in a lifted the and table bottle. In the curretage techpointed his operating nique the doctor stretches or surgeon's knife at her throat. No- - No- - screamed the mothdilates the mouth of the womb to admit a forceps or currette. er. It's a lot easier, quicker and He then reaches in and drags or scrapes out the baby and less messy to kill this one than afterbirth. The surgeon must the one in your womb, replied Tom Anderson work by touch alone, often the doctor. . p, p. three-year-o- ld ; . e- people. r Lt. 1971 three-year-o- ld he Scapegoat Calley-- T mouthed mcaninglessjy about peace," American boys were dying. Lieutenant William Calleys crime was that he began to see the enemy in the simple perspective of who was killing his men. Perhaps he lost his cool. It is even possible that in a moment of rage he began to avenge. But what American is qualified to judge him, to convict him, to decide that William Calley should be imprisoned for life? No American has the credentials to do it unless and until he has himself fought in the bloody swamps of Vietnam in a hideous, no-wwar. Unless the verdict and the sentence in the Calley case are reversed, Americas resistance to communism is over. The Armys will, hence its ability to protect us has been dealt a deadly blow. The ordeal of William Calley is but a pathetic signpost along the road to national disJesse honor and disaster. Helms Paris, There has come an unending flood of exhortations urging, often demanding, that we condemn in haste and in anger the conviction of Lieutenant William Calley. It would have been easy, and the temptation has been great But we have waited, wishing to think it through. The enormous public sympathy for Lieutenant Calley has sprung from the hearts of Americans who are at once puzzled, shocked, and appalled at being witness to a great, paradoxical national humiliation. Still, the real grotesqueness of the Calley case is not that he has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but that he was brought to trial at all. The resentment resounding across the land has been mostly instinctive - and, largely, instinctively correct. The people - are right: Calley is a scapegoat; his trial and conviction are another example of depressing appeasement; the country has been damaged, perhaps beyond repair, in terms of its future willingness and ability to resist communism. This public protest should be neither misunderstood nor dismissed as merely a momentary wave of emotion. It is far more rational than that. At long last, the people have come alive to the incredible kind of war our young men have been commanded to fight on the other a war they side of the world were not permitted to win, yet a war the free world cannot afford to see lost. It has been a story of travesty compounded upon tragedy. In retrospect, it began in Korea where the communists first discovered that an apathetic America could be shoved into compromise and appeasement. From then on, it has been a series of ns. MacAr-thu- r could have defeated communism in Asia had he been permitted to do so. Our friends in South Vietnam could have, alone, resisted communism in Indo-Chin- a had President Kennot been persuaded by left-winedy political pressures around him to turn this nations back friends. on its Lieutenant William Calley and his role, whatever it was, at prove the accuracy My Lai of the late Douglas McArthurs warning that America should never become bogged down in a land war in Asia. Even so, once militarily involved, America could have won the war long and perago with air power haps with only the threat of it. The communists always retreat in the face of real force. But, first Kennedy, then Johnson, and now Nixon all have repeatedly assured our enemy that we're not in this war to win. As a result, in a horrendous disregard of MacArthurs warning, American boys have been bogged down in an inn land war in terminable ng anti-commun- ist no-wi- Asia. Lieutenant William Calley has become a forlorn symbol of a tragedy that never needed to happen. He was a part of an Army against whom shaggy-haire- d cowards at home protested, an Army constantly misrepresented by major left wing news media, an Army whose soldiers were being slaughtered by communists in faraway swamps on the other side of the world. Calley saw what many another American fighting man his friends blown to has seen bits by grenades and land mines thrown and laid by those innocent" civilians so constantly and mournfully described by the press. The communists arc not conventional fighters; they compel their women and old men to and, yes, their children participate in the slaughter of the enemy. So, while our politicians back home, end our negotiators in in |