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Show WESTERN AMERICANA Return To Morality Survival (See Page ) 1 ,T The Nixon betrayal of Free China will surely stand alongside the Kennedy betrayal of South Vietnam as an example of U.S. . perfidy in the 20th century. President Kennedy thought that by removing President Diem years. from office and installing a When British diplomacy coalition government in Saigon, prevailed upon President he could end the war and restore .Kennedy to betray President peace to Southeast Asia. His iDiem, South Vietnam .stood at perfidy accelerated and :the verge of victory. The extended the war. It caused the fortified hamlet program was tragic waste of American lives squeezing the Vietcong out of and resources which ensued. the countryside. The President Nixon has Communists desperately needed apparently decided that by help. President Kennedy gave recognizing Red China and that help by destroying the man admitting it to the United who stood as the very symbol of Nations he can end the war and South Vietnams independence, restore peace to Southeast Asia. the countrys first President. Like President Kennedy in 1963, It is remarkable that the he is responding to the artful Communist enemy can save insinuations of the enemy and himself from annihilation by the counsel of dubious allies. such intervention in the very citadel of American government. defeat. Chou has come to the rescue. He is using on Nixon the same tactic which Khrushchev used against Eisenhower in the Spirit of Camp David period, even as Castro was taking over diplomacy calculated to provide a receptive climate for the Nixon action. But that appearance may give our State Department more i swallowed the bait. Obviously, he must restra'o South Vietnam from defeating the Army of North Vietnam while these delicate negotiations for the restoration of normal relations with Red China are in progress. South Vietnamese officials recognized instantly that the Nixon decision to visit Peiping was a major defeat for our side. Now we shall not be allowed to win a military victory, they cried. In Vietnam today, the Communists stand defeated. Their sanctuaries have been This capacity of American Presidents to turn victory into defeat carries the Free World from disaster to disaster. The great sacrifices of the people in invaded. In the coming dry season,- - South Vietnam can war are squandered by politicians exploiting the Communists Defeated that Canadian and Italian recognition of Red China were mere forerunners of American En-la- Cuba. Richard Nixon has Presidents Plan In light of the Presidents plan to visit Peiping, it appears August 13, 1971 Like President Kennedy in 1963, President Nixon stands at the verge of victory in this long and costly war. The Communist enemy desperately needs some intervention to save it from credit than is its due. Behind the scenes, British interests prepared the way. By winning Richard Nixon to this course, the British were able to influence other Free World governments. Britain has been in the service of Red China for 22 By Thomas A. Lane J 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Volume 2 Number 14 smash the North Vietnamese forces in southern Laos and end the Communist aggression. peoples hopes of peace. President Nixon desperately to is striving achieve a Emissary Henry Kissinger talks with Chou about President Nixon's forthcoming visit to Red China. Presidential superficial peace before the 1972 elections Premier Chou understands the situation i perfectly and is playing the President like a hooked fish. The situation is best described in the words which a bitter young veteran named John F. Kennedy, then a En-la- congressman from Massachusetts, once applied to the Truman administration: This En-l-ai . story of we once whose freedom China, is the tragic fought to preserve. What our young men had saved, our diplomats and our President have frittered away. We can with justice use the same words of President Nixon. When his deluded hopes of peace go the way of the Spirit of Camp David, we shall again be left to taste the ashes of defeat. When the leaders have no vision, the people perish. From Christian Crusatlo H wkly, ugusl 8. 1971 GUN CONTROL BECOMES TERROR By Reed Benson and Robert Lee herself just finished a bath and was clad only in undergarments, llAther than open the door she repeatedly asked, Who is it? AihI, because of the clamor out-lanside, she could emly hear the o maud, Open up! Terrified, she ran to gel her husband, and even as Mr. Ballcw was gelling out of the tub the door was bashed-i- n with what later proved to be an haltering ram. Kenyon Ballcw is a lifetime On June 7, 1971, at 8:30 Kenyon F. p.m., Bullcw was taking a hath at his residence in Silver Spring, Mary- One hour later Mr. Ballcw, works as a plate carrier for the Washington Post and Jl'ash- inglon Star newspapers, was struggling for his life in a Wash- 27-year-o- ld n d. police informed Bo-pou- member of the National hifle Association, lie hurriedly grab-wliibed a loaded ea replica of an 1847 Colt .14 pistol from his gun collection, ran into his living room, and was confronted by two bearded men dressed in scruffy clothes. Mrs. Ballcw later said she thought they were ch . either hippies or gangsters, Mr. Ballew was wounded in (let the murder! She was then lew began dc-wh- inglon area hospital, a bullet lodged in his brain. At the root of this tragedy is an incredible and frightening story of national importance. But it is a story has received little pub- licily outside the Washington area. Here, bused on information thus far available, are the csscn- liul details. W liili Mr. Ballcw was bathing his wife heard shouting and heavy pounding on the door of their apartment. Mrs. Ballcw had the head by one of at lease shots which were fired, and his own weapon discharged (without hilling anyone) as lie slumped to the floor. Mrs. Bal- to scream, were in uniform, but the first raiders to confront Kenyon Ballew and his terrified wife were not. Mrs. Ballcw later exclaimed. If theyd come in in uniforms., there wouldnt have been any shooting. I was sure someone by one of the intruders, We are the police! It was true. Agents of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division (A.T.F.D.) of the Internal Bevenue Sen ice had been given information originating from unidentified informants that somewhere on the Ballcw premises were stored (as search warrant pul it) hand grenades which are not registered. Tin1 was breaking in when I saw how these two men . . raiders the for Spokesmen argued that while the initial intruders had indeed been bearded and dressed in scruffy attire, they had budges pinned on their shirts and black armbands (said to have been impressed with pelie-insignia) on their arms. This incredible defense led Cong-nssina- n federal agents, for reasons yet unclear, asked the Montgomery County, Maryland, police to assist in tin raid. 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