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MY
r ANSWER
The Griffin Daily News has
published Dr. Billy Graham’s
column on its Editorial Page for
a number of years and is
pleased to do so. This week in
special observance of Dr. Gra
ham’s Crusade in Georgia, it is
appearing in this space on Page
One. Later, it will return to its
usual position on the Editorial
Page.
As a man of religion, what do
you think of the current revival
of astrology, fortune telling and
hexology? Some of my friends
are studying occultism and
spiritism. I am some what
bewildered by all these things.
Why are people doing this?
P.G.L.
The last three decades have
been a period of extreme
secularism and materialism.
Science and technology have
claimed priority as well. The
accent has been on things,
accomplishment, power and
pleasure. These all have a
place, but basically, man is a
spiritual creature. I believe the
current interest in the occult is
man’s attempt to revive a
contact with the supernatural
and with God.
Not only are many people
interested in the things you
mention, but you must be aware
that there is a revival of true
religion going on in the world
also. Our crusades are at
tracting more people, with less
effort on our part, than ever
before. The Jesus people have
shown that the young can find
meaning and purpose in Christ.
Drugs and other artificial
stimuli are unnecessary when
one discovers a personal
relationship with Christ.
I have always appreciated the
definition of our soul as a
“God-shaped vacuum.” In
other words, we have a spiritual
dimension, a supernatural
capacity, which somehow or
other, must be served.
If the truth, as the Bible
presents it, is not accepted, a
whole cafeteria of false
spiritual options will be
provided to fill the void. May
God grant you wisdom as you
make your selection.
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KEY WEST, Fla. —The research submarine Johnson Sea Link sits on its mother ship, Sea Diver,
Monday after it was freed from a trap in 360 feet of water. At least two of the four men on board
were known to have survived. (UPI)
Summit meeting
yields first fruit
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
United States and the Soviet
Union today signed agreements
designed to increase the flow of
artists and scholars between
the two countries and to
promote joint research of the
oceans, farming and transpor
tation.
With President Nixon and
Soviet party Chairman Leonid
I. Brezhnev looking on, Secre
tary of State William P. Rogers
and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko signed the
agreements during a brief State
Department ceremony.
The pacts were the first
concrete achievement of the
currentNixon-Brezhnev summit
talks, now in their second day.
Both leaders have predicted the
talks will broadly expanded
trade between the two former
Cold War rivals and reduce the
threat of nuclear war.
One aspect of such cultural
exchanges was the subject of a
mild and orderly demonstration
Monday, which neither Brezh
nev nor Nixon saw. Dancers
and other performers in color
ful costumes paraded in front
of the State Department to
protest Soviet performers tak
ing jobs from them.
The other agreements are all
five-year pacts establishing
U.S.-Soviet committees to meet
annually on specific areas for
joint research and information
exchange in each of the three
fields.
The oceanographic agreement
basically extends previous
working agreements which
have developed between the
two countries. In the field of
transportation the United States
is interested in Soviet methods
for coping with travel in
extremely cold weather and the
Russians are interested in U.S.
methods for packaging and
computerizing products in tran
sit.
Nixon and Brezhnev, who met
for almost four hours of
“philosophical discussions” in
the first session of their summit
Monday, turned their attention
today to the tougher problems
of trade and disarmament.
Spokesmen for both leaders
said they hoped to establish a
framework in which current
nuclear disarmament negotia
tions can proceed quickly.
But before that subject came
up this afternoon, Brezhnev
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invited members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
and other key senators to lunch
to try to persuade them to
grant his nation trade conces
sions.
The Senate Monday attempt
ed to improve the atmosphere
for the summit talks by
suspending for a week its
hearings into the Watergate
affair that have embarrassed
Nixon’s administration. House
leaders of a discussion of the
possibility of impeaching the
President also announced they
were delaying their inquiries.
Nixon Welcomes Brezhnev
Delighted by the opportunity
to shift the focus of public
attention away from Watergate,
Nixon gave an effusive wel
come to Soviet Communist
party General Secretary Leonid
I. Brezhnev at the opening of
the week-long summit Monday
at the White House.
The colorful welcoming
ceremony and first working
session were followed Monday
night by a glittering black tie
dinner that saw the executive
mansion bedecked with the
Stars and Stripes of the United
States and the hammer and
sickle of the Soviet Union.
Nixon showered Brezhnev with
gifts, including a dark blue
Lincoln Continental sedan and a
custom-made rifle.
It was the first visit to the
United States for the stocky
Soviet leader, who stood half-a
head shorter than his host at
the welcoming rites, but he
responded like an American
politician, interrupting the pro
ceedings three times to shake
hands among the carefully
screened crowd of 3,000 on hand
for the welcome.
Traffic Barred
Security was so tight that all
traffic was barred from a two
block area around the White
House.
“We have recognized that
despite the differences in our
ideology and our social sys
tems, we can develop normal
relations,” Nixon told his
dinner guests, who included
several prominent Jews.
“Shall the world’s two strong
est nations constantly confront
one another in areas which
might lead to war or shall we
work together for peace? The
world watches and listens this
week to see what our answer to
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that question is.”
Brezhnev pledged his nation
to helping “overcome the
inertia of the Cold War and its
after-effects” both in interna
tional affairs and “in the minds
of men.”
“The peoples are expecting a
great deal from our new
meeting and I believe it is our
duty to live up to those
expectations,” he said.
“I would venture ... to
express the hope and even the
confidence that our present
meeting will play an important
role in further strengthening
mutually advantageous cooper
ation between our countries in
improving the international
climate as a whole.”
Remarks for Allies
And in remarks that could
have been addressed to allies of
both countries fearful they will
be forgotten in the rush toward
better relations between the
superpowers, Brezhnev said it
should be “absolutely clear to
anyone who is at least slightly
familiar with the real course of
events” that improvement in
Soviet-American relations in no
way prejudices the interests of
third countries.
Nixon and Brezhnev, his dark
suit bedecked with two Soviet
medals, conferred for almost
four hours in their initial
session Monday. The American
side termed the talks “very
good and very relaxed” and the
Soviets called them a “good,
businesslike beginning.”
The first session was said by
White House spokesman Ronald
L. Ziegler to be mainly
philosophical in tone. Bargain
ing sessions over the major
issues of trade and nuclear
disarmament are expected
later this week.
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“Home is where you can take
heavy burdens to have them
lightened.”
2 scientists found dead
in their mini-submarine
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) -
Two men trapped since Sunday
in a midget submarine were
found dead today when officials
completed decompressing the
vessel and opened the hatch.
The announcement was made
by Lt. Cmdr. William R. Smith,
Navy public relations officer,
while the minisub mother ship,
Sea Diver, was enroute to port
with the submarine aboard.
Two other men aboard the
vessel were removed from the
submarine alive when the tiny
submersible was brought to the
surface at 4:55 p.m. EDT
Monday.
The sub became ensnared 360
feet below the surface of the
Atlantic in the wreckage of a
scuttled destroyer while diving
off Key West Sunday morning.
The victims of the mishap
were Al Stover, 51, of Juno
Beach, Fla., and Clayton Link
31, of Binghamton, N.Y., son of
the designer-builder of the mini
sub.
The two who survived the
accident were Archibald
“Jock” Menzies, Vero Beach,
Fla., and Dr. Robert Meek, 24,
an ichthyologist from Santa
Barbara, Calif.
Disney said that Edwin Link,
also the inventor of the Link
flight trainer, was “quite
relieved that his son was
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Dr. Graham uses
old revival text
By BILL KNIGHT
Billy Graham reached for a
tried and proven revival text
last night as he opened a
crusade in Atlanta stadium
before an estimated 44,000
people.
The world renouned
evangelist picked John 3:16 to
start the week-long series of
services.
He called on the audience to
repeat with him the text, “For
God so loved the world that He
gave His only Begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth on
Him should not perish but have
everlasting life.”
Dr. Graham declared that the
kind of love God had for man
was the answer to the “heart
trouble” the world had. He said
the divine love of God was so
vast and deep that the human
mind could not comprehend it.
This is the kind of love that is
the answer to the world’s race
problem, he said. He said
everywhere he went, he found
race problems. He said he found
brought to the surface and was
getting treatment.”
The sub was rescued by the
research ship A. B. Wood in a
“last-ditch attempt before the
salvage ships left the scene,”
off Sugar Loaf Key about 20
miles east of Key West
Five Attempts Fail
Five other attempts—two by
divers in pressurized suits, one
by scuba divers, and two by a
roving diving bell flown in from
San Diego—had failed.
The Wood was called upon for
aid because it has a 400-foot
mechanical arm with tongs on
the end. The Wood lowered a
remote television camera to
study the sub’s plight and then
Gunman takes over
Newnan hospital room
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI)-A gun
man took over the emergency
room of the Newnan Hospital
early today and held three
nurses hostage for nearly three
hours.
Police Chief Jerry Helton said
the gunman, Billy Trivett, about
30, of Coweta County, finally
was talked into surrendering by
a friend. No one was injured.
Helton said Trivett will be
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Summit leaders
them in Korea where he had
just finished a crusade. He also
found race problems in Africa,
Europe and other sections of the
world.
He said in Ireland, “you can’t
tell them apart” but they are
divided, Protestant against
Catholic.
The race problem is not
peculiar to America, Graham
said.
He told the first night
audience that he was a Souther
ner and proud of it but he said in
the Southland church at
tendance is the social thing to
do. But some people in the
churches are not real
Christians, Dr. Graham
declared.
He repeated his familiar
declaration that every person
must have a personal encounter
with Christ, ask for forgiveness
of his sins, and determine to live
a life as Christ directs in the
Bible.
All have sinned, Dr. Graham
continued, pointing to the fall of
used the arm to pluck the small
vessel from its prison in the
debris of the World War II
destroyer Fred T. Perry,
scuttled by the Nfivy last year.
Edwin Link had said late
Sunday that the men probably
couldn’t live beyond noon
Monday because a chemical
called barralime that absorbs
carbon dioxide would be ex
hausted then. The men lasted
beyond the predicted survival
deadline, but how much longer
they could have held on was
uncertain.
“It was entirely too close for
any of us,” said Rear Adm.
John H. Maurer, the base
commandant.
charged with three counts of
kidnaping and two counts of
shooting at another.
According to the police chief,
Trivett went to the emergency
room about 2:15 a.m. and told
the nurses on duty he planned
to shoot a doctor whom he had
a grievance against. Trivett,
armed with a pistol and a knife,
held the three nurses at gun
point.
Dinner in his honor. The two are conducting summit talks.
(UPI)
Adam and Eve when they tasted
the forbidden fruit in the
Garden of Eden.
But God has provided an
escape from eternal separation
from Him in the person of Jesus
Christ, Dr. Graham said. In one
terrible moment upon the cross,
Christ took the sins of the whole
world upon Himself, that man
might be saved, Dr. Graham
went on.
He said the mind of man
cannot understand this
mysterious thing and called on
his hearers to accept the fact on
faith.
The theme of the crusade was
painted in boxcar letters on the
inside rim of the stadium. It
declared, “Jesus said, ‘I am the
way, the truth, and the life. —
John 14-6.’ ”
Cliff Barrows, crusade music
director, ran the 10,000 voice
choir through some warm-up
verses of the familiar “How
Great Thou Art” beginning at
about 7:15.
Later the throng joined
George Beverly Shea in a
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special singing of this song, a
trademark of the Billy Graham
Crusades.
The stadium opened promptly
at 6 p.m. as promised and
already some chartered buses
were in the lot to unload their
delegations.
Traffic flowed into the
stadium area fairly well until
the crush hour after 7 p.m. but
most people had found seats in
the stadium by the time the
service started at 8:07.
Those in the stadium rose to
their feet as the evangelist and
his party came on to the field,
and gave him a standing
ovation.
Dr. Graham said it was the
largest opening night crowd he
had ever had in the United
States.
Gov. Jimmy Carter was
among the platform guests who
welcomed Dr. Graham to
Georgia.
Retired Methodist Bishop
Arthur Moore had one of the
prayers early in the service.