Nase Novine, June 08, 1983

              just became a great-aun- t!
Do you hear?
Do you hear?
She's the darlingest little great-niece- T
Listen here!
Listen here!
Will she
and millions like her
know a life in a world of peace
or does nuclear disaster
await them
and my newborn miracle niece?
Neighbors, shopmates, friends,
Do you hear?
Listen here:
Hurry, we must bury
the barbaric death plan
made by sophisticated, civilized man
so that all the innocent babes
and my dear great-niec- e
may be truly welcomed
in a world of promise,
a sane world,
a human world of peace!
Edith Sega!
Ljubavnaprvi
pogled
Za igranku vuk se preobu6e u ovna, stavi
oko vrata klepetuSu na lastiS i, kad se
pogledao u ogledalo, prosto mu pode voda
na usta, doSlo mu da od zadovoljstva
smaze sarhog sebe. Toliko se iurlo da je na
nocnom stofiicu zaboravio prste-pecatni- k.
Na podijumu odmah mu zapade za oko
jedna ovca, prpoSna I zamaSnlh oblina, i
smesta робе da se nabacuje. Tuc, muc —
ljubav na prvi pogled.
— Cuj, duSo, vec je kasno. Grdice te
mama, гебе vuk I pomllki je odnazad.
Otpratlcu te u tor.
U prvoj тгабпој kapiji, smafie masku I
Isturl zube.
— Pazi zvekana, jetko procedl drugl vuk I
tresnu o kaldrmu ov6ju ko2u.
-2- ivkoSTOJ$lC
7— NA5E NOVINE - IZBOR - APRIL 20, 1983
The Russians are coming!
Rev. Philip Zwerling of the First Unitarian Church
in Los Angeles delivered a sermon concerned with the
anti-Sovi- et hysteria and its dreadful threatening con-sequences.
An excerpt of it is published here.
For 60 years we have been told that the Russians
were coming. For 60 years Americans have died in
places like Korea and Vietnam, and for 60 years we
have been told to be quiet and to sacrifice. For 60
years the alarm has been spread, and now it is finally
time to say " Enough ! " ; to say that we see no Russian
troops on Wilshire Boulevard ; to say that we are more
afraid ofthe nuclear madness of those who say they
are defending us than we fear peace; to say that it is
finally time to talk about changes from Wall Street in
New York to the Skid Rows that exist in every city in
this country. It's time, finally, to see how our fears
and our patriotism have been manipulated. It's time
to see how absurd and desperate these machinations
have become.
"The Russians are coming ! " The worst part of this
alarm is, of course, that it is an excuse for incredible
expenditures for so-call- ed defense, and an excuse for
the very real possiblity of global war. Today, we are
seeing the resurrection of civil defense systems, air
raid shelters, evacuation plans, and talk of a-limit- ed
nuclear war, because peace is unpatriotic when "фе
Russians are coming."
Who are the demons who fill us with fear? The 270
million people of the USSR are not the warlike barba-rian
hordes pictured in media caricatures. They are
people and people who, quite unlike people in the Un-ited
States, have seen firsthand, in their own country,
the horrors of war, with the Nazi invasion of World
War II. Just think of these figures which come from a
book by Sidney Lens, entitled, The Forging of Ameri-can
Empire. Consider these statistics, and what hap-pened
to the Soviet Union during the Nazi invasion : 20
million people dead, fifteen major cities destroyed,
1,700 towns destroyed, 70,000 villages destroyed, six
million buildings demolished, 10,000 power plants de-stroyed.
It was the devastation of a people and of a
country that we cannot even imagine occurring in the
United States.
Who are the demons? Let us ask questions. Who
built and used the first atomic weapon? Who built the
first hydrogen bomb? The answer, we did. Let us not
be distracted any more by theories of foreign devils.
Let us say that our enemies are poverty and hunger,
unemployment and inflation ; and let us say , as did the
Disciples Peter and John, that we wish to live in a
society where "There was not a needy person among
them, and distribution was made to each as any had
need."
€sWtH