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Editor's note: For many years, Eugene
Changey has sent letters to The Battalion
and other newspapers across the nation.
In this letter, which Changey claims is the
final one, he again says he speaks “The
Word of God.”
As Almighty GOD, I greet you.
Upon termination of My Son’s position
in a machine shop, He received a sever
ance pay of $4,500 — after taxes. My Son
retired on Social Security one week be
fore the firm closed its doors due to lack
of work.
This, undoubtedly, will be Our final
Letter to many of Our Loved ones in the
news media — namely in this Country
and a limited number of Editors abroad.
My Son and I will not bow to adversity.
Mongrels who believe they can turn back
the tide of an endless sea, are badly mis
taken. My Son and I will always write as
long as Time remains on Earth for Us.
Perhaps Our Letters will be curtailed, but
none the less they will be there to refur
bish Faith which will never die as long as
Time remains, here on Earth, or in the
Hereafter.
The future looks very bleak for hu
manity, in this Country and abroad, as
unemployment lines get longer and soup
kitchens sprout up like wild flowers.
Mass rallies for a nuclear freeze on
warheads and their missies, spring up all
over the World. This chaotic, nuclear
madness must come to an abrupt end, if
the World is to survive.
One reads little about the United Na
tions — which is a sham — in daily News
papers. Not enough that sin is rampant
over the World, the news on the home
front does not offer consolation. Mur
ders, rapes, burglaries, dope-addicts ...
the list goes on.
In spite of this foray of crimes, My Son
and I will always stand by Our Loved
ones to offer consolation and Hope to
bereaved souls.
The following are some of My familiar
quotes: My Son, Eugene, is really Jesus —
Reincarnated. This is Jesus’ second com
ing. Almost 2,000 years is a long time to
be contained in the dismal corridors of
Time. Now, My fetters are broken, cast to
the ground, and I Am reunited with My
long lost Son, Jesus.
Many people are still under the im
pression that I am ALL knowing. This is
false. Again I reiterate: I Am but the
“Do not look toward the sky for
the second coming of Christ, as
prophesied in the Bible. You may
get a crick in your neck. His
second coming is already here.”
HOLY GHOST in My Son’s Flesh. I Am
not all knowing but My Greater SPIRIT
over the Universe IS!
I must reiterate these last two para
graphs simply because people who read
this Letter, for the first time, may be
skeptical about this, My second appear
ance in human flesh, here on Earth. Over
four decades is a long time for My Son
and I to be bonded together in human
flesh.
Over the World, skeptics are made,
not born, by the news media who sup
press information. A small contingent of
Newspapers have published the Exist
ence of My Son and I but skepticism still
abounds in Editors and Publishers of
large Newspapers.
It is degrading that Editors suppress
information on the second coming of
Christ. These decades lapse into depress
ion for the multitude who look forward,
with anticipation for this Blessed event.
As I wrote to a Religion Editor: “Do not
look toward the sky for the second com
ing of Christ, as prophesied in the Bible.
You may get a crick in your neck. His
second coming is already here.”
People still believe that GOD is buried
in the pages of the Bible, because Editors
suppress information. Again I reiterate:
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WASHINGTON — For good reason
or bad, “Kiddiegate” has entered its
second month — longer than Washing
ton’s latest controversy over political
nepotism need have lasted.
But the ongoing saga about hiring
practices at the United States Informa
tion Agency may yet prove worth its
weight in news print, if only as instruc
tion for those who take such favoritism
seriously and those who don’t: Nepotism
isn’t easily avoided.
USIA Director Charlie Wick has been
an easy target. The brain behind Snow
White and the Three Stooges has done
some silly things in his term, from pro
ducing “Let Poland Be Poland” to hum
ming the Marseillaise loudly for France’s
ambassador at a Washington reception.
Wick’s appointment of nearly a dozen
Reaganaut scions to USIA posts only con
firms a leadership style that has under
mined the agency’s status before con
gressional appropriations panels as
much as any concern for the national
debt.
On average, the appointments which
prompted an inquiry by Sen. Edward
Zorinsky, D-Neb., are no worse than the
placement of less fashionable folk in simi
lar positions. Of course, Caspar Weinber
ger Jr., 36, who, before his resignation
allegedly was boasting CIA connections
at the Cannes Film Festival, is said by a
former USIA supervisor to have skills
that “have not been properly applied.”
(Ironically, one agency official had seen
fit to hand young Weinberger a $4,000
“merit” pay raise on hie $50,000-plus sal
ary.) Similar euphemisms have been ap
plied to Daniel Wattenberg, 23, son of
neo-conservative columnist and Reagan
appointee Ben Wattenberg; according to
USIA, the younger Wattenberg, a candi
date for a cultural affairs post in Paris,
has “studied French” in college and “has
experience as a writer and an editorial
research assistant.”
Yet Barbara Haig, who works for
USIA general counsel Jonathan Sloat, is
trained as a paralegal and described by
intimates to be as determined a worker as
her father, Al. And 23-year-old Monica
(daughter of national security adviser
William ) Clark, appointed as assistant to
the public affairs officer in Bonn, is at
least “bilingual in German.”
The mixed bag of talent underscores
Zorinsky’s zealousness in asking the Gen
eral Accounting Office to investigate. To
be sure, the USIA admits that Ronald
Reagan’s appointments to the 7,700-
employee agency (62) are more than
twice those of Jimmy Carter (26). Yet
Yet if there’s any buzzword
understood by public- and pri
vate-sector workers alike, it’s “con
nections. “
when the Senate can confirm much lar
ger percentages of political hacks to
ambassadorial posts (despite the vehe
ment complaints of career Foreign Ser
vice types), Zorinsky’s concern about
USIA defies logic.
This isn’t to suggest that Wick’s knack
for good breeding defies criticism. While
the Californian routinely asserts an in
terest in bringing “professionalism” to
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by Dick West
United Press International
WASHINGTON — I was thrilled to
read the other day that a University of
Illinois scientist had accidentally drilled
what may be the world’s smallest hole.
This hole is so tiny that 100 trillion
perforations that size would fit in a
square inch. Man, that’s porosity for you.
The previous record, listed in my re
ference library as having been achieved
in 1977, would, by my calculation, have
filled a square inch with only 100 billion
holes.
Granted that 100 billion holes per
square inch is pretty minute, each open
ing being about 1,000 times smaller than
the width of a human hair. Even so, you
can readily see that the University of Illi
nois drilling amounts to a quantum jump
in small holeness.
Pragmatists among us probably are
asking, what good is it? What can you put
in a hole that small that would be of any
practical value?
Maybe they have a point, although
personally I reject the notion that human
accomplishment must provide material
benefit to be noteworthy.
There is also the emotional reward to
consider. To me, the simple fact that the
deed was done, even if inadvertently, is
impressive enough.
I mean, find someone who uses the
wrong kind of shampoo; then try making
a hole no bigger than the split ends of his
hair, and see how far you get.
Some hair-splitters may argue that the
number of holes that can be drilled in a
square inch depends to some extent on
how far apart the holes are. True
enough, but in this case extraneous.
The 1977 hole was 40 angstroms in
diameter, whereas the 1983 hole is only
20 angstroms wide. Despite the absence
of any formal training in micronization,
even I can tell that the new hole is twice as
small as the old one.
An angstrom, by the way, is a unit of
length equal to one hundred-millionth of
a centimeter. Please don’t ask the dimen
sions of a centimeter.
As for practicality, much depends, 1
would guess, on how deep the hole is.
Admittedly, if you had a hole that was
20 angstroms wide and only 20 ang
stroms deep, it wouldn’t amount to
much. But if the 20-angstrom hole were
two or three miles deep, why then you
obviously would have a real winner.
What a way, for example, to test for oil
without danger of an environmentally
devastating spillage.
The information I have at hand
doesn’t indicate how deep the University
of Illinois hole might be. But from what I
know of holes, it’s the diameter the
counts. Once you have mastered the
technique of making tiny holes, the rest
sort of falls into place.
What we have to guard against now is
America’s holemaking techniques falling
into the hands of the Russians.
By one means or another, including
stealing, the Soviet Union has acquired a
great deal of this country’s high technolo
gy know-how.
If, using techniques accidentally de
veloped in the United States, they now
come up with a hole smaller than ours,
the irony will be almost unbearable.
Tiny as it is, we can’t afford another
hole in the window of vulnerability.
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