Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is August 27, 1982, and this is my AUDIO LETTER No. 78.

On the first day of this month of August 1982, a heart-rending symbol of the Beirut holocaust appeared in newspapers all across America. It was a wire-service photograph of a nurse in hospital in East Beirut cradling a small seven-week-old baby in her left arm as she fed it from a bottle. From the tip of the tiny nose upward the baby’s head was swathed in massive bandages covering eyes and all. The little shoulders were wrapped in still more bandages. Where there should have been a pair of infant arms, there was nothing. The baby’s arms had been blown off by an Israeli artillery shell landing near the Green Line separating East and West Beirut. My three topics for this AUDIO LETTER are: Topic #1--THE SURPRISE HALT TO THE BEIRUT HOLOCAUST Topic #2--FINAL PENTAGON PLANS FOR SURPRISE NUCLEAR WAR Topic #3--THE RUSSIAN SURPRISE WEAPON FOR NUCLEAR DEFENSE