Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is March 29, 1978, and this is my Audio letter No. 32.

Over a century ago, in 1873, an inventor in New York began exhibiting a strange new device which he said would convey the human voice through wires over long distances. Calling his invention a Telephone, he tried to attract financial support, but it was reported in the press that well-informed people knew it was impossible to transmit the human voice by wire--that wires could transmit only dots and dashes, such as the Morse Code. Furthermore, it was said that even if the so-called telephone could do this, it would be of no practical value. And so having been condemned as a fraud by self-styled authorities, the inventor was bundled off to jail. The inventor was discredited, and for three more years the public was denied the opportunity to judge for itself about the merits of the telephone. And as an old Lebanese proverb says: “The error of a scholar is like the wreck of a ship: it sinks and scuttles others with it.“ But far from being impossible, as claimed by the self-styled scholars of that day, the telephone was inevitable--an idea whose time had come. In 1876 another inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, unveiled a working model of the telephone. Today Bell’s name is a household word, and all the false prophets who had said ’It can’t be done’, are forgotten forever. Today my three special topics are: Topic #1--COSMOSPHERES, COSMO-STRATEGY, AND THE IGNORED WARNINGS OF GENERAL THOMAS POWER; Topic #2--SOVIET PREPARATIONS TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES; and Topic #3--HOW EVENTS ARE CONVERGING TOWARD NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST.