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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
October 8, 1975
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Do we REALIZE what is now going on in the world? Gradually,
relentlessly, VIOLENCE in general, and the overthrow of
governments all over the world is accelerating.
I travel over the world. I have personal and private
meetings with heads of governments--and when some of them are
assassinated or taken prisoner in a military coup or government
overthrow a few weeks after I visited with them, IT STRIKES
HOME! IT MAKES ME REALIZE WHAT'S HAPPENING!
I represent YOU--as a co-worker with Christ, even as I also
represent the living Christ, in these meetings. You may not
even pay particular attention to these government overthrows
when you see the headlines in your newspaper. But it's my duty
to tell you HOW REAL these disasters are--WHAT THEY MEAN--AND
WHERE THEY ARE LEADING--AND HOW THEY ARE GOING TO AFFECT YOUR
LIFE as well as mine!
August 15th a man I knew--President Mujibur Rahman of
Bangladesh--was shot and killed in a military coup. Sitting
with us, when I visited President Rahman (then Prime Minister
but actual head of state), was Khandakar Moshtaque Ahmed,
Commerce Minister. Ahmed led the military coup and took over as
head of the government.
In August 1973, I was in Santiago, Chile (South America),
to visit President Allende. Three weeks later, he was
assassinated--machine-gunned in the back--in the very room where
I had the conference. Three weeks after I had visited Prime
Minister Kittikachorn of Thailand, and spoken in Bangkok before an
audience which included Dr. Sanya, Rector of the University, a
riot of 200,000 students overthrew the military government and
Prime Minister Kittikachorn fled to the United States.
I had become well acquainted with Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia. Twice when I visited him in Addis Ababa, he placed
one of his personal limousines with chauffeur at my disposal for
my entire stay. But the military forces took him prisoner and
took over the government.
Last July a bloodless coup overthrew the government of
General Yakubu Gowon in Nigeria (Africa).
Revolution is seething in Portugal. It flared out
following last year's coup by a leftist group. Soviet espionage
agents apparently infiltrated into Portugal. The Communists