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The PLAIN TRUTH
a magazine of understanding
Published by the WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
November 27, 1981
Dear PLAIN TRUTH Subscriber:
As founder and Editor in Chief of The PLAIN TRUTH, I want to write you
personally about the very serious world problems at the minute, and what I find
lies immediately ahead that will concern us all, as never before.
I'm writing from my private aircraft high over the Atlantic Ocean,
returning
to Pasadena from London and important visits with world leaders in Europe and
the Middle East. The vital CENTER of world troubles that will affect YOUR life
from now in the immediate months ahead is due to erupt in the Middle East and
Europe.
A week ago yesterday, Thursday, November 19, I had a personal meeting
with President Yitzhak Navon of Israel in Jerusalem, and the night before I was
guest of honor at a banquet hosted by Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. Present
also were former Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, and Jacob Rothschild of
London. Last Saturday I had a private meeting with the new President Hosni
Mubarak of Egypt in his palace in Cairo. A year ago I had a personal meeting in
Giza Palace in Cairo with President Anwar Sadat, who was so recently
assassinated. I heard all details of the assassination from President Sadat's
chief
adviser, Dr. Mohammed Hatem, President of the National Council of Egypt, and
also, three days ago from Mrs. Jihan Sadat, now widow of the late president. She
and two of her grandchildren, and also Dr. Hatem, were in the reviewing stand at
the time of the fatal assassination. Mrs. Sadat's maid instantly pushed her and
her
two grandchildren down to the floor at the first shot, and probably saved their
lives. A little 1 1/2-year-old grandson came into the salon during my visit with
her
and kissed me on the cheek. I mention this only because I felt you might like to
hear of so personal an incident.
The new President Mubarak assured me he intends to continue President
Sadat's efforts for Middle East peace, and he may be sealing his own fate in so
doing--for both certain Arab neighbors and the Kremlin are in sinister
opposition
to that peace program.
Yesterday morning in Munich, West Germany, I had an hour-and-a-half
personal meeting with the "Strong Man of Europe," Dr. Franz Josef Strauss. He
has visited me in my home in Pasadena. Two days ago he had a private meeting in
Bonn, West Germany, with President Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. Dr.
Strauss is probably the best informed man in Europe on European and Middle East
conditions of the moment. He is author of the well-known book The Grand
Design, outlining his program for a United States of Europe. Biblical prophecy
says this union of European nations will now very soon occur, resurrecting the
medieval Holy Roman Empire.