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14:9). Jesus looked like the Father,
Jesus was, actually "God with us"
(Matthew 1:23). Jesus was the
begotten and born Son of God.
And what was Jesus' appearance?
lt
was that of a human man, for He
also was the Son of man. He looked
so much like other Jewish men of His
day that His enemies bribed Judas to
point Him out and identify which, in
a crowd, was Jesus.
So now we know God has the same
form and shape as a man. We also
know He is composed of Spirit, not of
matter as is man. Spirit is invisible to
human eyes, unless manifested by
sorne special process.
And
if
so manifested we would see
both God the Father and Christ now
glorified in heaven with faces, though
formed and shaped like human faces,
as bright as the sun full strength!
Their eyes flames of fire, feet like
burnished brass and hair white as
snow (Revelation 1: 14-16).
Most important of all however is
what is God's nature-His CHARAC–
TER like? One cannot know
what
God is unless he knows what His
CHARACTER is!
O
WAR!
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3)
blasting both Moscow and Leningrad
with H-bombs!
It
would be that or
the U.S. hangs her head in shame
before the world.
WE ARE JUST THAT CLOSE THIS
MINUTE TO A WAR THAT COULD
ERASE ALL HUMAN LIFE FROM THIS
PLANET. For no matter what the
United States can do, the Soviet
Union can rain nuclear bombs and
' DESTROY New York City, Washing–
ton, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia ,
Houston, Dalias, San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and many other cities in
between!
WHAT WILL THE KREMLIN NOW
DECIDE?
Knowing their policies as
1
do,
1
think they will simply stay where
they are-make Afghanistan 100
percent solid-even withdraw sorne
troops,.and bide their time. As 1 said
before, THEY ARE IN NO HURRY. They
are not on a tight time schedule. But
1 DO NOT expect them to move
all of their troops back out of
Afghanistan! o
April 1980
TITO
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ward. These two Yugoslav republics
were once part of the old Austro–
Hungarian Empire. Croats and Slo–
venes .have their roots in the main–
stream of Europe culture, including
Roman Catholicism.
Interestingly, Serbs and Croats
speak variants of the same language,
Serbo-Croatian, one of the three offi–
cial tongues of the country (the other
two being Slovenian and Macedon–
ian). However, Serbs employ the
Cyi-illic alphabet, common to the
Russians, Bulgarians and sorne other
Slavic peoples. Croats use the Latín
alphabet common to the West.
Further compounding the ethnic
equation is the fact that nearly half
of the people of the republic of
Bosnia-Hercegovina, though they are
either Serb or Croat by bloodli'ne,
embrace Islam. They are descen–
dants of those converted during the
centuries of Turkish rule. The Bos–
nian Moslems are now classified as a
separate nationality.
Today's Unity a Miracle
Without a doubt Tito was the "glue"
that held modern Yugoslavia to–
gether. This is nothing short of a
miracle considering what has hap–
pened in the Balkans in recent history.
The fusewhich ignited WorldWar 1
was lit in Sarajevo, capital of today's
Bosnia-Hercegovina. A Serbian na–
tionalist assassinated Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Haps–
burg throne of Austria-Hungary, sov–
ereign in the region at the time.
Í3etween the wars, the new patch- ,
work "south slav" state had one
strike against it from the begin–
ning- namely the antagonisms be–
tween Serbs and Croats. Croats espe–
cially resented a Serbian king and
largely Serbian government, which,
they felt, acted as if
th~
new Yugo–
slavia was the fulfillment of the old
vision of a Greater Serbia.
The onset of World War II
unleashed extremist elements on
both sides. When the Nazis invaded
in 1941, for example, Croatian fas–
cists- the
Ustashi-got
permission
to establish their own puppet Nazi–
style regime.
The Ustashis, uñder
Poglavnik
(leader) Ante Pavelic and Interior
Minister Andrija Artukovic (who,
oddly enough, still lives in exile in
California) conducted an appalling
extermination campaign against
Serbs and Jews who were trapped
inside the new "lndependent State of
Croatia." By one estimate 770,000
Serbs and Jews perished. And those
who escaped the pogrom were, ac–
cording to the
Encyclopedia Ameri–
~ana
"either forcibly evicted from
Croatia, or forced to embrace the
Roman Catholic faith."
One of ·the Ustashi slogans was
"Bog
1
Hrvati"-God and Croatia.
The Ustashi government's excesses
were an embarrassment not only to
the Vatican but even to the regime's
Axis partners, Germany and ltaly.
In 1971, long after earlier bitter
memories had supposedly subsided
("That kind of thing may be forgiven
but it is never forgotten," said one
Yugoslav journalist recently), Tito
had to put down an incipient revolt
that threatened to split the country
once again.
How Tito Defused Revolt
In the late I960s Tito, responding to
the demands of students, intellec–
tuals and a new generation of party
leaders, initiated a sweeping reform
program. More power was given to
the governments and parties of the
individual republics.
Certain circles inside of Croatia,
however, took advantage of the liber–
alization processes. One Croatian
nationalist organization went so far
as to propose that Croatia be given
the "right to self-determination, in–
cluding the right to secession" and
that as a "sovereign national state" it
be given an independent army and its
own seat in the United Nations.
Tito-who always had a knack for
knowing how much rope to give bis
adversaries-was forced to step in.
Noting that Serbs inside Croatia were
nervous and had begun to arm them–
selves, he declared: "Do we want to
have 1941 again? . . . l'd sooner
restore order with our own army than
allow others [meaning the Soviets] to
do it. . .. They are speculating that
'when Tito goes, the whole thing will
collapse' and sorne are seriously wait–
ing for that. The interna! enemy has
plentyofsupport from outside."
Tito then ordered a crackdown on
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