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Vol.
46,
No. 1
ISSN
0032-0420
January 1981
ARTICLES
Voyager 1 to Saturn-Latest Leap lnto Space
2
A Voice Críes Out Amid Religious Confusion (Part 9)
7
··-' Beyond Today 's Bad News-Good News
9
' - Getting High-Who Says: "lt Doesn't Affect Me"?
12
.-..... How Specific Does God Have to Be?
15
In Search of Love
18
- Masada- Message for Today?
22
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Dramatic Fall in Living Standards
27
New Truth About Smoking
31
;, 1980: Droughts, Floods, Weather Disasters-WHY?
34
FEATURES
Personal from Herbert W. Armstrong
In Brief
17
What Our Readers Say
28
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This montage of images of the Saturnian system was prepared from an
assemblage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecrafl during its Saturn
encounter in November
1980.
This artist 's view shows Dione in !he forefront,
Saturn rising behind, Tethys and Mimas fading in the distance to !he right and
Enceladus off Saturn's rings to the left. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA
by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California.
Photo Courtesy NASAlJPL
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