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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 14, 1979
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Just a few lines to thank you for helping to make this year the
greatest feast ever. It was so good to see you looking so well and
still preaching with such power and authority. Watching you, it
was difficult to believe that you are a man approaching 90 years old.
--w.
Goulette (Tacoma, WA)
It sure made the feast special to be able to see as well as hear Mr.
Armstrong on the Last Great Day. That was just super. I didn't
even know they could do something like that.
--Mr. & Mrs. Richard Latuseck (Smelterville, ID)
Appreciated your sermon on the Last Great Day. It was so good to
have your presence by microwave. Keep up the good work of God.
We're behind you ever more.
--Wayne Blake (West End, NC)
We thank you very much for the message we received from you on
the Last Great Day. Our support and prayers are with you always.
--Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Estabrook (Tonawanda, NY)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
AMERICA'S HUMILIATION CONTINUES: Deep into the second week of the take
over of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, little progress has taken place to
ward resolving the crisis and securing the freedom of the 60-odd hostages.
The mobs in front of the Embassy--does anyone work any more in Iran?--are
seemingly in a festive mood, wildly cheering a burning American flag here,
and a flaming effigy of the president there. Placards proclaim "Death
to America is a Beautiful Thought" and
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Khomaini Struggles, Carter Trem
bles." The American flag is used by the occupiers to haul trash from
the Embassy grounds, the most humiliating sight of all.
The demands by Khomaini's shocktroops amount to blackmail, pure and
simple. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in an exclusive
interview published in the November 19, 1979 U.S. News and World Report
(significantly given two weeks before the uprising) said this: "No
country is so important that we must submit to its blackmail. No nation
must be led to believe that assaults on Americans are free." Yet, so
far, no price has been exacted in return--except that the U.S. has
voluntarily stopped buying oil from Iran. Diplomatic relations with Iran
have not been terminated, though the Tehran rabble gleefully proclaim
they have "declared war on America." The Iranian Embassy in Washington
and Iranian consulates across the country have not been closed. No
Iranian diplomats have been politely but firmly escorted to the airport
for a quick trip home. Trouble-making Iranian students are not being
rounded up en masse. It even took Mr. Carter one week before he got up
the courage to cut off arms shipments to Iran!�--�-
.
On another occasion, Mr. Kissinger poignantly described the true nature
of the dilemma now confronting the country. America, he said, "must
not elevate impotence" on the international scene "into� political
principle....We must not turn a sense of our limits into a doctrine of
abdication, for without our commitment, there can be no world security....
Without faith in us,� friends will despair and without respect for
our strength, our adversaries will be emboldened."