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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 15, 1980
Page 10
Your show each Sunday renews my spirit because you speak the Word.
In my church, a Catholic one, it is the same each week. But,
I
still
go.
--Cathy Kudrick (Bradford, RI)
After watching your current interview-style TV series, which includes
very professional coverage of the ongoing Church vs State controversi,
one can't help but begin pulsating, double time, realizing that we
have a part in it. The program reflects a distinct refinement of
taste and value, representing total respect and concern for the
viewers' intellectual welfare.
--Halvor Halvorsen (Albany, NY)
We enjoy your Sunday sermons and try never to miss them. You are so
explanatory and the message is great. You surely are an ambassador
of God."
--Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Bohl (Plymouth, MI)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
THE GOLDEN "ECU" AND THE "CHUNNEL": A couple of behind-the-scenes
"sleeper" issues deserve mention this week. First, the steep run-up in
gold prices has encouraged gold producing countries other than South
Africa (suppliers of the hot-selling Krugerrand) to join the one-ounce
gold coin rush. Notable examples are similar coins from Canada and
Australia. Now the Common Market is entering the gold coin competition
as well. The South African news magazine To The Point, in its January 18,
1980 edition, reports:
"Highly important, but little publicised was the announcement recently
that the European Economic Community (EEC) would issue a gold coin, the
ECU (pronounced Eh-Cue), marking the first coined money of the European
Monetary System and the EEC.
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"The coin will be issued by the express authority of the Parliament of
Europe, to be struck in proof-like condition by the Paris mint in 92% fine
gold. According to latest reports, the ECU is now the standard unit of
exchange among central banks of Europe as a bookkeeping entry. As such
an entry, it is backed by the participating countries' gold reserves--a
total of 3150 tons of gold, valued at $34,000 million."