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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August 29, 1980
****TO BE ANNOUNCED IN ALL U.S. CHURCHES****
Bible Hymnals
Because of the number of festival sites and the number
of members transferring this year, proper distribution of
hymnals among the sites may be a problem. We are asking
all members who have personal copies of hymnals to take
them to the Feast. This is especially necessary for the
St. Petersburg and Orlando feast sites.
--Ministerial Services
****FESTIVAL COORDINATORS PLEASE NOTICE****
You will soon be receiving a form to complete immediately
after the 1980 Feast of Tabernacles. This form gives The
Worldwide News writers the information they need to make
the annual WN Feast Report on October 20. Since we have
a limited staff and a corresponding small amount of time
to prepare the issue, we need you to return your forms
promptly. Late reports create a logjam, which in turn
ca�ses a delay in backing up the brethren's recent ex
periences with a full wrap-up of the Feast. Help us to
inform God's Church of its activities worldwide by
setting aside some time in your busy schedules for this
function. We apprecitae it!
--Dexter H. Faulkner, The Worldwide News
ON THE WORLD SCENE
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U.S. PRESTIGE SUFFERS ANOTHER BLOW Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
is campaigning, in part, on the general theme of making America great
again, of reviving the American spirit at home and flagging U.S. posture
overseas. But it is extremely doubtful a new administration could pull
off a notable turnaround.
Everywhere, U.S. prestige continues on the skids. The Europeans are
formulating their own policies toward strategic global regions such as
the Middle East. Latin America's "Biq Two"--Argentina and Brazil--have
buried the hatchet and announced unprecedented cooperative plans, partly
out of dismay over the directionless foreign policy emanating from Wash
ington. Ruling circles in Japan are worried over shrinking American
power and a huge increase in Russia's military might in the Soviet Far
East.
A little-reported recent incident reveals just how far down America's s�n
is setting. Not long ago Spain and Portugal refused to permit refueling
of Cairo-bound U.S. air transports by tankers based on their territory.
The unpublicized veto from Madrid and Lisbon prevented the Air Force from
refueling its giant C-5 and C-141 strategic airlift carriers from C-135