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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 10, 1981
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INCREASE IN TELECAST RESPONSE AND CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ENROLLMENTS
Since 1979--the year of the receivership--telephone response to the tele
cast has increased very rapidly. Comparing the response over the last three
years for the months of June, the 1981 response was almost eight times that
of the 1979 response. Listed below is the actual number of calls for the
three years.
% Increases
June, 1979.•....••....1,200 calls
June, 1980••••.•••..•.2,700 calls
125% over 1979
June, 1981.••...••••••9,300 calls
244% over 1980
The Correspondence Course also continues to show signs of growth. At the
end of June our records showed that 24,000 new students had enrolled this
year--an 11% increase over the first half of 1980 when 21,600 new students
were added. The main reason for this increase was advertising of the course
in the February PLAIN TRUTH.
To date, almost 60% of the new enrollments this year resulted from PLAIN
TRUTH a�vertising, 15% from booklet promotions and 10% from The GOOD NEWS.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
WASHINGTON WORRIES AS WESTERN EUROPE TILTS LEFTWARD The new Reagan Admin
istration, still struggling to put its foreign policy act together, cannot
like what it sees in Western Europe. Events in France and West Germany are
particularly troublesome.
Despite a nifty bit of public relations between Washington and Paris after
the surprising election victory of Socialist Francois Mitterrand, all is
not well between the two governments. While Mitterrand may have had his
domestic reasons for bringing four communists into his cabinet, his move
undermines Franco-American relations more than anybody admits publicly
in
Washington. How can Atlantic Alliance secrets really be kept away from the
prying eyes of Western Europe's most Stalinistic Communist Party?
Equally disturbing to Washington is the appointment of leftist adventurer
Regis Debray as a high advisor in the new Mitterrand government. In his
younger days, Debray was a sidekick to Cuban commando Che Guevara; was with
him, in fact, on his final foray in Bolivia. The Debray appointment, plus
the fact that Fidel Castro and Mitterrand exchanged friendly letters after
the latter's election, means trouble for the U.S. in keeping left-wing
terrorism at bay in the Western Hemisphere. Notes the journalistic team of
Evans and Novak:
"Mitterrand, genuinely pro-democratic and anti-Soviet, represents the
unwillingness of the democratic left to see Third World revolutionaries as
auxiliaries for Soviet expansionism, a failure that has contributed to the
decline of the West since World War I
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