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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 18, 1981
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These words exemplify the impact our group had while in Israel as a re
sult of the training we have received through your leadership. It also
brought home to us the importance of our.conduct in this program.
Again, I appreciated immensely this facet of God's Work you have au
thorized.
I know and believe you are our apostle and leader, and I'm
thankful for it. All of us pray everyday for your continued health and
that God will help you to do His Work.
We do love you very much, Mr. Armstrong!
Be strong and may God be with
you always!
ON THE WORLD SCENE
John Andrews (Pasadena, CA)
Student digger, Jerusalem 1981
AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH..•VIOLENCE FILLS THE EARTH
Human passions are run
ning amok today.
True the words of Paul to Timothy:
"In the last days•••
men will be...arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents...inhuman,
implacable, slanderers•••fierce, haters of good, treacherous"
(II Tim.
3:1-4).
The main targets of abuse on the international level are the United States
and other modern-day descendants of Israel.
("The archers have sorely
grieved him, and shot at him,
and hated him:
but his bow abode in
strength••." (Gen. 49:23,24).
Just this week, the commander of U.S. forces in Europe narrowly escaped
death in a terrorist ambush in West Germany--the tenth attack this year in
Germany against U.S. military personnel. Claiming responsibirity--which is
what terrorists do these days--is the extremist West German guerrilla
group, the Red Army Faction, which says it has declared "war against im
perialist war."
The incident occurred just days after 30,000 demonstrators--communists,
homosexuals and black-leather-appareled anarchists--"welcomed" U.S. Secre
tary of
State
Alexander M. Haig to West Berlin.
"Hang the vulture, hang him
higher," demanded one placard.
Others displayed an American flag shaped
like a pig.
One thousand anarchists broke ranks to insanely chop up store
fronts and automobiles with axes.
Also this week, Cuban President Fidel Castro went on a verbal rampage dur
ing an international conference in Havana accusing the Reagan Administra
tion of pursuing a "fascist" foreign policy, for unleashing "biological
weapons" against his nation and for "lying" about Cuban support for leftist
rebels in El Salvador.
The Cuban government was hosting the semi-annual Interparliamentary Union,
whose stated purposes are to work for peace and international cooperation
and to strengthen representative institutions.
(Why then meet in Havana?)
Delegates were startled by the vitriolic nature of ·Fidel's hour and forty
£ive minute tirade
(that's short for Castro).
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El Lider" blasted the
Reagan Administration for what he said was "its haughtiness, its conceit,
its arms race, its quest for military support at all costs, its attachment