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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 11, 1981
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God's Blessings
I write this letter with a very happy heart to let you know that the
God we worship and serve is a great God indeed. As of December 1980,
until about June 1981, we were completely broke. We had to go to the
minister for help to buy food. We even had the power and phone cut
off. So we really were broke. Then God let us know what we were doing
wrong. We changed on that point and He started blessing us to where
today I am able to send in tithes and offerings. Also, I have a clear
title on 34 acres of land, a few dollars in the bank, and no debts!
And, to top it all off, we are going to Hawaii for the Feast of Taber
nacles. This has been quite a year.
A.O. (Canada)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
THE MAN MOSCOW FEARS MOST After extended stays in Jerusalem and Cairo, the
G-II carrying Mr. Armstrong and his party had two important, though shorter
"touchdowns"--Geneva and Munich--before returning to Pasadena via an over
night (Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner) stopover in London.
After C3iro, Geneva certainly seemed to be the world's most beautiful city
(which may be the case, regardless of any comparisons). What could be more
soul-stirring than the brisk walk Barbara and I took along the shores of Lac
Leman (Lake Geneva) on an early autumn morning? Come to think of it, there
probably is one thing more soul-stirring--jogging along the same shore even
earlier in the morning, as Mr. Fahey did.
The idyllic lakefront views of Geneva, however, were but a facade to a grim
game of power politics which was to begin in the city shortly after our
departure. Soviet and American negotiations started, on November 30, nego
tiations over the future of the so-called "theater nuclear forces" (TNF)-
intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.
The two sides approach the talks with such highly disparate sets of figures
as to preclude any agreement. The Russians, of course, claim that both
sides (NATO and Warsaw Pact) are equal--but they said that six years ago
too, before they started deploying their triple-warheaded SS-20's at the
rate of one a week.
Moscow has proposed to halt its SS-20 program, or cut it back slightly, in
return for no new NATO "nukes," 572 of which are scheduled to be in place in
1983. President Reagan has countered with this "zero option" proposal--no
new NATO weapons if the Soviets pull out all their SS-20's plus older SS-4's
and SS-S's.
Of course, Moscow won't do this. The Soviets know that time is on their
side; their missiles are in place, those of NATO aren't. They can bide
their time, letting the "peace groups" in Western Europe, which they've in
filtrated, do the job for them. Reports Don Cook of the LOS ANGELES TIMES:
It is obvious that if the peace movement succeeds in making it politi
cally impossible for West Germany, Holland and Belgium to accept any
American intermediate-range nuclear weapons, then the Soviet Union
will have largely achieved its prime objective without having to con
cede anything at all••••Thus, the real outcom � of the Ge _
neva taTis m � y
be decided not at the conference table but 1n the Social Democratic