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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 23, 1982
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changing, growing and developing spiritually. I am refreshed in
my views and relationships within the Church and feel that I am,
with the help of God, making progress in overcoming and repenting
and living a Godly and Christian life.
R.L. (Pittsburgh, PA)
We are in our seventh year in God
I
s Church and the change in
direction from our first year (1975) to now is absolutely phenom
enal. In 1978, when you began talking about getting the Church
"back on God's track," we didn't know we were "off track." But
now, thanks to your God-inspired leadership, we do.
K. & S.W. (Wilmington, NC)
I would like to thank you for your recent letter about your trip
to the Far East••••It has given me a new enthusiasm to work even
harder and more diligently to provide more for the Work and to
ask God to prepare me spiritually through prayer and fasting as
we sprint down the homestretch. May our Eternal and Almighty God
continue to•••strengthen you, by empowering you with His Holy
Spirit as He uses you more powerfully than ever to accelerate His
Work in preparing His Church as a chaste virgin bride to marry
His Son, Jesus Christ, at His coming.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
W.F. (Bronx, NY)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ARGENTINA: A FRUSTRATED MINI-POWER FLEXES ITS MUSCLES As we go to press,
British forces have retaken South Georgia island without much of a tussle.
Meanwhile the British fleet remains on "full war alert" around the main
target, the Falklands, while Argentine troops on the islands, bouyed by the
visit by General (and President) Leopoldo Galtieri, have been instructed to
fight to the last man, never to lower the blue-and-white flag of Argentina.
What kind of nation is Argentina? The Chileans know this complex, arro
gant, frustrated, militaristic mini-power quite well. The following are
excerpts from a commentary in the leading Chilean newspaper, EL MERCURIO,
published on April 22, 1982.
Our minister in Santiago, Mario Seiglie,
immediately phoned this story into the News Bureau.
The commentary,
written by David Gallagher (a Chilean) is entitled "Argentine Victory Over
the Shepherds" (please excuse the occasional ambiguity):
To the question of how an educated and cultured people can behave
in such a hysterical manner, one only has to peruse the Argentine
literature of the past 140 years to see a clear pattern of civil
ization and barbarianism.
There are two persons in every
Argentine; the present administration is showing a similar
pattern•.•.
It has been said that the Argentine armed forces have long
suffered from the complex of never having won a war. And perhaps
without expecting a strong British reaction, the 4,000 soldiers
who conquered 1,800 shepherds could finally say they won a war
against Great Britain.