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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 28, 1982
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I thoroughly enjoy Mr. Armstrong! I can't believe how much sense
he makes.
Everyone
else just
gives you a
bunch of gobbledygook.
He really makes sense.
B.S. (Goose Creek, SC)
I really enjoy listening to him. The program is so much better
than all the other junk on TV. I am a kindergarten teacher at a
"Christian" school and I like to hear what he has to say. I think
it is important to know what's going on so I can pass it on to the
children.
M.B. (San Jacinto, CA)
I really enjoy the preacher--no, he isn't a preacher. He is a
teacher.
R.A • (Roekvi11e, NY)
I am so thrilled with the program--other ministers don't say
those things.
Mr. M. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Mr. Armstrong explained some things to me that I have read all my
life but never understood. He really understands the Bible.
R.S. (Las Vegas, NV)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
BRITAIN'S "TRIAL BY FIRE" IN THE ICY SOUTH ATLANTIC
DATELINE LONDON (May 27, 1982): There could be no more newsworthy time to
be in Britain than right now. In the South Atlantic, the 100 vessel British
task force is engaged in a full-fledged, yet, as in Vietnam, undeclared war
with a surprisingly tough foe. How long can Britain afford to lose expen
sive destroyers, frigates and support vessels against the wave after wave
of Argentine fighter bombers? Of course Buenos Aires is hurting too, with a
steadily shrinking supply of Mirages and Skyhawks--about four dozen fixed
wing aircraft destroyed to date--to say nothing of its first-line pilots.
Simultaneously, across the English Channel "in Europe" (as most Britons
view their geographical setting) the British are engaged in another battle
--an economic trench war with the Germans and the French mainly--over the
size of London's contribution to the Common Market budget. Result: a one
year "half-a-loaf" truce which really doesn't satisfy Britain, but is
apparently the best that can be done under the circumstances.
(Britain
will still have to pay in $750 million more to the E.C. budget than she
receives in benefits.)
Into this cauldron, ironically, steps this world's "apostle of peace" Pope
John Paul II. After first threatening tb postpone his scheduled May 28-
June 2 trip to Britain because of the worsening Falklands crisis, the Pope
cleverly devised a solution intended to reduce offense to Latin America's
300 million Roman Catholics:
He would come to Britain, he said, if the
cardinals in the U.K. advised him to come. They did, of course� he comes
Friday. To balance off his visit to Britain the Pope will make an urgent
two-day trip to Argentina on June 11 and 12 (he has already scheduled a much
longer trip to South America sometime next year).