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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 18, 1983
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and, as it persisted, I went outside for a walk. It was then that
I noticed ice forming on the cars. I immediately built smudge
fires around my vineyard. The stagnant cold air began moving and
the temperature came up about one degree.
Later that day no evidence of any frost damage could be observed
in my vineyard. However, my nearest neighbor had his crop total
ly destroyed, and the next neighbor's vineyard sustained spotty
damage.
My stomach pain has mysteriously vanished. My tithes and offer
ings will continue. The Eternal protects His investment.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
V.M. (Fresno, CA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
GERMAN ELECTION; WHY THE WEST IS LOSING; FIRES IN AUSTRALIA
Opposition leader Hans-Jochen Vogel, reversing an earlier stand, has openly
appealed for support from the anti-nuclear Greens party to help topple
Chancellor Helmut Kohl in West Germany's March 6 general elections. "As a
candidate for chancellor I see no sense in rejecting my election by a major
ity of the Bundestag who have been chosen by the people just because the
Greens help make up the majority," Vogel told the weekly newspaper DIE
ZEIT.
Vogel, leader of the Social Democrats, previously made no bid for Greens
support, although he did not openly reject it. Vogel, however, has ruled
out the possibility of forming a coalition with the group. The Greens, a
small party of neutralists, pacifists, ecologists and anti-nuclear
activists, might hold the balance of power in the Bundestag, the lower
house of Parliament.
The March 6 general election is shaping up as a test of the country's re
solve to support U.S. defense policy in Europe. Greens party leader Petra
Kelly said last week the group will support Vogel in the Bundestag vote for
chancellor only if the Social Democratic candidate clearly rejects U.S.
medium-range missiles and atomic power. And in a Wednesday speech in the
Bavarian town of Vilshofen, Vogel again branded Kohl's Christian Democratic
Party as the so-called "U.S. Rocket Party." Vogel said a vote for Kohl is a
vote for deployment of U.S. Pershing-II and cruise missiles in West Ger
many.
How Moscow is Winning the West--by Grabbing the Real Reins of Power
Why are West Germany and most of the other West European countries (except
Catholic France) so susceptible to pressure from communist/socialist propa
ganda these days? A Dutchman, Jan Van Houten, who writes for the West Ger
man publication, CRITICON, analyzed this phenomenon in very clear terms in
the February 8, 1983 issue of the WALL STREET JOURNAL:
.•.Only the left seems to understand that power in modern society
doesn't primarily mean controlling the means of production, the
government or the armed forces, as the European right deludes it
self into believing. The left has discovered that today power