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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 18, 1983
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It says most are well educated and "extraordinarily well paid,"
two thirds of them with income over $200,000 a year.... While
they affirm capitalism, most reject American social institutions
and structures, saying they cause alienation.... "� � of
three believe that
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social reform"
the report says. "According to television's creators they are
not in it just for the money. They also seek to move their
audience toward their own vision of the good society."
In the Universities and the Churches •••
In America's universities a small but fervent group of radical leftist pro
fessors--many of them avowed Marxists--is expanding its foothold--primarily
on the eastern and western seaboards.
Some colleges and universities
actively recruit Marxist professors in the way they used to recruit blacks
or women. The radicals--most of them former student activists of the
1960s--are especially prominent on history faculties where they attempt to
recast American history in the light of Marxism's perspective on "class
struggle" and oppression.
The University of California at Berkeley began the infamous "free speech"
movement in 1964. But not everyone is entitled to free speech there. This
past Wednesday (January 16) , America• s United Nations Ambassador, Jean
Kirkpatrick, canceled a lecture at the University of California ·after she
was met with hooting and jeering the day before as she attempted to explain
U.S. ·foreign policy, especially with regard to Central America.
A
university spokesman said Mrs. Kirkpatrick was .the "target of disruptive
attempts at her lecture [Tuesday] afternoon on campus" and was driven £!.Q.!!
.s.h!, stage� 2.!!!. eoint. University officials called the outbursts a denial
of the Ambassador's right to free speech.
Ah, but rights for homosexuals, that's another story. Stanford University
is considering whether or not to accept an anonymous donor's offer to
establish a scholarship for professed homosexuals. While the university
had indicated it might turn down the offer, members of Stanford's Gay and
Lesbian Alliance are naturally urging acceptance.
As far as organized religion is concerned, major ecumenical religious
bodies, such as the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been recently very
much in the news, having been accused of supporting anti-Western and, in
some cases, openly Marxist revolutionary movements. Through its Program to
Combat Racism (PeR) the wee, said the November 9, 1982 LOS ANGELES TIMES,
••• since 1970••• has given more than $5 million to 130 organiza
tions that are ostensibly fighting racism. Nor did the council
deny that nearly half the money has gone to guerrillas seeking
violent overthrow of existing regimes {such as SWAPO in South
West Africa]. By contributing to the Program to Combat Racism,
the council said, "Donors do not endorse violence, but neither do
they pass judgment on those victims of oppression who are driven
to take up arms as a last resort to redress grievances."
The wee also supports, among its many programs, the "decolonization" of
Puerto Rico and "aboriginal rights• in Australia.