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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 11, 1983
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Some of the things I've heard on the program have sent shivers
through me, as if it touched something deep inside. I can't tell
you how much it means to finally hear what I've been searching
for these past few years. I only wish it was on longer each
night. Those 30 minutes seem to go by in a flash!
C.C. (Rochester, NY)
I have been listening to your radio program every night. I am
very fascinated by the message you are bringing to the people. I
know it is the truth. If more people would sit down and really
listen to the things you say, I feel they would realize that it
all makes sense.
J.S. (New York, NY)
I listen to your program most nights on station WOR at 11
o'clock. Your sermons sound sincere and knowledgeable. Being a
senior citizen, I retire about that time, and your words bring
comfort. Enclosed is my small gift to your ministry. You will
hear from me in this manner from time to time.
V.R. (Island Park, NY)
I listen to your program each morning.
It is inspiring and
knowledgeable, and increases my understanding of the Bible. I am
extremely happy that there's someone like you to teach such in
spiring messages about the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. May God be with you always, and your minist�y continue.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
E.J. (Nassau, Bahamas)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
BONN ELECTIONS: KOHL WINS BIG, BUT NOISY GREENS ENTER PARLIAMENT
Washington was pleased: France breathed a sigh of relief and Moscow grum
bled and warned of dire consequences. Simplified, these were the foreign
reactions to the sizeable victory chalked up by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in
West Germany's March 6 national elections.
With slightly over 55% of the vote, Mr. Kohl's Christian Democrats, along
with their Bavarian allies, the Christian Socialists, plus the slipping
Free Democrats, thus were given a considerable mandate from the West German
electorate to carry out their center-right policies with regard to the
economy and foreign relations.
Mr. Kohl was able to weather some bad economic news that broke on the very
eve of the election--the report that a record number of West Germans (more
than 2.5 million)--were out of work in the Federal Republic's worst reces
sion to date. The chancellor convinced the voters that, being only five
months in office, he was not to blame. He pointed to 13 years of what he
called "mismanagement" by the previous Social Democratic-Free Democrat gov
ernment.
The Social Democratic challenger, Hans-Jochen Vogel, had tried to paint Mr.
Kohl as a "rocket chancellor" for his support of the 1979 NATO plan to up
grade NATO's nuclear weapons. Barring an unforeseen agreement between the
U.S. and the Soviet Union, the first Pershing II and cruise missiles are due
for deployment in West Germany beginning this December.