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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 10, 1983
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facts. Here's a small contribution so that you can continue
preaching the Word of God. Keep up the good work..
T.B. (Republic, WA)
Thank you very much for following your calling by publishing your
fine magazine, The PLAIN TRUTH. I know that the events of my life
have been geared to finally discovering it. On and on through
the years I have been looking for the truth everywhere I could,
but mostly failing. But after finding your magazine at our local
laundromat week after week and stumbling across your book THE
UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN IN PROPHECY, now it all makes so much
sense--and it was staring me in the face the whole time!
M.S. (Kingsville, TX)
Enclosed is a contribution to help Mr. Armstrong in my small way,
to carry on God's Work as he is doing in such an encompassing way.
I am now 75 and after seeking the truth all my life, I have
finally found someone who does have the key to God's Word, the
Bible. Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, has chosen Mr.
Armstrong as one of His own and I hope he will be permitted to
stay and guide us until Christ's return.
I receive The PLAIN TRUTH, The GOOD NEWS and many booklets for
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ON THE WORLD SCENE
Mrs. L.F. (McHenry, IL)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
MRS. THATCHER'S TRIUMPH: ISRAEL DIVIDED:
"SECOND WAVE" OF WORLD DEBT CRISIS APPROACHES
The polls said her victory would be a large one, and they were right on.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was elected on June 9 to a second five
year term by the largest Conservative Party margin in 38 years--144 seats-
more than quadrupling what had been a 35-seat parliamentary majority.
After her triumph, Britain's "Iron Lady" prime minister made clear her
election mandate would mean Thatcherism with more muscle for the next five
years. She said she believed in "strong, clear, decisive government" and
wanted her second term remembered "for having clear policies, with a pur
pose, and for steadfastly carrying them out, and for being stalwart for
freedom and justice." (To show she meant business she reshuffled her cab
inet to bring in men more to her liking. Moderate conservatives such as
Foreign Secretary Francis Pym got the heave-ho.
Final returns showed:
Conservatives 397 seats, Labor 209, the Social
Democrat/Liberal Alliance 23, minor parties 21. The Conservatives garnered
12,991,377 votes {43.5 percent), Labor 8.4 million (28.3 percent) and the
Alliance 7.7 million (26 percent).
The election was a disaster for the Labor Party headed by Michael Foot, age
69. Labor could not make an issue out of Britain's unemployment rate, which
stands at 13.6 percent, leaving three million Britons out of work.