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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 11, 1983
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Government overnight with proper planning as has happened in
nearby Surinam and Grenada.
Indeed, the Americans did get there, as Mr. Reagan said, "just in time."
Coupled with leadership problems in the Soviet Union (Andropov's terminal
illness, at least politically speaking), Soviet/Cuban aggressiveness in the
region has been dealt a severe blow. And with Nicaragua preoccupied with
fending off counter-revolutionaries, energy will have to be expended to
"preserve socialism" there.
There may not be much left over for the
Nicaraguans to give in support of other "liberation" forces in Central
America.
Richard Nixon's Hard-nosed Look at Peace
Former President Richard M. Nixon has written a new book entitled, REAL
PEACE: A STRATEGY FOR THE WEST. Mr. Nixon sent advance copies of the small
(109 page) book to political leaders and other influential persons around
the world. The public should have copies soon. It is not known whether
President Reagan has read it, but he certainly would agree with its
contents.
In the September 19 issue of TIME, journalist Hugh Sidey
reviewed the book and had these comments:
It was mere coincidence that Nixon's volume appeared just as the
superpowers were squaring off over the downed Korean airliner.
Yet the timing reinforces his conviction that we are approaching
a momentous period in world affairs. "The situation is precari
ous," he writes, "but the moment is precious."
Just for fun, Nixon gouges old enemies like liberals, journal
ists, academicians and anybody he believes to be timid and self
righteous. He tears down what he sees to be myths ("The nuclear
freeze is a fraud"). "Confusing real peace with perfect peace is
a dangerous but common fallacy," Nixon writes. "Perfect peace is
achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the
typewriter•.•perfect peace has no historical antecedents and
therefore no practical meaning in a world in which conflict among
men is � ersistent and pervasive. If real peace is to exist, it
mustexist along with men's ambitions, their pride, and their
hatreds."...
Arms don't cause wars, he insists, human intentions do; and only
when perceptions of the futility of trying to beat us soaks into
the Soviet mind will we have true arms reduction. The struggle
between the Soviets and the U.S. will go on in "a vast gray area
between peace and war." We may not win, Nixon declares, but we
must try and we must surely not lose.
Mr. Nixon authored a piece in the October 2, 1983 NEW YORK TIMES, obviously
excerpts taken from his book. His analysis shows in stark terms the reality
of the world today, and the uncompromising conflicts that characterize it.
There can be no real peace in the world unless a new relationship
is established between the United States and Soviet Union.
Confusing real peace with perfect peace is a dangerous but common
fallacy. Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace