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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 27, 1984
newsstand copies will be distributed through the regular Church program as
well as Good Neighbor boards, display islands in airports and commuter
stations, and Elson's gift shops.
Demand for The PLAIN TRUTH has increased so much that the number of new
subscribers added for the June issue was 212,000--the second highest number
ever added for a single issue. In the first three months of this year, we
have already added over 40% of the number of new subscribers added in all of
last year.
The following graph pictures the number of new PLAIN TRUTH
subscribers added since January 1981.
--Ray Wright, Publishing Services
NEW PLAIN TRU'l'H SUBSCRIBERS BY ISSUE
All Figures in Thousands
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ON THE WORLD SCENE
GROWING COMMUNIST FEARS OF POPE'S
"VISION"� UNEASY RESTS THE GERMAN SOUL
Obviously feeling the heat, the Communist world has delivered its heaviest
attack on the Pope just as the Italian courts are preparing to try the
Bulgarian accused of conspiring to kill him. In a March 28 editorial, the
Czechoslovak Communist Party newspaper TRIBUNA, acting as a mouthpiece for
the Kremlin, sharply criticized Pope John Paul II as "one of the most
reactionary popes of this century."
According to TRIBUNA, the Pope
supports those who "call upon the Catholics of Eastern Europe to follow the
example of the reactionaries in the Polish church." Moreover, the paper