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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 21, 1984
I went to a lot of different churches but it seems that there was
always something missing. I couldn't understand why I didn't get
much out of it. They would read the scriptures but couldn't ex
plain them so most people like myself could understand. Thank
God for people like you to show the truth in a way anyone who
really believes in God can understand, if he takes the time and
wants to learn.
W.H. (Clover, SC)
I am so happy to read your booklets. I am starting a new life and
you are making things plain to me and I understand. I didn't get
very far in school, but I do understand your booklets. Pray for
me as I've been listening to the wrong gospel.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
B.T. (East Cleveland, OH)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
KREMLIN INFIGHTING; THE "COLD PEACE"; WHO WANTS
A UNITED GERMANY? (NO ONE OUTSIDE GERMANY, APPARENTLY)
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it has been announced, will be
meeting with President Reagan on September 28. This hardly represents a
thaw in Soviet-American relations, but it might help Mr. Reagan in overcom
ing the image some have of him as a "cold warrior." Meanwhile, the top ech
elon of Soviet leadership appears to be stumbling along in fits and spurts,
lacking a firm grip at the pinnacle of power. As Robert C. Toth reported in
the September 14 LOS ANGELES TIMES:
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko's scheduled visit to
Washington represents not only a surprising windfall for Presi
dent Reagan
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s reelection campaign but also one more sign that the
Kremlin is wracked by a degree of political turmoil not seen for
a generation. Gromyko's decision to accept Reagan's invitation
to a White House chat Sept. 28...followed the dramatic dismissal
last week of the top Soviet military officer, Chief of Staff
Nikolai V. Ogarkov.
"I feel strongly that we
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re in one of those periods of vicious
infighting among the Soviet leadership," said Paul Henze, a Rand
Corp. analyst here.... "But we know so little that it's like
watching the water surge and roll without seeing the sharks
fighting beneath the surface":' he added. "Only when � dead�
floats to the top do we learn something about what's happen-
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A Soviet diplomat here told a State Department official last week
that Ogarkov was ousted for "unpartylike tendencies" and for
"getting too big for his britches." "Unpartylike" could mean
Ogarkov continued to oppose Politburo policy decisions, presumab
ly on defense budgets. However, it could also mean that he was
guilty of a more serious breach; the three men who sought without
success to overthrow Khrushchev in 1957 were called an "anti
party group" after they were dismissed and stripped of powers..••