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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 19, 1985
closing in on our nation, we simply must realize how important it
is to spend time drawing closer to God, striving to learn to
think as Jesus Christ does, and learning the truth of God so well
that we will be prepared to teach it in the world tomorrow.
Mrs. W.B. (Plain Dealing, LA)
Thank you for the most recent member letter--that is the first
one I've ever seen that used color or even illustrations! It was
very well done and quite effective! Your years of training and
experience in using your advertising skills have yielded a tre
mendous "impact"!
Yes, I am praying for more laborers
ministry is working under "overload"
our own area that the ministry is
workload!
in the harvest! I know our
conditions•••and I'm sure in
seeing a great increase in
Mr. and Mrs. J.S. (Elk River, MN)
We are sending our tithes for the month of June. We received your
most welcome letter yesterday. We were very glad to hear from
you. Your letters are very important to us. We pray for the
Church to be ready and be closer together. I think if we brethren
just knew how little time we have to learn the Word of God, we
would spend more time studying and praying than we do.
Mr• & Mrs• G•F • (C1arksvi11e, AR)
Thank you for your most recent letter to the brethren and co
workers. The illustrations of the image and map really make the
prophecies come alive. It should really wake your readers up!
ON THE WORLD SCENE
Mrs. C.T. (Pasadena, CA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
IRRESPONSIBLE MEDIA; DIPLOMACY NOT ENOUGH--NIXON In the past several days
the news media has understandably been preoccupied with President Reagan's
bout--hopefully a successful one--with cancer. Yet it must be noted that
another week has passed without any punishment for the known hijackers who
commandeered TWA Flight 847. And there isn't likely to be, as speculated in
the "Washington Whispers" column of the July 22, 1985, U.S. NEWS & WORLD
REPORT:
Despite all the tough talk, forget any counterstrike in retalia
tion for the TWA hostages. Reagan has reluctantly concluded that
there's no way to hit back as long as other Americans are being
held hostage in Lebanon. The best that Washington can do: Keep
Arab terrorists nervous about U.S. intentions.
With the hostages back home, attention has since focused on the extraordin
ary role played by the news media during the crisis. Newspaper cartoonists
have had a field day depicting the role of television news coverage. One
cartoonist showed a terrorist holding a loaded pistol to a passenger's
head. "They shoot us" was the caption. The adjoining panel showed Uncle
Sam aiming a TV camera, with the caption: "We shoot them." Another cartoon