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ence with healing.
remember.
This is one experience that I will always
M.B. (W. Richland, WA)
In July [of 1983] I became paralyzed from the waist down. I
called and asked for a prayer cloth. A friend brought it to the
hospital when I was near death. We did exactly as instructed and
the Lord saw fit to heal me! I am now using a walker and getting
better every day. Thank God for the prayers that went along with
that prayer cloth, and thank God we can hear the real Word of God.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
SPECIAL REPORT (CONCLUSION): SOUTH
AFRICA--MOSCOW LAYS A SANCTIONS TRAP
D.B. (Dayton, OH)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
On July 31, a joint Congressional conference committee reached agreement on
a bill to impose limited economic sanctions against South Africa, including
a ban on the import of Krugerrand gold coins. The bill, which must now be
passed by the full Senate and House of Representatives before it can be sent
to President Reagan (who opposes sanctions), also would ban nearly all U.S.
bank loans to the South African government, as well as sales to it of com
puters and nuclear energy equipment. A ban on new United States investment
is to be considered a year from now.
Supporters of the bill say the action was needed to "send a signal" to
Pretoria to lift the present state of emergency .and to move faster on polit
ical reforms. New York Congressman Stephen Solarz said that "what we're
doing today, in effect is saying ·�addish' [a Hebrew praye� for the dead]
for the [Reagan administration J policy of constructive engagement" with
South Africa. Opponents of the bill say it would only result in the loss of
jobs by blacks--the very people everyone says should be helped. "If we do
anything to cause South Africa to fall into the arms of the Soviet Union,"
warned Senator Jesse Helms, "we will live to regret it•••• If South Africa
goes, the whole continent goes." The Soviets, Helms added, are "delighted
every time we shoot ourselves in the foot."
The U.S. and most other Western countries are reacting to events in Africa
in an almost schizophrenic manner. Just look at the comparisons between
policies toward Ethiopia and South Africa. For Ethiopia, rock stars hold
concerts, "Live Aid" being the biggest. The callous Marxist government,
meanwhile, demands exhorbitant port fees from ships that dock with free
food from the West� the money goes to Moscow to pay for weapons to fight
Ethiopia's anti-Marxist rebels. Other ships draw water in the outer harbor
for up to, in one case, three weeks, waiting for a berth. Vessels from the
East Bloc transporting weapons have unloading priority. The government in
Ethiopia proceeds with its program to forceably relocate people from
drought-gripped rebel-held areas, drawing them out with promises of food
elsewhere. Yet no one demonstrates at Ethiopian embassies in the West!
The July 22 DAILY MAIL of Britain, in an article titled "A Plan To Starve
Black Africans," written by Andrew Alexander, highlighted this appalling
lack of common-sense thinking on the part of the "progressive" (U.S. term:
"liberal") politicians in the Western world: