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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 4, 1986'
Apparently one •advantage• of the part-plastic gun is the fact that it is
considerably lighter than an all-metal gun. The Glock 17 is already the
standard sidearm of the 25,000-member Austrian army. Nevertheless, the
manufacture of the Glock 17 and its certain successors, noted the
) ��mmunications director of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, sets
� terrifying example of progress outpacing common sense.•
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oscow courting Europe in a Big Way
o.s.-soviet relations, slightly
mproved as a result of last year's Geneva summit, ran into a snag
ecently when the o.s. government ordered Moscow to trim over a hundred
people from its mission to the United Nations in New York. At last count
the Soviets had a huge staff of 275 people attached to their O.N. staff
in addition to six hundred Soviets being on the U.N.'s own payroll in
various capacities.
(This makes a total, said the April 11 NATIONAL
REVIEW sarcastically, of •nearly nine hundred Kremlin-approved and
certified toilers for peace and·world unity.•) The major reason for the
U.S. demand for a scale-back.is that it had become almost impossible for
the FBI to keep tabs on the Soviet mission personnel, many of whom are
known to be in New York solely for espionage purposes.
As long as
President Reagan is in the White Bouse, o.s.-soviet relations will be
frosty at best. Meanwhile, an article in the March 27 ';rIMES of London
told of the Kremlin's latest propaganda· offensive in Western Europe;·
Headlined •Gorbachev Determined to Separate Europe from
y.§.,•
it
reported in part:
The Kremlin is launching a big propaganda offensive in Western
Europe to persuade both governments and public opinion to adopt
a more independent line from the United States on security
policy, and especially on the key issue of Star Wars. Well
placed diplomatic sources said here [in Moscow] yesterday that
the information drive would include visits by Mr. Gorbachev,
the Soviet leader, to strategic European capitals, the
appointment of a new breed of communications-conscious Soviet
ambassadors to senior European posts and the encouragement of
more visits to Moscow by leading West European statesmen.
The European drive is understood to be one of the centrepieces
of Soviet foreign policy for 1986. It involves the imminent
appointment of new Soviet envoys to London, Bonn and Madrid,
and visits by Mr. Gorbachev and his elegant wife Raisa before
the year's end to Rome, Athens and possibly Bonn--although this
arrangement has yet to be completed. According to both Soviet
L-.
and Italian officials, there is! strong chance that the visit
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could include! historic meeting with the Pope••••
Anti-Apartheid:
Rev ca.pus cause
All across the United States, but
especially on the two more liberal •bi-coastal• regions of the upper
Atlantic seaboard and California, college students--backed by liberal
teachers and deans (themselves the protesters and flag-burners of the
1960s)--have found a new cause:
the demand that university investment
funds be divested from firms doing business in South Africa. Often the
protesters erect clapboard shacks on campus commons areas said to depict
black squatter settlements such as the illegal "Crossroads• camp in South
Africa. Efforts to dismantle the eyesores (sometimes called •Mandela
shacks•) by campus police often meet violent reactions.