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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 8, 1986 •
I've just completed reading "Mystery of the Ages" and I must say I
was more than impressed. I am sincerely thankful that Mr. Armstrong
clarified so many topics which I myself have been seeking.
But
those answers were shrouded by priests and laymen alike who told me,
"God Himself is a mystery and forever will remain unexplained and
undefined."
Never before have I been able to say where I fit in. My reason for
writing is to find out whether there is a Worldwide Church of God in
my vicinity.
If so, could I inquire about the teachings of your
Church?
Trenton, New Jersey
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
SOVIETS WOO EUROPE; WHY EUROPEANS DISTRUST THE U.S.;
THE EC'S GROWING POWER--WHEN WILL BRITAIN WAKE UP?
Soviet Overtures to Europe Intensify
Links · between Eastern and Western
Europe are growing stronger.
Much of this development is attributed to
the efforts of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has made a diplomatic
thaw toward Western Europe his number one foreign policy. Mr. Gorbachev
is capitalizing on disagreements between Washington and the capitals of
Western Europe over strategic defense ( the SALT II treaty and SDI, or
•star Wars") and the fight against terrorism.
In military relations across the Iron Curtain, the Kremlin has taken the
initiative in proposing bold and deep reductions in the number of Warsaw
Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces facing each
other. In Budapest, Hungary, in June, the Soviets called for mutual cuts
in land and tactical forces by 25 per cent in the early 1990s with further
cuts later. Earlier, on a visit to East Germany, Mr. Gorbachev said that
the proposed cuts in conventional armaments should cover a territory
"stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals." In choosing such words, the
Soviet !ead�w� appealing
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t�a sense of continental solidarity,
employing a theme raised by the late General Charles de Gaulle of France.
Speaking in East Berlin, Mr. Gorbachev delivered
primarily at West Germany:
"We are coming to you,"
clenched fists, but outstretched hands."
a message directed
he said, "not with
In late June Mr. Gorbachev went to Warsaw.
There he praised Communist
party leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski for the way he has restored the
preeminence of the party and government. But general European rather than
Polish affairs were uppermost on his mind. Gorbachev said that Europe had
been politically kiclnaped by the United States.
"In Greek mythology,
there is the legend about the abduction of the goddess Europa," the Soviet
leader said. "Now as a geographical concept, Europe remains in place, but
the impression is created that the independent policy of some Western
European countries has been abducted and taken across the ocean•••• Under
the pretext of defending security•••the fate of the 600 million people on
l..::, r continent•••is being held for ranso'm.� -- --- ---