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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 19, 1986
I am very thrilled that you have accepted me as a co-worker
with the Church. I want more than anything in this world to
take part in God's Work. I have never felt such joy as in
giving to God's Church, and I feel God's calling very strongly
in this. I will be very honored to receive your letters every
month.
(Florida)
Words cannot express my true feelings, knowing I am a member
of God's team. My heart surely is in the Work of God, and I
know that I have been called by Him to have a part with Christ
in this Work. How grateful I am to know I have the privilege
to be called a fellow worker with Jesus Christ.
(Pennsylvania)
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--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
MORE ON THE SANCTIONS ISSUE; SPECIAL REPORT:
THE MEXICAN BORDER "WAR"; AMERICA'S LIBERAL CHURCHES
Sanctions Row Continues
The uncertainty over political events in
southern Africa and the future availability of key minerals is being · ·
reflected by nervous traders. The prices of both gold and platinum are
rising with the platinum especially volatile--up $100 an ounce in less
than a week. Meanwhile a slowdown by South Africa of vital trade across
its territory into and out of some of its neighboring states calling for
sanctions appears to be having an effeet. President Kenneth Kaunda of
landlocked Zambia, whose nation depends upon South African ports to
handle 60 percent of its imports, has sounded a note of caution on the
sanctions issue.
However, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
continues to warn his countrymen to expect the worst. •our nation will
be called upon to endure hardship,• he proclaimed. "Let each and every
one make noble sacrifice.•
In Britain, some of the more conservative popular newspapers such as the
DAILY MAIL and the DAILY EXPRESS are running articles and editorial
commentary questioning the value to Britain of the current-day
Commonwealth. ("Who the H�- Needs the Commonwealth?" blared one EXPRESS
headline.)
Articles such as these usually examine the political
realities in the countries of the Commonwealth most active in calling for
sanctions. In the United States, President Reagan came out strongly in
his August 13 news conference in support of a suggestion by South African
President Pieter Botha that the United States and other Western nations
engage in limited talks about the economic and security realities of the
troubled region.
The President's views don't sit well with many
congressional members, however, who are engaged in a •moral stampede,•
according to Raymond Price, writing in the July 31 LOS ANGELES TIMES:
•constructive engagement
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is dead as a term if not yet as a
policy.
Instead, America is thundering forward on one of
those great moral stampedes so beloved by the political left
and by distressingly many in the news media. The target this
time is South Africa, and the stampede is one of destructive