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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 4, 1986
It has been the most wonderful year ever--my third tithe year.
Not only did my income increase with every passing month, but I
was able to go back to work after many years of being too
arthritic to hold a jobl
God
gives us so much more than we
could ever give back, and in a million more ways than we could
ever imagine.
Florida
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
•DESIGNER• WEAPONS; SOOTH AFRICA; GIBRALTAR
Bngineering Rev Weapons Plagues Anyone who thinks that nuclear weapons
represent the ultimate in man's ability to design and develop hideous
weapons had better think twice.
The relatively new field of genetic
engineering, it turns out, has great potential application in the area of
futuristic weapons.
The prospects of gene-splicing germ agents is
reviving interest in the once-moribund field of chemical and biological
weapons CCBW).
Here are excerpts of a report which moved across our
REUTER news wire on Sept. 28:
Recent scientific breakthroughs have greatly increased the
danger that biological weapons will be used for mass killing in
future wars, according to Pentagon officials. Until recently,
the officials say, Washington had deemed the risk of biological
warfare to be small because germ weapons--such as laboratory
grown anthrax, yellow fever or bubonic plague--were hard to
control and could backfire, infecting the attacker's own troops
and population.
But according to these officials recent
advances in genetic engineering, or gene-splicing, have
completely altered the picture.
They have revolutionized
Pentagon thinking on biological warfare and prompted a crash
o.s.
research program which Washington insists is a defensive
response to Soviet progress on germ weapons.
Genetic engineering, in which scientists tinker with the genes
of living organisms and create new life forms, has led to
medical breakthroughs such as mass-produced synthetic insulin
for diabetics.
But defense officials say the pioneering
technique has also opened the way for effective new germ
weapons.
•It is now possible to synthesize BW (biological
warfare> agents tailored to military specifications,• Deputy
Assistant Defense Secretary Douglas Feith said in a recently
declassified report.
·The technology� makes possible�
called designer drugs�so makes possible desi
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aw.•
Military scientists now might develop new diseases w ich could
quickly incapacitate or kill enemy soldiers, at the same time
immunizing their country's .2!!!. troops againstthe virus,�
Pentagon officials say ••••