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NOTE OF THANKS FROM Y.o.u.
We want to ask that you thank those members of your congregation who
have recently submitted Y.E.S. materials to us, as well as in the past.
Materials have been received from many Church areas within the U.S. as
well as overseas. We really appreciate the very fine quality and creative
effort reflected in the material. As we get into production, we will be
drawing on the material sent in.
--Ron Dick
ON THE WORLD SCENE
AFRICA AFLAME The next few weeks could be critical ones for the entire
future orientation of southern Africa.
On April 20th, the first completely biracial election is scheduled for
war-weary Rhodesia. On that day 100,000 white and 2.8 million black
voters go to the polls to select the ruJers of the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
The U.N. has declared the election illegal, mainly because the Communist
backed �atriotic Front guerrillas, knowing they can't win at the polls,
refuse to test their strength at the polls. Instead, the P.F. will do
everything in its power to disrupt the election, from intimidation to
attempted attacks on polling booths.
Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith has asked for international observers
to come and witness the impartiality of the elections. Few will come.
Britain and the U.S., fearful of offending the U.N. Afro-Asian block,
have declined the offer. Smith's enemies falsely claim the new consti
tution, by reserving certain time-limited powers for the Europeans,
preserves "white privilege." Actually, it is intended to keep whites in
the country for at least ten years, hopfully longer, to ensure a smooth
transition. Such guarantees were granted to Europeans upon the indepen
dence of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, but this fact is deliberately over
looked.
Smith
knows
the
western powers simply
have
no will to stand up to the side
backed by Moscow. He said recently that Rhodesia had been "dragged down
in the Morass of Britain's decadence and decline," and that London was,
in effect, seeking to "sell us out to the Communists who operate from
Russia and Cuba."
In South West Africa, or Namibia, a sirnilar sell-out is taking place. The
early-autumn timetable for the independence of the territory is being
jeopardized by the intransigence of SWAPO, the Moscow-dictated party
which operates hit-and-run terrorist attacks from sanctuaries across the
borders in Angola and Zambia.
Months ago the United Nations, led by the so-called Western Big Five
powers -- the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and West Germany -- put
forth a plan for U.N. supervised elections (backed up by a sizeable on
site U.N. force) running up to independence. South Africa said it agreed
to the plan. So did SWAPO, but its true intentions were otherwise.
Fearing he can't win against the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance,SWAPO
leader Sam Nujoma has been throwing one monkey wrench after another into
the machinery -- a typical Communist tactic.