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PASTOR'S REPORT, June 4, 1979
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having a National Track Meet this surruner.
on it within the next couple of weeks.
We should have some final word
Thanks for all of your support for Y.O.U. during these past several months.
Hopefully we have turned the corner and Y.O.U. activity will once again be
on the increase. If any of you have any ideas, questions or suggestions
for Y.O.U., we would appreciate hearing from you.
GOOD NEWS FROM THE S.E.P. OFFICE: To date, we have received 525 applications
for campers, raising our percentage to 80% full for both sessions. Any
youth still interested in attending S.E.P. should apply as soon as possible
as we will continue to accept applications until we reach 100%.
Any correspondence regarding S.E.P. from this date forward
should be directed to the S.E.P. office at Box 231, Orr,
Minnesota, 55771. Phone:
(218) 757-3211.
So far, we have been able to send 150 young people on the scholarship fund,
and 50 on church assistance. Again, we deeply appreciate the gcnero�ity
of those members who contributed to the scholarship fund to make this pos
sible. Currently we have exhausted our scholarship monies, but if additional
contributions are received, we will be able to send those applicants who
are still on a wait status.
Many thanks to all of you for your assistance. We are all looking forward
to an action-packed, fun-filled time, and plan on making S.E.P. 1979 a most
memorable summer for all.
--Mike Blackwell
ON TH� WORLD SCENE
STRAUSS EDGES CLOSER TO THE TOP: A very important realignment. of politi
cal power is taking place in West Germany--the end of which, some months
down the road, could possibly see Franz Josef Strauss becoming Chancellor
of the Bundesrepublik, much to the consternation of many in the country.
The chain of events began on May 23 with the election of Karl Carstens as
the Federal Republic's fifth president. Carstens succeeds the very popu
lar Walter Scheel who chose not to run again. The reason Scheel did not
run is that he could not possibly have won another term since the largely
ceremonial office of the presidency is determined not by popular vote,
but by the 518 members of the Bundestag along with 51n additional delegates
for the ten German l�nder (states) plus West Berlin. Since the conserva
tive CDU/CSU coalition has a majority in the state parliaments, there was
no way for Scheel, a Free Democrat whose party is allied with the SPD
(Schmidt
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s Socialists) on the federal level, to win.
Thus, West Germany now has a Christian Democratic President to go along
with a Social Democratic Chancellor, somewhat of an unf:3 table combination
(though not as bad as the Brown-Curb tussle in Sacramento).
Carstens holds a Masters of Law degree from Yale, speaks perfect English
and has had a long and distinguished career as a civil servant. The fact
that he was forced (he claims) to take out Nazi Party membership in order
to hold government office during that period, has not materially affected
his service.