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Y.O.U.,AICF
HELP
RAISE $54,000
Youth Opportunities United
(YOU-the youth group of the
Worldwide Church of God) and the
Ambassador International Cultura.!
Foundation (AICF) teamed up May
28 and 29 with the Red Cross and
Marlow Tackett, a local business–
roan in Pikeville, Kentucky, to raise
$54,000 in a "radiothon" for victims
of the fioods that ravaged eastern
Kentucky, Virginia and West Vir–
ginia in early ApriL
A concert of country-and-western
music was held at Marlow's Country
Palace, owned by Mr. Tackett.
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ran from midnight on May 28 until
nine o'clock Sunday night with only
a
2~-bour
break early Sunday
morning. A number of radio sta-
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PLAIN TRUTH A.ugust-September 1977
tions in the surrounding area car–
ried the program.
The show started to a standing–
room-only audience, according to
Gerry Russell, who reported the
event, "with over 1,200 people jam–
ming the hall, the largest crowd
Marlow's Country Palace has ever
had." Hundreds more were outside
waiting to get in.
As well-known country-western
singers and local musical groups do–
nated time for the marathon session,
members of the Pikeville YOU
chapter, along with members of the
Worldwide Church ofGod, manned
the telephones to take donation
pledges. "Pledges and donations
ranging from
~
few cents to one of
$1,000 were all gratefully received,"
Mr. Russell said. "In all, a total of
approximately $11 ,000 was col–
lected in pledges and donations by
the end of the show. But this total
rose to $54,000 when donations
from the local coa! companies had
been received."
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AMERICA,WAKE UP!
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vote works nowhere else in Africa
was dismissed as being irrelevant. It
was a case of "do it America's way
or else."
The Mondale-Vorster summit,
editorialized London's
Daily Tele–
graph,
"could have been used to set
up a sympathetic relationship as the
background against which Mr. Vor–
ster could have continued the pro–
gramme of racial readjustments on
which he is now evidently em–
barked. [Sorne top cabinet officials
are openly advocating turning the
government into a Swiss-style "can–
tonal" system, wherein each popu–
lation group would bave full
representation as well as protection
of its rigbts.] Instead, Mr. Mondale
turned it into an open confrontation
and_: to be blunt-a propaganda ex–
er~ise."
Even Alan Paton, a foremost
critic of the Pretoria government
who believes in majority rule, called
America's current stance "unyield–
ing" and, if pushed relentlessly,
could result in the "destruction of
South Africa, its cities, its railways,
its medicine, its agriculture." Paton
appealed to the United States to
help the white South African in his
search for a workable solution, per–
haps initially in the forro of a con–
federal state framework. "Could
you not out ofyour power and expe–
rience show him how to do it?" he
pleaded.
Apparently not. For behind the
política! rhetoric of "majority rule"
is the view that it is in America's
long-range interest to "coalesce
around itself the sympathies and
support of the majority of man–
kind"-to use the words of President
Carter's national security advisor,
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since the vast
majority of mankind is demanding
Pretoria's head on a platter, the U.S.
must now do the same to convince
the Third World of its good in–
tentions toward them.
To give evidence of any support
toward white South Africans would,
in Brzezinski's words, "rally all of
Africa and much of Afro-Asia
against us."
Moreover, according to this new
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