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Vol. 45, No . 3
ISSN 0032·0420
March 1980
ARTICLES
What ls Now Prophesiedl
3
Grave New Threat to the Free World
5
A Volee Críes Out Amid Religious Confusion (Part 2)
7
World 's Most Accurate Newscast
11
O Death, Where ls Thy Sting?
14
What Most People Don't Know about Easter
15
Sodom, the Untold Story
17
Already Beginning-World Upheaval in the 1980s
20
Unmasking a Conspiracy against the Newborn
25
- · Test·Tube Babies-Revising Genesis?
26
Again . .. Famine Stalks Northern India
29
And Now- War in t he Sahara
31
The Real Story behind the Crisis in Afghanistan
35
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Personal from Herbert W. Armst rong
" The World Tomorrow" Radio and TV Logs
12
In Brief
40
What Our Readers Say
45
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Soviet military .authorities have been extremety reluclant to allow photojournalists
into Afghanistan since their military assault on December 25. This photo of a
Soviel·made Afghan tank is one of a few rare photos taken about the time of lhe
Soviet mililary inlervenl ion into the mountainous republic.
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