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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, July 3, 1980
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Bowing to this pressure, plus left-wing pressure in Western Europe,
President Carter sometime ago cancelled U.S. development of the weapon
--after securing the approval of West Germany and other NATO countries
to go ahead with it.
The announcement by France pleased many NATO officials--unofficially,
of course, since France remains outside of NATO's integrated command.
It pleased not a few West Germans as well. Some day, French neutron
weapons, perhaps as an integral part of an integrated European defense
force, could be helping defend West Germany's eastern borders, which would
be the focal point of any attack from the Warsaw Pact. A Senior French
official said his country could ''bring forward its military capacity" to
aid the West Germans, if need be.
Addendum II: I thought it would be good to alert the ministry to the
existence of the new "fourth" network TV news program now appearing in
about 30 metropolitan markets across the United States. It could prove
helpful for many, since the half-hour program--called Independent Network
News--comes on later in the evening. In Los Angeles, KCOP Channel 13
carries it from 10:00 - 10:30 PM, Monday through Friday.
The program, which features only national and international news (not
local yokel stuff) originates in New York and is fed to many independent
stations across the nation. Based upon the first few weeks of operation,
the INN appears to be a credible alternative to the early evening CBS,
NBC, and ABC network news programs. The INN taps the overseas satellite
news feed of "Viznews" and other sources.
The INN (not to be confused with Ted Turner's all-news cable programming
service out of Atlanta) could prove helpful to the ministry who are
usually forced, by their customary duties, to miss the network news pro
grams earlier in the evening. ABC news, by the way, has a new late-night
news program, "Night-Line," which comes on at 11:30 PM (10:30 PM in the
Midwest). This program, however, is only 20 minutes long, and generally
focuses on one subject of the day'e news (as does the McNeil-Lehrer
report on the Public Broadcasting Service). Also, in some areas, PBS
carries, late at night, a captioned version of ABC's "World News Tonight"
broadcast earlier in the evening.
All in all, there is now more "news help" for our night-owl ministry.
(Check local listings
in
your areas for these programs.)
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau