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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August 15, 1980
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"What Argentina has in abundance--oil, natural gas and wheat, Brazil
lacks. What Brazil has--advanced technology, industrial capacity and
certain farm products, Argentina could use...."
Giandoni then points out another important factor in the "glue" beginning
to bind the two powers: "What links Brazil and Argentina, particularly
at this time, is a growing fear that they can no longer rely on the United
States to defend the Western world."
Together, these two countries could bring South America as a whole into
a key relationship with the world-encompassing economic Babylonish system
prophesied in the eighteenth chapter of Revelation.
POSTSCRIPT: Since we were scheduled to be in Rio over a weekend, Mr.
Walker asked us to meet on the Sabbath with the four ladies who are church
members in that city, which we gladly did. Four other individuals, three
women and one man (the husband of one} who are also very interested in
the church, showed up too. Incidentally, it was through the efforts of
one of the ladies, Mrs. Deborah Rodrigues and her husband, that we were
able to meet with Minister Cals. Mr. Rodrigues is a retired general who
knows the "powers that be" in Brasilia. (In another pleasant surprise,
an individual from the government's Public Relations office was placed
exclusively at our service for the two days we were there.} Regarding
the "littlest of the little flock" in Rio, it is to be hoped that as
the Work grows in South America, especially in neighboring Argentina and
Chile, the needs of these scattered members can be met more frequently.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau