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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 22, 1981
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We have accepted 194 students to the Pasadena campus and we hope we will be
able to accept a few more. But at this time, it looks as though we will be
able to accept v � ry few more for the fall semester of 1981. Admissions for
Pasadena was basically closed as of April 23rd.
Mr. Ronald Kelly, Dean of Students of Big Sandy, recently joined the rest of
the Admissions Cammittee in Pasadena for the purpose of reviewing the Big
Sandy applications. Already, 72 freshmen students have been accepted for
Big Sandy for the fall of 1981. We plan to admit approximately 100 freshmen
for the 1981-82 college year.
Thanks for your prayers, and for your enthusiastic support of Ambassador
College. We are here to serve God's Church.
--Raymond F. McNair, Deputy Chancellor, Pasadena
--Richard F. Ames, Director of Admissions, Pasadena
ON THE WORLD SCENE
POPE RECOVERING
I
POPULARITY SOARS
The scenes appeared to reenact the
events surrounding the attempted assassination of President Reagan a month
and-a-half earlier.
On May 13, Pope John Paul II was struck down by a
gunman in public and rushed into emergency surgery at a nearby hospital in
Rome.
Similar to Mr. Reagan, the Pope seems well on the way out of the critical
post-surgical period. While damage to his intenstines was considerable,
the Pontiff is expected to recover completely. Since no major organs were
struck, John Paul should suffer no serious long-term consequences, doctors
say now.
Similar to President Reagan, but even more so, the Pope has benefitted from
a swelling tide of sympathy. Notes Time magazine:
"The outpouring of
anger, outrage and sympathy for the fallen Pontiff was all but universal-
far more extensive than it had been for Ronald Reagan six weeks before.
Explained Amos Barak, a young Jewish businessman in Jerusalem: 'Shooting
presidents, that's politics, that I can understand. But shooting the Pope-
it's like shooting God.'"(He ignored the fact that throughout history more
than 30 of the 264 Popes have met violent deaths, though since Renaissance
times the Popes have generally escaped harm.)
The worldwide explosion of grief and affection illustrates the extraordi
nary impact John Paul II has made upon all peoples of the world. "No prior
Pope, not even John XXIII," adds Time, "has touched so many people of all
creeds. Indeed, during an era that knows great political leaders only in
memory--Churchill, Gandhi, Mao, Roosevelt--he is the premier personality�
on the world stage."
When the Pope recovers completely, as expected, he should have an even
greater impact on world affairs, given the impetus of the sympathy factor.
He has many things he wants to accomplish. "He is maneuvering for some kind
of accommodation with Peking," continues Time. "There is talk of a � apal
intervention in the Palestinian problem. J"'onii Paul has a deep serise-o the
shifting currents""and challenges of history. He speaks and thinks often of
carrying the church to the year 2,000."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau