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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 18, 1981
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to violence and domination, its methods of blackmail and terror, its shame
less alliance with South Africa, its threatening language and its lies."
Castro did not mention President Reagan by name but referred to American
"lies and charges against Cuba dramatically exaggerated by its unscrupulous
spokesman, whose cynicism would make (Nazi spokesman Joseph) Goebbels him
self envious."
Castro also blamed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for five plagues
that have hit Cuba in the past three years: swine fever, tobacco blue mold,
sugar cane rust, hemorrhagic dengue fever and hemorrhagic conjuctivitis.
The CIA has vehemently denied any such "germ warfare" charges. The par
ticular strain of dengue fever now afflicting Cuba is endemic not in the
Western Hemisphere, but in Africa. Cuba's troops returning from duty in
Angola probably brought it back with them. At any rate, perhaps Mr. Castro
should hold up a bit on his ranting and railing, for the sake of his suffer
ing people. God pinpoints the problem, saying••."him who curses you I will
curse." The CIA doesn't have to do it.
Human emotions have also gotten way out of hand in another area--the cur
rent tou= of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, to New
Zealand and the United States. Matches in New Zealand, principal stop on
the Springbok tour, were held under near war-like conditions. Beleaguered
police were confronted with the worst public disorders in New Zealand his
tory. Fanatical demonstrators tried everything to disrupt the games, from
scattering chards of glass on the fields to "bombing" stadiums with objects
from airplanes.
The South Africans are scheduled to play two or three exhibition games in
the United States in a final stopover on their way back home. If the games
are indeed played (at secret locations to deter riots) 50 African nations
have warned Washington that they will not participate in the 1984 Olympic
games in Los Angeles. The Soviet Union has said it would try to have the
games shifted elsewhere. Moscow is still smarting under the U.S. boycott
of the 1980 Moscow games and is looking for revenge. The Kremlin also wants
to posture as the true superpower friend of the Africans, further undercut
ting u.S. influence on the continent, already low as a result of the row
over South West Africa (Namibia).
The so-called world community (which NATIONAL REVIEW magazine shortens to
"w.c.
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is in a blind rage over the Namibia issue, resulting in super
heated demands in the UN General Assembly for sanctions and a total boycott
against South Africa. The incredible amount and variety of Communist-bloc
weapons, captured from SWAPO, put on display this week in Johannesburg,
means absolutely nothing to most of the world.
It's no picnic these days for those certain "polecat" or pariah countries
or governments--such as South Africa, Chile, Israel, the Marcos government
of the Philippines--which are considered by the "w.c." to be leprous,
noxious, repulsive, repugnant, reproachful and otherwise irredeemably evil.
And, of course, America is villified as the monstrous imperialist which
keeps the above afloat, holding "national liberators" at bay. All in all,
it's not a very pretty world. "Jacob" is in for a lot trouble.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau