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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 3, 1983
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The controversy over Central America, Mr. Moodie added, "feeds into Euro
pean relations"--and from two opposite angles.
Many younger generation Europeans, feeling more sympathy for leftist
causes, believe that the current U.S. approach to the spreading crisis in
Central America is dead wrong. This adds to the impression the majority of
young Europeans have about America: Namely, that the U.S. is a greater
threat to world peace than is the Soviet Union.
Conservative Europeans, on the other hand, wonder whether the United States
any longer has the will to stand up to a threat from Moscow, this time right
in America's "front yard."
If America can't defend its own interests close to home, reason the Euro
peans, how can the U.S. be depended upon to continue to defend Western
Europe from Soviet pressure.
Mr. Moodie recounted a recent conference in Washington, D.C. dealing with
the future of the Western Alliance, at which some European delegates argued
very strongly for an independent nuclear capability for Western Europe.
In conclusion, there is a lot simmering behind the happy facade of
Williamsburg. The European-American pot will boil over before long.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau