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A major reason for this new advertising medium is to help people
contact the Work--even when they miss or forget the WATS line number
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given on the radio/television programs. After the number appears in
the directories, Mr. Armstrong plans to remind listeners and viewers
every so often that they can "check their yellow pages" for our
WATS number.
When listeners or viewers call Pasadena, trained operators will
handle their literature requests--or in cases needing ministerial
counsel, refer the caller's phone number to the local minister for
follow-up. Such a procedure will help keep the ministry's home
phones from being bombarded with "general information" calls.
Original plans had considered listing the WATS number in the white
pages also, next to local pastors' phone numbers, but costs have
proved this to be prohibitive. Because of printing schedules of
telephone directories (directories are printed only once a year), it
will probably be next fall before the WATS line listings begin to
appear across the country.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
AMERICA'S OPEN BORDER This week will be one President Carter wishes
he never had to go through. By nature a self-described "conciliator,"
rather than an take-charge leader, Mr. Carter is having to invoke
the Taft-Hartley Act in order to force a temporary end to the
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nation's three-month old coal strike. How successful he is at
meeting the challenge from the nation's soft-coal miners will deter
mine the health of the economy at home and the dollar abroad.
There is another problem, however, that the President, along with
Congress is sweeping under the rug, and by this I'm not speaking of
energy- Rather, the torrent of illegal immigration into the United
States, mostly from Mexico. The best Mr. Carter has offered to date
is to actually concede partial defeat, in that he has offered amnesty
and prospective citizenship to illegals who have been in the U.S.
for five or more years. The United States appears to be hopelessly
lost in how to handle the problem. There are conservatively 8 million
illegals washing around the country at the moment, with more coming
every day, pouring past outnumbered and frustrated U.S. border guards.
Together with legal citizens of Hispanic origin, the Spanish speaking
(including Puerto Ricans) are well on the way to replacing American
blacks as the dominant minority in the country. By the mid-1980's,
Hispanics, blacks and other minorities will outnumber "anglos" in
California, producing what one expert called America's first "third
world state."
Mexico is doing absolutely nothing to stern the tide north, though
she herself harshly deals with her own alien problem on her own
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southern border with Guatemala.
What the Mexicans have done is subtly threaten the U.S. that any
clamp on the illegal immigration "safety valve" will produce