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Vol. XLIII , No. 9
ISSN
0032-0420
October-November
1978
ARTICLES
Part Two: Why Humans Were Put on the Earth
2
How the Dollar Crisis ls Forging a United Europe!
4
The United States and Britain in Prophecy
7
Halloween: Where Does
1t
Come From?
14
News vs. Reality: Reading Between the Headlines
19
Television-lts Many Positiva Uses
22
Televi sion-Too Much Can Waste Your Human Potential
23
Are You living Up to Your Human Potential?
27
Tithing and the Ten Commandments
30
Coming Soon: Too Good To Be True?
32
FEATURES
Personal from Herbert W. Armstrong
Why Not?
17
ABOUT OUR COVER
A survival-oriented Europe-troubled by indecisive Amencan efforts to
strengthen the rapidly decllning dollar-symbolically ba11s out while U.S.
President Carter fights a los1ng battle to keep the shíp airborne The ar!lcle
on page
4
details how the anem1c American dollar may
be
toppled from its
pos1hon as the world's kingpm currency, and how th1s is forcmg Europe lo
un1te out of economic self-defense.
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