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Dean Rusk Arrives for SEATO Conference - Lcgmn.com

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--coincided EXACTLY with ours? IlVhy<br />

was it we arrived in Turkey just in<br />

time <strong>for</strong> viewing a long line of U . S.­<br />

made Patton tanks? IVh)' did we arrive<br />

in the Mideast just as Russia's Prime<br />

Minister Kosygin visited Egypt? Why<br />

arrive in the immed iate wake of the<br />

U. S. Ambassador's conference in Beirut<br />

over growing threat of atomic weapons<br />

in the Mideast?<br />

It seems strange-but 1 couldn't have<br />

timed the visit to the Rock of Gibraltar<br />

any better.<br />

Just after my visit there, and two<br />

broadcasts made over the growing<br />

Spanish threat to the "Rock," a beautiful<br />

series of pictures came out in Natiollal<br />

Geographic about the "Rock:-<br />

J had written an articl e over a year<br />

ea rl ier, from Madrid. But this time I<br />

had the Uher recorder with me-and<br />

was able to bring an on-the-spot<br />

Aml~"" d o, Co/(eg8 Photos<br />

Two views of the beautiful and inspiring mountain not far from Capernaum<br />

from which Christ preached. A WORLD TOMORROW program in progress.<br />

Norman Smith operates recorder as Garner Ted Armstrong speaks from inspiring<br />

vantage point overlooking the Sea of Galilee. It was probably on this<br />

same stony mountain that Jesus Christ preached the so-called "Sermon on the<br />

Mount" to his disciples. The ruins of the ancient city of Capernaum where much<br />

of the ministry of Christ centered, are along the lake shore in the far background<br />

.<br />

WORLD TOfl.'IORROW program to our<br />

listeners.<br />

I made those programs in some pretty<br />

illogical places- and some mighty inspi<br />

ring ones.<br />

1'1! never <strong>for</strong>get sitti ng on the sand<br />

dunes over a huge concrete gun bunker<br />

on the Black Sea, and saying, " GREET­<br />

INGS, FRJENDS 1<br />

around the world )"<br />

The few moments I spent talking<br />

from inside the garden tomb, the very<br />

spot from which Christ arose-the place<br />

where His body lay <strong>for</strong> three days and<br />

three nights was such an emotional expeCience,<br />

my voice caught in the first<br />

attempt- and I had to sta rt over.<br />

The program T made standing up,<br />

looking over an Arab bus station toward<br />

Golgotha, the very spot where<br />

Christ was crucified l<br />

with the dome of<br />

the rock visible, and only ~ few hundred<br />

ya rds from the Damascus gate into<br />

the ancient ci ty of Jerusalem, Jordan,<br />

was a memorable one.<br />

The time T stood behind a solitary<br />

palm, atop "Tell Megiddo," shielding<br />

the microphone from the wind, looking<br />

across the beautiful valley of Jez-

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