Thanks Gary, for that ``blast from the past"..... one thing it illustrates is how much the WTBTS has lost much of its ``in your face" cussedness .... I wonder how many present-day JWs would have the moxie to stand so resolutely against such a tidal wave of antipathy... just look at their despicable, mealy-mouthed handling of of the voting issue: labeling it a ``matter of conscience" in the November 1999 WT and then stealthily passing the around the word verbally to ``disregard that; nothing's changed." Playing ``kissy-face" with the UN is another-- maybe the most-- prominent example of WT mealy-mouthedness.