I hadn't really given it much thought until I looked up
some stats in old KM's but the Theocratic News is gone.
The last one appeared in the July 1999 Kingdom Ministry.
Not much good news to report since then, I guess
By the way, in the January 1999 KM, they announced the
reduced hour requirement for pioneers - 70hrs/month.
They reported 75,856 pioneers for October in that same issue.
The latest KM (June 2001) reports 89,963 pioneers for March
2001. Do the math on hours and you find that they're losing
a lot of hours (net) on the deal - 70 vs 90 per but they've
hooked in more magazine salesmen to do their biding.
Actually, I think controlling more people more intensely
always was the goal (hours be damned)
metatron