World’s end not among forecasts

Press, 18 December 1985, Page 47

World’s end not among forecasts

NZPA-AFP Paris The end of the world is not due in 1986: on the contrary, East-West relations will improve and there will be no aramatic deaths of world leaders — or any more assassination bids against Pope Paul H, according to internationally known astrologers. Yet they do see the world suffering from its usual number of natural disasters and economic crises.

. An Indian astrologer, Shankutala Devi, sees 1986 as “a year of peace and progress for humanity” and rules out any super-Power nuclear war.

Italy’s Barbanera (Blackbeard) agrees that Washington and Moscow will reach an agreement on disarmament, even going so far as to say that “the Americans and Soviets will sign a treaty full of wisdom allowing the world to heave a sigh of relief.” But Japan’s Seen Ten-Gyu sees the * New Year as “stricken by the worst economic recession in 45 years, with the United States one of the worst sufferers.”

He also forecasts appalling volcanic eruptions around the Pacific Ocean basin. ; S

A French astybloger, Francois-Charles Rambert,

known as the “Mozart of seers,” also believes that there will be no world war in 1986, and sees the year as being rather dull, yet he says there will be an economic recession in Japan and a boom in the Unitea States. On the other hand, India’s Ramesh Chandra Kalia, while not seeing a world war, does prophesy that an “inevitable war between India and Pakistan will break out in February, 1986.” He said that the war process started last November 25. A French astrologer, Marcellus Toe-Guor, who calls himself the “Nostradamus of the Twentieth Century,” sees a gloomy 1986 with “volcanic eruptions, floods and political tensions” and terrorist attacks in the United States and Canada. He warns the world against “lies which are as destructive as the H-bomb.” How will world leaders fare in 1986? None of them will die, according to forecasts. Francois-Charles Rambert sees some ill-health for President Ronald Reagan in the next two years, while Seen Ten-Gyu fears that he might suffer a “tragic accident” in January or Februai Shankutula Devi forecasts .' that the Indian Prime Min-

ister, Rajiv Gandhi, will "strengthen his position,” and his colleague Chandra Kalia sees no danger for Mr Gandhi “until February 1987.” French astrologers predict that Francois Mit-. terrand will stay on as' president until the end of his mandate in 1988, though his Socialist Party will lose the March, 1986, Parliamentary elections, bringing in a conservative government One astrologer gives 10 per cent of the votes to the extreme-Right National Front, and predicts “incidents” for the election period. The celebrated “Old Moore’s Almanack,” published in London for the past 150 years, predicts “political violence in France” between December, 1985, and March, 1986, with a “serious bomb attack aimed at public transport” during this period. Marcellus Toe-Guor predicts that the second marriage of Princess Caroline, of Monaco, will break up. Many astrologers, particularly Seen Ten-Gyu, foresee the fatal virus A.I.D.S. spreading further, while a French astrologer sees American scientists finding an antidote to the <Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - butjiot 'until 1988.