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Written by Anglican Layman Leslie Paul at the request of the church's Central Advisory Council for the Ministry, the report is an attack on the quaint English parish system that dates back to Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury in the 7th century. Today the Church of England has 15,488 priests for its 14,491 parishes, but no equitable way to distribute them. Only about 6,000 of the church's clerical livings are directly assigned by bishops and diocesan authorities. Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons. Others are filled by Oxford...
Five days after the coup, Colonel Pham Van Dong, 44, was placed in command of the 7th Division, responsible for two provinces south of Saigon. In his first twelve days on the job, Dong launched seven major operations, but then the Viet Cong regained the initiative. When one village near the capital was severely shelled and several people were killed, the villagers complained bitterly. Even though such attacks are standard, the generals in Saigon fired Dong, to the disappointment of U.S. advisers. But why transfer him 1,400 miles away? According to one version, Dong had been too friendly with...
...long way from such grim practices. It usually takes the form of the easygoing Amidism, in which a paradise called "Pure Land" awaits the intense faithful who repeats a simple prayer. It is strongly influenced by the magical practices of corrupted Taoism, imported from China around the 7th century, and by Confucianism, which stresses ethical behavior...
What Nasser has working for him is the deep desire of all Arabs to be united in a single Arab nation, and their conviction-grudging or enthusiastic-that Nasser represents the best hope of achieving it. This dream of unity harks back to the golden age of the 7th century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan...
...Horn of Africa without heed to national borders. Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...