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...succumbing to angst? Not according to a British psychologist, who asserts, surprisingly, that Americans seem to handle stress and strain reasonably well. In his new book, Personality and National Character, Dr. Richard Lynn points out that, compared with the Japanese, Germans, Austrians and Italians, "Americans don't commit suicide in any large numbers, nor do they drink very much. I don't think they're an especially neurotic group...
...Mount Sinai, God was unequivocal: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Traditionally, most devout Christians have interpreted the Hebraic commandment to extend to all sexual relations outside marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
...Particularly in the areas of occult groups I encountered the spiritually wounded: drinkers of dog blood, the video-bugger crowd, people who hang rotting goats' heads up in their kitchens, people who rent corpses for their parties, victimizers of every persuasion ...The probability that uncaught murderers--plus groups who commit human sacrifice and from whom the family drew ideas and support--were running loose in California also crimped investigation. One encountered several nomadic hippie Cassandras whom no official seemed to believe and who told ghastly tales of sacrificial rituals in the mountains and on the beaches of California...
Hopefully, something positive may emerge from the despair that surrounds Cleveland's black and liberal camps. The present county Democratic Party (from which the black leadership withdrew a year and a half ago) is dead, and a new one which will not commit the fatal error of ignoring black political strength, will have to arise if the city is to recover from what will surely be two years of regression. Carl Stokes' political star is badly tarnished, and what role he will play in future national affairs is anybody's guess. The lesson he learned about permitting ego gratification...
...shelling each other over the eastern border. Some relief camps in India have been hit by Pakistani shelling, with resulting casualties among the nearly 10 million refugees who fled East Pakistan in the wake of the Pakistani civil war. Pakistani terrorists have also been slipping behind Indian lines to commit sabotage. For India's part, a brigade-size force, stationed near the border town of Belonia, was reported to have helped Bengali guerrillas drive the Pakistan army out of a 40-mile square area of East Pakistan last week...