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...citizens illegally," Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey pursued the point: If the question of American prisoners were not involved, would the department favor newsmen traveling to China? Murphy's reply: "I believe, on balance, the answer would...
Where They Came From. That much is fairly certain about Qumran's Essenes. But when did they go into the desert and why? The answer must lie in the history of Israel from 200 B.C. to A.D. 68, the period indicated by paleography and archaeology for the existence of the Qumran community. It was a stretch of history so bloody and chaotic that it is easy to understand how people could believe that the End of Days was near. The tiny Jewish nation was torn and chivvied by powerful neighbors-first Egypt and Syria, later Rome. In the wake...
When did this happen? One possible answer centers around a foreign invader of Israel characterized by the scrolls as the Kittim. It would obviously make a considerable difference whether this term meant the Syrians (who dominated Israel from 198 B.C. to 141 B.C.) or the Romans (from 63 B.C. on). This one problem provides a perfect example of the kind of puzzle the scroll scholars are up against. The Kittim, according to the scrolls, are "swift and men of valor in battle." go "over smooth ground" and "trample the earth with their horses and with their animals; and from afar...
When is sterilization socially and morally justified to prevent the transmission of feeblemindedness or other handicaps to offspring? No answer is universally agreed upon, because medical geneticists do not know with certainty what defects can be passed on from generation to generation. There is even doubt, in many cases, whether the children of mentally defective parents are themselves mentally defective because of the unfavorable background of their early life or because of defective genes. In the U.S. 28 states have laws permitting sterilization for the mentally ill or defective confined in institutions. In Scandinavia the situation is notably different. Denmark...
...probe appeared to have political overtones. Some Democrats on the committee said it would center on "tight money" and described it as the answer to President Eisenhower's call earlier this year for a study of monetary and fiscal policies...