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...leaves the people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director of U.N.'s INCAP Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama), his this to say. "The pre-Colombian Maya ate better than the people do today." ( El Imparcial, Jan. 6, 1964, cited in Thoma and Marjorie Mellville, "Guatemala: Analogue to Vietnam," New Politics, Winter, 1969, p. 18) Such U.N. studies have been described as "Communist documents" by Guatemala's ex-president Fuentes...
Starving Africans throw away gifts of American powdered milk, complaining that it harbors evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
Other interesting data from the official biography: "Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska, March 13, 1911, the only child of Commander H. R. Hubbard, U. S. N., and Dora May Hubbard. He studied Science and Mathematics at George Washington, graduated from Colombian College. He attended Princeton University . . . He wrote and published over 15 million words. . . before WWH. During that war, he served as a commander of corvettes and was extensively decorated. Crippled and blind at the end of the war, he resumed his studies of philosophy and by his discoveries recovered so fully that he was reclassified...
There are several distortions in the official information which deserve comment. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard never graduated from either George Washington or Colombian College. He attended George Washington from Sept. 1930 to May 1932, but received no degrees. He never even officially enrolled in Colombian College. He did attend Princeton, as a Navy Lieutenant during World War II-the only course he took, though, was a three-month Military Government course. Hubbard claims to be a nuclear physicist, but the closest he came in the academic world was the George Washington School of Engineering. He also claims to have...
Flying Carpets. Outwardly the book is a picaresque saga of the extraordinary Buendia family in Macondo, the town they helped to found more than a century ago in the dense Colombian lowlands. Pioneer settlers from a foothills town, José Arcadio Buendia and Úrsula, his wife-cousin, start with nothing but the vehemence of their blood. They soon make Macondo into a strange oasis in the orchid-filled jungle, a primitive, otherworldly place resonant with songbirds, where there is no death, no crime, no law, no judges. The only outside visitors are gypsies, who astound the residents with magnets...