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...Furor over Reincarnation...
...quite dismayed that there should be a furor over David Weltha's teaching of reincarnation at Iowa State University in Ames [March 27]. I was always under the impression that we send our children to college to learn about existing theories and knowledge in the universe. We surely expose them to the concepts of Communism, genocide and terrorism, as well as other world dynamics that have a significant effect on the human condition...
This transatlantic furor was set off last week by an incorrect front page report in the New York Times that Jimmy Carter had decided against production of the neutron bomb. For months U.S. diplomats had been trying to win NATO nations' support for the bomb on the ground that its lethal radiation would offset the Soviet Union's 3-to-l superiority in tanks in Central Europe. Now Carter seemed to have changed his mind despite the recommendations of his chief advisers on defense and diplomacy. All week long U.S. officials kept denying the Times report, insisting that...
...letters; most of the correspondents were angry at Bryant. As it happened, the subject that drew the most comment was not a story at all. When TIME'S new graphic design appeared in August, most of the 1,900 comments were sharply negative. But within a month the furor had died down, and readers were writing in to say that they were warming to the changed format as to a new friend...
...furor over what a handful of indecisive Senators will or will not accept, it is too easily forgotten that the Panamanians are also a party to the treaty. They too have compromised on the delicate issue of foreign intervention, and they have been pushed even further by the reservations. The opposition will doubtless goad them still more by urging reservations or amendments on the second treaty when it comes up for a vote. If the Panamanians should decide to abandon the treaty, the U.S. will be left with its great ditch, but it will be surrounded by a hostile population...