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Delegates ranged from dedicated atheists to questioning agnostics eager to cooperate with well-meaning Christians in building the good society, and they differed widely in their attitude toward religion. Norwegian Psychiatrist Gabriel Langfeldt argued that individuals would, in the future development of mankind, have to make a choice between religion and ethics: "Crediting ethics to supernaturally inspired messages and to revelations has led and still leads to brutal wars. Ethics, anchored as it is in purely human needs, will always win where religion and ethics come into conflict...
...chased the Indians out of Yuque and moved in, renaming the place San Juan de los Caballeros (St. John of the Gentlemen) and declaring it the capital of the new colony. A short time later, they shifted to the other pueblo across the river; they named that one San Gabriel de Yunque...
...doors in the blank adobe walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled, and when the Indians...
...full swing. The foundations of more buildings are showing through the soil, and with them appear fragments of glass that may have been parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...
Winning 14 of 22 events (including seven 1-2 sweeps), the U.S. men's team crushed the Russians, 128-107, for the fourth straight year. As expected, the U.S. women were beaten, 66-41, giving Russian Coach Gabriel Khorobkov the opportunity to add the two scores together (in violation of a pre-meet agreement) and loudly proclaim a four-point victory for the Soviet Union. But the homefolks in Moscow knew better. Wrote ex-Olympic 5,000-Meter Champion Vladimir Kuts in Izvestia: "The United States is the strongest track and field power in the world...