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Gill explained that Cleveland had misunderstood and contacted the wrong intelligence chief. She said the FBI had paid her all along; the CIA was in arrears...
Responding to the charges, Schroeder said last night that the urban dynamics model he presented in his article is new and complicated, and therefore often misunderstood...
...deprogramming techniques of Ted Patrick and concerned relatives with any "brain-blowing technique" designed to rob the individual of his free will. Anyone who has ever listened to the senseless incantations parroted by members of the Children of God, and observed their unquestioning acceptance of arbitrary authority and misunderstood doctrine, realizes that members of such sects no longer have any free will or individuality. Members of the Children of God and groups like it have abrogated their responsibility and free will in return for easy answers and pseudo security...
...humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature." He is gloomy about the population explosion, the pollution of air and water and "the destruction of living species, one after another." Like many another student of past societies, he admires those primitive cultures that struck a balance between man and his natural environment...
...where they were told no such probe had been directed. One day later, the FBI did get such an order from the Justice Department, creating a debate over whether this was done only because Agnew had mistakenly said it was under way or whether Agnew had merely misunderstood the timing. The Commodity Exchange Administration, an arm of the Agriculture Department, has launched a study of the Kansas City Board of Trade, which deals in the kind of wheat sold in greatest bulk to Russia, to see if exporters have been placing heavy orders late in a trading day to boost...