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...April 9, 1975, eight alleged members of the People's Revolutionary Party were hanged. The PRP, so far as known, does not exist, but had been invented by the present chief of the KCIA, Shin Jik Soo some ten years earlier to provide a pretext for this kind of action. Two American churchmen, the Rev. George Ogle, a United Methodist, and Father James Sinnott, a Maryknoll priest in Korea since 1960, were expelled from Korea for attempting to refute the government's charges...
...promised a massive "purification"?involving heavy purges, apparently?of China's 30 million?member Communist Party that would start with "bad elements" who had been "smuggled" into high positions. Under the pretext of setting higher standards for jobs, the new leadership is likely to purge all those suspected of complicity with the so-called Gang of Four conspirators led by Mao's ardently left-wing widow, Chiang Ch'ing (TIME, Jan. 3). If the four had not been arrested, Hua said, they would have "split our party and country and touched off a major civil...
...junta's criminal activities against the Republic of Cyprus, providing a pretext for the Turkish generals to proceed with their occupation of northern Cyprus, speeded the disintegration of the junta's power base in the army. As the Pike report showed, these activities were closely monitored by Kissinger and the Pentagon, who failed to lift a finger to prevent them despite the regular contacts between Ioannides and the CIA in Athens. The innocent blood that flowed abundantly in Greece and Cyprus brought about the restoration of democracy to its birthplace. Cyprus is, of course, still bleeding, with...
Israelis justify their drastic proposals by arguing that the "misuse" of Israeli visas by U.S.-bound refugees will give the Kremlin a pretext to cut back on Jewish emigration on grounds of fraud. There is some evidence, though, that the Russians are indifferent to the actual destinations of the emigrants, even though they are acting in contravention of the Helsinki accords by restricting exit permits arbitrarily. The Israelis have proposed that Russian Jews seeking to go to the U.S. should apply at the nearest American consulate in the U.S.S.R., but that is an unrealistic suggestion: this year fewer than...
Personal Encounter. In The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism, Bharati unscrews the inscrutable with the precision tools of language, philosophy and behavioral science. He lets incensed air out of inflated spiritual traditions and reputations on both sides of the world. He scoffs at the counterculture's notion of the mystical experience as a category of paranormal phenomena, and he disagrees with theologians who equate mysticism with a personal encounter with the deity. The only way to understand a mystical experience, says Bharati, is to have...