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...Sake, So!" To some extent, India's dark mood stems from the hopelessness of the country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
...before next February's national elections, six no-confidence measures were introduced against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her government by opposition parties, on everything from the stagnating economic situation to "self-righteous" foreign policy. Cried Minoo Masani, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party: "For God's sake, go while there is still some administration and order left! Do not destroy the country before...
...redefinition. Science, technology, affluence and secularism have eased God out of the cosmos, all but obliterated the supernatural dimension of life. Urbanization has made the rural imagery of Scripture incomprehensible to "hungry sheep" who have never seen one. A radically aggressive atheism demands God's death for the sake of human freedom. New philosophies stare uncomprehendingly at seemingly static Christian doctrines 1,500 years old. For Christians, the age of anxiety is the age of ebbing faith, and Bishop Pike is not the only prophet crying out for the church to restate, reshape, renew. "Now is the time...
Behind the Golden Curtain, by someone who seems to think I believe the false images of the U.S. (e.g., "The educational system is lousy," for heaven's sake), which in fact the book deplores...
Next target was Eikichi Kambayashi-yama, director-general of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. He was charged with ordering a lavish homecoming parade-replete with sake, flag-waving schoolchildren, and an official army band-when he returned to his prefecture on Kyushu in September. Kam-bayashiyama last week told the Diet's Cabinet committee: "I am sorry; I will humbly search my heart, and I will be more careful, hereafter." Though the opposition shrieked, "Shame on you! Resign! Resign!", the director-general did not quit...