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According to Julian Huxley man has now become his own savior and has complete control of his own future. Man can now save his own self by "a comprehensive theory of evolution" and "its reliance on scientific method." However, if this be true, we should look at the world situation today and see the works of the scientific savior, who only studies man, who cannot love man because to love would destroy the validity of the "scientific method," and who, finally, can only point to, but not forgive, the sins of the world. Huxley's savior promises not eternal...
...Angry as the U.S. is at Castro's attacks, it bears in mind the fact that although almost every Latin American government is fed up with Castro, many among the peasant masses in these countries still have a misty, remote view of Castro as a savior of their kind, and as a symbol of rebellion against their miserable lot. A government that voted to condemn Castro in the OAS would risk popular wrath at home. Such being the case, the U.S. decided to present a formal list of Castro's excesses for the record, to justify...
...himself "not interested in personal power; I would rather retire and enjoy myself," Pakistanis last week saw signs that, unlike Burma's General Ne Win, who seems really to shrink from publicity, Good Soldier Ayub more and more enjoys basking in the role of his nation's savior...
...Abako, was up to its old tricks of playing upon the superstitions of the ignorant. In the port of Matadi, 160 miles southwest of Léopoldville, 400 Congolese were suddenly overcome by hysteria after listening to a sermon by one of the many "apostles" of Kibangu, a "black savior" who died in 1951 but is expected by his followers to return one day and drive out the white man. The result was a pitched battle with black Congolese police, which left six Africans dead. But of all the troubles that beset the Congo last week, none so clearly foreshadowed...
...imperialism." This last item was a flag-waving attempt to reawaken the nationalistic fervor of 1945 by intimating that an attempt would be made to wrest West Irian (Western New Guinea) away from the Dutch. If words alone could save the staggering nation of Indonesia, Sukarno would be its savior...