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...mention gonorrhea and syphilis, these diseases went largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more it stands to gain by the "conspiracy of silence." While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many evils of sectarianism, but neither sectarian leadership nor sectarian dictatorship willingly submits to such evaluation...
...exports. Moderate Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members of the Lumpa church, a militant African sect headed by a 39-year-old self-styled prophetess named Alice Lenshina...
...problems of a chaotic country. A Buddhist but eager to demonstrate his religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry for him to do so; the country is so politically...
...first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing look at the opening of Aronson's latest display of images, graven or otherwise m Manhattan's Nordness Gallery...
...name: Vito Farinola), 35, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 27, his secretary; both for the second time; in a Middle Eastern Bahai ceremony in Beverly Hills, followed a few hours later by a civil service in Las Vegas, because, said Damone, though the vows of the quasi-Islamic sect are binding in California, "We wanted to cover ourselves for the rest of the world...