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...thousands of cult groups in the U.S. are as violent as the Guyana group was in its last days, but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics. Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join. Says Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, a psychologist at Berkeley: "About one-third are very psychologically distressed people. The other two-thirds are relatively average people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays...
...want to retain a free hand in dealing with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza; and they are fearful that, if a future agreement with the Palestinians should fall apart, it could jeopardize their peace with Egypt. Accordingly, the Israelis bluntly described the draft treaty as a sort of final offer; Moshe Dayan called it a "take it or leave it" document...
...pair of B.U. penalties a minute and a half later gave the Crimson a chance to come back--sort of. Sporting a two-man advantage, Harvard's Jack Hughes got into the "boom and score" parade with a low rocket from the right point. Jack's tally came as the result of pretty checkerboard power-play passing, and fueled the icemen's momentum for the next several minutes...
...regimes means spending one's time dressing down regimes that are less perfect. In the end, what this reflects is not only a hatred of totalitarian principles, but a personal contempt for the cultures that embrace them, and perhaps for the peoples of developing nations in general. Thus this sort of remark on a trip Moynihan took to Peking...
There are two functions this sort of chauvinistic breast-beating must serve. It is clearly cathartic: It makes the apostle of the American system feel 100 percent secure that he is in the right place, fighting the right fight. It must also account for much of Moynihan's popularity--this propensity for seeing the world in simple black and white--since Tocqueville himself observed that democracies love generalities, and have a hard time contemplating specifics. But it remains a mystery how Moynihan thinks it might ever win over what he should really be concerned about: the hearts and minds...