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...live in a chalet in the Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...
Keeping cool, of course, does not mean giving up. Far from it. Because it has refused to abandon its fundamental tenet-that Peking's leaders are revolutionary upstarts and not the legitimate rulers of China-the Nationalist regime established in Taipei by Chiang Kai-shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia...
Kantzer, 60, an Evangelical Free Church clergyman, has led Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois as it has grown from 35 to 450 full-time students. He staunchly defends the idea that the Bible is wholly without error. Thi tenet is included in a creed that the magazine's board adopted last year, and retiring Editor Harold Lindsell has written a controversial book (TIME, May 10, 1976) assailing Evangelicals with less rigorous views...
These are some of the teachings of sociobiology, a new and highly controversial scientific discipline that seeks to establish that social behavior?human as well as animal?has a biological basis. Its most striking tenet: human behavior is genetically based, the result of millions of years of evolution. Some sociobiologists go so far as to suggest that there may be human genes for such behavior as conformism, homosexuality and spite. Carried to an extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms...
...soft-pedaled violations committed by U.S. allies such as South Korea, the Philippines and Iran. Carter's implied response was that in some instances, U.S. interests might properly call for downplaying the rights issue. Yet Carter insisted that "America's commitment to human rights is a fundamental tenet of our foreign policy...