by James O. Henry Cfiaimian, History Department, Biola College
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Pravda Cites Graft in Russian Housing
mutilation have been reported. In West Java, twenty-six persons were killed in a clash between troops and members of a sex cult. To limit the growth of such movements, the gov ernment has established a unit known as the Religious Surveillance Agency. Bright Future Seen in Private Colleges Private colleges and universities will continue to play a vital role in American education, a report pub lished recently in Roston asserted. These institutions also will maintain their character despite the mounting problems facing higher education and the increasing percentages of students who will attend tax-supported insti tutions, the report further said. To do so, however, more public and private support will be needed, it was said. These major conclusions of a written symposium on the future of higher education were published by Boston University. Eleven members of the staff, board of trustees and faculty, including Dr. Harold C. Case, pres ident, and Dr. Shields Warren, chairman of the board, contributed essays to the symposium. Dr. Case noted that support by municipal, state and Federal governments was increas ing among all private educational in stitutions. At the same time these in stitutions are seeking and receiving support from alumni, business, indus try and the foundations. But he said that all these efforts will not erase the differences and eliminate the in dependent university. A prominent member of Chancel lor Adenauer’s Christian Democratic Union has demanded that the Govern ment initiate steps to “ normalize” Bonn’s relations with Israel. Writing in the current issue of Politisch- Soziale Korrespondenz, which is close to Dr. Adenauer’s party, Ernst Muel- ler-Hermann, a Bundestag Deputy since 1952, said the present situation was “ abnormal and no longer bear able.” The Deputy expressed his views a few days after having returned from a week-long trip to Israel. He was a member of a delegation of the Euro pean Parliament that had been in vited by the Knesset, the Israeli Par liament. He said he had met many Israelis who were in favor of closer economic and political ties with West Germany. Bonn Deputy Urges Normal Israeli Tie
Some “ influential” officials are com plicating the Soviet housing problem by building little brick cottages for themselves at state expense, Pravda has charged. The Soviet Communist party newspaper, in a dispatch from the rural mountain district of Oren burg, reported that the cottage-build ing was interfering with plans to build multi-storied apartment houses for farm and industrial workers. “Worse still, not a few women in habitants of the cottages have cast aside their factory jobs” for full-time houskeeping, Pravda went on. “What a senseless squandering of human en ergy, what an inefficient waste of physical and spiritual energy,” it added. The article said that both the Communist party and the Soviet Gov ernment have taken a “ strong line” in favor of building the more econo mical and convenient apartments in villages. Pravda stated that the direc tor of a building trust built a cottage for “ a lot of fussy clients.” Another official used government funds to build a cottage in an area that could have housed thirty people, it said. This all seems a bit strange when ac cording to Communist philosophy, only in the capitalist countries is there such a thing as graft! A sharp rise in religious sects, prac ticing violent and immoral rites, is worrying authorities in Indonesia. Attorney General Gunawan said re cently that between 150 and 200 new cults had sprung up in Indonesia in recent years. Most of them are in Ja va. Indonesia prides herself on relig ious tolerance, but many of the new sects are said to threaten law and or der in the scattered islands of the nation. About 90 per cent of Indone sia’s population is Moslem and there are strong Christian and Hindu com munities. There are also lesser but respected groups practicing faiths based on animism or features taken from other larger sects. Recently troops in South Sumatra killed the self-styled sultan of all Indonesia, leader of a sect that worshipped the dead. The man, according to military authorities, had led an attack on an army patrol. Earlier, a mystical movement was banned in Jakarta and its leader jailed for eight months for public indecency. Cases of murder and Violence by Cults Worries Indonesia
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