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Letton called the final compromise "the best possible legislation." forts under the NIH. The Cancer Society preferred Kennedy's approach, but A-8 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Friday, Dec. 24, 1971 Who Can Fully Understand Our Many-Faceted Jesus? Nixon Signs Bill Giving Him Command of Cancer Fight iarlkc Lounge Lomas Bowl 7400 LOMAS NE Presents Harry Robinson at Piano Bar Nightly 'til 12:00 Happy Hour 4:30 to 7:00 Jesus absolutely affirms it beforehand. "Verily, I say to you," it generally is translated, or "Truly, I say to you," but it the best approach, creates a three-member panel appointed by the President to oversee research efforts by the government's National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. The NCI director also will be appointed by the President, and will send his annual budget requests directly to the White House Office of Budget and Management without change, subject to comment by the NIH director and secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

THE INITIAL three-year, $1.6 billion program which Congress was expected to finance in full in separate legislation would stress research but also would pro- other way than as the very presence of God. They hadn't been able to explain why they followed him in the first place and were repeatedly confused and uncertain about his mission, but they saw a beauty and power his life that made them want it, which captivated them, held them and finally awoke their relization. "YOU ARE THE Christ, the Son of the living God," Peter blurted. And Thomas, his doubts shattered by the incredible but real, confessed, "My Lord and my God." Recent theology and the emphasis of the churches has dwelt mainly on Jesus' humanity, and he was, indeed, an enthralling, loving and keenly discerning man, en WASHINGTON (LTD -President Nixon signed legislation Thursday giving him personal command of a $1.6 billion effort to find the causes and cures of cancer, wluch will kill an estimated 325,000 Americans this year. In a crowded White House state dining room gaily decorated with holly and poinsettias, Nixon said he could not promise a cancer cure, but "those who have cancer and are looking for success in this field at least can have the assurance that everything that can be done, will be done." THE BILL, which passed Congress overwhelmingly after a months-long battle over $10 Million Charity vide for early detection of oral, cervical and breast cancers and authorize creation of 15 treatment and research centers across the country.

Nixon gave one of the signing pens to Benno C. Schmidt of New York, managing partner of the investment firm of J. H. Whitney whom he named as chairman of the three-member watchdog panel. The other two members were not named.

THE OTHER pen went to Dr. A. Hamblin Letton, president of the American Cancer Society, who called the bill "a milestone in the long and difficult effort to find the causes and cures of cancer." In the audience were 13 members of Congress, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who had pressed for a new conquest of cancer agency largely independent of the NIH, and Rep.

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i mm jixa United States to raise the SlOifcal million and then turn it over to a North Vietnamese children's charity rather than offering a direct ransom for the American prisoners. means, "Amen, I say to you," bluntly claiming God's seal on it. Jesus uses it continuously and it is such a novel reversal that the different gospel writers couldn't all have made it up. Unlike the prophets of old who reported or interpreted the will of a distant, ineffable God, Jesus unprecedently called him "my Abba," translated "Father," but it actually more resembles the modern "daddy" or "papa." IT WAS THE intimate expression of a son used only in the privacy of a Jewish family of that day, conveying the utmost tenderness, closeness and solidarity. It had never been used in Judaism to refer to the all-powerful, holy God.

But it came regularly, spontaneously to the lips of Jesus, and he told his followers to use it. Little wonder that he shocked people, took them aback, gave them pause. "Who is this man? By what authority Matthew quotes him: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son." In John's gospel, he says: "He who believes believes not in me but him who sent me What I say, I say as the Father has bidden me I and the Father are One." ASIDE FROM such explicit statements about it, which in John's gospel are viewed as i erpretative by some scholars, there are other odd, inscrutable incidents setting him apart which the awed apostles were hard put to describe. In the curious, illustrative scene of Jesus' temptations, the urges are normally not considered evil in themelves (to turn stone into bread, to make a sensational len.D to draw public adulation, to pursue governing power), yet all appeal to man's self-centered egotism. But Jesus spurned it.

"Begone, Satan!" He took a new course of utter selflessness, giving himself away to serve God only, to act for God, forgiving, seeking out the unacceptable, restoring the "lost sheep," the "Prodigal," loving until it killed him. HE KNEW more about people than they knew about themselves, cutting through the illusions that separated what they were from what they were meant to be. "You fools! "He cared passionately. Not on his own account, but theirs, wanting what was truly best for them, whatever cost him. And he kept repeating a disturbing paradox that the person who seeks his own life loses it and the one who loses his life for others lives.

Odd, illogical, but the truth of this man who dominated each situation, disarming objections, upsetting norms of society, bothering people but gripping them. Whether or not Jesus ever directly claimed such titles as "Son of God," "Messiah," "Christ" or "Lord," Bible scholars, in differentiating between what they consider genuine sayings and in-terpolitions, are doubtful. "VERY LIKELY he did not," says Catholic Avery Dulles. As Angelican Bishop John A. T.

Robinson, of "Honest to God" popularity, puts it: "Jesus never claims to be God, personally; yet he always claims to bring God, completely." Because of his overall impact, including the towering event of all, his Resurrection, the apostales at last simply could apprehend him in no mm! HELD in tirely human, altogether manly, and many people see him only in that category. German Lutheran Helmut Thielicke observes: "IF YOU THINK of Jesus only in human terms and see him as a brother of man who loves unselfishly, who takes his mission to give men a new meaning for their lives so eriousW that he dies for it if you think of him in that way, vou surely have not yet seen him face to face, but you have at least touched the fringe of his garment." Yet he also made clear that he represented something essential to his particular kind of manhood, something ad ditional in which he subsumed himself for the illumination, hone and wholeness of all other humanity. "By his words and actions he claims to stand in the place of God," savs Scotch Pres-bvterian Baillie. And as has oten been pointed out, he was either what he said he was, or a lunatic idealist, suffering frcm folie de grandeur. TO SAY HE if.

just a "great teacher" is self-contradictory nonsense because it makes him a liar, which isn't "great" teaching. Yet it seems impossible and always has, that a man, subject to human limitations, could be equated with God. Eut God does some strange things, often using the lowest forms of material in which to package the best goods. Out of plain dirt and air comes the physical sustenance of all living things. And topic mud yields the rarest flowers.

So it's not altogether out of character with reality, even as it appears in this mortal range, than human clay should be used to bear the greatest value of all. Tomorrow: Trinity. The Troubling Taj Mahal Reopened After War's End AGRA, India W) The Tai Mahal reopened Thursday and its shiny marble surface brightened the moonlit Indian countryside for the first time since the India-Pakistan war began. Workmen took just a few hours to pull down the thick jute tapestry that had been used to camouflage the Taj during the war to prevent its marble walls from helping guide Pakistani pilots on nighttime raids on a nearby Indian air base. GIFT CERTIFICATES The Loving Gift at your Christmas Corner San Mateo at Lomas ssassssaasasasssssssjisss, Merry Christmas Itv jry dean martin jSinVJayn BRIAN KEITH (lichttd BOOIIS hhM Something big" MK3 WM r.

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Even his disciples never fully understood him. "Who is this man. they would whisper among themselves at some baffling interlude. "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the road When the Roman governor, Pilate, pressed him to identify himself, Jesus stood silent. At his birth, and throughout his ministry, there was this lofty distance about him, yet also the tenderness, the majesty and the mutuality.

"THERE IS more in him than we have yet accounted for," says Presbyterian scholar J. Arthur Gossip. Observes Catholic theologian Edward Schillebeeck: "We experience him precisely as the one who exceeds all experience." Unlike other religions, which are based mainly on disciplines, ethical systems and metaphysical abstractions, Christianity alone focuses primarily on a person, on Jesus Christ. He is the "soul of Christianity," says Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Kung, its "basic message." This is a radical characteristic, making a person superior to propositions, recognizing that persons love, but ideas can't. OTHER FAITHS have their past saints and heroes, but their teachings not they themselves, are the center of belief, and the particular personalities have faded into obscurity.

But Jesus himself, in all his flashing individuality, his strangeness and intimacy, dominates the Christian conscience. Yet, among believers and non-believers, he continues to evoke questions, speculation, wondering and fascination. "The mystery of Christ's presence somehow teaches all men," says Catholic theologian Bernard J. Cooke. Atheists often voice admiration for him.

Albert Camus said he was so humane "that I think pretty well of him, my friend." Soviet poet Evgeny Yevtuskenko says, "Not that I am a follower of Christ, but I like his manner." AND THE FAMED British satirist, Malcolm Muggeridge, after years of razzing piety and punctilio and hunting authenticity, finally concluded, "It is Christ or nothing." Although it is almost universal for people, whatever their religion, to appreciate Jesus as a great human being, a masterful teacher and leader, wise, courageous and kind, the view often stops there, balking at the rest. But this other thing is what mystifies, disturbs and challenges. It is his cool, audacious, complete identification with God himself. This is his difference, his utter uniqueness. AND HE ASSERTS it calmly, steadily, in his acts, his attitudes and his words, without apology or boast.

"I seek not my own will but the will of him -who sent me," he said. And it is not just the sayings but his behavior that attests to it. "The relationship of Jesus to God is that of a personal communion so profound as to constitute an essential union," says United Church theologian Daniel Day Williams. Or, as Protestant scholar William Ernest Hocking put it: "Christ is the human face of God." PEOPLE USED to cite the Biblical miracles as evidence of Jesus' divinity, but this tendency has waned in a day when nature itself yields a tide of miracles and wonders. Moreover, it was "quite at variance with the mind of the Lord himself," says Scotch theologian Donald M.

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