similar to those which produced the disaster near Waco a few years ago, and other similar events in which people have gone to their deaths under the deluded impression that the end of the world, the return of Jesus, the rapture, or some combination of the above or similar events, were about to occur. These manifestations of apocalyptic fervor have not gripped Western Europe to the same extent—there have been isolated occurrences, but nothing like what is happening in America—it is vital that, as