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Singer, Richard Ofshe, RICO, APA, ASA] Verbatim press release of 8/12/92 from Michael Flomenhaf, a lawyer in the firm representing two University of California, Berkeley, academics suing the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association Two University of California at Berkeley professors have filed a racketeering suit against two of America, s largest social science associations, alleging that several top executives attempted to destroy the professors' careers. The professors allege th at the defendants' purpose was to prevent their testimony about cults and coercive persuasion ("brainwashing") in American courtrooms. The suit seeks economic damages. Professors Margaret T. Singer and Richard Ofshe filed a civil Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit in Federal Court in New York against the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), former APA and ASA board members, and other individuals. The RICO suit alleges that the executive officers of both organizations improperly manipulated their associa- tions to protect controversial cults and new age transformation training programs. The suit claims that starting in 1986 and continuing until the present, the defendants resorted to improper influence of witnesses in state court litigations, filed untrue sworn affidavits, attempted to obstruct justice in connection with federal litigations, deceived federal judges, and committed wire and mail fraud. Singer and Ofshe are internationally recognized in their fields of clinical psychology and sociology. Both are leading authorities on the subject of coercive persuasion, commonly known as brainwashing. Singer is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus and Ofshe is currently a Professor of Sociology at Berkeley. [Both are also directors of the American Family Foundation, publisher of The Cult Observer.] Singer and Ofshe have in the past testified against organizations such as the Unification Church (Moonies), Lifespring (a psychological training program), est (Erhard Seminars Training), and others. The professors allege that the defendants conspired to destroy their careers and reputations as professionals, and as forensic experts in the fields of psychology and sociology in the area of coercive persuasion, thus preventing their testimony against cults. The motivation for these acts was to protect groups like the Unification Church and Lifespring from losing millions of dollars in liability lawsuits filed against them by former members, according to the lawsuit. Other defendants named in the suit include: Raymond Fowler (current APA chief executive officer); Leonard Goods tein (former APA executive director); Donald N. Bersoff (lawyer in Washington, D.C.); Bruce J. Ennis (lawyer in Washington, D.C.); Newton Malony (professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California); James Richardson (professor at the University of Nevada, Reno); Rodney Stark (professor at the University of Washington); Joan Huber (former president of the ASA and professor at Ohio State University); William D'Antonio (former ASA president and professor at the University of Massachusetts); and Dick Anthony (resident of Albany, California [and writer on new religious movements]). 2 Collusion with Cult Alleged [Singer, Ofshe, APA, ASA] From "Cult Experts Sue Lawyers, Others," by Andrew Blim, National Law Journal, 8/31/92, 3, 19 Despite the bizarre nature of the racketeering case brought against the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association by Berkeley professors Margaret Singer and Richard Ofshe, the plaintiffs are viewed by even the lawyer-defendants as reputable scholars. Professor Ofshe shared the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for inves tig ating the Synanon Foundation, and Professor Singer has consulted on more than 250 cases involving cults or brainwashing, including a court appointment for Patty Hearst. A colleague of defendant Bruce J. Ennis at the law firm of Jenner & Block said the suit stems from the lawyers' simply having done their jobs in briefs and interrogatories. He said the allegations are "offensive and irresponsible and will be dismissed." The suit contends that by trying to destroy the careers of the two mind control specialists, the defendants prevented their testimony against cults and thus helped protect "from civil litigation the Unification Church, as well as recklessly run so-called new religions." The suit seeks $5 million in punitive damages plus treble damages. The campaign against the pair allegedly began after an APA task force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control selected Professor Singer as chairwoman in 1984. Around that time Prof. Henry [sic] Malony of Fuller Theological Seminary -- another defendant -- was selected as a consultant to counter testimony Professor Singer was expected to give as an expert witness. In 1986, the suit says, in furtherance of the conspiracy, Professor Malony wrote to Professor Singer threatening to bring ethical mis- conduct charges against her with the APA unless she recanted her testimony. When she refused, he filed the charges, which were rejected. But Professors Singer and Ofshe contend that the APA later became part of the conspiracy -- with the defendant- lawyers playing an important role. According to the suit, Ennis, Bersoff & Verrilli was acting simultaneously as APA counsel while preparing an amicus brief attacking the professors on behalf of the Unification Church. They allegedly were assisted by academics paid by the church. (Mollco v. Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, A025388, Calif. Ct. of Appeal.) The lawyers "had been surreptitiously requested to aid the Unification Church by then-APA treasurer and current APA Executive Director Raymond Fowler," the suit says, adding that Mr. Fowler, a defendant, was "co6rdinating directly with the Unification Church in its own efforts to undermine Singer." The suit further contends that "the lawyers perpetuated their conflict of interest by continuing to represent the amici ... in connection with the Supreme Court amicus curiae [friend of the court] brief." Professor Ofshe, meanwhile, had heard about the controversy regarding Professor Singer and met with ASA officials to express alarm, said Michael Flomenhaft, Ofshe and Singer's lawyer. Later, after the sociologist publicly discussed the alleged conspiracy against Professor Singer, he "became a target of the conspiracy" to discredit his theories of how the Unification Church allegedly recruited and manipulated members, the suit charges. The APA, in a statement from Dort S. Bugg, director of legal affairs, said that the case is without merit and only a "legal and academic debate" about their [Ofshe and Singer' s] qualifications, in which the APA does not currently have a position. But in the past, in an amicus brief, it has opposed their testimony. The APA said any position was taken as pan of the debate "and without any intent to harm Dr. Singer and Dr. Ofshe." IN THE COURTS 3 Church of First Born Members Indicted [Ervil LeBaron, Rulon Allred, polygamy] Six members of a polygamous sect notorious for a doctrine calling for the deaths of apostates have been indicted in federal court for the 1988 slayings of three men who had abandoned the church and an 8 -year-old girl in Texas. Officials hope the charges will break the back of the church of the First Born of the Lamb of God, a radical sect organized by the late Ervil LeBaron, who died in 1981 of a heart attack while serving a sentence in Utah for the 1977 murder of rival polygamist leader Rulon Allred. (Mesa Tribune, 8/25/92) 4 Minister Gets 31 Years for Sexual Abuse [Lloyd Ray Davis, Christian Fellowship Church] Waukegan, IL, minister Lloyd Ray Davis has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for sexually abusing children during 1988 in his Christian Fellowship Church. Friends and relatives in the congregation filled the courtroom in support of Davis, who maintains his innocence and says he will appeal. The victims were youths who had come to Illinois from Tijuana, Mexico, at the behest of church members to seek spiritual guidance and counseling from Davis, according to testimony. The judge described Davis as praiseworthy for his ministry and social consciousness, but also said that his misconduct with children goes back to the 1960s when he was a minister in Arkansas. (From "Davis sentenced in sex abuse case," by Robert Enstad, Chicago Tribune, 8/15/02, 5) 5 Tony Alamo to Reimburse Followers, Stand Trial [child abuse, beating] Evangelist Tony Alamo has agreed with the U.S. Labor Department to pay $5 million to reimburse followers who worked long hours for less than minimum wage. The agreement, concluding a government suit filed in 1977, resulted in the dismissal of a civil contempt suit against the Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation and withdrawal of a federal warrant against him. Meanwhile, Alamo pleaded not guilty in June to a 1988 felony child abuse charge alleging that he ordered a member of his commune near Saugus, CA, to beat a 14-year-old boy 140 times with a wooden paddle. Alamo fled the charges and remained a fugitive until his capture last year. [As the result of a successful civil suit, Alamo and his organization have already been ordered to pay damages to the family involved in the abuse case.] (Cult Awareness News, August 1992, 4, 5) 6 Scientology in Court: Fending Off IRS The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that the Internal Revenue Service violated the Church of Scientology's rights under the 1984 Church Audit Procedures Act which protects religious organizations faced with 1RS audits. The court said that "something more than the mere allegation of relevance must be required of the IRS" for the agency to make unlimited demands for financial and organization records. In 1991, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the IRS' s summons for Church of Scientology of Boston documents -- audits are usually undertaken to determine tax liability or tax-exempt status of a religious body -- was excessive. The court said in the recent case that the IRS could demand documents only "to the extent necessary" to determine a tax issue in the church. (Washington Times, 9/12/92, B4) [The Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church] 7 Scientology in Court: Management Training Settlement [Applied Scholastics] Applied Materials, a computer equipment company in Caliifornia, recently settled out of court for an estimated $600,000 with three ex-employees who say they were driven out of the company after they complained about courses given on the job by Applied Scholastics, a management consulting group basing its work on the writing of Scientology cult founder L. Ron Hubbard. The company admitted it "lacked sensitivity with regard to the controversial nature of L. Ron Hubbard. (Forbes, 9/14/92) 8 Scientology in Court: Narconon in Oklahoma Gets Exemption The Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has exempted the Scientology-linked Narconon Chilocco New Life Center from state certification requirements. The decision comes one year after the board denied certification to the drug treatment program calling it unsafe and experimental. The action follows the approval of the facility by a private accrediting agency brought in by one of the Indian tribes that jointly own the reservation land that Narconon rents. Such accreditation exempts a treatment facility from the need to gain state certification. The facility still awaits a state health department license, from which it also may be exempted. Narconon has been trying to open the facility for more than two years and to be able to treat more than Native Americans on land where some state and federal laws do not apply. (Cult Awareness Network News. August 1992, 7) 9 Sally Jessy Raphael and Cult Awareness Network [Cynthia Kisser, Steve Hassan, Multimedia, Herbert Rosedale] The Washtenaw, MI, CircuitCourt on July 23 granted summary judgment in favor of the Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network, its executive director Cynthia Kisser, and cult exit counselor and lecturer Steve Hassan, in a suit brought against them by a Scientologist who claimed invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy. The Scientologist alleged that the defendants, who appeared on a show about the plaintiff, assisted and encouraged the videotaping and broadcasting of a conversation between the plaintiff and her son and son-in-law about her involvement in Scientology. Summary judgment was not granted to Sally Jessy Raphael and Multimedia, the producer. Attorney Herbert Rosedale, President of the American Family Foundation [publisher of the Cult Observer], said that the decision is important in that "it shows the court's willingness to throw out cases that were prepared solely to harass the Cult Awareness Network and which were without factual support." (Cult Observer Report) 10 Psychic's Defamation Case Dismissed [Uri Geller, James Randi, CSICOP, Barry Karr] The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has thrown out a $15 million defamation lawsuit by self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller against James Randi and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) [with which Randi has been associated] and has authorized the impositon of monetary sanctions against Geller for prosecuting the case. The suit stemmed from statements about Geller Randi allegedly made that were reported in the International Herald Tribune. CSICOP Executive Director Barry Karr stated: "I believe that CSICOP was made a defendant in this lawsuit solely for the purpose of harassment and intimidation, and in the hope that the lawsuit would dissuade CSICOP from encouraging and providing a forum for... the critical discussion and analysis of paranormal claims." The authorization of sanctions was made pursuant to the federal court rule against harassing litigation or the filing of papers which are not, to the best of the signer's knowledge, well grounded in fact. (Skeptical Inquirer [a CSICOP publication], Fall 1992, 5-6) 11 Frederick Lenz [Sri Chinmoy, Empower Your Life, Rama, tantric sex] From "Yuppie Guru Finds Cash in Computers," by Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/30/92, B3, B4 The rise to guru stardom of Frederick Lenz, once a follower of Indian guru Sfi Chinmoy, and now known as Zen Master Rama, has regained momentum after a 1987 interruption when a group of former students went public with stories of his seducing female devotees and "brainwashing" his followers into believing only he could save them from "psychic attacks" by demons and other lower spiritual entities." After a spate of negative publicity, Lenz and his disciples, for the most part young professionals paying $3,000 and more a month to study with him, have resurfaced on the West Coast in recent months with a major recruitment drive for a series of "Empower Your Life" lectures, a "meditation and psychic development program designed for people in their 20s." The program appears to appeal to many young, educated people dedicated to living the affluent "Caiifomia" lifestyle that Lenz encourages. Only recently, says Kristi Patten, a 20-year-old college student, Rama himself called her, following her attendance at one of his hotel dinner-lectures, and invited her to fly back to his Long Island, NY, estate at his expense "to find out if I wanted him as a teacher." Not long after her arrival, Patten said, Lenz began making sexual advances. "We were naked together, and at the point of having sex. I told him I didn't want to. He kept saying, 'it's OK. Come on.' I was shocked. He was desiring me like any other man would desire a naked woman. It was just lust. There was nothing enlightened about it. I thought I was going to meet someone like Gandhi and was hit with this." Other former followers told similar stories. "It was pretty obvious," says Francis Coles, that "he was sleeping with a lot of the girls. He said it was tantrio sex, and he could transfer a great deal of energy to the women and accelerate their development." According to former members, the Rama program combines a heavy dose of occultism, a dash of Buddhism, and constant pressure on his followers to make more money as free-lance computer programmers and consultants. One defector reports, "He'd say computer programming was like drawing a mandala -- a way to strengthen your mind. Then people would stand up and give testimony about how much money they were making." According to one former follower, Lenz' s after-dinner lectures at posh hotel ballrooms follow a familiar format: "Mostly he talks for three or four hours. He was always crying for more money, and people felt that if they didn' t have enough money to stay in the program, there was something wrong with them." The former members say that there are currently about 200 disciples paying into the guru's Advanced Systems Inc., a for-profit "computer education" firm, which suggests revenue of more than $7 million annually. Lenz apparently also markets software which he strongly encourages followers to develop. Consulting Scheme The former disciples going public also told of a scheme in which 250 of them followed Lenz to New York in 1987 and made their presence felt as free-lance computer programmers and consultants by encouraging them to lie about their work experience. In a manual, he urged students to "visualize" their previous jobs and called a resume "a mandala that reflects your new self." He wrote, "They will believe anything you say, even when you intersperse unrealities, because they feel the truth of your experience." The result of such advice apparently got disciples good job placements; it also led to very bad work, attempts to recruit follow workers to Lenz's following, and condemnation by recruiting consultants in New York City, some of whom considered bringing a class ------------------------------------------------------------- [The text continues after this insert.] Parent's Comment ". . . The problem between his [Frederick Lenz's] followers and their families is not one that exists prior to their encounter with Lenz. Lenz "suggests" that his followers will progress much faster in their spiritual quest if they break themselves off from the past. Given the degree of influence he has over his followers, his "suggestion" is very forceful. "So my Son Brian wrote that he never wanted to hear from us again. In his farewell letter, he wrote, "It is not because you have in any way been "bad" parents . . . not in the least. Don't think that for a minute. I really don't think I could ask for a better family to have grown up in." (From "Through a Lenz Darkly," by Patrick Coe, the father of a follower of Frederick Lenz, in the Public Forum column, Santa Fe Reporter, 7/22-28, 92, 5) --------------------------------------------------------------- action suit against the Lenz-connected contractors because "it' s all obvious ly some kind of conspiracy to defraud us all, the recruiters and the clients." These former members and a group of parents of Lenz devotees say they are going public with their stories because Lenz is recruiting in the Bay Area and other U.S. cities. Indeed, "Empower Your Life" leaflets, promoting free lectures with no reference to Rama, have been posted on walls and telephone poles recently in Berkely, Marin, and San Francisco. At one session earlier this month on Union Street in San Francisco, it didn't take long for Lenz disciple Barbara Smith to begin praising her guru. "You see golden light pouring off him," said Smith, 36. "People are in ecstasy when they see him." Seven people attended Smith's Sunday evening lecture and free meditation session. Three of them stayed afterward to consider her offer of an "apprenticeship program" and chance to meet Rama. "These people are brainwashed," said one parent with a daughter in the cult. "Lenz has control over almost every aspect of their lives -- their careers, their outside activities, the cars they drive, where they live, how they talk. It's a very narrow pattern." IN THE COMMUNITY 12 Kidnapped or Converted? [Schlomo Helbrans, Hassidic Rabbi. Jacky, Hana, and Shai Fhima] From "Kidnapped or Converted.9.' by Mary B .W. Tabor, New York Tins, 8/2/92, 37, 43 The parents of a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy missing for four months say that he has been kidnapped by Schlomo Helbrans, a Hassidic Rabbi who was teaching Shai Fhima in preparation for the boy's bar mitzvah. The rabbi, in turn, has accused Jacky and Hana Fhima, both non- religious Jews, of abusing Shai. The Fhimas believe that the rabbi had become obsessed with converting their son to his ultra-orthodox ways. The Brooklyn District Attorney's office -- which brought kidnapping charges against the rabbi last spring, then dropped them, citing insufficient evidence -- speculates that Shai may have run away to live a more religious life than his parents would have wanted. But federal prosecutors have now taken up the case, believing the boy may, indeed, have been kidnapped, a charge the rabbi denies. Police in Israel are also investigating, saying the Fhima case is just one of a series of reported abductions linked to the rabbi and his yeshiva [school], Lev Tahor (pure heart) which the rabbi describes as loosely affiliated with the anti-Zionist Satmar Hassidim. A Satmar spokesman said that Rabbi Helbrans "has his own constituency. But we don't know too much about it." Helbrans said that while helping non-religious Jews become religious was one of the most important acts for a Hassidic rabbi, he could not break civil law to do it. According to the Fhimas, the rabbi took an immediate interest in Shai when they met at the yeshiva. "The Rabbi said, 'I see light on your face. I want to know what big things you are going to do,' "said Hana Fhima. The next day she said she received the first of dozens of calls from the rabbi and his associates pressing her to leave Shai at the yeshiva and move to Brooklyn from New Milford, NJ. Refusing this, they nonetheless allowed Shai to stay at the yeshiva for a week, but when after three weeks the rabbi refused to give the boy up, the parents had to get the police to help remove him from the school. Shai then tried to run away back to Brooklyn, but the police found him and returned him home. "I believe the Rabbi brainwashed him," Mrs. Fhima said. In the end, she let a young Hassidle man who had befriended Shai take the boy to Brooklyn for a night, on condition that he not be taken to the yeshiva. She has not heard from her son since, and the parents' attempts to find him there have been forcefully repelled by yeshiva residents, one of whom has been charged with attempted murder for a knife attack that sliced off one of Mr. Fhima's fingers. 13 LaRoucheites Kicked Out by Democrats... The Loudoun County (VA) Democratic Committee in August expelled 14 of jailed presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's supporters because they do not support the party' s presidential candidate, Bill Clinton. (Loudoun Times-Mirror, 8/6/92, A1, 8) 14 . . . but Jailed Leader Gets Bevel's Support [James Bevel] The LaRouche presidential campaign announced in August that the Rev. James Bevel, civil rights activist and one of the chief assistants to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been drafted as LaRouche's vice-presidential running mate. Bevel was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and served as Direct Action Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the southern civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Bevel has also been an activist on behalf of cultic groups. In a statement to EITNews, Bevel said: "Any time that you have a government that engages in kidnapping foreign nationals and leaders, in electrocution of innocent adults and children, in militarily assaulting other nations for electoral- purposes, in years-long persecution of political activists and economic scientists, in refusing to open the files on assassinations and character assassinations committed against its political leaders and citizens, then you have to look for the nation's problem in the hearts and minds of the people that support this lawlessness by tolerating it." (EIR News for Loudoun County 8/3/92, 1, 7) [The EIR News is owned by LaRouche organization] IN THE COMMUNITY 15 Recruits Taken from Moonies [CARP, Camp Sunrise, Joe Mullen, Bjorn Ottosson] From "Family takes son from Moon group," by Richard Salit, Gloucester Times, 7/31/92, A1, 13 The parents of a young Yale University graduate performing in an off Broadway play used a private detective in July to get her to break away from the Collegiate Association for the Research of principle (CARP), the student wing of the Unification Church. Detective Joe Mullen traced the young woman to Camp Sunrise, run by the group on land leased in New York's Harriman State Park. Mullen and the girl' s parents went to the camp, escorted by "about 700 pounds worth of guys," says the detective, and found her, but she did not want to leave. Later, the parents managed a confrontation with their daughter, who had been traced to a Manhattan hotel. There, after a tearful session and despite the presence of a Unification Church member, the young woman agreed to go home. "She said they had her fasting for 40 hours, and kept her awake until 4 a.m. It's a brainwashing technique," said Mullen. Bjorn Ottosson, vice- president of CARP, denied such techniques are used. (From "Gumshoe plucks lass from Moonies," by Frank DiGiacomo and Joanna Molloy with Florence Anthony, New York Post, 7/15/92) In New England, meanwhile, at about the same time, a Japanese family was searching for a son in the home port of a fishing company owned by the Unification Church. Hiroaki Kawaai, 20, left Japan on a pre-college trip in March to visit his sister Akiko, a college student in New Hampshire. While traveling alone in New York City, he was introduced to the Unification Church, and when his return flight arrived in Tokyo, he was not on it. The next day he called home to say he was staying in America. Later he telephoned his sister to say that he had bumped into a young Japanese woman in New York who made small talk in Japanese and brought him to a dormitory with other young people where they watched videotapes on Unification Church theology for three days in a row. In April Hiroaki's parents came to the States and said they would allow him to get involved with the Unification Church in Japan if he came home and began college. But he refused, later informing them that he was going tuna fishing in Gloucester, MA. The parents now began to do research on the Unification Church and soon returned to America to bring their son home. They surreptitiously spotted him on a Gloucester pier among the fisherman who are pan of the Ocean Challenge, described by church officials as a program to teach tuna fishing and Unificationism. But believing that he would not come away simply at their request, they got in touch with Kathy Hurlburt, founder of the Coalition for a Free Gloucester, a Unification Church watchdog group, and together with her determined that the only alternative to filing a kidnapping charge- that probably would not stick -- was to bring in the police and the FBI on the ground that their son's visa had expired. Hiroaki was taken into custody as he stepped off a tuna boat in East Gloucester, tired and wanting to go home, according to the police. In a matter of hours the family was on a plane bound for Japan, but Hiroaki visited home only once during the week after his arrival. The family kept him at a hotel where he was visited by a minister and a counselor who specializes in what some have come to call "aleprogramming." On a stop- over in Los Angeles, Hiroaki had wanted to return to New York -- having straightened out his visa- and also call church members, and upon arrival in Japan he wanted to tell his parents about the Unification Church's Divine Principle. His sister said her brother had been afraid to leave the church because he was told that "something bad will happen to his family." But Hiroaki's attitude began to change within the week, and one day he gave his sister a necklace with a picture of The Rev. Moon and his wife that he had been wearing, saying, "Here you go. I don't need it." His sister reports that Hiroaki is now returning to his old self and planning to go back to school. In Gloucester, meanwhile, Kathy Hurlbun says "nothing' s changed" since a decade ago when she and others demonstrated against the the Unification Church' s move into Gloucester. 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U.S.A.STORIES | 1 Experts on Cultism Sue Academic | Associations [Margaret T. Singer, | Richard Ofshe, RICO, APA, ASA] | 2 Collusion with Cult Alleged | [Singer, Ofshe, APA, ASA] | 3 Church of First Born Members | Indicted [Ervil LeBaron, Rulon | Allred, polygamy] | 4 Minister Gets 31 Years for Sexual | Abuse [Lloyd Ray Davis, Christian | Fellowship Church] | 5 Tony Alamo to Reimburse Followers, | Stand Trial [child abuse, beating] | 6 Scientology in Court: Fending Off IRS | 7 Scientology in Court: Management | Training Settlement [Applied | Scholastics] | 8 Scientology in Court: Narconon | in Oklahoma Gets Exemption | 9 Sally Jessy Raphael and Cult Awareness | Network [Cynthia Kisser, Steve Hassan, | Multimedia, Herbert Rosedale] | 10 Psychic's Defamation Case Dismissed | [Uri Geller, James Randi, CSICOP, | Barry Karr] | 11 Frederick Lenz [Sri Chinmoy, Empower | Your Life, Rama, tantric sex] | 12 Kidnapped or Converted? [Schlomo | Helbrans, Hassidic Rabbi. Jacky, | Hana, and Shai Fhima] | 13 LaRoucheites Kicked Out by Democrats... | 14 . . . but Jailed Leader Gets Bevel's | Support [James Bevel] | 15 Recruits Taken from Moonies [CARP, | Camp Sunrise, Joe Mullen, Bjorn | Ottosson] For additional verification see the contributor of the document. This text below was produced by scanning a printed copy of the Cult Observer. Hence a few errors may have been introducted inadvertently. Please consult the printed copy if there is any question about the text. UPDATED ON: 10/11/94 UPDATED BY: FrJMc =================================================================