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Scientologists converge on Portland for protest: Thousands to assail award of $39 million to ex-member in suit

Title: Scientologists converge on Portland for protest: Thousands to assail award of $39 million to ex-member in suit
Date: Sunday, 19 May 1985
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Author: Jan Klunder
Main source: articles.latimes.com
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Several thousand members of the Church of Scientology are planning to converge on Portland, Ore., today and Monday to protest a jury's $39-million damage award to a former church member who claimed that she was defrauded out of $3,253 by the group. The Rev. Kathleen Gorgon, president of the Church of Scientology of California, said that several hundred members left Saturday from the church's Hollywood headquarters by car, bus, train and plane to join others from around the world in a ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]