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Jul 26, 2010
Scientology ramps up efforts in Seattle, beyond — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Amy Rolph Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer L. Ron Hubbard's footprint is growing — in Seattle and beyond. Want proof? The writing is on the western slope of Queen Anne in Seattle. The block letters on the side of a five-story brick building paint a pretty clear picture: "SCIENTOLOGY." Seattle's new Church of Scientology regional headquarters opened its doors last weekend. The streets around the building at 300 West Harrison St. were closed Saturday for a grand opening attended by more than 1,500 parishioners. The next morning, they ...
Jun 30, 2005
War of words ignites over anti-depressant use — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Schwed Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer It was supposed to be a simple publicity tour for the movie "War of the Worlds," but it has turned into a war of words. The movie's star, Tom Cruise, has been on a crusade that has nothing to do with the movie and a lot to do with his religious beliefs in the Church of Scientology. First, Cruise publicly attacked Brooke Shields for taking the anti-depressant Paxil for postpartum depression. Then he went after "Today" anchor Matt Lauer for not ...
May 25, 2005
People in the News: Dr. Cruise says don't touch the meds — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer While the focus of Tom Cruise news is his romance with young actress Katie Holmes as well as his upcoming movies — "War of the Worlds" and "Mission Impossible III" — the actor took time out of his busy schedule to blast Brooke Shields for taking Paxil. New York's Daily News reports that Scientology evangelist Cruise told "Access Hollywood" that Shields was misguided when she took the anti-depressant to fight postpartum depression. Shields, for her part, is currently starring in the ...
Jun 7, 2002
Spielberg and Cruise dream team might make 'Minority Report' a winner — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer As part of the multimillion campaigns by which motion pictures are promoted to the public, there's nothing particularly unusual about a major star or director coming to Seattle to schmooze the local press. Indeed, that parade never seems to let up. But an appearance here earlier this week by both Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise – Hollywood's biggest director and star, after all – was a dazzling media event that made the city's movie press forget for a while that there ...
Oct 2, 2001
Court rejects blacks' racial-profiling plea — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Feb 21, 2001
Church-based social-service plan draws religious opposition — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Feb 4, 1999
Scientology courts acceptance in Europe — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sep 30, 1995
Sect member awarded $5 million in kidnap case — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Goldsmith Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Section: News, Page: A1
A federal jury yesterday awarded nearly $5 million to a young Bellevue man who had been kidnapped at his mother's behest to get him to leave his church.
The verdict was seen as a stunning blow to cult critics and ``deprogrammers" who seek to go up against unconventional but often well-funded religious groups.
Jason Scott, now 23, smiled broadly after the six-member U.S. District Court jury gave him a near-total victory in his civil rights lawsuit against ...
Sep 22, 1995
Sect member testifies in 'cult' lawsuit — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Goldsmith Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer In a lawsuit to stop deprogrammers from trampling on religious sect members' rights, a Bellevue man yesterday told a federal jury that four men "ambushed" him to get him to quit his fundamentalist church. Jason Scott is suing the Cult Awareness Network and the four deprogrammers hired by Scott's mother for unspecified damages. The mother was trying to get Scott — then 18 — to leave the New Life Tabernacle Church, a member of the United Pentecostal Churches. The attempt failed, ...
Mar 21, 1990
Protesters spring to life as flowers blossom, many schools of thought contend — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Don Carter Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer We must: A) stop the killing in El Salvador, B) stop censorship of the arts, C) reform the Internal Revenue Service, and D) provide housing for AIDS victims. It was all of the above yesterday at the Federal Office Building, where the first day of spring was greeted by more than 100 people rallying for various causes. It made for a curious melange of symbolism and rhetoric. There were the crude wooden crosses to symbolize the victims of Salvadoran death squads, ...
Oct 27, 1988
Drug for hyperactive children draws new fire — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Paulson Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer The national controversy over a drug widely used to treat hyperactive children re-surfaced yesterday in Seattle, as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry opened its annual meeting. The drug is Ritalin, a stimulant given to an estimated 1 out of every 100 school children diagnosed as having "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," more commonly known as hyperactivity. Critics of the drug claim it has been overprescribed, sometimes with tragic results. "There are some problems having to do with the prescription ...
Feb 15, 1988
Books [re.: L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?] — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Mar 4, 1986
Charges in deprogramming — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Jan 28, 1986
L. Ron Hubbard, Church of Scientology founder, dies — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Jan 23, 1986
Charity accused of $280,000 fraud — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Nov 9, 1985
Hubbard series off to bad start — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 21, 1985
Travolta & other Scientologists swarm into Portland to protest — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John McCoy ,
S.L. Sanger Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer PORTLAND, Ore. — Thousands of Scientologists, including actor John Travolta and jazz musician Chick Corea, showed, up in Portland yesterday to rally behind their beleaguered church. Members of the Church of Scientology flew to Portland from all over the United States and as far away as Europe and South America. In Seattle, about 80 Scientologists singing "We Shall Overcome" and protesting what they called an assault on religious freedom gathered last night at the Flag Pavilion in Seattle Center. The Scientologists, ...
Jun 2, 1984
Scientology: 'auditing' the 'engram' — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John McCoy Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer The basic premise of the Church of Scientology is that humans can realize their full potential only if they clear away negative memories. The means of doing so were presented by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the best-selling book "Dianencs," which he wrote in 1950. Hubbard argued that by a process of counseling ("auditing"), negative memories ("engrams") could be erased. Auditing involves the use of an E-meter, a sort of lie detector on which, the subject holds two tin ...
Jun 2, 1984
Youngsters expelled from school in Church of Scientology storm — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John McCoy Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two youngsters were expelled from a private school in Bellevue last week because of a continuing dispute about the real wishes of a 72-year-old man who hasn't been seen in years. The youngsters, brothers Garrett and Allen Dean, aged 6 and 9, must wonder what happened. Despite their good grades and conduct, the boys were kicked out of The Learning Place School, a private institution that follows the educational philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard but invites students of all faiths. Hubbard, ...
Jul 7, 1973
'The snake pit' and '1984'... Here and now? — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Earl Hansen Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The weird, offbeat types of religious sects are getting far too much attention," a Lutheran minister bemoaned. "Sensational-type groups don't deserve the publicity," a Methodist added. And their outcry is common, even though much of the publicity might be harsh and critical. Such as this column's reporting of the Church of Scientology's local protest activities in 1971 against the federal offices here of the Food and Drug Administration. Cited were angry, shouting youths, including girls, dressed in clerics. But since then, ...
Sep 12, 1963
Detectives seek slaying motive — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
Sep 11, 1963
Pastor slain before eyes of horrified followers — Seattle Post-IntelligencerMore: link
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