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12 matching items found between Jan 1975 and Dec 1979. Furthermore, there are 47 matching items for all time not shown.
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Nov 1, 1979
How cults bilk all of us — Reader's Digest
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Type: Press
Author(s): Carson Williams
Source: Reader's Digest
Because they don't have to file annual financial reports with the IRS, unscrupulous sects can — and do — ignore the law with impunity. Let's close this tax loophole HOW CULTS BILK ALL OF US SOME THREE MILLION AMERICANS have joined cult churches in the last decade, a phenomenon attributed to everything from the breakdown of the family to loss of faith in traditional institutions. One thing is certain: these cults could not have experienced their spectacular rise to wealth and ...
Mar 25, 1979
Beware the vicious and aggressive cults — The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
Feb 1, 1979
Uncovering the cult conspiracy — Mother Jones
Jan 22, 1979
Some in congress seek inquiries on cult activities — New York Times
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Aug 16, 1978
Calgary group to fight influx of mind-warping cultists — Calgary Herald (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick McMahon
Source: Calgary Herald (Canada)
A group of concerned Calgarians ex-Scientologists and parents of youngsters of the various mind-warping, brainwashing cults such as Hare Krishna and the Unification Church (Moonies), have got together and formed an organization. Its main functions will be to combat such cults, to help parents cope with and understand the situation when their children fall prey to them and, where possible, to rescue the victims and help them get their heads back together. They held their first meeting recently, with 17 people ...
Apr 6, 1978
Members of 3 churches parade to protest remarks by Timbrell — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Toronto ON — Members of Hare Krishna, Unification Church and the Church of Scientology paraded outside Queen's Park yesterday to protest against what they call a witchhunt by the Ontario Government. About 80 protesters carried placards saying, Don't Kill My Religion and Investigate Abuses Not Churches. They were objecting to remarks made March 2 in the Legislature by Health Minister Dennis Timbrell, who said his ministry was considering legislation to impose control over such groups. Mr. Timbrell said that one of ...
Apr 22, 1977
Attorney battles ACLU and cults — Philadelphia Daily News
Dec 18, 1976
Some cults may aid blacks — Detroit News
Sep 25, 1976
Churches cry 'foul' as ABC gets 'closeup' — Variety
Sep 2, 1976
New Religions: Holiness or Heresy? — ABC News
Type: TV
Author(s): Jim Kincaid
Source: ABC News
[This is a placeholder, I don't have this material. I believe ABC was sued by the Church of Scientology following this report, as per this news piece.] Examination of why young people are increasingly attracted to new religions; focusing on the Unification Church founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and the Church of Scientology, started by L. Ron Hubbard (60 min.)
Sep 2, 1976
The righteousness hustle — San Francisco Examiner (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Mandel
Source: San Francisco Examiner (California)
The ABC News Closeup "New Religions: Holiness or Heresy?" which will air at 10 tonight on Channel 7 (KGO) represents a frightening erosion of journalistic standards and values. The title of the program promises a look on a spiritual level at the ideas, such as they may be, underlying some of America's new religious-philosophical wrinkles. Instead, the program labors for an hour in very secular ways to prove what a thinking person might agree to before an argument — that deeply ...
Aug 29, 1976
Viewers' choice: // Closeup on cultism — Detroit News
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Type: Press
Source: Detroit News
Though religious cults have existed elsewhere for thousands of years, their ranks have only begun to swell in America in the past few decades. They flourished particularly in the sixties, when celebrity involvement — by the Beatles, among others — helped make cult abbreviations like "TM" (for Transcendental Meditation) commonplace. Unofficial estimates place the number of cults in the United States today at 5,000, with an individual total of two million members. But as that number grew, so did the controversy ...
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