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Dec 27, 1985
Letters to the Editor: Driver disappoints — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 24, 1985
Scientologists mail $9,500 in 'presents' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 11, 1985
Sect gets tree for Christmas — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 4, 1985
Sect mails taped message — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lesley Collins Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — The "favorable" reaction from a Church of Scientology goodwill message via a cassette tape may spark additional tape mailings. The Clearwater-based group mailed about 300 cassette tapes titled "Can We Ever Be Friends?" this week to local city officials, newspapers and randomly selected residents. "We've gotten calls as to why people haven't received them," Scientology spokesman Ludwig Alpers said Tuesday. Because of the positive response, "there might be more going out," he said. A small group of Scientologists recently ...
Dec 3, 1985
Scientology tries to mend fences with taped message — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wilma Norton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is sending a present to more than 200 Clearwater residents — a cassette tape that asks, "Can We Ever Be Friends?" The cassette comes with a letter from church spokesman Ludwig Alpers. The tape, he wrote, "is a gift to you so that you can judge for yourself what Scientology really is." Also enclosed is a postage-paid postcard with which to send for more information about Scientology, which has an international headquarters in Clearwater and ...
Nov 6, 1985
Court documents revealed despite Scientology protest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Benke Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology secretly teaches that 75 million years ago Earth was called Teegeeach and was among 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who spread his evil by thermonuclear bombs, according to court documents that sect members tried to prevent the public from seeing. Xemu, attempting to solve overpopulation problems, destroyed selected inhabitants of the planets and implanted the seeds of aberrant behavior in their spirits to affect future generations of mankind, according to the documents briefly placed ...
Nov 5, 1985
Sect forum blasts IRS tactics — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
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Susan Snyder Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — In its ongoing battle against the Internal Revenue Service, the Church of Scientology Monday hosted a public forum featuring a presentation from the National Coalition of IRS Whistleblowers and former U.S. Congressman George Hansen. In January, Hansen, an Idaho Republican and a longtime critic of the IRS, joined the sect in charging that the IRS routinely singles out people for investigation because of their religious and political affiliations. At that time, Hansen said, "It is shocking to any thinking ...
Sep 25, 1985
Letters to the Editor — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
May 22, 1985
Scientologists march again to protest Portland verdict [exact date unknown] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jack Reynolds Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — Clearwater Scientologists marched again Tuesday night. Some 400 church members held a 10 p.m., hour-long candlelight procession through the downtown area and out onto Memorial Causeway. A church spokesman said the action was part of a coordinated worldwide protest against a May 17 Oregon court decision awarding $39 million to ex-church member Julie Titchbourne, who claimed the church had failed to make good on promises to improve her eyesight and intelligence. "A similar march began at 7 p.m. in ...
May 19, 1985
Local sect members protest jury decision — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
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Jack Reynolds Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER—Local members of the Church of Scientology took to the streets Saturday night to protest a $39 million jury award to an Oregon woman who claimed she was defrauded by the sect. Approximately 300 Clearwater Scientologists mounted a candlelight vigil to protest the Portland jury's Friday action in favor of disgruntled former church member Julie Christofferson Titchbourne. The Scientologists paraded from their headquarters at the former Fort Harrison Hotel through downtown Clearwater to the Coachmen Park area, where they listened to ...
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