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Aug 7, 1991
Didn't mislead [missing part] // Nothing 'covert' involving city teens, says Scientology [article incomplete] — Winnipeg SunMore: link
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Winnipeg Sun The director of public affairs for the Church of Scientology in Western Canada denied yesterday it misled about 60 Winnipeg teenagers, hired to raise funds for a drug rehabilitation program linked to the church. "I just think it's very much a tempest in a teapot. This (project) employed a lot of kids," Robbie Hepburn, who flew in to Winnipeg from British Columbia, said. "Yes, there's a connection, but it's not some kind of covert or bad connection." Just because Narconon uses ...
Aug 6, 1991
Drug plan panned // Cult authority warns of Scientology's tactics — Winnipeg SunMore: link
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Riva Harrison Source:
Winnipeg Sun Winnipeggers should steer clear of the Church of Scientology and its many organizations, which include a drug rehabilitation program called Narconon, a U.S cult expert said yesterday. "There are far safer programs," Cynthia Kisser, executive director of the Cult Awareness Network, said in an interview from Chicago. "Narconon is more likely to do harm than good." The Sun reported Sunday about 60 Winnipeg teenagers have been hired to sell pepperoni and T-shirts door-to-door to raise money for Narconon. However, a Narconon ...
Aug 4, 1991
Critics say cult behind drug-rehab program // Kids working for Scientology front? — Winnipeg SunMore: link
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Pat St. Germain Source:
Winnipeg Sun Dozens of Winnipeg teenagers have been hired to raise funds for a drug rehabilitation program which critics charge is nothing more than a recruiting front for a "mind-control cult." About 60 teenagers who answered newspaper advertisements for summer jobs are selling pepperoni and T-shirts door-to-door to raise money for Narconon — a drug rehab organization linked to the Church of Scientology. And while officials from the program and the man behind the drive say it's all above board, it has sparked ...
Aug 4, 1991
Town terrorized for fighting church — Winnipeg SunMore: link
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Winnipeg Sun When Narconon comes to town, the Church of Scientology — and trouble — follows, residents of Newkirk, Okla. warned yesterday. Newkirk civic leaders were threatened and harassed by the controversial church and its private investigators after they opposed a Narconon treatment centre set up on Indian territory near the small, rural town in 1989, Mayor Gary Bilger said. "We had three investigators in our little town of 2,300 off and on for weeks," he said. "My little boy was 11 years ...
Aug 3, 1991
FDA expected to approve drug related to Prozac — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) INDIANAPOLIS — A cousin to the antidepressant Prozac may receive federal approval before the end of the year for treatment of obesity, representing a new wave of sales growth for this class of drugs. Prozac, now in its fourth year on the market and approaching $1 billion in annual sales worldwide, has been dogged for the past year by claims that it causes violent behavior including suicide. A Harvard researcher's study describing six patients who developed violently suicidal thoughts while treated ...
Aug 2, 1991
Group linked to Scientologists loses Prozac bid — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday rejected a request by a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology that it ban the anti-depressant drug Prozac on grounds that it makes people suicidal and violent. The FDA released a letter to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights saying that it had found no evidence for these claims or for the commission's additional claims that Prozac is addictive and causes movement disorders. The agency said it had reviewed the evidence provided ...
Aug 2, 1991
Scientologists fail to persuade FDA on Prozac — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Thomas M. Burton Source:
Wall Street Journal INDIANAPOLIS —The Food and Drug Administration weighed in heavily on the side of Ell Lilly & Co. in rejecting claims that the popular anti-depressant drug Prozac is connected to murder, suicide or other maladies. The FDA action follows a yearlong campaign against Prozac by the Church of Scientology that had sought to persuade the federal agency, through a formal petition, to ban U.S. sales of the Lilly drug. But the FDA found that a Scientology-founded group called the Citizens Commission for ...
Jul 31, 1991
[Advertisement] I am a Scientologist — USA Today
Jul 29, 1991
Critics say IRS ethics problems reduced — Seattle Times
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Seattle Times WASHINGTON — Two years after embarrassing allegations of misconduct and abuse of power by several of its managers, the Internal Revenue Service is getting good marks for improving its ethical climate. "Substantial progress has been made," says Rep. Douglas Barnard, D-Ga., whose House Government Operations subcommittee has been investigating the IRS for three years. Even the National Coalition of IRS Whistleblowers, a Church of Scientology offshoot that dogs the agency's every move, offers a grudging commendation for positive strides to clean ...
Jul 29, 1991
The rock drummer out to beat the cults — Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)More: link
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Exmouth Express & Echo (UK) Last week cult expert Jon Caven-Atack set up a meeting in Exmouth and persuaded a member of the Church of Scientology to return to her family. The Echo's Peter Hardy now talks to the man who has dedicated his life to exposing cults which he says brainwash their members. FOR NINE years, former rock drummer Jon Caven-Atack was under the spell of a "religious" sect known as the Church of Scientology. Now, outside the cult, Jon has pledged his life and ...
Jul 25, 1991
Vault to get Hubbard's writings — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Bob Henderson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology does make for interesting reading, whether it's a St. Petersburg Times story about plans to replace the Gray Moss Inn in downtown Clearwater with a six-story, $42-million religious training center, a Time magazine cover story about "The Cult of Greed" or an intriguing tale in a California monthly news magazine, North Coast Journal, about construction of "a massive subterranean vault" to hold the writings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. A Clearwater area resident dropped off a copy of the ...
Jul 24, 1991
Girl rescued from cult — Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)More: link
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Peter Hardy Source:
Exmouth Express & Echo (UK) A RELIGIOUS cult member was persuaded to rejoin her family during a dramatic secret meeting in Exmouth, the Express & Echo can reveal. The daring rescue bid was set up after the family consulted experts opponents of the Church of Scientology, which has been accused of employing brainwashing techniques to win over some of its followers. Now the girl, a science graduate, is safe at a secret address, thought to be in the north of the country, after the successful reunion ...
Jul 21, 1991
Parents snatch cult girl to safety — Sunday Express (UK)
Jul 21, 1991
The two sides of Scientology — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
Jul 19, 1991
Former member of sect is suing — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
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Kevin Shinkle Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is facing another lawsuit in the midst of an expensive nationwide campaign to bolster its image. The sect, which maintains its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, has spent millions of dollars in recent weeks for advertising in the newspaper USA Today. In the lawsuit, a former sect member claims the church is a fraud; owes him money for counseling services he never used; and has cut him off from his two daughters, who still follow Scientology. ...
Jul 17, 1991
Letters: Don't use religion politically — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Jul 16, 1991
Lawyer claims Scientologists kept him from daughters — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 13, 1991
Auction delivers for birth center — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
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P.H. Wiest Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) The Gentle Birth Foundation hopes that by Sunday night it will be able to deliver a lot of money to the Friends of the Gentle Birth Center. The foundation, led by actress Karen Black and Richard C. Wallace, founder of the International Artists' Guild, is sponsoring "Invest in the Best Celebrity Art Auction and Show" to benefit the Glendale birthing center, which has been under investigation by the state medical board since January. Local authorities have charged that non-certified midwives were ...
Jul 8, 1991
Ex-publisher sought by creditors — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Jul 4, 1991
Court acquits some Scientology followers, convicts others — Associated PressMore: link
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Associated Press MILAN, Italy (AP) — A Milan court has acquitted 67 Scientology followers of charges ranging from criminal association to tax evasion, but it convicted six others of deceiving confused people. While not ruling that the group is a church, as Scientologists contend, the court said Wednesday that it is a non-profit organization and thus need not report to the Italian tax office. The trial was brought after a five-year investigation into activities of Scientology centers in Italy after disenchanted followers filed ...
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