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...nerve gas antidotes while some schools and shopping centers shut down early for the weekend, as police authorities stepped up the largest peacetime security operation in Japanese history. Tokyo is bracing for a disaster this weekend, as predicted in a book released last month byAum Shinrikyo cultleader Shoko Asahara. He is believed to have directed thenerve gas attack that killed 11 people in Tokyo subwayslast month. Today, Japanese police carried 53 children from the Aum Shinrikyo compound near Mt. Fuji, many wearing headgear with wires attached. Cult followers believe the gadgets allow them to synchronize brain waves with Asahara...
...today in a desperate search for cult leaders suspected in last month'snerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Coast guard patrols checked boats leaving the country, and police in Tokyo went on "emergency alert." The reason: in a book released last month,Aum Shinri Kyo cultleader Shoko Asahara predicted a disaster in Tokyo this weekend. Other police units concentrated on crowded neighborhoods in case cult members interpreted the prediction as a sign to do damage. At the same time, other cult leaders went on trial in Moscow for "corrupting" the 35,000 young followers it claims in Russia...
...there are few clues and even less hard evidence to suggest who might be responsible. But in the popular mind, the leading suspect is Aum Shinrikyo, the apocalyptic cult whose messianic leader, Shoko Asahara, has eluded a nationwide police hunt since the subway attacks two weeks ago. Although no legal proof links Aum to either case, the circumstantial evidence is mounting dramatically...
...come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs and apparatuses and came close to uncovering evidence that the killer nerve gas may have been made on the premises. They discovered a large and elaborate laboratory hidden behind an inner sanctum, where only the most enlightened of Asahara's followers--many of whom are professional chemists--were admitted...
...made on the head of the National Police Agency. The focus of the probe, as well as the target of rising public suspicion, remained the Aum Shinrikyo cult. A raid on the group's holiest shrine revealed a hidden factory equipped with sophisticated chemical-production devices. Cult leader Shoko Asahara remained in hiding, while followers protested their innocence...