Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closer to being solved -- it just deepens, says TIME Switzerland reporter Robert Kroon. There's still the question of who benefited from the undoubtedly large sums of money that the cult collected from its members. Swiss media are reporting a transfer of $93 million to an Australian bank account held by one cult figure. "This was obviously a cult with a double life," says Kroon. "But you wouldn't think that the leaders would collect all this money and then kill themselves...
James Clavell, the best-selling author of "Shogun" died in Switzerland from a stroke. He was 69. Aside from being a successful novelist, the Australian-born Clavell also wrote the screenplay of popular movies such as "The Fly," "The Great Escape," and "To Sir With Love...
...first killing of a sitting Australian politician since 1921 -- presumably by Vietnamese gangsters -- prompted government leaders to warn against a backlash against the country's Asian communities. Last night, New South Wales state legislator John Newman, 47, was gunned down in front of his suburban Sydney home. Newman, who had received death threats while campaigning for years against Asian gang violence, recently asked police to lift surveillance on his home. Newman was shot twice in the chest and died on the steps of his house as his Chinese-born fiancee looked...
...Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge: of the 10 groups named in Rolling Stone magazine as the hot bands to watch this summer, three are mixed gender. And these groups are coming to a stage near you: the Australian band Frente! will be playing U.S. cities this August; Afrocentric rappers Arrested Development will be at Woodstock '94; and the alternative-rock bands Smashing Pumpkins and the Breeders are headlining this summer's touring Lollapalooza music festival...
...another story line.) Her employees include Sarah Owens (Cassidy Rae), an innocent from Iowa City who is required to wear a leather bustier on her first job; Linda Holden (Teresa Hill), a woman desperately hiding her junkie/ porn- star history; Julie Dante (Kylie Travis), an export from the Australian Outback, where her father beat her repeatedly; and Teri Spencer (Stephanie Romanov), prone to alcoholism and burdened by the grief of losing her mother on the day she was born. Here is a group that really could benefit from model psychotherapy...