Word: berkeley
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...anti-TM alliance represents various interests: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a nonsectarian watchdog on First Amendment issues; the Berkeley (Calif.) Christian Coalition, a group that grew out of the Jesus Movement and does research to combat TM, Scientology and other new cults; and a number of Protestant and Catholic taxpayers in New Jersey...
Patton says that TM literature replaces God with the phrase "Creative Intelligence," which he claims is a synonym for Hinduism's pantheistic deity. Brooks Alexander, a former TM meditator turned evangelist with the Berkeley group, explains that TM novices are not indoctrinated outright in Hinduism, as they might be in Judaism or Christianity. Rather, they are gradually conditioned to accept a Hindu world view, after which many move into a deeper involvement through meditation. Meanwhile, two prominent Protestants in Iowa, where the movement's Maharishi International University is located, have argued in the liberal Christian Century that...
Patty, who will turn 22 this Friday, got her chance to make her story believable to the jury on the day her defense began. Weeping and straining for breath, she gave a horrifying account of her abduction by the S.L.A. from her apartment in Berkeley on Feb. 4, 1974. She said she was seized by William Harris, who was later to become her traveling companion, and Donald DeFreeze, the man known as "Cinque" and the self-styled field marshal of the group. A woman, Angela Atwood, held a pistol in her face. When Patty screamed, she was struck...
Mireille R. Gale Berkeley, Calif...
...Patty's mostly middle-class jury of five men and seven women, only five with children of their own, that she took part in the holdup only because she had in effect been brainwashed by her S.L.A. captors during the twelve weeks since they had kidnaped her from the Berkeley apartment that she had shared with Steven Weed. If Bailey is successful, it will be the first time in the U.S. that a jury has ever been persuaded that a defendant did not have criminal intent because of having been brainwashed...