Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Japanese police arrested two high officials of Aum Shinrikyo found hiding in a secret basement beneath one of the cult's compounds near Mount Fuji. Though the two were arrested on other charges, authorities believe they may have been involved in last month's nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Earlier in the week, an Aum official was stabbed to death as he walked through a crowd toward the cult's Tokyo offices; his confessed killer identified himself as a member of a rightist group and said he wanted to kill an Aum leader because of the sect...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths of white supremacist Randy Weaver's wife and son in a 1992 Idaho confrontation and the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of 82 cult members, including leader David Koresh. Mark Koernke, a prominent militia member who produces videos promoting patriot ideas and goes by the radio talk-show moniker of "Mark from Michigan," told assembled crowds at a Militia of Montana rally in Spokane, Washington, last December that Waco is a call to arms...
...life of '50s sitcoms, Robert was the anti-Beaver, the original geeky guy. At 17 Crumb wrote a Valentine to himself that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from...
...vigil commemorating the second anniversary of the Waco blaze were strutting men bedecked in camouflage. They were members of the North Texas Constitutional Militia, a paramilitary group, and they brought with them a granite stone carved with the names of the victims who died when the Branch Davidian cult went up in flames on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff with the Federal Government. An 11-year-old niece of polygamist cult leader David Koresh approached the memorial and traced the names of the 82 victims, murmuring, "My cousin . my cousin . my uncle . my cousin...
...major Japanese daily reports thatShoko Asahara, leader of theAum Shinrikyo cult, has been found by police and is under constant surveillance. Police have been searching the cult's compound for the past week in an effort to find Asahara, who had been missing since theMar. 20 Tokyo subway gas attack. The Sankei Shimbun is the only Japanese paper to report the story, with other Japanese media continuing to say authorities are still looking for Asahara...