Word: deprogrammings
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...followers could dial in to hear his inspirational messages and be massaged for donations. Things were heavenly until Atlanta's Edward Johnson, who holds a grudge against television evangelists, programmed his Atari to dial Falwell's number every 30 seconds. In December, Southern Bell got Johnson to deprogram his computer, but publicity over the incident inspired other Falwell foes to dial away. Among the harassers: homosexuals angered at Falwell's crusade against them. Some 25% of the 1 million toll-free calls a year were coming from cranks, at a cost to Falwell of $1 a call. Last week...
...idea in Simon: five brilliant but loony scientists at the "Institute for Advanced Concepts" decide that the American public is ready to meet a full-fledged alien in its already alienated society. They search for a middle-aged male orphan whose memory they plan to deprogram, and then convince him that his mother was a spaceship who dropped him on earth from an advanced civilization where humans are made the way we make toasters. One Simon Mendelssohn becomes their victim, an untenured professor of psychology who is slightly off the deep end already...
...have got a person imprisoned or executed a few years ago. One of the first essentials has been to deprogram the deeply rooted suspicion of things foreign. Hence the Kwangming Daily's recent line: "It is completely un-Marxist to adopt the foolish attitude of being complacent and arrogant and of uncritically excluding foreign science, technology and culture. We advocate learning from the strong points of all nations...
...there is little evidence that the Moonies' efforts contribute to anything but Moon's coffers, and the glassy-eyed behavior of the youngsters has so alarmed many parents that they have resorted to illegal kidnapings and "deprogrammings" to retrieve their offspring. The best known of the deprogrammers is Ted Patrick, 45, an ex-middleweight fighter and onetime community relations aide for Governor Ronald Reagan in California. Patrick claims to have rescued 1,000 youths from the Unification Church and other cults. Mrs. Jenetta French of Greensboro, N.C., who has "lost" two daughters to Moon, described how Ronda...
...return home to handle some unfinished business. The day after I arrived, we-were eating breakfast when the doorbell rang. Suddenly a black man entered the room and introduced himself as Ted Patrick. The church had warned us that Patrick kidnaped people, gagged, beat them and tried to "deprogram" them...