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RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Seeking to unravel the events leading to the group suicide and to understand the reasons that the members of Heaven's Gate came together, attention has turned to the cult's leader, Marshall Herff Applewhite. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Applewhite was leading an apparently unremarkable life as a highly talented baritone, a husband, father of two, and a professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. In the early 1970's, Applewhite was granted a leave of absence from the university to deal with emotional problems. According to The Washington Post...
...package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink the vodka mixture, and then lay back and relax. Unlike many cult-related mass suicides in history, such as the People's Temple in Guyana, police say every member of the Heaven's Gate cult willingly died. The deaths proceeded in an orderly, methodical fashion. Each member was assigned to one of three groups; the first group of 15 took their lives and the second group of 15 members cleaned up after them. Then the second committed suicide with the help of the remaining...
...they had. And each had taken his hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity to attain the afterlife. "We fully desire, expect, and look forward to boarding a spacecraft from the Next Level very soon (in our physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been waiting for. . . We are happily prepared to leave "this world' and go with Ti's crew." That craft was to be lurking in the wake of the Hale-Bopp Comet, apparently ready to take willing members along on a passage...
...park's west gate the engine exhaust is so thick that rangers have coated the toll booths with Plexiglas and installed a fresh-air pumping system. "The fumes are horrible," says ranger Seibert. "You shouldn't have to wear earplugs when you come to the park." As the number of snowmobilers and the attendant problems mount, Yellowstone's management is looking at its options, ranging from setting exhaust limits to imposing a snowmobile ban, moves that would bring howls of protest almost as loud as the machines themselves. Sighs park information officer Marsha Karle: "We're trying to control...
According to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Harvard Yard Manager Muerle Bicknell, the new lights and phones have been installed primarily because of safety concerns, but also because students wanted to be able to contact the shuttle service directly from Johnston Gate. We are pleased with the administration for moving so well on this issue in the Yard; however, the problems of safety are multiple and ongoing. The next step is to look to the River and the Quad and grant key-card access to all the houses for upperclass students so that they can find refuge...