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From the first, Los Angeles police suspected that Synanon members were responsible for the attack on Morantz, who had won, for a client, a $300,000 lawsuit against the 900-member group. Synanon, founded by Dederich 20 years ago as a rehabilitation organization for alcoholics and drug addicts, had done worthy work, but in recent years had become a capriciously governed and toughly disciplined cult. Soon after the snake attack, police arrested two suspects: Synanon Members Joseph Musico, 28, and Lance Kenton, 20, the son of Bandleader Stan Kenton. Synanon has steadfastly maintained that it "had no involvement...
Even more interesting was a manifesto prepared by Ahmad Baniahmad, 46, the only real opposition member of Iran's 268-seat parliament. The manifesto, backed by a group of 400 professional people known as the Union for Liberty, calls for formation of a provisional government made up of political and religious leaders, followed by elections, an end to martial law, and the establishment of a true constitutional monarchy as envisioned by Iran's 72-year-old constitution. "There is no other solution," said Baniahmad. "This will enable the Shah to save face and to remain monarch...
...result, the multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.), which South Africa has fostered and supported, ran virtually unopposed. To be sure, there were four right-wing fringe parties in the race, including one white-supremist group that ran under the portrait of a flaxen-haired young maiden holding a puppy with that party's slogan: VOTE FOR HER SAKE. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the U.N.-backed political movement that has been waging guerrilla warfare in the territory since 1966, refused to take part in the elections...
...belief that is steadily gaining ground in Third World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though not too much. Within full view of one press group, police attacked and badly beat up a sign-carrying SWAPO demonstrator...
...Glenn Igleheart, the "interfaith witness" director of the nation's largest Protestant group, the Southern Baptist Convention, warns against "overreaction" by parents of cult members or by the government. He urges fellow Christians to support "free religious expression" at the same time that they carefully scrutinize new faiths and "speak out against deviant beliefs and abuses against persons." Every new group should be examined carefully, he advises, and measured by such beliefs and practices as "the unquestioned lordship of Jesus Christ, the unimpeded right of each believer to communicate with God and use of the Bible as the norm...