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...other top leaders remain behind barsfacing murder charges in theMar. 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subways, Aum members continue to chant prayers and hand out flyers on the street. Prosecutors are now seeking disciplinary action against Asahara's lawyer for smuggling out a tape-recorded message from the guru. The tapeinstructed members to bury all evidence against the cultand to protect members from arrest. Taking his cue from Mafia dons the world over, Asahara said: "I will continue to keep silence. I hope everyone will continue with their training no matter what happens...
Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara and six top aides were chargedwith murder in theMar. 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12 people. Police had held the cult guru for three weeks while they grilled him in an attempt to get as much information as possible before filing charges. Now the real drama begins: a trial that experts say could go on for decades. Japanese trials don't have daily sessions; hearings are spread out over months. But the outcome is almost certain. Over 99 percent of people tried in Japan are convicted...
...notion of adapting the material for ballet performers is not new. Robbins was approached by American Ballet Theatre some 20 years ago, but because he was ballet master at the rival City Ballet, he first went to its guru, George Balanchine, for his approval. "Fine," he said, "because our boys don't fight." The idea never came to fruition, but Balanchine's remark was telling. Ballet dancers are trained to do what they are told. Their acting is mostly pantomime. Here they faced something new. "Broadway dancers are expected to take risks," says Robert LaFosse, who stars in West Side...
JAPANESE CULT GURU ARRESTED...
...destroy Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse that he has predicted for 1997.WANT TO BE IN PICTURES? A bizarre twist in the case came with a report from another major Tokyo daily saying cult leaders lured new members, mostly day laborers, to the cult's compound with a promise that...