Word: hares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush's earliest problems. Many Reagan appointees want to move up in the new Administration. Yet Bush has more personal friends and acquaintances than any other political figure in recent memory, and members of his well-tuned campaign staff understandably expect good government jobs. How Bush resolves the O'Hare-style gridlock over appointments will be an early test of his administrative skills...
...time and the place were right. The Lost (not to mention loud) Generation of the '60s took up the sect's chant ("Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare"). Within ten years, and with a little help from the Beatles, the Hare Krishnas became a worldwide cult, flaunting millions of dollars and commanding thousands of devotees whose shaved heads, saffron robes and mantra became familiar on street corners from Times Square to the Ginza...
Money poured in from the Hare Krishnas who worked the crowds in airports and at rock concerts. Hubner and Gruson are convinced that drug smuggling was another major source of income. One of the dealers was Charles St. Denis, who, the authors say, was killed for, among other things, withholding money from Kirtanananda. The guru has repeatedly denied involvement in either the dope business or the homicides. A New Vrindaban fringe member named Dan Reid (Daruka) and a commune enforcer, Thomas Drescher (Tirtha), are currently serving prison sentences in West Virginia for the St. Denis murder. Drescher is also awaiting...
...authors are frank about their methodology. They are also quick to insert disclaimers that their expose of New Vrindaban is meant to discredit the whole Hare Krishna movement. But it does, mainly because their approach focuses almost exclusively on bizarre and scandalous events. Following the 1977 death of founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, each of his closest disciples split off to establish his own turf. For example, Hans Kary of Hoboken, N.J., headed for Berkeley, where, as Hansadutta, he became a Krishna guru who financed rock-'n'-roll albums and amassed an arsenal of firearms...
...centenary, the playwright' s letters reveal that despite his revolutionary achievements, he grew disenchanted with the stage. -- An expose of the Hare Krishna movement...