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Since Callaghan has lost effective control of Parliament, London bookies promptly laid 4-to-5 odds on his defeat. Smart politicians, though, were betting that the avuncular Prime Minister could survive with a vote or so to spare. Since succeeding Harold Wilson a year ago, Callaghan has seen Labor's slim three-vote majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with...
When the charge went before the grand jury, however, Queens Prosecutor Michael Schwed accused not the deprogrammers but the Hare Krishnas themselves. The grand jury indicted two leaders of the sect, Angus Murphy and Harold Conley, for "unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick...
...obligingly voted for a fellow Southerner who seemed to possess all those qualities Presidents are supposed to possess, and at least acknowledged the fact that there were some things wrong with our country. To me, McCarthy was some crazy clown who was to the liberals what Harold Stassen was to the conservatives. I figured that McCarthy was running because he enjoyed the attention and had nothing else better to do at the time. To me he was an egotistical spoiler...
...charged and then freed under Washington's unusually liberal bail procedures. As part of the agreement with the negotiators, Khaalis was freed without bail on his own recognizance after being charged with only a single count of kidnaping (additional charges are expected to be lodged). Superior Court Judge Harold Greene was uneasy about the deal that had been made. "The court is not in a position to second-guess the Government authorities," he said. "So it will go along...
Certainly the Hanafis had all the attention they could have asked for. At each of the buildings they seized, an outdoor television studio was created, and newsmen competed for telephone interviews with the gunmen. Dr. Harold Visotsky, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Northwestern University, believes that deranged persons have a passion for keeping up with the news and imitating it. "These crimes are highly contagious," he says. Today in the U.S. they are a virulent social illness...