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...fate of L. Ron Hubbard underlies Scientology's turmoil...
Those eerie similarities to the last years of Howard Hughes are part of the mysterious portrait that onetime associates sketch of L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 71, founder and guiding inspiration of the Church of Scientology. As proclaimed by Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that sees life as a relentless struggle to erase painful mental images (called "engrams" in the cult's jargon) that block a person from achieving his full potential and that may accumulate through his successive incarnations. Hubbard has insisted that he lived through a series of incarnations and that he was in fact 74 trillion...
...Hubbard's absence, Scientology is deeply riven by bitter disputes. A dozen or so of Hubbard's youngest followers, who have spent much of their lives in the cult's bizarre world, have seized control of the organization. Claiming to be "on Source" with Hubbard, and to be acting under his direction, they are also trying to gain control of the church's assets, estimated to be more than $280 million. About 75 senior leaders have been purged by the young zealots in a coup that has shaken the 29-year-old church...
...Ruth Hubbard professor of Biology, said the new group "supports a lot of projects that I support and emphasizes those that are badly in need of money...
...help was already on the way. Responding to the recommendations of a White House task force, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services intervened. In addition to promising to pay off Meharry's $29 million construction loan for Hubbard Hospital, HHS pointedly instructed the U.S. Veterans Administration to expand an affiliation between at least one of the large VA medical centers in the Nashville area and Meharry. Said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, in explaining his department's intervention: "Many of Meharry's students have come from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. Its graduates have established a strong record...