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...regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman in a Bratislava public garden, under constant surveillance. Former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek is now a pensioner in Prague and a persistent critic of the Husák regime. Former Premier Oldřich Černik holds an obscure research job outside the capital...
Sibling rivalry between spiritual leaders? Well yes, between the Maharaj Ji, a.k.a. Perfect Master, and his eldest brother, Shri Satyapal Ji (Truth Incarnate). In India they are often regarded as export gurus aimed at the Western market, but in the U.S. the baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization...
...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...
...into sacrifice, martyrdom," he has written. Rubin and his roommate, Mimi Leonard, plan to get married in December. The most startling news is about Rennie Davis, who helped organize the Chicago Seven's convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj Ji. Davis, it turns out, now sells life insurance for John Hancock in Denver, wearing contact lenses and what looks like a blow-dry hairdo. He is living, he says, a sweet, useful life: Brighten the Corner Where...
...case of Rennie Davis, 37. Once he was a tough-minded tactician of the antiwar movement and the Chicago Seven, who were tried for disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1973, the year after his Chicago conviction was overturned, Davis hooked up with a teen-age guru called Maharaj Ji. Now he is connected with an even more unlikely name: John Hancock. Yes, Davis is a trainee at the insurance company's Denver office. Says he of his new constituency: "We have to get the business to the level where the cash flow is good so the business...