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Usually Mata teaches classes on the spiritual role of the individual and the world as well as on meditation and holistic healing, but the foundation is currently in "a transitional phase" and is planning on relocating within a month or two, so things are at a lull. Most of the people who find out about the group and show up are already "Initiates of the Hierarchy," Mata says. "I don't blow their minds and tell them who they were in previous lives, but I may tell the class as a whole that everyone here is an Initiate...
...well-concealed fact: military training for a rescue had begun last November, shortly after militant students took over the embassy. Repeated claims by various security experts at the Pentagon, State Department and White House that a mission to free the hostages was virtually impossible were actually designed to lull the captors into believing that no such effort would be mounted. This attempt to protect the possibility of surprise was about the mission's only success...
After the first period, which ended with the Islanders ahead 1-0 on a rebound goal by Bryan Trottier during a momentary lull in hostilities, only three minor penalties were called and the teams "settled down" to play hockey...
...surprise, for a change, was that there was no big surprise. Last week's primaries in Wisconsin, Kansas and Louisiana wound up the first phase of the 1980 campaign and began a two-week lull during which some candidates actually snatched a few days' rest before plunging on to the next contest in Pennsylvania on April 22. The result: Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan solidified the huge leads they have been building throughout a campaign season marked by enough twists and abrupt reversals to make "volatility" the political buzz word...
...date for a leadership convention in March, but rather than cobble together a hurried convention to choose a new leader, the party caucus and national executive decided that they would be better off drafting Trudeau. Some viewed his decision to quit the leadership as only a feint designed to lull the Tories into a false sense of security. But one friend insists that "he very genuinely was out, and only with very great difficulty made up his mind to come back...