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When New York Correspondent Mary Cronin began her reporting for this week's cover story on New Age phenomena, she was momentarily dismayed to learn that some of her most important sources were called channelers, the advisers who link disciples of the movement to a spiritual core of the universe. "I had recently returned from nearly six years in London," she says. "And I wondered what these people had to do with the English Channel." But Cronin was soon immersed in sessions with a jolly Manhattan channeler named Bob Johnson, who served as her conduit for a wide-ranging, exclusive...
...they want to take part in Salvadoran politics again. If they refuse to accept the government's amnesty offers and to thereby renounce the F.M.L.N. and violence, they can be charged with complicity in future guerrilla activities. Said another returning exile, Guillermo Manuel Ungo of the National Revolutionary Movement: "I don't think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through political, not military, processes." The right, as expected, began brandishing its swords at Zamora and Ungo. An anonymous threat appeared in El Diario...
Whether leftist, rightist or none of the above, the New Age has attracted a fair amount of criticism on philosophical and ethical grounds. "A lot of it is a cop-out, an escape from reality, an anti-intellectual movement denying rationality," says Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. "The New Age movement reflects anxieties of one sort or another -- the threat of nuclear warfare, the President running a vigilante action out of the White House, nurses accused of killing patients. People look at all this and say, 'If this is the Establishment...
Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...
...opening gambit of this movement, which pro-Israel lobbyists made their top priority this year, came when bills were introduced into both houses of Congress mandating the closing of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington and the Mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization in New York. At the same time, Secretary of State George Schultz stated that it would be unconstitutional to close the Washington office as long as it complied with the US laws governing registered foreign agents. Under these laws, the office must be staffed with American citizens and register its publications with the State Department. Secretary...