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...Moonies were out in force on Capitol Hill last week. Outside the Russell Building the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's disciples had a band oompahing in protest; inside, they packed the gallery, unleashing standing ovations, boos and shouts of "Liar!" as they thought the testimony warranted. The occasion was an unofficial hearing on "cults," presided over by Republican Senator Robert Dole...
Cults such as Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Scientology, Synanon, Hare Krishna and Children of God offer a refuge from the storms of the world. They purport to know the truth of existence, which members promise is available to anyone willing to submit to the discipline of the sect...
Jones followed in the dubious tradition of megalomaniacal American religious leaders. The obvious parallel lies between Jones and his self-declared idol, Father Divine. Sun Myung Moon also comes to mind; but somehow the connection to more mainstream evangelists--the Billy Grahams and Oral Roberts of the world--does not seem so far off. We recoil from the terrible spectacle of California cults gone berserk, but manage to forget their antecedents, presumably because the more conventional, if hardly more genuine, religious-business organizations don't break the laws of propriety in such flamboyant ways...
LAST WEEKEND, two Harvard College professors and one Harvard Medical School faculty member attended the seventh International Conference on the Unity of Sciences (ICUS) in Boston, sponsored by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's International Cultural Foundation. A total of 65 academics--some of them Nobel laureates--came to the three-day convention from all parts of the world to partake in scholarly discussion groups...
...their home town may never be the same. Most local businesses weathered the strike nicely by shifting their advertising dollars into weekly newspapers, spot television and radio, magazines and billboards; some of those dollars may never return to the dailies. Thousands of New Yorkers began reading the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's slickly professional News World or the Gannett Co.'s strike-born suburban daily Today and may stay with them. Others may do without newspapers altogether, as happened after the 114-day strike of 1962-63, when some 400,000 New Yorkers lost the newspaper habit...