Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respond to Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray's astonishing assertion to him on July 6, 1972, that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy III has already encountered a remarkable string of misfortunes. The adventurous oldest son of the late Robert F. Kennedy has been attacked by a roan antelope in Africa and knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which...
Civil Action. Patrick exulted after the trial in what he called "a great victory for the nation." Even on the weekend before the verdict, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, he had been busy in Rhode Island trying to deprogram a young woman member of the Children of God. Now, he said, he might go on a speaking tour to pay his lawyer's fees; when he comes back to deprogramming, he may demand a fee on top of the expenses he has hitherto asked. As for the New Testament Fellowship, whose members now escort each other to avoid...
...Patrick has already been involved in deprogramming attempts on three other fellowship members besides Voll and Lockwood. Last May he was arrested, along with an irate husband, for trying to hold the man's 31-year-old wife, Esther DiQuattro, but a New York grand jury refused to indict him. Two sisters, Margarett Rogow, 19, and Elizabeth, 21, charge that their parents, influenced by Patrick, have twice tried to abduct them. A grand jury is expected to consider the case soon...
...problem with combatting Patrick's religious bounty-hunting is that it is a private endeavor, and constitutional guarantees of religious freedom only prohibit Government interference. If Patrick is not stopped under criminal statutes, some sort of civil action may be the only legal avenue against his crusade. In the meantime, says Dean Kelley, the verdict has made deprogramming "far and away" the leading religious-liberty problem in the U.S. "Apparently it's now open season on young adults who persist in religious groups that their parents or spouses oppose...