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...That way, around the corner in the Performing Arts theater, was the group now led by John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who believes wind power and transcendental meditation are the way to start solving the country's problems. Hagelin, a soft-spoken professor at Maharishi University who is getting his first taste this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray...
...Then there's the little matter of the November election. "It's pretty clear where the chips have fallen," says Hagelin in his best physicist-professor monotone. "There's the Reform party and there's a Buchanan Reform party. The Buchanan Reform party will probably manage to seize ballot access in 25 states or so, while I'll maintain the Reform party ballot access in the others as a candidate plus other state ballot access as a candidate with the Natural Law party...
...have been shouting matches, shoving matches and singing matches (the Perot people are partial to "We Shall Overcome"). There have been standoffs with security forces. Each side is claiming to be the one true Reform party. "This is the main theater, this is the Reform party convention," the nuclear physicist Hagelin said as he arrived. "We're going to conduct the Reform party convention. Pat Buchanan is conducting the Buchanan convention...
...Perot loyalists have already filed an FEC complaint, claiming fraud and hoping to discredit Buchanan, get the dough, and save the party by somehow rallying 5 percent of the vote with it. Buchanan, however, seems to have the inside track. Good thing Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who advocates transcendental meditation, has a fall-back...
DIED. SIR MARCUS OLIPHANT, 98, nuclear physicist and a developer of the atom bomb; in Canberra, Australia. A native Australian, Oliphant discovered new forms of hydrogen and helium at Cambridge University's Cavendish Lab and later joined the Manhattan Project. Horrified by the bombs' effects, he called for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and was South Australian governor for five years...