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Throughout the incorporated city of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon's Wasco County, young followers of the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh bustle about their business. The Bhagwan, who set up the community in 1981, has taken a vow of silence; he tours his 64,000-acre ranch in a $119,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with armed guards. His followers, mostly middle-class refugees from urban living, smile frequently, embrace warmly, and enjoy poker and blackjack in their private casino...
...automatically rejecting all new applications for voter registration. Each applicant, she said, could seek a hearing at which his or her eligibility would be decided. She was doing so, she said, to stop "organized efforts to fraudulently register people." The cumbersome process would effectively stall any massive Rajneesh registration...
...enough of its own members living in Antelope, 15 miles away, to take elective control of the seven-seat council in the tiny town (pop. 95). Although the community has surged from 2,000 to 5,500 in just the past month, the county has 14,000 non-Rajneesh registered voters, so a similar takeover is unlikely...
...master was born 46 years ago as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in a small village in Madhya Pradesh province. Raised in the Jain religion, he worked as a journalist, photographer, and teacher of philosophy at Madhya State University before becoming a spiritual master in 1966. Today the Poona center is growing so swiftly that he is looking for roomier quarters. Rajneesh's lectures are taped and turned into a steady stream of books. One title: Above All, Don't Wobble. Rajneesh centers now operate in 22 nations...
...Roughly translatable as "God Sir" Rajneesh...