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...members still persist, convinced that if they lose, havoc will reign. "Our strategy is to inform society so they choose better leaders. If we're successful, then the trend towards bigger government will stop." McManus says, "If we're not successful then there will be a communist style government in the United States...
...intelligence and counterintelligence network of only 130,000), most of whom keep watch on their fellow citizens within the U.S.S.R. Even before Andropov's rise to power, the KGB's influence inside the Soviet Union was immense. Today more than four decades after the height of Stalin's reign of terror, many Soviets are still reluctant to call the organization by name, preferring such euphemisms as "the Committee," "the Office," or just an abbreviation...
...high plateau of papal collecting and patronage came in the 16th and 17th centuries. It lasted from the pontificate of Julius II (1503-13)-who commissioned the frescoes in the Stanze from Raphael and the Sistine frescoes from Michelangelo-through the reign of Clement VIII (1592-1605). In those years the most vivid and impressive aspects of papal taste came to their highest pitch, sometimes nearly bankrupting the papacy with the mania for the Antique, the demand for vast fresco cycles, fountains and pharaonic tombs, and the general love of lapis lazuli and gold...
NIGERIA'S ACTIONS, as callous as they are, pale in comparison with those of Ghana's military ruler. Flight Lieut. Jerry "J.J." Rawlings. Last New Year's Eve, Rawlings and a band of disgruntled army officers shot their way to power and quickly imposed a reign of terror on Ghana. Editors of major Ghanaian newspapers were herded to an army barracks and told that "objectivity" and "neutrality" in reporting were relics of the past: "You are either for or against the revolution...
Alan Walter, a Scientologist for 20 years and a mission holder in the Middle West, contends that "Hubbard was a genius in many ways. He was set up by these kids. They were doing insane things. It was a reign of terror." Larry Wollersheim, who considered himself "a cult salesman," says that he was trained to locate the assets of church members and then help them devise explanations to relatives for why they needed so much money. "I was constantly hammered to coerce people to get loans," he claims...