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...small, violent Muslim fundamentalist sect known as Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) may have been involved. This group, a band of urban guerrillas seeking to transform Egypt into a rigid Islamic state, exhorts its members to use "sacred terror" to achieve its objectives and is known to have built cell groups within the armed forces...
Later in the day, in Jerusalem's Shabbes Square, 10,000 religious militants staged a three-hour demonstration, protesting what they termed the desecration of graves at the government-approved dig. Leading the protest were members of Netorei Karta (Guardians of the City), a fundamentalist sect that refuses to accept the legitimacy of the Israeli state, and representatives of Agudat Israel (Union of Israel), an ultra-Orthodox religious party that joined Prime Minister Menachem Begin's new government a month...
DIED. Ervil LeBaron, 56, fanatical leader of the polygamous San Diego-based sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, who was believed responsible for the deaths of at least 13 people between 1972 and 1977; of as yet undetermined causes; in a state prison in Draper, Utah. LeBaron, who served twelve months in a Mexican jail in connection with the 1972 slaying of his brother Joel, was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of the head of a rival polygamous sect in Utah. LeBaron was also convicted last year of plotting to kill another brother...
...Unification Church promptly threatened ABC with a $50 million libel suit, and cited an immigration official who denied that any proceedings against Moon were in the works. Then it indeed developed that an investigation is being conducted that could ultimately result in Moon's deportation, not for his sect's manipulation of thousands of young devotees, but on a technicality involving the resident status of his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. Allegedly, Mrs. Moon was granted permanent resident alien status in the U.S. on the basis of falsified credentials on her application. If the charge is proved...
...this is sketched lightly and crisply. But when the leader of the association appropriates the manuscript of Fleur's just completed novel in order to use its plot as a blueprint for manipulating the destinies of his hapless sect, Spark performs her characteristic sleight of hand. Her brisk little comedy turns out to hinge on mysteries of good and evil, reality and imagination. The feat may be done no better here than in half a dozen of her earlier novels, but it is quite enough to bear out Fleur's assertion that "everything happens to an artist: time...