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...interest charges. Many Sudanese opposed the laws, particularly Christians and animists in the south who are still fighting government troops. Early this year Nimeiri ordered the execution of one rival, Mahmoud Taha, 76. But among the few who supported Islamization were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a militant fundamentalist sect banned in many parts of the Arab world. Last week Nimeiri, fearing the Brotherhood's growing power, unexpectedly cracked down on the group, jailing about 150 of its members, including its leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, who was also stripped of his post as Nimeiri's assistant for foreign affairs...
DIED. Hobart Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease...
...Bhagwan's political power. Two of the three Wasco County commissioners will be elected on Nov. 6. The Bhagwan's personal secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, has announced that all the new street people, perhaps some 3,500, will register to vote. She has also suggested that the sect may vote for its own write-in candidates for the two seats...
...sect had 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...
...lawyer drifting through a mediocre career and toward a no-thrills marriage with the boss's daughter, was named executor of the estate of Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), one of the world's richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of a swami, sect undetermined, to transfer her mind and soul at the moment of death into the healthy body of Terry (Victoria Tennant), the daughter of one of her servants. Then, darn the luck, the sacred urn containing Edwina's essence fell out of a window and onto Roger in the street...