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...Moonies are overeducated for their work. Drawn mostly from middle-class families, many were college students originally attracted to the movement by various idealistic-sounding causes. Fort Worth debutante Cynthia Slaughter was drawn by an ad seeking someone interested in the "betterment of mankind" (see box page 50). Others learn about the movement when they go to discussions of "ecology," "morality," and the spiritual salvation...
...Cynthia Slaughter was 24, not long out of the University of Texas at Austin, when she fell under the sway of the Moon cult. After two months, she was deprogrammed by Ted Patrick last September, and now frequently speaks out against Moon. She wrote this account of her experience for TIME...
...press, and his brightly resilient wife Ella. It may be the jet age for everybody else, but for the Udall campaign it was four hours from Buffalo to Milwaukee, a flight not aided by head winds, the ministrations of a glum stewardess and a pilot whose name, discomfitingly, was Slaughter...
...metamorphose into traffic cops of the maelstrom in the foul land--known as slaughter alley--during the day labor at desk jobs and are often doctors, lawyers, and school teachers. There's a Jekyll and Hyde element deeply ingrained in officiating. "I'm always surprised at the high-class people who go into it and stay with it," says Diehl. Officials are often "pillars of the community who no one questions," he says, "but put on a black and white shirt and they suddenly become suspect...
...Because of the lack of rain, California's usually green fields are burned brown. Wildlife, starved for fresh sprouts, is migrating to the few irrigated areas. Fruits and vegetables have been withering for lack of moisture. Many cattlemen faced with skyrocketing hay prices are selling their stock for slaughter now at below breakeven prices. So far, California growers and cattlemen estimate their losses at $410 million-and the cost is rising daily. Governor Jerry Brown has declared 29 agricultural counties disaster areas, which will allow the hard-pressed farmers to apply for emergency state and federal...