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...work of 66-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite, one of the 39 dead. The son of a minister, Applewhite taught music at several universities in the 1960's, marrying and having two children. He was dismissed in 1971, reportedly after a sexual liaison with a male student, and he sought therapy for a "cure" for his homosexuality. Applewhite then met a nurse and astrologer, Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles, who led him to believe that the pair were aliens incarnated on earth...
...grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website may be, it never got much attention until the networks and Internet publishers (including Pathfinder) sought it out as legitimate news in the wake of the deaths. As far as anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used the Net mainly to memorialize itself, or to generate freelance income by producing commercial web pages for local firms. But a growing number of other...
Stalled in its search, committee members are said to have sought an interim candidate to fill the chair and apparently settled on Friedlander...
...descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn't think the pipeline would ever be built. She told...
Ironically, Lake might have been better suited to the CIA post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations...