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...Tokyo District Court, finding that Japan's Aum Shinrikyo manufactured the sarin nerve gas used in the Tokyo subway attack, ordered that the cult lose its tax-sheltered status as a religious organization. The ruling paves the way for a liquidation of Aum's assets, estimated at anywhere from $20 million to $1 billion. The proceeds from the sale would be seized by the government or used to settle lawsuits against the cult. Echoing the relief felt by a vast majority of his countrymen, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said, "We were expecting to hear this conclusion, and I am glad...
Bonnie Smith, campaign manager for council hopeful Marty Connor, said Connor was distributing leaflets at the Alewife and Porter Square subway stations...
WILLIE BROWN HAS NEVER WORKED so hard in his life. As speaker of the California assembly until last June, he was one of the wiliest and most powerful politicians in the state. Last week he was at a subway stop in San Francisco, grabbing for the hands of voters as they rushed for the perennially late trains. "In San Francisco politics is a contact sport," says Brown. "All my campaigns added together haven't been this hard! You have to personally shake hands with every single person in this city. And if you don't, they're insulted...
Craig A. Kelley says his main goal is to increase alternative transportation sources within the city. The 32 year-old North Cambridge resident makes a 40-mile daily commute via subway, bus and bicycle to Hanscomb Air Force Base...
...that before the deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo last March, the Japanese group had recruited two Russian nuclear scientists and tried to buy a $500,000 laser system that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks and did purchase land in Australia where it tested batches of the deadly sarin nerve gas on sheep. Mark Thompson reports: "This is going to be increasingly problematic as more and more terrorists get access to materials to make...