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April 2, 1998 |
U.N. Derides Scientologists' Charges About German 'Persecution' |
A United Nations special investigator today rejected charges by the Scientology movement that the German Government is using Nazi tactics of persecution and ill treatment against it. "This comparison between modern Germany and Nazi Germany is so shocking as to be meaningless and puerile," the investigator said in issuing his report. The report counters criticisms made by Scientologists, and by the United States State Department in its annual human rights report. |
Germany, Press |
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April 1, 1998 |
Legislators Press Yeltsin over Premier |
Russia's leftwing-dominated parliament threatened to block the nomination of Sergei Kiriyenko as prime minister unless the government agreed to consult it. They demanded that Boris Yeltsin meet the legislature's chiefs to discuss Kiriyenko, whose nomination was a surprise, The nomination could be complicated by revelations that he attended Scientology seminars. |
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March 29, 1998 |
Scientology's Influence Grows In Washington |
After years of holding the U.S. government in contempt, the Church of Scientology is enlisting members of Congress, the U.S. State Department and even President Clinton to advance its agenda in foreign lands, prodded by the Scientologists' paid lobbyists and its cadre of sympathetic entertainers. |
Celebrities, Press, Scientology and Society |
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March 27, 1998 |
Church hits at jail claim |
Church of Scientology leaders have rejected claims that they are "canvassing" for new members in Irish prisons. The controversial church is contacting violent criminals offering them a place on their "Criminon" rehabilitation programme. Spokesman Graham Wilson dismissed reports that this was a strategy to recruit new members. |
Criminon, Press |
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March 27, 1998 |
Scientology Looks Into Reporter's Personal Life |
Continuing a long-standing practice, the Church of Scientology again is investigating the personal life of a news reporter. Scientology officials say their lawyers have hired a firm to investigate Joseph Mallia, a Boston Herald reporter who wrote a five-part series that raised questions about church practices. |
harassment, Press |
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March 19, 1998 |
Boston Herald: Church of Scientology Probes Herald Reporter |
The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life. |
Boston, MA, harassment, Press |
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March 5, 1998 |
Boston Herald: Church Wields Celebrity Clout |
With books, sophisticated TV and print advertising campaigns, a 30,000-page Internet site, and its celebrity members' clout on TV sitcoms and major films, Scientology uses a range of modern media to gain influence, church critics say. |
celebrities, Celebrities, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Kirstie Alley, Press |
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March 5, 1998 |
Boston Herald: Scientology Group Reaches Kids through PBS Videos |
More than 30 million American schoolchildren have watched PBS-TV math videos made by a Los Angeles-based foundation with intimate ties to the controversial Church of Scientology. |
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March 4, 1998 |
Boston Herald: Battle Sites in the Web War |
Internet sites for Scientology and its on-line opponents |
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March 4, 1998 |
Boston Herald: Church, Enemies Wage War on Internet Battlefield |
Scientology's lawyers - including prominent Boston attorney Earle C. Cooley - raided and searched the homes of Scientology critics in Virginia, Colorado, and California and seized their computer disks. |
harassment, Press |
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