4 Page 2-Friday, Januray 21, 1983-The Michigan Daily Panel debatesdeprogramming n.. r~rs~ts . r..mm' 1 By JERRY ALIOTTA "Advertising only lasts for one minute, but when you're in a cult, you're wat- ching TV for 24 hours a day," said University law student Dan Schnee last night as a panel debated the issues surrounding cults and deprogramming. Schnee, a former member of the Unification Church or "Moonies," was ne of four panel members at the debate at the Law Quad sponsored by the Jewish Law Students' Union. SCHNEE defines deprogramming as talking to people who have had all sour- ces of information cut off by religious cults and trying to re-establish the in- dividual's first ties - assocations with friends, family, lovers, and other elements of the outside world. Schnee explained that it takes about three days "to change an accessible person into a 'Moonie.' " Once this has been accomplished, the group will want to enforce these new ties through methods such as chanting to keep an initiate's mind on the group, he con- tinued. Breaking these new ties can be very difficult, as cult members may develop a psychological dependency on the organization. AMIE ALPERSON, who said her mother's "successfully nagging" lead to her deprogramming from Maranatha Christian Fellowship, said she used to consider anybody against her group evil. "I thought my mother was satanic," she said. "I thought if I left I would be turning against God," Alperson said. "almost every cut I know of, the people think that if they leave it, they face dam- nation." But University law student Don Baker who for eight years has been a follower of the Way, a major nation- wide religious group, said he has never been subjected to participating in anything against his free will. "It (the Way) conforms with my religious beliefs," Baker said. Panel member Kit Pierson, also a law student, was mainly concerned with the legality of deprogramming. "Courts should not decide when in- dividuals have been brainwashed," Pierson said. "I have trouble finding that the legal system has a satisfactory resolution:" PIERSON ADMITS, however, that if the judicial system does not handle the issue it will be left in the private hands, which sometimes results in the kidnap- ping of "cult" members. Baker asserts the Constitution's First Amendment to defend his beliefs. "An individual has the right to choose his own religion and to change that religion if that individual chooses," Baker said. Baker said that parents are biased and get too emotional when their children join religious cults. But Schnee disagreed, saying that parents are often the best indicators of when a child or young adult has gone too far. "Parents see the amount of manipulation their child is being sub- jected to," he said. 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CHICAGO (AP) - Federal officials are checking all 1.5 million names on Chicago's voter list to find out "once and for all" the extent of election fraud in the city where ballots once were found in a river and people cast votes from the grave. "There hasn't been anything remotely like this before," U.S. Attor- ney Dan Webb ,said. The expanding probe, aided by computer, already has resulted in two indictments. ITS PURPOSE, he added, is "to determine once and for all the extent to which the vote of the citizens of the Chicago area is being diluted by vote fraud." The newest development in the inquiry involves the use of FBI com- puters to find dead people or people registered more than once on voter rolls in Chicago, its suburbs, and neigh- boring DuPage County. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Elden said investigators also have "handfuls" of leads that will still require "old-fashioned footwork" to check out. Among those leads are reports of unusually high numbers of absentee ballots cast in several precin- cts and election judges casting ballots for voters while inside the booths. TO DETERMINE the number of dead people still registered in Chicago alone, investigators must match each of the more than 1.5 million registered voters against lists from the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Political scientist Richard Smolka, a professor at American University in Washington who has studied Chicago elections, also said the investigation appeared to be the biggest such elec- tion-related inquiry. In announcing the indictments Wed- nesday of Chicago Democratic precinct captain Edward Howard and his assistant, Thomas Cusack, Webb said officials already had found a "substan- tial number" of dead people on the rolls and people who were registered twice. He refused to provide numbers because of the grand jury investigation. An additional 1 million voters are registered in the city's suburbs and DuPage County, which are traditionally Republican. Webb said his office has not received "any specific allegations" of vote fraud outside the city, but still planned to scrutinize those voter lists out of "fairness." He said yesterday his office was still waiting to learn whether computers listing voter rolls in Chicago's suburbs and DuPage County were compatible with the one provided by the FBI. The U.S. attorney's investigation was begun within days of the Nov. 2 general election, in which incumbent Republican James Thompson won an unprecedented third term as governor over challeger Adlai Stevenson by a margin of 5,074 votes. The percentage of the victory was 0.14 percent, the narrowest in Illinois history. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports 63-year-old woman accused in assaults of elderly men BALTIMORE - A 63-year-old woman has been accused of luring "elderly and defenseless men" into her car with offers of rides, then drugging them with spiked drinks and robbing them. Some of the old men were dumped unconscious in ditches or unfamiliar neighborhoods and left in the cold, police said. "What she was doing was preying upon elderly men, posing as a good Samaritan," said Sgt. Mike Bass, a department spokesman. Bass said Eleanor Mitchell of Baltimore was charged with robbery, kid- nappingand assault with intent to murder. "She appears to be elderly, and is described as ostensibly being a very outgoing, kind person" by her alleged victims, Bass said. The arrest followed a 10-day investigation by city and state police and the city prosecutor's office into complaints filed by four Baltimore men, ranging in age from 75 to 86, according to Dennis Hill, another police spokesman. Edison may refund millions LANSING - Detroit Edison Co. customers could be getting nearly $50 millon in refunds as the result of a split Michigan Supreme Court decision yesterday upholding a lower court ruling against the company. Therefunds could amount to $20 for the average customer and up to $1 million for some businesses. The court's 3-3 deadlock effectively upheld a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that said Edison was not entitled to $23.5 million collected from customers in 1975. Edison contended it deserved the funds because a procedural change enacted by the Public Service Commission in 1974 denied it two months' wor- th of fuel cost adjustments. The company said it was denied reimbursement for December 1974 and January 1975. Christomer Nern, an attorney for Edison, said the company is considering "other alternatives" which could include attempting to get the court to reconsider the case or taking the issue to federal court. 8th grader kills self, one other MANCHESTER, Mo. - An eighth-grader pulled two pistols and opened fire yesterday in a high school study hall, killing one 15-year-old and woun- ding another before taking his own life, police said. Police said about 25 students and a teacher were in the study hall at Park- way South Junior High School in west St. Louis County when the unidentified youth opened fire. "All we know at present is that one youth stood up in the middle of the study period, pulled two pistols and began firing," said St. Louis County police Maj. Thomas Moonier. "We understand he was upset by the treatment his brother had been get- ting from students," Monnier said. "But we don't feel there was any par- ticular target. We feel he just fired indiscriminately." The unidentified 14-year-old youth died instantly from the self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, and one of his victims, Randall Kroger, 15, died shortly thereafter of a bullet wound in the abdomen. A third youth, Greg Palmer, 15, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was listed in satisfactory condition with a bullet wound in his side. Social Security plan submitted WASHINGTON - The National Commission on Social Security Reform sent President Reagan yesterday its $168 billion blueprint for pulling the system back from the brink of a financial crisis that threatens to delay retirees' checks this summer. A majority also recommended gradually raising the normal retirement age from 65 to 66. The centerpiece of the rescue plan is a six-month delay in July's cost-of living increase for Social Security's $36 million beneficiaries; higher payroll taxes in 1984, 1988 and 1989 for employees and employers; a permanently higher payroll tax on the self-employed starting in 1984; taxation of one-half of Social Security benefits for middle-and upper-income retirees; and bringing all new federal workers and non-profit groups into the system next year. Congressional leaders say they are shooting for passage of a rescue bill by early May to give the Social Security Administration enough time to know whether to 'proceed with, or withhold, July's estimated 5 percent cost-of- living hike. Mideast talks hit snag KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel - Lebanon yesterday rejected Israel's demand to operate electronic spy stations on Lebanese soil, and U.S. envoy Philip Habib was reported working on a compromise proposal for listening posts manned by Americans. Negotiations clashed over the Israeli demand but did agree to form four committees, including one to draw up a timetable for evacuating foreign ar- mies from Lebanon. A joint statement after the eighth round of talks said "good progress was made." Officials attending the U.S. mediated negotiations said no attempt was made to bridge differences over Israel's conditions for leaving Lebanon which it invaded June 6 to smash the Palestine Liberation Organization. The joint statement said committees were created "to enter into detailed examination" of the topics on the agenda: Withdrawal, security arrangements, future Israeli-Lebanese relations and possible guarantees of the final agreement. Vol. XCIII, No.91 Friday, January 21, 1983 4 4 I I 4 This Desk Can Reach Mach 2. t +, r , -r° , o G d