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Hare Krishna sect
broken up by Soriets
MOSCOW (AP) - Authorities have
broken up a Hare Krishna sect in
Moscow and punished two of its
leaders, a weekly magazine reported
yesterday. It warned other citizens of
the officially atheist Soviet Union not to
dabble in such "ideological diver-
sions."
The report in Nedelya was the first
word that a Hare Krishna group
acknowledgement that some Soviets
are attracted to Oriental-style
"mysticism" in place of communism.
ACCORDING TO Nedelya, the sect
was started under the guidance of an
American named Robert Campaniola,
whom the magazine branded a "former
CIA man" specializing in ideological
propaganda.
After the group was uncovered, the
weekly said, members Vladimir Krit-
sky, 32, and Sergei Kurkin, 25, were
tried and convicted of propagating
"strongly anti-communist teachings."
Nedelya said they were "sentenced"
but did not say what the punishment
was.
The tone of the article reflected two
principles said to be emphasized by
Communist Party head Yuri Andropov
- the need for rigid adherence to or-
thodox communism and exposure of
weaknesses in Soviet life.
THE HARE KRISHNA movement
was founded in New York in 1965 and
takes its name from the Hindu deity
Krishna, said to have been the eighth
incarnation of the god vishnu.
Nedelya began its 2,000-word story
with a description of Campaniola sit-
ting ina Moscow apartment, dressed in
white robes and receiving the adoration
of his followers.
It said Kritsky and Kurkin learned
about Hare Krishna in 1979 and helped
organize the sect. They began to spread
the word, organizing services and other
activities that "inflict harm to the
health of citizens by inciting them to
refuse to do public and civic duties,"
Nedelyssaid.
Nedelya described the case of Lena
P., a group member, at length, saying
she was a top student at Moscow's
prestigious Sports Institute until in-
volvement with Hare Krishna made her
"unbalanced."
"She began showing hatred for her
parents," the magazine said, adding
that she refused meat, fish, eggs and
other foods, "torturing herself with a
daily fast and...constantly murmuring
some unintelligible words."
The cautionary tale ended with
Lena's expulsion from the Sports In-
stitute and with her mother dying,
rejected by her daughter.
Job program gets
poor local response
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Twenty-three die in plane fire
CINCINNATI - An intense fire that "whipped through the cabin" of a
smoke-filled Air Canada DC-9 and killed 23 people appears to have started in
a rear lavatory, possibly from a cigarette, a federal investigator said
yesterday.
Twenty-three other people survived as Flight 797, bound from Texas to
Canada, made an emergency landing at Cincinnati Airport on Thursday
night a few minutes after the smoky fire broke out.
Donald Engen, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety
Board, was asked at a news conference yesterday about the possibility that
a cigarette tossed into a lavatory wastebasket had sparked the blaze.
Ted Morris, spokesman for Air Canada, told a news conference earlier
that the airline did not know how or where in the plane the fire started.
Speculation of arson was dismissed as "poppycock."
Unemployment declines again
WASHINGTON - Unemployment dipped a notch in May to 10.1 percent of
the civilian work force, continuing a gradual descent from the post-
Depression peak five months earlier. President Reagan's chief economist
called it "another month of solid recovery," and predicted the rate would
drop to the low-to mid-9 percent range by year's end.
But House Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.) found little joy in yesterday's
Labor Department report. The 11.2 million Americans still without a job, he
said, demonstrate that "This is still a rich man's economy."
While it was the third straight month of such decline, the rate was still
dramatically higher than a year ago when it stood at 9.4 percent.
Nearly 11.2 million Americans were classified as unemployed last month,
not including about 1.8 million "discouraged workers" who have stopped
looking for jobs, and millions more forced into only part-time work.
Gunman kills 3 schoolchildren
EPPSTEIN, West Germany - A gunman burst into a classroom waving
two pistols yesterday and sprayed bullets around the room, killing three
children, their teacher and a policeman in front of a terrified room of 12-
year-olds before finally killing himself.
Fourteen other people were wounded, five critically, while the rest of the
school's 750 students barricaded themselves in their rooms, police
spokesman Kurt Kraus said. Four of the most severely injured were
children, and police said 30 children suffered from shock.
Police identified the killer as 34-year-old Karel Charva, a native of
Prague, Czechoslovakia, whose last known residence was Frankfurt. But
Charva's motive remained a mystery.
"The only witnesses are school-children and they are either injured or in
such an extreme state of shock that they cannot answer our questions," a
police spokesman said.
U.S. begins Salvadoran talks
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Special envoy Richard Stone began work
as U.S. troubleshooter in Latin America yesterday, conferring with
President Alvaro Magana and other Salvadoran officials about this coun-
try's 3%-year-old civil war.
Stone began a day of talks with a two-hour meeting with U.S. Embassy
department heads, followed by meetings with Harlow Newton, president of
the American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador, and Dr. Ricardo
Maida, president of the Central Epections Commission.
Stone, named by President Reagan to help promote peace, economic
development and democracy in Latin America, would not discuss his
mission.
"I won't have any comment until I leave," he told a reporter at the
presidential palance, where he met with Magana, the nine-member political
commission and the three-member peace commission.
The United States, which supports the government of El Salvador in its
battle against leftist guerrillas, has sent military advisers to the wartorn
Central American nation. President Reagan says a leftist victory in El
Salvador would threaten the rest of Central America, as well as the United
States.
Israelis say Haig approved
last year's Lebanese invasion
Israel received tacit approval from then-Secretary of State Alexander
Haig for its invasion of Lebanon last summer and a possible assault on West
Beirut, a former headquarters for PLO guerrillas, Israel radio said yester-
day.
In a broadcast to be aired today, three days before the anniversary of the
June 6 invasion, the radio's diplomatic correspondent said Haig made his
position known when he met Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in New
York last June.
Israeli troops sealed off Beirut June 14, cut off food and water to Moslem
West Beirut in July and then bombarded the section before the Palestine
Liberation Organization guerrillas were escorted out under supervision of
U.S., French and Italian peace-keepin forces.
In Tel Aviv, Begin flatly rejected ca11s from the opposition Labor Party to
pull Israeli troops out of Lebanon within three months, warning that to do so
would endanger national security.
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to publicize the program adequately.
"The fault is ours, and we'ce got to
figure out how to rectify that," he said.
Area high schools, which are
distributing some applications, also
reported little response. Sandra Harris,
a job counselor at Pioneer High School,
speculated that part of the reason the
school has collected only nine ap-
plications is the age restrictions of the
program.
"WE DON'T have that age population
here at the high school," she said.
Huron High School job counselof Mat-
tie Oates said students are too busy
with graduation and other year-end
events to apply now. "I think most of
them should be coming in next week,"
she said.
Jon Ferman, whose last day at Com-
munity High School was yesterday,
said he applied at Ann Arbor's MESC
office yesterday because he needs the
money for college next year.
"IT'S MINIMUM wage, but still it's
money coming in," he said.
ApplicantStacy Lucas saidyesterday
she had been unable to find a summer
job after returning to Ann Arbor, where
she earned her undergraduate degree.
"People think I'm overqualified," said
Lucas, who had just completed her first
year of law school at Wayne State
University in Detroit.
Lucas, who is 21, said she needs the
job to support herself, since she doesn't
want to be a financial burden to her
parents. "You get to an age where you
can't expect your parents to support
you," she said.
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