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Nov 24, 1972
Scientologists not discouraged — Daily News (Australia)
Nov 23, 1972
Scientology Repeal Bill // Bid to stop debate fails — West Australian
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West Australian The Legislative Assembly yesterday took more than an hour to decide that it had power to debate the Scientology Act Repeal Bill. It rejected by 20 votes to 19 a move by the Leader of the opposition, Sir Charles Court, to disagree with a ruling by the Speaker, Mr Norton. The Bill seeks to repeal the ban on scientology enacted by the Liberal-Country Party Government in 1968. Mr Norton ruled that the Bill was not subjudice because of a writ by ...
Nov 17, 1972
Amanda Ambrose copes — Los Angeles Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lloyd Steele Source:
Los Angeles Free Press I once got poison pen letters from Aristophanes. That's how long I've been writing about the theatre. And I thought I had met every type of performer. I know little talents with big aspirations and big talents with little motivations. I know people who'd die for the theatre and I know people who've died in it. I know healthy actors who've been destroyed by the theatre and sick actors who've been made whole by it. I know rich actors who talk ...
Nov 16, 1972
Scientology — West Australian
Nov 15, 1972
Bill to legalise scientology — West Australian
Nov 11, 1972
Minister warns on cult inquiry — West Australian
Nov 4, 1972
'New Faith' bid to see Ellis fails — West Australian
Nov 3, 1972
Do not lift scientology ban, says Dr Ellis — The West Australian
Oct 26, 1972
Books / Inside Scientology — Rolling StoneMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William S. Burroughs Source:
Rolling Stone [Picture / Caption: Burroughs using a Scientology E-Meter: "All this time I felt my self-respect slipping away from me and finally completely gone . . . officially removed. . . " ] Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman Olympia Press. 279 pp. BY WILLIAM BURROUGHS The upper levels of Scientology processing are classified as "confidential," which means that only those who have completed the lower grades, passed security checks, and paid the large fees in advance are allowed to see and run this ...
Oct 24, 1972
Scientology registered as company — The West Australian
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The West Australian The Church of the New Faith Incorporated (Scientology) has been registered in W.A. as a foreign company. The practice of scientology in W.A. was banned in 1968 under legislation introduced into State Parliament by the previous Government. The Rev. Michael Graham, Australian president of the church, said in a Press release yesterday that the church was now registered in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and W.A. "Now that the church is registered, the Scientology Act 1968 should be repealed very ...
Oct 21, 1972
Drug program // Narconon graduates 7 — The Day (Connecticut)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marilyn Brayne Source:
The Day (Connecticut) Seven graduates, including the executive director of the YWCA, received diplomas last night at the first graduation of the first public Narconon drug rehabilitation program in the country. About 40 attended the ceremony at the YWCA. Among those graduating were Maryclare Granata, the executive director of the YWCA, and Patrick Healey, an investigator at Legacy, Inc. Healey directed the Narconon program. Although primarily geared toward detoxified drug addicts, Healey said the program is open to alcoholics or to anyone who needs ...
Sep 4, 1972
Scientology: really it's just like another nickel prospect — The National Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Don Aitkin Source:
The National Times (Australia) Labor's Senate leader, Lionel Murphy, seems to have alarmed a few people in declaring that a Labor Government would recognise the Scientology Church of the New Faith. The alarm is unfounded, or at least no more founded than a similar scare would be if it were learned that Labor would recognise the Church of the Immaculate Whatever. It is not simply that in these matters the Federal Government's writ extends only to Canberra and its environs and the Northern Territory. It ...
Aug 29, 1972
Sect decides to fight — The Australian
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The Australian A CAMPAIGN to have the ban on scientology in three Australian States lifted was launched yesterday by the Church of the New Faith. It announced plans to present a British Medical Association report on psychotherapy practices used by scientologists to the parliaments of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The Church's Australian vice-president, the Reverend T. B. Minchin, said the BMA report "completely undermined" the investigation into scientology which led to the ban on its "psychological practices" in Victoria in 1965, ...
Aug 28, 1972
'No faith' in beliefs of group — The Canberra Times (Australia)
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The Canberra Times (Australia) The Senate Opposition leader, Senator Murphy, who committed last week a Labor government to recognition of the Church of the New Faith (Scientology) said tonight that he did not agree with the church's beliefs. "I wish to make it quite clear that I have expressed no approval or endorsement of the beliefs of the Church of the New Faith, founded by people who call themselves scientologists," he said. "However, I am concerned that principles of freedom of religion be upheld." The ...
Aug 28, 1972
Scientology comes back as a religion — The Australian
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The Australian SCIENTOLOGY was banned in Victoria after an exhaustive 160-day inquiry in 1963-64, which yielded four million words of evidence. It was later banned in South Australia and Western Australia, and appeared on the decline. But South Australia has now decided to repeal its ban, and the Federal Opposition leader in the Senate, Senator Lionel Murphy, QC, says a Federal Labor Government would recognise the Scientology Church of the New Faith. Members of the Church of the New Faith intend to fight ...
Aug 25, 1972
Labor all clear on Scientology — The Age (Australia)
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The Age (Australia) CANBERRA. — A Labor Government would recognise Scientology, the Church of the New Faith, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy) said yesterday. The church for instance would have powers to conduct marriage ceremonies under Commonwealth law, Senator Murphy said. "Under the constitution, all religions are entitled to equal treatment," he said. "Whether churches are big or small, orthodox or unorthodox, they are intitled to equal treatment." The South Australian Government will legislate during the present session of ...
Aug 25, 1972
Scientology law repeal planned — The Advertiser (Australia)
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The Advertiser (Australia) The Government will legislate during the present session of Parliament to repeal the prohibition against the practice of scientology in SA. The Attorney-General (Mr. King) said yesterday the legislation would provide for a system of registration of psychologists. The Scientology Prohibition Act was accented to in 1969 while the Hall Government was in office. The legislation had been the subject of an investigation by a select committee of the Legislative Council. In the Assembly yesterday, Mr. King said the Government's attitude ...
Aug 25, 1972
Scientology makes a comeback // Labor leaders pledge action to give the cult legal recognition — The Australian
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The Australian TWO A.L.P. leaders yesterday came out in support of the Scientology Church of the New Faith. The party's Senate Leader, Senator Lionel Murphy, committed a Labor Government would recognise the church and South Australia announced it would repeal its ban on the church. Senator Murphy said a Labor Government would recognise he church in exactly the same way as any other religion. Under the Constitution, all religions were entitled to equal treatment. The Australian vice-president of the church, the Reverend T. ...
Aug 17, 1972
At St. Vincent de Paul // Prison worker hits poor reform — Montreal GazetteMore: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Janigan Source:
Montreal Gazette Few inmates become reformed at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary because prison rehabilitation programs are negligible, a Toronto prison worker said yesterday. Phil McAiney, director of the rehabilitation program Narconon, spent two days recently at the Special Correction Unit of the maximum security institution. He classified relations between the staff and inmates as "open warfare where hatred and fear are the weapons". And he charged that rehabilitation programs consist only of baseball and a weekly visit by the prison psychiatrist. "The ...
Aug 7, 1972
Churches surveyed on probes by IRS — Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)More: link
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Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) Washington, D. C. — U P I — The Church of Scientology said Sunday it has sent questionnaires to more than 7,000 churches on the East Coast to determine the extent of Internal Revenue Service "harassment" of churches and religious agencies. A church spokesman said it took the action after hearing a number of complaints that the IRS was investigating churches involved in social action programs. The Rev. Arthur Maren, of the church's headquarters In Los Angeles, said a similar survey ...
Jul 20, 1972
Church forms public health, safety group — Westlake PostMore: link
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Westlake Post Church of Scientology of California, the largest inter-denominational church in the United States with a membership estimated in excess of 3½ million, has announced the establishing of its newly formed Committee on Public Health and Safety. Function at the committee will be to work towards increasing the quality of health care and safeguards for the consumer. Spokesman for the committee, the Rev. Glenn A. Malkin, stated, "The committee will serve as a consumer information center and will provide the public with ...
Jun 13, 1972
Narconon promises 80% cure // 'I'll have them off drugs in a week' — The Day (New London, Connecticut)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marilyn Brayne Source:
The Day (New London, Connecticut) New London may soon have a drug rehabilitation program that guarantees 80 per cent rate of cure after only four to eight weeks of treatment. "There are no other existing program that have a higher rate of cure than 30 per cent," said the Rev. James Meisler, minister of public relations of the Church of Scientology of New York. "Narconon guarantees an 80 per cent effective rate of cure." Narconon is an offshoot of the Church of Scientology. "If a drug ...
Jun 10, 1972
Church panel to probe health care — Portland Press HeraldMore: link
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Portland Press Herald BOSTON (UPI) — The Church of Scientology has announced the formation of "The Church of Scientology's Committee on Public Health and Safety." They are investigating the charge that the American Medical Association is a political monopoly responsible for rising costs and declining quality of health care. Jeff Freidman recently appointed President of the committee stated, "This committee on public health and safety will be a stepping stone for reform in society. Too long has the publics' health been toyed with. We ...
Jun 9, 1972
The Kotzé Report (South Africa)
May 25, 1972
Scientologist says migration barred — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Darroch Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) LONDON, Wednesday. — A 25-year-old prospective English migrant claims he has been banned from going to Australia because he once worked for the Church of Scientology. He is Geoffrey Silver, of Mill Hill, an outer London suburb. At least 20 of his relatives have emigrated to or are already in Australia. Australian migration officials both in London and Canberra have rejected successive applications by him to come to Australia. They have also rejected his appeals from those decisions. They told him ...
May 22, 1972
Scientology fights back — The NationMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Clay Steinman Source:
The Nation Mr. Steinman is a free-lance writer living in New York. Like all true believers, the members of the young Church of Scientology (or Dianetics as it is sometimes known) believe they have found the answers. A visit to their New York headquarters in the Hotel Martinique shows that Scientology has at least put smiles on a few faces and seems to have solved many of the existential problems of the members who work and study there. According to the recent U. ...
May 7, 1972
Scientology offers new faith in man — St. Paul Twin Cities Pioneer PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bruce Nelson Source:
St. Paul Twin Cities Pioneer Press ACROSS THE STREET from two "porno" bookstores at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, a group of religious workers are pushing the concept of man as a spiritual being. Sandwiched between a loan company and an electrical supply outfit, the Minnesota Church of Scientology claims it can help people put their religious beliefs to practice. Despite opposition from the federal government, the medical profession and orthodox religious groups, Scientology has become one of the fastest growing religions in the United ...
Apr 11, 1972
Protest for scientology — The Australian
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The Australian SCIENTOLOGISTS are to picket Parliament House in Melbourne indefinitely from tonight to draw attention to a seven-year-old restriction on scientology in Victoria. A spokesman said picketing would continue on sitting nights until the law was repealed.
Apr 1, 1972
Author here sues Scientologists — New York Times
Mar 20, 1972
Letter from Sara Northrup to Paulette Cooper
Type: Document
Sara Northup was the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard. The letter below was first posted by Chris Owen who noted the following: For the benefit of OSA: no, I didn't get this document from Paulette, and I didn't solicit it in any way whatsoever; it was a big surprise to find it amongst a pile of FBI and CIA papers. The manuscript ends rather abruptly — I'm not sure that it's complete. When this visit happened, Ron had returned ...
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