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Dec 30, 1986
Scientology verdict returned — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 5, 1986
Scientology group helps public defender by paying witness — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Sep 23, 1986
Court may disbar lawyer linked to Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 15, 1986
Ads spur new interest in Hubbard's 'Dianetics' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Aug 27, 1986
Scientology-linked group sponsors student contest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Maggie Erickson Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — A local school student council could win $5,000 in a contest — if the school follows the offical guidelines outlined in Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's book "The Way to Happiness." At least one Pinellas school principal received a flier advertising the contest sponsored nationally by the Concerned Businessmen's Association of America, an organization that has been tied to the Church of Scientology. School principals are asked to fill out a request form to enter their school in the ...
Aug 27, 1986
Sect: It won't happen again — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
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Lesley Collins Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — What was thought to be a roofing job under way on the Fort Harrison Hotel's 10th-floor sundeck turned out to be gutter repairs, building officials confirmed Tuesday. So Chief of Building Inspections Dave Christiansen said he's not sure whether the Church of Scientology needed a permit for such minor repair work or even a licensed contractor. A pot of hot tar burst into flames about 4 p.m. Sunday at the sect's Clearwater retreat at 210 N. Fort Harrison Ave. ...
Aug 23, 1986
'Boheme': Ship's departure from St. Petersburg to leave disappointment in its wake — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
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David Olinger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A week from today, passengers will board the cruise ship Boheme for what apparently will be its last Caribbean voyage out of St. Petersburg. Travelers who had planned dream cruises are getting called about a change in those plans. Travel agents are making the unpleasant phone calls. St. Petersburg officials who helped bring the Boheme to port 20 months ago are keeping stiff upper lips and looking for another ship. Finley Myers, a senior vice president at Automobile Association of America ...
Aug 23, 1986
[The Danish High Court awarded the Church of Scientology ...] — Weekly Challenger (Florida)More: link
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Weekly Challenger (Florida) The Danish High Court awarded the Church of Scientology in Denmark over 1.4 million Danish Kroner in damages against three apostate members from England. The damages award, one of the highest amounts ever awarded in a Danish court, was the result of a case brought against former church members for their involvement in the theft of sacred upper level church Scriptures from the church in Denmark. In December 1983, Robin Scott returned to Denmark and was subsequently arrested and taken to ...
Aug 22, 1986
Scientologists way off base in blasting pedophile program — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
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Tampa Tribune (Florida) The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group sponsored by the Church of Scientology, is doing a great disservice to the Florida Mental Health Institute, a state facility based in Tampa. The "human rights" commission, which works out of the church's national headquarters in Clearwater, has started a national lobbying campaign to halt a federally-funded program at FMHI that seeks to determine the success rate of both psychotherapy and behavior modification in curbing child molestation. The commission has circulated letters to ...
Aug 18, 1986
Scientologists settle 4 suits out of court — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
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Tampa Tribune (Florida) TAMPA — The Church of Scientology has reached out-of-court settlements in four multimillion-dollar lawsuits but U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sealed the records in all cases. The settlements were reached in cases involving former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares and his wife Maggie; Tanja C. Burden of Las Vegas; former Scientologists Nancy and John McLean of Ontario. Canada; and former Scientologist Margery Wakefield, whose address was unavailable. Tampa attorney Walt Logan, who represented the plaintiffs in all four cases, said ...
Aug 16, 1986
Cazares, 3 others settle suits against Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Aug 1, 1986
Scientology investigated foe, lawyer says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jul 31, 1986
Sect's purchase ousts tenants — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lesley Collins Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology paid $4.6 million Friday for a 200-unit Skycrest apartment complex to house its growing staff. The church now owns 11 pieces of property — five of which are used as dormitories. And while sect staff members are getting new lodgings, residents at Hacienda Gardens Apartments, 551 N. Saturn Ave., are being shown the door. They can stay at the complex until their current leases expire — but no longer. "We purchased it to provide additional ...
Jul 23, 1986
Man is awarded $30-million in lawsuit against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jul 10, 1986
Hubbard, Cazares in the news — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Cult Awareness Network, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to "alerting the world to the danger of destructive cults," has an interesting item in its latest newsletter about a Montessori school in Illinois using books by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The item, based on an
article in the Chicago Sun-Times , said the school's founder, a Scientologist, fired six of her teachers because they refused to use the books. "I'm the leader, and I call the shots," Janet Bowes is quoted ...
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