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Aug 25, 1972
Scientology law repeal planned — The Advertiser (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: 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 ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Aug 25, 1972
Scientology makes a comeback // Labor leaders pledge action to give the cult legal recognition — The Australian
Type: Press
Source: 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. ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Aug 17, 1972
At St. Vincent de Paul // Prison worker hits poor reform — Montreal Gazette
More: 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
Type: Press
Source: 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 Post
More: link
Type: Press
Source: 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 Herald
More: link
Type: Press
Source: 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 ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 22, 1972
Scientology fights back — The Nation
More: 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 Press
More: 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
Type: Press
Source: 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.
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
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 ...
Mar 1, 1972
Scientology wins in court — Fate Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard E. Saunders
Source: Fate Magazine
AFTER ALMOST 10 years of what only can be called harassment by the Food and Drug Administration the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D. C., has emerged from the courts victorious.
Feb 29, 1972
Letters / Narcotics Anonymous — Montreal Gazette
Feb 20, 1972
Church of Scientology Sues at Drop of Its Name — Yuma Daily Sun
Type: Press
Author(s): Lester Kinsolving
Source: Yuma Daily Sun
Churches have been generally reluctant to engage in the expense and acrimony of lawsuits ever since St. Paul counseled the Corinthian church to avoid property litigation between members before pagan magistrates. (1 Cor. 6: 1-9) But an organization called "the church of Scientology" appears to have taken just the opposite course, in what seems to be a means of acquiring extensive publicity and at the same time frightening anyone inclined to expose their operations.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 14, 1972
Fresh approach in S.A. to scientology — The Advertiser (Australia)
Jan 1, 1972
One Flew Over The Cuckoo conference — The Realist
More: ep.tc
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Wolf
Source: The Realist
[...] Another session was led by Bob Dobson-Smith, a hip-executive type who had given up architecture to sell Scientology. ("Okay?" ) Only seven persons showed up for his talk, and two of them left as soon as he began plotting charts all over the blackboard. (One of those who didn't attend had given his reason beforehand: "I dropped out of Scientology - 2000,000 years ago.") Dobson-Smith didn't really need anybody else anyway: there are already ten thousand Scientologists in Toronto, he ...
Dec 23, 1971
QC criticizes ban on entry of foreign members but urges legislation on psychotherapy — The Times (UK)
Dec 23, 1971
Scientology report / QC criticizes ban on entry of foreign members but urges legislation on psychotherapy — The Times (UK)
Dec 21, 1971
Harassed scientologists cry 'fascist' — The Australian
Dec 18, 1971
Anti-addiction centre seeking help in Ottawa — Ottawa Citizen
Dec 1, 1971
Enquiry into the practice and effects of Scientology — Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Dec 1, 1971
Suit-happy scientologists [exact date unknown] — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, transcript from another publication
Type: Press
Author(s): Lester Kinsolving
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Churches have been generally reluctant to engage in the expense and acrimony of lawsuits ever since St. Paul counseled the Corinthian church to avoid property litigation between members before pagan magistrates. (1 Cor. 6: 1-9) But an organization called "the church of Scientology" appears to have taken just the opposite course, in what seems to be a means of acquiring extensive publicity and at the same time frightening anyone inclined to expose their operations. Scientology, which focuses upon intimate interviews using ...
Nov 20, 1971
Law Report November 19 1971 // Ban on book on scientology is lifted — The Times (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Times (UK)
Hubbard and Another v Vosper and Another Before Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Megaw and Lord Justice Stephenson. The court allowed an interlocutory appeal by defendants, Mr Cyril Ronald Vosper, of Inverness Terrace, W, and Neville Spearman Ltd, publishers, and set aside an injunction granted to Mr. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and the Church of Scientology of California, of Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, by Mr Justice Kilner Brown in chambers on October 4 restraining the defendants ...
Nov 20, 1971
Scientific religion struggles... grows — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Nov 17, 1971
A dangerous precedent over scientology? // Nigel Lawson examines the use of arbitrary powers against members of the cult and asks why the Foster Report is still unpublished — The Times (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Times (UK)
In reply to a written question in the of Commons a few days ago, the Secretary of State for Social Services, Sir Keith Joseph, declared that he would be making an announcement about the publication of the Foster Report on Scientology "soon". However soon "soon" may be, he has certainly taken time about it. For the report, which was commissioned by his predecessor, Mr Richard Crossman, in January, 1969, has now been in his hands for the best part of ...
Nov 14, 1971
Dianetics and drugs: a "cure" in weeks for $3,000 — Chicago Tribune
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Source: Chicago Tribune
On March 7, 1971, a benefit concert to aid the National Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Program was held at the Happy Medium. The program was presented by Dinah Christie and members of the cast of the revue appearing at the theater. Publicity releases were sent out plugging the concert and at least one newspaper columnist mentioned both the performance and the charity it was supporting. [...]
Nov 14, 1971
Scientologists lose 'Mind Benders' case [exact date unknown]
More: link
Type: Press
MR Justice O'CONNOR dismissed two applications by the Church of Scientology yesterday for the editor of a provincial newspaper and the author of "The Mind Benders," a book on the cult, to be sent to prison for contempt of court. The judge said on the third day of the hearing that he would give his reasons today. In the applications, the Church of Scientology had sought to commit to prison Mr CYRIL VOSPER, the author, and Mr KEITH WHETSTONE, editor of ...
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