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...this theory, Hubbard has let his youthful protégés take control in order to separate himself legally from the church and its suits while retaining many of its assets. Other Scientology defectors argue that while this may have been Hubbard's plan, the onetime loyal followers have taken advantage of his failing health and are now seeking to enrich themselves. If Hubbard actually is dead, the charge goes, the church is being looted by those who now control...
...claims that dark-shirted "finance policemen" demanded that he turn over $40,000 in the mission's treasury. He complied, and has since set up a new church unaffiliated with Scientology. "I got fed up with the young guys," he says. "The church has been attacking its own loyal people...
...water isn't hard to guess. Since 1975 his administration has been increasingly dominated--and plagued--by the growth of his personal political machine, created by White alternatively call in his election to a third term. At first, White's worries were only over whether his crew of loyal city employees would prove effective. "My vaunted political machine is moving," he said during the 1979 campaign, his fourth but the machine's first, adding. "I'm just not sure whether it's going to go forward or back up and run over me." "That fall it ran over White...
...them when 4000 layoffs had to be made after the passage of Proposition 2 1/2 White may charge Weld, a Republican, with political motives, but Weld has a lot to go on, most of all the apparent attempt to launder $122,000 in campaign funds by giving it to loyal employees, who in turn donated it as gifts for a planned birthday party for Mayor White's wife in 1981 (The party, which would have been held at the Museum of Fine Arts, was cancelled after public outcry over its extravagance...
...preferred Soviet image of stolid gray; in Kiev. The son of a foundry worker, Podgorny had a lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether...