Word: scientologists
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...more sympathetically. That rumor gets a sneer from Klein ("I don't think Clinton would change policy toward Germany to get better treatment from John Travolta"), but the actor has warm memories of the chat, in which he says Clinton spoke of an old roommate who had been a Scientologist. Travolta insists his performance wasn't swayed by the President but declares he played the role "with a valentine in my heart...
...Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself. "I thought, O.K., this is either the world's biggest scam or it's fabulous. I stopped working, quit my job, and I drove my car to California to be a Scientologist...
...wondered when it was coming," Travolta recalled. "Then he said he wanted to help me with the Scientology situation in Germany." Travolta is a strong adherent of Scientology, which is under attack from the German government. "[Clinton] said he had a roommate years ago who was a Scientologist and had really liked him, and respected his views on it. He said he felt we were given an unfair hand in that country, and that he wanted to fix it. That did it. It was like--wow! You're kidding! Really? Well, all right." The schmoozing continues. A letter from Clinton...
...rights survey this Thursday. According to the Post, the survey would criticize German authorities for a "campaign of harassment and intimidation" against the controversial church, which has seen such bizarre actions as youth groups calling for a boycott of the Tom Cruise movie "Mission Impossible" because Cruise is a Scientologist. The German diplomat told TIME Daily that after the Post reported the story Monday, a senior U.S. official called the German embassy to issue a clarification: "He assured us there will be some criticism in the report, but not that severe." As recently as 1995, the U.S. report had merely...
Occasionally a Scientologist's business antics land him in jail. Last August a former devotee named Steven Fishman began serving a five-year prison term in Florida. His crime: stealing blank stock-confirmation slips from his employer, a major brokerage house, to use as proof that he owned stock entitling him to join dozens of successful class-action lawsuits. Fishman made roughly $1 million this way from 1983 to 1988 and spent as much as 30% of the loot on Scientology books and tapes...