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Bearded, robed and barefoot, Krishna Venta (real name: Francis Heindswatzer Pencovic) stood before his Seattle audience and, with modest mien, announced that he was Christ returned to earth. As leader of the W.K.F.L. (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Love) Fountain of the World, Krishna went on: "It is true, children, I have served time for committing that bad check . . . that I . . . was convicted for a so-called burglary . . .'' Many in the audience wept; some doubted. One challenged: "Are you the embodiment of Christ?" Replied Krishna: "I cannot lie to you to please you. I must tell the truth...
Last week Ralph Muller, 33, and Peter Kamenoff, 42, two former members of Krishna Venta's California-based cult, became convinced at last that the "Master" had indeed lied-and had indulged in considerable un-Christian intimacies with their wives as well. After complaining in vain to the state attorney general's office, the two turned up at the cult's headquarters in a canyon near the San Fernando Valley with 40 sticks of dynamite, cornered the 47-year-old, self-proclaimed prophet in his headquarters building, blew him, themselves, and five other adults and two children...
...years ago a Smithsonian-National Geographic Society-University of California expedition excavated an Olmec ceremonial center at La Venta, a marsh-surrounded island near the Tovala River. They found among the relics several fragments of charcoal, presumably the remains of ceremonial fires. The carbon 14 content of the charcoal bits taken from La Venta's lowest level gave its average date as 814 B.C., with a maximum possible error of 134 years...
...Robert Heizer, one of the leaders of the La Venta expedition, believes that the Olmecs' radiocarbon dates will "force a total chronological reassessment of early American history." His hope is that the shadowy Olmecs may have had other centers in Mexico or Central America, perhaps in places where the climate is not so hard on relics. A peculiar ruin at Tlatilco near Mexico City may be one of them...
...waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient basalt heads of La Venta, has written down the Italian-like speech of the formidable matriarchs of the market places. Result: an alluring book, rich with the Indian savor that is the best of Mexico...