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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 10,1980
Hare Krishna sect stockpiling guns, ammunition in California
By WAYNE KING c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service SAN FRANCISCO Hare Krishna groups are coming under increasing scrutiny by the police in California amid disclosures that the group has been stockpiling large stores of weapons and ammunition. Lt Jeff Markham, an investigator for the Lake County Sheriff's Department, whose jurisdiction includes a Krishna ranch near Ukiah, where officers discovered a cache of weapons and ammunition last March, said, They have pretended for years to be a peaceloving group that was only concerned about their religion but events of the last six months have shown me personally that they are not what they pretend to be.” Members and leaders of the Krishna sect maintain that the gathering of weapons is not sinister and stems from a need for self-defense. The authorities were trying to trace a stolen credit card when they visited a seemingly placid farmhouse on -180 acres of rolling, newly planted land in the Maycamas Mountains on March 4 There they uncovered several thousand rounds of ammunition, a grenade launcher, three rifles and four short-barrel shotguns, which are normally used by the
Price per barrel at stake as OPEC nations squabble
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) The 13 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries tentatively agreed today on the need to cut oil production, but Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading producer, said it would not cooperate without an accord on prices, Venezuelan Oil Minister Humberto Calderon Berti said. Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar said after the first
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Crowd pelts Carter motorcade
MIAMI (AP) President Carter says he didn’t notice the rocks and bottles tossed at his motorcade by a jeering crowd, but the mayor of this racially torn city is worried that the incident could spoil any benefits of the president’s visit to a riotscarred neighborhood. It was one of the most violent encounters in Carter’s presidency. One photographer was hit with a bottle, but no one was reported hurt or arrested when 600 people scrambled for safety late Monday as the motorcade was bombarded. Carter
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round of closed-door talks that oil ministers had agreed on the need to reduce OPEC output to 26 5 million barrels a day. OPEC now produces about 27.5 million-28 million barrels daily. Ministers of the 13-nation group were scheduled to discuss the sensitive pricing issue later today, but Kuwait Oil Minister Ali Khalifah al-Sabah said there
had waved to the crowd, at which point the crowd began booing and shouting insults. When the rocks and bottles came. Carter ducked into his car and sped off. Dade Metro Police Cmdr. Douglas Hughes said “a few kids at the back of the crowd” had thrown the debris. The incident, which followed demonstrations by blacks and Cuban exiles, occurred as Carter left a meeting with black leaders in Liberty City, the neighborhood burned and looted last month in racial riots that claimed 16 lives. Police in riot
Publicity will 'leave me with various kooks': Mrs. Coleman
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Martha C. Coleman, in seclusion since the night Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was shot, says “national exposure” may make it impossible to resume the life she knew before the sniper attack on the black civil rights activist. “I think that because of the type of exposure I’ve had and the things that have been implied...l’m going to try (to lead a normal life,) but I seriously doubt I’m going to be able to do it,” the blonde Urban League worker told a select group of local media Monday. Meanwhile, Indianapolis police Monday apprehended a
police as riot guns. None were illegal to own, the police said, Later that month, the Berkeley police discovered a Krishna-owned warehouse in El Cerrito containing casings, powder and slugs for making 50,000 rounds of ammunition. The cache was legal because the warehouse was owned by a licensed gun dealer, Sgt. Pepper’s Guns. In Moundsville, W.Va., property owners near a Krishna retreat have complained about members stockpiling a large arsenal of weapons and conducting target practice in the woods. In May the Berkeley police, acting on a warrant, searched an automobile near the Berkeley temple and found two loaded pistols, a Walther P-38 and a 9-mm. Browning, two military-type assault rifles, two .22-caliber rifles, ammunition and a locked attache case containing an Ingram submachine gun, a com-mando-type 9-mm. automatic weapon capable of being fitted with a silencer. They arrested a 39-year-old leader of the Krishna movement, Srila Hansadutta Swami on charges that included possession of an automatic weapon, a federal offense. The charges against Hansadutta Swami, one of 11
was “not yet” the basis for an accord. “We are still arguing,” said Calderon, the Venezuelan delegate. Iraq has proposed that all OPEC nations charge $32 a barrel for their oil. Under the proposal, OPEC hawks including Iran would have to drop present prices by $3 a barrel, middle-of-the-roaders would
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gear cleared the block and the only damages reported were broken windows on another motorcade vehicle. Carter’s car was nicked by a beer bottle. “I think the bottle-throwing incident is a natural expression of people who are frustrated,” said Mayor Maurice Ferre. “Most of the crowd wasn’t involved..l don’t think they were throwing bottles at Jimmy Carter, but at the presidency. This is a continuation of the other it is an expression.” Ferre said he feared “this one little incident that took five seconds” would detract from
man who told them he shot Jordan. Willie Johnson, 25, Indianapolis, was held at Wishard Memorial Hospital for a mental examination, police said. Police did not release any personal details about Johnson but said he, like Jordan, is black. FBI public information officer Steve McVey said the agency was exploring the incident “among numerous leads.” “You can’t ignore somebody making an admission like that,” McVey said. “There’s always a chance it could be something, but I don’t know that it’s anything to get excited about.”
worldwide spiritual leaders of the Krishna movement, were dropped and placed against a Krishna member who asserted that the weapons were his. The police said that one of the weapons, a pistol, was registered under the name of Hanskary, the German-born Hansadutta Swami’s given name. Tapancarya Das, the current manager of the Krishna farm near Ukiah, said in an interview after the raid that although the group did have “some guns” at the farm, “the armament isn’t for ourselves.” He explained: “I want to protect the diety, Lord Krishna. I want to protect my god-brothers. Any bona fide religion can be persecuted. We’re here to protect our god.” * The Krishna guru conceded that a former official at the farm had a stolen credit card, but he described him as “a person with a bad habit.” The former official is being sought by the police. Commenting on the recent developments, Lieutenant Markham of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, remarked: “Are they dangerous? Well, I don’t believe they’re going to come down on a town, armed to the teeth, and start attacking people. “But, on the other hand, what legitimate
raise theirs $2 and Saudi Arabia, which produces onethird of all OPEC oil, would increase prices $4. But Moinfar said “there was no way” Iran would decrease prices, that he was “sure” there would be no agreement and that along with Algeria, Libya and Nigeria, Iran will continue to sell oil for as much as it can get for it.
Carter’s attempt to soothe raw nerves in the black and Cuban communities with promises of jobs, justice and compassion. Ferre said the president did not make specific commitments to provide assistance to the riot area. “It was a bland meeting we did not come forth with an organized plan. He made no commitments and wasn’t asked to make any,” Ferre said. “It was a missed opportunity.” “So far as the demonstrators are concerned, I didn’t see them,” Carter said later on arrival in Seattle, where he is to address big city mayors.
Jordan, 44, was gunned down as he emerged from Mrs. Coleman’s car in the parking lot of the Marriott Hotel in the predawn hours of May 29. The National Urban League president remained in serious but stable condition Monday, recuperating from an operation on an abcess in an incision made by earlier surgery, a Parkview Memorial Hospital spokeswoman said. Mrs. Coleman, who had no plans to visit Jordan during his convalescence, said she will return to seclusion at the homes of friends because she is afraid to go home. “I want the least amount of
Iraq and Iran are at ideological odds and recently have engaged in sporadic fighting along their border. Conference sources said without a compromise, prices would stay about the same for the rest of 1980. Analysts here say disunity within the oil cartel saves money for oil consumers, including the United States. The sources said during the
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No speech at Seattle conference
Mayors give Ted the political boot
By LEE BYRD Associated Press Writer Sen. Edward M. Kennedy not only can’t get a debate with President Carter, he now finds the White House treating him like the black-sheep cousin who, ever unrepentent, still eyes the family silver. It doesn’t want him around, period. Kennedy presumably would have been embraced by Carter’s fold had he dropped his moonshot challenge in their meeting last week. Today, his refusal to do that was rewarded with a lesson in the kind of power politics which fall uniquely within the domain of an incumbent president. Simply put, Kennedy wanted to be in Seattle today, as invited, to address the U.S. Conference of Mayors. So did Jimmy Carter. And the White House saw to it that Carter was, and the senator from Massachusetts wasn’t. While the president’s camp worked to keep Kennedy from the same stage, meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee aimed its efforts at keeping independent challenger John B. Anderson from the same ballot this fall, underscoring party concern that he would hurt Carter more than Replublican Ronald Reagan. DNC leaders said their deci-
exposure I can possibly get. I don’t want pictures taken of my car parked at Kroger (Supermarket), I don’t want reporters in my front yard,” said Mrs. Coleman, who is vacationing from her job as a materials expediter at International Harvester Corp. She continued, “I have received some very ugly mail. I think it is interesting that since I have gained such recognition, people send letters that say,‘Martha Coleman, Fort Wayne, Indiana,’ and I get them. “One person told me it was unfortunate they didn’t shoot me. Something more exciting is
religious organization do you know that keeps an arsenal? I’m sure that some who join are sincere about it, they want to dedicate themselves to this religion, but I also think the hierarchy of the group has some other motives.” “After the Jonestown tragedy, it’s a matter of great concern to us,” he said, referring to the suicides and murders of more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Guyana in 1978. Richard Berger, a spokesman for the Berkeley Police Department, said: “This inordinate interest in weapons has us baffled. Normally you would attribute that kind of activity to a militant political group.” He said that the department had “direct knowledge” that the Berkeley temple had spent “many thousands” of dollars on weapons in recent months. But he noted that most of the weapons, with the apparent exception of the submachine gun, were “legally obtained and lawfully held.”
Until recently, he said, the 10-year-old Berkeley temple had caused “only occasional and routine” police problems. “From time to time we have had an altercation, almost
session Monday night that Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akhbar Moinfar accused Iraq and Saudi Arabia of “serving American imperialism by raising production rates.” They said Iraqi Oil Minister Tayeh Abdel-Karim shouted back that Iraq was the first power in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to nationalize Western-owned
SEN.KENNEDY Shunned by mayors sion to wage a court battle over Anderson’s ballot-access drive was necessary, in part, because Republican election officials are making it all too easy for the Illinois congressman in some states. The president flew to Seattle early today after a tour of riotscarred Miami, where he vowed Monday to hold firm on his fight against inflation. But the mayors have said they’re more interested in having him prime the employment pump. So. too, is the Congressional Black Caucus, which accused the president Monday of “trading off jobs to the vain hope that this will solve inflation.” And Carter got another taste of
going to happen soon, and everyone will go away and leave me with various kooks.” Mrs. Coleman, who officials have insisted was never a suspect in the shooting, passed a voluntary lie detector test last week, and said Monday she was willing to undergo hypnosis to show she had no further information to add to the investigation. “Those times when I have talked with various law enforcement officials, they have been in agreement that there is nothing new to be discovered. I simply did not see anything.” Mrs. Coleman said, adding that she believes the shooting was a
always between members,” he said. “These things sometimes have started when a street hawker didn’t bring in enough money to satisfy others.” The Hare Krishnas, formally known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, were founded in 1965 in New York by an Indian businessman, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who died in 1977, after designating 11 spiritual leaders, including Srila Hansadutta Swami, as ruling gurus, or “spiritual masters,” of the international sect. The order exists by begging, and its often aggressive members are a familiar sight at airports where they seek contributions. Last year, according to published depositions of the sect leaders, solicitations brought in $772,000 in the Bay Area alone. J. Stillson Judah, emeritus professor of the history of religion at the Graduate Theological Union and Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, who has researched the Hare Krishna organization said that he was “dismayed by this acquisition of guns,” which he described as “totally out of character with the sect.”
oil operations. The sources said Saudi Arabia’s minister did not even attend and Qatar’s walked out of the hall in the middle of the session. But the oil ministers of the 13-member nations met again today, without staff assistants, in an effort to reach an agreement on pricing policy and production levels. “The most important thing is
black anguish when demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at his motorcade as he left the Liberty City section of Miami. Kennedy, who hoped to share the president’s limelight at the mayor’s conference by appearing within an hour of the chief executive, was left to deliver his urban speech to a union group in Anaheim, Calif., instead. Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said the White House objected to the same-day appearances because Kennedy previously had accepted an invitation to speak Wednesday and tried to change it to today only after learning of Carter’s schedule. Asked about the matter after arriving in Seattle, Carter said, “I’m sure he (Kennedy) is welcome, just as I am.” The senator was disinvited by the mayors, said conference president Richard Carver of Peoria, 111., after the White House declared that having two rivals for the Democratic nomination appear on the same day was “unacceptable.” “Let’s be honest,” said Carver. “It’s important for this conference to have the president of the United States appear before our organization, and we’re certainly going to accommodate him.” “And so I have communicated* to Sen. Kennedy’s staff
“racial incident” carried out by someone probably from outside the Fort Wayne area. “I think their intention was to kill him,” she said. “I definitely feel no one I know was involved.” A police spokesman said Monday that no new leads have been uncovered in the case. Mrs. Coleman said the night of the shooting, she sat in the motel bar “until around 1 o clock with Jordan discussing the Urban League and “raising racially mixed children” and the problems involved. “Then I drove him to my home. I made coffee. We were there maybe half an hour at the
not the price but production,” Moinfar told reporters, adding that he and other OPEC militants would press for Saudi Arabia to cut its output. Conference sources said the Saudis, who produce one-third of OPEC’s output at 9.5 million barrels a day, were resisting the pressure to decrease production levels by 1 million barrels daily.
that ... we will not be able to provide a forum for him” at any time today, he said. “We discussed this with the White House, suggesting a number of alternatives,” which included morning and afternoon sessions which would separate the pair, he said, “and they have informed us that no alternative is acceptable.” Mother of nine gets 30 years INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A mother of nine children has been declared a habitual crimi nal by a Superior Court jury becoming the first woman in Indiana to be convicted under the habitual criminal law. Police said Doris J. Hogan, 45, has a multi-page arrest record dating to 1952. She was convicted Monday night of theft after the jury deliberated 15 minutes. The charge stemmed from a shoplifting incident Jan. 13 involving two other women. Sentencing was set by Judge Patricia J. Gifford for July 1. The jury deliberated for nearly an hour on the habitual criminal charge, which carries an automatic prison sentence of 30 years.
most. Then we drove back.” Mrs. Coleman said. She added that she left the stereo and lights on at her home beause she expected to return soon. Mrs. Coleman said she drove Jordan to his corner motel room and “was waiting for him to get through the (car) door, and I was looking at my rear view mirror. Then, I heard a sound like the glass in mv car door window breaking. I heard him scream, ‘l’ve been shot.”’ she recalled. Mrs. Coleman said she ran into the motel “in shock ” She told the desk clerk that Jordan had been shot and asked that police be called.