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4 STAR EDITION Page 44 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Friday. Nov. 1. 1985 NATION WORLD A' court from his jail ceil Dy guards armed with machine guns. The courtroom was packed with his devotees, most of them wearing red, pink, orange and purple.

Rajneesh, 53, leader of a mystic sect that claims 500,000 followers worldwide, was arrested Monday at a Charlotte airport and charged with trying to flee to Bermuda to avoid prosecution on immigration laws. Weaver introduced the alleged assassination plot in asking that Rajneesh and his followers be kept in jail as "a clear and present danger to public officials." Immigration agent Joseph Greene testified the plot involved a former top aide of Rajneesh, Ma Anand Sheela, and several other cult members. Sheela, formerly Sheela Silverman of New Jersey, and two other cult members await extradition to the United States after being arrested in West Germany on Monday Court Told Rajneeshis Plotted Assassinations Reuters CHARLOTTE, N.C A federal prosecutor charged yesterday that members of the cult led by guru Bhag-wan Shree Rajneesh plotted and attempted to assassinate two public officials investigating the commune. Assistant VS. Attorney Robert Weaver said at a bond hearing for the spiritual leader that the plots were directed at Charles Turner, US.

attorney for Oregon, and state Attorney General David Frohnmayer. In court, Rajneesh sat quietly, wearing a turban and a floor-length blue-and-gray robe. He was brought into D3)angieir Mom Suggests Baby's Wounds Were Brought on by Bedbugs CHICAGO In the gloom of Cook County Juvenile Court, the doctors had testified for hours in great detail about how battered the baby was when it was brought to the County Hospital. They told of the facial bruises, the internal bleeding, the concussion, the broken arms, and what appeared to be pinch and burn marks all over its tiny body. Then Mom testified.

Sometimes mumbling, sometimes crying, she sounded thoroughly confused. She said she didn't know how her baby's limbs and organs got so banged up. As for the skin wounds? She suggested it was the result of some sort of rash brought on by the bite of a bug in her bed. Through it all sat Calvin, the boyfriend who was baby-sitting when the child became, in the mother's words, kind of "droopy" and was taken to the hospital. Calvin said nothing, but occasionally he grinned.

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Shultz also lent credence to reports from Europe that Nobel peace laureate Andrei Sakharov, the dissident Soviet scientist, and possibly also dissident Anatoly Shcharansky. may soon be freed as a pre-summit human rights gesture. Finally, Grandma took the stand. And she made a remarkable disclosure. She said that she went to the hospital and took out a camera and photographed her grandchild's toe.

Why the toe? Because she and Mom had noticed a tiny discoloration on the toe. And they suspected that the hospital had caused it. So, they took the picture because they wanted evidence in case anybody accused them of having injured that toe. Ah, but did Grandma take pictures of the Free Delivery COLOR TV's MIKE R0YKO FURNITURE Ifelll siuct rut smi row imt 2932 ISLAND AVt. SERVING All PHILA N.J.

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And did Grandma take pictures of any of the baby's battered limbs or face? No. Or its injured neck? Forehead? Buttocks? Legs? No, only that one toe. And that's the way it's gone during several days of testimony at the hearing to decide who will have custody of this child. If you listen to the mother and grandmother, it's a great mystery as to how the child wound up looking, in the words of a doctor, like somebody tried to kill her. And I suppose well never really know, because the people who had the baby when it was injured Mom, Grandma and Calvin say they have no idea how it happened.

But at least the baby is safe for the time being. Judge Ronald Davis has awarded temporary custody of the child to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which will place it in a foster home until the next hearing. That hearing will be held in two weeks. The delay was granted by the judge after the public defender, who is representing the mother, made a couple of complaints that 1 believe were about me and my columns. First, the public defender asked for a mistrial.

That means that everything that has happened in court would be tossed out and they'd have to start over again. She said her client couldnt get a fair hearing because of all the publicity that the case has generated. Actually, the hearing wouldn't have been going on these past few days if it hadnt been for the publicity. By now, the baby would have been back home in the environment where it obviously got into such awful shape. It was only after I wrote about the case that the judge ordered the immediate hearing, assuring the child of at least a temporary stay in a place where shell be less accident-prone.

But I suppose that means little to the public defender. In any case, the judge denied her request. Then the public defender said she needed more time to prepare her case. She said that because of the publicity, she was having difficulty finding a doctor who, presumably, would find a sensible, rational and benign explanation for why this baby looked like it was worked over by Mr. T.

I'm not surprised she's having this problem. It will be a supreme challenge for any doctor to corroborate the theories of the mother. On different occasions. Mom has said the injuries were caused by (a) the hospital, or (b) heredity, or (c) that bug bite. The public defender said she had recruited a medical expert, but that the publicity scared him away.

So the judge gave her two weeks to round up another doctor. It will be interesting to see who she comes up with and how that medical expert explains the mauling of that child. Say, is Dr. Frankenstein still in practice? Mike Royko's syndicated column appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. STOCK IMPERIAL ACCOTONE MIRABONO XL Cm pr- fx--.

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