Contra Costa Times from Walnut Creek, California • 1

VOL 62 NO 163 r- WALNUT CREEK CALIFORNIA SUNDAY OCTOBB 3 1976 64 PAGES 1 Ex-Moonies Tell How They Escaped way they teach you is so convincing You can believe it if subject to constant mind he says hold physical psychological former followers say So powerful is the persuasion process that there are some Moonies who lay they would kill for Moon Egart says Ex-Moonies say they were brainwashed fed a sparse diet attendedhours and hours of lectures But Egart says at that time he still think he was being into Yet within two months ne felt manipulated used and abused hut I strong enough to see my -way out of Some former Moonies say the only way they were able to escape the group was when their parents pr friends had mem kidnapped and Egart and Van Eaton however were able to leave -on their own and went through no formal deprogram- -ming Former Moonies say that the church will do its best -to try and discredit parents especially ones who want -their children to leave Egart says were taught Satan works through parents They didn't teach us to hate our parents but you wind up hating The Unification Church also teaches if you leave you doom yourself and your family and ancestors for- ever Egart says thought God ifl leave everyone in my fern- Uy is So I prayed and He get the answer he expected One day while sitting in a flower van he wu listen- MOONIES Page 2 (Moonies) weren't running away from our he says For some Moon came to be seen as the savior of their families had a terrific upbringing 16 straight years of Christian Catholic education with a rock hard belief in he says He thought an Eastern philosophy might he what he was searching for so he moved to Berkeley to attend the California Institute id Eastern Studies there One day when walking down a street in Berkeley he was by some young kids and I was overwhelmed by how nice they were showed me a picture board of Boonville (their Mendocino form) aa the ideal city where you love and share in Egart recalls He left school and went to Boonville where he says he fell in love with the people idealistic young persons this was it We could prove you could live In a world where everyone shared everything pitched right in and got brainwashed in their way of Egart says Egart kept hearing talk of a messlah that was coming and was told If he stayed long enough he'd find one too By CATHY TALLYN lures Staff Writer Flntiaaiefief WALNUT CHEEK like being rescued from the clutches of the devil what like to leave the Unification Church of self-ordained evangelist Sun Myung Moon says Mike Egart someoAe had told me at first what the Unification Church really was I would have thought it was crazy" he says Egart 27 was a member for two months Greg Van Eaton 18 for eight months When Egart joined the Unification Church he was disillusioned with the usual to 5 routine after getting out id the Navy was in a deep spiritual search I was turned off from the traditional he says my generation came along there was Vietnam Watergate and immorality We could see nothing but corruption decay and decadence been a mish-mash since we were Egart says The Unification Church offered him religious solidarity at least only four or five houn of sleep a night To support themselves ana work Moonies sell flowers and candy on the streets near their centers However Moonies tell their customers the money will go the Unification Church Egart says He adds mat one Ifoonie selling flowers cnn easily raise $150 a day Egart like other former Moonies learned soon after his conversion that fellow adherents thought of Moon as the messlah two weeks I learned Mom was behind it (the organisation) and the only thing I knew was that he was an arch supporter of (former President Richard) Nixon nnd I should have learned from i Secretary Butz Asked to Quit By Both Parties Agrfcuitow Secretory Esri Buts ByAsaod Denunciation id Earl racial slur threatened to engulf the agriculture secretary Saturday as both Republicans ana Democrats called for nis resignation Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter called words evidence of his insensitivity to people an embarrassment to the Ford administration and a danger to President Ford's chances for election Find reprimanded Butz on Friday and the agriculture secretary apologised saying he regreto Ms language In Ms comment as quoted ny the magazines Rolling Stone and New Times Butx referred to Macks as and described In a derogatory manner what he characterized as their sexual dress and bathroom predilections vice presidential running mate Bob Dow called remarks and but compared them to recently-criticized statements by Carter about lust and adultery Butz or Carter it seems to me the American people deserve Dole said Carter said the statement how this administration feels about consumers farmers and people who are dependent on government for a better quality of In Columbus Ohio Oren Lee Staley president of the National Farmers Organization said Butz should be fired immediately reflective of the cynical attitude he has toward Staley said at a news conference Carter told a Pittsburgh news conference think anybody could make a more serious statement or derogatory statement than Mr Buts did about Mack people I thought it was disgraceful'1 The Demcratic presidential nominee repeated his longstanding position feat Buts never nave been in office as secretary of and said the statement certainly an embarraasment to the In Manchester NH Democratic vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale said Butz should resign and if he refuses he should be fired by Ford are some things that are fenny there are some things that are not ninny and there are some things that are destructive The whole basis of tills nation is respect for Mondale said Army Upsets Stanford Cal Wins SPORTS Page 33 Hundreds Die in Baja Hurricane LA PAZ Mexico (AP) The gov- ernor of hurricane stricken Bali California Sur requested aid from toe United States Saturday Lt Gov Mervyn office reported Gov Cesar Angel Mendoza Aram-buro aaked fin food clothing and medicine particularly antibiotics to be flown to La Pax where a dam cracked from the force of Hurricane Liza uid Dymally spokesman Bob Holmes Rescue teams dug through enormous Manket of in this Baja California city Saturday unearthing and burning or reburying the bodies of Hurricane Liu's victims Officials said at least 630 and perhaps as many as 1000 persons were killed by the hurricane which roared across the southern Baja peninsula Friday with winds up to 139 miles an hour and then struck the Mexico coast across the Sea of Cortex Some 14000 persons were reported injured or bruised and 70600 were left homeless Holmes Mid the request for US aid wu made through the Commission of the Califivnus to Dymally the commission chairman who telephoned the White House Dymally met earlier in the day in Washington with President Ford who asked Mm to visit La Pu next Tuesday to survey the damagej Holmes Mid He Mid the lieutenant governor wrould contact Gov Edmund Brown Jr in Los Angeles to see whether California would launch a separate effort to aid the disaster area The dwindling storm which had meandered offshore in the Pacific for three days before suddenly cutting its deadly swath across the peninsula passed over the northern Sierra Madre Mountains Saturday and entered the United States at El Paso Tex It wu moving northeastward through eastern New Mexico and western TCxas La Pu a city of 85009 suffered the worst devastation The storm cracked a 30-foot-high earthen dam sending a huge wall of water and mud down on a crowded shantytown washing away scores of thatched-roof shacks The streets Saturday were littered with debris and hundreds of wrecked automobiles many buried roof deep in mud Rogello Felix spokesman for the local office uid enormous blanket of covered the area below the dam he uid Mexican troops were digging for bodies then burying them in man graves or burning them to prevent epidemics One out of five houses In the city were destroyed the army said Rescue officials appealed for food clothing and medicine and Mexican President Luis Echeverria who toured the area Friday night ordered an emergency airlift of supplies from the mainland But continued bad weather kept many of the planes grounded 1 Index Business 41 Clauified 47-63 Community Calendar a 27 Editorial 14 Entertainment aa 30-31 Funeral Notices 47 Good Neighbor a 21 Homes 42-46 People 17-20 Raising Wild Pets 22 Sports 33-39 Stocks 40 Television 15 Travel 28 Leap Lop Thud? Or whatever Mis lhatyoii do la kapfrogahg tlaensaibenaf Job's Daughters a Masoefcyoatk orgaaiza-rtou hope to break the wortfi leapfrogging record of 190 miles The 20 gkis plan to leapfrog around Elk wood Mve Concord antilnooa today One hour of leaping bequlvetcat to oasnle SR Incorporation Foes Deny Big Money Charge KLOC-TV Asks Site on Mt Diablo WALNUT CREEK A Modesto television station KLOC-TV has applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to operate a satellite station in Concord with its signal beamed from a tower atop MiDtoMo The station would broadcast on channel 42 and feature foreign language programming originating from KLOC studios in Modreto If the FOC approves the request the station will then apply to the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors for permission to install a broadcast antenna on Mt Diablo Chester Smith president of KLOC said the FCC probably make a decision on the application for another year and a half In a letter to the FCC Smith pointed out the station would be first local television signal for east Contra Costa County Napa and Sonoma Counties Due to mountainous terrain many of the homes are shadowed from existing services in San Francisco and KLOC-TV has operated on channel 19 in Modesto for years a large population of Spanish speaking people in the Contra Costa County area primarily in rural areas teat nave cable television or the service they said Smith who indicated that aa the reason for moving Smith said programming TV Page 2 pay for that He said many political campaigns run In the red Frazier said Saturday that he understood that until WAIT raised contributions the group would simply run up a bill with the agency He said the agency representative had told WAIT members Friday that newspaper ads supporting their campaign would begin to appear this Both Malick and Frazier have said they expect many contributions from ordinary citizens Frazier said Saturday that are expected to contribute He said he didn't know who they were but that they were not from outside the area Malick said Thursday referring to contributions from developers you accept the money and try to retain your independence or you refuse It and run a rather low-key campaign not going to make any money from this ana I don't know if anyone else is or On Wednesday Bob Weinberg former chairman of NO Incorporation switched sides and became a supporter of incorporation He said he had discovered there was-at least $24000 in WAITS war chest from an anonymous donor or donors Weinberg said he was afraid that someone or some persons were trying to gain control of the valley DANVILLE is no big money behind campaign to fight the incorporation of San Ramon Valley says WAIT chairman Alexander Malick Malick was responding tocharges last week that WAIT Is being funded by Bay Area subdivision developers He added however the developers want to support us and said WAIT had considered approaching the developers Meanwhile the Haegerty Company a Santa Clara based ad agency that oftens handles accounts for developers and Bert Frazier WAITtreasurer said the firm was Mred to promote the campaign Wednesday night when WAIT was formed and NO Incorporation disbanded Frazier said WAIT is planning an ad campaign in the $20000 bracket He said a Haegerty representative had detailed the campaign at a WAIT meeting Friday night at which a 15-member citizens campaign committee was organized Malick said Thursday that WAIT have enough money to hire an ad agency but he added that the group might decide to run up a bill with an agency while WAIT looked for funding have a single he said you're going to sign up for a servlve certainly going to expect to Jk World at a Glance Weather Fair today and Monday Cooler nights A little warmer today and warmer Monday Lows tonight upper 40s to low 50s Highs Today in the 70s and Monday in the mid 70s to mid 80s Light winds becoming northern 10 to 20 mph today Concord temperature range S3 to 73 See weather map page 47 criticism by candidates for the board of directors for the handling of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against BART suppliers Page 4 Tahoe Bill Will be Amended A new California law aimed at strengthening controls on development in the Lake Tahoe Basin is only the starting point for negotiations with Nevada the author says Page President Ford and will drop his investigation of campaign financing in Ford's home county sources said Page 3 Delta Law Support Sought Federal bureaucrats have been accused of having too much to say about the qualityand use of water in California Page 21 BART Lawyers Criticised Lawyers for Bay Area Rapid Transit have come under Downpours Helping Britain hard to tell a man with a soggy umbrella that still in the middle of a drought the problem facing British water authorities Page 47 Cuban Troops in Angola Cuban troops and South-West African guerrillas reportedly have joined Angolan forces in an extensive military sweep through southern Angola to crush resistance by pro-Western insurgents Page 24 President Signs Job Bill With great reluctance President Ford signed a $37 billion public works jobs bill which he called inflationary Pages Ford Probe Will be Dropped The Watergate special prosecutor has found no basis for criminal charges against.