News in Brief on November 23, 1998

Cult members found in Israel

Ten members of a missing Colorado doomsday cult are in Israel, where the cult’s leader has predicted he will die next year, police said Sunday in Jerusalem.

Cult watchers had warned that members of the Concerned Christians might head to Israel on instructions from their leader, Monte Kim Miller. Miller has said he will die in Jerusalem in December 1999 and be resurrected three days later.

A police official said they were keeping an eye on the group.

As many as 72 of Miller’s followers sold their belongings and left their homes in the United States before Oct. 10, the day their leader predicted Denver would be wiped out by an earthquake marking the beginning of the apocalypse.

2,000 demonstrate at Army training school

FORTBENNING, Ga. -Some 2,000 people, including actor Martin Sheen, were briefly taken into custody Sunday during a demonstration against the Army’s School of the Americas, accused by critics of training soldiers involved in atrocities in Latin America.

Unlike past demonstrations, people who defied orders and walked onto Fort Benning property were not charged with trespassing. Instead, they were loaded onto buses, driven to a park about a mile away and released.

The school has trained more than 55,000 officers, cadets and soldiers from 22 Latin American countries. It has been a target of protests since 1989, when some of its graduates were linked to the murder of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador.

School officials said the institution, which moved to Fort Benning from Panama in 1984, is largely responsible for the growth of democracy in Latin America and teaches its students about human rights in each of its courses.

Unabomber’s kin to sell rights for book, movie

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s brother plans to sell the book and movie rights of his struggle to turn his brother over to authorities.

David Kaczynski, a social worker from Schenectady, told The Daily Gazette of Schenectady that he and his wife need to sell the rights to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

The couple had been planning to use a $1 million reward they received from the FBI this year to pay their legal fees, with the rest going to the families of the Unabomber’s victims.

But legislation that would have allowed Kaczynski to not pay taxes on the reward fell through in Congress last month, meaning he’ll likely have to give a third to the Internal Revenue Service next year.

Since that leaves little to give to the victims’ families, Kaczynski decided to sell the rights to his story to help pay the legal bills.

Tribe, anti-whaling activists to meet

NEAH BAY, Wash. — The Makah Tribal Council has agreed to join ant activists for lunch today at the Coast Guard station here — a sit-down that could end a nearly two-month siege protest vessels opposing the tribe’s planned gray whale hunt.

The meeting has been characterized as the condition for withdrawal of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s two flagship vessels, the 95-foot Sirenian and the 180-foot Sea Shepherd III, which have been here since Sept. 30.

The meeting was arranged last week by U.S. Attorney Katrina Pflaumer of Seattle.