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From: roy@umnstat.UUCP (Roy St.Laurent)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: L. Ron Hubbard dies
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 16:48:04 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 16:48:04 1986
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 Will Martin writes
> 
> From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tuesday, 26 Jan. '86:
> 
> Los Angeles (AP) -- L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who
> founded the controversial Church of Scientology three decades ago, has
> died, the church announced Monday night. He was 74.
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> *** End of article***
> 
> Well, I think THIS gives lots of food for speculation. He died and was
> cremated and the ashes scattered, hmmmm... Well, those that have claimed
> tht he has been dead for some time can use THAT as start for discussion!
> Also, he left bequests to "CERTAIN of his children". Again, sounds like
> the makings of a fairly bitter internecine quarrel...

A friend of mine from L.A. said that he heard on a local radio station that
a coroner examined the body and took fingerprints (!!) in order to be sure
that it was indeed Hubbard.  Anyone have more information on this?

--Roy St.Laurent ...ihnp4!umn-cs!umnstat!roy