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<text id=91TT2896>
<title>
Dec. 30, 1991: American Notes:Washington
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
WASHINGTON
Transcendental Evacuation
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<p> At long last it's official: Washington is a city beyond
redemption. Last week, after a decade of collective meditation
designed to lower the capital's crime rate and improve its
quality of life, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has ordered his flock
to give up and pull out of the place. From his European
headquarters in the Netherlands, the bearded founder of the
transcendental meditation movement declared, "Everyone should
leave this sea of mud. People should move to a peaceful, neat,
clean atmosphere." Oddly enough, the Maharishi did not include
any specific references to Congress in his remarks.
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<p> In the wake of the Maharishi's pronouncement, his
remaining followers put their homes on the market and planned
to move to Fairfield, Iowa, where both the organization's
national office and Maharishi International University are
located. City officials responded to the abandonment with a
yogic equanimity worthy of the Maharishi himself. Declared a
spokesman from the office of Washington's unruffled Mayor Sharon
Pratt Kelly: "Peace be with them."
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