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DATE: TUESDAY, April 24, 1990                   TAG: 9004240568
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: LIVINGSTON, MONT.                                LENGTH: Short

END-OF-WORLD SECT TOLD TO HALT FALLOUT SHELTERS

A religious sect girding for apocalypse has been ordered by a judge to stop building fallout shelters near Yellowstone National Park after thousands of gallons of fuel leaked from underground tanks.

The order Monday came on the day that began what the church's spiritual leader says is a 12-year "dark cycle" of global danger and catastrophe, from which the shelters are to protect 750 followers.

Church Universal and Triumphant spiritual leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has prophesied that planetary karma - "the cumulative weight of mankind's sins" - has been building for 25,800 years and would fully descend on Earth as of Monday to begin a "dark cycle" of danger that will last 12 years.

-Associated Press 


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