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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- His followers liken the rise of Korean cleric Sun Myung
- Moon to the coming of the Messiah -- and certainly he spends
- money like there's no tomorrow. Rushing in where angels fear to
- invest, Moon's Unification Church has poured manna into such
- profitless enterprises as the conservative Washington Times
- ($800 million so far) and an idle Chinese auto plant ($250
- million). Now there appears to be a falloff in fresh converts,
- leading some Moon watchers to wonder, Does his church have a
- prayer? Banks in Seoul are cracking down on loans to the
- reverend's empire as shares in Moon enterprises have become the
- laughing stock of the South Korean exchange. But a PBS expose
- airing this month, produced by video-gadfly Globalvision,
- suggests that, as has long been suspected, political power, not
- profit, is Moon's goal -- and that he is quietly achieving it.
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