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- NATION, Page 25American NotesWASHINGTONTranscendental Evacuation
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- 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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- 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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