1984 - Religion

Religion

Lutheran pastor and human rights activist Martin Niemoeller dies at Wiesbaden March 6 at age 92.

Followers of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 52, bus in thousands of vagrants to tip a local Oregon election, keep them under sedation, and allegedly spread salmonella in the Dalles. More than 700 cases of salmonella poisoning are reported in September, the first instance of bioterrorism in America. Rich families and individuals have joined the guru's ashram Rajneeshpuram and given him funds to buy a fleet of Rolls-Royces, he has let his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela speak for him while keeping a vow of silence, but he ends that vow late in the year, angering the woman (see 1985).