81.   For all the sway Mwerinde held over sect members, what still defies certainty is why a charlatan may have become a mass murderer.

82.   Former followers also have told police that the cult secretly cremated the bodies of sect members who died and scattered the ashes near Mount Fuji, the Yomiuri reported.

83.   Four agents and six sect members died in the gunbattle.

84.   Han said he has kept in touch with only a few sect members since the crackdown began.

85.   In a showdown with police, one sect member was killed.

86.   In a letter to President Jiang Zemin, Falun Gong practitioners have threatened to mount more protests if authorities detain sect members ahead of National Day on Sunday.

87.   In its afternoon editions, the newspaper Yomiuri said some former followers told police that sect members who were believed close to death had disappeared from the compound.

88.   In Russia, a former sect member said Wednesday that the sect had tested an unidentified nerve gas on its Russian followers.

89.   Investigators are reportedly worried that sect members will spin out of control and commit acts of violence as the group disintegrates.

90.   It is partly this testimony that has persuaded authorities that windows and doors were blocked to prevent sect members from leaving the chapel before the flames killed them.