1.   The cult of more carries on, even as fewer prospective members materialize.

2.   Polischuk stressed the need to investigate how the cult could carry out operations in vast areas of Russia.

3.   Asahara last week denied, in a statement issued by taped video, that his cult carried out the gas attack.

4.   The doomsday cult allegedly carried out the deadly gas attack on the orders of Aum guru Shoko Asahara, whose trial is now in its sixth month.