21.   Police have confiscated research materials for laser technology among documents taken from a member of the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday sect, the Kyodo news agency reported Monday.

22.   Police subsequently launched a massive security operation focusing on a doomsday sect, Aum Supreme Truth.

23.   President Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday ordered state investigators to look into all activities of the Japanese doomsday sect Aum Supreme Truth in Russia, the presidential press service said.

24.   Public opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of the tighter laws, which aim at preventing the re-emergence of radical doomsday sects, such as Aum Shinrikyo.

25.   Tchi made his statement in a communique sent to AFP and attributed to Shoko Asahara, leader of the doomsday sect Aum Supreme Truth.

26.   The Aum Supreme Truth doomsday religious sect is suspected of carrying out the gas attack in Tokyo.

27.   The decision will also allow legal procedures to strip the doomsday sect of its legal status as a religious organisation, the officials said.

28.   The charred bodies of several of the missing members of the Swiss-based Solar Temple doomsday sect have been found, police said Saturday.

29.   The explosion occurred amid strict police surveillance against possible gas attacks on public facilities by the Aum doomsday sect.