NATION AND WORLD
Sect leader dies at home after illness
University Daily Kansan, December 10, 1984
By United Press International
WARSAW, ind. — Hobart Freeman, founder of the controversial Faith Assembly sect that teaches members to shun medical care, died Saturday night at his home. He was 64.
The coroner said there was no way to immediately determine if medical neglect hastened death, but added authorities might know in a week or so after completion of tissue studies.
Freeman, who had been inducted in connection with the death of 15-year-old girl who did not receive medical treatment, apparently died in his sleep at his home near Shoe Lake in northern Kosciusko County.
Kosseuson County police and Easlind were called to the Freeman residence where a daughter, who was at her father's bedside, said he died about 8;30 p.m. Saturday.
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Eastlund said an autopsy showed Freeman, who had a history of heart disease, apparently died of severe cardiovascular disease and mild bronchial pneumonia.
Relatives told Kosiuko County authorities, including Coroner Gary Eastland, that Freeman had been ill for about a month.
The family said no doctors attended to Freeman during his illness.
Nuclear freeze group sets strategy for 1985
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS — More than 700 members of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign urged Congress yesterday to stop financing the testing, production and deployment of all nuclear missiles, including the MX.
As expected, freeze supporters asked Congress to stop financing nuclear missiles, saying that would help achieve a comprehensive bilateral, verifiable freeze.
The vote came as members representing 37 states and more than 300 congressional districts hammered out the campaign's 1983 strategy.
They also called for a freeze on the testing, production and deployment of missiles and a bilateral moratorium on the flight-testing of missiles and the proposed Star Wars anti-
satellite defense by suspending financing for the programs.
Members also endorsed two proposals giving local groups new options in protesting the arms race.
The conference approved policy statements allowing the National Freeze Campaign to organize a "legal war tax resistance" program during the spring and giving local groups the right to use more "assertive" legal activities where appropriate.
Members also approved plans for a national rally in Washington in April and a series of observances across the country for the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
Members also were to vote on a resolution that said the campaign is opposed to the development, production or use of biological and chemical weapons by any nation.
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