Milestones: Sep. 2, 1985
RELEASED. Sun Myung Moon, 65, Korean-born founder and spiritual leader of the Unification Church; after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence for his 1982 conviction on charges of income tax evasion, the last six weeks of which he spent in an inmate rehabilitation center; in Brooklyn. At a Washington dinner in his honor last week, Moon described his prison term as providing "a moving experience with God. I was not there because of my personal actions or mistakes, yet I did not brood with resentment or hatred."
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