MASSIVE HUNT FOR CULT LEADER

Hundreds of police searched the compound of theAum Shinrikyo cultin an effort to find a secret door that could lead them to the cult's leader. Shoko Asahara has been in hiding since theMarch 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12. Police redoubled their efforts after Wednesday's surprise capture of two of the cult's top scientists in a secret room beneath a dormitory. They hope to find Asahara in a similar hiding place but have so far found nothing.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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