CULT HAD ALIEN INSURANCE POLICY.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed suicide last week had insured themselves against being abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point , impregnated im·preg·nate tr.v. im·preg·nat·ed, im·preg·nat·ing, im·preg·nates 1. To make pregnant; inseminate. 2. To fertilize (an ovum, for example). 3. or killed by aliens, an insurance agent who specializes in unusual policies said Sunday. The cult bought a policy on Oct. 10 that would pay out $1 million to each member's beneficiaries, said Simon Burgess, managing director of Goodfellow Rebecca Ingrams Pearson, an insurance brokerage. The 39 took their own lives last week at a home on the outskirts of San Diego, seeking redemption in a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. Burgess told Press Association, the British news agency, that the group paid $1,000 annually for the coverage. The brokerage said it has insured 4,000 people against abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. by aliens. But ``there has never been a genuine claim for alien abduction,'' Burgess said. |
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