The conspirators included Cause_to_be_included : Ma Anand Sheela ; Sally-Anne Croft , Chief Financial Officer of Rajneeshpuram ; Susan Hagan , head of security at Rajneeshpuram ; Catherine Jane Stork , who bought weapons and silencers and volunteered to be the actual murderer ; Ann Phyllis McCarthy , fourth-in-command of Rajneeshpuram ; and co-conspirators Alma Potter , Carol Matthews , Phyllis Caldwell , and Richard Kevin Langford .

Severe Tropical Cyclone Susan was one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record Recording within the South Pacific basin , which was first noted Statement on December 20 , 1997 , as a weak tropical disturbance located to the north of American Samoa .

The disturbance was declared Expressing_publicly a tropical cyclone later that day , but was not named Name_conferral Susan until the next day , after it had intensified Cause_change_of_strength into a category 2 tropical cyclone on the Australian Scale .

At this stage as the cyclone was moving Motion towards the southwest it posed Causation a severe threat to Vanuatu however , during that day Susan recurved Motion towards the southeast and subsequently spared Vanuatu a direct hit Attack .

After sparing Vanuatu a direct hit Attack , Susan started Process_start to accelerate Cause_change_of_strength towards the southeast and while starting Process_start to weaken significantly passed Motion_directional close enough to Fiji during January 7 and 8 to cause Causation gale-force winds in Fiji 's southern and western islands .

While continuing to move Motion towards the southeast , Susan started Process_start to interact Connect with Severe Tropical Cyclone Ron during January 8 before it absorbed Ron by 0600 UTC the next day and starting Process_start to transition into an extratropical cyclone .

Despite sparing Vanuatu and Fiji direct hits Bodily_harm , heavy rain and gale-force winds associated Collaboration with Susan were reported Reporting to have caused Causation minor damage to several Vanuatuan and Fijian islands .

Despite persistent accusations against President Obama , Hillary Clinton , and Susan Rice , ten investigations Scrutiny — six by Republican-controlled congressional committees — did not find Know that they or any other high-ranking Obama administration officials had acted Action improperly .

Finally , by January 9 , Ron was absorbed Control by the much larger circulation of Severe Tropical Cyclone Susan .