That was great detective work Joe. I couldn't really believe that this was for real, but you never know. Just to back you up some I checked out a few things for myself. I looked up "United Nations 60th Anniversary Committee" in both Google and msn. In Google I got two hits, in msn 4. All were links to the prem rawat pr releases. Nothing else was available. This would support your idea that this organisation is just made up for Rawat's publicity stunt.Nancy Peterson is indeed president of the United Nations Association of San
Francisco, which is a private not-for-profit organisation and not affiliated with the United Nations. This organisation has been sponsoring a number of events surrounding the 60th anniversary, but I could find no reference to the event at Herbst Theater. Here is a link, http://www.una-sf.org/index.htm, to a page where a PDF of scheduled events can be downloaded. No mention of the Herbst Theater on the 24th or at all, although there is another event listed for the 24th:
Friday, June 24, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, at the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California Street
at Presidio Boulevard). The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
at San Francisco State University (OLLI-SFSU) offers a day-long
symposium, Global Governance: the Future of the United Nations.
So the only mystery still to be explained is what the hell were Nancy Peterson and Astrid Stromberg doing there. Nancy is supposedly the president of both the UN Assoc of SF and this dubious committee.
In any case it is really something to see the contrivances that Rawat and helpers will go through just to make a little press release that sounds good but avoids any possibility of Rawat having to face the scrutiny of real media. At some point this has got to blow up in their face.
