Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large central building was ringed by bright colors. It looked like a parking lot filled with cars. When the plane dipped lower, the cars turned out to be bodies. Scores and scores of bodies ?hundreds of bodies?wearing red dresses, blue T shirts, green blouses, pink slacks, children's polka-dotted jumpers...
...members of the Peoples Temple put on a marvelous performance for their visitors. Reporters were led past the central, open-air pavilion, used as both a school and an assembly hall. The visitors saw the newly completed sawmill, the 10,000-volume library, the neat nursery, where mosquito netting protected babies sleeping peacefully on pallets. The colony hospital had delivered 33 babies without a single death, the tour guides said...
They would convene in the central pavilion, and Jones would harangue them about "the beauty of dying." All would line up and be given a drink described as poison. They would take it, expecting to die. Then Jones would tell them the liquid was not poisonous; they had passed his "loyalty test." But if ever the colony were threatened from without, he told them, "revolutionary suicide" would be real and it would dramatize their dedication to their unique calling...
...Jefferson's "basic faith in human beings and in the human mind," Malone said, remains the central political theology of America, the legacy of our most talented President. "Jefferson was an excessive optimist," said Malone. "He was an optimist when he probably had no business being an optimist...
...having purged Teng and suggested that Mao had been involved in the activities of two of Peking's now most reviled political figures, Mao's wife Chiang Ch'ing and former Defense Minister Lin Piao. Another poster called for the nullification of the April 7, 1976, Central Committee resolution that had purged Teng and elevated Hua, and demanded that the Politburo now redefine the T'ien An Men Square demonstrators as revolutionaries instead of counterrevolutionaries...