Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What the cult-prone people [Dec. 11] probably need are some guidelines. I suggest the following: If it sounds good, keep listening. If it begins to satisfy the inner self, take out an associate membership. If they start to talk about your money and valuables, find another cult...
...held the keys of St. Peter for little more than a month, he took the name John Paul II. In California a retired industrialist, Howard Jarvis, saw the state's voters approve his tax-slashing Proposition 13?a symbol of widespread middle-class anger at Big Government. A crazed cult prophet, Jim Jones, imposed a poisonous "white night" of murder and suicide on his followers that left 913 dead in the jungles of Guyana...
Less easily disposed of were some nagging questions about the episode, ranging from the whereabouts of millions of dollars amassed by Jones' cult to the exact causes of all those deaths. In the case of Jones, said Baltimore Pathologist Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker last week after examining the bullet wound in the cult leader's head, "it looks like a suicide...
...other deaths were the subject of a coroner's inquiry in Matthews Ridge, Guyana. The chief medical examiner noted that some victims bore needle marks on their arms and concluded that they had been murdered with cyanide injections. Another inquiry witness, Cult Survivor Stanley Clayton, said that many who drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid did so only after Jones had pulled them "up from their seats saying they must go." A number of the dead, moreover, were small children or infirm older people who were probably unaware of what they were drinking. There is also a question that...
...another hearing in Guyana last week, Larry Layton, the cult member who pretended he wanted to return home with Congressman Leo Ryan and ended up taking part in the shooting at the airstrip, was charged with the Congressman's murder. Another cult survivor testified at Layton's pretrial hearing that Jones himself had talked about the need for Ryan's death and predicted that his plane would "fall out of the sky." Survivors returning to the U.S. have told the FBI that the cult's basketball team, to which Jones' natural son Stephan...