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...SPECULATION about Jonestown will continue for some months to come, but no answers will be found, no sweeping conclusions reached. In many respects there is nothing more to say. But as long as the image of 900 bodies, piled layer upon layer on the damp ground, persists in our consciousness, there can be no forgetting Jonestown. And while the direct responsibility for all those needless deaths lies with the madman Jim Jones, most everyone will be able to duck the broader responsibility which indicts our entire society for spawning such a monster. By now Jim Jones's ashes have been...
...hewing, as well as some distracting side effects. When the crowds are especially dense or the action swift, the superimposed cartoon fades to a sketchy approximation. The live actor-models flicker like ghosts behind a thin wash of color, and the viewer feels an urge to apply a damp cloth and see what is really going...
...some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...tunnels were originally built to house the pipes. Construction, which started in 1927, was aimed at providing maintainance workers with easy access to the pipes. Damp and dark, the concrete bunkers are sometimes ten feet high, at other points too low for a 6-ft. person to stand. They are packed tight with pipes; six or eight run along the walls of a typical segment, some of them two-feet-in-diameter monstrosities enclosing smaller tubes...
...inspiration," no one expects that to occur. In election "by scrutiny," with secret written ballots, a Pope must receive two-thirds of the votes plus one. Two ballots are taken in succession each morning, and two each afternoon. After each unsuccessful vote the ballots are burned along with damp straw; the black smoke tells dead waiting world that the church still has no Pope. If a dead lock develops, the Cardinals can decide unanimously to elect "by delegation," choosing nine to 15 of their number to make the choice. At the moment the final decision comes, each Cardinal lowers...