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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible aftermath to a bizarre event, NBC television broadcast a tape recording of the Rev. Jim Jones' pleading with his followers to "die in dignity" by sipping a cyanide-laced drink. A few of the cultists protested. Some women screamed. Children cried. Armed guards took up positions around the camp to keep anyone from escaping. Other cultists, assembled around their leader's wicker-chair throne in an open hall, applauded as Jones implored in a high-pitched, agitated voice: "Please, for God's sake, let's get on with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...call on you to quit exciting your children. Stop this nonsense. Hurry, my children, hurry. Quickly. Quickly. Quickly. No more pain. No more pain. All they do is take a drink to go to sleep. That's what death is, sleep. Have trust. You have to step across. This world was not our home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...miles of superb public beaches; to cruise the crystalline waters on glass-bottomed boat, catamaran, windjammer or outrigger canoe; to golf, play tennis, deep-sea fish and surfcast; to flight see by helicopter; to beach-walk, backpack, camp, climb, ride horseback, bicycle, nature-walk, birdwatch, whale-gaze, explore, eat, drink, shop and be entertained, all on a 729-sq.-mi. isle about half the size of Long Island, N. Y. Largely pristine and un-Waikikied, it may be the last paradise with panache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...from Albequerque. That's right--New Mexico. No, she doesn't drink tequilla. Her name's Ellen Hart...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Just a Quick Jog ... to the 'Pru' | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...drink and be merry; in a month you may not be old enough...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: The Party's Over | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

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