Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones: It's too late. I can't control these people. They've gone with the guns. And it's too late...
Jones: Let's get gone. Let's get gone...
Eight newsmen crowded into the motel room in Modesto, Calif., to hear Prokes read his statement. A former TV reporter, he had gone to Guyana with Jones in August 1977. Prokes had fled Jonestown just before the mass deaths. While carrying some $500,000 of the Temple's cash through the jungle, he and two others were arrested by Guyana police. They claimed they had been ordered by Jones to deliver the money to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown. Released by Guyana officials, Prokes had returned to California...
...press conference, Prokes spoke for 25 minutes, defending Jones and insisting that the tape would show that the followers had gone serenely to their deaths. Then he walked into an adjoining bathroom, closed the door, placed a Smith & Wesson .38 against his right temple and killed himself...
...reason that so many are willing is that for many mainlanders the gloss has gone off some once fashionable Caribbean and Mexican resorts. The dollar is worth a dollar, almost. The natives speak English, sort of. It is a fairly easy hop for U.S. Westerners, who account for 80% of Maui's visitors (though 600 people a day flew from New York City en route to Maui on United alone last year). Though here and there a McDonald's, a Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii...