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...GUYANA TRAGEDY: THE STORY OF JIM JONES April 15 and 16, CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T...
...Academy Award telecast (April 14) to an earlier starting hour, 9 p.m. E.S.T., so that more of that perennial ratings juggernaut will play during prime time. ABC will also rerun the hit movie The Sting on April 20, ahead of schedule. Not to be ambushed, CBS has slipped in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a two-part TV movie, just before the closing of the ratings season. Should this show prove a smash one-two punch, CBS may once more be known as "the Tiffany of the networks...
Evans said they had planned to go to the tribe they were studying because its people could easily get them to French Guyana. "These are very, very shrewd people" who would have no trouble evading the soldiers, Evans said...
...ideological partisanship which determines "guilt" of an international development adviser by the regime with which he "associates." In my career in the Agency for International Development (AID), I have worked with such motley regimes as those of Torrijos in Panama, Velasco in Peru, Banzer in Bolivia, Burnham in Guyana and Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work with a clear conscience in ways which might strengthen...
...regard Brown as "superficial", "opportunistic," "unreliable," and "flaky." Americans perceive Brown, despite his mainstream politics, as so far beyond the bounds of the civic religion that he could never be nominated, let alone elected. Recent events in California--the murder of two public officials in San Francisco cult in Guyana--have made the public far less indulgent of the stereotype of western eccentricity that Brown epitomizes...