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Ambush in Guyana...
After getting many complaints from constituents about relatives being kept against their will by a California cult that had decamped to the jungles of Guyana, Democratic Congressman Leo Ryan decided to see for himself. Last week, he flew to the small Latin American country and set out for the commune known as the "People's Temple." Accompanying him were an aide, a U.S. embassy official, eight newsmen and leftist attorneys Mark Lane and Charles Garry, who were representing the commune. From Georgetown, the capital, the party chartered two planes to reach a dirt airstrip 145 miles away. Then they...
...Robert Brown, 36; San Francisco Examiner Photographer Gregory Robinson, 27; and an unidentified woman. At least eight others were wounded. In Georgetown, a woman member of the sect killed herself and her three young children. A U.S. State Department spokesman said there were "alarming indications" that cult members in Guyana and California were on the brink of committing mass suicide...
Jones quit and led the exodus to Guyana after New West magazine last year ran an expose of concentration camp conditions within the communes. According to reports, members were punished for smoking, fraternizing with outsiders or acting like "male chauvinist pigs." They were paddled as many as 100 times by the "Board of Education," a thick plank, and a microphone was placed near the mouths of victims to amplify screams for the congregation. Jones, who said he could raise the dead, also staged healing rites in which he claimed to pull cancerous organs from ill people; what...
Meanwhile, the bodies of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.), three employees of NBC News, and a cult member who was trying to leave Guyana under Ryan's protection, were returned to the United States for burial...