Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jim Jones used the cloak of the First Amendment to deprive his followers of the very things that it was designed to guarantee: their freedom to worship and speak as individuals. That so many would shut off their minds and abdicate their roles as questioning, feeling, thinking beings was a...
While the Carter Administration had optimistically expected a modest increase of between 5% and 10%, the 13 OPEC nations agreed on a 14.5% hike to be imposed in stages at three-month intervals in 1979. The timing could hardly have been worse. Carter must cope with an intolerably high rate...
The main reason for the price hike was clear. OPEC wanted to regain the purchasing power it had lost because of the dollar's decline, 28% since December 1976. Despite huge oil revenues, eight of the OPEC member nations ran deficits in the first half of 1978; as a...
Jim Jones is cremated, but macabre questions remain
A silver hearse carried his body from Dover, Del., to a crematorium in New Jersey. His ashes will eventually be scattered over the Atlantic. Thus were the Rev. Jim Jones' remains to be disposed of, one month after his body was found among 912 others at the grisly death...