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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Declaring himself an "independent Marxist," Reed settled in a plush lakeside villa in East Berlin in 1973 and married an East German; they are now divorced. He has kept his American citizenship and periodically revisited the U.S. He came to Minnesota to promote El Cantor, a movie about a Chilean singer who Reed claims was tortured to death after the fall of Marxist President Salvador Allende...
Despite the diversity of her interests, Mead remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
...foreign investments not with riyals but with the dollars they get from oil sales. Indeed, the Saudis let few riyals out of the country; they do not want the riyal to become an international currency, lest its value be set by speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal's value a deep secret. A London bank once set its computers to work trying to calculate the formula, to see whether and how it was related to the Saudis' trading surplus or the fluctuations of the dollar against other currencies...
...were neither an admirable nor likable pair, but the diary is far from an odious document. If it does not redeem them, it does manage to enhance them, principally because of their love for each other. In his chronic deep depressions Wagner felt that only Cosima's existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven. He cared...