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Still unknown was the fate of the cult's flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...
...Chinese $700 million worth of products in all this year, mainly wheat, cotton and soybeans. To pay for some of their imports, the Chinese have devised "compensation trade" schemes, buying machinery with the products that will eventually roll off assembly lines. In a move that is heretical by Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese labor. In exchange for modern U.S. equipment for Chinese factories, Peking has concluded agreements with two American firms, which will employ Chinese workers who are paid about $25 a month, to make women's sportswear...
Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...
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...
...really have a 'group line', "Marty Blatt, a member of Black Rose, says. "We are not all socialist-anarchists. Some of us have been more influenced by the American individualist tradition. But I think we are all anti-authoritarian and critical of capitalism and communism. Marxist-Leninist communism is authoritarian, bureaucratic and hierarchical. Marxists don't reject domination and authority-they want to be authorities...