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Thirty-four hundred people crowded into St. Mary's Cathedral for the service, including California Gov: Edmund G. Brown Jr., 35 mayors from around the country, and other public officials. An additional 5000 to 6000 gathered on the plaza around the church to listen to the funeral over loudspeakers, while many more saw the Mass live over television...
...invitation, which was sent to Nixon last month, sparked controversy within the Republican Club and among some Massachusetts Republicans. Richard W. Berenson '80, a member of the club, resigned yesterday after news of the invitation was made public...
...days since that terrifying event, those deaths (no one will ever really be sure whether they were all suicides, or whether some drank the poison at gunpoint) have stolen the world's attention away from less exotic, less titillating news. In short, the Jonestown affair has become the most publicized spot-news event since Richard Nixon's resignation, with every form of media jumping on each set of gruesome revelations and/or body counts, screaming them out to a public drooling for more, repulsed and fascinated at the same time. Indeed, the publicity surrounding the event would obscure anything less ghoulish...
...costs to the public in terms of less expensive or even, perhaps, more improved forms of medical services are great," he added...
Robert L. Hunter, chairman of the board of trustees for the AMA, said that the organization favors the free flow of public information about health care services...