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...cult member has been charged with murder in the deaths of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D.-Calif.), three newsmen and a disaffected cultist, who were shot as they attempted to leave the commune. Another has been accused of killing four cultists in Georgetown...
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...
Perhaps the biggest development of this week's election came when the Senate's only black member, Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R.-Mass.), was forced to concede defeat early Tuesday night to Rep. Paul E. Tsongas (D.-Mass.) in an election that has prompted many blacks into feelings of bitterness towards white liberals who, they feel, betrayed the two-term incumbent...
Cambridge City Councilor and State Rep. Saundra Graham said yesterday the black communities turned out in full force to vote for Brooke, but their votes could not compensate for the large number of white liberals who deserted Brooke to vote for Tsongas...
...senatorial campaign noticeably lacked any mudslinging tactics, but the effects remain to be seen, State Rep. Barney Frank said yesterday. "This election has made a lot of blacks very angry," Frank said, adding that there are many local white politicians who will find themselves without the black vote next time around...