Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lieutenant, say his complaints were lies. The result of the autopsy conducted by Guyanese officials on Jones has not been released. But Guyanese-born Dr. Hardat A. Sukhdeo, deputy chairman of clinical psychiatric services at New Jersey Medical School, who flew to Jonestown to help counsel survivors, says the report shows no evidence of disease. Says Dr. Sukhdeo: "The complaints were all part of Jones' progressively suicidal depression." According to survivors, Jones regularly dosed himself with tranquilizers and painkillers, including Valium and morphine sulphate. Tim Carter told Dr. Sukhdeo that the night before the massacres and suicides, Jones...
...delegation from the commune talked twice with Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet press attache in Georgetown, about a possible move, but a memo of that meeting shows the Russians offered little encouragement. Russian consular officials and a Russian doctor also visited Jonestown, which was the object of a favorable report by Tass. In the past few months, Russian language classes were held at the commune. Members had to recite Russian phrases, like "good morning," before receiving their rice-and-gravy meals...
...orders, members were well dressed for the occasion, and good food was put on the table. "A visit was the only time we ate well," says Blakey. Wearing skimpy halter tops, commune women were instructed to flirt with the embassy official to keep his mind off the investigation. His report was not critical...
Guides they clearly are, for China is still years away from being able to enjoy the freedoms that are taken for granted in much of the West. Last week the London-based Amnesty International issued a 176-page report on human rights in China, charging that political prisoners are routinely starved, put in chains and held in solitary confinement. Trials are, said Amnesty, a mere formality-"in fact, meetings to announce the sentence." On this issue, at least, there may be hope for comrades of the Middle Kingdom. Peking's People's Daily has just completed a series...
London Daily Telegraph Correspondent Nigel Wade asked another crowd, "Do you want free newspapers?" and the Chinese shouted, "Yes!" He asked, "Do you believe your own newspapers?" and they answered, "No." Wade found the Chinese especially curious about Western clothes and books, and familiar with a newly released report by Amnesty International that takes have to task on human rights. He also found that "they seem to have a pretty good fix on Jimmy Carter. The overwhelming impression they have is that he is a kind...