Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bickering, the probes, and the fear of hit men stalking their prey will not soon end. Yet the blame for the tragedy at Jonestown must rest primarily on Jim Jones. Even his 19-year-old son Stephan admitted, "I can almost say I hate this man." His father, Stephan said, "claimed he was afraid of nothing, which I know was bull. My father was a very frightened...
...help of 300 Indians, the Mormons killed more than 120 men, women and children in the Fancher party that was passing through Utah on the way to California. It was, says Historian William Wise, "the logical and culminating act of a society whose leaders believed themselves superior to the rest of mankind and who maintained that their own ecclesiastical laws took precedence over the laws of their country...
...escape is in fact Hanoi policy remains unconfirmed. But a number of refugees say that those who want to leave Viet Nam can simply register with a middleman and make a down payment in gold or dollars. They are taken to ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than 1,200 passengers...
...squad has lost only one player to graduation. However, gifted all-around athlete-Sarah Mleczko--last year's number two player--has decided to take a rest from competitive sports, and her sneakers will be hard to fill...
...first half, but the Minutemen pulled ahead midway through the opening period with a series of long jumpers. Harvard's pressing defense and hustling--if ineffectual--offense kept play at a hectic level for the entire half, even though UMass maintained a three-to-seven-point lead for the rest of the period...