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...prepare them for burial or cremation. Yet the condition of the remains and the lack of fingerprint records for many victims meant the process was slow-and in many cases would prove futile. Autopsies were to be conducted on seven bodies: Cult Leader Jim Jones, Cult Physician Larry Schacht and five others selected at random. Officials decided that trying to pin down the precise cause of death for all victims would be impractical and pointless...
...with 14 women and two men on the same day. He claimed that he detested homosexual activity and was only doing it for the male temple adherents' own good-to connect them symbolically with himself. Some indeed shared his view: the cult's doctor in Guyana, Larry Schacht, used to brag about having intercourse with Jones. Jones took pleasure in forcing female followers to ridicule their husbands' sexual ability...
Nevertheless, the lethal drinking continued. Cultists filled their cups from a metal vat on a table at the center of the pavilion, then wandered off to die, often in family groups, their arms wrapped around one another. The tranquilizers in the liquid concocted by the temple's doctor, Larry Schacht, 30, may have dulled their senses; it took about five minutes for them...
...telephones and computerized voter lists. But Reagan, who signed up a campaign committee chairman in each of the state's 236 cities and towns by last December, seems to have an edge in reaching his quarry. "We do our politicking in the kitchen," explains Reagan Chairman Gerard Schacht of Effingham (pop. 338), who prefers neighborly persuasion over coffee to the ringing telephones that can turn voters off. At week's end, in Florida, Ford publicly expressed a view that aides said he had long held in private. Apparently to counter Reagan's tough stand on crime...
...Henry B. Schacht, 39, went from Harvard's Business Administration School to a small management outfit run by a member of the board of Cummins Engine Co. He soon was lured to Cummins, a manufacturer of heavy-duty diesels based in Columbus, Ind., as financial vice president. Within five years, at age 35, he became president. While rapidly expanding the company (1973 net sales: $686 million), Schacht has tenaciously supported strict antipollution standards and advocated a more socially conscious stance for industry. Business, he says, should create change and force its pace...