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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would return to finish their deadly task. Drinking coffee laced with rum through the long night, the defectors from Jones' colony told how far their community had fallen from their Utopian ideal. They lived in fear, one reported, because "Jim Jones said the Guyanese government gave him authority to shoot anybody who tried to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Shoot the Moon...

Author: By Corcoran H. Byrne and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: Kraus Gets New Position In GSAS Reorganization | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Then a hand would shoot forward, sometimes in a mediating gesture, sometimes as if physically weighing a point. Then the issue was settled, the order given, the voice kindly, the words earthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Editors, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Name it -you guys are king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Return of Haley's Comet | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...from the 9th District hobbles up to the podium and starts talking softly into the microphone. Nobody knows he's up there, or maybe they do, but the dull hum of conversation doesn't subside during Burke's impromptu endorsement speech for King. A real lock 'em up and shoot 'em speech--Burke tells the convention why King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming to? This...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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