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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ryan took along eight newsmen as well as several relatives of temple members, who hoped to persuade their kin to leave the colony. The visitors arrived in a chartered aircraft, an 18-seat De Havilland Otter, at an airstrip in Port Kaituma, six miles from Jonestown. They rode to the colony along a muddy and barely passable road through the jungle in a tractor-drawn flat-bed trailer. At Jonestown all were greeted warmly by a smiling Jones...

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

...parents split up (his father died alone in a Lynn hotel six years later, his mother lived until 1977), and he moved with his mother to Richmond, 16 miles away. The Richmond High School 1949 yearbook shows a handsome young man with slick black hair, staring ahead with a slight smile. That year, at 18, he married Marceline Baldwin, a nurse whom he had met at the hospital where they both worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Messiah from the Midwest | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...films, "A Luta Continua," "Free Namibia," "South Africa: The Rising Tide" and "Six Days is Soweto," "show liberation struggles all over Southern Africa and how they have been working." Cindy Ruskin '79, a SASC representative, said yesterday...

Author: By Lisa E. Davis, | Title: Films on South Africa | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...saves, and showed the promise of handling the net chores with poise and experience for the next few years. He refused to commit himself against breaking shooters all evening, and thoroughly frustrated clever forwards such as P.C.'s Colin Ahern, who Lau personally foiled five or six times from point-blank range...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Cross Charles For First 'Home' Game | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

Seven minutes and six Harvard turnovers later, the visitors trailed by only 69-65 and the Crimson starters were back on the floor. Freshmen Glen Mills and Bill Cambell directed a flawless slowdown which consumed eighty seconds and was capped by a perfectly executed Cambell to Mills backdoor play which clinched the victory...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: J. V. Hoopsters Whip Bentley; Overcome Miscues, Comeback | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

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