Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight newsmen crowded into the motel room in Modesto, Calif., to hear Prokes read his statement. A former TV reporter, he had gone to Guyana with Jones in August 1977. Prokes had fled Jonestown just before the mass deaths. While carrying some $500,000 of the Temple's cash through the jungle, he and two others were arrested by Guyana police. They claimed they had been ordered by Jones to deliver the money to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown. Released by Guyana officials, Prokes had returned to California...
...conference represented (unfortunately) a highwater mark of participation among student-issue oriented groups; the number of students who were involved at Harvard is about equivalent to the average assembly attendance last semester and far outnumbers participation in the more visible CDU. In all, we feel that a more constructive statement on the conference itself--with all of its difficulties--is that it is remarkable that it even happened at all. Contrary to the impression given by the article, the delegates as a group do plan to follow-up the conference, both with the assembly and with many other student...
Hamilton said yesterday the coalition group would work to make the FAA produce an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which would evaluate the effect of current flight headings. "We want a statement to prove that 210 degrees is the worst possible heading they could use," she added...
...themselves to preserving the old Mahto ways. Nor is the book's message a new one. Ahbleza's last prophecy for his people, the Mahto band of the Teton Nation, is to recognize there are good white men as well as bad white men. Ruth Beebe Hill echoes this statement: there were good Indians as well as bad Indians...
...reputation swiftly diminished, and Camus's tone of stoicism and forbearance was swallowed in the crowd noises of the '60s. Only now has the canon been appraised as a coherent statement about the possibilities of secular salvation. One sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work: "Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every...