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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays of effusive affection and understanding, or "love bombing," as one psychiatrist puts it. Once recruits start going to meetings, they are frequently subjected to various drills and disciplines that weary them both physically and emotionally, producing a sort of trance...
...emblematic, identifying moment of the decade: a demented American psychopomp in a tropical cult house, doling out cyanide with Kool-Aid. Jonestown is the Altamont of the '70s cult movement. Just as Altamont began the destruction of the sweet, vacuous aspirations of Woodstock, Jonestown has decisively contaminated the various vagabond zealotries that have grown up, nourished and sometimes turned sinister...
Under presidential orders to cut wherever they can, federal agencies have submitted budget proposals to OMB, which is reducing them further and returning the trimmed versions this week. Then the various agencies will start making their appeals to restore funds that have been lopped off. Carter insists he will back up his budget cutters. At a mid-November meeting of subcabinet officers and other top civil servants, he emphasized that his anti-inflation campaign would require sacrifices "from everyone." Noting that all sorts of interest groups "will make their voices heard," he warned: "You will be tempted...
...story came out. First Thorpe suggested that Bessell obtain a visa for Scott, enabling him to move to the U.S. Bessell felt that this would be impossible. With that, Bessell testified, "Mr. Thorpe said, 'Then we have to get rid of him.' " According to Bessell, Thorpe discussed various means of disposing of Scott's body, such as dumping it in a Cornish tin mine or burying it in cement...
...complain about. The MBTA's practices over the past few years in Cambridge have been questionable at best. Specifically, the community has been misled as to the types of construction the MBTA will use, the overall impact on Mass. Ave. businesses and traffic patterns and the planned use of various public facilities...