Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GEORGETOWN, Guyana--Most of the 72 People's Temple cult members being held here have been cleared in an investigation of the 900 deaths at the Jonestown commune, and will be released soon, Guyanese police said yesterday...
...cult member has been charged with murder in the deaths of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D.-Calif.), three newsmen and a disaffected cultist, who were shot as they attempted to leave the commune. Another has been accused of killing four cultists in Georgetown...
...himself. Last week, he flew to the small Latin American country and set out for the commune known as the "People's Temple." Accompanying him were an aide, a U.S. embassy official, eight newsmen and leftist attorneys Mark Lane and Charles Garry, who were representing the commune. From Georgetown, the capital, the party chartered two planes to reach a dirt airstrip 145 miles away. Then they rode 20 miles by jeep to the isolated, armed commune of some 1,100 fanatical members...
...commune members, who suddenly appeared on the runway and shot at the planes. Ryan, 53, was killed, as were four others: NBC Reporter Don Harris, 41, and Cameraman Robert Brown, 36; San Francisco Examiner Photographer Gregory Robinson, 27; and an unidentified woman. At least eight others were wounded. In Georgetown, a woman member of the sect killed herself and her three young children. A U.S. State Department spokesman said there were "alarming indications" that cult members in Guyana and California were on the brink of committing mass suicide...
...seek hegemony." China's ability to fight off even a limited Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly the U.S., the 190 divisions of the People's Liberation Army may have to wait a long time to be outfitted. Says Georgetown University Military Analyst Edward N. Luttwak: "The total inventory of American ground weapons of the Army and Marines, of the active forces and reserves, would not be enough to equip the Chinese army with modern weapons...