Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bush, 54, a former Congressman, CIA director and U.S. envoy to Peking, who likes to be described as "the thinking man's candidate." Said he: "Call me a conservative, but one with compassion." Bush lunched with G.O.P. Congressmen, breakfasted with reporters and made a low-key speech in Georgetown...
...This is a watershed period in our ties with the U.S.S.R.," warns William Hyland, a former longtime member of the National Security Council and now senior fellow at Washington's Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The next months or year will be very critical. With China's moves west, the U.S. normalization with Peking, the possibility of Western arms sales to the Chinese, and developments in SALT, all the major actors are in motion. We have to be very careful...
Charles A. Krause, the Washington Post's South American correspondent who had escaped from the Port Kai-tuma ambush with a superficial bullet wound, managed to join the pool of reporters that returned to the Jonestown site with Guyanese authorities. He was filing from his hotel room in Georgetown when Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee recalled him to Washington. There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause...
...Jones' final delusions was that he would move his cult to the Soviet Union. A delegation from the commune talked twice with Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet press attache in Georgetown, about a possible move, but a memo of that meeting shows the Russians offered little encouragement. Russian consular officials and a Russian doctor also visited Jonestown, which was the object of a favorable report by Tass. In the past few months, Russian language classes were held at the commune. Members had to recite Russian phrases, like "good morning," before receiving their rice-and-gravy meals...
...paranoia and brutality, the suicide drills, the weapons present in the camp, the malnutrition and sickness that were rampant, and the state of fear in which most of the inhabitants lived. She claims that the commune had three days' warning that a representative of the U.S. embassy in Georgetown was about to investigate the complaints. On Jones' orders, members were well dressed for the occasion, and good food was put on the table. "A visit was the only time we ate well," says Blakey. Wearing skimpy halter tops, commune women were instructed to flirt with the embassy official...