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...neighbors, Leonard Lake, a burly, self-described "survivalist," seemed like an ordinary if slightly ornery fellow. But after a chance arrest in San Francisco earlier this month, Lake committed suicide while in police custody. When officers drove to his two-acre mountain retreat 140 miles northeast of San Francisco, they discovered what was in effect a death camp. Searchers unearthed the remnants of at least five charred bodies and carried away 50 bags of chopped-up bones and other evidence. Police believe that Lake and his accomplice, 24-year-old Charles Ng (pronounced Ing), may be responsible for killing...
...August 1980. The family virtually isolated itself, and the children were expected to spend most of their free time at home. The parents forbade dating for Deborah, and Maria Jahnke insisted on accompanying her teen-age daughter on outings. Jahnke, a former career Army sergeant, a gun buff and survivalist who stored a large emergency cache of dried foodstuffs in the home, often patrolled his house fondling one of his guns. Lamented the green-eyed Deborah to a friend last summer: "They won't let me out of their sight. It's driving me crazy." Said one friend...
Superficially, the class of '82 resembles the class of '64: the students are fairly conservative; they dress well; they respect their parents. They have embraced many traditional social conventions, such as fraternities and senior proms. If they lack the optimism of their predecessors, they have substituted a survivalist mentality. The annual American Council on Education-U.C.L.A. survey of college freshmen reported in 1978 that 60% of the class of '82 said that "to make more money" was an important reason to go to college; even more expected to find a job in their preferred field...
...impossible to know (but easy to feel) what the essay is 'about.'" Hoagland, ablaze in a trail of Pickwickian serendipity, is the sympathetic purveyor of black bears, red wolves, and city rats; he records the folk lore of early settlers in British Columbia and Vermont and the survivalist point of view from New York City; he journeys to the Sudan, collecting all manner of stories and "hemorrhaging with loneliness" in a village "so poor that its people could have spent ten years living on the air fare itself." In the course of these travels, Hoagland selects generously from observations...
...most zealous survivalists, the and money required to prepare for collapse are such that there is little time left for anything else. Contends "The hard-core survivalist has given up and is no longer trying to bring effective change." Indeed, says he, survivalists now actually have a interest in catastrophe: "If Western civilization doesn't fail, they will be disappointed...