Word: buford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though adaptive responses keep the body running for a while, even for months if some food and water are available, prolonged starvation eventually disrupts vital processes. Says Dr. Buford Nichols Jr. of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You keep falling back, like a military withdrawal, but finally the body just collapses." Adds Dr. Myron Winick of New York City's Columbia University Institute of Nutrition: "Victims of starvation have to adapt. But once they do, they have a very small margin for error." Death comes in many ways. The intestinal walls become damaged; severe and constant diarrhea...
...heave after his freshman year). 37. Larue Martin 38. Stan Love. 39. James-Brown. 40. All were first round draft choices by the Philadelphia 76ers during the early seventies. All were terrible. 41. 1971, Red Klotz. 42. UCLA--Walton, Lee, Curtis, Wilkes, Farmer; Memphis State--Finch, Kenon, Robinson, Buford, Laurie. 43. On the front was a circle with "The City" and the Golden Gate Bridge encircling the player's number. On the back, the number was emblazoned inside of a cable car. 44. Throw up. 45. Cyril Baptiste. 46. Jackie Meehan. 47. Jackie Twyman...
...Survivors returning to the U.S. have told the FBI that the cult's basketball team, to which Jones' natural son Stephan (who is still alive in Guyana) belonged, was actually a "hit squad" designed to seek out defectors. One former temple member, Terri Buford, says a person in San Francisco, Sandra Bradshaw, is in charge of carrying out a program to murder cult defectors, as well as such political figures as Senators Barry Goldwater and John Stennis...
...Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane, who once represented the cult, says he also made such a request. Lane denied reports, however, that while he was in Europe last week he tried to collect some of the money...
...papers in San Francisco Superior Court last week to dissolve the temple so that its assets could be used to bury the 911 victims. By Lane's account, however, all of the temple's cash may never be recovered. He told the New York Times that before Buford left Guyana, the bank accounts were transferred to the name of an unidentified elderly woman who later died in the mass suicide...