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...followers to spray cyanide deep into the throats of infants and any adults who resisted his order to die. This haunting echo of the Jonestown horror was discovered last week on one of hundreds of tape recordings discovered by the FBI and Guyanese officials at the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana. The tape was on a recording machine that had apparently been turned on just as the mass suicides began, to provide a grisly final accounting for the cult of death...
...look at the latest doleful statistics. The consumer price index in October rose at a compound annual rate of 10% for the second month in a row. Food and beverages jumped at a rate of 10%, housing 12.7% and gasoline 18.2%. For the first time the overall index went above the 200 mark, meaning that today's battered dollar buys only half what it did in 1967, when the big price leaps began to pay for the Viet Nam War. In terms of real, aftertax buying power, many Americans are earning less now than they did then...
...excessive doses it produces a euphoric high, which he says, "makes it attractive as a drug of abuse. This is tantamount to legalized dope." Further, said Wolfe, Darvon-related deaths in the U.S. have been increasing, rising in major cities to about 600 last year and making the compound "the deadliest prescription drug in the United States." Eli Lilly and Co., of Indianapolis, the principal manufacturer, promptly branded Wolfe's charges "irresponsible and clearly not supported by the facts...
...York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast up in the vastness of the Australian landscape, give the film a distinction that could well bring him an international reputation. Along...
...Omni. But I don't see anything that's going to deter [the regulators] from making their appointed rounds. The way things are-and you don't have to be a mathematician to take $5,000 [roughly the present price of the Omni] and compound it for five years at 10% inflation rates and then add on all these goodies-it could be [a $10,000 car]. HIS GOALS: I really believe that if we can turn this company around, then I will have capped a career. I will have helped 200,000 people in their livelihoods...