Camp doctor nurses brewed deadly brew at Jonestown
A survivor recounts how Dr Lawrence Schacht and two helpers mixed a cyanide laced drink in a large vat and fed babies before serving hundreds of adults at Jonestown. Oden Rhodes escaped after volunteering for a stethoscope, as death tolls rose with 408 bodies counted by Monday night in the Guyanese jungle settlement.
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Tex
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People's Temple
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Schacht
Mass suicide tragedy at Jonestown leaves hundreds dead
Witnesses recount a coordinated mass poisoning at the Jonestown gathering where Jim Jones appeared in control as victims, including mothers and children, drank poison and collapsed. Security stopped escapes as chaos and convulsions followed. Jones and his wife lay dead amid bodies in the pavilion and surrounding yard. Survivors describe a scene likened to a garbage dump by a Washington Post reporter.
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Washington Post
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Hyacinth Prash
Unions defy 7 percent wage guideline under Carter plan
Washington AP report shows unions threatening to ignore the 7 percent cap on wage and fringe benefits as Carter's inflation program faces pushback. AFL-CIO unions and the Teamsters resist the limit, arguing it does not shield workers from prices rising near 10 percent annually.
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TUE
IUE
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Fitzmaurice
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Their
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Jerry Borstell
Singer Co
Elizabeth
N.J
Refugees interviewed for new homes aboard Hai Hong
Immigrant officials in Port Klang Malaysia interview 2500 Vietnamese refugees aboard the freighter Hai Hong as part of a plan to grant asylum under expanded US and international quotas. France Canada Belgium West Germany Britain Switzerland Netherlands may take refugees with relatives. Union leaders threaten to ignore guidelines amid wage talks and strikes. Norfolk EVMS begins test tube baby center with Dr Steptoe and Edwards advising.
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Malaysia
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Canada
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Britain
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Norfolk, Va
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EVMS
Patrick Steptoe
Hearings May Breed More Extensions on Potomac Edison Rate Request
HAGERSTOWN AFP reports a three month extension may be needed for Potomac Edison Co s request for seventeen point nine million dollars in extra revenues. PSC commissioner William Badger noted additional hearings may be sought by all parties amid calls to expand topics beyond the streamlined make whole procedure. A December thirteenth decision is expected, with potential further hearings on accounting errors and scope.
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Badger
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People’s Counsel
Organization For Consumer Justice
Commission
PSC
Avbsehl
Johns Hopkins Study Finds No Health Effect From Embassy Microwave Exposure
A Johns Hopkins two year study of about 3 800 embassy employees and dependents in Moscow and 7 000 controls at other Eastern European posts found health records were essentially similar with no convincing evidence that microwave exposure caused adverse effects. State Department officials voiced ongoing concerns about Soviet emissions.
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Moscow
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Abraham Lilienfeld
State Department
Washington
Department
Hodding Carter
American Foreign Service Association
Carter
Lilienfeld
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
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