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Tupelo, Mississippi, Monday Morning, November 20, 1978
Vol. 105 No. 199
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Congressman Among 5 Slain ·1n Shootout 10 Sti/1 Missing; May All Be Dead' GEORGETOWN, Guyana (UPI) - Fanatic American cultists ambush-e d and killed a California congressman, three U.S. journalists and a woman by gunning them down, walking up to them and firing bullets through their heads, officials and survivors said Sunday, The shaken men and women who survived the massacre on a jungle airstrip said they believed the cultists intended to carry out a mass suicide pact after the original killings. Ten Americans were wounded and 10 others were still missing following the shootout, which occurred while the party led by .Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., was preparing to leave a jungle airstrip Saturday' evening with cult members who reportedly wanted to flee. The State Department said late Sunday that two prominent U.S. lawyers, Mark Lane and Charles Garry, were reported to be · at Jonestown, the jungle headquarters of the mysterious cult called the Peoples Temple. "I expect tomorrow we will have intelligence that they are all dead," said Steven Katsaris, a psychologist from Potter Valley, Calif., who left a 25-year-old daughter behind in Jonestown, the jungle headquarters of the People Te·m ple cultists. The Guyanese government dispat~hed a 150-
UPI Telephoto
Copyright San Francisco Examiner/ Greg Robinson
TEMPLE OF DEATH -This photo of the People's Temple in Georgetown, Guyana was made by . San Francisco Examiner
photographer Greg Robinson before he and two other American journalists and Rep. Leo Ryan were killed.
Bus Hijack Ends ·Quickly /
BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) - Three men armed with a .22-caliber pistol and two toy guns hijacked a bus en route to New Orleans and robbed the 30 persons on board, but were arrested only minutes later. One shot was fired during the hijacking incident, but none of the 29 passengers or bus driver Vernon Guillot was wounded. The gunshot hit one of the three hijackers in the shoulder. " Guillot of Alexandria, La., a bus driver for 31 years, said the three men boarded the bus at Baton Rouge and sat quietly until the vehicle was leaving the city limits. "The first man was closest to me and he pointed the gun straight at me," Guillot said. "He told me to 'Dr,ive. ,Don't take your hands off the wheel and turn off at the nearest exit.' "I didn't look right or left. I really didn't know what was going on." . . The men ordered the passengers to clasp their hands behind their heads and one of the hijackers began collecting valuables. A passenger reached up to turn on an 1 1 overhead light, ·apparently startling the gun-
man who fired one shot and hit one of his fellow hija~kers in the arm. · "They left the bus telling the passengers to keep their hands clasped behind their heads and not leave the bus or they would be shot," said Maj. James Banister of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office. Bannister said the three and their getaway car driver were quickly arrested after running a red light in Denham Springs, La. Arrested on 30 counts of aggravated kidnapping were Dwayne Hall, 19, of Baton Rouge; Raymonq Cavalier, 18, who listed his ~ddress as Iberville Parish Prison; Nathaniel Alexander, 23, of Pascagoula, Miss., and Ben Alexander, 21, also of Pascagoula. A sheriff's depart'ment spokesman said Cavalier and Ben Alexander were hospitalized in Baton Rouge . Cavalier was in satisfactory condition with a bullet wound to the shoulder and Alexander was in undetermined condition. "He became incoherent shortly after we Continued on Page 18
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man force of police and soldiers to Jonestown, but there was no immediate word on what they found. The FBI in San Francisco said agents were assigned to question Peoples Temple adherents to determine whether a conspiracy or any other violation of U.S. federal law was involved in the ambush. 11 The United States should go in there and see ,, if anyone. is still alive," said Beverly Oliver, who survived the massacre with her husband but left behind two sons in the cult head· quarters. . . · NBC field producer Robert Flick described the ambush, which was triggered by a supposed defector from the group who pulled out a con.cealed weapon and began firing. The first shots apparently were a signal for a group of other cultists waiting on an adjacent flatbed trailer
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·Sprawling Nuclear Plant Has 1st Showing
UPI Telephoto
BUS HIJACKED -Mother clutches her child as they arrive in New Orleans aboard Trailways Bus that was hijacked in Baton Rouge,La.Sunday.
By JOE RUTHERFORD reactor plant, Sunday's crowds saw . . Managing Editor gaping holes and valleys dug deep into IUKA -Last November the steep, red soil. In 1985 those excavations will wooded hills north of Iuka along be deep inside the complex plant. Pickwick Lake captured the attention Twelve-foot diamater cooling water of a relative handful of people - a few pipes are the dominant feature at this who lived on Coleman Park, Road, stage. They will run underneath the some hunters and an occasional TVA plant to two tall cooling calendars. The huge size of the site was often the worker keeping an eye on a 1,100-acre tract along the shores of Yellow Creek first impression on Sunday sightseers. embayment. "I just had no idea it was going to be Sunday, the scene was vastly dif- so much," one Iuka woman said. "I ferent as thousands of Northeast just can't imagine what they'll put in Mississippi and Northwest Alabama all this space. It's not going to be just residents got a first glimpse at con- one building is it?" struction of Tennessee Valley AuthoriThe answer to the woman's question ty's Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant. is, "No." The sprawling power generating The plant will have components th4t facility will cost over $2 billion by the are bound together by technology, but time the first watt of electricity is pro- dozens of primary and support strucduced for public consumption in the tures will be scattered inside the TV A mid-1980s. · compound. In addition to the domes, curves and Since the first shovel of dirt was turn· ed in February, construction crews other futuristic looking architecture of have moved, hauled away and rear- the nuclear age, Yellow Creek will ranged 3.3 million cubic yards of have spiraling cooling towers jutting material at the site. Another 6 million 550 feet into the sky. cubic yards will be moved by the end of . Those towers weren't there Sunday, the project construcUon period. but with just a little imagination they Where visitors at last March's official groundbreaking saw small signs Continued on Page 18 designating units and areas of the twin-
Photo by Joe Rutherford
· NUCLEAR PROGRESS -Huge pipes to carry cooling water a're being laid at the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant site near Iuka . Thousands of area residents took advantage of a chance to drive through the work area Sunday afternoon at a TVA-sponsored open house. The $2 billion facility will be completed in the mid-1980s.
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weather Northeast Mississippi - Mostly cloudy with chance for showers. High, mid 50s; low, low 40s.
worst drought in years .
no peace yet
,: ,cattlemen in east Mississippi are rushing !lttle to market because wotst drought in 1 :wo decades has left many without suitable ,iinter grazing. See page 14.
The Israeli cabinet observed the first anniversary of Sadat's historic visit in a fivehour meeting that left the latest peace proposals up in the_air. Turn to page 10.
ad deadline today
gas chamber passe?
The advertising deadline for the Nov. 24 · )ition of The Daily Journal is 5 p.m. today. All advertisers sh()uld have ads placed by that time.
State officials are discussing the possibility of getting rid of the dilapidated gas chamber and replacing it with a lethal injection in future executions. See page 12.
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on the inside ·Brezhnev warns U.S. Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev warned the U.S. not to assist the shah of Iran against dissidents and Secretary of State , Cyrus Vance replied the U.S. wasn't planning on interfering anyway. See page 26.
teen dies in wreck Sixteen-year-old Melissa Ann Livingston of Booneville was killed in a one-car accident early Sunday morning on a county road west of Booneville. Three others were injured. Details and obituary information are on page 18. ·
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