{"id":113274,"date":"2022-01-30T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113274"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:31:13","slug":"q321-transcript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113274","title":{"rendered":"Q321 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tape was transcribed by Adrian Whicker. The<\/em> editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Summary,\u00a0click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3<\/a>.
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Jones<\/strong>: (starts mid-sentence)\u2013ber 27, [19]78. Andrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is on an official visit to France. Yes\u2013 yesterday he had what he described as a very\u2013 (Aside) Can it wait just a minute? Stand by. (Whispers) Get my glasses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll begin again. News for this Friday, October 27. Mr. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister is an official\u2013 on visit\u2013 official visit, diplomatic status to France. Yesterday he had what he described as very constructive talks. It is rumored that the Soviet Union is moving closer to France, as France distrusts the United States programs. With\u2013 he said the\u2013 the talks dis\u2013 covered all<\/em> main subjects, and they had uh, what he called agreement on detente, disarmament, and implementation of the Helsinki, Helsinki Permanent Agreement, and of course USA has been violating the Helsinki Agreement of late. And so that\u2019s good. Disarmament. US is a huge (unintelligible word) source of disarmament, that France has come out, even though it\u2019s been\u2013 had a history of colonialism, and it takes a posture against two<\/em> things that USA is not for. USA is not for disarmament. I doubt<\/em> if they\u2019re for peace, by the way they act. And they certainly<\/em> are not for the Helsinki Agreement, they\u2019ve violated it too many times. But the significant thing of the talk and this disarmament in full accord is worthy of consideration, France and USA.<\/p>\n

Mr. Andre Bossard, the Controller General of the secret police forces, has just been nominated by [as] the Secretary General of INTERPOL, international organization which coordinates the actions of most of the world\u2019s police forces. The previous head of INTERPOL was also a Frenchman, I might mention, of a Nazi sympathies, just as Bossard was during World [War] Two, and just as the INTERPOL was a creation of Adolf Hitler. It was they who sent the (unintelligible word) lies down here to uh, Guyana. The previous head of INTERPOL, as I said, was Jean Nepotas [N\u00e9pote].<\/p>\n

There has been further indication that Britain will send arms to Zambia, contrary to America\u2019s wishes. At a meeting of diplomatic representatives in London yesterday, Foreign David Owens [British Foreign Secretary David Owen] said equipment (unintelligible word) would be sent to Lusaka, Zambia for Zambian defense needs. He added that there was no question of (stumbles over words) starting or situating British troops or aircraft in Zambia, although rumors have it also in Europe that the British are entering the battle directly. Now this is direct opposition, for you that are studying the news, this is a direct opposition and slap in the face towards the USA, because US has put the funds in there\u2013 put the funds in<\/em> to uh, Rhodesia, the white Rhodesian system that\u2019s tearing up Zambia, and the South African regime that\u2019s tried to bomb and have bombed (Unintelligible name), and we haven\u2019t paid any taxes in to the tens of thousands this past week.<\/p>\n

Joshua Nkomo, Front\u2013 Patriotic Front leader of Zimbabwe, visits Hungary, while it is announced in Lusaka today, the Front Line states are considering holding summit talks in Dar Es\u2013 Es Salaam this\u2013 this weekend. The purpose of the meeting is no secret. Announcing that 30 some mem\u2013 38 members of the security force have been killed during the last few Rhodesian strikes alone against the Patriotic guerilla Front camps, but more so, hundreds and thousands of innocent citizens of the Za\u2013 Zambian freedom fighters are the\u2013 rather, the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, freedom fighters has been killed (pause) and tortured. So USA strongly supporting<\/em> Rhodesia, and Britain<\/em> for some strange reason is pulling away, by offering direct military aid to the Zimbabweans<\/em>. That ought to make all of our hearts glad. Maybe the capitalist world\u2019s beginning to crack.<\/p>\n

President Zambia\u2013 uh, Zambia\u2019s President [Kenneth] Kaunda said, I want you all to brace for a very long war. It is expected that the summit meeting will also be established, (stumbles) will be established a unified force towards the African settlement, terms of a common effort to defend the frontline states against future attacks.<\/p>\n

News from Rhodesia: A white rancher sentenced 18 months jail for beating a black employee to death, has been told by a judge that he will not have to go to prison because following the incident he was att\u2013 by\u2013 attacked by a other\u2013 another black in reprisal and slightly wounded. The white rancher\u2013 rancher, aged 23, killed his foreman, a young man, after ranch\u2013 Uh, wait a minute here. A ranch\u2013 white ranch\u2013 Rancher. Uh, stand by, some mix-up in the news. (off mic, unintelligible) (Tape edit)<\/p>\n

\u2013killed one of his workers, a young man, after ranch employees complained that they had not been paid for three months.<\/p>\n

The Methodist Church of South Africa have condemned the World Council of Churches for granting funds to Rhodesia and Namibian guerilla organizations. I\u2019m so glad that the Sou\u2013 (stumbles over words) the Methodist Church uh, has uh, at least spoken out, so we know where they are. The Methodist churches, all of them, of South Africa. So much for Methodism. You ought to write this back that knows Methodism other, \u2018cause all Methodists and the Methodist Church is one of the largest in the United States. After a debate, it\u2013 at its annual co\u2013 conference in East London, the white Methodists decided to maintain their membership in the World Council but expressed dismay at the council\u2019s program to combat racism had made the grants and\u2013 had made grants to Patriotic Front and SWAPO. That\u2019s the\u2013 SWAPO is the liberation, rightful government of Namibia.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin \u2013 dictator, I should call him \u2013 told his Parliament yesterday that the Israeli government has decided to reinforce the number of Jews in East Jordan. He said that the Foreign Minister Moshe Day\u2013 Dayan would inform the United States of the decision. Most people believe that it\u2019s just a ploy for time.<\/p>\n

The Arab League [United Nations Security Council] today decided to extend the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force [United Nations Emergency Force] in Lebanon to another six months. Egypt abstained in the votes, \u2018cause she\u2019s the lackey of USA now. Syria provided the bulk of 30,000 men, but the combined fighting forces of the Arabs, if they\u2019re not careful, can be close to a million, and that would\u2013 they could turn over Israel, and run her into the sea. Anyway, Egypt abstained in the vote. Syria provided them the bulk of\u2013 provided 30,000 men, deterrent force, that forced to fight this uh, c\u2013 civil war started by Zionism and fascist Christian leaders, Phalangists as they are called.<\/p>\n

Lebanese security forces announced that about 100 people have been arrested in the last 48 hours in West Beirut for illegal possessions of arms.<\/p>\n

Market today\u2013<\/p>\n

Mike Prokes<\/strong>: (whispers) Let\u2019s start again, the tape just\u2013 (tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> As I said, the dollar crisis has gathered momentum on the foreign exchange\u2013 foreign exchange market, while the US currency fell to a postwar low. The worst it has\u2013 it\u2019s getting closer to its low of the Great Depression, when everybody was out of work, I mean school teachers, didn\u2019t make every\u2013 any difference, you were in a soup line, you had to eat in a soup\u2013 soup line if you wanted to get anything. The dollar has plunged nearly 30<\/em> percent this year against the yen. That\u2019s how stable the Japanese economy is, and how unstable the US economy is.<\/p>\n

Portugal\u2019s new Prime Minister called on the cooperation of the whole nation to match his personal sacrifices. In accepting the post, Carlos Monte [Mota] Pinto, forty years old\u2013 42 years old, a law professor, has undertaken the task of forming Portugal\u2019s tenth government since the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship in 1974 by the army. He is asking for the cooperation of all Portuguese, especially the squabbling political parties. Former Pri\u2013 former Prime Minister Mario\u2013 Mario Soares says his party will not participate in Dr. Monte Pito\u2019s government, although socialist, will be permitted to\u2013 (pause) except posts on a personal basis. Dr. Soares says that outgoing independent Prime Minister de\u2013 [Alfredo Nobre] da Costa has upset economic and political stability uh, between the six month socialist government that fell this\u2013 this July. Stand by. (Aside, off mic) What in the\u2013 (Tape edit)<\/p>\n

\u2013 will stop a (unintelligible) uh\u2013 bill and ask for an official investigation into allegations, charges that a former deputy prime minister and Minister of Electricity in the outgoing government received bribes of several hundred thousand dollars from the American Westinghouse Corporation. A government statement said the Americans had told Egypt that Westinghouse was being prosecuted for offering\u2013 for offering bribes to secure contact\u2013 contracts with the deputy uh, uh, that was in charge\u2013 (pause) the Deputy Minister of Electricity, so they could get some kind of security with him to get uh, provisions, equipment, and electrical power, so they\u2019d get all the jobs.<\/p>\n

The ten-day postal strike in Canada has ended, after the Postal Workers Union backed down in the face of government threat. Dismissed workers, if they continued their industrial action. Shortly before the government\u2019s deadline, arrest warrants were issued against all of the officers of the postal union. This shows you that the right to strike that they bragged so much about true trade unionism, has its own right to its destiny, to its own purposes, to make decisions to strike. The only thing that the labor union has is to strike when it comes to revenue, finally their issues, but that was denied in Canada do\u2013 too, just like Washington did it, by setting martial law when the (stumbles) the postal workers there and the US miners that they kept down there for 150 days, it\u2019s 150 without food\u2013 proper food, without any shelter. They would not\u2013 they\u2013 they would not give up the mines, would not let anybody in the mines, and they took shifts of laying in the mines.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a series of seven bomb attacks in the Italian capital of Rome. The attacks are all in the southern part of the city, and at a variety of tar\u2013 targets: a car showroom, two power transformers, and a bookshop (pause) among them. There were\u2013 There was considerable damage but no reports of injuries. Responsibility has been claimed by an organization calling itself the Anti-Fascist Collective, a new group that we have not heard of before.<\/p>\n

Typhoon Ri\u2013 Typhoon Rita has hit Manila, this capital of Philippine islands. The correspondent from BBC says that the very strong winds ripped down overhead power cables, plunging the whole of Manila into darkness. The typhoon blew down a 200 foot transmitter, the tower of the Manila Broadcasting Company causing damages and injuries. A number of people have been evacuated from low-lying areas, and some ambul\u2013 ambulances are still being called in to remove the injured and ex\u2013 the (stumbles) stranded.<\/p>\n

Syria and Iraq, united in their opposition to the Camp David Peace Accord, have served an\u2013 signed an alliance which would virtually mean a (unintelligible word) a merger between them. The alliance is designed to produce total military unity.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been more violence in Iran during a holiday to mark the Shah\u2019s birthday. In a s\u2013 in a southern town, a local police chief has been shot dead, and another senior official was\u2013 was wounded. The same kind of violence is occurring over in the United States, but unfortunately it\u2019s not the uh\u2013 it\u2019s not happening to the police, but to our brothers and sisters. The Iranian nation marked the Shah\u2019s 59th birthday in untypical fashion. There were neither pictures of the royal (pause) man on the front page of\u2013 of the local press, nor long articles inside extolling the virtues of the Shah, what was in\u2013 in the past considered much, as important holiday is perhaps one of the biggest indications in recent\u2013 in uh, recent months of the\u2013 of the challenge now fa\u2013 facing the Shah. Efforts to placate his opponents seems to have failed. Today\u2019s challenge differs radically from that of 1963 or 1953, when he [Mohammad Mosaddegh] was forced out of power, by our tax dollars and the CIA, and his president, the president of Libya was murdered in cold blood. When the Shah was first, as I said, into (stumbles over words) of power considerably (pause) more opposition to the Shah regime cuts vir\u2013 virtually across all sectors of Iran\u2013 Ir\u2013 Iranian, I-R-A-N, Iranian soci\u2013 uh, society. Among the most vocal include housewives, blue collar workers, and their merchants. On the 1973 oil boom, many have grown insecure. During the expense\u2013 subsequent uh, years, as the Shah sought to appease the following classes at their expense, these are mosques in\u2013 into which 90 percent of the country\u2019s 34 million people subscribe. Many Iranians, unable to fight a forum\u2013 find a forum for political activity within the Shah\u2019s system, gravitated to their religious leaders, who have traditionally provided sanctuary, there is\u2013 that has been a historic practice of all churches against oppression. In (unintelligible word), behind today\u2019s political upheavals is a combination of unfulfilled economic expectations, social tensions, and years of political repression and torture. There are few Iranians who cannot tell of a sister or brother, who\u2013 or a mother or dad that\u2019s in jail, who has not been jailed for his or her political beliefs. That means you can\u2019t find a single Iranian who has not been at one time jailed or held for their political beliefs. It\u2019s incredible, that is in that country where they don\u2019t have anybody with them. During the last ten months the protests have been mounting primarily on the streets against the Shah, where more than 1,000 died in clashes with m\u2013 clashes against security forces. (sigh) Since the Shah\u2019s imp\u2013 imposition of military law (pause) last (pause) month, the opposition has also taken the (pause) form\u2013 the\u2013 (pause) the form of industrial strike, of action. The most important, or most prominent opposition leader [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini], who is the head of the (pause) Shia Mosque, is currently in exile in France. The most important leader of all religion in (pause) Iran has been forced into exile in France. He has refused either to negate\u2013 negotiate with the Shah or return to the country. He has refused to negotiate with the Shah because he calls him a senat\u2013 a sinister di\u2013 and diabolical devil.<\/p>\n

Thus ends the commentary of the news for the day. Be sure you get your news. Listen to it in preparation for Russian quarterly, we\u2019re going to get\u2013 we\u2019re undoubtedly getting very close, as you know Saturday, Peoples Rally and test. We\u2019ll have tes\u2013 we\u2019ll have Russian first and news after that. I love you (pause) very much. I take so much pain, I\u2019d have to love you. Just ask some people around me. I love you very, very dearly. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Part II<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Prokes<\/strong>: Greetings from the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Jonestown near Port Kaituma in the Northwest District of Guyana. I\u2019m Mike Prokes and I\u2019m here with Bishop Jim Jones. The music you\u2019ve been hearing is from the Peoples Temple choir, an instrument ensemble. Bishop, we\u2019ve had a lot of\u2013 (tape ends).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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