{"id":113647,"date":"2022-03-04T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113647"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:47:32","slug":"october-27-28-1978-handwritten-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=113647","title":{"rendered":"October 27-28, 1978 Handwritten Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BB-1-xx-4<\/p>\n<p>October 29<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Last night Sharon called with the message about my father harassing me. He says it sounds like the same situation as Steve Katsaris. I told him it could create a lot of problems. He said he is not worried. I said, you want him calling all over about us?&#8221; I said he may be even call your wife and start a mess, as well as US officials.\u201d He again said he wasn&#8217;t worried \u2013 but it was not very convincing so I think he is. I told him I better talk to him and placate him. It was very good background of what my father is like to approach him about my plane fare.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He said that the Guyana government is strong politically but the economy is in bad shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He said that the government will win the elections. Of that, he has no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I asked about devaluation. He said he didn&#8217;t know, at first, and then he said the Prime Minister said there would not be (but I am not sure if he was quoting public statements of the PM or private remarks). He said it wouldn&#8217;t make any sense to devalue because imports are already<\/p>\n<p>BB-1-xx-5<\/p>\n<p>restricted and that is why devaluation occurs. He said you don&#8217;t have to worry anyway because your funds here are for local expenditures. I said there is a large proportion of our funds here because we purchase spare parts and equipment from all over the world at this point and need to change it back to US dollars. I told him most of it was for domestic expenditures but we need that flexibility. He had said you don&#8217;t need to worry because most of your funds are away. I was not sure if that was innocent or probing statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He said there is to be another major cutback in the public sector (govt. employees) because there isn&#8217;t enough money to pay the employees they have. It will be another round of redeployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He is still solicitous of me. I didn&#8217;t want to go out, and if he does he will usually go alone if I don&#8217;t go, but he stayed home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BB-1-xx-4 October 29 \u2013 Last night Sharon called with the message about my father harassing me. He says it sounds like the same situation as Steve Katsaris. I told him it could create a lot of problems. He said he is not worried. I said, you want him calling all over about us?&#8221; I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":113569,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113647","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113648,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113647\/revisions\/113648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}