N-1-B-34a \u2013 34b<\/p>\n
FOR CHRIS\u2019 SAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n Dec. 11, 1977<\/p>\n We still don\u2019t know why the hell you went down You were created by the System; Your intensity What can we say of that? A tough man And in terms of black people who will not, never not ever compromise with the System that has brutalized, enslaved, condemned, and exploited them, the System that has been shot into our veins with filthy needles, We forgive you, Chris You never sold out to the System. We forgive you, Comrade Chris, You died in the ghetto, the ghetto Blotched all over the land like a blight, You had the ghetto in your blood You know your Leader loved you, Chris, even though you were He loved you The turbulent, violence long night of your life is now over. We are grateful tonight that we have, Let our anger been touched by the refining fire of JIM JONES. And let us be rededicated, as revolutionaries Dick Tropp<\/p>\n \u2014\u2013<\/p>\n EE1-T-25<\/p>\n Undated, handwritten answers of Richard D. Tropp to test given to Jonestown residents. Transcriber\u2019s note: The FBI arranged the following four pages out of order. For easier reading, they have been presented in the correct order.<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard D. Tropp<\/p>\n 1. Revisionism, Anarchism, Trotskyism, Social Democracy [answers to prompt to name \u201cFour Enemies of Communism\u201d]<\/p>\n 2. Proposition 13 <\/u>\u2013 All I know is that it is a scheme to save the State of California money by cutting back in several areas \u2013 most notably, 7 billion will be cut from welfare & other programs to aid needy people.<\/p>\n 3. Armed struggle & Revisionist concept of terrorism.<\/p>\n Armed struggle \u2013 revolutionary action for the purpose of liberating the working people (proletariat) from oppression. Revisionists often call this \u201cterrorism\u201d because they are opposed to radical actions. (E.g. \u2013 Italian Communists called Red Brigade terrorists). Ex of terrorism: Klan mobs attacking blacks, senseless violence for its own sake.<\/p>\n [notation pn page\u2019s left margin] Terrorism \u2013 isolated action when it becomes part of a liberation movement, it crosses the line to armed struggle.<\/p>\n 4. 7 items in [Senate Bill] 1437<\/p>\n Freedom of press restricted (\u201cno more Watergates\u201d) ——–<\/p>\n EE1-T26<\/p>\n Mental patients can be imprisoned 5. Cholera has broken out in \u2013 Ethiopia<\/u><\/p>\n 6. [Rhodesian nationalist Joshua] Nkomo \u2013 What did he say to [U.S. President Jimmy] Carter[?] \u201cKiss my big fat black ass.\u201d<\/u> \u2013 Why? Because Carter has been trying to urge Soviets & Cubans to get out of Africa & to put together a phony \u201cinternal settlement\u201d that would sell out the liberation effort. Nkomo won\u2019t buy the phony deal.<\/p>\n 7. How does sci-fic, religion, occultism, mysticism oppress people?<\/p>\n They give erroneous explanations for ones condition. (God, the stars, reincarnation, \u201cspirits,\u201d fate, etc.) These oppressed people will not look to real reasons (economic exploitation) for their oppression.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n EE1-T-20<\/p>\n Richard D. Tropp<\/p>\n 8. How is country in \u201cZ\u201d [1969 political thriller film] like the U.S.?<\/p>\n \u2013 Phony front of democracy 9.Why didn\u2019t police help the Deputy in \u201cZ\u201d?<\/p>\n Because they were instructed not to by the General \u2013 this was deliberate strategy to allow goon squad to attack the peace demonstration & kill the deputy.<\/p>\n 10. Robert Mugabe & Joshua Nkomo are leaders of Patriotic Front to liberate Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n 11. Because USSR is helping African liberation struggles.<\/p>\n 12. Kampuchea\u00a0\u2013 nationalistic, racist-Pro Chinese. Vietnam \u2013 pro-Soviet, internationalist.<\/p>\n 13. Chilean Ship \u2013 Esmerelda \u2013 was used as a torture chamber in Chile \u2013 Ship was not turned away from docking in SF<\/p>\n ——-<\/p>\n EE1-T-21<\/p>\n [Transcriber\u2019s note<\/strong>: First two items, 22 and 23, are written in tiny script at the top of the page, as if Tropp ran out of space and was struggling to fit his commentary.]<\/em><\/p>\n 22. Johnny Harris \u2013 black man on death row, framed up charge.<\/p>\n 23. Joan Little, black woman in jail for killing prison guard who tried to rape her.<\/p>\n 14. Demands of Carter on USSR \u2013 get out of Africa \u2013 withdraw aid & assistance to countries like Ethiopia, Angola, etc.<\/p>\n 15. ________?<\/u>__________ threaten to withdraw from NATO.<\/p>\n 16. China, USA \u2013 threatening to war w\/ USSR<\/p>\n 17. Say you dont have to answer any questions & call HQ for assistance \u2013 keep<\/u> your<\/u> mouth<\/u> shut<\/u>. Dont sign anything.<\/p>\n 18. Malcolm X \u2013 in a manner of speaking \u2013 though technically, he wasn\u2019t because he never claimed to be any sort of communist. Perhaps Henry Winston<\/u> of the CPUSA [Communist Part of the USA] \u2013 because CP is gradualist, anti-revolutionary.<\/p>\n 19.<\/p>\n A. [Anwar] Sadat \u2013 Egypt 20. Look Magazine<\/p>\n 21. \u201cHe is Alive\u201d<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n <\/a>EE1-T-51<\/p>\n Undated, typed letter from Dick Tropp introducing first draft of \u201cConspiracy Book\u201d. As Tropp mentions writing about \u201cthe Guyana project,\u201d one could infer he not yet in Jonestown, placing this document\u2019s origin before Tropp\u2019s arrival in-country on Oct. 18, 1977. <\/strong>A fuller discussion of the 455-page book appears here<\/a>. Transcriber\u2019s note: The entirety of this document is covered in a slapdash ink scribble.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a first draft of the text part of what I hope will be the first edition of a book on the conspiracy. The text is about 15,000 words. It is divided in to two sections: the first is background information on Jim and the Temple, the second goes into the current conspiracy in detail. There will alse be footnotes, and several appendices. The appendices will include documents, letters, news articles, a special section on the Guyana project, a section onthe Unita Wright surveillance incident, and other supplementary material. Throughout the text will be interspersed quotes, headlines, etc. to break up the words and highlight major issues, making the reading more interesting.<\/p>\n It is very time consuming to type drafts, so I am hoping that a few people can read through this current draft to see how they feel about it, make suggestions, etc. before I go ahead with a second typed draft which will take several days. Hopefully, I will be able to prepare the second draft in such a way that it can be sent to the U.S. for printing. If x printed in a format similar to Mary Warner\u2019s book on Harassment of Black Elected Officials, it will make up a volume of about 150 pages, including the supplemetary materials.<\/p>\n I have a separate list of footnotes, which will be finalized when I do the second draft. Attached is a sheet of inserts which will be incorporated in the text as noted.<\/p>\n This was done fairly quickly and is probably not as complete as it needs to be. Any details on the conspiracy that I have not included please note down. I imaging that, pending the results of investigations now going on, we can begin working on a second edition that would be updated and expanded. Or we can print in such a way that a later xedition would need only add a chapter to the first edition.<\/p>\n [Last line is handwritten] I NEED THIS BACK WHEN DONE!<\/u><\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n EE1-T-50<\/p>\n Undated, typed progress report from Dick Tropp to Jim Jones on his proposed \u201cConspiracy Book\u201d, detailing what Peoples Temple perceived as a multipronged attack against them by the U.S. government, Concerned Relatives, and the media. A fuller discussion of the 455-page book appears here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tropp also mentions writing a \u201cmore popular\u201d formatted article on the history of Peoples Temple and Jim Jones. He\u2019s possibly referring to his comparatively shorter unfinished book, \u201cTarget: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple\u201d<\/a> or his \u201cdramatic reading\u201d entitled \u201cWho Are the People of Jonestown?\u201d<\/a> This likely puts the letter\u2019s origin to the early months of 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n To: Dad From: Dick Tropp<\/p>\n PROGRESS REPORT<\/p>\n I am working on my second draft of the conspiracy book. I expect to have it done by the 4th, and have all finishing touches, appendices, inserts, etc. ready by the 7th so it can go with the next boat to the printer in the U.S.<\/p>\n After that is done, I plan to work on the San Francisco Examiner questions. I envision a long, detailed \u201canswer\u201d that will run about 15,000 words, since it will expose the conspiracy and the \u201cquestions\u201d as an enormous \u2018red herring.\u2019 I will try to do that so it can be used as a (copyrighted) article.<\/p>\n After that, I will be working on a more popular-format book\/serial article on the history of PT and Jim, including profiles and commentary from current members. Notes for this are piling up.<\/p>\n Meanwhile I am continuing to compile more updated material on the project, which along with pictures, will be sent as often as possible to the US for publication in a \u2018newsletter\u2019 format (I suggest at least a monthly) with a lot of pictures and \u2018newsy\u2019 comments, statements from residents, progress and production report, etc.<\/p>\n Also have drafted up a long letter to the World Council of Churches using a little more of a religious format; I think they might be interested in printing up something on us in their international periodical, One<\/u> World<\/u>.<\/p>\n I will have ready for the Cuban Ambassador a message of greetings (Harriet [Sarah Tropp, sister] saw the draft of it and thought it was okay) \u2013 we can also include, along with letters of support written to [Guyana Prime Minister Forbes] Burham, the Forum, [Peoples Temple attorney Charles] Garry article, Summer Report, and the text of the article we submitted for Soviet Press.<\/p>\n TRAFFIC FOR 8R1 [Peoples Temple HAM radio] — we need some copies of [California Lt. Gov. Mervyn] Dymally\u2019s 3-page letter if they have it. We don\u2019t have any here. Also, did material for Soviet press get delivered to the Soviet embassy?<\/p>\n TRAFFIC FOR STATES: Need my typewriter. Send more copies of October Forum, any new letters of praise, new publications we have put out.<\/p>\n Self-criticism: Lazy. I will get myself up earlier and push. I avoid physical work. Am not grateful enough. I hold grudges, don\u2019t take criticism. I think way too highly of myself.<\/p>\n The other day when I heard we were going on a KGO talk show I thought, this is insane. I thought it was a crazy idea. But I didn\u2019t have the guts to say so. I didn\u2019t trust your wisdom. But I am thanking you for again showing me that you know what the hell you are doing. I also had reservations about the \u2018parade.\u2019 Again you show that you know what you are doing. I am way too much the spineless intellectual, feel uncomfortable with your daring, bold approach. But I see now — so clearly — that this is the only way. Maybe someday I will be more than an armchair revolutionary.<\/p>\n Thank you Dad.<\/p>\n ——–<\/p>\n EE1-T-89<\/p>\n Typed statement from Richard Tropp to be read over HAM radio from Jonestown to press conference in San Francisco on April 17, 1978. The conference was held in the offices of Peoples Temple attorney Charles Garry, the aim being to discredit abuse allegations made by the Concerned Relatives. The document is heavily edited by handwritten text, effectively rewriting with Harriet Sarah Tropp\u2019s biographical details in place of her brother\u2019s. An audio recording of the press conference (Tape Q736) features Harriet Tropp reading a later draft of this statement (document EE1-T-93 below). Edith Roller\u2019s journal entries indicate Dick Tropp was in Georgetown at the time of the press conference. As Jonestown\u2019s unofficial scribe, Dick Tropp was likely initially intended to read this statement over the radio, but was swapped out for his sister when business took him to Georgetown. <\/strong><\/p>\n The handwritten notes are in red;<\/span> the original typed text is in black. The original text is also entirely in caps.<\/strong><\/p>\n TO BE READ OVER RADIO AT PRESS-CONFERENCE SUBMITTED<\/u> FOR<\/u> CLEARANCE<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n My name is Richard<\/span> Harriet<\/span> Tropp; I am an English professor<\/span> I have a degree in law<\/span>, and principal of<\/span> am currently teaching at<\/span> the Jonestown Community High School. I have a statement to make on behalf of Peoples Temple in response to the grossly false and malicious statements that continue to be made about our community her in Guyana. [Transcriber\u2019s note<\/strong>: This entire paragraph was scribbled out.]<\/em><\/p>\n INSERT ON MERCENARIES<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Our community is a dramatic expression of our deep desire to build a meaningful future for mankind, based on co-operation and sharing, and the eradication of class and caste <\/span>division.<\/span><\/p>\n Our contribution has been recognized by many, many people who have come to visit our community<\/span> socialist co-operative<\/span>. Teachers, workers, government officials, people from all walks of life in Guyana, as well as representatives from nations the world over have come and congratulated us for what is being accomplished. For the example of co-operative living and diligent development of this beautiful region. [Two illegible handwritten lines.]<\/em><\/p>\n Just today<\/span> this week<\/span>, 35 educators from the McKenzie School District<\/span>, together with a select<\/span> district<\/span> delegation of the most outstanding students from a region several hundred miles away<\/span> in the entire nation<\/span>, visited us, unannounced, and spent the day. with us.<\/span> They were overwhelmed by what we are doing. We are making hosts of friends here, building good will, providing a constructive presence that can only enhance hemispheric<\/span> co-operation and counteract negative stereotypes of North<\/span> American people.<\/p>\n Our medical department is known far and wide for its excellent services to the region<\/span>, and many lives have been saved. Programs in agriculture, livestock development, a complete school system, and a host of community projects are flourishing.<\/p>\n News media have visited here. recently<\/span>, a wire service story carried in many newspapers across the United States, told how we accomplished a caesarian delivery at our medical clinic with assistance from consultants over the amateur radio \u2013 a remarkable achievement.<\/span> Just a few days ago, representatives from one of the largest news agency in the world spent several days with us. Other<\/span> Representatives from Caribbean media have<\/span> other news agencies have been to the project as well, and have pronounced it a remarkable, accomplishment<\/span> impressive achievement. * *<\/span><\/p>\n Young people here<\/span> are finding wonderful<\/span>, productive, joyous<\/span> new lives, free from the pitfalls of inner city environments that would have caused a large percentage of them to become involved<\/span> in one form of anti-social behavior or another, which would have cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. The good that is being accomplished here is overwhelming.<\/span><\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n EE1-T-90<\/p>\n We hope that people of conscience and good will in the United States will rise up in indignation about the attempts to destroy our community.<\/span> We are tired of seeing people who<\/span> and organizations that<\/span> are trying to develop constructive alternatives, to build co-operative life=styles, being harassed unmercifully, lied about, falsely<\/span> accused of crimes, and, in many cases, brought down. In recent months alone there have been several examples of this in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n Here in Guyana we have come to build a community for a significant number of people — now over a thousand — who have been hurt, and<\/span> angered,<\/span> alienated, and victimized by adverse conditions that prevail in the decaying inner cities of advanced western societies. Many who were not<\/u> in such desperate circumstances have also come to join us and build, because of the peaceful, natural environment, ideal weather, and the challenge to serve. The vast majority of our members remain in the United States, and are perfectly free to do so.<\/p>\n Finally<\/span>, Finally<\/span> we would like to address ourselves to a point that has been raised, it seems, about some statement, supposedly issued officially<\/span> by Peoples Temple but whose authorship we, here,<\/span> are unaware of, to the effect that we prefer to resist interminable<\/span> harassment and persecution, even<\/u> if<\/u> it<\/u> means<\/u> death<\/u>.<\/p>\n Those who are lying and slandering our work here, it appears, are trying to use this statement against us. We are not surprised. However:<\/u><\/p>\n It would seem that any person with any integrity or courage would have no trouble understanding such a position. Since, it is clear, that the persons who are actively plotting to destroy our organization have neither integrity nor courage, we are not at all surprised that they would find it offensive.<\/p>\n Dr. Martin Luther King reaffirmed the validity of ultimate<\/u> commitment<\/u> when he told his Freedom Riders \u201cWe must develop the quiet courage of dying for a cause,\u201d and then he later said, \u201cThough I hope no-one will have to die as a result of our struggle\u2026if anyone has to, let it be me.\u201d<\/p>\n And<\/u> we<\/u>, likewise<\/u>, affirm<\/u> that<\/u> before<\/u> we<\/u> will<\/u> submit<\/u> quietly<\/u> to<\/u> the<\/u> interminable<\/u> plotting<\/u> and<\/u> persecution<\/u> of<\/u> this<\/u> politically-motivated<\/u> conspiracy<\/u> we<\/u> will<\/u> resist<\/u> —actively<\/u>— putting our lives on the line if it comes to that<\/u>. This has been the unanimous vote of this congregation<\/span> collective community<\/span>. We choose as our model not those who marched submissively into gas chambers<\/p>\n ——-<\/p>\n EE1-T-91<\/p>\n but the valiant heroes who resisted, in<\/span> who resisted in as of<\/span><\/span> the Warsaw ghetto. Patrick Henry captured it when he said simply, \u201cGive me liberty or give me death.\u201d<\/p>\n If people cannot appreciate that willingness to die if necessary, rather than to compromise the right to exist free from harassment and the kind of indignities we have been subjected to, then they will never understand the integrity, honesty, and bravery of Peoples Temple, or<\/span> nor the depth of commitment of Rev.<\/span> Jim Jones to the principles he has struggled for all his life.<\/p>\n But It is not our purpose to die: we believe deeply in the celebration of life<\/u>. It is the intention of Jim Jones — and always has been — to light candles rather than curse in<\/span> the darkness, to find and implement constructive<\/span> solutions rather than merely complain about problems.<\/p>\n But under these outragous attacks, we have decided to fend the integrity of our community, and are pledged to do this. If necessary with<\/u> our<\/u> lives<\/u>.<\/span> We are confident that people of conscience and principle will understand our position. We make no apologies for it.<\/p>\n END<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n EE1-T-93<\/p>\n Revised, typed statement from Harriet Sarah Tropp, which she read aloud through a HAM radio from Jonestown to a press conference in San Francisco on April 17, 1978. Her and Peoples Temple\u2019s intent was to counteract abuse allegations leveled by the Concerned Relatives. An earlier draft of this statement (EE1-T-89 through EE1-T-91) was written by Harriet\u2019s brother, Dick Tropp, with his biographical data in place of hers. Edith Roller\u2019s journals indicate Dick Tropp was in Georgetown at the time of the press conference, and thus his sister apparently spoke in his stead. <\/strong><\/p>\n Tape Q736 is an audio recording of the press conference, featuring Harriet reading the statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n The handwritten notes are in red;<\/span> the original typed text is in black. The original text is also entirely in caps. <\/strong><\/p>\n My name is Harrit Tropp. I have a law degree and am currently teaching at the Jonestwon Community School. I have a statement to make on behalf of Peoples Temple in response to the grossly false and mllicious statements that continue to be made about our community here in Guyana.<\/p>\n Individuals participating in a self_styled group of \u201cConcerned Relatives\u201d have no publicly threatened to hire mercenaries to illegally enter Guyana and use whatever means necessary, including armed attack and kidnap, to capture members of the Peoples Temple communinty. These threats were made public in a California newspaper. Peoples Temple has already alereted the president, the U.S.S. State Department, and appropriate government officials in Guyana.<\/p>\n The group of Concerned Relatives is a cruel, monstrous hoax. The threat to send mercenaries: hired guns who will violates laws, and resort to killing and mayhem to fulfill their contract reveals again the real nature of the efforts of the \u201cConcerned Relatives\u201d. We demand to know where the money is coming from to get hired killers. We also demand that the media, which has shown such eagerness to attack our organization, show equal vehemence in condemning this criminal effort, and exposing its perpetrators.<\/p>\n Actually, this is not a new tactic in the moves against the Guyana community-armed agents have already been sent in illegally, and have tried to assassinate Jim Jones and others, as well as kidnap people. (Those efforts have been<\/span> (Those attempts have been successfully thwarted.)<\/span><\/p>\n We hope that the public will see the cruelty and evil behind the pious masquerading of these public liars. The people involved have been brought t together, and given assurances that they would be backed up in whatever<\/u> they would try to do against Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" N-1-B-34a \u2013 34b FOR CHRIS\u2019 SAKE Dec. 11, 1977 We still don\u2019t know why the hell you went down But I doubt now if it makes that much difference. 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\nBut I doubt now if it makes that much difference.<\/p>\n
\nYou were destroyed by the System.
\nYour anger, your rebellion,
\nThe dope and dealing,
\nThe hustles, street fights, the bars<\/p>\n
\nYour desire for justice<\/p>\n
\nHow can we understand it?
\nYou recognized in Jim Jones a Man of Justice
\nBut you couldn\u2019t keep out of trouble.
\nYou were full of an uncontrollable anger, system-bred;<\/p>\n
\nA man of violence
\nAnti-hero
\nBlack man
\nWhose fury, explosiveness, and misdirection
\nWas created by oppression;
\nA man of the streets
\nA man of the ghetto
\nA young man, genius thwarted
\nBy drugs and outrage.
\nA child of Amerikkka that has failed its children;
\nA betrayed manchild seeking for justice.<\/p>\n
\nThere is no justice without a god damn rifle barrel of vengeance!<\/p>\n
\nFor your violence. It was
\nUnderstandable, practically
\nHonorable. Who could condemn you for being mad?<\/p>\n
\nYou fought it with the meager, horribly inadequate weapons
\nThey put at your disposal
\nWeapons that were ironic tools of
\nSelf-destruction! planted in your powerful hands
\nAnd the hands of millions of our brothers and sisters around the world
\nBy your enemies!
\n(They are our enemies, too, Chris)
\nEnemies of the People!<\/p>\n
\nWe forgive you for all your rebellion, your
\nCrazynigger rebellion, your anger
\nThat broke through the dam of your better judgment.
\nWe honor your clear outrage that kept you hating the system
\nJust as we honor you for recognizing in the Leader, who
\nYou only imperfectly followed (like the rest of us) \u2013
\nThe Father-Liberator who could heal the terminal wounds
\nMade by Amerikkka\u2019s long, twisted knives of death.<\/p>\n
\nthat you never could change to find your way out of
\nThe ghetto that has claimed the best of our black manhood
\nThe poisonous Auschwitz of urban America,<\/p>\n
\nA pestilence of liquor stores, squalid churches,
\nThe stinking refuse of a dream that began in a nightmare.<\/p>\n
\nThe streets in your bones.<\/p>\n
\nA man who couldn\u2019t sustain the structure of revolution,
\nHe loved you through your madness because
\nHe knew that the White Man made you mad<\/u>.<\/p>\n
\nThough he told you that
\nYour privates, frustrated ghetto-guerrilla war
\nAgainst the system
\nWas a revolution of mere anarchy.
\nYet you knew your Dad,
\nYou love the People\u2019s Liberator
\nThe only way you knew how,
\nAnd we honor you for recognizing him,
\nfor the way you were sweet and kind to senior citizens
\nFor your gleaming, manipulative little-boy wonderful smile;
\nYou are our brother.<\/p>\n
\nYou have finally found
\nAn enviable peace.
\nBut the outrage that you couldn\u2019t contain, couldn\u2019t restrain \u2013
\nThat outrage
\nIs smoldering still in our hearts, black brother,
\nAs it smolders in the streets of San Francisco,
\nIn the alleys of Soweto
\nWherever the seeds of revolution are being sown
\nBy the oppressor.<\/p>\n
\nAs our Leader, Chris, and yours,
\nThe One who can temper that monstrous outrage, who can
\nChannel it, directed, heighten it, gather and refine it,
\nInto the Pure Flame of REVOLUTION.<\/p>\n
\nAnd let us, in reflecting on the death of a terminal man
\nWho was born into violence, and who was stalked by it,
\nAnd swallowed up by it,
\nRedeem our own outrage.<\/p>\n
\nUnder our Leader, our Protector
\nOur Champion, our Liberator \u2013 JIM JONES<\/p>\n
\nFreedom to demonstrate restricted
\nFreedom of assembly restricted<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nStrengthens executive police power
\nCannot refuse court decisions (sedition)
\nPolice can fire at escaping prisoner (shoot to kill)
\nPreventive detention<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u2013 Police autonomous
\n\u2013 US whipping up anti-Communist feeling
\n\u2013 CROC = Christian anti-Communist crusade, etc.
\n\u2013 \u00a0Provocateurs used, free press muzzled
\n\u2013 all trends toward right. People apathetic.
\n\u2013 [notation in page\u2019s left margin] Cover-up of scandals as in Watergate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nB. [Menachem] Begin \u2013 Israel
\nC. [Fidel] Castro \u2013 Cuba
\nD. [Ian] Smith \u2013 Rhodesia
\nE. [John] Vorster \u2013 Union of South Africa
\nF. [Leonid] Brezhnev \u2013 USSR<\/p><\/blockquote>\n