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(This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The<\/em> editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

(Tape begins with slow speed speech; unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/strong> Guyana government gets IMF stamp of approval with forty-six million dollars in aid. The International Monetary Fund has given a stamp of approval to the Guyanese government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, with the announcement last month of financial assistance totaling forty-six thousand, eight hundred Guyanese. Forty-six thousand\u2013 rather forty-six million<\/em>, eight hundred thousand. (Pause) Forty-six point eight million. I\u2019ll get it correct here. I\u2019ve been up all night. U.S. eighteen point four million. The IMF aid, the result of a long process of investigation and resistance by the Guyanese government to intrusions in their financial\u2013 in their banking affairs\u2013 (Pause) be a long pa\u2013 as I said, a\u2013 after this long results of this process (Pause) of investigation into the financial health of the country also was expected to be announced after last July\u2019s referendum. The only surprise was that quantum, but the indications are the\u2013 that the more IMF\u2013 that more IMF aid will be forthcoming in a year\u2013 in a year\u2019s time, provided the Guyanese government is able to meet the conditions laid down. Guyana is looking for all sorts of other areas of agreement. At this very hour, Doctor G\u2013 Doctor Ptolemy Reid, our good friend and deputy prime minister, is in Moscow because the Guyanese government has said they will never go through what Jamaica has gone through and be victims of outside influence. Fortunately, the difference between Jamaica and Guyana, nearly ninety percent of all of the land belongs to the government and is expropriated for the people.<\/p>\n

The major conditions for IMF assistance include a five percent real growth, slashing the balance of payments deficit from twenty-three percent to ten percent, increasing the public sep\u2013 sector surplus from seventy-six thousand to s\u2013 one hundred and thirty million, and reducing the foreign commercial debt from one hundred million to seventy-five million. The government will receive, first, nineteen and a half million from the IMF in the form of a one-year standby credit to assist the administration in bringing about economic stability, and later, another twenty-seven point three million under the IMF\u2019s c\u2013 com\u2013 compensary\u2013 compensatory financing facility to meet shortfalls in the 1977 export. Also, it\u2019s been reported that they have not been so quick to hand out money to Guyana as they were Jamaica, is because Jamaica was much more gracious in their allowances for the multinationals to operate inside Jamaica, whereas Guyana has not allowed any ma\u2013 ma\u2013 multinational to operate inside this country.<\/p>\n

Prior to the announcements, Guyana was owing the IMF about seventy and\u2013 point two million. Prime Minster Forbes Burnham, speaking at a press conference within days of the IMF agreement, said that as a result of the IMF assistance, investments for three major drainage and irrigation projects costing some three hundred and thirty-nine s\u2013 three hundred ninety-seven million are assured and since the local cost element are now provided for. The prime minister said that the target set for economic recovery and for socialist development were stringent<\/em> and hard<\/em>, but not at all impossible. And he gave his absolute assurance that they were much the same as those set by the government itself in building socialist self-sufficiency. He said we will not become the tool of any nation or any fa\u2013 financial block. Obviously conscious of the\u2013 what happened in the case of Jamaica when it failed to meet the IMF, Jamaica also was a socialist country, I guess a socialist-de\u2013 democratic government, you might say, social democracy. Obviously, Dr. Burnham, conscious of what happened in the case of Jamaica\u2019s uh, situation when it failed to meet the IMF conditions before getting a two-hundred and forty million<\/em> I\u2013 IMF loan last July, Prime Minister Burnham told the press that his government had no intention of allowing the country to suffer embarrassment and humiliation, or in any way have to get on their knees to the capitalist world again, which could rise if the targets were not met, thus placing the IMF standby credit in jeopardy. Thus far, news has it on the grapevine that Guyana has not taken the second small, uh, phase of the uh, IMF, and it is rumored, which we cannot tell\u2013 all we know that Doctor Reid is in Moscow trying to work out some arrangement at this very moment. He is in Moscow at this very moment trying to work out some arrangement whereby they won\u2019t have to depend on IMF at all.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the government\u2019s parliamentary opposition, led by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, of the People\u2019s Progressive Party\u2013 Remember the parties. The People\u2019s National Congress is the party, uh, that is in power. Our prime minister is Forbes Burnham. The deputy prime minister who\u2019s been a very good friend and chairman of the policy\u2013 party is the People\u2019s National Congress. Dr. Cheddi Jagan\u2019s People\u2019s Progressive Party sees the IMF agreement as being a trap<\/em> for a government which, in spite of its socialist intentions, remains uh\u2013 will become heavily<\/em> indebted to the capitalist system and which will also be guilty of gross economic mismanagement if they accept this. However, as I say, I know a little bit more about what\u2019s happening, at this<\/em> stage anyway than uh, does the opposition. According to Dr. Jagan, with the Guyana dollar devalued in real terms\u2013 and this we will be told of, we were told the moment it\u2013 it would happen and we know that\u2019s going to happen all over the world. Dr. [Vibert] Mingo told us that. Our good friend. According to Dr. Jagan, with the Guyana dollar soon to be devalued in real terms before the IMF agreement, because of the shrinking U.S. dollar to which it is linked. Do you how\u2013 you that think U.S.A. is so powerful, here is a little Third World nation, even though it\u2019s the most fertile, eighty-three thousand square miles, only seven hundred thousand people live on it, the most rich place to live in the entire world, but yet economically a very small nation. How much value has the Guyanese dollar lost to U.S. dollar? Well, I\u2019ll tell you how much. The dollar was<\/em> and is presently worth two<\/em> dollars and fifty-seven cents. In a short time, in a matter of days, the dollar will be worth two dollars and fifteen cents. That\u2019s how valuable your money is in U.S. That\u2019s how effective the capitalist system is working. Not working very well, when Guyanese currency becomes almost\u2013 (stumbles over words) if it keeps it up, it\u2019ll be on equal par. And with no real growth in GN\u2013 gross national product over the past seven years, the IMF has clearly placed the Guyanese people under a more severe strain in order to meet its own criteria for economic development. The opposition parliament did credit the prime minister for being careful not to allow multinationals that usually go hand in hand with the IMF to gain a foothold in Guyana. The 1977 World Bank Atlas on production, per capita product and growth rate listed Guyana\u2019s GNP per capita real at one point five percent for the 1960-75 period and a mere one<\/em> point period\u2013 (Pause) one point period and a mere one point\u2013 percent between 1970 and \u201875. During the same period, population growth declined from an annual two point one percent to one point nine percent.<\/p>\n

However, while the opposition was reciting the spiraling cost of living, Prime Minister Burnham was the\u2013 was working rapidly and showing that his government was taking all necessary measures to ensure that we achieve our targets and ensure sustained growth of the economy. It has been courageous indeed<\/em> that our prime minister has banned certain foods from the U.S.A. and certain luxury items and told us to be self-sufficient, because if we were dependent upon U.S. economy, the same thing could be done to us that was done to Cuba when the U.S.A. put a total economic boycott around that beautiful free nation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the 1977 Bank of Guyana report released around mid-last month disclosed that the public sector had failed to increase profits to any considerable degree la\u2013 last year and that total economic output would be no more than a gain of two percent.<\/p>\n

It is a tough time. And we know that, and we are in that struggle with Guyana. Some of the brave nations. Mozambique has IMF, and they certainly have been brably\u2013 bravely resisting the terrible Union of South Africa and the U.S.-equipped planes from Ian Smith\u2019s treacherous illegal regime of Rhodesia. And the same with Zambia. Zambia has certainly been an ally to the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front. Not once<\/em> have they failed to give complete<\/em> support to the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, even though they have had their own villages bombed out every day of this week. They continue to give support, refuge and asylum to the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, which are the only true leaders of that country that the Man wants to call Rhodesia but the Africans proudly call Zimbabwe. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Uh, stand by. I have a question that\u2019s come up.<\/p>\n

Six hundred kilometers from Tehran, Ira\u2013 Iran was totally<\/em> destroyed by earthquake. The water and electricity supplies were cut off. Houses simply collapsed. According to the government spokesman, eighty-five percent of the twelve-thousand population are either dead or injured. A convoy of trucks and organized troops were dispatched to the area, along with five planeloads of supplies and a sixty field bed hospital. Because of the rough terrain and the damage to the road, there are doubts of how much will be able to get through. The Shah of Iran has declared three days of national mourning for the catas\u2013 for the catastrophe. The Shah didn\u2019t need an act of nature working against him. There are reb\u2013 r\u2013 rebellion \u2013 I never liked to call people struggling for their rights \u201crioters\u201d \u2013 there are rebellions in nearly every city of Iran. It has gotten in to the hundreds of thousands. There were a hundred thousand people that attempted to meet Chairman Hua [Kuo-fenj] from China to show their disapproval for uh, uh\u2013 Chairman Hua of the People\u2019s Republic of China for having anything to do with the dread Shah of Iran, who\u2013 his, by the way, his secret police were trained directly by our CIA.<\/p>\n

The Camp David summit talks are in their fifteenth day and final day. President [Jimmy] Carter met Sunday morning with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as the eleven-hour negotiations continued without pause. A spokesperson said there were intensive discussions with and among all three delegations who are illegally deciding the fates of nations that are not even participants. He said Carter expects to meet with Israel Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin sometime this afternoon. Carter met with Begin Saturday evening for almost four and a half hours. How the summit talks will end still remens\u2013 remains in uncertainty. For thirteen days now, the three leaders have been seeking a framework for peace that will guide future negotiations, but the goal, so far, has eluded their grasp. However, there was a late news report \u2013 not clear because there\u2019s too much static \u2013 that Carter and Begin did reach some proposal. I hope it\u2019s not the proposal that they will establish a U.S. Air Force base that U.S.A. openly admitted that they had had intentions of doing so and the Soviet Union said that they would find intolerable.<\/p>\n

We will give you the news as we hear it, \u2018cause I know some of your radios don\u2019t come in very clear.<\/p>\n

John Vorster, dictator of Union of South Africa, apartheid regime where our brothers and sisters live in camps that are worse than chicken coops and have to walk miles from the cities, degraded when they do work for the Man, in the city, then walk the streets. Now it looks as if the U.S. has planted neutron bombs<\/a> there. What possible reason would they have<\/em> for that bomb, that they proudly call the \u201cnigger bomb\u201d? The Air Force does. Anyway, John Vorster is expected to resign this week. The report says Mr. Vorster, who was hospitalized earlier this month for exhaustion and bronchitis, will retire for reasons of health. There is<\/em> speculation that he will become prime minister in 1966. Observers say that the race for his successor is now down to four men, the defense minister [P.W. Botha], the African affairs minister [Petrus Cornelius Mulder, Minister of Interior Affairs], the foreign minister [Pik Botha], and the mines minister. However, for your information, it makes little difference, because the U.S. mumi\u2013 multinational corporate elite continue to control our brothers and sisters, black, brown and Asian, living in pure hell every day, every hour of their life. We should work. We should toil the fields so that we can make money, not only to save the people here, but so we can reach out and touch those that are struggling all<\/em> over the world. We have conscience. That\u2019s what we will do. It is hell<\/em> what they have done. Remember the picture that we showed you the other night on the Union of South Africa with Sidney Poitier\u2013 Sidney Poitier, and how terribly, terribly unjust the conditions of South Africa are. Remember, it was said by CBS that the Union of South Africa could not be maintained one day<\/em> without U.S. aid. It was found that U.S. multinationals had given billions<\/em> of dollars just a few days ago, secretly<\/em>, not to mention four hundred and forty-seven billion dollars that our taxes, which makes me somewhat guilty \u2013 I don\u2019t know about you \u2013 went to that dread\u2013 that dreaded fascist regime.<\/p>\n

Direct discussions between the South African government and the five-member western compact group on Namibia continued over the weekend. The South African foreign minister met in Pretoria with the ambassadors from the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Canada. The five nations have helped to negotiate a UN-backed plan for Namibian independence. South Africa, while basically approving the plan itself, has objected to many of the steps considered necessary by United Nations officials to carry it out. The South African foreign minister also discussed the government objections in a telephone conversation Saturday with the British Foreign Secretary David Owen, who said they discussed a let\u2013 a letter sent to him by the foreign minister of the five western countries. But he did not disclose the letter\u2019s contents. However, it is thought that secretly<\/em>, the Union of South Africa has no intention of keeping its agreement with the union\u2013 uh, with the United Nations to turn over Namibia at the end of this year. That\u2019s why the Soviet Union has had nothing to do with this. That\u2019s why there were two abstentions, two that voted against this proposal, the Soviet Union and China. I mean the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, because they called it nothing more than just a mock name, just make a mockery out of people\u2019s hopes for justice.<\/p>\n

Southern Lebanon. For six\u2013 another six months, the fifteen-mem\u2013 member council is expected to approve the extension. UN reports also say that the council is expected to launch a new diplomatic move aimed at setting up a security system for both Israel and Lebanese Christian militia forces while restoring Lebanese government control in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, Radio Jerusalem reports renewed overnight shelling exchange between Christian militia and Palestinian guerillas in southeast Lebanon. There are no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n

Due to medical advice, I\u2019m ta\u2013 taking it easy, but I want to say, we all say with a great heart, saddened heart, that a comrade of ours who seems like\u2013 to us, we\u2019ve known him from the beginning. He fitted in\u2013 fit in to us, our community, just like a part of the family. We wish comrade Mark Lane all of our love and affection. He always has a place with us. No matter what kind of weather, whether it\u2019s fair or foul, there\u2019ll be a house here, and as long as we eat, he shall eat. I know all of you feel that way. We appreciate all the advice and all the help he\u2019s given us, far more than I could begin to elaborate on at this time.<\/p>\n

(Off mike) Black knob over here. (Calls out) Come and turn this son of a bitch off.<\/p>\n

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\u2013would you be use uh\u2013 I would like to say, that not only has our counselor been a legal friend to us in setting up a team that\u2019s going to chase this conspiracy to the very highest levels of government, but he\u2019s going to see that those who have been so devious that they even brought about the death of Chris Lewis, are exposed for the murderers they are. Not only that, he suggested security fo\u2013 for us, which the government has approved, so you\u2019ll be seeing people with objects, and from now on, we will not have to worry about people coming in, bothering us or causing difficulties in our community. We are not going to be defenseless. That\u2019s the assurance. We\u2019re not to talk about that, but that\u2019s the assurance that we\u2019re given by government. Believe me, we will<\/em> be able to take care of ourselves. Everybody that\u2019s been here has suggested that we should be ar\u2013 ar\u2013 armed in a very sophisticated fashion. And I\u2019m not just talking about guns. So, I thought that might ease your mind. We\u2019ll not have any more of these situations and little games that people want to play.<\/p>\n

We continue with the news. In Beirut, Sy\u2013 Sy\u2013 Syrian troops of the Arab deterrent force and Lebanese right-wing Christian militia held their fire.<\/p>\n

Remember tonight is the People\u2019s Rally, the town forum and our testing time for our current kno\u2013 knowledge of\u2013 of news and prizes for those that show their achievement in that area and in other areas of skills, particularly production. We want the analysts to bring up all production skills where people are producing. Extraordinary, because the production of a hand is no\u2013 certainly no less of important, in fact, in our<\/em> situation, in many ways, it\u2019s more<\/em> important than the production of the head, though we have found the healthy and beautiful cooperation of both mind and manual labor, where we have no elite here, where all of us go and do the heavy work and take our turn. And that, certainly, is a delightful experience. There\u2019s nothing makes one feel so<\/em> good. When I\u2013 when I unloaded that wagon full of wood\u2013 that wagon wood\u2013 wagon load, oh, good lord. It was a big load, but I never had a better afternoon. Every pore in my body felt purified. Work is a good ethic. That\u2019s one thing the Americans have always talked about, the work ethic. They\u2019ve misused it, exploited the poor, but work is a very fun thing. The medical associations of BB\u2013 BBC in uh, one of their announcements and AMA say that they that live longer, have c\u2013 no cancer, they rarely have blindness and hardly any<\/em> of the de\u2013 debilitating diseases, no arthritis, no kidney failure, none<\/em> of those situations are the people that work, not just hard \u2013 get this now \u2013 strenuously. Work strenuously. And we\u2019re in a society that tries to teach us to do everything to avoid work. Well, we certainly can say that we have a lot of beautiful seniors here who have proved what work has done. They\u2019re lively. Their smile is always there. And let us remember to keep our smile for our neighbor. A smile we can always give. But we see people like Ever [Rejoicing], making her lovely rugs at a hundred and seven years of age, Pop Jackson always full of energy and smiles, hundred and four years, uh, making his chairs. Every day. And not in an infirmed condition. So, some of you may take note of that, the few who don\u2019t like to do work and won\u2019t, you are the law\u2013 you are the person that loses. But more than that, morally<\/em>, let us think how much we<\/em> can give to the struggle, how many people we could liberate. We have over a hundred sixty-three from the prison systems alone, begging, begging. White, black, Chicano, India\u2013 Indian, begging<\/em> through church people who are our friends to please let them come over here to start a new life, that they know that they\u2019re dead if they go out on the streets. We would like to do something about that. We adopted two fine young men yesterday, but we have limited means. It means we must work, and we will have to put more energy now than we would ordinarily, because we\u2019ve got a lot of housing to be built. A hundred and one new houses that would\u2019ve been built by now, if it had not been for the harassing elements of the CIA conspiracy against us.<\/p>\n

Finishing the news. (Pause) Demonstrations numbering two hundred thousand marched through the streets here, last week, demanding a new Israeli move for peace in the Middle East on the eve of the Camp David summit huddle, which was to bring Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat together with U.S. Carter. Compromise is not a dirty war\u2013 dirty word, said one of the slogans unveiled at a city hall plaza rally, where speakers denounced the Begin government\u2019s policy of erecting new settlements in the occupied West Bank, which they said is sabotaging the peace progress. We are glad to see that there is that kind of resistance, even in Israel, to imperialist designs. Certainly been very, very evidenced. We can\u2019t possibly<\/em> write off the number of communists and socialists and trade unionists that are active in the nation of Israel.<\/p>\n

Nestle boycott supported. Shreveport, Louisiana. An unprecedented accident\u2013 action, probably (unintelligible) an action usually when a church does this, the Presbyterian Church of the United States has become the first major religious denomination to endorse a consumer boycott of the Nestle Co\u2013 Corporation for this summer only. Well, that\u2019s nice of them. The boycott is aimed at halting the Swiss-based company\u2019s promotion of infant formula in Third World countries. The organizers of the boycott, a Minnesota-based group called Infant Formula Action Coalition, has charged that the company\u2019s promotion of infant formula in Third World co\u2013 countries has resulted in malnutrition among many infants whose mothers can afford to buy some but not enough of the formula. (Unintelligible), the church\u2019s highest governing body, called on Presbyterians and other persons of goodwill to par\u2013 to participate in the boycott and refuse to buy the Nestle products. Among the better known Nestle products are such things as Nestle chocolates and chocolate bars, Nestle Quik, Taster\u2019s Choice coffee, Sunrise coffee, Nescaf\u00e9 and Nestea.<\/p>\n

I shall hope that there is apathy that can be overcome in the United States about a number of matters. At times I wonder if the U.S. has just about gone so far asleep she can\u2019t be woken, but miracles happen, and we shall always continue in the struggle. We\u2019ll continue the struggle till the last moments. That\u2019s the duty of everyone. Stand by just a moment. (Pause)<\/p>\n

The Presidium of the Soviet Union\u2013 the Soviet people, send greetings to the participants of the World Conference against Racialism and Racial Discrimination. The cost before your conscience, said Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Communist Party, are the cost of the (unintelligible) conference are close and understandably to the Soviet people. This is exactly one week after the birth of the Soviet state, a historic declaration of the rights of the peoples of the Soviet Union, laid down as the fundamental principles of the nationalist policies. The national\u2013 national\u2013 nationalist\u2013 nationality\u2019s<\/em> policy (unintelligible) of the Soviet system. The equality and the sovereignty of the people of Russia, national religious privileges and restrictions, and the free development of all<\/em> the national minorities. Before equality, before the law, in the Soviet Union, the nationality\u2019s problem has been fully resolved. Equally\u2013 (Pause) equality of citizen\u2013 citizens before the law, regardless of their nationality or race, has not only been proclaimed and laid down in the constitution, but it is affirmed<\/em> and guaranteed every day by the entire way of life of socialist society and the socialist political and economic system.<\/p>\n

And remember\u2013 It is interesting to note that Muhammad Ali and his wife [Veronica Porch\u00e9 Ali] went to the Soviet Union, and our good friend, who we\u2019re going to miss so much, he was able to use us for a time. We hope it\u2019s only a short time. Dr. Mark Lane said\u2013 (Pause) someone challenged uh, Mr. Muhammad Ali on the television about uh, him being taken in, and he said oh, you mean all those millions of ch\u2013 children that were well dressed and well-fed and all taken care of so beautifully were all just done for me, little old me? Muhammad Ali made a big joke out of it, even though he\u2019s being harassed by, as we understand, tax investigators. Also, it\u2019ll interest you to know that uh, that uh\u2013 Frances and uh\u2013 Frances Johnson\u2019s going to go back to assist in getting help so we can develop this community to its fullest and then have the people here that need to be here and the worries over, the\u2013 over with. She\u2019s discussing some very complex problems with our faithful Leona [Collier], who has worked all through the years. And of interest to you also to know that they\u2019re going to try to get both (unintelligible name) and Muhammad Ali to visit<\/em> here. Uh\u2013 If it\u2019s possible, that would be one of the most splendid things I think that could happen to your children. But at least we\u2019ll have to dream and we\u2019ll have to hope. We never would\u2019ve dreamed that we have been fortunate enouh to have such a wonderful man as Dr. Wa\u2013 uh, Mark Lane nor as Dr. Van (unintelligible). But we did. We had them. Good things have happened to us. We kept our joy and kept dancing and kept singing, and we were all alone. And you can\u2019t imagine how much friendship was extended to us last night, the friendship taking into consideration the pressures upon us. The lawyer offered us a staff of people at a price unimaginable, a price unfortunately that others have wanted more for the month and we were strapped to the bone, and some of us have\u2013 as I said, wouldn\u2019t even take our arthritic medicine to try to make ends meet. So, we are so grateful to have a man that cares like that, and we shall let him know. Forever and ever, our solidarity is with him, and we\u2019ll go with him to the wall. (unintelligible word) everyone knows about Jim Jones, and (unintelligible) a soul as ever walked on the planet.<\/p>\n

That is enough of the news for the day and (unintelligible) said I should take it a little easy, so I am. That (unintelligible word) you should also know that my blood pressure has been down one third<\/em> since I (unintelligible) been here. One third. That says something, I would say. And with all great folks say that\u2013 that means she hoped and build and she promised that the people you love because I live just for the people. That\u2019s\u2013 that\u2019s the last of my existence. You. I\u2019ve lost myself in you. You\u2019re far more beautiful to live for than anything<\/em> monetary or mat\u2013 uh, of a materialistic nature. I am certainly the most fortunate peop\u2013 person of all, to be able to live for so many beautiful people. So I\u2019ll get tired, it gets rough, but I\u2019m glad that I can be around as long as I\u2019m needed. When\u2013 When I\u2019m not needed, won\u2019t bother me at all to take a step to that great beyond. Thank you so much. Much love and be sure<\/em>, be sure,<\/em> give my love to comrade Mark Lane. And all of you show him from the depths of your heart how mu\u2013 how warm<\/em>, how deeply, deeply<\/em> heartfelt our appreciation is to him.<\/p>\n

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News. Attention. Attention. (Pause) Are we on? Lighter news for those that may remember, Charles Boyer, famous French actress [actor], secretly planned his own death. In the greatest performance of his life, Charles Boyer struggled desperately to keep his wife from learning that she was dying, while he secretly planned to take his own life as soon as she passed away. He even made elaborate pl\u2013 plans with her doctor and friends to hide the terrible truth from her, and he kept a brave smile while her horrible fate tore him apart. Then, on August 28, just two days after his beloved wife Patricia died, at the age of sixty-seven, as he clutched her hand, Boyer wrote the final act of their great love story by committing suicide. Without his wife, life was not worth living for him, confided close friend Marjorie Everett, in whose house the couple lived for the last few months. The final role for the great screen lover began just last March, when Boyer was told that his wife of 44 years had incurable colon and liver cancer, and she was sent home from the hospital to die. Mrs. Boyer\u2019s surgeon in Scottsville\u2013 Scottsdale, Arizona, when\u2013 who asked to be named by the magazine, Times<\/em>, Miss Boyer put up a very brave front for Pat when it was quite obvious that deep, deep inside, his spirit and will to live were dying along with her. Secretly he planned his own end. Looking back, there was indications everywhere that he was planning to take his own life. When the doctors gave Boyer the grim news of her impending death, the doctor firmly replied, \u201cShe\u2019s not to know anything about it.\u201d That\u2019s a philosophy we find very helpful here too, because it\u2019s brought so many, many healings to us. Mine is a powerful, powerful phenomena. You\u2013 The Soviet Union spends uh, approximately three million dollars a day<\/em> on the study of the paranormal, so you can realize how important it is to have faith and keep optimism, and keep looking to the future to build societies that are liberated, where egalitarian\u2013 uh, ega\u2013 egalitarianism is the rule and not the exception. \u201cAnyway,\u201d recalled the surgeon, \u201cI lied, saying the tumor was not malignant, and we\u2019ve got it all.\u201d Patricia\u2019s health began to get better for a while. But Boyer and the doctor convinced her she was suffering from hepatitis. And in May, when a loving Boyer wanted to take his fa\u2013 failing wife to a trip to their apartment in Geneva, Switzerland, he and the surgeon came up with another elaborate deception. The surgeon wrote a letter to Pat\u2019s Swiss doctor saying that the tumor was not malignant, and Boyer showed this letter to Pat. Another letter for the same doctor\u2013 by the\u2013 the same doctor was written stating Mrs. Boyer\u2019s true condition. In the final tragic months of Patricia\u2019s life, Boyer provided a (stumbles over words) companionship that is seldom seen in capitalism. And certainly, it is a classic example of fame, great wealth, handsome man, but the alienation of age in U.S.A. is terrible. The man had nothing at all. There was nothing<\/em> left for him when he lost his wife. He preferred death than to all his\u2013 his millions could buy. Because people don\u2019t count in United States. They\u2019re just dollars and c\u2013 cents figures and this is a sadness. The tragedy. We happened to read about a celebrated millionaire, but how many poor people? And if the celebrated millionaire can want to commit suicide the moment his wife goes, how many people who are impoverished, who can barely feed their families, feel the same way? Charles never left her side. He was with her constantly, sleeping as little as three hours in 24, confided their close friend and personal physician, Donald K. (unintelligible name). The people who came to see her, her friends, were instructed by the\u2013 by Charles not<\/em> to discuss her condition with her. He just wanted her days to be as peaceful and calm as possible, without worry. Close friend Marjorie Everett disclosed Charles spent long hours at her bedside, holding her hand, and when she felt well enough, he played gin with her as she lay in bed. In a desperate effort to raise his dying wife\u2019s spirits, Boyer fought her\u2013 Boyer bought her at least six different types of coats, according to Everett. But in the pre-dawn hours of August 26, as the do\u2013 as the actor held her hand, Patricia passed away at 9 a.m. in Everett\u2019s Scottsdale, Arizona home. Paralyzed by grief, Boyer did not attend his wife\u2019s funeral, and just two days after her death, he took a fatal dose of barbiturates, as he had always planned to do. Said Mrs. Boyer\u2019s surgeon, \u201cHe was an actor right to the ve\u2013 very end. He wrote the script, produced and directed it and in fact arranged for both of them to die with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing that they even print how empty American life is. [Of] Course, it\u2019s not an American. It\u2019s a British paper, but it is amazing that any of these stories are let out to capitalist society, or perhaps people are so lacking in literacy, they don\u2019t realize just how empty life is, because a lot of people without socialism, without other people that love you and that you need and that need you. When we look around, we think of how many children need you and how many people are helped by each one, and how important you are to so many people, and then how important we are to the whole world struggle. We have so much to live for, that we don\u2019t die based just on one person\u2019s passing. But it\u2019s amazing that more Americans with the emptiness of the material life don\u2019t follow suit with this famous actor Charles Boyer.<\/p>\n

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\u2013be helpful to millions of people across the world. More relaxed and peace<\/em> with the world, say two experts. One out of every four American men, women and children is a victim of minor calcium deficiency which can lead to headaches, dizzy\u2013 (Tape edit) \u2013relax or sleep, warns Dr. W. M. Ringsdorf Jr., co-author of the best seller, Cycle Dietetics<\/em>. Why nervousness, irritability, and other such nervous disorders can result from muscle tension which can result from calcium deficiency. And, of course, the writer said, many immediately when reading the article will bring all their psychosomatic and imaginary diseases to mind or their de\u2013 imaginary complaints to mind. But it\u2019s a rather interesting article. But taking calcium can replace certain drugs, such as tranquilizers, aspirin and sleeping pills, declared Dr. Ringsdorf, associate professor in the Department of Oral Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. If you feel down, at odds with the world, take a calcium pill instead of drugs or tranquilizers, he said. It will make you feel just as contented and happy. Calcium deficiency can indeed cause problems, agreed Dr. Richard (unintelligible) of Westlake Village, California. Many Americans may suffer from problems associated with minor calcium deficiencies. Irritability, sometimes insomnia, the ability\u2013 the inability to relax, grumpiness, all<\/em> of these can be caused by minor calcium deficiencies Dr. (Unintelligible) said. The average American diet is too high in phosphorous and too low in calcium, elements which should be balanced on a one-to-one basis, he explained. The current American diet has an average rate of calcium to phosphorous of one to four. He said the results from a low intake of milk and a high intake of foods, high in the phosphorous and low in calcium, such as the meat, grains, carbonated soft drinks. To find out if you\u2019re deficient in calcium, simply calculate your daily calcium intake from tables la\u2013 available at health food stores and book stores. We\u2019ll get such a\u2013 we\u2019ll get such a\u2013 a table so that you can judge yours. You should be taking in about twelve hundred milligrams of calcium a day. That can be done by a lot of crushed bones. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s suggested here and uh, the bones of all sorts of animals. Well, if that\u2019s what it takes to get strength, (Laughs) a person should look into the matter. You should be taking in about twelve hundred milligrams of calcium a day, Dr. Ringsdorf explained. You can help balance your calcium-phosphorous ratio by taking calcium either in a tablet or in foods high in calcium, such as greens, broccoli, all the leafy green vegetables, and dairy products. The commonly thought that dairy products is the highest, it is not<\/em> the highest in calcium.<\/p>\n

So, we always like to read these health news and copy or experiment in our herbal kitchen and chem-lab to see if there isn\u2019t something of merit for us, because one thing we want is a high standard of living. We certainly have the highest standard of caring<\/em>, but we want to develop a high standard of living, because many of our people have suffered a long, long time it seems. Sometimes it seems that this wonderful happening to us, this uh, marvelous experience of having Mark to come and visit us. It is just too good to be true, because for so long, all we could hear were the liars tearing at us like wolves would tear at a sheep, and there was nothing, not a thing we could do, it seemed, because even our newspaper friend, the reporters\u2013 the reporters that knew what we were, that knew what kind of people that\u2013 that we were, and the publisher even said, \u201cNo. I couldn\u2019t touch it. If I did, I\u2019d be fired.\u201d But now we have a brave man who\u2019s going to touch it, and he\u2019s going to touch it wherever it leads. And you can know now that you\u2019ve got reason to have more hope than you ever had. So, look up and be very thankful for our good friend who has come through to assist us so extensively. Comrade. He has been so precious to us that I\u2019m at the loss for words. But we say again, we salute<\/em> you, Comrade Mark Lane, and give our salute also to your assistant, your investigator, Don Freed. Greetings. Greetings, and I\u2019ll try to get a little rest, and I have more peace in my mind before my rest than I\u2019ve had in years. And that\u2019s the God\u2019s truth. Thank you, and much, much love to all of you. Let\u2013 (tape edit)<\/p>\n

\u2013and try to build things up to show our appreciation. And give some of those that are on our list, the hundred and sixty, a chance to have freedom. Some of those letters have tears on them. Tears<\/em>. You can hardly read the print. Begging for an opportunity. Some said they would work twenty<\/em> hours a day and we, of course, have to tell them that we must take people in line. It ought to be surely in our heart, the desire to do as the ladies are over there with the dolls, make everything we can, so\u2013 because Guyana is open, absolutely the only nation left that\u2019s open to real colonization, because they have fewer inhabitants than they do fertile ground. It\u2019s a perfect place to settle, and it\u2019s so<\/em> vital that we show our<\/em> love for others<\/em> in the struggle that we always have this place. [If] Anyone gets in difficulty in the struggle, there\u2019s no extradition. They can\u2019t be sent back, so that we have this haven for them. So, let us all show our<\/em> love, our<\/em> gratitude, our<\/em> appreciation by work. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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