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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texos, Friday, Feb. 29, 1980.
HEATHCLIFF
Police lack clues
in cult slayings
BERKELEY, Calif (AP)
Investigators had no suspect,
few new details anfP another
death to consider in the slaying
of a family dial once battled the
late Kev. Jim Jones and his'
Peoples Temple.
Daphene Mills, 15, shot twice
in the head, was pronounced
dead Thursday, two days after
lier parents, Al and Jeannie
Mills, were found dead in the
family home
Berkeley policelnvestigators
said they had no suspects in the
shootings of the three.
Police Lt. Jim Polk said other
defectors from the Peoples
Temple have called police to
learn if a cult “hit squad"
carried out the shootings. Most
of the church’s ..members
perished in a mass' suicide
ritual ordered by Jones at his
Jonestown, Guyana, settlement
on Nov. 18, 1978.
Polk said there was no
evidence to support fear of a hit
squad, but added that a scar-
city of information made it
difficult to definitely rule out
the possibility
Investigators for the
Alameda County district at-
torney said evidence gathered
so far. eliminated suicide,
robbery or passion as motives
for the shootings.
The home showed “no signs
(if a struggle, no signs of rob-
bery or burglary and no
weapon was found and we don't
have a motive," investigators
said.
Meanwhile, police said they
were awaiting results of tests to
see if the couple’s 17-year-old
son, Eddie, had recently fired a
weapon or had ingested drugs.
Polk said ballistics tests also
were not complete, but other
sources said a .22-caliber
caliber weapon was used in the
killings Al and Jeannie Mills
were each shot once in the
forehead, the Alameda County
coroner's office said.
The Mills family left Jones'
congregation in 1975
After they left the church, the
couple began the Human
Freedom Center, a haven for
other defectors. They had
spoken publicly of their fears
that they would be killed for
defying Jones.
sing a harmony tune in debate
GOP candidates
By DONALOM ROTHBERG
AP Political Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (APt Four Republican presidential can-
didates opted for more chord than discord in their latest campaign
debate, this one marked by good-natured gibes and an absence of
the acrimony generated by a confrontation in Nashua. N II, last
weekend. . r
The emphasis was on politics, arid domestic issues Thursday
night, in contrast to the three earlier debates in which foreign
poluy dominated
it: was the first verbal joust since Ronald Reagan’s landslide
victory Tuesday night iri the New Hampshire primary Par-
ticipating with.-.Reagan at the f.ongstreet Theatre were George
Bush, Sen Howard H Baker Jr arid former Texas Gov. John H.
formally:............:..........■......>............ -T-......•••••- _ .
’ Earlier in the day , Reagan noted speculation that the other three
are massing for an attack” on the front-runner, but no sucpactic
emerged.
After the debate, the candidates infngled-on the stage, shaking
jcr.
hands and chatting, and then all attended a reception at the Faculty
Club at the University of South Carolina which sponsored the
nationally telecast debate along w ith Columbia Newspapers Inc.
Reagan, grinning and obviously pleased, told reporters, “I think
1 did very well. It was rather a better forum than J expected.' ’
South Carolinians got rny morale up," .said Bush, who
whispered to One reporter as he left the theater. T think 1 did the
best." '■
,. The only.angry note was struck by Rep. John Anderson, the
, Illinois /congressman- running as the only liberal in tftfc GOP
presidentiaCrate Campaigning in Massachusetts. Anderson said
' the debaters, should be censured for not insisting that lie be, in-
cluded.
... .Anderson was not invited because he rs not on the ballot in the
March 8 Sopth Carolina primary and has not campaigned in the
state. < . »
It was the fourth debate of the campaign and the third in eight
days.
It opened with the candidates asked what they would do about the
terrorist takeover of the Dominican Republic embassy in Bogota,
Colombia, and the hostage-taking of a number of diplomats in-
cluding the United States ambassador.
The candidates generally agreed that the Colombian government
should be encouraged to deal firmly with the situation.
The Nashua debate was a major topic of discussion with the
candidates generally agreeing that it was time to forget the in-
cident and move on with the campaign.
' The debaters cited their records on race relations and civil rights
•when-asked..jyhy they thought they deserved the- support of South
Carolina blacks. —--t-.-—- - - ‘ . . .., '
On nuclear waste, a major political issue in South Carolina,
Reagan advocated turning the problem o'f how to store radioactive
waste over to private industry with,strict federal safety guidelines.
Bush called for greater cooperation between the federal and state
governments, while Baker and Connally said the federal govern-
ment must lake primary responsibility
All the candidates said they, would oppose repeal of the-federal
statute permitting state right-to-work laws, j
Radio Moscow beaming
news' on your AM dial
WASHINGTON (AP) For
the first time in memory, Radio
Moscow’s English language
broadcasts arc being beamed
to pails of the United States on
a standard AM'frequency,
federal officials say.
T don’t know of any other
instance in which we’ve picked
up Moscow's- propaganda, in
English-, coming into the United
States ... where any average
Joe can pick it up in his car,”
said a Federal Com-
munications Commission
source who asked riot to be
identified.
The broadcasts, monitored in
Florida ori Tuesday and
Wednesday, were relayed by a
Cuban station.
“It was pure propaganda
aimed at the United States,"
said James C. McKinney of the
FCC. “By broadcasting
primarily at night, they were
clearly trying to reach as much
of Florida and beyond as
possible."
Radio Moscow, heard around
the world via short-wave
transmissions, recently has
presented as news the
Kremlin’s position on the
Russian occupation of
Afghanistan The state-run
facility typically presents only
the government's view o'f
developments around the
world, often railing against
“American imperialism.”
State Department officials
said they could not predict
whether the Cuban relays
marked the start of a
propaganda campaign aimed
at masses of American
listeners. '
McKinney, chief of the FCC’s
field operations bureau, con-
firmed Thursday night that his
bureau’s monitoring stations in
Fort I-auderdale and Tampa,
Fla., had detected the signal.
It began at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday and continued through
9 a.ro. Wednesday,” McKinney
said. “Our bearings indicate it
was coming from a radio
station which we know as
CMCA,.,.in las Vegas, Cuba,
using the 600 kilohertz
frequency on the AM band.
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OWNERS
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Mr. & Mrs. D.N. Gamblin
Shannon Road East
Sulphur Springs
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, February 29, 1980, newspaper, February 29, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824935/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.