NEW YORK (AP) — An
84-year-old man who
escaped the death ritual
at Rev. Jim Jones’ jungle
settlement in Guyana has
Feturned to the United
States, but without his
wife who died in the mass
suicide-murder,

“He can't talk; he's in
real bad shape, real bad,"
said Michael Woodward,
the grandaon of the frail
survivor, Migue] DePina,
who arrived Sunday night
on a flight from the
tropical South American
country,

DePina, originally of
Long Beach, Calif, had
gone to Jones’ Peoples
Temple cult commune

ONE SURVIVOR

- Too ill for mass suicide

after his wife became a then died while hugging

Jones convert, one another.
“Mamma was going to Other survivors of the
go to Guyana and after 59 religious sect are ex-

pected to begin returning
to the U.S. on Tuesday,

The deaths occurred
after Jones’ followers
allegedly shot to death
five Americans, including

years together, I couldn't
let her go by herself,’
DePina was quoted. as
saying when asked why
he went to Guyana in 1677.

DePina is ‘the first

U.S. Representative Leo

American survivor of the = Ryan of California, who
Peoples Temple to return had gone to Jonestown, in
to the U.S. He missed the Guyanan outback, to
joining the mass suicide- investigate the cult.

murder because he had
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Anan vy
that more than 900 mem-
bers of the Group drank or
were forced to Kool-
Aid laced with cyanide,

The Long Beach Press
Telegram, which

* published an interview

with DePina, reported
that Jones had told his
followers: “Anyone who
does not ke it here after

one or two years can have
his family send them
some money and return
home.”

But the newspaper
quoted DePina as saying:
“After we came here
everything changed,'’ the
sect members never
Teceived mall from their
families and began to feel
they were ‘forgotten."

The elderly man is said
to have told the

newspaper Jones had

warned his followers that

“spies were everywhere”

and that if they tried to

flee into the jungle, they

would be attacked by:
Indians and snakes.

PILOT STATES —
‘I was hired to kill’

MINEHEAD, England
(Reuter) — An airline pilot
told a court hearing Monday
that he was hired to kill a
man who claimed to have
hada homosexual affair with
Jeremy Thorpe, former
leader of the British Liberal

party.

Andrew Newton said that
in 1975 he bought a heavy
iron chisel ‘‘to band over his
bead" but the man, model
Norma n Scott, did, not ane
up toa prearranged me
in a London hotel.

Newton was giving
evidence for the prosecution
at the Minehead Magistrates
Court, which is sliting to
decide whether Thorpe, 40,
and three other men should
ba tried on charges that they
plotted Scott's murder,

The prosecutor has alleged
that Scott and Thorpe had an
affair in the early 1960s and
that the politician became
obsessively afraid that
Scott's talking about it would
lead to public scandal and
the ruin of his career.

Phillipines putting
people on the marke

MANILA (Reuter) — The
Philippines is easing its
- unemployment problem and
earning valuable overseas
funds by exporting its

It is increasingly looking to
the oil-rich Arab countries as
a source of jobs for its under:
employed and poorly paid
work force,

The Arab countries are
helping to fill an overseas
employment void left at the

.of the Vietnam war and.
also affected by the’ dec
of the logging industry in
- Indonesia.

This year alone, 45,800
Filipinos are finding joba in
102 countries under govern-
mentregulated programs.
The Philippines’ economy is
expected to benefit by more
than $300 million, including
remittances from thousands
of Filipinos who actually
have emigrated to Canada
and the United States.

“The foreign exchange
contributed from overseas
employment can constitute a
erucial difference in the
economic health and ability
of the Philippine economy to
expand and create em-
ployment for the ever:
increasing labor foree,'*
Labor Minister Blas Ople

says.

The development of
government programs is
only in its infancy, with
recently announced targets
of the national manpower
and youth council awaiting
approval by President Fer-

nd Marcos.

The council would like to
see an extra 36,000 overseas
jobs next year and talks of
290,000 Filipinos working
overseas by 1982, not in-
cluding emigrants. Such a
target, on present levels of
return, represents more than
$1 billion in potential
overseas earnings—and this
for a country which had an
external debt of $7.23 billion
on June $0 this year.

Overseas employment—

which includes domestics
going to Hong Kong to
replace Chinese domestics
who have been lured by
higher pay in industry—soon
could rank with tourism and
exports of coconut products,
sugar and minerals, as a
major source gi foreign
currency for the ppines.

Officially, overseas em-
ployment is said to be a
short-term measure. But
there is talk of the four-year-
old..overseas employment.

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offices abroad.

Ople has said:

“I do not see the
exhaustion of our labor
reserves during the next 10
years. ... We, of course, look
forward to the day when our
own economy will have
developed to such a degree
that it can fruitfully absorb
all the employable skills in
our own labor market."

The programs have
developed against the
background of a rapidly
developing work force which
is straining unemployment
in a country where the
minimum wage is between
$1.40. and $2 a day, depending
on locality.

Predominantly Roman
Catholic, the Philippines’
population of 45 milllon is
growing at 2.5 per cent an-
nually despitea government:
backed family-planning
program, which is gaining
rapid acceptance and pays
only a token regard to
church attitudes on con-
traception,

The labor force is in:
creasing by 350,000 a year
and unemployment is
667,000, or 4.6 per cent.

Overseas employment
appeals to the Filipino
worker a8 an opportunity to
i A ag

ving for family.

One of the main critlisms
of overseas employment is
the loss—even if only tem-
porarily— of skilled
workers, .

Will deal with
any death threat

- herria officials bald
on are prepared

cope vith “death team that
may be lurking around" the
American survivors of Rev.

they
United States from Guyana.

wes are
prepared,” sald U.S. At-
torney Thomas Lydon,
whose task it will be to file
charges againat any of the
aurvivors suspected in the
murder of U.S. Represen-
tative Leo Ryan, The deaths
congressman and four ober
congressman and four other
persons at a jungle airfield
preceded the mass suicides-
murder in Jones’ Peoples
‘Temple commune in nor-
thwestern Guyana.
Lydon sald he has received
ho indication that those

returning might include an
cult members determined nd
carry out Jones’ wish that all

members of his agricultural |

community should die.
“If we get a factual basis

. 0° if any of these survivors

come to Charleston and are
concerned about their
safety, we are, of course,
prepared to take whatever

steps will be necessary,” he

Federal marshals
gathered at Charleston
ready to fly aboard the 9¢-
passenger C-l41 jet aircraft

standing by to retrieve the
from .

Georgetown they
OWN AB SOON aB

are cleared by Guyanese
authorities. ;

To date, two male mem-
bers of the American cult in
Guyana have been charged
with murder. ‘

The prosecutor told the
court last Monday that the
pilot, on an October night in
1976, finally drove Scott toa
desolate moorland road and
shot his dog in a murder bid
bungled either because his
gun jammed or “he got cold
feet,”

Thorpe, who ied the
Liberal party from 1967 to
1976, has denied that he had a
homosexual affair with

Scott,
Newton told the court in

this sleepy, seaside town that -

early in 1075 he was -in-
troduced to Welsh nightclub
owner George Deakin, one of
the four accused, by a iriend.
He told Deakin he had heard
that he wanted somebody “I
‘hink ‘bumped off were the
words I used.” °
Later he and Deakin had a
20-minute meeting at a high-
way gas station at which, he

said, a fee of &10,00'.

($20,000) was fixed, Newton
teatified

Newton saldhe had trouble -

locating Scott and ap-
proached David Holmes,
former deputy treasurer of
the Liberal party, to help
him find the model.

He said he asked Holmes,
who along with Thorpe and

is charged
with conspiracy to commit
murder, how he wanted Scott
dis of, He said Holmes
told him “he would prefer
that he vanished off the face
of the earth,’’

The fourth accused is
Welsh businessman John le
Mesurier.

Thorpe also faces an addi-
Honal charge of incitement
to murder.

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MONTREAL (CP) —
Truong Tiut Cam sat
wide-eyed in army
barracks a world away
from her home, waiting
Monday as her family
went through the first
steps in establishing a
new life.

The i2-year-old Viet-
namese girl is among the
159 refugees taken off the
freighter Hai Hong ho

are going °
gration formalities and
medical checks at the
Longue Pointe military
base here,

_ Bundled in a snowsult
supplied by Canadian

Tiut Cam said an
interpreter she found the
cold ‘‘impoasible.”’

Three days ago she was
aboard the Hal Hong off
Malaysia, sweltering in
temperatures ap .
proaching 40 degrees
Celsius. Outside the
barracks it was minus 9
and snowing.

Asked about her first
impressions of Canada,
she said she found the
buildings ‘‘very, very
high” compared with
those of Cholon, the

Her 14¢member family
will be Be’
somewhere in Quebec and
Tiut Cam sald she was
looking forward to going

to a French-language
school. :

immigration authorities, |-

phinese district of Saigon

“he Herald, Tuesday, November 28, 1978, Page 9

_ JAMES CROSS SAYS
Can identify them

QUEBEC (CP) — James
says he can identify at

least three members of the

Front de Liberation du.

Quebec (FLQ) who kid-
napped him in October, 1970.
The former British trade
ane loner z Montreal
& copyright interview
published in Le Soleil on
Monday he wouldn't have
any difficulty identifying
Jacques Lanectot, Yves
Langlois and Mare Car-
bonneau if the case gets

before the courts.
Those three men and
Louse and Jacques

Cossette-Trudel have heen
living in exile in France
since the kidnapping. The

they are homesick and want
ta return to Quebec and face
the kidnapping charges
Sgainst them.

Cross, interviewed In
London by British journalist
Barrie Penrose, did not say
if he could recognize the

Altar being hooded during
most of his captivity, the
hood was removed for 12
hours just before his release,
Cross said.

THIS

Cossetie-Trudels have said’

He said he didn't think he
and then-Quebec labor
minister Pierre Laporte,
who was later killed, were
nar gaan in a govern.
ment cons to deat:
the FLQ cy roy

“Perhaps unconsciously I
was a scapegoat in what waa

kidnapping. When that did
mot give them the result they
‘were counting on, Paul Rose
intervened and the Laporte
affair took place."
Montreal journalist Marc
Laurendeau suggested last
month the FLQ was manipu-
lated the October

golng on around me,” Crosa
said, “but I don’t believe so
-. I don’t believe that theory.
“I belleve the plan was
developed by the FLQ, more
so because the FLQ had
previouly tried to kidnap the
U.S. consul.
“Then there

Crisis in an attempt by the
federal government to
discredit all nationalist
groups in Quebec.

Cross said he broke silence
on the identities of his kid.
nappers because he did not
want to leave the impression

was) my ‘he could not recognize them.

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