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 eee eae

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 .

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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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TRAGIC TALE

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

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“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.

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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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