November 28, 1978, The New Mexican - AP, page A2, Cult survivors may come home tonight,

November 28, 1978, The New Mexican - AP, page A2, Cult survivors may come home tonight,

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Jonestown survivors will begin returning to the United States starting tonight or Wednesday, U.S. consular officials said. They said seven survivors, all aged 61 or over, will leave no later than Wednesday evening.

They were identified as Hyacinth Thrash, 70, of San Francisco; Grover Davis, 79; Madeline Brooks, 73; Carol Young, 78; Alvaray Satterwhite, 61; Marian Campbell, 61, and Raymond Godshalk,62. The hometowns of the other six were not immediately available.

Guyanese police were making a complete inventory of the camp and questioning Peoples Temple sect members in Georgetown to determine which of the 80 survivors will be permitted to leave this South American nation and which will be held as suspects and material witnesses in the suicide-murder at Jonestown. "Their status is being reviewed,, and some will be allowed to go," Assistant Commissioner Skip Roberts said Monday. "Some will be held for judicial proceedings."

Two Americans have been charged with murder, and three others were questioned Monday for the second time about the death ceremony in which 908 Americans and one Guyanese died at Jonestown, the Rev. Jim Jones' religious commune in northwest Guyana.

The three were Tim Carter, 28, and his brother, Michael, 20, both of Boise, Idaho, and Michael Prokes, 32, a former Modesto, Calif., television newsman. "We just wanted to question them some more and go back over their story," Roberts said.

The two men under arrest are Larry Layton, 32, of San Francisco, who is charged with killing Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others with him at an airstrip near Jonestown, and Charles Beikman, 43, of Indianapolis, who is charged with killing a Peoples Temple staff member in Georgetown and her three children.

Only one of the surviving cultists has returned from Jonestown to the United States. He was Miguel DePina, 84, who was in a Georgetown hospital during the mass poisoning in which his wife died. U.S. Embassy officials said the returning survivors would be flown to the Charleston, S.C., Air Force Base and would be subject to normal reentry procedures for American citizens returning from abroad.

They said the Internal Revenue Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and representatives of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare would interview cult members "who are willing" about the Jonestown events. In Charleston, the FBI said its agents would also question the returning cultists and would arrest any who might have participated in the slaying of Rep. Ryan or conspired in the killing. Although Layton has been arrested for the killing of the five, survivors of the attack at the airstrip said six or eight other men took part in the attack. The murder of a congressman is a federal crime, regardless of where it occurs, and any participant can be charged with conspiracy. Ryan and three U.S. newsmen killed with him had gone to Jonestown to investigate reports that cultists were being held there against there will and were being abused. Survivors of the suicide said Jones ordered the congressman and His party killed because defectors were leaving with him. Guyanese police said their government has not decided to do with Jonestown, 150 miles northwest of Georgetown, which the Peoples Temple leased from the government. The stench of death still filled the air at the compound Monday and about 23 exotic tropical fish, a kitten and some parrots were the only survivors still there.

Ray family plot hinted in King assassination

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Assassinations Committee is dropping broad hints that it has uncovered evidence of a "Ray family conspiracy" to murder Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a decade ago. It also is exploring the adequacy of the investigation that led the FBI and Justice Department to identify James Earl Ray as King's sole assassin. The committee summoned former Attorney General Ramsey Clark to testify today on the Justice Department's role in the King probe. Staff lawyers contend the investigation was hampered by a strained and hostile relationship between Clark and the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and that, as a result, the Justice Department played no role in the probe. Meanwhile, the committee chairman, Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, raised the possibility that the FBI created the atmosphere in which King' was killed by waging an "illegal and' unconstitutional" campaign to discredit him with scurrilous propaganda. Stokes said Monday the committee will have to decide whether the FBI bears a share of the responsibility for King's death in reaching its conclusions about the case. Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey raised some hypothetical questions of his own Monday, hinting to former FBI executive Cartha DeLoach that the committee has found what the FBI could not uncover 10 years ago: evidence that King was the victim of a conspiracy. In a prepared statement, Blakey indicated the committee's principal suspicions fall most heavily on James Earl Ray's two brothers, John and Jerry Ray. He said the FBI became so preoccupied with the search for James Earl Ray it ignored what he called "the possibility of a Ray family conspiracy." . He called this an "almost inexplicable failure" on the part of the FBI, saying, "Family members of the suspected triggerman deserved at least some investigative attention." Blakey did not directly accuse Ray's two brothers of plotting to kill King. But in his testimony and in an accompanying 106-page staff report, theirs were the only two names raised in connection with a possible conspiracy. He said direct and circumstantial evidence strongly suggests much more contact between the brothers than anv of them was willing to admit. He recalled that Jerry Ray has twice admitted knowledge of a conspiracy. And he noted that when James Earl Ray exchanged a rifle at a store in Birmingham, Ala., five days before the assassination, he told store clerks his brother had advised him to get a more powerful weapon. Blakey called this "the single most significant piece of evidence raising the possibility of the participation of a brother in the assassination."

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Flushed by their own recent election successes, Republican governors say the party as a whole has been slow to learn how to make a comeback. In the most lively discussion yet at the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association, a general cry arose Monday for opening up the •party tj blacks, Hispanics and other "new constituencies." Gov. James Thompson of Illinois, who drew strong black support in his landslide re-election, said such groups had been "off limits" or written off as unwinnable for too long. He urged Republican candidates to get into "street campaigning." Gov. William Milliken of Michigan, who also polled a heavy black vote in an easy re-election, started the debate by complaining he has been fighting for ten years against the trend to make the GOP a narrow, regionalized party. "1 said then that such an approach would not only be morally wrong, but politically stupid," Milliken said. "Since then, we have on occasion been wrong, and we've been stupid." Milliken said he pleaded with the party's 1976 platform committee to make "a real commitment" to the cities, but "my words largely fell on deaf ears. "And I must say in all candor, I think that our party across the country has learned very little on this issue, despite what individual candidates are doing," Milliken said. The Republicans, who held only 12 governorships after the 1976 elections, made a net gain of six Nov. 7. Party strategists say the gain would not have been as large without the new base-broadening campaign led by National Chairman Bill Brock. Blacks, who traditionally vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, gave surprising support to Republicans in some of the key races this year.