Napa Valley Register, Volume 117, Number 71, 22 November 1978 — Page 15

Wednesday, November 22, 1978 The NAPA REGISTER 15

State Department Battles Criticism On Ryan's Death WASHINGTON (LPIi - The State Department is attempting to counter growing criticism it may not have done enough to warn slain Rep. Leo J. Ryan, DCalif., about reported wrongdoings and the potential violent nature of the Jonestown colony in Guyana Deputy Assistant Secretary of State John Bushnell stressed that all that U.S. consular officers can do "is to make the best efforts of trying to find if there are violations of the rights of Americans citizens." "The Consular Service of the United States is not inherently an investigative organization," he told reporters during a news briefing Tuesday. Bushnell said consular officers met with at least 75 members of the People's Temple at the request of friends and family members alleging they had been abused He referred specifically to 40 to 50 private interviews held on a field near Jonestown during the past year by consular officer Richard McCoy. Bushnell talked to McCoy late Monday. Bushnell said he asked McCoy whether the people he talked to had complained about mental, physical or sexual abuses at the colony. "In all cases, the answer was no'," McCoy told him. The people interviewed also told Mc Coy they had no intention of leaving Jonestown. "All denied they were being held against their will or abused in any way," Bushnell said. "These interviews in every case were conducted at the request of the consular officer based at the request of friends and relatives," Bushnell said. He said several people approached the embassy in Georgetown and the Guyanese government about leavingth colony and in eacn case ne mentioned two specific instances they encountered no problems and left Guyana. Bushnell said that based on the consular interviews, the embassy reached the conclusion that many of the complaints contained in letters sent to the State Department seemed to be wrong. "That is basically the conclusion that we came to." he said in answer to questions. "The officers who visited the camp were never able from their own observations and investigations to substantiate the kind of allegations that had been made. We were impressed by the physical progress of the community in such a short time." Nevertheless," he added, "the officers continued to be uneasy and concerned about the atmosphere they encountered and by the recurrence of allegations about wrongdoings in the community."

Hayakawa Points To Religious Freedom

TOKYO iLPli - Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom make it hard to deal with religious cults that have "captured and brainwashed" young people. Sen S I. Hayakawa said today. "After a child is 21 years old. the parents are violating his religious rights if they try to snatch him back," the California Republican told a news conference. "The courts will rule against them " Hayakawa s remarks were directed toward the Peoples Temple cult whose members killed Rep Leo Ryan. D-Calif , and four others before engaging in a mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana that claimed more than 400 lives "The last time 1 saw Leo Ryan two months ago we went into the subject of cults that steal young people." Hayakawa

said. "He was concerned about young people who are brainwashed and captured by these groups and estranged from their parents " Besides Jones' Peoples Temple. Hayakawa singled out three others by name Scientology, the Hare Krishna

Sect, and the Unification Church of South Korea "The members go out and beg for funds for cult leaders at airports." Hayakawa said. "They make over all their money and real estate to the leaders The cults demand total commitment with no out

side interests. They even dictate who you can marry or make love to. "There is little we can do because of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion But some of these cases

are disastrous Hayakawa the former president of San Francisco State University, said that "all this is a commentary on the profound human need for belief religious belief in other words."

No Easy Answers To Those Cults

WASHINGTON (UPIi - A government psychiatrist says the phenomena of religious cults and why people surrender rational thinking for a bizarre lifestyle deserves study - but investigation will provide no easy answers. "The right of any person of age to choose his or her own religion or way of life must not be violated." he warned

Dr. Stephen Hersh, director of youth programs at the National Institute of Mental Health, said the "desperation of parents who feel that their children have been captured and seduced into an alien way of life cannot be ignored " Little investigation currently is being focused on cults, and "the need for quality research into this complex is-

A Suicide Test In San Francisco

sue is dramatically apparent," he said, following the deaths of more than 400 members of the People's Temple colony of Rev Jim Jones in Guyana Dr Thomas Ungerleider of the University of California at Los Angeles, a specialist in the study of cults, told UPI the mass suicides and murders in Guyana were not typical of such groups "1 believe it was the jungle." said Ungerleider, who was recently turned down for a

federal grant to further research the cult phenomenon. "The members got no feedback from the outside world They did not read Time magazine or watch the news at night Thus, they were under immense group pressure and easily led." he said Ungerleider. who is also a psychiatrist and member of President Carter's drug abuse task force, said he doubted such a tragedy would have happened if the group had remaim'd in San Francisco.

before realizing the gun contained blanks "After he enjoyed the agony of the people." Mrs Johnson told reporters, "he said this was just a test of our loyalty "

BERKELEY t UPI - A former Peoples Temple member said Tuesday that the Rev. Jim Jones conducted his first suicide practice in San Francisco when eight followers defected from the cult Wanda Johnson, whose 12-vear-old son was in the Jonestown camp at the time tf Jones' suicide-murder in Guyana, said that Jones began the first drill by telling hiscongreation "We re going to celebrate tonight Mrs Johnson went on "He brought in paper cups and poured wine in them He ordered us all to drink it. We did and then he said to us, smiling. You have just drunk poison and all ol you will be BARWICK-DUTTONS HAS WHAT IT TAKES FOR

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