Tidbits and Outrages
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...Te OMB director fell to the floor, losing his glasses, and began to crawl toward the door, "'Mr...
...The door flew open and two Secret Service men raced in...
...President, how about a nits cheery fire'?' but lie decided to leave bad enough alohc...
...No or>e acknowledged it at first...
...consular officials told them at one point that the embassy could not give them their passports because they had not been cleared for release by Guyanese officials...
...We had to take a Guyanese lawyer into the embassy,’ Park said, ‘to get our U.S...
...According to Parks, the defectors have been trying for three weeks to arrange through the embassy for transportation out of Guyana...
...civil rights.’ “During the past week, Park said, the defectors were told by the embassy, which must provide their air fare home under a government program for that purpose, that there was no room for them on U.S.-bound flights...
...The problem was that the damper was closed, and instead of going up the chimney, the smoke was flowing into the Cabinet Room...
...The chairman, wiping unashamedly at his eyes, gasped out his analysis of the economy, with Tom Painter listening intently...
...He got up and muttered something about a fire bringing cheer to a room...
...If there's a leak from this meeting, at least we'll have only four suspects.' "'Five, Mr...
...Everyone nodded and wrote 'stoicism' on his notepad, and it was then that Bud noticed the smoke...
...consuiar officers at the embassy...
...It didn't work...
...Air.' He twisted the harjdle of one of the French doors, but it was locked...
...Suddenly the OMB director cried, 'I can't stand tt,'sprang to his feet, seized the water carafe from the table and flung its contents gnto the smoldering lire, which caused a huge cloud of smoke to shoot up from the fireplace and engulf him...
...What has gripped us is the performance of our State Department...
...The President was unamused...
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...He had taken_ it handkerchief from his pocket and put it over his face...
...President,' Bud drawled...
...As the OMB director sputtered on, the smoke reached Frank Cole, who tried to blow it away, puffing out of the side of his mouth when he thought no one was watching, but soon he was weeping and...
...After a moment, Frank staggered toward the French doors, `Open doors,' lie whispered...
...President.' onc...
...Dale Parks, who had assumed leadership of the defectors, many of whom are his relatives, told reporters yesterday that ‘we were lied to on a daily basis’ by U.S...
...Newsmen and others have had no difficulty obtaining airline bookings on short notice...
...embassy here for their plight...
...perhaps we could adjourn to--' "`A little smoke never hurt anybody,' Painter said grimly, and then the fire alarm went off...
...But the President ignored the smoke, and the others followed his example...
...Just where it was supposed to go, except into their lungs, was unclear, but Frank sat down, and when the budget director could not go on, Painter called on the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers...
...You could hardly see across the Cabinet table...
...It's just a little smoke...
...coughing too...
...Everyone smiled and nodded and hoped that the cheery fire would improve the President's mood...
...The defectors are not under investigation by Guyanese authorities and are not among those Jonestown survivors identified by Peoples Temple members and defectors in the United States as being potentially dangerous loyal followers of Jones...
...Oh, Bell, we'll move the meeting over to my office.' "They stumbled across to the Oval Office iust as the firemen arrived, and the bud L,et meeting resumed...
...But We’ll Be Ready For the Next Mass Cult Suicide We have left to other editors the task of explaining thc darker recesses of the human mind that were brieflj revealed by the Jonestown tragedy...
...This way, Mr...
...Fix that damper,' Painter snapped...
...then the young men began gathering up their notebooks and briefing papers and scurrying from the Cabinet Room, their faces pale, their eyes wide, their belief in the infinite goodness of Tom Painter at least temporarily shattered...
...Why don't I fix the damper'?' "The President ignored his suggestion, which Frank took for approval, and he rushed into the billowing smoke and began to jiggle the little handle that worked the damper...
...President...
...After awhile, Bud noticed the fire v od carefully stacked in the Oval l)tlice fireplace, and he was sorely tempted to say...
...Bud was farthest from tie fire, so he figured that at least he'd be the last to go...
...The budget director resumed his overview, but lie was sitting nearest the fireplace and he soon began to blink, then to cough...
...of them shouted...
...We've had some outrageous leaks lately...
...That's better,' Tom said whenn the last of the voting men was gone and only he and the four senior advisers were left...
...and put a match to the kindling...
...Sit down.' the President snapped...
...And cut that blasted bell off.' " Don't worry sir, the firemen are on the way,' the agent promised...
...But no one else was listening...
...Nevertheless, according to Parks, the U.S...
...Everyone except the President had sunk down in his chair, on the theory that smoke rose up and the fresh air was nearer the floor...
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...Painter sat back down and interrupted the budget director to deliver a little speech about how the American people were going to have to exhibit 'stoicism' if the nation was to meet the econorme crisis...
...Frank gasped...
...freckled man in rimless glasses, began his 'overview,' Tom Painter noticed that kindling and logs had been neatly laid in the fireplace...
...Here’s the latest installment, by Gregory Rose in the December 21 1978 edition of The Washington Post: “More than a month after escaping death at Jonestown, 12 American defectors from the Peoples Temple cult are still trying to leave Guyana and are blaming the U.S...
...We don't need any firemen,' Painter cried...
...It'll go away...
...President,' Frank Cole whispered...
...As the OMB director, a pale, frail...
...The kindling had caught nicely and sent small Barnes shooting up the logs...
...Why are all these people here?' "There was a stunned silence...
...Only after he took a Guyanese lawyer with him to the embassy to complain, Parks said, did the consular officers provide the passports and necessary travel documents...
Vol. 10 • February 1979 • No. 11
