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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANURAY 19, 1979 et Page 7 Jonestown receives rites >a l Guyana inquires into cult ( ' r honorijM: ~ -*• United Press International th(=> rpmof-p innclf* The Ouvana Pfivernment hnwii Fairy GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A invite bolfatliolic priest sprinkled holy water ' n lightdjnlthe grounds of the People’s llu* avenue'B ’rnial U.jB Temple, the remote jungle com mune where two months ago Thursday Jim Jones led 912 follow ers in a mass murder-suicide rite. Researcher finds ew human-ape link I'lieapoor t work out wardship, > Stlii 1 he [ in the ( ions w "* said the[j ne to sell |] and that United Press International ' u, t ChinaCLEVELAND — Proof of a newly discovered species of man acelul inejiJ older and more ape-like than any other known — was offered at the i dizugii j; Cleveland Museum of Natural History Thursday by Dr. Donald C. 1 (, i his \ Jbhanson, co-director of the 1974 expedition that dug up the fossils in •tee on Hi northeastern Ethiopia. g In their excavation near the Awash River, Johanson and his col leagues on the Afar Research Expedition found skeletal remains that could be the long-sought “missing link between men and apes. They also found at the site the well-preserved fossils of other animals such as horses, pigs and hippos. I The remains were about 40 percent complete and the age of the ]• | site — determined through potassium-argon analysis — was esti- 1111 fluted to be more than 3 million years old. ” Dubbed “Lucy, the female skeleton measures just over 3 feet tall. She had an ape-like head and a humanoid body structure. Lucy UllUXfyvalked erect and was about 18 or 20 years old when she died. InternationillP Johanson said the major impact of the find was to push back man’s N — Jm t|‘cognizable origins another million years. [ured snuiS. *w to wonyB owing how: ' gas his ti is putting a figures are s may he ion because lowest lai ay not nut he lowesli The Guyana government, bowing to opposition demands, announced Wednesday a special commission of inquiry will be appointed to look into the Nov. 18 tragedy, specifi cally how the sect came to be in pos session of large quantities of drugs, firearms and communications equipment in apparent violation of local laws. A preliminary hearing into charges that Jones’s son, Stephen, 19, and the cult’s shoemaker, Charles Beikman,45, murdered the Temple’s spokeswoman and her three children in Georgetown the night of the massacre. The special commission was postponed until to day because chief defense lawyer Rex McKay had not arrived from the United States. The Catholic church announced in Georgetown that priest Allan Fortune, who is in charge of the northwestern Guyana sub-region, recently carried out the blessing at the Jonestown ghost town as well as at the Port Kaituma airstrip. At that airstrip, U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and four other persons were gunned down by a group of Temple fanatics in the incident that triggered the mass death ritual. Soviet scientists say that lymph duct is ‘second heart’ United Press International iihlishinglli MOSCOW — Soviet researchers •ecause ofiiylthey have discovered a virtual urn monmiMond heart in the human body chance (il uil carries out activities as vital as Heal heart itself. cen testim The official Communist Party nicotine ewspaper, Pravda, reported Wed- s, since IDesday the “second heart is the nonoxide hopcic lymphatic duct. The duct of that ‘ as believed to be a purely passive rgan dependent on other body ® motions, such as breathing and I activity. Scholars at the Academy of Medi- J Sciences Institute of Medical Mology in the town of Obninsk, J>s\H)iles southwest of Moscow, say I |iey have determined the duct ^ v ads an independent existence and to kill j Uf ,t as crucial to life support as the the same! ;ar t jt se lf iscll S( |uaHavda said the researchers, led il 1980 pre®natoly Fyodorovich Tsyb, made ia Gov. i $ Bscovery with the use of ionized o has call y S similar to X-rays, under labo- icndmci f ( jrv conditions. 'udget. '“Thanks to the use of the very tld be ext :est radiological methods, a new jnstitutiomHrg was revealed to the scholars jembledf thg Obninsk laboratory,” Pravda laid. id. oncerns u "|t turned out that the thoracic ; liberals wj c t i s an actively functioning or- many cl ll n | con tinually pulsating, and that II of Right ; role in the life support of the or- woukl In nrsm j s j n no W a>' less than the ible. le played by the real heart, radical (kpHe thoracic lymphatic duct, a imendmenl®. s h a p e d organ extending along /e ve expo g. S pjne and divided into segments ars, Carte ;• 20 valves, is one of two organs budget, a t empty lymph fluid into the vein d defense s || m of the body. 3 percen Tymph, similar to blood except flation, to a ( jt has no red corpuscles to give it color, is carried through the body by the blood and is dispensed as nourishment to tissue cells. It also collects impurities in the tissues and carries them off in the body’s lymphatic system. 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