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  1. Commune of the People's Temple Sect, NW of
  2. Georgetown, Guyana, established 1974 by the
  3. American Jim Jones (1933-78), who originally
  4. founded the sect among San Francisco's black
  5. community. After a visiting US congressman
  6. was shot dead, Jones enforced mass suicide on
  7. his followers by instructing them to drink
  8. cyanide; 914 died, including over 240
  9. children.
  10.