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1 em am PARTLY CLOUDY Highs will be in the lower 60s today, and in the 30s tonight. (Complete weather on page 2A). Home Final J3rd Year No. 350 Florida's Capital Newspaper Sunday, December 17, 1978 35 Cents Pathologist; 700 were murdered in Guyana Tomorrow: A five-part series on the murder-suicides in Jonestown will begin in Monday's Democrat. It is written by Washington correspondent Charles Krause, who became an eyewitness to the unimaginable details of the events there.

Nov. 18, based his statement on a series of autopsies performed on some of the victims, as well as his examination of other bodies and a close inspection of the scene. He said he suspects that Jim Jones, the Indiana-born leader of the Jonestown community in the depths of the Guyana rain forest, did not die by his own hand. Mootoo admitted, however, that Jones' body was so badly decomposed by the time he examined it in the steaming jungle that it was difficult to determine how he died. Jones led his San Francisco-based People's Temple cult to Guyana in August, 1977.

The massacre took place after U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan, and four others were shot to death by cult members while they were in Guyana last month to determine if some members of the group were being held there against their will. Mootoo, a forensic pathologist educated in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Vienna, was interviewed on his findings in his Georgetown home. Mootoo has been a key witness at coroner's jury proceedings into the Jonestown massacre.

The coroner's jury, meeting in the jungle community of Matthews Ridge, 35 miles from Jonestown, is expected to issue a report this week. (Please see GUYANA page 6A) By TIMOTHY McNULTY and MICHAEL SNEED Copyright 1978 Chicago Tribune GEORGETOWN, Guyana More than 700 of the 911 cult members who died at Jonestown last month were murdered, the Guyana government's top pathologist told The Chicago Tribune in an exclusive interview. "I do not believe there were ever more than 200 persons who died voluntarily (at Jonestown)," said Dr. C. Leslie Mootoo, chief medical examiner and senior bacteriologist for the Guyanan government.

Mootoo, who was the first medical man to arrive at Jonestown after the mass poisonings I vj n( 1 1 rCj 01(5 II (M i '3 i 1 Locker room scene, p. By BARRY COOPER Democrat sports writer WICHITA FALLS, Tex. The Florida University Rattlers brought a national college football championship home to Tallahassee Saturday by upending the second-best NCAA Division I-AA team in the nation, the University of Massachusetts, by 35-28. It was a day of opportunities and errors for both teams. And every time Florida made a mistake, it was able to recover.

When the game was over, the Rattlers had their first national title. FAMU gave Massachusetts break after break but still managed to beat the Minutemen. The Rattlers' margin of victory would have been much wider had they not made so many costly mistakes. The Rattlers still won, however, and the victory gave the school the Division I-AA national championship. It was the NCAA's first I-AA title The 38-team league was formed last summer, and ironically, FAMU was the last school to be admitted.

It also was the last team to be selected for the four-team I-AA playoffs. It got in as a result of an at-large berth, which was extended just six days before the playoffs were to begin. "WE THOUGHT I-AA was tailor-made for our. program," a happy FAMU Coach Rudy Hubbard said. "Here we are the last team picked in our division, and we win it." There was little question as to who had the best team here Saturday.

Some had suggested that Massachusetts a member of the Yankee Conference had played a tougher schedule. But the Rattlers ignored that talk and took the Minutemen apart almost from the beginning. It took FAMU mistakes to keep Massachusetts in the game. Twenty-one of Massachusetts' points were gifts from the Rattlers. In the first quarter, FAMU's Mel-(Please see FAMU page 7A) ya -A 1: 5 4 i -4 Ei II I L.

I a 'in Maureen Panus Alejandro Bryant, 8, prays in class the end of Gadsden County's Bible study hour Bible speaks louder than court in Gadsden More pictures, page 4A By BROWNING BROOKS Democrat staff writer QUINCY Down the hallway and into the classroom, Garnet Laird pushes a grocery cart piled high with the word of God. Sixteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer and religious services in public schools, Mrs. Laird dispenses Bibles to Gadsden County pupils. On this day, wearing her Girl Scout leader's uniform, she is visiting 25 students at Stewart Street Elementary School.

With her gray hair and scout pin slightly askew, she smiles and talks about Luke and John the Baptist. Quoting the Bible by heart, she gently asks the children questions as they flip through "The Way," a student edition of "The Living Bible." They answer enthusiastically. "What books tell us about Christmas?" she asks. "Mark, Luke, John," ring out the replies from the fourth-graders. A little hand shoots into the air.

"Luke says Christmas is Jesus' birthday," a shy voice explains. (Please see BIBLE page 4A) Susan Roos Florida fans celebrate on Frenchtown's Macomb Street 'we're number one' after Rattlers won national championship China move is good business smivutiitr Trade between the United States and China will amount to from $950 million to $1.2 billion in 1978, the Commerce Department estimates. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the nearly $300 billion worth of business the United States does with all foreign countries combined. BUT THE PROSPECTS for future growth of the Chinese market are "phenomenal," says John Renner, a State Department official in charge of Chinese trade matters. Christopher Phillips, direc- (Please see CHINA page 8A) TROUBLED MIDEAST talks were caused, in part, by some generous STORY: page 12A.

By ROBERTS. BOYD Democrat Washington bureau WASHINGTON The prospect of selling-American goods to 1 billion Chinese, a quarter of the world's population, is putting stars in the eyes of American businessmen, farmers and workers. And for good reason. If each Chinese consumed only one extra slice of bread per day made from American wheat, for instance, the Agriculture Department figures that means 3.6 million tons of additional grain sales a year. On top of the 7 million tons already sold to China this year, that amounts to more than, a Violence in Taiwan, page 9A quarter of all the wheat grown by American farmers in 1978.

U.S. automakers, oilmen, hotel owners and aircraft and computer manufacturers already were plunging into the vast Chinese market before President Carter's surprise announcement Friday night that the United States would restore normal relations with Peking Jan. 1. Undoubtedly, their activity will increase. Here's how to survive Superman Roger Simon is a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

By ROGER SIMON Chicaeo Sun-Times service The movie critics are going to tell you whether you will like the movie "Superman." am going to tell you, how to survive it. I am qualified for this vast undertaking because between the years 1954 and 1962, 1 read every Superman and Superboy comic printed, including the special Annuals that cost a quarter. I know the different types of Kryp-tonite and their effect on Superman (there is more than just green I know the name of Superman's dog; and I know about the miniature Krypton city kept in a bottle in Superman's fortress of solitude. We all know that Superman's friends and enemies seem to have the same initials (Lana Lang, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor) and we all know why his glasses don't melt when he uses his X-ray vision and why his cape doesn't (Please see SUPERMAN page 15A) Crime not new to Wakulla suspects Index Books 16E Classified Ads 14-24F Editorial Columns Obituaries 2C People 1-13E Sports 1-12D Stocks 6-8B Theaters 17-20E Travel 15E Weather 2A Weddings 14E Chuckle A homeowner answered an ad for a device to keep down utility bills, and the firm sent him a paperweight. officer, who had been on stakeout duty at the store, ended the spree.

A Leon County grand jury decided their crimes were serious enough for them to be treated as adults. Smith, then 15, and Copeland, then 17, were arrested about the same time, were indicted the same day, pleaded no contest to armed robbery charges and were sentenced to five years each in state prison. Now the two Tallahassee men are back in jail, charged with the rob- bery, kidnapping and murder of Sheila Porter, a 19-year-old Wakulla County convenience store clerk. Smith received his sentence after pleading no contest to robbery charges from the liquor store and first convenience store. He was charged with the burglary and with stealing the car and van, but those charges were not prosecuted after he was indicted in the robberies.

Copeland was involved in all three robberies. He pleaded no contest to the robbery of the East Orange Avenue store and the attempted robbery on Paul Russell Road, where he was (Please see CRIME page 5A) is A burglary at an Exxon service station on South Monroe Street. A robbery at a Discount Beer and Wine store on South Monroe. is Another holdup, at a convenience store on East Orange Avenue. A gun was held to a clerk's head and her life was threatened.

The bandits got away with $85. Theft of a van from a sandwich company. A third robbery attempt at a convenience store on Paul Russell Road. Two shotgun blasts from a police By DAVE GUSSOW Democrat staff writer Four years ago, Frank Elijah Smith and Johnny Copeland were juveniles but old enough to be partners in crime. Four years ago, they faced robbery charges, indictments and, later, prison terms.

Now they face robbery, kidnapping and murder charges in Wakulla County. Among the crimes in August 1974 in which one or both were accused of participating were:.