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- 1 2 Wallace, Baine (11 October 1991). "The death of a California magazine". Santa Cruz Sentinel.
- ↑ Krause, Charles; Layton, Deborah. Introduction – Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. Anchor Books. p. 133.
- ↑ Kilduff, Marshall and Phil Tracy."Inside Peoples Temple." Archived December 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University. August 1, 1977.
- ↑ Davidson, Steven (24 May 2017). "The Secret Jewish History Of 'Top Gun'". The Forward.
- 1 2 Citron, Alan (30 July 1991). "California, 2 other magazines folding (part 1)". Los Angeles Times.
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