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Hans-Joachim Maaz, in a newly published book titled Der Gefuhlsstau (The Emotional Bottleneck), asserts that the chief obstacle to normalization of the east is psychological, not political or economic. "All of these people were formed by repressive relationships almost from the moment they were born," says Maaz, head of the department of psychotherapy at Deaconess Hospital in Halle, a dingy industrial city near Leipzig. "The authority of the father was replaced by the authority of teachers and then by the authority of the state." The result is a society of spiraling violence. "The lid is off," says Maaz...
Much of the Army's heavy equipment, including hundreds of tanks and helicopters, will be delivered by sea -- the biggest bottleneck. The Navy has only eight SL-7 fast-logistics ships specifically designed for such work, and two have already broken down at sea; one is being towed across the Atlantic. In a pinch like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships...
...Where is the bottleneck...
...bottleneck is that George Bush doesn't give a damn. We got the second inhumane, uncaring monster in the White House in a row. The Government is spending half a billion dollars a year to test drugs in Government research in local hospitals around the country, but those hospitals don't have enough patients enrolled in the drug trials because the Government doesn't tell anybody that these trials exist...
...this time of fiscal troubles, this does little more than move a bottleneck problem down a few hundred yards," Geer said...