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...Chronic offenders or potential abusers can work to control their impulses through the peer support of groups like Parents Anonymous, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous. Indeed, some experts say that incest, like alcohol and drugs, is mood altering, since it can provide a momentary escape from feelings of loneliness or inadequacy. "Sexual offenders and chemical dependents have the same thinking patterns," says Richard Seely, director of the Intensive Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressives at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter. "They get highs each step...
...amendment that would drastically increase the already stringent restrictions on the use of human fetuses for research purposes. A similar measure was passed by the House last year but defeated in the Senate. Congressman Henry Waxman, who opposes the amendment, argues that "fetal research saves lives, prevents or cures chronic diseases and makes pregnancy safer. As a result of such work, reductions in infant mortality and treatments for diabetes, as well as for brain disorders, are on the horizon...
...race was not for votes from the 3.6 million members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but for the favor of the five men who run the five major political machines within the party. Each machine has its own leader, its own views and its own funds. Feuding is chronic. Nakasone won only after he had got the nod from former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who remains the party's mightiest power-broker even though he is now on trial for accepting $2 million in bribes...
...while the air force enjoys high morale. The army has found it difficult to recruit the 20,000 men needed every year just to keep up its current strength. Coordination among the three branches is poor; commanders rarely speak to each other unless necessary. All services suffer from a chronic shortage of fuel and ammunition...
...became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio in 1979 and became Deputy Prime Minister, joining Begin in opposing hard-lining Ariel Sharon and helping to hold together a Cabinet divided over last year's invasion of Lebanon...