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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paula Parkinson, the shapely Washington lobbyist known for her legislative affairs. On a golfing vacation in 1980, Quayle stayed in a Florida house with two other Congressmen and Parkinson. He left the next day and was never accused of intimacy with her; no evidence has emerged to dispute his claim that he did nothing more exciting than play golf. But in the November issue of Playboy, due on newsstands Oct. 1, Parkinson (who is pictured posing nude) will make some new allegations about Quayle's activities that weekend. Her charges are unsubstantiated and, in fact, contradict some of her previous...
Fatah sources claim that Abu Hamam and some other recent detainees were tortured by Shin Bet and forced to reveal the names of confederates; Israeli officials deny any knowledge of the matter. So far, Shin Bet has arrested more than a dozen additional Palestinian leaders and confiscated a printing press used to churn out leaflets from the intifadeh command...
Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk had created the opening. Kirk decided that a crafty way to debunk the charge that Democrats promise everything to everyone was to shrink the normally gargantuan party platform to a brief statement of principles. That seemed logical enough, but the ploy reinforced the claim by George Bush that Michael Dukakis is a "Stealth candidate" who ducks specific positions. So when Republican drafters went to work, they produced a 30,000-word monster, nearly ten times the size of its Democratic counterpart...
...then there was D. Ewen Cameron (1901-67), a much lauded and honored psychiatrist who, at the behest of the CIA, used repeated electroshock treatments on a large number of hospital patients. Cameron's intent was to do research on brainwashing techniques; unfortunately, he never told his patients. Masson claims that the psychiatric profession was remarkably sanguine about this behavior when news of it finally surfaced, and he remains outraged: "Some psychiatrists might claim that what Cameron did is only an abuse of psychiatry. It is virtually impossible to find a practicing psychiatrist who can see that what Cameron...
...their hands on their wallets. Assertions tend to be sold as established facts. Masson writes, for example, that before psychotherapy begins, a "moral judgment" must be made that potential patients "are not living well, or as well as other people, and are therefore in need of 'help.' We often claim that the people seeking psychotherapy make this moral judgment on their own, but this is almost never true." Almost never true, that mentally or emotionally distressed people seek help voluntarily? For his thesis to be persuasive, Masson needs to establish the notion of a vast, coercive system for bringing people...