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...Sung, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and French President Francois Mitterrand. At the same time, a number of Muscovites claimed to have seen Brezhnev's black ZIL limousine, security abreast, speeding toward the Kremlin. One unidentified Russian also reported seeing the Soviet leader visiting the Granovsky Street clinic in Moscow, where Brezhnev is customarily examined by his doctors...
...various reports disagree on what happened to Brezhnev after his arrival in Moscow. Some put him in the Kremlin clinic on Granovsky Street and cite stories that police cordoned off entrances to the health center. Other versions have him convalescing at his suburban Moscow dacha, which is believed to have the latest in medical equipment. When quizzed about the hospitalization rumors, the laconic Foreign Ministry spokesman stopped just short of a denial, noting that he had "no information...
...habit on the morphine he was given during hospitalization for an accident. Eventually, he was doing a couple of grams a day and suffering from paranoia, roller-coaster mood swings and an inability to work. "I lived my whole life for cocaine," he recalls. Tom, too, went to the clinic and made a pact. A diehard Republican, he could think of no penance worse than forking over $1,000 to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. A year ago he agreed that a check should be mailed if he resumed his habit. Ted Kennedy will have to find that money elsewhere...
Seventy patients have signed such contingency contracts during the clinic's two years of operation. Doctors, lawyers and accountants have written confessional letters that would jeopardize their careers; others have penned self-incriminating letters to district attorneys; one Jewish man wrote out a check to the American Nazi Party. Contracts run three months and volunteers are encouraged to renew them. In all but four cases, patients have lived up to their vows. The clinic duly executed the contract on all four delinquents; two subsequently returned to the clinic to try again. The failure rate was much greater...
...clinic provides weekly crisis-oriented psychotherapy sessions to all patients, recommending life-style changes-finding new, nonsnorting friends for example-and helping them to understand the reasons for their habit. Cocaine is not, strictly speaking, physically addictive. But, says Clinic Coordinator Antoinette Helfrich, it has a "reinforcing nature-people want more and more." The self-blackmail contract seems to stir up the resources necessary to break the cycle. The key, says Helfrich, is that "patients have a reason not to do the drug that is stronger than any reason...