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Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...
...endless effort to cope with one of the world's higher crime rates, the U.S. has long sent more people to prison for longer terms than any other industrialized Western nation except South Africa. Yet the country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace. Riotous prison disorders have become so common that it was only second-rate news last March when a guard was wounded and several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon...
Given the conditions in prisons, and, just as important, the dubious results that flow from them, it is clearly time to ask some cold-blooded questions about the future of the penitentiary. Does it make more sense, at $50,000 a cell, to cope with overcrowding by adding space? Or should the problem be dealt with by finding alternative penalties for nondangerous offenders, leaving prisons to do the only thing they have ever done well: confine the truly dangerous...
Scripture clearly says the wisest of men are fools, indicating that the best intellectual minds we have in our world are not able to cope with what God is really like. The experts are trying too hard. You don't reveal God, he reveals himself to you. Tell them all to relax, forget their intellectual reasoning and open themselves to him. He'll come; we have his promise...
Despite all these burdens, says Fenigstein, survivors' children are not inevitably victims of their parents' trauma. Says he: "Plenty of children managed to cope on their own, or they went for help." Several years ago, Fenigstein started "Holocaust workshops"-group therapy that seems to benefit most of the survivors and survivors' children who attend. Children with enough inner strength do not copy their parents, he says. "When there's a knock on the door, which reminds parents of a traumatic experience in the war when the Nazis came, this child doesn't react with anxiety...