Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watching one another for signs of stress. "Sharing of grief is absolutely essential," says Psychiatrist Parkes. That goes for Dame Cicely as well. In her 21 years at St. Christopher's, more than 13,000 people have died, including her mother. "If death doesn't get to you, I doubt you should be in it," she admits, and in the past, she has consulted a psychiatrist for problems she experienced in recovering from a bereavement. But former Matron Helen Willans insists that since Dame Cicely was married for the first time eight years ago, "she has been a much happier...
...Further doubt comes from a study reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It reviews the life-spans of parents of all 2,518 Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 October War, plus parents of 1,128 young men who died in accidents. Conclusion: "No consistent evidence of an elevated risk of death, early or late, after the loss." There was one exception: the death rate rose among widowed and divorced parents who had lost a son, suggesting that support from a spouse lessens grief-related stress. "Rather than emphasize the disruptive power of stress," wrote...
...cold war really over? No doubt the withdrawal from Afghanistan marks a change. It signifies the demise of the Brezhnev Doctrine, first enunciated with the invasion of Czechoslovakia exactly 20 years ago. Brezhnev declared that socialism will suffer no losses: countries that come under Marxist- Leninism remain under Marxist-Leninism. Afghanistan is the first breach in that doctrine. (Grenada is too small to count.) Enthusiastic believers in the demise of the cold war also point to Gorbachev's words to show that the Soviet Union, apostle of revolution ("national liberation"), has become the defender of stability. A favorite quote...
...have issued strident warnings to Islamabad to stop allowing arms for the Afghan rebels, or mujahedin, to be smuggled across the Pakistani border into Afghanistan. Just days before Zia's death, the Kremlin issued a statement saying the Pakistani actions could not "be further tolerated." But many Western diplomats doubt that Moscow would go so far as assassinating Zia, and it is assumed that the Khad would not have acted without Soviet approval...
...civil rights. There is no doubt that the Republicans missed the boat somewhat on trying to advance civil rights. The problem we have is: Where are you going to use the Federal Government? Conservatives are very reluctant to use Government regulations, which makes them seem anti-civil rights. Yet they would use the Government to outlaw abortion. There are stark inconsistencies...