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Nearly all the new research reports dealt with biochemistry and kindred disciplines. Faced with competition from nonmedical therapists, psychiatrists are clearly flocking back to their medical roots. In fact, the ERA furor provided the main relief from biology and chemistry. Stirred by the flap, Author Barbara Ehrenreich tossed away her text ("Work and Love: Can Women Have Both?") and lectured psychiatrists on their failures. Said she: "Psychiatric theory said that women could find fulfillment only through a life of child bearing and domesticity." That argument, though overstated, helped bring the change...
...Saudi Princess, Mashall, 19, and her unmarried commoner lover for having committed adultery. Witnessed by hundreds in a parking lot in Jeddah, the executions were in accordance with the laws of the Koran. Shown over Britain's independent television network last week, the dramatization touched off an international furor and strained British-Saudi relations...
...secret paid or contractual relationship with any American clergyman or missionary. This practice will be continued as a matter of policy." So stated the executive guidelines of the Central Intelligence Agency, set in 1976 after a furor over alleged CIA use of some overseas missionaries. CIA policy also prohibits agents from using religious organizations as "cover" for intelligence work...
...even with the spectre of a boycott, the furor about the right of the Republic of China to compete under that name instead of Taiwan--a right the IOC has denied--and a communications foulup between the Olympic venues, competition began yesterday in thrilling fashion...
...Such a furor in the White House. Presidential aides crowding into the Cabinet Room, a congressional delegation led by House Speaker Tip O'Neill himself. Iran? Afghanistan? Not at all. A "photo opportunity" with the chairperson of the National Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse-none other than Sophia Loren, in oversize sunglasses and simple red dress. Said she: "We need help, a lot of help, to awaken the world's consciousness to this sordid and persistent crime." Responded Jimmy Carter, as all those against child abuse crowded around: "One of the most beautiful chairpersons...